skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I see what you're saying. I do think not being able to do trusted transactions online with computers I control is a pretty dire and serious regression of individual freedom at this point. It's dystopian having to buy a $500 planned-to-be-obselete device which spies on me (on behalf of enemies to my freedom) every few years to do basic things in society.
> This would mean that, for example porn would need to be acceptable. Or advertisements, but it seems reasonable for the owner to ban both of those things in pursuit of their desired aesthetic.

Yes, I stand by this. If it's legal to have porn on your house wall, it should be legal for people to paint porn on your communal wall.

Again, the solution to this should be a city ordnance. The problem to me is not restrictions but accountability.

> The actual case seems to be that anyone can paint anything except certain banned things. But any person can still paint other unbanned things.

This seems akin to saying that the theocracy does not discriminate against gay men, because they can marry women just like hetero men can.
When talking about "astroturfing" it is worth remembering that the average person is dangerously practical and not easily persuaded by "the incentives here are terrible..." style arguments. But they do have very strong loyalty to anything perceived as part of the in-group.

It is likely that the attacks on Assange were all in good faith. Still baseless though, the fellow has all but secured his place in the history books as a hero at this point.
Already discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27841947
Appears this is a long tradition with pineapples! I remember hearing people used to rent them, here’s one source, “The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple” [0]

> A pineapple which had overcome all those hurdles was scarce enough to be valued at £60 (roughly £11,000) … Concerned about wasting such high-value fruit by eating it, owners displayed pineapples as dinnertime ornaments on special plates which would allow the pineapple to be seen and admired but surrounded by other, cheaper, fruit for eating.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-53432877
I was left speechless after realising everyone keeps buying Windows OS licenses every 3-4 years on average, each time they get a new OEM device. And mostly likely the same OS version at least twice.
Deurbanising the Web [pdf]
Hi, my notes:

1) Experts involve the user.

Also, experts do not let the user design the software. The user will frequently want to tell you what the software "must" be doing. An expert will disregard this and will want to first understand the domain and then work with the user to find a good mapping to a useful interface.

2) Experts design elegant abstractions

I don't agree on this. Oftentimes, I have seen "experts" use solutions because they seemed elegant, intelligent, "nifty". I did that myself.

An expert will design simple abstractions that let the job done with little fuss. The software needs to be as simple as possible but not simpler than is needed.

Replace "elegant" with "simple", and it sounds about right.

An expert software looks dumb and simple, not necessarily super elegant and intelligent. Also, bad software can look dumb and simple.

3) Experts focus on the essence

Experts start by focusing on the essence. Then verify by testing how the distilled essence is useful at solving entirety of the problem.
Correct me if i am wrong. I think another reason why ZDI maybe could pay more is because they also have other paying customers that pay for IDS/IPS subscription.
I found this map + twitter towards the end of last year (after the season had ended), so I'm looking forward to exploring in a few months to see how accurate it is.

I don't have much more to say - I just like niche mapping projects like this.

Congrats on launching the new features + new areas!
Isn't mushroom picking something that requires rather more than a modicum of research upfront before any layman should attempt to do so because of the existence of poisonous mushrooms?

I mean, this feels eerily reminiscent of Google sending people up to the summit of Ben Nevis across dangerous terrain via a naive line connecting it to the geographically nearest car park.

This website does not seem to give any warnings about the risks involved; are there none? Although perhaps smoking (which I guess is what you do with these) may not kill you as much as eating a poisonous mushroom.
I don't feel like this could help you find the mushrooms. More like it can predict when they will grow in the places you know they could grow at?

Would love to see an animation over time after season. Or perhaps you could do that on older data? To see how it differs across location, whether there are more peaks, etc...
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> Correct me if I'm wrong, you seem to be saying that free speech can't exist without democracy.

No, parent is saying freedom of speech is a consequence of democracy, not that one wouldn't exist without the other or that they are synonymous.

One can, as you have, construct and imagine all kinds of political systems where one exists without the other (e.g. Greece 400 BC, benevolent dictator etc). This leads to rather contrived arguments that miss the point at hand: Freedom of speech has almost always been a consequence of modern democracy.

Your flippant response in the last paragraph makes me believe you aren't convinced in your argumentation either.
Personally, I hated the namespaces and the attempts at validation. It's also too many characters.
Superior to what, though?

Most of this tooling has equivalents that are barely used because they didnt really need to exist in the first place (e.g. XSLT) or were a band aid over problems with XML itself (XPath / XMLSpy).

That leaves JSON schema, which - still more pleasant than XSD or DTD.
I’m not sure if their position could be any clearer: they can’t stop you re-packaging it, but it’s totally unsupported. Only the official builds are supported.

