skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tricky part is "unreasonable."

When someone's using the mail to send anthrax to people, knowing who communicated with whom to trace it to the source is suddenly very reasonable.

Dying from anthrax is a lot less convenient than having record of every letter a person sent or received dry-rotting in a data warehouse somewhere.
I dont think repo activity is an accurate representation since its been less than a year since Elastic made their license changes and Opensearch was shortly announced in January 2021.

Give em some time to grow.
No. There is no fighting over who owns com.oracle. There's nothing stopping you from releasing software in the com.oracle namespace, but when you do, either you are Oracle or you are falsely claiming to be Oracle.

Avoiding accidental collisions just isn't the same problem as validating a potentially fraudulent claim of identity. Namespacing solves the first problem; it's not intended to address the second, and doesn't.
SpaceX is buying communications smallsat operator Swarm Technologies
Cool. It does seem like an ostentatious obvious thing that would make it easy to get caught.

What do you think of the fine art world?
So this makes it sound like we might be headed for semi-annual or even quarterly boosters.

“one possible solution to the problem of immune evasion by SARS-CoV-2 that has been proposed is to develop a new vaccine update every year, similar to influenza [42]. In practice, such a solution will only work in the face of a moderate pace of evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and a low degree of clonal diversity among various clades of SARS-CoV-2 as they evolve to evade the current crop of vaccines. Further, if within-host evolution of SARS-CoV-2 contributes to population-level immune evasion, the valley-crossing mechanism described in this paper could accelerate the emergence of vaccine-resistant strains in the months following vaccine deployment. To the extent that new strains of SARS-CoV-2 are antigenically distinct, this may also lead to increased risk of antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), as one mechanism for ADE involves antibodies that bind to the pathogen but fail to neutralize it [43]. Finally, our work suggests that immune evasion requiring one to two mutations occurs within months, raising the prospect that this phenomenon will further shorten the duration of natural immunity, which is already limited by the relatively short duration of the humoral [44,45] and cellular [46] responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Further studies are required to understand the risk immune evasion poses to a strategy of annually updated vaccines.”

I wonder if this is why Dr Fauci is emphasizing the need for therapeutics as higher priority than vaccines at this point? I should say though, mathematical biological models like the ones in this study are not something I feel very well equipped to evaluate. How often are such models wrong? What are the incentives for the company associated with these authors, “Fractal Therapeutics”? Obviously Harvard is Harvard, but I just can’t understand why smart people aren’t talking about this stuff. Murti-Bing pills?
Does it matter what happens to the ISS?

Is there any science done on the ISS that's actually cited?

The answer to both questions is no.
My experience with hybrids and long trips is that you're stopping more frequently for gas. They've got small gas tanks and small batteries. Both of which are burned through quickly when you're on a freeway and not touching the brake pedal.
Your typical impactor is going to take 10-15 minutes to hit the ground (or sea), so it’s going to be next to impossible to hit a moving target.
Are they losing money grounding them? They're probably operating fewer flights that pre covid so they could have more planes then needed and be using this opportunity to 'ground' planes with minor issues as a negotiation tactic to extract concessions from Airbus.
You may actually have to emit more for a short time in order to be able to emit less in times further out, a bit like a mortgage downpayment, it hurts, but not as much as paying the interest further on.

Solutions will come with a price tag, either in terms of funds, or quite possibly in terms of short term CO2 emissions on a scale even larger than the one that we have currently. But they had better be off-set by much larger savings further down the line. So 'stopping emitting' may not be a valid option, except for some things that are luxuries. Meanwhile, people will have to eat, there will have to be some level of transportation, there will be all manner of consumption all of which will continue emissions. To offset that and fix the damage is going to be the literal challenge of our lives. I hope you like seaweed, and I'm not sure how we'd go about farming that in sufficient quantity and with low enough emissions that we won't end up with massive famine and wars in the next 80 years or so.

Bluntly put: there are too many of us to sustainably live on this planet at our current level of technology, and at the same time there may be too few of us to mitigate the damage already done. Stopping emitting = mass die offs, wars, famine and so on. Unless you're resigned to that I would research for a while to see if there are better options that will avoid those, because even though they are probably quite effective they lack in humanity and empathy.

I'm not overly optimistic that such solutions are still on the table, but it can't hurt to look, though I'm skeptical about us being able to muster the necessary levels of cooperation, to start thinking as a species instead of a bunch of unrelated fiefdoms that can act independently of each other when it comes to major items of policy that affect everybody everywhere.
This seems completely bonkers insane to me. Can you back up your armchair psychologist points with actual sources?
China is also having difficulty building nuclear reactors. Though they still complete in seemingly reasonable timelines to Western ears, it's still up to two times as the schedule completion.

