skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some surprising companies have not completely figured out the correct way to use CEC either.

- Apple: When you start an Airplay stream on your phone directed at an Apple TV, the Apple TV doesn't send a switch input command.

- Nintendo: The Nintendo Switch switch input command when waking from sleep is unreliable at best.

- Microsoft: Surprisingly the worst offender. The only switch input command it ever sends is when it wakes from user-induced sleep. If you let the console go to sleep on its own, and wake up the controller and press the big Xbox button, it never sends a CEC command.
> This might sound good - but it would make it very hard to study, for example, whether men or women receive preferential treatment from US Consuls. Or whether men or women face different threats abroad (some embassies keep statistics on sexual assaults).

What the passport agency prints on your passport is totally different from the info they have on file and share with official agencies.
OpenSUSE adopts a new code of conduct
Same here. I literally got a US PhD in math. Means NOTHING. But can I merge two sorted lists? Now we are talking serious money and benefits.
I don't think that was the sentiment at all.

Especially because the claim is only about snowy situations. Even in a reply about snow, someone that thinks computers are automatically better would normally just say that directly.
One of the points of having the drivers in kernel is that means they kernel can actually run on that hardware. In addition to allowing for testing as others have pointed out, it is also a way to make sure that drivers aren't used to restrict access to the hardware. It ensures the freedom of the platform.
Ah, looks barely worse than roads in the Silicon Valley. Maybe that's why everybody drives SUV and pickup truck over here.
I even programmed my own overlay (app selector) for rpi that listens to CEC commands, so I can use the remote's arrows. Convenient so that I don't need to reach for mouse/keyboard/ssh/phone to start something on the rpi.
As TFA starts out, it is always easy to point out all the mistakes after the fact. People underestimate how prone the mind is to just trying to play down danger, inconvenience and generally unpleasing situations. Even after a few minutes on the phone, after you built up the most basic "relationship" with the person on the other end, you simply don't want this to be a scam. Avoiding cognitive dissonance. Just like when you bought something expensive that doesn't really meet your expectations.

Then you must not underestimate the pressure under which you then are, because either way is not a pleasant situation (getting scammed or having been scammed already trying to contain the damage). I fully believe the author that they only skimmed that mail and weren't even aware that this is 2FA. It must have seemed like "just some one-off verification code".

Then I think there is also this phenomenon where experts think that just by being an expert on something, they are immune to it. Not consciously, rationally, but lingering in the subconsciousness. It reminds me of the show "the good doctor" where a seasoned oncologist is diagnosed with a brain tumor and completely blocks off any conversation about it and rejecting treatment. I think that very well illustrates what I mean.

Another anecdote to add here if that Jim Browning, a YouTuber focused on finding scam call centers, getting into their systems to gather information and shutting them down in the end got his YouTube account taken away from him through a scammer on the phone. So I'd be careful with claiming this could never happen to me because I'd never do X. Until the day you do without realizing.
Almost every CFI implementation I've seen is definitely intended for production use cases. There is work to combine the coarse-grained CFI aspects of Intel's IBT implementation with the more fine-grained CFI implementation available in systems like PaX/grsecurity, which is based on the assumption that the ABI prototype matches what was detected at compile time.

The synthetic benchmarks for Intel's Coarse IBT alone is somewhere in the 1% range for the small number of benchmarks they have here[1] (ok, let's be honest, I don't expect x264 to contain many indirect branches in the fast path of SPEC, but whatever.) I believe Intel originally aimed for something originally in the 1-5% range but I can't find a reference.

If that's it, then it seems ok enough if you're paranoid, but if you're paranoid the fine-grained approach improves things quite a bit. This all still seems to be a ways off for everyone but I guess the kernel 5.18 support is a start.

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel-hardening/msg05347.html
> while the US government sees bitcoin as a threat to their currency monopoly, they also see it as more of a threat to other smaller countries with weaker economies

Bitcoin is no threat to the U.S. We have an open capital account. If Congress made Bitcoin legal tender tomorrow virtually nothing would change overnight. (Hell, if Congress abolished the Fed tomorrow and switched to exclusively Bitcoin, we'd just have to dust off old central banking books from the specie days. We'd also enter a deflationary recession.)

For a capital controlled country, on the other hand, cryptos enable currency flight. Hence the lockdowns in China, Russia and India.
OP here. Everything went screwy! Should be working again now. I don't even work in tech anymore. I haven't been involved in a website launch in over a decade. It's been one hell of a day. My plan for the day was literally to put the site up and then do some craft work, spinning wool into yarn for making my friends a couple of hats (it's wool from their sheep). I'm not even joking! My day went so off the rails.
"10-20%" are self-admitted Nazi's.

