skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am French and this is the first time I hear of that.

After checking the sources, there is indeed a law passed, it needs an extra vote end July and then it is up to the site to cooperate.

Otherwise the can be blocked after a trial.

Which means in clear text that this is a law passed so that someone can put a checkmark on a list.

The funny thing is that there wqs a proposal to use FranceConnect, or uber serious portal allowing unified login to serious sites (tax, health,...). Having a porn site using this would be memorable.
Stitchdata.com, the maker of the ETL tools Stitch and Singer.io, is a different company (and is not being acquired).
Maybe. But, he calmed down, and corrected his mistake after some rethinking.
And what about gnome and gnome devs?
Hot take on classes in JavaScript not being as bad as people say they are
That’s fair, and I assume it worked out ok for you in the end. I imagine people who are able to pull that off know who they are. Definitely understand the trade off.

I just think as general advice for young programmers, “work 60+ hour weeks” is very much the wrong message. Stay healthy and let your passion drive your work.
I don't think Apple is the best at this. Yes they limit the things you mention, but they don't limit visibility to things like the app list... This can already be quite revealing in some cases.

Google has in my opinion the better approach with work profile. Only give the MDM control and visibility over the work area and nothing else.

Apple has started heading into this direction with User Enrolment but it's not sufficient for most companies as it only allows built-in apps to be used for both work and personal data. And it requires Apple account federation which is problematic.
As mentioned in the BBC’s Science in Action podcast

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszh0k
Interesting concept. I imagine web pages which behave like a shared Google doc.
I've heard good things about https://www.finaleinventory.com/ but haven't tried them yet.
True, containers are all the rage, but it is quite arduous to move a database from one cloud provider to another.
Thank you, yes it is always on.

I already have replaced the car cigarette lighter usb thing with a proper buck converter but it reduced power usage with maybe 5% or less.

I need to update my article on that.
Ah, but this point has yet to be proved to even a small degree. Neural models of very simple organisms do tend to show that adequate connectome models appear to be enough to produce similar behaviors, but we know for a fact that there's a ton of biochemistry going on in the brain that we will not be able to replicate with just the connectome.

If I were a betting person, I would wager that the connectome is enough to get something like intelligence, but that without the biochemistry the entire system is unstable in some way. The chemistry that we see in the brain is far more complicated than what would be required to minimally sustain the cells. There's a reason all of this chemistry is going on, and unfortunately I think we're going to find that intelligence just cannot exist as we know it without the chemistry. If that's true, then we're talking hundreds of years before we have computers powerful enough to model the chemistry at the requisite level.
There where a lot of horror stories about random people spying on "you" through mac webcams. Like in the sense that they hope to capture NSFW material and similar.

Most of this stories where not actually happening, I don't remember exactly but I think they came from a single story of targeted hacker attacks where such a thing actually happened and then people got blackmailed.

But it's was more comparable to some rumors which wildly spread and then many non technical people ended up believing and which somewhat had a truth at it's core somewhere so it's not easy to just put it of as "mad up".

Also it happened like a 5+ years ago, it just stuck with a lot of non tech people somehow. And it (normally) doesn't hurt so tech people aren't that likely to tell people that this isn't quite right. It's often already hard enough to convince them to do any privacy focused actions.
The Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham.
Unfortunately, they're not even as good as phone front cameras because laptop screens are so thin. So people who do a lot of video chatting typically set up an external webcam or even a real camera in video mode.
The article doesn't mention permaculture. Permaculture has been used commercial settings (and its design principles includes agroforestry). Permies have been talking about resilient and regenerative systems for a long while now, going beyond sustainability.

Permaculture design looks at the whole system. So not just trees, but also things to plant with the trees. With planting along contours and adding swales to catch rainfall, and direct it to flow through everything. Incorporating animals into the system, such as grazers (cows, sheep, goats), and micrograzers (chickens, ducks, geese).

Probably the biggest thing not discussed in the article is how permaculture design can lead to decentralized food systems. A decentralized food system is not something that VCs can invest capital in and expect multiple returns on, but I think in the long run, that is where we as a civilization need to move towards.
Yeah, I have the X1 Carbon and there is nothing that is ever going to make me as comfortable as a little piece of plastic that sldies in front of the lens of the camera.
Then just make a shortcut. Depending on your browser `firefox --ssb $URL` or `chromium --app=$URL`.
https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePlainBagel/ - Not really a course, but this guy gives really good advice on stock trading and investing without all the bullshit
How do I join this group?
> unless there's a physical switch to disconnect

The light indicator in modern webcams is a "physical" indicator. Sure, it won't stop it from being hacked, but it will light up whenever it is active. That part can't be hacked, since it's in the hardware.
The only evidence I need to see that what the author refers to is very much a serious concern for everyone is that everytime I refresh this comment section another comment agreeing with the author disappears. I used to defend the folks that participated in the doxxing and very real harassment of people they didn't agree with as misguided, but I've become convinced it's nothing more than malicious at this point. Such a grand scale of people can't lack that much self awareness.
Why Isn't California Criticized Like Florida on Covid-19?
Other thing I was wondering about, I saw you have a percentage on battery what about "hours left". Not sure if that's easy to accurately estimate.
This is a post you would see on Reddit..
Then it seems we are in agreement. I would guess the one gray area where we do not definitely agree is to what extent deplatforming should be a thing. I am of the view that deplatforming campaigns are a manifestation of cancel culture. What do you think?
I mean, he's not wrong.

