skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> whitelist usually means stuff to allow, blacklist is stuff to deny, but I at least have to dig that up from memory since white/black don't mean that at all.

Isn't that true for most words/phrases? No words inherently mean anything. We assign meaning to them. I suppose that if enough people settle on a replacement for 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' those words will be limited to history, but right now it will mean being forced to remember multiple phrases for the same thing since others will certainly still use the current terms.

In the context of your own use/code it doesn't matter much, but every mail provider (just one example) will be dealing with blacklists that describe themselves as such and incoming requests from people looking to be whitelisted which means they'll still have to take whatever steps are needed to recall what those words mean, and must still be trained on the meaning of those words, all while still having to remember not to use those words in their own writing/code/documentation and having to remember what new words they should replace them with/translate them as.

Maybe there is too much jargon in tech in general, and I certainty don't object to efforts to reduce it, but I don't see it as saving anybody much time/effort in the near term.
Remote Attestation is coming back
Then why were doctors offices and hospitals closed if the goal was to keep them open and operating?
> On the plus side

I'm an European and I really don't consider this a plus.
> Reminds me of the story of the 11 year old who was raped and had to cross state lines for an abortion.

Unless it happened again already, it was a 9-10 year old, depending on whether you are referring to when she was raped or when she had left the state to get an abortion.

> Too many people treated it like a political point tally.

Side1: If your political position is enacted, Bad Thing will happen, hurting people.

Side2: You are inventing unlikely scenarios for political points, you aren't really concerned about the people that you pretend Bad Thing will happen to.

...Side2 policy adopted...

...Bad Thing immediately happens as predicted...

Side1: Look, Bad Thing just happened.

Side2: You don't care about the person Bad Thing happened to, you are just scoring political points.
I run Arch. It seems like, in my case, its startup time is dominated by systemd networking coming up. It's pretty fast though.
Netflix does not need low latency - only bandwidth. They can buffer client side.
> So far Ukraine hasn't demonstrated an ability to counterattack at scale

They have been constantly counter attacking.

And with so many Ukrainian soldiers in UK being trained the real offensive is coming soon when they return.
The New York Times sold the Iraq War, Joe Rogan didn't, how complex do you really have to make this?
This isn’t about carrying cash, so much as spending it without an electronic trail. They want more data.

At a certain point, carrying so much data just gets very risky.
Then we as a society just live without that job being done.

If it’s really important, the people who want the job done will do it themselves or increase the pay enough for someone to want to do it.
This has far less utility than AmazonCoin though. The utility of fiat currency is the ability to pay taxes in it. The utility of AmazonCoin would be using it buy things from the Amazon store. What utility did Diem offer that other currencies do not already?

My point is that AmazonCoin as a medium of exchange for any kind of goods even off platform, would be a secondary effect. The issue with so many of these crypto projects is that they have no actual utility for anything from Day 1.

Amazon wouldn't even need to make it a crypto. Literally just credits on your account. The extra bit is being able to send those credits between arbitrary accounts.
> - Allow users to install apps from third-party app stores and sideload directly from the internet.

Any provisions to allow sideloading unsigned apps?

Because if you can sideload, but it still needs to be signed by Apple, the whole thing is largely moot.
There's a difference between talking thoughtfully about a child's lived experience/trauma and "using" it shamelessly as political points to own [the other side].
Many descriptions of old systems here: https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-libraries-keep-tra...
Even Florida?
I’m saying that a child with either Spanish flu or a severe concussion would be sent home on a train, and be buried far from the school.
The outrage is over the atrocities, and the people insinuating that those atrocities were somehow ok because some papers were signed beforehand

Asking questions like “did they know why they were signing?” or “was there going to be a war if they refused to sign?” seem entirely reasonable to me
Ask HN: Has anyone ever seen running “sfc /scannow” actually fix a problem?
There’s not a huge gap between a mass grave and a mass of unmarked graves. Both show a disregard for human life.

Quillette writers love to get on a high-horse about such discrepancies, while ignoring everything wrong with the right-wing media in America.
Were you using UEFI mode, Fast Boot mode, and an NVMe drive? Boot times should only be a few seconds at most under similar configurations.

"Fast Boot" modes bypass hardware startup checks such as Memory, keyboard, etc. It also skips polling for keyboard input, which typically looks for the user pressing function keys to access boot menus, BIOS menus or other special startup procedures. Skipping polling alone can shave many seconds off boot times.

Just be aware, after enabling Fast Boot mode, you'll have to trigger a reboot into BIOS/UEFI from within your OS or by using a blessed utility provided by your MOBO manufacturer.
Because the next time there's a virus going around, they're going to put the vaccine passport app you need to go to the store or take a train in the Meta app store.
Do you have something actually useful to add to this discussion?

Perhaps some facts?

