skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know what you mean by "Luddite", but historically, they were not anti-tech either. They broke machines to gain leverage and put pressure over employers to give better working conditions, and not because they hated machines.

There are many design patterns in regenerative agriculture that works, but are low-tech or no-tech. It isn't that you need to be anti-tech; it is that we don't need high tech to solve these problems. They are low-tech because you are allowing natural processes to do things on its own, for the most part. Nature, not technology, is the "automation".
>Nomadic life-ways aren't the thoughtless ramblings of a child at play

In 11th century eastern europe, Kipchaq nomads did the same - "wandering" as in following seasonal patterns within their lands. But it was not until the 17th century that the steppes were settled - and the settlers weren't Kipchaqs.

Imagine if a modern day Ukrainian was presented with a similar indigenous map based on nomadic groups that once roamed his country - it would stretch from the Danube to the Volga! Should we convert the entire pontic-caspian steppe into an indigenous zones for Nogais and Tatars who are related to the historical kipchaqs?
When I taught design for a year I was forced to give a lecture on how to do brainstorming as well. It just so happened that I hated classic brainstorming with a passion. So I subverted the lesson by making it a long rant about everything wrong about brainstorming, with research to back it up, while suggesting other methods of ideating together instead. I shared the link to the slides here once before, it seemed to be well-received (there were anonymous viewers looking at that presentation for many months after sharing) so I might as well link it again[0][1][2].

[0] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EYyS4AtRhNa6i299R_RB...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15237174

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15241373
Or, more accurately, he and his security experts are weighing the challenge of accurately assessing potential hardware failures against the $0.50 of tape which provably prevents them. If you’re a high-value target there is a lot to be said for layered defenses and easily verified safety measures.
See the several articles linked in this page about apple webcams/mics being turned on by hackers....

Apple is good, but they are not perfect
A great example of this working for real is Ghidra[0]! Funded by the government, a spectacular piece of open source software.

[0] https://ghidra-sre.org/
Well, I think the washrooms should be gender-neutral. That way, if one of them is full (or out of order), you can use another one. And if they only have one customer, then they don't need more than one washroom.
Reading all that makes me wonder - wouldn't the best solution simply be to dike out setlocale()? Maybe LD_PRELOAD or some linker fiddle (StackOverflow tells me this is possible). A lot of issues seem to be caused by random third party linked code calling setlocale() and breaking stuff.
Even without a static IP, it usually won't change that often. If it does change, then you can always update your DNS with the new IP automatically.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23725335

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23707920
Thanks for the feedback. Given that this is a Single Page Application built in React, what would you expect to see? Just some sort of messaging that says javascript is required? I have never considered/tried to handle this problem before so i dont know what is best.
Plug in a headphone cable that has the wire to the microphone cut. There’s also pre-made plugs on Amazon too (search “microphone blocker”).
Yep, for a decade Macs have been shipping with indicator lights hard wired to camera power.
Ethnically English. Can you read?
The word "computer" was a profession before it was a machine.

Programmers effectively emulate a compiler in their minds when they are programming. I don't see why it's so hard to accept that the brain has many "computer" capabilities, even if it's implemented with different materials.
While the object system is pretty rarely used [1], polymorphic variants see quite a bit of use and are also based on row types.

[1] Recently have been seeing a lot more use in BuckleScript because of the JS object representation
The Next Experiments in Elitism
Probably because it's more concrete than some abstract threat like the ad industry building a dossier on you, or the NSA spying on your web browsing habits and phone records. John Oliver uses this to great effect when talking about NSA surveillance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
Clojure[Script] is worth learning just to experience a REPL-driven development environment.

Some editors and IDEs support it better than others, though, notably Emacs and Atom. Cursive (for IntelliJ) is pretty good, and Calva (for VS Code) is promising, but they lag behind in polish and features when I tried them. For example, I don’t think Cursive has inline output next to the expression you’re evaluating like Proto-repl for Atom does, and once you’ve tried that you don’t want to live without it.

I don’t write much Clojure these days but miss the REPL-driven experience. I recently discovered Quokka and Wallaby for JavaScript/TypeScript:

https://quokkajs.com/

https://wallabyjs.com/

They offer a great experience that beats console.logging your way to success or step-through debugging by far.

Just highlight the expression you’re interested in and get inline output (in the paid version of Quokka) right in your editor, including evolution of values in for loops and the values of data retrieved from fetch requests. It has greatly shortened the feedback loop for me and both plugins were much easier to set up and configure than Clojure’s REPL integrations.
How many people are doing something that is worth the time to blackmail in front of a camera and have the means to pay a substantial sum of money compared to the value of corporate secrets?

Also what are the chances that a microphone wouldn’t overhear something incriminating even if the camera were covered in your bedroom?

