skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For the UK to grant BN(O) holders citizenship to show that they are no longer bound by the Sino-UK Joint Declaration.

BN(O)s are already British Nationals (hence the 'BN'), what they're missing is Right of Abode in the UK.
The request was vague, but insurance industry figures are going to be the best breakdown by vehicle you can get in the US. NHTSA stats are usually broken down by category of vehicle.
The flip side of the water heater test is, you could game the test the other way too. Making your water heater look worse than it is. Would you do that? No.

The difference between the water heater and VW is the water heater manufacturer is providing a representative sample. And VW was not. It'd also be dubious to say that the water heater company is acting in bad faith. Where VW's bad faith rose to the level of criminal. On the other hand Volvo appears to be acting in strictly good faith.

Bad faith for a crash test would be crafting a silver plate model for testing. Reminds me that's what my uncle said the power supply manufacturer he worked for did.
Will they keep most of the North team @ the google Kitchener-Waterloo location?
Katerra Lays Off More Than 400 Employees
This move will likely end the CCP. They are basically swallowing a poisonous pill that will destroy them from the inside.
It sounds great, and I've used a few, but you can't realistically walk around wearing them in the current form without people looking at you odd. It's not worth what they offer to be that much of a negative focus (see glassholes commentary for examples). I love new tech, but I won't touch smart glasses until you can't tell they are smart glasses. The Focals were closer but still very clearly weird looking and bulky when worn
The culture demands and thrives on capriciousness and emotional judgements.
a quick intro for programmers - Modelica is basically the equivalent of Haskell for engineers - the compiler does most of the work for you and produces highly performant code. You can compose a very complex system from individually modeled elements. The Modelica compiler will check constraints and basically come up with a system of equations. If it compiles, it is probably correct. The model wont compile if a particular variable is being modified in two places. Models have full introspection where you can observe any variable you choose.
In my experience, it isn't Jira that people hate, it is the horrible rules and bureaucracy-ridden workflows that Jira allows an admin to implement.

My team switched back to Jira after trying several other tools and we're pretty happy.
Seems like an odd conflict -- the original README from the first commit [1] says "Improved and changed on top of `react-native-image-gallery`."

[1] https://github.com/Luehang/react-native-gallery-swiper/commi...
I don't think anyone would think that, because my policy is only to sell to teams that recycle. The details and intentions do matter. At a stretch, I can imagine a scenario where recycling companies were for some reason not giving people of color fair access, and that as a result they were being hurt down the chain by my business not supporting them now. Those are the kinds of systems we need to work to identify and change and they do exist.
Sounds exactly like the opening of the book pandoras star by Peter Hamilton... Lets hope the rest of the book doesnt play out too!
Very interesting!

> a solid state microled chip with microlenses

For someone with no knowledge about AR hardware, how is this different (from the perspective of the end user) than a traditional hololens style display?
Btw, nobody is forcing anyone to use any packages from npm. You can easily use whatever repository you want. You can store your dependencies in your source repositories together with you application or another entirely separate repo.

JavaScript is a huge, perhaps the biggest, software ecosystem in the world. There is a vast amount of code out there and you are going to get some bad stuff if you are not careful. This does not mean it is bad at the core. It means that it comes at the cost of doing security work upfront if you care about this. while benefiting from the crowd-sourced experience of the masses.
> Do you expect police to just stand around and wait until people feel like following lawful orders?

Yes? If they're incapable of enforcing their orders without hurting people they should not be trying to enforce them.

It's bloody alien seeing Americans arguing over this sort of thing as if there's a context that makes hurting the people you're sworn to protect okay. The rest of the world seems to understand what the point of police is.
OEMs in the US market still absolutely have to meet unbelted crash performance requirements.

Fortunately modern airbags can be a bit more advanced than just having one "tune" for all situations. Depending on whether an occupant is buckled or not, the airbag control unit can elect to provide different amounts of restraint by controlling the timing of dual-staged inflators, and also cushion vents can be opened or closed either passively or electronically based on what cushion stiffness characteristic is needed.

I've heard that people buy seat-belt extenders or plug in a seat-belt behind their back in order to make the seat-belt reminder chime deactivate (and these chimes are only getting more aggressive) but it's worth noting that in any of the vehicles with this kind of conditional deployment logic they're exposing themselves to an even higher likelihood of being injured. Not to mention the people who straight just cut the wires to their seat-belt sensor.

I'm sure many people would love if the unbelted requirements could just go away, but until unbelted occupants stop accounting for such a large share of injuries/fatalities I don't think they will.
Haven’t you heard of DredMorbius’s Law of Eponymity?
> Many of us do believe this. Absolutely.

