skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There it is, the required "no" post.
Every case here is incompetency or laziness.
Just do the work, be a professional, and it IS EASY.
Or just be another fuckwit and cry when your work/company disappears because some powerful asshole has a selfish whim.
The Windows registry is certainly a database, perhaps just not the type you're used to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_database_model

Most of the actual technical issues you list have more to do with it being extended for the last 30 years in a backwards compatible way than anything to do with it being a hierarchical db instead of a filesystem.
If nobody will buy the property for $1 then it's worthless. Gift it the local authority and then you won't have to pay the tax.
Deployment from Github makes a ton of sense for sustainability and easy switching to a different host. Direct hosting on github is also a simple answer -- limited in features, but it can work for some people. Yet Github is still a 3rd party, still owned by a large tech firm, and still suffers from the same risks as any other 3rd party host.
Again, hence my warning about the quality of the lancet and how the published result will be interpreted.

It's no different from a theorist publishing on arxiv "an analysis on the chances of the lhc destorying the solar system" vs "micro singularity formation cross sectional calculations for 7TeV".

The ultimate "further study needed" has become a comical tag line for poor stats and might as well be "chances of covid leading to me winning the lottery". Both are valid questions, but they have clear implications beyond enhancing scientific rigour.
All but one of the charges are for espionage, a crime the Obama Justice Department decided they couldn't charge against journalists, whether USA citizens or not. This was called the "New York Times Problem". [0] Espionage, since it is a "political" crime, also wouldn't sustain extradition from UK.

The 18th and final "conspiracy to hacking" charge, tacked on to give the UK judges (who should have thrown this case out years ago) a fig leaf, pretends to be of a different nature, but it isn't really. This is the charge for which notorious sociopath, conman, fraudster, and convicted pedophile Thordarson provided the supporting testimony he has now recanted. [1]

The bastards had hoped to bolster a very particular interpretation of a chat log with Thordarson's now-recanted testimony. That interpretation is now very weak. First, they can't actually prove that "Nathaniel Frank" was a pseudonym for Assange. Who's to say it wasn't a pseudonym for Thordarson? In addition, although it is the prosecution's theory that it was possible to crack a password given the partial hash Manning had, testimony before the UK court has contradicted that. [2]

IANAL, but my observation of USA court proceedings leads me to suspect that your question about conspiracy has no definite answer. Conspiracy is always a discretionary charge, which makes sense because there is no victim and no harm. "Discretionary" is nearly synonymous, in this context, with "political", which quality of espionage charges typically excludes extradition. It's often used against criminals who have been careful to leave no evidence of the underlying crime. It is also used to bully innocents without evidence of underlying crime.

Prosecutors in normal criminal cases don't push conspiracy as far as they theoretically could, because normal USA juries don't have infinite patience for pursuing the worst possible interpretations of inconclusive evidence. "National security" cases, however, aren't heard by normal juries. Usually some pretext is found for excluding a jury trial altogether, but when that doesn't work they rely on the TLA-friendly hang'em-high juries found in the Eastern District of Virginia where all these cases are tried.

However, this case isn't currently being tried anywhere in USA. Right now it's a UK extradition case. In such cases justice should override deference to zealous prosecution, as the same judge's previous ruling with respect to squalid USA prison conditions acknowledges.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/julia...

[1] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/28/assa-j28.html

[2] https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252489645/Forensic-exper...
Newer version of the same page: https://www.gps.gov/spectrum/ligado/
You appear to be able to bypass it by opening the page in incognito mode.

It does leave me more likely to skip content I find on medium - this particular blog has the type of content that would make it a rare exception.
Now, yes. Ignoring the fact that the Democrats are not a single ideological block, they also haven’t held control of the entire state for most of the last 50 years the original poster was talking about.

Agriculture is a politically powerful industry and water usage hasn’t been enough of a crisis to override normal political influences for that long. I remember the drought in the 90s where they were basically telling you to let your lawn die and it was still basically presented as “we can’t ask farmers to use much less unless we buy them out”.
It must be granted to invite friends but you can deny it access and still use Clubhouse, just that until you grant access you can’t invite others.
If not by price, then by privilege.

We already have a landed gentry in California, so why not just go all the way back to a nobility class at this point, right?
Well, politics such as “give the people what they want”, “we don’t live (or want to live) in a nanny state”, etc
There's a certain aesthetic to this though - the beater that survives. Often these things were expensive when new.

Music gear, machine tools and well loved laptops are great for this.

