skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are not limited to one country, and can sent samples anywhere.

You may not like hearing this, but Canada is quite frankly underdeveloped when it comes to medicine overall, and diagnostic equipment specifically. I've been told by physicians who practised in some Canadian health systems that healthcare in Canada is quite cash strapped.

2 years wait for hip surgery, 6 months wait for MRI. This is apparently with close to 50% of government budgets dedicated to healthcare. Yet they have fundraisers for MRI equipment in hospitals, google it.
This only works if the user is invested. I work in a a technical support role (not IT) where the customer is my coworkers. Most of them simply want task x completed, and have no interest in anything else. Even fixing the core issue doesn’t matter, as many people just glide on autopilot through the workday.

I’ve found it’s maybe 1 in 10 people who would even be willing to think about the cause of the issue and be willing to move any distance past “just fix it”.
Not all, but many restaurants in multiple cities. They use QR codes, no doubt to identify you better (tie you to a specific place and time, maybe to a specific table). Usually I just load the restaurant's website on my phone and read the menu that way.

I was also at a play where a QR code was the only way to get the program.
That's not platform specific at all. If your program spits out proper crash logs (which most games do), it's a matter of locating and examining the log file.

The "if you know what you're looking at"-part is pretty much nonsense as you're basically saying "if you are an experienced programmer with intimate knowledge of both the system and the hardware architecture".

This is not something a regular user should be expected to know. A good program should simply provide a proper feedback-channel and collect and send the appropriate information if the user choses to do so.
The applied math does teach integration: the Riemann integral. Knowing about Lebesgue integration is not really necessary for most of this kind of work.
Fucking around like that seems like a great way to kill someone when you don't have justification for it when you're just trying to scare them. Filling it with buckshot seems dramatically clearer as to what its purpose is for and under what circumstances it should be used.
Which studies?
You say "the rules" - I suspect it varies a lot by rule.
Speeding? Yep, drivers are going to slip above the limit unless they're very careful, whereas you have to be a very capable athlete to do that as a cyclist.
Running a red light or going on the pavement? I'm pretty sure cyclists break these far more often.
This is how cities should have been designed with intent; Less cars, more organic and walk-able spaces.

The robber barons of the industrial revolution seeded their greed DNA as the basis for industrialization - which while obviously gave great progress, but at the heaviest of costs.
> he presented his answer in the form of a set of partial differential equations. To a physicist this may seem natural, but to a computer designer, treating a set of boolean circuits as a continuous, differentiable system is a bit strange. Feynman's router equations were in terms of variables representing continuous quantities such as "the average number of 1 bits in a message address." I was much more accustomed to seeing analysis in terms of inductive proof and case analysis than taking the derivative of "the number of 1's" with respect to time. Our discrete analysis said we needed seven buffers per chip; Feynman's equations suggested that we only needed five. We decided to play it safe and ignore Feynman.

I always felt it strange that people discount the value of calculus, but maybe it is just that most professionals really don't understand calculus that well? It is really useful for so many things, and if you are good at understanding data and how to properly approximate things then you come up with magical solutions to otherwise intractable problems with it.
I was just referring to expectations that projects you do outside of your main job can be turned into money-making enterprises. And, from my perspective, this is usually not the case and I'm fine with it but it's easy to see that being dismissive of side hustles assumes a well-paying 9-5 job.
I really hope the blur on the picture (https://citizenlab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Hubbard-Ima...) isn't hiding anything actually important because that can almost certainly be de-blurred with the right tooling.
In London at least you'll often hear "due to passenger action" as a catch all for anything from trespass to suicide attempts that involve someone potentially on the line.

From your list, I've hear "inspector sands" being used, and avoided the exit they called someone to.
This is how all housing (flats) works in Sweden. You don't actually buy the apartment but a share in the housing cooperative and a right to use that specific flat. If you get kicked out your share will be forcibly sold.
Indeed, I don't think the UK government has any problem hacking phones if they believe this is required, but it's likely to involve disclosure to the courts, and hence in some way be accountable.

It's therefore easier to get a friendly government to do the hacking and to pass on the discovered info, which side-steps any legal accountability.
I do too. Slightly different template:

Left half of page: "work stuff." Right half of page "personal stuff." Bottom two inches of page: "long term goals for the week."

I use one sheet per week, adding bullet points to the relevant column. I created a template for printing on the office printer, then realized it was ecofriendlier to just recycle one-sided scrap paper (every office had tons of it), and draw my own lines. I use the To-Do app for tracking things from week to week, but when I put down my coffee cup and set down in front of my computer, thinking about what needs to get done, the notebook/pen combo somehow works best for me.