Michael Shellenberger is not a reliable source in my experience, he's far more invested in ideology and pushing cultural wedge issues than the technology and providing real solutions.
That's harsh but not as bad as some places right now. Ironically, the only thing it will lead to is people turning up the AC closing the feedback loop.
I have heard people claim that TSMC has plans to destroy their own facilities scorched earth style in case of a takeover. I don’t know how credible those claims are but if true and if they were executed that would have huge ramifications on the global economy. We are already seeing how a more minor disruption in the case of covid is still having big effects in terms of chip shortages causing car manufacturing lines to stop and such.
The only nerve you're hitting is the one that fires when I read poorly informed pseudo intellectual drivel

You're asking why someone would trust someone making a claim over someone not even making the claim.

I could ask a toddler "who is more likely not to eat your lollipop, the man who says he will eat it or the man who claims he won't" and they'd understand, yet you've managed to convince yourself that's a tough question.

Have a good one, good luck with your privately owned servers and home-brew OS. I'm sure your privacy is very well protected by giving the world a fingerprint on your identity.
You say, "Your claim is made dubious by the fact that there exist OSI-approved open source licenses (e.g. BSD) which the FSF says do not qualify as free software licenses." But you are lying: all the BSD licenses are listed on https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html as free software licenses. That page was already linked to in a reply to you 15 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pwdisswordfish8

There have been some cases of disagreement in the past between the FSF and OSI, where they differed on how to interpret a license. None of these were major licenses like the BSD license; they were minor disagreements that were quickly resolved, generally by updating the license to eliminate the ambiguity that was the cause of the disagreement.

Your claims are made dubious by your repeated posting of supporting claims that are easily shown to be completely false, including by material you have already been referred to in this very same thread.
No, that comes out of quantum mechanics rather than relativity.
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/expedit...
To the other comments here I have to add - proofs (in math, science, computer science, any subject area..) never reflect absolute reality, but rather just your view of reality or the parts of reality that you have chosen to model.

So the reality of your "proven" program will never 100% match the reality of it running on hardware or some other software context than you anticipated. Let's call this the Hacker's Postulate...

As for math specifically I think this is a very deep and interesting philosophical tangent to go down.
This is not a reputable source, and doesn’t link any source to support its claims—it’s just a list of unsupported accusations.
Microsoft open sourced the Windows calculator in 2019. Ratpak[0] is their infinite precision math library.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/tree/master/src/Calc...
>Probe them and they’ll cart away. “Forest officials in Maharashtra have tried to spy on them, but it was futile,” Dr. Nimbalkar recalls.
then google is suspect
My all time favorite Trevor Moore sketch: "I want to kill the president".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3_kUaYFJA

It showcases his wonderful way of speaking, his body language, the use of music to communicate the joke.

The world is a less humorous place today.
Your family history is a fascinating one!

Did any of your family take Queen Victoria's offer and move to Norfolk Island when things got rough on Pitcairn 165 years ago?

https://www.discovernorfolkisland.com/norfolk/pitcairn.html
As an electric car owner, the thought of paying for batteries and oil changes sounds terrible. I looked into the hybrid jeep to replace my aging one, but I know how much the maintenance on my gas beast is. I'll pay a premium to add a electic drive train and still have to take it back to the dealership every several months. Awful. I'll just wait for the fully electric version.
my personal favorite of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMHCw3RqulY
There's a decent amount of money to be made selling a RCS/IMS implementation.
Animation: Visualizing the Gravitational Pull of the Planets
You don't need to validate the hostnamez you can safely leave that for name resolution libraries. You just need to properly separate the user info from the host name and port. Which is pretty simply defined in the grammar.
Yeah... Maybe also figure out who drilled that hole!
People eat hot dogs for the danger and mystery. Hmm.
Yes, and I think this is more obvious today, but in the early 1990s printing it on paper proved the point very clearly. "Software" still has a certain mystique about it even today for non-tech people. But it's just something you could print on paper and type back in.
I think the play to forcing Apple to support RCS is the privacy angle. E2E encryption on regular text messages? That should be what Apple is about. If Apple answers that the solution for privacy is for your friend to buy an iPhone, they need to be called out.
> When someone's using the mail to send anthrax to people, knowing who communicated with whom to trace it to the source is suddenly very reasonable.

When someone's using the roads to travel to kill people, knowing who travelled to whom to trace them to the source is suddenly very reasonable.

No wait, that's insane, we should never expect that it is reasonable to conduct mass surveillance on all the roads in the country to find out where people go all the time.

