skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For basic package descriptions, the language is not terribly different from JSON. Here's a definition of a Python application I'm working on:

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}}:

with pkgs;

python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
name = "quicktill";

src = ./.;

doCheck = false;

propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [
dateutil pyyaml
sqlalchemy psycopg2
pycups reportlab
requests_oauthlib
pygobject3
];

nativeBuildInputs = [ wrapGAppsHook ];
buildInputs = [ gobjectIntrospection gtk3 ];
}

The only big things here are the fact that this is defined as a function that takes the package repository as an argument to access dependencies (the first line), and the "with" expressions that allow me to skip having to type "pkgs." and "pkgs.python3Packages." for every package I depend on.
Markets are still markets when subsidy is involved. In this case the market behaves as an oligopoly: it's dominated by two firms.
Ah, right. So they don't try to prohibit distributing 'unofficial' binaries, they just insist that if you do so, you don't call it 'Signal'.

As you say, Mozilla have done the same thing, and it's not hard to see why, though some FOSS folks (Debian in particular) took issue with this [0][1]

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/676799/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranded_by_...
In that case the results should be one hour worth of wages should be deducted from every government employee’s paycheck including the Supreme Courts Justices until private market employees are paid for their time standing in line at the end of the day.

If working at Amazon means your time is free for corporations, then it should apply to everyone until it’s fixed.
Just a reminder when talking about the Swiss... they are half the population of New Jersey over twice the area.

Maybe their cities planning ideas might not scale?
Open shift is not vanilla
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Assuming the retainment of data leads to revenue, then you have 4 options

1. Implement GDPR globally, reduced profit globally (by bearing cost of gdpr)

2. Implement GDPR in EU only, and only see reduced profit in EU. Also have two versions of the system: EU and everyone else

3. Don’t implement GDPR, serve EU, risk fines

4. Don’t implement GDPR, don’t serve EU, lose all EU revenue

Assuming data => revenue, there is no free solution (except not to have had EU as a customer in the first place)
> Every system out there handling personal information needs to be re-engineered

The complaint is that this website should not be handling any personal information. (Whether you agree with that or not.)
I feel like current understanding of reproducible builds stops short of solving the problem, particularly because I don't quite see users religiously building and comparing the packages, especially hundreds of them.

A practical solution, IMO, would be several organizations running and publishing the builds—i.e. several independent F-Droids. Then, a few interested people could rather trivially automatically download the binaries and compare them. If one of the ‘stores’ gets compromised, a mismatch in binaries would indicate that.

This implies that versions should be built fully automatically from updated sources, without action on the part of the authors that is specific to the stores.

Edit: the idea of distributed builds, mentioned in the article, is similar—but IMO it's still unlikely that people will spend resources on apps that they personally don't use.
'Madly swapping DNA around' happens to this day at the bacterial/archaeal level.

The argument against multiple "strands" of life is simple: if abiogenesis of a single replicator is extremely improbable, abiogenesis of multiple such replicators is much less likely still. Plus, almost by definition, the first successful replicator will start replicating and eating all it can around itself, strongly altering environmental conditions and closing the doors for anything that could spontaneously arise after it.
EV charging stations, consumer psychology, and money
Fundementally this is the benefit of Linux. Google provides a nice fortune 500 solution to everything, but you could layer up and delete most of Google's packages.

It's a distro, you can still install extra stuff
The physics are discussed at the bottom of the article. There's an inherent 20x efficiency improvement in containment pressure over Tokamak designs.
Tête-à-tête: A sofa made for conversations
I think the civil forfeiture cases involve what sounds like a contradiction: people who are relatively poor with a large sum of cash.

The problem is that this cash is essentially their entire savings. Which means their ability to fight the forfeiture is limited, and the arresting police can infer that. Rich people tend not to need to have even that amount of cash: they can take advantage of the normal banking system to transfer money. And if they were stopped, it's easy to infer that someone is at least rich enough to quickly hire good lawyers to fight the seizure.

However, with that said, I think caymanjim was being intentionally unspecific to prove a point. It's not against the written laws to have large sums of cash. But if such cash represents most of your wealth, and you're transporting it across certain areas, you're at the mercy of various law enforcement who may overstep their actual authority.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/cfg212/nix_and_nixos...
Yeah, I think it is. An objective measure for invention is the fact that the USPTO granted a patent. That is a relatively high bar. Subject matter eligible, novel, useful, non-obvious. A reduction to practice model isn't required. Practicality isn't required.

