skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A random Syrian, or someone 'without passport' is not going to raise any scrutiny in Egypt. Just a few handfulls of cash could have expedited his way to at least Lebanon.

There's something odd about this story because neither a passport nor money should have kept him there, unless there was literally some kind of watch for him, and/or the cash situation was really that extremely dire. That said, he was able to survive for 4 years so money had to be coming from somewhere.

I suggest that he was maybe being paid a tiny amount, and that he felt it'd be better to 'stick it out' as a nearly worthless cog, than to take a risky path home to what might be nothing anyhow.
I'm not sure if you're assuming best intentions. If you do, it'd be nice to provide sources - to my knowledge, vision under non-optimal conditions (rain, snow, sunlight ahead) is only partially solved by resorting to sensors resistant to the disturbance.

I'd be glad to learn I'm wrong.
I don't know how anyone can acknowledge that moral intuitions aren't universal while simultaneously believing their moral intuition can be used to justify the death penalty.
It sounds like you have empathy.

A lot of people look at issues with a code base and just assume the problem is due to stupidity. Rather than coming from the angle of, "this person was probably as capable as I am, why did they make this decision?"
oh, that may explain why I get them stuck on my tongue ...
Thx for the reply. It's always difficult to evaluate things from the outside without having full context.

Re: housing + medical costs, yep, the quick math says that unless things go really terribly wrong, in a few years one should build up a substantial safety net despite the costs.

For young and healthy (new graduates etc.) it definitely makes sense to go to US for a few years (and then perhaps come back as a remote person in Europe and start a small EU office, I know that's how many EU offices of US second-tier (non-FAANG) big techs have started).
Tom's Hardware has some nice tables comparing the specs: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cerebras-wafer-scale-engin...

(more than the IEEE)

This thing pulls 15-20kW of juice!
Now is the time to build a rotating space station and use it as a base to out together spacecraft from parts sent up maybe for the missions to Mars some day.
Not the den’s best investment…
google.ar is also parked.
Here's my attempt at solving the same kind of problem for just URIs, I try to defer to .mailcap for file based auto-opening.

Never had much luck with xdg-open

https://github.com/mjsir911/browser
40GB of SRAM. Not quite big enough to fit the big models like GPT3
This is a truly bizarre story. I agree with others that other government agencies should run this particularly given USPS already well known financial challenges.
No, I'm not an expert. Therefore I cite studies conducted by people who are experts. The available evidence indicates that legalized prostitution increases sex trafficking. Look at Germany and Netherlands. In both countries the number of victims of sex trafficking grew rapidly after they legalized prostitution. I.e evidence is against you. Stop being wrong.

Note that most victims of sex trafficking are also illegal aliens. Thus legalized prostitution doesn't help them since they would also be deported. The main benefactors of legalized prostitution are the Johns who no longer have to suffer a social stigma from purchasing sex.
I'm sorry but lock the computer down and have a proctor. It's worked for hundreds of years. Teaching younger people that it's okay to be surveilled 24/7 is frankly BS and we need a new Digital Bill of Rights as of yesterday. Humans deserve dignity, if you treat everyone like a criminal they start to feel like one and drive up their anxiety levels Also fuck Proctorio and its ilk
There are loads of intelligence services in America. Coup d'État has a non-exhaustive list. I'm pretty sure even the NOAA does homeland security stuff.
What does this give you over writing a flake8 plugin (for Python at least)?

I've found the flake8 API and documentation lacking, so perhaps just a cleaner interface?
> District attorneys want to be seen as effective and tough on crime, and in order to win convictions are willing to manipulate witnesses and withhold evidence. Court-appointed defense attorneys are overworked and often incompetent.

I'll note that most of these problems are unique to the US justice system.
It is much better if you're not the target of the system, which in the US means that you're white and/or middle class or better.
Mathematical Recipes for Programmers [pdf]
I think there is a decent amount of postprocessing, but I don't consider that a slight against the photos. Photography is an art that takes place equally behind the camera and in the darkroom (or Lightroom as the case may be).

