skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sentiment or lament is not a false dichotomy. I didn’t present it as only two options. It’s more that most act like there’s only one option. Of course we can do both, but we don’t. In fact, we are actively harming the ocean.

> Not to mention that innovations derived from space exploration do end up in applications here on earth.

That’s part of the bias towards space. Plenty of innovations derived from other large technological developments and projects end up in unanticipated applications. This effect is not unique to space technology development and is not necessarily a strong argument for its funding. A huge swath of modern technology comes from defense spending. Should we increase the defense budget?

Again, my comment was more of a lament in the way treat and view the ocean.
The page says:

> I'm creating a blog platform using this concept.

Yeah, please don’t; this is an abomination that’s fun for demonstrating and teaching how these things work, but should absolutely never be used in reality.

You could use this as your data model foundation upon which to build a generator, but you should never under any circumstances actually serve this stuff.
In my uneducated guess, it can be a sense of immediacy too. They can feel the college debt, but not the mass surveillance.

People think that they have nothing to worry if they do nothing wrong, which is not correct obviously.

So the issue of surveillance is very hard to understand at once. On the other hand, they can see their college debt and feel their effects first hand.

A prioritization similar to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Google could have stripped GPLv3 code out of ChromeOS like they did with Android. The reason why they provide owner overrides is entirely a matter of corporate culture.
> He said

That's the problem, it's a "he said she said" because there's no official record. The decision to keep the location hidden even after the hunt was over makes no sense. And now the source of truth is dead with no evidence left behind, that we know of now. Imagine the lottery awarding the prize without telling you the numbers.

> Not sure how the judge would let this proceed

Because judges tend to be wary about claims made by the accused that don't have some evidence behind them to review. Fenn's log book or diary, any dated record from the time he planned and executed the preparation for the treasure hunt, or his signed affidavit could have been exactly what stopped these lawsuits in their tracks.

But as it stands neither Fenn nor the finder of the treasure considered it's a good idea to be transparent even after many people suffered financial hardship, injuries, or even death pursuing the same dream. This is not an unexpected outcome.
People are buried in enough crippling debt that keeps them from leading a life that has enough breathing room to pontificate about the implications of a the government reading their web-browsing history.

If you're worried about paying rent, and whether you have enough in the bank to replace the bald tires on your '97 Civic, are you really going to riot in the streets over the government collecting some data that they will never use against a tiny cog in the machine such as yourself?
Ask HN: I got free access to Udemy through my library..what should I learn next?
AGPL restricts developer freedom simply because they launched a webserver on the same machine. There is a legitimate logical argument that the AGPL is not free software.
This woman is unbelievable. Similar to some Hollywood movie.
Also, with things like this, you can just reset connections using HTTPS features you don’t support. It might eventually become painful, but it’ll be fine for the near future. And, if enough enterprise middleboxes do this, the standards will be DOA.
This is an OS which can be used to create IOT devices - it works on many devices and architectures without binary blobs other than some firmware for stuff like BLE or WiFi.

"Fuchsia is an open source effort to create a production-grade operating system that prioritizes security, updatability, and performance. Fuchsia is a foundation for developers to create long-lasting products and experiences across a broad range of devices."

"The Zephyr ProjectTM strives to deliver the best-in-class RTOS for connected resource-constrained devices, built to be secure and safe."

This sounds a lot like the same to me - Fuchsia is perhaps more a general OS, but I would think that Zephyr can solve the same problems as Fuchsia.

What I like about Zephyr is that it is developed in the open and not in some google lab.
OT: Are there any Kafka alternatives in Rust or Go or C? (for a non-JVM stack)
Because if you need to configure a fleet of Macs or iOS devices for a school or business, it’s easy to push a configuration profile to all of them using tools commonly in use by IT departments and admins.
From the Russian military archive I found that the US Patriot act is a result of Russian influence and early stage interference in democratic mechanisms. Revenge for USSR destruction. Since then, the US compromised system slowly eats its core - American people. A snake that bites its tail. Hijacked liberty that smashes the heart of freedom.
> to prepare to build a prototype power plant in the 2040s

this doesn't seem terribly "ambitious"
> In a gram of deuterium, per e=mc^2, we get ~10^12J

Deuterium is not antimatter, where they entire mass of the substance is converted to energy. In nuclear reactions only a very small percentage of matter (~1%) is converted to energy.
After less than 24 hours from launch, delivery time for any AirPods Max is currently 12-14 weeks. Say all you want, this has been a really successful product launch.
So the guy delivering your food who may not even speak English can go fuck himself right?

Not gonna be a very popular hill to die on
The .edu I used to work at had a site license for RHEL (and Satellite servers) 15+ years or so ago.

