skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn’t it that NIST was unwittingly tricked into accepting the NSA’s expertise while the NSA maliciously provided that expertise in bad faith?

And didn’t they subsequently ban the NSA from their input once the Snowden leaks were out?

So I don’t think it’s fair to disregard NIST completely. And the international counterparts can compare & perform their own due diligence
>OPTIONS requests

OPTIONS requests only happen for cross-origin requests. With DNS rebinding, there are no cross-origin requests, so there will be no OPTIONS requests.
Ahh, the good old days... When you'd refresh a page and stuff came right back in the same spot... lol
'I drank too much’: How a little-known lawmaker threw Britain's gov into crisis
Reading HN on mobile web is a challenge sometimes. Quotes and indented text require horizontal scroll and deep threads get complicated to follow.

The lack of a dark mode is also very annoying.
I recall reading that was a TikTok scheme created by a marketing agency for the opening of the movie in the Israeli market.

And yes, it helped drive a better opening weekend than was normally projected.
it would require being able to generate a high enough energy beam

But using current accelerator technology it would require an accelerator many times the size of the earth, _many_.

I use to work at a particle accelerator, part time, when i was in college. Fun fact i once confirmed Einsteins photoelectric effect using a high energy x-ray beam, a copper target, and high voltage.
> […] that NIST will be able to get away with anything like that again.

You say this like NIST was an accomplice (and not also a victim).
> The Netherlands is the second or third biggest net food exporter in the world. For food security, we can do with less farmers.

What if all the farmers are cooperating as a bloc? Are these protesters mostly farmers directly affected by nitrogen lawsuits, or just fellow farmers who rightfully think their farm could be next?
Its safety is proportional to your isolation model. Never use env vars for secrets when you’re executing arbitrary code, for example.
Is that true for you? I've changed my mind about major things in my life through cost-benefit analyses.
> If you have sufficiently boring PC hardware and sufficiently boring use cases, the audio will just kind of work anyway, without PulseAudio.

Introducing breakage, complexity and general fragility to the common case, which was previously working fine, will obviously make a whole lot of people upset.
I would like to have more touch friendly buttons, but that's about it. It's not a nice experience to press the wrong button, often.
Why would a croudsoursing site know that? This is the kind of question where 1 expert will fare better than the average of 90% of the people.
Considering how much regular roads cost, how much extra would it cost to make these smart roads and how much does this improve outcomes by the time they are, vs putting that same money into the self driving part of the car?
That's ACPI shutdown, not OS-specific but motherboard specific AFAIK, it should work an all ACPI compliant systems...
This separation is artificial.

Manager is either smart or not.

Guess which one I prefer to have.
I'm not sure this is true. Reloading muskets took a long time, no? You had to fumble with pouring the powder, tamping it, putting in the round, possibly also a sabot. "Reloading" a bow takes a second.
A couple hundred dollars. Not tens-of-thousands of dollars.
As cool as this is, the historicity is questionable.

> But Peter Connolly's reconstruction was based on a mis-remembered, twice-translated summary of a Byzantine chronicle which did not mention glue, not on an ancient text, artefact, or depiction

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linothorax
I worked the front desk at a small brick and motor IT shop as one of my first jobs. One of my main tasks was rebuffing all the door to door salesmen and telemarketers as well as dumping all the mailers directly into the trash. Which is all to say, I don't think this will be as effective as you think, because the volume of this kind of advertising is already through the roof, so the signal to noise is poor, and it's very unlikely that those mailers would ever end up in the hands of the decision makers, and you'll mostly just annoy the underlings who handle the mail.

As for question 1 & 2, you'll need to contract a marketing company probably. They will have access to the lists, the printers, relationships with the postal service etc. I doubt getting access to those lists on your scale would be cheaper than just contracting the whole thing out.

