skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there's a new word, that'll just become the word. You yourself noted that "military surplus" became "milspec" that then became "tactical".

The problem isn't the language per se. The problem is fetishization. That and we're a large enough population with the ability to connect instantly with every other member of that population so finding other people with the same fetish is easy. And when we're talking about a population of over 300 million people, 0.1% is roughly 330,000. Every group is a large group.

It is estimated that anywhere from 2000 to 2500 people entered the Capitol ground on January 6th. That is about 0.0008% of the U.S. population.

We can no longer ostracize people who don't honor the social contract. We can no longer shame people into behaving civilly. You can always go out there and find someone to validate your beliefs. And not just one, but huge groups of people who will tell you you are doing nothing wrong and that it's the world that's wrong. We've lost most of our social tools for dealing with dangerous and extreme views.
> Lightning places the springs inside the port, instead of on the cable. So, when the springs wear out, you need a new phone instead of a new cable.

In practice I've never had a Lightning port fail while the USB-C port on my Macbook loosened so much that it wouldn't hold any cable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_flight_rules - driving entirely by instruments can be important too!
Well the article points to a way of preventing following entries to be read by having an entry in non alphabetical order. But how often have you ran into syntax errors for system configuration files in Linux? I can't say that this has been much of an issue in my experience.
It's a great thing about etc. If your application `foobar` wants to write something to /etc and doesn't have root privileges (which it probably shouldn't), create a subdirectory /etc/foobar with owner `foobar:foober`, and write there all you want. Many applications do that and it works fine.
I believe the explanation is in the 3rd-to-last paragraph:

> In healthy volunteers and right- but not left-onset patients, religious belief-scores significantly increased following the aesthetic prime consisting of the ocean view (a wonderful reward) but not the death prime. (The religious ritual prime increased religious belief only inconsistently, with little impact compared with that of the ocean view.) The results directly refuted the anxiety theory of religion while supporting the notion that religiosity was spurred by the quest for unexpected reward.

He's using a concept called "priming" to study the impact that different thoughts have on his subjects receptivity to religious sentiment. If Freud's theory is correct (religion being driven mainly by our fear of death) then we would expect the people who heard the ending about witnessing someone's death to express more religious sentiment, afterwards, because the story "primed" (reminded them of) human mortality.

But that's not what he observed... Subjects who heard the death ending were not more likely to express religious sentiment.

The religious ritual ending also didn't significantly increase religion sentiment. Only the ocean view ending, with it's imagery of breathtaking natural beauty, actually achieved an increase in religious sentiment.

So it suggests that Freud's theory is incorrect.
Is the website not working for anyone else? It says hover over a city to see the isochrones from that city. But when I do so nothing happens at all?
> But the publishers looked at it like Nvidia had stolen their games to make their own bootleg streaming service.

nVidia was preloading games onto their service without licenses, and so they needed publisher approvals to do this. There are other cloud services that offer a gaming-capable PC and block storage and don't run afoul of this, since you need to install the games yourself.
> I don't think anybody wants to get rid of their hair entirely.

You should be a lot more imaginative. The world is very big.
> "Most of the stuff we wore and used in the military fucking sucked and broke all the time, so I'm not sure what that even means"

Wouldn't that also include the intensity of use?
Which meminds me that I might need to spend day or two during my vacation to move all of the services from gmail to possibly more stable address...
Since I have no use for it, I like to globally (not just in vim) map caps to ESC.
The Czech borders are fairly mountainous. If you start in Prague, there's a tentacle that just barely reaches Regensburg in Germany. It crosses the border in the gap between two mountain ranges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cham-Furth_Depression

Building other routes would likely be possible, but only with a lot of tunneling.

The Czech-Polish border is similar, I think.
I used to walk past a bus station to lunch most weekdays. Nearly every single day I witnessed an assault at the bus station. Mass transit hubs do bring crime. Why minimize that?
Has anyone considered the following? In a small town, you have a section of track running parallel to high speed rail. The track has a small and short "local" train (maybe just a couple of cars) that picks up passengers and accelerates to maybe 80 MPH, while the high-speed train slows to the same speed. The trains run next to each other for a couple of miles, some doors open between them, and people can step between the "local" train and the "long distance" train.

This lets the high-speed train serve a lot more places without losing much speed. Maybe the local train serves several towns in the area.
It's unfortunate that lack of updates don't prevent customers from buying the current phone.

