skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from the above CBC article, there are 500 (down to 360 as of today, Feb 15) heavy trucks in the "red zone" - one or even a handful of heavy truck towers is not enough.

also from the CBC article, excerpts:

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While the city likely has some vehicles with heavy-duty towing capacity for large OC Transpo vehicles, they also did not provide a response when asked how many they had.

Hooking up a commercial truck to a heavy-duty tower — sometimes called a "wrecker" — takes at least 30 minutes, Whan said.

It also takes time to tow the trucks to wherever they're being relocated to, and if the City of Ottawa did attempt it, they'd need to find a sizable space to put them.

Police don't think towing the trucks is an effective solution, said Matt Skof, president of the Ottawa Police Association.

"You can tow all you want — they're just going to return to the location, so it hasn't resolved the issue," Skof said. "And where are you putting all these vehicles?"

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"Notebooks" like Jupyter, or Github Spaces and VS Code for the web, where a lot of the processing runs on a remote server, and the result is displayed in the browser.
Were they known as "Facemates" before?
It’s truly insane to me that we’re still waiting on decorators from TC39. I’ve been seeing warnings to not use them SINCE shortly after ES2015. Since you’ve been able to use them for 7 years via transpilers, I wouldn’t hold my breathe on TC39 finally ending their bike shedding anytime soon. Feels like if the feature is useful to you, you should use it. If something changes, it would be an easy thing to codemod.
I thought this was a pretty good summary, but one thing stuck out to me as not quite right:

> To be price competitive, cultivated meat needs to match the cost of animal derived meat.

I don't think that's strictly true. Plenty of people are willing to pay more for products that are more ethical. Also, meat prices are likely to increase as we grapple with climate change and other issues related to subsidized, unsustainable sources of meat that we currently use.

That being said, if we are still mostly around $10,000/lb, we are a long way off and the overall conclusion doesn't change much. Seems like there are some big things to figure out before it's going to be a thing in the markets.
Intel SGX proves Blu-ray DRM is defective by design
Thank you!

Those papers are some of the densest ones, so maybe as a starter I would recommend Vitalik’s blog posts on ZK[1].

If folks are interested in a complexity theoretic introduction to ZK proofs, incidentally, in the interest of being self recommending, I authored one myself I’d be curious to hear thoughts on :)[2]

[1]: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/26/snarks.html

[2]: https://nibnalin.me/dust-nib/a-succinct-story-of-zero-knowle...
Nope. That's called rebroadcast. It's also used to try to "launder" photo manipulations, like compositing. I helped work on some algorithms which could pick up artifacts even after rebroadcast.

I would absolutely not trust pdf not to leak metadata. Although now you risk metadata leak from the printer or scanner, which may or may not affect your threat model.
Nhtsa approves adaptive headlights, paving the way for Tesla software update
They will launch Starships and discard them, at first.

Probably for the first couple of years, the Starships carrying Starlink satellites will be one-shots, with just three vacuum Raptor bells and no central gimbal system, heat shield tiling, or flaps. Those might have smaller fuel/oxidizer tanks to leave more room inside for the satellites. The only expensive bit is the three Raptor movements, but those are getting cheaper all the time. Until they work out a good, new tile system, there won't be any quick turnaround Starships.
>If overly regular, we'd be incredibly dull and unable to respond to the environment.

What do you mean by this? Are computers regular? What about a computer programmed to respond to its environment? What do you even mean "respond to environment"? Why does it operate in this mode when awake but not when asleep?

Please, since this research is so obvious to you, I would love to hear your insights on consciousness. They are far beyond mine.
How long has the debate been going about personal privacy?
Do you think it didn't apply to business or corporate entities?
Ensuring you are in full control of your passwords was already a thing, but logic suggests being in control of your identity (your login identity) is every bit as important.
The reason websites want to use your email address as a logon is they can on sell it.They can aggregate all your data under the username and cross link it.
You got it for free. Those services you paid for you actually still have, you just can't access them because you used a free service to handle the security.
(google, Facebook, twitter handled the verifying it was you and they do it for free - it just cost you your privacy)
Sadly, you actually got exactly what you paid for security wise.
If you had used your phone number as a logon (don't laugh google is doing that too) then all your privacy is out the window because even transitory email accounts can be cross link and you are now fully identifiable.
No? Well how often have you changed phone numbers?
When you start again, get at least 4 email addresses.
1 private
2 banking/financial
3 all the other stuff
4 business (perhaps another one for business don't care)
Manage them yourself so you can delete or add as the spam/junk overwhelms.
I'm all for cultivated meat, but I don't agree with the reasoning being that animals used for food experience pain and suffering. And I most certainly don't agree with this assumption:

"Factory farms are not what animals evolved for, so the unnatural conditions in which they're raised very likely induces suffering and pain in the raised livestock."

