skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small nitpick: uppercase ẞ was added to Unicode 5.1 in 2007 (https://unicode-table.com/en/1E9E/) and is considered correct German orthography since 2017 (see §25 E3 in https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/rechtschreibung/6180#par25E3)
In a way it's understandable that people like seeing their country called in their own language. But isn't that actually more a sign of irrelevance than a sign of status? A village does not have a toponym in any other language, but famous cities tend to have, and those who don't might be a bit short on history.

How about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany ?
(yes, we consider ourselves lucky that noone calls the country by what it's most famous for)
Desmond Tutu. A lower second class degree is a 2.2.
I agree, that is rather stupid. There is a point in the concept of appropriation if a group actually is negatively affected, but there should be no IP on ideas on how to live a good life.
I agree, however that's all fine and well but it turns the languages syntax into dogshit. A babel plugin (transpiling) would be ideal.

On the same note, the original intent was for NaN to be insidious and propagate into every derived calculation or comparison, thus making it easy to tell if a mathematical function had failed, without having to add conditionals at every step within it. Which makes a lot of sense. However, not being able to know exactly where the NaN was produced is kind of shit. Now, if NaN had a stack trace property like Error (exception) objects...it would make this behavior much more useful. Makes me wonder if the prototype of NaN can be extended, hm.
The worst problem is that people are (even in the other discussion thread here on HN) still claiming that we are scaremongering. Back when all this Secure Boot was announced, we already said that its main purpose seemed to be to make booting of non-MS operating systems more complicated, rather than security enforcement.

"But, you're scaremongering! See, I put this Debian USB pendrive and I can still boot it fine!"

This was because Debian (and many other distros) went, at some point, through MS-enforced hoops in order to get their bootloader signed. Quite a perilous situation in which MS was this "steward" of the entire PC OS ecosystem; whether a Linux distribution booted or not on PCs was practically at the whim of MS. That was at least better than the alternative (no booting -- since MS got away with SecureBoot anyway) and we have to thank people like mjg59 for it.

Now, your Debian pendrive will not boot on this Lenovo PC, even if MS-signed.

"But, you're scaremongering! See, I put this Debian USB pendrive in, hit F1, hit cursor down three times, tab, down five times, space, F12, and I can still boot it fine!"
Nothing new. Religion was always used to keep the oppressed in check.

Because you know what happens here is not a big deal. You will get somehow rewarded for your hardships after you kick the bucket.

Also it’s a great tool to rally people to a cause. And can generate cash!

Best idea ever.
Intel wanted to do this with floating point operations on the Pentium, in the 1990s. A set of e-fuses would give you access to (say) another hundred million floating point adds or something, then the CPU would burn a fuse and you'd have to buy more (a final fuse would do a complete unlock).

Yes, it's a horrible idea.

Cashing in on Excel users is what Intel marketing was betting on. Only it wasn't just Excel users using the FPU: One of the things that killed this plan was the upswing in 3-D games that used floating point math (in other words, Quake).
Although this is really easy to do and works quite well, I'm not sure a car battery is the best choice with the alternative battery chemistries that are available now. lifepo4 is probably the better choice but I'll just talk about lead acid batteries:

Lead acid batteries are, at least IMO, no longer the best choice for a backup power source. I can think of several reasons to avoid using a car battery as a backup:
1) lead battery recycling is very environmentally unfriendly.
2) These batteries have pretty poor performance in deep cycle applications.
3) They require constant charging to maintain their voltage so power use goes up just to keep your backup battery topped up.
4) This constant charging, however, degrades the battery and reduces it's useful life.
5) Almost all lead acid batteries on the market are significantly lower quality than what used to be available a few years ago. They have an even shorter life expectancy than what's easily achievable because they are essentially designed to fail after a year or two.
It's just as likely of a conclusion (as pointed out elsewhere) that people are informed because of unionization - i.e. that union workers are better empowered to point out design flaws or other recall-worthy issues (without fear of reprisal over having embarassed the management) than non-union workers.

