skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll mention the band 'yes' for those who may be seeking new (but old) long but engaging music
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Well, they have very sensitive data they do not want to bleed outside of their controlled bubble (see GDPR). So this gateways will be very interesting :)
I'm sort of the opposite... I need absolutely new music to be able to work with something on the background. Otherwise I recognize the song and start humming along...
But the two aren't even comparable in terms of effect IMO. I already have caffeine tolerance so at this point I'm drinking coffee out of habit and not to go through withdrawal, but even when I reset my tolerance a few times getting back into it does almost nothing compared to modafinil (aside from getting jitters when I overdo it)
What you mentioned here is for sure true, but mainly the pertinent data revolves around burning the stuff. All the petrochemicals aren't doing this, its the ghg, mostly from combustion.

Sorry to quote in this way, it isn't meant to editorialize, only to organize my response:

> [...]the problem with this idea is that it is easy to pick a few things here and there that can be done without petroleum. [...] The world would come to a grinding halt if we stopped using petroleum.

Its super useful and there's no reason to quit using it entirely. We don't even have to, there are many other means of doing what we need to do without it releasing ancient carbon stores into the atmosphere.

Everything bound up in the petro supply chain is clearly beyond the scope of my comment here and education in general, but the only way to approach reasoning about this issue is with single examples. Its too easy for somebody to gish gallop about the huge scale of industry involved, and quickly lose the fact that CO2 has to be the target. NMOG and Methane and nitrogen oxides as well, but mainly CO2.

Nobody will clear the table with a single "we can just X" or "we can't because we'll lose X". Its definitely much more involved, just as you say. One thing I strongly agree with you about is that nuclear energy is likely a critical help to this endeavor.

The largest global sources are, unsurprisingly, electricity/energy, transportation, and manufacturing, but also consider the global hegemony that for the most part turns on controlling and using this strategic resource, ever since WWI. That is all about burning it in large part.

Maybe we need a "Breton Woods" for carbon, as triggering and possibly unpopular as that may be. I'm certainly not betting on that turn of events, but we may just end up resorting to a different type of nuclear power if we just keep the blinders on ...
Damn I want a dessert farm
was it the highest paying? I think the pay is usually higher for cyber security, ai engineering, algorithm developers, some niches and I see blockchain salaries rising fast.

but in all of CS you got so many niches you could get astronomical salaries, cryptography, algotrading, advertising. and that's all before stock options or ownership. highest pay is when you own something.
Agreed, couldn't "I hereby relinquish my ability to bring other-origin content into this process without their opt-in" be a JS API call (one-way)?

HTTP headers should not affect app functionality in this way.
There is some good info in here. They spent a lot of time on the 'why'. Did I miss the part on 'how' I'm supposed to not consent to a code screen and still be employable?
Has the list of 50,000 phone numbers been released to the public?
And if you like the immediate mode API, just use something like raylib's rgl[1] that emulates an immediate-mode API on modern OpenGL. Aside from performance benefits, you can port your code to GLES or WebGL, where immediate-mode isn't present.

[1] https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/src/rlgl.h
This is true. It does add additional complexity, especially if you have to do cross-account access, but the tooling for that is improving over time.
Another interesting example of a company choosing to simply route around the media. Not making a value judgement, but I'm seeing more companies opt to simply disengage and try to create their own narratives rather than go through the media via interviews/statements/etc.
Nobody is assuming anything. You have presented it as a rhetorical question—work on your presentation if that wasn’t the intention. Nobody said anything about bad faith; in fact, I stated that I agree with the sentiment.

What I don’t understand is why you would expect any outcome other than what happened. There’s no need to dramatize something that’s already abhorrent. This particular incident isn’t worthy of its own HN thread. Your own efforts are detrimental to the credibility of the people who are being targeted by Muse Group, as linked above.
>"NSO will thoroughly investigate any credible proof of misuse of its technologies, as we always had, and will shut down the system where necessary."

From Wikipedia:

"In October 2018 Citizen Lab reported on the use of NSO software to spy on the inner circle of Jamal Khashoggi just before his murder. Citizen Lab's October report[65] stated, with high confidence, that NSO's Pegasus had been placed on the iPhone of Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaziz, one of Khashoggi's confidantes, months before. Abdulaziz stated that the software revealed Khashoggi's "private criticisms of the Saudi royal family," which according to Abdulaziz "played a major role" in Khashoggi's death.[24] In December 2018, a New York Times investigation concluded that Pegasus software played a role in the Khashoggi's murder, with a friend of Khashoggi stating in a filing that Saudi authorities had used the Israeli-made software to spy on the dissident.[66] NSO CEO Shalev Hulio stated that the company had not been involved in the "terrible murder", but declined to comment on reports that he had personally traveled to the Saudi capital Riyadh for a $55 million Pegasus sale.[14]

