skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a tendency for this to result in more work for the people in a conversation, so I think it’s also important to lower the stakes:

* Nobody in a casual conversation is required to do homework. It’s great if you do, but you don’t have to.

* Discussing something very serious happening in the news doesn’t make an Internet conversation important. Terrible things are always happening and we can talk about them, but that doesn’t make a casual chat between two strangers on the Internet high-stakes.

* Ignorance is the default. We start out not understanding what’s going on, and sometimes that’s where we end up.

* A casual conversation is worthwhile when the people in it are learning things and/or enjoying themselves. If nobody’s having a good time, it’s not working.
You've never been through police academy, have you? It's like training for a fucking pentathlon.

You have to memorize and demonstrate understanding of law, pass an obstacle course, meet marksmanship standards, pass a driving test under extreme conditions, and more. It's no joke. And they have to recertify on a lot of this yearly.

Nobody's perfect. None of their critics can actually do that job. Most couldn't clear the first fence in the obstacle course. You'd hate being subject to the same surveillance at work as well.
> give the police what they want

Like the ability to actually do something when a looter horde raids a department store?
Yep. Body cameras are an attempt at a technological solution to a sociocultural problem—and those rarely work.

We need to either change the culture—and adversarial third-party oversight is a forcible way to do that—or remove the tools the police use to abuse the public.
Beeper says Apple is blocking some iMessages
It's curious how these problems are highly correlated with the police doing questionable shit.
Incredible. Would love to connect with you. Where can I find you LOL
Like IIS used to have in the old days, ActiveX/ASP managed.

Nowadays the new Windows Admin Center,

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/wind...
Ask HN: How to call triple 0, triple 9, or 112 overseas
Imagine im witnessing an emergency situation happening in another country (lets say via webcam, for instance)...is there a way to alert emergency services overseas?
Do you know if the low-level technical report is available? I love reverse engineering firmware, and this sounds like a holy grail. I mean a freaking train? Ugh someone should drop binaries.
It's so funny to me how many non-americans just assume their country is perfect because they apparently don't pay attention to their local news. Or maybe it's just nationalism, hard to say.
Incredible. Where can I connect with you? Want to pick your brain & swap some thoughts :)
You'd think so, but the average jury is extremely deferential to police.

In part because a lot of places include some questions about how you feel about the police in the standard jury screening interview, and expressing any negative opinion about police-reliability is likely to get you struck.

e.g. check out the NYC standard set of questions: https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/cji/8-Colloquies/Voir%20Dire... -- note that 11.a is going to automatically exclude anyone who says something like "I've heard about the blue code, thanks".
>I just use isolated cheap laptops and encrypted usb's now.

I figure this isn't practical for most end users. Is there an alternative hardware wallet that you think is okay for most people? How do you feel about Trezor?
I guess you didn't got the joke with edlin. :)
I only know a little bit second hand but I wouldn't be surprised, from what I understand each side has obligations to meet in the deal and the status can be lost on either side. Its also gonna depend on the state
Honestly I think you're getting closer to the core of the problem than most. Appealing to multiple different learning styles is a fantastic idea. I see tons of people online talking about learning by watching Youtube videos... this doesn't work for me, but it's obviously helpful for a lot of them. Some work well with text. I personally have a great measure of success when I'm presented with playgrounds for learning, like the GraphQL docs which let you live edit the queries in the documentation to play with them and see how the concepts work. None of these is any better than the others and all should be considered for the highest quality documentation.
- Valve you pay 100 USD once per game

- Xbox depends on how you manage to sell your thing to them, it can even be free

- Nintendo you also don't pay to be in, but the dev kit is 400 USD (unless this changed recently), you can dev in any machine

In the end math is still showing the Apple as the most expensive platform to develop for - I don't have information on PSN as I never did anything for it.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)
Depends on the size of the black holes, spaghettification because of a high gravity gradients is a problem when you are close to the center of the black hole. Larger black holes make the much less of a problem, so you can cross the event horizon without any problems.
Perhaps - but Xorg had no business being the display server for so long for how objectively nonsense the code is. It’s time to pay back that billion-dollar technical debt. The technical debt of Xorg is almost like if Linux never supported anything but x86 and used emulators for all other hardware.

Example: How many people here would cringe at the thought of a WordPress site with a bunch of plugins? Xorg is objectively worse code, and has over 30 plugins on a normal desktop.
This applies only if the firm is present in France. If you contract for a firm in say Germany, afaik the rule no longer applies
Who are the remaining users of sysvinit?

Alpine & Gentoo are on OpenRC, Void is on runit, the BSDs have always had their own init, everything else I can think of is either on systemd, or hardly significant.