Being granted that most noble of OSS titles, imbued by the ghost of Dennis Ritchie himself, the rank of packager in actuality means jack-all and doesn’t give your requests any more weight or mean that they need to answer them at all. They don’t want it packaged like that.

They publish and support static binaries. Anything else is a burden, and they shouldn’t adapt their project because someone actually wants to dynamically link it.
For liberty caps, yeah. There are some rare reports from other states in the US (mostly east coast) but I don't want to give people false hope by including those states in the map.

However, there are many other species of psilocybin-containing mushrooms in North America. You can check out the Shroomery for more info on species in your area [1]

[1] https://shroomery.org/12257/Mushroom-Locations
Google generates 180 billion in revenue, 140 billion of which comes from ads. None of this revenue is a government subsidy.

> I remember a time over a decade ago (before the insane 0% monetary policy started) when they were struggling to turn a profit

Well they have been profitable since 3 years after incorporation, so we are talking over 20 years ago.

> The business model did not change much since then and yet now they are profitable.

Well the industry, their market share, the number of clients and the number of ads served grew, and they refined their business model throughout.

> Who is to say that hoarding user attention and online advertising is actually profitable?

Google, based on the excess profits they have generated across the last 20 years to become one of the most valuable companies in the world.

> where it's receiving special treatment due to its ability to hoard eyeballs.

In economics that's called a competitive advantage :) It's not a coincidence that it gets eyeballs, it's part of their whole business model.
I read "NFTs". Very disappointed.
I agree it's not a good look--IF it was ever said.
Potentially interesting:

https://github.com/siara-cc/sqlite_micro_logger_arduino

https://github.com/siara-cc/sqlite_micro_logger_arduino/blob...

This is a heavily subsetted implementation of SQLite3 that can read/write databases (presumably on SD cards) from very small microcontrollers.

It presumably doesn't have the same ACID compliance properties, but with a single <1.5k source file, may represent a particularly efficient way to rapidly learn the intrinsics if you happened to want to directly manipulate files on disk.

Now I'm thinking it could actually be interesting to see what drh thinks of this implementation (and any gotchas in it) because of its small size and accessibility.
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20210718172613/https://schematro...
> the standard format seems to be getting stale to my ears

Really? Not to mine. It still sounds very fresh and so different from what one reads everywhere else.
> My only question is who exactly at the Vatican compiled this list?

The other reference on the Wikipedia article (besides the one that you link directly) answers that question (institutionally, if not personally): the Pontifical Commission for Social Communication
What is sold as safe today is also a bad joke.

Software certs, unnecessary authentication mechanisms and other crap.

Sure, complexity can introduce bugs and the woke crowd removed at least 3 linux developers that actually had tries of government players to introduce backdoors uncovered.

But overall these systems will be safer than an OS ran by Google, Microsoft or Apple. It depends on what you think is a threat, but you should expect US spies to have access on data collected by those companies.
> A 30% bump in plant carbon sinking

Plant growth by itself is not a carbon sink. It just adds to the "buffer size" for the short-term carbon cycle. For some of that carbon to be "sunk" it has to either be removed and used/stored in a way that doesn't put that carbon back into the atmosphere, or transformed into long-term stable humic and vulvic substances, or buried in an anaerobic environment under pressure so it'll eventually turn into petroleum.

Also the CO2 fertilization effect also has negative consequences... enough so that it's really far from clear whether it's a net postive, even a small one. For one thing it's one of the reasons why modern food has significantly lower nutrient density (plants, including crop plants are growing faster, but the additional mass is almost pure carbohydrates, very little additional proteins, minerals, etc.). And in the tropical rainforests, the plants that are most benefiting from CO2 fertilization are fast-growing vines, and they are literally choking off tree growth (there have been papers published about this).
It is mentioned in the README that there is a Gimp plugin for Christian Wolf's binarization. This could be handy at times.

Otherwise, the C++ code on Github requires converting images to PGM format.

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The page is in French, so I will mention that the Python script is here: https://www.vvpix.com/gmp_Telecharger_script.php?sFichier_a_...

To install it, copy the file to:
`C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins`

Then call the script via the `Python-fu > Color > Binarize` tab in Gimp.

The algorithm is quite slow for large images. Aim for 1440p at most.

That being said, the results on my quick experiments look great, so it saves my time compared to other more manual methods in the end!
Neat. I’d recommend looking into a hexagonal coordinate system. It has the benefit of each block being equidistant from its neighbors and clustering is a breeze. It also looks better. There’s a couple open source libraries Uber has that make it a breeze to work with.
> simplex noise scales O(n)

Typo? Simplex noise scales at O(n^2), not O(n).
From experience with staff of different levels of expertise, the points seem to hold true, e.g.:

Reaching out to other people - generally true that staff w. greater expertise are more likely and comfortable doing so;

Form elegant abstractions - also true: experts more likely than newbies to be able to find a simple way to describe something that is built on sufficient complexity to cause at least some bafflement.

