skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you elaborate why do you think that export of NSOs software would be against US law, preferably which specific law?

My first assumption is that the act isn't covered by any US law at all. For some analogy, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi does not violate any US law as the many US laws regarding murder (i.e. the separate criminal statutes of each of the US states plus any federal laws that may apply) do not regulate acts done by Saudi citizens to Saudi citizens in Istanbul.

So the question becomes not about legality but about policy - whether the act harms US interests. And arguably selling of arms and tools by US allies (e.g. Israel) to US allies (e.g. Saudi Arabia) is not against US policy and thus there's no grounds to apply any sanctions - now, if NSO would sell the same things to Iran, that would be a different issue.

USA could have standing if NSOs tools have been used to hack journalists in USA - but this is not what this article is about. If NSOs tools have been used to hack journalists in Saudi Arabia or United Arab Emirate or Mexico, that's not a violation of USA laws; and if this has happened according to the legal permissions of the respective government (no matter how lax or arbitrary granting these legal permissions may be) then it's not a violation of any law; if we look from the purely legal perspective and not the moral one, it's perfectly legitimate for sovereign states to make laws that abuse their journalists as much as the state wants as long as it doesn't rise to the level of crimes against humanity. Almost any act or argument against a dictatorship abusing their people is inherently political, not legal.

One incident where NSO may be in hot water is the hacking of Rania Dridi described in the original article if the events happened in London (it's unclear to me from the description) - then this may be cause to assert that NSO are complicit in violating UK law (but not USA law).
> don't be a condecending arschloch

> many their users smug idiot hipsters

Maybe take your own advice?
Zsh has a lot of features, and some can be actually useful. In my case, I find, for example, customizing the right part of the prompt useful; additionally, there are improvements that one gets out of the box, like better copy-paste.

However, when I've asked to colleagues of mine why they used it and how, I've found that nobody knew anything beyond the basics.

I've tried to go beyond the basics myself, but I've found the manuals very obscure, and I gave up. Nowadays I use it for my shell, while I use bash for scripts.

Considering that there's nothing radically better, or at least, that there's nothing radically better _and_ easily accessible, I think that it will always be either a niche, or a tool used in a very basic form. I also think it will realistically never take off in scripting.
Zerodium pays a little more for Android zero-click hacks, so I'm not sure about Apple being more valuable.
Here’s the 2016 (i.e. done during the Obama administration) report from the US Surgeon General on some resources which help with recovery: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK424846/

Looking over at that Nice website, it looks like the Nice reports haven’t taken the information the 2020 Cochrane review on AA used in to account yet.
This thread seems seems to have suspiciously few comments in regard to it's importance.
Also found it with search don't remember seing it on front page for long...
Interesting question

Future market

Money laundry

We need digital cash to avoid the virus i think
> The Israeli government has absolutely no say in how any of this plays out, that is the entire point of an independent judiciary.

Israel has no genuinely independent judiciary, nor genuinely free press.

IDF regularly intervenes in both, that's a very poorly held secret.

Any normal nation would be completely horrified at the prospect of a private company effectively intervening into its foreign relations, but Israel is remarkably not, and even seem to give NSO a considerable amount of legal cover.

I believe it's just a cover for the state to distance itself from the activity in public eyes, just like IDF distances itself from peddling military hardware around the world by hiding behind "independent private companies."
The problem with GNOME as the basis of Phosh is that little work has been done to optimize GNOME for low-memory, low-CPU-power environments. The Pinephone has limited memory (especially the first board with only 2GB of RAM) and an ancient, low-end processor, and while it will run all this GNOME stuff, it does so only at a snail’s pace. On the Pinephone takes several seconds just to open the wi-fi settings to activate or deactivate wi-fi, for example, something that most mobile-phone users today expect to be a near-instant thing, because on Android it is just a quick swipe and tap.
1. Dutch liquorice
2. French baguette (fresh!)
> Hating on Israel specifically is a very cool and woke thing to do. Has been for decades.

Well Israeli has been treating palestinians pretty badly so it's not like it isn't justified.

At least critising Israel for genuine reasons isn't deemed anti-semitic in the latest international standard of the definition, oh wait!
http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/1474/homo_ludens_johan...
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has erupted
I wonder how you would classify osama bin laden between the years 1979-1989. The US and KSA gave him a total of 40 billion USD during this period..
I thinks it’s a story trying to highlight: Both covid and overdose deaths are preventable with the right resources, but far, far more resources are going to covid, especially if you consider the resources/preventable death.
> Senators and States governments decide no, and take direct action against the prime culprits of such a scheme in those two States.

Could this really happen? I thought the US model was more about letting the market as free as possible from gov interference.

