skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just sent feedback to ASUS expressing my concern at the loss of bootloader unlocking. I have 2 perfectly good cell phones that are e-waste now, simply because the vendor stopped issuing patches, and the bootloader can't be unlocked to use LineageOS. I bought a Zenfone recently because I thought I'd be avoiding that issue. If they don't fix this, I won't be buying another one. ASUS CEO contact page: https://www.asus.com/us/support/article/787/
> That is what needs a source and I can't find one in what you have provided. Who says that "a large number of Christians believe..." etc? In my experience, nobody I know who is Christian believes that.

I’m in the US and every Catholic I’ve asked associates Lavender with faith. Several of the references I gave are directly Christian themed sources.

We know Christianity is very diverse and has numerous interpretations. I think it’s possible in more Orthodox leaning cultures that Lavender is substituted.

Regarding Old and New Testament, I certainly agree those are the primary and authoritative sources and as I referenced earlier the translations are in dispute and likely source of this confusion. Different traditions appear to have differing translations of the underlying plants being mentioned.
Once upon a time I did a project for a city IT department.

They were in the process of moving from paper to digital forms. This meant for each field in a form updating about eight different data objects across three data abstractions. Imagine a form with thirty fields.

Now this is tedious and prone to error, but it gets worse

The form I was working on was not well thought out, but we had to build it anyway. So on the first demo to the functional designers, or 'stakeholders', we pointed out several oversights, which we were asked to correct. And ofcourse process some other changes they found themselves. This is half the fields in the form, so we already did a lot of useless work. But it gets worse.

The form in question was about the city being able to judge if somebody would be entitled to benefits. Citizens with benefits would be asked to volunarily fill in this form, and judged if they could keep their benefits. Yes, voluntarily.
Would you fill in a form, which could make you lose monthly income? Or not fill it in, and keep your benefits?

Pointing this out had no effect. For me, the form was useless, and so was the technical implementation.

I left that month.
I needed the repetition tip the most.

I always feel like repeating myself makes the text unwieldy and then clutter it with "this".

Grammarly always complains, "What is this refering to?"

Well, obviously a concept of the previous sentence!

I will repeat myself more often and then rephrase the repetition.
That doesn't really make sense to me. What does it mean to "know what an apple looks like" without being unable to imagine it? How would that be any different from knowing what a face looks like without being able to imagine it? Do note I said realistic apple [1], not just a cartoonish drawing, so I don't just mean "a squished circle"...

[1] Example: https://drawpj.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/hyperrealistic...
Is that TeamWeaver? I’d love to learn more about it!
Means your website's SEO isn't very optimistic, needs further effort to improve.
Xbox has a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility
I'd like to see Aegis mentioned. While the project is now dead, it has been 10 or 15 years ahead of its time.

It offered:

* role based access (administrator, integratore, reviewer, developer)

* code review

* continous integration

The original paper is from the past century https://web.archive.org/web/20151018170817/http://aegis.sour...
> Userland includes a library with usability similar to Rust's std, with Unix commands, including the shell, implemented using this library.

It's not clear to me if this is or isn't what octox is doing, but I always found it odd that unix tools weren't a thin wrapper over underlying libraries. Like, `mkdir foo` just calling (psudocode) `mkdir(name="foo", mode=0x0755);`
Currently, there's no saving, just real-time monitoring.
This is all true but these indirect effects are generally too weak to actually modify allele frequencies in humans. These so-called grandmother effects were probably more forceful in the hunter-gatherer phase of human evolution—but even then may have been weak.
Since release 4.0, Qubes is not just Xen. It relies on VT-d, which is hardware-assisted virtualization. The escapes you mentioned were the main reason to do it. More info: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/QSBs/qs...
Do you, as the project maintainer and possibly even founder, trust these people?
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Senior discounts are also used to smooth out/move usage.

"Seniors pay 20% less for movie tickets at Tuesday at 1 pm" sells tickets that few people with jobs would buy, regardless of price.
Losing the reflecting ice will increase the average global warming rate. And you don't just melt an isolated piece of ice in the middle of the terrain, not to cause a change of a global trend at least. Melting enough ice means melting a lot of floating ice, than will not expose rocks but dark water that will absorb far more direct heat than the indirect heat trapped by the relatively small amount of captured CO2.

It is like saying that you should not be scared about falling from a cliff because the air resistance will lift you back up to safety.
They can still fork the project and continue maintaining it if they want. Nobody's stopping them.
Thank you for your feedback, I will consider this issue.
> The first... The second

Sure, but neither of those are due to it being required by law.

In the first case there I don't know what's happening, I guess maybe insurance companies have figured out that people dropping insurance and then picking it back up correlates with increased claims due to stuff that happened during the interim.

In the second case there, you can definitely get liability insurance separately from homeowners. And it's wayyyy cheaper. Or, live in a country that isn't as crazy litigious as e.g. USA.

