skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>mostly Lithuanian criminals who traditionally work as the EU bridge for others

could you share any source for this?
Right -- so how do the different experimental needs of each field inform their different cultures?
The eye dropper is also quite useful for writing userscripts and userstyles directly on Android; I tap the element, hit preview to see what happens (margins, padding, border collapse, etc), type a note at the end of the element name and sirens it to the clipboard, then move on. Back in the editor, I just paste my notes from the clipboard, and I can quickly write up a stylesheet override for a dynamic webpage without resorting to debugging on my desktop.

I don't understand why Firefox mobile can't be used to debug another Firefox mobile, I I'd love it if I could open devtools off to the side and see a live tree view instead of manually prefixing the URL with `view-source:` only to find out the html doesn't actually include any content.
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What? That’s not how this works.

If the government gives me €1B and I go buy gold with it, just because I’ve spent it locally does not make it a productive use of proceeds.
Hey, it technically was a browser app. It just lets the shady developers browse the contents of your tablet.
Grandpa Amu is also fantastic: https://youtu.be/sUTiJ9mJ3RQ
You aren't clear; are you wondering whether an engine WITHOUT an ECU could pass emissions? If that isn't it, what did you mean? (Every new car passes modern emissions with an ECU...)
The definition of "physical world" is simply a network of cause-effect relations. Since conciousness enters into cause-effect relations with stuff we all acknowledge as "physical" (such as machinery, and indeed our own biology) this shows that whatever we subjectively experience as "conciousness" is itself physical. The fact that we don't know how that physics works under the hood (it's probably nothing close to ordinary mechanics and chemistry!) doesn't mean it's not part of the physical world. It's not "deeper" than physics, it's just more physics.
Space based solar is one of many interesting ideas that only works if you hand wave a lot of extremely hard or intractable problems.

Just to construct some massive structure in space is a monumental challenge. Every ton of solar panels or support structure needs some bus to get it to the right orbit and maneuver it in place. Even if you assume fully automated construction you need buses for all the construction robots and tankers to refuel them. Any collisions could scrap the whole project by making a debris cloud in the same orbital plane as the relatively fragile solar panels.

That all ignores the sourcing of raw materials, finished components, fuel, and buses to flit everything around. The "easy" answer is "use in-situ materials". In-space mining, refining, and fabrication are all entirely unsolved problems. Even the cheapest vapor ware SpaceX heavy lift rocket isn't cheap enough to build a space based solar plant with components from Earth.

The technical difficulty and cost would be ridiculous compared to just building ground based renewables. Ones of billions of dollars will get you gigawatts worth of off-shore wind power or ground based solar.

Unless you have access to literal magic there's no situation where space based solar ends up more efficient or cheaper than ground based renewables. The capital expense is literally and figuratively astronomical.
I ended up doing 2 bachelors, even combined it was nowhere near 80hrs contact hours, only the lectures were mandatory and examinable so I mainly focused on them.

But yeah FT work and kids leaves little left for amazing creations like this requiring copious amounts of free time which is something that gets more valuable when you have little of it, just unfortunate to only appreciate it in hindsight.
C'mon man, that was 5-6 years ago!
That's because you bought gold rather than purchasing productive aspects of the economy, which goes back to labor.

Buying up stores of wealth instead of purchasing services is a very bad way to stimulate the economy.
I’ll predict that there is a commensurate decrease in older generations fear of job security.

Guess we’ll be safe until 70, which is fine.
It's a good question as most games, including chess have few rules about making otherwise legal moves illegal just because they might be suboptimal. In novice games the other player might not even realize they can win, so it being illegal to stay in check is an oddity but one that's actually in the rules.
The artist has made several cool and similar things https://www.uselesscrown.com/gallery
Guess I need to learn how to dump the firmware of a dumb phone eventually. Does anyone have any advice about this? I'm reading some articles but looks like "dumb phone" consists of a wide range of phones from authentic Nokia old timers to who-knows companies.
If it’s being used as a “red phone” (pick it up and it immediately calls the other end), the feature that the parent wants to make sure it has is is “automatic ringdown”.
Voyeur laws could mean lots of these bosses could be looking at time. The camera consent might apply to the employee but if they think it is off and others are filmed including children, it is a huge crime.
Don't things like rice and potatoes give you a quick path to high calories?
> you'd be crazy to trust anything the NSA offers to make you more secure

You'd also be crazy to trust anything made by American gear vendors. This is not the only instance of this, just one of the ones for which FVEY got caught.

Is non-US gear also compromised? Yeah, probably. But the PLA and the GRU can't physically confine you to an 8x8 steel cage on trumped-up charges predicated on the data they exfil from your network.

