skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one way to look at it.

My view is that climate change is a world problem. Governments will not oblige their citizens to make steps on their consumption if it means reducing their comfort and their economic power.

Steps should be taken in advance so that once green deals are put in place, countries can implement those effortlessly.

We often hear that some countries don't make enough efforts, but

1. Other countries import carbon emitting products

2. The developed countries of today have emmited greenhouse gases for decades, which allowed them to become developed countries.

The geopolitics of climate change are extremely difficult. I don't think the UN is up for it.

Although a better scenario would be to enact tight regulations on a country basis, but it's a political minefield. Imagine riots because people want to keep using their cars and trade goods that have become illegal, or vendettas against people who emit co2.
First off, this was specifically about banning the selling of facial recognition software to specific players.

Also: Just a reminder that nuclear bombs are just physics is just applied math (kinda).

Just because what you're doing is rooted in the field of mathmatics doesn't automatically mean you should be doing it or selling it, especially when your application is crossing into the physical world where there is the wellbeing of humans to be concerned about.

Even if the entity you're selling to could just very well build it themselves, it still doesn't remove your moral obligation to not be the one providing it.
>Because it has fast, rolling-release updates, little changes from upstream, and any package you will ever need (either in the repos or the AUR).

Which of these is missing from say Solus, Debian Rawhide, or OpenSuse Tumbleweed, not to mention the various Antergos like distros. The differences between distros past the base install really is smaller than people realize, and often people pick distros based on misguided assumptions.
I don’t see how it’s sophisticated. Seems like an obvious method to get access to someone’s login info, and simply enabling 2FA (non SMS preferably), and disabling mobile service would have been the common sense protocol to prevent all of this.

SMS 2FA is always weaker than TOTP, as are touchID and faceID. But you pay for convenience. And sometimes users aren’t given the option for TOTP, which is ridiculous in this day and age.
I think you'll find that the "America First" crowd and the "Meritocracy" crowd are listening to different parts of the arguments from the same people, and just hearing what they want to hear.

I think there is a strand in their argument that being American is a merit in itself, but this isn't usually stated explicitly except in forms like "Americans for American Jobs".

I'm not arguing this makes any logical sense though - it doesn't.
He's a physicists. Why would he have any idea about climate?

He's just a person with an opinion not a dissenting scientist.

And if his work suffered as a result of voicing such opinion then it was only to be expected.

If you voice stupid opinion regarding domain you know almost nothing about and prop it up with your work reputation it's only fair if that reputation takes a hit.
The flat fare is actually more progressive when it comes to transportation. In a large city, poor people generally have to travel further for work, so a distance-based fare hits them harder.
Alan Kay doesn't consider "remote procedure calls" to be "object oriented programming".

http://mythz.servicestack.net/blog/2013/02/27/the-deep-insig...

mythz> On RPC, and how it distorts developers mindsets in architecting and building systems:

Kay> The people who liked objects as non-data were smaller in number, and included myself, Carl Hewitt, Dave Reed and a few others – pretty much all of this group were from the ARPA community and were involved in one way or another with the design of ARPAnet->Internet in which the basic unit of computation was a whole computer. But just to show how stubbornly an idea can hang on, all through the seventies and eighties, there were many people who tried to get by with “Remote Procedure Call” instead of thinking about objects and messages. Sic transit gloria mundi.

mythz> Carl Hewitt being the inventor of the Actor Model and Dave Reed who was involved in the early development of TCP/IP and the designer of UDP.

mythz> The last latin phrase translates to “Thus passes the glory of the world” - expressing his dismay on what might have been.

He also doesn't consider accessing a data field called "entire_name" to be "object oriented programming". He calls that "simulated data structure programming".

https://computinged.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/alan-kay-on-mot...

Kay> If you are “setting” values from the outside of an object, you are doing “simulated data structure programming” rather than object oriented programming. One of my original motivations for trying to invent OOP was to eliminate imperative assignment (at least as a global unprotected action). “Real OOP” is much more about “requests”, and the more the requests invoke goals the object knows how to accomplish, the better. “Abstract Data Types” is not OOP!
There's a conspiracy theory guy (David Ike) who claims there's always the same pattern here: problem - reaction - solution.
You create a problem to provoke people reaction and then offer them a solution, which ultimately results in taking more and more control over them.
I love the fish shell. it comes nicely configured out of the box! just awesome: https://fishshell.com
I was thinking more along the lines of natural language snippet creation. I think one of the key problems here remains that you go from a ~30 word (+your own identifiers) vocabulary to a English language vocabulary where you're not sure how to express something.