Also, for staff of a similar degree of experience and role, I have a greater degree of confidence in the outputs produced by those who can answer more searching questions, showing they have drilled down to the fundamentals. I suspect that this type of person is more likely to develop into a real expert than those who adopt the how without caring about the why. Experts may be better at ensuring that the substance of an objective is delivered rather than just the form.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27880920
As I understand, the evidence wasn't owned by prosecution, but by Apple. It's like saying "the truth is out there", which is technically true, but shouldn't count as evidence until collected.
I wonder if there will be something a step further - a device that will prevent forbidden thoughts from occurring...
Not OP but a quick google search can get you there, if you’re lazy here’s one going over some stats

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...

I recently stumbled onto a clip on YT of Tucker Carlson using this term “the radical violent left”. The data is clear.. the right is getting far more violent (and far more violent than this “radical left”), I suspect the media is getting ahead of that narrative and pre-labeling the left what they’re becoming themselves as a method of cutting off any debate. Think McConnell at the start of Obama labeling him the most obstructionist president ever, and them republicans being the most obstructionist. It’s an attempt to destroy any credibility to the evidence by some weird form of um… pre-poo flinging?
> only to find that Assange was unhappy with how slowly this was going and he released them all himself, with basic redactions.

That's not what happened.

The Guardian, through its own incompetence, made the full unredacted cables publicly available in February 2011, by publishing the decryption key. People online realized that the cables were available, and a German magazine published an article explaining that the cables were now available. Only after that happened did WikiLeaks put the unredacted cables on its website, under the rationale that since the cables were already public, they might as well be hosted on WikiLeaks.

The Guardian has consistently obfuscated this issue, and tried to blame Assange for the Guardian's decision to publish the decryption key. The Guardian's excuse is that they thought the decryption key was only temporary, whatever that's supposed to mean.
When you say "one could be targeted/painting an target on one self" what does this imply? Basically that some group, most likely a nation state actor might hack my systems in the hope to see what else i have and who i am selling to?

Or rather that when i cross the wrong broader in to the wrong country that i might disappear?
You can see some animations of the 2018 and 2019 seasons in the UK here: https://twitter.com/MushroomMap/status/1301047935203979264
It might be worth buying the discounted thinkpad in US (I assume that's where most heavily discounted ones show up) and then ship it to France?
>[0] Cooking on electric is a horrible experience compared with gas, and cooking on induction isn't great either (unless you're entire cooking knowledge is boiling a pan of water, in which case, yay!). And of course there are dishes (such as many Chinese dishes) which you simply could no longer cook.

> unless you're entire cooking knowledge is boiling a pan of water

If your entire cooking knowledge is boiling a pan of water, just get a damn microwave and stop ruining things for everyone else.

0: Quoted in full because it disappeared while I was writing my answer.
During the W3C’s period of… lesser judgment, they hoped to fight the plague of invalid HTML markup that dominated the Web by migrating everybody to XML, which unlike HTML with its extremely generous error handling, simply aborts upon any parse error. For example, Firefox’s “Yellow Screen of Death”: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yellow_screen_of_dea...

For this to happen, a webpage has to be served with an XML Content-Type by the server—specifically, application/xhtml+xml. HTML documents are served with a Content-Type of text/html. If you write a page entirely in valid XHTML markup, but serve it with an HTML media type, the browser treats it not as XML, but as invalid HTML, like any other tag soup, and turn it into something approximating what you meant.

However, some browsers couldn’t handle application/xhtml+xml, and would simply prompt a download dialog for the page rather than displaying it. Well, one browser did that. You know the one… Internet Explorer. Because support for the new media type wasn’t widespread, the W3C allowed serving XHTML 1.0 pages as text/html as a transitional mechanism. They wouldn’t get any of the “benefits” of XML parsing (like the YSOD), but they’d display in IE. XHTML 1.1 and the stillborn 2.0 were required to be served as application/xhtml+xml, and thus saw only the barest minimum of adoption. As transitional mechanisms are wont to do, XHTML 1.0‐as‐text/html stuck around, W3C’s reputation took a blow, and WHATWG seized the reins, codifying browser practices into what’s now known as HTML5.

