skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A motion-detecting light isn't surveillance. It follows the same principle as your refrigerator light: when someone opens the door, shine the light so that they can see.

Surveillance is the monitoring of peoples activities. A very, very different thing from an energy saving device -- I'd even argue the opposite, as surveillance requires constant energy. To monitor someone in the current system is to literally follow them around. To use your example, surveillance would be placing sensors in your products so that when your customers buy them, you can follow them around and record how they're using it. But I don't think an energy saving light can be called surveillance.
Isn't it crazy that something so (for me at least) obvious is something we have to "fight" for?

What other things are obvious for you and we still have to fight for?
Singling out acts of violence to try to say that both sides are equally evil or that one side is more moral because of that one act of evil is stupid.

The greater picture is this: Haitians were slaves and had every right to fight against their oppression. The "white Europeans" belonged back home in France. They brought it on themselves.

I always like to use this thought experiment: which of the two sides had power to change the situation?

The Haitians couldn't help being slaves until they rebelled. The French could from the very start choose not to be slavers.
I gave my daughter a debit card when she was 13 and put some weekly amount on it for the next 10 years. She's now an adult who has the ability to make sound financial decisions even though her mother has a spending addiction and a personality disorder. I strongly disagree that it is a bad idea.

The bad idea is those companies then sharing information about children that should be private and parents should have a say in. Blaming parents when companies have outrageous privacy policies regarding child accounts is ridiculous. We have to teach our children to survive in this world.

My 9 year old triplets all have greenlight cards. This article is very disturbing. But they are learning fiscal agency, which is something my generation wasn't taught at all. When I finally got a job (at 15) it was way too late for me. I spent it all on coin-op video games. That might be reasonable at 9, but not at 15.
The (Startup) Prize Economy
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750770
You really need some skills to comprehensively track down all the telemetry and successfully remove it. I'm happy folks are out there intending to do this, but its also going to provide for multiple forks probably, and now you have to trust them also.

Its just a stupid move that rightly gives the "muse" guys a PR stink.
It has nothing to do with IP it has to do with competency.

Our government is not capable of efficiently building and managing AWS style infra. Or designing new ASICS for consumer products.

Helping with R&D? Strategic planning? Sure. But not doing stuff like that at scale.
Gates Foundation makes contingency plans for break-up
Show HN: SQLite query inside a Bash function
Part of the workflow for building my website is the generation of a table in
tab-separated column format (.tsv). The source data is found in four other .tsv
files. I use an SQLite query to perform a 4-way join and write out the new table. For
convenience, I wrote a script that encapsulates the query inside a Bash function.

The example below illustrates this technique.

repertoire() {
pushd $CMM_SOURCES/_data
sqlite3 <<EOS

.headers on
.mode tabs
.import category.tsv category
.import composition.tsv composition
.import concert.tsv concert
.import program.tsv program
.once repertoire.tsv

SELECT
category.name AS category,
composition.key,
composition.composer,
composition.name AS composition,
concert.name AS concert
FROM
category,
concert,
composition,
program
WHERE
julianday(concert.date) < julianday('now')
AND composition.category = category.name
AND program.key = composition.key
AND program.date = concert.date
ORDER BY
category.sequence,
composition.key
;

EOS
popd
}
According to the description of their economic model, "masks, hands, distancing" is a free option: https://koronahra.cz/about If you didn't do anything else, the 498B must be hospitalization costs. (Letting the weak die on the streets isn't an option, they'll go to the hospital and cost you.)
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I don't think anyone should be blindly upgrading anything. Doing so brings about its set of problems and in many cases makes things worse. This is particularly true in the case of Create React App where just upgrading dependencies will often break the application.

The last Create React App I worked on (~3 months ago) had over 500 "vulnerabilities" reported by npm/yarn audit. Most of the reported vulnerabilities were obviously junk. As the author noted, there's no need to report vulnerabilities in the same dependency in every path through the dependency graph. The noise made it very difficult to sift through the output for anything useful. Even then, I have my doubts about how applicable the results are because with tree shaking of an SPA, it's quite possible the vulnerable part of a dependency is never even used.
I think they might be hoping that printing, and print spooling, might be going away.

In the future, applications might be able to communicate directly with a network printer via TCP/HTTP. The printer itself does spooling, queueing, management, etc. The OS doesn't need to be involved at all. "Legacy Printer" support can be disabled by default.

If you need to change ink cartridges you either do it on the screen of the printer, or install the manufacturers tool which also just communicates over TCP/HTTP and doesn't use any special interfaces.
The second example still seems strange - couldn't you just merge the master onto the feature branch to bring it up to date?