Edit: exchanged diagram for text since the diagram got mangled.
I don't do intraday planning, but for TODOs I settled on a A5 paper with handwritten task list.
It's very satisfying to strike out completed tasks.
From time to time I rewrite pending tasks to new piece of paper. It is a physical reminder of repeatedly uncompledted tasks and somtimes I leave out a thing (I it was not done until now, I can safely not do it at all). Keeps me focused on important things (not to be confused with urgent things).
I agree. My view is; if you can make the bathroom smell, where can you?
Hackceler8, an experimental mix between CTF and speedrunning
Blockchain is garbage. No one needs this
Cubic tonnes are technically a real and valid (SI even, ish) unit of measurement (for example the fundamental evaporation rate of a black hole via hawking radiation is on the order of 100 million cubic tonnes per second), but I think in this case they're just outright wrong.
"But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty's figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another."
For myself, I'd like to see use-site variance replaced with declaration-site variance. It's really painful sometimes to have type arguments within generics more than one level deep; you have to start adding `? extends` (usually; or `? super` occasionally) at all the intermediate levels.

I somewhat suspect Java is locked into its current approach to variance, but gosh, I much prefer Scala's approach here.
i have a neighbor (or three) that smokes weed and another that burns incense. the combo sometimes infiltrates my apartment (through the closet, where i think there is a hole). combined with the old building smell that's embedded in the framing, it's an awful mix of air pollutants. one of my air purifiers does double duty between the closet and the kitchen to combat this very problem.

with that said, activated charcoal (which my purifiers include, though undersized) is more suited to smells (molecular size) than hepa filters (particulate matter, which is generally much larger) are. hepa in the bathroom would deal with airborne bacteria but not the poo smell, which would require activated charcoal (a lot of it, along with an uncomfortably powerful fan) to be really effective.
Yes, it's about the interface.
Yes, sometimes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
What can a company do when presented with a legal, legitimate warrant? We talk like Apple in this example has a choice to say “no”: they don’t, though.
> It's honestly weird to see "Telemetry" labeled as "Spyware" by a technical people that, quite frankly, should know better.

It's precisely because it's technical people who know better that you see "telemetry" labeled as "spyware", which it is, and it's how we called it back in the 1990s/2000s.

The only reason people these days call spyware "telemetry", is because it got normalized by large companies, and is now defended by devs who figure it's better to ship spyware to people than to give a damn and talk with users.
Google Continues Work on User-Managed Concurrency Groups for Linux
I got one of their new linux supporting machins through their reseller, Digital River Ireland Ltd.

I set it up with dualboot since I hadn't run windows a while and needed a windows for a few things anyway.

Must say that windows 10 is not totally bad, but why must it be so blinky, and have an appstore with a front page of colourful games, and even autodownload candy crush?

anyways, the lenovo machine is greay with ubuntu, and the trackpoint work with both middle click as well as scroll, something I could only pick one of in wimdows.
Wow! That's a whole lot you've managed to unpack!!
>I'm not a fan of the use of the word "pimp" in this context

In this context it means "to adapt or embellish in an ostentatious manner".
I hope this write-up was a healthy and effective way to help you mourn these losses. (And then move on to the next big idea!) Kudos to you for experimenting like this.

Would you consider adding them to the Project Cemetery[0]? Then others could learn from them too!

[0] https://projectcemetery.com
This is really great! I hope to try it soon.
What a lot of loud successful people wouldn't like to admit, is that even if you show up and do the work, you have to be very lucky to get traction for anything, regardless of novelty. True for being an employee or a business. For the latter, it helps to be very lucky and opportunistic with timing to begin with.
Not in the US. Occasionally, some effort to make a homeless camp livable is talked about but the powers-that-be still act to do the opposite, first the make homeless camp a hellhole and then kick everyone out to re-appear elsewhere.
Siemens has a pong game on there 404 page.

https://new.siemens.com/de/dhhji
Why a new agency? This is already very much within the FBI’s jurisdiction. Why is the international surveillance of U.S. journalists and their sources not visibly a priority? In my opinion it’s a matter of policy. This comes from the top down.

Bringing justice to international actors opposing democratic ethics is regrettably less of a priority today than enforcing highly publicized and politicized criminal cases.
I agree. I use grep in conjunction with find and parallel to achieve a number of features not native to grep that are built-in to these other tools.

I prefer tools designed with does one thing well philosophy. It lets me scale my knowledge. I can solve many problems with find and parallel not supported by these grep clones.
We are called Great Britain because that is what James VI (I in England) called us when Scotland and England finally merged into Great Britain. He was our first joint King.

The other Britain is Brittany - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany. Have a look at the county names in Brittany and see if they look suspiciously like Devon and Cornwall.

