skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted my public stance on this topic here: https://www.remarkbox.com/remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can....
This example doesn't disrupt anybody else’s life, limiting the similarity only to b) which I don't have an opinion about in isolation

both a) and b) have to be satisfied for me to care enough to dissect the similarities and offer an opinion

I’ve come to understand your example is a topic a lot of people care passionately about though. That’s interesting.
This has always been my issue with it. For some reason it doesn't have pressure sensitivity like the trackpad (which also has no physical button). Lightly brushing the touchbar is enough to activate the controls on it.
This is the impression I got. The first half of the vanilla example is imperatively creating DOM elements, assigning attributes, and inserting them into an “app” <div>. My guess is the author learned React first and never considered that HTML can be written as (gasp) HTML!
That’s total, not unarmed.
I used to use sumologic in an old job and found it super useful, having a command line tool along the same lines is amazing, thank you!
Funny. I spent a summer in 2009 in Vietnam, working on one of those old unbeatable Powerbook silver models, in an apartment without air conditioning. The fan would run at full power constantly, and finally gave up the ghost. There was no way to repair it where I was. So what I used to do was keep a bunch of Wired Magazines in the freezer, and put them under the laptop, changing them out every 20 minutes or so. The machine still works... but yeah, that fan noise is really a great subconscious reminder that you're using it too hard. Also a good way to know if your code just entered an infinite loop, long before any other warning comes up... and occasionally that clue gives you enough time to cancel a process before the input freezes.

[edit] Just had a cool idea, since this discussion is heading towards how subtly useful auditory cues have been in our workflow. What if different processes played fans at different pitches, so the total volume still added up? That could actually be really useful out-of-band state information.
Well maybe, but good luck breaking encryption this way.

Being a universal function approximator doesn't magically solve every problem.
By that definition, they're no more the arbitrator of morality than anyone else is by doing this
You don't happen to work for Setec Astronomy, do you?
Not just another kid, but a friend. Ousmane Bah is an honors student, while Mamadou Barrie is potentially responsible for a string of thefts and the impersonation of his friend to the police.

> "The arresting officer was able to identify the impostor as Mamadou Barrie, a friend of the Plaintiff, who apparently stole the learner’s permit from the Plaintiff," the complaint says. "These arrests specifically [noted] that Barrie had pretended to be Ousmane Bah."

> The detective subsequently submitted an information request "to the NYPD’s Facial Identification Section (FIS), which identified the photograph as potentially depicting two people, one of whom was purportedly Ousmane Bah – and the other was the actual thief, Mamadou Barrie."
Well, depends of course on your Windows Laptop. I had a Thinkpad X1 Carbon with no heat or noise issues at all. Now a Surface Pro 7 with also no heat issues. It's not the fastest around, but for a tablet really impressive (typical dev setup running Postgres in Docker, Goland, Webstorm with no problems).

Still I likely buy a M1 Air soon. Not because of the M1 CPU, but because it's almost half the price of a comparable Thinkpad. And I hate the bloatware shipped with basically every non-Microsoft Windows laptop.
> you seem to be working from an assumption that brains are not sufficient hardware to run consciousness on

I did not make such a statement. I made the point that computers certainly are not. Therefore you cannot reduce consciousness to information processing. For many reasons, the most important one is that "information processing" can be used to describe the flow of water in pipes, so if you say that is sufficient to produce consciousness then you must say that the sewage system is conscious.
Responses of multiple nation states caught iPhone hacking
There was quite a public display last election about news orgs agreeing to not cover Biden in negative light so as to not hurt his chances. What would you call this?
Posted under another comment, but I've personally experienced it being a big problem where a Lisp interfaced with another language: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27878200
What is Five9?
Disaster Recovery
This seems like an obvious question, but did the study account for hours worked? 9-to-5 office jobs are a luxury, and poverty is strongly correlated with having to work multiple minimum-wage/gig jobs just to make ends meet.
From later in that Twitter thread:

"It also indicates that Apple has a MAJOR blinking red five-alarm-fire problem with iMessage security that their BlastDoor Framework (introduced in iOS 14 to make zero-click exploitation more difficult) ain't solving."

And:

"BlastDoor is a great step, to be sure, but it's pretty lame to just slap sandboxing on iMessage and hope for the best. How about: "don't automatically run extremely complex and buggy parsing on data that strangers push to your phone?!"
Nothing stops you from getting a Ubiquiti radio and aiming it at a nearby NYC Mesh node if you have near line of site from a window in your unit.
They are >90% very left leaning, which is common in elite academic institutes, but such groups are typically contemptuous of average Americans and their religious views.