Your best bet is to buy gear from countries either not-friendly or actively hostile to the country you're in. Sure, you're probably pwned, but they're not sending a SWAT team in an MRAP to shoot your dog, either.
There's a huge genetic variance in natural talent and response to training. Some people are just fast, and get faster with even minimal training. Others can follow an optimized training plan for years without significantly improving their speed. Most of us fall somewhere in the middle.
In one state I cannot mention, in Australia, there are at least 4000 of these things by the side of the road. During criminal cases its not unusual for a vehicles MAC address to be run through the database of collected data and matched to the vehicles location at a point in time. If the vehicle was also carrying correct plates then ALPR can be included. Prosecution gets to present a very pretty map with detailed timestamps.

I cannot mention the state because their presence is not disclosed publicly.
I think this is a little unfair to NIST. Some parts aren't entirely factual. For example while DES was specified at 56 bits if we discount parity bits, I'm not sure how much choice they had in this - I suspect NSA/US gov more widely here. NSA, which is distinct from NIST but obviously works with them, requested changes to the DES S-Boxes during design that resulted in better protection from differential cryptanalysis, a technique unknown to anyone else at the time. So the NSA weakened DES in one way but strengthened it in another.

A lot of this weakening of ciphers was US government policy at the time: crypto was considered only to have military applications so in the same way foreign countries don't get the full US-edition fighter jet, they also didn't get the full crypto.

DualEC was a mess, no doubt, and should never have been standardized. I'm guessing they were railroaded by NSA. What is bizarre is that everyone knew it sucked. Not only the backdoor potential but also that it was slow. In fact the backdoor was even patented: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC... which is my personal favorite part of the saga.

So while DualEC was a mess and the export policy was disliked, generally speaking the NIST process for standardising things is widely regarded.

Of course that does not mean you should trust them blindly, but examine the evidence. AES, SHA3, the lightweight crypto competition and the pqc process will all produce ciphers from largely non-US scientists and there are detailed discussions on the forums and at the workshops.

Of course if they decide to shut down these forums for discussion or ignore community consensus then there are definitely reasons to worry.
Big Clive's channel(s) (he has a separate one for live streams) have some of my favorite content on YouTube. He's super down to earth and just has fun with what he does, never taking himself too seriously while being very knowledgeable.
It could very well be worse than that.

A cultural shift may mean that people collectively decided that they will, for example, spend 8% of their income on eating out rather than 12%. That represents an aggregate decrease in demand and would indicate a negative sum game (something most of HN seems incapable of comprehending)
> Apple/Google isn't going to try and steal your identity, bank account info, or numerous other "small" things that some unknown and unaccountable company selling malware infected hardware could do.

They all could do it, but are you aware of any manufacturer-installed malware or rootkits on a device that have? They don't steal your bank account info or impersonate you ever as far as I know, they make money off you in the same way every other company does.

If we can't show any instances, then it becomes difficult to find this materially worse than what other tech companies do. It becomes more like embarrassment from being owned by a obscure foreign company rather than a famous American one.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The NSA's Backdoor in Dual EC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28404219 - Sept 2021 (87 comments)
I mean Pewdiepie still mostly just makes dumb videos of him and gets an absurd number of views, and has over 100m subscribers.
Animatronic human sculpture in bronze and stainless steel
I think that they will eventually become components not unlike current solar panels and inverters. I wouldn't underestimate the complexity of solar panels, there's massive continuous innovation just as there is with batteries.
See also windsurfing, snow blades, fat biking and a bunch of other sports that were briefly the next big thing.

Some of this is just the nature of fads but an interesting case can be made that, with the rise of the internet sports and decline of local shops the instruction infrastructure isn't there anymore: https://fredhasson.medium.com/how-the-internet-killed-windsu...

Obviously some sports are thriving but many of them have figured out a way to maintain a local presence despite online sales. Ie bike maintenance focused shops, the preference for locally shaped boards in surfing, ski and bike lift tickets, climbing gyms.
All the more reason to switch to Ethereum, which transitions to a low-energy proof of stake model in the next six months.
That makes about as much sense as you paying me to come clean my house.
Yes alcohol consumption is known to increase heart rate.

https://www.triathlete.com/nutrition/a-nutritionist-shares-w...
> Are you bothered when somebody says "implemented in C 99"?

Ironically, I felt this was your strongest argument because I am bothered when someone says that... like, I am first bothered that someone thinks the language their tool is written in is a selling point, but then I am additionally bothered (even somewhat enraged) that anyone considers their project being written in C99 (and not at least C++, and even explicitly so) to be a selling point!