My family/surname is Gerdes. In Scotland, that is rendered as Girders. Only you can pronounce it properly 8)
>>Gun use in defensive situations seems to happen about a tenth to an eighth as often as criminal use.

I think you mean instances where a shot is actually fired? I believe there are 40-50,000 self-defense uses per year in the U.S., a nation of ~330,000,000, though that does not necessarily mean a shot was fired [0]

0: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf p. 12
I thought they were going to mention the "new coke" conspiracy theory which states that coke ditched the old flavor for a new one in 1985 and then changed it back later but this time with corn syrup instead of sugar in just enough time for people to forget what exactly it tasted like before and not complain about the change.
Feynman was the first person who made physics relatable for me. In contrast, my father graduated as a mechanical engineer, who typically described mathematics as a series of expletives.

Feynman is lovingly referred to as "the great explainer" which has been a driving influence in my life. The majority of my personal network is non-technical, and I enjoy framing technical subjects at a relatable abstraction. I've built a career around this mentality.

Eerily enough, a HPC company I work with is in the middle of a very similar narrative in the post, where my role is reducing the complexity of the technology for different audiences. My favorite encapsulation is "Kerbal Space Program but in real life."

I think it's critically important to always remain curious and humble when discussing anything and Feynman will always have my deep gratitude for inspiring such thinking early in my life.
thanks,
a pleasure to get text first, and video as the complement
It's definitely not always true. Car products like car bomb will kill the odor. You'll be breathing in the product for a couple weeks, but a couple weeks later it will be gone.
Well, the implied assumption is that you probably don't want to kill someone breaking into your house. Though given the home defense crowd...? :/

Given that a shotgun must cycle through its magazine in order (although you could eject unfired rounds), the second assumption is that by the time subsequent rounds are fired, the situation has escalated.

E.g. If you bury a load of birdshot in a wall or someone's skin and they're still threatening you, you likely want to escalate (instead of repeating same). And from the counter-point, you probably don't want your initial choice to be killing someone vs not firing.

As Dick Cheney demonstrated, catching a shotgun shell of smaller pellets usually isn't lethal, as they individually don't have enough penetration to hit vital organs. Or, same, but in sheetrock.

On the other hand, as parent argued, it's adding complexity to an already stressful situation and does make a lot of assumptions about shooter and attacker intent.
There are portable hotspots, you know....

I am assuming you use a killswitch VPN to your trusted network. NYT for this journalist.

My proposed setup is 3 devices: hotspot, android device without baseband, dumbphone. Hotspot would be the weak link here, security wise, but is easier and cheaper to replace. Nothing on dumbphone would be encrypted.

If I were a journalist, I would consider this alternative to being hacked. Remember he even knew there were at least attempts to hack his devices, years in advance.

They are just biting the "apple is the most secure alternative" propaganda.
How very socialist. This reminds me of the time Britain encouraged all their children to become infected with COVID-19 to save the elderly. At what point did sacrificing our children for the greater good become the norm?
I suspect it has something to do with classfile format backwards compatibility. From a pure syntax standpoint, I would agree with you, but there's probably some value to making a very clear separation for classfile loading.
C itself is actually a pretty good example of where this fails as well. Its standard library is usually more macros than code. It's necessary if you are going to ship portable code that deals with every conceivable architecture and endianness and permutation of toolchain from 1976 until now, but it's not how most C code looks.

K&R is a much more meaningful guide than unistd.h.
That seems like a great use for taxes. I suspect the economic benefits from the easy accessibility of the standards (just imagine the cost of the approval processes to buy the standards and handle access, plus the cost of the standards remaining inaccessible to smaller players) would outweigh the financial costs.
Don't vote Republican.

But they decrease my taxes! Too bad pay up.
Once the rockets are up
Who cares where they come down?
That's not my department
Says Wernher Von Braun
I can address your articles, but they're at odds with one another. More specifically, the Harvard one claims CDA 230 is superfluous, while the Notre Dame one argues it is essential (to the internet as currently structured). I would say the Notre Dame one is correct.

The big flaw is revealed in the Lawfare blog:

"[CDA 230] merely ensures that courts will quickly dismiss lawsuits that would have been dismissed anyway on First Amendment grounds—but with far less hassle, stress and expense. At the scale of the billions of pieces of content posted by users every day, that liability shield is essential to ensure that website owners aren’t forced to abandon their right to moderate content by a tsunami of meritless but costly litigation."

The principle here isn't whether all the cases have merit or not; it is that every individual gets their day in court. That is, it is up to the courts to decide the merit of a case based on fact, which, of course, is case-dependent [1].

Denying individuals access to the courts makes them bear a cost. That cost should, in truth, be borne by Big Tech and subtracted from its profits.

