skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's a russian stooge. I wonder how putin feels about end to end encryption?
I wouldn't be surprised if some jurisdiction still allow the banks to use the property as a collateral even if the 'real' owner didn't agree.
Yes, that is why there are export restrictions on arms deals. In particular, your company is not allowed to sell to those states which are known to use violence against journalists.

So not only is this a reasonable position, it is the law in several countries, e.g. Heckler&Koch is a German gun manufacturer and has to obey such laws.
If you can, add 'Ask HN:" in front of your post's title. That will make it easier for users who can answer your question to understand it's a question that you want answered.
Attacking NSO would be like attacking the Israeli government and you don't do that because your PM's shitty OpSec was exposed.
Very neat and could be very useful.

I would like to see this integrated with existing doc build tools like Sphinx. All of my documentation+examples for [various projects] are auto-built with [Sphinx / other tools].

If you can make it easy to add this as an extension, then I’m sold. If I have to link to / embed another website, I’m not interested.
Yes, same thing, I get distracted easily, but modafinil is like a cheat code to getting stuff done.
Getting that data is an extremely hard problem. In general the data is low quality, incomplete, poorly coded, and full of errors. Cleansing the data to the point where it could be used to train a useful decision support algorithm would require a tremendous amount of human labor by expert clinicians. This isn't something that can be automated.
The indications are on github if you want to check your phone.
It’s really scary how people assume anybody’s privacy can be exposed without consequences. No, it can’t. In a full democracy only a judge can ask for it. Even journalists have to be extremely cautious before exposing the identity of anybody, and this is a perfect example.

They never contacted her to verify she was the person behind the email and the person that wrote comments in social media. They assumed it was her, but they did not verify it. Even a high school journalist knows this is the first rule to learn: if you assume = ass for you and me.
windows 10 does a decent job at this
I don’t know what you are talking about. You are free to enter Europe and ask for asylum. This is a protected human right under international law, protected by the UN. Your asylum may be rejected and you may be deported, however you never entered the country illegally, as you were asking for asylum, which is not illegal in most (all?) countries in Europe.

What often happens in Europe is that you are illegally deported however. Often an asylum claim is illegally dismissed by authorities, a person has a right to a hearing but is deported before they have a chance, a person is sick and is not allowed to be deported under some conditions etc. A person may have entered using a fake ID, however this is still not a crime if they are fleeing, as official IDs are not something one can easily get when fleeing ones home, and the law most often reflects that (but is then broken by the authorities).

When you hear about what refugees have to go through in the real world you would be surprised by how little authorities abide by their own law and how easily they are willing to break their own laws to evade helping people that need it.
At least where I am, mocha is coffee + chocolate + milk, which is strange, because another common name of the stovetop espresso machine is a "Moka Pot", named after the Yemeni city of Mocha. A confusing fun fact for the day.

My main point was that there isn't a well defined amount of caffeine in any measure of 'four cups'. If you have four cups of Moka Pot coffee and I have four cups of your dark coffee, I'm going to be buzzing while you'll you be cursing the Alfonso Bialetti for daring to invent the device. Even if you consider 'shots' of coffee to be a measure, each bean/blend/grind will deliver different mounts of coffee. I think it's just worth noting if we're trying to discuss the effects of caffeine, as people tend to speak in cups per day. It sounds like you would be very disappointed with four cups of my coffee!
What are the health risks with either?
> in their private life outside of their job

Sure, I'll agree if the comments were stated in a private setting and limited to a group which knew each other. Unfortunately this is not that. This is analogous to a person standing in the middle of a market square with a megaphone and a hood over them to hide their identity.

Given that, it is only natural for the people who are opposed to the person's views to want to know who that person is in case that is a person who they interact in real-life and might be in a position of influence.

This applies to any kind of opinion and not just right leaning.

BTW, if we want to allow them to have their free speech, doesn't free speech protect the other side too, Neiman Lab in this case? If the opinions expressed by the person deserve protection, the right of others to investigate and present their findings should also be preserved.
The promise of multiple dispatch is that it allows every library to be generic. One author writes a library that calculates $COMPLICATEDTHING; another author writes a library that implements a new type of number, such as ranges; provided the second library defines all the methods that the first uses, then, magically, they work together and you can calculate $COMPLICATEDTHING on ranges! That is the thing that Julia does that nothing else does.
I miss multiple cursor on non-contiguous text with BBEdit. I feel like this feature should be standard. I was blown by that feature when I saw it first on Sublime text.
I take your point, but what echoes in my mind is when the Hillary emails were leaked, and people like van Jones were saying no you’re not allowed to look at that, but we the media, we are allowed to look at that. They could redact information, but I lament that my trust in the media is so low that I cannot fully trust it without seeing the raw data myself. Even having that raw data available would give me more confidence in the reporting.
NSO's responses seem to intentionally redirect from Amnesty's forensic work identifying Pegasus to the list per se:

> The list is not a list of targets or potential targets of Pegasus.