Conversely, is it fair to say Shockley et al invented the transistor if someone else came up with the idea first? What they did was impressive and important. They deserve their fame. Hell, they won the freakin' Nobel Prize. But they didn't invent it. They improved it by leaps and bounds.
False dichotomy. I would say the ideal split is 100% / 100%. Use both always by representing your data generically and always supporting/using operations on their containers.
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Rent Control in NYC actually disproportionately benefits wealthier New Yorkers.[1]

https://ny.curbed.com/2019/6/12/18662844/rent-regulation-stu...
Technically true, but not in the way a casual reader may think. The storage and ultimate disposal of spent nuclear fuel (i.e. "nuclear waste") is a small fraction of the overall cost of the nuclear power enterprise. The Nuclear Waste Fund has been accumulating capital from rate-payers for years and has about $50B in it in the USA, from ~100 operating plants that have sold ~$1T of electricity in their lifetimes.

It's the short-term handling of fission products (that eventually cool off and become nuclear waste) that makes fission expensive. Since fusion products are much less radioactive than fission products, fusion has a major advantage over fission in terms of worrying about containing radioactive material. To contain it in fission reactors, we have lots of redundant cooling systems, control systems, instruments. We have a powerful regulator checking everything, and requesting major changes. We have teams of people planning maintenance work to minimize dose to the workers. We have big 50km radius emergency planning zones with sirens and drills and all that.

Nuclear fusion is the dream energy source because it has all the positive elements of fission (24/7, zero-carbon, can build anywhere, tiny fuel requirements b/c nuclear) without the major downside of radioactive fission products and transuranics.

I got into the nuclear industry specifically to help solve climate change with fusion, but I got distracted by advanced Gen-IV fission reactors for now, assuming they'd be shorter-term developments. Fusion is still the dream though, for sure.
As far as I could imagine, most clown contracts don't actually specify the exact articles of clothing down to the UPC; anything that looks reasonable is permitted. Whereas Uber has a list of specifically permitted vehicles.
AFAIK, GDPR also applies to EU citizens anywhere. A dragnet like this won’t help.
How the humans of data first landed the humankind on the moon
> (I think even 2-3% fee is too much for doing basically nothing, but that is another discussion).

Yea 2% fee is too much because bandwidth is free.
The taxi business model emerged relatively recently and was the inspiration for Uber’s. In all likelihood, there will be a reversion to the historical norm which actually operates more efficiently than taxi cabs (which believe it or not operate as or more efficiently than ride shares in many scenarios). But we will have to see. Anything is possible because of how many billions are at stake.
Or that they invented the manufacturing process. I know patenting process looks at a working device but I think the spirit of invention is creativity and if they were only creative at fabricating then this is their real invention.
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Does anyone know how internet TV services like Katrina.TV obtain their content? Especially for foreign tv channels. Do they make deal with every channel? Or is there a marketplace/aggregator where they plug in?
>"I'd say that the way I conceived of it, I was making a distinction between events that were determined by antecedents (physical or otherwise) on the one hand and events whose outcome was uncaused, or random, on the other."

I don't pretend to understand randomness on any sophisticated level, but it is my understanding that a phenomena being random does not mean that it is uncaused.
It simply means that it cannot be known ex ante.

>"The idea of a system to which causality doesn't apply is interesting. My intuition is that that doesn't make sense, and my secondary intuition is that the first intuition is unjustified."

Materialism is the paradigmatic way of understanding the world today. It is the basic ontological assumption of the scientific revolution over the last several hundred years. So it is natural to think that anything which deviates from it is implausible, or even inconceivable. But given that, from within this paradigm, we lack even the most basic understanding of what the mind is, it is at least possible that it can only be understand from without it. Of course, it could also be that we simply lack sufficient understanding from within materialism. My point is that we simply aren't in a position to know.

I would also point out an area that we already know of where causality seems to break down: the physical constants. For materialists, this is simply were the explanatory buck stops.
What? No, you're not understanding. Even if no one but you could use this info legitimately, the fact that it's widely available depowers the people who have the skills to collect it (specifically, people who want to do you harm).

By virtue of the fact that this info is widespread, you have no choice but to take actions to protect yourself from this information. That means the information becomes useless.

You are, in a way, being shamed into acting, through public disclosure. So no, having that info cost is not more better, it's more worse.