That is: using recalls to measure product quality is highly misleading for reasons that take all of five seconds to identify, and the fact that the paper chose such a metric despite such an obvious flaw reeks of bad faith.
My new Microsoft Surface Book let’s me switch to 3rd party CAs or even none at all, with no problem. This sounds like a Lenovo issue.

On top of that, I would prefer if my machine is by default, in a secure configuration when I buy it. Since the laptops come with Windows pre-installed and Microsoft signed bootloaders, it is fundamentally more secure than if the 3rd parties CAs are enables. I don’t want an attacker chain loading Linux and KVM beneath my Windows OS.
Based on a sibling comment[1], it seems that this document is authentic.

I had seen it before (maybe here in HN), but I was convinced that it was a prank.

Can anyone confirm the authenticity of this ?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32064781
> "Except there isn’t a centralized actor manipulating the supply and issuance" and "distributed to block producers as a reward" are mutually exclusive

No. The protocol defines the supply, issuance and inflation rate, but - assuming we are talking about a decentralized network - a single actor cannot manipulate it. Solana is an example of a centralized crypto currency upheld by a single entity.

> whoever got hold of the initial supply will be richer (in Solana) than anyone who didn't get there in time

The same happens with US dollars. It has a limited supply, but more is printed and entered into circulation each year, creating inflation. This is like a decentralized crypto currency, but in US dollars a single country controls the circulation, and users of the currency cannot fork the protocol.

Bitcoin is one of the few popular crypto currencies that aims to have a hard limit in total supply with no plans for adaptive issuance or inflation.
75 comment discussion here from 2020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22020229
Getting Started with DirectX Raytracing
> These rules are insane.

They are. Its the result of shallow thinking, socialism and pure graft. People don't consider there are considerable downsides to these regulations, and simply think "protecting the workers" is good.
> Not that the cars still have significant quality, just the brand recognition is left.

This. Have plastics coming off of my bmw and porsche. Both premium german carmakes. Friends bmw has electronics going hay wire, faulty control boards, bluetooth needs resetting by turning the car on and off and so on. Also the amount of times there are recalls made in the us while in europe you have to pay for solving the same issue is ridiculous. BMWs are infamous for a timing chain issue where it can loosen and snap damaging the engine. Porsche had an axle carrier issue that was recalled in europe years after the us. Oh and dont get me started on their customer service quality.

All in all not buying german brands again. Used to be ok but not anymore. They turbine them to death and “improve” dashboards here and there but thats it. Boring old tech.
This sounds like stuff that hard bargaining customers to can get dealers to "throw in for free". A bit like "mats, flaps and a tank of fuel".

If you tell the salesman you're not going to buy the car unless they turn on all the features for free and it's the end of the sales month they probably will.

It's not like it's costing BMW anything, it's just classic rent seeking behaviour for them.

Only weak customers will pay for things like this twice (once in the purchase price and again in "feature" rent).

I could also see a thriving market for used cars that have been permanently unlocked to have "better specs" than new.

No secondhand car dealer worth his salt is going to put up with that bullshit when he could sell the car fully loaded for no extra cost.
Forget towns. Talk about the fucking name of the country.

Actually, the name is "Deutschland" (if you leave out the political decorations declaring it a federal republic).

One should think, knowing where the word comes from, that the english name would be "Dutchland". But it isn't, instead they call someone else "Dutch". Admittedly a neighbouring country with some shared history and origins waaay back then, but still. Tyskland is great, thanks to everyone using a variation of that.

Then there is "Germany". Way back then, when the romans tried and failed to establish a longterm presence on the other side of the rivers rhine and danube that might have been ok, but that was 2000 years ago. For at least the last 500 years, "deutsch" or some variation thereof was official. Germans are also only part of the historic inhabitants of what forms modern-day Germany, there are also a few Slavic tribes in there. Also, there are many German tribes that didn't settle in what is modern-day Germany, instead they now form the nordic states, the Netherlands, parts of Switzerland and Austria. So mostly wrong, no fish.

