skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was not aware that was the law in the U.K. I would probably have found out by being nice. Less likely to find out by being abrasive.

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The probably-underpaid people who break policy make the world go around. We'd get nothing real done if people just followed policy all day long.

It might sound like I'm joking, but I don't. I have huge amounts of respect for those people, and obviously if they help me out I will do what I can to help them out. (Even if it's just paying it forward and breaking policy when necessary myself.)

I'm not anti-policy. I love good policy, and I rarely have reason to break it. The policy that often needs breaking is the bad policy.
Please dont forget that the war machine now kills people based off phone metadata. That should shift your perspective a touch.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27895542
That actually sounds pretty fair, with the proviso that I would say 4 years after the sale of the phone, rather than that phone model.

But given that we are talking about Androids here, why should they be required to release full source? Shouldn't it be enough that they release driver code?
Are you sure it was peer reviewed at all? It looks like a conference proceedings.
Link without paywall: http://archive.today/qybJ2
Yeah, I think you're right - didn't know about __file__.

(To clarify, using "$0" with bash is just standard method to invoke the same script with an interpreter - sys.argv[0] will work with or without bash exec part.)
Every community or country has people who has no moral compass, and will sell anything to anyone as long as they don't end up in prison over it. It's getting clearer and clearer that the NSO management team is this type of people. Israel needs to have a look at fixing their laws.
I'm hard pressed to see that it's in Israel's interest having their industry assisting Marocco spying on the French, or Saudi killing dissident.
> Microsoft, are you out there? Charge me $1000. I swear I'll pay it if you promise to not shove updates, telemetry, defender or cortana down my throat ever again.

Count me in too. Give me minimal install then shut up and take my money.
I hope competitors will deliver similar hardware but with more open ecosystem, check out https://lynx-r.com/!
My own take is that some exploits initially fall through the cracks in a social way when being triaged or getting somewhat inadequate fixes.

It becomes harder to go back and correct the initial triage. At the same time, some people in the company might be connected to their governments and help that bug stay in the grey zone probably not for the NSO group but maybe for the NSA. (Of course this only applies if the exploit is one the government identified and decided to use offensively and doesn't think is being used in the wild.)

Now when you are examining images as a company updates them, you are reviewing what's notable in the fixes in the very least to know how to attack older OSes. You might happen to have the perspective that understands how the triage was wrong. With enough bugs like this it is inevitable that sometimes you will if you can afford to analyze every fix.
So eerily similar that the class names differ just in letter case? Yeah, I'm not buying how that's "not a fork".
It’s an airport restaurant, of course they’re going to be quick about it.
It turns out that the magic thing we have to add, exactly fits the observations we have of electromagnetism. That's an indication that we screw with the theory in the same way that nature does, and in the end that's the goal of physics: understand the way nature behaves.
Is clubhouse still a thing in July 2021? How do you use it? (and who do you talk to?)
Thanks!

Ah hadn't noticed that and was struggling to paste the info graphic. Would love to see the decorrolation displayed graphically but that's just the way I read data
I doubt that desalination would work at agriculture scale because most of the fields and orchards are too far away from the ocean, and the water is just too expensive.

That said, seeing water prices from desalination, I'm very frustrated California wants me to take a shorter showers when I would very happily pay an extra 50 cents for that long shower.
Level generation and style enhancement – deep learning for game development
> inserted 10M rows in 4.328 seconds

Not bad really. Objective-S is impressive.
If there's a water drought every year -- it's not really a temporary drought. There's permanently less water now. Some person/industries needs to use less water and the urban sector is only using 10~15% even major cuts there aren't enough to make up the shortfall.
Thanks for the tip. Yeah I found out that ebay price is pretty high. I'll probably find some local groups.
You have this backwards. GPLv2 had a clear history and language, TiVo worked around it, and then the FSF rewrote history by saying v2 had no prohibitions on installation instructions (so they could convince people that v3 was necessary). It did have those prohibitions, they just were insufficient for what Stallman intended.

Hell, even v3 is insufficient for what Stallman wants; it only requires being able to install new versions of the covered code. It doesn't cover other proprietary programs that can see if you've modified the Free program and refuse to work. You can't actually prohibit that with a license unless you want to go full Ethical Source and start impinging on Freedom Zero.

Yes, this may not mesh with Linus's intent, but Linus already has a very specific idea of how the GPL works that applies to Linux and only Linux. The whole "you can load proprietary kernel modules as long as they don't touch internals" thing springs to mind.

