skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it assault for the owner of the property to install a contained sound system in a building that they legally own?

All that would need to do is provide the squatters some written notice informing them that this building was selected for testing a non harmful experimental rodent deterrence prototype the purpose of which is to minimize the presence of known plague vectors. (High/low frequency devices are often used for this and similar purposes). By notifying the “residents” in advance, it establishes that they are made aware that the owner of the property, although not actively seeking the removal of their presence from the premises at this current time has given them fair warning that these devices will be installed and made operational at the provided date and they are not actually being asked to leave. The legitimate justification behind the use of the property for this purpose is to afford maintenance and safety upkeep on said property by minimizing financial losses incurred while income from the property through other means is not possible due to it being forcibly prevented from generating income due to the presence of the squatters.

Perhaps the rebuttal to this approach are zoning laws favoring the sole use of the property as purely no residential.

Another unrelated risk that the squatters open them self up to is for the owner to contact multiple strict by reputation inspection agency that is likely to find some reason why the area should be not approved for renting to individuals due to safety reasons while those flaws are amended. During this and before the owner could establish communication with several repair companies seeking quotes on the repairs needed to meet the livable standards again but document that the repairs are not currently possible due to the potential financial legal liability of performing construction while the building is physically occupied. If a building inspection agency classifies the building as unsafe for residents then anyone choosing to stay there with children would be technically liable for child endangerment and would be at risk of being reported to the French equivalent of the child protective services.

If you stare at the playing field long enough there are always legal checkmate moves in every game no matter how inconsistent or ridiculous, even the French legal system. There appears to be a pattern of justice miscarriage in the French legal system possibly calling into question whether or not any other nation should ever honor any French extradition request as long as they hold laws as silly as this and preventing someone from seeking to prove with modern forensic science whether or not they are innocent of the accusation of genetic paternal responsibility.

The flowers in their “bouquet of evidence” are less than fragrant.
I had a converted utility 4wd vehicle, spacious with a full bed and plenty of space underneath (custom-built platform). The one concern that I never figured out: how to keep our expensive stuff - laptops, passport etc - safe while we went out hiking. I looked at welding a safe under the car but never got that far, we since sold the vehicle. We're looking at getting a new camper and it's really for me the missing feature we'd want to invest in: a hidden safe. Has anyone done anything like that?
One offers incomplete protection do to how its designed, another has better coverage but is still in early development.
Correct, the biggest cost difference is because of vPro, which you probably do not need.

Keyboard and touchpad are extremely subjective. As someone who has used ThinkPads exclusively for a very long time and is a huge fan of the trackpoint, I have largely enjoyed using the Framework's touchpad. The keyboard I am a little less certain about. Not having dedicated page up/down/home/end buttons is really throwing me for a loop as I tend to rely on those for navigation a lot. Chiclet keyboards are not my favorite, but I haven't found it uncomfortable.
> At this point most of the people who are avoiding the vaccine have already gotten natural immunity

I don't agree with this statement. However, I certainly think there should be an exception to vaccines for people who have aquired natural immunity. In Hungary, if you have a documented recovery from infection, you are also granted an immunity card that can be used to exempt you from pandemic restrictions. I don't know how many other countries are using this approach.

While I don't like the idea of any kind of mandatory medical treatment, there IS public health value in ensuring that everyone partaking in potential super spreading events is immune.
http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=iife
They are expecting to get penalties for their privacy violations. Why would you not hold this against them?
> That's easy to write, but very hard to envision the scale.

We have this in Europe ffs. Almost all of Europe, parts of Asia (Turkey) and North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunesia) run in a synchronized-phase grid, and we have interconnection links to the insular ones (UK, Nordic countries, and a small one tying us to Russia). The entire former Soviet Union runs on a synchronized-phase grid.

America is the only developed country / large geographic area that does not run a single synchronized-phase grid.

> most of the power gets consumed along the way

Nope. Germany averages about 6% of transmission loss ("Netzverluste"): https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Energ...
Honest question: isn't there a risk of your emails getting preemptively rejected as spam by most mail servers if you self-host your own email server?
Personal responsibility is just a convenient excuse for selfish behavior. It's about constructing an elaborate story about why you shouldn't or don't have to help other people.

