skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lawyer here. I’d hope the Defense lawyer raised a slew of objections. There are serious foundation, authenticity, and chain of custody issues here.

On top of that, another way around this is under the confrontation clause. The accused has the right to question any witnesses against them. So I’d demand to cross examine the “tech” that ran the scan and make it apparent that no one knows how the box works (that’s the whole point; it’s proprietary). And then ask them simple questions like “cookies images have been placed on my clients device if no one knows how the box works?”

The real advantage of these celebrite boxes, for law enforcement, that they give them leads to otherwise admissible evidence. So that’s why I’m shocked to hear that they actually tried to use information from the phone.
Yes, but you haven't accepted the central premise of all my posts yet, which is that entities should only not be multiplied "without necessity."

If the initial known facts of a story aren't sufficient to describe an event (a baby in a tree, a car doing something it never has before) then the actual cause must involve additional entities, whether a person or a solar flare.
GBForth: Using Forth to understand the Game Boy (2019)
Having money has always and will always lead to a more comfortable life. Pollution is all a matter of degree, and cities produce plenty of it, even if per capita numbers are marginally less.
I agree with you that a GCd language, almost by definition can’t be a low-level language.

I’m not familiar with schedule-optimized design though, could you expand a bit on it?

But I assume it can’t easily be used with routinely changing design requirements, with non-obvious object life-times, like most business applications, CRUD apps —- which is the primary use-case of high-level languages.
Multiprocessing (or multithreading, which is the unix model is much the same thing) is even heavier than a green-threading runtime. Instead of swapping out little task handlers / continuations you're swapping out whole address spaces.
draw.io is great, however, isn't the question about what type of diagrams do we do instead of what software do we use to do diagrams? I am confused.
This is funny to me as the milkshakes are relatively expensive here in Germany yet the machines in some locations still seem to be perpetually broken. I'm not sure if the milkshake and ice cream machines are the same thing but if they're not I guess some franchisees just don't want to deal with the hassle of keeping them operable regardless of whether they're loss leaders or not.
Inventive grandson builds Telegram messaging machine for 96-year-old grandmother
News Feature: Voyager still breaking barriers decades after launch
Some other songs from Blonde on Blonde (which is my favorite Dylan album) were written in the Chelsea Hotel too. From Visions of Johanna:

Lights flicker from the opposite loft

In this room the heat pipes just cough

The country music station plays soft

But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Actually I think road speeds for various curves are pretty standardized, so it shouldn't be that hard for the car to estimate the correct speed based on the curve.
Couldn’t you always claim that malware caused the offending clicks/placed the illegal files on your disk and is hiding/obfuscating itself so well that it’s not detectable by forensic methods? What’s the logic here to still get the criminal?
Yes I had not heard about it before, I guess we see if there will be any actual effects of this.
Barring original developments, simply replacing the existing financial infrastructure — replacing the middlemen by smart contracts and decentralized organizations. This is less costly to build (in terms of infrastructure and paperwork) and much more flexible. Also, anybody with a good idea or use case can enter the space.

Companies that could be replaced/rebuilt on the block chain include Visa, stock exchanges (NYSE, CBOE), Swift, Stripe, ...

The blockchain also feels like the natural progression of a process of digitalization and increased transparencies. For many proposed uses, you don't actually need a blockchain, but it turns out to be the easier choice anyway.

Let's make up an example: say we didn't have a way to track containers (the kind that travel on ships) - it would be much easier to set it up on the blockchain as an Ethereum NFT than spinning the required infrastructure. The blockchain also comes with governance cookie-cutter solutions. In the real world, you'd need to set up or contract a company to run the servers — who owns this company or who does it contracts to? The blockchain solution is easier to set up and probably easier to sell once the technology becomes more accepted.

Another way to look at this is that the blockchain makes it easier to set up real-world APIs which enables not only to track things (recorded on the blockchain, a secure ledger) but also to perform real world actions (e.g. orders) that involve real-world financial values. Central to that is the ability to represent physical assets on the blockchain (e.g. our containers for before - you trust that the blockchain is an accurate representation of reality because you trust the transactions signed by container companies).

Note that this vision is in a certain sense quite boring. Nothing really fundamental changes for the common man, though he may end up benefiting from the resulting innovations.
OMEMO is optional because not all of the 37283749 XMPP clients support it. But it is enabled by default if all involved parties are using Quicksy, Conversations or another reasonably new client.
There is that old Steinbeck gem about how poor or middle class Americans don't think of themselves as that, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Hence wanting to hide their real worth.

