skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not talking about the internal community village rules, but the local government/council permits to construct dozens of houses on farmland.

For instance where I live farmland is cheap until it has permission to build a house on it, then it's much more expensive. If you could buy it then get permission to build 50 houses on it, you would make many millions the instant after the rezoning.

Thus, the rich with connections in local politics do this crowding out the communities like these guys. I suspect their secret sauce is local government connections and lobbying / legal expertise to rezone.
It’s not quite as bad as presented here; yes Microsoft is in the process of deprecating kernel mode drivers as part of its current security push, however it’s following Linux and implementing eBPF as a more secure alternative that runs mostly in user land and in a sandbox in kernel space. For the type of thing that this app does, it’s a logical change of direction that does not require the same level of EV code signing.
To clarify: Considering how popular it is to get other frequently-used consumables home delivered, like food and alcohol, it is on the face of it somewhat surprising that the same is not true of liquid vehicle fuel. My prior comment was suggesting some possible reasons this might be so.

Thinking through it some more, the objection around the vehicle needing to be home at the time the delivery is made can be overcome by having the deliveries made late at night, as long as there was some way to give the delivery driver access to the car's fuel tank. At the end of the day it may just be too inefficient to have liquid fuel delivered weekly in 30-60 litre quantities, the overhead being too great.
Because there's a lot more than caliber that matters. If you think about it, a .45 ACP is close in caliber to a .50 BMG. But there's hella powder behind a .50 and not so much behind a .45. The bullets themselves make a big difference also, there are at least a half dozen you can read more about here: https://gunvault.com/types-of-ammunition/

If you think having 2 cartridges that both have .38" caliber bullets is confusing, take a look at all the 9mm ones. Just in the ones that are actually called 9mm and not just caliber equivalent, there's 9x19, 9x25 mauser, 9x57 mauser, 9x39, 9mm winmag, 9x18 makarov, and a ton more I can't remember. Some of those are rifle cartridges, some handgun. They have different bullets with different characteristics and different bullet lengths and different bullet weights. And the shape of the cartridges behind them, the guns they fire from, and the amount of propellant each one has is all different.
> How I failed 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0

Not earning money is not a failure. Wasting time on non-free software the purpose of which is making money - now that's unfortunate.

My advice to that guy would be:

* Write software you need personally. You will at least have one happy user - and if you write something you like, other people will probably want to use it too.

* Think of the software needs of people you know - in your family, physical community, or online communities - and see whether you can't help implement it or adapt/improve existing software for that purpose.
Humans do not respond well to periods of drought since humans need to drink water each and every day. Camels can be rotated based on water availability.
As a general note, room air freshener sprays do nothing to freshen the air in your room. For that, you must remove the pollutant source and introduce cleaner air.
citation ?
Huh, I think it's really critical to understand that the ad blocker is there, so you can turn it off sometimes. I run across forms all the time that silently fail to submit until I turn off the ad blocker.
they need an actual functional phone. You can't be a journalist and not have a fully functional phone that access the internet whenever needed. I'm sure they use burners for sensitive stuff, but what are they supposed to use for their regular work, calls with the school, car navigation, ...
Then call it what you want. Organized crime. Whatever.
Django with python, or express with js/ts.
Stream has been given a `toList()` convenience method:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base...()
My (properly) researched family tree is 15 generations deep for me personally, so far.

My uncle has done quite a lot of research. Quite a lot. At the extreme 15 gens down, you get this in your Ahnentafel:

"26921. Alice15 John (14829). Her married name was Trelowarth (14829).
She was born circa 1550. She married Robert Trelowarth (14828) on 3 Oct
1574 at Wendron, Cornwall, UK. She died circa 1603 at Wendron, Cornwall,
UK."
Bit of a painful read. On the first game, it's a common game concept (very much not novel) that I've seen many people recreate. I built one myself with better graphics and gameplay over the course of a week and sold it for 5k to a games publisher around 2013-2014, about 2-3 years before they released their game. That publisher offered it for free on an ad model. I can't believe working on it for a year, with two people, for free, releasing it in 2016 and expecting any sales.