As for Hacker News, it might not survive in its present form should CDA 230 be repealed. That's OK, though. Perhaps it would become PG's blog, and I would have to start my own blog to comment on matters of the day. That's entirely acceptable, and I don't find it hypocritical.

[1] https://www.rcfp.org/supreme-court-will-not-hear-letter-edit...
Thank you! What is that extra power that comes from considering Hilbert spaces as opposed to staying in good ol' R^n?
While we're at it, let's have the Supreme Court clarify that aside from identifying yourself, you have the right to remain silent during a Terry stop.

It seems pretty obvious that if you have the right to not answer officer's questions in consensual encounters (where you're not suspected of a crime) and arrests (where you're charged with a crime), you should also have the right to remain silent during an investigative detention.

But just because it's obvious doesn't mean it's legally protected.

It turns out that the Supreme Court has declined opportunities to clearly establish the right to remain silent during a Terry stop.

Which means that in some cases, a person can be charged with obstruction if they refuse to answer an officer's questions during a Terry stop. Worse yet, if a court later finds that the officer has violated a person's constitutional rights by arresting them for refusing to answer questions, qualified immunity prevents the victim from being compensated for the injustice, because the right to remain silent during a Terry stop is not considered "clearly established."

Here's a link to a piece titled "Obvious But Not Clear: The Right to Refuse to Cooperate with the Police During a Terry Stop." It was published in the American University Law Review in 2020. Written by a University of Denver law professor and an attorney who graduated from that university, it reviews all of the relevant case law and urges the Supreme Court, other courts, and state legislatures to "clearly define" the right, which would remove qualified-immunity protections for officers who violate that right.

https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?...
Leos are most likely to get vaccinated, Utah officials. Written in the stars?
As Guy Kawasaki once said in Art of the Start : “You want to be high and on the right.” You make something everyone wants and is of great value, and only you can make it.
The worst place is making something that 50 others do and is of no value to the customer.
Febreze actually does trap 'odorous' molecules though[0].

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
Personally I think the practical solution is companies like frame.work & valve making open hardware and creating software shims like proton because it's part of their value prop and business model to make open hardware.

If valve doesn't make Linux a viable gaming platform, they are going to be chess maneuvered into a checkmate by MSFT and Apple. Epic recognizes a similar issue too which is why even if they are competitors, they recognize the greater threat and are working together somewhat with Epic porting EAC to Linux & proton.
Individually it doesn't work. Unethical behavior is generally profitable, more so then the ethical behavior it is 'out competing'. The Unethical groups then use this profit to buy out and corner the market.
Apple gives up customers' data when presented with simple data requests. Not all of the data they gave up was in response to subpeonas or warrants. Most tech companies have portals for law enforcement to simply ask, without a warrant, for users' data, and the companies often voluntarily share the requested data without any coercion from courts.

Yes, Apple is no different than any other tech company in that regard. The difference is that Apple's PR tells you otherwise. The whole San Bernardino shooting case had many people on HN saying that it meant that Apple would refuse to work with law enforcement when law enforcement would ask for users' data, even to the point of challenging subpeonas and warrants in court. That is clearly not the case.
Also - I don’t have a problem with parenting, I have a problem with freeloaders.
They also created hardened wooden nails and hammered them into wooden planks. That seems like a better example.
Piss off, I'm British.
Really? Seems blurred enough to me that even some sort of ML would spit out wrong characters.
Nope, do you remember the "partial birth abortion debate"?

The pro-abortion side basically argues that if you can find a doctor that says you need it, you should be able to get it even at 9 months. And they also insist that psychological harm to the mother is enough of a reason to get it, it doesn't need to be risk of physical injury. And that you can go to as many doctors as you want until you find one that will agree. Many abortion clinics have such doctors on staff to meet the legal requirements of medical consultation.

Or about the "post-birth" abortion debate, in which an abortion is botched and the baby delivered? The pro-abortion side wanted to allow the child to be left on a table and not provided with life sustaining care (or even food/milk) to die in the hospital.

The anti-abortion side insists this is infanticide, which gets the other side really angry, since they are not the ones killing the child, they are just refusing to provide care and letting the infant die on its own.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47066307

Interestingly, in the ancient world, people would leave new borns on the side of the road if they didn't want or couldn't care for them. There are lots of stories about these castaway infants - Moses being put into a basket and sent down the river are an example of this genre. Also in Venice (my favorite city) there was a scaffetta, shaped like a lion's mouth, where you could slip an unwanted infant, and it would be raised in one of the Catholic orphanages. Vivaldi was a conductor for a girls' school in such an orphanage -- the Four Seasons was first performed by orphaned and abandoned girls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ospedale_della_Pietà

Of course the majority of normal people believe in some regulation and some rights. They view these issues as complex and morally ambiguous. But not activists, and certainly not activists in a culture war.