skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are misunderstanding the point that I made. I'm not saying that gambling isn't a vice nor am I condoning such behavior, put rather the state allowing or pushing such a vice disproportionally into poor Black neighborhoods is a demonstration of being corrupt and exploitative. Selling nearly unachievable "dreams" to poor desperate people is depravity, even more so when the state is sanctioning the marketing and advertising campaigns being directed at them.

The view of such a situation is further demonstrated by the state minimizing any possible benefits from the profits of the lotteries to the same Black poor neighborhoods they are taking advantage of. They are primarily funneling money out of those neighborhoods, from the people that can least afford it, to any and everywhere else.
In Hungary, you can digitally sign documents using your ID card or your online account at the local equivalent of gov.uk. Certificates are signed and managed by the government. Quite handy for everyday contracts like an apartment renovation.
I thought this was a Saturday Night Live skit until I'd watched it all the way through.

I live in NYC. We can't even get people to cross the street properly, urinate and defecate indoors instead of all over the sidewalks, or not push each other in front of oncoming subway trains.

Expecting any kind of organized response to a nuclear strike on the city is complete fantasy.
lmao, reminds me of when in response to a lot of people being overworked and unable to work, they decided to offer a free subscription to a mindfulness app.

I mean, have you tried reducing workload first?
Well Afghanistan is Russa's Afghanistan.

And Russia did manage to integrate Crimea.
In Python:

>>> "Türkiye".upper()

'TÜRKIYE'

>>> import locale

>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "tr_TR.UTF-8")

'tr_TR.UTF-8'

>>> "Türkiye".upper()

'TÜRKIYE' # Expect "TÜRKİYE"

>>> locale.resetlocale()
I appreciate the toggle on volume, but it desperately needs some kind of random silence insertion threshold as well, to space out the distance more randomly. Like what if I don't mind hearing a telephone, but it doesn't need to be every 30 seconds? I like this project, dont' get me wrong. I just think each of these components also needs a way to space out the time between cars driving by etc., while presently there is only a volume slider.
Just a small correction, it’s not a homegrown thing, but a CloudFoundry deployment with a bunch of tooling around it
Ask HN: How do I start learning about lower level compiled languages?
Hi HN

I work quite a lot with Python and JS, and some other higher level languages, but have recently wanted to get involved in lower level languages, particularly NIM. I have already started coding with it, but it comes with a whole range of new topics that are semi-unknown to me, heaps, stacks, memory management, pointers, compilers, debugging compiled applications, garbage collection, etc. Does anyone know of any material that can help demystify those topics and any other that come up.

I know the common answer will be to start coding and learn it as you go along. But I was curious to understand if there was any supplementary material that can support my introduction to this new works of coding?
Yep (reference counting in play), It is already mentioned in the SO answer i linked to.
Recently Google’s barely able to find movie showtimes near me in Japan.

It’ll work half the time in the megacity, but in the cities with several million population I usually end up going through each movie theater’s website and check from there after rearranging over half a dozen queries of combinations of keywords such as “movie showtimes near me” (the granting my location data to no avail ), “movies today in <city>”, “movie theaters today “.
> Data gathered from its scientific instruments, once collected, is stored within the spacecraft’s 68-GB solid-state drive (3 percent is reserved for engineering and telemetry data)

Hope the SSD does not fail after 32768 or 40000 hours of operation.
Cool, that does seem like plenty of overhead even if JWST spends the bulk of its time imaging.

Reading the article further, I was sort of surprised there’s only 68 GB of solid state storage on board. Does anyone know if that’s considered very large for space-grade systems?
Does this address the Coriolis effect and other issues that make rotational "gravity" feel really weird compared to actual gravity (6:58 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nxeMoaxUpWk)?
Nikon is reportedly dropping out of the market for SLR cameras
There are vulnerable bootloaders signed with the UEFI CA. Disabling less heavily vetted CA on devices that are being sold as basically hardened, makes sense. But yeah, one aspect of it might be making it easier for enterprises, that's a large focus.
It depends on the jurisdiction, but it's legal in lots of places. Even in some countries where there are employee protections, it's possible to do without much consequence. For example, in the UK an employee could take the employer to a employment tribunal.. in a year's time. Even if we're talking about a true layoff/redundancy situation, it can happen, particularly if there's a payoff involved.
Indeed and while I have no access to DALLE2, I’d be willing to bet it happily outputs Minecraft-style imagery and IP, as business-daddy MS has assured them it won’t be an issue.
Actual nature article:

Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01394-8.pdf
The statistics of the number of people under the poverty line come from the Russian government so theirs no delusion there.

Ukraine will retake all of its territory in time.

If Russia is winning so much why are they rolling out units that are compromised of volunteers that are nearly geriatric?.