It feels like we need consumer protection laws that require companies to prominently advertise the software "warranty". So Google and Apple can put "5 years" on the box and Asus needs to put "0 days". The problem is that it isn't something that most people think about. But when you point it out to them it definitely changes how they evaluate phones when you show them that this one will be dangerously insecure after 1y but this other one is good for 3y.
They overcompensate by plugging chat functionality in every app. Maps, GPay India and Drive all have chat features
Having ran what I considered a good company blog (the PIA blog back in the day) and since I now run what I consider to be a good personal blog, I have a simple thought to share:

A personal blog has one layer of accountability and likely no lawyers telling you what you can't write about and only yourself to tell you what you can/want to write about. A company blog has multiple layers of accountability and likely multiple people telling you what you can/should write about on top of lawyers telling you what you can't write about.
> It ensures consumers will probably think even harder before adopting such a service.

The few that used the service maybe. Most people have never heard of it.
America's new favorite pastime: The lottery
Can't a class-action lawsuit be filed against this?
This.

I have fond memories of using the subway/trains in Tokyo. Ditto for Seoul (which I'd rank even better than Tokyo's), Hong Kong, Singapore.

I dread using the subway in NYC and nowadays try to avoid using it as much as possible (mostly via biking).
> For a short summary, the basic problem is that rail infrastructure is paid for by national funds

EU co-founded projects can be forced to operate only domestically too. For example polish high speed railways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendolino#Poland

> certification for international operation is not seen as a priority, as the trains are restricted to domestic services for an initial 10 years under the terms of a grant from the EU Cohesion Fund which covered 22% of the project cost.[31]
Queueing is niche?

If you have to program ANYTHING that serves requests and has a limited buffer you enter the domain of queueing theory.

Processing internet packets? Queueing theory.

Developing a distributed system? Queueing theory.

Designing software to manage a call center? Queueing theory.

Shipments? Ticketing? Payments? A myriad of other things? Queueing theory.

Fun fact, while posting this reply HN redirected my to a page "Sorry we're not able to serve your request this quickly".
Guess what would have helped?

Queueing theory.
You’re still too confused to understand why that doesn’t imply anything about red states as a general statement and wouldn’t be relevant for keeping a social network alive (what this thread is about).

Here is an exercise for you. New Mexico is not a red state. What generalization do think was being made about “red-state cousin-humpers” that wouldn’t apply to the New Mexico cousin-humpers?
It appears that Jeff Beck (age 75) already got treated with that!

(if that's not a wig.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC02wGj5gPw
How does one use Quarto in VSCode?
Interesting that GraphQL consumers would see it as excessively taxing. Did you mention that GraphQL APIs can be queried with plain HTTP requests without any specific GraphQL client?
I don’t think voice is as sure as you say it is. They has a push recently to kick off low traffic users. I’m concerned about my voice number personally.
Yes, agreed.

Govt tech jobs I got into late stage interviews via a special talent initiative:

- GS 7/9, would not budge, even with my existing pay stubs that I provided.

- FBI specifically was the offer to move to Huntsville AL, while I lived in a coastal tech center. They built a new facility there for logical govt reasons, illogical for tech recruiting though.

- An askance look/nasty attitude from the initiative when I was laid it out - I make $120k in my first Eng job, can you get anywhere close to that/not $60k/yr for a job in DC? If not I have to drop this scholarship/w-e they called it. I did, and got a job in private sector a month later at $150k and remote. They’re killing their talent base.

Totally absurd. And I’m a candidate that would take a pay cut for a compelling govt job.
>I haven't had to go into the registry on Windows 10 or 11 except for enabling beta/early access features.

I have to edit the registry on every Windows install to have: sane multi-monitor config, working macro keys (suppress the "office" key advertisement in my $300 copy of Windows), suppress OneDrive Personal on a machine that syncs to an O365 tenant, have a functional file explorer, and I'm sure a half-dozen other things that don't come to mind immediately. (On top of numerous group policies, which are mostly just sanctioned registry tweaks, along with programs to removed telemetry from 10/11 which I'm confident do plenty of registry tweaking on their own.)

This is all to control first-party functionality; before I've even installed a third party program. So, to the contrary, I can't remember the last time I went into %APPDATA% to tweak something Microsoft-related.
Obviously you want the benefits of being a citizen, so nothing I said suggests you should renounce citizenship.

> If not, get off my back and stop trying to make my life worse.

I wasn't aware I had such power. Who knew my random comments on the internet could cause financial law and policy to change?

In all seriousness you and I have the same ability to enact change here, which is to vote and advocate for a position. The point at which you don't, that is if you gave up your citizenship and right to vote, it would no longer effect you.

That's a concrete example of a benefit you get from citizenship, which comes with rights and responsibilities. The fact you don't want to give it up is evidence that you see it as beneficial.