I see:

* Very likely quite a bit of cropping going on. The framing on the subway fight is perfect, which I imagine would be hard to pull off in the time needed while the fight was occurring.

* Also likely some perspective correction in post. The horizontal and vertical lines of the office building are damn near pixel accurate. Even with a good tilt-shift lens, I'd be surprised if that was accomplished entirely in-camera. Most lenses have some amount of distortion.

* Color correction is common but hard to strictly demonstrate. But, in general, the color in all of these is too beautiful to be real to me.

* Some HDR, but well done (which is rare). Look at the shot of the party. You can see some texture on the dark building facade, even though the illumination of that is likely several orders of magnitude darker than the windows. The texture looks sort of weird and squishy, which likely means that the brightness of the building was raised significantly in post, or possibly even a combination of two shots with different exposures.

Wonderful work.
Is there something that could be done by people otherwise uninvolved - like myself, or my fellow HN readers - to help the other ~250 people who are currently stuck in similar situations?

I don’t even know how to go about enumerating who those people are, their ships, or where they are anchored. With that information a well-organized and/or funded group could at least get someone out to these people to check on them, provide basic supplies, and perhaps some form of reliable communications.

A lot of problems seem insurmountable large and complex, and even this one seems so if your goal is to free these people of their legal liabilities - but if you set aside trying to solve the reason they’re stuck onboard these ships in the first place, providing basic humanitarian aid to them seems doable.

ETA: This looks like a good place to start - https://www.ilo.org/dyn/seafarers/seafarersbrowse.home
If he was doing a good job I may not even care.
Yes, you contact the FBI and get them to investigate, just like everyone else does when federal crimes are involved.

(Also, echoing the sibling: where are all these poorly made postal bombs you're talking about? I can't remember anything in recent and not-so-recent memory.)
> which purports to answer the "but... why the USPS?"

Yes, that's the burning question I took away from this article.
Wild populations might not budge much as long as their historic spawning grounds up estuaries remain scarred by human development.
It's 40 GB of SRAM. I doubt it supports external memory.

> Also, if the chip is the size of a wafer, is it appropriate to call it a Chip?

Good question. I think it is. I mean the word "chip" isn't really that well defined (is HBM one chip?), but given that they sell it as a single unit and you can't really cut it in half I think it's one chip.
That's what I thought too since the AirDrop protocol, as mentioned in the article, doesn't even share any of that hashed info unless a user opens the share sheet to initiate an AirDrop transfer.

To me, that means that if I was going to attack someone using this exploit, I would need to sit there all day until someone used AirDrop to send something and then I'd need to make sure to have my attack planned out in advance so that I could then use that information to do something useful.

The chances of that actually happening to some detriment are so small, in my eyes.
Please don't. Perhaps you don't owe $person better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I found that video fascinating as an example of how pernicious myths can be. Makes me wonder how many myths I've propagated to others without verifying them myself.
The screenshots for the numbered sections are from a book or something?
Mostly I was trying to explain US tax law to non-USAians ... but in general you need to lock in your investment in a way that the IRS can tell that you meet the long term holding requirements (often your broker will do that for you in your 1099 these days if you're dealing in shares)
I was on a jury for a trial where they had crap on the kid accused of conspiracy to create meth.

He drove an old high school friend, who he hadn't seen for years, to a park. He drove into a parking lot on the way and turned around "as if trying to avoid tails." He returned to the car and the undercover cop put the key back in his hand after putting ingredients in the car.

AND...he was being accused of conspiracy (which raises the seriousness of the crime to a felony!) to create meth because...there were drug ingredients in the car and the keys were in his hand. He'd spent his time at the park napping on the grass with his hat over his head. Or, as the cops testified, "probably acting as a lookout."