In any case the same companies will then realize they can also hire people from Europe.
Well, at least it wasn't ksh.
Interestingly the written form uses a different pronunciation to the most common spoken form today, so e.g. “whanau” is pronounced “fa-nau” not “wha-nau”
Nevermind energy consumption, floor space, maintenance, inconsistency in quality, loading-unloading times, postprocessing / cleaning, etc.

3D printing is not really scalable.

Folks that suggest we can just buy 10,000 3D printers to replace 8 injection molding machines haven't really stepped into a high volume factory, much less operate one.
When clicking on the link multiple times, Cochrane no longer gives access to the full report.

It will become non-paywalled (or should I say, non-semi-paywalled) come March over at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7065341/
Some words about C# 9.0
You wouldnt need to install your own JDK. We package it all nicely in a docker container so you do not have to worry about it. This makes running SuperTokens just like running any other http microservice.

But yes, your point is valid. If you'd like to be able to know the intimate details and make modifications (that we dont offer), then this would hold true. But all in all, the reasons we picked java were:

Java has a very mature ecosystem. This implies that third party libraries have been battled tested. It's strong type system ensures fewer bugs and easier maintainability. This is especially important when many people are expected to work on the same project (for open source).
India: https://github.com/nic-delhi/AarogyaSetu_Android/issues/385
I have no opinion on this, but some think the hand axe was genetically transmitted rather than culturally: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066817/

And that modern humans had some kind of creativity explosion substantially after they were anatomically modern.
> React-land is crazy sauce

In what sense?

I develop my front ends primarily in React, and other than hooks - which a lot of people have adopted anyway, and only extended the lib - the API seems very stable. The 3rd party library ecosystem may be wild because React is superpopular and people are publishing npm packages with half-baked solutions of dubious utility, but there's always a good library or two for 95% of tasks (good: regularly maintainted, fully-featured, well-documented, tested, typed, etc.).

I don't have any experience with RN so I don't know how things are there, but your comment seems to be about the React ecosystem at large and doesn't correspond to my experience at all.
Wikipedia claims there are over 30 melody roads in Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_road#Japan
Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_xvfZUqAtg
Genomic characterisation of a new Covid lineage with new set of spike mutations
It's not going to replace the enormous investment Nokia made into the free software/linux community... So it won't help the graphs the original article showed. But by another measure, it's already a success since it exists.
Be Using Overrides in Chrome Devtools
No... It really just is the sudden drop of investment by Nokia and Intel. All those extra contributors were hires working on Maemo and Meego.
That's true, the later problems are thought-provoking but have prerequisites. I enjoy number theory but I won't mess with currently. I plan to go back to them one day, not sure though :P
Very cool! And thanks for the reminder about Unicode. I think supporting union and intersection is also somewhat unique to the derivatives method, and also related? (Although I think there are really 2 derivatives methods: Brzozowski and Antimirov)

What happens if you don't do the optimizations? Does the DFA blow up in size, meaning the compile time is large? Or does it make for a slower runtime? I would expect most DFAs to run at about the same speed, unless they are really huge...

I'd be interested in any rough ideas about performance, e.g. how fast a realistic lexer+parser is, maybe in lines/ms.

It does look like the code is pretty short -- a large part of it is an AVL tree library I guess for hash consing?

I'm interested in any downsides of the derivatives technique vs. the NFA->DFA method. I feel like regex compile time shouldn't matter for many applications, and most DFAs will run in the same speed, which only leaves runtime memory usage (or code size for generating F# code like you appear to be doing).
I think you make an excellent meta point. I would love to know why this happens. Why are some technology super hyped and others aren't? Maybe it is a stochastic process and somehow one term gets amplified and gets the attention of the MBAs and consultants. Dunno. Love to hear some theories
Imagine it was discovered 5 years after the initial study that the medicine given during it was harmful and there are long term health consequences. The discovery was made by another team. Wouldn't you like to know?

Another example: a study for rare condition was conducted. No effective treatment was found. A few years later very promising treatment was discovered. Wouldn't you like to know, even if the original form didn't ask your permission?
I think you mean they are lockdown deaths.
Here is my attempt! Please note that in the original tweet the "code" including the 3rd party library seems to be excluded so I also excluded it:

https://jsfiddle.net/franciscop/gexfdq1y/

https://twitter.com/FPresencia/status/1340952793352310785

Notably, and differently from the solution of the person originally issuing the challenge and from this HN entry of Rukshan answering to the challenge, I solved it including the three constrains:

• Esc to clear the list

• Enter to add item

• Click an item to cross/uncross it

Here is a cleaned-up and explained version of the same:

https://jsfiddle.net/franciscop/x1sc7rk9/
See parts 15 - 18 here:

https://medium.com/@marie.gassee/jean-louis-gass%C3%A9es-50-...
Isn't it getting exponentially cheaper and faster? That's newsworthy.
THe best video processing and editing tool ever made!
You overestimate the skill required to be original. Anyone who has the know-how to do ray-tracing, web browsers, and trading bots from scratch has a leg-up on the bootcamp coders who are getting paid $200k to work at Dropbox. Don't waste your time doing shit other people have already done. It's the best advice any of these kids will ever get, so I completely disagree with the associate professor who wrote the article. Take it or leave it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
iOS and macOS don’t allow to delete many of their apps. Why on earth I have to have iMessage if I don’t use it?
Interesting story but Jean-louis gassee is not the same person as Jean-marie hullot
How can 1,99$ one time payment cover the costs of storing all the messages/media for all users?
That sounds fun. Do you have code for reference?
Also I want to try out building a raytracer sometime as a hobby project, is it advisable to learn some 3d graphic concepts like WebGl and so?
>The subjects were delighted to be contacted by another research group

Where did you get that they were delighted from the article you linked? Were they all uniformly delighted?

It seems that either way, the original agreement/contract/TOS should govern what can be done with personal medical information.
Collection of relevant information:

- "Open source" technical landing page: https://threema.ch/open-source/

- GitHub account: https://github.com/threema-ch/

- Reproducible builds: https://threema.ch/en/open-source/reproducible-builds
What is the main reason of trying this projects? To learn something new? To train existing skills? Or is it to benefit financially from those projects?
Why .NET Standard Is Still Relevant
No, the blog post contains additional information about previous reviews. The announcement is the correct link.
But France showed repeatedly that they don't understand science, do want to listen to it, and don't want to learn from it. From the masks to the current christmas holidays who will create a 3rd wave, they proved they don't handle this virus very well.

Add to that a bit of science nationalism from the De Gaulle era, and we ended up with that app.
Very interesting article, thanks for sharing the information.

FWIW, I used to be very happy with the Gnome environment but 2 recent (nautilus related) changes frustrate me incredibly:

* Copy / paste file paths from nautilus to terminal is broken. (You get this extra meta information in the path starting with `x-special/nautilus-clipboard`)

* Type ahead is gone. Previously you could type the first letters of a file / folder and select it this way. Now typing automatically triggers a search (equivalent to ctrl+f), which is much slower.

These might be minor things but I hit them so often that I was driven away from Gnome.
It's surprising how many people are asking why it's a story.

It's a story because people's perception is that COVID is a hugely deadly, once in a lifetime disease that justifies wildly extreme measures. Yet, when put in context, it can end up looking less serious than other health problems that are much more familiar to us. That's surprising and thus newsworthy.

This is something critical thinkers have been flagging up all year: the numbers are low. They're especially low compared to predictions but they're low in an absolute sense as well, usually below a host of other regular killers. Many of the headline stats disguise this fact, like the oft quoted "COVID deaths" number that is picking up a lot of people who died of old age because doctors aren't allowed to write that anymore. On death certificates every death must have a cause because if there's a cause it can be fixed. This is an interesting health care industry mentality, that nobody ever dies because everyone dies, instead they died for a fixable reason, but beyond the philosophical questions that poses it also leads to this problem whereby people see the numbers and assume every "COVID death" could have been prevented.

The "it's just a flu" meme comes about because the numbers of excess deaths are in most places so low that this is a pretty reasonable comparison. In America it looks like that isn't the case, but there's some suggestion now that there has been a pretty steady ~1.2% y/o/y increase in deaths for many years now, so we'd expect an "excess death" in the USA of 1.2% anyway. This is unlike in most countries where death rates have been falling, which is why it yields a confused picture.
My problem with other bash alternatives like zsh or fish is that it develops habits that don’t translate across servers that might only have bash.

I prefer using bash in this case because it means my bash scripts are more portable across different systems.
Russian ISS cosmonauts struggle to find an air leak
Great news, I hope this helps to increase trust in Threema and to get traction. I use Threema with a lot of contacts already (I’m German).
You need some technical brilliance to make bland web pages that serve users at Facebook's scale. I don't know whether you need brilliant engineers right at the beginning when you haven't reached that scale yet.
Messages are not stored, only forwarded. This means that very little server infrastructure is required.

Additionally, there are offerings for companies (mostly the same app, but with MDM management possibilities) that use subscription based pricing: https://work.threema.ch/
The iterator and sentinel do not need to be the same type, they just need to be equality comparable. If you wanted to represent a infinite range you could implement it in terms of a regular iterator and an empty sentinel type to which the regular iterator compares false to.
I think we need something like wine for GTK2 and qt3/qt4 as a way to run old apps going forward.

It's still possible to run 20+ years old Win32 Apps that way.
Build your own bamboo bike kit
> There's PLENTY of ISVs which write complex and ambitious software which would make the brain of an average FAANGer melt. Just look at anything related to computer graphics, geophysics, CAD, data compression etc.

