skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the problem is with the "lie" that the innocent need not fear surveillance. Most people will agree that mass-surveillance will negatively affect some people that are indispensable to healthily functioning liberal society: journalists, activists, academics, public figures...

The problem is that even if most people don't subscribe to the "nothing to hide" argument in general, they do not care about themselves being the target of surveillance.

Having unsuccessfully tried to make family and acquaintances more aware of privacy issue, I can confidently say that the "nothing to hide" argument is nothing next to the "I don't care" attitude. It's not just being the target of a wrongful accusation, arguments about unintended public shaming, identity theft, negative economic consequences (higher insurance premium or mortgage rates if your bank has more information about you), none of it will work.

I think there is some sort of a Tverskyan study to be done here about expected value and perceived risk. Overall for most people the equation is always: (probability of data being mishandled) * damage < time and effort required to maintain my privacy.
Nowhere did I say they "originate" from Spain. Obviously the Jewish people originated from the Land of Israel in the Southern Levant. After the Roman conquest of Judaea[1] begins the diaspora and those we now call Sephardic migrated to Spain and Portugal. They were there for a good 1,700 years before being expelled. I think that's sufficiently long enough to consider them Iberian. Historians do as well. This is actually widely accepted. Further it only makes sense to consider the names Sephardic, Ashkenazic and Mizrahi from the point of the diaspora forward. Those names literally would not exist without the diaspora. Your comment makes no sense historically or otherwise. It's also very bizarre that that you write "Arab/Muslim/Persian" to denote different geographical distinctions when only one of those things is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Spain
We imagine the future will be tools like 'grammarly' in our brains; i'm beginning to think the future will be more like 'ads for grammarly' in our brains.
That's why you pick your "friends" carefully.
All browsers except Chrome are continuously losing market share too.
Can We Be Heroes Again? Confronting the Banality of Modern Evil
To be fair, I'm addressing a tech nerd website. I think the bar here tends to be more wasteful than you or I. My last job, there were multiple people with their cubicle walls covered to the top in funko pops, latest and greatest gaming was common cafeteria talk, and new engineers always had a fresh off the line car
A couple of dumb questions:

1) In practice, how much of low level optimization is writing code differently, vs compiler tweaking? How much is done by offloading to other (specialized) hardware?

2) How could someone learn to do something like this. I’ve never had any situations where micro optimization is necessary or even useful. Never had to work with extremely large amounts of data, worry about tight timing of concerns, etc. and it seems like outside of an industrial setting it seems like getting access to the types of problems requiring this is the most difficult part. I mean, I suppose simply doing sorts on massive quantities of numbers is one thing, but it feels limited.
Texas Property Code Section 202.010: HOAs and POAs cannot prohibit or restrict a property owner from installing a solar energy device

I also live in Plano. This law was passed many many years ago, so if the HOA is really saying that they should change their tune if you point them to that relevant passage.
You can't because of sandboxing, which is arguably a very good thing.
You're absolutely right in theory. In practice... well, I've beta-tested two Mac native, non-VSCode editors that have integrated LSP support, and it's become pretty clear that a lot of language servers have only been tested against Visual Studio Code, and sometimes have rather, ah, let's say eccentric interpretations of the spec. (For instance, they may not set mode flags on responses that give guidance to the client; they may ignore initialization flags set by the client telling the server what kind of formats they can handle in responses; they may even crash if the client hasn't implemented a request they expect to be there even if the spec says supporting that is optional.)

I like that LSP has become a multi-editor standard, but I wish language server developers would test their servers against at least a few other editors, or with users of other editors reporting bugs.
No. The cleanup workers after the Chernobyl accident noted the similarities between their "Exclusion zone" and the zone in the book and movie, and some started calling themselves stalkers. A dangerous zone, controlled by the government where only certain people are allowed to go, filled with invisible dangers.

The game just expanded that connection, mashing up Chernobyl history and Stalker/Picinic details, and brought it to the western gamer audience.

If part of Australia was overrun by biker gangs I'm sure people would start calling it the Max Max zone. Same thing.
Horse drawn carriages are banned in some cities. I think many places don't need to ban them since owning a horse has become something of an elite activity due to cost/care/etc.

In Tucson Arizona, I saw a guy riding a horse down a busy street. It's pretty amazing how out of place it seemed, even there. The street he was riding on was historically used to race horses (much like people race cars on public roads today.)

There are old ordinances still in place which don't allow parking of horses in front of public buildings like court-houses.
IIRC Apache Arrow [1] promised similar goal and it seems covers CUDA as well [2]. I wonder how these relates in the big picture. This one seems much simpler than arrow, which is probably a good thing in terms of the differentiation?