Why is Russia using weapons that where designed to take out America aircraft carriers against Ukrainian shopping malls? (kh-22).

Why is Russia using tanks that where made in the 1960's (T-62).

Ukraine already has weapons that far outstrip anything that Russia has deployed against them so far (HIMARS, m777's, CESARS, KRABS and Panzerhaubitze 2000) and they are getting more as time goes (NASAMS and M270's).

Multiple Russian ammo depots explode nearly every day from HIMARS, and Russia has no effective counter to them, because of the way that Russian logistics work this will be devastating if it's kept up.

Russia is and always has been a paper tiger, never forget they lost in Chechnya and they lost in Afghanistan.
In a way, it could be interpreted like that.

It's another way of saying "maintaining infrastructure isn't a task of a public service." Generally, the "why/why not" tends to be answered with: "A public services can never provide a similar value proposition compared to private vendors." which isn't really an answer to the question.

One problematic aspect is that public entities don't just rely on infrastructure, but also on an entire stack of in-house expertise that provides support and understands the specifics that come with the problem domain - e.g. legal compliance, accountability,... - of providing public services online.

So, barring an alternative, this would effectively mean that public services would have to source consultancy themselves on the private market to set up / maintain their applications on a private cloud on a per-project basis. Both of which are easily a factor more expensive compared to a shared platform / framework / solution where resources and expertise can be pooled together to provide affordable and secure services towards other branches of the authorities.

Oddly enough, they seem to be all to aware of that conundrum:

> In parallel, we are starting a piece of joint work with the Central Digital & Data Office, in partnership with Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) across government, to understand what a future central hosting offer could or should be. We don’t know what we’ll conclude, the options ranging from doing nothing, to creating a reusable set of configuration and management components (similar to the GOV.UK Design System, but for secure cloud hosting) all the way through to building a new PaaS v2 using different architecture.

Personally, I believe this is a decision based on cost. The cost of keeping centralized hosting infrastructure based on old technology online, or migrating towards new technology, is just too steep and can't be readily justified anymore in 2022 compared to what the private market offers. Perhaps most surprisingly: there's no clear short-term plan B for all those entities relying on this service.

If I were managing a few projects from some department, I wouldn't be happy learning that I'd now have 18 months to scramble, figure out how to move forward, find funds, write a project proposal, align all stakeholders, source consultancy, etc. without going offline for a prolonged time.
> This does not resolve all of the issues mentioned in the article (like the effect on our internal organs, childbirth and such)

Yeah it would be like anchoring a balloon. Sure it's not going to float away but it's still a balloon. It's our internal jiggly bits that are important too.
I'm here for a review, not an essay. I think Google was probably doing the right thing (as in, most useful for their users) with your review. Stick to a small number of quick, highly informative sentences, not lengthy speculation and opinion.
"majority" and "minority" are not about raw numbers but power dynamics in this context.

"colonialism" refers to extracting whatever idea or artifact is seen as valuable from a culture or a land without consent and/or without respecting the moral rights of who invented or made it.

Additionally, you can read the wikipedia page.

(edited for clarity: different people use majority/minority differently depending on the context. In this context it's not about raw numbers.)

(edit: an example of power dynamic could be a large multinational food chain that takes a lesser-known dish from some culture and sells a butchered version worldwide without clearly indicating the origin and/or that it's not the real thing. By doing this it can easily distorts the idea of the dish in the minds of millions of people.)
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Yes, GOV.UK PaaS runs atop AWS.
Oh yeah, definitely. The security net is great. And I get that for it to work, it needs to be paid for.

I think that the downwards movement is more based in the population aging though.

And the reason I hate it, is literally because there is no opt out at all. Hell, I'd use the public option if there were an opt out because it works well enough for me.
> We also need to operate with a growth mindset in GDS

Is it just me or is it weird to see "startup speak" from gov agencies?
If only. Noise cancelling headphones can block out droning sounds but are limited to their passive isolation when it comes to voices, especially higher pitched ones. A few years ago I was positioned close to a woman who was always on the phone talking loudly with vendors and there was nothing I could do aside from risking hearing damage to make that disappear. And now, while it's better since I'm not near her anymore, it's still tough when multiple conversations are going on around me all at once.
By that logic economic value is only created by active work, and not by any of the thought process that goes into it. That's an asinine thought process.
"Goodbye Galaxy" was perfect. I still remember the place where Commander Keen showed his butt.
Me too, and it really saddens me that I am mostly met with shoulder shrugs and rolling eyes by friends and family around, most of them with graduate university degrees too... I was really excited about the images releasing today.
Somebody read and adapted Ringworld.

Also unless I missed it, they fudged the part where the trains transition from the static tracks to the rotating structure. If so, that speaks volumes to their level of attention to detail.