Why do people think this kind of stuff is reasonable and positive for society?
I wouldn’t advise anybody to marry someone unsupportive.
You should use whichever tool you prefer, of course. But it sounds like you're asking about how Calculist is different than Org-mode. The two have a lot of overlapping functionality, but Calculist is a little more friendly and approachable for non-techy people, and it has a cloud-based web version for collaboration (in addition to the local desktop version). There are other differences, but those are the main ones that come to mind.
Yeah I'm confused about that statement too. From that point of view, a cron job running on a Linux system, daily, which updates the "locate" db is also a breach of trust and privacy..
Awful news. His WKUK skits were legendary, and recently I was enjoying The Trevor Moore Show a lot. Incredible talent, will be missed.
The retracted part isn't a credential though - it shows that someone with authority/knowledge decided there was something really wrong with the piece.
For alternative assessments of the above:

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Reason_Foundatio...
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_Ju...
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Foundation_for_Individ...
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cato_Institute

Many seem to associate themselves with libertarian ideals. All have been funded by the Koch brothers.
Pessimistic or uncharitable, sure, but sinister? That doesn't even really make sense.
Not looking at either for manger service… just the open source projects- features etc…
Even if the alternative is not to marry? Does it depends on weights of preferences?
Trade secrets are trade secrets.
phh compared a bunch of Android distros here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28093473

Comparing just CalyxOS to /e/, both include microG as a substitute for Google Play Services. That's the main feature they have in common.

Some of their differences:

- CalyxOS's upstream is AOSP, while /e/'s upstream is LineageOS.

- CalyxOS is intended to be used with a locked bootloader, while /e/ is mostly intended to be used with an unlocked bootloader. (As an exception, /e/ supports a locked bootloader for the Fairphone 3, but I'm not sure if there are any other models that work the same way. /e/ install instructions for Fairphone 3: https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP3/install)

- CalyxOS supports a few devices, since the project only considers devices that support relocking the bootloader with a custom key and have a monthly security update schedule from the manufacturer. /e/ supports a much larger number of devices.

- /e/ integrates its optional open source cloud service, ecloud, which includes email, calendar, contact, photo, and file hosting. CalyxOS does not offer an equivalent first-party service.
Nuclear war.
So, if there's code on the device that's computing these hashes then it can be extracted. Afterwards it should be possible to add changes to a inocent picture to make it produce a target hash. Getting a hash should pe possible too, just find a known pedo image and run the extracted algorithm. It's only a matter of time until someone makes this
To ground the intuition with the amount of starlight, imagine all the light in the universe is a bunch of falling rain, and your rocket is barrelling through the entire volume of it at .99c. It's a lotta light.
Regardless of who did it, that it happened at all is very worrying for the suitability of humans for long term living in space habitats.
Can't they already track people that way using car or phone gps?
That seems odd for corporate communications at a publicly traded company.
I'm in India. In my experience with the companies, they don't even shortlist candidates that don't have a bachelor's degree (atleast that's what I've been told since I was 10)
Yes, everyone on Pitcairn migrated to Norfolk. Later some families moved back to Pitcairn, including mine. The same thing happened in 1831 - everyone migrated to Tahiti. That was disastrous for the islanders though, many died of disease and they returned to Pitcairn eventually. See here for that story http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_68_1959/Volum...
Yes: but it's messy. You spin in a loop with a BIT instruction polling the PPU_STATUS register and a BVC instruction pointing backwards waiting for bit 6 to be set. Besides the fact that you're stuck doing this, the main problem is synchronization, this little loop takes 7 CPU cycles (with each CPU cycle taking 3 PPU cycles, or 3 "pixels" of distance) leading to an 21 "pixel" variance. When dealing with the very short horizontal blanking period between scanlines, it leaves very little time to do anything meaningful with the PPU in that window.

If you've ever noticed some "weird flickering" near status bars in NES games, this is probably the culprit: Few very skilled developers were able to pull it off cleanly.
This technology is a godsend for the government to catch wistleblowers before they're able to leak information. You wouldn't even hear about those poor souls.
There's a single address in there, why would it have been generated by a web server?
There are more realistic scenarios today: hypersonic missiles and railguns. Both can't be mitigated by any known naval defense system.
> their reporting has a freedom-oriented mindset

If by freedom-oriented you mean right-libertarian, which os very much not the only understanding of “freedom”, you would be correct.
"They decided to do something utterly illegal and censor the mail of people inside the United States - which they have no right to do. So it had to be set up very delicately as a voluntary thing. We would all volunteer not to seal the envelopes of the letters we sent out, and it would be all right for them to open letters coming in to us; that was voluntarily accepted by us. We would leave our letters open; and they would seal them if they were OK. If they weren't OK in their opinion, they would send the letter back to us with a note that there was a violation of such and such a paragraph of our "understanding." "

Notice the implication that it was reasonable to censor mail going to soldiers outside the country, (in WWII) but not inside the US.

"I get a letter from my wife that says, “It's very difficult writing because I feel that the _____ is looking over my shoulder." And where the word was, there is a splotch made with ink eradicator.

