skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poker players are trained to think a decision was a mistake only if the expected value of the decision was negative, not if the outcome happened to be negative. This is good because it removes the chance component from the outcome when evaluating the quality of the decision making process.
If your can use Windows or Mac OS then you can use Linux. What does BIOS have to do with it?
My non-technical wife has installed and is using Ubuntu. With this mentioned BIOS/UEFI block it would be much more tricky for her to get started.
That's the issue here.
Incidentally, that scene was inspired by something that happened IRL to a friend of one of the series writers: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=451019&show=0
I wouldn't describe Japan as a "happy" country.
Oh, that's actually a great name. You should suggest it to them.
And is attracting people to the web just to watch the banner since 2018
Yeah. They can casually campaign at the corner of a train station or on the truck with very lax security concern.
Attacker leaves a USB stick somewhere on a parking lot, and curious employee plugs it in to see what's there, and reboots machine (or USB stick makes it reboot).
Wow! Well, I guess given Japan's life expectancy of 84, he's got half of his life still.
No and no. That's my entire point.

I'm not new here but thank you for the patronizing suggestions :)
I live in Japan and haven't seen any of that. Could you link?
Not enough of a difference to make a difference. Single use shotguns from smooth pipes and black powder are very simple. Any lay person can figure it out.
Beyond the still active politician arguments: terrorism and revenge. Also the kind of people who do this thing often aren’t really driven by things most of us would call rational.
Yeah, and it was a homemade gun so it doesn't look or sound like a regular one (certainly not like one from movies or TV)
If it's 20 years older with orders of magnitude less bandwidth, I can see why someone might call it less advanced.
I feel like Framework have an opportunity to capitalize on their momentum and build a ridiculously well built "Thinkpad-killer" machine and charge beyond premium for it and many devs would still pay up gladly. Just a hunch.
Also someone once severed his finger and mailed it to Abe, because because he didn’t visit Yasukuni shrine (where several war criminals are enshrined) one year. The Japanese far-right are … peculiar.
No, the developed world.
Klaus Lemke, German filmmaker, has died
The US manages to be the reigning empire and a failed state at the same time. Internationally, it's the empire, internally, it's failed beyond repair.
> The rare police intervention that happens because someone got offended is usually resolved without any criminal charges.

But they are often recorded as a "non-crime hate incident," an innovation instigated by the police and not by legislators. Fortunately, there seems to be some pushback against this frankly dystopian practice.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/02/polici...
Brits also pride themselves on not having to carry any Id with them. It actually seems to come from some sense of civil liberty. This was all good in XX century but things have changed and I wish that civil lerby focused people understood the tech a little better, I think they would then oppose it
I had that same thought watching the recent Chicago shooting footage. I have never heard a rifle in real life, they certainly don't sound like movies and if I had been sitting nearby it would have taken me a while to tell this is a flee situation.
You assume that it works.

$188 to not fix your sleep is not cheap.
Brit here: can confirm that rambling generally implies countryside walking (perhaps a bit slower and less purposefully than hiking or trekking). Perambulation sounds a bit Victorian and tends to imply walking in some sort of defined circuit. Strolling might be closer but also doesn't really imply paying much attention to surroundings.
Was that a shotgun? Seems like a lot of smoke for a gun.
The average user has Bitlocker enabled and sealed to PCR 7, because that's been the default for years. A drive-by malware infection will be blocked by that. The ones who aren't in that scenario probably aren't using hardware that has this configuration, so it does nothing to protect them. If you're looking for the set of people who have hardware that defaults to this configuration, and who are targets of adversaries performing bootkit attacks, and who don't have a Bitlocker configuration that's sealed to PCR 7, I'd actually be willing to bet that you're going to find 0 of them.
For anyone interested in the Chess story, it's a trick performed by Darren Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAXIubSTkc

I really liked the simplicity of the trick (concept wise). Though I sure as hell couldn't memorise all those moves.
I'm as cynical and prone to doomsaying as much as anyone but there's nothing new in assassination attempts the world over and I don't think it's helpful to imply we're all gonna be dealing with mass 'ghost gun' violence due to climate change. Like, maybe, or maybe not.
It's worth mentionning that the shooter targeted Abe because he was "dissatisfied" with him.