And I am really not trying to go down the road of wondering if you are doing something incriminating in your bedroom and your partner is being completely silent what that implies.....
Your eyes
That's incredibly overpriced at $26.99 for what is essentially just a dummy input...
And one day, a law enforcement officer will use it on a bad quality JPEG image and one of the innocent persons whose photos were used to train the NN will be arrested.
Not quite. The unconscious management of the internal systems that keep us alive are as much a part of that physical experience, as our motor-sensory apparatus. In fact, some neurologists suggest that these unconscious urges are the most likely governors of 'conscious' action. That's a gross oversimplification... Dr Antonio Domasio explores the idea in fine detail in his books. Particularly 'The Self Comes to Mind'.
On a tangential note, I must say that I do not quite appreciate this obsession with 64 bits, especially for "smaller" use cases, such as a PC for the "everyday" use. There's still plenty of perfectly usable machines sold with 4GB of RAM. Also, pointers are everywhere, and 64-bit ones take twice as much space, so the gain is not as big as one might think.
I used to be a mitochondrial engineer. This advance is fantastic, and not surprising. In 2006[0] they showed that you could get zinc fingers (similar to TALENs, which is what they use in paper) to site-specifically modify things in mitochondria. For reference, that is about 7 years before CRISPR was discovered.

Base editors were more recently discovered, so it was only a matter of time before they figured out how to do it in mitochondria.

I will be surprised if they figure out how to genetically transform mitochondria robustly (in humans, etc). That research has been going on for decades, and still hasn't been figured out. One day, it will be, and I'm looking forward to learning about how they do it. They figured out transformation of yeast mitochondria in the 80s, still haven't figured out human mitochondria.

I think it's going to do something with either RNA import + reverse transcription OR conjugation[1]. I tried RNA import in yeast, and it doesn't really work, but I think conjugation has real potential, especially now that they got endosymbiosis of E.coli working[2].

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/103/52/19689
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC554353/
[2] https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1813143115
It's a bit unfair to say that a single moving part is "a lot more moving parts". I can almost guarantee you that my phone will outlive its usefulness before the camera stops working based on current market trends.

Regardless, it's a feature I wanted and the engineering team catered to this desire, so I don't see how this is an oversight. Engineering is about trade-offs.
That is the one thing I miss most about Unity! It was such a sweet feature. (Also, Unity minimised on the vertical space it used, which was great for small laptop screens.) The new GNOME versions are much improved compared to a few years ago, but I do wish Canonical had stuck with Unity...
Hard wired to Camera power supply, no firmware necessary.
Using astrocytes to change behavior of robots controlled by neuromorphic chips
Ask HN: Does Java need value types, now that Espresso is in the works?
A JVM in Java called Espresso is in the works under the Graal umbrella. I believe it has the potential to surpass Hotspot in terms of performance.

This paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319855993_Applying_Optimizations_for_Dynamically-typed_Languages_to_Java says it can eliminate boxing etc.

Given this information, does it really make sense to add value types to the language specification?
"Real numbers" have some problems. Information density, for one. Imagine a real number, say 0.27777..., represented as a point on a piece of string, with zero being one end and 1.0 being the other. That point represents infinite information density. It also would seem to run afoul of some of quantum mechanics.
Right, only the last ten years models.
The difference is that the sample size for Fincher is a lot larger - 9 of his 10 films have grossed >100mil, so we have very good confidence on his hit rate.

Startup Savvy CEOs have 2, maybe 3 successful companies under their belt, so it's harder to judge how much of their success is due to repeatable factors.
We can't trust people not to do stupid stuff.
Depends on your tolerance for shaming. I, for one, would probably be a bit pissed off if someone threaten to publish video of me jerking off, but wouldn't care about that enough to pay anyone any money. Listening to a secret conversations in conference room on the other hand, than can be valuable on it's own, no need to blackmail.
A small square of electrical tape works nicely, and can be moved aside if need be. But will it cause damage?
The funding necessary to support LO development is so tiny relative to the US defense (read: offense) budget, that it's not even worthwhile to make this reference. The US DOD's stationary budget would probably cover this.
Do you have statistics on this? And do they take into account the dichotomy of mostly-mobile and mostly-stationary users?
Prevent it from being undetectable
Where the blame? Apple shouldn’t warn users?
Then... you'd be wrong.

It's a philosophical argument against Epicurianism. Which has as much in common with softcare erotica as the phone book.

Not sure what your point is.
Embodiment being a killer feature for AGI seems weird to me. Not only is "what is a body" vague, but it is entirely possible to build a body. So why would it prevent AGI?

