skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tim Kuik, director of copyright organisation BREIN, says he was told by the men that he had to stop sending legally formulated letters of complaint. „They wanted a meeting where I would tell them what was wrong in a jovial tone, and then they might look at it.”

This is hilarious, I wish less sketchy companies would do this to DMCA requests.
Not to mention the paywalled C++ standards documents.

People say A few hundred dollars is nothing to a professional software engineer, but few C++ developers actually buy it, so the legalese they consult is often not the letter of the law but a proxy like cplusplus.com, replete with the occasional error.
> Rarely are technics given first seat at companies

Except Google, Microsoft and Apple.
But parent is not talking about calling out people for having social media accounts. He/She is talking about those having a social media account judging those not having one as paranoid. You've just propped up a straw man here without addressing the point the parent comment made.
> AC usage is relatively low in the middle of the day because people let their houses warm up while their at work

Presumably if electricity was free during th day and expensive at night, that habit would change rapdily.
That’s why I mention practicality! I think yes, for people who strictly buy the cheapest car that’s not bad, it will be some time before EVs are viable.

But many people, including myself, think that EVs are better in general. If I was comparing a $15k car to a $20k car, I could be convinced to spend more on an EV if I was just comparing the vehicles themselves in an ideal environment. But that decision doesn’t make sense until the “practicality” problem is solved.
For those uninterested in digging through the article to get to the point, here it is:

Attention discourse proceeds under the sign of scarcity. It treats attention as a resource, and, by doing so, maybe it has given up the game. To speak about attention as a resource is to grant and even encourage its commodification. If attention is scarce, then a competitive attention economy flows inevitably from it. In other words, to think of attention as a resource is already to invite the possibility that it may be extracted. Perhaps this seems like the natural way of thinking about attention, but, of course, this is precisely the kind of certainty Illich invited us to question.

I can hear the rejoinders taking shape, of course: But attention is scarce. Right now I’m giving it to your writing and not to something else. I have only so many waking hours, and so much to which I must or would like to give my attention. At any given moment, I’m likely to find my attention divided and fragmented. Etc.

Given the intuitive force of these claims, further variations of which I suspect you can readily supply, is the claim that we have all the attention we need even plausible?

So here is a proposition for you to consider: you and I have exactly as much attention as we need. In fact, I’d invite you to do more than consider it. Take it out for a spin in the world. See if proceeding on this assumption doesn’t change how you experience life, maybe not radically, but perhaps for the better. And the implicit corollary should also be borne in mind. If I have exactly as much attention as I need, then in those moments when I feel as if I don’t, the problem is not that I don’t have enough attention. It lies elsewhere. (There is an additional consideration, which is that I’ve failed to cultivate my attention, but, again, this is not a question of scarcity.) In any case, I obviously can’t make any promises, but, you may find, as I have of late, that refusing the assumption of scarcity can be surprisingly liberating.
Especially because Google mapping your WiFi comes with real downsides for you. Two years ago a random stranger rung my doorbell and told me their Android phone got stolen and according to Find My Device, the device was inside my house and even showed it to me live. I told them to wait on the street and checked the roof and yard, but didn't find the device. I simply told them I can't help further and they luckily took it well, thanked me and left. Imagine how easily such a situation can get ugly though. A day or so later i realized that my Wifi router happens to be at an oddly open corner of my house, facing the backyard, and visible for much further than you'd expect since there are also no other structures for quite a distance. I bet his phone was somewhere there but saw my WiFi and so it erroneously located itself in my house. Thanks Google!
Collision avoidance is now standard tech. Subaru has been making automatic breaking/adaptive cruise control a standard feature of all new model designs. Legacies MSRP at 22k, and the 18k impreza is due for a redesign in 2022. A quick google shows that the 2021 versa may be the cheapest car with automatic breaking at $16600 MSRP.

https://www.subaru.com/engineering/safety.html
https://www.nissanusa.com/shopping-tools/build-price?models=...
Stainless – Verification framework and tool for higher-order Scala programs
Can someone please guide me on how to check this leak to verify if my info was leaked?
It's not like Facebook is being transparent with what data they collect and how it's going to be used. Furthermore they don't understand the concept of "no" and will keep asking, hoping to catch you off-guard as you press the wrong button and give them access.
I'm in the process of crafting my jewels over the next few years, but I have the position of being almost retired. I'll be able to take my time and focus on crafting good software.

