skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More news from the War on Pesto ...

Only the government has the right to produce pesto. You cannot store pesto in a bank safety deposit box (in fact, all safety deposit boxes will be banned). You cannot enter or leave the country with more than 10,000 paper promises of pesto. Anyone who buys, or sells, or consumes pesto will be tracked, and suspicious patterns will be assigned to their Social Pesto Score.

The rule of Civil Pesto Forfeiture: the police assume anyone in possession of pesto is engaging in criminal activity. The pesto will be confiscated without any charge, and the onus will be on the pesto owner to litigate to prove that the pesto was obtained legally.

Food banks will charge a fee for dispensing or receiving pesto. Storage of pesto at a food bank will require a negative interest fee.

Futures trading in precious metals for pesto does not need any store of physical metals. Any trade in precious metals for pesto is legally regulated by the Federal Government, but those laws will not actually be enforced.

Pesto lost in boating accidents will be assumed to be still in the owners possession for tax purposes.

The government reserves the right to create as much pesto as necessary for the culinary welfare of the nation. The government decrees that the supply of pesto shall be 2% more than is normally consumed. The excess of pesto will result in too much pesto being included for normal baking transactions, and the value of pesto stored under the mattress will decline.

The production and use of crypto-pesto will be studied by the government in a slightly perplexed manner. For the moment, they do not understand why anyone would want to buy crypto-pesto that cannot be eaten with physical pasta.

All transactions on the condimentchain will be monitored by the government. Eventually they will ban crypto-pesto, because they still don't understand it, but they suspect it threatens their monopoly on printing pesto promises.
Interesting stuff.

I remember reading about this tongue posture idea (keeping the tongue pressed against the roof of the mouth), but nearly all the discussions I found about it online were on incel and bodybuilding forums (supposedly maintaining this tongue posture increases the "sharpness" of the jaw and is more attractive), so I wrote it off as silliness.

This article seems to be making the case that there were on to something.
Scotiabank internal source code exposed on public GitHub Repos
Doubt it. I imagine most people use the browser that came pre-installed on their phone.
For me Jira (and Confluence) suck because their are slow. This is the #1 reason, I am still looking for alternatives.

While I do not like the some of the new UI features, for me it's in general a move into the right direction. Only if things would be faster.
DHH finds iPhone 11 beats all macs and android in JavaScript benchmark
About $100-$200.
How long do you think a phone lasts?
I am surprised that Apple's built-in email clients on both macOS and iOS load remote content by default. One of the first things I disable when I set up a new machine.
FreeBSD didn't change its logo from a daemon to something else even if it offended Christian people.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2011-Novemb...
Well, if you want a free market then let them pull the rug if they cant compete and spend the money more wisely.
Acts of terror are commonly referred to in that manner because targeting civilians is the intention, with a desire to influence the population and politics.

Killing civilians accidentally is virtually guaranteed when engaging in military action.

So the tactics are extremely different in why they work, if they work at all. They are very different in the percentage of military vs civilians killed. They are very different in intention. The fact that they share some aspects in common doesn’t make them the same.
I love this!

The only part I find questionable is the use of tools written in shell. Shell is a very difficult language to understand and use correctly. To the credit of the author, he is aware of this and the code is linted using shellcheck. Still, I wonder if it wouldn't have been a better idea to write the utilities using Python or Lua or even (gasp) C! (Or Rust, or Go or ... Just pick one that isn't completely esoteric and isn't Perl, then stick to it.)
Ask HN: Are you participating in the global climate strike?
Today marks the start of the Global Climate Strike (https://globalclimatestrike.net/), many are taking the day off to get involved in protests/marches worldwide.

Are you getting involved?
Can we really call it an accident when strikes are made at weddings, funerals, farms, vans, and even double striking to kill first responders based on a phone chip signal that might have, at some point in time, been used by rebels?

In fact it really doesn't matter how we see it, but how they see it.

Every strike has a chance of producing more rebels than they kill and I have a hard time thinking the arms industry doesn't also believe that.
The standard way to do that is with 'git filter-branch'. If your daughter’s email is megatron@example.com,

git filter-branch --env-filter '
old_email=megatron@example.com
new_email=redacted
if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "$old_email" ] ; then
export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$new_email"
fi
if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "$old_email" ] ; then
export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$new_email"
fi
' -- --all

This is “safe” in the sense that you can go back to the old version with the reflog if you screw things up.
Nothing to do with the power vacuum left by the US after destroying Iraq and Afghanistan? Nothing to do with weapons and training distributed in that region by the US many years ago? Nothing to do with drone strikes fueling anti-American sentiment that's then used as motivation and justification for performing acts of terror?