Did anybody pick up what the lit up pit in the middle was supposed to be?
SHR is not "shared" size, it is "potentially shareable size". Process might have 100 Mb of SHR and none of them actually shared.

You should use PSS which accounts for shared memory pages (by dividing their size across all processes).
I beg to differ on Estonia's behalf. Estonia is awesome. Happy e-resident and Estonian company owner.

Happy Wise customer, Happy Xolo customer. I love Bolt (when available).

Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
I agree - based on the steps in the link, it is quite straightforward.
> in that it only truly offers security to the people holding the signing keys i.e. a firm that did not pay for the computer

That's not true. Practically all servers and more high end motherboards (even my HP zbook allows it) allow you to install your own CA's. Allowing you to create your own trust chain from firmware to OS.

By itself there is nothing wrong with wanting a chain of trust between firmware and OS.
> It's going to be fun to watch developers wrap their heads around that one...

No, it will not. Nobody gives a damn. Nobody will implement it.

I am still trying to get people to correctly denote beginning and end of a day (much more useful, practical). Everybody I work with seems to be bent on using 23:59:59 as the end of the day rather than start of next day. Explaining that there is no 1s delay between end of one day and start of the next isn't helping either.
It's a rule, but it's not a criminal offence for an employer to ignore those rules if they're happy to take their chances in an employment tribunal. Given cases are taking a year to even reach a hearing now thanks to our incompetent government, it's no surprise that employers will chance it. See P&O: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60789612
It has been a while since I agreed with politico writers but

> The EU is really having a rule of law problem here

pretty much sums up the situation. But judges can only do so much, although not in a sense the Danish minister uttered in his confusion. Judges interpret the law and we regularly get new sets of laws that allow for more and more mass surveillance. So at one point civil liberties in the EU and Europe will fail like they so often did in the past.

Sadly, the strategy to wait until this generation of old and frightful people finally resigns doesn't seem to work either. I cannot explain this shared pathological myopia. Trauma? Idiocy? Special interests?

One thing is very clear, the EU does not deserve a inch of optimism and its governments decided to lead by example and explain why that is the case.
> the company tends to get constant income via service thanks oil filters, other filters, and a whole bunch of stuff that needs to be replaced (assuming people take it to authorised service centers, which I assume most people do when the car is relatively new).

I'm not sure how it works in other countries, but in the US, the vast majority of official car dealerships are owned by the franchiser of that dealership, not the car company itself.

This is what caused the conflicts between Tesla and certain US states who had car dealership groups lobbying to ban Tesla from owning their own dealerships/service centers.

Outside of replacement parts specific to the car, like a bumper, most service income goes straight to the dealership franchiser owner, not the car company.
> Placing additional obstacles to installing your choice of OS, even if each one is individually justified, leads to an veritable steeplechase of obstacles in doing so.

It's a huge stretch to call a single toggle in UEFI an "obstacle" if you're already competent enough to install an OS from scratch. Maybe the focus should be on that, how to provide preinstalled Linux instead.

> each of which must be individually researched and disabled

Or you read the user manual.
Consider removing Google Analytics or switch to less-heavy alternatives
That argument makes no sense. Just because something only affects those that enjoy a particular hobby does not mean that those consumers don't deserve protection. This also isn't really just about games as other forms of copyrighted content also often disappear when the would-be owners can't be bothered to keep it available.

Remember that copyright which is only allowed to exist because we think it will result in more creative works that will eventually be part of the commons. If a company is taking active steps to take something away then they are abusing this deal and should forfeit any copyrights.
Using renewables to create hydrogen and use that, this plan has been calculated trough again and again and again by Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaft (German Institute of Economy) and others and deemed very viable.

So I take the science over some random dude on the internet ranting about people not changing or something any day.
"Jazz drew from ragtime, also “coded” Black, but ragtime drew from marches, drawn in great measure from white men John Philip Sousa and (eep) Wagner."[1]

In your view, is this appropriation or cultural mixing or exchange?

[1]: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/theres-no-alternative-t...
Good to see that in the face of nuclear armageddon they still want us to socially distance and make sure we can only fit a fraction of the usual amount of people in basements.
Why it never spins recursively? Let a drug cartel to be a conspiracy, bringing an excuse to make USA great again?

But really it was a conspiracy of billionaires who really runs all the governments, and they meant to consolidate their power.

We can do even better, to create an alien conspiracy manipulating this shadow Earth government, with some obscure alien goals.

And I think there is possible one more level of a recursion. It may be some drunk gods playing a game, moving plants, aliens and humans as pawns.

