skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Woah, in the US that’d likely you get killed regardless of skin color.

Any UK folks around to comment on whether this advice is actually usable there?
Because Microsoft is a platform company.
I'm skeptical that future technologies will have much use for neutrinos specifically. Facts discovered via the study of neutrinos, that seems quite plausible, but I doubt there will ever be much use for neutrinos directly.
Oracle bought Java and Java is pretty good under its patronage. Better than Sun, at least in last years.

Oracle provides RHEL build and it's pretty good. No CentOS drama, it's free and just works.

I think that Oracle can execute well.
The fundamental invention of tomography was by by William Oldendorf who inspired Hounsfield.

He used a record turntable and a toy train to prototype his early ideas.

His egregious exclusion from the Nobel prize was deemed a political decision by the Europeans committee due to ongoing patent matters.

Edit: For anyone interested in medical tomography, check out the current cutting edge, a bedside(!) MRI using two huge rare earth magnets[2].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Oldendorf#Role_in_d...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computed_tomography

[2]https://hyperfine.io
It would probably be fine as long as you do it calmly and don’t make any crazy sudden moves. The current climate would make it even easier. But I’m not a habitual law breaker so not really into running away from cops. By ‘running away’ I take that to mean move yourself calmly to a more public / busier area rather than obviously trying to disappear into the night.

Edit [I’m from the UK and offering a UK perspective. I have been accosted calmly by UK police and I have UK friends who are officers.]
That is a big part of it I think, and just being able to provide meaningful names for code/documentation/discussions makes a huge difference, though I'd say communication problems alone don't tell the whole story.

Even when you're just working alone, having seen something before and knowing the theory/literature means you can build on it instead of wasting time thinking about how to reinvent the wheel. Like you can imagine someone who knows nothing about ACID or transaction isolation being frustrated by apparent concurrency bugs in their database and hand-rolling some abomination of a locking mechanism to manually serialize database transactions. They're going to waste a ton of time on that, and it'll be fragile and have terrible performance. Or if you're working on some task tracking application and wondering about how you can untangle dependency relationships for users, you should have a basic suite of graph algorithms in your head so that you can use them effortlessly and focus on the actual problem instead of being mired down in retreading basics that every CS graduate already knows.

Also it doesn't seem like an issue of communication in the case of the homebrew guy; he was just stumped.
What I am about to say has nothing to do with endorsing Apples decisions. But people in developed countries tend to miss what happen in less favorable places. Two major problems: Robbery and used iPhone scams.

Where I live, I often decide to leave my 12 mini at home because I don't want to be robbed. If I take it, I cannot take it out of my pocket until my destination.

They steal you, if you are lucky that's it. If you are unlucky they hold you at guns point or knifes edge until you remove your iCloud account. Cops can't do much, as they use minors to do the robbery and police can't enter the places they disassemble the iPhones, not even if your FindMy is pointing exactly where it is. Minors caught are released after about 12h of being held and are found doing the same thing next day.

When you want to sell/buy used iPhone, you might also be at risk. You can be robbed trying to sell and you can buy a completely remix of a phone from scrapped parts and non original parts that put together can barely work. People repairing sometimes never had formal training, and it could affect safety.

I wonder if Apple considers this at all. It would be naive to think any of what Apple is doing is intended at developing countries safety, but I can't stop thinking the warnings about non-legitimate parts would maybe help people buying second hand, and there is a very small hope in me that it become less lucrative to steal phones in the future.
>the dirty dozen concept seems global at this point. i've referred people to this list by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), though i don't know that it's better than any other: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/dirty-dozen.php

>note that the recommendation for these produce items is to buy organic. there's a complementary list (clean fifteen) of the least polluted produce, for which buying regular is fine: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/clean-fifteen.php

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a political lobbying group for the organic industry.
I cannot quantify either the short or long-term risk, at all. I've followed Bitcoin since nearly the start, and I remember the bubble in 2011. It went to $31 and then fell to under $1 and did not increase over $31 again for nearly two years. I remember the 2013 bubble. It rose from about $15 to $1200 by November 2013. And then fell to $200 by January 2015. It would not exceed that again until the run up until the 2018 bubble.

So, is it a bubble now or not? I don't really know. Based on the previous pattern, if it is, in two years it could be worth 10% what I put in. Well, long term the trend is up. Those plateaus do peak again higher. Which brings me to the long-term risk problem. What if many countries move to ban or heavily regulate it -- before the next bubble? Or anything else. Technical, political, economic. Cryptocurrencies are a lot newer than gold or real estate or stocks. So many unknowns still.
While I'm not a huge fan of these devices, that more seems like a cultural problem than anything else. Why on earth would anyone be concerned about someone walking at night? That seems... normal.