Alemania is even more wrong, because that actually only talks about the southwestern german tribes, in current southwest Germany and northeastern Switzerland. "Alemannisch" strictly only describes the traditions of that region in german. Nothing else.

Then there is Niemcy and stuff. I've been told it means something like "mutes" or "the ones you cannot comprehend". I'm not sure if that is supposed to be an insult or a compliment, but really, after you started talking to us you couldn't be arsed to ask what we call ourselves?

Talking about insults: Saksa might be considered a compliment or an insult in Germany, depending on where you are. Historically, saxon tribes settled in the northwest (later England, but that is not relevant here). This corresponds to a part of what currently is the German land Niedersachsen. There are two Länder that are called something with "sachsen", but they are faking it to get a grab at the former glory. Talking about "glory", it is quite the opposite in southern Germany, there nobody likes "Sachsen" and considers them the worst kind of "Preussen". Which are all considered insults there.

There are a few others, getting more and more weird until:
Navajo: Béésh Bich’ahii Bikéyah ("Metal Cap-wearer Land"), in reference to Stahlhelm-wearing German soldiers.[1]
I can get behind that. But the rest, please stop it, it is "Deutschland". Or I might have to wear my metal cap again ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany
>people notice that they buy average crap

Don't be silly, no-one actually buys their shiny box stuffed full of unmaintainable toys any more!

Saying that, I am very curious to see how this affects the car financing and second hand market over the next few years. At some point, these baubles have to be offloaded from the lease market and bought by somebody.
If it ain't broken, don't fix it. What's the point of updating an old game's source tree to compile with the latest and greatest compilers?

Even if one wanted to do that, it would probably be best done as a fork.
Evaluation order is somewhat "dependency driven" in Haskell for pure functions, because it uses lazy evaluation.

But in this case the code here is basically generating a list of "instructions" for the Haskell runtime, like saying "first open the file, then say hello, then read the file".

The generation of the instructions may be in an undefined order, but that doesn't matter, because writing the instructions doesn't in itself produce any side effects.

The resulting list of instructions ends up listed in the order you wrote, and so the actual IO effects are executed in that order.
I used to break cds into a plastic bag because of all the little pieces that go flying around and difficult to clean up.
> And an all potato diet, while monomaniacal, even more effective.

I met someone on a Potatoes + Curd/Butter diet and he said something that stuck with me - "You need to eat the skins too".

So you can't just eat fries or mashed potatoes, but more like baked potatoes in skin with sour cream.

Seems a bit crazy, but it seemed to make him happy & felt like he was discovering something unique rather than being forced by someone else.

> even with a cheat day

Cheat days are under-explained, they're not for fun.

If you keep up a calorie deficit long-term, then your metabolism tanks and the easiest way to convince your body that it doesn't need to cut costs is to take a day of extra calories intermixed with the fasting.

If you don't do them, you will feel tired all the time when fasting.
If BMW can earn more money by always installing it but making it optional rather than making it a standard feature, guess what BMW will do?
The UK requires consultation, regardless of industry or union status, for all layoffs (redundancies) of 20 staff or over: https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/consultation
This is what I was getting at - the US seems to have a hostile relationship between employees and employers. I suspect this is mostly due to legal regulations and not necessarily due to a mistrusting culture per se, but I don't really know.
They are not designed to be owned.
"After-market auto parts, restomods, and repair services don't exist-- the post"
California's Energy War on the Poor
aren't they the same thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac
No. It's more like "Do you want one single marshmallow, which might bring you a few brief seconds of pleasure - in the unlikely chance that the dog doesn't eat it first or it doesn't get covered in ants first? Or would you rather have a one in a million chance of having as many marshmallows as you want, whenever you want, for the rest of your life, with no more worries about the dogs or ants because there'd be plenty for the dog and you would never have ants anymore?"
This is the problem estimation in disconnected units like story points is supposed to solve. Team: “We estimate that solving this problem will take two elephants and a gazelle, we came to this estimate by using our best guesses informed by our expertise on the matter”. Manager: “well I can’t disagree that that is your estimate.” Scrum master: “based on past performance, two elephants and a gazelle will take 5 weeks to complete.” Manager: “well I can’t disagree that this is what past performance tells us.”

