skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
‘Extinct’ Fossil Fish Thought to Have Lived 420M Year Ago Found Alive
The Graphics Gremlin – An Open Source Retro ISA Video Card
It is. There are casks for things like Google Chrome (as opposed to Chromium).
Judging from the library they wrote, I'd guess Kotlin.
I had the same question reading Tolkien. The Elves don't age. They live amogst deities and have first hand knowledge of the creator of the universe. More so, they even know beyond doubt the fate that awaits those who die from other means: awaiting the end of the world in the comparatively boresome Halls of Mandos. Why would any Elf go to war as often as they do in Tolkien's universe seemed unexplicable.
Not to be pedantic... but you can obviously now drive without gas... hence the push to find alternatives to gas tax.
I disagree. We need to do better with tolerance and acceptance.

Preaching these things when it benefits a favored point of view and then rejecting them when it comes to others is actually the definition of weaponizing, and it does more harm and causes everyone to be intolerant.
The wording around the value 'changing' is a bit ambiguous, but otherwise you're basically agreeing with them: the reference is immutable (not the referenced data).
Copyright does not prevent lawful seizure of material.
> is it really less cruel for these animals to never exist at all?

Yes, without question.
Q for the community. FPGA seems to be used for three things: 1) Custom I/O or high performance interfaces that aren't widely standardized 2) Prototyping boards / processor cores 3) Blazing fast implementations of algorithms that are hard to run otherwise.

Is that about right?

If even close, (3) is very interesting to me for a variety of reasons. Is my understanding correct that this is a reasonable use of FPGAs and that maybe now is a reasonable time to get into it?
Not sure they still do this, but when I deleted my Facebook account (some years ago) there were numerous dark patterns designed to get me to relent, including at one point showing me pictures of some of my friends and saying "Are you sure you want to do this? <person's name> will miss you" etc. It was incredibly manipulative.
How on earth could a web page receiving push notifications over cellular or WiFi in a crowded stadium and then playing audio over Bluetooth have consistently lower latency than a walkie-talkie? What kind of slow walkie-talkie were they using?

I'm also surprised that all you need to define the strike zone is two heights which are pre-determined per player. I guess I assumed you would need to track the batter's actual knees and torso to define it dynamically. If this is really being used by the actual umpires, wouldn't that be important to get right?
Eh, I can’t be bothered to care. Cellebrite hoards 0-days so they can use them to hack phones. They know about exploitable vulnerabilities but aren’t saying anything about them because they profit from insecurity. Thing is, just because Cellebrite knows about a thing doesn’t mean, say, China’s CCP or the Russian mafia or anyone else doesn’t also know about that thing. You and I are less safe just because Cellebrite wants to profit off of those vulnerabilities.

I just can’t work up the ability to sympathize with Cellebrite. The law may have something to say about Moxie’s writing, but in my opinion he has the clear ethical upper ground in this argument.
Yes. I expect that if I made myself a Miralax sandwich and labeled it with a huge caution label that I would be fine if someone decided to eat it anyway. It would be trivial to show that I had no intention of harming someone.
Ignores the apparent fact that polygamy and rapid serial monogamy are very common in under-25's but happens a lot less with married people. So young people have a lot more mates available by sharing.
Absolutely. Do you work in a relevant area?
Two well known drain-spotters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_Warriors
I have an Sony TV and it runs Android. Recently I saw a screen saver contributed by Peter Norvig. I told my kids that he made important contributions as an engineer. And my mind immediately wandered to remember the Hawaiian psychedelic shirts! I am glad someone has made a scrollable photo album out it. Really cool!
Slamming on it's breaks can still result in hitting something. And if there are two somethings-- slam on breaks and hit one, or swerve and hit the other-- then it's going to have to make a hard choice on what gets hit.
It's much worse than the article suggests. The article doesn't explain why people don't marry. People who marry before middle-age often have secure attachment styles. The dating pool from middle age on consists primarily of people with insecure attachment styles. Relationships with insecurely attached people are especially problematic. If you're not married, but want to be, look for widows or widowers with secure attachment styles, and work on developing secure attachment.

https://www.amazon.com/Attached-Science-Adult-Attachment-You...

https://www.amazon.com/Attachment-Disturbances-Adults-Treatm...
Blatantly lyng about your intent doesn't make you more innocent in court.
Heh - I have three watches that I regularly wear.

