skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why I moved to a country where (a, specifically) the rule of law is accessible to all, and (b, generally) important things rarely break down.

Justice is depicted as blind in statuary for a reason.

Edit: upon reflection, even in the Old Country, where accessibility to the law is debatable, anger doesn't seem useful. Either someone has the power to gain remedy by extralegal means or they do not, and whether they are angry or not when they make that attempt has little —despite movie plots— to do with the actual state of their power.
Cloudflare, in general, is a massive centralization point for the entire internet. Picking a technology here and there and worrying about the amount of centralization, isn't that meaningful.

Here is another good one for you to ponder since you're new with blockchain... most bitcoin mining pools sit behind CF too. It doesn't mean that bitcoin is centralized though.

The reality of the situation is that while yes... there are a lot of dependencies on CF, that is not the same as centralization. The dependencies could change and give up what CF offers, or they could just route around CF to other similar services. There might be brief outages here and there, but it doesn't negate the core security of these protocols.
> source code is protected speech

That wasnt the case at the time.
"I suspect Caesar's dropped DEF CON because the DEF CON attendees likely have a fairly low "avg revenue per attendee" yield because fewer of them gamble compared to the avg Vegas conference attendee."

There is the story that the American Physical Society was not allowed back after in 1986 Vegas supposedly suffered its worst week in history.

First of all there is no real evidence that this story is true and secondly it doesn't make sense to me that they would cancel DEF CON after so many years for that reason. They would have done so much earlier, probably.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/39668/did-a-cas...
Ok—you seemed to have missed the main point. If people react to xyz, it doesn't matter if xyz is actually occurring. In fact the only thing that matters is peoples' reactions.
Ask HN: What music do you use for flow/deep state when coding?
I have gone from using Drum and Bass, to Endel, to classical and now on the Afro House genre of music to get me into deep focus
Well it wasn't "vice-signalling" as they posted a source and had a legitimate criticism yet you assumed bad faith and attacked them based on that.
> any future where Apple actually supports driving with the headset on

As another user of the road do I get a say in this as well besides Apple and the moron with their headset on?

This is one of the dumbest things that you could possibly do, a heads up display I can get behind assuming it is very much limited in how much information can be displayed but a device that utterly obscures your vision, removes your peripheral vision and replaces it with a screen that isn't necessarily pointing in the direction that your head is pointing in whilst driving a vehicle sounds like an excellent way to have a serious accident. I do hope it is a one sided one, this is Darwin award level stuff.
Put another way, they got a better offer
So they use lies and deceit instead of anger.
I guess it’s good depending on how many QA issues they actually find bike they’re being more diligent ?

Feels like management is being extra careful but if the plane is a dog and has been optimised to keep the bean counters happy. Maybe these quality issues will crop up for years ?
The more I read about Dijkstra the more interesting he gets!
Is that an analogy? If so, it is an extremely interesting one, and I would like to know where does it come from :D
I condone cheating on interviews. Don’t lie on your resume, but check GlassDoor for interview reviews- more often than not you see exactly what they’re going to ask you about. One interview I saw they ask candidates about SOLID principles and the three dependency injection lifetimes in C#. I made sure I had those on lockdown (and by lockdown I mean up on my computer screen during the phone call).

It’s absurd that you’re expected to know things like SOLID like we say a pledge of allegiance every morning about it… I, like most, follow SOLID (more or less) without realizing it.
That reminded me of TiKV and TiDB, SurrealDB and a few others...
> the constant attacks against their infrastructure they must defend against (let's be honest, I'm sure Caesars is not defending successfully)

If there's any place in the private sector where I'd expect security (including digital security) to be literally top notch, a casino would be it.

And casinos don't fuck around. If they catch some "uber haxor" laying a finger on their networks, you can bet they'd have him arrested in a heartbeat, regardless of whether he is a conference attendee or not.
Not according to Netflix themselves

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081
Traditional model car distribution (dealerships) is something Apple would likely be very unhappy with. Aside from the control of user experience being ceded in that model, nobody likes dealers anyway and bad dealers can stain the reputation of the brand involved.

Any kind of Apple car, whether it be purely Apple or a partnership is almost certainly going to be direct sale, cutting out dealers. It’s hard to imagine them doing anything else.

I would welcome this. There needs to be more direct sale options, I’m tired of looking at EV options to find all the local dealers have stocked only high end trims that they’ve further marked up with the base MSRP nowhere to be found.
Island of California
No surprise, since it's how U.S. military spending has worked for our entire lives. Military: "We need $x to build something so secret we can't tell you what it is." Lawmaker: "Add a few more zeros, put at least $y of it into my state, and I'll sign whatever you want."