- [1] https://arrow.apache.org/

- [2] https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/cuda.html
Healthcare has suffered from DNS attacks during Covid more than other industries
Ha, I was going to add basically the same sidenote, even calling it a sidenote and using the word framing. All I was going to state was that the title could have been "right, left or center" but instead he chose "left or right". WTF.

We could almost imagine the author himself is vying for attention by pushing the hot buttons known to work. Either that or he is incapable of recognising his own foibles.
On many European motorways with high top speed (e.g. German Autobahn), for example.
I understand caution when stating opinions - it is a good instinct, but I'm not sure what you're arguing.

> I think that sometimes being overly opinionated and incapable of changing your mind is potentially harmful to others, yes… Is it not potentially dangerous to advocate for various political realities based solely on unexamined/individual opinion-based constructs?

How can I disagree with this? Yes there is hazard in advocating for anything. Moreover, there is hazard in doing anything. But I see what you're getting at. There is some line we draw in our own minds between philosophy, that is the pursuit of truth, and political - the realm of opinions.

Where is the line? Most would say that it is when the philosopher argues in good or bad faith. Thus, we are in the realm of the unknowable, the motivations of all around us. Also, not to comment on the notions of whether it's possible for an individual's to be "good" or "bad", but I don't want to digress.

To return, I think you're saying that making statements result in harm to individuals is bad. I agree, but this is a political question, not a philosophical one. Thus providing a philosophical justification or contradiction for your statement is moot.
I really appreciate my 2011 Civic's lack of a cellular modem.
It would probably work better with a color stripe per feature, as a customer with an orange cable might not know that it includes all the features of a yellow cable and can be used in place of a yellow cable.
What they actually don’t want to do, is chastise their funding base. With enough funding, your campaign can convince all the voters they need.
Why Not Jail?
You think a junkie will stop stealing an easily grabbed item because he can only get $25 for it instead of $50?
I completely agree with you. What a ridiculously naive statement to make.
Any chance you can please share a reference for that earlier comparable work? Not challenging your view, just curious
Just use fastmail or ProtonMail
You make a good point about the legitimacy of vernaculars.

Separate to idiom is the process of rewriting, whereby rough thoughts are honed to sharp points.

“I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson

“Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.”
― Robert McKee

“When asked about rewriting, Ernest Hemingway said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times before he was satisfied. Vladimir Nabokov wrote that spontaneous eloquence seemed like a miracle and that he rewrote every word he ever published, and often several times. And Mark Strand, former poet laureate, says that each of his poems sometimes goes through forty to fifty drafts before it is finished.”
― Susan M. Tiberghien, One Year to a Writing Life: Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer's Art and Craft

“I do so much writing. But so much of it never goes anywhere, never sees any light of day. I suppose that's like gardening in the basement. I don't publish so much of what I write. I just seem to plow it back into the soil of what I write after it, rewriting and rewriting, thinking that somehow it gets better after the fifty-second-time around. I need to learn to abandon my writing. To let go of it. Dispose of it, like tissue.”
― J.R. Tompkins

“Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.”
― Ted Solotaroff
Because I charge out at $X per hour and the calculations that take my machine 1 hour to do, typically take their machines 3 or 4 hours to do. From an executive level, a lot of clients would rather spend $2k on a cheap throwaway machine than spend say $5K, but then seem fine to have the labor component cost 2-3x as much.

I just build the price of the hardware into my hourly rate (which ends up being not very much .. $2 per hour), AU law instant write-off the cost of the machine as tax, tell them they don't need to buy a machine (which they are very happy about), and then everyone is surprised at how fast I can get the job done compared to the in-house teams which have their hands tied.
Yes, there are no speakers connected to the system.
Actually the people getting banned and censored did Gab and a few others that were cut off from Paypal, Visa, Patreon and others. They have to go somewhere, and are not wanted on Big Tech social networks. They have been radicalized as a result. Believing conspiracy theories and alt-right groups.
I'm just wondering, do advertisements worth that much?

Surely brain computers will be a pretty big investment for people; would embedding advertisements be worth it for companies? I'd imagine most people are willing to pay another few thousand dollars on top of the very high cost to avoid any sort of obnoxious features, for both personal and potentially socially-influenced reasons.

It's hard for me to see how anything could be worth more to companies than straight profit.
Politics today doesn't care about nuances like this. The stove question covered by the article is an egregious example.

A much less egregious but still valid one is buying a sports/lower mileage ICE car today, and driving it less (e.g., using public transit for commutes, and the sports car for weekend rides). This can have a lower carbon footprint than a long distance everyday commute in an electric car. The fixes that properly account for these things are trivial technically (any econ grad can tell how), but do not have any political support.