Also, I'd like to point out that people haven't "lost the fight" with GPLv3. There's plenty of libraries out there that use it - they're just not particularly relevant to Linux, so nobody's really pushing for a relicensing effort.
That source is well-known to be shaky and tenuous, however. I do agree with you though.
There's some good examples in this video around the 2:00 mark. For context I believe there's a political rally nearby.

https://youtu.be/TAaD_qihlQA
My entire team uses VS and I have no problems loading the same projects in vscode and being equally productive (or better). Had to fix few quirks here and there before solution would load but nothing too complicated.
I still get some benefits of modularisation, even if there are some cross-dependencies.
This article is about farms that take directly out of streams, with siphons and diversion dams. However, that is a minor component of how California farms get their water. Most of them are getting it from pumping out of aquifers or from the giant aqueducts of the State Water Project and the Central Valley Project (weirdly, not the same thing).

As the article itself says: "Most farmers who rely on the State Water Project or the federal Central Valley Project are already struggling with dramatically reduced allocations. The proposed order released Friday covers those thousands of farmers with direct legal rights to pull water out of the rivers."
Fixing and improving the IBM PC/AT 5170 BIOS [video]
The shake-out of the cannabis industry required a joint effort of eliminating the seediness by dropping the dime on low quality dealers, while putting a lid on wild speculation by smoking out high-rolling investors.
The question whether a logic bug can be turned into an exploit depends on the domain of the program. An image format decoder written in safe Rust might yield a pixel in a different color due to a logic bug, but that's the worst impact it can have. In software reasoning about security constraints however, a logic bug can mean the user now has root privileges, can write to /etc/shadow as an unprivileged user, or the TLS certificate is considered valid for the domain even though it isn't.

Rust's safety promises don't prevent logic bug CVEs in the kernel. But I think it would be a major improvement if the kernel were written in mostly safe Rust.
Every listed company gets sued by a flock of these sorts of bottom-feeders whenever their stock noticeably rises or falls.
Once upon a time the original Rift only had 3DOF tracking. This was back in the "Palmer Luckey just met John Carmack" days.
Investing some public money in research to make desalination more economically would be worthwhile, even if it isn’t a very viable solution right now. Or bringing down the price of energy as renewable sources themselves become more economical could change the economics by itself. It would be a pity to give up on almonds.
A little broader than that. The entire Capsicum family -- from bell peppers to chili peppers -- was introduced to the Old World during the Columbian exchange.

Black pepper is an entirely separate species, and is indeed native to southeast Asia.
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I keep no contacts on my phone and gladly give that info away. I'm surprised people don't use multiple phones for privacy.
You can't "move along with a photon" because, in terms of General Relativity, any particle moving at c doesn't have a frame of reference.
"No two the same color" was a problem in the early days of solar. That meant the coating process wasn't being controlled properly. About two decades ago I went to a talk by the head of Applied Materials solar where he mentioned that. They built IC fab equipment, where poor coating control is total batch fail.
This.

No more need for VS really or any other proprietary bloatware.

First thing I do on new machine is `choco install vscode` then it synces my extensions and I am ready to roll. As extra benefit `code` is usable ASAP in CLI and I can pipe anything to it.
Srsly Risky Biz: Thursday, July 22
> don't have to pay property taxes [...] on the vacant ones

Property tax abatement depends on local laws, correct?

On the other hand, I assume you can claim the usual boatload of expenses (e.g. mortgage interest, upkeep, etc.) against vacant properties, thus generating a paper loss to offset income generated by other properties or activities.

The real lynchpin appears to be: vacant properties are allowed to contribute tax losses to their owner(s).

Whereas in reality, what we probably want is something more akin to "If you have not fully utilized (i.e. leased for a percentage of the timespan) a property in the last X months, you can no longer claim any tax expenses for value-based (i.e. mortgage, financing, property taxes) components of the property. You can still claim expenses related to the improvement of the property (e.g. maintenance, etc.)".
It's just a mathematical tool of curiosity that we have found very useful.

Here's an analogy: You find a box, and you can't see inside it. You have no reason to think there's something inside it. But also, boxes have stuff in them sometimes. So, you shake the box, and hear something clinking around. Therefore, you infer there's something in the box.

Somebody next to you says "This sounds like a hack. There was a box and you had to go shake it until it started making sounds that it wasn't making before. UNLESSSSS we now magically have to agree that there's something in the box."

It's a perfectly reasonable question, and I'm just turning your words on you in good faith :)

To take the technical discussion a bit further, it's exactly this kind of reasoning that led to the discovery of the Higgs boson. Strictly speaking, it's impossible for gauge bosons (that's what the particles are called that show up when you add these locally-varying symmetries) to have nonzero mass.
The photon and gluons (from the SU(3) strong force) are massless, but the W and Z bosons are VERY massive.
This was a big problem with the Standard Model; the vector gauge bosons had every property expected from the gauge theory, except for this one point about their mass, which was experimentally incontrovertible.