Incidentally, this is the origin of the space everybody puts within a self‐closing tag. An XML parser would see no difference between “<br/>” and “<br />”, but some tag soup HTML parsers of the time did. The XHTML spec had an appendix dedicated to these compatibility tricks that were solely needed because people were serving pages with the only Content-Type that IE understood. https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines
I don't know if the book goes into this, but one thing I've noticed about brilliant software people like Jeff Dean or Martin Thompson is that they appear to love doing simple "back-of-the-envelope calculations" (and lots of them).

They can iterate designs rapidly in their head or on paper, evaluate the cost or value of a design, know when a design has promise or when it won't work, and where the bottlenecks or low-hanging fruit might be, because they have a good feel for the performance/scaling cost of all the resources involved along the axes of things like branch mispredicts, main memory references, per core memory bandwidth, disk seeks, disk bandwidth, network latency, network bandwidth, expensive memory vs inexpensive storage tradeoffs. Numbers that programmers should know [1] but often don't.

In other words, before they even write specifications or start coding, they've probably done tens to hundreds of back-of-the-envelope calculations to put their design in the "roughly right" ballpark. This drastically increase the chances that the design is going to work, and work really really well. And I think this habit is also what tends to set them apart.

[1] https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/inte...
As the person who tested the latest ntfs3 patchset, and had tested
many of those iterations in the past, I would really like to see
this *finally* land in Linux 5.14.

However, I get the feeling it's not going to make it for 5.14 *or*
5.15, and it seems like Paragon became discouraged by the lack of
feedback on the latest revision.

I know that compared to all you awesome folks, I'm just a lowly
user, but it's been frustrating to see nothing happen for months
with something that has a seriously high impact for a lot of people.

It's a shame, because the ntfs3 driver is miles better than the
current ntfs one, and is a solid replacement for the unmaintained
ntfs-3g FUSE implementation.

Seriously, such a well funded, high profile project like Linux should be more receptive to key QoL improvements and drivers. NTFS is the de facto filesystem for portable data storage, much as I wish an open alternative was there. I hope they speed up the merge of ntfs3 into the mainline.
I haven't messed with NTFS in years but from what I remember the Linux kernel driver was read-only, right? I assume this new one will allow write access?

I vaguely remember having to use fuse to write to NTFS partitions in the past.
May not have been conceived that way, but it became that.

XML Schemas were the End of its simplicity.
It is implicitly so. As far as I know you need to reverse engineer the whole process and disguise the kernel you want to run as a macOS Mach kernel. They keep a finger on the trigger by having an encrypted Secure Boot system, too. Not to mention how much the system is locked in (soldered SSD necessary for booting, Internet connection mandatory for starting the system the first time, etc..)

One or two steps short of the hermetic lockdown of iOS devices.
I have the same feeling. I simply can not do it with simply just folders and manual sorting, I have become dependant on automatic categorization like Google does.
Young Stanford grad uses pandemic time to start Peggs, vegan eggs
> he has done nothing wrong by UK laws

Two points here.

He has skipped bail, which is most definitely illegal. Why he skipped bail is a different issue, but it cannot be denied that he has skipped bail.

Secondly and more importantly, you don't need to be guilty of something under UK law to be extradited. That's the whole point of extradition. If you commit a crime abroad, you are almost certainly not guilty of it at home, because you are out of your home country's jurisdiction.

Also I've never understood the whole Sweden is a stepping stone to the US. in my little understanding, I don't see why the US would seek to only issue an extradition order when he was in Sweden. They won't grant extradition to a place where there is a material risk of the death penalty (well, unless you're an asylum seeker, but that's a different issue.)
How would kernel support for NFTs work?
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Do recent weather conditions matter? I always thought they were seasonal, we'd head up to a known spot where they grow in Wales shortly after the first dew of the year (Sept/Oct usually)
I mean I went to MSNBC on Saturday and the front page had like 5 stories about Trump.

Julian Assange just isn't going to drive enough clicks.

There is no conspiracy here, this is a side effect of the internet destroying the media's business model.

Julian Assange would have been a really interesting Sunday morning discussion in the 90s. The media can't really afford interesting discussion at this point though.
I appreciate the information, but referring to an induction set-up as a “burner” makes me die inside, and I don’t even know why. It just feels wrong. Isn’t there a better term we can use?
There is direct physical and historic evidence that intelligence work involves misrepresenting positions left and right while fabricating lies about political opponents.

Why are you that concerned about something getting misrepresented? Your position sound extremely dishonest, because misrepresentation is the primary tool of those that accuse Assange of crimes.
So I checked the mountain and field local to me where they grow every year without fail and it was only a "medium" likelihood :)
They should be eaten not smoked. Yes you should do your research first. I would be pretty surprised if someone using this to find these mushrooms had not done some research first.