The real life version of Radar covering the clipboard with his hands while Col. Blake signs something that is "top secret".
You're not supposed to be looking at a map while driving. Eyes on the road.
Ummm #2 source, besides thin air? Fiscal conservatives don't want the government involved in anything and we sure as hell don't want to pay taxes for the government to waste our money on entitlements, fake vaccines, wars, and redistribution of wealth. The government can't even protect its own citizens against the border crisis, yet my home cameras have AI people detection and tracking. Absurd. The US has the best engineering and technology in the world, give Palantir and Anduril contracts and problem solved.
That’s probably not even tin foil hat-y.

I’d wager a bet that the perpetrators of the hack had visited Cesar’s during defcon
Here is an idea - offer video DRM-free. That should be a good competition offer.
This is the managed news site of YCombinator. It's a little garden designed to cultivate start-up culture for some of the wealthiest venture capitalists in the world to profit from.
Ehhhhhh, not sure I buy that. Sure, giving one person 4 streams instead of 1 has very little marginal cost, but giving everyone 4 streams instead of 1 is not cheap. They need more servers to serve the extra traffic, and they still have to pay for data transfer, presumably, even in places where they've put PoPs inside ISP data centers.

(Granted not everyone will be using those 4 simultaneous streams all at once, and some people won't even use the extra streams at all, but I'm sure enough will that it won't be free for Netflix to provide it.)
I can't imagine how good it must feel to be able to blame all the worlds problems on one political party. Must be nice
I think that last point is what they are referring to with the unemployment rate not counting you after some period of time, and it’s true- if you are “discouraged”, you aren’t counted in that unemployment rate figure that people like to refer to (U-3 I guess?).
We know enough about Amelia Earhart at this point that we really should spend more time on other woman flight pioneers, and there are many that deserve to be remembered.

- Earhart was a bad pilot and was considered dangerously incompetent by some who worked with her

- She didn't understand how her equipment worked, and would fail to learn how to operate the equipment even after incidents that should have made her take the time to learn

- In many of her 'firsts' she was little more than an observer, with her mechanic or others flying the plane while she rode along

- She had a super wealthy husband who owned media companies, and he would greatly amplify her supposed achievements. This, more than any other fact about her, is why she is so well remembered.
It seems the comment I just made a quote from the linked article is flagged. Here, I am writing it below again for future reference. It is interesting at the least the comment quoting the article is flagged/deleted but the article submission itself is intact.

I do not come to HN for politics and try to refrain from going into it, but does the author really not see how this sounds from a neutral perspective:

"an Armenian minority living in the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region ... demands for secession from Azerbaijan"
All of the more recent years that I did DEF CON I was with large groups of people going to high end restaurants and (ab)using the hotel bars. In fact the hotel bars were always packed.

My suspicion is that Caesars is trying to do something like play with headcount. Late summer is not just a weak time for conferences but DEF CON needs a ton more space and a ton more human babysitting across that space than any other conference. You don't see EVO or BlackHat getting cancelled (same exactly time window) because they're pretty contained in one place.

My guess is that Caesars needs to staff up a little for DEF CON or that they may even be considering reducing staffing in late summer. Con attendees are going to stay at their properties and use their bars/restaurants/tables anyway.

...although now that I think about it, EVO was moved up 2 weeks and has a new unannounced venue this year, so maybe this isn't isolated to DEF CON.
...and also the Venetian is having its convention space renovated until 2026...
Wanting facts to be free is definitely part of that. Entertainment isn't really the same kind of information, and is more complex.
Is it a cellular watch? Do you allow anything to punch through DND, like if someone calls multiple times in a row, or a Favorite contact messages you?
I've heard from a couple developers over the years that it's entirely impossible to implement a setting that will not be changed by people who don't know what it does.

It doesn't matter if it's behind a footnote, an easter egg, a password input, a magic email code, a call with the main project developer, all of the above, etc. No matter how many steps you try to add, there are still an incredible number of idiots who will mindlessly tap through literally any number of dialogs, warnings, and disclaimers to get to what they want.

Their brain will entirely filter out the path they took. They will probably not even remember a single one of those intermediate steps. The only thing they care about is that they're fixing some problem.

This could be one of the reasons Apple and Google don't want you jailbreaking/rooting your devices. Someone will inevitably make a guide, and millions of idiots will follow it. It will legitimately make the device less secure for them because they won't have any idea what they are doing and likely won't even remember doing it. The only thing they care about is that they're fixing some problem.

This is one reason why some people get so panicked and upset when anything on their computer changes unexpectedly, even if the change is actually harmless. They never actually understood anything. They had managed to accidentally get it how they want it through a combination of stuff that they don't remember. When anything changes, they have to go through that process again.