We do know that embodiment is a sufficient condition for general intelligence: if we assume humans have general intelligence then it is clearly a sufficient condition. But the question of necessary is more interesting because we have to actually ask what embodiment means.

Is a computer a embodied machine? What about a robot that can explore its environment? What about a simulation with an environment? If no, what makes us distinct? If yes, does embodiment even matter?

To me it is clear that feature space is the more important issue. It is also clear that embodiment helps with creating a more complex and rich feature space. The ability to move around and interact with your environment greatly expands the complexity of the environment.

I think the bigger question is about our ability to create rich enough environments to generate intelligence. Even if we can get machines in bodies, can we get them into the complex and evolving environmental pressures that we experienced over millions of years (without robots living for similar timescales)? It is reasonable to think that at some point in time we'd be able to have that kind of computational power. It is also possible that the learning function is incredibly difficult. With a large and complex feature space there are many local extrema and it may be possible that general intelligence is only possible with a few of these (essentially we can have an estimation similar to the Drake Equation). But overall, I'm not sure there really is any issue that means AGI is impossible. Maybe at current knowledge and computational limits, maybe for all of the foreseeable future! But I don't see any limitations in physics that are killers.
Indicator of use doesn't block a hack, just let you know it happened.
No, I think it is that simple. The camera module likely needs either 3.3v or 5v. The LED can also be powered at either 3.3 or 5v by simply using a series resistor. You just hook the camera and LED to the supply in parallel.

> a chip doesn't technically have the right power on it's power rails, but is instead drawing power on the input ports.

What does this mean? The data lines of camera modules are generally differential pair, and it is highly unlikely that significant power is being drawn from them.
Yes, tearing off a small piece of a post-it note seems ideal.
It's possible to do with probably every language out there, it's just not always as practical. Common Lisp, Erlang, and other languages were (in part) designed around interactivity with the running system. In many ways, at execution time, programs in those languages are actually running on a separate operating system hosted by your main OS. This environment is tailored specifically to monitoring, updating, and extending the running program. Compared to C, which has no such infrastructure baked in. At run time, it is whatever you told it to be at compile time (modulo dynamic libraries that may have been loaded). To manipulate C programs at runtime you have to attach a debugger, which does let you do quite a bit. But you're also stepping outside the C language to do it. Versus Common Lisp, Clojure, Erlang, Elixir, and others which present an interface to the running system that is the same (or very nearly the same) as the language itself, and even permits definition of new functions within that interface (you aren't going to write a C function in a C debugger and load it in place of another C function in your running program).
Indeed. Think of the “American Pie” situation. Laptop open playing Spotify to get you in the mood, then bop, on goes the camera thanks to a bug in zoom. Are you going to notice?
Yeah I’m cool with it too, it’s just not quote unquote true free software anymore. Which should be big news, but basically the whole first page of comments is all about the MS word ribbon

Madness of crowds for sure
Robo Rosewater has given me some of the best laughs.

For some reason "computer gets thing slightly (or wildly) wrong" is the pinnacle of comedy to my brain.
I think the sensors are located near but not part of the camera assembly. Covering the camera is also likely to cover the light sensor.
They are not, but these articles are for < 2008 Macs. On "newer" Macbooks it done by hardware.
You have to draw the line somewhere, right? Otherwise you get into slippery slope territory where eg. you can argue anyone who's not protesting for BLM are implicitly supporting the cops, and therefore are ruining black people's lives.
I second this. Forget about trading, stock picking, and other wastes of time (and money).
Since Mac camera indicator lights are hard wired to camera power supply, your theory is impossible.
Just to clarify to people not familiar with the two languages and their differences, this is somewhere where the two languages diverge greatly. OCaml does not have an "obj" type that we can cast to (and in general casts are quite rare).
Neither is STITCH, the digital fashion design startup :)
The real meat of TFA:

> Make sure the camera cover is not thicker than an average piece of printer paper (0.1mm)
There could still be a circuit in the light that could pass the current without lighting up. Or even if there was no such thing, it could be added in the future after everyone was shamed into believing you are a fool for putting tape over your camera.

There are probably other ways. Stop trying to shame people just because you haven't thought of a way to bypass this.
Just wanted to drop by and say that Overleaf is an amazing product, and my only complaint is that I didn't learn about it sooner.
Also try scotch tape for an artistic blur effect.
Our company gets around that by banning BYOD.
I also used one on a 15" MBP (albeit 2015 model) for a long time with no trouble. I don't recall closing the lid particularly hard when it broke, though I may have.
I have used finale, stitch and DEAR

Of the 3, DEAR was the best value. Finale is good but extremely expensive. I would not recommend stitch.

