skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Midwest USA I just had an arborist come look at my trees yesterday. My three spruce trees are beyond saving due to a fungus. My ash and my two birch trees all need immediate treatment to save them from various borers and invasive beetles. That's over half the trees on my plot that are in trouble. As we replant forests to be carbon sinks, we really need to make sure they are diverse with tons of species so we don't have mass die offs from one problem.
Dont put your work email on your phone, because it comes a discovery item in court including all your texts, emails, etc. MDM aside.
> first described in '83 for the Lisp Machine

The Symbolics Lisp Machine Manual from 1984 documents the condition system for the Lisp OS written in Zetalisp:

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/symbolics/software/release_5/3B_Lis...

See the chapter 'COND' in Volume 3B, 'Lisp Language'
Generally MDM software swallows up everything. It's been a while since I managed an MDM instance but we could track everywhere the employee went by default and when I suggested we turn it off there wasn't an option nor did management want to. We could see every app pretty much everything on the device. I will never install MDM on my phone after managing it. I've also seen phones accidentally wiped. Back up your phones.
> membership for which he paid $400k

... from the proceeds from his work as a Bear Sterns stock broker.

He was in the right place, at the right time, with the right background, engaging in an industry which provides basically negative value to society. Pardon me if I shed no tears for this guy.
This is why I frame this as an ethics issue. If you install some sort of MDM profile, unless you spend a lot of time understanding mobile device management implementations, you won't necessarily know what the capabilities are.

If it is your device, typically an employer will disclose in their policies what capabilities they use.

Now, does this prevent a rogue infosec person from deviating from the policy? No. Nor does it prevent the state from compelling the company to abuse their MDM technology. If these examples are part of your threat model, you should not use your personal device with your employer's infrastructure. I don't think this makes your employer's choice to use MDM a bad one, however. They are protecting the corporation, after all.
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We're hiring for software at Stenon, we make a portable soil analysis device for real time agricultural nutrient analysis [0][1]. Based in Potsdam, Brandenburg (30 minutes on the train from Berlin), and yes, we use git :)

[0] - https://stenon.io
[1] - https://stenon.io/en/career/
Nintendo always moves slowly (except for wacky-ass hardware ideas). It's a bit painful at times, but the alternative is that they crash and burn explosively.

Pokemon not making the jump to a real time open world is disappointing. But I suspect they'll do it for the next generation. Now that the consumer is finally feeling burnt out on when they're offering.

They probably didn't think they could get open world right this go around.

My one big hangup is that they're so reluctant to develop a proper, system agnostic platform for their retro content. If they weren't the sworn enemy of emulator developers, I could see them in-housing a few to jumpstart the retro platform. But they won't. Though Disney got it's ass into gear about opening up the vault, so maybe Nintendo will too.
In Australia, that would be considered cheap!
Yes, and your device read the email, so now your device is in scope. It doesn't matter what else you did with your device and their data, they now have a reason to look through your device.
Can't exactly help the fact that the whole boreal forest is a monoculture... Pine beetles have been able to thrive because winters haven't been cold enough to consistently kill them, although this last winter was.
A lot of this is Mountain Pine Beetle[1] though.

[1] https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/our-natural-resources/forests-and-fo...
NonnullOwnPtr: C++ smart pointer that disallows null
Except it didn't whipe a lot of shareholder value off the table, the stock rose by 5% after fines were announced. Zuck himself made a cool billion off the bump.
It is in a strict definitional sense but there's definitely space to make a moral/ethical distinction between "family planning based" abortions like is most common in the US vs "child planning" (not sure I like the term but I can't think of a better one atm) abortion like we can clearly see happening in places like India and China where the birthrate is skewed so much.
Hm... Looks nice so far, except for the Google Analytics call upon startup. Would love to see an option to disable it - and you should add a privacy policy, if you keep it in your application.

Other then that, it doesn't seem to send anything else.
An internet forum (presumably we're referring to a public forum here) is a very different communication medium than email (especially when used in a professional context)
GDPR can fine 4% of total global revenue. In 2018 facebooks revenue was $55 billion. $5 billion is 9% of their revenue last year, it’s probably less this year. It is almost a quarter of their 2018 net income.
One thing I dislike is people sending one documents over Slack. Slack and similar are a terrible document storage systems. Here e-mail is definitely better. But when people get to used to Slack and its ilk, they start to send documents via the same channel, when it probably should have been by e-mail.