The example says constrain x. I wouldn't have searched for constrain, but for saturation, min-max, limit, or something along those lines. I'm not sure this will work as well if you don't use the right vocab.
"Corpses that aren’t embalmed or cremated are hotbeds for disease"

Say that to 1.7 billion Muslims who bury their dead using neither.
Is point 5 true for the newest tunnels like the Jubilee Line Extension? I think the DLR has an emergency walkway in the tunnels to Bank. I am expecting Crossrail will too.
Authorities in all countries need to start dishing out serious penalties including jail time to those playing these games with laser beams. Otherwise, there's going to be a serious crash that could kill 150 or more besides doing major damage if the plane comes down onto a populous area as is likely since these incidents seemed to usually occur near airports.
Thank you for answering this. I've always been totally confused by these incidents but you've explained it.

Above all else, sucks that this happened. Are/were you okay?
4G will be available across the tube by 2021, even in tunnels. They need an interesting type of antenna [0], basically a long wire running along the tunnel that 'leaks' radio signals, because 4G won't propagate down tunnels. The mayor is trying to take credit for it but it's actually supporting the new Emergency Services Network: an over ambitious plan to replace all police and emergency radios with 4G devices.

[0] https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2019/01/online-und...
The capital city of China is called "Beijing" in Mandarin and "Pekin" in Cantonese (as I understand it).

The Western world's engagement with China was via Hong Kong and Shanghai, where Cantonese is the dialect.
As for pulling the emergency brake for someone who is unwell, there are frequent announcements on the tube telling you not to do that. The advice from TfL is to wait until the next station and help the person get off.
Following the consensus is a fine choice if you're trying not to get lynched by the mob, but it really has very little to do with science. The scientific method does not say, "get everyone you think is smart to vote on it, if they all agree, it must be true". I really wish lay people would quit turning science into a religion and scientists into priests.
Isn’t all reads and writes already separated?
Do you not have conference rooms with glass windows / doors? Everyone can see who's in the room and what is happening, without the door being open.
Some of those posts get autokilled by software, but moderators review them and unkill the legitimate ones. This is how I came across and unkilled yours.
> But, after the initial pain of the 2.7->3.0 transition, I doubt we'll ever see another major version number jump, even if a logical use of version numbers would merit it.

Do you think the transition would have been less painful if 3.0 had been called 2.8?
The point of the goggles isn't to protect you from a 50W laser. Or even 1W laser (most googles will quickly melt).

The danger is reflections, at over a watt even the dot that the pointer produces on the wall can be bright enough to cause permanent blindness unless with goggles.
While valid, your criticism is with the actual ability/execution of the technology, not the concept. Imagine we get it to a 100% match or, more realistically, use it in a way that makes more sense than just flagging someone and ruining their life forever (not to mention being biased). Would you still be opposed to the technology? If so, your opposition has nothing to do with the above argument.
You cannot carry it in the public, and you are generally not allowed to use deadly force. Hand guns are not allowed for private ownership and there are about 20-30 gun related deaths yearly in the UK. In US numbers that would be equivalent to 120-180. The US number is around 40,000. Let that sink in for a while.

The problem with guns are virtually none existing in the UK.
It's not hard to imagine that in the future there will be some kind of Nuremberg trials against people involved in deliberate climate disinformation campaigns.
with ssl? really? I'd love to see an example
It has a usb-c port for MIDI-out
More hidden ads it seems. :(
Not really, remember the ssh key fiasco which was also due to a Debian-only patch.

(Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat)
> I personally would be more interested though if it would introduce some concept of an infinite queue

So basically binge mode, and what online services use to maximise “engagement” and feed you into a never-ending procrastination loop.

I realize people are different, but this is something I really don’t want in my local software.
Quote is a criticism of a different bid, that they didn't get. Perhaps they've addressed some of these issues, and hence got the money?
Maybe I misunderstood the OP-Z manual but I think that some of the functionality of the OP-Z is only accessible if you connect it to an iOS device, e.g. the two features called Photomatic and Videolab.

PS some recent promotional material by TE said that the OP-Z app is iOS only "for now", so at least there is hope that it will become available on more platform.
I knew Teenage Engineering had something to do with this on first sight.
Red Hat 6 is supported for another 18 months and still ships with Py 2.6.

Python's slow-moving gently gently approach to breaking changes has not been good for the ecosystem. I'll be glad when 2.x is dead. 7 months 8 days 14 hours... https://pythonclock.org/
No, it's still one of the worst package management systems out there.