Fighting against 20,000 barely armed conscripts / "peace-keepers"

you are a shill.
>If conservatives want to lead an armed insurrection in Canada over "vaccine mandates" (reactionaries are so good at controlling the discourse with the words they force) they should go for it. Something tells me the consequence will be larger than not being able to swipe your plastic at the gas station.

If you analyze protests lately like the 'mostly peaceful' burning riots of BLM etc. Which as a quick aside, BLM is fully justified in their protest.Police brutality and clear systemic racism is objectively true.

Compare that to the over the top peaceful protest in Ottawa. Which was intentionally that way. The protest policed itself to not give the media this. The media has been smearing conservatives for so long.

But more importantly, and clearly you went right to armed insurrection. Who said this was an insurrection. Notice also how January 6 went from insurrection to less than a riot. It's not even a riot, it's just an 'attack' now. Trudeau urgently wanted it to turn into an insurrection... the false allegation and propaganda was that the protest was looking to overthrow the government. Which isn't true at all. They sat outside in -20c on the road and NEVER insurrected or even tried to overthrow anything.

This just goes to prove how wrong all of this still is. Conservatives still do not have the right to protest.

>Funny it took white people getting their bank accounts frozen for there to be noise that the government has too much power and wields it against citizens with impunity. Wonder how Trudeau's government treats the First Nations? Oh that's right, running oil pipelines through their land.

Um... the protest in ottawa was disproportionately not white. https://notthebee.com/article/come-and-laugh-with-me-at-the-...

This was another case of Blackface Trudeau harming racial minorities. You bring up first nations...

https://twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1486399666677768195

https://twitter.com/BrianBeny/status/1487119890423205890

>Only a certain demographic has had freedom of protest in Canada.

Why do you think Trudeau hates racial minorities so much? Vaccine mandates disproportionately harm racial minorities especially black and indigenous canadians.

>Have you ever been water cannoned for defending your home and the groundwater of your community? But sure, conservatives are the new precedent about not being able to protest. No demographic has been harmed in Canada as deeply or egregiously as the conservatives who live underground now and trade in scrip

It almost reads like you read conservative = white people. How very incorrect.

Let me guess... you're not racial minority.
Neville Chamberlain agrees that forcing Ukraine to cede land to Russia will solve the problem once and for all - just like it did when we tacitly accepted the permanent Russian occupation of Crimea.

It really isn't a secret that Putin is pining for the days of the Soviet Union and wants to reunite the old power block - so why would we ever want to risk sacrificing the stability of the EU to restore the Warsaw Pact and all the international conflicts that came with it?
"I have a proclivity to stupid and/or pointless projects. "

<scrolls through rest of project list>

This is hilariously accurate, yet still somehow great.
I have to give credit for sharing your story and how sophisticated these attacks can be. These scams work because we're human and don't always think rationally under pressure.
The article does mention that it's creating tensions in some villages relying on hydropower where miners installed their operation.
Presentation about the web by Robert Cailliau[1] from 11 May 1994, includes demo of the early web.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cailliau
I guess it depends on your organization structure. My organization didn't need or want developers to be more than just developers.

We had whole teams for user research, business analysis, project management etc.
Yeah, you hear about this with the people who get taken in by Grubhub or whoever that's spoofing a restaurant's phone number/ordering site. I would never take a third-party source as authoritative, but apparently people do it.
Go just expects you to manually trigger the updates. Thats all. It still is in favor of updating to take security fixes, so i think your argument is wrong.
Isn’t that ~$1000 per resident? Cut the income tax by ~1% and that vanishes
Where did you get the impression that Erowid's prevoius name was hyperreal.org?

I thought Erowid was the project of Earth Erowid and Fire Erowid, who founded it in 1995: [1] [2]

From [2]:

"Erowid was founded in October 1995 by Fire and Earth Erowid. The site was a part-time project until October 1999 when it became large enough for Fire to begin working on it full-time. Earth joined her working full-time in March 2000. The site was run as a non-commercial business through 2007. As of January 2008, operation of the site was taken over by the newly formed non-profit Erowid Center. Erowid Center now has four primary staff members, two part-time staff, and dozens of valuable volunteers who help process incoming data, seek out new resources, and/or help keep the site up-to-date."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erowid#History

[2] - https://erowid.org/general/about/about_faq.shtml#who
> transitive dependencies are automatically updated to pick up security fixes

Does Node do this? That seems like an awful idea. People should be manually updating dependencies, never automatically. Stuff like dependabot need to die.
Bah! Well spotted!
I get the appeal of classic texts like the Dover math series -- I've got plenty of them on my own bookshelf. But the reality of most fields of study is that a 60+ year old textbook just doesn't cut it in terms of topics covered, advances in the field, or modern pedagogical practice.