E-mail lets me take my time, IM does not. I am not usually able to look at documents sent me instantly, I will do so when I have the time. So when someone sends me a document via Slack, I usually tell them to e-mail it instead. Or - when it's a repeat offender - I ignore until they inquiry about whether I've read the document.
Please don't just copy and paste the same (FUD) comment all over the place
Change will be much more brutal closer to poles; average increase of temperature of 3 C in the world means more like 7 C increase at polar regions themselves. Moving into tropics might be easier in total, just make sure to grab high ground.
Isn't land still mostly defined by physical markers? The distances between the markers would change, and thus the property sizes.
What do you mean? Arch works the same way as Ubuntu; there's a package manager, you use it to install software from the system repositories. `apt-get install vlc` is no easier or more user friendly than `pacman -S vlc`. I imagine gnome-software even works it does in Ubuntu, though I haven't tried using it.

The only difference is that Arch updates their repos' packages as soon as a new version is available upstream (after some testing of course), while Ubuntu doesn't.
> We're talking about the choice of an algorithm in a spreadsheet delivered by a contractor being a criminal offense. ... I mean fundamentally it's a string of ones and zeros, it's a piece of software.

You can reduce anything like that. Shooting a person? How can that be a crime? Fundamentally, it's just atoms. How can atoms be illegal? All they've done is move them from one place to another.

Outcomes are what matter.
siemens does it very well on their appliances btw. they should just hire the guy as a marketing or sales director
> However also similar stuff is happening in growing companies because of other factors. Also companies often survive quite well even if they don't grow that much.

That is true but in the crypto scene there were many [extreme] layoffs and closings connected to the last "crypto winter". We can mention big names like ConsenSys, Bitmain, Steemit, SpankChain, and ShapeShift so it is not difficult to think that Coinbase was also impacted.
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It was because his cofounder, who was doing more of the initial coding, was most comfortable with Ruby.
MDM gets applied if you want to access your exchange server with the default iOS apps because those apps don't have remote management built in.

If you use the Microsoft apps, you don't need to have an MDM applied because those apps handle the remote management functionality themselves.
How do they manage to do that? Embed the text as an image?
An anonymized version would be one where you have a tally for each value/category in each field, without any correlating table between the fields. Only store the histograms.
It was definitely quicker to type in "fb revenue" into Google than type the sentence above...
What does the article say about the pine beetle? The spread and outbreaks are well known to be correlated with higher temps.
To open, a few weeks ago I went to Fatburger to get another Impossible Burger. It had been a while, but I remembered that it was good. Fatburger must have gotten their grillin’ chops down, because the whole time I was eating it I wondered if they didn’t mistakenly give me real meat. I didn’t remember it being that good. Whatever, I’m not not that much of a hard-core vegetarian.

But I need a repro, so I went back a week later. That’s when I saw the sign saying, “Meat. Made from plants. <cutesy blurb>”. Vegetarian Me says “yea!”. Truth-in-advertising Me says, “meh, I’m not sure I’m comfortable with that”. OTOH, I knew full what they mean.

Oh, and Fatburger didn’t make a mistake the first time. Impossible Burger is just that good.
You could also skip the irrelevant parts. That too makes it easy to find the relevant part :-)
For "regular occurrences" I think surgeons just abstract it (as it's part of their job) but as the sibling comment, them, and first responders can get PTSD in some occasions.

Medical School does some job of filtering those who can abstract it from the ones who can't (I'm sure I wouldn't be a good fit)
Where did those nutrients come from?

Plants can gather carbon (CO2) from the air. But the Nitrogen cycle requires micro-organisms to capture air and sequester it into the plants roots (or alternatively, nitrogen-based fertilizer).

But C and N are just two of the macro-nutrients needed to grow a plant. You also need Phosphorus, Potassium (NPK == typical fertilizer), Sulfur, Calcium, Magnesium (secondary macronutrients).

Then depending on the plant, you'll need Iron, Molybdenum, Boron, Copper, Manganese... a lot of different micro-nutrients.

You can pump these micronutrients into a hydroponic solution and grow plants in it. Or... you can buy 50+ Acres of land over there for just $10,000 with literally free energy, all the micro-nutrients automatically there from the sun to grow the plants.

The macro-nutrients are used in significant enough numbers you need to sow them into the ground every year. You can get the macro-nutrients from pretty cheap material: worm castings, pee tea, and chicken / horse manure, blood meal, and compost.

There's a reason why people farm in the farmlands. Land is cheap, Chickens are noisy and no one is allowed to keep a coop of chickens in the middle of NYC (you'd keep your neighbors up and people would complain about the smell and noise). Sowing the land with literally animal poop is extremely smelly and no one wants to live next to that.

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If you create an indoor farm, you're competing against farms with literally free solar energy that's roughly 400% more effective than solar panels, as well as macro-nutrient sources that are cheaper than whatever hydroponic chemical solution you can ever hope to batch up. Direct sun is extremely bright.

