skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I go further, parenthesis are really just functions (in the mathematical sense); so all of first order logic comes down to making functions into variables (a la `y=f(...)`).

It's crucial to not mix together these variable-functions and regular variables.
The real cool thing is having two levels of "variableness" without ever acknowledging as such. That way you mix both levels of variability without ever blending them together.
Similarly you also get to mix together a function description and its result; but like before, the mathematical formalisms will prevent any blending of both.

in any case, I still some questions about quantifiers...
Looks interesting, what's the difference between this and IFTTT?
What country on earth won't allow an employer to lock you out of everything and escort you to the door if they deem it necessary for their security?

Employed or not, your access isn't under your control.
Scammers Earn Nearly $1M from Fake Elon Musk SpaceX Coin via YouTube Ads
Essentially what I was trying to say was that a "White Paper" style repeal of the Indian Act is not appropriate.

(That may not have been what you were suggesting, but I'll point out nonetheless that this 'solution' has already been rejected by First Nations)

The more complex thing that needs to happen is that elements of the Indian Act need to be removed while also retaining the rights that the Indian Act grants First Nations.

(As an aside: A good book about the deep flaws and contradictions of the Indian Act is https://www.ictinc.ca/books/21-things-you-may-not-know-about...)
I was impressed by the Person class it created. It contains a dictionary which would point to other instances of Person. It knows friends are just other Person instances.
Steam is pretty limited in official support, isn't it? Even if a game targeted a less popular distro, say one optimized for gaming, I'd have no issue dual booting into a different Linux distro just to play it, since it's free anyway and would likely be familiar enough to maintain.

Edit: Though the game would have to have pretty good replay value, I'm not installing another OS for a 10 hour game.
So not much different from any other condensing surface, in other words.

We only need about 40 square metres to supply one person's water for a day. About 160 square metres for a family of four (roughly 1,600 square feet - about the area of a medium-sized house)
Ethereum is a dark forest (2020)
I wouldn't call it a backup without further clarifications. Like, if it can be killed by the same power surge that takes your main server out, I wouldn't call it a backup.

There are a lot of ways to introduce redundancy in the system that would make backups needed much less frequently (if ever).

But what a backup does is it allows you to have your data in case your system and accounts are compromised, whether through a misuse, failure, or an attack vector.
A full time job on minimum wage will pay ~18500£. £20K pa is the salary of an entry level not qualified accountant in London (my partner’s first salary some years ago) or of a bar tender. In London, a decent developer may earn in the low 6 digits as an employee. A half decent flat would cost in excess of 2000£ per month, so £20K pa is a very low salary in London.

But if you remove London and 2-3 university towns, what is left of the UK is more similar to an Eastern European country than to Germany or France. Salaries are extremely low, but cost of life is low as well.
Which is the sane thing to do.

Valve should just partner with Canonical and release Ubuntu support.

Let the other distros figure out how to get it working there.
Probably just serves as a confirmation as to what exactly is true that has been reported and making minor clarifications but agreed, there probably won't be a ton of net new information for the public. But the fact that the government is sharing is interesting since they've been tight lipped about this for a long timel
Alternatively - a backdoor without any authentication requirements at all was discovered.

There have been times when web crawlers have found pages with delete icons on them that are pointing to GET requests and, after dutifully following them to index the data, resulted in a server being wiped.
That is what I am talking about, committing to UI changes and removing old crud that interferes with or goes against these changes.
In general, for larger (> 10TB) drives, most definitely. < 10TB drives have been mostly unaffected.

The direct impact on larger drives is entirely dependent on brand (Toshiba's Enterprise drives appear to be less in demand than Seagate's Exos, for instance), recording process (CMR versus SMR), and, to a lesser extent, power consumption. In virtually all instances though, the price has jumped significantly [0]. 16TB Exos more than doubled, for instance [1]. In large parts of Europe, large drives have been back-ordered since the beginning of April; my orders are scheduled for delivery in August, yet I would be surprised if I saw anything before September.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/analysis-hdd-prices-skyroc...

[1] https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07SPFPKF4
> Again - this isn't a tax dodge. This is someone who used the law exactly as intended without any illegal or shady dealings and happened to be incredibly fortunate.

I agree with the general sentiment of your post, but I think you’re overstating your case a bit. To me it seems pretty obvious that Thiel did stretch the law when he bought shares in his own company at a far lower price than investors payed just months later.

This is a quite common and general loophole in tax legislation. E.g. in Sweden (where I live) capital gains are taxed lower than income. This of course creates an incentive to try and convert income to capital gains, and the tax authorities are constantly on the lookout for such schemes. If you sell shares/options cheaply to yourself or employees just a month before investors pay top dollar then you can expect… trouble.
The government taxes people a combined 55% (state, local, fed, ACA) short term capital gains rate (in some states combined with the 40% federal). Fuck em. Im glad he figured out a loop hole.
As your article notes “ Vaccine efficacy is generally reported as a relative risk reduction (RRR).”