Or just accusations with no evidence?
Which city can you reach the most area in 5 hours?

Top contenders:

- Paris, Gare de Lyon (doesn't seem to include going to Gare du Nord and going to London in this?)

- Brussels — can go as far as Newcastle or Avignon

- Random ones in the center of Germany which cover all of Germany
I just realized it's not symmetric. If you click Paris it highlights Perpignan (in the South), but if you click Perpignan it doesn't reach Paris at all. Same for Brussels and Newcastle.
If your argument relies on how things were in late 90s - early 00s, I don't know if it's really worth anything today.
What Was It Like to Ride the Transcontinental Railroad?
Even after all that exegesis, your presumptive point remains obscure. The top-level comment is relevant because it happens to describe the malicious credulity of the journalism consumers who chose to believe the mass graves narrative.
And they did. jq is packaged in Debian now.
> how little credit is given to GPS in Uber's story

Uber would not exist without GPS. I wonder how many other of the unicorns:

* Twitter without Rails

* Facebook without PHP (I think this is fair but maybe not)

* Reddit without Python

* Tesla and Solar City without huge government subsidies

Crazy to think how many Lake Tahoe vacation homes were transferred thanks to these projects.
I cannot take seriously the comparison between SV and London. Their tech cultures aren't even remotely the same, and never will be.
When I first started using the local library (Balham Library, in London), about 40 years ago, I recall:

- the book had that paper thing with dates stamped on it

- I think there was a pocket, but that the librarian emptied the pocket before handing me the book

- the librarian scanned a barcode on both the book and on my library card, during checkout (using a pen-like scanner)

Perhaps I'm mixing memories from different times. Or perhaps I joined the library soon after it was computerized. Perhaps the backend was computerized but they still did the date stamp thing because that was the only way I'd know when the book was due back.
Ask HN: Any good job boards for non-profit tech work?
Trying to find some meaning out of my next job and looking for something specifically in the nonprofit space. Any good websites, or hell even a good LinkedIn filter, to find something in the dev space geared towards nonprofit work?
Olenivka Prison Explosion
Windows these days works extremely well with just taking out the hard drive and placing it into a different computer, even across different processor brands completely different hardware etc.

I personally do this all the time. At most you get an extra restart the first time the drive is in a new set of hardware and after that you're good to go.

My main Windows install is probably 8 years old at this point, it's gone between multiple motherboards.

The biggest annoyance is a few pieces of software that tie activation to the motherboard.

If you want to make it even more portable you can install Windows to a vmdk.

And if you want to get a special complicated, you can have that vmdk act as essentially a secondary variant of your main operating system complete with symlinking most of the files and application info, to both save space and so you have most of the same state across both os's, but still can play around and easily roll back any changes.
I had not realized there’s now an estimated release date for 4B of this October. I think it may finally be time (after 4B) to buy the box set and leave it lying around in hopes that by 2030 I’ll get up the courage to start it.
Just the opposite, it's a high quality piece from a high quality site.

This comment, which offers no argument for illustrating why the piece is misleading or unfactual, only hurts your credibility.

I myself was deeply moved about the 'grave discovery' revelations in Canada, and after just a bit of investigation I was 'shocked' to discover that the narratives were misrepresentations to the point of lying.

A short compendium about some of the ruthless misrepresentation can be found here [1], where they highlight some issues in the press that, were these revelations to be made in any other field, would be existentially damaging to those involved.

The press clearly misrepresented the views of even many of the aboriginal leaders responsible for these investigations, and much worse.

It's damaging to the integrity of the CBC and some others.

[1] https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-year-of-the-graves-how-...
If the law is a good one, we should celebrate it being applied to minorities and work to apply it to everyone else.

If the law sucks, we should work to repeal it for all.

That way it can't be selectively enforced in a capricious way.
To be fair, you also get about three to four times the distance per minute out of it (850km/h pretty much the whole way as the crow flies vs 250 average if you're lucky plus curves).

To be clear, I find it absurd that airplane companies are still allowed to sell tickets without pricing in externalities for trips with good and high-speed train connections like Paris–Madrid. However, for actually going somewhere far away there just isn't really another choice but to take that plane. Your only other choice is to never go there at all, or take out weeks of travel for a ship or something. It's still too cheap, at least those that go regularly can also afford for Climeworks to undo their environmental pollution, so I hate to be defending air travel here, but 10h flights are a different ball game than 10h train rides.
> Just for the sake of clarity: the claim is that you must use getrandom, somehow, to be secure, or maybe more specifically "you are almost certainly not secure if you roll your own CSPRNG".

Right; more accurately stated, you must use the vDSO's RNG to securely get random numbers quickly.

> Even before the vDSO, I think one would have made the same claim about getrandom.

Because of VM forks. But an alternative would be to expose VM fork events more explicitly to userland, so custom RNGs can take them into account.