I do not expect the political landscape to ever appreciate these things. Therefore, I will alter my consumption pattern according to my own understanding, and not according to the whims of Capitol Hill.
Like the demonic scream of a dot matrix printer
I don't think it's a good thing buying a vinyl turntable nowadays. There is a current hype with vinyl, but I am not sure it will last. Many people say that vinyl has a superior sound, but this is mainly because a good turntable adds some bass to the sound (And sometimes treble), compensating the lack of bass of bad loudspeakers, but with real good loudspeakers, CD usually sounds better
it backfires due to conflict of interest. the set of people responsible for enforcing such a system have always been the same set of people responsible for making the mistakes. it would take a duplication of the entire judicial infrastructure and division of policing power.

this essentially exists in the united states with the dual state and federal systems, but the local systems are extremely resilient against investigations, and the federal system has no interest in actually performing this role.

in rare cases there have been FBI investigations and federal oversight of entire departments, such as the Seattle consent decree, but there are many problems with such arrangements as covered by local journalists and activists. i'll see if i can dredge up some links later.
I have a fairly high-end gas cooktop, dual electric ovens and a frickin' amazing Breville/PolyScience Control Freak induction burner. The Control Freak is considerably more precise than the gas cooktop. I have increasingly been using it in place of my sous vide setup, and the results have been excellent. I am a fan.

Right now, I wouldn't willingly give up any of them but, if I had to, I would cede the gas cooktop for the Breville induction burner, or, rather, several of them, or, better yet, a multi-burner induction cooktop of Breville quality.

The two biggest issues would be:

• Certain favorite pans of mine are not induction friendly, and…

• The extra electrical circuits that would need to be added as the Breville is power hungry

What I wouldn't give up are the electric ovens.

https://www.breville.com/us/en/products/commercial/cmc850.ht...
When your entire platform is plagued by security issues in one component for years. Issues that at the end of the day are causing huge personal harm to your customers. Perhaps it is time to suck it up and rewrite the damn thing in a memory safe language.
Durov's background is that he left Russia for political reasons, which include, among other things, several confrontations with the government over stuff like handing users' data for prosecution.
Tangentially related I have no idea how WeWork isn't gone at this point. It's like the laws of physics are broken.
There are already pretty advanced methods for crime detection like that one thing where they show pictures of various objects while measuring brain activity to determine if you've seen the specific object before. Not sure if that tech is actually deployed though.
The earliest supported OnePlus is the 6t.

https://www.xda-developers.com/will-my-phone-work-on-att-aft...
Even harder to understand why it's so important for Messages to have special functionality so that has to be integrated with the OS instead of run in user space.
Plenty of corporations are still on Windows XP, Vista, and 7 because they cannot afford new PCs every time Microsoft issues an OS upgrade. Security support ended for their versions of Windows and it may be smarter to convert to Linux instead of buy all New PCs. Only requirement of Linux is a 486 or higher.
In general, even if you do have a separate boolean type, you need to distinguish between the function which intended to return null and the function which was unable to return anything.

We see here also the distinction between sum types and union types: Maybe Maybe a has three variants: None, Some None, and Some Some a; but (T | null) | null collapses to just T | null.
Flip a coin.

Either way, it's not the important part of the story.
It's premature optimization and not worth the time to even think about.
I rent an office in a competitor to wework and it's full of people.
But where does it end? Is all reason not based on a set of axioms? You can comment on your presuppositions, if you throw them all out then there is no (classical) logic.

Philosophy is a conversation, and valid argumentation is that starting point of any treatise. The work of contending philosophers is to challenge one another, so there should be no hesitation in using less-than-certain (that is to say, all) presuppositions.

Moreover, Feser does comment on his presuppositions in this very article.

> I would qualify this by saying that metaphysics is prior to logic if “logic” is understood in sense (b) described above, though not if understood in sense (a). Naturally, we have to presuppose certain canons of reasoning when reasoning about anything, including metaphysics. But it doesn’t follow that we have to presuppose the codification enshrined in some particular formal system – such as, for example, modern propositional and predicate logic rather than traditional Aristotelian logic, or rather than some system that tries to capture the best of both worlds (such as that of Fred Sommers).
Good for her, but there's more to cuisine than Italian. Cantonese cooking in particular often requires wok hei, which in turn requires extreme temperatures/open flame, and rounded bottom woks don't work with flat induction cookers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wok#Wok_hei
Yeah, but this is the equivalent of bulldozing a house because someone committed a crime in it. Sure, I get you're serious, but I also get you're being wasteful.
They are still forbidden from selling that Bitcoin, too. Now, they may do so anyways in violation of international sanctions I suppose but, and I can't stress this enough, I don't think its a good idea for hostile hermit kingdoms to evade sanctions no matter how they choose to do so.
War Nerd podcast has good interview this week discussing http://exiledonline.com/45wn84klrz/?name=rwn_ep_288_0708211....
The great thing about this book is that it's as much about the difficulty of trying to contact an alien as it is about the problems with the scientific process and academia.