In June 2020, an investigation by Amnesty International alleged that Moroccan journalist Omar Radi was targeted by the Moroccan government using the Israeli spyware Pegasus. The rights group claimed that the journalist was targeted three times and spied on after his device was infected with an NSO tool. Meanwhile, Amnesty also claimed that the attack came after the NSO group updated their policy in September 2019.[67]"

Well I'm reinsured by NSO group's statements and their totally existing moral compass lol.
> Approximately 27% of the water used in Utah comes from the Colorado River

63% goes to California for growing almonds and oranges? and 0% left for Mexicans?

https://www.kold.com/story/25067593/colorado-river-flows-int...
Same, this is literally "fuck you all".
I think the real question is why don't OS's make managing app-specific volume easier?
NSO Group is dead at this point. They fucked with the wrong people. Hacking human rights advocates is fine but when Presidents and PMs start getting their phones hacked I am sure they will implement legislation to outlaw this type of software.
Another pretty wonderful option, both for focus and for other uses of background sound is https://mynoise.net

It's very customizable at a level that most tools aren't, making it easy to (for example) pare back low bass or high treble if one or the other grates on your ears whilst working -- or amp up or down background conversation depending on your taste.
It’s a path that has a very realistic implementation because all the systems are there already.

Name another more realistic path besides leaving things the way they are and keeping f…ing over the country with outrageous costs.
They may as well have put "<h1>Won't someone think of the children!?</h1>" instead.
I think the main constraint is delivery of the desalinated water over long distances (necessary in this scenario).
Nice calculations. 200k miles is 320,000 kilometers. Most vehicles are never driven that much before scrapping (or maybe they're exported to Africa?)
If you told someone to "Guess-and-check" a Sudoku puzzle, they will innately "learn" about the puzzle from their guesses.

The question of "guess-and-check" is "how much time should I spend making a good guess" ?? If you spend a lot of time making inferences, you're doing "Strong guess and check".

If you spend almost no time making inferences, you're doing "weak guess and check".

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People who play Suduku puzzles know that "weak guess and check" solves easier puzzles faster, but "strong guess and check" solves harder puzzles faster. And worst of all, there's no way to really know if you have a hard or easy puzzle ahead of time.

So I argue that "guess and check" is a good layman's term for this whole affair. What you're calling "inference" and "unit propagation" are just the "strength of the guess"... the amount of time you spend thinking about your guess before dedicating yourself to it.
Your suggested title makes me (native English speaker) interpret this the opposite of the way you intend.

I don't think the original title is bad. The ambiguity as to whether the C/C++/Rust code is guest or host seems natural to me.
Another blogging platform. But this one is optimized for developer experience
> Unsurprisingly, in light of his questionable medical training (75 percent completion at a less-than-reputable medical school), frequency of operating while intoxicated and less-than-sterile operating environments, some patients suffered from infection, and an undetermined number died. Brinkley would be sued more than a dozen times for wrongful death between 1930 and 1941.

Let's be fair: see how well you do implanting goat testicles in people when you're drunk and don't know what you're doing anyway.
I have always had a suspicion that this is the most expedient course of action from a company's perspective: the velocity of media is so fast nowadays that any controversy will be forgotten by the next week.
Archive.org doesn't have a way to flag content? I know that they see themselves as an archive of the world's information, but I feel that modern politics will drag them into a YouTube-like existence where they're forced to moderate their content. Certainly the moment someone posts vaccine misinformation on there, they'll come under intense scrutiny.
Ask HN: How do you inform an organization of exposed sensitive data?
If you came across a Google result which brought you to a Google Sheets page which had login credentials to multiple websites; how would you go about ethically informing the organization of their compromised information?
The Pillar deanonymized “commercially available app signal data” to out priest
Link

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27901265
Sounds like new CEO comes in and moves IT to his personal preference but leaves later before the move finished.

Sounds familiar? ;)
Kind of makes sense, actually. They already mass produce the stalls and the Supercharger network already exists. A Megawatt-level plug would be pretty hefty, but just using multiple Supercharger plugs is straightforward.
It would be interesting if everybody just pulled an Elon and when Wapo asked for comment they would just say something like "Tell Jeff we say hi". It completely takes the moral high ground from the journalists.
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Of course it was legal - this has been litigated many times, which is how you end up with public servants (e.g. Police officers) being fired for being racist on "personal time".

You can't fire them for the speech - which is of course protected - but you can fire them because they can't possibly be qualified to hold their position while holding/espousing those views. Unless there's a specific state law protecting employees from off-duty conduct (Pennsylvania doesn't have one), employees can certainly be fired.
I've had $30k, and later $120k refunded on an account that billed ~$20-25k monthly. Both covered 100% of the overage.

