skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once had a boss spill a banana smoothie/milkshake on a laptop, did much the same, stripped everything apart, washed everything off and left it to dry overnight before putting everything back together. (I remember not being too careful about it - after all, it was the boss's fault, and they can just get a new one if it's broken).

Surprisingly it all worked fine, apart from one thing... when attending meetings, they would turn the laptop ion at the start, and after about half an hour, someone would usually ask "Can anyone else smell banana?"

(I can't remember the model, but I think it was a small (like 10-12" or so) HP with an extremely slow, awful hard disk, maybe 1.8").
> one of our boxes at M5

Read that as MI5 and it gave a chuckle!
Yep, for example storing old batteries full of dangerous chemicals, used for consistent energy supply is quite a challenge, or getting big amounts of lithium for those batteries. There are options of course, for example recently finished "battery" in switzerland with two big water capsules, but still there should happen many improvements in renewables and hopefully in nuclear too. Small nuclear reactors that are cheaper, easier to deploy is a promising concept too
Counterpoint: Coolplayer (http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/) is a fairly capable MP3 player, weighing in at ~500 KB. I've used it to play MP3's on 486's back in the day.

The closest modern equivalent would be Foobar2000. Foobar2000 is much larger than Coolplayer ever was, but it's also far more capable, has plugin support etc.

On the other hand, both players are small compared to some modern alternatives.
Yes. A new buzzword to fight and avoid for the next 3-4 years or so. Thank you but I'll wait for the O'Reilly "Building cells, 2nd version" to come out and maybe consider it (not).
Somewhat related.(if you squint hard)

@Google, @Youtube. Please FIX your video-player controls. Add a MARGIN to the on-screen display:

You know the "little" go-fullscreen-button on the bottom-right of the video that sits 0.0000000001mm above the 'interactive' timeline.

How many times I've pressed the 'timeline' instead of the fullscreen-button and then 'ended' the video and had to actually go into my youtube-history to reload video.

If you going to judge my websites with CLS,LCP and all that you can do better with UI as well.
It’s quite different. It’s less democratic because there are no direct votes involved in faction fights. For example, the current PM was less popular than his competitor within the party but got the job because the faction supported him.
One of the problems is that it isn't just Brits.

Face tracking is being implemented throughout Europe:
https://www.wired.com/story/europe-police-facial-recognition...

The rest of Europe has the same laws as the UK when it comes to 'offensive rap lyrics'.

This is a general issue, framing it as "Brits don't care" does nothing but make people believe it couldn't happen to them if they are outside the UK.

Some examples of people in the UK who do care:
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/

Edit:
Forgot to mention originally but lets not forget the general attitude towards E2E encryption in the UK and throughout Europe:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/eff-tells-eu-commissio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016

There is a general movement against privacy, this isn't a localised issue.
> This is defense-in-depth level stuff.

Wouldn't even call it "in depth", disallowing an alternative boot should be one of the first things any decent IT staff should do on any company machines, and therefore so should direct-to-consumer pre-installed tech like this.

99% of computer users are just consumers, nobody should have to think about security when they first get a new system beyond setting a password.
So I've lived in the UK for 12 years now and yes, to an extent you are right - it's shocking how little people care about surveilence. I've met more "if you aren't doing anything wrong then you have nothing to fear" people here than anywhere else in the world. Every time I mention to someone that the Snoopers Chapter makes all ISPs record your browsing history and a huge number of agencies can just look through this data without a warrant(including the department of agriculture for some crazy reason), people just go "so?".

It's a losing fight, really. Even my friends who are very technically minded don't seem to care at all.

However - for all of this nonsense, I feel like some people(your post included) have an exaggerated sense of how bad it really is here. No, "thought crime" isn't being prosecuted. The rare police intervention that happens because someone got offended is usually resolved without any criminal charges. Yes it still shouldn't happen at all, but it's more of an anomaly than a rule.

I say all of the above because where I'm from(Poland), ostensibly there is not as much surveilence as in the UK, yet the government and the police are far happier to prosecute the things you are worried about. Insulted the wrong politician online? Jail. Insulted the church? Jail. Went to the wrong protest? Jail. Made a comment online that could be seen as offensive to the church? Jail.

I think my point is - yes, there is a lot of unnecessary surveilance in the UK, and a lot of people don't care about it......but you guys still don't know how good you have it. Of course two wrongs don't make a right.....but you need to have perspective on this.
Why wouldn't they want to control something, that is just a subsystem for Windows? Seems logical to me.
Plant-based meat by far the best climate investment, report finds
Ahh ok, thanks for the info. In any case with FSD or autopilot, I don't think anyone should ever take their eyes off the road while in the drivers seat.
I don't know what qualifies as an open format, but there're enough open source implementations (including original KeePass) and format descriptions to work with this format in practice.
Have you ever inspected Mac traffic? As of Catalina (last I checked), even if you do not connect to iCloud, you have ~10 opaque connections/hour back to Apple - and about ~40 (slightly less opaque) connection if you are logged in to iCloud.

