skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are areas where California doesn't do well, such as homelessness, but by every conceivably metric, California has exceeded other US states. Surely some of this has to do with governance.

> If I was to sum up my position here, it's this. You get what you pay for.

I lived in California for years before I moved to London 3 years ago. I agree that California does a lot of things better than some states and there's an element of "you get what you pay for." But I think that doesn't let California off the hook for the value they return on the money they collect.

Between federal tax, state tax, social security and all the zany other taxes (CA SDI, etc), the tax rate you pay in California is very close to what you pay in the UK or a lot of other European countries. If you own a home, add in yearly property tax which is similar to what you'd pay in UK council tax.

But in London, you get 100% free healthcare (including all medications at a nominal fee), fantastic public transit, weekly trash/recycling pick-up from your local council, extensive council housing to actually house low-income people, etc. The same money is getting more done. I'm not claiming it's perfect or can't be improved, but the services you get for paying roughly the same tax rate are significantly higher (and the same applies in many other cities in Europe).

I think a lot of people in the US don't realize that CA taxes are essentially at the same level as many countries in Europe. So I have at least a little sympathy for people who throw their hands up and move to a low tax, low service state like Texas when they feel like they aren't getting a European level of services for a European level of taxes.

I think some of the inefficiency in California stems from the proposition system where large pots of money are allocated to seemingly good causes but it ties the hands of government who are trying to manage the overall budget efficiently. The amount of propositions included in every voting cycle is comical and in my opinion it is just shifting the work of detailed governance onto the general public who has neither the time nor the expertise to decide on a lot of the issues presented at the level of detail required.
Because others are loosing money and lobbied enough people to get the antitrust ball rolling.

No government serves the people. But especially not the EU. That is always the facade. This is an act of war against free standards.

Take German weather reporting for example. The tax financed weather service had a free app with weather warnings and weather forecasts. Without any tracking or advertising.

The commercial weather services sued it and where granted the ruling that forecasting of weather data payed by the taxpayers offered for free is forbidden as it hinders the commercial interests of the competition.

So either one pays for the app now or just has weather warnings in it.

Antitrust for the win (from the POV of the commercial entities).
There are more than enough tech-savy interested startups that would love to fill the void left by Meta, Instagram, TikTok & co.
I would not be surprised if social media becomes state-operated infrastructure at some point, as it is so crucial to everyone. Social media without ads paid by taxes.
Walter, do you realize how absurd this sentence looks like from the point of view of people that don't live in the US? Those two things should be the norm, and presenting them as the prize to win after suffering for decades from poor pay, entitled parents and lack of autonomy comes as very tone deaf in my opinion.
I built several tracing systems, but none of them capturing & storing the API's response, cause too expensive, you know. Could you share more about your tracing system? I think we can learn from others.
If people want a Windows only laptop then let them have it. Most people don't care about being able to boot alternate operating systems.
For those who are wondering, it sounds like someone clapping, but louder. Yet not as loud as Hollywood imagines.
Browsing to HN was the first thing I tried to do this morning after accidentally sleeping in. When it failed to load, my panicked thought was: "Is this how it all ends? Did Putin finally press the red button?"
> It would not stop a determined religious or fundamentalist fanatic, as guns can still be acquired even if banned.

That's also the case in every country where guns are illegal and yet in practice it remains a very rare occurrence.
I think they are great (I am using Pop!_OS currently). However, I think Framework jumped ahead of them with the modular port expansion cards and open design.
>Apple, Google, Meta are forming an ANTI-patent royalty scheme

ah ok, I guess that makes sense. I interpreted it otherwise because it is still using the patent system.
Memristive, Spintronic, and 2D‐Materials‐Based Devices
Maybe you misunderstood me. This year Russians got de facto banned from many services, cannot use paid features of Github (Copilot or sponsoring projects), are blocked by freelancer marketplaces, etc. I am not risking using TransferWise to transfer money home (to a non-sanctioned individual's account in a non-sanctioned bank) out of fear of losing my account forever. This is because Western companies interpret sanctions wider than strictly required to err on the side of caution due to the aforementioned reasons.
> They get their phones out and record it.