When you just throw out "personal responsibility" people stop thinking about the topic from a problem solving perspective and instead think about it from a moral perspective.

It's especially true when people call each other lazy. Most of the time they are the ones who are too lazy to figure out the real problem. For example. Just assume everyone has a credit card. Then you can blame people for taking pay day loans. The real problem is that they don't have a credit card meanwhile everyone will tell you an elaborate story how stupid you are e.g. for not having friends that lend you money.
thank you for this; the very first time i am hearing this (reading the overviews of high level books), and now it makes sense, but I did not do this as I was studying, nor was I told to, by my profs!

Maybe this needs a seperate set of resources to be maintained, say we read a book, it should have resources to suggest higher level texts that would be helpful for this review.
Current vaccine is less than 50% effective against Delta variant (40% down to 30% as immunity wanes over 3-4 months) and so vaccinated can spread it arguably just as effectively as unvaccinated; based on Israel's leading data.
Inaccurate? meh, somewhat misleading maybe. And a full "covid" wouldn't fit either, there's not even room to put in a space after the colon.

I do agree that it would have been better to cut in the other direction: cov-2 instead of sars.
ML-based type inference VSCode plug-in for GitHub Codespaces
Title is misleading, delivery is done by SES which is not built by the author.
Might be ignorant here, but to me the article reads like an excuse to use serverless. What I really miss is the testing story though, in my admittedly limited experience with serverless (Lambda and Workers) this was always a pain point I never really managed to overcome.
Survival rate for 20-49 is 99.98% according to the CDC.
That's really too little of a fine for them to care. Fines need to discourage the action in the future and at this point the fine is a profit for Facebook.
Do Not Disturb: Truly Disconnecting While Out of Office
That’s not the worst part. I actually get value out of that.

The most outrageous thing is that it sends me non-disablable notifications for tweets people have posted. Sometimes tend over the course of a few days. Like there’s no other, UX-wise correct way for that. Holy fuck, how stupid. Makes me dread opening Twitter at all.

Edit: Just opened the app. One smartphone page of only spam.
> It's probably a combination of larger watch sizes, new techniques/technologies, the usual upgrades, COUPLED with covid-related disruptions that are causing the delays!

I believe the explanation is much simpler, and it is they havent't yet finished moving manufacturing to Foxconn's Vietnam factory
Dynamic visualization of your WiFi signal
OR mav style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muddVllnGlU&t=665s
Do we want to eradicate COVID? Or do we think that it’s mild enough to not be worth the effort? There is no evidence that waiting for natural immunity will work. There is a list of diseases (polio, etc) where we’ve shown we can eliminate using mandatory vaccines.
I'm starting to feel that when people protest things they disagree with that it has less to do with the actual issue than with a desire to voice a contrary opinion in general.

I suspect that the opposition—even anger sometimes—is a lot less about vaccines, or abortion than some other unmet need that finds expression though this kind of opposition.

And I also think that even discussing these issues with the intent to persuade is futile and giving the protesters exactly what they are seeking.

I think it's deeply ironic that an army of well intentioned people fan out on the internet to 'educate' people who are against X actually end up giving the protesters what they actually want, free therapy for some sort of frustrated need to be heard.¹

Even funnier is that both sides are playing out this psychodrama while being completely ignorant of the actual motivations behind their behaviour.

1. Or maybe the need to exercise the power expressed by holding an entire state or country hostage via a virus...?
I think a clean rom is worth much already. Sadly Android One isn't too popular.

My name is Mr. Plant. Egg Plant. I am quite slim though, but I will always use burner accounts for Google services.

That said, I also don't use GPS/Bluetooth. My carrier probably doesn't talk to Google.

Sure, there is still data that gets leaked if you aren't careful, but you can contain much of it.
Hmmm. It'd be a neat litmus test for you to read The Big Sleep or The Maltese Falcon. Those are books from a very different time/aesthetic compared to Neuromancer but, in their own way, also defined their genre by being so tryhard they became sublime. It'd be interesting to see if you have a similar reaction to either of them--have you read those?
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". I have no idea how much a multi-gigawatt HVDC line costs per kilometre,"

Well there's the crux, ain't it? They're bloody expensive.

Also, to your 3.5% loss / 1000km line loss add in the transformation losses. Then consider that a 20k line must be a DC line (to avoid reflection losses).