How do you sell conspicuous consumption / Veblen goods to people if you can know, for sure, that they're really broke af?
Is the link you provided right? I don't see how it relates to this. I generally agree with your statements, but I wouldn't want to run a project like LibreSignal with the lead of the original project not wanting my project to exist, although I find moxy's behaviour in this case very unsetteling.
How does this compare to other options like Jitsi?
I think that you end up convincing yourself that you did the best, despite the obvious differences between what you were thinking back in the day and now. Also, you would make yourself think it was probably the only possible outcome and your younger self was wrong or at least very, very naïve.

Or at least that's what I would do, sitting on a mountain of dollars.
It's not like someone is forcing you to get married. Also 41% as a top line number doesn't tell the whole story. Among college educated Americans the rate is ~29% and falling year over year.

Also prenuptial agreements are a thing for a reason.
It's the news article that was already widely published and a local take (not by any government body, "campaigners have called") in Scotland.
Routify framework makes this easy with Svelte
Over at Heriot-Watt we had SGIs and Windows boxes aplenty and I still found myself working in a little office on a VT100 hooked up to a Sun 3 (which ran a forgotten line printer). At first just because there was never any demand for the room, then later because it was just more fun.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/21/world/vaccine-patents-us-...

Apparently it’s not as simple as temporarily waiving IP claims. On the one hand they don’t even own some of the rights being waived, and on the other hand they would need to do more than just waiving rights to truly support their stated goal of accelerating immunisation against COVID-19.

This leaves, for me, a weird taste of a PR exercise more than a true commitment to the message they sent out.
I'm working on a python project with XMPP and Signal. Can you provide a link to your python library?
Or maybe, and just maybe, the whole ‘stages of grief’ concept is not actually predictive of which opinion is actually right, and it’s just a cheap rhetorical trick providing an excuse to patronizingly dismiss someone else’s scepticism towards an idea.
They are still making a work of fiction and entertainment, so some shortcuts are taken. Series like Star Trek just come up with new physics and word salad to progress the plot and pull out their deus ex machina.
So there are two things, there's OS-provided event handling (poll, blocking syscall that schedule another task, OS threads) and there's coroutines (libdill and friends).

OS-level async is what I accuse some devs to underuse, preferring language-level async constructs. I've read a lot of frankly FUD and cargo culting about how inefficient things like pthreads are. Let's not even talk about pre-fork parallelism which is probably the simplest way to use multiple cores when dealing with independent tasks but hardly anybody seems to use these days. I wonder if most devs even realize that it's an option.

In my experience coroutines were never really popular in the C world simply because without GC or at least a borrow checker it's just very hard to write correct code. Avoiding memory violations in C is tricky, avoiding memory violation in async C is asking a lot.

Rust does a lot better here thanks to borrow checking but it still leads to, IMO, very complicated code.
It's Jacobin Magazine. Putting complicated news stories into a procrustean oversimplification that produces a socialism/capitalism manichean duality is a substantial part of their reporting.

I suggest not taking it too seriously;it's just what they do.
Some of the exchanges seemed rather nonsensical, to my mind, like there were pieces missing.

It's not like the default Android SMS app indicates that messages have been deleted. And there was no provenance information provided as to where or when they were collected.
CMake may be toilsome, but it is acceptable for simple projects due to its builtin dependency resolution, and powerful enough to do anything you want on the complex side.

Cargo is perfect 80% of the time in my usage, but when it's not perfect, it's almost actively harmful, and much worse than CMake. And I say that as no fan of CMake.
The limit to that is how fast we can make more buses. Those lines are built for expected demand, and if cities suddenly start buying all the buses they should have to get a useful transit system they need a large expansion.

Though if cities actually did put for that investment, in a few years there would be enough riders as to pay off the investment. I'm not hopeful though: most cities have transit executives who don't care about transit, and so if given a ton of money will instead invest in transit art - things that look good but don't improve transit.
I literally append "site:reddit.com" like in the article whenever I'm looking for reviews and comparisons. Google is nearly useless for finding content among the sea of crap and autogenerated near-crap (like Slant). I might click on the links going to sites that I half-remember by name, but for open-ended searches it's a lost war.
I was thinking about this over the weekend, because I needed to resize a partition on Linux. I know I did this before. I know it was successful. For the life of me I couldn't find the reference. Grrrr

I have a practice of creating a directory `Machine_<host_name>` for each physical device. And, further I name each file `<host_name>-*`.

But did I name the file LUKS? LVM? or name it after my distro? or just partitioning? (of course, in truth, I can search in text files for those same keywords, but really I was just overwhelmed by the disorder of my folder)

So I was thinking about this problem. Now a bunch of odd folder names just doesn't communicate in a pinch. Now I'm thinking along the same lines of how programs are packaged. Specially named folders. Structures of folders.