The process is not going to be commercially viable for many years simply, and this is why crap persists because that crap does solve real problems today.

You can check out the project: http://www.adama-lang.org/docs/why-the-origin-story

It's going to take a long time until I get to a 1.0 release.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201120150728.h...
The boyfriend probably went to your Facebook to see if you are a threat and what type of relationship you have with his new girlfriend.
> Unfortunately, even a very small amount of noise in the data makes is basically impossible to know where you are in an S-curve.

While true, my point is that when combined with the fact that we are pre-inflection point, and the economics now stand on their own (renewables, Electric Vehcile TCO and various Energy Storage applications being already cheapest, competitive or very close too) it is not unreasonable when mapping out the 5-15 year future to bet on an acceleration of cost declines over a deceleration. Particularly because the actual driver of unit cost declines (Wrights Law/Moore's Law) is the doubling / magnitude of units manufactured and put through the system, for which with all the factories being ramped up and planned - point to the positive in my view on it.

Regarding your PV-powered and electrolysis-Sabatier (electrofuel) methane, I think there are two important considerations. In order for methane (or other e-fuels like hydrogen or longer chain hydrocarbons) to be made economically, the capital cost of the equipment needs to be utilized as close to 100% of the time as possible. We already know that PV excess will be centered around the daytime peak (5-7 hours per day) meaning that there would also need to be plenty of excess wind to balance this out to get anywhere close to 100% utilization of the excess energy. Until the electricity grids get sufficiently saturated with renewables broadly, most e-fuel applications will continue to not be competitive, particularly as things like energy storage applications (possibly run off an e-fuel) are likely to be economical prior there being an opportunity for the export of excess e-fuels. That's more at the a end of the S-Curve as far as I can tell.
> I'd imagine a fair deal of older buildings have a boiler using oil or gas or something else to burn.

In the UK gas boilers are common even in newbuild homes. I don't know a single person with AC (though it's common in offices).
I agree with the first sentence, but I don’t think the second sentence is good evidence. Most people in the top 1% of incomes are not CEOs of large corporations.
Obligatory mention: The Political Case for a Blanket Cryptocurrency Ban, https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/banbitcoin.html.
As I understand it, the difference is basically whether it is possible to end up in a situation where you are out of the game going forward. E.g. with repeated bets, you eventually hit zero money, and then you are stuck at zero forever.
It solves the problem of excessive costs of cleaning and fixing bathrooms by decreasing the probability of someone destroying the bathroom.
You are too harsh, good UX is subjective.

I have not found anything better than wmii, last year replicated experience in xmonad now without any WM controls. My environment is clean and unobtrusive — xterm, vim, mpv, mupdf. Arch Linux user since 2009. Recently I've tried Windows and macOS, can't stand them.

There are other projects though — Gnome, KDE, more mainstream approach.
I have enjoyed working with https://roots.io/.
Maybe, maybe not. But certainly things like specific targeted programs one should be.
I can’t disagree with that. I feel like the EV conversation is centered on “richer” countries anyways because of infrastructure and tech. I’d be curious to learn how EVs are being approached in countries which are still developing infrastructure
> All signals are output at the same time, giving perfect timing.

