skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think OP means they don't mind sharing their information with the search engine (be it Google, another engine that provides better results, or even a better Google in terms of results), _as long as_ OP has control over exactly what is being shared.

As an aside, I do see the trend for some companies to provide this control nowadays. Even Google is doing it (e.g. you can auto delete your information, or turn them off completely): https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy

Of course, whether or not you believe Google is doing what you have configured in the backend is another question... and there is nothing anyone can do to actually make you believe it short of giving you complete access to the entire Google backend. Or is there a way to verify without exposing? Maybe an interesting research topic...
And the SR-71 is so simple the complexity falls off a cliff at the engine, hence your inclination to only care about that in comparing the two.

The space shuttle is like a reusable mobile space station, airlocks and all. Occupants of the SR-71 wore space suits the entire time, there's a lot of minimalism on display in the SR-71 which is a large part of what makes it so glorious.
> Research AI generates original text based on your input, so you can be assured about originality.

Somehow I am not assured.
This article has a pretty good explanation, IMO: https://freecontent.manning.com/all-about-bloom-filters/
Unbreakable Glass Inspired by Seashells
NYT can clutch pearls about bad bicyclists all they like but it's a minuscule problem compared to the horrors of car culture. Go Paris!
So few things wrong here:

a) Bit rate has improved from 256kbps to 320kbps.

b) It's a lossless path all the way to your Mac which encodes and streams AAC to your Airpod. There is no psychoacoustic treatment since obviously you use Airpods for tasks other than music which it would interfere with.

For me personally I have noticed a significant improvement with using lossless audio with my Airpods.
Turmoil at Bezos' Blue Origin: Talent exodus after CEO push for return to office
Indeed, it's not always language design team's decision to implement e.g not reified generics (Java) / reified generics (C#)

or ship Task<T> as class instead of struct like C#
> maybe we should try and keep taxes low, services more efficient, and have alternatives to government-provided services for features we want of society.

Yes, but the army of parasites whose livelihood depend on the inefficiencies you describe beg to differ, and do so most efficiently.
There is a US campaign for this kind of carbon tax that gets paid back to the people:

https://citizensclimatelobby.org/price-on-carbon/

This is something even conservatives can get on board with.
But that's not a fault in the program. That's a fault in its execution environment revealed by the program.
Google also scans your nudes.

In fact every cloud provider that you upload your images to does.
There have been fundings in the other direction, as well. In Austria, if you're running a business, you're automatically member of the Österreichische Wirtschaftskammer, WKO, (Austrian Chamber of Commerce) and paying a fee to run this. A few years ago, when climate awareness was already much a thing and everybody was trying to get rid of those things, the WKO was funding 50% of any costs of an oil fired domestic heating boiler out of these funds, as long as this was installed by a local firm. I had a hard time digesting the self-laudatory letter by the WKO on the matter of this "feat". (As it happens, the party dominating the WKO is also the major partner in the current government.)
It sounds real condescending to say "it's weird to have to say this to such a smart crowd."
Take your favorite broad or card game, recognize the game state and suggest an optimal move.

I've created a bot for the card game Set years ago using classic computer vision. Should revisit that when I get my OAK-D Lite camera.
> The narrative that change happens through the mass public getting angry, forcing politicians to respond, is overblown at best.

It used to work. As recent as a couple decades ago at least. The Arab spring that swept Middle East and parts of North Africa in 2010s comes to mind.

Protesting and going to the streets, depending on where you are in this world, feels more like a dying art today rather than the stuff of revolution we've associated them with in the past. Feels wrong just typing that.

Maybe we've just become insensitive to it all and do not have the will to fight governments.

Maybe our collective thoughts and ideas are more homogenous than ever before.
>I still can not fathom how Wayland could even exist this long without any decent way to do screen recording and I also do not get why there is no official protocol or at least extension for this!

It likely won't ever get an official Wayland extension, for a number of reasons. Screen capturing is inherently insecure and so it shouldn't really be happening over the Wayland socket. It also doesn't need to happen over the Wayland socket or be related to the windowing protocol at all, attempting to do it that way is just re-accumulating technical debt left over from X11.

>I fear that this means if flatpak does not need a feature, even if it makes sense in another context, it probably won't ever be implemented.

I wouldn't think of it so much as just flatpak, but the API needs to be usable from within a sandbox, and it needs to be done in such a way that it can be reasonably presented to the user.

>For example something I require for my project are proper window names and their position

This is a really bad idea, don't do this. This is guaranteed to mess with the window manager and run into any number of syncing issues with window sizes being reported incorrectly. It's also a misuse of the screencasting API. I checked the issues you posted and I don't think you're going to get much farther trying to hack around the API. If you want to do this right now then you'll have to integrate with the specifics of the window manager or shell. There is no way around it, I really doubt you will get much interest in doing it another way.
What is the size of the "nondiscarded information" you must save in this case?
Yes, Yes, they would.
This spill was from an oil rig, not a tanker. Do rig and pipeline spills follow the same trend? Haven't found data on rigs yet, but pipeline spills do not.