IIRC UK encourages that if you can't help - that's in order to track down perpetrators.
Indeed. And it forces everyone to think critically. No pictures, audio or video online are trustworthy by themselves.

Even in science, you can never be completely sure of anything. "Sure enough" for purposes of human life, perhaps.

But you can invalidate anything:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper
Just wanted to +1 this, I did fill out the survey, but was a little disappointed to end up at a payment screen. Totally understand this is a service worth paying for, but being able to try it out for a bit before entering payment details would be nice.

I know I could hit cancel, but I am often bad at doing that on time, which leads me to avoid trying out things that require payment details up-front.

Thanks for sharing!
And that's exactly the wrong solution.

I do want to use secure boot and TPM2 (I do, currently). Just not with windows. Why should be secure boot windows exclusive feature? Until now, it wasn't.

There was no sarcasm.
huh, all this time I thought the arrow was just a unicode character
So one pending case and some opinion pieces. Do you have actual person who did time in jail? I can provide some for UK....

> mentioning that it's the leading source of pedophiles in this country

Ehm, Rotherham...?

> two wrongs don't make a right

You claim Poland is much worse. I want similar case from Poland...

> I definitely feel like you are far more likely to get into trouble for this in Poland than in the UK

Poland is a post communist country, there is a big aversion to totalitarian govs. Comparing LGBT activism in rural Poland and ultra liberal parts of London, is not valid. Go to Luton or Yorkshire and see what happens...
Those numbers are wildly misleading. The Q2 2014 GDP drop was 1.7% but this is largely because consumers brought forward consumption of big ticket items to Q1 - where the economy grew by 0.8%.

The economy ACTUALLY only shrank by 0.1% in 2014 but then grew by 0.4%,0.2%,0.5% the following three years, which is actually a lot for Japan.
Unregistered, yes. Homemade, probably not.

A large percentage of gun violence even inside the US is committed with unregistered weapons. The only events that see international media play are the mass event shootings at malls and such; these guns tend to be registered.

More "typical" gun violence is committed regularly, and not with AR-style rifles (more typically 9mm carbines which are regulated as handguns in the US, as well as actual handguns).
Wow, sleeping at 7:30pm or even 8 is super early. Lucky you! I assume you don’t live in a city.
The Laffer Curve is completely useless for practical economics. Beyond the obvious (if we actually have 100% taxation that won't work) its role is solely to enable politicians, and particularly US politicians, to pretend that somehow cutting taxes (a benefit to their wealthy donors) will break even or increase income, even though in fact it does not.
The old lady with groceries bag in one hand, walking stick in the other charged in faster than a texan police officer.
I'm surprised to read this. I'm pretty sure the norm in English is to add "s" even to proper names (like most European languages I think? but unlike French) so Legos would be logical.

In French it would depend on whether you write "des Lego" (capitalised, keeping is as a proper noun) or "des legos" (as a genericised trademark). Both are correct.
FYI: There's a modern source port for the Marathon series called Aleph One[1]. 60+ FPS support was recently added, so it's running better than ever.

[1] https://alephone.lhowon.org/
Frustration from impotent politics could be strong in society. With influence of mass/social media, that infect us with fear you can find many reasons.
I wish more of the people who are sad now were sad when Toshio Akagi killed himself
Scaleph Data integration practice based on SeaTunnel
Apache SeaTunnel meetup in June: topic sharing about Scaleph data integration practice based on Apache SeaTunnel (Incubating), and we hope you will harvest a lot out of this talk
What’s a collection of cells called?
A tissue :D
It is legacy boot, not UEFI. And I vaguely remember that this message came from the boot loader on the CD, of all places. It was a convenience for the user, who forgot the CD in the drive.
Regular users would probably get their key from their Microsoft account.

