skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered: how much of time-consuming mental tasks will I have automated and abstracted away via computers in my later years, since I already try to automate away everything these days (I'm 45 with a bad case of RSI and arthritic pain). I even wrote a tool to automatically generate blogposts and churn out content on-demand. It's trained on the content of 100 blogs and pulls in content from Wikipedia to sound authoritative.

It makes me wonder: how much automation is too much automation? Will it be the case that I turn on my PC, login, then it just automatically comments on Hackernews, picks the best news from Slashdot for me to read, automatically updates my blog, etc I would miss the manual effort and mental tasking of all that. Is automating everything necessarily bad or good?
In this scenario, how would the first criteria be met? "Content is added surreptitiously to the DB"?

From my understanding Apple blindly accepts the list of hashes from their trusted soueces.
Virological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine breakthrough infections
How to Prevent Cyber Attacks on Water and Wastewater Facilities
Germany largest amusement park divided visitors into vaccinated and unvaccinated
https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/politik-inland/im-europa-...
The brine, which is a byproduct of desalination, is pretty devastating to local sealife.
Those rights are a subset of those granted by the GPL2, aren't they ?
Virological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine breakthrough infections in health care workers

Important finding:

"Despite similar Ct-values, we demonstrate lower probability of infectious virus detection in respiratory samples of vaccinated HCWs with breakthrough infections compared to unvaccinated HCWs with primary SARS-CoV-2 infections.

Nevertheless, infectious virus was found in 68.6% of breakthrough infections and Ct-values decreased throughout the first 3 days of illness."

We conclude that rare vaccine breakthrough infections occur, but infectious virus shedding is reduced in these cases.
I'm myself a big nuclear proponent and I would like to see bigger funding towards achieving fusion.

With that said, nuclear cannot solve the issues mentioned. It's great for base-load but not great to handle renewable energy variability. For that we nowadays use thermal power stations that burn fossil fuels and can be turned on and off easier.

So I agree on nuclear being part of a clean energetic mix but it can't fix the problems mentioned in the post above.
This lite.cnn site is awesome! Text without ads & trackers that bloat the cnn.com site.
I currently run Arch Linux under WSL2 for development. Project files are stored in WSL for performance, and I am using VSCode Remote WSL extension for editing. This setup is basically perfect for my use case: development and playing CTFs.

I am using WSL because I want games and Windows-only applications. Dual boot seems too inconvenient. Using a regular VM works too, but it isn't as seamless as WSL2. It can boot in seconds, sharing files with host by default, automatic memory reclaim...
It definitely seems like a lot of people have Xbox and switch or Playstation and switch whereas only the most dedicated gamers have both an Xbox and a Playstation.
So I think Trello is great for some things and on a smaller board with a handful of tickets it's one of the better tools around.

There are several 'weak' bits of the UI though, like not being able to open a ticket in its own window, having a clunky search and an excessive amount of horizontal scrolling on larger boards.
Eh, I feel like rewriting function pointers is a pretty standard trick, amusing (and definitely amusing that people are actually using it) but not terribly novel to the audience that finds these hacks amusing. Combined with the fact that the headline and issue is about the license/it takes multiple clicks to even find out what the library does, and it's not surprising that that's the focus.
Instead of doing that, why not dual-license your program under CC-BY-NC and AGPLv3, and then sell exceptions?
Ever Dream This Man?
I have heard lawyers argue that, because to run a computer program (or play a DVD or whatever) it must be copied into memory, software that doesn't grant you the right to use it cannot legally be used.
Why do you think that only corporate users use an automated license checking/compliance system?

If you do personal projects that are open source it's equally important to know what licenses your dependencies have if you release those projects to the public.
That shows its flawed, not junk.
I don't use those services for this reason. Apple was the last remaining option that didn't do surveillance.
I remember when HN was full of intelligent, well thought out discourse. More and more lately, we’ve been seeing people like the poster I’m replying to. I hope the mods get it under control.

What would it change? How about knowledge that could help prevent a future pandemic and the deaths of millions of people? Why do I even have to make this statement?
I’m not a Luddite by any means but it is time to be more honest about the limitations of AI.
Perhaps the OP live in Belgium. In Canada and the US 10 hours drive is an everyday thing.
> And given how hard Sony and Microsoft compete to pursuade games to be released exclusively on either platform isn't it a bit of different dynamic?

It is different. Both Sony and MS buy studios that end up producing exclusives.
The distinction is buses that a Bus Pass would or would not be valid on.
> detail, this "coupled account" problem is taken very seriously internally

I can say for certain that no, it is not something taken seriously.

I (loudly) complained to AWS enterprise support in 2017, 4 years ago, about this issue. Got escalated as high as could possibly be escalated (team leads of IAM calling my cell phone).