In reality what happens is that you end up having a manager in your estimation meetings telling you that one of the elephants have to be a gazelle, because he needs to make a deadline and believes that forcing your estimate will somehow bend reality to conform to it.
> Given the association with the secured-core requirements, this is presumably a security decision of some kind. Unfortunately, we have no real idea what this security decision is intended to protect against.

Isn't secure boot attempting to protect against 'evil maid' attacks?

After all, the evil maid can come in on Day 1 and insert a bootable USB stick which boots a linux distro customised to look like the normal Windows boot and save your password when you enter it; then on Day 2 boot the computer normally and use that password.

If you want to protect against that, you need password-protected BIOS settings to enable/disable booting third-party code.

(Personally I see adopting the TPM as a fool's errand - I don't think it can ever deliver on its promises)
The suttas were already cherry picked when they were written down. In fact, they were cherry picked when the oral tradition first developed.

See also, Digha Nikaya 16, the Mahā Parinibbāna Sutta, one of the foremost suttas detailing the Buddha's awakening, in which he refuses to achieve full enlightenment in the presence of Mara unless his monks and nuns, male and female lay followers were fully established in the dhamma.

https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/DN/DN16.html
His words:

> convinced me never to change kitty's name

He isn't refusing to respond to a bad-faith individual (no idea if all the people in the issue are from a reddit thread, or if that thread is even in bad faith) - he's refusing to ever change the name out of spite.

But it seems that you are also acting in bad-faith/trolling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32057897
> What DPR did is not allowed by the laws of the land in which he did it. Therefore it is logical to assert that his actions are unwanted in that society.

I don't think that logically follows, either.
>no cars older than N years are allowed in the city

>no non-electric cars are allowed

etc
Oh, whoops, read too fast, my bad.
I think most people would agree that Buddhist doctrines first originated within a Hinduism-informed general milieu, and they can only be understood comprehensively in this light. Whereas Jainism seems to have developed in parallel with Vedic religion, and to have shared some of the same underlying concepts. Whether this means either are "part" of Hinduism probably depends on whom you ask.
I was shocked to see this down so low. Absolute bop that perfectly outlines this nutcase thinking.
BMW have always "nickel and dimed" purchasers on options. They're just extending that into the post-sale relationship.

Cars are becoming part of a "mobility as a service", and like telcos and phones (in the non-US market), the cost of an individual call/sms becomes irrelevant.

Many people already lease and/or have personal loans to "buy" vehicles, so they don't own the vehicle completely until the loan is paid off.

People associate all of this with EVs, but essentially, the business model of cars has moved to ways of extracting ongoing revenue from consumers, given that the previous extraction via servicing and parts is starting to disappear as hardware becomes more resilient to failure and as EVs remove large elements that were previously failure points requiring repair or servicing.
Just guessing, but could it be, that Google is correlating location history with reviews? Would be a good way to weed out fake reviews in many cases.
M1 pro MacBook.

Nice hardware, but I miss Linux everyday.
I really wish directus had a simple "cookie" based auth, and not all this crazyness with a cookie + refresh token + renewals + refresh + JWTs +... I was trying to use it with Next.js, where I needed to authenticate the current user server side to fetch some data and it was by far the most overcomplicated part of my application.