If you are looking for alternate ideas, I'd suggest going to trade shows/conferences/expos. I know these are big with restaurant owners for building out their restaurants in the first place so that may be your best bet for getting your sales pitch in front of the decision makers.
Ubuntu's adoption of it was what pushed me away from Desktop Linux, after about a decade of being mainly a Linux user. Suddenly the one thing that had actually Just Worked for almost that entire decade, became unstable, unpredictable, and, to add insult to injury, ate tons of memory and processor cycles for unclear and likely unjustifiable reasons.
Similarly, I just published this a few days ago: https://github.com/cyph/pqcrypto.js

Edit: lol, actually it looks like you guys borrowed some of my code for that. (Which is totally fine and part of the point of open source!)
Not quite the same, but the US used census records that were supposed to be protected to round up the west coast japanese for their internment during WWII.
Well, most modern cryptography is based on assumptions that can not be proven, so having different standards based on different assumptions is probably the only way to safeguard against if one of the assumptions would be proven false in the future.
>"In some versions, the vehicle’s speed is automatically reduced. But users can ignore the warnings and override speed reductions."

For now, there's no way this doesn't expand in scope at some point in the future.
Watch Andreas Kling port SerenityOS's web engine to Linux in
moderatepolitics does this, not because they want to, but because Reddit threatened to ban the entire subreddit if there was any discussion of trans issues.
In-my-40s dev here. Believe me, having a parking space you don't have to pay for is far under-rated, and riding a bike to work blows when you're old. Of course, I'd still rather be working from home, by my employer strictly doesn't do this.
Lena headey will always be on my A-list because of terminator:scc
Indeed...back to the 'good old days'.

I'm reminded of the old saying (paraphrased) "there is an in group which laws protect but do not constrain, and an out group which laws constrain but do not protect".

You may find this amusing: https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
PII is already heavily regulated in eu and harmonized since years, most eu nations have even more stringent laws on medical and sexual pii data
> I think a good DBA ought to be able to better than an automatic process possibly could

Absolutely, although in modern orgs I'd expect this to be the domain of backend engineers rather than "a DBA", a mythical creature I've never actually seen in real life.
Being obvious, if a field is called "index" (or similar) and doesn't have an index on it maybe the database could default to making it one.
It's been a tradition for 90 years now.

Since first "high energy" particle accelerator in 1932, we have used particle accelerator to smash and study subatomic particles. First we found a whole zoo of them, but then 1961 Gell-Mann's quark model explained how all those subatomic particles are not elementary particles, but made of various combinations of quarks.

From 1975 we've had the standard model of particle physics, and after 2012 with the experimental discovery of the Higgs boson, now we've found all the particles in the standard model. But the road up to 2012 was: Keep building bigger accelerators, keep adding more energy, keep finding new particles. Why stop now?

Some skeptics say that now we have maybe found them all. And we don't have a good theory that would predict new particles, so maybe we won't find new elementary particles, no matter how we go on. Maybe we should pause and reconsider. Work on new theories.

But, we also have theories: Supersymmetry, and string theory. Supersymmetry predicts the existence of the superpartners of all the 17 elementary particles. Maybe their discovery is just behind the corner, if we just keep going? Or maybe supersymmetry is wrong, and the superpartners don't exist at all.

Timeline of discoveries of the elementary particles:

1800-1895 photon
1897 electron
1937 muon
1956 electron neutrino
1962 muon neutrino
1969 down quark
1969 strange quark
1969 up quark
1974 charm quark
1975 tau
1977 bottom quark
1979 gluon
1983 W boson
1983 Z boson
1995 top quark
2000 tau neutrino
2012 higgs
I use separate browser with JS disabled and it loads fast. No pithy quotes, no spinners, just fast content. Sure, some features break, but it is enough to get the content. Try it...
Funnily enough that's exactly the reason why Epic sued Google - having to confirm every update and install through a scary dialog box was too anti-competitive for them.

Google responded by... actually, adding entirely new APIs in Android for sideloaded app stores to be able to update already-approved applications without extra permissions or approval. In fact, they even distinguish between "sideloaded app" and "installed app from a sideloaded app store" for security-sensitive things like custom accessibility handlers.