Enough has been said about the projects in general already which mostly mimics the game (not solving a real user problem, late-entry, competing with existing solutions, no marketing)
Why do you think they are learning the hard way? Everyone is having the exact same sourcing issues right now. The EE team I work with is spending at least half their resources right now on resolving part shortages. I would be surprised if there was any hardware team out there right now that isn't scrambling to see how they can keep shipping product.
Is that always true? I know nothing about air freshener sprays (and do not use them), but I could imagine a spray which contains heavy particles that trap other lighter airborne particles and drag them to the ground. Or a spray which chemically neutralizes certain other foul-odor-causing chemicals.
I live in an apartment by myself. I cook and eat by myself.

If I want some sort of (eco or otherwise) community, what I'd want is some sort of communal kitchen where people cook in shifts and eat together. Now, if I'm jerk, people could kick me out of the communal kitchen and I'd have to eat at home again but I'd continue to have a home (If I kill someone or something, that's a different matter).

So the commune where they kick you out of everything definitely isn't the only way to do things and none of the communes I know of with these sorts of strictures are actually very tolerant.

Also worth considering, what's the alternative? Calling the cops?

I'm not a fan of calling the cops (especially for random crap) but if you're in an organization within the US and you don't call the cops when a cop-requiring-crime happens, you're in big trouble. I should remind you, this isn't a hypothetical post-state world/organization, this is a group that exists today and has to follow the constraints the state places on it (and I suspect it does).
> What can we as people in top 1% with 1) information about big tech abuses 2) skills to fix this do?

Go into politics.

Yes, that simple. Easy? No. Simple? Yes.
> videoblogger who entertain his audience rather than engineer working towards a better system for his goals

That's not entirely accurate, and even then it's not really a bad thing if it were.

Integza has a number of videos improving on former videos' designs, and in the case he isn't satisfied with a design he always talks about how he might make it better, usually near the end of the video.

He'll often make followup videos with the next iteration.

Not everyone needs to be the next Elon; let him have his fun. His videos are entertaining, and that's great.
Oh, you're American? I'm pretty sure 15 generations ago I was probably Danish but that doesn't make me one of them... I kind of understand need to identify as someone more interesting though, I suppose. Perhaps you should just own who you are instead of pretending though my friend, maybe look into some meditation or such..

Edit: Apologies, I see you say you are British, however I've never met a British person who would ever identify as coming from more than one of our member countries. An Englishman calling himself Welsh? A Scot calling himself English? I mean.. I find it unlikely somehow.. But, hey ho, I'm often wrong and presumably this was one of those occasions. No offence intended.
It helps to have good resources https://openstax.org/subjects/math
It happens. Just make sure to remember this the next time you're tempted to assume a corporation is acting in good faith.
RSS and read-it-later are completely different things that serve completely different purposes, what kind of "connection" are you looking for?
A HEPA air purifier combined with cleaning the floor goes a long way…
Does java have a decent story on value types now e.g can I make an ArrayList<long> and trust that it’s one array of longs on the heap and not an array of pointers to Longs?
This was what made me ragequit Java 10 years ago.
Thanks, great point. I think there's a distinction between peaceful open society - they wouldn't do it to a Guardian or Times journalist today in London - and a military occupation (Northern Ireland), but I'm not sure it's such a bright line: The government created that occupation (whatever its merits, I'm not debating them here) and could create another.
This Schneier "constants" quote is kind of infamous. Notably, he's referring to elliptic curve writ large (the context is a comment on his blog where someone asks why he promotes FFDH over ECDLP-based crypto). He's not saying he no longer trusts the Dual EC constants (he never did, but he also once suggested it was somewhat unlikely to be a backdoor), or even the P-curve constants (which, for the record, I don't think anyone plausibly claims are themselves backdoored). No, he's saying we should all stay in the 1990s with FFDH, which, ironically, involves even more magic parameters.

