skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would especially like to see a cryptographic mechanism enforcing such middle ground. That is, a mechanism that would allow law enforcement accessing the private key or plain text, but only with some inescapable side effect which would hinder abusing that power. That may be producing a cryptographic "proof of compromise" for the person being spied on, or the spying being publicized, possibly with some delay, or something else. I am searching for an analogue of having police show up for a home search, which would notify both you and your neighbors, and cannot be done sneakily and by-the-book at the same time.

Are there some interesting candidates for such a mechanism? At first is sounds like a long shot, but there are cryptographic mechanisms achieving unintuitive results, so it may very well be possible.
Agreed, with its website: http://latentflip.com/loupe/
I didn't need to, it is just yet another example of someone realizing the hard realities of business life.
I've heard that bananas can be caused to ripen rapidly by exposing them to ethylene gas. This means you can transport them green so they don't bruise and then quickly turn them yellow when they arrive at the destination for sale (like in the last warehouse).

I'd imagine you can do the same with tomatoes?
Writing emulators without writing code
Carbon-Aware vs. Carbon-Efficient Applications
That's a bleak future to hope for. We can do better. How about if we do not allow big brother to scan for criminals in the first place? Big brother has no business scanning for anything.

Also, remember that criminals are defined by the law and the law is defined by the government.
A quarter of that article is an elderly neighbor saying "he definitely was up to something" because "he never let his young son play outside". I wouldn't put too much faith in the article having done the diligence to figure out what Marak's preferred pronoun is.
> When it comes to people, most just look away from you, which made me very uncomfortable.

I try very hard not to do this anymore. The isolation must be horrible.
There is a stats podcast from the BBC that examines some of these stats. In one of the episodes they look at the Tomatos in the UK. In short while things changed in that particular instance the previous numbers of certain nutrients were actually problematic to other factors(Sorry I'd have to listen again to remember what exactly. I believe it was either energy/coal or war related, but don't quote me on that).

However, some of the nutrients in the things we eat actually come from the bacteria in the soil, so it stands to reason that both the killing of the soils as well as breeding more sugar rich fruits in general may ultimately have adverse effects to our health.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz3ry
> Yes, absolutely.

> It would really depend on what you consider "a pesticide" and [...]

OK, you're right, I agree here with you 100%.
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Having regulations around electrical wiring or plumbing or medicine or whatever is a group decision to have a public body that provides such certifications that anyone can join. This is very very different from your architect saying that the only person who can ever provide electrical wiring for your home is them, because they designed your building and having someone else modify the wiring would be an unsafe violation of the terms of service on your home. Like, the argument here is kind of ridiculous as it means that you sometimes can't even get safe software because the one company authorized to provide software decided to lock everyone else out and then just didn't care. FWIW, I am actually very very PRO regulation of the software industry... but I'm very very ANTI companies deciding that they, alone, get to decide what everyone can do, whether it be build new features, fix bugs, or introspect behavior... in fact, I think that's one of the most important things that should be regulated AGAINST: everyone should have a right to repair, maintain, and understand the things they buy, and that right should allow them to outsource that to a third party (so they can hire a repairperson, a developer, or a security researcher).
like it or not, analytics can give you actionable information to drive some seo improvements in how your content is displayed and consumed
To everyone interested in the lifting and health aspects, I recommend: https://www.barbellmedicine.com/ the are doctors and lifters and they clean a lot of BS of lifting. And they also have a lot of information for example on pain and lifting...
Huh? Can you link such a study?

I always found it easier to read justified text. Already the annoyance, that the text is not ending at the same "column" on the screen on the right side of the text is distracting. It also looks like no one really took care and simply dumped a ton of words, when it is left aligned, at least to me.
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The iPhone SE, Apple Watch SE, and entry level iPad all offer a relatively inexpensive entry level option to their respective product lines.

Is there any reason to believe Apple won't apply the same pricing strategy to an Apple Silicon Macbook Air?
The constitution provides hard limits to what anyone can do without overwhelming support and substantial due process. You cannot implement a communist dictatorship within the scope of the current US constitution. The supreme court provides another check as the composition changes slowly.

Your charge could be leveled in reverse and better wielded.

>People in rural areas tend to think similarly due to a similar environment. What a rural area desires in the nation's leader does not necessarily align with city voters. You must see the danger in a few, smallgroups having the majority of the power.

>Say 10 states comprising less than 3% of the population decide that a communist leader would be best for the country. How the hell do residents outside the cities stand up against that in any way but force.