By far my favorite and primary is a Maratac “mid-Pilot”. It’s a simple Miyota (Citizen) movement, but completely unbranded and reliable.

My other two are a Vostok Retro 1934 and a Seagull 1963 :)
And the Cellebrite/Signal sockpuppet/commercial continues...
Can anyone please wake me up when actual (0day) code is reversed ? Because so far its all speculation, theory crafting and blah blah - in case somebody didn't notice.
Needs a copy editor. “Periodically” is spelled two different ways, both wrong.
Signal payloads don’t prevent competent, properly implemented seizure and forensic analysis.
At least I can keep the games. For me it's an alternative for a windows gaming PC.
For real, Stanford should be embarrassed.
> This blog post was plainly written in order to impress and entertain other hackers and computer people. But other hackers aren’t the real target audience; it’s lawyers and judges and the law enforcement agencies

Says who? The intentional ambiguity may have had multiple audiences, quite possibly including computer people that handle the use of these products, their procurement, or their adversarial study.
>I still don't understand how they're ready to blame China so viciously for something that they tell us is just a flu and not even worth using face coverings or risking taking a vaccine. Not to mention magic cures like HCQ. All these efforts were just to deflect from the last government's failure to contain the virus. And they're not even internally consistent with each other. "The virus is not dangerous, the left is just hyping and faking it. But the not-dangerous virus is completely China and Fauci's dangerous fault and they must be raked over the coals for it so Trump doesn't have to take any responsibility".

This is more a collective inconsistency than an individual inconsistency. But yes these issues when layered with politics tend to just use whichever spaghetto sticks to the wall.

>Regardless of where the virus came from, it'll keep happening like it did in history when there no labs, either naturally, a lab escape or a bio weapon. The right way is to be prepared for it, and take collective action to stop global pandemics.

I still think it's important to find out where it came from. If leaked from a lab, what was done wrong that can be avoided in the future? If it really did happen out in the wild, how can monitoring be improved? The Trump administration was wholly ineffective at stopping it, but it's not like decisive action in the US would have stopped it from spreading elsewhere. Bolsonaro would still be president of Brazil. There is utility in getting as close to what really happened as possible and trying to mitigate it.

Maybe virologists working directly with pathogens should have to wear masks out in public all the time.

>The right way is to be prepared for it, and take collective action to stop global pandemics.

I know this whole thing has changed me and I will be continuing to wear a mask in public well after the mask mandates have ended. Possibly forever.
On your first point: the fact that there are false positives in the admission process doesn't imply that there are no false negatives. The dropout rate would presumably increase as they admitted more students, but I don't think it's plausible that the dropout rate for the marginal admitted student is 100%.

On your second point: a Berkeley diploma signals that a graduate (1) is above some minimum (but still very high) threshold of competence, and (2) has a level of competence governed by some probability distribution that's above that minimum threshold. I assume that as Berkeley admitted more students, the minimum standard would stay the same but the average of that competence distribution would decrease toward that minimum.

