skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it just me or does the biodiversity crises seem a bit blown out of proportion? I mean, I think it's true that humans are causing faster species loss than the historical average. But I think it's hard to suggest we're an historical anomaly in this regard compared to Yellowstones and meteors and such.

I mean, I know that ecology is very complex and small changes can have big impact. But the world isn't really much different having lost mammoths and dodo birds. And if ecosystems do collapse in catastrophic ways, I find it difficult to believe that the gap wouldn't be filled by other creatures after the previous distribution of life changed dramatically. There's nothing particularly balanced or normal or good about the ecology we had yesterday. It merely is.

Like... If you cut down the Amazon, hypothetically, it's not like that land will necessarily become a barren lifeless wasteland. Other life will move in after the culling, right?

I pretty much always get downvoted for these posts where I bounce heterodox ideas of y'all. And it's totally worth it. I'd like to understand why I don't understand the biodiversity concern.

WRT that guy who's going to post about the medical breakthroughs from rainforest specimens... That's cool and all, but why wouldn't we expect a similar thing to happen with the life that moves in after the hypothetical clear cutting of the Amazon? After all, such events tend to be catalysts for punctuated equilibrium which appears to be responsible for much of the biodiversity we have today.
Not OP but it interests me! Do you have a link by any chance?
No. Ten times the power gives you ten times the power/m^2 at the same distance.

The distance at which you can hear the sound (in first order approximation) _does_ scale by a factor of √N if you increase power by a factor N, but that’s not normally how one defines loudness.
True for the client side but you can not be sure on the server side.

Smart contract enables the true transparent and honest program but the technology is not ready yet. It is still early days.
Baby Food on Plane – A Guide to Taking Your Baby in the Air
You only don't believe it because you lack the imagination to build it.

Which is the case for everyone but the person who does.

Unfortunately, that person may have killed himself because of JStor.

Ultimately, you apply modalities not concepts which explains why you can't see it.

Email doesn't need to be email it only needs to provide equal or greater utility.
Yes.

I've complained to the UK regulator about gambling ads placed in children's content and they are paying attention.

They say it's hard because YouTube forbids (because COPPA) anyone under 13 from having an account, which means those children use their parent's accounts, and so the demographics used by the advertisers are skewed.

However, they did take action against every single gambling company I complained about because the ads were placed against children's content.
Only hard wood (like oak) IIRC, but yeah lungs are pretty fragile.
When trying to design technical solutions, focusing purely on the technical side of the problem, without considering the other aspects, is what led to pervasive tracking and legislation against it in the first place.
This is why I have a big problem with metric called "productivity".

Same service done in New York by the same worker is worth X times more than in a small town. Hence people who move their shop suddenly become 10 times more productive, even if they're doing the same thing exactly as efficiently as before.

Then people look at the graphs and say "no wonder these poor places are undeveloped - look how low their productivity is".

It should just be called labor cost and not productivity.
Analysis of the Nahid-1/Safir launch failure satellite image
The design of littlefs: A fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers
Great, does the programming language now comes listed on the box, just besides the EULA?
The general approach can be okay but don't call yourself a perfectionist at a job interview.
They do. Every patch release contains release notes and security notes disclosing what vulnerabilities have been identified and patched. This is industry standard practice, because this is a regular occurrence on all software platforms.

It’s not big news when it happens all the time.

What is big news, that’s gotten lost in all the noise, is that Google (through it’s crawling of the web) has been able to identify that some websites were (are) indiscriminately jailbreaking iPhones for the purposes of stealing user data.

This is the kind of thing that is routine on Windows, is likely to be routine on Android (given how many unpatchable devices are in use) but wasn’t considered to be routine on iOS.

The takeaway from all this is simple: if you’re not fully patched, you’re at significant risk. It doesn’t matter which platform you use.
Stateful vs. Stateless Architecture
Egyptian gov still blocking AMP, medium.com, and hundreds of other domains
I'm in Egypt at the moment, and swaths of the internet are inaccessible due to country-wide blocks. AMP as an entire domain, medium.com, and most sites considered opposition are completely blocked. Others are intermittently blocked in an unpredictable fashion (ie block might be lifted sporadically, or some subdomains might work but others won't, etc).

Though there is a formal authority that regulated the media and internet, most of these blocks are not done formally/officially and don't have supporting reasons or court orders.
I have in fact ridden motorcycles, you’re still arguing a niche case. Fine, there exists some cyclist who wears a motorcycle helmet. It’s a bad idea for the vast majority of cyclists.
OK so I undown'ed you to ask - how?
C++23 might get value type exceptions, and the design is even being discussed across ISO C working group, so that will eventually change.
>> A Himba homestead in the Kunene Region of Namibia.

It looks like there are two homesteads in the picture- one in the lower right half of the picture and one diagonally above it and to the left, at the top of the clearing.

