skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a long time coming. In the 80's in Chicago there was a black market for Mexican sourced CB's that used FM; landscapers and construction and tow truck guys that could have got licenses in smaller markets but had challenges (and were broke).

At the time I know there were at least a couple of people working at Motorola who railed about the FCC's pickled up attitude on this specifically, when properly intoxicated.
Not having to rely at all on someone else’s infrastructure- including ssl certs. Not worrying about credit card expiring or any pivots in business.
> This is why the UNIX wars ended with everyone using Linux. It was available (for free) and lots of people used it.

Right, which is more than you can say today about Android given the reality of current mobile hardware lifecycles. Make Linux-for-mobile available today, and people will gladly use it to extend the usability of their otherwise "obsolete" devices. The overall setting is in fact remarkably similar.
It's not well known that the (US) CAN-SPAM act does not apply to political and religious organizations. They can spam as much as they want.

First amendment law is full of surprises.
Yeah the labels are loaded into the Detectron2 format from the 3D annotations json at train time, we plan to add similar data loading for YOLOv3 etc soon. Starting out with Detectron2 was mainly for POC/demo purposes, the idea in the future is to be able to feed the data anywhere it might be needed.
Long Covid: Unpicking the lasting impact of Covid-19
What's the story of you becoming a $2M account yourself?
Nir's applications are gems. They are extremely lightweight, sane and well documented, static, cost nothing and receive regular updates (19 released updates since July...) - all by one guy who actually answers his emails and blogs excellent content with regular frequency (reached out about a library based on one of his apps and he took the time to reply and explain the reasoning for not publishing as a library).

Really, the only other (windows) applications I can sing the same praise for are the sysinternals suite.
Back in school we used to use it to run SAS 9.4
You might be able to obtain reproducible behavior from a tool that insists on putting time stamps into its output, and has no options for reproducibility.

You might be able to get an indefinite extension for running some time-limited trialware.
Just uploaded them all to my iCloud.

They way I see it, this is the best photo backup approach one can possibly take. Just get flagged for child porn, and have all your iPhone photos stored indefinitely on FBI servers.

Does the FBI have geo-redundancy?
You seem to be of the opinion the stoppage of e-commerce supply chains would be a quiet little event no one would notice?

I don’t care whose grandpa did what 80 years ago. I don’t owe deference to a figurative identity they want to carry around if it’s also literally abusive to the species as a whole.

Industrialist power is a privilege, not a right.
"The Global Times is a daily tabloid newspaper under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party's flagship People's Daily newspaper."

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1230808.shtml
Longitudinal analysis shows durable immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection
> 2. Even if there was a congress committee/investigation done, what changes can actually be instituted? Block any more Russian modules?

There are certainly less dramatic measures that could have prevented this incident.

To quote the article:

> the Nauka module's autopilot apparently decided it was supposed to fly away from the station.

Having such decisions protected by a physical switch comes to mind.

A joint committee by all the nations involved in the ISS could require such measures before any module or spacecraft is allowed to dock.

Establishing emergency overrides for firing thrusters to all ground control stations could have greatly reduced the impact.

Why was the unexpected firing of thrusters detected so late? Better telemetry and their analysis could help.

And so on. Lots of things that could be done if there was the will do to do them.

Many more things could be done in response to a through root-cause analysis.
Good for you. I laugh at people who cry "you don't create value!" So what. What you are doing, however, is recognizing value that others don't see which is a significantly more valuable skill.

Domain names are digital real estate. Sometime real estate is in the frozen tundra and not worth much. Sometimes it's in Vancouver or London or Hong Kong and worth a whole lot. Get you some.
That would be a good step.
Genuine question: If those image were really generated from illegal porn, are those images themselves considered illegal? Or in other words: How much do you have to modify illegal images for them to become legal again? Or do they stay illegal no matter how much you transform them?
I tend to disagree here...

Based on the documentation from Apple, they are waiting to get *several* matches, *not only one* (we don't know what is *several* but I don't expect something like <= 3 pictures).
Once the rate has been reached, they ask to a physical team to review the "positive matches", and deliberate if, yes or no, the images are CSAM or not.

If yes, after the manual process, the authorities are called.
Even assuming the protocol is sound, Apple could choose a set of innocent photos that are frequently found on people's devices, in addition to whatever photos they deem unlawful. In case they didn't show the thresholds to the user, they can set it arbitrarily low. The client will never know which photos were used to determine they were guilty.

It's still an interesting read from a cryptography point of view though.
It's just a Fermi estimate. Feel free to multiply/divide by ten (or even 100!) in either direction. The main point is that we're not going to carbon capture our way out of this--at least not with anything resembling modern technology.
Competition requires players to remain in the game. No one is required to make a profit-losing decision realized or unrealized. If they do make such a decision, they're one step closer to going out of business. Survival is an incentive to taking the correct actions.

