skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but maybe every 5 houses or whatever share one?

The space requirements are actually a decent amount lower than I originally expected [0, 1], so it could be plausible for individual lots to have their own septic systems (unless the area above the drainfield can't be used for safety/other reasons). Not sure if there are other factors that make centralized waste treatment systems preferable over individual septic systems.

[0]: https://www.washtenaw.org/1722/Sewage-System-Sizing
[1]: https://inspectapedia.com/septic/Septic-Drainfield-Size.php
Show HN: Listen to BLDG Evelyn – Chapter 13: Beyond Curious
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13370310
Not convinced there is one “right place to look” at this point. There is still so much we don’t know, one experiment won’t answer these questions.

Also it seems some of the reactions created in this study do “self replicate” in some sense. In the sense that some of the chemical reaction cycles they found self reinforce and create more of the original molecule.
It would take a staggering level of immaturity to find solace in the assertion that your adversarial opinions have value because they are in and of themselves adversarial.

Clearly you were someone who needs to simplify the dull anarchic complexity of life into simple terms in order to make swift overarching proclamations to make themselves feel like they have some power over it.

The end is nigh, etc.
Luckily, people aren't computers and don't need an interpreter. Use your judgement, your ethics, and common sense.
I wish the best to the author and I hope he finds a great environment in Talos to do great things (afaict he probably will).

However, and this is mostly for the sake of others reading this, be aware that the security industry has its own versions of the problems mentioned affecting the academic environment, and these versions are in most cases way worst than in academia. With the exclusion of some enlighten cases (which most often coincide with a good financial situation that allows for teams that do cool stuff without too-pressing metrics on the immediate business), in private companies literally everything is driven by money and to that one must add up that the incentives that the people part of the companies have (to this: in private companies the turnover is way higher than in academia). Some examples:

- Papers that don't deserve to be written? wait for that endless stream of tasks that does not deserve to be done that way (but need to be done that way the same, because <reason-you-cannot-argue-against>).

- Optimizing for the wrong things? wait for words like "cost-effective" to pop up.

- Move away from very cool stuff? yeah, that does not happen because the cool stuff are not even on the table, unless they can bring in money fast.

- Non peer-review things dismissed? wait for not-approved-by-manager-X or not-in-the-agenda-of-key-person-Y or subject-to-approval-of-Z-who-cannot-possibly-even-understand-the-value-of-that.

- No time for tech stuff? sorry, that doesn't change much unless your job is highly operational (which you won't enjoy much because it will have to be "cost-effective", thus most likely repetitive and metrics-based).

I'm not saying that every private company is a circle of hell in the security industry, but unfortunately most have far harder-to-deal-with problems than those listed for people looking for things like the author. Afaik, the common big difference is you get paid more and you see real-world cases as they happen.

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'The answer isn't "get mad at the Sacklers", it's change the law.'

In fact it's both. It's a shame your internal ethics aren't shouting that fact out loudly to you.
I really can’t understand it. When I visit family/hotels with cable, its absolutely unwatchable even for free - paying for it is unbelievable to me.
> for their intended purpose--streaming music to a network connected speaker, Sonos speakers just work great!

And that should mean they do not need to play these games with data collection.

> They are terrified they are going to get squeezed eventually.

Squeezed by what? I wish more manufacturers would just make a simple freaking product that works great for its intended purpose, and nothing else. That should be an advantage to Sonos against all the other companies that refuse to just do that.
That is the stereotypical voice of the opium addict in some locales/cultures. Is it universal?
The Bleak Resonance of ‘Native Son’
Nice story, thank you!
The funny thing is, I've watched his talk and he basically says "there is no solution". We've kinda screwed ourselves already, and whatever option we choose is going to hurt. But although we're in a hole, we do have the option to stop digging.

Perhaps surprisingly, I'd consider Charles Marohn to be less focused on denser urban planning than one would expect. His message is more that whatever we do, we should ensure that the tax base is enough to support the infrastructure we do build. It's fine to have people on farms in rural areas, but we shouldn't be running miles of paved road out to their houses.

And I think he's made a really good point before, which is that sparse, auto-oriented development, and development that depends fundamentally on endless growth for funding is actually a radical departure from how people have built villages, towns, and cities for pretty much all of human history. It's not something that was really intentional, people just copied what they thought seemed to work in Detroit and didn't think too hard about it. The cost-effectiveness of dense development, whether urban or rural, is pretty well proven at this point.
I think this frog is still in the early stages of boiling.
>Why would it be wrong to make this practice illegal going forward?

Because it's a poorly thought-out policy created and pushed by people that may not (and clearly do not) understand the market, the space or the unintended consequences that arise from it.

>There are clear environmental impacts in desctroyiing functional devices.

And we also have clear liability and legal reasons for destroying 'functional devices'.

