skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You glossed over the most important bit:

“of course there's situation where mass transit gets convenient, like large cities”

That’s where most people alive, and in the not too distant future, the vast majority.

You’re also leaving out all the downsides of cars: mass casualties, sedentary lifestyles, air and water pollution, reshaping urban forms to non-human scales.

When you live somewhere that hasn’t been exclusively designed for the car, you might realize that it’s perfectly possible to live a happy, healthy life without ever using one, or doing so only rarely through various rental schemes.

It’s also rich that you bring up poor people. Requiring car ownership, like much of the built infrastructure in the United States does, is a huge burden on the finances of the poor and working class.

You’re also forgetting that there’s options other than “jam everyone on a central star topology bus” for transportation: walking, bicycling, and various e-devices. All of which are much, much cheaper than cars and yet provide many of the benefits you tout.

Cars have their place and have been extremely useful for many, but our society has gone too far.
Wuhan was the first recognised outbreak but it's most likely that the virus had been circulating in humans for some time before that. This is neither an extraordinary nor controversial claim.

Now, I believe that the claim about Italy was a bit tongue in cheek but at the same time it is reasonable based on facts and should be thought provoking:

We now know that there were cases of Covid-19 in Italy and France, and perhaps US iirc, at the same time, and perhaps before, the outbreak around that market in Wuhan, as early as November. (So, yes the virus did stealthily traverse continents, by the way)

Now, based on that why would the origin necessarily be Wuhan? Logically, the earlier the cases the closer they are from origin.

The origin of infectious diseases is always tricky to establish. After years we're still not sure about the origin of MERS and possibly SARS. It took decades to pinpoint that HIV appeared in the 1920s, almost 60 years before it can to the world's attention.

While it is still most likely that Covid-19 arose in China we do not know where and when.
This is a sentiment I do not understand.

Expressing a desire for open-source software:

> no need to support proprietary platforms and most importantly no need to be a slave to the Play store, App store or Microsoft store

While seemingly replacing it with closed-source web software. Spotify and Figma are listed, but presumably there's others too.

Here's the thing. These web apps are much worse from a freedom perspective than the client-side software they're replacing. You're less likely to be able to run them if the company doesn't want you too, e.g., they normally can't be run without having an account. But more importantly, with closed-source web software you've taken the one thing you actually did own, your data (which once lived on your hardware that you have full control over) and now you've given that to the company too. And you still don't have the source code.

In a freedom sense, this is absolutely the worst of all worlds. Slowly losing ownership of your data as we move to web apps is a path to a Kafkaesque nightmare where a tech company can arbitrarily cut off access to your life's work on a whim. This is already happening.

You can still get by only using apps that let you own your data today, but it becomes harder and harder every year. And at least in the tech community, a lot of this is driven by a mind-bogglingly paradoxical-on-its-face preference among open-source advocates for closed-source web apps over native apps (which are actually "freer" from a data ownership perspective).
>You’re making a comment on cognitive science, and trying to imply that language learning in humans isn’t learned, but pre baked.

You make good points, but this one isn’t quite what I meant. I didn’t mean we are trained by evolution for a particular language, but that evolution selected for a language skill. In other words, we are “pre-baked” with the ability to learn a language. It would be analogous to a DL model being trained for generalized regression but not a particular problem. To that extent, I think we’re saying the same thing. Some of the theories related to our generalized learning abilities postulate they stem from this base ability (our aptitude for music, for example, being a consequence of our language learning ability)

>I see BERT as non sensical. You need to be scientific and have a mathematical theory

This is a matter of contention. A lot of science progresses by starting with an empirical result that drives a change in theory rather than the other way around. I can’t remember who to attribute it to, but there’s a quote to the effect that “‘Thats odd’ is the most productive phrase in science, rather than ‘Eureka!’”
Show HN: A Mashup to find LineageOS supported phones that are repairable
Wow, 35% growth in the package ecosystem is a great sign!
If you think driving at night in the UK in the countryside (middle of nowhere) is dangerous, you don't want to do it in Australia or NZ...

At least the UK (on the non-minor roads) has decent "cat's eyes" that reflect light back very well from the car's headlights, as they have actual mirrors in them.