The last thing I'll say is I specifically left opening in my statement so someone could argue that the burden is harder than it needs to be on expats, because my point isn't that they should pay all the costs they currently do, but that some cost for the benefits they get is in my opinion acceptable. Maybe a slightly less knee-jerk reaction to my comment may have made that apparent.
The AI has won, hands down. It's all ultimately a game of who wins the game of dopamine cycle, and the AI recommendation models has found out a better way to game it. It is a new beginning for sure.
If we truly didn't know how computers came about, it's certainly progress to figure out the silicon can come from sand.

How is it not origins of life research to attack every step in the process?
Or else "let's have the programmers do production support too, they're paid to much to get a full night's sleep".
Prana, North Face, Patagonia, et al. don't have sleeves for ballistic plates, holster mounts, slots for 40mm canisters, etc. Hell, little of the military surplus stuff I bought as a kid had that stuff either.
AI is the computer science term for some magic we will discover in the future. Once an AI technique becomes something real and useful it gets it's own name and is no longer AI. If we could all agree that AI just means something we don't understand yet, it might still be a useful term.
I find the "tactical" gear to be the most useful. I like hiking, climbing, and hunting. I regularly camp for days on end at a location.

In my experience most civilian-type gear is simply unacceptable in quality. Hiking backpacks can store a lot of stuff but aren't abrasion resistant or extendable. With a good tactical backpack I start with 60L and a load bearing rig, and extend it based on whatever I am doing. I have backpacks from 10 years ago I've dragged on the ground, dropped down the side of a hill, or walked through sticky brush with that are still completely serviceable. Don't get me started on colors either. Every civilian hiking kit looks like a freakin' rainbow. It's ultra tacky and I hate it. I don't want to be seen when I am alone and outdoors. So, my only choice is tactical gear because its the only stuff that comes in flat colors that blend with the environment.

"Tactical" pants are extremely nice as well. They really aren't city-wear but the extra abrasion resistance, pockets, etc is very nice. Some companies like 5.11 sell pants made specifically for EDC/CCW which if you do this you will have realized regular jeans just aren't sufficient for a truly comfortable carry experience.

For firearms tactical gear is very useful. If you do 3-gun, hunt, or anything else the additionally extensibility of a platform is useful. For example, a shotgun for bird hunting is made so much better with a side saddle and improved pump (if you use a pump shotgun). For home defense, a foregrip and flash light can vastly improve your chances to put a solid shot on target thereby improving your overall effectiveness and safety.

This article seems to be trying to make some kind of political message. Certainly there are so-called "LARPers" who just wear it to look cool or dangerous. But this doesn't undermine the legitimate use cases. When deployed properly tactical gear is no different than a custom keyboard or monitors. It enhances the usability and extensibility of the original purpose and design.
I own a bunch of this stuff, and it lives up to the hype. I have literally slid across rockfaces and gone hiking in knee high water in my "tactical" pants and yeah, they work great. Lots of pockets for holding stuff, comfortable, etc. Even thoughtful things like the reinforced pocket tops for clipping pens and knives into is great.

Tactical is often sold as a higher end version of milspec gear. Milspec should be understood as "generally can't be broken". Tactical gear is often that ruggedness with higher quality, more attention to detail and much more modular.

The new velcro molle systems are great too. They're ugly so I prefer bags that only have them on the interior but just absolutely perfect for laying out your bag just right.
Adopting militaristic wear into everyday life until it becomes quite routine is a thing that has been happening for decades.

As an example, "khakis", the much-reviled uniform of the corporate American worker, started out as uniforms for the British Army to stop standing out so much against the background in the North-West Frontier of (then) India [1].

("Khak" means "soil" or "ground" in Urdu, the "-i" indicating an adjective, i.e. "ground-like". Properly speaking, only the beige or dust-colored chinos should be called khakis.)

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki
Asus also participated in XDA's device seeding program with a few of their previous models.

- Zenfone 6: https://www.xda-developers.com/asus-zenfone-6-custom-rom-twr...

- ROG Phone II: https://www.xda-developers.com/asus-sending-rog-phone-ii-cus...

- ROG Phone 3: https://www.xda-developers.com/asus-rog-phone-3-custom-roms-...

Hopefully, Asus does something similar with the Zenfone 9.
All the aspects you mention can be realized by a programmatic OS API as well. No need to sandwich a network layer and a weakly-typed data format (JSON) in between.
Having worked on projects drowning in technical debt, it's a very real concept.
> However, I quite like the idea of passport control on a train happening before you embark on the departing leg of a trip. With those formalities out of the way, just collect your bags at the destination and you're free to go.