4 years later and the issue is unresolved. This is Amazon we’re talking about. There’s very little that can’t be fixed in 4 years.
Not fingerprinting, but related issue for microscopic hair comparisons:

The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.

Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo...
Visualizing Earthquake Data Using Matplotlib in Python
In a teaching environment, maybe it makes sense to use JupyterHub to give every student their own notebook in the browser. You can teach them how to set the thing up later, once they understand what the heck a kernel is and how the system actually works.
I'd put it much lower on the list of readings.

Complex domains are still around, developers should learn them before trying to come up with solutions but they're implemented differently: As services with clear boundaries, with explicit contracts.

DDD can be applied to the boundaries of services, within API contracts so they speak a common language. The unit of encapsulation of a service makes a lot of the implementation details in the book moot.

Problems that are more relevant today are service discovery, observability, low friction of computing provisioning as organizations grow. This sounds a lot like devops concerns. It's not purely so. It's the complexity that grows when organizations expand and add functionality to their software. Its outcome, tremendous complexity, is what DDD tried to tame in 2004.

To expand on the above:

When we began switching to services as units of encapsulation, we implemented boundaries, contracts, kept business logic separate. Did we match the domain perfectly? Often not, but the API contracts between services is easier to enforce. At a high level a standard can be set on how we should speak a shared language. This is most of the benefits I took out of Evans book. It happened organically in the industry slowly.

Localized, each service is easy to reason about, test, and refactor. Great. The complexity NOW is managing and operating these services for small to medium organizations (the same ones struggled with domain modeling and design patterns to tame their monolith in a previous era).
Exporting block devices as raw image files with FUSE
Being a journalist does not absolve you from wrongdoings. Wasn't the journalist who did the hit piece related to some religious anti-porn org?
> as far as I know there is no equivalent body of law governing usage. You can't give someone information but attach conditions to its use

There is, and you can. It's called patent law. If the author of this license also had a patent, they could deny others the ability to use it. But unlike copyright, you are not automatically granted a patent for your creations.
That’s actually a pretty good explanation. My Concise Oxford dictionary app has this:

coach(1)
/kəʊtʃ /

▸ n.

1 Brit. a comfortably equipped single-decker bus used for longer journeys.

2 a railway carriage.

3 (also coach class) N. Amer. economy-class seating in an aircraft or train.

4 a closed horse-drawn carriage.

▸ v. travel or convey by coach.

– DERIVATIVES coachload n.

– ORIGIN C16: from Fr. coche, from Hungarian kocsi (szekér) ‘(wagon) from Kocs’, a town in Hungary.
If manual reclassification is routine then what does that say about the AI?
The video does make a good point about the load capacity being at best half of what current trucks have. I wonder what the range would be at 45MPH vs 60MPH.
Satire doesn't work very well on the internet in textual context. That's why emoticons were invented.
> We are not making enough babies in the EU ourselves to take care of the elderly... so yes we do [need immigration].

Amazing.

That's right up there - identical premise - with the ever popular HN refrain: but who will pick the strawberries if not for the immigrants. Inevitably stated in most every thread on immigration.

Philosophically it's perfectly aligned with the big business types that also want cheap labor for exactly the same reasons: more people to take advantage of, more people to cast into cheap labor roles of servitude to the aging/dying/lazy/entitled affluent classes.

But how will we prop up our collapsing entitlement systems, which were poorly managed and poorly funded and poorly thought out, if we don't import massive volumes of labor to pay taxes so the entitled classes can pretend their system isn't failing and so those immigrants themselves can get screwed later on when the entitlement systems they're brought in to prop up are bled dry.
Wow good take. Appreciate this perspective. Let the system do its work!
Spot on analysis.

I sure do want more stability in my career.

I have been considering Java.

I see a lot of great resources for software architecture and design patterns with Java examples.

Java for sure has the most advanced resources available for my domain and the most job opportunities especially when you know Spring Boot and the like.
I don't believe so, since the GPL (like most licenses) conditions those rights on things like keeping the license intact. Also the GPL doesn't actually say anything about performance or display (which may or may not matter).
When your slippery slope includes the abolition of pre-trial discovery, it's a very slippery slope indeed.
For several years now, the Baseline Requirements set out a list of specific methods (the "Ten Blessed Methods") for how a CA may validate that the applicant is entitled to receive the certificate they've requested for a DNS name. It is not permissible for a CA to just do something else, even if there's an ACME feature that would enable it, unless it's listed as one of the Ten Blessed Methods (there are not in fact today ten of them) they mustn't use it for certificates in the Web PKI. In fact they're required to explicitly list which methods they use in their mandatory paperwork as a public CA.

