skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A useful search term for more info on this is "re wilding." You can just lay down cardboard over your Kentucky bluegrass for half a year to kill it off. It also makes a big difference in water consumption if you live somewhere where that's a concern.
Or as an alternative with no installation or dependence : `curl cht.sh tar`.

Obviously, replace 'tar' by whatever command you see fit. Works on any machine online with curl available.
I don't see how that is anything more than adding an additional hurdle that the attackers would overcome. If they can already jump through the hoops to get root access then what's to stop them from doing the same for this other theoretical access level?
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He was communicating poorly, but I don't read that as him stating Google's official stance on Matomo. I read it as him saying "those links are not allowed because our link scanner says so, and that's all I know."
Seems like your explanation is only part of the truth, at least according to the other comments.
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This amuses me because some people are going to incredulously think "you would never keep such important information in excel" and others are going to skeptically say "there's no way they've managed to consolidate that down to just one excel file".
The problem, as I see it stated in the article and elsewhere, is that people who suggest a serious investigation so that we can "know the details" are promptly shouted down by certain elements of the Western media.

Meanwhile, China's ruling Communist Party is pushing a theory that the virus arrived on frozen food imports.
I'm curious with Wikipedia which is normally neutral but was very anti lab leak in this case, whether China directly had people work as editors there.
> the real problem is this can't really be escalated and fixed

Sure, this is definitely a systemic issue when it comes to these mega-tech-corps. Agreed.

But it seems like you are insinuating that Google's AI blocking Matomo is not a "real problem". For the creators/users of Matomo (or whatever the next service is that is "accidentally" flagged) it seems to make little difference if this is an "error with their flagging system". To the AI, a false positive and a true positive are exactly the same. Any AI mistake is a problem. Sometimes it is a small problem that falls within a margin of error. But, when your website is blocked from the literal online ad monopoly that is AdSense for a "false-positive" and support will not help you, that is a real problem. Google does not get a pass here becuase "the [AI] gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it." (Gen 3:12)
This would be the preferred understanding.

This understanding would be abetted by a more thorough, trusted analysis than has been on offer.

That trusted analysis may be unattainable.
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some grass is indeed native, that’s not what this article is advising against… many many lawns have grass in places where it would otherwise not grow
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AFAIK TSV and PSV aren't specs, they're just an alternative delimiters for CSV. To that end most TSV and PSV parsers will be CSV parsers which match on a different byte ('\t' or '|' as opposed to ','). Which means if the parser follows spec (which not all do) then they will allow newlines and quotes too.

I'm not saying your use case is isn't appropriate though. eg if you're exporting from a DB who's records have already been sanitised and wanting to do some quick analysis then TSV/PSV is probably fine. But if you aren't dealing with sanitised data that doesn't contain \n, \" or others, then there is a good chance that your parser will handle them differently to your expectations -- and even a slim chance that your parser might just go ahead and slightly corrupt your data rather than warn you about differing column lengths et al. So it's definitely worth being aware that TSV and PSV suffer from all the same weaknesses as CSV.
We achieve a similar effect by benign neglect: I never mow more than once a week and often it happens in 2-week intervals or when I'm bored. 2+ acres gets to be a pain, even on a riding mower.

When we moved in, the lawn was whatever grass the previous owner had maintained. Now it's grass, various forms of clover, daisies and black-eyed susans in the areas where I only mow every couple weeks or so and a bunch of plants I can't identify.

I like it, but the dandelions are spreading more than I want them to, so I may have to do something about that.
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This is there the Proctor & Gamble branding approach to products begins to make sense. In development, there is one code base, but multiple configurations of build. In the market the company has a "product line" of software, each opinionated towards a different work flow. Similar to being multi-lingual, this is multi-opinionazation to address different process styles.
At least they are going to be "trustworthy, lovable and respectable" from now on....
So they're phisherman's phriends?
I like my grass. If I wanted to have more "natural" parts I'd move somewhere with more land where that would make sense.
Isn’t that ctrl+shift+v? It is for Linux and I think windows too?
The problem with this is that the American public discourse is broken.