I'm always wondering if it has to do with the language and or just the package manager itself. Rust's cargo, Node's npm and probably quite a few others exist that work amazingly well.
I use the aptly named Wi-Fi Privacy Police, from F-Droid:

Prevents your smartphone or tablet from leaking privacy sensitive information via Wi-Fi networks. It does this in two ways:

It prevents your smartphone from sending out the names of Wi-Fi networks it wants to connect to over the air. This makes sure that other people in your surroundings can not see the networks you’ve connecte to, and the places you’ve visited.

If your smartphone encounters an unknown access point with a known name (for example, a malicious access point pretending to be your home network), it asks whether you trust this access point before connecting. This makes sure that other people are not able to steal your data.

Link: https://f-droid.org/es/packages/be.uhasselt.privacypolice/

Does it work? Am I being naive?

edit: Formatting, grammar
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I'm pretty sure this is incorrect, unless you have a citation for this. The base pay has to be more than prevailing wage. You can't count any kind of bonus or stock-based compensation. This is based on personal experience.
My read is that it's more that access control of `../share` in an unknown part of the filesystem is a matter for some concern. Given that the binary can be put basically anywhere, it would seem to be perilously close to CWD.
Billboard: Kid points at a passing plane, gives you information on the flight
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> There are very, very few moral applications of facial recognition.

I mean, we don't even have the technology yet, we don't have almost any real entrepreneurship around how to use it... are you sure there are no good, moral use cases to discover?

I'm afraid that this position is as naive as the flip side - techno optimists who assumed that an 'open internet' is an ultimate good, and there are no bad uses for it. There's definitely more nuance than "it's 95% bad".
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> > To illustrate lets imagine a really really good system that had a 0% false negative rate¹ , and a 0.000001%² false positive rate. If we were to sample the entire country looking the the FBI's most wanted we would end up with ~3290 matches, 3280 of which are going to be other people³.

> It's definitely a problem if you use the face recognition as your only criteria - but if it alerted security to pay more attention to someone or to double check their documents?

Where do you imagine this is happening? If its in an environment where papers are expected as standard (e.g. an airport), sure, this is relatively benign. If it's when you're walking through a mall and now you're being stopped and searched, how is that not bordering on harassment?

> Even with the false positive rate it's much more likely an individual identified by the system is a target than a random individual.

Much more likely than without the system, sure. Chances of it being a random individual and not the target? 99.6% (using the math above of 3280 innocents to 3290 people identified).

If a system had a failure rate of 99.6% when harassing people, I don't think I'd describe that as 'much more likely' to be a target than an innocent random.
US simply outsourced its emissions (together with jobs) to China. A lot of China emissions are due to the exports for western consumption.
That's cool. I haven't used Rust yet so I didn't know.
Both have helped myself and many other people write better code in "enterprise" languages. I don't mind my team using different languages for small bits and pieces that are one off things, or can be replaced without must effort. It keeps developers happy to have some autonomy. I only demand that it's well documented how to build it.
A lot of this is most likely in preparation for the 2020 Olympics. Especially the street signs.

Its made Tokyo way more easily navigable though, especially combined with Google maps. :)
This may or may not be valid, but I'm not aware of any advanced technology that is 100% accurate that exists today.

Rather than the hypothetical of 'is this ok if we have 100% accuracy', how about 'is 100% accuracy ever likely to be possible?'

If it's not, then the previous question is about as relevant as 'if unicorns existed, would you want one?' (and yes, I would!)
>> A lean and mean standard library benefits platforms with limited resources like devices with just a few hundred kilobyte of storage (e.g. BBC Micro:bit). Python on mobile platforms like BeeWare or WebAssembly (e.g. pyodide) also benefit from reduced download size.

>That's a silly reason. Just make a separate distribution with a stripped down standard library.

True, you could have a std and core library. I think Rust does this for embedded. IMHO if you take away the large standard lib, except for pandas I have no more reasons to use Python. I don't like the language that much, but the std library is pretty good for scripting when you need something on a target system that only has standard Python.
Would you please not do flamewar back-and-forths on Hacker News? They're tedious, and encourage the sort of nastiness we're trying to avoid here.

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Yup.

It also isn't strictly about the dead, but rather about the living who get peace of mind from knowing that their wishes will be respected upon their death.

Not to mention the mental wellbeing of their friends and family.
I submitted this yesterday and it never got much attention - Google seems to commonly get a free pass when it comes to security and privacy violations here. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19977324).

Hope your post rises to raise awareness - would this be Facebook everyone would be all over it.
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> Linux has turned into a nightmare of security vulnerabilities, on par with Windows 95, just as originally prophesied.

What exactly are you talking about ? What was 'originally prophesied' ?
But that's just an enterprise distribution doing enterprise distribution things. If you don't upgrade in general, of course you don't upgrade Python.
That makes no sense. If you must retain exact behavior, you must compile to the same assembly instructions.