I mean, sysvinit was horrible, and systemd is horrible in very different ways, just wondering who and why is holding on.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant
I had seen this video and wondered! So it seems the thought is the explosion didn't disrupt the tornado winds. It did temporarily hide the tornado funnel by disrupting the condensation droplets which made it most visible.
Can't wait for the Android version ;)
What I meant is that I feel the trust among parties might go down industry-wide.
In a sense you admitted that:

> (...)I can tighten the screws on manufacturers in the next round of train buying(...)

But then I can see it might help change things for the better across the board, as you nicely described. Thanks for the illuminating comment!
In order for space to truly be continuous, particles would have to be represented with effectively infinite position information. Since particles seem to contain finite information, that seems unlikely.
I crave screenshots especially when the UI is very complicated. Documentation that tells me to engage the encabulator is hard to use when I don't know what the icon looks like or where it is or if there's a menu entry or how deeply nested it is or how to get it to take input.

There are tools which I use infrequently enough (e.g., GIMP, which I use about twice annually) that I don't really want to learn the tool. I want to get the job done and move on. Screenshots to help me navigate a UI, even if modestly outdated, are enormously helpful.
Any Unicode input (Japanese or Greek text for example) currently causes a 500 error.
Had a friend who worked in construction. He said every day the workplace health & safety person would come in and show them a video of the "dumb [expletive] of the day" doing something very stupid by not following WHS rules, and suffering the consequences of it. Allegedly this helped with compliance quite a fair bit.
I disagree, police should not be able to turn off the cameras, but the footage should NOT be public by default. Instead, the footage should be regularly audited by a vetted third party not connected to the police, police union, of families of police.

The footage should of course be archived for some long period of time measured in years for use in proceedings, and audits the discover significant periods of no footage not attributable to technical malfunction should be grounds for immediate dismissal of the officer.

Making allowances for the officer to decide when it's "appropriate" to turn off the camera will inevitably lead to the current situation of the cameras being not used nearly enough - only instead of "oops it was off" it will become "I used my judgement that this was a sensitive event and turned it off, whoops now no one knows who shot first"
It's looking dated now but I built https://www.rivered.io 10 years ago, based on the same theory, inspired by Dave Winer's discussion on the topic: http://scripting.com/2014/06/02/whatIsARiverOfNewsAggregator....
Men should abstain from drinking at least three months prior to conceiving
You are either being disingenuous or incredibly oblivious. People want to know what our elected officials are saying in private with lobbyists and campaign contributors.
Yes thats it, I was thinking of nitrile not vinyl
So “old” swapping is taking low priority processes and putting all of their memory out to disk, almost (but obviously not quite) as though you’re suspending them. Got it!
Wayland is being developed by the former Xorg developers.

Anyone that disagrees with the Xorg's developers decision, is welcomed to jump in.
Microsoft has made fourteen acquisitions worth over one billion dollars: Skype (2011), aQuantive (2007), Fast Search & Transfer (2008), Navision (2002), Visio Corporation (2000), Yammer (2012), Nokia's mobile and devices division (2013), Mojang (2014), LinkedIn (2016), GitHub (2018), Affirmed Networks (2020), ZeniMax Media (2020), Nuance Communications (2021), and Activision Blizzard (2022).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
We have too few coders? Then explain why job openings are getting hundreds of applicants in the first few hours and auto-rejecting people with many years of experience. I think you are mistaken.
The only thing you should be moving is her furniture. The only thought it provokes from me is disgust for a person who's stupid decisions end up on my own shoulders and shoulders of my kids.

What she does is endemic in US and nothing good will come from promoting this.
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It's hard for me to visualize a world where lines of communication were as narrow as back then. The point about group identity is great; what if the Serb village over here in the north had no or very vague idea about all these Serb villages in the south; or had no idea how many total Serb villages there were altogether? But once publishing and communication took off, perhaps people became more aware of the extent of the group and they coagulated. Germany is also a great example, starting from dozens of little states.
That and the Saudi sovereign wealth fund jacking up the valuation of SpaceX, by buying less than half a percent of the cap table at a $150 billion dollar valuation.
Proton + CLI mail client = Meh.

With Proton Bridge running on macos, mutt could fetch & read mail but mutt's "e" command would not work. My editor would write out the message but the changes would not "stick" at the server: the message was always left unchanged.

Was I doing something wrong ?
How much is the grant, it doesn't seem to be disclosed?
I doubt it would be that easy, but, ya, using some form of automation is necessary. We devised a few rudimentary way to filter out the chaff, and it did quite well to remove the garbage. Still some would slip through, so it still required vigilance to remove them when you happen to see them.
Love me some good rivers. Scrolling horizontally moving the mouse at different speed at OP's website creates beautiful artifacts.
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Constructive arguing only works when everyone agrees to it.
My best friend and I still look at each other and say "What? Your mom buy you a Puter for Christmas". That movie had style.
I think it's interesting that "black hole" is the least ambiguous phrase in the title of this paper. What even would be a "singularity," if we're talking about something beyond "this is where all our equations blow up to infinity?" What would it mean, then, for a black hole to "have" such a physical thing?