In an iterative prisoner's dilemma, the optimal solution is most often tit-for-tat or some variation of it. It's logical for one firm to do the same as another until it can obtain a strong hold on a profit-making activity that gives it more degrees of freedom with regards to its strategies. At that point a firm can move from merely surviving to experimentation or it can continue to milk the opportunity for all its worth.

Your cartel argument requires more than sameness of strategy. It requires motive and direct action towards achieving a forced equilibrium (e.g. willfully punishing other market players in concert to dissuade the use of alternative profit-making strategies).

I never brought up banks. What do they and the 2008 recession have to do with online stores and 30% cuts in 2021?
I believe sites like these do a disservice to the ancient knowledge of Hindu people. There were many important discoveries, some unknown to the West for centuries, and still not having enough exposure (when you read math books, they start with Greeks, then maybe they gloss a bit over al-Khwarizmi and then jump right into the 17th century to all big names, as if nothing was happening for over a thousand years - well, a lot was going on, just not in Europe).

However, some people exaggerate in the other direction, I'm not sure if this is just a Hindu thing or a more global phenomenon, but there is a limit of what you can explain using Vedas, at least as far as science is concerned. (Metaphysics is something different, but this a completely different discussion.)
Ask HN: Aside Apple (I guess?), where can someone *buy* music files in 2021?
It's practically the only issue they care about.

"Republican congressman Greg Steube asks Google CEO why his campaign emails are going to spam"

https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2020/jul/29/republi...
If you have root access it's also not your device, because you probably don't have BUP, BSP and SMM/SV mode access. And if you have those it's still not yours because you don't have access to the EDA source (or at least not much more detail than the basic silicon floorpan).

This race to the bottom of 'ownership' ends nowhere. Do you really own your device if it uses NDA or licensed parts? (be it software or hardware)

Do you really own your device if it depends on communications with other devices that you do not own? What about the first communication with a cell tower? The eNodeB? The RAN? The HLB? Or if you are communicating with someone, should you own their device as well?

Say your boundary is communications, what communications are we talking about? SPI? I2C? MII? The interface between the baseband and de application processor? The matrix scanner on a physical keyboard?

I'm not saying it's amazing to have an appliance where you don't control every aspect, but it's also not realistic to have a free-for-all at scale either. At the end of the day, when you live in a diverse society, not every device your pay for is a device that is your device. And that can be fine.

(Diverse doesn't universally mean religion, shades of skin or nationality - we're talking about carpenters, mechanics, teachers, artists, bus drivers, bakers, none of those will ever 'own' a device or software stack at scale; if you put a bunch of people together, organise them and specialise, not everyone will 'do tech' to the same degree, if any)
I used to work for a credit card company. There was an employee that ran his mortgage business on the side during most of the day at work.

So, the company went to fire him. He claimed racism (he was Indian) and sued for $1M. The credit card company not wanting any bad publicity settled giving him nearly that entire amount.
Tavis Ormandy (of Google Project Zero) has a pretty convincing post arguing that relying on browser extensions that modify the DOM (which includes [almost?] all password managers) is a bad idea: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/passmgrs.html

(he recommends using your browser's built-in password manager, which isn't as convenient but is much more secure)
The Romans conquered the Mediterranean in 146 BC (end of the third Punic War). They didn't face the Celts in battle until 55 BC when Julius Caesar first invaded Britain.
How do you generate an image like this from a hash?
Here's the PDF: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7032e1-H.pdf

my understanding is that they are "age matched" between the control and test groups (similar age distribution can be found in each). But I want the final result quoted per age bracket. By mixing age groups you may be reducing the impact for the most important ages.
How to train like an Ancient Greek Olympian
Good question. From the man page, looks like boolean values map to a file with contents either 'true' or 'false', while NULL values map to empty files.
Financial quarter ends or year ends
That Dan Boneh and Mihir Bellare worked on proofs of this.
> No western country has yet determined how to benefit the poor with the productivity gains.

The argument has been that the poor benefit from access to the less expensive goods that result.

Which of course they do. However that argument is clearly woefully insufficient…yet the consequences of that insufficiency are discussed as if they were discrete phenomena.
The companies in the best place to do this would be the chipset vendors, who essentially do all the work for Android already. However I don't see the incentive, there are probably legal obstacles, and finally companies generally fail at trying to replace their customers.
What do you mean by "hell breaking loose"?