What makes you think that "natural" means free of suffering? Nature is spectacularly cruel. Many domestic animals (think well-loved family pets such as cats and dogs) live lives incredibly free of the suffering of their non-domestic ancestors.

It is certainly possible to raise animals for food where they have an easy life, and feel no pain at the end. I can't speak to whether it is economical (obviously, ensuring this would be expensive), but still. It is NOT impossible, or really all that difficult.

If you want to make the argument that killing animals with brains is bad, fine. I can go with that, and would prefer meat that doesn't involving killing. But basing it on false assumptions about how much pain the animal must experience is just going to make me say "let's just make laws that say animals must be treated very well and have a perfectly painless and stress free death."

Because I'm just not convinced, at all, that a well treated animal automatically suffers more than one in the wild.
I'm the Google Rep, and there were two more parts to my reply which explain this:

Here's why people often think quoting with Google doesn't work when it really does (I've looked a huge number of these reports).
1) We match ALT text
2) We match text not readily visible, such as in a menu or small text
3) Page has changed since we indexed it
4) Punctuation...

Punctuation comes into play if you did a quoted search like "dog cat" and there's text that says "dog, cat" then we'll see that without the punctuation. That doesn't seem a major issue but we're looking at if we could improve there.

And...as noted in another reply below, in the first result, if you look at the cached page that shows the ENTIRE page that we indexed (rather than the paginated version you land on), there's this text:

quotes, don-t-give-up-the-fight

with when you remove the punctation, is the match:

quotes dont give

And I get that this can be frustrating, that we don't consider punctation in a quoted search. That's not a new change, however. It's been that way for ages. But as I also said, it's something we might revisit.
I was alluding to the need of printing, as a concept, not necessarily the type of printer.

Also, developing an open source laser printer is easier than an ink-jet one.
So? I have Privacy Redirect for that…
Go to search_engine.com in Safari. Share button. Add to Home Screen.

This is not a bad solution; I appreciate your browser rage.
Absolutely still a thing! Formulas forever. I don't like the macro deployment story fully so dialed that way back -> if you can worth avoiding I think.
This is pretty cool. But you might want to update the credit for the zksnark +merkle tree + nullifier idea. It's from an academic paper, Zerocash in 2014. The approach is used in Zcash and then in Tornado.cash Though Tornado.cash is actually an odd hybrid between Zerocash's merkle tree+snark approach and an older academic paper, Zerocoin, which proposed a zk mix protocol as an add on to Bitcoin.
See 0xPARC’s recent blog post[1] on this topic (in particular, see the section “What can we do with zk-ECDSA?”)

[1]: https://0xparc.org/blog/zk-ecdsa-1
Note that Gemini Earn is run by Genesis Global Capital, not Gemini themselves:

https://www.gemini.com/legal/gemini-earn-program-terms-and-a...
I've adjusted the scrollbars to help make things easier to spot, thanks for the feedback! :)
I think this research is super interesting, and it's disappointing such a blaze, dismissive comment is at the top.

Cosmologists: we literally took a picture of a black hole!

Someone: So? I already knew they existed. Besides, it's not a picture of a black hole, it's just the ring around the black hole. yawn

Cosmologists: oh... sorry for wasting your time.
Heh, dunno, the rates I've seen likely are 100x or lower than other common cause of mistakes, corruption, and confusion.