It would be better if people avoided citing Schneier on curve cryptography, since he spent his career sort of publicly and vocally avoiding elliptic curves. Cryptography is a big discipline; it's not the case that someone with good ideas on, say, block ciphers necessarily has a lot of insight into elliptic curve or lattice cryptography or isogenies or pairings.

There's been a whole bunch of research and some controversy about SIMON and SPECK, the NSA small-footprint ciphers. The problem with backdooring something as simple as SPECK is twofold: you don't have many degrees of freedom, because block ciphers are so simple, and whatever backdoor you come up with has to be "NOBUS" to be practical --- meaning: your backdoor has to work for the NSA, but not for the GRU.

There was a cool paper last year that proposed a NOBUS-like backdoor mechanism for block cipher designs that embedded a susceptibility to linear cryptanalysis into S-boxes (that paper is also notable for a shout-out to yours truly, for writing an HN comment dumb enough to motivate a whole academic paper to refute it) --- this is Tomer Ashur and Raluca Posteuca's thing. So it's been shown that you can introduce a vulnerability --- nowhere nearly as useful as Dual EC, since linear cryptanalysis is annoying to carry out --- but it's still up in the air whether you can really make them NOBUS, because the backdooring work has to survive its own cryptanalysis to prove that up.

At any rate: I kind of doubt there's really anything sketchy about SIMON or SPECK, but it doesn't matter, because nobody is going to use it (having said this on Hacker News we can now be sure that there's a PR to introduce it to Juniper VPN devices, but I stand by it!) and because there are lots of simple low-footprint cipher designs to choose from now.
Not specifically for Java but I have found myself wanting do-notation in non-functional languages so that I can basically write a very expressive library while also forcing users of that library to go down my road i.e. I hacked around it in the end as I didn't have a do-like abstraction but I had (in-effect, it wasn't quite a DSL) written a DSL that represented certain constructs just fine using operator overloading, but you can't overload control flow. Therefore building the notions I wanted to in code was very painful without some kind of (equivalent notion to) do-notation.
Yes, it will. We've improved since 1961. By a lot.
Oh, I had misunderstood. I thought from the way the comments were going that you wanted the opposite - that they allow you to customize New Tab but not the Homepage, and I was wondering who uses the home page anymore.
For most AAA titles the reason is simply 3rd-party DRM and/or Anti-Cheat not working on Linux.
All designs are trade-offs. The number of people that want to swap a logic board is pretty tiny. It would probably be pretty hard to justify the extra expanse based on customer benefit.

Apple seems to know what they are doing considering how happy their customers are.
Someone else posted a googlemaps view of the place: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ecovillage+At+Ithaca+Inc/@...

All the houses' roofs are south-facing, which combined with large overhangs, are a passivhaus thing (maximum heat energy in the winter when the sun is low, large overhangs block some of that in the summer when the sun is high).

Some houses have solar on the roof, while the neighborhood to the north has a small centralized solar farm. If you have the land, it's a lot more cost-effective to put a centralized amount of ground-mounted solar and distribute it to a dense cluster of houses nearby. They mentioned they designed all the homes in their latest batch to shun natgas and go all electric.

And then there's a bunch of "eco-mindset" things where it looks like they park their cars in communal lots and the houses are connected by pedestrian paths. Their development model is 10% developed/90% open-space (or something like that which flips the common american subdivision percentages). They said they aren't trying to be completely self-sufficient (they're 15min drive to downtown Ithica), but they do take steps like a have an onsite CSA.

So I don't think they're being "eco" if you think eco means some absolutely self-sufficient car-free hippie in the woods. But that's also an impossible ideal -- even the unabomber who railed against the evils of capitalism still had walmart receipts in his shack, and Thoreau got through the Walden Pond winter with his mom bringing him soup or something like that. But as for "eco" in terms of lifestyle arrangements that give you a good mix of modern and sustainable life, yeah, seems like they're doing a good job.
Thank you for your kind words.