Oz and NZ instead have blocks of plastic embedded in the road instead with a reflective strip on, which in terms of visibility distance is very noticeably poorer (i.e. the reflective power is much less).
I have zero experience on both. What's stopping someone / org to develop a workflow framework on HTML5 that's working similar with flash?
National Strategy for Planetary Protection
LinkAce has no RSS feed, but that might be an excellent idea!
id used to GPL license their engines, but then Carmack left and they stopped open sourcing them.
I wonder if society will get wise to this strategy. I know on Twitter we often find the shameless talk show host peddling some deranged conspiracy and the best response is to block or counter without engaging with the tweet (or just get off twitter). They’re doing it because Twitter rewards engagement even if it is just creating controversy and arguments for the sake of it.
After desktops came along like the Apple II and DOS based PCs, people had full control. Then we got networking to share printers, and IT started controlling things again. It's been a constant back and forth ever since. Not all the way to the extremes, and not every company at the same time. Not everyone ran Novell Netware for example.
The mathematical result I think you are referring to is: any uniformly distributed random variable xored with any other independent random variable yields a uniformly distributed random variable. On the other hand, if we take the strongest random source in the universe, say X, and xor X with itself we get:

X xor X = 0

The result is just a sequence of zeros, which is not "as strong as the strongest source". In practice, people may take lots of different "random" sources as input to their random generators to make them "more" random. But if you don't take care to check if they are independent, you may have a problem.
yes that's it. I would just build a custom prompt that says "tap on the share icon" and then tap "Add to Home Screen".
I would absolutely talk to a lawyer about whether any activity you witnessed might be criminal conduct for which an NDA would be unenforceable. You may very well save lives.
Amazon's competitors get those benefits too, so they can't make profit from it. They have to cut their prices relative to what they'd charge in that hypothetical anarchy where they need to provide everything themselves in order to operate. For example they can use clean water provided by their city, so that may save them the price of producing clean water themselves. But the competition gets that city water too, so amazon can't profit from the savings of not cleaning water, or competition will undercut them. They have to pass the savings on to customers.

The only benefits they can really profit from are things no one else can get, which generally only amount to corruption for anything I can think of. I'm sure there's some, of course.
Given the last commit on ownphotos is from 2019, that seems likely and reasonable
Pollution is the enemy not carbon.
In theory, I know Genode and other capability based systems could be answer this question... but not in practice. I'm off on that tangent seeking answers. Thanks for the "hacking prompt"
Good point. I guess from that perspective it’s impossible to quantify either side
Isn't it nice to see our justice system at work. I'm glad to see our brave men and women keep in mind their number one imperative: never disappoint $$$.

> Ticketmaster expressed satisfaction with the outcome in a statement. “Ticketmaster terminated both Zaidi and Mead in 2017, after their conduct came to light. Their actions violated our corporate policies and were inconsistent with our values. We are pleased that this matter is now resolved,” a spokesperson told The Verge.

> Today’s judgment defers prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Ticketmaster must pay the fine in question, maintain clear policies to detect and prevent unauthorized computer intrusion, and present annual reports on its conduct for the next three years.
Who else wondered how you could possibly make steel with zero carbon... SMH.
Nim compiles to js with `nim js source`. I'm not familiar with wasm but it's also possible, know people who have done that.
There is a person in front of me, and the signal is on. Does it see me or only that other person?
> To know why I have been downvoted would be reasonable but to downvote because you disagree?

usually it's an expression that usefulness of down-voting in disagreements shouldn't be questioned. As far as I remember HN uses high levels of downvotes/upvotes to give the topic a bad karma (don't quote me on that), it has to be the reason why HN didn't turned into reddits yet.
I read it that wasn’t just his own account he was accessing but yes you’re not wrong about employee termination procedures also.
I think the Nobel prize data can be explained quite simply: The Nobel prizes are only awarded in fields that were established early in the 20th century. Because they are long-established, we are seeing diminishing returns as the low-hanging fruit has been plucked. The latter half of the 20th century saw rapid development of new fields such as computer science ... and Nobel prizes are not awarded in these fields.
Well, it depends on how you measure it. If you measure by effort, gravitational waves are way more difficult to detect then to predict, no? So shouldn't the confirmation of their existence count for many times their prediction?
The culinary rediscovery of Colombia’s biodiversity
It really depends on your cloud; I recently worked with an openstack setup where I needed to create some 6 resources per compute instance, with ~200 instances that’s a whole lot of resource blocks to manage — hiding al that in a module abd passing in a dict of machines to create was imo the right choice..
https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos#first-steps-after...

Local directories (so mount whatever you want to that path) or NextCloud native integration
Proof of what?

Here's an article by Xinhua if you prefer: http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2018-11/05/c_1123667476.ht...

在于田县教育培训中心，已经有食品厂、印刷厂、电子商务基地、制鞋厂等８家企业建立了就业实训基地，帮助５００多名已经毕业的学员实现了就业。

In Yutian County's ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yutian_County,_Xinjiang ) education center, there already are a food factory, printing factory, e-commerce base, food factory etc. 8 companies in total have set up practical employment instruction bases to help more than 500 graduates find employment.

