skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The calculations are the output of an ML solver trained on a data set generated by corporate accountants.
.NET isn't native, doesn't it use the CLR?
Even Java apps shouldn't be considered native as they use JVM.

True native is apps written in C/C++ or Rust that are compiled to run without a virtual machine. I haven't seen any webapps faster than native apps.
You don't start a suggestion with "Why 74xx parts, other than nostalgia for an era that was over decades before he was born?"
Gaming companies get DHS to combat radicalization of online gamers
Right, just like every car manufacturer in the world colluded since they all converged on 4 wheels and are practically identical.
> Obviously you cannot compare yourself…

Obviously you did.

Obviously doing so is a basic way we can try to understand the accomplishment.
That suggests a fun strategy for Magnus or anyone else playing Niemann: do lots of moves where there would be ambiguity in which piece was moved.

Now however Niemann is entering the moves, he's got more to type and more places he might make a mistake.
This assertion has always been strange to me. This American Life was releasing their episodes as podcasts for something like 7 years before they decided to do Serial. Shows like Adam Corolla, WTF with Marc Maron, the BS Report, Joe Rogan Experience, etc were all very successful before Serial. Major media companies like NPR, CBC, BBC were releasing podcasts and dedicated podcast companies like TWiT.tv had existed for years. I think you can kind of credit Serial for popularizing true crime podcasts but it gets way too much credit for the success for the medium.
This doesn't tell the reader anything because solid open source projects that can be used in production and those that are just experiments will often have the same LICENSE. All open source licenses disclaim liability.

So if you really want to discourage usage, you should say something in the README.
I was uneasy with "Serial". Too much obsession I thought with the accused, scant discussion of the murdered. It was just a sad, dark place I felt it was asking me to be a voyeur of. But, yeah, I guess I don't like "true crime" entertainment.
Speak for yourself. I've been able to send money to my friends' phone numbers for years.

America hasn't even discovered different colours for banknotes yet. It's parochialism, not regulation, holding you back.

Apart from that, nicely put.
How about authenticating with an accelerometer rather than through skin conductivity? To unlock your USB device, or to avoid the self-destruct, you would wave it, tap it, spin it, or rotate it in a specific way before plugging it in.

Accelerometers are widely used by smartphones so I assume that the ICs are common and inexpensive (at least if bought in volume). A tiny battery would be needed as well.

Carrying the idea even further, maybe you could even do key entry this way. Imagine that the USB device stores encrypted data and you enter a short decryption key by tapping out a particular bit of music before plugging it in.

To get even fancier, maybe you can enter a hexadecimal key (0123456789ABCDEF) through various motions. For example, spinning the USB clockwise on your desk is a 0, flipping it from horizontal to vertical is a 1, waving it through a figure eight loop is an 8, rolling it along the long axis is a B, etc.
"Complain all you like, don't take steps to change or improve your situation."

The biggest advocate for the fairness of a prison cell often is the prisoner.
Sure, except:

* They claimed to have raised 150 million when they in fact raised around 1 million

* They repeatedly claimed there was no risk of missing payroll when in fact, there was a very tangible risk of missing payroll

* They made promises of deal updates and town halls which they repeatedly reneged on

* They made important changes like dropping health insurance coverage without informing employees, which has real tax and legal (not to mention medical) consequences for the employees.
I have two thoughts to share about this from what you've said:

> we must stop expecting [Open Source] devs to have any responsibility for code they produce.

Yes, I agree with this. And something that's been in my head for a while, which often discussed, is how people often "magically think" something along the lines of:

"If we just paid these devs for support, then we'd solve the support problem!"

Unfortunately, I don't think is reality. If you're a dev working at Google and you toss a library on NPM, you probably can't be paid to support it because your employer forbids it.

The type of person writing libraries Open Source is not always going to be motivated by money!

> Some of my clients actually do (or pay others for) security review of every single NPM dependency they use in prod. If you can not afford to review 2000 dependencies then you can not afford 2000 dependencies. Find a leaner path.

There was a post a few months ago[0] that has been talking about a way to "democratize" this review process. It's been sitting in my head and it's actually a part of a project that I'm working on now[1]. (My apologies for that not being documented anywhere yet though!)

Essentially, if every company on this planet has to review every Open Source dependency, that's a massive waste of human effort because there is a ton of overlap between that work.

Instead, what if you could have one person/entity do that work to review the dependencies and then you "buy" that dataset for a fraction of the price? If it takes 10 humans a year to review every dependency you have, then it's cheaper to pay 1 human salary to buy that data. (And we do the work once but then sell it 100+ times.)

That's the core principle that's been in my head for a while and that's how we're trying to build a company right now.

Unsexy problems aren't very "shiny" (like Stable Diffusion or NFTs) but they are important!