I'm pretty sure when I go for a walk (since WFH, mostly late at night) I show up on _hundreds_ of cameras, mostly business and traffic CCTV systems (it's an urban area). That doesn't bother me. It would very much bother me if my neighbours were reporting me to the police, though; that's a neighbour problem, not a camera problem.
Haiti here. WhatsApp took off because SMS was still not free and the providers were rent seeking. It was either send 10 sms or have 50mb for exchanging messages. People even got to learn how to share the binary when their Play store got outdated. Phone call is still used a lot because 3g networks reception varies and people still buy feature phones. But SMS is gone and a lot of people disabled notifications for it as it’s only used for ads by the provider (and it was a big issue with the government tried to run health campaigns there). The next one is telegram for movies and TV shows sharing (no theater here). So yeah, WhatsApp has a lot of appeal here and no one care about privacy.
I think the 'no overspray' aspect of this is probably a bit oversold, given that there doesn't appear to be any novel technology here - just close spray through a flow orifice. People who are willing to pay for this kind of service want clean, high contrast lines. Tape does a great job of this, I am skeptical that this can compare. If it does I'm sure it'll be huge though.
Not disputing any points in general, interesting read. But in the end of the article: the fact that he has many bank accounts may be used for accounting purposes? The document doesn't say if the bank accounts are with different banks or with the same bank. And it's not like he has 250k in each bank account, which would allude to FDIC insurance limit, either.
Magisk can fake them for now, but only because Google still supports some pre-TrustZone phones. On newer phones, you can't fake TrustZone, and eventually older phones will just always fail SafetyNet.
How does it insist? Chrome works without signing in just fine. You'll lose Google synchronization obviously, but that's about it.
Prices are extremely high and I don't like the mental burden of the price volatility. I don't see a fundamental reason why buying now means that you can expect returns in the future. That's my actual reason. I don't mind speculation, I just don't see the reason to buy or hold crypto right now.

The twitter thread you linked to is just a joke. First of all, it assumes that crypto will keep going up. Secondly, it talks about addressing inequality which it demonstrably doesn't. Inequality is the whole point especially if crypto is a good investment - getting in early is better than getting in late; buying is better than not buying - that's inequality. Crypto reorders wealth based on who bought the most at the earliest point in time.

It rubs me the wrong way when people use these moral justifications to defend crypto because it's plainly manipulative bullshit which is used to get in more suckers so that the prices can stay up.

Then there's people talking about the technology, or finance, or economics... most of those arguments for crypto aren't just wrong but very often the exact opposite is true.
A pregnant woman had her car flipped with a (horribly performed) PIT maneuver after she tried to make it to an exit before pulling over.
I wonder if this will work in the U.S. I remember reading a story on Reddit - this woman drove half mile more (night time) before stopping for a cop, because she wanted to stop in a well lit area. He arrested her for this, even though she had done nothing else wrong.
This post is poorly written. It implies slavery is an US-specific phenomenon, and uses a lot of charged language in its descriptions. Too bad, because I’d like to hear the truth about nestle.
“Running away” is itself the rough opposite of “do[ing] it calmly and [not making] any crazy sudden moves,” at least in the eyes of the police.

The idea that you can “calmly” run away from a rogue cop isn’t compatible with their expectations.
Ah great we can finally start using Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator on crops.
Given that car factories already use charged paint particles and bodies to minimize paint usage and waste, how useful is the overspray aspect here?
>But thats the problem: you have no way of knowing if "conventional methods" (i.e. no pesticides) were used to grow the produce unless there is a label signaling it. That label is called "organic".

I don't follow. Both "organic" and conventional agriculture use pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers.
Vertical farming is a solution, because it needs no pesticide being in a clean environment.
I've seen this in UV printers, too (UV = inkjet, but the ink is cured with UV instead of solvent evaporation).

I poked around to figure out how they can print from so far away, but couldn't find any sources talking about it, and if printing from ~10cm away needs special tricks to accomplish or not.

The one trick I can think of to extend print distance would be increasing the drop size. That would probably be acceptable when printing on cars (the article) or mugs (UV printers) -- is that the trick?
Sandhills Hibid auctions online markets shut down by ransomware attack
So Pre-revenue and Pre-Production and yet command $80 Billion valuation into an IPO.

That is all good in the VC/PE world were investors have resources to evaluate and access to a lot of confidential data when evaluating a target.

For retail investors like you and me, that is a enormous risk, neither have we the average investor the time or knowledge/skill and access to critical information to meaningfully evaluate this early stage company.

There is lot of steps and risk from selling to your key investor to the entire market and to scale production to hundreds of thousands of units a year this valuation seems to have already priced in at negligible/zero .
According to https://web.archive.org/web/20151204090856/https://www.wired... this article was written by Ed Regis. That information is actually still in the current version of the article, but the default layout seems to cover it up.