The Republicans (I can't tapdance around the direct call out with weasel words) and the right-wing media have lost all credibility because they often DO behave as racist, selfish, inconsistent conspiracy theorists. On those rare occasions when they are right or properly play the role of opposition rather than pushing an absurd agenda alongside their media manipulation, their prior behavior causes an automatic immune-like response. You can't trust anything they say or their intentions, and they are experts at the Gish Gallop (constantly coming up with new bs you have to respond to, when response takes far more effort) - why would this particular action be any different? Also, this seems more of a case of "a broken clock is right twice a day" than an indication that the right should be taken seriously as a general rule.

Non-credible actors that are known to be untrustworthy should never be the people who put forth any hypotheses if you want them to be taken seriously. The American far-right politicians/media and 4chan are not credible actors, and any idea associated with them will face an uphill battle.
A friend of mine organized a safari business in SA. It was a normal thing for the workers he had to receive the salary pay and disappear for a week until they had burned it, and then will come back.

So he had to pay different people at different times and talk with the women in their environment in order for his business to work.
This has been prophesised before (last in the early 2000s) and didn't come to pass.

I wouldn't expect that to change given this technology either. There's a market that would benefit greatly from this, though: marketing and training videos as well as stock-footage.

Some companies (Samsung comes to mind) already use synthetic avatars to represent their products. Artificial influencers and the like will also take the place of real humans.

Film actors, though, not so much. There's more to a successful actor than just appearing in film (who'd sit at meet & greets, autograph signings or attend shows?) so there's little reason to replace living actors. Deceased ones, though...
It is more honest to say Apple breaks things like streaming games to fulfill business needs of locking out or taxing third party providers of it and making their own. Not to fulfill cusomer needs: blocking it hurt customers.
It's going to be interesting to see if the big backers of freight rail (like Warren Buffet) will fight autonomous trucking or buy into it, owning both modes of overland freight transit.
Babble.

The weird transpilation system constantly breaks. I guess maybe one day they'll be better tooling around this, but it's not there yet. And I've worked with node in some capacity since 2013, things always feel fragmented and broken
Most likely because this answer is very wrong. You rarely have situations in developing countries where the parents are supporting adults in their mid 20s, and it's almost always the other way round.

The correct answer, as others have pointed out, is the informal economy, with them taking up a bunch of odd jobs one after the other.

To focus on a subset of 15-29 year olds, what do you think 15-18 year olds are doing without either being in school (which is free in South Africa) or holding jobs (which would probably be illegal)? Most likely, supplementing the family income by taking up jobs in the informal economy.
Ah! You are right.

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/this-scannable-nyc-bill...
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I don't think it's fair to say people are reading too much into it. It's a Google decision to not empower their support staff. It's a Google decision to let some automated checker flag their competitor and de facto force users to switch to their own platform. It's a Google decision to not care about such issues even after being aware of them for years.
Yes.

https://www.macworld.com/article/347243/how-to-opt-out-of-th...
Pretty sure he fire more of his cabinet than any other president. He also picked them. Do you hold him responsible for anything?
They could ban wildlife. Chickens ok, pangolins no. Or enforce that if it's already banned.
Your comment makes it seem like they somehow shifted their opinion from one side to the other. That's not what either articles are about.

The one you link is about "Wuhan-Lab Coronavirus Origin Theory Is Highly Unlikely", that the science is "dubious" but doesn't seem to make any strong claims either way (but I only skimmed the article).

The one in the submission is about how conversations and debates about the "Wuhan-Lab Coronavirus Origin Theory" was silenced because many thought it was so obvious.

While the articles are about the same subject, they touch on the subject in two very different ways and are in no way contradictory.

What you are doing here is trying to add more gasoline on some fire, but that's not super helpful.
I dunno, when I first saw a Vocaloid on stage, my jaw dropped as I realized that in 10 years highly paid pop stars will be a thing of the past. Yet, it doesn't seem like music industry is switching to synthetic avatars.
This is the correct take. As a software developer I recognize the value in understanding the usage patterns for the software you develop, but good grief we have gone off the deep end in the analytics/tracking pool...
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their point is understatement, "I'm fairly confident" = "I fully believe"
This is something I read about years ago, and have slowly done.

I've let native clover (and some transplanted from nearby) take over a bit of the lawn. In my back yard, I've been even less meticulous, letting whatever grow do so as long as it's not unsightly.

