skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Should the police be able to access the Signal messages of someone they apprehended at a murder scene wherein other suspects fled the scene, and are therefore likely the suspects accomplices?

I believe under those circumstances, the police should be able to apply to a judge for a warrant, and if probable cause is found and a warrant is issued, attempt to access the Signal messages of such a person. A requirement that they succeed has technological implications; Signal, the device, or both would have to contain a backdoor, or use security measures that are not very effective.

I am an absolutist on this question; I don't think governments should have the authority to mandate backdoors in products or services even if doing so would result in the prosecution of many criminals who otherwise go unpunished. For those who want to balance the government's interest in prosecuting criminals against secure and private communications, the question I would ask is: how often do investigations or prosecutions fail because it was impossible to access encrypted data with a court order? A precise answer might be difficult since the content of the encrypted data is unknowable, but an upper bound could be established by assuming such encrypted data is always incriminating.
You guys should check out some of Corey Doctorow's books or the Culture series, they describe theoretical post-scarcity futures not driven by capitalism where people still find fulfilling stuff to do
All our neighbors use lawn companies and apply fertilizer and pesticides constantly. They don't have soil anymore. It's mid to light brown dirt. At some point, we watched a video of a Gabe Brown presentation (author of From Dirt to Soil). Our new, hold-my-beer, "game" is to do as little as possible to our lawn - other than keeping it long - while still having it greener than everyone else. One factor that turns out to be critical is encouraging clover. Clover apparently fixes nitrogen, so a good grass/clover mix can be remarkably low maintenance.
I find it quite normal that one of the more tech-literate forums on the internet would see through the obvious bs coming out of blockchain advocacy. HN readers are probably more likely than the average person to understand how blockchain actually works, and why so many of the claims made about it are patent nonsense.
I have visited a pre-industrial villages in Eastern Europe and not once did I feel the urge to trade places. I have no idea what you are on about.

The hosts spent two hours preparing a hearth to cook bread for us. And they ended the meal with a plead for us to help them get visas to the West.

And you are vastly underestimating the child death rates where small children roam freely. Children in factories might have arguably been safer than on a farm.

We need to stop romanticizing other people's poverty.
Slightly off topic: different areas use very different kinds of hay bales. The Oregon seems to use bale's while Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado seem to mostly use rolled bale's. I have no idea why this would be but it's what I noticed on a recent cross country bike ride (I had a lot of time to stare at hay bales)
Honest question, and no I do not own any crypto these days:

How would you liquidate a wallet with, say, 100 BTC or more? 1000? 10,000?

Can any of the exchange houses move that much money in a day? Would you instantly be visible and known to everyone?
Combinator Engine in Tcl (2019)
These are all cute words, but on my daily routine I see nothing of that sort. People are not especially empowered, power which I believe comes as much from emotional and human experience rather than words.
My only experience is with the AWS CDK.
Assuming they make a profit they could still do that.

Say Google has five billion dollars, and they spend it all making Google the default on iOS.

If this nets them six billion dollars, then they now have an extra billion to do anything that we might suggest.
Yes! Is any work being done in this direction?
What basis do you have for saying that?

The African-Americans I've talked to and whom I've read often say the opposite, and I haven't heard any agree. What I hear is, 'it doesn't matter who you are or what you've done, you are always just Black in the eyes of the police (and society)', and that there is often no way for an observer to distinguish rich from poor (as if that should matter anyway).

For example, African-Americans driving expensive cars are pulled over and suspected of being drug dealers. I've read many stories of African-Americans being pulled over for nothing - an experience I've never had.
Like most questions of advertising effectiveness, this is one of those things that's hard to know without doing. They know how much the spend, and they know how much use and revenue they get from that placement, but it's hard to know how much use would move from the new default to them if they stopped paying. I'd guess this placement is revenue positive for them, but I don't know if there's public reporting on that level of detail.