Note the 10 lowest population states really do comprise less than 3% of the US population.
I am KOReader user on rooted Kobo and LineageOS Android. I can read many file formats without the fear that books will stop working [1] one day.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48829661
Apple writes software mostly for distribution, so the license affects them heavily. It might not be enough for companies that run the software on their servers and just offer it as a service.
Apple allows cloud gaming apps (they don't care if the game is delivered by streaming when you play it) but they don't allow game store apps which can stream lots of different games and where that selection of games can change outside of an app store update.
This might help you https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/pain-in-training-what-d...
But wouldn't it be easier to achieve with a shell ?
Are there any similar studies that compared modern organically farmed vegetables or fruits with the 1950s versions?
Algorithms lack the creativity to drive innovation. They only make returns by concentrating wealth. This is disastrous and why we have so many problems now.

The problem is that with modern monetary policy, this strategy has worked pretty well in terms of delivering returns on capital by capturing a lot of the newly created credit which is constantly injected into the economy through loans.

The algorithms have just figured out a way to profitably suck the credit out of the economy instead of putting it to work on useful things.

Algorithms (especially those which rely on AI) are well known for exploiting weaknesses in their environment (often with unexpected results). This is exactly what this is and it's totally artificial.
Virgin Hyperloop completes first test with actual passengers
N,N-DMT regulates adult neurogenesis in vitro and in vivo
Have Platforms Become Part of the Immigration Experience?
Income inequality universally is a pretty good predictor for violent crime: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/06/07/the-star...

As the (still very low) income inequality is rising in Sweden(https://nordregio.org/nordregio-magazine/issues/state-of-the...), it isn't surprising violence rises, too.
I have to say I also enjoyed The Codeless Code. A search reveals that stories from there have been submitted to HN several times, though hardly ever commented on. There have been no new stories since 2016.

http://thecodelesscode.com/contents
If effort or time was not a limitation, you could opt for a tool that you can self host, instead of increasing Google's data.
There is an organisation called "The Farmers Own Market" (but in swedish). The rule is 250 km max distance from farm to market. The people selling has to be involved in the physical farming to be allowed to sell there. There are also webstores that sell for pickup at the farm or a central place in bigger towns (usually a parking outside a shopping mall).
It really is. Updated every few weeks too!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fluid-simulation/id1443124993
South Africa is failing to harness the digital revolution
While self-hosting is a good option for us developers, I'm pretty sure that most normal people will not do it. So to reach the critical mass needed to make an open source project financially viable, I don't think we can rely on self-hosting.
> VSCode always looks and feels like a webapp that runs locally.

It really doesn't. It's snappy, and the only thing that feels out of place is the different keyboard shortcuts on macOS and windows/linux, but that's what you get by integrating with your platform.

> Give me menus, give me toolbars, give me rich visualisation. I don't care about excuses for not being to take advantage of the hardware, or about how fast it is for a webapp. I want a native executable.

Vscode gives you menus, and I don't see any technical limitation for vscode to provide native toolbars, except that usability-wise they are awful and a step-back from vscode's use of its spotlight-like command line interface.

And hey, truthfully all of these issues are nit-picking, and meanwhile kate was not used as an example of anything worth having. That says a lot.
Copying isn’t stealing when we do it with songs and movies, and copying isn’t stealing when corporate programmers do it with free software we’ve published on the web for all to use.
i think it is possible to pay for an apple developer license and then youd be able to create a certificate for a year. not sure if that would be possible since i am too lazy to do any research today on my off day ;)
Because if they leave, they'll have the pleasure of getting steamrolled by other countries, including the United States.

Fundamentally, you're making an argument against democracy, and in favor of giving people who live in small states greater influence than people who live in large states. A person who moves a few miles across the border from Colorado to Wyoming suddenly sees their vote count for 3 times as much in the Electoral College. It gets even crazier once you start considering how swing states play into this. Your vote makes no difference in most states. But there are a few states where your vote might count, for the sole reason that those states happen to be evenly balanced. It's a ridiculous, irrational system. It was the best that could be negotiated in 1787, but it doesn't make sense in 2020.
The traditional ways to make money from free (libre) software and open source were :

1.) selling physical copies

2.) charging for support

The first one is probably not viable most of the time these days, but I can see how the second one could work : for instance one could modify one's code forge so that you would need to pay to open a ticket, and/or put up an asked sum of money to start working on a ticket (that several people could contribute to).
I appreciate the list -- I hadn't seen that Evolutionary Computation book before, thanks for pointing that one out.