This would set up a likely conflict, such as what we got a hint of when the masses elected Trump as a big middle finger.
Why the downvotes. I feel like there is some truth here. The world doesn't need another custom game scripting language.
YouTube allowing scammers to place phishing ads on top of SERP
ACLU has been down the tubes for a while now, especially when it comes to political cases.

> ACLU Lawyer Cheers Suppression of a New Book

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-ongoing-death-of-free-s...

> ACLU Again Cowardly Abstains From an Online Censorship Controversy

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/aclu-again-cowardly-abstain...
So this means we can think about 18 words per minute? Sounds reasonable. I don't think I think any faster than that. Could there be some other ways to measure it? Like timing myself?
Wow. That would literally send my OCD over the edge. I have a thing about closing all my tabs, reading all my mail, and having nothing on my desktop at the end of the day.
>I'm English. There hasn't been a single time I've gone to the super market and seen everyone wear a mask.

This is interesting, because obviously the US varies a lot, but this was normal (everyone wearing a mask) for several months where I live, at the supermarket I usually go to. I live in a smaller urban area (about 1 million people) of a larger northeastern state.

I imagine even more rural areas of the same state might have been different.
Some Security Risks of Using Push-Based CD
See the link at the top of the thread. That's more or less what happened here.
>Stop being disingenuous just so you can feed your persecution complex with strangers on the internet.

Hey mate, please remember the guidelines[0] when you comment.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

But to your point about Patrick Moore, he really isn't a credible authority on this matter at all. The positive effects of carbon dioxide are true for the most part. However, this does nothing to invalidate the mountain of negative effects that destabilising the climate currently has and will continue to worsen.
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Shareable/resellable connections are often not offered over cable systems. I have tried to acquire this type of service over coax from with Comcast, Cox & Wave/RCN/Grande.
Flagging a potential scam or potentially self-serving misinformation is not censorship and is very different from blocking content and banning posters.
Internet-Augmented Dialogue Generation
The ignorant, short-sighted mass. That answer is kind of in the kernel of our civics. You're not supposed to have to think before answering that question. :)

(I mean those first two sentences non-ironically.)
My understanding is that its a SaaS product that helps you run call centers, the actual inbound and outbound phone calls.
Apparently a cloud contacts as a service provider
I’ve been around HN since long before Launch HN became a thing, and I have to say my eyes are more drawn to “Show HN” posts. I don’t do it on purpose, but I just tend to focus more on the older post type.
there was a whole movie that documented the fraud. i think you might have taken a few too many redpills
You typically need to pre-process the images.

I'd recommend https://scantailor.org/ for this (OSS, but
unmaintained)
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Are you really asking for an informed argument about what's so wrong with the rule of the Ivy League optimates? Isn't it pretty simple just to cite Robert McNamara and call it a day? What am I missing about the complexity of this issue?
I wonder how prevalent the will to "harm a population" is. I think it's more about benefitting oneself financially than trying to harm others. Politically speaking yes politicians try to harm (the popularity of) their opponents. But politicians are a very small slice of the population.
A proprietary, centrally ran ISP with little community input is a false equivalent of NYC Mesh.

The friends of mine that use NYC Mesh often experience speeds faster than what can be reasonably purchased from other ISPs available in the same building. It's a great way to eliminate your internet bill and gain much faster upload speeds.
There are many people mentioning how the lack of fan is so strange and looks to them that something's wrong. I'd like to point out also that the introduction of the fan in the first place was probably the thing that should have looked very strange. Just pause for a moment and think how odd it is that there is a very high correlation between heavily using one's computer and a noise being emitted from its inside. It seems pretty random that a fan spinning faster and faster should be the thing that happens when I start up Photoshop. But then again how many things like this we take for granted, just the way it is until it's gone, just because we have no other reference point to compare them to when they're initially introduced?
Makes sense to acquire with newly issues shares while the $ZM stock is so high
A lot of the discussion around censorship devolves to "it's a private company, they can do whatever". While this has already been proven to be a false idea based on the comments from the White House actively telling private companies which posts/users to take down, I would also like to share how things happen in China:

"People in the U.S. seem able to recognize that China’s censorship of the internet is bad. They say: “It’s so authoritarian, tyrannical, terrible, a human rights violation.” Everyone sees that, but then when it happens to us, here, we say, “Oh, but it’s a private company doing it.” What people don’t realize is the majority of censorship in China is being carried out by private companies.

Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN Bureau chief for Beijing and Tokyo, wrote a book called Consent of the Network that lays all this out. She says, “This is one of the features of Chinese internet censorship and surveillance—that it's actually carried out primarily by private sector companies, by the tech platforms and services, not by the police. And that the companies that run China's internet services and platforms are acting as an extension of state power.”