But again, neither is a legal requirement, which is all I was getting at initially given the top comment in this chain.
The project can be forked with a single click. That’s the beauty of GitHub.
You are quite literally stealing electricity. It is not that far of a reach.
Thanks for the insightful and thought-provoking comment.
It was originally built for a black project. Useful for other things subsequently, obviously.
You can maintain it right now. Make a fork, and continue development. You might even get some shoutout from the original devs. It's all open source after all, making this repo read-only doesn't mean the project's dead if the community is vibrant enough.
They seem like an unreliable narrator, at least by how they're describing smartphones. I don't believe the URL claim at all - on my phone I just see the domain and 5 characters after before it cuts off. A password reset type link would be a huge scramble of characters. They don't even mention leaving zoom.com. OTP notification popping down briefly makes much more sense. And visually it would be the same place as the URL bar.
At this point in history, with the economies of scale in production from phones etc, surely it's cheaper to put in a colour camera?!
Here to say : Kirby!!
Magisk + a few modules and most apps should work. The warranty part, this depends a lot in the country, but at least in Europe I don't think they can deny repairs just because you unlocked the bootloader.
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I always imagined Megaman to be a Capcom character. But I also always imagine being unnecessarily pedantic about 80s video game IP.
The community matters. It's one thing to get control of the official websites, official packages, etc, and another to have to tell every single user "come use my fork".
Rewarding their bad behaviour by buying more devices doesn't feel right.
The only moral choice is to turn the computer off.
Isn't xz a prime example of why we don't just hand over the reigns anymore? Like the guy said, they can just fork it.
> When Rome fell people felt like the world had ended and it took 1000 years to get back to what the Romans had at their peak.

When did Rome end exactly? Yeah, exactly, we can't even agree on that.

It is insane how the idealization of the antique that happened during the Renaissance is still forming the basis of our pop science understanding of history to this day.

The fall of the Roman empire was a slow, gradual and complex process that can only really be understood in retrospect. It wasn't replaced by unwashed "barbarian hordes" as is still the narrative but people that had close ties or were part of the Roman empire, often spoke Latin and saw themselves in the tradition of the Roman empire.

The slave-holding Roman empire had to die so that humanity could evolve. It was holding back progress. The feudalistic serf-based system of agriculture allowed for a more efficient use of human labor. It is the medieval period that set the foundation towards our modern future. (See also the other comment for in how many aspects the medieval society quickly surpassed antique[0])

Still despite the "empire" title, modern imperialism has barely anything to do with the Roman empire, so you missed the topic anyway. The only link that both the south and the Roman Empire have, is that their slave-holding societies had to die so that economic progress could happen.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=39953692&
From the Guidelines[0]:

“Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously;”

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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It's really a downside of the Google app ecosystem and not GrapheneOS per se, but apps requiring higher levels of integrity per Google attestation (Play Integrity/SafetyNet) generally won't work. Intentionally breaking apps on "untrusted" configurations is basically the point of that feature, and GrapheneOS does provide the relevant services, but would need to be specifically enabled by the app developer.
Yeah, my bank app both did not work with rooted phones, last I checked, and they also appear to whitelist phone models or something - at one point I had an uncommon mid-range Chinese phone and I had to contact support to have them approve my phone.
The passing the blame game yes …
As a thought experiment, let's say Facebook did this.

The red team designs a new streamlined look with less click baity posts and fewer ads. Users flock to it, abandoning the existing platform. The new platform isn't monetized as effectively as the old one so revenue drops by billions per year - maybe an order of magnitude more than the new product brings in. Shareholders demand an answer as to what management are doing about it.

There might be some golden path, but that typically relies on finding a new market that doesn't interfere with the existing business (e.g. AWS and Amazon). However, the far easier options are a) shutdown the new service or b) increase its monetization, thereby starting the enshitification cycle.
Why would I have to visualize to know whether or not something is an apple? I can recognize one on sight without having to match it up with a visualization in my head, so I can start from the right shape and add details until it becomes an apple. No visualization required at all. Obviously it's quicker and easier to use a model or reference picture, but not required.
If you have a TV tuner card, you can get a schedule of all the channels available to you and use it as a DVR.
Using Google as an arbitrator of truth? What could go wrong?
The core concept of breaking down statements to check for factuality is otherwise sound.
> I'm looking at you ING Poland

Hmm, funnily enough at least a few years ago German Ing-Diba didn't care about rooted phones. I switched banks at some point though, so I have no idea whether that's still true.
Asus even used to send free phones to developers over at XDA Developers so they could create custom ROMs and stuff like that, so that excuse doesn't work for them.
I think GP meant two other devices (not from asus) where the vendor doesn't patch and the bootloader is locked.
I value the sanctity of my own hardware. Also, my personal phone is also an underpowered piece of shit, in part because I'm actually willing to endure quite a lot of annoyance to maintain a semblance of privacy on my hardware. It sounds like your coworkers aren't as ornery as myself. Lucky you, probably.