/r/Apple talks about this topic a lot and, similar to HN, is not happy about it. This drive link brings very little additional light to what was already known and discussed.
The Highbrow Neanderthal
I’ve used this second one a lot – it really doesn’t pair well with my editor’s auto quoting!
If you want fast initial load, then there is packet.city [0], "the greatest website to ever fit in a single TCP packet." :-) It also has a few other optimizations to make the response as fast as possible that are discussed on its github. [1]

[0] http://packet.city/ (Warning: loud audio)

[1] https://github.com/diracdeltas/FastestWebsiteEver
Gah. You're right. I should have provided cites. Thanks.
Perhaps banning recurring donations is the better idea*?.

I can sit here for five minutes and think up several ways to achieve the exact same thing some arbitrary UI element (prechecked checkbox) achieves. Don't even need a checkbox. Just change the terms.

*Ooops. Forgot Citizens United. Poop!*
Maybe. They'll still need to invest quite a bit to get there though both in how their space is set up and their operating model. Right now empty co-working spaces are quite attractive, but as the get back to a capacity that's actually profitable for WeWork, they are essentially selling 1) occasionally sitting in close proximity to a bunch strangers that changes every time you go in (the day pass), 2) or nicely furnished/designed but overpriced priced reserved offices (monthly subscription). Companies (and probably workers too) are generally going to be cautious about #1 due to covid long after the dust settles, and #2 is just not a great deal regardless of who's fronting the bill.
That's incredibly shady. I bet I've made an informed choice to donate to a candidate or two because I've fat fingered a link while reading email on my phone.
Hora in Swedish is not a nice word.
I clicked the link. Those images look like modern, colorful and expressionistic art.
How do you know it’s not pure disinformation?

It’s certainly not correct.
Half of California water goes to alfalfa feedstock for beef. Is beef a luxury snack food? It probably should be treated as such.
Thanks. Any sources for their opinion? Probably I shd read the copyright release form in more detail, but if you think terms of copyright this won't fly.
The Programming Language B (1973)
Oil prices != gas prices. I’m talking taxes.
> archaeologists of a traditional bent tend to have a particular thought structure called essentialism, which means that they do everything they can to come up with a coherent story according to a progressive view of social change. They keep looking for and exaggerate specific evidence to fit that progressive model. Southeast Asia is different. It offers an outstanding example of bottom-up social change, of community-level decision making. It’s a chance to study prehistoric societies in a more granular way, and it’s a fundamental shift for archaeologists. We’re still early on in trying to promote this different point of view and in using metals as a vehicle to gain this perspective.

Summary seems to be that testing the metals of different regions showed evidence of community trading not facilitated by ruling elites?
agreed. on that platform, forced to use it, NirSoft is indispensable and like an much appreciated breeze of fresh air -- much like Hexfiend and alike, Filebuddy, and BBEdit were already under Apple's Classic OS
A slight improvement is better than no improvement due to perpetual planning deadlock.
Where does the waste brine go, back into the ocean or onto the land?
Why not? Suppose you have to choose between two dog walkers for hire, one who is will to write essays about Russian history and one who is not. You happen to be very interested in Russian history. Why wouldn't you prefer the dog walker who is willing to write about it?
> The point is that overeating won’t make us happy either. Maybe it will give some 15 seconds of gratification but then most of us will feel guilt, and the long term effect has terrible consequences.

I don't deny that. Some get unhappy enough to derive enough energy from this unhappiness to tackle this as a real problem. Of course the first box you need to tick to get better is to accept your behaviour is problematic and realize that it makes you unhappy in the long term.

Some might never reach that step to begin with. Many however realize the problems and want to get better but they can't because they constantly fight the symptoms and not the cause, or because their lives give them enough excuses not to do it (whether they are valid excuses or not doesn't matter too much).

I chose to believe that people are a product of both their environments and their own choices. So we are neither completely determined by the circumstances we grew up in nor are we completely free to decide to "just" do things 180° different than we were lead to believe our whole lives. We can shape our environments and ourselves within certain boundaries and over given timescales, but for this we need to know the forces which act upon us. And everybody has forces acting upon them, the believes, rationalizations and stories we tell ourselves about our place in the world are partly a product of this: we try to be happy with ourselves in the place that we have within the universe. We try to establish meaning in the chaos.