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32037562

1: https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec
Then don’t rent their tools. Say they only put a $100 hold, and you didn’t return them. Now they charge you $1100 but you can’t pay it or your credit limit would prevent it. Oops. As another commenter mentioned, car/van rentals are the same way.

The tools are not required, despite what inflammatory articles like the Verge’s try/tried to claim. iFixIt’s guides makes it very clear that it’s possible to do the whole repair without them, and I’ve done it quite a few times in the past.
JavaCard is the answer for smartcards. You can find example card software all over github, and you're looking for the JavaCard SDK from Oracle and GlobalPlatformPro to program them: https://github.com/martinpaljak/GlobalPlatformPro. There's even an ant task around somewhere that allows you to use ant tooling. Blank cards with "developer"/default keys can be picked up pretty much anywhere.

Buy blank cards, write your applet, test in an emulator if you want, push to card, test for real with your software that talks to the card, profit. Be aware that if your goal is to write custom cryptography implementations in Java on the Javacard, these will be prohibitively slow. No need to take my word for it, Niels Duif did exactly this: https://research.tue.nl/en/studentTheses/smart-card-implemen...

> Java Card proves to be a worthless platform for high-speed cryptography. Despite the
> speedups, generating a signature takes more than 28 minutes for a private key of 254
> bits.

How is crypto done then? JavaCard provides APIs that do it, but these call implementations that either use coprocessors, or contain optimised implementations in the mask ROM. You can't program a mask ROM without doing a production run of smartcards in the hundreds of thousands. Small scale, this isn't possible.

HSM vendors will often sell SDKs for custom code, which you can add to certain models. The barrier to entry simply being that you need to buy an HSM, which isn't cheap. It can be done, however, and on the plus side in my experience of Thales HSMs this means actual C code, meaning performant implementation is possible.
> It is also possible to perform different computations on each calculator. This function comes in handy when the user wants to compare prices to determine which store product is cheaper by the gram, for example.

This adds another use-case outside of the M functions on a standard calc :)
Sure if it's in the south bay
But it doesn't combine with ops. You'd need to talk about a hecatops or a hecatontops. And even more than it can't combine with ops, it can't combine with clops because there is no such root.
Got it, sorry about that. Will reconsider in future.
Perhaps, but there's a line between distrusting anecdotes and being silly. After all, parachutes do actually prevent deadly stops.
https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
i want money toooooo.
Dzhanibekov effect / tennis racket theorem. The flippening is nigh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x5UiwEEvpQ
We can't just disregard Jay's testimony -- he led police to Hae's car.

He discusses some inconsistencies here: https://theintercept.com/2014/12/29/exclusive-interview-jay-...

Edit: A Reddit comment claims to identify more inconsistencies in the interview: https://www.reddit.com/r/serialpodcast/comments/2xytci/comme...
[EDIT: Removed a section about the now-fixed typo]

> I think the last such break with code points genuinely changing meanings was to repair a mistaken CJK unification some time in the 00s, and the Consortium may even have tied its own hands in that regard with the ever-more-strict stability policies[.]

Not exactly, the last break happened between Unicode 1.1 and 2.0 and the new CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A block still contains unified characters. The main reason for break was that both Hangul and CJK(V) ideographs required tons of additional code points and it became clear that 16-bit code space is dangerously insufficient; by 1.1 there was only a single big block of unassigned code points from U+A000 to U+E7FF (18,432 total), and there were 4,516 and 6,582 new Hangul and CJK(V) ideographs in 2.0 (11,098 total).
It was satire. It was originally suggested on a streamers chat as a joke that the streamer laughed at. Noone took it seriously
This is the main concern - millions or billions can be spent on a system that is obviously failing and the solution is always spend even more.
If logic ICs don’t appeal, maybe he’d be interested in relay logic? There’s something super satisfying about a totally electromechanical contraption clunking away and ‘thinking’.
I think this works very well for someone working directly in your domain, but doesn't work so well when you're a domain expert, outside of the others normal domain, since you can have a very small general, or mostly unidirectional specific, overlap.
Pushing via HTTPS is the only way I use GitHub, so I find this claim questionable.

It's working fine for me.
But GNOME has zero reason to implement server side decorations in Wayland. All GNOME apps use client side decorations and have done so for years. The other major toolkits (Qt and Electron) have also added support for client side decorations. Legacy X apps are still able to use the X decorations. The only thing left is apps that were broken in Wayland in the first place.
> That's also when I learned that many people don't want to listen to statistics unless they agree with their own preconceptions.

This has been my experience with bodycam footage, I've found that there's been quite a few heavily protested police involved shootings that when looking over the footage and the facts of the situation, were by the book and completely justified, yet no matter how many times you say to someone "you do know there's footage of the entire event, uncut and unfiltered", it doesn't seem to matter.

