skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A knife has plenty of valid uses beyond being able to kill someone. Malware doesn’t.
Probably. The status quo of how water is used and where people live and farm in california is inappropriate for the old climate (much less how the climate will change) and how much water there is and where it is. Climate change and population growth are making this worse and the need for people to not live some places and not farm some places seems inevitable.

Change is hard but necessary and will involve some difficult choices.
It's very common for recently IPO'd companies to be sued. Check out a few random companies and you'll see press releases from a lawfirm advertising to potential plaintiffs.
Maybe these people don't want others to see their search history when they look over their shoulders?
I been seein' a lotta little blurbs in my various science feeds about recent fairly shocking improvements in both cost and effectiveness of some really interesting new desalination methods, so it's absolutely a space to keep an eye on for interesting developments. Improvements also in solar power and battery tech, clean fuels, safe/clean(ish?) nuclear, and a bunch of other really exciting stuff invented lately. Leaps and bounds… Still, much of that is all still "in the lab" as it were, so we can't expect to see the benefits of some of that for years (or even decades?) maybe. Still. All of that good stuff happening in science should not be ignored. At least some humans are still working toward the goal of trying to avoid total disaster.
Doesn’t sound exactly like the poster child for carbon capture (which I believe we need in some form). For one, ethanol — I would have to double check this but last time I looked, ethanol represent a very tiny sliver of the energy pie.

But again, as someone who calls themselves an environmentalist, I do think we need to be putting serious thought into capture, because I don’t think we’ll want to live with current levels of warming, let alone where the trajectory has us winding up even in best case drawdown scenarios.
I think their business is ethically dubious but there's an outsize degree of outrage compared to companies like weapons manufacturers. It's the same thing. They make extremely dangerous tools and sell them to governments who can optionally use them for good, evil or a bit of both. You can certainly criticize them for their role in the death of Jamal Khashoggi for example. But he only died because the government of Saudi Arabia wanted him dead. They've also had no trouble acquiring fighter jets they've used to kill thousands of Yemenis.
Anyone who wears clothes has something to hide.
The east/west distinction probably isn't useful here beyond the observation that black mustard seeds are the hottest followed by brown and then yellow mustard seeds, and that western mustards tend to use yellow only or yellow and brown seeds. Something like English mustard is notoriously hot for instance.
I guess I don’t get why so you want to use separate modules if you aren’t getting the benefits of modularisation?
I'm more interested in the "how" of this. Are these intentional backdoors, and what qualifies this group to be privy to the information flows to exploit them? What sort of connections do they have? Are these backdoors/bugs in the baseband or are they in userspace?

If it's not an intentional backdoor, do they just have vastly superior technical ability? How did they hire such a talented pool of people, able to consistently find remotely exploitable 0days in every major smartphone brand? This group isn't new, they've been around for over a decade doing this. I doubt they've monetized a single exploit for 10 years. They're adapting.

If I had to bet, I'd bet on the former, but I'm curious what everyone else thinks. It just seems unreasonable to me that there exists such a talented pool of exploiters, all aggregated in the same place, able to consistently find 0days that nobody else seems to be able to find.
A brilliant language wouldn't stuffer from use-after-free in 2021, or use file import as module concept.
If targeting California homeowners of all the loud, politically active groups of people to achieve an absolute best case scenario of 5% gains is a good way to start, you’re not going to finish.
I am confused. Are they getting sued because performance issues of a block chain ?
you're correct, when considering a single property.

the problem happens when an absentee landlord owns a dozen buildings on main street. if a third of their properties are empty and they lower the rent to the point where people will occupy them, it drives down the rent for the other two thirds of their portfolio. if they keep some properties empty to hold the rents artifically high, and they don't have to pay property taxes and management fees on the vacant ones, they can just hold the properties for free while the land value appreciates.
Excellent, if that's the case then there is nothing of my business he need know of.
>Personally, I think adding in the time component will be essential to completing this puzzle but all in all it makes for an avenue of investigation which is interesting.

Not a physicist, but I've often wondered if the basis of QFT got off on the wrong foot by making time a privileged coordinate instead of a quantum operator like it does for position.
> That is, unless you include an additional field at every point in spacetime that precisely cancels out the change induced by the gauge freedom.

Could you elaborate on this a bit? To a layperson this sounds like a hack. "Things get screwy when you screw with them, UNLESSSSS we add a magic thing that undoes our work". Well yeah.
Show HN: Anchorage: a CLI to bulk archive you bookmark collection
Hey everyone,

Anchorage is a Python library & CLI with to retrieve and bulk archive your bookmark collection online in the Internet Archive or locally using ArchiveBox, all directly from your shell.