And I'm not sure that fixing the RNG, without providing a generic way for userland code to take forks into account, is enough to avoid all vulnerabilities. After all, there will always be a window between generating random numbers and using them. As a dumb example, suppose a DSA implementation first picks a random nonce, then reads the data to be signed from some external source. If the VM forks in between those actions, and the two forks choose different data to be signed, you're in trouble no matter how good the RNG is.

I said it's a dumb example because there's an obvious fix (picking the nonce after the data to be signed). But as a nonexpert, I'd be kind of surprised if there wasn't some cryptographic protocol where forking midway through operation is inherently insecure, and the only solution is to abort and retry. Heck, couldn't that apply to TLS?

Actually, I see that Jason submitted an earlier patch [1] that does provide explicit fork events. I don't know whether this vDSO patch is meant as a replacement or a complement.

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg63759.html
> If the war lasts until winter Europe will really be hurting from lack of Russian energy.

Russia has already cut off most of their gas supplies with Nord Stream 1.

And so Europe has measures in place eg. storing gas, sharing agreements, increasing supply from Azerbaijan etc. They will experience some pain over winter but day by day they become more ready for it.
Not entirely moot. This would be more or less equivalent to macOS's "Allow apps downloaded from App Store and identified developers". This allows people to publish software without abiding by the App Store's rules and review process, as well as the 30% cut on sales.

Perhaps it doesn't go as far as you'd like but it's not moot either.
That is a monster migration. I wonder how big the migration compatibility list was. I haven't used VS since about 2017, but in some ways I miss it. It's big and unwieldy, but very powerful and helpful and was a staple of my 20s as a software dev.
The limit in Romania is already ~1000 or 2000 EUR (USD) depending on a few factors: individual or business, business type etc.

If I'm not mistaking it's similar limit in Italy.
Er… that’s quite a large jump in reasoning
It often depends on money and motivation.

I've lived places where the city didn't want to, or was legally unable, to increase taxes to fund enhanced trash collection.

I've lived in places where the city spends tons of money on trash collection, and everyone got new wheelie bins every year, and trash pick-up three days a week.

When I lived in the desert, trash collection was frequent, and cheap as chips because the city didn't want to give people any reason to dump their trash in the desert.
Due to stochastic nature of interstellar magnetic fields, cosmic rays, trajectory of which are bent by those, are practically observed from all directions, so even if solar system distorts its own magnetic field this will have almost no effect on vosmic rays flux. Magnetic field is not a shield, for the charged particles it is rather a lens which converges or diverges their trajectories.
I don't know what the current state of the art is, but at one point the answer to GC in a realtime environment was to amortize free() across malloc(). Each allocation would clear up to 10 elements from queue of free-able memory locations. That gives a reasonably tight upper bound on worst case alloc time, and most workflows converge on a garbage-free heap. Big malloc after small free might still blow your deadlines, but big allocations after bootstrapping are generally frowned upon in realtime applications, so that's as much a social problem as a technical one.
Hi! Here at Spur, this is our mission exactly. As another commenter correctly noted, proxy endpoint data - especially those of residential or "callback" proxies like 911 - is highly ephemeral. Our company provides near-real time tracking for many residential & datacenter proxy services, as well as VPNs.

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The Ultramarathon Mindset: Four Evidence-Based Tactics for Extreme Endurance
I have taught high school English for quite a while. I've taught in poor rural, mixed-income urban and wealthy suburban districts. CPTSD is not a casual thing that comes about due to typical childhood difficulties, and wealthy parents can plow a bunch of resources into raising their kids while simultaneously damaging them in lifelong ways.
Whoops, apologies for missing this! For our core cloud product, we only partner with established providers. Large-scale compute wholesalers with $5m+ of compute each in secure data centers. These companies' entire businesses are built on selling secure compute to customers like us and other medium/large businesses. Basically, this isn't some random dedicated server host off of LowEndTalk :)

We have data protection agreements with all of them, and we can also do bare metal machines on request so that you have full control over your physical machine.
Ask HN: Why is it so boring to code professionally?
I am very interested in CS and building software, and have a master's in it. I have now landed a job in an environment that gives me tremendous freedom to develop tools and concepts in an area that I find interesting, and I'm basically doing work I previously did for free.

However, I still have to force myself to do it. I like the workplace and I love the projects, but it's still a chore to get anything done. I did the five levels of Google FooBar this spring (and later blew my account by requesting an extra challenge and forgetting about it) in an obsessive compulsive manner, but I suspect that if anyone had payed me to do it, it would have taken at least twice the time it took me to complete it. What is going on here?