Generally refactoring worries only about the functionality that you test in unit tests and integration tests, not counting performance.
It is not just about chips. This is probably the golden opportunity for the US to cripple China's export and push China into longer cycle recession which is long overdue anyway. That would cripple Chinese economy for next 20-40 years, give way for social problems and give the US and the rest some breathing space.

The other scenario is that Trade War will lead to real war (possibly by proxy). The situation is quite similar to pre WWI with China being in a role of Imperial Germany with fast growing economy, teritorial demands and unstable ruler. That war could also stimulate the US economy.

These are pretty dim scenarios but surely someone in Washington is thinking in terms or real-politik. In Bejing they do.
You make it sound hypothetical, there seems to be a global war with pretty much every nation state utilizing this kind of warfare
The base pay offered i.e. hard cash already has to be >= prevailing wage under current law. Bonuses and even stock-based compensation are not counted.
noo not the cgi module :(
Guinness game changer: six-month paternity leave
QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections)
I personally would solve this issue with a local module (very easy to set up, just a subfolder with a main.tf that defines the resources[0] then it's called as here[1]) with two input variables[2]: a required ami variable, and an optional count variable which has a default of 3. I hope that helps.

[0] https://www.terraform.io/docs/modules/index.html

[1] https://www.terraform.io/docs/modules/sources.html#local-pat...

[2] https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/variables.html
Indonesia cuts certain Instagram, WhatsApp services amid deadly riots
Those sorts of schemes alao exist in the UK even though it's prefectly legal to spot from public land outside an airport.

But there is a disturbing flipside to such groups; I was once 'questioned' by police outside London Gatwick because some members of London Airport Watch had reported me due to my 'Irish' accent. But they gave the impression that such reports were more to harrass and deter non-local enthusiasts. You'd think that airline enthusiasts of all people would be open and inclusive, but sadly not.
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Electronic spreadsheets seem like such an obvious advantage of early personal computers that it's a bit surprising they weren't expressly designed with that in mind. I think their rise should serve as a reminder that building flexible systems gives people the ability to use your systems in amazing ways you never envisioned.
I'm curious about what are the difficulties of packaging KLEE. Isn't there a docker image you can use ?

I know installing it from source is a pain, but a scriptable pain.

I'm also wondering (curiosity) why you'd have to package and deliver it (to customers ?). I always saw it as a developer tool. Seems you're working on very interesting stuff :-)
The crank is cute but I want a paddle controller for games like Tempest and Pong.
The C++ stdlib versions of vectors have different design goals, including a bunch of ABI constraints for very old code (things like the vector<char> specializations). Likewise there are questionable spec behaviors like unordered_map that specifies suboptimal implementation.
This is the fundemental reason urban places vote for social programs (Democrat) and rural places vote against them (Republican). Homeless people on subways don't affect people that live on farms. The rural urban divide is rational self interest manifested in politics.
Yeah, I never got this American Disdain for the State and regulations. Everything - health, pension, parental benefits, environmental restraint, repression of discrimination - ends up in the domain of corporate benevolence, the whims of the market and of shareholders.

If it’s not in the Law, it's just corporate marketing
Follow on thought - what happens for operator new[]() in kernel space? Does it depend on a malloc (vs. traditional kmalloc)?
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But the Tube is already foolishly expensive, even by London standards. If you compare it with e.g. the BCN Metro the fares are typically about five times higher.
The only thing to be said for TfL is that the passengers are generally very well behaved and never look at each other.
It's missing nmon and bmon
I would like a (pseudo-)mode that color code the cells depending on the format they are in. And tools to easily change said format (let’s call it type). And probably use text by default.
That is done so that existing scripts keep working. Nobody complains about the LLVM linker installing itself as /usr/bin/ld, or systemd providing /sbin/init, do they?
Are you the person that used to maintain a bunch of rpm(s) ?
Thanks a lot for doing that, it helped me a couple of times
This isn't relative to the binary install, it's relative to argv[0]. It's the same security issue -- that argument is under user control. You can make a symlink to your target wherever you want and then argv[0] will be the symlink location. I don't think there is any secure way to get the current script path in Python.
Doing something legal but immoral to boost your profit margins is by definition immoral. I don't know how some ceos sleep at night.
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I've seen one or two people using the Switch on the London Underground. Rare but not non-existent.
Before "repos" existed there already were widely available manuals, with exactly equivalent content as this repo. And excellent printed books, for example, "the unix programming environment" by Kernighan and Pike is a beautiful read, even if somewhat dated.