This still doesn't moot all of Epic's case, though. They want you to be able to download Epic Games Store from Google Play - i.e. no scary warnings or anything, just Google giving Epic a blanket sign-off on everything they sign off on. I'm not sure how I feel about this - it reminds me of the total and utter mess that was and is selling SSL certs to competing certificate authorities.
It took 20 seconds to load for me every time... Def a frustrating experience... They should lighten up on their UI design and go minimal perhaps if they don't want to spend more on a CDN.
I'll be really curious how much change Oxide will bring to the status quo.

The promise is to be able to pay up front for a rack that will function as a highly capable VM, storage, and/or compute host, without any of the overhead that Dell, HP, and IBM bring. Just plug it in and start giving it workloads to do. All config can be done through the web-based management console or via the API, just like AWS.
>> You can't retain something you don't have.

Like I said above, the whole Ninth Amendment thing seems to be a red herring, since that apparently wasn't even cited part of Roe v. Wade's reasoning. It apparently actually relied on the "the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment" instead.

> One SCOTUS said you do have it. One says you don't. Who's right?

The one that doesn't make major policy decisions decree by turning its opinions backdoor constitutional amendments, which is what the Roe court did. IMHO, it's antithetical to democracy for a council of nine unelected people to make major, near-unchallengable decisions by edict. Also, to argue equivalence between making such an edict and its later repeal is even more undemocratic.

> And the decision was still with the SCOTUS, footnote or no footnote.

Why are you focusing on that footnote? The parties make arguments after their petitions, and I said that was when the court was asked to overturn Roe v. Wade. Did you stop reading after the first sentence of the quote?
I ditched somewhere around S3. It wasn't like Ready Player One, where I felt ... milked ... but it was close to it. Gen X, mostly ignored, is still cynical enough to know when someone is trying to play them, and that's alright.

Don't get me wrong, some utility exists in the selection of earlier settings, namely not having cell phones, so I am sympathetic to that from the needs of the writers, but it would be nice not to have this stuff laid on with a trowel.
This article contains a plethora of inaccuracies. Twitter thread with details: https://twitter.com/ProsperaGlobal/status/154438133963751424...
Nice. I tried to think which of Everest or Chimborazo has the thinnest air. I'm guessing the atmosphere bulges at the equator too so it'd be Everest?
> People don’t choose iPhone because they want those things

Your argument is ridiculous. People didn't choose iPhone because they wanted to deprive themself of an option to switch browsers engines or payment vendors either.

People actually chose iPhones for a thousand other reasons.
Linen is also going to be cheaper than bronze (and later iron), even though linen fabric is quite an expensive material by the standards of a pre-industrial society. If you can grow flax, you get edible flaxseed, flaxseed oil, and linen fibers for thread and then weaving... and next year, hopefully, you get a new crop of flax. Save the bronze for your swords.
An analog computer is still a computer :)
Maybe or maybe not, depending on browser implementation. They can be kept in memory if the browser sees no memory need.

But they might store stuff to localStorage. Right - localStorage is also a thing. And so are cookies.
On iOS, there's a browser called "Insight" which can do this automatically by injecting styles. I've began using an app for night-time use so I can take advantage of dark mode.
Every time I saw a website present itself as "good news only" it was almost always religious in nature. Not sure if there's a market.
Looks like you haven't heard of typeball and daisy wheel printers.

In any case, we were discussing metaphors, not technical details.
Show HN: A USB-Rubber-Ducky Blocker (50 Codes)
I'm sure the YT PMs have proof that this improves engagement.

On a similar note, I've started noticing the third video in the "related videos" section on the right-hand sidebar is usually a new video with _extremely_ clickbait and inflammatory titles - sometimes with little connection to the topics I usually watch.