As a unversity professor myself, I am always seeking out open publishing or less expensive options for my students. The sad reality is that while there are some nice "open publishing" textbooks available, and I try and use these for my own classes whenever appropriate, very few such efforts can match the quality of a professionally edited textbook in terms of breadth of topics covered, quality of illustrations and figures, referencing to the recent literature, etc.

I wish it was otherwise, but that's currently the state of affairs in the sub-fields my work touches on (genetics, genomics, computational biology). For senior students and grad students I can usually draw on the primary literature rather than a textbook per se, but that's rough going for most students in their first few years of university.
> Courage is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

I think I will judge that book by the words on its cover.
Not to mention, it's extremely doubtful that a human body could survive anywhere close to 20 years in space.
I'm far from an economist myself... but there is relevant debt beyond individuals' debt. There is national, foreign, state and city, etc... an argument could be made that some of this debt is even exported abroad.

Inflation, might not make goods and services cheaper, but it can have an effect that can be used to one's advantage.

I've already mentioned mortgages, but it might be the same with many other loans and services. Assuming interest rates are low enough (if not zero), then deferring the whole payment means that you retain money to work for you, as well as take advantage of the effects of inflation on the overall financed amount as long as the period is long enough.

Locking in service rates (grandfathered) can work to your advantage as well, depending on the service agreements of course.

I'd say there are a lot of people with bad debt, but often times that comes as a result of hardship, or just bad financial decisions and life choices.

Those that have no debt are probably not going through financial hardships, but should probably start accruing manageable debt to avail from the effects of inflation, retain more money so that it can work for them, and build credit history to become more debt-worthy.

Saving money is just losing money due to inflation and lost potential. It's a difficult one bc we all know we should keep a certain amount of money just in case, and putting it somewhere where it's working for you but still liquid if needed is quite difficult. If times get hard and you need to liquidate your investments, chances are that you will be losing a lot bc when times are hard, investments are down.

Saving money is really quit discourage, and there are some pretty compelling reasons why this is a good thing. Money that is saved is usually money that is out of circulation. As a result, it's not doing any "work" and fewer goods and services are purchased and economies slow as a result.
I really wonder who came up with the black macbook idea/experiment (it was from Jobs?) and especially why it was never replicated again.

At least from the people I know, most of them were just happy to spend a bit more for the black model. Maybe Apple was expecting a lot more?
Wow I didn't know that. Thanks!
No, keep it. Just change the passphrase regularly.
I dislike house cleaners not because of the cost but because I really dislike other people sorting through my things and putting them back in the wrong places. It also feels like an invasion when they arrive.
"Some of it" is how much? Out of the "omg we sent 100 million dollars to Ukraine"?

How many exchanges will actually be able to cash out that amount of money?
I bet the folks you are talking about are going to vote for Trump in 2024 just like they did in 2020. And definitely they rooted Jan,6 rioters. And after it failed, they said that it was antifa or an FBI staged "false flag" operation.

As Dems say, “we are not perfect, but they are NUTS”.
That's what I think - the big firms are perfectly capable of filing lawsuits that are just on this side of frivolous, but they will charge quite well for that.

The smaller firms are more likely to be willing to say "eh, it's your funeral".
Russians leaving Chernobyl after radiation exposure
Calling on the official number is a good rule. But my neighbour followed that and was still scammed for tens of thousands.

The critical extra step that they missed was to check that the line was disconnected before calling out. They were using a landline.

The scammers called them, but didn't hang up. Then, when my neighbour called out to their bank, they pretended to be answering that call - going through security, etc.

My neighbour then did whatever the scammers said - because they couldn't possibly be scammers.
Thanks for sharing! I like the clock idea. It doesn't allow for a very granular visualization on the level of weeks or days, but it's at least feasible enough for me to carve out a more distinct area to visualize for a given month than I could if just trying to picture a linear calendar.

I also like the idea of thinking about the weeks instead of the days. 365 is a huge amount to create unique associations for, but just memorizing the 52 weeks is much more feasible. Locating an event to within its given week would probably get me 90% of the way to whatever outcome a day-specific approach would achieve. Plus if needed, I think an additional strategy could be layered on top of the weeks approach. Eg. having a reusable "peg" mnemonic for the days of the week and adapting that to fit the association for a given week.

Can you elaborate on the weekdays approach?
Me too. If I could change one thing about modern web dev, I would make the default size for SVG icons something like 32x32 pixels. Many sites use massive icons more like 1000 pixels wide. Also, animated grey backgrounds in placeholders are obnoxious.
I don’t comprehend how California isn’t 100% solar powered. The state is tailor made for solar. And yet.. where are all the solar plants?
Tesla is not a car. It looks like one, it might behave a bit like one but i would not touch such a thing even with a 9 m pole. I heard too many horror stories about Tesla requirements.
> Far easier to work with and understand when you dont need to perform a massive disruptive ceremony to handle exceptions. I've been working full time in java for the past 4 years and basically no one handles exceptions because its so cumbersome and bad to read. Not so in Go. Go does it better.