I didn't say US is the whole reason here. But it's a big part of it.
Does anyone else find the use of E(N) to be the expected value of a random value that is not denoted N to be confusing?

MJD, this would be better written E_N(H) where H is an RV giving the number of half pills, right?
I've never really understood Torvalds' reason for not cryptographiclly signing commits.

> Btw, there's a final reason, and probably the really real one. Signing each commit is totally stupid. It just means that you automate it, and you make the signature worth less. It also doesn't add any real value, since the way the git DAG-chain of SHA1's work, you only ever need _one_ signature to make all the commits reachable from that one be effectively covered by that one. So signing each commit is simply missing the point.

http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/GPG-signing-for-git-commit-t...
You're missing the point of free software. You own it and can change it how you like. It's not problematic this is how it was made to be.

Here's two examples of how distros patching software has been helpful for me.

1) SquirrelMail (abandoned) patched to work with PHP 7.3 thanks to FreeBSD contribs

2) Abiword patch builds in the AUR that fix a broken default install.
You’re right to a certain degree. Three things about this:

* When you combine renewables together you don’t need to maintain an identical gas backup. Although this will depend on resources at individual locations, some places you will need 100% backup, others substantially less.

* Gas is the dominant, cheapest form of electricity in the US and UK, and a very large percentage of the cost of producing a unit of gas electricity is fuel. Even in the worst case scenario of 100% backup, the price that renewables are competing with is the marginal cost of burning fuel to produce the same unit of electricity. Once renewables get below that level it’s cheaper to incur the capital cost for renewables as well as gas, as a combined system, to avoid some of the marginal cost for gas operating on its own.

* The Great Global Warming Swindle is an intellectual embarrassment.
If they send you an email it means that they obviously have your email address, which I believe is considered personal data.

Now, what additional personal data are collected by tracking pixels?

> these are used to uniquely identify individuals

I would say that this isn't the case. It is to check that the email was read.
git filter-branch will solve this for you:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/750172/how-to-change-the...
Visa makes a ton of money just off of necessary debit card transactions. As far as I know Stripe doesn't have a whole lot of groceries/gas stations/drug stores/doctors offices/etc as customers.

From what I've seen Stripe mostly has customers that are selling non-essential services and luxury goods. They'd be far more likely to suffer during a recession than Visa. I mean, Visa does around 1,700 transactions per second on average [1] and handled over 2 trillion dollars in a single quarter last year [2]

[1] https://hackernoon.com/the-blockchain-scalability-problem-th...

[2] https://www.digitaltransactions.net/visa-surpasses-2-trillio...
> It’s so fashionable to hate America, that must make it true.

Let's be honest here, US is trying hard for last 15 years to be the most hated country anywhere, ever.

Millions of innocent civilians killed based on outright lies by US president in Iraq 2nd war (they were so glaringly obvious on UN meeting when GWB presented them that Germany and France outright rejected joining. UK couldn't care less). The consequences are felt across half of Asia and whole Europe till these days. Please tell me, what justice system in US does to a person who kills innocents without any reason? Nothing good. And if you kill millions? Good pension and CIA protection for rest of your life apparently. Plus Afghanistan, yet another battlefield where mighty US army is losing a battle with guys with AKs.

Another topic is online privacy, US could have been champion of freedom, and initially it was, but we had Snowden and stuff ain't better since then. That's plain amoral. Currently US can't claim much moral superiority over China for outsiders, like it or not.

I ain't even touching the topic of current US president because that would be for a separate thread.

To like US and its role in current politics these days requires super strong tint on ones pink glasses. Most of the world is kind of fed up and just wants to be left alone, not invaded for US version of 'freedom', oil, strategic place or whatever.

This is real world out there, where 95% of the mankind lives.
Apple is making this move indeed to protect the privacy of its users more. They allow implementing content blockers rather than ad-blockers.

See the difference here: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158#issuecommen...
Makes me think about Clippy, the Office paperclip
> the planet recovers on its own.

Like all those other planets without us, like Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus,...
I think Reuters is generally a reliable source, but I agree with your double standard points.

This was a horrible accident, but you have to realize there are probably some very bad people they intended to target and the US doesn't blow up random Afghan farmers for fun and games.

HN is quite the liberal community so I'm not surprised if some of the posters here think the Trump administration is more evil than the people who want to blow up the Great Satan.
The flip side of that. I live outside California and my neighbor has lived in his place for over 30 years, and it was his dad's place for 30 years before that. Because property taxes go up with assessed value and because the area became more affluent around him, he is now faced with having to sell his business that his dad started to cover property taxes or lose his home.
Yes https://electricityproduction.uk/from/coal/
Polypill for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in an Underserved Population
Interesting.

