skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you take drugs at your home and don't cause any incident, there is absolutely 0 chance that you get arrested. The idea is not to have a camera in everyone's home to send the police every time someone takes a drug, the idea is to punish people who get caught taking drugs because they are causing incidents, such as car accidents, or highly risking to, such as driving after consuming drugs.

Same with this law: if you're not seriously suspected of any felony then the state will not be able to request decryption of your data.

I'm sorry to say my children and myself have suffered from a criminal that took years to catch, I hope we will fully recover one day but sincerely doubt it, but I'm glad this makes you laugh at least that makes two people laughing about it.
Language is tricky, and cannot be made less tricky without loss of most of its value.
Sketchy is the tech industry's middle name. Politicians don't really get technology, so our technology landscape keeps resembling the Old West, with immoral monetization and cryptocurrencies instead of outlaws and gold rushes. I fail to find a metaphore for unsecure IoT devices, but we have those too.
Secure E2E encryption makes companies unable to decrypt encrypted data upon request.

Therefore, a law forcing them to decrypt encrypted data upon request necessarily makes it illegal to implement secure E2E encryption. QED.

(If the law only allowed them to share with the government data that was already decryptable by third parties, that would be a different matter. That's what happened to Tutanota in Germany: the tribunal ruled that they had to allow the police to access messages sent as cleartext, but they could not be required to put a backdoor in their E2E clients.)
The other thing the author isn't considering is that some of us have UI additions that make my IDE display a ligature, that visually replaces a known set of keystrokes. Now, what I actually typed is still there! It just looks fancy in my code editor.
Discussed at the time:

Ligatures in Programming Fonts: Hell No - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19805053 - May 2019 (86 comments)
We see new technologies emerge that make our day jobs easier as they get more and more automated.

I understand the desire of people in gov agencies to have more access to backdoors than they currently have, but think for a moment the risks that such powers pose to the public when the government itself turns authoritarian.

Unthinkable in our current climate, maybe. To the left and right of you -- at the NSA or FBI -- everyone is a non-partisan patriot who wants a color blind utopia of freedom and democracy.

I would argue two points: (1) That an apparratus has already been built that is beyond the wildest dreams of prior authoritarian states. (2) Democracies are historically rare and notoriously short lived. They do not last.

With points (1) & (2), we can conclude thus that the powers of such government agencies WILL one day be used by an authoritarian regime. It is a question of when, not if. Let us not build the authoritarian tools so as to not tempt a future would-be tyrant.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance...
Your comments throughout the thread are insightful & actionable. Yet, I will say that accountingcoach.com is the online resource that provides reliable and clear definitions & explanations for accounting terms. At least in the US when trying to figure out what is required of US GAAP, for example, accountingcoach.com provides clear definitions to differentiate between direct costs, manufacturing overhead, operating expenses, and inventoriable costs in general. This is in contrast to a lot of other online sources- including articles written by CPAs or accountancy websites!- where the writing is either too tortured to learn from or outright wrong!
> A purely functional approach ala Haskell is not the only way.

that wasn't the OP's argument though, the argument was that OCaml is somehow generally better for engineers.

> OCaml offers a pragmatic functional approach to programming.

an evaluation of something as pragmatic depends purely on what one whishes to practice. There's no universally objective notion of pragmatism.

> And now you are going to be able to have your OCaml code run in a truly parallel fashion on your multicore CPU.

no, it won't be able to do that automatically. Your code will have to respect certain invariants to function properly, and you as a developer will have to enforce these invariants with the available tooling at hand. Haskell has purity, guaranteed STM, and `par` labels for that. OCaml doesn't have those and the existing codebases will have to eliminate their thread-unsafe public interfaces first.

> When that happens you can track changes to state

how are you planning to track state changes without purity?
> if your eyes can see something

This is not a consistent standard from person to person.
Yup. The risk factor there is that humans might go extinct and then aliens visit Earth in 20k years and decide to start digging.
The challenge even at low radioactivity is materials for containment. If containers are damaged by the waste, as they likely will be over long durations, than refreshing the containers is insanely complex and fraught with hazards.
I'm really frustrated by this article. I spent the first half arguing with my screen and getting more and more irritated at the condescending critiques of people trying to manage unhealthy screen use. And I really liked the second half, which made me even more irritated with the first.

Her main argument is that focusing on individuals undermines our ability to change the systemic problems out current technology creates. Leaving social media may help your mental health, but we still live in a world where social media negatively impacts many of the people around us. We're still impacted by that system even if we're disconnected from our screen.