Japan is a country with an abysmally low voter turnout.

So, it may be a consequence of this (cultural?) issue that dissatisfied people don't think of using their vote to change the system, and feel they are only left with violent means.

PS: I'm not trying to justify this murder, of course I'm horrified of it. But I'm saying that the actions to take in order to lower the probability of recurrence of this kind of tragedy includes pushing more people to go participate to ballots.
Right until the setting mysteriously disappears, or doesn't work. Not as rare as you may think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31823656

And even then if they have the option, the entire process is designed to make the user feel as uncomfortable as possible while doing it. Disabling perfectly unrelated features (e.g. fast boot), going through Scary Boot Prompts, etc. are NOT acceptable requirements for booting a non-MS OS.

It's not the first time a vendor disables the MS UEFI CA signature by default (e.g. Microsoft itself has done it on ARM _and_ x86 Surfaces).
I'd recommend Vicenza and Verona. A single train line connects them to Venice, too.
For devices that I've bought in the last ~10 years (i.e. coming with UEFI, between Thinkpad T430s in 2012 and NUC11 few weeks ago), the default was:

- try to boot the internal devices

- then try external (some even distinguish optical and key fobs)

- then try PXE

and only when all of these fail, message the user "no bootable device found".
I know this is sarcasm but this is the plague of the industry. It's mostly why we have poor software and why a lot of economic activity consists of adding cool new techniques one year, and then removing it again four years later.
I understand the impulse to mourn victims of any senseless crime, but a war crime denier is not someone I personally believe we should spare any tears for. Certainly advocate for society to move past assassinations, but there are lots of deaths more deserving of your mourning.
And most OEMs have enabled/pre-provisioned it by default for almost a decade, since Windows 8 times.
> It literally hasn't been a century since the Europeans went full Nazi.

The "Europeans" didn't go full Nazi. Germany went full Nazi. Italy went full fascist. Their allies conformed to various degrees. But it was also Europeans who fought and died in their millions to overcome fascism. Most of the Jews and others who died in the Holocaust were Europeans.
Yeah but this is pretty bad in itself (really long number) when you're traveling. And needing the recovery key so often will lead to people writing it down and keeping it with the laptop so they're not locked out next time. Which invalidates the whole point of FDE.

The last time I had this the key didn't even work, my work rotates it regularly so something must have been out of sync.. Every Linux update seemed to break bitlocker this way so I stopped dualbooting.
I still have anxiety from the last project I had to use named after this vegetable.
Ha! That front picture is of the Biennale!

Denmark is bringing it! (they made the centaur art thingy)
> I use Linux, I'm writing from Debian, on a Lenovo laptop.
> It took 10 seconds to allow Linux to boot.

On this specific Z13? Or other model, which wasn't "improved" yet?
I have this weird "Archduke Franz Ferdinand" feeling...
7) learn to not care so much :)

Edit:// to be fair I have downtime notifications on priority. Everything else is not time critical
Building blocks for RNA-based life abound at center of our galaxy
Whether that’s a good definition or not of ‘mistake’, it’s extremely context specific. Considering the outcome of Abenomics and the generally used notion of ‘mistake’, still strikes me as valid to call it a mistaken program in retrospect.
Reports online mention a home made gun...
It was a home made DIY shotgun which looks like to had electric ignition too

https://nitter.cz/pic/media%2FFXH24fkWYAAZTTm.jpg%3Fname%3Do...

https://nitter.cz/pic/media%2FFXH24y9XoAITMIM.jpg%3Fname%3Do...

https://nitter.cz/pic/media%2FFXH25G7WYAI8o2D.jpg%3Fname%3Do...
There are other considerations though aren't there? Assuming that you trust the hosting entity:

* You may not want to trust the hosting entity for all of time. If you trust that E2E is deployed now, then you don't have to trust the future version of the host

* You may want additional protection against the host database being compromised. If you trust that E2E is deployed then a compromise of the host would not mean anything for your users privacy
I don't think I've ever seen a simple explanation of the mix blend modes. Seems most people use them in a trial and error kind of way.