Existence of locale means you essentially cannot safely use standard libc string functions in library code or in threaded software, particularly when interacting with a file format where stuff like number formatting is normative.

The fixes are really pretty incomplete and the result is people ending up having to ship their own implementations of these functions ... which interacts poorly with all the effort going in to harden string functions because they're a constant source of vulnerabilities.

The situation for libraries that call libraries where the middle library really needs to get things right and the called library can be more YOLO about it is ... pretty absurd.
I am a HN lurker. study biology. far from the tech world. but I love following. far from everything on HN I understand in depth. however, I find a community of people interested in the situation of the world, so although my field of study is far from the usual insight perceived in this community, 0s and 1s are not that far from the line of thought in molecular biology with genetic backwards engineering of DNA ┌(・。・)┘
I hear this all the time but I have to say I have not seen actual data that supports it.

To take perhaps the highest-profile issue when it comes to judges: access to abortion remains federally protected today despite the last 5 Republicans promising to nominate judges to reverse that.
The thing is, "market forces" (= large corporations) might "solve" it by relying on the use of cheap energy from fossil fuels for doing online vision processing. And then you've converted one sustainability problem into another.

(Which may not be a terrible trade-off, but still.)
Steve Jobs called them ‘a feature’. Methinks you are right, that they will be gone in 5
In a competitive market, wouldn’t you expect the costs and benefits to converge?
Broken Windows – Right Idea, Bad Analogy
Except, if the vast majority of your bug reports come from that Desktop Environment, and noone wants to step up and support it, this might be the best option.

I've worked on projects where I have wanted to do similar things, just refuse to work on systems i know are buggy and I do not have the time to fix.
I wumbo. you wumbo. he she we wumbo
Because it shields the fact you're going through Tor. Tor network traffic alone is a red flag that you're doing something shady, even if it isn't sufficient proof.

A comical example is when a Stanford student used Tor to call in a bomb threat to get out of an exam. Turns out he was one of two people on the entire campus network using Tor. The police talked to him and he admitted to it.

(Side note: if you're going to do crimes don't admit to them when asked.)
Clearly I need to spell this out more clearly. Do you believe that support of Trump should be without consequences? I don't have the details of the three cases discussed above, but the lack of detail is exactly the problem: It paints politics as a game that we can supposedly play with no real-world results. I object to that framing (as well as the framing that any degree of "support" for a candidate is equally damning).
If anyone would like the slides for this presentation, they are available here:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uXTud6gZaIhJ3aLDuCup...
Generics in the sense of C++ templates can be a compile time killer. However generics in the sense of HM type systems are basically just asking the compiler to fill in the type for you, which it has already figured out. HM type inference in general is ~O(n) (and exponential in the worst case, but you basically have to try to do that)
I think the best way is to learn how to read and understand financials, like a 10-Q, and other basic concepts and then get going on either a real account (with say 5% of what you intend to invest down the line) or paper trading. However a real account will be much more educational because with paper trading/investing you’ll be inclined to ignore losses or make money taking much greater risks than you’d want to make with actual money. Just do a ton of googling, most financial books I read have not been super helpful, if you are only doing stocks there are frankly not a lot of concepts to learn.

Personally I would not recommend “trading” as an amateur at all. If you are investing over months/years that’s one thing, but making money long term over <1 week time spans on stocks is quite hard. I think the appeal of amateur “trading” is that it’s job-like but the reality is that you’re not going to make significant money with a smallish account, retail tools, and no professional experience.

In general I would never advise joining a course or “paid discord” or on stock trading. Those are pretty much all scams. There are some real, formerly successful traders that do these but the one I’m familiar with basically went broke several times because he opened himself up to too much risk (which is why you don’t see a lot of successful traders selling courses, they are too busy making money trading). Some of these courses also sell straight up misinformation like Technical Analysis
> gnome shell (which takes as much memory as the average electron application).

I don't know a ton about it but I assume gnome-shell is where all the JS (which I gather is a huge thing in Gnome now) runs, judging from how crashy and resource-gobbling it is.