I'm thinking along the lines of:

+- Machine-<host_name>
|- issues.d
|- docs.d
|- configs.d
|- fixes.d

Prolly not what people are thinking about 'how to organize your knowledge', but it's on my mind after this weekend. (And yes, I was able to successfully resize my partitions. Woot!)
And compression
I had this problem for most of my life, except for when I had no job and was doing Ironman training full time. Then I think my sleep/awake cycle was more like 6/6. Sleeping well was the best part of all that. I read somewhere that our cold weather ancestors evolved to expend about 6000 calories per day.
No, it's not.

The article argues that patents are irrelevant, since the know-how of drug manufacturing is the only thing that really matters. This would definitely be news to the drug companies, who spend fortunes depending their patents. And yes, of course know-how matters, but forgoing patent litigation removes at least one obstacle for competitors and it's a charitable thing for Moderna to do.

In this particular instance, I'm perfectly fine with Moderna making a fortune off of their vaccines. The prices they are charging (~$35/dose) are simply not astronomical, especially compared to the damage of this pandemic. But the issue right now is that even with all the money in the world, there's only so much capacity to manufacture these drugs. To get a vaccine off the ground you need to:

1) Have the expertise to develop it in the first place (probably the easy part)

2) Test the vaccine to rigorous standards (costs a fortune)

3) Have the manufacturing facilities to make the drug

4) Have the people to run said facilities

5) Source all the ingredients that go into the vaccine as well as containers to hold it and the refrigerators to store and transport it (good luck)

This article would have you believe that the Moderna leadership are filthy capitalists and if it weren't for them the vaccines would be widely available, but money simply isn't the issue here... it's a worldwide shortage of materials and talent, as well as government regulations that make it incredibly hard to bring a drug to market (but not unjustified... as we see, it's very important to have public confidence in the safety of a vaccine).
Same, so far they've mainly showed a lot of visual improvements, but I really hope the technical groundwork is being done as well.
I meant "for iDevices" but my phone's autocorrect got in the way :(
But then we get nationalism and politics permanently intertwined with medicine.

As we’ve seen with the US and EU during COVID are exports and recipe sharing going to be banned if some cancer curing drug is discovered ?
Well, they weren’t wrong, but then they saw there was nothing wrong with the first passage you quoted.
In Italy ambulances are almost always run by volunteers. The rationale behind this is that most of the time when they are called, it is not something very serious, but when it is (like cardiac arrest) they are trained citizen who need to pass a rigorous exam and every hospital also as a emergency car with a medic (usually a rianimator) that can be sent along the ambulance if needed. I do not know if this model is used in the rest of europe
Boy do I need a job at your company.. :-P
We May Be at the End of Progress
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Not really: you still need to get from where you park the car to the front door of where you are going. That is a shorter distance, but you still need something to deal with weather.
Apple bringing campus to Wake County, NC
You can get far in KSP by adding more struts or delta-v, lol.
RiffTrax has a subscription model available. Just waiting on the app for my streaming devices.

I like mst3k but am not really interested in kickstarting Joels streaming infrastructure this time around. I did thrown down for the price of a VHS tape though.
The humans weren't eating the local (contaminated) produce, and those who stayed — due to their advanced age — and were eating it, probably weren't reproducing.
Proofpoint Agrees to $12.3B Take-Private Deal from Thoma Bravo
Frequency is the problem. A bus is useless to me if there is 1 every 30min and missing it means I waste another 29min. It needs to be every 5, maybe 10 min at most to make me not want a car at current car costs in most of the US.
Both Pessoa and Machado de Assis are praised outside of Portugal/Brazil, so it's hardly a nationalistic thing.
Well, Python is very dependent on C FFI, which may make it harder.
Hi, I had a look at treenotation.org and some of your other resources - could you perhaps post a practical example on how you use your custom 2D DSLs, and why it would be preferential to other tools?
gevent is difficult to use when interoperating with code outside its runtime (e.g. if you have a callback that gets called from a C library) and you lose control over where you yield, so you'll never get as high throughput as blocking code in the scenarios where that's appropriate. It's effectively just making all your functions async, like JavaScript or indeed Erlang.
It's a popular-ish American socialist magazine. Not someone's personal blog.
This would have been useful for one of Jane Street's recent puzzles: https://www.janestreet.com/puzzles/tit-for-tat-index/

I ended up just grepping through a large dictionary instead.
I just want to clarify, I'm neither a fan of the current patent system, nor of Moderna (they are clearly doing it because they see business sense in it).

However, the linked article clearly misrepresents the "value" of patents to companies. They want to (and are) using patents to keep out competitors.

The article seems to make the case that if patents actually would disclose how to make something instead of keeping trade secrets things would be fine. I disagree, having trade-secrets is fine, but abolish patents.
I wouldn't call that evidence, but I can see how the pressure of political activism could challenge the idea that awards are merit based.

But I don't think I've ever seen any actual evidence that the merits of non-white, non-male people are any less than their counterparts. Most responses I see are talking more broadly about "PC culture".