I am familiar with Andy's Orbit project given that I am a big fan of his writing.

I even linked to his essay "Why Book's don't work"[1] in the introductory blog post[2] as well.

[1]: https://andymatuschak.org/books/

[2]: https://primerlabs.io/blog/introducing-primer/#the-problem-o...
The Israel data shows excellent effectiveness of vaccines. For every age group it shows that the chances of severe COVID are greatly lower in the vaccinated than they are in the unvaccinated.

If you just look at the totals for their whole population it may not look that way because you run into a Simpson's paradox situation. That's because older people are both more likely in general to have their COVID cases be severe, and older people in Israel or more likely to be vaccinated.

To illustrate, imagine a population that has 2000 young people and 2000 old people, and both groups are 50% vaccinated with a vaccine that reduces your chances of severe disease by 90%, and image we are dealing with a disease that is 20x as likely to be severe in old people than it is in young people. Let's say that 1% of young, unvaccinated people get severe disease.

Here are the number of severe cases we'd expect in that population.

1 in the 1000 young vaccinated people
10 in the 1000 young unvaccinated people
20 in the 1000 old vaccinated people
200 in the 1000 old unvaccinated people

If we look at the overall numbers we get 21 severe cases in vaccinated people and 210 severe cases in unvaccinated people.

9.1% of severe cases would be in vaccinated people.

Now consider a population with 2000 young people and 2000 old people, with the same vaccines that reduces your chances of severe disease by 90% and where the diseases is 20x as likely to be severe in old people, but in this population 90% of the old people are vaccinated but the young are still only 50% vaccinated.

Here are the number of severe cases we'd expect in that population.

1 in the 1000 young vaccinated people
10 in the 1000 young unvaccinated people
36 in the 1800 old vaccinated people
40 in the 200 old unvaccinated people

Now for the overall population we get 37 severe cases in vaccinated people and 50 severe cases in unvaccinated people.

42.6% of cases would be in vaccinated people.

If the young people also get vaccinated at the same 90% rate as the old people, here are the numbers for severe cases.

1.8 in the 1800 young vaccinated people
2 in the 200 young unvaccinated people
36 in the 1800 old vaccinated people
40 in the 200 old vaccinated people

That gives for the overall population 37.8 severe cases in vaccinated people and 42 in unvaccinated people.

47.4% of cases would be in vaccinated people.

If no one was vaccinated, the numbers would be

20 in the 2000 unvaccinated young people
400 in the 2000 unvaccinated old people

for a total of 420 severe cases. 0% would be in vaccinated people.

If everyone was vaccinated, the numbers would be

2 in the 2000 vaccinated young people
40 in the 2000 vaccinated old people

for a total of 42 severe cases. 100% of cases would be in vaccinated people.

It is useful to look at the severe case totals in our population of 2000 young people and 2000 old people.

420 severe cases when no one is vaccinated
231 severe cases when 50% of both young and old are vaccinated
87 severe cases when 50% of young and 90% of old are vaccinated
79.8 severe cases when 90% of both young and old are vaccinated
42 severe cases when everyone is vaccinated
Sure, I’m in Berlin and living literally directly up from a Domino’s. Several of the good Pizza places near me (not Domino’s) don’t have an app, and half their websites list only a phone number and physical address for contact. One has an email address but says they don’t take orders that way.
Right. If the US can file charges against Assange and attempt to have him extradited to face them, it should be able to do the same with the NSO Group principals.
Legislation holding companies liable for breaches and leaks, which were in their capabilities to prevent. Simple and fair, scales well. No downsides.

Sure, not everything is always their fault, but usually it is and comes with yoloing from the first line of code, shipping alph… proof of concept software, or outsourcing their network’s security to MS Word. If a breach could ruin a company beyond reputation, people may stop storing cleartext credentials or testing merely their app’s UI at best; if a hacker could stop your show, companies may take bug bounty programs serious, and be grateful for disclosures instead of filing reports, when someone edit-and-resend’ed on a web API and accidentally got a copy of their database.