I also totally don't get the "closer together" comment. It seems like you are reducing the related commits from 2 to 1, not moving any commits closer together. But maybe I'm just quite confused.
I find a lot of the common explanations of how the brain works in neuroscience to be unsatisfying… compared to molecular biology, it just feels like often we don’t have a solid (falsifiable, etc) grasp of what’s actually happening, yet… too much handwaving (for instance, the lack of any specifics on where precisely some data is located… even “it’s stored in the connections” seems not quite true or falsifiable… although perhaps not exactly false, either). So I find discoveries like this exciting as it’s starting to peel back the curtain on a true understanding of the brain and neurons.
I agree that it is tough that there are so many unfiltered voices on this. I've been giving the most weight to dna-based evidence, and explanations from virologists, and critiques from other virologists. It is understandable that others look for different sources of truth as they see fit.
Mexico isn't in South America
I haven't been to snow ranch in years, but early Spacex investor Steve Jurvetson was a regular at the high power amateur rocket launches there. Probably other Spacex folks there as well.

Launches have all been shutdown for COVID reasons, and even before that, not infrequently cancelled due to fire risk.
I think you should start by providing information to back up your claims. This is not Twitter.
I'll say: Microsoft's solution, for all it's warts and problems, is (currently) the best integrated solution for organisational use. Jamf (for use in macOS/iOS) and a plethora of options for Android (like BlackBerry's ESP and Samsung's Knox), while decent, doesn't have that integrated feel like Microsoft's. RedHat's and SuSE's options are good on Linux, but it still feels clunky, even considering the clunkiness of Microsoft's tools.

The best contender is ironically Google and Chromebooks, but I feel that they still need to improve their solution though.
I don’t get where this notion comes from. As late as the early 1970s we had actual starvation in the US (not “food insecurity”).

Poverty is definitely definitely going down, not up.
Genuinely really surprised at that! Particularly in a village - I’d have thought smaller places would be the last holdouts, not the first to go cashless.
Pinia vs. Vuex: Is Pinia a Good Replacement for Vuex?
China Considers Closing Loophole Used by Tech Giants for U.S. IPOs
All it does is look to see if either your direct dependencies or descendant dependencies exist in the advisory database....

It seems like a simple algorithm that works pretty well. Perhaps ignoring certain dependencies makes sense, via an ignore list.

I just find the title "NPM is broken by design" to be a little hyperbolic, when it seems like the complaint is that it's tedious removing all the low-quality dependencies from your project. node security/npm-audit has at least increased the conversation around security for many around the npm ecosystem, where there wasn't much-if-any discussion prior. I think they deserve credit for this.

EDIT: I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted.
Need for Systems Observability
Many communists assert that "state capitalism" is a step on the pathway to communism. From an outsider's perspective, we watched a failing communist state open up markets under Deng Xiaoping, and become the fastest rising capitalist power in the world. First, the thing that took the country from being a failed state to the fastest elimination of poverty the world has ever seen was specifically its rejection of communism, which is primarily an economic model. Secondly, there still remains no evidence that the country could ever go back in a communist direction and not lose all of the benefits incurred by a market economy.

They can call themselves communist all they want, but all they have in common with it is the authoritarianism.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

But, one of the goals in software engineering right now is reproducible builds. This means building from source. And of course we'll want to automate that. We've already made inroads with CI

So, correct me if I'm wrong, these are still vulnerabilities.

Tragedy of the commons stuff.

This article might be honest. But I hope in the future we don't need devil's advocate arguments.
> many reports at the time suggested they used impaled French infants for a battle standard

Sure, and the Soviets claimed the Katyn massacre was perpetrated by the Nazis.

Consider sprinkling a few grains of salt on contemporary accounts by interested parties.
Online anonymity.
npm is a bit nuts on its own. I started learning react this year and the course I'm taking had me install that create react app module or similar. It dragged in 1700 dependencies, and the folder for a hello world app was almost 90mb iirc. How can you possibly pretend you have any control over your app or it’s security in that situation?
Forget signs. An auto-drive car needs to respond to hand signals from people like crossing guards and road crews.

Ultimate test: a self-driving capable of loading itself on/off a car ferry. It will have to actively disregard signages/road lines to obey hand signals and announcements from the ship's crew. Will a tesla park itself within 6" the car ahead?
>I’d rather someone creates a private civil society organization whose gives a stamp of approval for products that meet the repair standard.

Many industries only have a handful of firms, it wouldn't be difficult for them to collude and entirely ignore a private civil society organization. Government has the power of enforcement, which is a necessary component of this goal.
Most Americans don't even know where Australia is, let alone whom one of its citizens is...
wouldn't mind a citation of those academic sources which use this term in this context.
> Having a saving account teaches kids a lot.

Growing up I always had this belief that wealth was about building a big savings account, and that rich people where like Scrooge McDuck swimming in big pools of money.