Wonder how they do that. The pairs are normally spun at different rates to cancel crosstalk, so I would expect them to have different lengths.
Shame they sell cheap gadgets among more engineered products.
Almalinux 8.3 is released as a stable RHEL clone for those who liked CentOS
It's not a uncommon school of thought that the corporate tax rate should be 0% the biggest issue is the concern that without taxes the hording of money inside the corporation would get crazy but Apple already does that so it might not be as big of an issue as people think.
Controlling the Settings in Chrome's Print Dialogue with CSS
I expect I’d get more passive safety improvement from buying a 5000# 2011 car/SUV than a 3500# 2021 car/SUV, but if I move my risk from once every 22K (or even 20K) years to once every 25K or 30K years, it’s not clear that’s meaningfully different.

I’d probably be much better off to take less stress at work over car payments and/or lose 5 pounds on an all-risks basis.
Not being able to travel with your own cash above a meager limit reminds me of totalitarian regimes in eastern europe when I grew up before communism collapsed. Not very fond of those memories in particular.
My thesis is that people would like to achieve results without feeling they are losing relative to their peers: thus they need to think of taxes as a way to donate but feel that the rest must donate with them and keep their relative status.
> If corporations are taxed then there is effectively double taxation.

Not really. Corporate profits are taxed, not revenue. Taxes aren't figured until salaries are already paid.

> ... if Nike had $0 taxable income it’s only because they shifted the taxable income to the CEO’s pay.

I'm sure it's a lot more complicated than that. Companies aren't avoiding tax by giving all excess revenue to their CEO as compensation. That wouldn't really make sense at all.
Wow, the Space Jam 2 trailer is riveting!
Social Security payments are progressive but have no fixed limit, so those paying 10X or 100X would also receive higher payments.
Ask HN: How to reduce back and forth in code reviews?
Hi HN,

I'm a junior engineer at a startup and I was hoping to get some tips on how to reduce the number of comments, number of bugs found, basically reduce the back and forth needed and improve quality of my code during code reviews?

Would love to hear specific, actionable advice from other engineers. Tech stack, if relevant, is RoR, React, PostgreSQL
> Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners will detain them and turn them over to law enforcement, who will take their money without any cause for suspicion and without filing any criminal charges

This is insanity.
If you're asking this then you have a pretty big misunderstanding about how computers work, and how compilers translate types in a language into machine instructions. The real answer is that, for types to be able to be passed around a program like we're used to, they have to have a size known at compile time. (The mostly irrelevant but invariably talked-about exception is a VLA, which I'm ignoring for now.) If you're writing in a language where the array's size is not known at compile time, the language is lying to you---it's not really an array, it's most likely a pointer and a length. Rust doesn't lie to the programmer, so you can't have an array's size not known at compile time. You should learn C.
This looks great!

The "CIDR" peer grouping is bloody brilliant.
"The class action lawsuit was filed in January 2020 on behalf of Terry Rolin and his daughter Rebecca Brown. TSA and DEA officials seized Terry’s life savings of over $82,000 from Rebecca as she was flying from Pittsburgh to her home outside Boston, where she intended to open a joint bank account to help care for her father."
Well you should evaluate ABBYY to see how well it performs as it is one of most widely used commercial applications for OCR.

I used it for years to scan our bank statements (before our bank could export data).

It was the only thing I ever found that handled tabular data properly.
Budgets are planned on existing resources not on future streams of revenue. Plus tax revenue is also variant, this is not a great argument in favor of taxes over donations.
I've read that the longer someone with depression stays awake, the less depressed they are. If you can keep them awake for 48-72 hours, their depression will disappear, only to re-emerge after they sleep.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/sleep-is-the-mate-of-d...
Personal data for 533M Facebook users leaks on the web
Maybe this is helpful: https://nanonets.com/blog/receipt-ocr/

In my Opinion Tesseract is the most sophisticated "free" OCR solution out there. The problem with Tesseract is not its recognition capabilities, but more the preprocessing steps.

- thresholding
- deskewing
- segmentation
- ...

There is a C# library (non-free), that improves recognition A LOT, just by providing these abilities: https://www.vintasoft.com/vsocr-dotnet-index.html

If you find a good Open Source solution, I would be interested, too...
From the article:

> The most tragic aspect of this bug, howevere, is that it is intended behavior according to the YAML 2.0 specification.
> I just wonder, really, what "a shell script" even is to you if not something where you need to "shell out to external processes"?