Also, why did you use 20k km? Such a curious number, half the world's circumference, that I suspect you mean to propose to wrap the world in power lines to get power at midnight from noon elsewhere

Well 20km for your loss calculations is not nearly enough since you cannot connect two sites in a straight line. For starters the earth' topography won't allow it. But then there's the issue that you won't connect every city to every generating site, but have a hub-spoke model (like ethernet). To give you an idea of the added distance compare the straight line distance of Atlanta to Pittsburgh to the interstate distance (520 mi to 680 mi).

Finally, the proposal of connecting two sites on opposite ends of the earth is fundamentally hegemonist. What are you going to do with the fiercely independent people that tend to live in deserts when they oppose you wallpapering their desert with panels? When the Bedouins of Algeria are blowing up the electricity needed in Japan, will the EU send storm troopers to punish the locals?
I'd literally rather chop my own hand off than be with Virgin again. Countless problems, takes over an hour to speak to someone who has absolutely no clue, takes weeks for an engineer to come out, the speeds are never what they are promised.....hated every second with them. Regular provider can't give me the same speeds, sure, but at least their customer service is competent. And when my entire estate had an outage earlier this week I got a mobile router delivered the next day free of charge.
You're absolutely correct but how much scarcity impacts you depends on how high the scarce thing is up the hierarchy of needs. There is not an infinite amount of monopolies that ruin your day. There are maybe three important ones. The monopoly of money, land and patents. There are probably a thousand others but they just don't matter that much.
Ask HN: Cheap master programs for H-1B visa?
I'd like to work in the US as a software engineer, for that I need an H-1B visa. It seems tough to get one [1] and slightly easier if one did a master program there.

Does anyone know of a cheap university offering 1 year (preferably online but coming over for a year is fine too) master programs that guarantees being selected for the extra 20K H-1B visa lottery?

I'd probably be interested in AI or data science since I've always been interested in the application of machine learning but never got around to learning it properly. I wouldn't want to choose a degree that I have already done (e.g. master CS/master game-design) since in order for this to be worthwhile it (1) needs to be interesting and (2) give me better access to US employers and (3) needs to be affordable enough.

I know that what you guys are saying isn't strictly legal advice. It's simply a springboard for my research.

[1] I applied over 100 US companies, only one responded back and gave me an onsite (pre-covid so I flew to SF). Unfortunately, I wasn't selected due to lack of experience back then.
This technique is explicitly disallowed by GDPR though, so if you care this little you could dismiss the pop-up altogether and just collect the data anyway (and then wait for your fine eventually if you get caught).
I think the video on the DIY version page shows the extent of it. Mine came partially assembled because of some manufacturing reason, so I only had to throw in the SSD, RAM, and wifi card. Regardless, assembly should not require anything more difficult than lining up components and inserting screws.

Well, connecting tiny antenna cables is kind of a pain if you have fat clumsy fingers. But with a little patience it isn't a big deal.
That should be awarded with another badge!
>Users complain that Apple representatives insist the culprit is a small item or particle that gets lodged between the keyboard and screen upon its closing, even when that explanation runs completely counter to users’ experiences.

This reminds me of a problem I had with the cord on my MacBook Pro charger circa 2012. I bought an MBP new in 2010. This was, I believe, a time when Apple had been trying new formulations on their cables to eliminate BPA and PVC.

Less than 6 months after I bought my machine, the sheathing on the power cords started cracking and fraying at both ends. Same happened to my iPod/iPhone cables. It was a very dry winter indoor environment that destroyed pencil erasers, but other than that, I did nothing unusual to the cords. Eventually the sheathing almost entirely fell off and several feet of the cable was exposed, looking like twisted metal rope. It didn't seem imminently dangerous, though worrisome, and I was nowhere near an Apple Store so I ignored it.

My system was 18 months old when I was traveling and found myself near an Apple Store. I showed them my charger, expecting they'd agree it was obviously flawed and give me a discount on a new one. Instead, the employee was rather surly with me and told me it as clearly my fault. "You must have rolled an office chair over it." I did not own nor had ever used a chair with wheels. I explained that it started fraying at both ends for no apparent reason and I'd done my best to wrap it carefully every time. This was a $2,400 machine (in 2010). However, the warranty was one year and it had been 18 months. He told me absolutely not, it was clearly my fault and I could buy a power adapter at full price or take a hike.