This is, imho, a fantastic piece of propaganda. It's incredible how often people will say things like "Jeff Bezos is only rich because he owns so much stock!" As soon as you get your first big RSU payout you realize it is insane to keep the majority, or even a sizable portion of your capital in cash.

Even Marx saw that Capital, by its definition, is in motion.

The lesson of a savings account is that you should hand your money over to banks so that they can use it. But most kids aren't taught what it really means to park your capital in a bank. I remember how many times I was given the "miracle of compound interest talk" but nobody get fantastically rich from the growing interest on their savings account.

Today that's even more ridiculous, interest rates are way, way down and inflation is starting to rise. Keeping more than enough money to serve as an emergency fund is the same as just burning some of it for fun.

We are in an insane debt bubble, but that doesn't change the reality of how life works in an insane debt bubble. Using credit to buy things today, when interest rates are low and inflation is rising is far more rational than putting money in a savings account.

A better lesson would be to use that cash to buy things that are useful and can help build skills, which can't be taken by a debt collector. A guitar is a better purchase than a bunch of digital music, a laptop to program on is a better purchase than an ipad, etc.
This country is rapidly approaching a serious precipice. The decades of stagnating wage growth is catching up with the pace of modern life. Corporations run the country and governments don't give two shits. I've always been an optimist, living in the best days of civilization etc, but it gets harder and harder every day to continue thinking this.
“All public GitHub code was used in training, we don't distinguish license type”
I tend to use my phone because tapping on the screen doesn't cause as much noise as typing, the communication apps I might be using to talk to people make more sense tend to be better designed to quickly operate on phones, and it is much easier to take my phone--with the notes I was writing--with me to a speaking podium than my laptop.

That all said: you are saying it is somehow different to you if someone spends their time staring at a laptop, but not a phone? The real response that seems important here is "this is the future: phones are the new laptop"; I typed this comment and my prior comment on my phone, as I tend to do all my comments... what are you still using laptops for?
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/12/09/what-are-t...
Naming Languages
Planet to Become Publicly Traded Company Through Merger with DMY IV
Shorting is about market timing. I wouldn't gamble on China not keeping the price high to save face. It could easily go the other way.
My brother-in-law left Ketchum several years ago to move to Boise specifically because housing costs are too high for middle-class wage earners.

something something free market something pay more

Regarding Boise, something similar is happening. My BIL purchased a family home after making that move a few years ago and on paper, the value of the home has doubled.
'Pokémon Go' has made $5B since its release
That's fair. Maybe an order of magnitude difference between what's available on say Netflix streaming and what's available for individual rental, and maybe another order of magnitude for all movies? There sure are a lot of movies. I'm not sure where the Netflix DVD rental falls, especially if you account for movies that are technically available but with so few copies that it may take months to actually come to you.
Asian Bing used to be powered by Midori for a while.

Search Joe Duffy's keynote at one of Rustconf, towards the end he mentions that even proven wrong with Midori running in front of them, the Windows team was telling him it wasn't possible.

By the way, F-Secure ships security keys with firmware written in bare metal Go.
As far as I know for the german Bundestag, you can use your phone or tablet, but no laptops allowed.
Bitcoin is definitely a scam.
Just like fiat money, though.
https://henvic.dev/posts/bitcoin/
I used to work at place that installed this exact system. You can get an extra 2-3 months a year use of your pool in warm climates. It does work but we sold way more geothermal systems then these pool based systems.

Issues:
Building inspectors do not like it because it is non-standard. Copper is attacked by wet chlorine so you have to use stainless heat exchangers and plastic pipe. Pool filter must be constantly maintained to ensure the AC does not get clogged. If the pool is small, it can become very warm in august, almost like a hot tub.
Spent last summer there in Ketchum, aka Sun Valley, during the pandemic. An absolutely beautiful place to be, but I heard the same thing many times. The lifties at the ski mountain have to bus in 30 minutes from the nearby town Hailey every day to work. The area has become a lot more popular in recent years, and there are huge waiting lists to get into the schools. There's overregulation, yes, but most of the locals also don't want it to change. Frankly, a lot like CA. We decided not to stay. These trends are happening in other mountain towns we visited.
Ketchum is a resort town surrounded by national park with a larger more inexpensive town down the road.