A replacement for a shell script may not itself be a shell script.

A fairly typical python-as-shell-replacement I have that (among other things) creates/manipulates test resources in AWS corresponding to git feature branches, shells out less than it would if it was a typical shell language (using boto3 rather than shelling to the AWS CLI, etc.) but still shells out to git. But it would be replacing a shell script even if I had a git-repository-interaction library that eliminated the need to shell out.
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Right, but isn't most of Apple's cash hoard held outside of the US's tax jurisdiction, under much more favorable tax regimes? Seems like that might be an argument for a 0% tax; at least if the US didn't tax corporate profits, more of that money might be kept in the US. It's not guaranteed that it would be spent (thus injecting money into the US economy), but at least it would be possible for that to happen.
I’m not exclusively a Mac user. In the past 30 years I’ve also used MS-DOS, every version of Windows since 95 (except for Me and server-based versions like 2003 and 2008), various Linux desktops, Android, ChromeOS, and iOS. I’ve even played around with NeXTstep, Haiku, Pharo, and Plan 9.

The classic Mac OS and pre-Big Sur macOS were the best environments I’ve used from a UI/UX perspective, with Windows 95/98/NT/2000 being worthy runners up.
yeah i bought Mikrotik for home and i have no idea what to do there. I tried to do hairpin nat with it and after 3 tutorials i somehow managed to get it working and now i have no clue how does it work or what its it really doing.

I think its only for real networking pros
Yes, one of the surprising things I realised when first making regular US trips from the UK was that lamb was a comparatively exotic meat there.
There has been movement and cries for help about criminal influence at the municipal level. With cases of criminals getting elected, or mayor's being threatened for taking action against criminals.

These have been listened to, and a campaign to undermine criminality by law enforcement has been setup with moderate success. The issue is known in government and action is being taken. At the same time, our value and expertise is largely in logistics. Government tries to balance economic interests against crime fighting.

Meanwhile we are a huge logistics hub with a relatively small police force (cause we are a small country). So it makes sense that we are attractive for criminals.

What worries me most is the port of Rotterdam. It is big, vital, and known to have quite a large criminal element embedded in the workforce. Fixing that whilst keeping the port operational is probably quite difficult.
Notable mention: the Apple TV app for macOS. Truly one of the worst experiences I've ever had on the desktop.
If there's a way to build with it free of charge, I'd check it out
Video codec is Cinepak, which macOS doesn't support any more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinepak (Good thing there's VLC!)

Audio is raw PCM (8 bit mono audio @ 11kHz)

QuickTime wouldn't get support for the more advanced Sorenson Video and QDesign Music audio codecs until QuickTime v3.0, released in 1998.
Slices in Rust are actually kinda similar to VLAs in C99, but usable in places other than aggregates, and use an additional word in pointers to them for the length, as a safety mechanism. You can even use slices as the last member of a struct, like VLAs, though they're not very ergonomic currently (you can only obtain references to them, as well as Boxes containing them, using "unsizing" coercion):

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Well I did. One degree. Then another. A sponsor will lets your ass survive for 5 years, maybe 10 if you get an extension on your sponsorship. Then you're out. Forget your old life, because you're going back wherever you came from. "In fact we don't care, just get out of our borders."
Filing a false DMCA claim is perjury.

> A DMCA claim (or takedown) is when a copyright holder notifies a service provider that they have infringing material on their site/service. It is also known as a “Notification of Infringement”. For example, Twitch has these guidelines for submitting DMCA claims. Essentially it boils down to send in writing who you are, who is infringing your rights, how they’re doing it, and swear under penalty of perjury that you are telling the truth.

https://blog.pretzel.rocks/lets-take-a-minute-to-talk-about-...
Command + Backtick was a pretty big game changer to switch between windows. I understand the difference between that and Hyperswitch, but I’ve rarely been truly wanting for something much more than Cmd+`
I honestly have not met another Linux user in Silicon Valley that actually lives here and I have been here 7 years.