> The numbers in the list are not related to NSO group.
From a practical perspective you have to use some BLAS library. If there is a working alternative from AMD, it would be great if you share it. They did have one in the past although I don’t recall its name.
What dosage? I've tried 25mg, 50mg, 100mg and 200mg doses for Modafanil at different stages for a month. I was really trying to get off of Adderall at the time, but nothing really worked for me.
Corporations do not have any moral at all. It is always virtue signaling when they pretend they do have.
Why Championship Chess Sets Are So Expensive
Yes, but what you do in your home should not affect what goes on in my home.
Autokinetic Effect
For Modafanil or Adderall?
To me this just looks like Intel saw what Nvidia has accomplished with CUDA, locking in large portions of the scientific computing community with a hardware specific API and going "yeah me too thanks"

Thankfully, accelerated math libraries already exist for Python without the vendor lockin.
What was the service that they retroactively increased the cost of?
Online newspapers could solve this issue by directly (onsite) hosting ads for advertisers based on news post content with no tracking. You know, like they did from the mid 1800's until the late 2000s, or by following the crunchyroll system of paying people getting access to content before the free ad-funded tier does.
The Job Status Cycle
Remember the Israelis also need allies.
Ask HN: Ethical VCs – Downsides?
What are some, even if stereotypical, downsides of choosing to engage with an investment firm billing themselves as ethics-first?

Any good recommendations?
Ask HN: When's the last time you went 12 hours or more without a cell phone?
How long did you not have it for, what we're the circumstances, and how did you feel at the end of the distanced period?
I would assume that anything that makes the cafe look busy would be welcomed by the owner.
If you know C++ and want to develop web apps, then go with Wt[0]. It is not a framework, it is a toolkit. But provides a lot of features out of the box. And the development experience is that of the desktop app development.

[0] https://webtoolkit.eu

That home page is developed in Wt.
Yes [1] but it’s been proven to be ineffective for its intended purpose in these recent revelations.

[1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-look-at-ime...
Which service and whay API?
Data Marketplaces: What, Why, How, Types, Benefits, Vendors
I read your comment twice, but I still don’t see any agreement about the high rents going to landlords in Sweden. Perhaps you bought a house a while ago, and have been insulated from this crisis. Either way, you can’t deny reality…
Learning to Love G.M.O.s
Wait till you are older
You would still need a network of canals and pipelines, because places like Colorado and Utah facing imminent water shortages aren't close to the ocean.

Desalinating plus pumping water up to those places would be insanely expensive though. It's not economically feasible for the primary uses of fresh water (farming).
It works just fine, but it's expensive and requires a lot of power as well as access to an ocean. You can read about the one that San Diego uses for something like 7% of total water needs here: https://www.carlsbaddesal.com/ and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsba...
AI-assisted Drupal development: testing GitHub Copilot
The basic problem here is that the UK government decided that it definitely did not want to to follow EU regulations. That implies that there are at least two different regions of the world: those that follow UK regulations and those that follow EU regulations. So the places where these regions meet are a boundary. And both of these institutions have to decide how to handle trade across this boundary. You can either put this boundary between Northern Ireland and the rest of Ireland (ignoring some of the Good Friday accords) or put it between the NI and the rest of the UK.

My modest proposal would be to simply to join NI to the Irish nation.
> Do you think doing a job involving more physical than mental labor made it easier to get through the withdrawal?

Very probably, yes. IIRC, I have actually tried quitting yerba/coffee a few times earlier as well while doing mostly mental work. And I always failed. Currently my days in the forest consist of several 1.5h brush cutting sessions -- meaning, during that time, I am in nonstop movement, cutting the brush, unable to do anything else. During a break between the sessions, I am usually heavily dehydrated, so my body just wants a lot of water. I think I've even come to dislike the idea of having coffee or (really surprisingly) yerba mate at that point.

Currently I usually work 3x1.5h sessions every day, plus water drinking breaks and saw blade sharpening, so it's around 5-6 hours in the woods every day. And, in the forest you have no coffee shops, no other shops, no fridges. And, if you manage not to take coffee with you, there's simply no coffee at all nearby! I suppose that's the essential part of the whole trick.