And even one more! The True Hero, Chuck Norris, comes here. He fooled drunk gods by pretending to be a plant eating stars, and... and... he overthrows all gods and force them to take Twelve Step Program of recovery from alcoholism and send the director of the movie to a compulsory psychiatric treatment. Just to bring some sanity into our world. And James Webb Telescope should be destroyed accidentally, so no more news of plants of a galactic scale.

Happy end.

I'd like to watch this one. Why it ends every time with Space Force of the United States?
Give it time and it will no longer have parity.
CVE-2021-46145
The keyfob subsystem in Honda Civic 2012 vehicles allows a replay attack for unlocking. This is related to a non-expiring rolling code and counter resynchronization.

Not a new threat
https://s34s0n.github.io/2019/07/18/Jam-and-Replay-Attacks-o...
You can buy the Linux editions of your hardware, at least for laptops, to show that there's a real need for Linux support out there, however small it may be in practice. Or you can buy System76 or similar hardware to guarantee actual Linux compatibility rather than the manufacturer saying "it boots so let's ship it".
It's sad that in the US Buddhism stands for some kind of a woolly notion of peace and peacefulness. In the countries where it is in majority, it is as bad as any other institutionalized religion. Sri Lanka and Burma (now Myanmar), known for the worst kind of pogroms against minorities, have the dubious distinction of a lot of riots against minorities and many, if not most, of these are led by Buddhist monks in their holy saffron garb.

Re corporate America, meditation and mindfulness were waiting to be incorporated into the corporate 'feel good' mantra.
1365 to 1666 days, or 4-5 years of operations.

Maybe they should have chosen a HDD drive? Cosmic particles can flip bits on an SDD, can't they?
Huh? 23:59:59 is neither, it's one second early.
Gawker being terrible is a given, but they actually produced some good longform stuff for a while; so it's probably a good read.
Again, there is a very practical reason why humans will never colonize the moon.

And that reason is the moon dust.

The moon dust is quite special as it is highly abrasive and sticks to anything because of the electrostatic charges.

It seeps though any gap and will wear down and render any mechanical machine useless in very short time.

Nothing soft (clothes, plastic) will survive on moon for more than few months.

The dust is a nightmare for anything non-moon and there is no help.
I dont know why you think this war would have been avoided with 'better relations' with Russia, the only way that this would be avoided would have been if Ukraine became a vassal stake of Russia like Belarus is right now.
How often do you see the new letter in German everyday life? Despite being German myself I don't visit Germany that often these days, I still read a couple of German publications regularly. I have never seen the new letter outside of discussions by software people about character handling.
I wouldn't really show off nemid/mitid as a shining example for digitalization in Denmark. Mitid came out already with security issues[1].

I do agree that the 20-30 years behind is a gross overestimation, but acting like we're a shining example of modern IT is a stretch as well.

[1] https://www.version2.dk/artikel/eksperter-saar-tvivl-om-sikk...
As someone that started with 8 and 16 bit computers, I am fine with single purpose computers.

Instead of giving money to Microsoft or Apple, support OEMs producing hardware with Linux pre-installed like Tuxedo and System 76.
Apologies for the sloppiness, just trying to be helpful.
Check out the measles vaccine. 95% on first, 99% immunity on second dose. Immunity lasts for years. Herd immunity was (at least temporarily) achieved. Also Tetanus or Diphtheria vaccines.

This is my bar for a 'good' vaccine.

What the Covid vaccine provides is a fucking joke. And it pulls all other vaccines through the mud.
What's the problem with TPMs? Do you mean the Intel ME/AMD PSP or is there an anti hardware key movement out there that I don't know about?
Reviews can be measured on a number of relevant dimensions - positive/negative, useful/not useful, fair/unfair, etc. Vocabulary, grammar, spelling, typos are all information channels.

Honestly I can’t believe I’m defending Google, but it’s possible that they’ve determined certain language makes the review less useful. Evidence of that might be the other portion of the review which seemed to trigger the shadow ban without any profanity.
> "majority" and "minority" are never about raw numbers but power dynamics.

So the concept "minority rule" is a contradiction in terms, since if a group rules it's per definition the majority?
Anyone who has read the Dhammapada can tell you exactly why the rise of Buddhism is a good thing. America's tendency to wrap everything up in a fancy package and slap a dollar sign on it might be annoying, but meditation is free - Ignore the noise.

Transcendental Meditation (TM) has been doing this for a while now[1]. But it's not a big deal because outrage bait articles didn't make it a big deal. Please argue about gun control or roe, or some other hot button issue. Leave the Buddha's teachings out of it.

1: https://www.tm.org/course-fee
Double fun fact, it's the other way around :)
Same. Developers have far greater problems.
In this post alone you've written, what, four times as many words as the length you read into the article?

This is peak HN.

Edit: I take it back. What's peak HN is that this is the top voted comment on the entire post.