This is why explainations like "some people are just lazy" is less of a true statement about the world, but more of a true statement about the stories a certain type of person has to tell themselves in order to feel good. Because if the weren't "just lazy" suddenly one had to reflect upon the environment, the incentive structures that shaped them into the way they are. Suddenly one would feel the ethical need to change said environment and feel powerless confronted with the scale of the problem. Nah. Moar better to say they are "just lazy", then one can stop thinking.
It just seems out of place; not like this is some old game console or hardware typically fondly remembered by the HN audience. That what I meant, all you down voting whippersnappers.
> I assume you are using this anecdote as a counterargument against my claim that redneck is more classist than racial

No, I'm saying that similar to as you describe redneck usage, his n usage was contingent upon class & behavior, and not just the race.
Um, yeah, I got that, but they’re both carbon energy sources directly used by customers.
> would cost literally tens of billions

You keep saying this as if it was somehow true or relevant. At this stage, we have no real need for an OS that grandma will want to use. That can come later. She can stay on iOS/Android for the time being.
How could an onsite wood powered generator possibly be more efficient than using grid energy even if it's coal powered? That sounds absurd.
Tampering with arbitrary packages in types scope of NPM
Good to know, extensions always feel like the weak link in password manager security (again, not a developer so happy to be proven wrong here) so I don't use them. I always just copy out of the desktop app (Ctrl + P), still a really fast keyboard-only workflow once you get used to it.
I can’t figure out if this benefits my political team so I’m not sure if it support it. But once I find out I’ll rapidly defend or oppose it. /s
No need to be condescending, I know the difference between natural gas and gasoline. My point was more general about carbon based fuels and their price to consumers.
I would very much enjoy seeing you trying to teach my grandma who has a deep fear of technology to install Linux on her obsolete iPhone.
Yes, except that in Apple’s implementation there also a ‘visual derivative’, which is essentially a blurred thumbnail.

Both must match to cause a positive.

These images may match the neuralshash, although we have no proof of that at all. They will not also match the visual derivative.

This whole post is based on incomplete information.
Interesting piece, but most of this can be generalized in two ways: beyond buildings to the ecological and energy efficiency of other things, and to other buildings beyond energy efficiency.

This model-reality gap in discussing energy and resource efficiency has long been an issue with all sorts of things, from toilets to materials to washing machines and so forth. There's some prototypical lab schema that's used to evaluate efficiency (in energy or other resources) that fails to take into account real-world conditions, and once it's put in those real-world conditions the efficiency breaks down.

We live in what might be considered a green home in some ways, and try to be sustainable, but I do think there's lots of limits to the scenarios that are used to develop them. I suppose in a general sense this can be extended even further as one example of model-reality discrepancy with all sorts of things we use.

The other thing this article maybe misses is that even in buildings that aren't trying to be green, or are, but with reference to non-green elements. I've gone into new buildings of different types, and when there's elements of the building that are relatively specific to that building (i.e., the design of the building is unique), there's all sorts of problems that arise due to discrepancies between what the designers had in mind and reality. One building I'm familiar with had certain design elements for aesthetic and practical reasons, but ended up creating huge sound problems; another one was done for aesthetic and other reasons but had a problem that was obvious in hindsight, but led to critical facilities being unused because people shunned it until it was rectified.

This isn't necessarily a criticism of the article but I think it's important to keep in mind a lot of these arguments aren't unique to "green" goals or buildings per se.
One reason I use 1Password is because it’s a native app. Electron apps never have the affordances of the platform, so are frustrating to use whenever you leave the “happy path”. Because it’s so heavily used this would be a reason to leave it.

Separately, Electron is itself a large piece of code and integrating it would increase the attack surface — of a piece of security code! Another good reason to switch if this comes to pass.
Subtle manipulation and nudity.
It has "increased resistance" to vaccines, according to the article (from the Washington Examiner).

I was relieved -- because that sounds less absolute than just being purely "vaccine resistant"..
I wanted to use Tesseract for a project but found it to be a bit too slow for my needs. Doesn't it have options to speed up it's recognition or is there another OCR project out there that's made to be faster?
…which is not remotely relevant to the actual point I was making.
HTTP 418 “I'm a teapot” if pretending to be a different client
> They're not the same idea as cryptographic hashes at all.

There is a reason cryptographic hashes are distinguished; some applications of hashing are only concerned with minimizing non-malicious collisions.

(Arguably, this is an application where malicious collisions are an issue, but perceptual hashes don't purport to be cryptographic.)
The operator module is very old: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/ea4d3f0804a3aad5afaa6...

PEP8 was introduced in 2001: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
Yes, many things like this have power law distributions. In fact if you look around today you’ll see power law distributions everywhere. The top .1% make considerably more than the top1% who make considerably more than the top 10% who make considerably more than the top 50%, etc.

Many thousands of books are published each year but only a handful make up the majority of the sales. Same with music, blogging, YouTube, Twitter followers, incomes, athletes, etc.
Gimme gimme gimme? ;)
“reviews” - that is another thing public has been crying about by the way
Aside from the trial thing, what’s the use case for this?
The consequence is that someone at Apple reviews the case, notices that its a false positive, and closes the case.