Like, whenever I see "implemented in C99" I tend to be able to very quickly find a few buffer overflows or memory leaks as it is so hard to dot all your eyes and cross all your tees manually in every single function (with the consequent annoyance that I say the code is likely buggy, get challenged to find a bug, find multiple sometimes only even a few minutes later, and then the goal posts shift to "well we fixed the bugs you found, so we're fine")... and so I guess "implemented in Rust" us at least telling me the code that implemented the tool I am about to use is more likely to be correct? ;P
You did indeed find the point. Think about the "framing" the next time you hear people talk about "entitled free-loaders" refusing to work because they get the government cheese.
I love your Tappet Brother's analogy - it's spot on. The videos they do together are hilarious in a way that only two brothers could be.
Successful companies need no funding, this money would be better used for charging infrastructure.
The syntax is ugly and can become overcrowded, but is in the HIGH side of readable.

Compare:

def read(path):

What is path? Unknow. What it read? Unknow. What it return? Unknow

pub fn read<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P) -> io::Result<Vec<u8>> {

What is path? Anything that can become path on the file system.

What it read? Anything that can be pointed with that PATH

What it return? Vec of bytes or a IO::Error

PLUS: This code is compiled tot he exact types that call it, Path not allocate, the result can be cloned, the errors are defined in IO, ....

--

Rust is very readable: Almost any line tell you what is happening and what expect.

Where it get messy is when it hide that crucial info. But is not many times it happens.
With less than a thousand users, we can't really say anything about the demographic of the user base.

Let it grow for a few months and see.
Russia is already authoritarian state where people are jailed for no reason and USA is leaning towards it with left-extremists agenda.
I don't have a paper that has it all, I recommend reading as many as you can and find interesting just to get a picture.

You may start here, follow the citations and their references.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221703137_Thermodyn...
Has ProtonMail done anything wrong themselves, or is this just a case of them existing in the wrong country? If they refused to cooperate, could the government have just seized their servers and collected the data they wanted themselves?
With great difficulty... If I'm recovering from burnout, I'm burnt out... likely working at 20%, and then getting home and having no motivation to do anything. Lying on the sofa in some kind of vegetative state.
Isn't this to help people who are on social benefits, and cannot get a job otherwise?

Because Tesla is far from social benefits, and probably could easily affort to open a factory even without help
Not at all, it was focused on implementing backdoors and surveillance for decades before that.
This brings back memories of the Friday Night Skate in SF in the 90s (still going but not weekly I don’t think). Started out after the 89 earthquake on the closed sections of the freeways and continued as a skate through downtown. As a neat anecdote, it was regularly attended by Tsutomu Shimomura, the guy whose team caught Kevin Mitnick. A number of other folks from the hacker/phreaker scene were regular attendees too.
Both Julia and Python has a concept of public and private code, neither have a pub keyword.

I don't believe Julia or Python is "best practice" over Rust. I even empathize with the opinion that explicitness may be preferential sometimes. But you _must_ be able to see how Rust's syntax overload obfuscates the core business logic, right?
I never miss an opportunity to share this eulogy I found a few years back, written way back in the 19th century: https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/MDH/EulogyoftheDog.pdf
You’ve missed the point entirely, as that is precisely my point. Merely hand waving it away and saying “it was spent on local construction companies” is not a sufficient argument.

It takes a hell of a lot to justify these sorts of investments and usually the ROI doesn’t materialize for the State.
I don’t even know how you’d spend 15k on a bike. Maybe top of the line tt/tri with super expensive wheels. But even then. Id rather go full custom at that point.

5k should get you a super nice bike, stylish, modern and all that. Diminishing returns probably start well under half that.

Edit— I do know of a 14k bike, the Rene Hearse 80th anniversary edition. Handbuilt custom, and there are going to be 8 of them. I’d love to ride one, but … that’s a lot of money.
Same old recycled FUD, mainstream narrative.
Sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28425948
Rents in San Francisco Are Up 10 Percent
Economics is the junction of mathematics and human behavior. I'm not going to travel half a mile to a different taco shop if the closest to me increases burrito prices $1-2 (in an area that reliably has at least 1 taco shop every half mile). In some sense, I'm a captive audience. I'm hungry and I don't want to walk an additional 15 minutes to save a few dollars.
By this logic any technology “supports global warming” if it uses energy. Or you must accept that 100% renewable energy bitcoin does not emit carbon.

I think the argument is more a moral judgement against bitcoin which many view as a “waste”, even though that’s just someone’s opinion.
>"If you've never had to deal with it, you don't comprehend the danger."

I don't believe you need to experience something first hand in order to comprehend the danger. I've never visited an active conflict zone but I fully comprehend the danger of traveling to one for a holiday. Conversely I have friends in New Orleans who didn't evacuate for Katrina who also didn't evacuate for Ida. They obviously comprehended the danger very well. There will always be people who are stubborn, careless or possibly just have a much higher risk profile regardless of their personal history.

It's also odd to think that people wouldn't understand the danger of flash floods given that in the last 5 weeks alone we have seen the flash floods in Henan Province China as well as the flash flooding in Eastern Germany. These two flash flood events were major international news stories and you would be hard pressed to not have seen those images.
They standardize the investment amount/duration (6 months salary for founder), but don't provide any opinion on equity?
The threefold repetition has to be claimed, so the game can legally go on if both players overlook (or ignore) it.