But yeah, it takes effort to have a working recovery option if your configuration isn't painfully average.
> This might finally bring him down, not all the scandals.

He resigned yesterday, he's been brought down. But it wasn't really the economy, I think, as much as people harbouring hopes of being PM getting sick of being made to look idiots by his constantly changing stories.
The Laffer curve is an overly simplistic model that supposes government revenue is a function of income and sales tax revenue. This simply isn't true: Japan has control over its own money supply and can issue bonds. Nor are workers attracted to/barred from an emigration destination solely by tax -- other issues such as relative standard of living come into play.
Is there really no other way to go around demographic ratios except by importing young people? Why can't we make economy work with less working people per retiree?
Probably in dark mode... Whether this really helps is another matter...
Which retains the high barrier of entry to Linux. Linux will never be mainstream as long as itself and the community primarily embrace tech savvies and nobody else
DHS was created in ~2002 and has been a joke ever since. The airports and other borders were secured before that by other agencies. (No, 9/11 does not mean we needed a new agency - credible briefings were ignored by higher-ups and the attackers had powerful backing)

Lots of stuff in our modern post-DHS security era is a total joke. Removing shoes and throwing out liquids over a certain size doesn't protect anyone.
I am redirected to https://histography.io/browser_support.htm

"Sorry!

We are currently not supporting your browser (but we will soon).

Try Chrome or Safari."

Firefox/Android
> _ex_ prime minister

That's not the relevant distinction.

The relevant distinction is that Abe was assassinated by a Japanese national, not by a foreign national, so in this instance there will be no catalyst for escalation and payback.
Selfhosting everything yourself is not realistic for the majority of users. And even experts who have the time, money and expertise, can't selfhost everything, after all at some point they must exchange data and trust others work. I mean, just take this forum. How would you selfhost this place which needs a centralized power which upholds order? How would you realize a good moderation and trustable voting on a dezentralized forum, with sane solutions? Sure you could decentralize this all and play blockshit-bingo, for a high price. But until we have a true dang-ai, forget about the quality of moderation. And this is just for a simple text-forum, let's not talk about youtube or the like... That's the point were solutions like solid make sense. Places where centralization is unavoidable, but also places were people are to lazy or "poor" to use other solutions, thus a compromise for the real world.
Wireless Onchip Communications for Scalable In-Memory Hyperdimensional Computing
Paraphrasing Ian Gillian from Deep Purple about stage monitor volume, "Make everything more !important than everything else."
Without FDE, modification of the file system to create autoruns and system services is so easy that you wouldn't need to go through the effort of using a bootloader. Just pop out the storage device or boot a Windows install disk and run some software.
> And that's exactly the wrong solution.

it's a solution

it's only a matter of choice, there's no wrong choice, choices are personal.

You're complaining about something that's very easy to overcome.

> I do want to use secure boot and TPM2 (I do, currently). Just not with windows

You can.

just disable device guard.

> Why should be secure boot windows exclusive feature?

you are angry about the wrong thing

device guard and secure boot are different things, related, but different.
With Cloud HPC Toolkit, Google Pursues HPC, Intel Pushes OneAPI
It looks to me that the author has not faced a problem with DRY, but a junior developer and/or YOLO approach to architecture design.

In many cases thinking about possible future features/extension was one of the most limiting, complexing and at the end irrelevant approach out there, because it usually turned out that the future was different than it had been imagined. On the opposite side, when you take into account just what you know at the time of writing, led to easier adjusts, because it was way more clear to understand.