Pipeline incidents have been roughly constant over time: https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages&P...

Edit: Also, the data you referenced comes from an organization that's run by oil companies and tanker operators (https://www.itopf.org/about-us/the-board/). I doubt they'd just fabricate data, but they are incentivized to massage the definition of what counts as an "oil spill from a tanker". If I were relying on this data I'd probably want to find an independent source.

Edit 2: NOAA data of all spills does not show a downward trend: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/raw/index
My opinion it would be better politically if the government used carbon taxes to help people switch away from fossil fuels. It's one thing to pay a carbon tax as a Calvinistic Punishment for carbon sinning. Another if you think the tax is actually solving the problem.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8806723
MC Frontalot did a song about exactly that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUPstXCqyus
Conference of the Future of Europe: Share your ideas
Science is the application of the scientific method, and mainstream economics fully adheres to the scientific method.

There are heterodox schools, such as the Austrian school, that reject the scientific method, and these are definitely not scientific.
I'm not doing any such thing, hence the phrasing of my comment.

Your comment seems to imply you think the most/all of the remit of the CIA is or should be invalid. That position doesn't contradict my comment in any way.

That is a rather different claim than saying that premptively pursuing ransomware gangs in other countries is outside what the relevant decision makers view as the remit of the CIA. To me it seems to clearly fall in-line with their historic actions (as long as the cyber ransomers are outside of the country.)
It is obvious advantage if you have nice surround spraker system that is not made for movies only but is good enough for listening of music. I tried this with Apple TV and 7.1 system and it works quite nice.
For headphones it makes sense if they react to your head movement like some airpods do. When I first watched movie with iphone and airpods pro in spatial audio mode, I had to remove headphones to check that the sound was really comming from them and not from phone. It is actually quite good. I haven't listened to music like that yet.
I went back to 1959 to ask Gordon Moore. He wasn't too far off on his guess. I do hope he heeds my advice and invests in bitcoin.
Shrinking the world would be a good use of it if we could get it to work for commercial air travel (and if we solve the sonic boom problem, but that's another issue a different part of government is working on)
It's nought but shoddy journalism to see such an article written without due respect for Paris' bike sharing scheme Vélib, which was one of if not the first major city bike sharing scheme globally. Fast forward 20 years and China's had a billion-bike share bubble. Also no mention of French historical significance in the field of cycling, Tour de France, etc. Paris is still à l'avant.
pure opengl wrapper: https://github.com/cginternals/globjects
> Anyone who is into music just owns their favorite music in lossless

Apple has access to the 24-bit masters [1] so when they are encoding they have access to far more dynamic range than if you are ripping from a CD in lossless format.

For me being into music I want the best quality so will be sticking with Apple.

[1] https://www.apple.com/apple-music/apple-digital-masters/docs...
You can also say it works on BSD (macOS), but that has no relation to other BSD flavors.

Tidal doesn't seem to support it on Windows:

> Listening to Dolby Atmos Music on TIDAL using headphones only works when connected to Dolby Atmos enabled Android smartphones and tablets today.

From: https://support.tidal.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004255778-Dol...
"Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first." - https://www.home-assistant.io

Using undocumented, hard coded, third party DNS servers does not seem "privacy first". The hard coded DNS servers cannot even be disabled.
Oh I'm very aware. I get to enjoy paying for WKO as well and wish I wouldn't have to.
Seems like the "massive oil spill" from the link is equivalent to half a year of natural seepage from this single seep field.
> Research AI generates original text based on your input, so you can be assured about originality.

This is impossible to guarantee with current language-generating model technology, and will likely make IP lawyers salivate and review boards cringe. (case in point, the recent GitHub Copilot outputing-unique-code-verbatim snafus)

Not even OpenAI guarantees that generated output from GPT-3 is original, just that they won't enforce copyright.
The first sentence grabbed my attention, and I was looking forward to learning about the "threat that surveillance capitalism poses to democracy and human autonomy". But then the article fell flat: he gave no examples of that threat, and neither did the linked article in The Guardian.

Are there specific examples of this type of harm? The only complaints that he made were that Google makes a lot of money (which I have no problem with), and that Google's conduct feels "creepy" to him (which is merely an emotional reaction).

He did hint at Google "modifying your off-screen behavior", and I was eager to learn about that as well... but then he left that unexplored too, and gave no follow-up or examples of that intriguing scenario.
How about you turn it off? If you instead seriously disconnected from the internet I can only assume your PC skills to be nonexistent. Maybe write on a typewriter instead.
Read the linked slides.
Yay. Any news about updates on the Linux front?