That said, most of the descriptions on this page are not detailed enough to tell me anything useful about them. There is little specific about, say, author perspectives, level of formalism vs appeals to intuition, interesting proofs or explanations of particular theorems/topics, helpful or not indexes, etc.

Saying "X book is great" or "I liked book X" and not giving a reason does nothing for me. As written, these reviews detract from the list because they draw the eye to no benefit. As a rule of thumb, the words "good", "great", and "epic" should be avoided at all costs in this kind of writing

I apologize for being harsh -- I'm giving this feedback because I didn't notice any affiliate links which suggests to me that you do want for this to be a useful resource (not that it wouldn't be true if it had affiliate links, just would suggest other motivations took greater priority)

Thanks for spending the time on it regardless
In that it's undesirable behaviour, yes. Certainly the messaging could be a lot clearer.

But the fact that multiple office suites do the same thing... one could argue that there are good reasons for allowing formulae in CSV files.

So I would argue that the "bug" is never going to be fixed, and that the real fix has to be our attitudes. We need to start treating CSVs the same way as we treat HTML - sanitise any user-provided strings strongly, quote all fields, etc.
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This is terrible. All the news are based on speculation, but they plastered his very-Googlable-name everywhere, only making it harder for him to get a job now.

I honestly can't see anything positive about those articles existing before there's a proper court case.
What is MVP and why is it necessary?
Does it mean he's saying hang and power cleans are safer than deadlift? I've only ever deadlifted, but cleans always looked way more injury prone to me. Am I missing something? (I do deadlift not for the sake of deadlift)
> The first conclusion has to be that I found no evidence of fraud in any of these elections.

Given that people have been convicted of fraud and invalid votes are found, we have learned that either (1) this technique does not find evidence of fraud even when it happens or (2) the fraud that happens is marginal.

(2) seems likely, but given the small margins in some swing states, even a relatively small numbers of fraudulent votes could determine the election.
> Why isn't this middle ground being discussed?

that's what they need to do even today after they have found enough evidence that the court sent you what's called "notice of inquiry" and preliminary investigations start (it doesn't mean yo are guilty, it means there's gonna be an official investigation on you and after the investigation has ended they're gonna either drop the charges or go to trial).

but crime prevention usually works best when investigations are kept secret.

Imagine if in Italy we called every mob boss the police was investigating on to tell them they were tapping their phones or checking their bank accounts.

They knew it anyway, but that's where the middle ground is.

Another possibility would be, as I've written somewhere else, that a pair of keys is always created and made available to the local authorities, but they have to be authorized from a judge to use them.

The encrypted data is instead kept on the provider side, so that even if someone steals the keys, they can't access the data because it is in a separate facility, protected in the same way it is today, because it's in the best interest of the provider, that is already collecting that data, to keep it safe.

And if someone steals the data, can't decrypt it.

Metadata are also very important to investigators, I imagine that their need to decrypt the conversations comes from the fact that with the metadata they can narrow down the number of suspects to a few, but without the actual content they can't tell exactly what's going on.

> if they read the messages and find you've done some crime, authorities will eventually track you down

that's not so obvious.

I could show you a lot of cases when this has not happened, for various reasons, most of them formal (tapping lasted a few hours more than authorized, tapping was badly misreported in some other meaningless section of the conversation but it's enough to nullify it in its entirety, tapping included someone else that was not under investigation that should have been removed from the records bu it's still there, etc. etc.)
Let's Encrypt: 33.8% of Android devices will get certificate errors in Sep 2021
Yeah, it's a no. It will use windows mixed reality to bridge to Steam.
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Kate is awesome. I'm now a VIM convert, but I used Kate for a long time before, and it's been very good.
https://write.as/

the most simple blogging experience on the web.
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Forgive me for a naive question but how do external contributions to the AGPL code find their way back to the commercially licenced code?

Are all contributions to the "original" pre-licenced source? If so is there some extra legalese to ensure that the changes will always end up in the AGPL source too?

I know of many successful projects using dual licencing so it must work, I'm just wondering how on a legal front.
Who is this trusted brand you're talking about? I think companies need to decide what their core business is and if it's something where their business is embedded in the technology in some way they have to realize they're an IT company even if they don't think they are. It's difficult for a company using a product or outsourcing their core processes to differentiate themselves in the market.
Well that is the crux of the issue, how much do you trust your government and what are your options in supporting change. This may require a level of involvement in politics that is more time consuming than most want to expend or can.

This means if not actively supporting a candidate or current representative who shares your views that you instead convince them your view is worthwhile. If not actively finding one who does. Then even once that is accomplished you likely will need to be involved in writing to other representatives as well and coordinating with similarly minded groups across your country.