Clover (and others), in addition to the different yet nice flowers, are also beneficial to the local environment. Bees love them. As such, I have to be careful to keep it back from walkways.

Dandelion leaves picked right can be used in salads.

I've started using the Plant.net app to identify some of the better looking "weeds", and this summer will make it a goal to learn how to get them to propagate more. Some of these are actually part of the rose family, yet considered "bad weeds."

One thing the article doesn't mention, as maybe it's not an issue where the author lives:

Unfortunately some municipalities, (like my town in New Jersey) can be a pain. If you don't have a good looking lawn, you'll have Code Enforcement knocking on your door. I've had the guy stop in front of my house while I was working and tell me my grass looked a little long (in fact the mower at top deck height couldn't cut it).

Especially if you have what they consider excessive weeds (clover, goldenrod and others ,while native and nice looking IMO are considered "weeds"). So the native thing can only be taken but so far.

The chosen ground cover may not cover as much as grass either, which may be a turn off.

If this is an appealing idea, before you really get into it, check with your town/municipalty/homeowners association.
Your Third-order fails to account for the passage of time: When the truth comes out, enough time will have passed and the current leadership will be the former leadership. The next generation of leaders will vow to be better and carry on, saving face. See Gulf of Tonkin, first and second Iraq-US-war, etc.

I think the conclusion will always be to lie to the public, because the higher-order-effects almost always have long delays.
Nah. You should tell the truth on this topic, not only for normative reasons but also because it's going to come out anyway. The whole world is watching this virus.

The next hegemonic rivalry in the world is already unfolding between China and the USA, and much of its battleground is found in the third world. Those countries are all evaluating the costs and benefits of aligning with China versus aligning with the United States.

China and the USA are going to build up arms anyway, so why tell lies that benefit China?
"This" is life and evolution.

Regardless of whether this was a lab escape or not, there's a 100% chance of a pandemic virus happening again.
Yes the tools were all open source. This was in 2004 and I just zipped up a compiled exe, the src directory and a license.txt (GPL2) and put it on my website. Similar to Nirsoft which is what inspired me.

The reason behind it being awkward was for half an hour the sales guy had talked up how they were the only company developing tools like this, etc, etc. How the 'big players like VMware don't care about these pain points admins have to deal with' or words to that effect (which was true and why I made the tools in the first place).

Then the moment he finished the sales pitch and I see these 'one of a kind tools' they have been developing I respond with "That's my tool, see..."

I believe the sales guy, at least, believed all the tools he was talking about were made in house. Open source wasn't a widely understood thing back then with Microsoft talking about Linux and open source being a "cancer" and such. Really knocked him off course as I guess he had never been in that situation before (I doubt many have?).

As for following up with the company. I did nothing. I was young and while I knew what they did was wrong (they literally removed my name, link to my website, etc. and put their company name but changed no functionality of the tools as far as I could see and certainly no source code was available!) I didn't have the confidence (or desire tbh) to chase up on some little tools I made to learn and make my life a little easier at work. The company disappeared (I don't know why) sometime around 2010 iirc.
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Interesting. My first observation is that the rendered people all have really tight clothing on. The model guesses at some creases, but it probably wouldn't guesstimate cloth physics very well.

I would tend to think you would have much better results synthesizing a mesh with a NN and getting a game engine or something to do this part with the animation.
well my assumption is that a difference in size leads to a highly different result - not that others don't do something similar but they do not do exactly what Amazon does because probably not capable.
at the risk of invoking Godwin’s law, this effect has been observed in the past, e.g.

“...that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation…” - A. Hitler, “Mein Kampf” (paraphrased of course, and not including mention of the certain ethnic group to which he ascribed all faults of society)
> Property testing generates these bits using a specified distribution, and that's about it

I think most property testing frameworks also come with the concept of "shrinkage", which is a way to walk back a failed condition to try to find the "minimum requirement of failure". Though I am sure there are PT frameworks that haven't implemented this.
I don't know much about law, but I wonder what the ballpark out-of-pocket legal costs might look like for an individual going after a large corporation with an IP suit... i.e. how likely is it the corporation could win simply by dragging out proceedings and exhausting your resources / burying you with legal fees?
We're in a time where everyone feels the need to provide their input, whether it is correct or not.
I'd say this is accurate for the most part but they bought the first company I worked for out of college and they really tightened the screws on our benefits packages under the guise of "unifications" with their existing stuff. They ended up moving me to a high deductible insurance plan which was absolute nads
You find similarly grim numbers in Western Europe too. I mean youth unemployment was over 50% in Spain during the post-Great Recession crisis and is at 38% now.[1]