As all of you probably know link rot is a significant problem for most content in the internet. I quite appreciate my bookmark collection, so loosing part or most of it to link rot would be a pity.
After doing some search I wasn't able to find a tool to suit my needs, and so I got to programming Anchorage.

Through its CLI, Anchorage can:
- Retrieve your bookmarks from the JSON (Chromium) or JSONLZ4 (Firefox) bookmarks file of your browser.
- Apply filters to your collection, namely: dropping local files, and dropping bookmark directories, URLs or bookmark names if they match a given string (or any in a list), contain a given substring (idem) or match a regex formula.
- Archive the resulting collection online (IA) or locally (ArchiveBox)

Further details are in the README of the repo, and all implementations are documented in detail at http://anchorage-docs.github.io/

All feedback is appreciated! Still got much to learn :)

Thanks for hopping by and have a nice day!
https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/rustc/ is the rustc specific documentation.

You can pass -v to Cargo and it will show you the rustc invocation it makes if you want to reverse-engineer what Cargo does.
I don't see how this works out economically. Having the patent invalidated is a public good. Fighting a patent in court is expensive and risky. Why should any particular company fight a patent for the benefit of its competitors, and against some decently-well-funded conglomerate, when it's already trying to make it in a competitive field?
I think lawns have an important role psychologically. There’s something amiss to me about continuing to dump water on non-native grasses in a major drought. Part of solving climate change is about changing our minds. And I’ve always felt happy to see brown lawns since the draught started. If the actual effect of lawns is truly insignificant then that’s one thing, but if it’s a borderline case I’d factor in the psychological value. Brown lawns or natural landscaping are a sign of unity on this important issue.
this lawsuit has no merit, it's very common tactic and they just want to get some sort of settlement by abusing the judicial system. I hope coinbase countersues them.
My point was more about the victims but I guess I wasn't clear enough about that. The thing is, boys and girls bully in different ways. Most people go to mixed schools, so there's not a clear separation between boys and girls.

> You see the ripples of this well into adulthood. You see it as the expectations placed on girls and women where they're held to a higher standard than boys and men are. And who are the agents of that? Other girls and women.

The part about girls and women being held to higher standards than boys and men is news to me. Is this your impression, or is this backed up by data/studies/something?
A lot of people here are worried about constantly having to worry about hardware instability for the services they are self hosting.

I've been thinking of is to rent colo space for an 1U enclosure, with two Mac Mini M1's inside. Then run them with a tiny Mikrotik router in front that can either load balance or perhaps some other reliable piece of hardware to do HAproxy style functionality.

From that one should be able to provide a very reliable server even in the cases of hardware issues on one of them, assuming the DC has decent connectivity and redundant power - all inside one neat little package.

As much as I love macOS, I would prefer to run those two Mac Minis on Linux though. Wonder how mature the port is?
I guess this is possible only because Google allows/tolerates it? What would happen if a significant amount of people start using it?
Those guys think we are afraid of them. I wish their private information or those of their families get in the wrong hands, so they can understand what's at stake
It’s trivial to sue a company for securities fraud, and this press release for a lawsuit that an activist law firm is filing isn’t actual news coverage.

Related article on “Is everything securities fraud?”: https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2021/05/19/is-everything...
Judging by the fact that BTC is still rising today, probably just lawyers lawyering.
Desalinations projects would not solve the issue. The 'water crisis' is really an economic problem with the underpricing of water leading to suboptimal practices not a engineering one. Even if desalination worked moderately -- Californian farmers would end up farming more rice and walnut trees and you'd end up in the same situation.
I thought posting satire on HN was frowned upon.
Occam’s razor more or less manifests as elegance in mathematics.
Sure, but it will help some. There is no silver bullet for solving our water resource problems. It is going to take a massive patchwork of partial solutions to even approach something resembling a solution. Balking at small changes is a sure way to ensure that we never make progress. In the post-script of the 2016 update to the book, Cadillac Desert, Mark Reisner makes the point that during the time L.A. County's population increased 40%, it's water usage remained constant due to it's water conservation efforts. That is huge not just for water resources but also CA's greenhouse gas targets. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to pump water from the Delta down to southern California and over the mountain ranges that encircle Los Angels.
The other problem with desalination is pollution. Brine, for example, needs to be released somewhere.
Url changed from https://dronedj.com/2021/07/22/ai-beats-human-drone-racing-p..., which points to https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210721142013.h..., which is a copy of this.
If you dig the idea of using VR for productivity then you should check out the SimulaVR project, which brings wayland/X support to Linux VR.

https://simulavr.com/
It is stupendously difficult to make vuln-free software to the level where actors like NSO are unable to produce exploits. In many ways, we don't even really know how to do it, especially if you as a vendor don't write literally your entire stack. The folks at Google and Apple can rewrite everything in memory safe languages and use the absolute state of the art in static analysis and still fail because some Qualcomm chip in the bluetooth stack has a vuln or because of some side-channel exploit that works around the assumptions of any formalism.