AWS is the one major tech company where I've never had any issue getting in touch with a real human who has been empowered to actually fix my issues.

The only thing that's been required from us was to show them we were taking reasonable steps to prevent it happening again.
I got that the second time I used modafinil and went with whole pill (did half the first time). Later on I did whole pills every time and had no sideffects (a couple of times I would get noticeably elevated HR, but I was awake 12+h at that point and need moda to get through the night)
Lawn is definitely wasteful. But residential water use in California is only around 10% of water used. This is a population that has already cut their per-person water use in about half over the past 30 years.

You could probably get another ~30% reduction in residential use by eliminating lawns. Depending upon how you go about it, trees are probably more important in that environment though as a cooling element. Our backyard patio increases heat by a good 5-10 degrees on sunny days.

But it's still not much water saved. The only reason to do it would be to sell it politically - "everyone has to sacrifice". Which I'm fine with. But if your goal is to make residents do this but tell farmers they can do whatever they want, it's kinda pointless.

Edit: I also think there's somewhat responsible ways to have lawn in California. Subsurface irrigation can reduce lawn water usage by 30-40%. And certain drought tolerant grasses require 60-80% less water. These setups seem very rare though.
> being a water shortage that makes the west unlivable

Unlivable? Probably not. But more expensive? Absolutely.

And once the agricultural economy needs to shut down due to free water not being free anymore, I'll expect ghost cities all over the West, starting with small communities not able to provide enough jobs and not attractive enough to turn into retirement places for people with money.

So far the projections on temperature and rainfall changes are in line with what we see today, but hey, the jury is still out on that. Once we know for sure in roughly 25 years, it might be too late, so I take my chances based on what I know now.
The thing is, "stop consuming so much water" not the simple solution.
"Bliss" is a side-effect of practice. It's a common error to mistake it for progress. Your teacher will draw your attention to the mistake - if you have a teacher.
The benefit would be they could still market the device and the most “secure” but at the same time duck pressure from governments to allow back door access.

If Apple truly secured the OS to the point where even state level actors could not access they bring some unwanted attention, regulation, etc from power governmental agencies.

Apple has also been interestingly silent /vague on a response to this story.
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They know they're probably going to get away with it, and there's not much more that can be done to target them specifically.

Their operations sound like that of a criminal group just dressed up with a nice logo and website, but as long as Israel doesn't care, it doesn't matter.
I'd guess that those same presidents will call them up and buy. They'd rather be a customer than try and change a behemoth with political power like these guys.
>NSO will continue its mission of saving lives, helping governments around the world prevent terror attacks, break up pedophilia, sex, and drug-trafficking rings, locate missing and kidnapped children, locate survivors trapped under collapsed buildings, and protect airspace against disruptive penetration by dangerous drones.

If NSO group truly cared about that mission statement, they'd be more than happy to continue engaging in the media where beneficial towards those ends while comdemning the rest. They'd want to engage wherever possible to shine light on situations where their tools are leaked or abused in order to get as much pressure put on those groups as possible.
Yeah I've always felt like the missing part of the loop (in the context of pointing stories) is looking at point estimates and then tracking how accurate they were, _by developer_. E.g., I throw 2 points, but it turns out the story takes something along the lines of 13 points, then my estimation was pretty low and my personal "estimation multiplier" is increased. Subsequently, actual point estimations could take the estimation multiplier into effect.

Of course, this is mostly a toy idea that's fun to think about, but seems pretty untenable given that it requires keeping track of time, which most developers hate. That, and there'd no doubt be incentive to game the system by padding estimates or other shenanigans.
Personally I will always look through side projects or a GitHub if it's on a candidates resume. It's another source of signal and can be really valuable especially if there is code to look through.

That said as the role gets more senior the value of the signal goes down IMO. Side projects are typically done solo, and are small-ish in scope. Whereas a key function of a good senior IC, at least in my opinion, is to be a force multiplier more than a heads-down coder.
Seems like NSO is saying "We don't operate our software directly, so stop asking us to be accountable for its use". Kind of like we accept that gun manufacturers have no liability if their guns are used in crimes.

With these kinds of attacks becoming the new normal, security should be top of mind for everyone when buying a phone...
This was already disproved in the WhatsApp vs. NSO case:

In its filing, Facebook alleged that NSO had rented a Los Angeles-based server from a U.S. company, QuadraNet, that it used to launch 720 hacks on people’s smartphones or other devices (see https://outline.com/WsUszd)

That case is proceeding, because NSO has not been successful at all in claiming immunity or showing those are not it's servers. NSO rents the servers and they obviously run the C&C. They are not arms suppliers, they are mercenaries.
I can manage chrome's volume no problem in windows...I don't want that though. If I turn down chrome entirely then I can't hear certain youtube videos, etc. I prefer my audio setup to be maxed in the windows mixer and managed finely in individual apps. I am hoh so my preferences may be different than other though.
> abstracted from the harsh reality of the suffering of the unlucky and disadvantaged

> Dutch citizens with student debt.. that's a joke right?