A 1960's car (survivorship bias!) has this quality in a way that cheap electronic crap tends not to. The connectors wear out. The battery dies. It just kaputs for no discernable reason and it's not economic to fix.

You want stuff early in its lifecycle where the manufacturers accidentally over-engineer it because they're not confident about the lifespan yet - or that kind of "Toyota" stage in the lifecycle where they got making it good cheaply fully down.

I reckon you'd have to go through a lot of cheap smart watches to find a proper "beater", and the whole function of the devices tend to fight against this with interface standard and apps that render them quickly obsolete.
Windows is a multiuser system and tries to give you a reliable security barrier between two (non-admin) users. And at least since Windows Vista it puts some effort into preventing non-elevated software from gaining admin rights, limiting the amount of damage it can do somewhat.

Of course in reality installing any untrusted software on a computer that's not airgapped from everything you care about isn't safe. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't at least try to give better security guarantees.
Well, sure, language-level API (with a type system identical to Rust's) will be a problem, but as long as there's only one compiler, there doesn't seem to be a problem -- yet. I'm mildly wondering if this isn't a chicken and egg problem of sorts.
Yes, more of this!
I agree it's curious they didn't retest individuals at followup, although it's much easier to ask if they contracted COVID than to have them retest.

However, they did determine those individuals who contracted COVID were not different in their premorbid test performance from those who did not later contract COVID. This is a big part of what a "complete" longitudinal design would get you.

Let's say you did get that test data on follow-up. If post-COVID people who were infected were different cognitively, and not different premorbidly, that would suggest COVID was involved. If they weren't different cognitively, you'd have to explain why the first wave of individuals were different based on COVID history but not the later wave. Still important to show but maybe a different set of explanatory challenges.
Well, yeah. Pretty much all problems humans face are caused by humans. And death, which is still forced on us by the laws of entropy.

You'll find that the systems that can force the unwilling to buy $2 masks, spread out 6 feet and get vaccinated are worse than the disease. If you recognise that the government can compel people to be healthy it opens up some terrifying cans of worms.
It’s debatable if marijuana affects your mental ability. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/18/scien...
If the value of the property is so low that I you can find no one to rent it at or above your costs, there is always the option to abandon it. At least in the US, you don't have obligations toward property you have abandoned.
People feel compelled to live away from cities because they don't want to pay $1 million to live in a 2 bedroom apartment with kids and rely on public transit that cuts lines because of pandemic related financial stress and have to dodge drug usage, feces, and mentally disturbed individuals on the streets (thinking about SF here).

In cities that are not NYC and SF lots of families live in the city centers and love it because it's somewhat affordable and not ludicrously dangerous for children.
>>> It’s not sufficient to look up the passport number to find the details it should contain, or check the digital signature?

That would require access to the passport database of each country and 24/7 network connectivity.

For border control in an airport, maybe it's possible to operate in these conditions. However the product certainly has more use cases.
People won't buy it because it comes with a tax burden. They might buy it to redevelop it if it didn't.
Why not just make a law that says the old tenant can keep paying until the new tenant who is gonna pay 10x arrives? Seems like there must be some other explanation as to why the landlord doesn't just keep the little guy until he finds someone who will pay more.
I lost the envelope (it was a while ago (and also not a literal envelope)), but I'm pretty sure I just drew a circle somewhere reasonably habitable in Europe, filled it with a decent population density to roughly non-capital city population, placed enough high-density farmland around it to produce double the necessary food (in crops), put in eight radial train tracks and some roads leading to those train tracks, surrounded the whole thing by enough 20%-efficiency solar panels to power the city (peak 300W per person, at 10% electricity losses) then multiplied up to nine billion people.

I assumed all in-city transport was manual or electric (and hence covered by the solar panels), all trains and food transport was diesel (even though electric trains are realistic), that the roofs of the city were covered in 20% efficiency solar panels (at 0% loss, due to proximity), that all long-distance transport was done with cargo ships (no aeroplanes) and there was a tenth the shipping of what we've actually got.

The vast majority of the planet was completely untouched by my hypothetical civilisation. I know I missed out a lot of stuff (e.g. how goods get from ports to people and back), but I don't think my conclusion was that far out – especially since “tile the world with solar panels” isn't an efficient renewables strategy.
> Regardless, one often ignores diacritics in writing in English/Western context

For example I think most people will write the name of the car make Škoda as Skoda.
They don't. The property would be sold at auction just like tax foreclosed properties are now sold at auction.
I don't think the analysis is the same for someone who chooses to die at 36. At 72 you already had the possibility of living a "full life". Meaning had children, see them grow and probably have families of their own; have a career, and even probably changed it a couple of times... At 36, all of that is physiologically not possible. At 144, I imagine probably not much have happened in the last 60 years... Unless increasing the probability of losing a loved one over some kind of accident.