Other people have said already in the comments that many physicists insist that "singularities" aren't a physical thing, anyway. But, that doesn't really remove much of the ambiguity, because there's still the question of what exactly it means that the equations blow up to infinity.

Who knows? All I know is that I happened to be thinking about black holes at one point in grad school while I was also taking differential topology, and I realized that a rotating black hole would "smear out" a singularity at its "center" (whatever that means) due to frame dragging, resulting in a "ring singularity." And, lo and behold, there is such a thing, and it sort of works vaguely the way I thought it would: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_singularity
I'm somewhat amazed someone can write a comment like this in (almost) 2024 without a hint of sarcasm. Especially when they're taking someone to task about giving too much weight to what someone "said" twenty years ago.

Sure, disregard what the founder said when he initially founded the company. Just, oh I don't know, give a little weight to all that the company -- not said mind you -- but actually did in the last twenty years with regards to the data in question. Recalling all the scandals within that period, you'll find that they nicely line up with that sentiment that was expressed by the founder twenty years ago.

You can say he's no worse than Musk perhaps, but going around telling people to disregard what someone said some time ago when the quote actually corroborates all the action taken since then is a rather bad faith interpretation of the author's intent.

And adding caveats like "I'm not saying Zuck has changed" just comes off as a weird cop-out. When someone is quoting that statement, they are explicitly arguing that he hasn't changed. So unless you're arguing that he has changed, the content of your comment is almost entirely vacuous.
Side effects on operator overload or attribute read are just really bad practice and is very rarely done. Do you second guess every identifier in C because it could be a preprocessor macro?

Yeah, stupid overloading like C++ IO is a mess, but I haven't encountered much such abuse in Python.
> That is in fact the entire concept behind combos- sequences of moves that your opponent can’t do anything during outside of more modern combo breaker mechanics.

You can flow chart combos, sure, but that's not the whole fighting game; most people who play fighting games competitively will tell you that knowledge of combo theory is maybe 20% of what makes you good at a game

The rest is a dance of turn-taking, knowing when you are in advantage or disadvantage state and behaving accordingly, and 'neutral' - your behavior during the times where you aren't performing a combo or being pressured by your opponent

Outside of advantage and disadvantage and neutral lies 'oki' - your behavior during the period where you have finished a combo, aimed at gaining advantage or at the very least, preventing disadvantage (by returning to neutral in a controlled form)

Samurai Showdown is an example of a fighting game with extremely limited combo/oki mechanics and a heavy emphasis on neutral play -- most characters have only 2 or 3 hit combos which anyone can perform and the entirety of the depth in its gameplay is inside 'neutral' - the spacing between characters, the choice of when to attack and when to defend, when to throw, when to parry, etc.

Blazblue is an example of a fighting game with an extremely deep combo system, every character has a unique archetype and mechanic, and combos can last tens of seconds, and set-ups to turn 'lost neutral' into 'lost neutral again' are abundant

The difference between a good combo and bad combo in Samurai Showdown can be like 5% of your life bar, meaning if you don't have 'good combos' then you might need to 'win neutral' 1 more time to win the match (compared to if you could perform good combos)

The difference between a good combo and bad combo in Blazblue is maybe 50% damage (2500 vs 4500) meaning you need to 'win neutral' maybe 3 more times than if you did a 'good combo' every time you 'won neutral'
This is why I always like soul calibur. The control language of the game is consistent across characters and when you go to perform a move, you generally understand what’s going to come, only variables like range, height and speed change (thanks to the dynamics of the weapons). Stances play a part too.

Probably considered “cute” to the fighting game community, I think it’s a great option for those of us who don’t care over the minutia of frame counting.
Arguments should be based on reasonable logical constructions. The best online guide I've come across to what constitutes a reasonable logical construction is Nizkor's Fallacies:

https://www.nizkor.org/fallacies/

Here's an example: Special Pleading

> "Description of Special Pleading: Special Pleading is a fallacy in which a person applies standards, principles, rules, etc. to others while taking herself (or those she has a special interest in) to be exempt, without providing adequate justification for the exemption. This sort of "reasoning" has the following form:

Person A accepts standard(s) S and applies them to others in circumtance(s) C.
Person A is in circumstance(s) C.
Therefore A is exempt from S.

People committing Special Pleading are claiming that they are exempt from certain principles or standards yet they provide no good reason for their exemption."