This is subjective and I'd understand if you disagree but that seems like a worthwhile tradeoff to me. I think there are pretty few jobs for which a bottom-of-their-class Berkeley CS grad is underqualified, and obviously those jobs have their own evaluation/screening processes on top of looking at the Berkeley diploma anyway. I suppose an employer looking for the "superstars" in the top 1% (by some immeasurable criteria) of their class at Berkeley would have to identify the top 0.1% instead (if we generously assume that Berkeley's current admissions process never turns down those students), but I'm less concerned about those dozens of students than about the tens of thousands more who could benefit from both a more rigorous curriculum and the ability to demonstrate to employers that they're above that minimum threshold.
Cellebrite is not law enforcement property, I'm sure the copyright and code is still owned by Cellebrite. Additionally Cellebrite sells their tools to more than just LE.
This reminds me that a hexagonal system like CORE Gravel helps enormously to contain and settle fills like gravel and sand so you don't have roads or drives that are constantly mixing and moving dirt, dust, and rocks around.
As an American, I see this as a right to bear arms in the modern day.
Dulles' Plan
No way. "I put a file on my device whose only purpose is to obstruct justice" does not cancel probable cause for a search.
SF schools ‘re-open’ for just 1 day so the district can get $12M in funding
My theory: retinal photos often contain parts of eyelashes.

Women's are statistically longer.

Their eyes are also more almond shaped.

Retinal photographs are hard to take. Often they contain significant amount of eyelashes and surrounding structure
no - react is a library, and in fact people do use react on the backend (for server side rendering).

we are talking about tech stack - most broadly the language (and compiler). GWT is a compiler from java to javascript. it cannot be compared to react (even tho GWT has a front-end UI component - but that's optional in GWT).
Pretty much. I was surprised to see them here though. They shipped in ES5. To put that in perspective, IE9 supported them in 2011.

They occasionally have uses, but generally, I think they aren't hyper useful.
You think you are better at installing toilets than the average professional plumber?
My comment was in reply to mining trash dumps.

Batteries obviously have a small (-ish) set of possible compounds and it should be economically feasible to recycle used batteries once there is sufficient volume that needs to be recycled. (I guess we're still at least a decade away but that remains to be seen... if it's sufficiently efficient, it could be cheaper to recycle than reuse older batteries).
> Which leads me to think it must be really lonely being a single women over 50

On the other hand, if they were a woman who dated an older man, they certainly didn't care about 'taking away' (for lack of a better term) that opportunity from a woman closer to his age. Younger guys are at a disadvantage due to lack of status/maturity and nobody sheds a tear when they go through long periods of bachelorhood without luck.
Don't bother with frameworks, write plain HTML+JS+CSS and use jQuery.
No. It's also a bit buggy and you'll want to compile with latest CEF yourself.
> Few years later they were all super fit.

Not anymore. These days there are a few that make you wonder about the strength of the elastic on their protective gear.
Well, if large fleets if AV's ever go feral, roaming around cities and suburbs, taking all the best parking spots, we now know that traffic cones are their weakness.
The Withings Steel lasts a couple weeks on a charge, and it can do simple step counting, heart rate, some very unobtrusive notifications. It actually got me interested in watches; I'm no collector but I have a few at this point. It also looks like a watch, in that it has physical hands which move. Watching it find the new time zone as soon as my phone connects when I land in a new place was pretty satisfying.

I gotta say though: stick with mechanicals. There's an elegance to it which smart watches will never touch. And I say that as someone who has settled on the Apple Watch as my daily driver. It's so useful! Does a bunch of small things that add up to a great tool, and I'm even fond of it. But it... isn't a watch!

I'm looking forward to dressy evening stuff happening more, so I can leave it behind and put on something nice.
inheritance is already taxed when the income of the parents was taxed! So i'm 100% against inheritance tax. After all, the parents earned that inheritance at some point (or their parents did, if they inherited it).

Inheritance isn't a handout from the taxpayer to private entities.
Because your "should not" is the law's "should", in a lawful search and seizure.
Do you start learning FPGA programming by studying frameworks? I doubt. Like all other things you start learning the basics and then once you know them you can abstract complexities with frameworks. There is nothing overwhelming about web development. It is trivial.
You're asking why lawful search and seizure is OK but obstruction of justice is not. Intent matters in the law.
Since embeds are always accessible, I created a quick page and iOS Shortcut to allow for easier viewing of specific Instagram post links.

