skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AV1 doesn't require any proprietary hardware, and it's free for hardware vendors to implement too.

This is unlike H.265, which requires patent license fees for every chip made.
I think it's perfectly acceptable that a device ships with a secure default as long as it lets you override it
There are very highly placed people at Lenovo (possibly as high as the CEO, but if not, only one or two notches down the org chart) who hate the amount of leverage Microsoft has over them due to the windows hegemony. And those people would love nothing more than to establish Linux as a replacement for Windows and kick MS in the teeth.

But.

Lenovo are between a rock and a hard place. Because today, whether they like it or not, Microsoft does have that leverage. And if Lenovo come out too forcefully in support of Linux (desktop Linux in particular), they risk having Microsoft screw them over. So as much as they might like to start shipping every laptop with Linux pre-installed tomorrow, they really can't. So they have to be selective and strategic about how much they push in that direction.

Source: was a Lenovo employee for a while up through 2019. Little was said about this internally through official channels, but it was all well known. I won't say any more or go into any more detail to avoid the risk of violating some NDA or something that might technically still be in effect or whatever.
American sweet tea is an outlier.
The article seems very factual and well-written.

What worries me are the comments on here. There's clearly a very strong bias at play in the hacker news community (regardless of what one ought to think of Tesla or Elon).
People will say anything to avoid admitting that a higher tax, slightly center right state is doing well because of those policies and politics

Cognitive dissonance, just like the fact that all of the red states have way higher gun deaths per capita than any blue state yet they'll scream about Chicago without looking at the actual numbers
Oh. That's good to know. Thanks.
There are also some other subtleties. E.g. I recently stumbled across the fact that in Germany apparently complete books (as opposed to excerpts) are specifically exempted from the right for private copies unless

- you either transcribe them completely manually, or else

- the book has been out of print for at least two years.

This law probably stems from the widespread introduction of photocopiers, but now that e-books are a thing, too, it has the somewhat absurd consequence that whereas it's perfectly legal to copy music I have purchased across my various devices and their backups, technically I'm not allowed to do the same thing for e-books (i.e. for example keeping an e-book both on my computer and my phone and in their respective backups, too).
Thunderbolt and docking are to blame.
What's the difference in security here?
Seriously, they do that? Which lunatic came up with that idea?
I don't know what you mean by calling the "current US government" anti-tech.

During the Trump presidency the governing party constantly called for regulation of "Big Tech" and even quasi-nationalizing social media platforms over "first amendment" concerns (which don't apply to private companies).

By comparison the current US government seems fairly tame and anti-interventionist.

It's also strange you consider tariffs an equivalent of antitrust and consumer protection regulation. US tech wouldn't have to give the EU "more money" if it followed the laws and regulations of the market it wants to operate in. Considering how obstructionist US tech companies of any size have been when it comes to basics like data protection and privacy, I'd say the fines these companies have had to pay so far are actually too low.

As for whether the AV1 case is actually anti-competitive, that's for the investigation to determine. But using a market leader position to strongarm other companies into agreeing to terms that weaken their ability to defend themselves would definitely be an antitrust issue, if the investigation determines that is what is going on.
The bandwidth possible in the terahertz size "channels" in singlemode fiber is incredibly larger than the channel size and modulations needed for rf to/from geostationary.

If you look at the per cpe traffic charts for each of the 32 customers on your typical 32:1 oversubscribed GPON connection, each individual one doesn't move that much traffic at all, relative to a chart that's scaled to 1Gbps on the Y axis.

With very basic CWDM you can push a ridiculous amount of data through just one strand of good sm fiber.

Docsis3/3.1 cable internet is worse because it's reliant on asymmetric use of downstream rf channels and much more limited bandwidth in the coax (though, they do still achieve 2048 and 4096qam!)