That is, until Brout/Englert/Higgs came along.
They said "Yeah the vector bosons must be massless UNLESSSSSSSS you assume there's this magic additional field that couples to every particle's mass, in which case it perfectly cancels out all the problems and allows the W and Z bosons to be heavy".
It took 50 years but we found that particle eventually.
Yes, but killing time is not one of them.
Edit: Nevermind, I was wrong- apologies!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/07/21/st...
I have acquaintances who work in this field, including bio sciences for CA state institutions and state public health in another blue state, and having heard some narration of internal conversations, I think it’s exceptionally presumptuous to claim that the kind of people who contribute to these decisions weren’t thinking about effectiveness and tradeoffs. I’ve seen some of the papers they were passing around about effectiveness of various restrictions. I’ve heard stories about internal conversations over economic concerns and pressures and secondary impacts. If your model of what was happening was action without consideration, then it’s badly wrong.
>I’m really starting to wonder about the collective value of skilled factory jobs and how that isn’t factored in to value calculations in typical USA business logic.

Because typical businesses are making decisions for themselves, and not their whole industry or economy?

Colluding with other businesses to try to achieve a collective goal might well even be illegal.
The Rise of Post-Liberal Man
You might be interested in "Many Tamogatchis were harmed in the making of this presentation" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c4PkcZScBV8

And more the next year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbTgDfB0cao
Most knives are not intended to harm or kill, they just happen to be used for that case sometimes; you can make the same argument for a large stick wielded by someone with the intent to kill. Handguns however have one purpose: to kill someone (aside: saying "but wait they can be used in gun ranges" kinda proves that point). They were explicitly produced for this purpose. Ideally gun manufacturers would be held accountable for their production; unfortunately they are not, and gun companies just throw up their hands and say "well this gun was legally sold so I can't help you". Likewise, if you produce and sell a piece of software whose main goal is to infiltrate personal devices, especially in a targeted manner, then you are ideally liable for outcomes regardless of who applies your software. NSO is giving the exact same response as those gun companies.
Did it ever occur to you that the planets orbiting the sun are like the electrons orbiting an atom, and that tiny little people could be living on them, man? ;)
I wonder what the current water use looks like. In the last 20 years, even almonds in areas with good water situations have switched to drip irrigation. Also, those "gallon per nut" figures often ignore groundwater recharge.
> Most of male "bullying" is establishing physical dominance. It's almost all intimidation, physical threats, pushing/shoving, fighting. The psychological, gossipy, demeaning sort of bullying is more from the females.

Not true. Guys are very effective at spreading lies about people and in using condescension and insults. Men and boys are very effective in demeaning other people.

They absolutely not limit to physical violence - especially at teenage age. In fact, their most common way to get at others are words. The physical violence happens on top of it.
Agreed. And ooof a state ballot measure to prevent cities from fining people for this might be a good idea hmm...
New plan would reopen Palo Alto's University Avenue to traffic in July
I used K-9 on Android (phone and tablet) and after switching to iOS (iPhone and iPad) it‘s the only App I miss.

I would pay 10€ for an iOS version.
Terribly basic question, but, can they not just use a VPN to tunnel through? I've heard kids are doing that kind of thing now.
Any tenant comes with risk. Risk has a financial cost.

Ergo, lower rent is not always worth more than no rent, even all else excluded.

Example: you rent your property to a tenant for $100 / month, who does $5,000 worth of damage to the property, and declares bankruptcy when you sue them for recovery, in addition to the time you spent installing them + evicting them + dealing with recovery.
The self-esteem movement many of us millennials grew up with feels like it has largely the same motivations as all the corporate-sponsored mindfulness initiatives that are in vogue now. It's a way to shift responsibility for dealing with a shitty environment to individuals, instead of fixing the environment. If you have low self-esteem it becomes your problem to fix, maybe you should try these SSRIs, surely it can't be the fact that everything costs 5x what it used to and wages have stayed flat.

The new buzzword in private school now is "resilience", which I feel like is tacit acknowledgement that kids need to deal with things sucking in the future.

Self esteem (1990 - 2000s) = denial: "I don't feel bad!"
Resilience (2010 -) = anger: "I feel bad, but I'll fight and come back stronger!"

Maybe the future pattern will be as follows:

"Solution-driven" = bargaining: "I feel bad and here's what you can do so I feel better"
"Pragmatic" = depression: "I feel bad and I should feel bad"
"Peaceful warrior" = acceptance: "I feel bad and that's normal when the world is a post-apocalyptic nightmare in 2060"
Don't see how this problem would be included in files. For every setting in the registry, there's a piece of software (and ultimately, a group of people behind it) that claims ownership to it, and determines the correct type for it.

File-based configs on Linux have the same problem anyway. The semantics of any config file you find are defined by the application that's consuming it. Any two config files that superficially seem to be using the same format, may in fact use a completely different one - and you'll never know, up until you edit one and it blows up in your face, because it cannot parse empty lines or #-comments, or escape characters, or negative values, or values larger than 2^16, or...