They may have some insight from where defaults changed in some regions on some platforms or some devices.

Spending billions to improve search UX or whatever isn't exactly a spigot you just turn on, either.

Also, it's not like spending the money on placement means there's no money to spend on other things, Google has the resources to do both.
Maybe. Our electric bills are about as easy to read as Mayan hieroglyphics.
How about new places to drive?

Virtual reality can have all sorts of landscapes, and moving along a surface, whether it be hilly or flat like Tron, will be popular. Driving is one way to move along a surface, but there's also running, swimming, base jumping, skiing, snowboarding, skating, and others. I'm sure all will be common in the metaverse.

For an example of something where driving is exciting and totally unnecessary, see Rocket League.
Satoshi's anonymity is bitcoin's biggest problem. If bitcoin were to become a real world reserve currency, people would be making trillion dollar bets on a "probably".
It would have no impact. It’s such a tiny amount it’s not even material to the markets.
There are two different types of "contract-to-hire". This type, I'm talking about working for 1 week, most people think of "contract-to-hire" as a 6-month gig that _might_ turn into a position. This is more of a "trial week", but is still technically contract to hire. They are not two different types of people, but it is true that it is much harder for someone who has an existing position to take off 5 days -- but we did it in our company and made accommodations to make sure we fit. It also weeded out people who wouldn't fit.
What specifically are you not convinced of?
Lucid is currently the one with the longest range ( 520 miles). They are starting deliveries this week.

They were a battery innovator and supplier for formula-e and now started they own car production.
(Creator of Terraform, Co-Founder of HashiCorp)

I'm quite late to respond here, but just wanted to clarify one thing: Terraform is WORKFLOW agnostic, not TECHNOLOGY agnostic. This is a key part of our product philosophy that we make the 1st element of our Tao: https://www.hashicorp.com/tao-of-hashicorp

I've talked about this more with more references in this tweet: https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1078682765963350016

I don't think we've ever claimed cloud portability through "write once run anywhere;" that isn't our marketing or sales pitch and if we ever did make that claim please let me know and I'll poke some teams to correct it. Our pitch is always to just learn one workflow/tool and use it everywhere, but you explicitly WILL rewrite cloud-specific modules/code/etc.

With Terraform, the big win for folks is learning how to write and use Terraform, then knowing a fully supported official tool (to some extent) for hundreds of API-driveable systems. Instead of educating an engineer on CloudFormation, Azure ARM, etc. they learn ONE tool and ONE syntax and then adapt that to their cloud-specific knowledge.

More details are in the tweet I mentioned above, but I hope that helps. Fully respect you not being a fan of Terraform, I don't mind that, I just wanted to make sure for yourself and others reading that it is clear that we also don't believe Terraform is cloud agnostic in the sense you described.
Why the vending machine is making a comeback
100 BTC really isn't that much you could easily vwap out of the position. Alternatively you could just do OTC, but it's a little small for that.
Google's server handles the octal case if it's provided directly. Not sure if this is an explicit code path or if the server handles all IP forms.

Try this:

curl -v -H "Host: 010.010.010.010" https://8.8.8.8

Trying to do the same with other websites doesn't seem to work.
Unfortunately if we bring up 'ethics' we're the laughing stock of the room "aww he's so cute thinking about the good of humanity, what a nice guy. Anyway, as the adults were saying..."
Big ignore.
You misunderstood me. The government should not censor speech because governments tend to authoritarianism, but civil organizations also shouldn't support neonazis when they exert their freedom of speech against other citizens.

TL;DR: The government must not censor freedom, and citizens should not support acts of oppressions disguised as civil rights.
Wayland uses WAYLAND_DISPLAY, X uses DISPLAY.
50 BTC on its own is nothing. Market trades $1e8+ Volumes these days.
Now that you mention, I did have an issue after a suspend. All text was missing inside firefox, restarting it resolved the issue. But I keep my laptop plugged in and open 99% of the time with presentation mode enabled, so this is extremely rare for me.
Flying Probe
Cryptocurrency is a political tool nobody asked for. Blockchain is a data structure. There’s not much to understand, it’s not complicated for anybody with a half decent understanding of computer science.