I have to fly to Germany and hang out at CCC to find people that know how to be productive with open source hacker-friendly software. It is even rare over there to meet a Mac user. I meet more FreeBSD users than Mac users in Europe.

Meanwhile in the US It feels like at every new employer or client it is a PITA to get a Linux machine because no one has ever asked for one before. It is just assumed no one could possibly get a technical job done without Apple.

I have been told multiple times that I need to use Apple so IT can help me when it breaks in spite of me literally being a Linux hardening specialist who even has a few lines in the kernel. I can maintain my own machine, thanks.

I have even had people insist on sending me Apple laptops even if a Linux machine is approved just because they are so sure I am going to need it. I never do.

Where are all of you hiding? I feel like I need a support group of people that also opped out of the cult.
Collision avoidance, speed limiting, adaptive speed limiting, adaptive headlights, lane keeping, blind-spot warning, ISO-FIX anchors, far stronger pillars, reversing cameras, lane exit monitors, SOS buttons and GPS reporting, far more air bags, door-cyclist collision warnings, seat-belt pre-tensioning, some have pre-collision suspension raising, etc, etc, etc.

I just went from a 2009 Land Rover to a 2020 Land Rover, so almost exactly 10 years, and one of the the main reasons I did it was safety features. They weren't standard on my model before and they are now. It's night and day.
I have some notes I share on ergodicity here: https://win-vector.com/2012/02/04/ergodic-theory-for-interes...
Then just write a check to the IRS voluntarily and go around on Oprah and Ellen and get them to help browbeat others to do the same thing.

Why that is not an apparent option is beyond me.

People who “give to charity” at this scale have enormous tax breaks that are beyond comprehension. Giving that money to the IRS gives you ZERO tax breaks. This one fact should tell you everything about the people we are talking about.
> a car lasts only 10-15 years

Is this normal where you live (presumably the US)? I find that really wasteful. Cars last twice that in my country, and we have tropical, seaside (salt = rust) weather to deal with.
Even if so, I don't get all the outrage directed toward Nike. They're merely doing exactly what the US government told them they could do.
It's a good point. You pay attention to what you pay attention to and that is enough for now. Letting other people dictate that you "should" FOMO about this or that is no way to live. On the other hand, it is also easier said than done. Just like everybody knows that they "should" limit calorie intake and exercise but obesity is still a thing.
There's not much to see here.

Someone scraped some public profiles. Someone then brute forced a poorly implemented "look up by phone number" feature. They linked the two datasets on the unique facebook user id.

Leaking data that is or was in the public domain is not much of a leak. The only noteworthy thing would be the leak of the non-public phone number, however that vulnerability has been widely known since 2019 (and has been resolved by Facebook), so there's nothing new here?
You're damn right.

The other day, I was using the Twitter web interface, and I realised I'd accidentally clicked the "Like" button on a tweet as I was going back to the previous page. Oh no, I haven't liked a bad tweet, have I? Of course, I go forward, and the page has completely changed, showing me a bunch of stuff that wasn't there the last time I saw it. Great, now I need to navigate the UI. I scan the interface for some sort of "likes list". It's not in the sidebar. It's not in the "more" in the sidebar. It's not even in "lists".

So I open Tweetbot, search the menu bar for "like", find it in "Tabs → Likes", and perform the action I want in seconds. Web applications can never compare.
Take also a look at https://github.com/daitangio/sqlite_ora_functions

A similar project python-based
> FYI, the cost of individual cells has long, long gone below $100 per kWh in wholesale volumes.

Electric bicycle batteries are still $500 for 500Wh (consumer price, but 10x as expensive).
This sounds like a just-so story about incentives and open-source software, and seems to ignore some of the significant motivations actually at play, as well as some fairly glaringly obvious historical examples. What are the specific examples you have in mind here?
If there was no OS pre-installed on laptops, everybody would use Linux.