skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The greatest concentration of space junk is around 500 miles and will take decades to decay down to 250 miles where the ISS or orbits.
The head of that “shady GmbH” is on the Core team, and is one of the Core Team’s board representatives for the Foundation.

Regardless, it is a misunderstanding of Rust’s governance to suggest that the Foundation would lead a standardization effort; the Language Team, part of the Project, not the Foundation, is in charge of the definition of the language.
Why can't governments make tracking illegal?

These companies that manipulate population into buying products they don't want or need are the mythical "broken window".

Nobody mention how all this online business contributes to global warming. Factories produce useless products, that need to be stored, delivered, disposed of...
I don't think that's the point parent was making. Of course in a processor there are only particles, and we can easily detect computation by analyzing how registers and in turn potentials change. The point being made is that this description of computation does not leave behind anything else to be described. In other words, my analysis of the process fully describe the process. I can even simulate my description and obtain the same result (say, 1+1=2 obtained by running a program on silicon or by shifting registers with pen and paper). With consciousness is not so trivial. I can fully describe the neural correlates of you experiencing joy, or recalling a memory, or whatever, and there would be still plenty not captured by my description, which is the endogenous phenomenal experience of it. This is why it's hard. There is no epistemic bridge to cross (or burn).
Chip-8 in Common Lisp: The CPU (2016)
I've been expecting some kind of announcement from the lang team saying something about how the third party Ferrocene / sealed Rust project fits in with the official project and its documentation.

Do you know if there's been one that I've missed?

Some of the work involved in producing a specification will involve making decisions about corner cases which aren't currently nailed down. What I'm wondering is whether the Ferrocene people are going to be effectively authorised to make those decisions.
Because people want to use their phones while charging.

It's been impractical for a long time, Apple has made it somewhat resurge again by putting a big magnet at the back of the phone that keeps the induction charger tight.
That page, along with the linked page to Vladimir Skulachev, who allegedly developed SkQ, gives me astroturf vibes. The hype seems too good to be true, and anything being used in the cosmetic/beauty industry is probably a scam.
The Foundation is a recent development. The efforts by Ferrous to make Rust more suitable for safety-critical work predate the creation of the Foundation by quite some time; there was quite a bit of work done under the "sealed Rust" banner before that was rebranded as Ferrocene.

Good specs don't emerge from thin air (though I suspect that many bad specs emerge through spontaneous generation), and the people who work on them deserve to be funded. While I'm not claiming the process the Rust community has is perfect, it is explicitly designed to be sustainable, and I think it's right to be proud of the collaboration between different companies, large and small, and also academia; Ralf Jung's work in particular is foundational and he well earned his recent PhD for it.
> It will decimate the ecosystem

I agree it's hard to say how reducing income for app developers of free apps helps users.
Metadata defines the difference between security and privacy.

HTTPS is a great first-base — it is not enough.
Intifada video game violence (1989)
'...and death on mobile can kill Facebook?'

Seriously wondering what impact this would have on the world other than a positive one?
Exactly. That tells me everything I need to know about adequacy of this list :)
> It's true that copyright is not transferred but courts may well recognize the buyers right to display those images on a website as implicitly given.

No. Copyright must be explicitly assigned.

> Also, consider that in NFTs, the only one selling an NFT to the Mona Lisa is Leonardo.

Nah anyone can do it any time.
Peter Thiel predicting Bitcoin in 1999
They could even have been saved by a captive breeding program. Their American cousins are the subject of a lot of breeding programs. There's a number of state and federal hatcheries that capture breeding adults, strip the roe and milt, and return the adults to the wild. The fertilized eggs hatch into tiny paddle fish and they're raised in ponds until they're big enough to be released in the wild. The same is done with the pallid sturgeon, whose breeding habitat in the US is more or less destroyed due to the channelization of rivers for use by boats.

It wasn't inevitable, but now it's impossible to bring them back.
They're not outraged, they are just making fun of them for getting caught.
Years ago there was a US president who questioned the birth control = violation of human rights thing to Deng Xiaoping, to which Deng answered: "Are you going to support the excess population then?" or something like shipping them off to the US. That shut his US counterpart up pretty quickly.

Let countries be free to do birth control of their own violation - you do not want more births whose lives they cannot support properly which in turn threatens the social fabric of their societies. To push this as a human rights violation in support of the west's rhetoric is pretty hypocritical since they don't have to support the excess births.
I'm not sure this is effecting Facebook as much as they are making out.

People are still using Facebook, posting pictures, tagging people they know, checking into locations, posting what they buy and so on.

Still pently of information to track and sell to advertisers.
"A new report says that iOS 14 tracking changes could cost the advertising revenue billions if an early trend in spending decline continues."

Does it not follow then that advertisers are saving billions of dollars?