EDIT: I just remembered what my throwaway username is.
I have changed my comment to add 'I believe'. But I do think that if you simply look at the basic evidence you can only logically conclude that he is guilty. Certainly Jay has tried to paint himself in the best light possible, but he admitted to helping Adnan and took the cops to the car. Adnan admits to being with Jay on the day of the murder. This alone means that if either Jay or Adnan are telling any form of truth, then he is guilty. While obviously not evidence enough for conviction, the fact alone that Adnan never tried to call or page Hae after the day of the murder, even though he had continued to reach out continuously prior, has no other explanation in my view.
Run faster. That will be different.
I know it's a lot to ask, but would you mind providing some additional background as to the different sides and the potential outcomes / ramifications of this case? You seem to have a lot of context in this area.

Could this lead to a VCR/DVR future where we're once again able to record or download steaming content? Platforms and DRM have taken us a step back from the freedoms we once enjoyed.

I would be overjoyed to be able to legally back up Netflix, HBO, and Disney+ for my private library. It seems only fair now that everything is morphing into the absurd "license for eternity" model.
Why Electric Vehicles Won’t Break the Grid
The author is being even too polite IMHO, since there IS a "contract" (legal working agreement, or license) when involving open source. And it CLEARLY stipulates, usually even in capital letters, exactly what the author is conveying in the article! That the software is "as-is" and you should not expect -let alone demand- anything from authors. Anything beyond that is good will from open source authors, which historically has varied wildly from project to project.

I fully agree with the author though; it was even funnier when NPM sarcastically blamed me for losing my password on the reset screen, since it was THEM who lost their users passwords and force-reset them all, so now I had to reset my password, forced to use 2FA and being mocked while doing all of that ONLY to be able to share my work for free with the world. I was very, very close to say fuck NPM I'm out, unfortunately they have a de-facto monopoly.
I’m down if anyone is in the Northern Virginia/DC area.
Ping me, I’ll buy the first round. I’d love to hear your story.
What if the computer is on his person? And he can send it inputs?
Im in LA should we organize a meetup? How would we do it properly?
>Which specific US regulations is TikTok currently violating, and where is the hard evidence to support that?

Answered in the article.
Ehh if "I want it" was all it was about then why is the US so hilariously expensive for college compared to other countries? Looking around at my fellow Americans it doesn't seem to be because it makes us smarter that's for sure.
Reminder: there is 0 evidence Bezos has interfered with editorial concerns at WaPo or anywhere else. WaPo themselves confirmed this several times.

https://www.cjr.org/public_editor/washington-post-public-edi...
At least newspapers I think tend to have separate "magazines" with much more "fluffy" content, where you kind of expect it to be lower quality ?

This becomes a problem when they go and put it on the same website as "serious" journalism...
Unlike the EU/Russia, though, the US is not geopolitically dependent on China for social media like the former is energy. If the US were embroiled in such a conflict with the China, the US would have no problem

a) Forcing the sale of ByteDance to a US company (remember, they almost did this during peacetime anyways, just because)

or

b) Outright blocking it and ensuring its allies do the same

Sure, either option is a Situation, but I would imagine the US threatening to effectively take over or block what is one of China's premiere/world-known tech companies is a large enough negotiating chip that it gives the US leverage, too, and at the same time ensure China does not interfere too much.
The Broken Sword series is a must. I also enjoyed the Myst series a great deal, but it's a very different style.
Is this a joke?

The only things correctly sized are the page and the hamburger menu.

Do you not see the oversized tab-bar, the tiny icons on the tab-bar and address bar, the tiny ublock origin dialog, and the huge settings page?
There are parts of the US that still have German-language newspapers. Detroit had a Dutch newspaper until 2018. Whether it closed because it was Dutch or because newspapers as a product are on the decline is academic; the point is that people in the US do speak German, Dutch, and various British Isle dialects, and furthermore there are third-, fourth- and more-generation Spanish-speaking people throughout the south and west. It's a big country, and a lot happens outside your neighborhood.
The actual report that triggered this investigation is interesting:

https://public-assets.graphika.com/reports/graphika_stanford...

The first thing to note is that it's relatively benign in terms of propaganda.

> Assets in the group heavily promoted narratives supportive of the U.S. on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Telegram. These posts primarily
focused on U.S. support for Central Asian countries and their people, presenting Washington as a reliable economic partner that would curb the region’s
dependence on Russia. Other posts argued that the U.S. was the main guarantor of Central Asia’s sovereignty against Russia, frequently citing the war in Ukraine as evidence of the Kremlin’s “imperial” ambitions. Interestingly, the assets also promoted U.S. humanitarian efforts, mentioning the United States Agency for International Development 94 times on Twitter and 384 times on Facebook in the respective datasets.