To me, that is not very appealing... Living a healthier live at my 60s and 70s, and be able to be rock climbing with my grandsons and daughters definitely is... Most probably that will translate to longer life expectancy, but I don't think that by itself should be the goal.
"you need to know what you're doing" -Mr. Obvious

There are pre-packaged solutions such as the Uniform Server - a complete WAMP stack fully hardened for placement on a public server. This is an EXTREMELY COMMON PROBLEM and PEOPLE HAVE OPEN SOURCE PACKAGED SOLUTIONS.

This constant "it's too hard, waaa!" bullshit is just lies.
> Who's assessing the land value?

Presumably the local government, they already do this to calculate property tax across North America, and getting only the value of the land is easier than the value of the land plus property on top of it. It really isn't changing much in this regard.
Delta loves Doris Florida are you ready for it?
I agree. Also I find the word "disposable" to be q misnomer since it's actually very hard to dispose of this junk properly. One time use plastic, e-waste etc really should be called "non disposable" since that crap is still going be around somewhere 1000 years from now in the oceans and land fills.
Games of that era were better to play then and better to play now. Amiga is such an integral part of computing history even though the Mac/PC duopology tries to write it out of history.

When you consider in the early 90s that the Amiga emulated the fastest Mac FASTER than the fastest Mac, you get an idea of the power. Maybe you need to live that time to realize how pathetic today's technology landscape is.
Those are different settings:

- the settings for what data about your Google activity is retained are at https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-personalization — in particular, "Web & App Activity" at https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity (for new accounts, it defaults to all activity being deleted after 18 months).

- the setting for whether your Google activity is used for ad targeting is at https://adssettings.google.com (the checkbox under "Advanced", if you're signed in).

- For non-Google activity, the setting for turning off Google ad cookies on random ad-carrying websites is to block third-party cookies in your browser. For Chrome, it is at chrome://settings/cookies
As a Quest 2 owner I'd love some competition but nothing comes close to its feature set at its price point. Valve index or HP Reverb may have marginally higher resolutions, but Quest 2 is both standalone AND does PCVR/Steam completely wirelessly. For what its worth it's easier to sideload apps on a quest than an iphone, and I've gotten random android utilities to run on mine, most importantly Mullvad VPN. You can install a custom app launcher and a utility that lets you instantly access it by double clicking the side button, letting you skip all of facebook's stuff.
You can browse the open app catalog here:

https://sidequestvr.com/

Between the oculus store, sidequest, Steam, and dropping in android APKs the device is a lot less closed than you think. Would I prefer if it was facebook account free? Yes but I dont know who else has the cash to compete with facebook on this one.
Just what I've seen today in the news:

- positive study results validating stretched vaccine schedules

- more and easier vaccine availability locally

- infection rate in the region trending slightly downwards

- some new theories/results (didn't read the full article) regarding immunity in children

- some signs vaccine scepticism in some US states is decreasing
Full vaccination. A few countries (developed countries with high levels of vaccine acceptance) will be able to vaccinate virtually everyone over 16 within the next month or so, maybe everyone over 12 (though there is likely to be way more hesitancy there almost everywhere). At that point, it's likely to be suppressed in those countries, and that may reduce hesitancy elsewhere, and so on.

A number of diseases that were once globally endemic are now regionally endemic (eg polio, two countries), or eradicated (smallpox). Generally due to vaccination.
What the Covid pandemic taugh me
Pay tax to whom? The state?

If the state owns the property, they lose the opportunity cost of taxes paid by a private owner. So, they're heavily incentivized to return it to private ownership as soon as possible... Or to consolidate several such properties into something that is sellable, or to repurpose the property into something people need, like more housing.
Yeah also it’s very difficult to make a comfortable life on one income.
Why would you buy a location that the previous owner had to sell because it came with a crippling tax burden and no source of income?
> But unless you want to live like a recluse in a bunker, what are your options?

It depends on work and family circumstances. But, stuff that works:

* Be outdoors, and socialize outdoors

* If in indoor unventilated spaces, wear a mask. Ideally N95 if lots of people and they aren’t mask

* Exercise more caution during local waves

* If socializing with others indoors, open a window. This can be done even during heat waves or winter: the greater the temp differential the more the air circulation for a given amount of window opening. Doesn’t raise costs too much, yet people treat it as impossible

* Buy a hepa filter for your home. Humidifiers can also help in winter

* Avoid indoor restaurants and bars and unmasked venues

* In risky venues, choose glasses over contacts. Eye protection is another layer

* Don’t hang out with symptomatic or unvaccinated people

* Get vaccinated

Whether you should choose to do this is another thing, but that’s what to do if you don’t want to catch a respiratory virus.