They're extremely distracting so I've set up a uBlock filter for these:
`www.youtube.com##ytd-compact-video-renderer.ytd-item-section-renderer.style-scope:nth-of-type(3)`

This doesn't work 100% of the time, but it's good enough. (in particular, it fails if what I'm watching is a trailer video which makes the 2nd recommendation in the sidebar be a movie recommendation which doesn't fit this rule; as a result it blocks the 4th entry in the list, but oh well)
Speak for yourself. I'm doing fine. See you at the next triathlon club workout.
Is your work related in any way to Symbolics NS, beyond using the same language? Maybe you're reusing some public knowledge from the papers that were published about it?

Is your team hiring? I'm working at Intel, though far from hardware design - in the MPI library's team. In my spare time I learned Common Lisp and some basics of hardware design, so I would be happy to make my hobbies relevant to my job and work with you.
I'd recommend the "Dark Background and Light Text" extension for firefox as it has been working flawlessly for several years. However, this week it seems to be partially broken, not sure if is the extension or the new browser.
My god the comments in this thread are terrible. How can grown ass adults be so pathetically mean to a single person because he wrote (free & gratis!) software they don't like. Seriously, it's mystifying.
The code is valid for 50 uses. If more are needed, please let me know.
The link is to redeem a code for an app for blocking USB-Rubber-Duckies by locking the screen when a keyboard is connected. There are some more features, but that's the main one.
Feedback welcome.

The link to the app on the Windows Store is https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9P7FV5575G0C

The code for use as a standalone code instead of a link is:
D9KTW-X2YHQ-XJG4R-DDXDX-HR73Z
I think an interesting possible application of this is that a lot of applications of video to 3D reconstruction, such as SLAM and photogrammetry, require good camera intrinsics as calibration input. Getting this information automatically seems to be difficult, so lens calibration is an important step. This work suggests to me that calibration information could either be recovered directly from images, or the correct entry could be automatically looked up in some large shared database, which would really simplify things for certain applications.
I actually thought that meant the post itself was downvoted, and yes, it's too hard to read (I gave up after 2 paras).
No political party or ideology has the market cornered on corruption.

If you think the US is bad try starting a business, securing licensure, or navigating the judicial system in literally any other country.
Elasticsearch is absolute garbage for text search such as articles or comments. Text contains 'foocompany.com', and you search for 'company.com'? No results. It also tends to ignore punctuation (not sure whether this is configurable or not).

Please let me keep simple word search.
It's a fact of life that people get old and thus become less effective at making great changes. I cannot think of many counter-examples from our field.
"Obvious" for you, maybe for a general AI, but not to the DBMS.

What if such field is a blob with a uncompressible 12mb blob of a image of a index card?

What if indexing them would waste several TBs of RAM? That is not a good default.

On a more realistic scenario, it is reasonably rare that you will only ever search using the PK, and no other constraint, so in a way is a wasted default index.
The only way Pulseaudio is palatable is by using the Pulseaudio sink in Jack.
does not have an unsubscribe functionality that erases all your posts (right to be forgotten)

EU/non-EU citizen here. This is a well meaning regulation. However, it is difficult to implement technically. How do you structure a conversation where a critical participant has said they want to be forgotten. Is it enough - practically, ethically/morally, legally - to change the byline on their posts? What if there was additional identifying information? Can you hack the conversation to pieces without destroying the experience for others? What about historical reference?

As a citizen in any society, in general, I believe that people should stand by their behavior and its consequences. That's what being an adult is. It's also positive to have spaces without or with reduced surveillance, but retroactively removing public discussion is quite another thing. If we muffle that, what do we have left? Certainly not a strong basis for public thought, historical inquiry, or truth.

We've also learned that any legal loophole is abused by PR companies for rich people/companies with expensive lawyers. I fear that adding this sort of thing outside the EU would quickly lead to systemic abuse.
Yes, you can avoid “some” 2022's business travel miseries
In the Dark Sun setting from AD&D, the offspring of humans and dwarves are also infertile. Also called muls, which isn't the most creative move but hey.

I don't recall there being any children of dwarves and men in the Tolkien legendarium, though I've not read it all by any means.