DRY is a great technique to organize your code, you just need to think about the structure first. In this article, the problem was that he wanted to bend 2 pizzas method into many other different types of pizzas, so his pizza architecture changed so vastly that it was not possible to describe it with just the initial idea of pizza.
I was under the impression that suicide was very high in Japan
Starlink should rent space on oil rigs at least those areas could have a "ground station" in a way. Oil rigs don't have physical undersea comm lines to land. But it can be a repeater since more power available on a rig.
I was proposing to skip the (computationally expensive) step of approximation of the illumination effects on the subject within the live deepfake model, and just do a (computationally cheap) filter over the webcam image to be sent out.

I was saying 'correctly faking' might not be necessary, so let's fake it incorrectly. Of course I haven't tested it, but from reading the article, this seems to be enough to fool their detection model.
Tech platforms face UK ban on blocking news providers before appeal
"It's the exception that proves the rule".
The largest demographic (hundreds of millions of people), which you seem to have left out, is law abiding citizens looking to protect themselves and their families.
Abenomics was not likely a good idea at the time nor in retrospect, but a lot of the GDP contraction has less to do with monetary policy and far more to do with cultural/social policies that the population embraces - government-sanctioned or not.

Very low birth replacement rates, very strict immigration laws (basically anti-immigration RE: chances at citizenship), long history of nationalistic behavior regarding homegrown consumed goods rather than taking advantage of trade economics of scale, Sony et al being beaten by Intel to the correct Silicon Valley model, and so forth all contribute to contracting GDP quite a bit.

EDIT: This is not to say I think Japan has the wrong idea or whatever; I agree that chasing GDP is not some end-all be-all thing. I'm just saying that while I don't regard Abe as a genius economist, I don't think it's too fair he get a ton of blame either given that his country's demographics, social model, and other factors likely contributed far more towards the inertia of a shrinking economy.
I think gun violence is very uncommon in Japan. People were probably more confused than scared
I recommend trying KISS launcher with the Frost monochrome icon pack.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.neamar.kiss/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dkanada.icecons/
No, because that is one of his legacies and my response answers your question. He’s the equivalent of a German politician who condones and worships Nazi war criminals.
Lol maybe !
For context, out in the open country in a relatively flat area one can *easily* hear most centerfire rifles from 1-2 miles away and often much further. Shotguns are lower pressure and generally aren't as loud, and handguns even quieter still just due to the substantially reduced energy levels.

Firearms, particularly rifles, are so loud that there's just a qualitative difference in the sound that's impossible to capture with standard audio gear.
I appreciate your actionism. This is one of the reasons I love HN - super tech savvy people helping each other out. Kudos.
They are expensive too.

Really, I think they are overrated.
Another data point on what a New Zealand Fulbright scholar endured at Cornell:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/300544537/concerns-after-nz-u...
Franz Ferdinand was heir presumptive, not Emperor.
> Framing Secure Boot as some kind of Secure Boogeyman is not conducive, brings the discussion into tinfoil scenarios without any potential practical outcome (nobody is going to remove SB or DG)

So, we're literally at the point where we have to disable parts of chip (the Device Guard / Secure Core / Pluton) in order to boot _any_ non-MS OS scenario, and you are still claiming that this is scaremongering ?

At which point it stops being a "tinfoil" discussion ?

> As long as Linux vendors or people can get or enroll their own keys and disable any potential presets, it's a step up in security for everyone.

Microsoft _already_ promised that there would be a way so that non-MS OS manufacturers would be able to sign their software so that it would NOT REQUIRE fiddling with the system firmware in order to boot them, even with Secure Boot enabled. This is what the UEFI CA was for. You just insert a SUSE USB pendrive, use the firmware boot manager (or even Windows own' "boot from USB device" option in the Settings panel!) and that's it.

Your system is no more compromised by this CA than by allowing MS OSes in the first place. This CA is MS, too. They vet everything they sign. They blacklist stuff that could have been used to compromise devices. They have forced GRUB among many other distributions to align to their whims in order to be signed.