Do I want ECC, sure. Would bitflips ECC could prevent be in any in the top 10 reasons in year for file corruption, application crashes, and OS crashes etc... unlikely.
Chinese investor taking heavy fire for saying he wants 'low-life' womanizer son
Looks like dbt Labs is working on a dbt Server that can translate your dbt-QL type queries into SQL. That way you can use different "building blocks" of SQL with the rest of your team. This becomes pretty powerful with the metrics layer that dbt just introduced.
I was on the user side of silverlight mostly, and also really enjoyed it. I'm not sure why, but it ran nicely as well (speed etc). Flash crushed my machine. Javascript had jank at the time. Java apps for some reason were always slow (dev style and frameworks, I know language was fast)
I thank you for this reply. You think deeply and your use of lofty as augmentation is very well placed.

I am unsure if most people there behave so, I can hope it is.

> Thirdly, I don't need permission from anyone the sell my shares

I believe you do and that's lofty. I don't believe you can transact outside and independent of lofty - i.e., if you built a replica of lofty tomorrow that transacted using the underlying blockchain, you couldn't.

> We (the other owners of the LLC and myself) don't have to rely on a gatekeeper (lofty in this case) to transact business with each other

Untrue - there's significant external process that relies on U.S. contract and property law that lofty handles that's undocumented and will need to be re-implemented from scratch if lofty were to close doors.

That said, again, I thank you for this reply and you have given me thoughts to consider.
> Defaults are effectively permanent settings. It does not matter how easy it is to change a default setting if practically no one ever does it

Thinking about when Firefox defaulted to Yahoo. I wonder what switch rate was.
This Journal Keeps Me Productive
I'm going to call this a dupe as there's been multiple discussions in the past year, though of different URLs:

6 months ago, 31 comments / 81 points:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28379872

3 months ago, 20 comments / 38 points:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29388966

4 monts ago, 24 comments / 32 points:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28813746

If the submitter wants to make the case that this brings something new to the discussion that's a fair argument. I don't think it does.
It will need a wholly new heat shield technology before they can do anything resembling quick turnaround. What they have now just gets them safely down, provided it works.

It would not be at all surprising if they didn't work out the new shielding until after 2025.
Backing up both Tim and Lee here as a former who overlapped with both of them. I had many issues with Linode as an employee. The idea that anybody I worked with at the time, many of whom I don’t get along with because I was even more of an asshole then than I am now, the idea that any of them would pinch Bitcoin off a Linode is so off-base it’s laughable. It simply didn’t happen. Period. If you believe it did, your logic in getting there is no different than that of political conspiracies that are common today.

I remember that rash of Bitcoin thefts and it was all careless behavior by the Linode owner becoming a secondary consequence of a primary employee compromise, I think. As in what happened to Twitter. Think “admin panel compromised, external actor searches for Linodes known to participate in Bitcoin, methodically compromises them one by one, finds poorly stored wallets and drains them”. That intruder very obviously knew what they were after, if memory serves, but this was almost ten years ago.

Seriously. Linode did one thing well and it was hire (mostly) good people. The comms around security incidents could always use improvement, and I think that led to the loss of trust you’re seeing here. I don’t think it’s just Linode, either, I think a lot of the industry is overly discreet when it comes to what to say publicly about events like this. We see the same with journalism: a lot of methods in reporting are trade skills and most people don’t understand the news gathering process, which leaves room to fill in the gaps with conspiracy. So it is with security, too.

I’d back your speculation, Tim: there were maybe two people, definitely one, maybe two, who could both perform the crime and hide it. One’s an unsavory person to interact with if he doesn’t like you but ultimately ethical and a force for good at his core. The other runs the company. Convince me that either of them did that and you may as well convince me the Earth is flat.
Where does StarCitizen fit in there? It feels like such a good example I have to ask the question.
To be fair, there are certainly also American and Chinese and other foreign adversaries behind it as well. I mean it’d be foolishly irresponsible if they weren’t manipulating Canadians into acting against Canada’s interests. Perverting social media is how nations execute cold war these days.
If you prefer a shorter summary (albeit with a click-baity title):

NASA Officials Reportedly Horrified That SpaceX’s Starship May Succeed https://futurism.com/nasa-horrified-spacex
RIP. I use bc in production for calculations in the shell.
> What if I show you a heavily biased paper in a quack journal with impressive-looking graphs that shows the earth is a flat disc? Is this misinformation?