I think it is empirically not true, if you look at your Github history for example, sometimes you produce less change and sometimes a lot more. It corresponds to the fact (or at least a feeling) that some things are clear and can be easily done while some require some thinking or experimentation before they can be done.

And it's even less true if you restrict the requirement to only functional changes to the code (not just refactorings or productivity improvements or code reduction with preservation of the functionality). These things have to be mentally planned even more and that requires even longer periods of apparent inactivity.

> The smaller the steps you take, the smaller the risk you step in the wrong direction.

I don't think that's how it works. Risks are risks, whether you're taking small steps or not. If you don't know if your DB will break at 1000 users, it's a risk regardless how small steps you take to introduce the DB to your code.

Personally, I prefer to attack the biggest known risks first (for example, make prototype, measure it). But that flies in the face of other Scrum requirements, like getting some feature completely done in smaller chunks.
It would've been interesting if they'd tried to compile a list of all the books that existed at all the closed libraries, and then only lent up to the limits of that list (which would continue to expand as more data were added), but I don't think anyone would argue that was practical to do at the time. The whole country can be shuttered at a moment's notice, compiling data like that takes tremendous effort.

However, in retrospect, I suspect the case might hinge on someone actually compiling that data. Did they, at any point, lend more copies of any particular title than existed at the time within all the shuttered libraries combined?
> If I steal your car, I have a car and you don't have a car. If I "steal" your book, we both have the book. I'm better off, and you're no worse off. In an "ideal" society, the free sharing of knowledge would be not just allowed, but encouraged.

Up until now, the value of a book has been set by the author, and reinforced by scarcity. Entire large economic models and systems have been built by tying the two together. What is supply and demand, when supply is infinite?

Basically, the author puts in some amount of thought and labor writing a book, and they get rewarded by a purchase. Capitalism is heavily based on this: "Labor results in production, production is rewarded by consumers, because they need to part with some money to benefit for the end result". The last item is no longer true, which has ripple effects all the way up the chain.

No wonder people want to bring back the economic models and systems of capitalism they're familiar with, by enforcing scarcity -- thousands of years of societal and economic development might be upended by new technology.

Libraries have always been a thorn in the side of capitalism, but they've usually been constrained and limited enough that they aren't a real threat. With the ease of digital copying, the seams are starting to tear much faster now.

Some want to dismantle copyright but keep the rest of the capitalist system in place, untouched, which I don't really see as realistic. I think the two are much more closely linked than you might imagine. If we're going to be overhauling the whole thing, we need to have systems in place for the huge societal impact it will have.

You fill in the rest of the dots for what new systems one might prefer over capitalism, and charting the course for what comes next, that can support people. At the very least, capitalism might just be on its way out.
I’m working on TaskSift which, although it’s not a pure issue tracker, does use a mix of sources like email, github, etc as its source of truth when it comes to issue status.

We struggled quite a bit with getting this status thing right, finally settling for model where user stories inside TaskSift are based on multiple inbound tickets (each with a different status), and where each story can be published eg to GitHub, QA queue, an l10n tool, etc again each with its own status and completion time.

Once all published tasks are finished the folks who contributed to the inbound tickets can all be notified, and the tickets can be closed, either from within TS or using the tool in which the ticket was created originally (Zendesk etc).
"Judges can order people to be put to death." That's a true statement, and in my opinion not deceptive, because capital punishment is widely understood as a thing that exists, and that it is treated as a punishment for certain crimes for which a person has been duly convicted. No reasonable person hears "Judges can order people to be put to death" and thinks "Wow, so a rogue judge could just order me to be killed for no reason and that would be it, game over for me?"

My claim is that "a US judge can order to you be sterilized without your knowledge and you can do nothing about it nor can anything be done to the judge." is not like the previous statement, because it only applies in an extremely limited (at the time; possibly not at all now, I don't know) set of circumstances with which an ordinary layperson would not be familiar.
What do you consider some of the good ones?
>You are not given any of the context of what happened in these situations. If there's video the video starts when the conflict is already full swing, you're not seeing anything that led up to the situation.

If only there was some sort of recording device that we can put on police officers, and either they can be trusted not to "accidentally" turn it off when an incident occurs or is always-on.
I suppose you could say that if 500k Americans won't require the drug during July then the US are indeed hoarding it.

To test your morality think about how you would feel if China discovers a vaccine first and keeps the first 2bn doses for its own people. Then India, Russia, Europe, Africa and the US gets it 2 years later?
Whatever the UI is now, doesn't speak for what it used to be over the years. The cumulative effect matters.