I believe we were one of the first 10 or so, but I don't remember exactly when it started.
"Finding cycles" is not really the problem a GC is trying to solve. It's trying to find all of the non-reachable data, across a possibly cyclic graph. It just has to ensure that it doesn't loop infinitely while traversing that graph.
Its probably the case that removing people's livelihood makes them more resistant to wearing a mask.
LaTeX is a typesetting program, not a notepad.
Word is a notepad with 30 years of feature creep.

For math, best to stay in LaTeX because of the need to produce equations.

For everything else:

Markdown with a few additions (centering support, page break support) => html = pdf or
Markdown => LaTeX
Can you expand a little further? I don't see the adjunction (between what categories?)
If only XML wasn't so damn complicated, it might have had a chance. People love to point at close tags, but there's a long list of more serious problems.

External entities, namespaces within namespaces, CDATA, namespaces that confusingly look exactly like URLs, but aren't, parser vulnerabilities.
Hi,
I am currently working on similar webapp, and would like to know your specific requirements, if overlap of both of our interests are good, you are invited to future beta version.
In the United States, "modern medicine" is sometimes a jobs project or wealth transfer scheme. Sometimes people are helped.

I found a neat link a year ago about how the medical system happily pays for fabulously-expensive interventions, but won't pay for things patients actually need: "Which Interventions Can Be Paid For: The Explanatory Power of 'Prasad’s Law'"- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728864
Right, so if you aren't forced to use one, how can they possibly overcharge since if the value wasn't in the service you would just drop the label.
This part of the article was most interesting to me:

"But the government stops short of using that law to collect the keywords people submit to internet search engines because it considers such terms to be content that requires a warrant to gather"

…because it turns out it is legal to go the other way around and ask the provider for a list of people who searched for a certain keyword: https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-giving-data-to-police-ba...

"There are few things as revealing as a person's search history, and police typically need a warrant on a known suspect to demand that sensitive information. But a recently unsealed court document found that investigators can request such data in reverse order by asking Google to disclose everyone who searched a keyword rather than for information on a known suspect."
The trick would be to hook this up to some kind of automatic biological feedback loop so that it could measure how delicious the pizza seems _to you_ and iterate until it has produced your perfect slice.
Thank you for this. I learnt probability from Sheldon Ross. I now realise I don't grok correlations at all! I had the exact same mistakes in my mental model of correlation as OP. Where do I go (what do I read) to get a good account of correlation?
It is possible to be happy to talk about more than one thing. If you don't want to talk about this particular subtopic, there are other threads. Instead, though, you seem eager to shut down discussion on it. You might think about why.
Disclaimer: I work at BrowserStack

We've built a tool to help measure speed with these sort of issues in mind - https://www.browserstack.com/blog/announcing-speedlab-test-w...
I don't think there is a "best" way of doing it, it depends a lot of what the program is doing. Sometimes it's a tree, a graph, a list, rich text and so on.
I think it would really be helpful if it was dead simple, to setup a visualization of a class or a group of classes, directly in code (as part of the PL) and have them update in real time.
Right now it's "execute, dump graphviz code, drop it into graphiz".
Then hopefully every class has a visualization just like every class (should) have Tests.
Right now almost all of my classes have a "string Debug() const", method, to see it's content.
> Phones are not designed for reading, so dynamic layout or not, it will still be inferior to finely typeset document

Personally, I find my phone to be my favorite medium to read prose on, not inferior to anything – including printed paper, which I never use if I can help it. It works for books and most webpages, but PDFs are a disaster.

My second preference is my laptop. Its screen is big enough to make reading PDFs an acceptable experience, but not a great one. When viewing at an optimal zoom level for me, there's almost enough vertical space to fit an entire normally-sized page… but not quite. Which means I have to scroll. In the common case that the paper has two columns, I have to scroll down to read the bottom left of the page, then back up to read the top right, then back down to read the bottom right.

Oh, and it's always great hunting for the figures in a paper, because of course they have to be nicely lined up in a corner of a page, even if that leaves them far from the text that references them. It's a compromise that makes total sense in print, but feels silly on a screen.

So TeX's output is good in print but awkward on a screen. (It may not be limited to PDF, but I'm pretty sure all its output formats assume a fixed page size.) Meanwhile, HTML is good on a screen, but I agree that it's awkward in print.

What we need is a format that's good at both, and that doesn't currently exist.
This graph often gets mentioned in the context of "always 30 years away": https://imgur.com/3vYLQmm

It's not on "schedule" because we aren't putting the resources towards it.
Similarly, most developed countries have some form of universal healthcare.