The people who make that argument don’t realize how close we are to the same model. There are two layers. Everyone’s familiar with “The Great Firewall of China,” where they’re blocking out foreign websites. Well, the US does that too. We just shut down Press TV, which is Iran’s PBS, for instance. We mimic that first layer as well, and now there’s also the second layer, internally, that involves private companies doing most of the censorship."

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-matt-orfalea
I'm not sure that's what they're optimized for. I think it's more of just that's how the technology works.

It's the same way I wouldn't say that film is optimized for storing lots of data with horrible access cheaply. It just happens to be what it is.
Not sure what your point is with this.

I'm personally glad contractors aren't handling things like this, and would like to see their role diminshed in general.
The highest form of the art is found in Japan with 20 and 26 ring binders.
As long as it's legal for them to kill you because they feel like it, not having a gun doesn't change that.

Their knees are just as deadly, but I don't think taking away officers knees is a good next step after their guns
I heard John Baez call this "CO2 fertilization". And it's been talked about for a while. Hard to predict the effect, but the consensus seems to range from "could help, sorta" to "not really important".

https://www.azimuthproject.org/azimuth/show/Carbon+dioxide+f...

> The details of CO2 fertilization matter a lot. It could make the difference between their original plan being roughly good enough… and being nowhere near good enough!

Check the page for more info on young vs old trees, nitrogen limits, etc.

There's also this page, which has an even more pessimistic take.

https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/11/co_2-...
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No they don’t know what you’re observing for specifically
People ask the question "what's Rust good for?" pretty frequently, and little terminal apps like this are precisely the reason. I've written a few of my own in the past, and it enables a kind of workflow that simply didn't exist before: I could have a fully safe, "correct", LLVM-optimized binary installed on my desktop in an afternoon.
Your message here was 34 words -- did it take you two minutes to think of its content?
Me personally, I pitched a startup to a VC who got rich from technical training. I sold the startup, did nothing for a while. He needed someone to tour the country for government sponsored training to educational institutions, which most of the part time trainers couldn't do.

The pay is terrible IMO - an hour of training might require 1-3 hours of preparation. Untrained people usually earn less than you and can't afford much. So you end up working about 3 hours for the pay of one, plus travel costs and often late payments. It's just so much more profitable to write code. But I think a trainer should spend 20% of their time training max, and the rest should be doing the work they're teaching.

tl;dr: know people who run training companies
If your goal is validation (i.e. this is a JPG/PNG) and stripping of EXIF data it is entirely possible to write your own parser in a managed and safe language in less than 500 lines of code without sacrificing any performance.

Don’t load them into memory, parse them as a stream byte-by-byte in accordance with the standard for the codec, check every offset before seeking, and reject images that don’t conform to the standard.

And of course, a ton of fuzzing to accompany it.
>It would take 30-50 years of intense effort

I think your stereotype of American food represents the period prior to the 1970s. Or, in other words, more than 50 years ago.

"Madhur Jaffrey CBE (née Bahadur; born 13 August 1933) is an Indian-born actress, food and travel writer, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing Indian cuisine to the western hemisphere with her debut cookbook, An Invitation to Indian Cooking (1973), which was inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2006"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhur_Jaffrey
All part of the ad model
While not directly commented on the point above, I would like to publicly recognize dang for his Herculean effort to manage HN and process all of the Launch HN posts. He is an absolute champion and is a unmatched pillar that makes this community run.

Thank you dang!
Yes, that was the goal but they were prioritizing works that may be lost due to physical deterioration.

Because in theory they already have everything:

"Mandatory deposit (17 U.S.C. section 407) requires the owner of copyright or of the exclusive right of distribution to deposit in the U.S. Copyright Office for the use of the Library of Congress two complete copies of the best edition within 3 months after a work is published. Copies of all works under copyright protection that have been published or distributed in the United States must be deposited with the Copyright Office within 3 months of the date of first publication."

Ref: https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/mandatory_deposit.html

And final tidbit from me on this.. Yes, they get submissions of all forms of copyrighted material which means they have a pornography collection. When I was there, that group was down the hall and the lead person was a kind old lady that I chatted with every day for months before she revealed her area of focus. It was.. odd.
I'm not sure how you'd separate 'too hot' from 'too dry' -- problem being that places that are too hot to support plant life will rapidly undergo desertification, and then they'll be too dry.
Regardless of whether a facility's association may be known or not, government folks are trained on good "OpSec", or operational security.
I was wrong about the CVE numbers not being there at all, the original article did state Telegram didn't prioritize them but here we go https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36769
MegaUpload and friends predated Google Drive as I recall.

It may have always been against their terms of service, but that didn’t stop it from happening in the beginning.