We of course said "not guilty." No one even wanted to argue. No idea why they thought they had a case.

But the kid in this case was white. I could totally see a black kid deciding that accepting a "lesser plea" would have been preferable to taking a chance on a 95%+ white jury (was in a predominantly white area; I don't think there was a single black juror, though I wasn't keeping count).
This one is strangely funny :)

"[Prompt: ]
This is a poem written by Robert Frost about the perils of machine learning.

Alas! The machines are here.

They’ll eat our brains and take our jobs,

They’ll do our thinking for us,

And all that we’ll be able to do

Is program them.

Alas! Here comes the Machine"
Court battle to establish who invented Bitcoin given go-ahead
GitHub Actions update: Helping maintainers combat bad actors
No, it does not. There is a paragraph _talking_ about it, but not much info still.
https://archive.is/XQ9Jn in case you change your mind and want to read the article you're commenting on.
Structurelessness and decentralization are only related in that structureless things are decentralized. Decentralized things are rarely structureless. Whether a networking protocol is decentralized or not, it's definitely not structureless; it's nothing but structure, it's a protocol.
> he couldn't do anything with it because it would have a Lein on it.

If he had title, then he could sell it. The lienholder, however, would have a claim on the proceeds of the sale.
Next time I start thinking it might be time to see if any of the 'desktop' guis have gotten any better, I'll reread this and save myself the time.
Right, so we instead hand matters over to people who do things like hide phone call records that would prove that someone should not be put on death row.
I'm curious, if he did manage to get on a ship surely he'd be able to return home to Syria on a ship bound there?

I mean, if you're an American citizen heading home and you lose your passport on the walkway to board your plane in France... it's not like America's going to prevent you from entering, right?

Surely it's gonna take some time to verify who you are and fix the situation. But it's not like you're forever banned from your own country.

Leaving Egypt might have been too difficult logistically to pull off, but once he had I don't see any legal difficulty returning home.
When you seem to be arguing that hospitals around the world all independently cooked the books to inflate COVID deaths because of nefarious profit motives, yes, that sounds like the definition of a conspiracy theory.

If you don't believe the reported COVID death numbers, you can look at excess deaths over prior years, which largely track with or exceeds the reported numbers for COVID deaths.

Ultimately, for most people it's pretty obvious at this point that COVID is a catastrophe of the likes we haven't seen in many decades. Trying to persuade people at this point is tiresome, it would be like living in 1943 and trying to persuade skeptics that, yes World War II is a big deal.
This thing reminds me of Daniel Hillis's "The Connection Machine". Just 35 years later.
The tragic tale of Monica Jones
> I believe such infrastructure is better thought of as distributed, rather than decentralized.

Hmm, I'm not sure I follow. On a technical level, a pure p2p system continues to function without central coordination even if each individual node is "owned" by the same entity. These seem to be two very different levels of analysis. If I understand your claim correctly, you are pointing out that this hypothetical entity is centralized -- and I agree -- but that doesn't magically turn the p2p system in question into something else.

To reformulate the question: when is it advantageous for this abstract entity to use a p2p system in this way rather than a client-server system?

Is it e.g. a question of scale?

I have a nagging suspicion that it's partly a question of usage-patterns, though I'm struggling to put my finger on it. This is what I mean by "organizational policy" (which is admittedly an opaque term...)
"I said a certificate with a name is better than a certificate with an IP."

I think that's debatable. IMO, it depends in part on the perceived value of the ICANN "domain name business" as some sort of vetting mechanism. In this case the party being vetted is ICANN itself. Although they did pay for "EV".

https://censys.io/ipv4/192.0.32.9/raw

Does Globalsign still offer certificates that are tied to IP addresses.

https://support.globalsign.com/customer/portal/articles/1216...