Nonetheless in America, this is considered an un-American example of socialism run amok. The same pro-individualist criticism applies to rural telecom, postal service, and infrastructure. And it applies even more directly to rural hospitals.
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I was with you until the last line. It takes either incredible ignorance or incredible callousness to suggest that the crushing, impossible-to-pay debt hanging over tens of millions of Americans is a less of an immediate problem than web surveillance.
The LLVM relicense shows that it is actually possible for a large project with distributed ownership to switch licenses given there is enough motivation to do so. From what I understand as a non-lawyer, situations with this old code where the copyright owners can't be tracked down is undesirable for a number of reasons and they may need to rectify that eventually anyway. (I believe it can be seen as a liability)
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Obviously I'm being sarcastic. The extrajudicial executions are administered by the police, in case that wasn't clear.
Are you sure it's a room issue? In the same room where my message was sent directly by @matrixbot, I can also see an earlier message from someone else from @theiraccount:matrix.org.
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I think Inverted Totalitarianism explains it better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
Substack = Medium x LinkedIn
For context, Khan Academy used some of Bret Victor's writings as inspiration for their teachable programming courses back in 2012. A lot of their work was well-intended but missed the point of his essays, and this is Bret's response. Not sure if Khan Academy improved their course afterwards.
It's running a query over a database that mass surveillance systems have already compiled.
Trump’s foreign policy has been hand’s down better than Obama’s and W.’s. Obama had some good rhetoric, but got sucked into the neo-con precepts that America needs to police every minor scuffle worldwide.

Even Vox had to acknowledge that Trump brought a lot of good instincts to foreign policy, even if his execution was often lacking: https://www.vox.com/21564009/trump-biden-foreign-policy-chin....
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It is not infrequent that a numbered list needs to be ordered out of numeric sequence. For example:

4.

1.

3.

5.

If the language does not support this case (Markdown) then it's useless.
It might work, but I'm not sure this is proof of that.

Say you're currently in $30k college debt. You're basically being asked to pay $30k to protect your privacy.
Would you pay that? Is it irrational to reject it?
Ok, say I've got a new design for a fusion reactor, but it takes me 5 years to convince anyone that it's worth investigating.

Fusion power has been set back 5 years.

Someone please help me evaluate my design. Please!

http://www.DDPROfusion.com
What got me was, if it's not 100% accurate, how do you explain their ability to hunt down the golden state killer using his family tree? They narrowed the possibilities to 1,000 or so, then checked all 1,000. Straightforward police work. Then a final DNA match confirmed their hypothesis that they'd found him, which turned out to be true.

I don't know. I'm vividly aware that if the matching isn't accurate, innocents will go to prison. But the truth seems less simple than that.
There are divisive political choices being made about how to handle the virus that unsurprisingly many people have differing opinions on. But there's really no good reason for mask wearing the be in the mix. I cannot sympathize with people who are allowing themselves to be talked into making personally and socially unhealthy choices with no upside.
Not really a valid comparison. If you buy a pair of high-end Sennhiesers, they'll last many many years. I still use my HD580 from the 90s. They also sell all the necessary spare parts and are easy to repair (mine have had new cables and pads). An Apple product be will be e-waste in less than 10 years, the glued-in battery will start failing in less than 5.
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Hi emilburzo. I'm happy to learn from your experience here. Yeah, selling "just" a location sharing app is indeed tough.

> how often do you update the location? I couldn't find any setting for that.

There's no user setting. On Android, I rely on the Job Scheduler service, so the most the app can be woken up is once every 15 minutes (less if the Android OS feels like it). However, there is also a BroadcastReceiver set up to receive locations when another app requests it. Lastly, a friend can request an update if it has been more than 3 minutes since the last update they've received. When they request the update, a Firebase message is sent to your phone and a service is started immediately to grab your location and send it back to your friend. The reason for all this fuzzy timing is to maximize battery energy. The alternative would be to keep a foreground service running all the time, but I've had complaints that people don't like seeing the service notification there and they don't want their battery drained.

In the (currently unreleased) iOS app, it's a similar set of of fuzzy conditions.

> PS: The email verification page is blank.