Removing this key and relenting on this promise (which actually they have already done several times) means that there is NO WAY for a non-MS operating system to transparently boot on Secure Boot hardware. You have to fiddle with the system firmware, battle with a lot of Scary Boot Prompts that will drive many users away (even advanced ones!), and with the easiest option likely being to disable Secure Boot altogether which per your own words will reduce the security level of users.

Not to mention of the unfair advantage MS has since their OSes will still boot transparently on these hardware, no matter what the firmware settings, no matter if the device came with no OS or even a Linux distro to begin with.

I have already claimed that MS revoking a distro's signatures is basically a death sentence for that distro. Here we have an article about a manufacturer revoking _all_ distro's signatures, and you claim that "this is not a conductive discussion" ? Give me a break.
True, but that assumes physical access, malware probably does not have that.
Yet another reason for competition in the form of municipal ISPs.
Yes, and it wasn't 3d printed like the "scary" stories we keep reading about. If you start banning 3d printers you may as well ban Home depot or anywhere you can buy a metal pipe.
The killer would have to have been sanctioned/trained/sent by a foreign power -- unlikely.
> It was a convenience for the user, who forgot the CD in the drive.

because computers should never automatically boot from external or removable storage

that's why a more modern version of the same message exists

https://i.imgur.com/JVW8c7b.png
It's quite difficult to breed guns.
> This might finally bring him down, not all the scandals.

I can't tell if you aren't aware he resigned or if your meaning here is that you figure Johnson will stand, be re-elected by his MPs and then pretend everything is back to normal, presumably while continuing to leak MPs to both by-election defeats and defections.

I wouldn't put it past Boris to attempt such a thing, but my guess is that it would be humiliating. There are dozens of MPs who'd back Boris in the hope of some reward, but far more see this as a useless cause and want to be first in line for a ministerial job under one of his rivals who might survive a general election.
I think this misses the point. The assassination was an assault on Japanese democracy and could have destabilizing and unpredictable consequences. Terrible day.
Here:

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220708_37/
No, the nuclear from the 70s won't come back. Modern ones will.
A quick google would have enlightened you, but "sunny side up" just means eggs fried from one side only, usually with the yolk still being very runny. "Over easy" seems to refer to eggs fried from both sides (hence flipped "over") but with the yolk still being runny (hence "easy", i.e. gently).

For the record, I'm a European ESL speaker.
The American president also immediately becomes ultra famous the second they're elected in a way that most leaders don't, so they're definitely bigger targets regardless of America's crime rate.
If you are interested in timeline visualisations, you might like this list I compiled of innovative timeline designs: https://www.tiki-toki.com/blog/entry/ten-amazing-online-time...
> I'm frankly shocked looking at the top level comments I've read so far.

> I ask my fellow Americans in near disbelief: have you become so desensitized that this news does not move you?

Not desensitized, but infantilised beyond belief, including here on HN.

The encouragement to run away, and shelter from "scary world" and outrage produced people who cannot hold a serious adult conversation about war, death, and personal duty for longer than a few minutes.

You either get completely emotionally deaf types like the top poster, or, on the opposite, types who outright descend into hysteria.

RIP Abe.
> You're further limiting the number of images that can boot.

That does not mean it improves security. If the images it allows to boot are less secure than those it prevents, it lessens security.

> I'm not convinced it does in any meaningful way.

It does booting Linux harder exactly to these users that it claims to protect.

So yes, it "protects" them from trying competing product.

> disable and most Linux users are probably used to jumping into the uEFI to enable booting from install medias anyway (I know I am).

Power users can do it; less experienced users consider that difficult, especially if they are not familiar with the concept. This all contributes to the image that Linux is difficult to install and use. Linux forums are full of discussions on this topic.

While it is just an artificial hindrance.

Would be it OK for Windows users to fiddle with UEFI settings before they can use Windows? If not, why is it OK for Linux users? Windows gets a clear advantage here.
The attacker was ex-navy apparently. My wife heard it on a Japanese news programme a short time ago.
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