skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ProtonMail could, but it looks like just raw IP logging and most everything else is encrypted by design. I dunno if turning over those IP logs killed or maimed their warrant canary in the process.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/biusm7/transpar...

Edit: obv PM’s canary is public and has disclosed they’ve released data to the Swiss courts, but it’s pretty much as advertised; ip logging is raw but the rest is encrypted.
Not at all. He talked to a County official that confirmed the Industrial Pollution, cited an app that has other anecdotal accounts by others in Pittsburgh. His article isn't simply a one line about smelling something.
What exactly are you saying? That the State should let this one go?
Could be either, really. 21st century and all that. (Making some assumptions about a screen name beginning with “jimmy”)

[edit] oh missed the “she” so you’re right. Probably?
The other week I was out in a National Forest hiking. I was about 6 miles from the nearest Forest Service road. I took a break and sat there eating a sandwich and looked up to see a camera mounted on a tree about 4 feet from me. I imagine some hunter put it there. I'm just saying that even out in the middle of nowhere, not near any paved roads, there are still cameras watching and recording.
Wow those are super cheap.. I'm tempted to pick up one and I don't even have a use case yet.
Not really required because serialization is trivial in D.

D's compilation isn't "stateful" like that in the sense that (user-defined) attributes both cannot influence the thing they are attached to or do anything without being read by something else.
> Why is the web full of this behavior?!

I believe the root cause is that zooming in and out triggers breakpoints, so the page thinks it's now on a phone instead of on a desktop.
The media seeks to ignite racial tensions for personal gains all the time, shouldn't we prosecute them too?
Even if user data were seized, it would be impossible to decipher because of ProtonMail's encryption. Unlike Gmail or Outlook, email you send with ProtonMail is encrypted before it's sent to the ProtonMail servers.
This guy was a badass. He Mcgyvered a 1 kilometer data link using LIGHT because he was annoyed his employer, PARC, opened up a new office up the road and he couldn't test his printer.

Excerpt from Dealers of Lightning:

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Starkweather and Rider worked together on coordinating the SLOT and character generator until early 1972, when they were stymied not by a technical obstacle but one entirely man-made. This was the relocation of more than twenty of PARC’s seventy scientists up the hill to a building newly rented from the Singer Company and known as Building 34 (because its address was 3406 Hillview). The Computer Science Lab, including Rider, got bundled off to the new quarters while everyone else, including Starkweather, temporarily stayed behind on Porter. The move separated the two by a kilometer of real estate—too far to string an overhead line and, with the four-lane Foothill Highway in the way, impossible to link via a ground cable.

“The administrators said, ‘Don’t worry. You’ll be back together in another year,’” Starkweather recalled. “I said, ‘Great, what are we supposed to do in the meantime?’”

But one Sunday afternoon shortly after the move Starkweather got a brainstorm while sitting at home. He immediately jumped in his car, drove to Porter Drive, and mounted a stairwell to the roof.

Just as he had thought, he could take line-of-sight aim from where he stood to the rooftop of Building 34. He might not be able to span the distance by cable or wire—but he could do it by laser beam.

The next day he ordered four telescopes from Edmund’s for about $300 apiece. He and Rider replaced the eyepieces of two with low-power lasers and the others with sensitive photodetectors. They bolted one laser scope and one detector on each roof, aiming each at its complement across the way, to create a visible light data link.

The circuit worked flawlessly in almost any weather, even fog, although minor adjustments were often necessary after a rainstorm, when the weight of accumulated water made the roofs sag slightly.

“When SLOT was running I’d send a pulse of light up the hill to signal the character generator to send a line of data down to the detector on my roof, which would send it down to this laser and then to the printer,”

Starkweather recalled. “After all, we were only encoding ones and zeros. It was like sending binary data on a long wire made out of light, instead of copper.”
Refute the point then Cleetus. Reality is reality, no matter what story you've been told, by who, and for how long. Facts are facts and there isn't a curve.
RIP Gary, thank you for saving me from inkjet ink cartels.
Totally agree. I tried to use Plex on Nvidia shield but it was painful. Best was just use VLC directly.

For music I liked Kodi since it was able to get lyrics, but really haven't found a good use for Plex.
Panic is a state suited to making decisions in an instant when seconds count based on very incomplete information and not much analysis.

Climate change may be happening quickly in geological time, but it's plenty slow enough to take the time to think rationally.
To add to above comment: comparison of some different models for Ouster (a competitor):

https://ouster.com/blog/128-channel-lidar-sensors-long-range...

Discussion about above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21970796
Stop buying macbooks with glossy screens then.
Plus he's no longer involved with D.
It's incredibly interesting that unsent emails were used to support a case. Were they used to prove intent of some kind?
I have looked into low-power color displays and I think their competitor [1] is currently better positioned. My understanding is their eink has somewhat better light transmission, but their refresh rate is much, much slower than the competition. I'm looking forward to seeing the products made from these faster displays, which I believe are coming later this year.