I saw Ubuntu had a new version of Linux-firmware posted since last time I updated, but I’m not continuously updating so I’m not sure if that’s this thing or something else entirely.
Retraction Watch
Google is doing this for Chromebooks. If they want to lock out other vendors from making Chromebooks, they don't have to make a custom CPU, they'd just have to fork Chrome OS and Android. But they don't want to corner the Chromebook market, they want wide adoption.

> And because they are not OEMing this hardware, they really have no incentive to be cooperative with the others. Similar to older gaming console that had custom and experimental architectures.

What exactly is this referring to? Are you saying that game consoles should only use chips that are available to other manufacturers, or that every game console should be an IBM-PC compatible, like the first Xbox.
Introduce tax for citizens but reduce taxes for companies that would be affected by it?

Does that sound idiotic only to me? You reduce taxes for these companies... so they can afford to keep polluting the same as before, and place the burden on the end consumer? Uhh, what?
PSA: Before posting comments decrying military spending, please recall that our species now exists perpetually under threat of Mutually Assured Destruction from nuclear weapons hanging overhead.

Your entire way of life is predicated on this fact.
I suspect it will be seen as wealth redistribution by creating a new tax and thus would not be supported by most conservatives.

I think to get conservatives on-board you would have to mandate that all income from such a tax is used to remove or reduce other taxes.
There's a rock shop in Joshua Tree that regularly has a line out the door on weekends, or at least did pre-pandemic.
The thing is, there are no ingenuious schemes. Offshore companies are just a tool everybody knows about. For a wealthy 1% having an offshore company is just a norm. Or several of them, for that matter. And our everyday discourse is defined by those 1%. Jeff Besos owns The Washington Post, for damn sake.
> I had to remove headphones to check that the sound was really comming from them and not from phone

I had this experience as well, I kinda liked it but suspect it will be divisive. Also if you switch positions it takes about 5-10 seconds for the system to recenter itself; until then it thinks you're looking left/right.
Sorry my statement was both generalized and specific at the same time, and that did not turn out well. How many visits does your blog have daily? And what would it take you to remove your site from Google index?
That would require a progressive, rather than moralistic, sales tax.
Read through the homepage, but not entirely sure --

Why not just train on Spot Instances with a retry implemented?

I see that SpotML has a configurable fall back to On-Demand instances, and perhaps their value prop is that it saves the state of your run up to the interruption + resumes it on the On-Demand instance, but why not just set a retry on the Spot Instance if its interrupted?

I'm failing to see what is different about SpotML vs Metaflow's @retry decorator and using AWS Batch: https://docs.metaflow.org/metaflow/failures#retrying-tasks-w...

If you're in the comment still, Vishnu, would love to hear your thoughts
In the comments on the first page, he says it's custom written in TypeScript and not open source yet.
Docs are also still copyrighted works. Copying them verbatim might be violating the rights of the original authors.
Also, I'm sure they "abide by and push open standards"... the same ones they created and churn constantly.

Chrome is definitely NOT open source --- you may be thinking of Chromium, but then it doesn't matter anyway because they change it so often others can't compete.
How a such hypersonic missile locks a target? Does it use a radar or some optic system? I guess that plasma around the body might disrupt conventional guiding systems.
Drone Swarm Fails, Falls from the Sky
This is a joke? How does one bright enough to grasp that thing can come to the conclusion that this is a good idea
Excellent quote
In my experience (having worked with both for a decade or so), NoSQL is valuable when the desired performance characteristics and consistency needs diverge wildly between ‘relations’/entities. You run across similar with file systems and database boundaries.

Have a lot of data you need stored where there is limited relation between them directly, and attempting to be transactionally consistent across the boundaries there and the rest of the system is going to very expensive? Then doing some part of the data in a nosql db and the rest in a ACID compliant database is probably a good idea.

Similarly, putting 50GB vm images into a nosql db is probably pretty silly when it should probably be on a proper filesystem, or at most copied out and written back periodically.

And putting a bunch of data that is tightly coupled together and needs to be transactionally updated to ensure your dataset doesn’t turn to gibberish in a NoSQL backend is going to be a nightmare.
> A new Fed paper suggests nobody really knows

And no one is surprised, least of of all economists (whose livelihood depends on it but know exactly how much BS their field is) and politicians, who, like tribal chieftains of old using sooth-Sayers to give justification to their decisions find economists very useful.
Faster Maven Builds
Such pettiness in this article. If anything all the problems listed are caused by a car-centric urban planning and not the bikes themselves. Most big european cities are slowly restricting car access to their center and that kind of change takes time.
Fantastic move by Austria, finally someone get's it, and is going to do it in a fair way instead of crap gimmicks!
Is this safe for humans? Like if my daughter were to suck on the cable.
How did the US fuck over Russia in WWII? And are you aware of the billions of foreign aid many countries get from the US which is tied to issues like human rights, freedom, and democracy?
Yeah, if they manage it like Covid, people will riot. Everyone likes to talk about reducing their carbon footprint and shit, but push come to shove, no one wants to give up their lifestyle. Especially not the middle and upper classes.