In all cases i have been the key user becoming the SME for the team on the SAAS. Idont have a horse on this race, only sharing my experience

Good luck!
That wasn't Zuck's laptop. That was an accident of the interview location.
While Microsoft has changed a lot of stuff, the keyboard commands in Windows and MS Office have remained mostly consistent in my experience, so when trying to work on someone else's computer, some things I could still figure out easily enough even though the system seems different. This could be done just as well in free software projects too (some of which already do, I think).

(However, for my own stuff, and on my own computer, I use neither MS Office nor LibreOffice nor other similar software, since I do not need them; I can use plain text, I can use TeX, I can use PostScript code (with Ghostscript), and whatever.)
You’re posting this late enough to have had time to see that those are all about hardware which is a decade old.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23796606
I keep seeing that Reddit thread linked (even the NYT is citing it now?) but still cannot for the life of me figure out what substantially TikTok does that is a concern compared to other popular apps? The guy has like 10 paragraphs of stories but no actual evidence? What is TikTok doing that somehow is flying under the app store guidelines of both Google and Apple but still a "national security concern"? Why is the only actual "evidence" that can seemingly be found, a comment from some rando on Reddit, not peer-reviewed, reproducible work from legit cybersecurity researchers? This reeks of the same scent that Bloomberg's "omg they're hackz0ring our chips!" story gave off.
Well, I believe that FOSS software should "just work", but also that we should "just support it" if we use it - with decent bug reporting always, with QA work if we can spare a bit of time, with coding if we know how and can spare more time, and with some money if we're not poor.

So, I guess I believe in "mutual entitlement".
And also because he values his own privacy, just not anyone else's.
Simply cut a small rectangle out of the sticky part of a Post-It note for a safe camera cover that easy to remove and reuse.
M&A process is pretty draining, so that could explain the 8 months of inactivity.
Visual Studio Code June 2020 (version 1.47)
They spent the last 9 years dismantling their platform one piece at a time. I think they are too committed with their design now to admit they completely screwed up by betting on a vision it never managed to take off, and differently than Microsoft, they don't need to actually listen to their users because they don't have enterprise users they really need to sell their product to (but Red Hat does, and that's why "Gnome Classic" is still around).
Collabora Online is Collabora's branded version of LibreOffice Online. They also have a version they call Collabora Online Development Edition that you can find here for personal use: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/.

There is no stable edition of LibreOffice Online but you can find a daily build of the master branch for Docker at https://hub.docker.com/r/libreoffice/online.

Both LibreOffice Online from Docker Hub and Collabora Online Development Edition have a configured limiation of 20 connections for 10 different doucments so personally, I'd recommend building from source. You can find the source code for LibreOffice Online here: https://git.libreoffice.org/online.

I suspect the lack of a stable version of LibreOffice Online is intentional as a way to try to drive more business towards companies such as Collabora.
I consider the piece of tape over my laptop camera like face masks. It may not be perfect nor pretty, but it's damn effective, and I feel better having it on.
Basically, WSL2 is a VM, whereas coLinux acts like a device driver.
Better late than never.

The guy who invented/coined "Syntropic" agriculture grows the world's best cocoa beans at 3x the yield of similar-quality conventional farms with no inputs. He also gets a lot of other crops from the same land.

Life is four-billion-year-old nanotech and it works really well. Get with it money dudes.

(Conventional agriculture is, in retrospect, almost the dumbest thing you can do with land.)
Now go back to step 4, make the additional assumption that dualism is false and restart the proof.
I see the change in belief as always being a two-step process:

1. Receiving and understanding new information

2. Processing and integrating that new information.

When the belief you are updating is a relatively unconnected node in the graph of beliefs, that second processing step takes almost no time. If it's heavily connected, the processing takes longer. That's why conversions often seem "spontaneous": your subconscious has been busily reworking the web of beliefs to integrate the new information, and eventually everything clicks into place and you have an epiphany.

I don't see faith as some special category of per se. To my mind, faith is simply another word for trust. The implication is simply that it is a belief you are willing to act on.
Maybe apple needs to address customer concerns.

Possibly move the ambient light sensor to the side, leave more space for tape/cover, or add a hardware cutout switch.
Is this project related to https://native-land.ca/ ?
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> is it appropriate in context?

Depends on whether you would consider an image very similar to many, many others that get compressed to JPEG is "appropriate" (i.e. relevant, representative), or whether you are asking as a prude.

> Is it welcoming?

I can't see anything unwelcoming about that picture, at least not in any other way than many people's flattering profile pictures on social media. It's just a head of an attractive woman, shot by a professional photographer.
People forget because you have to train yourself to remember, and outside of intelligence agency personnel, no one is doing that.

Camera covers are just another example of security for show. Having a camera cover on a pc without a hard wired camera indicator like Macs have means you will never know how many of those times you were filmed after forgetting to slide your camera cover over.