Now, admittedly, the advertisers aren't going to be getting now what they used to get, but this Freakonomics Podcast episode, "Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 2: Digital) (Ep. 441)" https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-2/ makes me wonder how much it'll really impact the people who pay for advertising.
The knobs can be included in the emulation. So that is to say, you model the unit as something having an audio input, and several controllers, such as knobs or switches. You then capture the behavior for all combinations of controller values, as part of the model. ("All combinations", for a potentiometer, might mean stepping it from 0 to 11 in increments of 1.)

The emulation ased on the model runs on a piece of hardware which has some generic controllers on it: some rotary encoders, a couple of switches and whatnot. These get assigned to the parameters of the model.

You could have a MIDI input on it, and use MIDI controllers, which would be cool. There are MIDI foot controllers that you can tilt with your foot to vary a parameter.

The different models could be assigned to MIDI program numbers. You could change the patch number with the foot controller, and vary the parameters with it also.

The foot controller might have, say, only two pedals, so you have to assign which ones you want: if the patch has five parameters, you have to fix the values of three of them and map the two important ones to the foot pedals you have. For the others, you can bend down and tweak the knobs on the unit itself.
They'll finally start charging proper money for apps.

We can buy $3-$4 cups of coffee every day, but $0.99 for an app is too much? Come on.
What if iOS or Android start to scrub that data for you?

Which I wish they did...
I blogged about this same problem a month ago.

"Docker and the host filesystem owner matching problem": https://www.joyfulbikeshedding.com/blog/2021-03-15-docker-an...

In my blog post I layout 2 solution strategies, how one might go about implementing them, and caveats to watch out for.

1. Matching the container's UID/GID with the host's UID/GID.

2. Remounting the host path in the container using BindFS.
I wonder what this means for free apps.

* Will they simply disappear from iOS?
* Will new subscription options appear?
* Will they remain free but require users to enter a 20 question demographic survey to continue?
A couple ways I have done this locally:

(Linux) Load the PDF in xournal, click on > Tools > Image. Select a jpeg holding my signature. Change the dimensions and drag the signature around as needed. Note that you then have to export to PDF rather than saving it.

(Android) Using the OneDrive app. There's a signature option in the annotate menu.
>Why can't governments make tracking illegal?

Why would they? These companies are collecting the data the government wants, it's a free service for the government and they only have to ask for the data when they need it.
Ten Commandments of Go
Hitler rehearsing his speech in front of the mirror, 1925
I find it a bit odd how accepted a child mandate has become when it comes from the CCP with the global community.

For instance, it seems that a large reason that China is hesitant to lift any limits whatsoever is a belief that rural women will have large families and urban women will not and that this would be 'unfair'. This cant help but feel like a eugenics argument about not wanting to swamp the gene pool with 'low IQ rural undesirables'.

What would be the foreign response if some of the more distasteful ideas behind mandated birth rates were brought to the fore-front:

* 'all able-bodied women must have at least one child.'

* 'citizens in these jurisdictions can have as many children as they want.'

I believe we would see a lot of outrage in other countries over these policy, but I worry the CCP sees no difference ethically in mandating one or the other. Instead opting for whatever is deemed necessary.
With the exception of people who travel a lot, I really don't see why location, beyond what users enter into Facebook themself, would be particular useful.

That seems to be the theme with Facebook, they collect a ton of information that isn't obviously useful. So what do Facebook know that the rest of us don't? Because the engineers at Facebook aren't stupid, they must have a reason for collecting all this stuff. Perhaps it's just in case they might find a use case some day?
> And occurring or believed likely to occur in a different cipher or code message

Does anyone know if TLS/HTTPS does padding or tries to alter the length of ciphertext? I ask because a specific length for a specific request that is known to be a certain Wikipedia page (for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_...) means certain encrypted request's plaintext are known to an adversary. Is each encrypted network request's ciphertext different or padded to a new size?
What is the point of "broad" location? Cant this be deducted from your cellular network? Wouldnt that save the trouble of keeping your GPS completly off ?

I saw on some new android phones something called "privacy features" which would mean not giving access to contacts for example. The problem is all apps know you are using this feature and they nag you to turn it off. Whats the point then?
How I want the thing to be, "oh, the contacts permission is given but nothing here. Oh well. ". Same for location and SMS and other stuff.

I remember old ios, circa ios 5-6 had app permissions behind a password. I would take family phones and lock down location and contacts behind a password (it couldand inapp purchases prevent access to store and iTunes and browser if I remember) so for giving kids this this would be great.

That has never come to android.
> Wasn’t their some policy saying that rural mothers could have a second child if their first was a girl?

Yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Child_Policy

“Peasants” (their term, not mine) and minorities* could have more than one. It was very, very common. Apparently half of the country was effectively under a two-child policy.