Are you saying those pictures that "could be of anything" are not in fact the factory buildings that the Chinese government says are there? What else could those buildings be?
You made me look how old Visual C++/Visual Studio is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B says: 27 years old. Not too shabby :-)

You should add refactoring capabilities for the C++/C#/Java tools to the list of features, I wonder how the Lisp stuff compares.
There's no mention of snaps in the sandboxing section. This is a shame, I'd like to hear the author's analysis of its sandboxing.

As far as I'm aware, it is stricter on providing permissions to snaps than flatpak, in that classic confinement and special plugs require store approval. It has the same issue that most snaps provide access to the "home" plug for trivial access to much user data, but dotfiles are excluded so there is no trivial exploit through .bashrc, or reading of .config data, for example.
James Doohan Had Ashes Taken to International Space Station
Nim compiles to js (as well as c and c++)
And frankly, it should not be legal. Either don’t sell it as self-driving / don’t even have that feature, or take full responsibility (within normal limits) for any accident.
Not really a high-seas problem, onboard a ship the regulations of the flag country apply. However, flag countries are picked to be very lax in both laws and their enforcement.

E.g. you will not find any carribean cruise ship from the big lines that is under a US flag.
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NSPluginWrapper... Something has awoken inside me. Distant memories behind a fog. Something evil. This is not good, not good.
I think n.8 is too nitpicky even for that kind of list. Of course if you're talking about the Earth-Sun distance you are taking one of them as the reference. If you're in a different frame, then you should do the math for it.

But I think at the surface of the sun (if you could stand there naturally) the time/distance is still around 8min (happy if someone does the math) - Note that the statement says 8min, not 480.000s which would be metrologically wrong.
I suggest an alternative first step to quantum computing: hands-on, by playing.

Either Quantum Odyssey (https://www.quarksinteractive.com/) - a game purely about quantum circuits. And, up to my best knowledge, the only easy introduction to quantum computing that passes the Scott Aaronson's Minus Sign Test.

Another one (full disclaimer: I am a co-founder) is the Quantum Lab (https://quantumflytrap.com/) - a real-time, install-free, LEGO-like simulation of an optical table with a few entangled photons. Written in Rust + WASM, and goes well beyond "just qubits".
Suppose that the following are true:

- Someone is not able to make enough money to have a reasonable quality of life despite contributing to society.

- Society's rules do not provide an alternative (for example, because natural resources and land have already been claimed or because someone doesn't have access to capital).

It would not make sense for someone to willingly go along with a system that does not allow them to live a decent life. Therefore they must be going along with the system due to some form of coercion.

A situation where someone is forced via threat to go along with a system that does not meet their needs is subjugation.
> Flash was really important for its time

It'll be a shame to see Flash go, it really was quite a technology. Couldn't click a link without some cutesy little flash something-or-other popping up.

My memories may be tainted by time, but I'm hesitant to say that modern web apps have surpassed flash yet. A web browser simply isn't up to the challenge of creating a nice interface for an app and I got the impression Flash's tooling was a long way ahead of the game. But Flash stands as a soon-forgotten internet monument of closed source winning battles and open source winning wars.
This site I made because I was searching for something like it. When my last phone stopped getting updates while being perfectly usable, apart from at Linux phones I searched for a repairable phone that was supported by Lineage, and found it very hard to see what is available. There are other (some very nice) Lineage device finders, but nothing I saw linked that data to iFixit guides.

Repairable for now means "battery swappable or easy to change". Lineage is only one of two Roms listed, MoKee is the other one.
Apple executes New Year's Eve apps purge in China
That’s super for publishing photos for the web. Thus seems to be focused towards managing your entire photo collection for you, in a similar way that google photos and iCloud photos does.
If you want to use it you can unlock it. Why is it unlocked by default?
What do you mean by 'polution' in this case and why do you consider it more important than the carbon emissions in this case?
These are criminal acts. If they were physical (i.e., not cyber) there would be more than fines. Fines are a slapon the wrist. $10 million a meaningless drop in the bucket.

Cyber crime pays.
I use Nextcloud for many years now and for many different use-cases, but photos is not part of it. Mostly because my Nextcloud runs on a SSD and my photos are too many. In addition, I feel like the Nextcloud performance and feature set would not be able to deliver a good user-experience.

So if we are talking a just about a few hundred MB of photos, you are probably fine, but for anything larger I would recommend to consider one of the more specialized projects.
Knowing that I'm a loser doesn't make be less of a loser.
Worth noting that these are optional. You can forward logs to your preferred syslog daemon. You can turn off resolved, timesyncd, networkd and use something else instead of them.

It's not ideal when looking at the whole environment, but specifically for our services - we've got the choice.
You're free to use Golang or another language.