There's also the fivefold repetition rule, which draws the game automatically.
'I have "serious reservations" about it--the polite scholarly term for saying that you suspect fakery.... Not one of the Danish and Icelandic scholars who I consulted at Copenhagen in May 1969 believes the Vinland Map to be genuine, although they have every national and sentimental reason to accept it as such.'

Samuel Eliot Morison, The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, notes to Chapter III, "The Norsemen and Vinland".
I think the argument is that their advertising is misleading (i.e. if they really didn't keep logs, there would be nothing to hand over)
Ask HN: What tool did you switch to from Notion?
If you can’t compete with a government that operates a fiat printing press you don’t deserve to be in business.
That's been true for a while.
Ah yes, if only you had more time. /snark
We don't need more of the "git-[whatever]" commands to be in scripting languages. It's hard enough to bundle, distribute, and support as it is (especially on Windows). Though, yes, parts of it are already Perl so that probably would have been fine, but still a move in the wrong direction.
You can chain calls in Rust. If read_to_end were written to allocate and return a fresh Vec, you could do this:

File::open(path)?.read_to_end()

but instead read_to_end is written to take a presupplied Vec so the caller has the option to reduce allocations.
You cant. Just getting a list of defined setintervals and settimeouts would help a lot, like you can access Event Listeners. Afaik devtools has no facility to do that :(
Of a well-known manufacturers, I noticed Xiaomi to do some real shit: it had an app preinstalled that displayed ads above other apps. But at least when I identified the culprit, it was possible to remove it completely and the problem went away.
Cheap Walmart bikes can be fine for fitness. The problem with them is the components are fragile and they tend to break quickly when used for intense training. A broken bike sitting in your garage isn't going to get your heart rate up.
Thanks for helping me understand Linux. Working to understand better how it works. I like your idea of Debian, based on what you said.
You may have run across Thomas Nagel via his What is it like to be a bat?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nagle+%22to+be+a+bat%22&t=fpas&ia=...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%...

> Nagel famously asserts that "an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism."[2] This assertion has achieved special status in consciousness studies as "the standard 'what it's like' locution."[3] Daniel Dennett, while sharply disagreeing on some points, acknowledged Nagel's paper as "the most widely cited and influential thought experiment about consciousness."
Virtually all the works are published as PDFs. (There are some other formats, occasionally DJVU, etc.) There's integrated compression, though this can still vary tremendously by docuemnt.

Recent publications are virtually always based on direct PDF renders, and tend to be a few 100 kB per article.

Older publications are often scanned from paper-based copies, and can be about 10-20x larger, depending on the source. These may or may not have OCRed text, and OCR itself may be of variable quality. For documents with images or diagrams, those also add to both size and difficulty in vectorising copies.

It's possible to go through larger scans and regenerate them as rendered PDFs. That's intensive and error prone. There's also a range of viewpoints on archival as to whether it's preferable to retain the full expression of the original published version (and often accumulated marginalia and other marks of a specific instance), or to optimise for both storage and automated processing through reprocessed renders. The costs are high (typically you'll require a human or multiple humans to proof each work), though the storage and line-transmission savings are considerable.

I lean toward the latter myself. The attitude of other archivists (notably the Internet Archive) is to capturing as faithful a replication of originally-published formats as possible, at considerable cost in both storage and accessibility. (This applies to the Archives work in print, online / Web, and other document formats.)

Pressed, I'd strongly recommend a "capture what you can, reprocess according to need and demand as possible" approach.
Even if the "cost" of getting the required infrastructure into orbit (assuming Earth-based manufacturing) was close to zero, the energy requirements would still eat up the benefits.

SSP only works if every piece of the orbital infrastructure is sourced and built outside of Earth's gravity well.

But that's not even the main concern with such system. The primary reason we won't see anything like this anytime soon is the simple fact that such system can easily be weaponised. An SSP is basically a potential space-based weapon. Even if there's no intention to use it as such, some governments are pretty much guaranteed to see it that way and proceed to install actual space-based weaponry in orbit.
The email solution is my plan. The banks/cc I use all have transaction alerts so I plan on parsing my maildir to automatically add transactions
> There are palettes that are designed to be compatible with everyone (except those rare cases with black-and-white vision, and full blindness).

Which palettes are these? All of them that I can find still have tradeoffs against different forms of dichromacy.
The brilliant part is that they did it in a way that remained undetected for so long. And the reason they could do that is because the backdoor already existed.
What sort of thesis is this? Does anyone bother to even do back of the envelop math anymore before having an opinion on something?

I asked for something very specific for someone who expressed a very confident opinion.