P.S. FooBar nerd snipe: Implement a function that returns

sum([floor(i*sqrt(2)) for i in range(1,n+1)])

where 1 <= n <= 10^100
If you zoom in to select London Kings Cross, I think that wins
I, for one, welcome our new privacy destroying overlords.
Wondering the same about DISM commands: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...
Love the analogy. I feel like my self-agency stat is pretty high compared to my peers and I attribute that to my aversion of some of the biggest debuffs - social media (only HN for me), partisan clickbait, us-vs-them mentality, etc.

We all have many built-in heuristics for analyzing the world and some of them easy to hijack if you aren't paying enough attention. The In/Out group dynamic is a big one that is regularly taken advantage of.
I don't think my point is obscure at all. It is, simply, that C.S. Lewis didn't write that quote to exhort people to skepticism of all wrongdoing; he was instead reminding people not to invent wrongdoing to impute to strangers by dint of them being "enemies". The quote, here, was ill used, as it so often is.

Again: when Lewis wrote this, he was talking about the Nazis, the authors of many of the worst crimes in history. Lewis was no Holocaust denier: he was acutely aware of --- and reminds his reader throughout Christian Behavior of --- the wrongdoings he's alluding to. It might be hard to find a more inapposite quote for this story.

I have no idea what happened in the residential schools in Canada, and no opinion about this particular article. But I do have an opinion about the abuse of C.S. Lewis on message boards.
Defense contractor held without bail in ID theft mystery
Yeah, the final clause of this sentence reveals he knows what he's doing:

> No one, to my knowledge, has found any human remains—i.e., body parts or tissue from decaying corpses—either at Kamloops or any of the other former Residential Schools, through the use of GPR.

Very holocaust denial-like. Reminded me of the people who point out that the "lampshade made of human skin" stories, haven't been proved:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-lampshad...
I thought you were saying that he was initially chased and attacked because the (first) person he shot thought he was an active shooter.

You're saying that after he was an active shooter, people were chasing him because they thought he was an active shooter? If so, I don't think that no one knows this, I think no one cares.

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edit: The statement you made was "the people [Rittenhouse] shot were under the impression that they were trying to stop an active shooter." I asked for a reference. You begin and end the reply to that request by saying that the first person he shot wasn't under the impression he was an active shooter.

My problem is the deception. I am a proud left-winger, and I think Quillette is trash. I'm disturbed that people are intentionally trying to cloud the facts about issues to score political points. When you say that the people Rittenhouse shot were under the impression that he was an active shooter, and somebody looks that up and finds out that it is untrue, they'll think that people who hold the same opinions as you are liars. That affects me, and the things that I believe in.
I like the places where you can bring anything you want to the dump. They weigh your car on the way in, and weigh it again on the way out, and calculate your fee based on the difference.
> Then how is it that his heirs control the rights?

They don't.
Sorry I had the age wrong.

There should be a presumption of innocence in the sense that the public should assume the accused is innocent until evidence is publicly shared that suggests their guilt.

So far the only evidence shared with the public is a confession. Confessions are notoriously unreliability.

There will be more evidence. DNA tests are being done as we speak.
At the risk of saying something dumb and meta... it's ideas all the way down (for a really long time now).

The individual corporations are ideas, and then of course there's the idea of the corporation itself. As the post notes, corporations only work because of other ideas about property rights and scarcity. But more fundamentally they only work because they're an idea quite a few people already believe in.

I'm a little fuzzy on the level at which the post means "autonomous ideas" will steer society--do they mean autonomous ideas like Unix? Or autonomous ideas like governments and corporations and pope-less religions?

I think the post helps draw a latent curiosity out of me that I probably wouldn't have put quite like this, but: can we better identify and allocate resources towards good ideas that don't make market sense?
Same here - since upgrading to NVME SSD my boot times were 3-5 sec (!) with Win10, and 5-10 sec with Win11. I think there's at least something they're doing right, and normal Linux desktop has a long way to go still (mine still easily takes 1 min on the same system..)

I think among the three, MacOS takes the crown though - easily takes 5 minutes to boot, at least on an enterprise system.
> the magic is really because of TSMC

Why do people keep repeating this rubbish? There is not a shred of evidence that process accounts for anywhere near 100% of the perf/power difference.
A big part of why the US moves more by rail is simply because it moves more goods overland than in Europe.

Low latency freight for smaller, high value items is often done on passenger lines (or even passenger trains) because it doesn't put any scheduling pressure on passenger service.

As far as use of freight in Europe, the elephant in the room is that the EU uses a lot more sea freight than the US. Indeed, while the modal split for EU trucking is around 50%, it's around 70% in the US, and it thus seems clear that the real reason that there is less rail shipping within Europe is because there is much more competition from maritime shipping.
personalism shot/chaser: bonhoeffer’s “on folly”.
React made me like frontend for the first time since I was writing html by hand with maybe some PHP. Next has made me love full stack again, I just wish the api server was express by default.