If you have a very small piece of rf spectrum like some tiny fraction of one 36MHz satellite transponder and you then oversubscribe it 32:1 or worse and also have to use fairly rudimentary loose modulations (very poor bps/Hz compared to terrestrial wired line modulations) at geostationary link budget distance, yeah, it's gonna suck.

It's more like, imagine you had fifteen people with laptops all connected to a single 802.11n AP from 12 years ago and you're all trying to torrent the latest 5GB debian install iso at the same time.
I would definitely return something I can't run Linux on.

Then there's stuff like this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/692552/no-linux-wil...

Which is why I never upgrade BIOS.
Yes, I think that is exactly the argument.

It is not cross-licensing agreement per se being investigated, but

1. the inherent absence of some patents required for the standard/implementation to function in initial patent pool
2. use of pre-established market dominance of founding members to limit non-member patent holders' ability to create competing standard and effectively strong-arming them to join.

A very similar issue has been raised against Microsoft in the antitrust case regarding iexplore. Iexplore has been deemed "good enough" default that market dominance of Windows with iexplore preinstalled as the default effectively strong-armed everyone involved to at least maintain compatibility with iexplore.
+1 for sustainable open source development. I think I've seen three paths:

1. The employee who has the blessing of the company to work on a side project during some work hours.

2. The developer who does contracting to keep a passion project afloat.

3. The developers who organize a company and try to invent business cases while keeping the core free and open.

Out of these, I feel (3) has the most possibilities. E.g. ability to focus, or if you happen to stumble on a great contributor, you can offer them a job. I don't see how this could be worse than the alternatives.
That's one way of putting it. I think trying to destroy long pre-existing cultures in a society by overruling people's basic freedoms in certain cases is generally a bad idea.
EU proposed mandatory CSAM scanning in private messaging is about as harmful as it gets.
Will there be "I survived the Hacker News outage of July 2022" stickers available? :D
Canada police's spyware admission_ – _covert surveillance of_ mobile devices
I feel the same way, but at least I want to hear what other party has to say. At least we can discuss a little.
I think I remember reading in more recent comics that Scrooge McDuck's money vault isn't to store his wealth (which is instead invested), but rather coins that were important, like attached to particular memories
Not sure about Galileo, but Gaia-X is not an EU project. It's a project started by a group of private companies, just because they are companies located in the EU, it does not make it an EU project.

Anyway, Gaia-X will definitely be a flop, or rather, will remain vaporware IMHO.
P16s looks perfect. I didn't want to say in my original post as it was a bit me-specific, but I'm also looking only for 16"+ laptops, and want to avoid the gamer aesthetic a lot of them seem to have, so the P16s looks perfect.
Port selection and positioning is a bit odd, but hopefully ultradocks still exist for these newer thinkpads. I have one for my X220 and it works perfectly as a stand+dock
No, the point is that if you're not asleep within 20 minutes you should wind down more outside of bed and try again. it helps me to reinforce the "no phone/reading/whatever" in bed rules, and means I don't lie awake for hours in bed - I get up and read in the living room for an hour and try again.
Maybe we just start with banning 30 round magazines?
Orange juice is a very unhealthy choice if you are made from electronics which are quite sensitive to water, sugar and citric acid.
First, this is a feature of TPM (PCR 7 checks), even before Pluton existed. This literally existed in 2008 (and FSF was so scared of it because in theory it can be used for DRM, which is a valid opinion). You're spewing misinformation.