So I went down to the bureau, and I said, “You're not supposed to touch the incoming mail if you don't like it. You can look at it, but you're not supposed to take anything out."

They said, “Don't be ridiculous. Do you think that's the way censors work - with ink eradicator? They cut things out with scissors."

I said OK. So I wrote a letter back to my wife and said, “Did you use ink eradicator in your letter?" She writes back, “No, I didn't use ink eradicator in my

letter, it must have been the____ and there's a hole cut out of the paper"

"I went to see my wife in Albuquerque that day, she said, “Well, where's all the stuff?"

I said, “What stuff?"

She said, “Litharge, glycerine, hot dogs, laundry.”

I said, “Wait a minute - that was a list?"

She said, “Yes."

"That was a code", I said. "They thought it was a code - litharge, glycerine, etc."
failed one of these recently because it asked me to click on "bicycles", but there were a lot of motorcycles, and I didn't click on those... so I failed
My first thought, while I don't know the exact rights of the parties involved, they should have filed a complaint with ICANN regardless.
Correct on both counts. I stopped reading after that spurious claim. I've read enough click baity garbage to know when to bail.
Ask HN: What is the smartest way to beat the system- do easy work for high pay?
Thanks for sharing. Never watched WKUK before tonight but have spent the past hour laughing.
TFA says it's probably Agave. They also say:

> However, it may not be so healthy. “Agave has lots of alkaloids. It can be poisonous if eaten in large quantities. Maybe that’s why they sell thin slices,” Dr. Yadav, now retired, warns.
A few years ago one of the islanders had appendicitis and the island doctor couldn't do anything. They put out a broadcast for ships in the area for help - eventually one was available and went to take him to Managreva, from there to fly to the hospital in Tahiti. Unfortunately he died during the voyage.

Another incident with an islander having a medical issue, a broadcast was put out. There were no ships in the area. The situation was dire so they travelled to Mangareva by island longboat - two days over the open ocean - where he eventually was able to be medivacced to Tahiti.

Remote island life, with no airport, is definitely risky at times.
Yes - I used the term "freedom-oriented" but they are small-L libertarian organizations. Libertarians are freedom-oriented and advocate for private / market-oriented solutions to problems rather than government solutions
Thus it will be the end of space exploration for decades (or centuries) due to the Kessler syndrome.
That depends on who controls the software running on the car or phone. Determining your position via GPS does not emit any signals that can be detected; it's a purely passive process. If malicious software installed on the phone records the GPS data and later transmits it, then yes.

However, cellphones in particular do require the cellphone network to track at least which cell they're in in order to work, so in practice controlling a cellphone network gives you a pretty good idea of where all the subscribers are.

This is a big problem, and we need to figure out how to stop it if we are to enjoy the sort of freedom from government surveillance that people everywhere enjoyed since the Paleolithic until about 01998. The 20th-century results of giving too much power to governments are not promising.
I can handle interviews easily. Even non-technical ones. More often than not, I am able to come up with a rough architecture for the program while my boss is still describing it and adjust it as he adds more and more constraints or conditions. So I have that part covered. But what should I do if I want to change my technology (not that I want to, Python has plenty of openings for now)? I live in India where companies generally don't even shortlist candidates of interviews if they don't have a degree but I have never applied for jobs after gett6some experience
I mean - we're talking about different hotels. Here's the menu from orient express from Taj Palace:

https://www.tajhotels.com/content/dam/luxury/hotels/taj-pala...

Obviously, I realize you have a lot more experience with a wide variety of places, I was just making a comment that the contention from the article is at least plausible.
You're paid a salary to do experiments and publish, no? I'm not saying the other issues aren't serious problems.
There are 2-3 disagreements that did not get resolved, but none of them are major licenses. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_Public_License

Overall you're correct. The actual differences between free software and open source are trivial.
Yes, they can.

"Reasonable" changes over time, with available technology, and with the tolerance of the public. People don't much care for "We could've stopped that murder / caught that murderer, but we didn't use the resources available."

If there's a murder on a street corner, do we expect the cops to not pull camera records from every nearby store with an outward-facing camera?
A lot of people confuse being direct and honest with being an asshole.

To elaborate; To me, being an asshole means being mean spirited or verdictive without a purpose for the heck of it. On the other hand telling someone directly that their work isn't acceptable or that something needs to be fixed may feel harsh but it is absolutely necessary to cultivating a functional high performing organization. One of the biggest problems with large bureaucratic organizations is that no one is ever willing to say anything uncomfortable and thus none of the problems are ever dealt with effectively and they devolve into swamps of mediocrity.
I was the TA for this course at MIT last time it was taught in 2020. Ask me anything.
Isn't the problem that there's nothing preventing all of the registries of new gTLDs from suddenly starting to operate like that tomorrow?
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