You don't think your attitude here is condescending and self-aggrandizing?
Uber Lux drivers tend to be professional drivers working for luxury chauffeur companies and as such are vastly better than the regular Uber drivers, the prices are still competitive with black cabs (for up to 3 pax)
Messages are not stored, they are deleted as soon as they are downloaded from the server.
So if you assume that energy cost is low and servers can be used for a long time, it feels like this could pay for lots of sent messages.

They host everything themselves, so only the physical space for servers needs to be rented.
Nice. So I guess the business model is now purely about hosting the central servers for everyone? I'm fine with that, I hope it works out for them. I've been a satisfied Threema user for years. The main problem, as with all messenger systems, is network effects.

The less optimistic views are that (a) this will destroy their business since people will manage to write self-hosted servers that make Threema's hosting services redundant, or (b) that they know that their business is on the way out, and this is giving back to the community before they fold. I hope that's not the case.
What kind of app was it?
String Interning in Python
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=244937

As per the rule against this, somethings in 12 years truly never change.
It would be spectacularly boring. The ice would just slowly run aground and stop. The reason it’s so damaging is because it just parked on the entire shallow ecosystem, not because it’s gonna blast into the island like an asteroid.
I really love how they settle up pyramid scheme with government especially.
The Magic Number for Reducing Infections and Keeping Businesses Open
Why XFCE and not Mate, which is a continuation of Gnome 2?
A Lean Alternative to a Business Plan
Ah, another "theoretical expert" - you're of course free to try to improve upon their design, but I think what they ultimately built is the end result of a lot of effort (and probably trial and error) already. If you look closely at the video, you will notice that the pieces are slightly V-shaped to recenter the ball if if deviates from a straight line, and as long as the ball is in the center, the tempo is correct. When it goes off to the side, it will be pushed back to the middle, but will inevitably be slowed down slightly.
Oh, Gnome... I was a really into it in the late 1990's. Haven't used it for many years, except the occasional time I set up a Raspberry Pi and plug it into a monitor. For the sake of nostalgia I follwed a few of the links in the post and it took me all of 3 click to find this page (current top post in Gnome Discord) : https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-desktop-icons/4949/13 which was a painful reminder of why I gave up on 'Linux on the desktop' and pretty much 'open source for end users' overall.
They don't store the messages on their servers. All messages are only stored on the end devices of the users.
The servers operate only as a message relay and only store the message until the message is delivered.
I'm not sure why you're repeating the comment I replied to, but this is exactly what I replied to in my comment.
Paul Graham made a store as a service product 1996, at the time it wasn't as easy to create a crud webapp. His views are probably biased by that.
If you don't mind pulling a bunch of cinnamon dependencies along with it, you can use nemo (the cinnamon file manager) as a nautilus replacement in gnome. The search behavior you mentioned in particular is very annoying with nautilus.
Generic Mitigations
Show HN: Icondash.com – software DIY kit for icon management
Well their VP of Product certainly seems to care about what they might be doing wrong. You should email him.
https://ibb.co/82ZKGZ2
I did something like this on a Sun SPARCStation ELC back in the early 90s. I was setting the machine up and was new to Unix and the shell and deleted the contents of the root directory. Not the sub-folders just the files.

That doesn't sound so bad right, there's nothing important just in the root directory - except in those days that's where the system kept the kernel binary! No problem, I'd learned how to do network file transfers the day before so I just copied the kernel across from another ELC and rebooted.

Phew!
We will never buy bread ever again from a shop. Covid lockdowns has taught us to bake fresh baguettes at home that beats every bakery in the world.
"Come closer to look at"

From my calculations, the smallest text in the document is around .7 inches. This equates to a viewing distance of around 18 inches-ish. Yeh... a bit tight. But remember the last time you viewed a gravestone with interest. How far away were you?
Running a 2013 maxed out Macbook Pro professionally and it‘s great! I upgraded from a 2015 Macbook Air (both used), and the extra speed was useful. I don’t really feel to need for it to be any quicker though. But like you I use the ports all the time—so upgrading would in some sense feel like a downgrade.

(btw in my experience the battery can be replaced easily, also at non-official repair shops)
We plan on adding Django support asap. If you could share your email ID or drop me an email at advait at supertokens.io - I will update you as soon as we have the Django SDK ready
The easy way to remedy this is that all forms should ask for that permission explicitly, and many do. When doing an MSc in neuroscience, even though our research was about the contribution of early visual areas to reading tasks, we always asked permission to get in contact if we found anything problematic on structural MRI scans. If someone explicitly says no to that (which I can't remember happening - as you suggest, the vast majority of people would like to know) that's their choice.

Edit: What no-one has said here is whether the initial study did say that, and the original researchers were going against the wishes of the participants. Given how the researchers behaved that doesn't seem entirely unlikely.
You forgot to mention lead- and radium beauty creams.