There is nothing fake about what I said. It’s simply the common sense way to think about the effectiveness of a vaccine.

According to your reasoning the polio and smallpox vaccines are 0% effective because those viruses have been eradicated in the USA currently.
I think there was a disconnect. In the context of my reply I was assuming that your opinion is what society generally holds true. I, too, believe this. It's talked about in books like the Growth Mindset and that book resonates with me a lot.

I was merely trying to say that these two ideas (1) you don't have to be genetically gifted to achieve greatness and (2) some people are just genetically gifted and they may very well reach ideas that most others won't - even in solitude - are not incongruent ideas.

The vast majority of people are not given great genetic aptitudes for things so reminding society that normal people can come together and create wonderful things is truly helpful. However, we should also recognize that some people, like von Neumann, Gauss, Newton, etc, are just on another level - and we as a society should also foster the potential of these people.

We can have both, we need both (since most people aren't like those three names above), and there's no reason we shouldn't try to embrace both ideas.
I think you could argue DNS over HTTPS is centralised (for now) with Cloudflare, Quad9, Google making up the main players. But I think the DNS is the original decentralised system due to the amount of players in the domain registrar / DNS service provider / ISP [DNS resolver] space.
None.

But Windows is less and less a money maker for Microsoft, so it's the obvious route.
I just want them to include a Windows license in my Microsoft 365 subscription and let me install it on my M1 (or Intel) Mac. I don’t understand why the business folks at MS haven’t noticed that opportunity.

Separately, I’d like to see a return to the concept of “Trusted Computing”. In the Windows XP/Vista days, telemetry was opt-in (sometimes with a nudge). Office wouldn’t send my grammar telemetry to MS without letting me see it and remove items first. There was an option to just turn it all off.

I get why MS wants telemetry, but they would win a lot of good will by giving power users an easy way to opt out. I think relatively few would do it in practice and they’d lose some of the bad press.

Greater UI consistency would be nice as well but that isn’t exactly on brand for them, so not holding my breath.
seems to be a German company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11584052

Eventually they'll sue you for damages, the court will rule that you have to stop what you are doing (as they already did so, and violating a court order seems like a surefire way to escalate the situation), plus the monetary compensation for the damages. And at that point it's just easy-peasy call the collections agency, and they'll just make your life more and more miserable by taking your stuff/car/home/etc. (Similarly if "you are" a company.)
May just be me, but I feel like it’s probably a bad idea to outsource one of your core competencies. Backblaze is quite literally built on their storage pods.

It’s like outsourcing the EU telecommunications, which we’ve seen a bunch of articles about recently.
> BackBlaze is definitely a SaaS company

agreed, but I think s3 is the more realistic comparison than dropbox
> it wasn't relevant to the states for some time.

This is pretty much my point, the influence of the Constitution has been increasing over time, not decreasing as the commenter to whom I originally replied seemed to imply.

I don't know why you would use any but the longest available timeline when considering whether the Constitution is "still the law of the land". It's an inherently from-the-start kind of question.
I used to have one of those, and it bricked after a power outage. Luckly it only contained media I could download again. I opened it to try recovering my files from its HDD directly, but to my surprise it merges the HDD with a portion of internal flash in a single volume. I didn't try recovering it further because I didn't care of the data, but I was really expecting to see my files in that HDD... After that I ditched its mother board and connected its HDD to a raspberry pi.
Just started reading Skunk Works about about Lockheed and so far its focused a lot on their stealth tech and they offhand mention that they would build something like a flying saucer if they could figure out how to power it; this was in the 60's or so, so while the government says it isn't something we or another government has created, I wouldn't be shocked.
I have a desktop at work that belongs to the company, but I used my personal laptop since not so long ago. Most other employers uses their personal devices. I just opted for a desktop for a question of practicality, not having to carry around a laptop and connect it every day. I of course still use my laptop or a home desktop if I work from home.

If you have a good relationship with your boss you can do that, in the company we all manage our own devices, meaning that the operating system and stuff is decided and installed by whoever uses the computer (Linux, Windows, macOS, whatever you are more practical, that is also an advantage since we ensure you can develop a project on all platforms). Also we have basically have all admin access on everything personal and everything that is shared (shared computers in the office, network equipment, servers, etc).

I could not see working on a place where I have to pay attention on what I do on a particular device if not they will punish me. To me it doesn't really make sense, the computer that I'm using is mine till I use it, of course if I change job that computer will be formatted and used by another person.