This above is consistent with: seeing friends, small indoor gatherings, travel (wear n95 + glasses!), etc. It certainly isn’t living in a bunker.

It does present problems during winter though, and it is also quite inconvenient in places with frequent large waves. Small ventilated indoor gatherings with vaccinated friends should be ok in low prevalence, but are risky in a big wave, for example.
Bank of Canada to bring back employees, allow 50% remote work
I really prefer a model where the market niche for the budget conscious is filled by second-hand high quality products. Much less waste gets produced this way, and no one has to suffer using cheap plastic crap.

I do this with all the technology I own - be it cars, phones, computers, audio gear, motorcycles, sports equipment... you get the best of both worlds.

Of course, in order for this to be possible, these products have to be repairable, and that's why we have to fight for it.
Don't Write Documentation
Understanding Delegatecall and How to Use It Safely
Not sure how much I am able to say, it's already several years old but the bottom line is there are so many different documents that it's not always possible to check the digital signature, either because it does not have a digital signature (we are not only talking about passports but all possible documents), can't read it because the chip is damaged, or has no way to verify the signature because the scanner does not have the certificate chain.
And there are attacks where you simply forward the communication over the network to a remote reader so that the gate thinks it's talking to a real passport but the physical passport is somewhere else.

And older passports use weaker hash functions to verify the integrity of the data
When I was a kid, we would make fake IDs using a huge poster board. We used pinstriping meant for cars to make the "grid" that all the text went into, rub-on letters for all the text, and a highlighter to draw "see through" stuff like the state seal. Then, you cut out the space where your photo went and actually held it in front of your face. A friend takes photos from various distances, then you pick the photo that's closest to the size of an actual license. They worked, even with the obvious flaws they had, because the bouncers really just wanted plausible proof that they had checked.
Maybe uEmacs source[0] will help? Torvalds still uses it according to his last interview..

[0] https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs
Can you upload a few to imgur and link them?

(I don't think you are lying, but it's nice to see an example. Also I strongly like "pics or it didn't happen".)
Afaik WhatsApp (on Android at least) requires you giving access to your contacts. So roughly speaking a huge chunk, probably the majority, of smartphone users shared their contact list to at least one company, which strictly speaking might not even be legal in many cases.

After all that's how WhatsApp populates its contact list, it looks which users have each other's phone numbers. That way it doesn't need a user login and friend/contact requests, but in return you give up your privacy.
These aren’t real market forces if the properties are staying vacant. It’s likely that the tenants are getting hit by 2nd order effects of bad regulation like the tax thing or financing requirements that incentivize leaving properties empty
The fact that a process is burdensome does not mean it is necessarily effective.

Look at the seq_file thing Qualys discovered the other day. The overflow was obvious if you thought about it, and all Qualys did was think about it. But the bug was present since 2014.

https://www.qualys.com/2021/07/20/cve-2021-33909/sequoia-loc...

Linus's law is empirically untrue for security bugs - many eyes don't actually spot them. Moreover, we have computers, which are good at doing repetitive and detail-oriented tasks with 100% accuracy. Why not use them?
With all its build options and modules, the traditional monolith-microkernel distinction doesn't really apply. Do you mean something else by "extremely monolithic"?
Certainly. There was a study on low long term impacts on children for example.

Bad news spreads easier than good. The news is mostly bad but some good news is what I mentioned above + high vaccine efficacy against severe disease.

How vaccines affect long covid type stuff is a big open question, but early doctor anecdotes suggest they lower it. That would be great news.
OpenBSD Virtualization: Host and Guests on the Same Network
Tips to virtualize serenely under OpenBSD with vmd, where host and guest(s) are part of the same network!
Miguel Virasoro passed away the other day too. A sad week for physics.
It would be like everything else today. Reality would bifurcate along political lines.
I miss the old way of building a startup
The pre stickynotes-and-lot-of-diagram-drawing era, where some friends use to gather in a bedroom/dormroom/garage and binge code their idea just for fun, oblivion to the idea of "unicorns" has gone! That way of startup building was fun.

I feel the present day startup building has become corporatised, where the moneybags have sucked out the fun part by pushing founders to run after the mirage of the unicorn in the hope to get 30-40x return on their investment.