Also, for some people, they will trade-off the possibility of data loss as long as the data can be reliably destroyed if the data falls into the wrong hands. Maybe not for you, but it's there for enterprise.
Original title:

"Asleep at the wheel": Canada police’s spyware admission raises alarm - Experts warn that RCMP document detailing covert surveillance of Canadians’ mobile devices highlights lax government oversight

> An admission from Canada’s national police force that it routinely uses powerful spyware to surveil citizens has prompted concern from experts, who warn the country is "asleep at the wheel" when it comes to regulating and reining in use of the technology

> Last year, a collaborative investigation between the Guardian and other major international outlets, called the Pegasus Project, revealed that spyware licensed by the Israeli firm NSO Group had been used to hack smartphones belonging to journalists, lawyers and human rights activists. // In 2021 the commerce department in the United States announced it had placed mercenary spyware companies like NSO on the country’s Entity List, effectively blacklisting them for their "malicious cyber activities" amid growing concern from US officials that the software posed a grave risk to national security. // In contrast, Canadian authorities have shown little appetite to take similar action, said Deibert [one the world’s leading experts on the surveillance techniques used by authoritarian regimes], who has briefed senior Canadian officials within successive governments

> In the parliamentary document, the RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] says it didn’t consult the federal privacy commissioner before using the technology - but said it nonetheless needs the approval of a judge when monitoring Canadians

There are two situations that may overlap here: that Statal agencies monitor all communications in the territory, and that in some cases monitoring of a specific individual is conducted through a more usual process.

In fact, the sentence later attributed to Brenda McPhail, director of the privacy technology and surveillance program for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, about «not [having] broad powers "shrouded by secrecy" and without public accountability», seems paradoxical when applied to approved operations in specific investigations from the Police - an "elephant in the room" is left out.

Edit:

There is in fact a very strong flaw in the conclusive reasoning

> [According to Deibert] Private companies and banks presumably know a lot about your preferences, but only the government can take away your freedom and put you in jail. Only the government can end your life in some jurisdictions... That’s why there should be a higher threshold for public accountability and transparency when these tools are used by state agencies

The statement points to «"tools"» «used by state agencies», but in a public-private partnership those «companies and banks» who «presumably know a lot» (and by principle _should not_) will share information upon request. So, the tools are just a piece of it - private information should be protected in general.
I honestly can't understand if you are for or against this:

>If the EU finds royalty-free patent ceasefire clauses to be anti-competitive, then the entire foundation of standards-based interoperability for the web is at stake

hmm, that sounds against

Followed by

>the entire realm of software encoding schemes has been poisoned by patent royalty schemes for far too long

well, that sounds for

but then

>I cannot think of anything worse for the state of media encoding on the web than regulator intervention to maintain that status quo

uh, against if they maintain status quo but for if they say it needs to change? Don't regulatory agencies normally look into things because they think they might need to say stuff needs to change?

on edit: changed ugh to uh, as ugh is generally used as expression of disgust, whereas I was going for expression of confusion.
We're not born to lose, we're experienced at failures.
The article never mentions Linux on the desktop.
We are already in an authoritarian state, most people haven't realized it yet.
It definitely isn't an 'attack', they just simply have not enabled the correct keys. I strongly doubt that lenovo consider any tiny amount of Linux users in any support scenario.

Source: I work on the Linux kernel and met people who work on Linux kernel.
Works much better in Firefox than Chrome for me.
I worry that 14" would be a bit small for me, this would (probably) be for a desktop replacement so screen real estate really matters (right now I'm using an x220 with a tiny 12.5" screen and its the main reason Im looking to change).
That's what meeting a sociopath does, yet in the end he still chose do do all this.
I dislike all of these organizations, but they're all peas in the same awful pod. Debating whether one is more liberal than another is like trying to figure out which of Himmler, Goering or Hitler was the least fascist. You might be able to get an answer but it doesn't mean anything given how terrible they all were.
Though keep in mind that'll limit your boot drive to 2.2TB in size. Not too much of an issue now for most people, but something to keep in mind during upgrades.
A big component is likely the international supply chain issues that became apparent in 2020/21.
> A cell is a collection of components, grouped from design and implementation into deployment

Not about the PowerPC / Sony PlayStation Cell architecture.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)
Yet they find the time to prosecute offensive posts on twitter. Anarcho-tyranny
Right - it would be unwise to take out a mortgage if you miss one month of income you can't repay.
Sounds horrible, my condolences

Good that we are past the bump now
I love that your website offers a dark/light theme switch toggle, but I'd love it even more if it were "sticky" (sets a cookie so it stays dark or light) across the entire site and through multiple site visits.
Agreed. I’ve done this process and it didn’t even occur to me that this was done nefarious practice. It’s to prevent some typical user from getting his machine pwned.