The Himba are a beautiful people, probably best known for covering themselves in ochre and colouring their braided hair with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himba_people
> I would also think that knowing where pupils are at all times is quite a legitimate aim for a school.

For a prison, it is. A school's purpose is to educate.
I wouldn't be surprised if you could chase someone for gross negligence, if it was a result of, for example, consciously prioritising features over security, or "I know the rules but they are BS" thinking.
You can do that with doctors, and they often make mistakes because the hospital overworks them, or simply allows bad behaviours to continue.
There's a whole genre of Fortnite pros trolling as defaults on Youtube.
> The tunnel as an idea will enter the discourse of your circles. Farm subsidies are far more abstract.

My friends are mostly the other way around. Local road infrastructure has never been discussed, while Brexit, Bolsonaro, and the Hong Kong riots all are. It is fair to say that we don’t discuss farm subsidies (but then, they are also a very small fraction of our total taxation).
Youtube Kids doesn't work. It doesn't have the content that children want to watch, and it includes content that is not suitable for children.

Other organisations manage to provide ad-supported video content with very few problems. You can sit a child down in front of UK Channel 4 or ITV children's content and know that the ads won't be for alcohol or gambling or horror films, and you'll know the video will be age appropriate.

There are content creators on Youtube who target children. There are children who want to watch that content. There are parents who'll allow their children to watch the content. All we need now is for Youtube to not place horror film ads in that content, and not to start recommending videos to the child where people are yelling "DIE YOU FUCKING $racialslur".
Yes, I’d like the less cancerous car today, please. Thank you!
I'll go along your argument, that it seems very unlikely that there was a advanced civilization but just hypothetical:

if there was a really really old civilization, wouldn't their iron tools be degraded beyound recognition?
(especially if it was a coastal civilization later drowned in the salty sea)

Oh and a (spaced out) esoteric explanation, some people tried to convince me of:
this old civilization was so advanced it had quantum technology aka magic to get things done and eventually wiped itself out in a civil war ..
>They didn't want to record attendance, they wanted to know where the students were in every second of the day. They wanted to time home long they are in the toilet so that they can catch them smoking or dealing drugs. They wanted to see them leaving the school o that they can lie in wait and nab them as they cut class: students 2 and 5 are supposed to be in band class but they are headed in the opposite direction -- go all you zigs! For great justice!

GDPR explicitly prevents this. Data is collected for a purpose and that purpose only. Collecting data for attendance then using it for catching drug dealers is forbidden.
I.e. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoric_iron#cite_note-Wald...

There are several examples in the Wikipedia entry
This is like saying laws against human trafficking are bad because it hurts business.
To be fair, they did the following:

- Data and analysis was done at a server in the class room (locked in a cabinet)
- All parents signed a consent form before the trial started.
- All data was erased after the trial ended.

The Swedish DPA decided that:

1. Consent is not valid of there is a power difference between the subject and the requester.
2. They should have documented a PIA (Privacy impact assessment).
3. They should have contacted the DPA before starting the trial.
Yeah that second site is run by people that believe in some pretty fringe stuff (electric universe, etc). Definitely take it with a grain of salt. Just look at their last two "Fast facts"
>but only take 5% of annual revenue of a large business

It's 4% global revenue and it's really a lot. Fines are issued based on the amount of data and amount of people affected.
Small companies rarely need anything but contact information. Storing the data securely is no trivial task for any size of organization, though.

Small companies would have significantly less data and customers to be worthy of a hefty fine. Again, if you can't keep the data secure, don't go into such a business.
A person who has not opted in has opted out. No tracking necessary.
I don't understand how providing further distribution of these messages helps anyone other than the attackers, whose obvious goal was to get these messages seen by lots of people. Why else would they be posting them via a high-profile Twitter account?
SafeSide: Project to understand and mitigate software-observable side-channels
Possibly one more item is "scraping to gather analytics and trends", the revenue comes from using machine learning to predict trends based on the scraped data from social media, news etc... in most cases the raw data isn't as valuable as the patterns or predictions you can see in it...

Example -> https://meetglimpse.com/
This is literally a Silicon Valley plotline. Right down to COPPA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5QUZMNLT3M
Related reading: The Economic Organization of a P.O.W. Camp
by R.A. Radford.
I would love to know more about how this discussion is in Denmark. Also how the Danish public sector is talking about GDPR/Cloud Act in relation to O365 and similar services.
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I don't think that's really true, let's suppose that your unsafe code has a presupposition that cause an UB if not met.
If this is a bug and you can remove the presupposition, great, but is-it always possible without performance issue?
If not, then you have to audit all the usage of the unsafe part.
I thought the ways was: “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” Which has the opposite meaning to the good publicity saying you’ve quoted.
Imagine you have 20 experiments, each with a 5% chance that the null hypothesis shows a positive result, then there is a good chance that one of them will be positive even if null is true for all of them. That experiment is bunk but you say p=0.05 so all is good!
Some maps provide this information but as it changes over time it's better to check it online beforehand.