Look, these people are great at following guides and learning routines. Repetitive, mindless tasks like data entry are perfect for them, because they have no other talent to worry about wasting. But because these people exist, you have to be really careful about what settings you add, no matter how well you think it is hidden, because they will be changed by people who don't know what they're doing.

So far, the devs that have told me this have done so because I asked for some setting to turn off some safeguards, and they said that it's a near-universal request from power users, but they still can't do it, because the rest of their userbase is too clueless to be trusted with that setting. They'd receive bug reports from people who have no clue what went wrong, when the reality is that they disabled the safeguards in order to make something work, and then promptly forgot what happened once it worked the way they wanted. This has supposedly happened so many times in the past that they just don't take the risk anymore.

Anyway, all this is to say that while hiding a setting, as opposed to automatically prompting for it, can definitely rule out a decent chunk of idiots, you will never be able to rule out the resourceful idiots that can mindlessly follow instructions.
That is true, I was ignoring the severely autistic. It becomes crippling at a certain point, but on the other hand, there are billionaire CEOs on the autism spectrum, who probably got there because they are different.
Why are those mutually exclusive?
>In my state (Missouri) house sale prices are not public record.

That's a weird wrong thing you think. Visit https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/data/address-search/index.cfm and put in any address in St Louis MO and you'll see who owns it, when it sold, how much it sold for, how much property tax they owe, the bounds of their lot, and more.

Here's an example, randomly selected from google maps: https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/data/address-search/index.cfm?par...

This is standard.

> Yes I think everyone would be enthusiastic about submitting taxes that are 87% accurate.

I'm going to ignore this obvious bad faith trolling.
Probably just get rounded up and killed.
Like a teetotaler who gets drunk on Saturdays?

Or maybe a straight man who only sleeps with other men on Saturdays?

Or a reformed crook who robs banks on Saturdays?

Or a devout Christian who stocks up on indulgences on Friday so they can sin every Saturday?
so not a bit salty over regulations at all then.
Oh Man of DOS, you don’t know the half of it: that Nova was filmed (yup, 16mm Kodachrome) maybe a year after I quit chasing those hackers. So it was not only fresh in my mind, but the technology was properly state of the 1988 art: 9 track tapes on Dec Vaxes, dial up modems, my trusty Mac plus with 512k of memory. Heck, pay phones and 1200 baud modems. I do remember that shower scene - it happened in in our 1915 era claw foot tub.

Yep, I’m a fossil.
It’s a honey pot. Antagonize “the world’s best hackers” to test their post MGM/Ceasars attack security posture.

Someone probably convinced them their new fancy XDR is hacker proof and they are playing for skins now.
Mass Effect soundtrack, and various soma.fm stations
> French authorities do detect bittorrent

Do they know what you are downloading though? I still use it for a lot of stuff that’s legal. How do they go after people (I guess you imply they do)?
There's a strong argument for the fact that Japan was effectively on its last legs by the time the bombs dropped. Indeed, the fire bombings that preceded dealt far more damage to Japan than both bombs, in real terms. Nuclear intervention wasn't a requirement for ending the war, the war was effectively over, and a sustained bombing campaign could have seen the end without the atomic bomb.

Now, the argument I find the most interesting in the case for using the bomb is public, and national and international political opinion. It is arguable that Truman saw very little options other than use the bomb at the time. They had spent millions on the project, politicians knew that something was being developed, and the Cold War was already on the horizon. Further if not used, and the existence of the bomb post war would come to light for the public, there might well be questions as to why it wasn't dropped, and, exactly the line you used, if it could have ended the war early.

Ultimately, I think a combination of international clout spun into national pride in total victory sealed the decision (although this conclusion was probably made by FDR before him as well). I will say, that the post-Hiroshima speech by Truman is also one of the most powerful speeches by a US president ever made.

> It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
Note the first paragraph - it's not payment (or lack thereof) that is being called into question. It's a matter of availability. Despite the streaming companies' worldwide reach they can't (or won't bother to) get the rights to stream content to different countries.
Other touchscreen minesweepers let you tap the number to clear all the blank spaces around it if enough mines are marked. Without this feature, clearing is tedious.
What a bunch of nonsense. Almost by definition a public company can’t be the world’s best employer- what’s good for employees often is not “good” for the shareholders.
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Pretty much everything else could be done differently:

- Calling in a warranty claim involved going through a troubleshooting script that wanted me to do things that my fridge could not do. LG needs to get their documentation in order so that their call center staff can at least approach being useful.

- LG punted me to an authorized service center first thing. I'm in the Bay Area which should, IMO, be a large enough market to have sufficient LG direct staff. LG needs to hire more repair staff.