It's funny that they felt the need to do this in a "clandestine" way at all since almost certainly these are messages the US would happily say outloud as official statements.

The second thing to note is how ham-handedly they did this:

> The sham media outlet Intergazeta repeatedly copied news material with and without credit from reputable Western and pro-Western sources in Russian, such as Meduza.io and the BBC Russian Service. ... Typically, these sections were literal “word-to-word” translations into Russian, as opposed to more-advanced semantic translations, resulting in non-native sounding language.
The $1200 amount comes from it being what the tools actually cost if you wanted to buy them. The hold is to bypass the whole “charge $1200, then return for $1150 credit” rigamarole. Doing that would affect your credit usage and could kill your score if it wasn’t returned before the card due date; A hold doesn’t.
They've hurt many in Ukraine by siding with Russia. I for one support Ukraine and in that way they could be seen as an enemy. Also anything resembling fascism in the least bit should be demonized, CCP/Russia are ruled by fascists as are the majority of their allies (read: dictatorships/military ruled countries aka non democratic/republic/parliamentarian countries).

If there's a world war 3, you better believe the powers will be USA, Western EU, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, NZ, (maybe India), (maybe israel), against China, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, maybe Brazil, et al.

I don't say this because they're communist, etc. I like aspects of communism, I say this because they rule like the book 1984 is a guidebook, not a work of fiction.
What's your problem with the Unix philosophy? Also, I never said it applied in every case, just that it's useful to have in this one.
VOA was one of the only sources for accurate reporting behind the iron curtain. You are discrediting them by referring to them only as propaganda.
> One bill opposed by the App Association is the Open App Markets Act, which aimed to help app developers use alternative in-app payment systems and avoid Apple's standard cuts of 15 to 30 percent.

The cut is a platform fee, and collecting it via the in-app payment system is mechanism, not policy.

The core issue is Apple's rate: although it is usually comparable to rates on other game platforms (eShop, Google Play, Steam...), (some) game and app developers want it reduced so that they receive a higher percentage of an app's retail price.

The largely unfounded expectation that some developers seem to have is that changing IAP payment methods will cause Apple's platform fee to drop to zero, rather than causing Apple to simply collect it by other means.

Edit: for some reason people are responding to me with complaints about Apple's policies and downvoting me because they don't like Apple's platform fees. I'm trying to shed some light on what is actually going on: a dispute over platform fee rates. This is something that much of the media coverage doesn't seem to be getting right.
You should play Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2. RDR2 is basically a choose-your-own-adventure movie. But so much better. I read a lot but I was more emotionally invested in these fictional video game characters than I’ve ever been in characters from a book or a movie.
Interestingly, Disney's new Chip 'n Dale movie actually features a cameo of Crumb's Mr. Natural character.
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Europe and Asia both have a fair amount of motorcycle robbery / purse snatching.

Victims can get dragged into traffic and killed, or stabbed if they resist. Robbery is robbery, a handgun is just one way to threaten someone in the process.
“Giving homes” also doesn’t necessarily mean assign an apartment to everyone.

Imagine “jails” that anyone can check into at any time, without being arrested or even accused.

But deeper runs a fundamental issue - if the only tools you have are fines and jail time, how do you punish someone for minor crimes if they have no money or possessions? And let’s not dance around it, forcing someone to do something they do not want to do is a form of punishment, even if they profusely thank you afterwards.
you forgot to mention the pay rate?
It is not just nice but fantastic to not care if a chair is black, white, adjustible, etc. and instead just buy a chair.
There was a long while where I really wanted to build a reactivision table. Never had the space. It still strikes me as something that would be fun to play with, if I ever did get the space.
Game console systems are insanely closed and locked down platforms. I consider anything console manufacturers do to be an antipattern, so the fact that their fees are comparable to Apple's only shows that Apple needs to loosen the purse strings a little.
You can't read minds, that's why I posted screenshots.

Surely you can see the difference between the font sizes for the ublock origin popup, and the enormous fonts on the settings page.

It's totally broken?
Ohh that's nice. So we're gonna get a fix last week of December, and will have to dev around a new API in a few days, test everything, and release it to millions of users hoping for the best.

Man, Google sucks.
I love Crumb. I have several t shirts from the official KOT site
https://www.kotapparel.com including the 'quest into the unknown' shirt that I wore a lot at the height of the pandemic, his genesis book and various other bits and pieces. The saddest thing for me is the whole 'just passing through' hippie/transient/hobo style hasn't aged well in an era of massive street living overwhelmingly caused by substance abuse and serious mental illness.

I'd love to see him address what he to some extent begat in the US before pushing off to live in rural, romantic France...
No.

Going to prison in the United States ruins your life.