What is complicated, and what nearly every coin-swindler misses in their naive analysis of the value of Blockchain, is that they’re operating in the realm of geopolitics, with actors who have much more at stake. Decentralization, and thus decentralized cryptocurrencies are antithetical to optimal game theory strategy and natural order. To maintain decentralization over time requires infinite energy, because centralization is fundamental to how nature behaves. That’s why governments exist, that’s why central banks exist. That’s why efforts to optimize the pile of shit that is every cryptocurrency revolve around centralizing some aspect of the network. Centralization is optimally efficient.

The entire premise of cryptocurrency is flawed, but that is overlooked by the plebs who just want to get rich quick.

It’s embarrassing really.
It is because the USDA determined that cattle were not getting a square meal. <Ba da dum, tiss.>

I'll go annoy my kids now.
In an ideal world, we would all pursue that which was our own passion, without the concern of income. There’s probably enough money in the world for that if it were distributed and if we all could reduce our consumption a good bit. After all, who needs to buy dreams when we are living them?
I don't see anything in there that requires `adb uninstall com.sony.foo` to work, for example?

The command should generally work, sure, but that doesn't appear to require the command should work for all stock package names.
half of them have supercomputers sitting around in their tents, so i'm tempted to agree with you. but they are treated like shit by their fellow humans. we literally produce enough food, even just in the usa, for 2/3 times our population. most of it gets wasted because of crazy socialist agricultural policies, to feed animals that will be incinerated instead of eaten, and so on. same goes for housing, and all other necessities. i think the homeless people are saner than the others, but they i don't think they're happy
They'll want business users and to eliminate an alternative platform at the same time. Buying something like Citrix or Zoom hands them an installed base which they can feed into using their Metaverse platform without needing to convince business users that Facebook isn't just to be used for personal social media.
Whatever is going on with the Navy, it doesn't seem to be well understood by flag officers. There have been far too many reports of crew exhaustion and confusion, too many reports of faulty or ill-designed user interfaces, and too little exhibition of loyalty downward from flag ranks toward the people who act to keep the ship afloat and moving.

Is crew retention decreasing? It is hard to imagine people putting up with conditions in the Navy while there are so many stories like this going around.
By Emacs do you mean Elisp? Your session there is not surprising to me. I don't have emacs handy but what does this do?

((lambda (f)
(f))
(lambda() 42))

You might need to throw a 'funcall in there or something, but my hypothesis is that this will work (return 42) without needing the top-level argument to be quoted. 'lambda is a deep special case, basically.

I understand that functions always zip through their arguments, evaluating each one. But when you quote the args in the call, I tend to expect the arguments to not be evaluated within 'evlis.

I'm surprised that quoting args makes the interpreter smaller! That's pretty interesting. But I think this interpreter will have some behavior that is surprising to anyone used to all extant lisps for examples like this:

((lambda (sym)
(cons sym 3))
(quote a))

Here there's no binding for 'a. I expect this to return (a . 3) in JMC's original Lisp.
Could you clarify 'what' is the example of reification here?
The size of a house is a secondary factor in the price. The single biggest factor is simply location.

The largest price run up has been in cosmopolitan urban locations that are thriving economic and cultural centers, where the size of homes tends to skew smaller, not larger.

Also remember that most recently built large houses became larger in part by reducing the quality of construction. The 1990s through 2010s were infamous for that type of construction.
It's a bit controversal because Taiwan reclaims that air space as Taiwan air space but since China does not recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state, it sees that space as Chinese air space.