Source: first-hand experience

Edit: I checked dates. Google Drive started 2012. MegaUpload started 2005.
I have a hard time imagining Cubs becoming democratic and the US not lifting the embargo. We were already moving toward Cuba under Obama and Cuba wasn’t showing any signs of privatizing.

But in any case, the idea is that embargoes are about compulsion and not about judgment.
A barebones link-tree clone
I think most programmers would agree that running a code-generation program at build time is something that should be approached with a little more caution (not saying that you blanket shouldn't do it, but you should check the reputation of the code generator, what the output looks like, how well your debugger/profiler can handle it...) than using a plain-code library. But a lot of people seem to somehow fail to realise that using a macro is the same thing.

Everything can be abused, which is why it's best to write everything in the most restrictive environment that still allows expressing what you need to. See Dhall or Noether for what that looks like for everyday code. At the language design level, there may be cases where users need to apply an arbitrary Turing-complete AST->AST function, but it shouldn't be the first thing they reach for; if there are features (such as do notation) or patterns (such as Python decorators) that allow expressing most macro use cases via a more constrained (and therefore less maintainability-impacting) feature, that's a big win.
FWIW I still found the heavily mangled version fairly easy to read, maybe a 20-30% slowdown max and it got easier as I went.

I speedread though so maybe it's because I'm already used to not actually focusing on letters and taking in the gestalt instead. It's kind of like how it's easy to tell the equality of two sets written in different orders up to about size 4, and past that it gets tricky. This is why the classic tick mark system uses 4 ticks and then a slash for the fifth too.
"You can't attack others like this on HN, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is."

You can and you ought to when damn fools put lives of others at stake. This not the time for niceties or political correctness. We're in a war, the next life could be mine—and I'm not suicidal.

Incidentally, many seem to forget the a priori reason for government is to keep the citizenry safe—safe from the threat of outsiders, and safe from insiders who wish to harm their fellow citizens, they're justification for the military and law enforcement respectfully.

I expect Government to keep my fellow citizens and me safe; if it doesn't then it has failed in its mission.

"<...> could you please not post flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments generally? We're trying for something a bit different than internet default here,<...>"

If you took the time to read a few of my posts then you would realize that I'm probably too polite on most occasions, also I have never criticized a HN poster directly—and in this instance I was making a general comment with no particular name in mind. Moreover, I go to considerable lengths to ensure that I do not post hearsay or unsubstantiated fact.

_

Edit: "regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is" I made no criticism of other posts including the person to whom I was replying. Saying that his criticism perhaps wasn't strong enough given the dire circumstances isn't flaming, rather it's debate.
My line of work is compilers, but I could name two dozen people who could reimplement binutils from scratch, including me.

It would take some time, and years to get it all (they are massive, especially when you get to obscure targets and non unixy operating systems), but it would not be that difficult from a know-how perspective.

Most of the problems they solve are well understood. They are terrific tools, and very mature, so getting the long tail of features right might take some time.

But overall, not that hard for many people.

For example, LLVM has alternates that aren’t quite drop in compatible, but are close.
We're talking iMessage here, so Apple has more reliable evidence of identity than what's provided by easily spoofed SMS.
30% increase in carbon consumption by plants is not minor if true.
I was amazed at the amount as well. The article talks about how it was cheaper than water and more available. I can imagine that doing hard labor you'll drink almost anything to replenish the water you sweated out. Much less the people who are thirsty in the area will drink anything they can afford to get their hands on.
right, "its a sad fact that gun nut propaganda prevades Merica mentality making them think everyone needs a gun"
This was not a government issued ID card as it says "This temporary document is not to be used for identification purposes."
How do you come to the conclusion it is taught and why do you think it is a tragedy? I find endless discussion of things is useless and not helpful, that's why men do most the important stuff while women mainly discuss it endlessly without adding anything valuable and useful. Keeping your emotions in check and not whinging is a virtue, not a tragedy.
So they used to buy $250 drones? I can understand why US defense contractors can't meet that price point, but maybe somebody should stop treating drones as consumables.
It also means journalist should probably get in the habit of frequent device reboots, which will erase any malware.
This assumes that people reach "elite" status due to merit rather than to to complicated in-group favoring dynamics that serve to entrench certain class/ethnic/political interests. The more gatekeeping you allow the elites to do, the less meritocratic the elites are.

So the idea that some people are better at some things than other people is indeed true, but the idea that we can reliably measure that without the metric being gamed and corrupted is false.
I’m not sure what the situation for the M1 is, but as the parent comment referenced similarity to the iPhone to prevent theft, with the iPhone, the owner can unlock the device prior to resale. Is this really not possible with an M1 Mac?