Surely one exists as they're a very common tool across Photoshop and now web, but is just swamped by the people repeating the basic instructions.

Feels like an explanation might need to split between various tasks but focus on the fact that you are changing each pixel by different amounts. The confusing thing is that the choice of which pixel to change, and how to change it, is a combination of the source images and the blend mode.
> and they start actively trying to attract younger immigrants

Well that certainly won't happen with higher taxes (unless the benefits outweigh the costs for the immigrants). They must get data to build their Laffer curve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
I never understood why it was so funny. For me it was good first order of approximation of how internet works.

We actually do pipe some stuff around and it flows from one place to another.

Is the series of tubes so hilariously unimaginable for Americans?
Most movies or TV don't do realistic gun sounds anyways
It wouldn't have loaded on boot without an explicit choice even with the MS UEFI CA signature loaded.
It's Brazil, no other country in the world has more than 40,000 firearm deaths per year.
> targeted political assassination

do we really know already?
> Governments alone cannot hit those targets. Private businesses will need to reallocate capital for low-carbon investments and find ways to make large-scale emission reductions possible.

Then governments - well, at least the USA as it is responsible for a disproportionate amount of emissions - should stop subsidizing (e.g., Big Oil) and protecting (e.g., factory animal farming) the dirty behaviours, and shift those efforts and resources to the cleaner behaviors.

But this means ignoring a lot of influence (e.g., PACs, etc.), as well as tradition.

In short, if the climate is going to revert, the governments need to change. So much for optimism.
Interesting how everything kind of looks like doing development on timeshared systems.

https://dreamsongs.com/Cadillac.html
> ...and happy.

Japan sits 62nd out of 153 in the 2020 World Happiness Report at a score of 5.871 (range 7.809-2.567, normalizes to 0.63)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report#2020_re...

Happier than average, but that average includes countries wracked by war, poverty and corruption.

Edit: the 2022 World Happiness Report ranks Japan at 54th out of 146 with a score of 6.039 normalized to 0.67, an improvement, and is now comparable to Mauritius, Uzbekistan and Honduras.

https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2022/happiness-benevolence-...
Why? I don't see much parallel given he is an _ex_ prime minister.
Wayland being a requirement sounds like a sound choice in terms of maintenance and the issues of X itself. Applications don't need to update to GTK5.
That's interesting, thanks. I'm currently using the trie and properties table from https://github.com/rochus-keller/Qt-4.8.7/blob/master/src/co... for a new open source project of mine; the source file is 204k and the compiler produces an 68k object file from it.
Most Linux users are savvy enough to tinker with the BIOS for a couple of minutes and get rid of this thing. All this feature does is feed some MS / Lenovo exec power fantasy.
> The average user has Bitlocker enabled and sealed to PCR 7, because that's been the default for years.

No, very few models sold auto-encrypt because most have *the very least* one untrusted DMA-capable bus. They might even have Device Guard enabled, but that's often insufficient. Not to mention other reasons why devices might be considered noncompliant, like lack of HSTI (though that's more common with desktop motherboards, of which some might even have all other features Device Guard consists of).

At this point in time, I'd consider auto-encryption rare. Maybe in five years and a few refresh cycles.

> A drive-by malware infection will be blocked by that. The ones who aren't in that scenario probably aren't using hardware that has this configuration, so it does nothing to protect them.

No, because previous point.

> who are targets of adversaries performing bootkit attacks, and who don't have a Bitlocker configuration that's sealed to PCR 7, I'd actually be willing to bet that you're going to find 0 of them.

Me finding someone getting actually targeted? Indeed unlikely.

Me finding someone with some especially nasty variant of Emotet? Not at all unlikely.