In the end, a bunch of people will just have to die, it's the only real solution.
Until they change the rules again...
> this is called "laag frequent geluid"

"Nuisance due to hum or low-frequency noise", in case anyone was wondering if it was literally a higher level of cricket-awareness in the Netherlands.
The faster you go and the further you go, the more energy you use. We have limited resources and these technologies damage our planet.
Economists are really good at providing explanation after the fact, which makes people feel good because it feels like they understand what's going on.

That's why economists are still in business to this day.

However, when it comes to predictive power, the entire field's output is exactly nil.
Thanks for calling out that is considered an insensitive idiom. TIL I learned that it's factually incorrect, too.
And PM of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers_case
Limiting the current to what the cell manufacturer specifies is not hard.

I don't think fast charging is a good idea anyway because it wears out cells faster, but that's another rant...
He didn’t evade any taxes. He avoided taxes and did nothing illegal. Same story with a lot of these latest leaks.

Immoral? Debatable. But the lack of action is because of the lack of a crime.

The action should be to propose new legislation that changes what taxes are collected, where, and when.

The main crimes exposed in these are money laundering rather than tax evasion.
The current crypto bubbles seem to be working on the "greater fool" theory, same principle can be argued to underpin MLMs - your downline are your "greater fools", and you only make money so long as you (or your existing fools can) can recruit more fools.
> The difference between dynamically and statically linking doesn’t change the patching story

I think there are some edge cases where the mainteners will always be caught between a rock and a hard place and the only way to move forward is to involve the application developers - at least as long as library compatibility can't be defined more rigidly.

As a dev, you'd like to pin the versions of your dependencies as tightly as possible, so you know the library will behave in production exactly as it did in your tests.

As a maintener, you'd like applications to specify their dependency versions as loosely as possible, so you can transparently update a dependency in case of critical patches.

This means, there can always occur a case where version x of a library has a critical vulnerability but version x+1 breaks the assumptions that the software is making.

No matter if the library is linked statically or dynamically, this situation can't be solved by the maintener alone.

Of course the GP is also correct in a sense: If applications bundle libraries or set tight version restrictions, it's now the responsibility of the developers to track critical vulnerabilities in all of their dependencies and integrate the patches as quickly as possible.

The problem with bundled libraries is that now we have to trust every single developer to get this right.
Help me Escaping from mom who wants me dead
What sorts of posts cause this in your experience?
Any well run company will reduce its emissions if it’s cost effective, independent of whether the cost of pollution has been neutralised by a tax break.
Hey I reposted this article

The conclusion of the article says:
"... it's not a magical solution. The reasons for financial exclusion are rooted in deep inequality"

What kind of articles do belong on HN?
> My opinion it would be better politically if the government used carbon taxes to help people switch away from fossil fuels.

The province of Ontario originally had a cap-and-trade system where the fees collected would be used towards transit and other 'green' projects. There was an election and that was rescinded, so the province default to the national plan (which they challenged legally, and lost per the above).

If people want "market" solutions, then carbon pricing and cap-and-trade are the two ways to do it. The latter was used by the US and Canada in ~1990 to successfully deal with acid rain.

> It's one thing to pay a carbon tax as a Calvinistic Punishment for carbon sinning.

It's not a sin tax: it's paying for the pollution that is currently externalized. Price signalling is hardly moralistic.
What you mean? The post has the full author name at the bottom. And the front page of the site even has a eulogy for his wife that passed away, both people with full names and even what state he lives in. Pseudo-anonymity? What more do you want from the guy, his street address and phone number?
I'm actually not against the idea, but very much of what the WKO is actually doing. As it happens, the WKO is probably the most pronounced enemy of small businesses in the country. (And it's kind of funny having to pay your enemy. I guess, this is kind of a luxury.)
Apple II Audio and the Mockingboard
I think we can assume that all intelligence agencies are intertwined with organized crimes in some way. It’s not like spy activity is completely legal anyway.
I like this one:

https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/7139/files
It's very simple - we are well fed.
More like a month, at 42 gallons per barrel.
Seems like it is serving the loud voter base - climate activists, meanwhile the real impact of climate change through power generation, agriculture, construction industry, aviation, etc. is being swept under the rug.

In California, the last nuclear powerplant was shutdown this week. I am going to do what I can as a responsible citizen for climate change but I am not a fan of this asymmetry.