Useful tool: http://www.magnetic-declination.com
Yeah. I haven’t found any way of using YouTube that I would consider safe for children. The problems are at a fundamental level.
You can use VLC to Chromecast, it is a little bit fiddly but it works most of the time.
if they do it all on device and do not transmit out, then the privacy concern seems squelched. On retail tracking yeah it's messed, practically no one knows their movements are tracked on their phones - cell tower triangulation, GPS, then the kicker NFC. I love / hate tech. It's powerful stuff. [edit] - the cell tower triangulation is forever given the nature of the tech.
How does shapeform compare to https://github.com/mozilla-services/react-jsonschema-form
>Does Google's et all EULA cater for this as fairly sure many childrens phones track them and fall foul of this.

Google are subject to multiple GDPR investigations as we speak. They have already received a number of large fines.

>Oyster cards in London, your journeys are tracked, consent not asked for. Let alone giving special privilege for children.

TFL have a legitimate need to know where you tapped in and out in order to calculate fares. As long as they aren't using that data in an identifiable form for other purposes and they delete it as soon as practicable, they're compliant. A facial recognition system collects far more data than is minimally necessary to track school attendance, which is contrary to the principles set out in Art. 5.

>Then the whole aspect of under-age (children) commiting crime and evidence. A smart lawyer could abuse the whole aspect to squash any evidence that placed them at a scene of a crime as they never gave consent and if they did - they didn't know what they were doing.

That evidence is necessary for the purposes of mounting a prosecution so processing it (in accordance with the rest of the GDPR) is lawful under Art. 6. Consent is only one lawful basis for processing personal data; it is not always necessary, nor is it always sufficient. Consent does not give anyone carte blanche to do as they please under GDPR, particularly where that consent might not be fully informed or freely given.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/
None of them support proper notification or dms anymore thanks to Twitter API changes. I miss tweetbot :(

If Im just browsing I use the mobile web interface since it's just better anyways.
Well, but then, even in our not-so-perfect world, there are still some nuances based on the actual (criminal) act.

The customer would be arrested by the police, then he/she would be subject to a trial and IF actually found guilty would be sentenced to - say - six months of jail.

If he/she had actually killed someone, then he/she would probably get thirty years or a life sentence.

But here we are still talking about someone who (BTW presumably in good faith) presented the "wrong" piece of paper (a fake bill that he maybe got as change from another restaurant) at the counter of your restaurant to pay the bill, and that was (again presumably) ready to give you another "good" banknote to pay for the service.

I don't think (actually hope) the restaurant owner would call the police for this.
It's hard to understand how family as an abstract entity can be happy. If we don't have some metric of happiness for one, how can we add it up?

If abstract happiness existed it would be incomprehensible, like consciousness in China brain[1] thought experiment. Or such happiness would be observable for all but this particular family, i.e. show-off happiness. The latter is a punchline in Dostoevsky books.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_brain
Is it an advertisement? Yes, or no?

If not, what is it?

(Lots of advertisements contain/are jokes.)

And -- hah! You know how many papers there are which used software X, Y, and Z, all with cite-able references, and where the authors did NOT cite the software?

I mean, last year I was at a conference, talking to a vendor, who complained about academics, using their software under an academic license which clearly requires that the vendor be cited for any publications, who omit citing their work.

I have never heard of any scientific project which got in trouble for omitting a reference for an non-scientific software component like GNU parallel - and I can't think of any which have gotten into trouble for omitting a reference to a scientific software component they use.

At best it would be described as an oversight, and if the journal really is that strict (can you point to one?), resolved with a correction. It's certainly not a threat to the project.

But, let's suppose it is an issue.

Shouldn't more software components be doing this?
This isn't about funding open source, this is about ads. Very, very, very specifically about ads.

> I really wish the discussion were focussed on how the community of open-source consumers can contribute back to the open source ecosystem in a way that promotes the sustainability of the projects and community.

Then you should post an article about that and vote it to the front page.
Well, an interesting fact is that every nonzero rational number has two equal representations in some bases, e.g. 0.999...=1. Zero is then is the only rational number with just one representation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...
Meteoric steel isn't just iron, that's why it's interesting. And why it survives, compared to very early iron made before people learned how to turn it into steel.
Flagged, Twitter will only take tweets down in rare cases e.g if they risk creating violence or show graphic violence. The BBC have noted various tweets by the Pakistani establishment which are recycled videos from years back which could entice violence in the current situation.

https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product/c20106wd

On top of this the Dawn is a dubious news source often backed by Pakistan's state intelligence service (ISI)
> prevent Americans from buying the Indian version

This is solved, youtube, netflix, indie video game sellers all do this. Just charge based on IP?