E.g. Russia was widely condemned for civilian casualties in their war in Ukraine by US government representatives but Israel is not condemned for civilian casualties in their war on Gaza by US government representatives.
The suggestion I've seen is to legislate changing the presumption such that if body camera footage is missing then it should be presumed to be foul play unless the police department can show evidence otherwise.
It will not; this is an identical attack to the Copay wallet hack over 5 years ago.

Solutions like lavamoat have been proposed and implemented in places, but they will not scale to the entire industry. There's a bigger problem in how innovation speed / developer convenience is inversely related to security.

In many cases it's literally cheaper to just wait for an attack and make victims whole. And even if not, it's hard to explain to your investors why it takes you half a year to build a product that took your competitors a month, so you just pretend the threat doesn't exist.
We're trying to use technology to solve a legal / political issue, which predictably ineffective results.

Unfortunately, I don't even think improved state oversight will help until the underlying issue of qualified immunity is addressed. The current legal framework in the US literally rewards police officers for being ignorant of the law.
this is very meta. an argument about arguing on a post about arguing.
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Regular smart cards also don't have screens, so it would mean totally blind signing. That's the problem which hardware wallets are solving, but sometimes the screen is just too small to show all the details of complex transactions.
What security issues?

I really don't get the security angle. If I'm already running arbitrary code then it doesn't matter that Wayland is more "secure" than X11. It's just silly security theater, because there are plenty of other ways you can access whatever other applications are doing and interfere with them, even if the display server doesn't allow you to do that directly.

The only security benefit I see is if you're running sandboxed applications and you want to connect them to your display server, then sure, there is a benefit here, but how many people are running untrusted GUI apps in a sandbox on a desktop?
> But ultimately every company that has a platform for software development is going to charge you:

This is why the web won, IMO.
I was surprised that Einstein's video and voice was preserved when I first saw him in a video. It never occurred to me to go out and check for such videos even though everyone holds him in high regard. This is also similar to the fact that I didn't know the top five contributions of Edward Witten, even though everyone considers him to our current generation Einstein. Only when I saw a video on that topic that I realized my folly, I should have sought such information actively. So much of our beliefs are formed through some kind of osmosis from the air.

What works did Edward Witten do?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xDSVeiVxMI
This is the usual argument, "I am a good careful driver, only the other ones do mistakes, so we don't need seat belts".
I really don't like the idea of having field-programmable OTP memories in microprocessors. This shouldn't be possible, there should be a physical VPP pin (as in MediaTek SoCs), if you don't supply power to this then no fuses are blowable. Otherwise we're going to have ransomware physically brick CPUs if you do not pay up on time.

There's even worse possibilities, I think some hardware has ~1KB of executable OTP which can be programmed in that manner - so it may just be possible to implement some kind of backdoor that resides in the physical CPU. Maybe something only a state-level attacker could do.

For example, it could prevent CPU side-channel mitigations from ever working, somehow, e.g. by repeatedly writing to a private internal register to stealthily keep the CPU vulnerable. And few would ever know about it, because it's hidden in an on-chip security processor.

Personally I utterly hate all AMD chips which have a Platform Security Processor. Locking down your own property to prevent you from accessing it should be illegal.

There is a full Trustronic Trusted Execution Environment running in there, on both GPU and CPUs, I believe. For example the TEE firmware blob for a radeon GPU on Linux is "/lib/firmware/amdgpu/psp_13_0_7_sos.bin", with "sos" meaning Secure Operating System. And some of these firmware files are encrypted, so you can't reverse engineer them.

The moment some ARM SoC company such as Rockchip comes up with a chip that's within an order of magnitude in performance, then my AMD chip (EPYC) is going in the bin. After being smashed to pieces with a hammer, live on YouTube, with an explaination why. That might get AMD marketing to pay attention.

Update: Ampere Altra CPUs have seperate power pins for blowing eFuses, you can find it in the public datasheet here[1], on page 55, the supply pins are EFUSE_MFG_VDDQ1P8 and EFUSE_PCP_VDDQ1P8. It says tie to GND if unneeded.

Also they have a public datasheet for the chip. I wonder if we can buy unfused CPUs without secure boot enabled? Or is that the default state of the chip?

Could someone design a simple and cheap open-source motherboard for one of these processors, it's only a matter of time before the chips start turning up on Ebay? We will need more documentation from Ampere than just the datasheet, of course.

1. https://uawartifacts.blob.core.windows.net/upload-files/Altr...
If your friends don't have more access to knowledge than you at least 50% of the time, maybe it's time to make some new friends.
This is exactly why GitHub support OpenID Connect, https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/security-harde..., so that long-lived secrets don't need to be present as part of the build.

I'm not sure if NPM supports OIDC, which would be ironic given that both GitHub and NPM are owned by Microsoft.
Not what I asked. You said you say "I don't use email anymore." What is the last year you used email?
Is that a direct quotation from the novel?