Nim has a great feature set and will be a good fit for Python or Ruby teams wanting a more performant language. At the same time, it's more expressive than Golang and will fill a niche Golang couldn't meet.

I like that we now have Golang, Rust, Swift, Nim, and Kotlin. They're all doing new things and excelling at their own niches.
This feels like it's just copying iPadOS UI...and the supported devices are medium to high-end, which isn't the target for tablets, as if you have a Surface or a Matebook, putting a desktop Linux would be much more productive. A more reasonable target for tablets would be PineTab, Surface Go, and the cheap Chuwi x86 tablets.

Additionally, if it can run regular Linux apps, why reinvent the wheel? If you want touch compatibility, it would be better to create a translation layer for the frameworks so the on screen keyboard would pop up, etc. such as in Ubuntu Touch.

Another problem is the lack of open development. It just states "Available on Jan 31st, 2021" without any information about where open source enthusiasts could view the code and help in development. I feel this analogy to iPadOS might make it really similar to iPadOS in its closed source development. I reached out to the JingOS developers on discord and they stated that it will be open sourced after it is released. However, it's better to have source codes before it's released, so security researchers can take a look at the code.

Currently, the state of Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish OS on tablets such as the PineTab is in a much more mature state. They also have a fairly large community. For now, I would much rather use Ubuntu Touch or Sailfish OS on my tablets.

Looking to the future, I'm thinking about the upcoming release of GNOME 40. GNOME 40 mockups seem very touch friendly...looking forward to its release.
It is society's responsibility to make up for its member's lack of income. That's what society is: people coming together in order to provide for the mutual good.
Photoprism looks great, thanks! I've been looking for a project like this, but my biggest requirement is that it doesn't move my photos from where they are, which no project I've found can satisfy. Everything insists on moving things to its own store.
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It's great that UWP apps are sandboxed, but they're a minority of the apps people use.

It's not just sandboxing of UWP apps and Windows Sandbox. Recent Windows 10 version have a feature called 'Controlled folder access' where you can designate certain folders as being protected (besides the Windows system folders). If any non-whitelisted application attempts to access these folders, you get a notification and their access is blocked by default. You can then whitelist the application if you want to grant it access.

It's more course-grained than fully sandboxes application, but it's a nice extra layer of defense for application that do not use sandboxing by default with a portal-based mechanism to request access to certain files/folders.

There is more information here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

(This should be fairly easy to implement in Linux with a MAC framework like AppArmor/SELinux or perhaps eBPF. But it's not useful for most people until someone actually implements this in a user-friendly manner.)
On "Black Holes have a strong gravitational pull.”...

> For a black hole you keep falling towards the center, cross the horizon, and the gravitational pull continues to increase.

I've always struggled with "crossing the horizon".

- From the perspective of an observer falling into the black hole, I understood that the event horizon falls away from you, so you never reach it (maybe you get "closer", though - not sure).

- From the perspective of an observer away from the black hole, time appears to slow down for the object falling into the black hole, so it never crosses the event horizon.

Am I right? What does it mean to talk about crossing the event horizon if this never happens from either of the observers' perspectives?
Why You Should Not Swap CapsLock and Control (2008)
Another example would be plate tectonics --- incredibly important, only settled in the 1960s, but no Nobel prize awarded because there isn't a Nobel prize for geology/earth sciences.
So if I understand that correctly: Nim will try to do a light version of Rust's borrow checking and then gradually move from static to dynamic solutions for memory management.

I read that Nim's GC is optional, does this mean it can be deactivated and when the static memory management fails, I can do it manually for the edge cases that would otherwise done by the GC?

Hope this makes sense, haha.
"How is affirmative action an "obvious" issue?"

This isn't obvious to me either. While I can see that hiring to match predetermined racial quota can result in subpar performance, most of the world does not play the diversity/inclusion game in the way that USA does, and does not seem to have better results.
Bill Gates said somewhere that steel and cement production are the key factors for stopping climate change. That's why he invested in a startup for steel production with focusing mirrors.
This was a settlement with the US Department of Justice, which apparently believes a $10M fine adequately protects the public. One wonders if the timing of this announcement is coincidental.
The other mysterious acronym in the post is “SSB” which means “Site-Specific Browser” in this context.

KaiOS (based on Firefox!) and Microsoft Edge are all in on PWAs too.
Not OP, but I’ve been happy with everything made by Aeotec. My whole house is outfitted with their products on a raspberry pi + homeassistant setup. Entire process was really simple and easy, no need to “experiment”. You’ll be done in half an afternoon.

https://aeotec.com/
I 100% agree. But with ssh (ideally) the passphrase never leaves the computer you are physically touching.

With passwords you are sending it to remote computers where it could be compromised. Thus the standard practice of forcing all users to change their passwords when a server is compromised.