Most of the connections are from the nsurlsessiond demon, for which I have been unable to figure out the actual request url contents. Some of them have to do with update checks, some with notarization checks, who knows what else.
I imagine that just demonstrating that you're ready and able to fight would be enough to dissuade an attacker who was just looking for an easy mark, but even if they persist I'm not sure raw strength would necessarily win out over skill and stamina. I suppose it's a matter of how skilled and how athletic/healthy you are vs the person you'd be fighting. I doubt I'd find a decent answer to the question though. I'm not sure it could be researched ethically and even it could, what would a representative sample of street muggers and rapists even look like? It might need to include everything from gangbangers and strung out junkies to drunken frat boys and mentally ill homeless people.
Not the OP, but the OP was talking about culture wars, not legal wars.

I think this is a meaningful difference. There is a growing disconnect between the culture of both coasts and the law of the land, which tends to approximate the real balance of leftish/rightish viewpoints across the entire country.

Big business surely plays a lot of kabuki, but some of their statements and policies are sincere. Would major corporations allow you to carry your gun on your person during working hours, argue against abortion rights in a chitchat by the water cooler or even not use the correct pronouns when talking to your nonbinary coworker? Or would you be slapped down by the HR and possibly fired outright?
> SpaceX’s going to have a field day and brutally rip some inflated executives out of their cozy decade-old comfort zone.

Not if they have to replace 100's of satelites due to their 4 years life spawn.

There are videos showing calculations and how crazy starlink is from business perspective. Money doesn't add up in long term.
Do you mean 1000$ / mo? Because at 100$ / mo, your calculations seem to be off by 10?
I don't use linux but I thought Wayland is old news. I remember the talk about switching to waylaid like 6 years ago. Is it still niche?
> If I am deepfaking my appearance on video call, I have full control of my machine. I thus can (with negligible lag) just grab the screen content. Once I have that, it's really not too much work to write a filter projecting this screen onto the deepfake image.

The article already addresses this, in its fourth paragraph:

> The theory behind the approach is that live deepfake systems cannot respond in time to the changes depicted in the on-screen graphic, increasing the ‘lag’ of the deepfake effect at certain parts of the color spectrum, revealing its presence.
And just as I was on the train to work. Worst. Website. Ever.
It cannot be a random fob; it has to be a fob signed by Microsoft's 3rd Party UEFI CA key.

They do not sign everything nilly-willy; they refused to sign grub, that's why linux distros use shim.efi.
But can you password-protect the access to the setting for whether it allows booting from j random fob?
Trying Real Websites in the SerenityOS Browser
It reads like he married the same person twice.

I imagine it can make the second wedding a bit awkward.
I'm pretty confident there's a big "long tail" of the internet that has auto generated blogs like this with some ads on that generate some money. I wonder if Google or whichever ad provider you pick will penalize you for this.

I run a legitimate website with actual people publishing content... sometimes, and I get offers from advertisers for sponsored content. If I didn't earn a living on a day job, auto-generated content farming might be something I'd go into. Morally objectionable, but it's a living.

Secondary would be to just take content from Reddit and add some low effort captions to it, then target old people on Facebook or whatever. Again morally objectionable, but there's a LOT of people who really browse the internet uncritically.
> our essential freedoms just so we can live in a "safe" country like... China and India?

India has zero to no gun violence. Sure, there's a lot of petty crime, and there are enough murders happening - and the last thing we want is to arm those murderers with guns.

Your sentence seems to argue that the (much higher) degree of free speech enjoyed by Americans is owing to civilian gun ownership, which I don't think is true (though I don't have the data at hand to back up my claim).

>There are hundreds of millions of americans. These mass shooting events are insignifigant in the grand scheme of things

It's not just the number of people who get shot - it's this idea that a road rage incident _can_ potentially end in you getting shot, if the other person is deranged enough. Not to mention the amount of American tax dollars that go into ensuring that the police out-gun the civilians.
I didn't include 'not U.S' for that but to not have comments suggesting I sue such doctors, hospitals etc.
There are something like 130m people in Japan and yet firearm homicides appear to be at least a couple of orders of magnitude less frequent:

"A 2022 report from the University of Washington revealing that, while the US had more than four firearm homicides per 100,000 people in 2019, Japan had almost zero. Comparing high-income countries in the World Bank with the rate of firearm homicide per 100,000 people, the US had 4.2, Australia had 0.18 and Japan 0.02, the report found."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/abe-shooting-w...

In my opinion, of all the things that count towards a society being considered more civilised than another, not shooting each other is right up there.
Raymarched SDF pyramids implemented with GLSL shaders for the voting arrows! They could be so shiny!