Really a fantastic read with so many angles to interpret it from.
isn't nuclear energy much cleaner?
I’ve used this book in the past to learn modern C++: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1484233654/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm...

For greenfield projects I’d opt for Rust over C++.
Pretty impressive, thanks! It is quite a challenge that I've been tinkering with for over ten years now, really giving Unicode a workout. Plus, often the pre-modified characters (say, for the sake of argument, "a" with an acute accent) often don't turn out well in some fonts and I would have to fix that by using the regular character plus the combining character — two Unicode entities — then manipulating the latter with inline CSS to position it pixel by pixel.

I also faced the challenge of combining Arabic and/or Hebrew (which read right-to-left) and Roman in the same line. It drove both my browser and text editor nuts. In at least one such case in the book, Mozarabic, where I needed all three, separated by slashes, I just went for the nuclear option of simply bitmapping them.

As the title implies, I was able to exploit Google's Noto series to the hilt for my book. The Cardo I'm using for the body copy (sorry that some don't care for the ligatures, which I deliberately sought) was originally a web display-only font, but that's been fixed. Also, its italics wouldn't respond to CSS; fixed, also.
Commodore almost did it with the Commodore 65, which has been reborn as the Mega 65 now: https://mega65.org/

Based on the Commodore 128 64 mode it is backwards compatible. The Mega 65 is the fastest 8 bit computer out there.
Hey guys, author of the project here. I'll admit I was a bit surprised to see this on the front page, I want to say that this is very much alpha software (I very deliberately can't let it hit 1.0 yet), so definitely very rough around the edges. I've been very busy with work recently so I've definitely had a lull in my open source contributions, but I hope that I can get back on track soon (TM).

Right now I have plans to implement the Myers diff algorithm to make diffsitter more efficient (profiling shows that the current biggest bottleneck is memory allocations), and after that I wanted to start experimenting with different heuristics to make the diffs themselves more useful. Support for the unified diff format is also in my plans.

It's nice to see people discussing the project, I'm very flattered that you guys have taken the time to look at it, and please feel free to open issues with features that you want to see or any shortcomings you've found.

The backstory for this project is that I once had to review a diff in a golang codebase that realigned a bit struct because someone added a new field, and I was slightly annoyed that I was seeing all these extra lines changed even though I really only cared about the fields that were added, so I did a little weekend project to see if it was possible to do a diff directly on the AST instead, and I've been working on this in small pieces ever since.
I'm guessing that commenter has a very specific definition since the term "life sciences" seems to mean almost anything biology related (from a quick google).
This is the kind of studies that make me feel that we are already in some kind of post-future already.
Not only is it obvious that the technology is not working, but this also shows blatant incompetency on part of users of this tech. This no longer counts as "the algorithm is flawed". The whole system is wrong.
How to Learn Git Slowly
Straws were always paper when I was a kid in school (1970's). But they may have been wax coated or something because they easily lasted long enough to finish your chocolate milk. ;-)
Short answer is that it doesn't: it lets tree-sitter do the heavy lifting to parse everything
Why wouldn’t restaurants just switch to propane if not given a natural gas connection from the city?
Country not allowed to trade with the rest of the world for example
The old attack was that the server provided the client with randomness when generating keys for private chats, allowing the server to effectively MITM all private chats.

Pretty weird design decision.
Same in Germany. First operators have shut down 3G and the last will follow soon. But there is 2G for voice, SMS, and in theory data. Of course in today's bloatweb EGPRS is not fun to use.
If you are trying to detect text from document images / photos: tesseract is strongly focused mainly on the OCR part of the whole preprocessing(1). If you would like to get better results on that, you could use the wolf binarization tool (2) as an easy adaptive thresholding to remove shadows and uneven areas, which should improve your OCR results a lot on document photos!

(1): https://towardsdatascience.com/pre-processing-in-ocr-fc231c6...
(2): https://github.com/chriswolfvision/local_adaptive_binarizati...
Huh? In my opinion it’s Scheme’s one million dollar mistake. Common Lisp’s identification of NIL and the empty list makes things very ergonomic in so many cases that I wonder if it’s by design or we were just lucky.
Yes, it's not currently very performant for larger files (have a branch in the works to fix this). Checked out the link, it's an interesting read
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