> the new KDE is surprisingly light

I had a strong aversion to KDE because I never liked how it made non-K* apps feel out-of-place, and I prefer almost none of the K* apps to other (largely GTK) alternatives, plus it used to be (talking many years ago) far heavier both in feel/performance and compile time than Gnome, but yeah, that's what I've switched to, and it performs far better. "Foreign" apps no longer feel as out-of-place as they used to and with some tweaking I don't hate the appearance.

What they've done to Gnome is so bizarre. I even kinda like the look & feel but damn, it's way too big a pig to be always-on on my machine.
No, the point is that old light indicators were done in software (and were open to exploits), whereas newer indicators have all since moved to being wired right in the hardware. The power of the webcam lights up the indicator.
They are also absurdly expensive and their sales team are aggressive.

While setting up infrastructure for my current employer I was required to get a quote from them as an existing customer. I expected them to be more expensive than everything else but it was a shock, at the time their IaaS was roughly 4 times the price of any competitor with some extreme limitations such as bandwidth with an expensive per GB rate if you go over. They also recommended dedicated hosting offering to set up an antiquated DB fail over system and claimed to offer 24 hour phone support for a total price I could have hired someone to work as a dedicated sysadmin.

I went with Linode, over provisioning everything for a fraction of the price, I don't expect 24 hour support but stuff gets sorted out quickly when things go wrong on the other side of the hypervisor, Linode are also more transparent in my experience when pushed about issues. With Rackspace they make me feel the way that sleazy salesman that scares you into the extra insurance you get sold with hire cars and then feel like a fool for for afterwards - I can only assume their market is for people who would rather comfort themselves with expensive support than invest in the time to set up a reliable system with a DRP.

... that ended up way more negative than I expected, but, it's just my anecdote.
I'm pretty sure the poster you replied to meant the original Guild Wars, which, so far as I'm aware of, was a 'buy once, and play for life' model. No micro transactions there.
EmbraerX EVTOL Electric Take-Off and Landing
But who then creates the filter software and not to say obeys Government's orders of wanting a backdoor.

That way the goverment gets a list of naughty people who have requested porn.

It's the chicken or the egg scenario.
This is like focusing on the brakes and forgetting to install an airbag.
Not bad. Just mostly unnecessary
What Should We Do with 45,000 Half-Empty Public Buildings?
It's quite similar to the one I've been using on my 2018 15" MBP for the past two years. Can you give more information on the cause of the problem?
Did you close the macbook very firmly and it broke?
We can do better than that. You can, for example, plant nitrogen fixers directly as a companion plant for the plants that are heavy feeders. (Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)) (But you'd still have to rotate out tomatoes and other nightshade family plants because of accumulated toxins in the soil).

There's a way to do this kind of a thing with perennials, and better yet, in the backyard or in the neighborhood garden. That is as local and "farm to table" as you can get.
Surprisingly, that's not quite true.

That is, people do need food, but humanity over-produces food massively already [1]. And in many countries, you'll collapse economically if you try to live by selling food - and it's government subsidies which keep farming afloat.

[1] - Of course there's also massive hunger due to the failure of our species to more reasonably distribute the food it produces, biases in which kinds of food get produced where and when etc.
I've used a sticker from a banana for years on my work phone.

I'm weird though, I'm one of those people that needs to have their arm twisted to use their camera.
Pretty cool, and nicely documented! Thanks for this, I really enjoyed it.
Turn on "Show Dead" in your profile. The posts will all become visible and can be linked to (although you will need to instruct potential viewers to also enable the profile setting).
Companies aggressively take action against its employees who are pro-union, pro-labor, or anti-corporate. Example amazon 2 months ago: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-fires-warehouse-worke...
Even the battery % is a guesstimate, but I think it's possible. It's a nice idea. Thank you.
The easiest solution: opaque scotch tape
Nope, but I believe there are a lot of horrid people who supported Trump. Providing these three supposed anecdotes serves only to muddy the conversation and peddle the "cancel culture" myth. Do people get fired for stupid reasons? Of course. Some of them even get fired because of stupid reasons that Twitter dug up. But that's a problem with labor rights, not a cultural shift.
Yeah, something I've seen become common in the Clojure ecosystem is for files to have a `(comment ...)` form at the bottom where forms which are commonly needed at the REPL when working with the file (e.g. to initialize some data or a database connection) are kept around. Editors like IntelliJ with Cursive have commands like "evaluate sexp before cursor" which lets you easy use them, and since they're all commented out they don't effect the normal execution of the code.
Not proud to be a Canadian whenever I see data presented like this about our telecom industry.