The second half argues that we have to look for communal and systemic change to make the systems better, which I agree with. I just disagree that that can't coincide with individuals also choosing to change what they can about their immediate environment
Please don't do this. The original title was correct.
Syncthing doesn't do smart sync. The library of stuff I want available is larger than can fit on my phone.
What does this even mean?

OCaml's variables are immutable. To use mutation, you have to do so explicitly with the `ref` type, e.g.:

let box = ref 0 in
print_endline ("box value: " ++ int_of_string !box);
box := !box + 1;
print_endline ("box value: " ++ int_of_string !box)

will print first `0` and then `1`. You cannot put a non-integer into the box because the box has type `int ref`, meaning only values of type `int` can be put into it with the `:=` operator.
Nah, ligatures are fine. Most of the time they’re used in situation where we are literally trying to create new character by combining others. Like |>, =>, !=, ===, >=, ~=, etc. The individual characters don’t have semantic value on its own, only the combination does. Then it’s quite fine to display it as one ligature character. What I mean is the meaning of |> is not a combination of meaning of | and meaning of >.
I responded in more detail to another one of your comments here, but I'll address this one as well: Not eating animals !== not getting protein. Mere minutes of searching for information on the subject will show that. You're simply being lazy by holding onto such an outdated notion.

I'm sorry your friends suffer from eating disorders (seriously, I am. I know some people are as well and it's painful), but don't blame veganism. The millions of healthy, strong, active vegans around the world are proof enough. Some basic research on the subject should cover the rest of your doubts.
I am quite confident that the NSA does not have a complete image of the encrypted data in my self-hosted Nextcloud instance. With IPFS they wouldn't even have to do anything, if they sometime in the future were able to break the encryption.
I strongly agree. Reading books about parenting like "The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child: With No Pills, No Therapy, No Contest of Wills" has done wonders for dealing with adults in my personal life and at work.
Of course. We are just going through a strange period of mental health. It used to be: "only very very serious problems are worth attention and in this case only professional can help you". This is why it was (and to an extent still is) stigmatized. Now we are moving towards "we all have mental health problems of different severity, mental health isn't binary". However, people still operate with the old dogma: "have a problem? Go to therapy, you can't help yourself, don't even try". That's why people tend to go to psychologists (and psychiatrists) more and more. Of course, many expect to get a prescription that fixes them magically the same way they want to have a pill for literally any medical problem.

However, just saying "there is nothing wrong with you" often means "your state does not fit any of predefined diagnoses" rather than "it is perfectly normal to feel that way". The same way people often complain about back pain and doctors can only say "there is no acute injury, Xray is fine, nothing I can do for you". It doesn't mean you can ignore it and go about your day. It means that most likely you have to find a lifestyle change to fix this yourself. It can be yoga, it can be getting a better chair and being more active, it can be a new mattress, etc.

Physical pain is more straightforward because most people understand that feeling pain is not normal, it means something is wrong. Nobody will tell you "if doc said you are okay, then your back pain is made up, you should stop being so dramatic".
Those photos just make me wish there were still smaller car-like pickups being produced for the US market. I hardly ever need to transport more than myself and one passenger. I typically just use my vehicle to drive to and from work, to the store, and around the city. But on many occasions, I would really love to be able to fit a full sheet of plywood or drywall without having to cut it down at the hardware store first.

I make do with my hatchback and rarely rent or borrow a truck, but there really isn't a good option for "small, economical, but can carry long/wide items once every month or two". At least nothing that's currently produced (old S-10's and Rangers, etc. are hard to find and cost way more than they would as "commodity" cars).
Yes, but this article of the Charter (and other laws) does not prevent lawful interception.

This is the crux of the issue: the so-called "pro-privacy" camp wants absolute privacy of communications.

Law enforcement and intelligence services are not against privacy, they are against systems that provide absolute privacy because these systems prevent even lawful interception.

Voice calls on your smartphone are private but may be lawfully intercepted. This is so because mobile networks are in the hands a few licensed and heavily policed operators. On the other hands, we've reached a point where it is simple to develop and publish software apps that allow anyone to communicate in a way that is impossible to intercept as far as we know.

This is not a simple issue. There is a valid concern but at the same time the potential ways to address it (e.g. backdoors, etc) are not very satisfactory.
Yeah, I feel like people either overlook or underestimate the uniqueness of a person's gait. I feel the only issue with it is collecting the information on it, as it requires more than just a picture.
I doubt the CCP taking the Republic of China will be slow, economical, and political like we've seen them do for their other puppet countries.

It will be abrupt and bloody. The ROC knows these strategies, the only way it will fall is by force and hopefully the US and other sovereign countries stand up and help against that when the day comes.