Just append the ID to https://instaembed.github.io/INSTA_ID_HERE

This shortcut will do it automatically if you share an Insta link to it:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e939f9755fc8499c85954aa1790...
Can someone tell me what the point of autopilot is if you are required to actually be fully in control of the vehicle at all time regardless?
Interesting, I pointed it at my son and it immediately accurately described "a child sitting at a white table doing a jigsaw puzzle". I pointed at one of his Lego creations, and immediately "a multi-colour lego construction sitting on a wooden shelf". I was blown away.
“Autopilot” is literally an airplane term and refers to systems that can take-off, cruise, and land the plane even in many adverse conditions without any human input.
And technically if the LEO user of Cellebrite has a warrant, they are legally authorized to look at that data no matter what Signal or the phone's owner thinks. So, in that sense, it's the ultimate 'authorized access'.
I've heard someone describe Ruby On Rails as: "lots of great magical wands that make great palaces appear out of thin air but always ends up spawning dragons you have to fight"
I don’t work at Netflix :)
the owner of the device could be charged with tampering with evidence. Signal is, paradoxically, an uninvolved third-party imho (technically uninvolved).
Well now that folks know how the software works, I'm surprised nobody has set up a public repo with similar files-- especially since the exploits for a lot of these older vulnerabilities are already out there.
Better training or send the same "what do I do?" question to two different support people and make sure they answer the same way. If they don't, then escalate to someone with lots of experience, pay super close attention, and err on the side of caution (don't have the car resume the drive, etc.).
Right... When and where they would use it without realizing it?
Correct. I know how to use both well and would like to use an fpga in my own projects, but it never makes sense to. Even a custom Lisp processor is slower then extra instructions on a faster processor :( and not like I have time for that anymore
" ... no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and yet still can defy the natural effects of Earth's gravity. That's precisely what we're seeing."

I'd say that any 'thing' not obeying well-known Newton's laws of physics isn't a 'real' threat. (Illusions don't have to obey those laws.) What do the Navy's physicists say?
Thing is musk plays to the loud-mouthed and low-informed crowd like HN and reddit. In the hope that the word would spread. Kinda like Trump. Now it doesn't mean musk isn't smart, but if you get fruits you also get thorns.

I would 100% not be surprised if the driver in all these situations were frequent reddit/hn posters
In cricket, having a legal ball hit the stumps (three vertical sticks behind the batsman/batter) is an unambiguous way to get out.

A leg-before-wicket (LBW) out on the other hand happens if the umpire deems the ball would have struck the stumps if the batsman hadn't put their legs (really pads) in the way (there are other technicalities involved but thats the gist). A MLB ball/strike judgement seems similar in nature. Cricket has been using ball-tracking technology for over a decade now for determining LBW.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leg_before_wicket
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/ball-tracking-and-the-uni...
I don't think that differences in life expectancy are the main driver for the results seen here. Life expectancy between sexes varies by 3-5 years, so you should expect the average age difference be around 2 years. I don't think this is enough to cause a 12-year difference in the peak dating pools, assuming that the demographics of the single population match the overall population. In reality, the demographics do not match; younger men (<30 y/o) and older women (>50 y/o) are more likely to be single compared to the baseline:

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/08/20/a-profi...

50% of men under 30 are single, compared to ~25% of men 30 and above.

49% of women over 65 are single, compared to ~27% of women under 65.

Edit:

Here are the population proportions for each of the age bands in the above source (numbers fudged from https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...):

18-29: 17% (Avg. age ~24)
30-49: 28% (Avg. age ~40)
50-64: 21% (Avg. age ~57)
65+: 17% (Avg. age ~72)

It's not too hard to calculate the age of the average single man/woman. The average single man is ~43. The average single woman is ~51.
Reminds me of Death Love Robot Season 2 ;)
Albert Einstein as quoted by Werner Heisenberg:

"Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed." His argument was like this: "Observation means that we construct some connection between a phenomenon and our realization of the phenomenon. There is something happening in the atom, the light is emitted, the light hits the photographic plate, we see the photographic plate and so on and so on. In this whole course of events between the atom and your eye and your consciousness you must assume that everything works as in the old physics. If you would change the theory concerning this sequence of events then of course the observation would be altered."
>we would never schedule for more than 4 hours a day of coding per dev

Exactly right; And that is on a good day!