To use a hypothetical automated DNS/HTTP hybrid, you would need to do all of (possibly proceeding in parallel) the following:

* Write up technically how it works. You likely want a complete ACME challenge method through the IETF process (ie you're writing an RFC probably with the ACME working group)

* Get both groups at CA/B (the public Certificate Authorities, and the Browser vendors) to vote in favour of a change adding this new method to the Ten Blessed Methods (section 3.2.2.4) with a condition allowing wildcards.

* Get at least one publicly trusted CA to actually offer your new method to subscribers for wildcard certificates.

This isn't at all impossible, but any two of those alone aren't enough to make it happen, you need all three. Personally I don't think this hybrid seems safe, and so I wouldn't support it, but I don't decide any of this.
oh, wow! You even converted 112 to 911. Nice touch :-)
if the fine is the cost of the externality divided by the odds of getting caught, then the incentives are still aligned
> Charging 50 million electric cars with a 50-kWh-battery would require 2.5 TWh of electricity.

I find much to disagree with in your comment, but this is the most clearly wrong part. Nobody fills up their gas tank every single day, and with a 50 kWh battery nobody is charging it fully everyday.
I drove 470 miles yesterday in a Tesla with two ~30 min charging stops. Honestly didn’t feel great and I wouldn’t recommend it —- but the stops really helped.
Methane is reputedly much worse for global warming than CO2 though. I’ve heard 4x worse before.

If that’s true then inevitable leaks of unburnt methane would not be a good thing at all.
If you do have an MRI, skip the contrast. They describe it as a harmless dye when in fact it’s a toxic heavy metal known as Gadolinium injected straight into your bloodstream, and is retained indefinitely by your body and deposited in your bones and skull: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-d...
I realize this won’t make a huge difference, but how much does the Diesel engine, transmission & drivetrain on a conventional truck weigh?
There's been a few relevant threads on how to switch. I have these two handy since I started them:

Non-surveillance phones:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28164208

Non-surveillance laptops:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28216287
As it gets more concentrated, the evaporation rate really drops (and boiling point goes up a lot), so less and less effective for cooling.
Firefighters regularly put out EV fires it just takes water from a hose. The biggest issue is a lot of the chemicals used to aid firefighting doesn’t work as well on battery fires. https://youtu.be/8n5Wf7TlGrU

Also, there are 200,000 car fires in North America per year, it’s extremely common. ICE cars are actually 10x as likely to catch fire as EV’s. ICE cars also frequently catch fire while parked.
That it doesn't give the answers the customers (police and prosecutors) want.

Which is mostly unrelated to whether or not it's accurate.
Sure, delete the cruft, but if you've got "too many" photos and videos, maybe it's not you: maybe it's your photo app.

I believe I have a novel approach to browsing your library that you might like. My users love it.

https://forum.photostructure.com/t/love-random-shuffle/790
It seems to me jail time without verdict is the real problem in this scenario — it’s not clear to me how that’s not “guilty until proven innocent”
The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy
ASK HN: Should I buy this successful business?
I have the opportunity to buy a successful solo-business (proven revenue for the last ~15 years). I am looking for some feedback from others with a neutral / devils advocate viewpoint.

The business is belonging to my father-in-law. He bought it 15 years ago from one of his business partners. The business is in a niche of the music industry and one of the best known in its niche. I have the option to buy the business from him for about 1/3rd-1/5th of the value, we still have to determine with an external source the "true" value, but we have a range where we both agree the value lies within.
The business is actively producing, whole- and retail-selling its products.

Here are the major positives I see:

* proven revenue for more than 15 years

* established brand in the niche

* I will be my own boss and be the only deciding factor for success

* I can take the company a level further, I have so many ideas what I could do and improve, mostly on the technical but also on the producing and selling side

* I already know many processes as I have worked for and with my father-in-law during my time at university for about 4 years

Here are the major negatives I see:

* don't do business in family

* I have to be my own boss and have all the responsibility

* my father-in-law might still want to have a say in the companies direction and future (I would be greatful for any insights/knowledge/help from him after transition but I could also imagine we have different ideas and that could cause stress as he is very stubborn about his ideas)

My current situation:

I am a 28 y/o backend developer at a startup, still in the early stage of my career. I make ok money but I am quite unhappy about the job. I will either search for a new job or take the opportunity and buy the business. I am leaning strongly to buying the business as I have always wanted to work for my own.