* There are 55 recognized minority groups in China (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China).
I can think of basically two solutions:

1) pass user/group names around and resolve them at the destination to UID/GID;
2) ignore them entirely; assign ownership of all newly created files to the currently authenticated user (if authorized).

Are there other ones?
> Why can't governments make tracking illegal?

Because then they won't receive a few million $$ in donation for the next campaign.
Facebook realized that no amount of money was going to will a third mobile OS into existence. cf. Microsoft.
The list linked by a sibling seems to top out at mid 300s, many FAANG ~2 YoE SWE make around that much.
From my experience this is true for bank clients in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Austria and Spain (but the latter only at your own bank).

When I withdraw money with my Belgian debit card in the Eurozone at any ATM (including Berlin), I do not pay any fee. And this is true for all major Belgian banks.

Of course, if your account is not in the Eurozone (US?) or denominated in EUR, or through a basic credit card (visa) then usually a fee would apply.
Let's hope Google will also get banned from collecting data. It's time This advertising predatory business ends.
I designed and built a eurorack module around a pi zero with a usb audio input/output, voltage divider, op amp, and some pots connected to adc. Using rtaudio the latency was pretty low and gave me control of the parameters I wanted.

Given that this was the only really active process on the pi, it ended up working really well. I simply converted modules I had written for vcv rack.

I also built one that enabled usb host mode and acted as an audio device that worked with any daw. Ended up being pretty cool for about $20 of parts.

While not as cool as an ml system, given that I was already writing dsp, it ended up being pretty neat.
VR's probably not going to be bigger or even equivalent to mobile, so they should've tried harder.
> It is an engineering problem that future generations will have to deal with.

The key thing is: we are not sure if it is possible or technically feasible. In the worst case, oil runs out before this engineering problem has been solved, and then everyone is straight f..d. The way it currently is, we are leaving the future generations a guaranteed wasteland with pumping our rivers and seas full with plastic waste, radioactive contamination and especially chemical contamination. Half the Silicon Valley is a Superfund site - the US and Europe have only managed to shift the dirty stuff to Taiwan and China!

> What you are proposing, but you are not saying it loud, is forced population decline, that is to kill people now so that a greater cause (to your mind) is achieved. This is scary stuff.

I am not talking about killing off people, ffs. I'm talking about reducing our usage and waste of resources. A third to a half of the food that gets produced is thrown away before it reaches the mouth of a person. Enormous amounts of resources are wasted in creating ever more new appliances instead of building modular ones that can be serviced. Cities are made for cars, not for bicyclists or mass transit. Endless amounts of energy (both electricity and mental energy) are wasted for fucking ads and shitcoins. The richest individuals in the world have more than enough money hoarded to solve world hunger ten times over. Take the mega-rich, cap their wealth at 10 billion $ and use everything above that to reduce inequality in the world and you'll save lives.

Besides: mass death of people is what is looming in the very near future already - just look at Africa. Water shortages are more and more dire, even places in countries as far in the north as Germany have to warn about water shortages now (https://www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/klimawandel-wasser-duerr...). We need drastic measures to prevent this.
> Which google uses itself for ads

Do you have a source? Google providing a location-based service for Android OS functionality is different from using it for ads.
Does Germany have other sources available to it? Otherwise it'd be like a "boycott" where you just move the purchases to another day.
does this look like a sustainable world population growth curve? our resources are not increasing exponentially. and china's contribution towards this exponential growth has been decreased significantly as result of their policies.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population?country=CHN~OW...
Anaphoric Macro
You simply start charging a subscription for your app
But Google still gets that info, just not Facebook. How is this not abuse of its market position?
CNNText is no more... but in other places, Teletext services still do exist. See for example the Swiss public TV (also available online: https://www.teletext.ch/). It's still quite appreciated by a part of the users, and I've even actually seen young people reading it on the app on their smartphones...
I would absolutely say it's a production antipattern to run a container with access to some already existing host files belonging to some other user.

However, this is something that's basically unavoidable if you're attempting to use OCI/Docker for dev where you access a developer's source code checkout from a container running a standardized language runtime. And that's what a lot of people use OCI/Docker for...
Why would corporations want to use google photos alternative tho? They're probably are using Gsuite or Office 365 already, both of which have photo storage options.
If they're okay with their emails there, I dont think photos is an issue.
So yes they made the right choice, by ignore the self hosting crowd, which is a very small crowd.
if it has facebook and google assistant, isn't it really an (Android) smartphone which looks like a dumb phone?
After reading HN voraciously for the past years, I though Chinese ecological protections and records were flawless, and the dam was a sign of prosperity, jobs, opportunities and freedom to the Chinese people.