There are tons of people with @icloud.com email addresses that they never use who will fall into the login / customer support traps described in the article.

But sure let's not even acknowledge those very real problems, deny Apple's role in this, and blame users. That will surely solve the issues.
Some similar work: https://www.willusher.io/webgl-volume-raycaster/#Hydrogen%20... , though caveat, that while labeled "Hydrogen Atom", the density shown is of just one state of the electron; http://phelafel.technion.ac.il/~orcohen/DFTVisualize.html .

There are many more visualizations that show total electron density rather than individual states. Though arguably far far too few, given how pervasively unsuccessfully these topics are taught.

If you'd like to explore, GPAW https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/gpaw/ can be useful. Here's a random example of use: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Engineering/Labs/Peterson/...
The current US administration doesn't have a foreign policy. It barely has a domestic policy. At most it has a collection of excited utterances.
I mean, that makes sense if we assume that cars are sphere-shaped with consistent density. Of course, they aren't.

I guess what I was looking for was actual data, not assumptions.
TikTok also is violating COPPA. Any underage child that signs up with a Google Account, you can clearly see from the Google account settings that they are collecting email addresses and other personal information. I believe Google and other app store providers should just remove them.
I think postgres uses plain-old git for their repos.

https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git
Can these LTO drives and tapes be used reasonably for a continuous backup system? What I want is something that just mirrors all disk writes to the tape so the tape ends up as essentially a log of all disk writes since the tape was inserted.

That could have a lot of starting and stopping on the tape, which might be bad so it would be acceptable to have some sort of buffering so that the tape only needs to be written when a lot of changes have accumulated.
Yes, but morticians don't care whose fault it is.
No. As explained above acting as legal council for someone who has broken the law does not make you yourself be "on the wrong side of the law".
You're such a racist for reporting that. White lives don't mater. Get on your knees and beg for forgiveness for being white, and quit your job to make room for a black person.
Google maps detects copied addresses and lets you route to them in one click.
> Not only are you not given the context, but you're only given one side of the story. I'm sure if you asked the police what happened, their story would be completely different. But you're only being allowed to get the story from one side, and that side is insanely politically motivated to exaggerate, and do everything they can to make the police look bad, because it strengths their political positions.

Is that... is that not exactly, precisely, what we should be expecting from the police side as well? I think that's the entire point, isn't it? At best, their credibility has been called into question. At worst, their credibility has been drug out into the street and kneeled on until it expired.
Read the article, he was found in direct violation of 10 provisions of the state judicial code by a full enquiry. This has nothing to do with road safety. He did the same thing to hundreds of other people too poor to pay fines for all sorts of things.
Yeah — trust level is only one component of a multivariate calculus that we call graph compile. So it's very possible for the trust only to take milliseconds when it's the only thing you compile with objects that only carry trust, but Aether compiler also moves the content around too. To give you a sense of the real world results, our initial compile takes multiple minutes even with binary (0 or 1) trust, even if only a vanishingly small portion of it is actually calculating trust. If an object is made dirty, regardless of the reason, it has to be touched, loaded into memory and processed. The disk is where you it the bottleneck. If your dataset fits into memory (mind that Aether has to work with computers with 4gb of RAM) then yes the whole thing is milliseconds. But once you start to do sequential reads on what might not even be SSD, you want to avoid any sort of dirtying if you can. Gradient Trust is one of the worst offenders in that almost any change to it dirties almost the whole graph.
What an ML tool that turns Obama white can (and can’t) tell us about AI bias
I've seen those before. So a basically unknown neo-marxist group gloms onto a grassroots movement. So what? Are you daft enough to think they speak for them now?

And, ffs, what does on earth does "trained marxist" even mean? I repeat my question: is it like a "trained capitalist"? If not, why not?
This article is depressing.

What I find troubling is not only what's in the article, but what's left out. There is no call to action, there is no information provided as to what a reader can do, to help fix this disaster.

It leaves you feeling deflated, because now what? Now you go about the rest of your day with this burden of knowledge.

This is very common with these types of stories - it's not enough to complain, you need to provide a set of potential solutions or else people begin treating these stories the way they do homeless people - they just learn to ignore them.

Maybe that's what these newspapers want or are coerced into - that'd be the darkest and most sinister interpretation.
Similar to how people were all about supporting Firefox in another thread, there is also a need to support entities other than the dreaded cable monopoly and support those companies that bring about innovation. Even if they happen to be companies that have money to burn. I would happily pay Google twice what I would pay Comcast.

Having money to burn doesn’t mean they should burn it. We need responsible companies making sane decisions
Ah! I can see that in a GAN architecture. That makes much more sense.