I plan to return to mental work for the winter. I do think staying off yerba/coffee will be a struggle again for indoor work and/or cold season.
They aren't all extremely wealthy. The powerful committee leaders, majority and minority leaders, etc. generally are because they are the ones who choose which issues will make it to general debate and vote, so they are the ones who have the ability to influence markets.

Some random young representative from the middle of nowhere has almost no influence in congress. It takes years and powerful backers to develop that. Part of the argument for term limits is to prevent people from making a career out of being a representative or senator, which is what you need to do accumulate power.
Unlikely. If anything this is good PR: look we have this great tool that can hack anything and we will totally sell it to shit countries run by tin pot dictators.

The only way this backfires is if somebody sends men with guns after them.
A pythonic language that included something analogous to Golangs channels/goroutines would be my ideal.
I’m conflicted here. On the one hand, I’m not in favor of contacting a person’s employer because you don’t like their comments. Plenty of people have sent me terrible emails over the years from their work emails and I have never even considered emailing their bosses.

On the other hand, she used her Temple email for the Disqus account and used it to comment on a different university’s journalism lab website, while openly admitting to being a journalism professor. We can question whether it was ethical for Benton to reveal who she was on Twitter (tho I would hardly call this “doxxing” as he didn’t reveal her phone number or address), especially without reaching out for comment first, but I don’t see anything illegal about it.

The fact that she is suing Nieman and not Temple makes it clear she has little basis for anything, in my opinion. She was an assistant professor and almost certainly didn’t have tenure (or else she wouldn’t have been fired) and was, given the amount of time she had been at Temple, probably never even going to approach getting tenure. She used her work email to register for a pseudonymous account; there should be no expectation of that email address being private to the site owners or administrators. That’s something a longtime journalism professor (and professed attorney) should know.

Moreover, her claims that she didn’t write the worst comment are just laughable. That isn’t how Disqus works. It also doesn’t matter here. It was entirely reasonable and in good faith to assume that comments made under the linked account at websites, where by her own admission she made comments, were by her.

Reading the judge’s decision not to dismiss, the only reason the suit wasn’t dismissed is because at this stage, the judge assumes everything written in the complaint is true. I don’t at all expect this case to survive much further, nor for it to be decided in her favor.

Putting the legal issues aside, I do think it is fair to find what Benton did to be in poor judgment. He should have reached out for comment first — or really just let it go. Let people have bad opinions. But I hardly think he did anything worthy of a lawsuit.

As for Temple, well, she didn’t have tenure and she embarrassed the school. It seems entirely reasonable for them to not renew her contract. But as I said above, she’s not suing them. She’s suing Harvard and Benton.

I wouldn’t have done what Benton did, but I am also not overly sympathetic to someone who decided to use their work email to shitpost and then got called out.

Was what Benton did unethical? Without reaching out for comment first, I think it probably was. At the very least, it was punching down and unnecessary. Should he be sued for defamation? I don’t think so.
It’s an Israeli weapon, subject to arms control legislation. But that legislation can only be authored by Israel itself. So it doesn’t matter what other countries outlaw, Israel will continue to authorise NSO to sell the software to state actors around the world.

Israel could always do with an extra friend or two and providing this software gains them a friend while costing them nothing.
In a mouse model and the drug is not approved for use on humans.
The NSA does not illegally spy. Congress has given them large authorizations to collect data and they need FISA approval before tapping Americans. 99.9% of the good work that NSA does will never be seen by the public.
3 weeks ago.

Was living without electricity for a couple of days out here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Porsu/@15.3472129,74.01230...

Felt rejuvenated, always do after infobesity break
To be honest, "Fuck you," is just a condensed version of NSO's first paragraph.
Myself and my companies have gotten around streisand effect before by just ignoring everyone and then doing takedown requests a few weeks later.

Nobody saves stuff if you don't react. They only save copies when you are seen as trying to delete the copies.
Bahahahahahaha
Off-topic, but would love to know what tool the author used to build that site/page. Is it some sort of platform/tool, or something they wrote up themselves? I really liked the side bar table of contents, along with the general format.
What doesn't work about them?

I use `Atomics.wait` and `Atomics.compareExchange` and maybe a couple other APIs and it works well on Safari Technology Preview (if you enable SharedArrayBuffer).
"Their" CPUs meaning x86 platforms, in this case.

Plus, who's surprised? This is how Intel makes money. The consumer segment is a plaything for them, the real high-rollers are in the server segment, where they butter them up with fancy technology and the finest digital linens. Is it dumb? A little, but it's hardly a "problem" unless you intended to ship this software on first-party hardware which, hint-hint, the license forbids in the first place.

At the end of the day, this doesn't really irk me. I can buy a compatible processor for less than $50, that's accessible enough.
> It's also a lot easier to enforce than making sure people don't grow lawns.