Device Guard enabled devices certainly make life harder for attackers, even if BitLocker is not (auto-)enabled.
was this psychopass?
https://www.dawn.com/news/1652510
His grandfather was a war criminal, and he has a track record of running interference for Japanese atrocities
My first laptop was a HP nx6230 - built like a tank with a fabulous keyboard. I really miss such machines. I checked out the Dev One. However, it doesn't seem to offer any configuration options and seems like a take-it-or-leave it pre-config (not sure if that is some location-specific thing).
Work on what matters
I appreciate your suggestion.

Who, in your opinion, would it be more correct to mourn at this time?
it's simply a matter of disabling secure boot.

10 seconds at most.

no need for being sarcastic.
FreeBSD Jobs on Twitter
Someone's doing work.
People nearby clearly do. The people near the camera probably have no idea what happened. In most countries, gun crime is uncommon and people would just be confused what had just happened.
All this facial recognition deployed during protests. Our rights to protest are being trampled. So much effort in entrapping every day citizens. Crime is still on the rise. The met police are useless.
Bars could have hives of Puke-n-Nap pods that they can just hose out in the morning after everyone leaves.
Sounds like some random consultant who wants to coin a new buzzword so they can force this upon organizations.

no thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank you.
Pardon me, but lol. I'm nowhere near the US, and indeed I'm further to the left than both of your right parties, even if I'm center/right of center for my country.

And there are plenty of US "liberals" who are "pro-gun", whatever that means.
Today GMail added a large "this message maybe is a spam, please tell us" banner to my mom's messages, halving my viewport, and I have never see this banner before. Come on Google, we have hundreds of dialogues in years, how dare you to ask me some extra clicks.
The other way around:

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/11/30/read-elizabeth-...

> For her part, Holmes’s responses are often short.

> Balwani: Missing u in every breath and in every cell.

> Holmes: Ditto

> She uses “ditto” nine times in the texts that are part of the exhibit.

> Balwani: My family sends love and prayers and u have prayers of thousands and thousands of people u have served

> Holmes: Ditto
Fashion driven industry.

It is so ironic to see microservices being hyped, when back in the Solaris golden days we had "The network is the computer" mantra.

Now we get people to rediscover CORBA and DCOM via gRPC.

Or being told how cool Web IDEs are, when again 30 years ago, we were sharing development servers via telnet and X Windows.

Or "pick your example"…
Better than having guns for criminals, rich people and unhinged teenagers looking to shoot their school.
At least the first gen had issues with linux sleep and battery drain. Build quality looks average. It's not a bad device; just not too compelling at the price point.
This is how aerospace engineers justify working at missile companies. "Well if I don't do it, someone else get paid to do it". Maybe just don't make unethical tech. Start a hotdog stand instead, more useful to society.
It's context independent and can be applied anywhere. It's the maxim of not factoring in good or bad luck when evaluating the quality of a decision that's made under incomplete information (such as not being able to see the future). Simple and sensible.

> Considering the outcome of Abenomics and the generally used notion of ‘mistake’, still strikes me as valid to call it a mistaken program in retrospect.

Fair enough. I was commenting in the abstract, I have no view on Abenomics.
Agree! That's why I think a centralize tracing system is too expensive. Still looking for a better way to send API bug report.
> Whether it offers marginal additional security has yet to be demonstrated.

You're further limiting the number of images that can boot. This is a point you've made yourself so I don't really see how you need a further demonstration.

What you can argue is whether that marginal additional security is negligible enough be pragmatically worthless. And I'd probably agree with you there. However that doesn't dismiss the point that it does add a marginal additional security from the perspective of "defence in depth"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)

> But it certainly does damage the competition.

I'm not convinced it does in any meaningful way. Maybe (again) marginally it might but it's trivial to disable and most Linux users are probably used to jumping into the uEFI to enable booting from install medias anyway (I know I am).

I'd argue your statement here requires a greater burden of proof than the one you're arguing against.
> Something to this effect really happened in New York City (if memory serves)

Something to this effect was widely reported, the Kitty Genovese case. But the reports were lies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese
Yeap. News about people getting killed during a robbery even after passively handling out their belongings without resistance are common occurrence.