Politics is all about the networking to get enough voices to be heard and for something as arcane as encryption; and yes it is arcane for most; will not have as many groups focused on it. So your work is cut out for yourself in finding such groups or forming one.

in the US we have EFF and others; I am found of cato but many here do not understand libertarians. the truly sad part is most people really would be happy living in a police state as long as you don't call it one. they don't recognize how they could be in one because their view of what a police state is very heavily influenced by the media and even hollywood. most of what hollywood presents is truly exaggerated dystopian types that are borderline absurd but in truth it is the slow chipping away if not giving away of rights that does the same
Some more context:
https://twitter.com/marak/status/1320465599319990272

The author lost all of their stuff in an an apartment fire. If you value the open source work (I love faker.js) and want to donate, PayPal paypal@marak.com
Theoretically a SSH shell could sell subscriptions to a bunch of text-based games.
I am playing Badminton/Squash two times a week, not sure if that's enough to offset sitting all day, but it sure is fun and there is no lack of motivation to do it every week. Unfortunately, the place is currently closed due to the Corona virus.
Yep. There are a bunch of gotchas that don't necessarily present security issues, but can be annoying to debug.

Another good example is we used to generate random strings and report on those, but sometimes we got weird numbers appear in the fields, or ###, or even 0.

Turned out that the random string generator would sometime produce strings like '327e-733" which excel helpfully parses for us.
Too late to edit my previous post, but here is the article:

"Fejzulai is also believed to have travelled to neighbouring Slovakia in July accompanied by another man, where he attempted to buy ammunition suited to the weapons he used in the attack, but the sale reportedly fell through after he failed to produce a firearms licence.

Slovakian authorities are said to have informed their Austrian counterparts at the time. The men travelled in a car registered in the name of the mother of an Islamist known to police."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/04/police-investi...
Imagine a world where educated individual purposefully and willfully undermine their own and others capabilities with purchased devices and softwares.
That's 50k more than most open source projects make, also: No one forced the owners of qdos to give Microsoft that license for 50k. Sellers remorse is a thing, but I'm not sure why we should feel sorry for them.
I assume that parent meant «shut down the copies of the code under their own control».
Oh. You said "massive ordeal", which (to me) is much more than a single day thing.

I guess it's just a difference in terminology. :)
Most of the time, when you license something under GPLv3, you explicitly allow for later versions of the GPL. The "either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version." part was famously removed in the Linux kernel.

This clause is a bit dangerous -- if a bad actor gets control of the FSF and manages to release an official GPL version that is completely bonkers, all current GPL-or-later software can be distributed under that license.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
I am a big fan of old-style mechanical switches. In fact, I recently restored my old NTC keyboard from the 80s. But having tried to use it, I just can't get over the fact that these keyboards were seriously lacking modifier keys.

I need at least Ctrl, Alt and Command to work comfortably, and ideally also have Fn and Super. You can get away with remapping right-side modifiers to do something else, but you can't add a key that isn't physically there — so if the left side of the spacebar does not have at least three modifier keys, the keyboard is not very useful for me…

Also, having gotten used to the UHK (Ultimate Hacking Keyboard), I find that the huge space bar is a waste: I only ever hit the space key with the right thumb, and I'd much rather have an entire row of modifiers than a huge spacebar key, which mostly goes unused.
I hate whiteboards. But I have a blackboard in my office. I would have one at home too, if I had room for it.

I find it focuses the mind just to get my butt out of the office chair and go stand before the blackboard when I confront a thorny problem. It us very likely good for the body as well.
The problem with dual-licensing is that it impedes collaboration. If one contributes a big feature, shouldn't they also get some cash from those sales? If so, who decides how much?
I was using it until the service blocked Pop3 and Imap a few years ago, then I gave up and moved to gmail and protonmail.
> Software developers can’t build on a foundation that is constantly, capriciously shifting

I have few empathy for these developers. They voluntarily accepted (and thus, promoted) Apple's obviously callous store conditions. They essentially agreed to play lottery with their work. Whatever bad happens to them, they had it coming.
I have Librem pre-ordered but I expect it will be barely usable as an Android replacement (yet). Though it had to start somewhere and I am glad Purism started that. There are many many smaller and bigger things which went into Android or iOS which will need to be re-done from scratch and things like Google Pay probably won't ever be on such a device. Camera will probably be quite bad, etc. On the other hand, there is Andbox which should partly fill in the app gabs in the meantime.