People getting around it (You can fake your IP or pirate it) is like going to Cairo for a cheap Big Mac.

It takes some effort, but can pay off, like moving to Cairo for cheap goods and services. (A Big Mac in Cairo is not like one in Norway also)
Twitter 2FA: removing phone number disables all 2FA methods
Sorry for throwing that curve ball, but to my excuse you do have your site in your profile :)

I still think that definition is unworkable. What "the user wants to do" isn't even an objective measure. Is VIM malware because it includes s message urging the user to donate to charity, which is unrelated to it'd purpose as an editor? Is apt-get malware because it included an Easter egg? By that definition, the answer is both yes and no, since it depends on who is using it wanting that or not.
After 1000 years or more it'll be back to something useful. But if you cut down a forest you're going to use the land for monoculture farming.

Problem is meteors happen once every million years, we're doing this every year.
The last time this issue came up on HN, I googled and discovered that archaeologists definitely are looking at the right places underwater. It is relatively expensive to do so, but it's hard to imagine that they totally missed a bunch of huge civilizations.
This is a good talk about the how's and why's of BPF as a firewall: https://youtu.be/_Iq1xxNZOAo
All matter has a rate at which it emits radiation that depends on its temperature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation). Ordinary black pigment which might absorb 95% of light will only heat up slightly faster than vantablack which absorbs 99.9%.
I would also say: vendor your tools.

There is a bit of a pattern emerging, where you add a „tools“ packages and this tools package just contains blank _ imports to external Go tools you use (e.g. gometalinter)
This way when you run god mod vendor, you will also be able to vendor your tools and build them locally from your repo.
This works quite well with a Makefile for now. There is an open issue tracking this vendor-tools approach
Feels like fortnite is the new addidas and Nike...
Women are people too, and just as men many of them can have lousy characters. I know that it's easy to say, but you should be more aware and discerning about who you associate yourself with. Before those girls cheated on you, there were probably some clues that they aren't the most wholesome persons in the world.

For example, I'm sure as hell that if I were a woman, I wouldn't date Steve Jobs. He had tons of signs of a terrible person, and even when speaking in terms of my own self-interest I would have no guarantee that he wouldn't cheat on me or dump me at his earliest convenience.
Damage Material Point Methods for Dynamic Fracture Animations
Sounds like a prank. Do you know the range of the Bluetooth on Alexa? Does your living situation allow for that range to be accessible from those outside your house?
I'm confused why he brings up the four color theorem, since a 4-coloring of a planar graph can be determined in polynomial time. And he also makes it sound like the theorem hasn't been proven yet.
A Week With No Tear Gas
I can't think of any ferrous parts in a modern phone.

Enclosures are all either plastic, aluminum or magnesium. Circuit board will be copper. Maybe some internal structural elements or RF shield cans are made of steel?

Microphones are MEMS these days, so no magnets there. Speaker magnets are tiny and also tend to have weird magnetization patterns that seem useless for making a compass (e.g. disc with a circular channel for the coil where N-S are inside of the channel)
I don't see whats the problem here.

A company has an international market. In one country, where they probably don't have a law against facial recognition, does research on facial recognition in their product.

In their home market, they are asked if they do Facial Recognition in their product, which probably meant in the USA, and they rightfully said they don't. The most likely scenario is that the spokesperson is not even aware that on one market they do facial recognition _research_.

Seems like a manufactured outrage over nothing.
If you have to do local signing at some point, then an offline HSM protected by a quorum of unlock keys would be one way to make sure your key won't end up somewhere you didn't intend and is resistant to single internal compromised employees. Crack open the safe, take out the HSM, turn it on, sign the build, and then put the HSM back into its safe. If you want to go the extra mile, some of the HSM's have ways to generate the same key onto two HSM's, and you can put the second one in a bank vault for backup.
This reminds me of the "hole in the wall" kiosk, installed in a slum in New Delhi in a way that was supposed to be accessible only to children: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimally_invasive_education
> Also how the Danish public sector is talking about GDPR/Cloud Act in relation to O365 and similar services.

"Microsoft says it. We believe it. That settles it."

Really, there's no other option: Even if they magically got the ability to audit source code, the whole point of a cloud service is that the code can be changed at any point. Even if you extract a promise from Microsoft that the code won't be changed... well, see Figure 1. You're operating on trust that Microsoft will abide the agreement, and trust that you'll be able to magically tell if they don't.
AMA: I've lived in cars and now a VW for almost a decade.

(Disclaimer: The nick is an ironic attempt at humor, not trolling.)
I have everything on their list and I'll be talking to my director next week about making some changes. Thanks for posting.