No Go doesn't do it better, Go just doesn't give you the choice, from a convention perspective. You have a discipline issue with Java, it is not an issue in the language itself, it's with you and your team.

Ironically I've seen a few Go libs and project trying to re-invent optional types due to the verbosity of Go errors, just like people were trying to roll their own generics with interface {} or code generation before they were added to the core. It's a demonstration that some developers don't like the status quo.
I clicked on the first one and it says "kill cops" and "hehe nice". This is why we can't have nice things.
Well, we have made most interesting exploratory drug use illegal for most people, so that historically most people who use drugs are those with nothing left to lose.

The best way to advance may be to let more smart people try drugs without artificial consequences.
This is meta and nonscientific but if you just search for the word 'racial' on HN, there seems to be a relatively higher proportion of posts where there are more comments than points. Way more so at least than 'politics' or 'covid'.

The crowd here seems usually pretty split left and right, even if it skews in general towards various forms of libertarianism. Why do we think that studies and discussions about race are fundamentally more controversial? It seems like when we are discussing the long term consequences and effects of enslaving an entire race not 200 years ago, we should all share some humanity about it, whether you want socialism or less government. I don't know if I can account for this disparity in the current political miliue, what is it then about HN and race? Is it just something about these discussions that are particularly irksome to libertarian types? If so, why?
Generally I find if you're writing code like that, your code is too high level. Okay, you've propagated errors, but what is the calling code going to do with those errors? I find large functions like that usually have enough context to handle the errors themselves. Errors, after all, are just conditions with a special name. It's not common to propagate conditions up several layers of code, so why do the same with errors?
The Human Penis Is Remarkably Boring
Have a look at my link:

> Skip sugary drinks, limit milk and dairy products to one to two servings per day, and limit juice to a small glass per day.

> Limit red meat, and avoid processed meats such as bacon and sausage.

> avoid partially hydrogenated oils, which contain unhealthy trans fats. Remember that low-fat does not mean “healthy.”
Fly.io reported that they couldn't scale their deployment of Consul (single global cluster) beyond a (tremendous) level because it became unwieldy and they needed to work around that.

When I referred to a 'scaling problem', I was referring to scaling that specific Fly.io architecture. The bad one, the one without federation. I'm interested in the safe operating limits for that configuration precisely because Fly.io seemed to make a really good go of it for a long time.
> Russian troops began leaving the Chernobyl nuclear plant after soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches at the highly contaminated site, Ukraine’s state power company said Thursday as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts.

> Energoatom gave no details on the condition of the troops or how many were affected. But it said the Russians had dug in in the forest inside the exclusion zone around the now-closed plant, the site in 1986 of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

> The troops “panicked at the first sign of illness,” which “showed up very quickly,” and began preparing to leave, Energoatom said.
OP here. Nah man, not bait and switch. The server got fried! Username is my reddit username. Of 11 years, although I hardly use it. I read HN daily but never created an account (not that I can remember anyway). Should all be getting fixed now.
Apple Maps from my experience is quite bad about this. I know of one city where it happily provides the locations of four DHL counter locations even though there is only one. Numerous other store locations on Apple Maps also often do not exist, so however they are sourcing their data is full of errors or outdated information.
Now throw in a bunch of engineers from one of the countless small businesses so we get a feeling for what those numbers actually mean.
so how many nicks do you have lying around https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nxmnxm99 and why spend all this time & effort ?

you don't login for 2 weeks and suddenly focusing your comments on me after the last one under your other nick got flagged ;)
This doesn't address how inelastic wheat demand is, and that value < 1% can still be a massive amount of wheat.
When the car weighs 100 bags of concrete, and the entire thing is designed and tuned around the extra weight, then yeah it's a pretty tiny difference.
I found “The Obstacle Is The Way” useful and accessible, and I went on to read Marcus, Seneca and others. I appreciate the introduction Holiday provided.

Any combination of factors that allows the opening of something like an independent bookshop is A-OK by me. Maybe Tim Ferriss will open a wood-fired pizzeria.
Agreed. I wish someone would try this level of attack against me - I'm 99% sure I wouldn't have fallen for this particular one, but how can I truly know without going through it?

Anyways, I am extremely aware of caller ID spoofing. I use it myself to show a usable callback number on a VoIP outgoing-only line.

And the 2FA - I would be incredibly reluctant to give a code over the phone, even if I had initiated the call.