- The third party ignored me for a few weeks and then I started making noise in LG's general direction. LG probably needs to up their warranty rates to entice third parties to actually service these calls.

- LG finally sent one of their techs out. He called me, I described the symptoms and the temperature graphs to give him an idea of what's going on. He finally admitted that he didn't have ANY parts for this fridge on his truck. So I told him to order what he thought needed. That took about two weeks. On his first visit he identified more stuff he wanted to replace so that took another few days because the west coast distribution center didn't have the parts and he missed the cutoff for the east coast center. LG needs to get their American logistics in order.

- LG pushed really hard to get the tech out here ASAP even though he had some idea as to what was wrong and was in no position to fix anything. LG ought to stop relying so heavily on useless metrics.

It's been a long enough time I don't remember the precise symptoms and I've no idea what actually failed beyond a thermistor so it's impossible to suggest engineering improvements. However I think LG ought to work on training their own techs to get their diagnostic skills up to snuff.

Although I'm pretty sure it's not one of LG's horrific linear compressors, I suspect the compressor failed or there was a refrigerant leak. Unlike the above poster I've working knowledge of automotive A/C not small appliances. In a car the refrigerant will carry the lubricant, so a refrigerant leak can indeed cause problems as the compressor eventually runs dry. For all I know the fridge's compressor uses an oil free design and failed for other reasons. I think the tech checked temperatures at the condenser and was happy with that – but remember unlike on a car refrigerators have no ports to check pressures. That's crucial in diagnosing problems, so techs are kinda flying blind here.

If the problem was with the sealed system then the solution is: LG needs to engineer their fridges properly. Fixing the sealed system in the field is something you can do (except for the yoder loop in the insulation) but it takes time and skill, things that most techs don't have. Basically those repairs won't last. Working with aluminum (welding, brazing, soldering) is tough, although I think LG is moving to using fancy compression fittings for repairs.

If it's basically anything else they need to again work on training their techs to diagnose these things properly.
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What a mess. They should be training their support people better, and giving them more escape hatches to properly handle situations like yours. Even if there are some assholes out there who would lie and make up a hospitalized kid to abuse it, overall the loss of goodwill here (and the loss of your subscription) sounds much worse for their bottom line.

Hope your kid is doing ok, or at least will be doing ok.
I've heard this and always thought it was probably true even setting aside the soft skills part of the job, but that was before data engineering and data scientists were common titles. If it ever was true, the situation is probably more nuanced now than it used to be
Even Apple probably thought that was a bad decision, since the subsequent generation returned to the usual controls. Fortunately someone RE'd the protocol and posted about it publicly: https://web.archive.org/web/20130114082119/http://david.carn...

The same measurement of resistance between the innermost two contacts is now a standard for Android in-line headset controls, although Apple's implementation used 0, 4.7k, and 10k ohms instead of Android's much lower (<1k) values.
A programming language is absolutely a user interface. The error messages and diagnostics emitted by the language are the feedback mechanisms. The syntax and semantics are the design of the interface. The documentation is the user manual. Text editors, IDEs, punch cards and AI copilot are all separate UIs on top of whatever programming language you happen to be using.

After all, TUIs are a thing and nobody debates that they are also user interfaces. Just because a programming language is all text doesn’t mean that usability metrics don’t exist for it.
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3. lets me watch 4k streams on my haiku, aros, openbsd systems.

Artificial DRM-based restrictions ultimately mean not getting the quality you pay for. Netflix specifically becomes 720p garbage.

But I can just rely on less official sources. In this case I get a DRM-free, very high quality file that plays everywhere, forever.
Good job! DLT logs are pretty standard in the infotainment industry, the format specification is openly available. I recommend you to download DLTViewer from GitHub and open the log files (if they are not encrypted). You may find good stuff there!
santander is one of the banks with most restrictive conditions to open an account, all in the name of security and money laundering prevention...now it seems all that is just for show, profit beats regulation
But just imagine if your starting point for your taxes was "here's 95% of your information already filled out, got anything else to add?" Wouldn't that be even easier? Nobody is saying you can't itemize if you want, but for the vast majority of taxpayers the standard deduction is a larger deduction than itemizing and far lower risk of audit.
I miss the Bose electromagnetic suspension. I absolutely loathe that they just turned the tech into a truck seat. Who cares if it's slightly more expensive? So's modern-day air suspension.
>I'm so glad I ripped all my DVDs

For anyone interested in doing this for DVD or BD, makemkv[0] is where it's at.

0. https://www.makemkv.com/
Hmmm: Thank you, Complex Lamda! Assuming they’re paperbacks, you’ve contributed the munificent sum of 24 cents to my kids’ tuition and/or bail fund. Yep, royalties generate about six cents a copy.