Here is a question for the TLS certificate fanatics: Why do CAs provide non-http URLs to their CA certificates in the certificates they sell. For example,

http://cacerts.digicert.com/DigiCertTLSRSASHA2562020CA1.crt

I suspect it is a bootstrapping issue. At the top of the chain there is some notion of implict trust. No different than with DNS. Trust should be decided by the end user not by developers, nor by some self-appointed "authority".
maybe it was a bug in their system, so they were on the hook
Language nitpick in the parent’s comment: “touted” is definitely the wrong word here, to tout is to solicit.
I'm quite sure that plenty of bacteria don't die at 40°, let alone ‘tap cold’.
Among other exploits, you could generate an SSL cert and harvest cookies. All visitors would have to do is load your site in their browser. Right?
It's corporate welfare.
As the article notes, a much more important thing to consider is how it influences insects working with pollen and producing that honey rather than how it influences humans who consume it.
How exactly was he able to eat for that long? What are the logistics of being stranded on a ship?
Yeah, and there are a lot of people who are most likely guilty who never even get charged. A prosecutor won't want to take up a case when he thinks the evidence is in the zone between "preponderance" and "beyond reasonable doubt".
Show HN: Git uff – get the URL for a file from a Git checkout
> Scala and Haskell are both "astronaut" languages. They really encourage highly complex abstractions

They encourage highly simple abstractions. You can put functions like `fromString` and `map` onto interfaces. No need to go via builders/generators/collections.

Dijkstra said it best: "The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise."
2024 or even 2022 is going to be a very interesting election if this ever gets passed.
I think the beyond et al ranks worse after you cook it. When I cook with this stuff it has no fat inside to render out, so it soaks up cooking oil like a sponge to reach equilibrium. It's osmosis. I put in some olive oil in my pan to get some browning, and it's been soaked up dry in 30 seconds and I have to add more before the patty fuses to my pan. I can't help but think I'm eating a lot more grease. Not to mention you still need to use your salt and pepper and other seasonings, because it is quite bland. Probably intentionally to be widely palatable.
I'm anti-death-penalty because I like small government. Unfortunately, almost everyone who says they like small government likes the death penalty. Weird company to keep.
> Do you do nothing?

No, you coordinate with the CIA or FBI to investigate threats against the government.
It would be corruption if he personally benefits from the project, e.g. by selling land to Foxconn. I don't know the specific details to know if it really was a case of corruption.
it's hilarious you know. for almost 20 years we had this perfect "it sits it fits" approach to usb, now here we are, four standards three cables one connector. easily avoided by just keeping a different connector for each spec...
Are Premium Domains a Scam?

In my opinion, yes. It also depends on what that means. Squatters / Botters pick up short domain names and then sit on them until someone buys them. Short common names can also go for a lot. This is due to the ease of use on radio and television marketing. If I say "cars.com" it is hard to get that wrong. This is entirely up to the registrar or owner that holds the domain. Registrars pay very tiny registration fees to ICANN for a domain regardless of what TLD or apex name it uses.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892135
Yes, my point is their responsibility lies in their messaging, not in making it harder to defeat people leaving the driver’s seat.
A couple postal workers died about 20 years ago when someone used the U.S. mails as an anthrax-delivery mechanism. Details are here: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5239a2.htm Note that's there's also a deeper CDC analysis looking at whether mail sorting is a job with higher than usual mortality rates. (Answer: probably not).

Granted, that's a long time ago, and it doesn't happen habitually. But if you're going to have a workforce safety team (good idea), they will likely want to either actually do something to stop the threats, or at least signal to management that they aren't totally clueless
Oh so this is why they were so concerned about the post office funding in 2020.
Apple reportedly expanding iMessage to compete with Facebook
Careful how much oil you use to cook it, I find it soaks it up like a sponge and I tend to use a lot more than for cooking, say, ground chuck or other meat.
Alternatively - if you're not in the Eygptian legal system - be careful of trying to make someone sign something they don't comprehend - in the US at best the contract will be invalidated and at worst you might be held responsible for any damages if it was your job to clearly communicate the rights the parties had w.r.t. the contract before signing.