Today, a breach has zero consequences. Why would you spend a shitton of money on security, when marketing’s budget isn’t downright ridiculous yet?

And of course it would be super helpful, if governments would stop encouraging insecurity by buying e.g. NSO’s products for what they do. Always awkward persecuting someone you depend on… The NSO’s business should be straight illegal, including export/import. Since hacking someone without their consent usually comes with the ability to tamper with evidence, it’s really questionable for law enforcement and straight unethical for anyone else. Just kill the whole sector IMO.
I don't know about Kim Foxx, but others in the new wave of DAs have certainly made vast changes.
Interesting. I guess my thinking was that "paradigms" are mostly artifacts of a) history, and b) ways of describing ideas which at production scale may lend themselves better or worse to a given problem space (in terms of maintainability, etc), both of which are good to learn eventually, but neither of which matter that much when you're just trying to figure out what code is.

But I guess when you're just trying to figure out what code is, it helps to be able to form very consistent and concrete understanding around basic atoms like "what is a variable?". So if a language has different syntaxes that look similar but don't follow the same rules, that could get bewildering fast. Especially in languages that have sprawled over time and have competing ways of doing the same things.

Maybe the best answer is a language that was designed holistically to be cross-paradigm from the outset? In contrast with a kitchen-sink language that's gathered features over the years

Edit: Another thought; there may be a distinction to be made between "mixed-paradigm" and "cross-paradigm", where one takes the best pieces from multiple paradigms and works them together into a complete whole, while the other just dumps multiple entire paradigms into the same language. Rust for example does a great job of mixing-and-matching without sprawling (not that it would necessarily be a good first language, but for the sake of example)
I hear what you're saying, but I think you're making a few assumptions that aren't necessarily always true or guaranteed.

As to the obviousness of sending hashes to a server, I can think of a dozen ways to make that look like routine API data that's getting synced during a routine polling process. The app is a black box until data hits a networking layer, and it can be made to look like anything they want before it gets there. Would they need to be acting deviously to accomplish this? Of course. Is it in these companies' nature and history to act deviously? You bet it is!

As for the complexity of matching without anyone noticing, I think you may be overestimating the amount of data needed to accomplish this task. They wouldn't need to record full conversations or phrases, or even have any context at all. As you and others have noted, they already have so much contextual information about us, that all it would take is successfully capturing a few words once in a while to really fine-tune they're targeting.

Some very simple audio processing could easily chop up "probable" words based on any number of factors. It could throw out any recording that didn't meet some minimal requirements or seemed noisy. And at that point, you're just sending some strings to the server occasionally, no longer than the typical cookie.

And again, they already brazenly do this with Messenger and WhatsApp and everything else in the world that isn't Signal. So, that it's both technically possible and they have already invested heavily into such systems, makes this all a real possibility. At the very least, it's something that should continue to be investigated and actively monitored for, because even if the biggest of the companies aren't doing it, that doesn't mean nobody is doing it -- or doing it on their behalf.
> two million cubic tonnes

The British really do have the weirdest units.
You could soon be able to use modern Java on Android, too. Remember that most of the new syntax features don't need changes to the JVM.
> manufactured in India

The only reason I read the article. I'm glad it wasn't China. We really don't need more ratcheting up of conspiracy theories pertaining to the Chinese for another decade or so.
>I could imagine a spray which contains heavy particles that trap other lighter airborne particles and drag them to the ground.

That's how febreze is supposed to work:

>As Febreze dries, more and more of the odor molecules bind to the cyclodextrin, lowering the concentration of the molecules in the air and eliminating the odor. If water is added once again, the odor molecules are released, allowing them to be washed away and truly removed.

Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/how-febreze-works-facts-and-chemis...