What went wrong?
Users have to learn to pay, just like I said in my comment. You pay for things in real life, have to do it online too.
Thanks, much appreciated! Lots more jobs coming soon
I mean, it’s always been there ever since it was announced. See https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-plan/ which talks about working with upstream, and the thanks to two Lang team members at the end.
Probably not positive for Facebook stock owner's world.

But I personally agree with you. My world will be better without it.
One of the few for everyday people with a reasonable patch interval. Great recommendation.
You don't have to have a birth certificate in the US, but the average life will be very difficult without it.

https://gazette.com/news/born-in-the-usa-without-a-shred-of-...
When I was in high school, some friends and I would pass around a piece of paper and write a sentence or two of grammatically correct but largely nonsensically content. The result was an amusing, silly story, entertaining to us and perhaps my close circle of friends, but less so to outsiders. We called them "cheese logs" and later adapted the style on the web, back when personal web sites were "en vogue."

This is... like that.
> What you are proposing, but you are not saying it loud, is forced population decline, that is to kill people now so that a greater cause (to your mind) is achieved. This is scary stuff.

Why do you have to kill people? You can just no make as many new people.

You can either plan a degrowth or plateauing in population and resource consumption or you condemn humanity to the same tragedy of any colony that invades a host and consumes it until there is nothing left to consume.

Whether solar energy and sufficiently advanced recycling will fix our resource problems is an open question, and we can expect some miracles but it's unlikely to solve everyting. Can we make 10 billion people eat meat, heat up enormous houses, and fly twice a year? No, not really.
Chrome DevTools – Inspect Network Activity
Pondering the Scene: Why Are Demos European?
GrapheneOS.org, CalyxOS etc would like a word.

Google Android ≠ Android (AOSP)
So anything goes as long as Germany comes first? And really, is it in Germany's interests to support dictatorships as the wave of illiberalism rolls further west? How exactly?

Germany and it's neo empire, AKA EU, is spineless and pathetic and deserves to die the slow death it is facing while China and Russia crushes the last hope and light left in the world. Germany just can't help itself, time and again making the world a worse place. Germans truly learnt nothing, disingenuously saying "never again" while gladhanding with a authoritarian power openly engaging in genocide: https://neveragainrightnow.com/
All work on Linux, lol
Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, now they want it back
So in another subthread I compared two code samples. One in Haskell:

main = do
putStrLn "Hello, what's your name?"
name <- getLine
putStrLn $ "Hello " ++ name

And one in JavaScript:

function main() {
let name = prompt('Hello, what is your name?');
alert('Hello, ' + name);
}

My claim is that either both have side effects or neither. In both cases the definition of a function does not in itself have side effects, and the function can be passed around and manipulated without being executed. But when the function is executed, it causes side effects.

Haskell have the feature that the type system can statically verify if functions are pure or not. This is very cool, but it does not change the semantics or purity of a function, it just verifies it statically.
Take a look at recently unsealed documents from court about google location.
So true! Otherwise the script is neither hilarious nor intense, it's just random bogus. Or my sense of humor is very different...
Maybe Russia can get it's shit in order?
For uninteresting reasons, I had to wipe settings on my iPhone this weekend, which meant re-approving everything, including the do not track setting mentioned here. When 14.5 came out, I updated faster than apps like Instagram could, so I missed their "please approve" screens that I got to see now. It's not strange to see an app explain why it is about to prompt for permission to do something, but posing for better personalization in the ads I'm going to see anyway really didn't land with me. I fully admit that I was never going to approve this setting, but I still find it surprising that they think I would be happier with more specific ads. Does that work for some folks? I guess I can understand that if I have to see ads at all, may as well make them personalized, but I'd still rather not see ads, to the point of blocking them when possible.
"Tradition" is often used to justify all kind of behaviours(many times abusive behaviours) so I don't think my remark is that misplaced. I'm not a fan of gerontocracy "traditions"/laws regardless if they originate in China, Italy or the U.S either.

I would not ask someone to take care of myself if I'm unable to do so. I think it's fairer to make sure the world you leave behind is prosperous and equitable enough instead to rely on close relatives or invisible powers to take care of you when you innevitable become old.

Make sure you get paid well enough during your youth so that you can live off your own savings/pension when you become a zombie.
Aside from the obvious that they are using opioids to avoid the "underlying issue" of physical pain, I wonder if those whose prescribed hospital opioid use becomes addiction (vs those whom it doesn't) are more likely to be those with underlying "somethings in their life" they are trying to avoid. But then, who doesn't have underlying "somethings", so.

At any rate, I will agree it's not a useful diagnostic to determine if something is "really" addiction or not. It may be useful self-reflection for "treating" the addiction though. (Or may not, at any rate if the person isn't recognizing it there is no value to forcing them to try to fit to your narrative).