It might be easier to convince people to not grow lawns if we'd do away with some of the stupid laws and ordinances that require people to have "well groomed" lawns in places where such grass is an unnatural imported occurrence.

Perhaps even offer some tax breaks or other incentives to "zeroscape" or landscape their yards using native plant life suited to the climate. A yard without a lush verdant lawn need not be an ugly yard. It can still have plants and look nice without grass, if we'd "normalize" more nature/planet friendly practices instead of punishing people for not being destructive to their environment.

I bring this point up because here in Utah many neighborhoods will actually fine you if you don't have a lush green lawn in your yard. (Unless of course you're rich, then somehow you magically get approval to go the zeroscape route if you so desire.)
How do you design your federated GraphQL schemas? Apollo Workbench makes it easy
Mongo popped up around the time node started growing more in popularity. Around 2012, 2013 I started hearing it everywhere, and it felt like a hard pressed marketing attempt to make Mongo the database for node, and by extension the database for the internet.

The web-scale meme came from them actually trying to position themselves like that, and it partially worked given that it is not only still around, but the prevalence of the MEAN/MERN stack, at least in (tech) pop culture and social media.

To this day my opinion is that Mongo is a snake oil PR firm with a "database" and I have not yet seen anything that has convinced me otherwise.
I wouldn't say mongo is unreliable, and I enjoy node a lot. Its just that, years ago, everybody said it was amazing for certain things and it wasn't based on anything
The last sentence is part of the response to the public, not my opinion of the company.
It still is done that way, but even individual LSC (large scale change) CLs touch easily >100 files and rely very strongly on the atomicity guarantee of the monorepo.

Plus, when most people think LSCs, they think about the kind of stuff that the C++ or TS or <insert lang> team do, not someone refactoring some library used by a handful of teams, which themselves usually impact anywhere between ten to a few hundred files.
There’s the ShareAlike part of the license - presumably that means your derivative work must be licensed the same?
Yeah its like the US DoD: Sell weapons and wage wars to keep peace and spread democracy.
One caution: The story doesn't say that she was fired, it says she lost her job, which could include a decision to eliminate her position. The original story is here. https://www.cjr.org/opinion/nieman-lab-lawsuit-joshua-benton...
Regarding the "list": Amnesty said 34 iPhones were forensically checked. 23 successfully had malware (specifically NSO's Pegasus) installed on them. The other 11 saw attempts at malware infection. [0]

That's a 100% hit rate on their sampling of the "list".

That makes this statement demonstrably false: "The numbers in the list are not related to NSO group." At this point, why would you even care to read the rest of this statement if it includes a bald-faced lie at the top? (You would have to disbelieve both Amnesty and Citizen Lab (who provided peer review) to see it as anything but a lie.)

But, as others are saying, NSO contradicts itself with respect to what it says it does and does not know about who is attacked with Pegasus. Here's a good thread on that: https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1417127080672776192

This company's PR communications are so self-contradictory and deceitful that it's insulting.

[0] -https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/19/apple-i...
Even letting cashiers & staff sit down would be something, but apparently business owners want modern day humans with the mentality of Victorian era maids and butlers cleaning the silverware for minimum wage and working unpaid overtime as if they expect that is what the customer wants for some reason.

As a customer, I want to see that the people who provide me the goods and services I need and want to function in society are as well treated as I would treat myself and nothing less.

If they're sitting down but upbeat and attentive, I'm satisfied.
There was also a segment on water usage in Cowspiracy for California I think.

Water usage in industry is massive. Individuals aren't to blame and shouldn't take any part of the burden. Similarily, CO2.
Are you implying that the Bay Area is a great place for kids to grow up? Because I, and the author, argue that it's a terrible place for them.

Also, are you implying that there is anything wrong with living a lifestyle without kids? Why would I want to raise a child in a world that will be undergoing tumultuous climate change over the next 100 years.
this press release doesn't explain anything... NSO doesn't even try to attempt to explain what's going on. And the proofs against them are piling up.

It's a brilliant strategy in a way: they just let the story be, and they will keep doing what they are doing.

I guess their political connections with Israeli élite allows them this peace of mind.
I see your point, and my mistake in using "Arc Consistency" when that's mostly a theoretical (ie: binary constraints only) terminology.

Extending the concept of Arc-consistency out to general n-arity constraints leads to two, ambiguous generalizations. I took one generalization, you seem to have taken the other (because the generalization I took was uninteresting to the problems you are talking about).
It's not that you aren't correct on some time frame, its more so that you have to live your life there for the entire duration that you aren't correct.

So, whatever helps you sleep at night.