There is this concept but to me it only slows down work. If I have to do something personal related on the desktop at work I do it on the desktop, similarly if I'm at home and I have to do a fix on a production system I do that on my personal laptop, or I answer a Teams call from a coworker from my mobile phone.
It will kind of. Law enforcement does not have unlimited resources, and its limited resources have to be prioritized based on the severity of the infringement. Lack of an "impressum" by itself would be quite tame unless there has been some other crime committed (or at the very least a credible tip or complaint) that would justify law enforcement looking into it in the first place.

Furthermore, when it comes to the lack of "impressum", merely determining whether the law has been broken would be difficult with proper anonymity. Let's say he's based in Germany but anonymously purchases hosting in the US or another country and never discloses his German residency on the website - in this case it's impossible from the outside to even determine whether he is actually breaking this law, removing the probable cause for an investigation in the first place. As far as I'm aware, Germany does not - and wouldn't have the resources anyway - to thoroughly investigate every foreign-hosted website to determine whether its owner is actually based in Germany and is thus breaking the law by not publishing an "impressum".
Ironically, story is posted on a paywall site :)
A friend of mine is doing this as his day job through MicroAcquire. He's bought a few businesses so far and is writing a blog about his experience: https://microangel.so/

So far, it looks like he's having fun but putting in a lot of work. He seems to be doing a lot of little code updates and fixes when apis change or other little things break.
Wow, that's uncalled for. I've flagged your post for violating site guidelines. I also added a citation, which took 30 seconds to look up. It's publicly available data. Instead of calling me a piece of shit, you could have done that and shared the results of your research with everyone here.
You have it backwards, suing for defamation in the UK is considerably easier than in the US. The 1A in the US makes defamation and label very hard to prove - you must demonstrate that the statement is false, that the defamer knew it was false, and that you suffered damages as a result. All three must be met.

In the UK malicious intent is all that is needed - even if the statement is in fact true.
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People have mentioned some good cases, but I think the most straightforward one is radiology.

Imagine you have high quality 3D scans of people. You can strip the names off of the files, but anyone can volume render the data to see what they look like (inside and out).

There are some papers on adjusting the data, while hopefully preserving anything medically important, but that's obviously a challenging problem.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, plus citation needed.

Not to mention that you can only know whether the foundation improved after you build on top of it... which is something we can only observe in the future.

Note that I am not saying that you are incorrect in your assessment. All I am saying is that it's too early to know one way or another.
You know what bugs me about these kinds of things - the millions of people that have already had this happen to them, but are terrible at public speaking or writing pretty much have no chance of getting these things corrected. Yes, we're all glad Hristo seems to have his situation fixed, but it did go viral and he's a great writer.

What about all the others out there that can't do this for themselves?
>>>[mytailorisrich:] 2% of global emissions is close to negligible.

>>[bellyfullofbac:] Can I have 2% of your paycheck then, if it's negligible?

>[mytailorisrich:] This is about prioritising issues

Maybe de-prioritise your wardrobe then?
The article mentions that a factory reset was performed on the devices. Factory resets usually leave the data in a readable state depending on how paranoid the developers coding them are - you're not usually going to run shred -n 11
It is possible to support a wide range of Linux distributions if one takes proper care such as: use CMake and never use GNU autotools or GNU Make as CMake has the best IDE support among C++ building systems; static link as much as possible avoiding reliance on the package manager for getting dependencies; set RPATH as relative path to executable in CMake building system for dependencies that cannot be statically linked; locate resource files using the relative path to the executable instead of relying on fixed path such as /usr/local, /usr/share, /etc/, ...; distributed the executable and the shared libraries in a zip or tar.gz archive with .desktop file containing an icon, so that the user can launch the application just clicking on it. Most MacOSX applications are already distributed in this way in the app-bundle format a, directory ending with suffix .app, containing, a p-list xml metadata, shared libraries and data. The app bundles can be installed just by dragging and dropping without worrying about dependency hell, enabling root permission and so on. The Linux fragmentation could decrease if Linux distros adopted a MacOSX-like standardized app-bundle format.

The last point of failure is the GlibC (GNU C library), a Linux application, even if fully statically linked against all dependencies or packaged with all shared libraries, may fail to run in another Linux distribution if it is using an older version of the GlibC than the one that the executable was linked against. Therefore, in order to ensure that the application can work in the broadest range of distributions, it is necessary to static link the application against the oldest possible version of GlibC or build the application on the LTS (Long Term Support) version of the supported distribution.

If one does not have enough resources to support Linux, an alternative approach, assuming that is OpenGL is used, may be building the executable for Windows and Wine using MinGW compiler either on Windows or by cross-compiling on Linux using Dockercross-mingw (https://github.com/dockcross/dockcross). At least with Wine, one will not have to deal with Glib-C compatibility issues.
Thanks, appreciate you taking the time to explain.
Most people feel that doing the same thing that other people do, or enforcing that other people must do the same thing that you do, are the highest goals you could pursue.