And this isn’t Evil Microsoft dictating what vendors can do. I can install Linux on my Surface device.
One very concrete action that requires no political will, would be for the media to stop giving a platform to the shooters.

If any would be shooter clearly sees that their message will go unheard, that they will die in anonymity, I think that could deter at least some.

Your point stands though, that the issue is societal.
If it helps, in the US you can get a taxi/uber/lyft to take you home from the bar. Some bars even offer free rides or can help arrange one if you need it. Calling a friend or relative to pick you up is also an option.

It's true that having shit public transportation and everything so far away that you need to drive complicates things, but there are always options. In Japan the public transportation is great, but the trains stop running long before the alcohol stops being served and it's not uncommon for drunk people to wait until morning even if it means waiting/sleeping outside all night. No reason folks here can't do the same.
Aparently the German Green Party was started with Russian influence.

So there may be some conflict here.
So no one thought of making a compatibility layer?
Even if it was on, failing to act would be the problem because you are supposed to pay attention while it is on. So, it's by definition a human error.

And with some drivers being a danger to themselves and others, you might legitimately wonder if fsd wouldn't be the better alternative.

People die every day on roads. Mostly because they are being people and get drunk, tired, distracted, reckless, etc. It's very likely the driver ticked one or more of these boxes. The simple explanations are usually the right ones.
Ford has more pre-orders for the F150 Lightning than Tesla shipped cars last year. Almost 80% of the reservations are from first time EV buyers, so people who theoretically could have bought a Tesla but didn't want one.

In 5 years, I doubt Tesla will be in the top 10.
Not sure if I have ADHD, but I have a hard time focusing without blocking all external sounds. I can’t listen to slow music while coding/thinking, I need the music to match my brain speed, so I listen to 135+ bpm stuff. Psytrance and Hardstyle are my go to music genres. I recently made a playlist long enough to get me through a working day https://open.spotify.com/playlist/02mn7gCDxdJeiRwgiEX3EM?si=...
Well, I knew right from the start when secure boot was first introduced that this is going to happen sooner or later. This is a slippery slope, and I'm sure eventually we'll have computers which will make this not only the default, but also the only way to boot.

The war on general-purpose computing is well underway, and I fear we'll lose it. The billions of already completely locked down computers (e.g. every iOS device) does prove that people just don't care, and many (including people here!) will even defend it that they prefer it that way. Eventually we won't have a choice.
They will probably end up failing at this because of politics and waste enormous amounts of money, give up and instead import insulin from China or India and resell it, which would actually work.
That's a relief. Without UEFI, the boot drive is limited to 2.2TB, hampering upgrades.
You don't have to disable Secure Boot, just Device Guard / Secured Core.
Secure Boot ensures that it's impossible to run a rootkit, even if the user accidentally installs one. Instead of booting into corrupted Windows, the system would fail to boot.
There is already a JavaScript SDK (https://github.com/pocketbase/js-sdk) that works both in the browser and node.

Dart SDK (targeting mainly Flutter) is also on the way.

Unfortunately I'm not very uptodate with Android (Kotlin) or iOS (Swift) development and therefore community contributions are more than welcomed.
Araq can be harsh sometimes, but what I'm reading in the linked github thread is a developer who at first doesn't see value in the PR (4th of december) but accepted the PR two days latter after being shown evidence that he was wrong. He didn't entrench, closed the PR without further discussion or requested an unreal ammount of proofs, which I have faced in a number of other projects. He just said: "so I'll try to follow this new guideline" and accepted the PR.
T480s is MIL-STD-810G (source: https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T... ) I could not find any information regarding the MIL standard about T420.
That's easy. It securely sends the users data to Microsoft.
https://archive.ph/0QDkI
Evidence found that insects are possibly able to feel pain
This really disturbs me.