IIRC, the sun's energy is measured to be around 2000 PAR/m^2 on a typical day. Your typical indoor light is only 200 PAR/m^2, while the more expensive ones may reach 500PAR / m^2.

The common refrain among growers is that the sun on a cloudy day (!!) is still more effective than any LED lamp.

Indoor farms run their weaker ~500 PAR/m^2 lights for 14-hours a day, starting before sunrise and long after the sun has set to maximize their use. That's the only way plants get enough energy from these lower-intensity light sources.

There can be something said about saving on transportation costs + having fresher food inside of cities. But its grossly inefficient from an energy standpoint.

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Whenever I crunch the numbers, it seems like growing any plant in an agricultural zone, then shipping that plant into the city, is the most efficient strategy. Rooftop gardens would be the 2nd most efficient strategy.

Indoor farming conserves land, and maybe rich / expensive cities it makes sense as a source of fresh food for rich people. But indoor farming does NOT scale.
> How does this affect plans to sequester carbon by planting trees?

I would guess we can still get at least 20 years of sequestration out of trees planted today. Assuming we actually figure out how to tame runaway emissions and/or sequester enough, if we keep planting more & more northward I would expect we'll hit a point where things stabilize and we don't have to keep moving north.

Or we start planting teak & palms in Winnipeg.
This is about to change as WebdriverIO will support automation based on Puppeteer soon: https://github.com/webdriverio/webdriverio/pull/4210 .. with that you only need to install WebdriverIO via NPM and the browser you want to automate
It's 1/4 of their annual net income. It's far from a joke, but it is true that it isn't ruinous.
The Outlook iPhone app doesn't require MDM.
It seems like a pretty big repeat of the 2011 settlement. That's also when big statements such as "Facebook's privacy practices will be monitored for the next 20 years by the FTC" proved to be absolutely meaningless.

Whatever privacy review Facebook was undergoing like once a year was done by a private firm that Facebook could pick and then have to pay. So is it any wonder that those so-called privacy auditors have found nothing wrong with Facebook so far in 8 years? (even as the privacy scandals and Facebook's apologizing perpetuated in the media).

These types of settlements are a joke. There's zero doubt in my mind Facebook already has a plan for how to work around these restrictions and do 90% of what it's already been doing anyway.

As a side-note, does anyone still believe Facebook was genuine about getting Facebook female users' naked pictures "to protect them from revenge porn" genuine?

They've already lied about collecting the phone numbers and facial recognition as being used for security. And those were obvious lies to me from day one, too. Pretty much every new feature Facebook launches that seems good for users has an undertone of "...and this is how we'll track you now."
It wasn't so much a promise however long ago as much as a lot of MBA-style thought had yet to be put into the monetization strategy. The games that were made tended to be made for artistic and entertainment motivations over a boardroom identified market niche that is somehow the exact same niche filled by every other game.
I don't think I agree with Facebook getting a bigger fine than Equifax. I put my own information on FB. Equifax compiled information on me without my explicit consent. Both sets of data got into hands they shouldn't.

I realize that misses FB willfully doing what they did and Equifax not intending to be hacked, but for me my consent is equal or more important than what the holders of the data did after they had it.

Let's say I send a saucy picture to a friend and s/he shoots it all around to show off his/her banging bodied boyfriend (that being the "profit" factor). Now let's say a stranger finds my lost phone, gets the picture off the SD card with intent to use it for some personal gain, and through some series of events that gets leaked. Who did worse, the friend sharing the data I gave to them, or the stranger who got it without permission? Missing from this is Equifax had a lot more sensitive information than I put on FB.
> On the other hand, the whole article reeks of privilege, both by the rich-kid author and the guy. I

So what? Is that the guy had more privilege than you what's wrong? What about everyone that has less privilege than you?

> But the pass, and the whole system these people live in, is based on unsustainable and negative externalities on people who certainly can not fly to Sweden or Paris just to pick up flowers!

That's AA mistake and they are the ones paying for it.

> But beyond a miniscule, yet direct, contribution to climate change, someone who just flies across the ocean

Completely agree, but at the end it's AA that's doing theses damages and aren't compensating for them.
That doesn't seem hard: just make sure everything is plaintext (i.e., a known and approved protocol, like FTP, telnet, HTTP/HTML, etc.), or make sure it's an approved encryption protocol that has a built-in backdoor (and the data within, again, being one of those approved protocols). Of course, people could be hiding high-strength encryption within the backdoored protocol, but they could do random checks for that.

Basically, the only way to really hide data is to either use steganography, or to use an unapproved data-transfer protocol (and using unapproved protocols can be banned).
I don't think that's the actual root cause. If it were 100% just the 'walking pension' distinction there's only a selection preference for male babies when there's a large difference between the earnings and status attainable by men. If there were no differences between what a man and a woman could make why would the desire for support as an elder lead to infanticide and preferential abortion of female fetuses?
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Or "Home Alone".