That all said - that's a hard battle and one you're probably not going to win unless you a) don't be speak english or b) don't have full control of your mental faculties - "I couldn't be arsed to read the contract" is generally not a defense unless the contract goes out of its way to be intentionally misleading.
It's not just slow but it wouldn't be compression either.

On average, the length of the number required to point to the starting digit will be the same length as the data you're trying to compress.

It would be 0% compression in the long run.
Daring Fireball, PG's blog, Hacker News and anything that is primarily text...I just click the little Reader View icon and it looks the way I want it to look.

Ecommerce sites are a minefield.

Saas and anything table-y or app-y, you're also out of luck for the most part.
Chris Hedges: The Unraveling of the American Empire
I think his comment refers to the feature in 1password (probably others) that will automatically pop-up associated passwords as opposed to finding them within all your passwords. I had no idea it was possible to link a website and app together in this way.
It's possible for employees of every government agency and every private company to get caught up in the middle of a protest. Should they all start their own surveillance programs?
Or you just make nice and slowly grind on them until they have a break down and/or leave.
Nope, worst case you get blackmailed into being a sea slave until you’re no longer useful and dumped in the ocean to die.
Doesn't really help me no offense. Trying to find out how/who to transfer these domains too and if it's possible to avoid paying $800/year to name cheap. Do you know any providers or if this is possible, concretely? I cannot find any information one way or the other.
Reasonable doubt means doubts that a person is guilty. In probability terms it can be interpreted as a state of belief in the guilt (or innocence) of the accused. PG's 4% number is offered as the frequency of wrongful convictions. The two concepts are not related.

For example, if a body of jurors say that they are 95% certain that John Smith murdered Jane Brown, that does not mean that there is a 5% probability that John Smith did not commit the murder, or a 5% probability that he will be wrongfully convicted. The 95% number quantifies the belief of the jurors that John Smith is the murderer. 5% quantifies their belief that John Smith is not the murderer. Nothing in those numbers tells us anything about how often jurors are wrong- it only tells us how strongly they believe they are right.

To know the frequency of wrongful convictions we must look at the frequency of exonerations. Whatever is the state of belief of jurors or judges etc during the trial where someone was convicted of a crime can't really inform us about the probability of their future exoneration.
> I personally like to my browser windows to be reasonably narrow […]

> What can the user do?

Just use a 1000+ pixel window width like everyone else.
The vast majority of desktop browsers are used with a 1000+ pixel with, often much larger. You are just the edgiest of edge cases.

I understand you’d like the whole world to cater to your weird preference for narrower windows, but making decent experiences for all sorts of operating systems, screen sizes, browsers, interaction models and so on is already hard enough. Asking for it to be made harder for your convenience is not a reasonable request.
Not unless the device in question also has your number listed in its contacts.
Well put. Thanks for putting words on that.

The confusion between structurelessness and decentralization is interesting in and of itself, though. It seems like it is exactly this conflation that prevents people from asking the interesting question: when does a centrally-organized social system (e.g. a business) benefit from a decentralized protocol?

It seems like this should have something to do with usage/access patterns within the business, yet we never hear about this.
Really outstanding those guardrails rules from semgrep. Useful to enforce code. Thanks for sharing the tool.
Prometheus: $36/ton for CO2 Capture
This is where the DMCA and CDA safe harbors help you.
If the increased tastiness means we eat more of it then it'll be good that the meat is fattier. In terms of macronutrients your body needs a certain amount of fat and a certain amount of protein but not necessarily any carbohydrates. But too much protein can lead to medical problems like gout so ancient hunters who lived off large animal kills tended to prefer the fattier cuts of their kills which were both tastier to them but also healthier given the rest of their diet.

As to salt you do have a point.
The Post Office is a tech company, etc.