You have no problem when someone decides to kill someone and thinks the laws doesn't apply to them. To make matters worse, you think someone who tries to obey the laws makes a terrible decision by not killing anyone.

If killing someone doesn't give you a pause, I would be afraid to be a minority in whatever society you live in. The laws, which you so easily dismissed, gives some rights to minorities.

What's next? Here are five people who are dying... Let's kill someone in the minority to get their organs and transplant them. It's ok! Five people will survive, while only one dies.

Laws, whether or not you like them, are there to also protect minorities.
This should be higher up. California’s policies have shown incredible public benefit. As much of the USA has been sliding back on important metrics, California’s progressive politics have pulled it forward. This makes conservatives very mad and they will do everything to discredit it, including trying to spin the budget surplus as a terrible thing, despite them not long ago (15 years ago?) spinning our budget deficit as precisely the same sign of bloated and wasteful mismanagement. This shows they aren’t arguing in good faith.

Reddit user lists all the reasons why California policies lead to the best health and life expectancy outcomes in the United States: https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/up7wei/uinconvenien...
"some other engineer will pick it", and CEOs are paid hundreds millions because "nobody can else could do their job"!
The last time we had a hard drive failure, we were down for a couple days. That was early 2013.

After that, in the spirit of 'never again', Nick (kogir) set up the failover server system that we still use today. That's why you missed it tonight; you wouldn't have back then. Sorry, I guess?

Edit: by pure coincidence, Nick was in town tonight and we met up for the first time in years. Two hours later HN goes down. almost as if the server was overcome by nostalgia
Tesla computer vision is done using neural networks. The tech has migrated to make driving decisions using neural nets as well. The code is basically just an artifact used to create a digital mind. However, it's possible that digital mind is operating vehicles at the level of a chimpanzee.
Right, HN is the site I check when I'm not sure my connection is working, because it loads so fast. It HN doesn't load, then I'm more likely to walk away from the computer than to check another site.
is there a cli tool for PATR?
Current linux laptop landscape:

Thinkpads (T): Decent keyboards, fwupd. Everything else is mediocre to poor.

Dell Precision: About the same as thinkpads.

S76, Starlabs: coreboot, upgradable. Mediocre screen, keyboard, trackpad, audio etc.

Framework: Not enough to differentiate for the price premium.

I have mostly given up on this. If macbooks get gpu linux drivers, I am willing to jump ship.
I generally agree with that, but I don't think that holds for Lenovo. Wasn't it Lenovo that compromised the security of Windows by installing a keys-included general purpose root certificate?
So they are protecting your ordinary everyday users, while still giving any of us who need to boot from a USB stick or another partition the ability to do that with a simple BIOS setting.

It doesn't seem much different from the F12 menu that lets you select an alternate boot device.

How exactly does this mean they "prevent booting alternative operating systems"?
It’s 2022—Isn’t It Time You Started Coding in Lazarus.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
So which company is large enough to have patents that supposedly are essential to AV1 despite not participating in the process, is small enough that AOMedia overlooked those patents during the standardization process, yet is large enough to rely on those patents as a deterrent against AOMedia licensees, and obviously can’t be an NPE since they feel pressure to ship AV1?
Not really, Holmes choose to make herself the public face of the company and went on a media blitz promoting it.

She's also a very strange "character" who attempted to cultivate a cult of personality around herself.
What? That sounds like forcing Legacy (BIOS) boot instead of EFI. Which shouldn't be possible on most machines in the last few years
Depends. There is a minimum age of marriage in Delaware, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.

But in general, all teenagers are old enough to marry.
acc = min(max(acc, -128), 127)?