It's pretty sad - young people are living with their parents into their thirties and not having children until their 40's if at all, fuelling a massive decline in the birth rate to one of the lowest in the world at around 1.3 births per woman, far below the replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman[2]

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/spain/youth-unemployment-rate

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033179/fertility-rate-s...
"Forbes Media, which encompasses the magazine Forbes and other related business ventures, is majority-owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments. The Hong Kong investment group purchased a controlling stake in the company in 2014 for an undisclosed amount."

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There's minor versions of the same thing in the wealthier urban areas in the US so this shouldn't be a foreign concept to HN.
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Dear chat clients, I never want any formatting on any pasted text, ever. Thank you. (That is destination theme matching indeed.)

And with respect to the Whatsapp - Signal comparison, Signal came to the stage (at least for me) when whatsapp was already huge (and also had a focus on privacy by the way!), so that comparison is unfair.

Other than this, I agree with the premise.
The beauty of a market-based solution is that you don't need to worry about details like that. If you price the externalities appropriately, the market will automatically optimize for the most cost-effective, environmentally friendly solution; grounding planes in situations where that makes sense and leaving them running where it doesn't.

And yes, a carbon tax would indeed result in "a greater cost of air travel". That's sort of the whole point.
I distinctly remember it too. This wasn't a robot, but just a speaker system without propulsion. I think it was demonstrated on a plexiglass sheet, probably above and below it.

They demonstrated various frequencies and weights. Maybe various designs with multiple speakers too?

IIRC, the author mentioned they patented it, but couldn't go anywhere with it.

Unfortunately, I can't find it anymore. I'll keep looking a bit and edit or post below if I do.
> leave your yard "waste" where it is! It's a whole ecosystem that most people pack into bags and take to the dump every year.

Every year? During peak summer in Georgia, my 1/4 acre lawn was producing 8-12 30 gallon yard waste bags of grass clippings.
Why don't they link the article in question? Without that, I can't go a see the article myself.
I don't "get" the first two.

e^(iτ/2) = -1 can be translated as "half a full rotation is equivalent to a symmetry"

(And a full rotation to identity (for usual objects), but this is kind of obvious...)
Maybe not here but check out https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop... and ^F for smoking gun. Good article by the way.
> and a bunch of plants I can't identify.

Check out Planet.net as I mentioned above, it works pretty well.

> but the dandelions are spreading more than I want them to, so I may have to do something about that.

Like bitter greens, perhaps in a salad? Just pick the small leaves, and although I haven't noticed, supposedly they're no good too late in the season.
Yeah, but who knows that? Apparently the author of the article doesn't know that.

Anyway, my app lets you see what's in the clipboard and adjust how much you want it cleaned.
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The CFAA requires you to have effective security measures, or something of the sort. I'm dubious a User-Agent filter qualifies, especially so if it's only filtering for the largest browser by market share.

Fwiw, from my readings of similar cases, this seems similar to how the courts read the law. Any access you can achieve without material deception is valid. There was a case on here a while back where a couple of reporters filed a FOIA request and the city accidentally put records not meant for release in the Dropbox folder. Reporters downloaded the accidentally-added files, city sued. The city ended up settling because it looked like the court was going to rule against them.

The court's logic was basically that by allowing access to the information, you have de facto authorized the user to access it. It would be impossible to tell whether you can legally access any information if the counterparty can give you access and then decide you shouldn't have seen it when you do access it.
This page causes multiple mp4 download prompts to open in Firefox (v89.0, OSX) for me. Anyone else seeing this?
Leveraging your monopoly in one sector (ads) to block your consumers from using a competing service in another sector? Seems like a text-book case of anti-competitive practice.

(Of course in this specific case it does seem likely this is a false positive from the AI and not a deliberate strategy, so probably not something to build your anti-trust case on.)
Was? Does NetApp no longer use it?