I'm pretty sure there were a bunch of photos accompanying the original article, but I don't see them in either the WABAC machine or the online page.

A thing I've never been clear on is whether the Extropian Mike Perry was the FIG F-83 Mike Perry or the Tor Mike Perry. Does anybody know? (Not you, kanzure, I know you get terribly confused about people's identities.)
Crystalis
Wow, using the old Common Gateway Interface, no less!
Yes, it’s true that you can implement a pretty simple generic lithium-ion cell charging algorithm that will get the job done for most cells. But that’s not a “modern battery pack”. If you’re trying to eke hundreds or thousands of charge cycles out of cells, implement fast charging, do accurate state of charge estimation under load and in variable thermal conditions —- those things are very difficult to implement generically, and often do have parameters that depend on the specific chemistry being used. Modern devices have to do all of those things.

Yes, TI makes money when people use their battery management ICs with fancy cell monitoring, but I don’t see a lack of price pressure on those ICs. If manufacturers could implement the same features with a less complex, less expensive design, why would all of the modern battery systems, even in competitive sectors like consumer/retail electronics, integrate battery monitoring with the cells?
Not to be insensitive, but this advice/policy and the press around the rape-murder of the woman seem out of line.

How many officers are doing this in the UK? It seems like it's gotten a lot of press because of how unusual it is.

A lot more people die from everyday thugs, relatives/lovers, etc. Is making people terrified of the police good in the long run?
> Ajax Fasteners where a small manufacturer in the name of Division of Labour, and when they went into receivership, it took down Australia's entire car industry. Let me repeat - Australia no longer has a car industry.

Holy crap: https://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1719988.htm

You'd think the car companies could have just bought the manufacturing assets of the supplier if it was this critical (that's assuming they weren't looking for a back door excuse to shut down their own Australian production, that is).
There was a case a bit ago where a cop flipped a pregnant woman’s car, even though she had turned her lights flashing and wasn’t speeding up (indicating she likely wanted to find a safe place to stop, since it was on the highway).
Other engineers have expressed a subset of my concerns about this person, including 2 that have left the company.

Wrt reviews, this person is extremely disagreeable, so suggestions about improvements are not met with the usual compromises. What usually ends up happening is their changes make it through if they don't introduce clear security risks, and everyone just deals with the new complexity, versus engaging in endless debates. Nobody has the time or energy to constantly fight this person. They don't seem open to learning or hearing other points of view.
I wouldn’t go far as to say Von Neumann was smarter than Grothendieck. I think they’re both different types of geniuses, where their genius manifest in different ways. Grothendieck was a genius in working with extremely deep abstractions, I’d say he eclipses Von Neumann in this way, whereas Von Neumann had a different type of genius in which he eclipsed others at. In Grothendieck’s case he was a profound genius, who made profound impacts in mathematics.

Another mathematician that reminds me of Von Neumann is Euler. He also memorized long passages and could do complicated calculations in his head quickly.

A quote on Euler from wikipedia:

“He was able to, for example, repeat the Aeneid of Virgil from beginning to end without hesitation, and for every page in the edition he could indicate which line was the first and which was the last even decades after having read it”
Very sloppy for it to not even do a 301 redirect though. Even if you use one of those basic website builder services they will do that as standard.

Decided to run SSL Labs on the site out of curiosity[1] and they still have TLS 1.0 activated as well. That's just poor SSL config. A software company supposedly made up of talented coders should know way better.

[1] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=6acegames.com
>the (magnitude of) risk isn't certain yet, but it's unlikely zero, given our history of poorly quantifying the harmfulness of a variety of substances. a reasonable hedge is to buy organic for the dirty dozen and non-organic for other produce. eat less processed sugar regardless, whether you replace it with fruit or not.

If the goal is to reduce ingestion of substances applied to crops, then what you describe is not a reasonable hedge as both "organic" and conventional crops use pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers. You're better off saving your money by buying conventional produce than spending extra money on the purchase of the same thing.
Does not look significantly more intrusive than the Internet in 2021.
For the moment. You also can't run any of the iOS apps (an advertised feature of macOS on M1) if you disable SIP, so this isn't really a true statement logically speaking.
> it's not the publishing but the use which is proscribed - same applies for engineering

Exactly.

I think there should be an exception for free and open source software though. We have lots of free software designed to be used by people. I don't think these programmers should be held liable. Many of them are amateurs and volunteers. The chilling effect would simply be too great.

I'm reminded of Greg Kroah-Hartman's talk about kernel contributors.

https://youtu.be/fMeH7wqOwXA&t=326s

> My goal, of me, as a developer and to make Linux succeed, is to help [amateurs, unknown individuals] out.

> If you're hired to do this stuff, you're on your own and you better know what you're doing.