Whether altering Windows registry or a Linux config file, you cannot make a correct modification without knowing what the owners of the modified settings expect.
Farms in the Central Valley Project are paying < $20 per acre foot because the contracts were negotiated sixty years ago and not indexed to inflation.
Do you have any handy script for that? I am not going to click around for sure.
The entire point is that you set the initial cutoff such that the differences in “pure merit” between your threshold and the lowest candidate if you went anal-retentive on ranking do not translate into meaningfully different outcomes.
Your argument is that USA did that to fight communist ideation, not that it was pushed by big corporations. Back then politicians were really afraid that communism would eat the world, I don't see why it is evidence that big corporations were behind it.
I don't know which city johnnyApple is commenting on but if it's American ones what is happening is there a glut of commerical/retail properties https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-commercial-real-esta... (There was excessive retail even before covid aka also why many malls are dying). However the land is still appreciating if it can be converted to residential apartments/homes though it does depending on zoning laws.
DK2 had a separate camera for outside-in tracking. I have one in a box in my closet.
> It's just a phone. Every kid has a phone, right?

It's the plan I was thinking the store wouldn't sell, don't those have to be in someone's name? (But I might be wrong, I've never used a prepaid SIM.)

> I know people in the EU who pay about $10 a month for unlimited mobile data.

Perhaps, but not on a prepaid plan. I'm sure you can't buy a post-paid plan as a minor, that wouldn't make any sense!
Reality Privilege and Living Your Life Online
Checking a digital signature (as proposed by GP) would not require database access or network connectivity.

If the biographic details were cryptographically signed, you'd need only a public key for each passport-issuing country.

I'm not sure how you'd deal with key revocation in situations like this.
True in principle. But once you divorce yourself from Cargo, almost all resources and advice when it comes to building Rust programs go out the window. I love the language, and I love the community, but the attitude of "rustup nightly and Cargo, or bust" is bit terrifying.

As a noob, I had to wade through endless "but don't do that, just get the latest from Cargo!!!!" when I asked for advice on how to use my system-provided Rust packages for my project.
It's pretty much the exact feature that's behind the saying that ‘to parse Perl you must have the Perl interpreter’. Because Perl allows some kind of language/imports handlers, as exhibited by tricks like Lingua::Romana::Perligata.
We really need to re-think our water sources in CA. We have nearly unlimited solar potential that can be used to power desalination and pumping of the water were we need it. Best part - we don’t need to worry about power storage (just transmission, which is not trivial, but can be done), it’s not an issue if we cannot desalinate at night.
I don't know about quantum mechanics, but when we talk about space we should be free to add a quantity to the whole universe (like adding 1 to the x coordinate of everything) because this just shifts the whole universe, or accordingly, shifts the origin - the (0, 0, 0) point - in the opposite direction.

The origin is set at an arbitrary point so this "space shift invariance" is saying that it doesn't matter what point we set for the origin (and mathematically this corresponds to the conservation of momentum - see Noether's theorem[0])

Hmm maybe the "zero" for the quantum states is arbitrary, so you should be able to add anything to it for the whole universe, and this merely changes the zero state in the opposite direction.. and since this should be a conversation law, pretty sure this is equivalent to the conservation of electric charge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether's_theorem
Why doesn't California use a more market-based approach? It could simply decide how much water can be sustainably consumed and then auction-off rights to that amount of water.
Could it be turned into table salt?
> You cannot have it both ways, if you're going to sell the software to awful regimes who target people like journalists, you're responsible for the outcomes.

It's going to be hard to keep software out of the wrong hands. Perhaps it would be better to ensure everyone is using secure/encrypted/private communication and services.

The general population may need to organize this, despite selfish corporations and the politicians they fund.
The Day the Good Internet Died
Always an informative (and fun) read:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14132789/relative-import...
…no, it’s shamefully craven behaviour by the woeful Nigerian government who couldn’t be bothered to act in their citizens’ best interest in even the most basic ways.

Shell is a corporation like any other and will not hold itself to moral standards unless forced to by other entities.
It works, because it is not true that all girls are evil bitches.

But, if parent thinks that, the parent won't teach girls how to find better friends, how to deal with issues nor curb asshole behavior in his daughters.
There's nothing vague about the argument against rent control. Further, I don't agree with your view of science. Empirical evidence matters but the pure empiricism that you're advocating is not convincing to me.

I think we would be better off reforming regulations that are preventing people from building than enacting rent control. That seems like a very reasonable opinion with plenty of support from economists. I find your posts in this thread overly dismissive and aggressive.
> with today's modern storage sizes this is trivial

And, because almost every vendor thinks like that, median computers of today offer worse UX than their 90's equivalents.
This is from the University of Zurich (UZH), not the ETHZ. They're different institutions (UZH is a cantonal university, ETHZ is a federal one).