NSO are selling weapons to authoritarian governments who use those weapons to identify and either jail or murder people they don't like. That's bad. End of story.
A better example would be a specially designed knife for bringing undetected onto an airplane.
I'm only here to say I'm digging the cgi-bin subdirectory whether or not the site is actually running CGI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
I'm not sure I'm following. In General Relativity, the 4-electromagnetic potential A^μ is simply a vector field on spacetime, so what's wrong with taking the (symmetrization of) the tensor product of A_μ with itself to obtain a symmetric 2-tensor? (Whether or not that 2-tensor satisfies the requirements for a semi-Riemannian metric is another question.)
Never knew him, but I was in the very first course (IIRC) that his wife Louise taught at UT Law; she was extremely sharp (and kind, to boot).
I just put 15kW worth of solar on my roof and chose panels made in Washington State (Silfab) over imported (Hanwha).

The price difference for the panels was negligible. The Silfabs were produced locally and look better on your roof. They also have a great reputation for quality. I was surprised at how competitive the American/Canadian panels are with Asian imports.

For us homeowners, the largest variation in cost isn't going to be panels anyway - it's going to be who you use to install them. The prices for various installers were sometimes over 2x the price of the cheapest installers, with no difference in quality of work.

If you want to minimize your solar costs, optimize for finding the best installer.
This is what laws favoring tenants do to local commercial real estate. It is more risky for a landlord to allow one bad tenant than to miss the opportunity to rent to five good ones. It's the same reality in tech hiring.
Kids need to learn self control, reason and consequences before giving/using a cell phone. (as well as most other screen based activities).

Parents are relying too much on screens as a form of parenting/entertainment without teaching these critical skills.
The logic is that you either lower the rent until a building is being used or sell the property to somebody who has a better idea for something to do with it.

The idea is making it expensive to leave a building empty to force down rent prices and property values which is in the best interests of people who want to participate in the economy instead of collecting rent from it.
Doesn’t sound very law abiding to me to circumvent courts and procedure to install such spying tools.
C++ doesn't "automatically" prevent bugs. You have to actually, you know, use it.

By STL I guess you mean std::string and std::vector. That is wholly optional. I would not use those in a small embedded project, except maybe at startup, and then with a custom, non-freeing bump allocator.
>when billionaires are being held up as heroes if not worshipped

There is a huge difference between all the wanna-be billionaire astronauts and SpaceX.

I can be (and am) impressed by SpaceX without worshipping or even liking Musk. Or considering him mostly responsible for their results.

I wouldn't buy a Tesla even if I could afford one, and the number one reason is it's too associated with Musk's personality.

But conversely, people who hate Musk and think it's important that other people hate him too, might threaten SpaceX for no good reason (from my point of view).

I basically agree that everyone other than SpaceX is into pointless vanity projects. But I can't endorse the hostility of the pundits and commenters because I don't suppose they draw the line at SpaceX. It seems like genericized hostility to the wealthy, space travel, geek culture, American capitalism, etc.

The fact that Amazon exists means that Wal-Mart and Target and Barnes and Noble were displaced to a certain extent. To hate Amazon, I'd want to understand why the counterfactual where they didn't do that would be better beyond a reasonable doubt.
While you sleep, a device harvests energy from your sweaty fingertips
All about visibility. A water shortage is a lot slower and less flashy than a packed hospital.
I have never met a landlord that would rather have a building sit empty than renting out to "save on taxes." By definition, the income from renting a property is greater than the taxes one could have deducted, because tax rates are not over 100%.

This is sort of the same myth as the "I shouldn't take more money because it will bump my tax bracket" (which makes no sense since tax brackets are marginal)[1].

However, it is true that landlords will often have properties empty with rates at what seems to be higher than the market-clearing price.

The only explanation for this I've heard that makes sense is that rents/tenants are bimodal: the average is misleading.

There's one group of tenants (cafes, indie hardware stores, hobby shops, etc) can afford one rent, while Starbucks, Citibank, and Panera can afford a second, much higher rent.

Which tenant you get is a lottery, so as a landlord it may be short-term beneficial to set the rent at the higher mode and "wait out" a high quality tenant. And yes, long term this can be a collective detriment.

[1] Except for things like the EITC, and this was a strong criticism of it.
Secrets Manager has an SLA. Parameter Store doesn’t.

If Parameter Store goes down or suffers a huge slowdown, we’ll that’s just your problem.

If Secrets Manager goes down or suffers a huge slowdown, then you’ve got some recourse to support — and getting your money back.