1: https://www.clearinkdisplays.com/solutions
A slow modem meant waiting hours though.
I imagine that being distributed makes it easier to obtain the data for a person. If a court can't get data on a user from the the main server's owner, they might go after more vulnerable server owners that happened to be federated with the main server (vulnerable, as in less disposable income for lawyers).
I'm being lazy? Look in the mirror. I made a point and backed it with evidence you can check on your own. The only lazy people in this thread are the armchair wannabe astrophysicists trying to protect there space fan fiction without doing any research.
The final version is not released (and the filing window doesn't open until Jan 27).

There is a draft version of the 1040 instructions, but beware that things may change, if, for example, new legislation is passed.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-dft/i1040gi--dft.pdf
Okay, I guess I'm talking about the culture on the team as I experienced it, and culture definitely comes from the top in this case. I'm sure that some individuals behaved differently in other environments.
I have one of the happier cases perhaps. At time of hire, my target comp was around $160k, RSUs were backloaded to mainly vest in years 3 and 4. I’m now in those years, and stock has risen a lot. Now I’m making more like $230k. Sure, they used that once to not give me a big raise, but I got promoted once with a 25% raise and it’s hard to complain when I’m bringing home far more than I would have thought. So RSUs can be good.
They claim 60% in the basic configuration, or 70% if coupled with a low grade heat source:

https://www.highviewpower.com/benefits/

When I searched Google Scholar, I found this 2016 report from their first 350 kilowatt pilot plant at the University of Birmingham:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adriano_Sciacovelli/pub...

That pilot project claimed less than 25% efficiency, but the authors seemed confident efficiency could be raised. A 5 megawatt demonstration plant has been running in the UK since 2018:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/highview-power-...

I presume that the 0.35 MW and 5 MW projects worked reasonably well if they are now trying to develop a 50 MW project.
I think CNN just found out the answer to that the hard way. They settled with that Covington kid.
> strongest correlating factor with financial independence and overall net worth

If the only way people save is "force saving" by diving headfirst into something that sucks all of their other assets in, sure.

How could we make housing a terrible investment?

* It should be illiquid. We’ll make it something that takes weeks, no – wait – even better, months of time and effort to buy or sell.

* It should be something that locks its owner in one geographical area. That’ll limit their options and keep ’em docile for their employers!

* It should be leveraged! Oh, oh this one is great! This is how we’ll get people to swallow those low returns!

(copied from amusing thought experiment for another perspective: https://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/05/29/why-your-house-is-a-terri...)

That said, I bought a place to live anyways.
It's not civil, but people basically have no idea how courts work and that discovery is a thing.

So "spectacularly ignorant" might be a better alternative to "lunatic", but that isn't polite either.

It's kind of like how Matt Levine was making fun of Carlos Ghosn today for saying "I was brutally taken from my world as I knew it".

``Yes, right, that perfectly and exactly describes the experience of every single person who is arrested and sent to jail. Very few of them like it! And he’s not wrong, it is a bad thing to take people away from their friends and families and everyday lives. It’s just, you know, that’s kind of the deal, with jail. In general society does not seem especially responsive to arguments of the form “I do not want to stand trial for these crimes, because I’d rather hang out with my friends.” ''
> Thus it's easy to see the article is some mix of lying, ignorance, miscounting, multiple counting, or other nonsense

This reminds me of an economics joke.

A professor and a student are walking across campus. The student points to the ground and says, "Look! a $20 bill!" Without looking, the professor says, "Nonsense! If there were, someone would have picked it up."

> Care to explain their math while tying it down to actual budget numbers?

Since you don't seem to sully your assumptions with facts, no, I don't care to. You can stop reading here and just keep on being right all the time.

If anyone reading along is confused, here's some copy-paste from the article that could have saved the parent poster time and mockery:

Among the laundering tactics the Pentagon uses: So-called “one-year money”—funds that Congress intends to be spent in a single fiscal year—gets shifted into a pool of five-year money. This maneuver exploits the fact that federal law does not require the return of unspent “five-year money” during that five-year allocation period.

The phony numbers are referred to inside the Pentagon as “plugs,” as in plugging a hole, said current and former officials. “Nippering,” a reference to a sharp-nosed tool used to snip off bits of wire or metal, is Pentagon slang for shifting money from its congressionally authorized purpose to a different purpose. Such nippering can be repeated multiple times “until the funds become virtually untraceable,” says one Pentagon-budgeting veteran who insisted on anonymity in order to keep his job as a lobbyist at the Pentagon."