Ketchum is a city in Blaine County, Idaho, located in the central part of the state. The population was 2,689 at the 2010 census, down from 3,003 in 2000. Located in the Wood River Valley, Ketchum is adjacent to Sun Valley and the communities share many resources; both sit in the same valley beneath Bald Mountain, with its world-famous skiing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchum,_Idaho
Has any other author ever been so consistently dismissed over one errata-worthy, not-particularly-crucial, sentence in a first edition of one book? Why is that brought up as some kind of "gotcha" every time he comes up? You could dismiss most any author with any significant amount of published material over similar trivia.
China conducts third orbital launch inside four days
Radioisotope thermoelectric generators are used to build car sized rovers, so the idea did have some practical application.
“Males are males” is what you said. I think you may have been conflating gender and sex. The reason why “gender” and “sex” are different words is so we can discuss them separately—gender is social, sex is biological. If you’re an anthropologist, you might study gender norms in different cultures. If you’re an ichthyologist studying fish, you might study the sexual characteristics of different species.

Ichthyology is interesting. Clownfish, for example, are born (sexually) male. In a given group of clownfish, the largest will become female. This is a physiological change. However, it’s not “genderfluidity” because clownfish, like most animals, do not have gender.

Gender, since it is a purely social construct, is somewhat arbitrary to begin with and depends on cultural norms. Saying that sex and gender is equivalent is asserting that a particular set of cultural norms is correct and other norms are incorrect, and it’s a common anti-trans talking point. If you got downvoted, it’s probably because you were repeating some of those tired talking points—in your words, “males are males” and “the differences in the brain could be described as a mental illness”.

Gender dysphoria could be considered a mental illness, but it could equally be considered a social / environmental problem. From a harm reduction standpoint, the general consensus is that it can be easier for someone to transition to a different gender rather than try to treat gender dysphoria itself as a pathology. In other words, is gender dysphoria pathological, or is it a manifestation of a problem in the environment? Based on the evidence from treatment outcomes, it seems obvious that treating gender dysphoria as a mental illness is not clinically useful, at least in general.
China did this with Rare Earth Minerals, and put most other mines out of business:

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/04/f73/Critical...
Because a startup isn't profitable often for years even while in growth before it hits the inflection point.

Taking this ability away without being careful means you'll likely further entrench incumbents at the expense of those new companies.
The view of SQLite developers on CVEs is also dim: https://www.sqlite.org/cves.html
It's not low price compared to local alternatives. I was work travelling so internet was a must, I always tried getting the best rate as part of my welcome to a new country ritual :)

Also what is short? In Austria I get a new prepaid for every few days I stay (because uncomplicated and cheap). In the Netherlands libera was the only real option even thought I was there for 2 months.
Intersex people are male or female. Male/female comes down to gametes and intersex does not somehow prove that biological sex is a spectrum.
> Sure you can. Go ahead

We'll there's your problem. First you show a complete lack of understanding of the issue, from its basic concepts to the practical manifestation and consequences, and then you conclude that it must not be a real issue.

This technique can be used to justify anything. Burning books? Sure, it's like burning extra processed wood, totally okay, go right ahead.

Ignorance is not a defense.

Also can you send me your medical data and search history? I mean you're OK with sharing this data and said nothing about it being ok only if I can do it covertly. Better yet, give me your name and address and I'll just grab that myself so it's not too much of a bother for you. It's just so I can serve cheaper better targeted ads to you.

I mean refusing and backing out now would just be hypocritical and completely undermine the case you so unsuccessfully try to make wouldn't it?
Funny enough, years ago libertarian economists suggested that climatists put their money where their mouth is.

Of course that hasn't happened because the climatists also tend to be crony capitalists or their allies (globalists and leftists). No one involved wants to put at risk their own money or labor.

But check out this nasty twist:

> Now the financial group is ready to recruit ordinary investors—people with 401(k)s, Robinhooders, the macroprudentially curious—into its army.

Crony capitalists are now recruiting mom-and-pop investors and their children (Robinhooders), commonly known as "voters" to join them in their quest to plunder and destroy whatever is left of free enterprise in the West.

On the one hand we have totally corrupt governments manipulated by crony capitalists and globalists, on the other they're being joined by investors/voters who have vested interest in seeing the most wasteful, deficit-funded government projects and rules become reality so that they can get rich while destroying capitalism.
On other OSes the people maintaining/updating legacy stuff are paid consultants. On Windows only Microsoft is allowed to do this so it isn't done.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27759681
To get somewhere with these, try pressing alt/meta while pointing at a command, or right click on the first letter of a filename, and press alt on a command. E.g. right click on "Draw.Tool" and press alt on "System.Open" to start Draw.Tool.
Great point. React's DOM-diffing algorithm does many unnecessary computations that make websites run slowly compared to targeted DOM manipulation.
So a typical nuclear reactor in a car is a terrible and unworkable idea. But what about an EV powered by nuclear batteries?

Could that be economical or safe? You'd have pretty much unlimited range.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2016/november/diamond-power.ht...

My gut feeling is it can't compete with lithium ion batteries in terms of rate of discharge or economics. But if money was no object, I think it may be possible.