Furthermore, it is not an option to only let you have this information. That ship sailed when the breaches happened. You don't get access to this information for free, you don't get to control the dissemination of this information, you are powerless. You're acting like HIBP is the only way people can find this info out; it's not. That $500 price tag is just for you. People who are more skilled than you or I at collecting this info get it for free, and that's never going away.
I can't currently find the place on Wikipedia where I learned this, but an example of "volume of chatter" being important was e.g. before the attack on pearl harbor. While the US couldn't decrypt the internal messages, it was clear that an attack was imminent based on the pattern (including the radio silence) before the attack.
Not sure if I understood correctly. Metronidazol helps to keep inflammation at bay ? Im asking because I was taking this antibiotic and Ive seen huge change in my skin inflammation, joint pains and bowel pains.
cough YAML cough
Becoming One with the Data
Kyoto Studio Devastated by Fire Is Revered by Anime Fans
Honestly, if you have to hop on production to debug a crazy error, you have two bugs. The infrastructure being so different on production compared to development or local is a fixable issue. As are any other differences between production and local that make difficult to debug in these special cases. It takes a long time. It's a substantial effort. But it is worth while.
Happened to us in Brooklyn just last weekend.
Not sure I follow, like a clown who was an independent contractor and accepted a gig from a company that booked clowns, a job they in turn got from someone who called the company asking for a clown?
Title appears to be “Many Americans who live paycheck to paycheck blame debt”
I keep track of how much time I spend on each customer, so that my company can send the right invoices. There are quite a few applications out there that can help you automate this task. I sometimes use HoursKeep.
I absolutely hate them. I hate not being able to read a text and respond to it on my own time. It doesn't do anything for face-to-face characteristics whatsoever but it does put pressure on me to respond. If it's that urgent, call me, or just make plans with me to get coffee or something.

KakaoTalk [0] does this and I end up just having way more notifications because I don't want to leave someone "on read" until I get around to responding. Actually, many, if not most people "read" incoming texts via the preview from notification centers so they can read it without feeling like they have to respond right then.

I hate how it conditioned me over time to check repeatedly to see if someone had read my text or not. You could argue that they might've just wanted to respond later, but that's not the "culture" of how kakaotalk is used generally. I have some friends that take anywhere from ~3 days to 2 weeks to respond but they don't open the text until then. I vastly prefer imessage or other apps now simply because I can toggle off read receipts.

[0]: kakaotalk is the messaging app of Korea. I don't think I've ever had someone send me an actual text or phone call outside of KakaoTalk. Line (Japan) is similar and also has read receipts unfortunately.
The older I get, and the more I read Wittgenstein, the more I am astonished that we are able to convey ideas to each other other all. Language is lossy, and perilous.
It depends if they meant GOD-oh (the play) or Go-DOT (the game engine). Hard to get the inferred pronunciation on HN...
> Criteria for an Excessive Heat Warning is a heat index of 105 °F or greater that will last for 2 hours or more.

Seems fine to me.
so even starting over isn’t really a less ambiguous path.

Sure isn't. We don't know what the software does right now, but there are customers all over the world using it and paying tens of thousands per year for support contracts; since we don't know quite what it does, we don't know quite what they're doing with it. We can pretty much guarantee that if we started over, we would miss a great many requirements (and a great many bugs that happen to work for various specific customers) and a lot of customers would be very unhappy. We don't know what it does, they don't know what it does, but it's working for them at the moment.

Oh Gods, even the unit tests. There are some. Sometimes one fails. We stare at it. It was expecting this value to be 3, now the value is 4. Why was it expected to be 3? Is it wrong that it's now 4, or have we changed the behaviour such that the correct answer is now 4 and we need to change the test? Undocumented unit tests are worthless. I'm not asking for a lot of documentation - just commentary in the code next to them would be fine - but if I can't see what's actually being tested and how that "correct" value was ascertained, when it fails, I don't know if the bug is in the code or the test. Useless unit test.
More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Animation_arson_attack
News outlets have relied on advertising to make their content accessible and still profitable since the 1830s[0]. It would be in immense industry shift to change from and advertising based model.

The GDPR also holds you liable for your outsourced work, which means that any ad network that serves a single malicious ad violating GDPR could make you violate the law. It’s a tough conflict.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_press
Agree on everything except patching? What does Google patch on say a netflix app?

30% is ridiculous for Apple and Google. It's an arbitrary number that they could get away with when the Appstore came out nine years ago and everyone ran with it ever since.

I don't know what a fair amount is. But I doubt it's in the two digits.
Russia's Intelligence Agency Hacked: 'Largest Data Breach in Its History'
Wow, I had to look it up, but this is all true. I guess companies can hold you on premises as long as they like without pay, so long as you’re not working.

Strange. I’m not totally sure what it is about waiting in a security line that makes it “not working”. Supposedly cleaning chemicals from the plant off your body does count as work. But participating in a workplace compliance process like a security line is not work. But I assume the screeners are getting paid? I guess it’s because screening is part of their job description.

I guess I’d have to read the opinions to find out where that line is. It’s not obvious to me.

“Am I free to go” would seem like a more obvious line... although then the chemical showers wouldn’t be billable. Since you’re free to leave dirty. I can see the legal dilemma.