Given how common "interfertile but with sterile offspring" is between related species in nature, it's relatively rare in games and fantasy settings.
Life's hard and the world is uncertain. If NIST could make an algorithm that they could prove was 100% safe with no possibility of future cryptoanalytical breakthroughs, i am sure they would, but that is beyond current state of the art.
Thanks. The paper asked me to "connect with Facebook or pay up" to read it for some reason ... but when I now visit the page again I can read the whole article without problem. Really strange.
Generally the issue with pricing in healthcare is insurance, which has the perverse structure of being consumed as a tax benefit without competition to get patients.

There isn't a specific rule that explains this but there is a whole system that begets this as the most efficient system by the current players.
A Real Mean Reversion
> on mobile there's nothing I can do about it

Is there a reason you can't use a browser that has a built-in dark mode? I use "Samsung Internet Browser Beta" on Android because it has a dark mode, as well as good ad blocking. Might there be a comparable solution that would meet your needs?
Walk Away Like a Boss: Postcard from the Cryptosphere
If not stopped it might eventually get tempting or even logical to phase out making things and focus on rent seeking alone.
From a distance, it seems like some States will get the go from SCOTS to revert everything back to Jim Crow / pre-Civil Rights movement. Pretty scary actually, even for non-Americans.
Yes, but there's few entities out there actually enforcing these kinds of laws. For example, if you ever use the manufacturer-sanctioned bootloader unlock on a Samsung phone, that blows a fuse in the phone that says "my warranty is void". Samsung refuses to service phones that have ever had their bootloaders unlocked, regardless of what was actually done to them. As far as I'm aware nobody has bothered to sue Samsung over this feature.
I'd add quality assurance / testing to the list
This article asserts that D-Wave and other quantum annealing devices will be able to mount attacks long before a machine exists that can run Shor's algorithm with error-corrected qubits in sufficient quantity.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arthurherman/2021/06/07/q-day-i...
>for example for a webapp a 0.25 second query that's run on every pageload is extremely slow, and creating an index for that is almost certainly a good trade-off. On the hand, it's usually fine if some analytical query that only your finance people need once a month runs for a minute; in that case, an index is probably a poor trade-off.

But that should be automatable. If the DB sees frequent queries, it would create indexes, if those queries cease, it would drop them. If queries are infrequent, it would not create an index.
That depends very much on where he lands. Rumors have it that Linus is considering transferring kernel maintainer duties so let's not put the flag out just yet.

Ok, just kidding ;)
Sure. The game is whatever the group decides it is. But the core mechanics of the game are make a roll and pass/fail causes something to happen.
> I'm still baffled by how something as basic as audio output can be eternally fragile in linux

Yeah, broken drivers.

You see, before pulseaudio came along, audio drivers were barely used and needed to be tuned for each use case. Most drivers barely implemented ALSA, almost none correctly. If you wanted fancy features (say; software input mixing, so that more than just one application can actually output sound) you needed to invest a lot of time.

By making all these fancy features (and more) more easily available, pulseaudio exposed all these bugs in the drivers.

And of course it got flak for that because the first software layer the user is confronted with is blamed if something's not working.

But actually - just as systemd - pulseaudio is a marvelous piece of code. That today we can get to an even higher level with PipeWire is to large degrees only possible because of pulseaudio.

Lennart Poettering is one of the most creative and influential system-space developers that Linux has. It's a shame that he's so maltreated by the peanut gallery.
I'm forcing myself to get better at linux using a 16 year old laptop. I expected its age to be the second biggest irritation (after my ingorance), but really it's fine. A tiny bit slower than I'm used to, but for most of what I use it for, it's shockingly capable.
> So, then do not allow any apps the NFC permission... problem solved.

So the world of malware, viruses, data exfiltration, phishing etc is "solved ?
> all functions are dynamically dispatched by default, with inlining being a speculative optimisation

Could you please point me to other approaches to inlining? I am also working on a personal language and it could be helpful.
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