Thanks, I'll check that out.
Yeah, I’ve always found this sort of Bret Victor argument weird: yes, perhaps more graphical tools are the future. However—in both writing and math, it seems like there’s a tendency to start with more pictographic notations (Egyptian hieroglyphs or Greek geometrical figures) and move towards more abstract notations (phonetic alphabets or algebraic notation). It’s not clear to me that attempting to reverse the trend and pictorializing programming languages actually benefits anyone, except when learning. it’s a bit like my experience learning Lisp: when I started out, I was really into indentation-based syntaxes that hide parentheses; once I started to internalize the structural editing tools, I discovered that the “cluttered” parenthetical notation was actually a reason _to_ use lisp and not something to be covered up.
Fuel in the US is already much more expensive than two decades ago. I remember buying a gallon for around 90 cents in 1999, and at the same time I read a newspaper article about some immigrant-run stations on the Jersey shore that had slashed their prices to several cents below that, as they were content to make a tiny profit margin and play a long game. Now a gallon costs more than twice as much as then, but as far as I can tell the average American has not made significant lifestyle changes with regard to vehicle usage: they just suck it up.
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Very good hack. Can we use Google structured data json+ld without validation issue? For example, https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/course#... ?
If you're really reading the writing on the wall, it will be impossible to get away with kneejerk negative opinions about the Chinese.

I censor myself on Wechat and expect to be able to go to the next pool party in Wuhan. Not everything is about whats happening on the other side of the Gobi desert, also obligatory "Chinese territorial sovereignty and unity shall not be questioned". You'll catch on (or be indefinitely detained, or at least unable to board a plane lol.) I find this tolerable.
This is the early adopter fee. Wait for black friday or some other steep sale. I snagged some Airpod Pros for $169 at the last one, much less hesitation hitting buy at that price.
This is so on point with one person in particular I know that operates this way to the tee
Kites are less predictable if there are lots and near each other. They require much more airspace. There's probably a balance between cost, size of kite, kite material, rope material and power generated compared to conventional wind mills.
Transparent proxying works for IPv6 as well as IPv4. It's a little challenging to do transparent proxying on a box that's not the firewall. If the firewall and the proxy are on the same ethernet broadcast domain, you can forward the packets (i think for Linux you'd need to do policy routing on the port?, for ipfw there's a forward action, i think pf would be route-to); and if they're not, you'd need to tunnel the packets to the proxy.

NAT doesn't really have much to do with it, other than you with NAT, you certainly have a device on your network that's capable of being a transparent proxy, whereas without NAT, you could just have a unmanaged switch to share your upstream connection between multiple computers; assuming your provider is enlightened and provides ethernet or an ethernet bridge with nothing else in the way.
Haha, I think indeed that Markdown is useless to you. I think I prefer it that way, though. The lack of this feature is fine for me.
ECMAScript 2015 defines object iteration order as: number keys in ascending order, then other string keys in insertion order, then symbol keys in insertion order. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5525795/does-javascript-....

And then JSON.parse is defined as doing the obvious and only sane thing, setting each property as it goes.

Consequently, so long as your keys are not numeric, yes, JavaScript guarantees that it will all be in order.

But that’s for JavaScript. It is incorrect to treat JSON objects as ordered, because various libraries in various languages will discard the order for various reasons (e.g. efficiency, DoS resistance), since it is defined as being not significant. If you care about the order of things, use an array instead.
Is there a Markdown flavour that permits TeX equations smoothly?
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Pedantry? Perhaps. Baltic Ocean, no way! No Atlantic Sea, either.
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> I think we're all worse off for that.

I don't disagree.
> However hot Word tip of the century is, and has always been, put all images inside a text box, they'll behave the way you expect then, and behave bizarrely otherwise.

This points to the real criticism of Word: that its internal representation of text is quite different to its appearance (i.e. WYSIWYG does not imply WYSIWYM) and if you make even a little use of its advanced features and reedit, you will quite likely get a document that behaves perversely. I have quite often seen Word users give up on reformatting a section, cut and paste it into another application and then cut and paste-back-without-styling so that they can reformat from scratch.
Just so we're clear, you don't want updates ?
No, read the actual correspondence. It’s clearly talking about FISA orders that compel ISPs to produce records: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/wyden...

Even civil litigation allows you to compel ISPs to produce data based on targeted searches.
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Space probes require a minuscule amount of radioactive fuel, but launching that into space has still occasionally caused concern among environmentalists, as something might go wrong during launch. Can you imagine the resistance if someone wanted to launch enough processed uranium to support a Mars colony?
Isn't that the very definition of a fishing expedition?

"Let's find all the people that committed X crime in this database."

It's insane with how much of this unconstitutional stuff the U.S. government has gotten away with, all because Congress has suffered from systemic corruption for decades and no longer cares about the little guy, in the sense that it's no longer that dependent on the "little guy" to keep their jobs (as Larry Lessig would put it).

If they can get donations from rich corporations or friends, it's fine by them to screw over the little guy, because that's mostly all they need to keep their jobs.
Nice hex editor for reverse engineers, based on ImGui. You may also like the open source NSA Ghidra codebrowser(saw Geohot using it on Youtube)
It was in excellent condition other than that, so I don’t think age matters. Do you think it’s reasonable to buy a whole new car because the tires are worn out?