All of this isn’t really any constitutional issue though, it’s just federal employment regulations. So good regulators in the executive could fix it.
Former NSA Contractor Sentenced to 9 Years for Heist of U.S. Secrets
GP specifically claimed Uber was an efficient market, not simply a market. (Regardless, Uber is in a market, but it is not itself a market)
British Airways Flights to Cairo Cancelled
It may seem that way, but no I've crossed that chasm long ago. I've debugged on production more than I would ever care to remember. But in all honesty it is easier than ever to stay completely off of production. It's also extremely cost effective. It's not simple and it is work, but it has never been easier to actually be successful at staying off if production.
It's not at the lowest levels of musical ability that not everyone has what it takes to be an excellent musician. It's at the highest. It doesn't just take being trained in the basics followed bypractice time; it takes very effective practice time which has a huge compounding effect. And you as an individual have to able to find out what that means for you. Not everyone can.
The likelihood is higher. That doesn't mean every poor person has issues. Being offended about reality makes no sense.

The things you mentioned can be reasons, but so can mental illness, including drug addiction.
The GDPR does not prevent you from serving ads. The ads being served in the 1830s, for example, would not have been in violation of the GDPR had it been in force at the time.
>Strange. I’m not totally sure what it is about waiting in a security line that makes it “not working”.

They've already clocked out, but not yet left the premises. Technically speaking, they're choosing to wait in the security line on their own free time.
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Context: I'm exasperated. I cannot have a clear and articulate conversation with mostly nobody.
Where can i find a group of people that use mental models, see patterns, think before they talk, talk specifics, make calculated assumptions, seek the truth, are not driven by ego and are willing to learn new things at the end of a conversation? I'm sure i'm not the only one.
> Access to this system is contingent on running the delivered webpage, including all first-party and third-party Javascript, without modification.

Refusing to fetch a particular resource would be non-access. You cannot punish non-access as unauthorised access, because no such crime of non-access exists.
I don't think that's quite right. The GPLv2 makes no mention of trademarks [0], and the GPLv3 mentions trademarks only to clarify that you may be protective of them, independent of the terms of the GPLv3.

If you license under GPL, you're still free to be protective of your trademarks.

This makes sense given that although Mozilla like to use their own licence, they've been careful over the years to either release under the GPL as well, or to use a licence of their own which has been constructed to be GPL-compatible [2]. Clearly, the GPL didn't force Mozilla to be permissive with their trademark.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Licensing
One perhaps not so hidden cost of American life that I wish someone prominent would seriously investigate is the cost associated with car ownership.

I suspect over the course of a lifetime car ownership could easily be the most ruinous financial baggage that a lot of people incur.
Media really distorts risk perception. People are afraid of random child predators, terrorists, and mass shootings when none of these things even compare to car accidents, standard issue child abuse by someone the kid knows, cancer, heart disease, etc. Another example is that people are more afraid of nuclear power than coal when coal is dirtier and drives scary things like ocean acidification and climate change.

One 9/11, random kidnapping, etc. has more "virality" than a constant undercurrent of far larger risks.
> LED light bulbs

I live in the midwest and my friends still complain that the government forced them to switch to the new bulbs.

There's a lot of weird anxiety about doing things to help the environment from a lot of folks that makes them not want to do even things that benefit themselves.
ok, I will comply and use the generic term oligarch from now on.
Still better to cry in Lamborgini than in a VW Polo. Being sad because you are lonely and being devastated because you cannot feed your children because you are too poor, watching them die on your arms. Those are two different spectrums of being sad. Anyone can say what he wants, but having enough money in current world can ammas to 99% of everything that matters to be happy in life.
A static page is very cheap to implement, if the implementation has no other context.

Large organizations have implementation costs and considerations outside of IT, however.

I’m sure they could also change their revenue model, but that costs exponentially more than just changing the website to be a static page.
> It is not trivial for publishers who have years of adding advertising, advertisement and analytics tools to their website to come up with a strategy for peeling these back or checking compliance.

Correct. I did cover this when I said, in the post you are replying to: "...admittedly it may be expensive to store and process others' personal data while excluding EU citizens from that mechanism"
Fishing T Shirt for Women, Trendy
I'm not sure you read the previous comments - Apple in fact forces you to use their in app payment system for subscription fees and pay them a cut, or be left with no in app payment system at all.
What makes you think this? There are lots of sites/people who do "total cost to own" and the numbers they come up with aren't ruinous amounts as far as I can tell.
I'm not trying to offend anyone. It's not about IQ, or intelligence in general. I'm just tired of having useless conversation for the sake of giving useless opinions and not caring about the other person's answer.