But, do note that we were talking about a phone for 2FA and you're talking about a phone for on-call. I'm too senior for on-call, but I need 2FA daily.
Not talking about politics doesn’t “make me hate” my coworkers. If anything, it makes me like them more, as we bond over human things, like food, not issues pushed by the media.
"Because advertising" ..
> The Outcome-Oriented Designer - Because AI systems can shortcut the information-seeking process, the human design of microinteractions will become substantially less important. They’ll either be inexistent (because the AI system makes them unnecessary), or they’ll be dynamically designed through generative UI to fit the user’s exact context and needs.

Interesting ideas, though from companies I've worked with, there is a huge cadre of UX people that know nothing else and would likely fight this tooth and nail.
This seems a lot more like consensus checking, than fact checking.
> Classic case of evil hiding behind the guise of good.

Could you elaborate?
The maintainers are vetted before joining, and are removed if they do something untoward, but when the choice is between killing the project or giving it to some random person, Code Shelter provides a better alternative.
Algebraic Simplification Neural Nets
It seems that there should be a way to algebraically simplify neural nets.

Trivially a node that has a zero weight can be removed as can any links to / from that node.

It should also be possible to eliminate nodes that have a full-value (aka '1' on the 0-1 scale)

I have also seen work where the matrix multiplies during training can have columns "collapsed".

The ultimate question might be applying an "algebraic simplification" of the final network
to simplify a post-trained network used for inference.

The idea is to take a path through a network, constructing the equation for that path, reducing
it to a shorter path by conbining nodes and weights.

It is certain that a node participates in several (hundred?) paths. In this case it might be
useful to "copy" the node so it can be part of a path reduction without affecting other paths.

I believe that in theory some neural networks can be reduced to a single hidden layer[1]. The game
would be to algebraically reduce network depth.

[1] Lee, et al. "On the ability of neural nets to express distributions"
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.07028.pdf (2021)
The conditions it's operating under and level of reliability needed are completely different
This whole field feels like magic, yet there are mathematical underpinnings behind all of it.

I don't know why everyone isn't in love with this field. It's so utterly fascinating.
I would add eliminating future tense. There's very few times when future tense is actually required. It's one of my pet peeves when docs say something like "Click X. This will open a prompt ..." when it can say "Click x. This opens a prompt ..."
This is definitely not the case everywhere.

Where I live the app is 100% needed because it’s the „second factor“ in the login process.
Homeowner insurance isn't just about the liability of the damage to your home from weather elements. A major part of it is liability you have to others who may have medical or other damage associated with your property. E.g. tripping over a paving stone, tree on your land falling on a neighbor's structures, dog attacks by your dog, etc.
That's such a shame - I've used PiVPN many times and it's just made life so straightforward. Big, BIG thanks to all involved, and you'll be missed!
> Yet all the staff are Burmese, including the owner

Ermmmm, seems all the staff are Burmese BECAUSE the owner is Burmese. Quite the red flag. Except if the owner being Burmese makes it hard to hire japanese employees - which is quite possible and we would like to know. Either way, good luck to Japan. They will need it. I noticed also:

> she seeks to “provide a Japanese level of service”

As opposed to "provide the level of service proper for a 7-Eleven location". Oh boy...

Still, I thought the article did cover the basics: While this is the path people take for granted in the US where there are businesses that are common pathways for immigrants to make their way, that seems quite new for Japan.
What is the legal status of a US citizen selling a 0-day targeting an American company to the American government? Is it legal?
Any similar suggestions for Macs or Wayland?
You are wrong of course.

“Both cannot and can not are perfectly fine, but cannot is far more common” [1]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/cannot-vs-can-not-is...
How do I apply for this?
> but "we write to EBS, what's the worst that can happen" strikes me as ... be sure you're comfortable with the tradeoffs you've made in order to get a catchy blog post title

In what way?
If you only need the basics, you can also use GNOME's msitools[0], which use the same XML format as WiX but don't require Windows to build the MSI package.

[0] https://wiki.gnome.org/msitools
Even if you can't get insurance covering the roof, then ask for that to be an exclusion so you can get other insurance covering your home. Personal liability from lack of insurance can bankrupt you.
I've seen this in several mid-size companies but the trick to success is that you make a start-up in another vertical so your existing customers aren't dropping their contracts for the cheaper thing you disrupt yourself with. You're building a new business for the same market that already know you, so you can capitalize on your brand, using revenue from a dying but profitable model.
'Impossible to envision': Candidates for Bay Area congressional seat tie for 2nd
Modern day tech often reaches spaceflight circles decades after it becomes ubiquitous in normal use. For spaceflight purposes it is extremely vital that any and all components and tech is matured amd that takes a long time. Add in a ton of certification and paperwork processes and there you go.
I know… hence why I prefer Sikhism (newer) and Jainism (older, Mahavir inspired Gautama Siddhartha, who — I feel, given the history of the East to West trade or the time — may well have inspired the Nazarene… who Saul then promptly corrupted beyond recognition).