I think he's right. At the time, roughly 20% of the kernel was done by individuals. That work is extremely valuable yet it is different from professional work. It should be treated differently. with a lot more compassion and understanding. On the other hand, it is fine to expect professionals to be disciplined.

> A social-media site operated by an amateur in the bedroom being paid nothing and using only open-source software would still be liable under any sensible and realistic regulation.

Yeah, I agree. That's not just software anymore, that's a service.

> e.g. create a non-profit, and pay the non-profit which pays the programmer. So long as the programmer is one step removed from you it's fine.

It doesn't matter how indirect it is. The important fact is the programmer is getting paid for their work. That makes it professional work.
This approach is powerful, but also laborious - at least in my experience, it’s too much work for relatively simple transformations.

I generally use gopatch instead. It uses the same mechanism under the hood, but the patch files are much less effort to write.

https://github.com/uber-go/gopatch
That is not what happened though. Oil kept flowing, remember the tankers with no where to port? Container ships kept chugging. Cargo planes and repurposed commercial crafts kept transporting. Factories kept cranking out widgets. Rampant consumerism definitely took a a pause which hurt the industries we all rely on to survive.

Industries need to reevaluate their resilience to disruption and plan for the unthinkable. The feeling of schadenfreude, as I recall the countless canaries enumerating the consequences of fragile supply chains that no one even vaguely understands, is sad and predictable.
> OTOH the Prius was never an object of desire

I disagree. It was never an object of desire in the same way Tesla's are, but it was desired in the sense that many made the decision to buy a Prius primarily for social signalling reasons - it became almost cliché that a Prius meant "look how environmentally conscious I am!" This was famously parodied it what was my favorite South Park episode of all time, "Smug Alert".
Not synthetic pesticides and fertilizers.

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/03/22/organic-101-what-....

USDA certified organic foods are grown and processed according to federal guidelines addressing, among many factors, soil quality, animal raising practices, pest and weed control, and use of additives. Organic producers rely on natural substances and physical, mechanical, or biologically based farming methods to the fullest extent possible.

Produce can be called organic if it’s certified to have grown on soil that had no prohibited substances applied for three years prior to harvest. Prohibited substances include most synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. In instances when a grower has to use a synthetic substance to achieve a specific purpose, the substance must first be approved according to criteria that examine its effects on human health and the environment (see other considerations in “Organic 101: Allowed and Prohibited Substances”).
> This is the important part. Activists' fear should not dictate health policy. That should be done by scientists.

Elected politicians should "dictate" - I would say build consensus on - health policy. Scientists should inform it.
word and excel are slower when compared to the Google workspace counterparts. There's a very noticeable lag when typing. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Then one of the eyewitnesses identified a policeman as one of the suspects.
The next night, the chief of police was on the panel. He said,
"Now, girls,
whatever happens, do not stop for a police officer. Stay in your car. If a police officer tries to stop you, do not stop. Keep driving and under no circumstances should you get out of your car."
For a few weeks, half the traffic in L.A. was doing twice the speed limit.

-- Laurie Anderson, "New Jersey Turnpike"
It's good that you are managing to ignore these. However, while is common knowledge that Google collects data on everyone, informed opinion seems to be that they do so on a wholesale basis rather than having their vans follow individuals, which would likely be prohibitively expensive. You may want to think about the possibility that you are having some symptoms of one of the mental health problems which cause paranoia. If so, it may be a good idea to get it checked out, as they can be really hard to deal with once set in.
At least in my home town (central Illinois), our drivers education instructor actually taught this. If you’re being pulled over in podunk nowhere, turn on your hazards, reduce your speed, and proceed to the next well populated area (I.e. gas station).
The author also wrote about Linux's lack of exploit mitigations and sandboxing: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html

Android's surveillance is mostly in stock android and other derivatives, but not in AOSP; AOSP has no Play services. GrapheneOS is a downstream ROM that adds further hardening and privacy enhancements.

I view MAC as quite essential. On top of that, Clang on Linux supports sanitizers like CFI, safe-stack/shadow-call-stack, and a few others; check the Clang docs for more info.

Linux supports dm-verity which can help ensure the integrity of the base system, and can combine with UEFI Secure Boot for getting some of the way towards a fully verified boot.

I also don't know of a USBGuard- or kloak-equivalent for OpenBSD. USBGuard is essential for physical security regarding removable media, and kloak anonymizes keystroke input.

There is no OpenBSD web browser that's remotely secure; they all use Linux, macOS, and Windows sandboxing/hardening measures. I never enable JS in obsd; if I absolutely must, I run the browser in a VM and disable JIT.
Not just in the US. I wouldn't recommend using it in a non-ironic manner in the countries that experienced Soviet occupation either.
You can communicate with them as you’re doing it you know. You can shout or wave to let them know you’re aware they’re cops etc. English police and USA police are not the same.
What do you think "You reap what you sow" means?