Kenosha Kickers? Pol-ka, pol-ka...
What is it about neomutt that allows you to be that efficient with your emails?
Oh, please tell me how that kind of activity is nonexistant in non-crypto companies. Come on, this same stuff happens everywhere where money is involved.
There's the pesky implication that Facebook was perhaps doing all that stuff. Making them stop is a win for users.
Put it the other way around:

5B is one time 25% (or 9% of 55.8B revenue) tax. It's a far cry from a joke; certainly it's higher than AZ or other members of FAANG pay, while not outright terrible.
John McAfee believed to have been detained, campaign manager says
Andreessen Horowitz values camping business Hipcamp at $127M
"Protected" office documents are the rough equivalent of putting up a 'Do Not Enter' sign and are just as trivial to bypass. If anyone had really cared enough to want to see the code, they could have.
Most of this is already restricted under GDPR, or at least is not advisable given the potential fines that couple be imposed for a leak. Other parts of the GDPR which should help are blatantly ignored (e.g. privacy popups that are checked by default), so if the US were to implement similar legislation it would be a big win for privacy.
>Ignore what he says, but pay attention to what he does.

That still requires interpretation.

Someone does X, is it because of Y or Z? Or something else?
Contract programmer faces 10yr in jail for inserting logic bomb into spreadsheet
Government officials still have their bank accounts with privately-owned institutions, which wouldn't have these non-backdoor versions.
The package's author is near the center of the Racket community. https://www.asumu.xyz/ It lives alongside the Racket DSL for Algol 60 https://docs.racket-lang.org/algol60/, Datalog https://docs.racket-lang.org/datalog/index.html, and ProfessorJ https://docs.racket-lang.org/profj/index.html in the Racket ecosystem.
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If you have $1000 / month advertising budget for your SaaS startup, what would you spend it on?
He'd likely argue that, despite the prior regimes' professed love of Science!, the same trends were present before. I.e. the podcast's content wouldn't have changed at all in 2016 vs 2019.

Short-term control of the executive branch in the American system is fairly disconnected from the multi-decade incentives that move the directions of scientific research.
Note also that this mechanism is usually hidden behind a macro. In user code one would just write:

(with-progress-noted (datum data)
(process-partial-data datum))

And this then would expand into a machinery like above.

The Lisp Machine OS had a system-wide progress bar at the bottom of the screen, which then would show the progress of some process - usually the front process or something related.
> The problem is that once you start to appreciate the immense complexity in a single, most basic cell, you realize how far away we are from understanding how life got started.

And we have massive issues with simulating single molecule interactions or protein folding. We are nowhere near simulating a single cell without all its external interactions. Not even remotely close.

The field of molecular simulation is holistically based on shortcuts and abstractions to make something out of that research funding. Supercomputers are crunching away at massively simplified models.

And even if we had single cells working a whole new world of complexity opens up next. Interactions with other cells and even worse, the environment where everything from pH over temperature to pressure and light has to be considered.
I absolutely agree -- the aspect of email I miss from the good ol' days was well-trimmed replies and doing so inline. Threaded inboxes and smart trimming helps, but not completely.

However I think that HTML clients handle this well enough but the etiquette has been completely lost.

Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> Top-posting.
>>> What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
It's a bit incongruous to talk about "all humans" when you haven't experienced them all. Asking for a citation is asking for a justification for this generalization, not for a citation about the experience itself.

I mean, if the argument was "no human I've met can stand being alone for long periods of time", the obvious problem is selection bias: you don't meet people who like being alone.
“This settlement’s historic penalty and compliance terms will benefit American consumers, and the Department expects Facebook to treat its privacy obligations with the utmost seriousness.”

So does this in theory apply just to the data of FB users who are American citizens (although I guess practically it may not be feasible for FB to treat non-American user data differently)?
.xlsx ("normal files") and .xlsm (macro-enabled files) are a series of xml files and folders stored as a zip file with their own extension. .xlsb files are binary files, typically about 1/6 the size, and also have support of macros.

Unfortunately, regardless of save format, the VBA portion is saved in a binary format.

There are some source control systems out there for the embedded VBA code, but I haven't tried any out.
Tons of places outside of F500 are doing that. At work we just disabled IMAP for almost all O365 accounts and any other method of authentication that doesn't implement our two factor authentication. The rising number of compromised accounts because the user used the same password elsewhere, apparent bruteforce attacks, etal forced the issue.

Of course MDM is not required for any of this. Worst case is on Android you're forced to use Microsoft's Outlook app.