I like to read about how the "Great Scientists/Engineers/etc." approached their work and have come to the conclusion that they all avoided "busyness" like the plague. Instead they spent a lot of time thinking about What to do and How to do it before embarking on the job itself. Dijkstra famously did everything using Pen and Paper. I am trying to cultivate similar discipline given that the amount of distractions available on a Computer is orders of magnitude more now.
I haven't messed with this but I'd guess they couldn't have the walkie-talkies transmit continuously for whatever reason, and the short delay between the time you "push the button" on a walkie-talkie and the time it actually starts transmitting was the problem.

> I'm also surprised that all you need to define the strike zone is two heights which are pre-determined per player

The strike zone is determined when the batter first gets set in their stance so that batters can't shrink the zone after the pitcher starts their motion.

If you watch, you'll notice a lot of guys crouch when they start to load up and step in the bucket, so there can be a huge difference in the apparent strike zone from the time a pitcher lets the ball go to the time the ball arrives at the plate.
This is literally what Waymo is already doing.
yea I concur. everything up to mid 20's was a long dry spell. Now I'm in my late 30's and easily meeting women 10+ years younger than me. Helps that I hit the gym, have a successful career and am well read and well travelled. I've had a few women my age that I knew when I was younger who are still single and now showing interested in me (I was friendzoned to hell before) but why bother with them when my options keep getting better as I age?
There's a very big distinction.

`...foo` requires `foo` to be an iterable (implements the iterator known symbol).

`Array.From()` only requires it to be array-like and not necessarily iterable.
No, your assertion is false.

The research on SAT scores and college success show very weak correlations with SAT/ACT scores and college preparedness and success. On the positive side it seems to correlate with grades in the first year of college (1). On the negative side there was no correlation between ACT scores and college graduation (2). High school GPAs, on the other hand had a strong correlation with college success.

If a metric isn't very effective at measuring what it's supposed, why collectively invest billions of dollars and hours in that metric? Just because I had to waste my time with the SAT doesn't mean we have to force that onto kids today.

1) https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sats/test/wha....
2) https://news.uchicago.edu/story/test-scores-dont-stack-gpas-...
An unedited look at a Waymo autonomous vehicle in distress
> The timing looks kinda fash

Who is this fucking clown?
> maybe they were using shit tools

They weren't using Java, so probably not. ZING!

But seriously... If you want to compare tooling, you shouldn't be comparing a scripting language vs a language like Java... compare Java vs C# and C#'s experience is better than Java's IMO (not REAL experienced with Java but I've done some basic stuff).
Also known as

Stop Using Stringly Typed Data
I came from Go and found it to be reasonably straightforward to learn Rust. I'm definitely not a Rust expert but I found it to be fairly similar. Structs and no classes, defining methods on structs, lots of the stdlib (like IO) uses reader and writer interfaces, etc.
It seems to me that a malicious boobytrapped file did it is really just a subset of I was hacked, which is neither new defense nor (I assume) a particularly successful one.
That's just silly. If I made my phone incompatible with forensic software, is that illegal too?
IMO law enforcement as a whole is evil, particularly on a global lev. So anything that messes with law enforcement, as a whole, is good with me.

I think it's an opinion that messing with law enforcement is _bad_.
I love the conflation between Cellebrite, private Israeli business, with "Justice", I presume around the world?
Gosh dang it Bobby, the point is to sell more cars!
Eg, Origins of the Human Predatory Pattern: The Transition to Large-Animal Exploitation by Early Hominins

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/701477
If a watch enthusiast owned and wore a 1938 Lange System Glashütte swept-second watch, I wouldn't think he was a fan of what the Nazis did either. I'd think he had a cool vintage timepiece.