It seems that the CCPs plan is to whittle away support from all of the ROC's allies first, then crush them.
NVidia is a customer of fab services, and it's customers, not nanometers, that decide which processes are competitive. Nobody would say Samsung 8nm was on equal quality footing to TSMC N7. NVidia, however, proved that they could ship products on Samsung 8 that successfully compete with products shipped on TSMC N7. That's what "punching up" means. It obviously wasn't easy, but it gives them leverage in the next round of negotiations with TSMC, because it proves that TSMC isn't an exclusive kingmaker. Not yet.

Yes, Intel did "strike back" -- they shipped competitive products and earned money. Like NVidia on Samsung 8nm, they had to punch up.

Once TSMC is a kingmaker, they will charge a king's ransom -- but they aren't. Not yet. Competitors are still holding on, though they certainly have the disadvantage at the moment. The 20% price hikes (which are actually more than 20%) reflect this dynamic almost exactly: TSMC is the champ, but not the undisputed champ, so they can start hiking prices but they can't actually squeeze out their customers' margins yet.
Fair enough. Out of curiosity, do you live in one of the areas the CDC lists as having a high COVID-related ICU bed occupancy?

https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/covid19/report-patient-impact.html
Just imagine if J or K could be as glorious as this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
>Well one time I was installing a minimal base system of Linux on a
friends PC, so that we would have all the necessary utlitities to bring
over the rest of the stuff. His 3 1/2 inch disk was dead, so when had to
get the 5 1/4 inch version of the boot/root disk. Too bad that version,
having to fit in 1.2M instead of 1.44, didn't have tar

Heh ... I wonder how many years forward will people stop knowing what a 3 1/2 and a 5 1/4 disk is
How do you know blockchain actually works?

It's no different than any other software; it has to gradually earn confidence over time. Major math flaws were found in Zcash and more recently ECDSA threshold signatures and they had to be patched. Likewise understanding of cryptoeconomics has evolved (see selfish mining and MEV as examples) and will continue to evolve. It happens.

How do you delete data from the blockchain?

You don't put the data on the blockchain in the first place; you put a pointer. This doesn't solve all cases but it's better than nothing.
It's not always insulting or abusing. I've noticed considerably more psychological damage from normal conversations. Questions like "do you think seeing yourself as a scammer is going to cause long term effects on your health?" Abusive questions only get a rise out of them and then they either stay on longer, incoherently angry, or they drop the call quickly.
How quickly we go from, "Clients should pay for value" to "fuck the clients, they deserve to get cheated".

Yes, waterfall is a bad choice. But no, clients aren't to blame for trusting a vendor to do right by them.
If you did a lung CT they probably looked for blood clots (your doctor would know if they did or not), in which case dimer is not going to help you.

Ironically, if you are having panic attacks, a drug that lowers your heart rate may help treat them.
Make bug bounties pay $250k and people will have their friend inside add some bugs for the outsider to find, and share the payday.

Pay-per-bug-found incentivises plenty of counterproductive things as well, especially if we're talking about people who happily sell to anyone on the black market.
>>> atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection

The idea is: what happens with psychedelic experimentation at mass scale? Do we morph into an empathic nation of Deanna Troi's overnite ;)
That's pretty cool. My font doesn't have them, sadly.
My son notes that he can buy in his midwestern hometown, the fanciest house on a bluff overlooking a river and a park on an acre and with 3000 sq ft, for what in Santa Clara would buy a burned-out trailer.
> There have actually been quite a few new reactors brought online in the past two decades in France,

Uh? Not a single one.
Category D (60% to 69%) area.

There's no ICU at this facility I go to. Just a neighborhood clinic. But enough people are taking COVID19 tests that they're having issues keeping up.

-------

Everyone around me was in for non-COVID19 reasons. We all came in on maybe Thursday/Friday/Saturday, saw the 4-hour wait, and decided to come back on Sunday to stand in line before the clinic opened.

But the number of COVID19 walk-in patients was clearly big enough to cause all of us in line to postpone our health care (again, mine was pretty whatever, just a TDAP/Wooping Cough booster, the person in front of me had mysterious pains and the person behind me had a mysterious blister). So nothing "serious" mind you, but... there's a lot of self-selection bias here since we all came back another day.

----

Furthermore, the clinic has temporarily suspended its giveout of flu shots. Its really overrun right now and quite evident. I drive past it every day to work and I can see that its parking lot is completely packed.

The sign-in line took 45 minutes to clear after the clinic opened. That's just walk in, type in your name + problem into the computer, and sit down. A lot of us standing outside in the cold waiting just to get to the damn computer screen to sign in.
I totally agree with your first sentence.

I totally disagree with your second one.

Unless there’s some sort of major reboot, the button for which I suppose we are busily groping around for.