Feature and scope creep still points to a bug in the core of the faithful more than in the core of the faith, though.
The Windows Installer format is very poor indeed, but WiX adds too little to improve the situation much. Most people I know have created Python scripts to add more layers of abstraction to make installers easier to manage. I wish WiX shipped with those abstractions. At the moment, WiX feels like a box of parts for a kit car when I only need to adjust mirrors and change radio channel. Documentation adds to the frustration, because while it tells you details about specific parts, it doesn't offer a broader view: how parts connect to each other to form a drivable car. So you're left guessing and improvising, and you introduce bugs every time your intuition doesn't match how things really work.
Honestly, I would recommend never using "this" or "that" - it often makes sense only after you force the reader to re-read the sentence.
I’m not writing another line of regex lol
Here’s a black pill. Ctrl+F “sugar”. No matches. Seems to me that overconsumption of sugar would have much stronger effect on diabetes and obesity at a minimum than those chemicals ever could unless you bathe in them.
Hard to believe that it actually reached the Small Claims Court, let alone succeeded! Well done that person!
Is there any evidence that the software is actually poorly written? Isn't the only reason they use undocumented/unstable hacks that Microsoft refuses to provide a documented or stable way of doing what they want to do?
Move from the cloud to on-prem and then sell extra availability.
It's a thread:

OpenTofu Project was recently made aware of a letter by HashiCorp’s lawyers, alleging that OpenTofu was not respecting the terms of its BSL license governing its Terraform codebase.

OpenTofu vehemently disagrees with any suggestion that it misappropriated, mis-sourced, or otherwise misused HashiCorp’s BSL code.

Indeed, it seems that HashiCorp may be conflating code that it had previously been open-sourced under the MPL and more recently developed code it published under the BSL.

OpenTofu’s maintainers have investigated this matter, and intends to issue a written response providing a more detailed explanation of its position in the coming days.
I get that but if so many people want it then why isn’t the improvement to their lives with the additional support cost?
But this is dangerous. There are many „Jia Tans“ out there who would love to continue maintenance of those projects with the full community.
I made a month's salary buying the dip after the Reuter's story broke then selling the rip back up when Elon refuted it. They can play that game every single day for all I care.
Politics is a human thing. People don't care about issues just because the media tells them to.
I remember reading once somewhere on the Internet someone baffled to learn that people weren't in control when dreaming. It's amusing how inner-experiences can unknowingly be so wildly different from person to person.
Both dostarlimab and pembro are PD-1 blockers, yet they are labeled for two different cancers. If all tumors have different characteristics, why are these not labeled for all cancers, in general, that display these expressions? Is this part of the game that the FDA plays?
> Note he doesn't state whether the difference was positive or negative.

But if taken (as it usually is) as a metaphor of life's choices, in this case his life choices made him Robert Frost, the famous, incredibly successful poet -- so it's implied that in his case taking road less traveled by was positive.

Now, if the subject of the poem was some anonymous nobody, then maybe the poem would be more ambiguous.
Consensus checking works for uncommon errors, where there are more ways to get it wrong than to get it right. It doesn’t work for errors where lots of people get it wrong the same way.
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Thanks to the maintainers of the project. It is a handy tool, a good wrapper around setting up simple wireguard quickly. And it pairs with pihole really well.

I migrated to OPNSense for my DNS and I haven't needed VPN for a little bit. But I kind of disagree that there is no place for a simple CLI tool for wireguard user management.

I was going to make a comment about how unreasonable it is to shut the project down instead of letting someone else take it over. But two things come to mind: First, yes, people can fork it and develop it on their own. Second, right after xz, maybe it would seem unwise to endorse a stranger taking over your security project.

PS: PiVPN isn't wireguard itself. Assuming WG's command line doesn't change radically for a while, PiVPN is still completely usable and people don't need to rush to get off it.
The camera has to be shielded against various forms of radiation that are emitted from the Sun and that could be a limiting factor for its capabilities.
Good to know. Good to go.
But are they designed to carry those loads with a drone flock. They’ll also increase the received wind load. Unlikely to cause an issue but you still have to do the math to determine the decrease to the margin of safety
Designers don’t make things based on their experience with the product.

They do research, evaluate multiple variations, get buy in from stakeholders and then AB test the final result.

It’s definitely not as simple as let’s do this because I saw it somewhere before.
Sounds like fraudulent pages will train this one