We ended up switching to Django, where just an traditional http only secure cookie which we "proxied" from Next.js to the frontend and back was enough and maybe even more secure than all the mangling we had to do with the refresh tokens, etc.

I really wish this trend of fancy authentication mechanisms goes away. It doesn't take in account how easy they make for people to mess up on their implementation/usage of it when things are too complex.
So you want his new trial to also be a preordained show trial?

What if he actually isn’t guilty of those accusations?

What should happen to the agents of the state who either entrapped (if true) or fabricated (if false) those claims?

And really, whole-real-actual-life for a first time offender for a made up crime that didn’t happen and was seemingly initiated by corrupt officers who were convicted of their corruption?

I am asking myself: What are the both sides for this person?!
They are sovereign. Just as a kid in South Central is a free individual who can join any street gang they want for protection. This too is sometimes a death sentence, as the gang they try to join for protection uses them as cannon fodder.

It's possible Russia would have accepted their membership if NATO hadnt underscored its status as an offensive alliance with the destruction of Libya in 2011. Sadly this confirmed the reality to every Russian that NATO is an imperial threat.
If you mean a comparison between SPECS' paradigm, ECS, and Unity's mix of OOP/composition, the main benefit of ECS is performance. The way ECS loops over arrays of data means that the memory accesses it makes are nearly always already in cache. Games spend a surprisingly large amount of time just waiting to receive values from memory. In the right circumstances, normally when dealing with huge numbers of objects (think simulation games), ECS can be entire orders of magnitude faster. Other than that some people just prefer coding in ECS. Unity has been developing its own separate ECS framework for a while now.
> I can't sit in a too quiet space

Music doesn't help? Everyone at our office has headphones on with music exactly to stop hearing distracting background noise.

Nothing really changes for me when I go remote - same music.
On the early Surface Pros at least, you had to boot into Windows and run a PowerShell script to enable the MS UEFI CA certificate. These days it looks like they made it a option on the system firmware.
Im not sure theres any evidence that the 'good guys' you seem very keen to compare to the Russians, raped and killed children, mass looted everywhere they went and deported or executed everyone over a certain age in regions.

The Russians aren't soldiers like the west expects.

Im sure your opinion would be different if it was your friends and family be executed and raped.
GP probably hit their free monthly limit.
Correct. They are designed to be serviced.
The great filter is in the neural adaptions of any "intelligent" species to area denying and expansion when ressource starved. Means, if you are smart, you also are aggressive and given the tool will try to wipe the competition of the map.

Ironically these adaptions to the great loop, a endless cycle of strife will be pretty universal. The physics of the situation, produce pretty reliable the same outcome on every planet.

Im rather convinced that only radical self-altering and supressing of these "urges" will produce a stable society. We might not recognize those who will outlive us, as humans. More like pill-peacefull borgdrones, not even phased when whole citys disappear into the abyss of time.

Also in defense of our current management. Once they grasped the situation, they shoved incredible amounts of resources into "scenario-tree-root" hardening, aka giving the survivors resilient technology, knowledge reservoirs and the ability to restructure society into something that prevents totalitarian abuses (self-surveilance, unsecure software). Within the constraints given, they (whoever they are) moved decisevly and with very good parallel execution of the various plans.

While politics might have failed, those who prepared the world for the worst, did the best they could - though without great fanfare. Lets also not forget, that they prevented further technological acceleration into fields that might proof catastrophic in a collapse scenario.

We could all have a flying fusion bomb in the garage or nano-tech-drone factories in our attics when worse comes to worst. The move to solar alone, away from warlords having nulcear toys might save billions in the worst cases.
sun exposure makes me sleepy
Or commercials in TV menus.

Competition should be the way out of those anti-consumer behaviours but these are very difficult markets to compete in (as Microsoft and Nokia found out for mobiles).
State-funded reviewing of food businesses already exists, and has for decades. Check for the health department certificate in a restaurant or cafe. It's usually posted near the cash register.