>Doesn't mean those reasons are necessarily in the interest of the public

Preventing devices that the manufacturer has not certified as safe from being distributed to the public is also in the interest of the public.

Every device that is currently made will end up in a landfill. Having the manufacturer and consumer responsible for these externalities is not a terrible policy, but this is not how you do it.
On the contrary, it's really quite easy to run a NAS and do all your music locally, and it's very easy to make it "as slick" as a cloud system. Millions of people are doing this already with products like Plex.
But if everyone eats algae, then there is no algae left!
Exactly!

The judicial point appears to be about whether or not the company was reselling devices or if (as they claim) some rogue employees were doing it for their own benefit. If they're telling it true, I wonder what (if any) laws the employees were breaking.

It is "stealing garbage" after all, and possibly beneficial environmentally.

Maybe this should be our point. I'm certainly not outraged that someone resold apple's recycle stuff. If they get away with it, great.
>"It feels like web programming has changed completely, and I'm not that old!"

I wrote my first web program sometime in the first half 90's I think. It was native custom HTTP server that would generate HTML and little bit of JavaScript as it was not all that powerful back then. Fast forward 25 years: it is still native servers but instead of rendering HTML they send JSON data and JavaScript does all the rendering and interaction. So not much change at all.
> Because if you don't keep making excuses for them, you're left with the alternative

Well, except for the alternative of not watching content with excessive ads at all. If companies feel like they need intrusive ads I guess I they can do that, but they are dead to me and my life is better for it.
Thanks for clarifying.
As a total noob I was staggered by those little sugar rockets, as soon as the thing left the ground I thought "uh oh, what have I done?"
In the end it's very similar to how fast fashion brands burn their unsold merchandise every year because they can't sell it under certain price as that would damage their brand. As long as consumers will pay for it it will keep happening. Just capitalism at work.
That is one of the most insightful things I’ve read all year. Thanks!
Reliably Building Binariews for Distribution
Chrome (and derivatives) need to start behaving better:

> The motivation for the Google’s Chrome browser to do this is pretty obvious. Many ISPs perform NXDOMAIN substitution in their DNS resolvers and replace the “no such domain” response with a synthetic pointer to their own search page, which allows them to monetize all those No such domain” user typos. From Google's perspective this NXDOMAIN substitution is not well regarded. Search is a major path to advertisement placement and advertising is Google's core revenue. So how can Google's Chrome browser platform detect network environments where NXDOMAIN substitution is happening? Simple. Test the DNS with its own nonce random string queries to see if NXDOMAIN substitution is taking place.

> This supposedly innocuous probe of the DNS should’ve been pretty harmless. But there is a lot of Chrome out there these days. Some two thirds of all browser use in today’s Internet is reported to use the Chrome browser, and the number rises when you include products such as Edge that are based on the Chrome engine. Consequently, it is perhaps unsurprising to learn that according to this report these probes are now taking up some 50% of the total root server traffic (Figure 3).

I understand that hijacking NXDOMAIN is bad, but Google is now 'punishing' the root DNS operators with extra traffic when the actual perps are the bad-actor ISPs. A bit of collateral damage there.

And would it be so bad for Google/Chrome to simply let the NXDOMAIN hijacking slide? They seem to be externalizing costs to help their business model.
yeah, man. I tried to convince my Japanese wife not to pay off her predatory student loans when she moved to the US, and it was like I was talking about burning down a building or something.
Czech here.

All post-Communist nations tend to struggle with the idea of diligent upkeep / maintenance of publicly owned things. In fact, I would say that visibly older, but well maintained infrastructure is a great indicator of good governance.

The attitude is slowly getting better, but aging of our countries will probably exacerbate the problem again. It is not just disappearing tax-base, but disappearing skill-base that comes with the common job market. Like, finding a competent tradesman is visibly becoming harder. Why should they even stay in the country when they can earn more in Germany or the UK.
Fidget spinner enables detection of urinary tract infections
No I mean, the entire dataset. It's being jealously guarded by the "free" press.
I don't know of software that can detect a heartbeat from a video, especially of someone who is wearing clothes and makeup.

If that exists, what would the heartrate data te you? Lots of people's heart rates increase when they're on camera.

Trump is also receiving a variety of drugs, and we don't know if they have side effects on his heart rate.

Leaving all that aside, the videos seem to be cut to remove coughing, so you'd have to first find and work around the cuts.
This costing is way off, given that iPhone 4 era iphones did cost like 40 bucks.
> change ourselves

"Pray the gay away."

Lobotomies.
Say Biden wins the election. I'm curious to see how his administration would handle this situation considering that Snowden revelations happened dead in the middle of Biden's second vice-presidency and they had plenty of time to be considerate, and handle this situation appropriately.
>All you have to do is look.