(It's a wonder that anyone lets me near the frontend of their websites really.)
Histography- timeline Using Wikipedia Data
Well yeah, but you asked about ordinary everyday users. And the best I can come up with is that it's marginally harder to load a foreign OS and access an unencrypted drive. You can't just plug in a USB stick and power cycle the thing.

Though I'm not sure if it's worth it, especially not if changing the bios is just a matter of seconds anyway (ordinary users probably won't put a password on it).
No "ordinary" user was ever compromised by accidentally installing Linux making his computing less safe. This is complete fantasy.

Of course this is a mechanism to further advertise locking down general computing and nothing else. It is not new and security is a bad excuse.
What does Fraunhaufer have to do with it? If we're randomly guessing which company might have instigated this investigation, I'd guess Sisvel, because it's easy to imagine for them to have an actual case: Sisvel has created an AV1 patent pool and iirc even made an open call for patent owners to approach them to get their patents added to the pool. It's easy to see how an anti-trust complaint could arise if someone left the pool or didn't join it because of real or imaginary pressure from AOMedia members.
Probably a good move, we are about to enter a Labour government, I am afraid...
> freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

Lol. Just look at american media. And religion ? You mean baptist religion ?
But but didn't the lady said it's "Turtles all the way down ?"
See cosmology is tricky no matter where you are :D

PS. According to historic records (DISCWORLD 1-41) you are right :P
At the risk of being edgy... The sort of people that apply to work at the DHS and the sort of people that would be quite happy enforcing CCP policy seem to me to be about an 80% overlap. You see the same thing with the police. In both cases you need quite a long period of different processes, different things being rewarded and protected etc before people "lose interest", if ever.

I guess you might get it at the EPA in a more left wing, environmental way, but then polluting mega corps are probably more able to defend their interests than dissidents.

I am not sure how you deal with that sort of perverse motivation issue?
Former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Dies After Being Shot
Like Australia?
Doesn't mean a thing to me.
I was never interested in their machines and even if i would ever be, this puts things very simple: Lenovo is a no-go!

If they don't care about user's freedom of choice and wants to lock them into that M$ thing, then i'll simply won't care about them either!
> They've de-ranked the set #2 and threw it in the bag with #3, which doesn't really do much at all to improve security, but it does inconvenience and disincentivise the users from using a Linux distro on this hardware.

Well no, it's not Lenovo really, it's Microsoft and its Device Guard / Secured Core that has done so. You can disable that just as easily as you can boot from an USB stick.
"Protecting" exactly how?

Giving the user more hops to jump through, when they want to try alternate (signed!) operating systems? Like, you have nice encrypted disk here, are you willing to lose it, when you flip the setting?
I might be misunderstanding you, but $100/mo is $1.2k/y not $12k/y.
Nice! You should embed OpenZiti into it so that the K8S API can be dark and private from day 0 onwards with no inbound ports, public DNS configuration, complex FW rules, VPNs or ACLs. Here is how the team there embedded OpenZiti into Prometheus - https://openziti.github.io/articles/zitification/prometheus/...
Looking at the orbits for Starlink, they are currently not flying over the north / south pole directly. I don't know if there's plans to do so later, probably if the investments start to pay off and they can afford more launches and sattelites. But for now it's a big money sink and I'm sure the service isn't yet paying for itself - if it ever will.
> Could also just mean eggs sunny side up/over easy

As a British English speaker I am no more enlightened by this explanation than I was before...
What is uniquely interesting in this scenario is that there isn't any science supporting one side either. Totally agree about not pushing religious beliefs on society in the face of a rational understanding. That’s simply destructive and toxic. But in this case, we really do need to drop the rational vs religious rhetoric and acknowledge this is entirely a social issue. I think discussions would get a lot further if we were all able to frame it that way.
In some cases, yes, in other it seems that they are sink areas that are simply constantly being nurtured with migrant animals from the surroundings (Some birds for example). Is complex.

And we need to remember that some people was poisoned just a few months ago for digging trenches in Chernobyl in the middle of a war. The danger is still there forty years later.
One of the claims of the circle was that over half of it was water. So then your guesstimate can be lowered to less than 11% of land surface area.
> FreeBSD/SMP

Good choice. :)
The PDF linked to further up this thread describes the process of trusting the 3rd party Microsoft CA that the original article mentions has been distrusted.
Racket is great for this book. With some work it's also doable in Common Lisp, here's my take: https://github.com/tsumo/solutions/blob/master/little_scheme...
Apologies, but regardless of being one sided, there is no acceptable professional reason to shout at someone in a meeting.