Parameter Store is also a one-by-one thing per each and every secret you want to store, whereas Secrets Manager lets you store a whole bunch of components inside of one “secret”.

It’s your choice either way, but for me personally, I’d rather use a service that has an SLA.
You mention a huge part of an easy start to a solution to one part of the problem a couple times… "non-native grasses", "natural landscaping". It's entirely possible to create a really pleasant yardscape with native plants that require little to no care once placed, and can still supply that green which the human psyche seems to require.

The hard part is convincing the cities to stop fining and harassing folks who choose that over a standard "golf course" lawn.
You kind of can already, I know this isn't what you mean, but you can connect to unix sockets via a native application.

"Native messaging enables an extension to exchange messages with a native application, installed on the user's computer. The native messaging serves the extensions without additional accesses over the web."

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
It depends whether you want to preserve your work somewhere so that it cannot be wiped, or if you want to secure it so nobody has access.

In the first case I would set up a "append only" system where you cannot delete anything, just append information. This could simply be a incremental backup system.

Have it managed by someone outside your country, you would just be a user.

In that case if they grab everything they cannot delete what you have there, and the cannot access it as administrator either.

If you want to protect from the second case, its gets much more complicated.

You need to encrypt the systems that hold the data and make it so that the encryption key is wiped from the systems if they are in a panic state. This can go as far as you want: no more Internet (the machine was disconnected), or the trigger on the door of your basement starts a countdown of a few seconds you can only stop by logging in - otherwise the system shuts down (or better, cuts the power).

An extra complication is if you fear that you can be forced to provide decryption keys. In such a case you could either go for dynamic keys that are provided to you by someone else outside your country, though a process that ensures that you are safe.
I'm using mailinabox, very similar to mailcow. Before that, did all the config myself.

Incoming spam is hardly a problem. Spammassassin, rspamd and those catch most. Greylisting the rest. Once a year I see an uptake in spam, spend a few minutes dilligently marking everything a spam/not spam which the server the uses to retrain itself a little.

Spamfilgering when selfhosting is hardly more work than on gmail, live, proton and such.

Your outgoing mail icw spamfiltering, however, is an entirely different, and tough problem.
I'm also very interested in ECC memory. Historically Intel has leveraged access to ECC memory as a price segmentation tool, so I wonder if it's even possible to support ECC until an AMD-based board is available. Unfortunately ECC memory is also significantly more expensive (probably propped up by Intel's segmentation strategy), but it is available in SO-DIMM form factor which kinda surprised me.
This is off topic for HN. Please do not post religious flamebait here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ah looking back on Project Mayhem, perhaps the antisec crowd was right-

https://youtu.be/xDyBIpqZcNI
> Where do we end up? Anyone who sells a knife is charged for any murder committed with that brand of knife.

We could split the difference and just assign liability for the ones done by serial murderers and people who show up asking for knives that are good for murdering. Knowing that your product is going to be used for some purpose and providing it anyway makes you an accomplice.
Please do not take HN threads further into religious flamewar, regardless of what someone else posted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I modify this instead to, "An increase in Justice leads to a decrease in Freedom; and an increase in Freedom leads to a decrease in Justice."
EVGA to Replace All Those Expensive GPUs Bricked by Amazon's MMO
This still doesn't make any sense! Lower rent is worth more than no rent and the property appreciates either way. Keeping a unit off the market to keep the rents up is kind of a silly plan if you never end up actually renting any of the units.
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.

Like, with locally made solar panels you have some high paying jobs and those people will spend that money locally. With foreign made solar panels you have low paying warehouse and distribution jobs moving around foreign goods and most money goes overseas.

So yeah 10x cost is maybe still too much. But I suppose the actual figure depends on how value is calculated. I think it’s kinda wild the USA invested billions to build factories in China and now they can produce cheap goods and regular people in the USA can barely afford to live.
Glory to Arstotzka !
It's on you to show an example of a city where these various regulations are absent and where rent control hurt housing supply. Good luck.

I'm being serious here, if you think that a vague, purely theoretical argument, from theories that we already know are very far from complete, is a match for empirical evidence, then you are not treating economics as a science.
Nom: A library for parser combinators written in Rust
What happened to the days where you earned the privilege to have/do things? That there are consequence with breaking the rules? Show them how to use it responsibly, the downsides that can come out of it.

Start with limits and let them earn the right to have more access. When you kid starts riding a bike you don't let them ride everywhere, you let them stay on the block, and if they understand safety and are being safe, you slowly expand the range they can go.
WinPE is not designed for that. See limitations. Basically it forgets anything on restart and its even worst then that.

Core has other problems and it doesn't use PowerShell by default, it can't run x32 apps too.

So no, there is nothing available right now.