>https://tripnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/LA_Transporta...

>53% of Lafayette roads are in "poor condition". 12% of Lafayette bridges are structurally deficient.

>https://thecurrentla.com/2020/if-we-want-to-fix-lafayettes-r...

Setting aside how you didn't show "potholes for miles", your own cite proves my point. The entire backlog of road projects is 90 million dollars which is ~15% of the annual budget. That's not a sum that is going to bankrupt the city.

>https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/09/01/arou...

A category 4 hurricane impacting water quality for some weeks is not evidence of poor infrastructure. I don't understand how you can make an argument like that in good faith.

>Really? Have you ever seen Louisiana? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Louisiana_floods

A storm that dropped 32 inches of water, three times as much as Katrina, causing flooding is not evidence of poor infrastructure. I don't understand how you can make an argument like that in good faith.
With work from home/covid lockdown I am more and more interested in going back to a desktop computer (vs macbook pro). In a desktop performance per watt effectively doesn't matter. Similarly with the chromebook as a portal to servers/cloud resources too (eg run your IDE in a cloud instance or something) ...

I wonder if performance per dollar will ever come back ?
> Also, 99% of the programs he exposed were Illegal.

The only US program he leaked that was illegal was the phone metadata collection. The vast majority of programs he leaked involved surveillance on foreign targets outside the US.

> SCOTUS has refused to rule on any of it

None of it has made it to SCOTUS due to the vast majority being completely legal, so SCOTUS hasn't even had a chance to refuse to rule on any of it. The only program that could have gone to SCOTUS was phone metadata collection, but the government already shut that down, so they aren't going to waste time challenging its legality.
Indeed I do see your argument as wild speculation. Apple sells refurbished devices. There’s a reason Apple isn’t reselling the devices it sent to GEEP. You have no idea why these devices were tagged for recycling, no idea what condition they were in, no idea who they’re being sold to, no idea how long they’d last, and no idea what would happen to them afterward. Your first “scenario” completely ignored what happens after a resold device’s life ends.

In a third scenario, the devices are sold overseas to people who recycle less often than Americans. In a fourth scenario, they’re sold to business that are tearing the devices apart, pulling out a couple of tiny components and scrapping everything else.

> Why is the 2nd owner more likely to landfill it than the 1st?

This question is irrelevant because 100% of the devices that ended up at GEEP were supposed to be recycled, contractually. If there’s any non-zero chance at all that the second owner won’t recycle, then it’s guaranteed that more devices will end up in landfill due to GEEP breaking it’s contract and illegally reselling used devices.

I see you didn’t bother to address my question why you think Apple has a bad record on the environment, compared to other companies that make similar products. I realize their environmental responsibility report is part marketing, yet they have in fact been putting some of their money where their mouth is. Some manufacturers don’t produce any such reports, and haven’t bothered to even try to make their products recyclable. https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/Apple_Environmental_Pr...
Embroidery Digitizing Service Cost
Ever play bzflag on any of those various systems/platforms you mentioned?
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of whom you're attacking. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Considering that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24673298 was just a day ago, this is a serious problem. I don't want to ban you, so we need you to fix this going forward.
Not with old school piracy (just getting a video file), but on pirate streams, you do get ads (for porn).
> The rules in Conway's game of life are simpler than real world physics

This is tricky. Conway's rules are "simpler" but far more rigid (e.g. tractable/computable). In real life, we deal with not just plain ol' turbulence (Navier–Stokes three-dimensional existence is yet to be proved), but also quantum effects (some of which might also not be computable, such as entropy in a Hamiltonian system).
> Especially when "bad" people take them they just become even more of an asshole

Is this true? I have not partaken, but everything I have read is that people see the interconnection and interrelatedness of all things, which would seem to cause a “bad person” to become less of an asshole. Am I wrong on this?
mine was senior year of undergrad.
Which operations do you mean? My impression was that there are many different “paths” to Turing completeness, with different number of primitive operations.
> How is Apple able to get such numbers?

Because iphones OTA software has a hidden feature that "phones home" with serial number.
Those fancy words don't look fancy if everybody is using them.

Especially if you are not native speaker, the fancy word is equally new word then the supposedly common word. Because both are new to you and you learned both from other papers. So you just use the one you remember better and ameliorate sound like common French word. Or maybe it is from Latin, but if you deel with Latin often it sound common.

It is like using POJO in tech. You kind of forget the word is not normal after a while.
Coffee places and snack joints fulfill an immediate need: I need a coffee/food now. I'm rarely urgently in need of a movie.

Restaurants are more comparable, I suppose, but cooking a restaurant quality meal takes time, effort, and skill, turning on Netflix doesn't. You're right about the social aspects, though it's often a downside as much as an upside.
Dogs and cats are basically their wild counterpart bread to not be aggressive/dangerous (to humans).
DE and calculus in general was very confusing to me in university.