"Usually maximizing shareholder value is not a legal obligation, but the product of the pressure that activist shareholders, stock-based compensation schemes and financial markets impose on corporate directors."
git filter-branch --env-filter " \
export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Dade\ Murphy \
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=zer0cool@example.com \
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=Dade\ Murphy \
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=zer0cool@example.com"
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Please use the link above to do the survey. I will really appreciate it for my project! ️️
The last thing I need is another godforsaken preferences center inside a product I was forced to become a "user" of just because some asshole bought my email address.
Why does that make it internally inconsistent? It sounds like you're advocating for blind political loyalty.
Normies galore after that RMS Twitter drama
True. Today, and probably in the next couple of years. But in 10, 20, 40 years? Hopefully not so much any longer.

I firmly believe in the power of engineering research and given humanities history in solving engineering challenges, we will also solve this one. If we will end up with reliable long distance cables, or some form of energy storage I have no opinion on, only the future will tell us.
Is the killing of tens of millions of civilians so far with sanctions an accident too? If you can kill them with sanctions why not with drone strikes?
Hugo Boss used to make Nazi uniforms and Volkswagen was literally founded by Nazis.

I think we need to reference more recent crimes if we want to write off entire companies.

What would be interesting is to determine what's within range and what isn't. I'll go out on a limb and say WW2 is beyond that horizon.
There seems to be this idea that some sites work worse with FF but in all the time Chrome has existed, I've never found any sites that didn't work with FF.
Friday: Further Thought – To Love Mercy
There are plenty of good ad blocker alternatives available for Safari on macOS and iOS.

I’ve created one that is updated regularly, has a free option, respects your privacy and doesn’t take any $ from advertisers to let ads through the ad block rules [1].

Simply search on the App Store for a variety of alternatives.

uBlock Origin is good but it’s not the be all and end all of ad blocking especially on Apple platforms.

[1] More details at https://www.magiclasso.co/
Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are increasing so fast
Cookie popups are not caused by GDPR.
Can't wait for the atmosphere to be full of the SF6 leaking from the substations these wind turbines will utilise. SF6 is 1000x more potent than carbon dioxide.
Because if FED and US can't do a good job to keep their currency and country running properly, doing austerity when it is needed, not bailing out banks etc. Nobody will trust that currency anymore.

No country in the world can run a $1 trillion deficit or 5%(?) of their GDP every year and not have consequences. This might be "okay" now, but this will create an effect that when people finally start to move away from the dollar, things will run completely out of control in America.
England doesn't have this policy. The rate of alcohol-related deaths is half of that in Scotland. And alcohol is only one issue among many. Increasing the cost of alcohol may reduce the number of alcohol-related deaths but what is actually doing for people who need help? Either they have less money or they go somewhere else.

The meta of this policy is kind of interesting too. This kind of price tinkering, control freakery is very New Labour (and probably Conservatives now too, although to a lesser extent). It feels sophisticated, and it is usually accompanied by research from very serious civil servants who model the impact down to the decimal point.

The problem is that these policies always has unintended consequences, you use your blunt instrument to achieve your primary aim...but then other stuff happens. I get that we need to give economists jobs...but can't they just do it somewhere else?

Rather than tinkering with prices, why not focus on exactly why these people are making these choices? The govt has had long enough. And, from what I have read, NHS Scotland just whine about poverty (and now austerity the bogeyman de jour). We have known for years (over a decade iirc) that these effects still exist after income (rich people in Scotland die faster than in England too). Maybe that is a link worth examining: doctors playing politics and patients with poor life expectancy? Ineffective policy-makers (there is little evidence that the govt are particularly competent in anything other than railing against "Westminster")? Ineffective managers in the NHS?
The decision to not cache was a compromise with email marketers after many years. Originally, gmail would not show embedded images by default at all:
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/12/16/gmail-takes-imag...
There seems to be no way to input control characters yet, only through hardware keyboard.

Yeah, it's still a bit rough, but promising.
It really does feel like there should be some kind of aptitude test involved in getting a vote, doesn't it?
Locomotor and Hippocampal Processing Converge in the Lateral Septum
I think it makes sense for the banks to wait for the Fed to do something. Banks are acting in the interest of their shareholders; the Fed for the population as a whole.
I guess he's of the school that it doesn't matter who commits the code, it needs to be checked anyway, for bugs or being malicious.
Are these photos derivative works?
Am I reading this correctly: a business owned by a black woman sold a product, and a white male has responded by sabotaging it?

Not a great look, for him or his employer.
Instagram to Crack Down on Diet and Cosmetic Surgery Posts
I think it depends on context. It's intended to kill people and clearly it's not a low power weapon. In the context of plinking and small game hunting versus military arms it's definitely on the serious end of the spectrum.

However in the context of strictly military weapons, sure it's at the low to medium end of the range. Infantry weapons are 'small arms' in military terms.