In the end, if you -China- don't want to spark a controversy, you don't fly, without reasons, over what another state claims "own space", but China is doing it. So it's clear that it want to annoy and make pressions on Taiwan.
The biggest increases in quality of life comes from public health measure such as access to clean water, food and air. The next is protection from the elements with access to adequate clothing, shelter and fuel. After that I would argue that trust in the integrity of public institutions (rule of law) and security from the threat of violence and extortion. Then it would be access to education, basic health care to prolong life and reduce suffering.

Beyond that we have basic needs to feel that we are part of a family and community where we are loved and valued (belong) and where we can contribute (purpose).

While capitalism has excelled at improving productivity it doesn’t dictate that the gains in productivity necessarily will increase overall quality of life. I could, for example increase the productivity of food production in ways that may decrease overall public health. In that scenario capitalism would directly decrease quality of life.

I think the arguments on hacker news have mostly been due to a (US) system that has become extremely rigid in that there is less personal choice in how productivity gains may be spent by forcing people into very narrow specialties to maximize income.

In many cases that may result in overall lower quality of life if it impacts long term health or being part of a community.
Companies Pay New Workers Higher Wages, Current Employees Ask, ‘What About Us?’
Not exercise related, but I really miss the simplicity of things like the SanDisk Sansa Shake.
Ha, I didn't know the whole distribution fit in 1MB. Thanks
This is such a small amount of BTC that it's laughable to call it a "whale."
I have used Gnucash for years now. I import my bank statements on a periodic basis and code the transactions from there.
> Can two kernel modules even use the same card at the same time?

yes, I'm not sure how everything is divvied up. NVIDIA ships multiple kernel modules in their driver, and one of them is called ‘nvidia_drm’. So idk, maybe you have to use their DRM implementation or something
Couldn’t you just launder it through other crypto first? Then take it off the exchanges in Ether and Doge etc.
I guess you've given examples of times where new financial innovations were used for scams - which certainly has happened.

But I really can't think of a financial innovation that was itself a scam in the way NFTs are.
Just tried it out. Async blocks evaluate to Task objects which have a wait method and a result attribute which evaluates to the value of the block.

require 'async'

res = Async do |task|
name_task = task.async do
sleep 2
"Jenny"
end

task.async do
sleep 5
9
end

"Hello #{name_task.wait}"
end

puts res # => "Hello Jenny" after 5 seconds.

After using Python's and JS's async implementations this seems beautiful by comparison. Here's the a rough Python equivalent.

import asyncio

async def get_name():
await asyncio.sleep(2)
return "Jenny"

async def get_number():
await asyncio.sleep(5)
return 7

async def main():
number_task = get_number()
name_task = get_name()

name, _ = await asyncio.gather(name_task, number_task)

return f"Hello {name}"

print(asyncio.run(main()))
Toyota bZ4X: Steering yoke to solar roof, does its tech signal a new era for EVs
>Why is no one looking to reverse this horrible law?

because otherwise nobody would pay back their student loans.
Speaking of bullshit, in the UK that link yields me this, sadly :-(

> Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in your country. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to your market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.

Perhaps a less verbose and more honest version would be:

“Sorry. GDPR. So…. Nope.”

:)
doesn't seem like a great comparison as you can refinance.
The Linux VM on Chrome OS supports IPv6, using ND proxy to solve the "one WiFi MAC address" problem without NAT. I guess Microsoft thought that was too hard.

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/discussions/5855
It still is popular, even if only RAI has it this days. My dad still uses it, and you can access teletext even on new televisions/decoders.
> Most of the time spent is preparing and harvesting. In between you watch things grow and maintain. When nothing is growing...at least, my in-laws in China...drink, gamble (mahjong, card games) and hang out with other villagers.

So replace computers with agriculture and this xkcd really is timeless.

https://xkcd.com/303/
Summary of stated justifications: [1]

* Foone likes to do tweet storms and not blogs and some people on HN have a "Why isn't this a blog?" sentiment which is bothersome to foone.

* HN scraping bots on twitter mention foone which is bothersome to foone.