I think this could also be a case of

a) More non-white, non-male, "othered" people working in media
b) More of an audience for that content than ever, enabling people that fit different profiles to make movies
Thoma Bravo buys cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint for $12.3B in cash
Despite the title this blog post seems to be more about the unfortunate trade that "the commons" did with private inventors: originally patents were meant as an alternative to trade secrets - you revealed the trade secret to the public, and in exchange you got 20 years of exclusive use of said (no-longer-)secret.

But now we've got the worts of both worlds: companies patent an essential part of their process to gain exclusivity and prevent others from reinventing the process, and also keep trade secrets for most of the rest of the process, so that the patent itself is 99% useless - you'll still need to reinvent the process, except you're only allowed to do that 20 years later.
The problem is that google created a negative feedback loop with the web. People have a tangible interest to game google, which worsens the quality of their AI datasets, which makes their AI suggestions terrible. There was the expectation that google's AI suggestions and info boxes would improve over time, but i 've noticed them getting worse and consider them a permanently broken gimmick now. They probably have the same problem in their Ads business which tries to optimize revenues

Voice recognition on the other hand keeps getting better because there's no tangible benefit for someone to game it.

Perhaps, crawling the web is the worst way to go about creating a thinking AI

Incidentally, i think the solution to web search is peer review: websites ranking other websites, and having themselves punished when they mis-rank (which is what pagerank was originally)
Google modified the algorithm a while back to ignore such flags at times.
I'm not ascribing malice to their decisions, but I think they're really shooting themselves in the foot with the way they handle their PR.

Maybe I'm wrong but my theory is that it started with "end-to-end encryption means that you don't have to trust us" and it seems that many among the Signal team and fans took that to mean "we can behave as shadily as we want and not communicate well since it doesn't really matter anyway".

But there's more to trust than end-to-end encryption. I also need to trust that the project will keep improving and that I'll still want to use it three years from now. The fact that Signal is not federated and they keep such a strong hold on the project makes it even worse, I really have all my eggs in moxie's basket.

I used to actively tell people to use Signal, now I say nothing and these days I find myself using Telegram more and more even though protocol-wise Signal is clearly the superior option.
There was a nice study on this from 2013,
"UML in practice", by Marian Petre http://oro.open.ac.uk/35805/8/UML%20in%20practice%208.pdf

She found that programmers don't use it and architects barely use it.

My favorite quote: "There was a tendency for informants in large organizations who did not themselves use UML, or who used it selectively, to assume that colleagues in other roles were likely to use it more."
I cannot wait for AI Winter 2.0.
That would make sense. Embryos with bad genetic mutations are quite often rejected. The mother does not even have to notice this.
Exactly. It's complex, it has to refrigerate and heat, it has to do complex things with fluids and moving parts, it has to be 100% safe and hygienic, output has to be 100% reproducible and its operated by a high school kid who's still a bit high from smoking earlier.

A better question is why they don't have 2+ machines to both share the load and give some redundancy. I'm all for economic self interest, so I assume ice-cream isn't a money maker (maybe even a loss leader?) so no one actually cares if the machine is down all day as long as people buy something else.
Lots of the old point&click games certainly have their charm, but it's not really difficult to see they are lacking in mainstream appeal. Most people don't see solving obscure (sometime maddening) object puzzles as entertainment ;)

Many of the old games have unfair puzzles and are almost unsolvable without a guide.
Honestly I have forced my self to use a terminal and now I can’t even go without using it.

I have made my workflow very minimal such as I use firefox for browsing and terminal for pretty much everything
That's an awesome video clip, thanks for sharing :)
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Jacobin, all they have is a hammer, and everything looks like a sickle.
> This cost can hardly be remunerated by every reader paying a few cents, unless your readership is in tens of thousands at least, and the money allow you to actually free up some time for writing.

Extrapolating further, people spend orders of magnitude more time, bandwidth, and server-side CPU resources for everything else they do on the internet: Scrolling JPEGs on social media sites, streaming gigabytes of Netflix movies.

Sending a 100KB blog post page to someone might take 0.00001% as many resources as streaming a 2-hour Netflix movie. If servers were paid according to resources used, blog authors would receive virtually nothing relative to all the multimedia based services.
If you traveled around Estonia's countryside ten years ago, there were still these huge abandoned barns around, with one weird feature taht they had really long antennas. They were built for forced agricultural collectives and I was told the antennas were for receiving broadcast instructions, because of central planning.

You could see all kinds of massive abandoned structures here and there. So much effort put in, yet so little benefit gained. What a sad legacy from the Soviet union.
Sure but then why make the pledge in the first place?
I replaced jQuery on this blog with vanilla JavaScript
This is why diesel has a higher tax.