Watching the telecom oligopoly respond to any efforts to make the market more competitive is a masterclass in gaslighting, corporate doublespeak. Quite disgusting how we continue to allow them to get away with it and fail to hold politicians accountable for not fixing this problem.
Online bank Smile suffering multi-day outage
The author is just totally ignorant of large amounts of AGI research. See Tenenbaum for example.
For the second time this year, Amazon Games puts a new title into hiding
I said I don’t call for the abolition of the government. I want to reign it in. I want it to focus on a smaller set of regulations.
Supreme Court Rules on Faithless Electors in the Electoral College (2020)
> It's so interesting that we've arrived in a state where people, for good reason, cannot trust "their" devices in the slightest. On the computer where you do all your online banking or taxes or whatever, you don't feel safe without sticking something over the camera.

That really doesn't mean anything, because the people who post on here just like to not trust things. It makes them look cool when they're posting. You can always use evil maids or Russell's teapot or any argument you like as an excuse to be cynical, it's not like it can be disproven.
I don't really agree... I like the flexibility. Sometimes someone from the US calls me with an urgent problem in the evening (I'm in Europe so not much overlap in work hours).

So what... Sometimes I go to the shop or bank during the day. Or even a walk to the beach if it's not so busy. They're paying me to do a (global) job, not to sit at my desk between 9:00 and 17:00.

Personally I love this flexibility. And I don't feel like I work more than 40 hours, I don't even count them but I doubt I do, especially if I omit the time I spend during "working hours" reading hacker news or other stuff. My work is my hobby anyway.

I do think people who like having fixed work times should have the opportunity to have them. But I also think people like me should be able to work like this without it being considered a bad thing.
Even if they did claim that why should we trust that they did it correctly and without unintentional or intentional vulnerability?
Ask HN: How to zoom through a dense book on coding?
Take a 350 page computer book on coding. Anyone found some good tips for tackling denser matters? I find myself losing motivation half-way through.. even if it is essential reading!
I think you need to tone down your highly illegal and risky bird watching blog posts then.
Jada Pinkett Smith admits her relationship with August Alsina [video]
I have a feeling that Microsoft is going to launch an "Edgebook" competitor to Chromebook in the the future using Windows 10X. This obviously is good for the ecosystem all around, for tablets, phones, desktop, etc.
Maps like these give the false impression that nearly every square mile of land - even inhospitable desert regions, were once occupied by some native polity.

Reality check: Most indigenous peoples lived in Mesoamerica, with < 10 million in what is now USA/Canada and that's being generous. There are regions of North America today that have no residents. By what grounds are these native lands - because some nomads once wandered through there?
What is the x-axis?
I'd recommend gaffer's tape instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_tape. It's similar to electrical tape but it's designed to leave no residue when peeled off.
So you have to perpetually watch out for the LED indicator to see if it ever randomly turns on for 3 seconds? And what if it does come up unexpectedly? At this point it's too late and you've already been captured. A mechanical cover that can slide on and off the camera seems like much better security.
ACM US Technology Policy Committee Urges SCOTUS to Narrowly Interpret CFAA
Do you grant that some people may feel differently about the politics of Trump, or should we shape our cultural norms (after all, that's what we are talking about when we mention "cancel culture") around what YOU think is reasonable or unreasonable politics?
> Is that even the majority of use cases?

It's not, but consumers tend to insist on paying the same price no matter where. There used to be US carriers who offered rate plans with a low price in major metro areas, with a surcharge added for use in rural areas. The product made sense to me, but they ultimately didn't last long.

I think it's similar to the psychology of choosing to pay $50/mo for a 15GB/mo rate plan in order to ensure you never pay an overage charge, when you could do $30/mo for a 5GB/mo plan but get dinged $15 for an extra GB every other month. Big picture, we're talking $600 per year vs $450 per year, but that's not how human psychology works. Instead, we react to those six extra gigabytes costing $15 apiece, and choose to instead buy a bunch of gigabytes we won't use because the lower unit price gives us warm fuzzy feelings.

The numbers are (slightly) made up, but the situation isn't: My partner and I compulsively re-do this calculation in our heads 5 or 6 times a year, every time we get zinged with an overage charge and have another conversation about changing our rate plan. We know it's a waste of time, but we do it anyway, because dark patterns are powerful tools of manipulation.
Makes sense, bad errors is also why I don't use type inference in my code.
This is good advice for people who are sufficiently safe to not face any repercussions, but sufficiently narcissistic to think anyone cares that much about what they have to write.
Threats of all kinds are made every day, and often in completely legal contexts. Threats of violence are often less tolerated, but even in some contexts protected under freedom of speech.
Zuckerberg is probably compromised by multiple nation states in some way at any time.

It’s a very different threat than most people have.
If you click the "X time ago" link above a post, you can read it with full contrast.
Apparently the Strava app is also impacted, and probably others as well.
Testing on my phone at least, tape does nothing to prevent discernable audio from being recorded. I think the device would need to be encased to block the microphone