Any of several buttons.

Interconnected buttons.

The buttons of DOOOOM!!!
it's not. that's the bug. For most scenarios, it doesn't make any difference.
You can almost set your watch to it.
An Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculation Machine Reveals New Secrets
Similar gripes here. I don’t use things like the integrated git support (Fork.app does that better) so it’d be nice to be able to turn off the sidebar entirely. Much prefer starting from something basic and adding what I need (Sublime) or a full blown IDE that’s opinionated.
Resilience and the Stockdale Paradox
> If someone generated the right numbers by chance and had luck

The whole point of cryptography is nobody could possibly guess these numbers within the lifetime of the universe. If this assumption is somehow proven wrong, we've probably got bigger problems than one person losing money.
Polaroids (self developing color pictures) are a good example of everyday magic. Sure it's chemistry and not magic, but how sure are you?

If magic was real, wouldn't those who knew how to use it figure out how to profit off it on a wide scale? Flying carpets? Too much time investment for too few trips. Aluminum "wings" that fooled even Bernoulli... no there's a business that continues to make billions. DNA testing? Don't get me started about prepackaged identity spells.

:)
Well-Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg
I went from Vim to Sublime Text 3 to VS Code, in the end it's all about what helps you work faster/better. There isn't in my opinion a choice to make here, really depends on the task you want to achieve. VS Code works fine for my projects.

(I still use sublime to quickly edit text but I was really disappointed with their latest version)
It is a logical fallacy to focus on who the author is. You either can point out where the error in his reasoning is, or not. Because it sounded pretty convincing to me: to participate in routing a payment you need to have at least the paid amount tied in the lightning network, which favors people with a lot of spare cash, who can have more channels open, and process more payments.
Proof that this system lacks night vision. No different to the video of the deer getting run over by another Tesla on autopilot [0] and the near miss that happened when the system malfunctioned and tried to hit another car [1] - both cases at night.

Sounds like the risks in using both either autopilot or FSD systems at night is even more dangerous but very surprising that these systems still have no night-vision system.

Shocking.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28732566

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29515784
Different type of glitch, but the "video glitch" in an ImageMagick script is pretty neat: http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/videoglitch/index.php (scroll down to see the examples)
Artificial bodies. Our deep-seated bias towards compassion has led us to subvert natural selection through medicine (and I say this as someone who likely would not survive a few centuries ago). We will continue to decline physically as a species and require more and more interventions immediately after birth. At some point we'll probably do away with old-school reproduction altogether.
I think it depends on whether you want to buy a test kit, or have the test conducted and certified for you.

For buying the kit, for example https://www.siegmund.care/10x-COVID-19-Antigen-Selbsttest-SA... 10x antigen test for 28.56 € including VAT, which is around USD 33.
1. So subsidize it. Just a few weeks ago the White House laughed at the idea of distributing free tests; now they're finally doing it after basically the entire public health world said "that's not a laughing matter, we should absolutely do it". Cheap, abundant tests are a key tool to safely conducting family/group gatherings.

2. The same sentence includes "both in its regulatory system", and I've cited the issues with the US in this regard.
We don't have any current plans to do built-in remote editing, especially not anything platform-specific. It's particularly difficult to get right - especially regarding security - and not one we'd likely ever use at Sublime HQ ourselves.
Some Grandstream ATAs support pulse dialing. That's probably the easiest solution for most people.
It's interesting how the most apparently compelling arguments that were made against people wearing masks turn out to be false in practice. I can think of two categories:

1) the claim that the wearing of masks would impede law enforcement, including the passing of statues especially against masks on demonstrations

2) the claim that Muslim women wearing full religious head coverings could not be tolerated in public spaces because it was obvious that it would make it impossible to judge the mood or other psychologically important signals normally exchanged in public

None of this seems to have been true. Sure, there probably is some small validity to some aspects of those claims, but they seem to have been hugely exaggerated.
No not really. FIPS specifies minimum encryption levels and forces certain things to not be used that are considered insecure. However it doesn't cap the maximum key length that is possible to be used.

Also FIPS 140-2 is outdated, please see FIPS 140-3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140-3
I’m not sure how that works in the Netherlands, but in germany the risk of “Scheinselbständigkeit” which is probably the closest common analog resides nearly completely with the employer. The legislature wants to strongly discourage this behavior on the employer side.

The best-case result for they employer is that the can deduct the employees share of social security from the last three wage payments, but no further. And that best case requires that there is no fault of the employer, which is a rare case.

Given that European law is fairly well aligned when it comes to labor law, I’d be surprised if there’s an option to substantially dip into the cabbies past payments.
What to expect from Apple in 2022: ARM desktops, portless iPhones, and more