I felt sufficiently abused to call and complain to a manager. The manager apologized and said they'd give me a 50% discount on a replacement. I thanked them and set it aside. Dealing with the surly employee had been somewhat upsetting and I had little desire to rush back to Apple. I ended up going in 2 weeks later, telling them the manager had approved a discount for me. The manager at the time said "WHO? I'M the manager on duty NOW and I didn't approve that." They proceeded to take me through the exact same process in which they told me it was entirely my fault, basically saying I was lying about not damaging it, and was SOL and could buy a new adapter at full price or leave. I was not happy about this.

I think I ended up getting a 20% discount or something, which is all I wanted in the first place.
I have seen maybe half of these films. I was able to correctly name some of them immediately upon looking at them: Wizard of Oz, The Matrix, The Big Lebowski.

Some were obvious after reading the title: Star Wars, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (never saw it), Being John Malkovich, Space Jam (never saw it), Miami Vice (never saw it), Office Space.

Some that I half guessed or felt like I knew the name of the film but could not immediately recall the name: Castaway, Mad Max: Fury Road, Edward Scissorhands (Thought it was The Nightmare Before Christmas but Tim Burton so close enough)

Obvious ones: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-language city
Asking Questions as a Software Engineer
Yup. There's not too many people out there willing to risk bricking their $1000 phone for extra permissions
This project is super impressive. It makes me wonder why there's not a similarly mature JavaScript AOT compiler implementation for use in game development or other places where you want performance better than a VM and you're not allowed to JIT.

A small recommendation for these release pages would be to link to the tag in whatever source host you're using! I just want to see the code.
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Yuri didn't die, everyone remembers it, I don't get your point.
'Under anarchy, uncoordinated competitive theft by "roving bandits" destroys the incentive to invest and produce, leaving little for either the population or the bandits. Both can be better off if a bandit sets himself up as a dictator-a "stationary bandit" who monopolizes and
rationalizes theft in the form of taxes. A secure autocrat has an encompassing interest in his domain
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Neat, thanks for the tip!
> Privacy Protection: No Tracking, No Google
That isn't surprising to me at all. The actual virus is going to present a wider range of target proteins, etc.

The question is whether you want to have the worst flu ever for weeks (as several friends have described it) with the potential of landing in the hospital, or get a jab. I will opt for the latter. I have poor 5G reception here anyway, so it will make it hard for them to activate the nanomachines.
Property taxes would like to have a word.
I only read about it when it was happening. From Googling around this seems to be a rough timeline: some 2011 Macbook Pros were affected, lawsuit filed Oct 2014[1], February 2015 Apple launches a repair program, May 2017 it seems to end that program[2]. The last public update I see about the lawsuit is from January 2015 [3]--at least, I think. I really hate websites that don't date their posts. I imagine the suit was dropped when the repair program was negotiated.

The source of the issue seems to have been lead-free solder, which was adopted in the mid-2000s and seemed to cause problems for a decade or so.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2014/10/28/apple-class-action-lawsuit-20...

[2] https://www.cultofmac.com/482762/apple-no-longer-repairing-2...

[3] https://www.whitfieldbryson.com/news/tag/macbook-pro/
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It's kind of all over the place.

The initial point is simply that Go or C# or Java in their normal form aren't "system programming" suitable (which generally means low-level kernels and system services and projects having similar needs. Notepad on Windows isn't system programming), and it's unrealistic for Go to be ranked highly on such a list, much less before Rust which is purpose built for this task.

Could someone use them for system programming? Sure they could. It would be the wrong tool but people makes loads of bad decisions.

The point about Linux and other operating system choices wasn't a rule, it was an observation that the rhetoric often plied on developer boards -- usually where developers want everything to be a nail to their skillset hammer -- has little correlation with the world. Nowhere did I exclude Ada or any other compiled, non-GCd (which Ada never uses when used for anything of any criticality) languages. Anything can make just as good of native code.
Can you just put the description next to the badge? I can’t mouse over on my phone and view source returns an error.
"if it happened to 30 people -without any facts- out of millions and if it's relayed by greedy attorneys then it's worth posting on HN"