* HN community frequently assumes he/him for foone. Foone goes by they/them. This does not seem to bother foone on its own, but HN commenters correcting HN commenters about how foone goes by they/them sometimes leads to grammatical argument about using they as a singular pronoun which is bothersome to foone.

* Generally, discourse beyond "whoops sorry!" about he/him/they/them is bothersome to foone.

* Elements of HN discourse represent larger problems of male-dominant sexism that are trenchant in technology, which are bothersome to foone.

[1] https://twitter.com/foone/status/1440375176604966924?lang=en
G-20 world leaders formally endorse global corporate minimum tax
I have a sliiiight suspicion Mastodon would turn their cheek if it was a democratic politician.
labor has actually gained strength, we have dramatically easier ways to become financially independent today than we had in the 19th century. in europe peasants used to be basically slaves under the "law". i think the only thing that got worse is propaganda, which is the fake culture of the elites. once you turn your head the other way things get better
Ask HN: How to? Multiple monitors across house, exact same output
Fellow HNers,

I'm finding that with work from home, it helps to give myself a change of scenery by working in different parts of the house.

Whilst I could simply do this with my laptop, I much prefer working on large displays.

I have a wireless Lenovo keyboard (which has a built-in mouse trackpoint), and I'd like to place a large monitor in 3 separate areas of the house.

I also want to be able to walk around the house seamlessly and work on any of the displays - without having to plug/unplug anything.

What's the best way to do this?

Thanks! ^_^
Mine, like the most of them was not even an autodial-modem one! Endless "fun" trying to connect using a rotary-dial phone.
Yeah ... Just use 1.1.

Cloudflare is way better. It doesn't even look like an IP. And you just can't have shorter.
> race conditions everywhere. Async doesn't have this

What does Async (Fibers underneath) do differently than normal Threads? Using threads to handle concurrent work doesn't immediately bring race conditions, unless the programmer explicitly creates them (accessing the same stuff from different threads).

Fibers themselves AFAIK don't stop you from accessing the same stuff, aside from the obvious "the fiber code runs 'atomically' until it hits the next yield (which non-blocking Fibers take away anyway).
> The military was until recently carried primarily by white men from small town America

The military has disproportionately been non-White for a long time (largely, because even while actively racist for most of its history, it was less racist than the rest of American society), despite the White segment of it being disproportionately small town.

Its been disproportionately male, because it has been actively sexist and, unlike its racism, more actively sexist than the rest of society.

> Now white maleness is effectively a career handicap when genitals, skin color, and sexual orientation are considered for promotion.

Genitals, skin color, sexual orientation, and conformity with social norms of alignment of sex assigned at birth with gender presentation have always been a factor in military assignment, promotion, and discipline in the US.

For most of the history of the US military being White was a commanding advantage in that, being male was a commanding advantage in some areas, and a bright-line legal requirement everywhere else, and until very recently not being a cisgender heterosexual was grounds for being excluded from the service and drummed out (and criminally prosecuted) if already in.

The idea that these factors only started to matter when they stopped being a trump card for White cishet men is...amusing.
I grew up in Czechoslovakia and I remember vividly how we visited Austria shortly after the fall of iron curtain. Everything seemed so clean and colorful and well maintained - it was shocking. I saw billboards for the first time in my life and they seemed incredibly beautiful to me. Until that visit I never realized how gray and falling apart was my normal environment (I was 13 at the time) - it seemed normal and I assumed it was like that everywhere.
Direct links to sources (far longer, official U.S. Navy) cited by the article:

https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/HotTopics/BHR%2...

https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/HotTopics/BHR%2...
I was under the impression that the “housing problem” is basically land prices anywhere near where everyone wants to be, and a zoning/regulation/NIMBY thing, not actual construction costs. Am I wrong?
Similarly, for debloating non-rooted Amazon Fire (Android) tablets over ADB:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/windows-tool-fire-toolbox...