I think, I only passed because my discrete math prof told my calculus prof I'm not an idiot.
My company has similar deployment scenarios as you're describing (basically creating appliances that happen to use K8S as a platform), and we've hit similar problems.

It's not (yet?) a very common use case for K8S. Still, so far we haven't found too many problems, and we're using full-blown kubeadm for deployment. Microk8s seemed like a massive dead end when we tried it out, it was very limited and crashy for some reason.

Still, we've had a few complicated networking problems that go against some core assumptions of K8S...
I've been very critical of Sonos since before these incidents, but TBF, they've properly addressed both. I'm not sure WHY the client depends on the speaker's hardware capabilities, but I'd guess the old client source code was complex enough to warrant a rewrite and it wasn't cost effective maintaining backwards compatibility.

I don't think there was malice involved. Sonos seems like a company that has a very tough time making money, and since they IPO'd two years ago they are "responsible" to shareholders now (their stock opened at 15 and as of Oct 2 it was 15 -- could be worse!). Bricking old products would give a profit boost if everyone said ok and bought new products, but they underestimated the backlash.

It's the same reason their client sucks -- it will cost a lot of money to make native apps that take advantage of the respective eco-systems. The client suffices for most people so why bother?

That said, I'll go back to being pissed if they release new hardware I want and get rid of the 30% discount.
> only American citizens have rights protected by the US constitution.

Untrue, though this is a popular myth. There are a few Constitutional rights explicitly restricted to citizens (voting is the big one), but pretty much all the rest are rights of people generally that the government (either federal or state, depending on which Constitutional provision is involved) is restricted from intruding on. Both the plain text and the case law of the Constitution is inconsistent with this “only American citizens have rights protected by the US constitution” view.

There is some case law that certain actions by the US government affecting noncitizens outside of the US are not limited by certain provisions of the Constituion that would affect actions that were either within the US or directed at citizens (or, at least, that such actions are not subject to legal process in the federal courts, which amounts to the same thing), but the particular exception is quite narrow.
Yes, for example, it is much harder to rebuild a bridge in the middle of a city than it was to build anew. Maybe that bridge was constructed in the open field and now the area around is built up. There are a lot of traffic and it should go somewhere while the bridge is closed. A lot of communication lines could go through this bridge and you have to account for it, plan for it and somehow move it while you’re rebuilding the bridge.

Can you just leave it as it is? I’m not sure, it’s a Soviet-build bridge, lots of cement was stolen during construction and now some pieces of concrete are raining down.
So... why do we need laws then?
If you want to build something, write code or make money, industry is a better place. I talk about doing science for science.
The FCC doesn't tend to agree: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/20/18150684/swarm-technolog...
Wearing a sombrero is not far from blackface?

Wow, we really have opposite views on this.

Also, in Amsterdam pride LOTS of straight people attend.
He leaked a lot more US government programs than that one, and all of those were legal. Had he only leaked phone metadata collection, he would have a case.
It's both because it's good policy. I "want" insofar as I would expect any government to maximize our position via basic game theory. It's inevitable because those who maximize their position are going to be the dominant player over time.
Haha that's awesome. Do you have a link for a good tutorial on them?
Personal attacks are not acceptable here, regardless of whom you're attacking. We've had to ask you not to do this more than once before.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting to HN, we'd be grateful.
Gatsby build times are getting slower especially for images. Just started using Gatsby using a starter theme ( https://www.bobbydreamer.com ). I am just imagining, if I continue to use this theme and add more posts and pictures for next 10 years. How slower can it become. Gatsby is fast and site starters are really sleaky. If builds are faster/optimized, it can help.
You all assume some grand reasoning and evil intent behind the word.

Simply, most people writing scientific articles are bad at writing and generally are happy or is somewhat English. They don't obsess offer single word, because their focus is elsewhere and they have no clue about writing anyway.
His mushroom-based products are well known for containing only trace amounts of the active ingredients. They are a scam and beg question of Stamet's claims and motives.
I don't mean to excuse the medical establishment, since it was publicly known almost immediately after it was authorized that OxyContin was being abused. But it's my understanding that their core idea of controlled-release oxycodone really was innovative and impactful for legitimate purposes.
Several of those listed in the Vocabulary section of the OP.

* assist (to mean attend)

* "How is it called?"

* possibility (to mean opportunity)

* actual (to mean current)

I speak a few other European languages with some proficiency so I'm aware of the reasons for some of these changes. However, there's no reason for the quotes around "incorrect" if you take my quote out of context. I specified that they would be considered incorrect by these native English speakers (if the intended meaning is what is listed here), if not just grammatically incorrect. I'm not claiming that there exists inherently correct or incorrect grammar.