[...] In other words, there were no ledger entries or receipts to back up how that $6.5 trillion supposedly was spent. Indeed, more than 16,000 records that might reveal either the source or the destination of some of that $6.5 trillion had been “removed,” the inspector general’s office reported.
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Dishearteningly true.
> The author I felt fell in the same trap Goenka does of criticising Gunaratne.

Author here. Goenka didn't criticise Gunaratane, or even mention him or any other Buddhist teacher by name. The most specific he got was when he was explaining that "other traditions" might teach (what is generally called) 'choiceless awareness' but he doesn't teach that, because the meditator would miss out on the development of awareness in body parts that don't appear in awareness spontaneously. But then he did recommend the equivalent of choiceless awareness practice to be done in bed just before falling asleep, and again just after waking.
For the vast majority of web users the only sites they ever visit that really need any of these front end frameworks are their webmail and social network platforms of choice. For everywhere else a combination of backend processing with a smattering of vanilla javascript, or jquery, would provide a far superior user experience.
He allegedly did something quite bad, and if guilty I’d like him to face justice. But if the cost of convicting him is setting a precedent that effectively strips hundreds of millions of people of their privacy and subjects us all to an unofficial form of state surveillance, then let him walk.
> However, most of real-life is not as clear-cut. Deriving the truth of a statement may depend on multiple potentially faulty pieces of evidence which must be taken into account together. For this, one needs to assign probabilities.

This what the fuzzy people want you to believe. The logicians have a better answer. For this you need more context. E.g in programming you would add types, pre- and post conditions. And not this statement will be 85% true. As the current AI hype is pretending.
Do you know what "the golden rule" says? Literally, "as you would have them do". The cheaters really don't care that other people also cheat. That is, they cheat and they would have others cheat too. That is a totally logical position. You'll need to expectorate some other hoary old maxim to support your cantankerous old argument.
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You literally can't.You're repeating a myth that's been perpetuated since the 1500s. Look up some of the shots taken with the Nikon P9000, then come back.

The limitation of what you can see is caused by both the vanishing point, and the amount of moisture in the air. What is assumed to be a ship going 'over the horizon' is merely a limitation of your ability to see it. Modern optics have proven that theory false.
It’s not sexy but we use both Azure table storage and Amazon Redshift and they are nosql in my book.
distributed !== decentralized
Of ants and men: Ant behavior might mirror political polarization
It fails in the sense that the rate of curvature expected on a sphere of that size cannot be seen or measured anywhere. Here's a curvature calculator from a non-geocentric site

https://dizzib.github.io/earth/curve-calc/?d0=30&h0=10&unit=...
I chose to shorten the title in the way that I did because I hoped it would help focus the discussion on the civil liberties and surveillance aspects rather than on the specifics of Smollet's case. Happily, based on the comments so far, this seems to have worked.

I also worried that if I used his name, it would be flagged as off-topic before any useful discussion could happen. Does this explanation this match your assumption? One of the odd things about "we all know" is that often enough, we don't all know, or even agree.
I don't think it makes a whole lot of sense to talk about "assassinating" soldiers any more than "terrorist attacks" on them. Those are things done to civilians by definition. We certainly don't want to promote the idea that "collateral damage" is necessary for a military operation to be ethical.

I think terrorism has a perfectly good definition - political lobbying/influence "by other means" than conventional politics, i.e. attacking and terrorizing civilians. Doesn't matter who does it or how exactly.

Maybe the US government doesn't exactly use that definition, but that doesn't mean there is no such thing as terrorism.
I apologize, I edited it out.
Inkjets came after laser printers. Gary saved us from the rat-tat-tat-tat of the dot matrix printer.

Very annoying sound.
Not true -- he has just stepped back from a leadership role afaict.
No. The issue is they all weren't sure how much truth to admit to, until it went up the chain of command. Decisions like this are hard when you have a web of deceit to navigate.
Today I went to Tesco - a large supermarket in the UK - to buy 3 items required for dinner. I also planned to buy some chocolate of some sort.

I bought the requirements, and passed by a the crisps (potato chips) aisle on my way to the chocolate. A glance half an aisle away told me that one of the three or four kinds of crisps my partner takes to work was on offer, I had half an aisles walking where I thought about it and ended up buying it.

In the chocolate aisle I ended up buying a large bag of white chocolate that was particularly well priced (I could read every label from one place). As chocolate is a guilty luxury I've been known to leave without it if my deliberations last too long; being able to parse the information quickly led to a purchase.

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So that is why. Most shoppers are both immediately price driven and don't want to be there. This can be used to increase spends.
thanks trump
> Seriously? As someone in a rural area who is [...] NO. You cannot say that.

Sure but you're just one person out of millions. We're trying to compare populations. And obviously the prior poster didn't mean that every rural person who moves to a city is more intelligent/ambitious than every person who stays, but you knew that already (note how you didn't object to more liberal, presumably because it doesn't carry a value judgment with it and also because it's clearly true in an important sense).