I’m not sure why you are writing this take, but I’m not sure how this is constructive.
There a certain argument to be made that the 8px margin may be essential to the success of the entire internet. What if it would not have taken off in the 90s if people didn't like how it printed off?
Haven't the police in the UK been chronically underfunded through a decade plus of austerity policies? I get the feeling they are so under water, they can only deal with the most serious crimes.
I was confused reading the article, seeing your comment makes me at ease that I read the article correctly. I too don’t get why the EU needs to intervene when they are making things better.
If you want to be old-school, "M$ystemd"
That reminds me of another project. Whatever you do, do not write the commit messages like that, and your are doing great: https://github.com/BeRo1985/pasvulkan/commits/master
It's probably one reason why Singapore is a popular location for multinationals to have an office.
Okay, so I'm an idiot. That explains a lot.

Calculation fixed!
Looks like most people disagree. ;)
The EuroNet ATMs in Germany are actually pretty alright! I use them all the time and recommend them to visitors as well because they are widely available and still among the more official and hassle-free ATM brands around here. (They have a simple UI, support many languages and never ask for extra fees, as far as I’ve seen.) But it might be different in other countries and dependent on the origin of the bank card, of course.
Got my own:

The German military at some point had this recruitment website that featured, among other things, a chatbot.

The software was bought of-the-shelf and Shanghai’d into service with minimal training like a Russian infantryman, but it worked quite well for its time. It came with a good set of standard responses that had worked well in the retail space.

When you asked it about, say, invading Poland, it dutifully answered that “Poland is a great travel destination”.
> but every time my manager would stop me. “If you ain’t gonna do this job, some other engineer will pick it,” they said.

Your manager knew about the ethical issues and pressured you to continue to do this type of work. Your manager is a bad and manipulative person.
> the writing is coming from someone who wants to be a writer as opposed to just being one

Mod has made a living writing, creating books, and taking photographs for many years. I'd say that makes him a writer, not a wannabe writer. You have critiqued his style, and that's fine. You don't like it, but your stylistic preferences don't govern who deserves to be considered a writer.

Would you mind sharing an example of writing that is in your preferred style?
The thing is just that most users don't have a clue about what bios is.

They're just locking people and making it difficult for them to grow and explore other OS such as Linux.

That's a bad attitude!
I worked a place that used to use ‘is HN up?’ as a proxy for ‘does the internet go?’
Does it apply to RedHat, Ubuntu, SUSE and the likes only? I wonder if as an Arch Linux user I can boot with Secure Boot enabled.
That's the point the GP was making
Of course, the "predatory ATMs" tend to be those installed at or near the main tourist thoroughfares, finding bank ATMs may require some searching. I guess it's just another variation of "tourist trap"...
This is a really nice idea and I love the execution as well.

Congrats and thanks for sharing.
Unfortunately given the overton window allowed the definition of "vaccine" to dramatically change within 2 years it's difficult to get worked up on Greek Vs Latin grammar. The battle whilst correct is lost on a youth that prides internet selfies and tiktok.
I constantly argue with people like you, feel free to read some of my other comments to see why you would do precisely nothing to a major armed force and would actually rationalize their targeting of civilians in your make believe Red Dawn world. (No, Vietnam and Afghanistan are not appropriate parallels).

PS: you also entirely fail to provide counterpoints to any of the points the person you are replying to made, only vague and nonsensical implications.
It's difficult to say anything without context.

What does it do?

What is the motivation behind the rewrite?
You're preaching to the choir. HN mob has its pitchforks sharpened and torches out for anything PC/Microsoft related, regardless of rime or reason.

If the PC laptop would boot by default, off of any random USB plugged into the laptop, then HN mob would (rightfully) cry that this is a major PC security issues and that's how grandma could be pwned and get scammed, unlike a super-secure M1 MacBook which won't boot any other foreign OS by default without major hoop jumping.

If the PC laptop doesn't boot by default off of any random USB drive (just like a Mac), requiring the user to go into the BIOS and change this setting first, then it must be malice from Microsoft and the PC OEMs to restrict user freedom and destroy Linux's 2,43% PC market share.
Is Red Hat still following the playbook? The more companies are engaging in this sort of strategy, the less concentrated the control should be, right?
I felt the same as this comment, it's off putting. Marketing tactics everywhere using information we enter in a survey.
No pricing shown until the end. University logos to show social proof.
I'm sure it's a well thought product, but in some ways it looks scammy. It also looks wildly overpriced for an automated product, comparing it to an actual doctor you can talk to is a fallacy.
By the way, how can we delete our information if we don't buy and we got to the end of the survey?
Thanks!
Wow. The extent to which China goes to silence it’s critics is scary. I cannot believe the kind of effort and coordination it takes to bribe people in the dhs and then buy the victims car and workplace. This cannot be the first time, I am sure they have it figured out like a well oiled machine. On the other hand, I am glad the US government was able to catch this and prevent it. To be honest I was beginning to question our ability to bring people to justice particularly at the federal level.
Check out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658424

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Devastating news. Rest in peace.