It wasn't clear from your original post that you were augmenting generated images, not real data.
Case Study: Zoom’s Freemium Offer of the Fastest Growing SaaS Tool of All Time
It takes years for a conviction to become finalized. He was temporarily suspended in April 2012, while he appealed his conviction. The Third Circuit denied his habeas petition on March 2019. He was disbarred in October 2019. http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/DisciplinaryBoard/out....
The End of Elliot
I really really don't understand why devices don't routinely come with a physical (not software) write-protect switch on them. Disk drives should come with them. Routers should come with them (so malware cannot install itself). Etc.
I was glad to see the canonical URL issue mentioned in your post, since that was the main thing bugging me about Substack. Thanks for writing this!

When I sent Substack Support an email about the issues of content ownership and canonical URLs in late May this year, I got this response:

>On Substack writers own all of their content, but we don't support synchronizing with external website or have external websites as the canonical url. Substack is meant to be the home for individual writers. Sorry about that

I love many things about Substack. Chiefly, the user experience of setting up the newsletters, and the iframe embed (though it can be improved) are great.

But I hope Substack reconsiders what their idea of being a "home for individual writers" means. Substack shouldn't have to be the source of my content, but rather be the plumbing for it. It seems not supporting custom canonical URLs was a conscious decision to force me to make Substack the source of my content, which is disappointing.

I'll have to look into ConvertKit in the meantime.
While it may be questionable action, I don't believe he did anything wrong in the spirit of the license nor legally.

In fact, the original author was sloppy only mentioning the license type in the package.json and failing to include the full text with the copyright notice.

Which reminds me, I should probably add the copyright and license text on my own stuff. Not that I wish to be recognized but the disclaimer is good...
You could try one of the Chinese android phones, like Xiaomi. Make sure to get an Asian import, because some models have an US/European export edition with the normal Google ecosystem.

This is an interesting experience in what a fully functional phone not from Google/Apple can be like. It may not be able to run the usual apps though, unless you install the playstore manually.
Persecution complex?
While hard to apply, the correct answer is pretty obvious: identify the invariants of your system, and make sure your inputs abide those invariants. To do this, there are two complementary approaches: you can parse your input into something intelligible and safe for your system, or you can reject invalid input.

The hard part is identifying the invariants of your system. But (and I know I'll sound like Dijkstra), that hard part is also the minimum bar. If you don't know what it takes for your system to behave correctly, how can you hope to build a correct (and therefore secure) system to begin with?

Some people love to say "don't roll your own crypto", with the strong implication that whoever is trying to it is not competent enough. Well, the same applies to any server exposed to the internet, any moderately interactive website, any network library, any video decoder, any compiler… all those things have the potential to go catastrophically wrong in the face of hostile input, and therefore should be held to similarly high standards.

Here's my advice:

1. Make sure you understand invariants, and why they matter.

2. If you don't, train yourself. It may take years.

3. Validate your inputs (but you already know that by now).

Not helpful? Sorry pal, programming takes time to learn, and I don't have the time to teach.
Open source projects generally want an exact feature-for-feature copy of GitHub that looks and works exactly like GitHub, except open source.

If Phabricator was this, there would be no reason for paying customers to ever choose it over GitHub, because paying customers generally do not care if a solution is open source or not.

But the bigger impact of this change was not a product impact at all: it was that interacting with paying customers is something I generally enjoy and feel good about, and interacting with open source users is something I generally hated and felt miserable about.

For whatever reason, Phabricator attracted a large number of users who wanted to argue with me about every technical decision, insist that whatever feature they wanted should be the highest upstream priority, suggest I should pay them for their "valuable suggestions" because they are an important CEO, take offense when I asked them to please please please read the documentation and provide reproduction instructions, bump every open task asking for status updates, etc. This stuff had a huge net cost to the project and only got worse over time as the project grew.

Writing off open source installs allowed me to stop dealing with all of this.
What is wrong with Play Services, why is it malware?
> "A lot of people have this opinion because they are more familiar with v1's wired-in actions, which can become quite unruly."

u/PufPufPuf only mentions the lack of ecosystem, nothing about the wired-in actions/etc, so it's odd that you defend v1 vs v2 instead of the lack of ecosystem here. This should probably have been a reply to that thread as well because otherwise it's two very unrelated comments in the list.
Interesting to see an article about Antarctica that doesn't mention the effects of global warming on the ice sheets. Kudos to the writer for keeping the story focused on the personal insights in cold, isolated world instead of the usual decrying (which is of course important but an off-topic to this story). So I do believe that the writer gained sheer amount of focus.