I haven't seen any studies, but it is very plausible to me that people who up and leave tend to be more intelligent and ambitious, if only because it's a costly thing to do and income/wealth correlates with everything good.
I would agree with you if our legal systems were built for that, but our legal systems are built to deal with a society that has privacy. People unknowingly commit crimes, or implicate themselves in crimes, all the time, because there are too many ways to do that. No reasonable person can be expected to avoid committing crimes when the government itself can't even keep track of the number of criminal laws there are.[0] You're supposed to follow rules that the government itself can't even keep count of. This works reasonably well as long as the government doesn't have evidence about everything you've done, but the moment that they can track a large chunk of your life is when this system stops working.

With data from Google they can prosecute you for all the things you've done wrong or seem to have done wrong. It just takes an ambitious prosecutor to do it. This pretty much destroys the point of the fifth amendment. The "Don't Talk to the Police" lecture [1] is still relevant today, but if the state has this much evidence of what you do, then I'm not sure that will protect people. It is a nightmare scenario if this sets a precedent on law enforcement being able to vacuum up all of your data about your life.

I agree that Smollett seemingly getting a slap on the wrist was outrageous, but I think that this is Pandora's Box that they're playing with.

[0] https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/03/frequent-reference-questio...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
I might be missing it, but where is the actual OpenVPN source for this fork? There are only a few files in the `src` directory, and most of them appear to be wrapping shell commands and the iptables/netfilter API.

Edit: It appears to be here: https://github.com/AirVPN/openvpn3-airvpn
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Sometimes the contents almost don't matter. For example, if you saw multiple letters from an oncology department to a household, followed by letters from government departments and a funeral home, it wouldn't be hard to figure out what was going on.

It's the exact same problem with phone metadata. The connections can be made to tell the story, and are even easier to manipulate into whatever narrative the prosecution wants to sell.

In my example, you probably thought "person has cancer, household receives letters from the government post-death, bill from the funeral home", which is exactly how it could be sold. But it could just as easily be "person beating cancer, household receives government forms related to healthcare subsidies, funeral home letter was a condolence letter sent one year after the death of their parent." This is why metadata is so dangerous, it's far too easy to spin.
Yeah it's way too expensive. I decided that it probably technically is net positive for organizations with a heavy billable hours situation (contract engineering shops) because it can easily save more than $60/mo per person of time/accuracy.

That doesn't mean I was willing to pay $60/mo/pp though, and ended up not.

However, I still think it's the best product in its category right now and given the disappointing state of product design these days, I don't expect anyone to catch up to its interface. I'd love if an open-source group did though.
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A lot of those 'most livabe' or 'best city' / region articles are just a collection of data sets that often leave some things out.

I remember the early days of those articles they often came up with random bedroom communities / suburbs that just fit the stats, or excelled at a few stats and that tipped the balance.
> State has a duty to prosecute law breakers. This is a load bearing wall of civil society. Everywhere.

That doesn't mean there should be enormous databases of everything people do for the state to access at will.
Repurposed to use more modern AND sustainable agriculture techniques (regenerative agriculture, permaculture, conservative agriculture, ...). You certainly have heard of some of those.

As for how we will feed 11 billion people by the end of the century. This is a very reasonable question to ask. Sustainable agriculture has reduced yields, so maybe we wouldn't have enough to feed the world anymore. But, again, you are looking at the wrong culprit.

There is already more than enough food to feed the world. Food waste, food distribution problems and our questionable appetite for meat are dragging us down.

The problem of world hunger is NOT a "global food production limit" problem. Of course, we shouldn't ship food from the USA to Africa, though. But the phosphate imported from Western Sahara for our fertilizers? Maybe they could use that, to kick-start an agricultural revolution.

Although, if your question was "how to feed 11 billion people without changing anything to our current food industry", the answer is we won't, since we have established that the traditional methods are unsustainable. People will die, either from hunger or from climate-related catastrophes.
TL;DR - Business tax incentives are not structured appropriately causing unequal distribution skewing towards bigger corporations with very minal returns in jobs/benefits to locals and few states paying businesses out of its citizen money.

Mentions threat/schemes by companies to move their businesses elsewhere to leverage tax incentives.

Link to the actual paper: https://economics.princeton.edu/2020/01/06/new-data-on-state...
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CSIRO did something like this with their Zebedee system[0], basically a Hokuyo 2D spinning lidar on a spring on a handheld stick. I love this from a design perspective, because it's very usage focused. You already have a human walking around site scanning, and a spring like this gives you the pitch and roll for "free", compared to panning it using an (expensive/heavy/clunky) electromechanical mechanism.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUEAz_naHHg