Criminals still with plenty access to guns after 20 years of strict control regulations are emboldened by the fact that nobody can offer resistance.
Perhaps people in Japan are more reserved, but that doesn’t mean they’re not happy.
ironically if this is successful we likely won't know how deep the hardening goes, unless security researchers who have legit access release something?

but i'd love to know the series of changes that goes into something like this if its not just hype, potentially unpicking a giant complex system from the bottom up to remove attack surface.. interesting challenge!
In Sweden our foreign affairs minister was murdered two days before a referendum if we should switch to Euro currency. It destroyed the final days of campaigning.
Also I think it is common with sympathy votes in situations like this, for the party close to the victim.
That's great news. I wish the European nuclear industry would have always 10 of these projects running at any time, so we could continuously learn, train and improve ever-so-slightly the designs.
If you have only heard a gun firing from a video, it sounds much different in person.

A lot of microphones do a very poor job of capturing the sound, and even the best recordings can't capture just how loud guns can be.
It's definitely not modern 'smokeless' propellant either. Probably repurposed flash powder from fireworks or DIY.
I thought that was the reasoning behind location locks with quite a few cloud providers, like Firebase for example.
There must be some massive cognitive dissonance here. Do you oppose all laws that protect children as being too oppressive?
They didn't run away. You don't need to run away when you're not in danger.
Forget 9 to 5. Experts: time has come for the results-only work environment
The issue isn't that it can't be dealt with through BIOS; it is that this is not a particular Linux friendly stance to take. Also, if this makes Linux users worry about the things to come, say removal of this setting from BIOS, I don't think that is a completely unfounded fear.
They could probably attract millions of Westerners tomorrow if they really wanted. Whether or not that's a good idea / they'd like the influx is another question. But, they could do it without changing anything except their insanely difficult immigration schemes.
Agiler: An adaptive heterogeneous tile-based many-core arch for RISC-V
Can we not wait more than 6 hours after this man's chest was blown to pieces?
Remove gun violence. Remove self defense. Remove gang violence.

The chance of someone just waking up, loading a gun and shooting you point blank for no reason are very small.
> then it must be malice from Microsoft and the PC OEMs to restrict user freedom and destroy Linux's 2,43% PC market share.

It is ridiculous that people still downplaying Linux's PC market share when the latest version of Windows ships NOT ONE but TWO Linux emulators/virtualizers BOTH designed to allow you to run Linux binaries (desktop & Android) under Windows in the most user-friendly way possible.

Obviously this is because no one Windows customer cares about Linux or Linux software.

AT THE SAME TIME they take steps (and everyday larger steps) to prevent booting the same Linux on bare hardware, making their virtualization options more attractive for both the regular user and the advanced user.

At this point we're way past the "assume incompetence" point.
I remember some desktop computers did, but it was when external boot devices where CD-ROM

And even then this message appeared

Press any key to boot from CD...

https://i.imgur.com/VyZOuob.png
Not really, it's almost like the negative correlation makes this possible.

America has very high rates of violent crime, and because of that, assassinating a former president would be really difficult.
With your experience you will be better than most other candidates.
The Kitty Genovese story was a psyop:

https://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2012/09/tall-tales
Debatable. The 2014 coup was about as on brand for US imperialism as you can get.

Victoria Nuland dictating exactly who would be in and out of the next govt in a leaked state dept recording:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9J6sxCs5k
Requiring an unobstructed view of the sky is pretty incompatible with sailboats anyways, unless you stick it at the top of the mast (where I expect it won't last long).

Then there's also the power requirements, which I haven't seen yet, but they'll probably be exceedingly difficult to meet for your average sailboat.
Do we know the motive of the perpetrator?
Perhaps I'm making a stupid assumption here but isn't almost all gun violence (outside the US) committed with unregistered and/or homemade weapons? Doesn't seem like anything unusual/new to me as a European.

I also don't see the relationship with climate change.