To be brutally honest, both these statements lead me to believe that you live in a bubble within NL.

I personally know tons of Dutchies in both situations, and I have a feeling you might (unknowningly) as well. Might be worth expanding your social circle if not.
We can safely assume that “moral products” and “things a Saudi prince would pay $55 million for” are independent sets.
How is

> The list is not a list of targets or potential targets of Pegasus. The numbers in the list are not related to NSO group.

consistent with

> We do not operate the system, nor do we have access to the data of our customers, yet they are obligated to provide us with such information under investigations.

Did they "investigate" every customer then?
Competition is desirable because it aligns with society’s goals of innovation and progress which also imply increased productivity and lower prices.

Artificial barriers to entry are contrary to that and if they’re not illegal they should be.
There are security and privacy reasons not to publicly dump leaks like this, and the distrust of the media should be somewhat offset by multiple outlets analyzing the data separately.

That said, I'm unsure how the media could twist "x country spied on y individual." Knowing the types of people being spied on, it should be assumed most people of similar importance are being spied on by someone.
Arc consistency is not really a good term to use, since it was originally defined for 2-ary constraints only, but is sometimes used for n-ary constraints. That is why I use the term domain consistency consistently :-)

Given a propagator for circuit that reaches domain consistency (note, for the whole n-ary constraint), that is equivalent to a checker of there is a Hamiltonian path and that will most likely never be a polynomial algorithm (unless P=NP). I can’t say that I’m interested in any particular property of the decomposition of the constraint into 2-ary parts, it is not that interesting of a structure. The cool filterings that circuit propagators do are based on global analysis of the whole graph, not on any local property. For example by finding ordering a of strongly connected components in the current graph.

Almost all propagators need to be reasonably fast to be usable, that is sort of a given in this area. An exponential propagator is almost always a bad idea. For all_different there is a O(n^2.5) algorithm for domain consistency which is really cool and important. In practice, the simple value propagation (remove assigned values from the other variables) is often better for finding solutions quickly.
> But feel free to go on dismissing me, since it's clear from your comments that you think no one in the world is right but you.

You know, you're really not in a good position to criticize other people in this conversation with exaggerated complaints about their intellectual arrogance.
They state: "NSO is a technology company. We do not operate the system, nor do we have access to the data of our customers"

Yet they also state: "The list is not a list of targets or potential targets of Pegasus."

How do they know it is not a list of targets if they don't have access to their customer's lists of targets?

None of this is trustworthy and neither are NSO.
Also with old-style keyboard accelerators: menu key, W (as in Ne_w_), then arrows till the desired file type. It's one fewer key than with the ribbon.
Pretty embarrassing response, honestly. If you specifically work in an area that can be used for sensitive purposes, you have a moral responsibility as to who you choose to sell to and what you choose to enable them to do.

Moreover, if you're going to engage in moral indignation -- we can't possibly be responsible for what our customers do!!! -- then you can't end with a paragraph about how you're a league of superheroes saving the world from all its evils. I completely believe Pegasus has the ability to help with a kidnapping case, but if they want an ounce of credit for it then they need to take responsibility for egregious abuses.

You reap what you sow. Hope the victims of Pegasus sue these people into oblivion, especially Kashoggi's widows.

And by the way, anyone who does public communications also has a moral obligation to consider whether their copy text engages in reputation laundering. The person who wrote this sounds stressed and demoralized, and that's a good thing. I hope this is the worst job they ever have in their life, and that they quit as soon as possible because of the misery they're going through.
I just read an article (maybe on HN) that they are doing so with drones that shoot electricity or something like that

No heavy metals or consumable materials needed?

https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fake-rain-the-uae-tha...
There is also Mattermost
Do you mind explaining why you say estimating is fundamental?

I don’t disagree that it is important, I probably wouldn’t label it as fundamental, at least in a context of a company developing its own software internally.
Freedom of Speech as an ideal predates the First Amendment by millennia and is not limited to government actions.

It's completely valid to opine that her employer violated her rights to free expression, even if the First Amendment doesn't apply in this case.
I found that stopped noticing music if I were at all engaged, and if I started noticing, it was distracting so I turned it off.

On the other hand, during the spring I would check in on a bird-nest webcam from time to time, and if I left the page open, I felt there was a net but subliminal benefit from the background birdsong.
I think every major OS kernel (Windows NT, Linux, Darwin) actually has optional sophisticated security capabilities these days. I think the problem is that it's really hard to make these work nicely with legacy software? The whole classic UNIX-ish model sort of falls apart.
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