It's better than that. Space on board is at less of a premium so train carriages can be made with plenty of room for luggage alongside passengers. No need to check baggage.
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That's like saying you've broken RSA because you can cause controlled reads. All you have to do is send the encrypted message to the intended recipient and wait for them to decrypt it.
Show HN: Mimic Ubuntu keyboard shortcuts on macOS
They've been trying to implement passport control before boarding the train between NYC and Montreal for a while, but nothing seems to have come of it. It was an Obama-era priority.

I haven't taken that train in many years, but they basically stop the train at the border and immigration agents board and check everyone's passport. It's scheduled to take 2 hours. Really stupid. It's a 45 minute flight, and you go through US immigration in Canada before boarding the flight.
10 yrs no weed as well or something absurd. What college kids do they think they’re going to get.
Gaikai failed miserably, the same way OnLive failed miserably. Yes, the infrastructure was not there, but also, the product itself was just not ready. If I start selling prototype home fusion reactors that don't react and I get bought by <big energy company>, it's not a success, the thing literally didn't work.
Looks like the API returns either 429 Too Many Requests or a 500 error, so it's probably hugged to death.
Yes correct, thanks.
I suspect the reason is due to high base costs. Throwing on more dram chips and a better controller probably don’t cost much, but drastically effect performance. So, the cost savings of a simplified drive may only be a few dollars.
Binary Translators for Weak Memory Model Architectures
And that's why they prefer a mode of transport that requires you to drive an hour outside the city in traffic, arrive at least an hour before your flight so you can go through the indignity of airport security, take an hour long flight, and then wait for bags and then drive an hour back into your destination city in traffic?

Total time 4 hrs.

Or they prefer driving through traffic from one city to the other for 4.5 hrs where they have to have complete concentration so they literally don't die and kill a bunch of other people?

As opposed to a 4.5 hr train ride where they have lots of seating space, an extremely comfortable ride with great views where they can basically just sleep through the trip and/or work comfortably on their laptops with great wifi?

These are not hypotheticals. These are literally your options if you were to travel from NYC to Boston.

All the modes of transport take about 4-5 hrs. Train is significantly better in almost every way. The only problem is that Amtrak subsidizes the rest of its highly unprofitable network which means they price gouge the NorthEast corridor and under invest in it, making it more expensive, and not as good as it should be.

Even with a sub par train service relative to European and Asian counterparts, train is easily the best option on this route.
Fast boot is usually a setting that you can enable in your BIOS.
Clock Time, Event Time, and TimeSignalMe
When the Australian government decided to cancel the order of a dozen of French submarines, they announced that they had made a new special alliance with the US and the UK. The name of the alliance is "AUKUS" (Australia-UK-US).

But "au cul" in French of course means "(fuck) in the ass". "Vous l'avez dans le cul" means "you've been fucked in the ass".

As the cancelling of the order was received by France as a giant betrayal from Australia, it's believed the name of the alliance was an intentional insult from people who knew what they were doing.

I don't know if that's true but I tend to believe it is.
Glad you ask.

In a really, really secured Unix environment, the /bin is typically a read-only partition.

In a secured embedded world, this would be a separate flash hardware chip whose read-write is controlled by a hardware switch.

Busybox would encompass most of the entries under /bin but it is often that package management must negotiate out-of-band with admin doing upgrades when using bigger “busybox” like GNU utils.

Intel ME and its storage of binary blob has been problematic of defying clean delineation of nested security boundary, notably when TPM is not covering Intel ME to a point of Intel making another stab at TPM.

So where do you put the upgrades for Intel Management Engine?

This paper indirectly covers Intel’s future plan of dealing with these shortcomings.

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/security-...

Today’s fight is about making these partitions as easy to upgrade as possible (for /bin.). My assertion is that remote upgrade^H^H^H^H^H^Hrecovery should never be a possibility when your /bin code has been thoroughly vetted and secured.
Too much traffic — all endpoints once on the page are erroring out.
Yes. Please read this section in the blog post https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-alternative-to-el...
If you plan to live short term in that house, why not.
It's been my main gaming platform the last 2 years and I'd describe it as more than serviceable. They do a bunch of free demos now - I think WaveTale is free for the next 24hrs you can try it out yourself. The subscription is optional.
Sorry, this was confusing wording on my part -- I was trying to say that Boston/NY or NY/DC is consistently under 5 hours, and that just about everything else is over 5 hours, illustrating a gap in our network.

NYC to DC is also consistently around 3.5 hours, even with the slower NE Regional.
I know people who swear by their woobie blankets, although maybe that's just Stockholm Syndrome. I always get a giggle out of seeing something advertised as "mil-spec". Especially since oftentimes it just means "built with the same physical dimensions as what the military buys", with no bearing on the item's actual quality
Thanks for this. When was the document published? It’s nearly 500 pages!