But if we're talking about civilian firearms, I think it's reasonable to put it, and anything else specifically designed to have the ability to reliably kill humans and bigger targets at long (rifle) range, up at the dangerous end of the spectrum.
What a surprise, look (((who))) is pushing the agenda. Bloomberg (=Blumberg). Windpower is very expensive. Welcome to the world of surplus interest for SOME people and highest prices for us sheep.
This is what I'd agree with. The concept of user and group are hand-me-downs from systems built for sharing networked resources and pretty much requires some kind of centralized AAA to make any sense. They're a model designed for protecting the system from users and users from eachother, but that doesn't make any sense on a personal computer where the more pressing need is to protect the user from malicious applications.
You, sir, have a lot of reading to do. I'd start with a few histories of the region, then move into political theory.

May I recommend the following?

"Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History" by Thomas Barfield
I need to block attention hacking features also, have been thinking about this recently. Stupid youtube.
It should be noted that's related to the cookie law (ie, the ePrivacy Directive), not the GDPR, and there is a proposed replacement (the ePrivacy Regulation), since basically everyone agrees the current situation is not good. Unfortunately it's taking longer than initially expected.
Christ, that's terribly written. Legalese is not a good way to communicate even very basic scientific concepts.

> The minimum price of alcohol is to be calculated according to the following formula—

> MPU × S × V × 100

> where—

> MPU is the minimum price per unit,

> S is the strength of the alcohol, and

> V is the volume of the alcohol in litres.

It's hard to figure out, but I think "alcohol" actually means "alcoholic beverage" and "strength" means "percentage of alcohol in the alcoholic beverage". So with a MPU of £0.50 and pint (0.56 litres) of 3% alcohol cider, you'd have £.5 × .03 × .56L × 100 = £0.84. So it looks like the "unit" in "minimum price per unit" is "centiliters", although this unit is mentioned literally nowhere in the law.

It's a minimum price per centiliter of pure alcohol in the beverage. That's it.
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Often that wind is too strong for these turbines and they have to stop completely to save literally breaking themselves.
It’s hard to make art when your country is being torn to shreds by war.

How much art was coming out of East Germany under the Soviet Union?

What other nation is deterring constant military expansion of China and Russia?

How many nations are confronting IS?

You are either naive or destructive.
> Glasgow has had a 21.5 per cent reduction in alcohol-related deaths from 2017 to 2018 - down from 186 to 146.

They really should be tracking all alcohol and drug-related deaths instead of pretending that we live in a world free of negative externalities.
The "Good Guys" are fighting the "Bad Guys" because the "Bad Guys" do "Bad Guy Stuff".

It is taken as normal that the "Bad Guys" are "Bad". When they do "Bad Guy Stuff", it is further justification for the "Good Guys" continuing to target them. "Normal" does not mean "OK", it just means that it is what is expected - "Bad Guys are Bad" is not news.

It is morally outrageous when the "Good Guys" do "Bad Guy Stuff", because it calls into question the whole "We are good, they are bad" story that the "Good folk at home" are told. How can we be the "Good Guys" if we are killing innocents?

It also reinforces the "We are good, they are bad" story that the "Bad Guys" are selling their folk at home. When the "Great Satan" kills your innocent friends and family when they are at work picking pine nuts, or at a wedding, it becomes easier to encourage you to take up arms against them.
Incorrect. I guess this must be a lie pushed by bad actors who are inconvenienced by the regulation and want the public to perceive the regulation negatively.

You do not need consent for cookies that power basic website functionality or a feature the user is trying to use. So setting a cookie when someone logs in or adds an item to their shopping cart.
The entire concept of engaging against institutions that one feels are immoral is "being an asshole"? Or just this one? What principles are such a broad, hateful sentiment based on?
Maybe it's just rose colored glasses, but I used HN a few years ago, left and then returned recently. It seems when I was first using it, political stuff in general was discouraged and shut down pretty quickly than now, but of course, my initial sentence applies.
Thanks, I just realized I have to switch my mother from Safari to Firefox now that Apple decided to forbid uBlock.
Semi-unthethered jailbreaks exist for 32-bit iOS devices running upto iOS 10.3.3. I wonder whether complete exploit chain as detailed in the project zero wasn't possible for 32-bit devices or the attackers just didn't care about those devices.
It’s possible some autonomous system marked them as candidates,

> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”

> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...
I tend to write stories on a board the same as I do at work (actually better than work). I have estimated hours, etc.

Then I pull them into programs as I go, document throughly, and close.

This helps me later work through my progress, but has also helped me onboard people to help on my side projects. If you think you’ll be adding people, it’s good to just develop with the same rigor as work. It’ll help you improve and keeping yourself accountable