What do you think? What would you do? To me it seems rational to buy the company, but I might also be blinded and not seeing the reality (I tried to make the description as neutral as possible).
Hands on with OpenAI's Codex
Well, if you're in a particle physics Ph.D program and halfway through you decide that instead of doing particle physics you want to be a software engineer and build a clone of Mathematica Notebooks.... obviously the system is not going to support you all the way. I'm a big fan of Jupyter and am thankful to Perez for all the work he did for all scientific fields. But you shouldn't expect to get a particle physics Ph.D for it.
The fact that these stories go viral as often as they do suggests false positives are pretty common, and that the standard support channels are really, really bad at dealing with them. Whenever I read a story like this, complaining on social media was the company/user's desperate last resort, not their first step.

For every user who gets saved by someone at Google seeing their story on HN or Twitter, how many users stay permabanned because they just aren't social media savvy enough (or lucky enough) to get traction?

I would guess that the majority of false positive bans never get resolved.
Could part of the reason that the cash price is often cheaper be that dealing with the insurance company for pre-approval and claims is time consuming and expensive?
It’s also about building trust and a relationship with your child.

I also think this behavior is creepy and would do it myself. But interestingly it is preparing them for a world in which there really are no secrets anymore.
Which, if Andrew Yang is was correct in his thinking and sources, could be part of why there was a flood oxycontin & suicide cases, leading to Trump being highly favored by those regions... not going into the politics of trump being good or bad, but I think we can all agree human suffering and suicide are bad.
Absolutely no. I present different facets of my personality in different circumstances, because not everyone needs to know, or wants to know, everything about me. Work, family, public profiles, private chat and entirely personal spaces are separate for a reason. I don't talk about tech in too much depth with most of my family, and neither do I share my home address with everyone who checks my LinkedIn page.

Binding these personality facets into a single person also has the disadvantage that if my account gets banned in one social context, the repercussions will touch the other contexts too. Will an oversensitive PC/abuse filter on one service ban me from all my Amazon-based access? I don't know, let's YOLO and find out.
The US has the most troublesome track record of law enforcement abuse of "evidence".

https://innocenceproject.org/what-is-bite-mark-evidence-fore...

https://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/nathan-robinson-forensi...

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/ke...
The video argues that, with current battery technology, to achieve the same range as a current semi, most of the weight of the truck will be batteries, leaving little weight for cargo (3 tonnes relative to 19 tonnes).

I've noticed there is a common theme to arguments against electrification: that they assume it's necessary for an electric vehicle needs to match all the capabilities of a fossil fuel equivalent. i.e. trade offs are not possible.

Why can't the truck just have shorter range (and thus more cargo capacity) and charge more regularly?

If there was proper carbon taxing, the cost of the driver waiting around for charging would be mitigated by the savings made from avoiding carbon tax.

Similarly with electric cars, I'm happy to stop on a very long trip for charging if it means my environmental impact is significantly lower.

I'm assuming the maths in the video is correct. The key figure seems to be that you need 20kg of batteries to achieve the range of 1kg of petrol. Which sounds plausible, but I'm no expert.
I think it’s related. If it is good enough to put someone in jail there shouldn’t be any kind of need for manual overrides at all.
This argument doesn't make sense to me (under US law) given that

> (a) Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy.—Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:

> (1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner, or

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117
How about some examples? This thing was apparently pretty small. I'd like to see how they managed to pack in all these abilities in something just a couple feet across.
This is really very useful! Thanks to whoever made it.
Do you mean Chevy employees? For how many Teslas are on the road, there have been very few fires.
1) End all medical law suites. You enter care at your own risk.

2) Create more doctors. Stop the boards from restricting the total counts of doctors created. Flood the system full of doctors and nurses.

3) All practices and procedure costs should be made public and upfront.

4) End all drug patents. Flood university researchers with government money instead.

5) Expand medicare to insure everyone in the united states.
I've seen this argument before. Yes, perhaps I could have switched my OS back then.

I don't really buy the implication though. "The time to be angry is years ago"; "We should be angry with ourselves". If these are true, what are you saying? That we should suck it up and be quiet? That we missed our chance and need to deal with it?

Fairly sure this is one of those logical fallacies used on young children who forgot to use the bathroom before a long road trip.
Saygus - How I Got Suckered by an (Alleged) $10M Phone Scam
Is the "I do not give anyone permissions to use this tool for any purpose. Don't use it." actually a forbidding, strictly speaking?
No, the procedures and theory behind, e.g., bite mark analysis or fire analysis, are total junk.
Seems like a problem across all sectors, as I get closer to staff at a FANNGy company I hear from others it’s getting harder or the bar is becoming higher as just more people technically qualified try for it.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-overproduction-of-...
Pretending that this single event, a brand new latest electrical model from Volkswagen spontaneously burning, its just a normal statistic fluke and not a Highly Unusual event,
where there is nothing else going on...Reminds me of this:

https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25