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/09/the-world-forager-eli...
I mean… we were moving grain around before the invention of plastic, no?

Let’s say around WW1 time. It’s post industrial revolution, but before plastic.

What’s wrong with glass? Painted glass if light is a issue.

Or metal can for unique use?

Heck. Terracotta or whatever that’s called in English worked for millenniums, no? It can seal good enough.

I know nothing about the subject. But I do like glass container a lot so that what I use at home.

I have large, medium and small ones. Some are dark for stuff that don’t like light.

I live in a place build on cockroaches, and they don’t get in.

But I kinda see your point in term of logistic / distribution…

But I persist : I think we became lazy. People could bring their empty container to the shop and fill them.

But… that’s a tiny use of plastic I guess ? That shit is so convenient and handy. We should use it for exceptional occasion rather than being that cheapo disposable material.

Edit :
Re: mesuring.
I’ve been to hippie shop where if you bring a outside container, they tar it before pouring the exact quantity of lentil / rice / whatever you decided to buy that day.

If you need 200g only you can. If you want 2kg, here you go.

Witch remind me: those big ol bag of the depresssion era for flour? They seems to work fine.
Same for the 5kg bag of rice in fabric you find in « ethnic » store
If you're interested in buying and/or selling small projects, you can typically expect to pay more than $5k for something that's making any consistent amount of money.

You're also unlikely to find a great deal on a really special project on a marketplace. People who post on marketplaces like Flippa or MicroAcquire or SideProjectors (there're dozens of them) have either:

1. Realized the time it takes to maintain is not worth the revenues/profits

2. Realized the income is not sustainable and are trying to cash out at the end of a great run

3. Realized that some folks are willing to pay very high multiples and will list their projects at prices most (but not all) people will balk at.

If you're really interested in taking over a project that's profitable, network with people, do cold emailing, and find opportunities to take over projects that the owners are simply not interested in any more.

In other words, look for the elderly couple who is ready to move on from owning their profitable, outdated shop.
I agree. This title is super "clickbaity".

Title should be:
Florida signs law mandating public colleges and universities to survey students and faculty about their beliefs

@thehill.com, you'd get more readers with the correct title.
I recently encountered the same underlying problem with Google's knowledge graph.

I do a lot of scientific image analysis using an ancient (but reliable!) piece of software called ImageJ [0]. There's a more recent distro of the same called FIJI [1]. So when I tried looking for how to extract EXIF data for GPS coordinates using ImageJ (not even mentioning FIJI), Google returned an info box about the Fiji-the-nation and provided the coordinates of said nation:

https://i.imgur.com/HxSh8Zv.png

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5554542/

[1]: https://imagej.net/software/fiji/
Yes, it's been used for transferring money. I hear the test suites and architectures are just as solid as Android's but haven't gone that far myself.
> The UserDict class initializer makes a dictionary which it stores in self.data. All of the methods on this dictionary-like UserDict class wrap around this self.data dictionary.

Incredible. This appears to be exactly the solution to my problem. Thanks! (And, if thunner happens to come across this: thanks, from a former TA of yours!)
Do color photocopiers generally add these tracking dots as well?
Interesting question, but I suspect that there isn't such a convincing use case for this as forged currency is for tracking color printers. Does government use paper as a security boundary, and if that's the issue, wouldn't it suffice to have the scanners in the relevant offices log everything they are scanning (which I think they already do)?

Also, almost all such watermarks would be easily destroyed by bitonalization and despeckling, which is usually done anyway to reduce the file size (e.g. it's part of the default operation of https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced ). Arguably the same is true for yellow dots if one is leaking scanned printouts, but identifying leakers is not the main purpose of the dots...

If one really wanted to, one could try embedding little holes into certain letters and hope they survive the smoothing algorithms and don't stand out too much. Not sure how successful that would be, though.
You know, Dropbox functions in part on the assumption that users act independently. I wonder if they can tell, and if so what happens, if a vendor bug like the one in the article cause a large fraction of users to take the same action simultaneously.
Man, this would be my absolute dream. It would be so nice to have a totally declarative and identical environment across my desktop, laptop, and phone (maybe not totally identical given hardware differences, but almost). With Nix I can get close to that on my desktop and laptop, but my phone is still a 100% proprietary walled garden that's shoving upgrades and pre-installed bloatware down my throat whenever it feels the need.

I'd bet mobile Linux is still a few years away in the real world though. I got a PinePhone a couple weeks ago for tinkering and the user experience is nowhere near my Samsung Galaxy. Still hesitantly optimistic about the future of mobile though.