Maybe. I've not heard people calling "misinformation" in cases like that though.
The easiest way to conceptualize Rust's design at a basic level (suitable for first-time learners) is probably as a glorified functional language, where you initially pass everything by value (courtesy of .clone()) aside from shared immutable data (passed via shared references). Mutable borrowing can then be introduced next, followed by the "cell" patterns/constructs for shared mutable state. Not altogether trivial, but it seems like it could work. And the compiler would protect against many errors along the way, that bite C/C++ coders.
Here's the really sad part: The agency acted in response to a petition filed by Toyota Motor Corp in 2013 to allow the lights.

Perhaps something by the end of 2023. So it took a full decade for them to act!
The percentage of people using Rust continues to rise.

How was the sample selected?
The only work adjacent to this I’m aware of is MetaMask Snaps[1], a plug-in system that allows for arbitrary code execution in wallets.

I know some teams in the 0xPARC community[1] are interested in it and have been looking into using it, but nothing publicly shareable on that yet.

[1]: https://0xparc.org/
Firefox on Linux Mint was pointing at something else for a while (DDG I think? Bing? I don't recall).

I gave up after a few weeks and had to switch it back to Google. Google's not perfect - it's never been perfect, it was just better than the alternatives - but it's still less bad than others.
Why Simple Explanations of Established Facts Have Value
Probably starting with open source firmware for an existing printer would be easier than starting with the hardware?
Poll: Do you like your job?
MyAnimeList has a pretty good navigation list IMO. For example on https://myanimelist.net/anime/25777/Shingeki_no_Kyojin_Seaso... there is prequel, sequel, other (spinoffs and specials), and "alternate version" (condensed movie summary or remake). Maybe the naming could be better but those relationship types are the basic set for any kind of serialized media. Note that the media type is not fixed, e.g. the sequel to the last (TV) episode of Firefly is Serenity (a movie).

Now it's true that some shows aren't really designed to be serialized, e.g. for the Fate series there is a complicated mess of a graph (https://i.redd.it/6fz5fzz6sfv11.png) and most relationships will have to be encoded as "other", but since it's so messy, almost any watch order is reasonable, so there isn't much structure lost.
That's a pretty awesome tribute. Thank you for sharing!
For reference, there are dozens of HIV vaccines in various stages of trials right now[1].

[1] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=vaccine&cond=Hiv...
The “environmental movement” is still fighting nuclear. Where are the lawsuits to stop nuclear plants by big oil? There aren’t any. Greenpeace on the other hand has made it their mission. The greens are responsible for the higher emissions in Germany by shutting down perfectly fine nuclear plants and replacing them with coal and gas. They are gonna do the same thing in Belgium.
They shut down the nuclear plant in New York then oppose an alternative.[1] It’s dogma.

Might be an interesting read for you: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/02/14/viewpoint-envi...

[1]https://twitter.com/JesseJenkins/status/1491802719878672395
I as a programmer can't imagine anyone building a search engine like this ?

As far as my personal experience(n=1) with Google, I have also have never experience anything remotely like this.
Creating IP i.e. artificial monopolies, prohibiting others to do/think/say/write things that conflict with your IP, requires an act of government, and the rights of government to make acts are strictly bounded by what the constitution allows. (unlike the general principle for private rights 'everything that is not explicitly prohibited is permitted'; for government actions it's the opposite 'everything that is not explicitly permitted is prohibited', there needs to be a legal basis for every government act).

The thing that permits US Congress to implement laws regarding intellectual property is the US constitution section 8 clause 8 "The Congress shall have Power To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" which enables exactly what it says and nothing more - i.e. congress is not permitted to grant any intellectual property permissions without a time limitation (because the clause only permits them to do that for limited times), and any laws protecting intellectual property must - at least technically - do that for the purpose of promoting the progress of science and useful arts; otherwise that law or parts of the law would be unconstitutional and the protections/rights/penalties described in that law would be invalid.
AMD's Market Cap Surpasses Intel for the First Time in History
Google has publicly admitted they cannot reliability determine the original source of a peice if content. This is a big problem for content creators.
Related:

Learn you an Agda (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17324469 - June 2018 (8 comments)

Learn you an Agda - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9456810 - April 2015 (24 comments)

Learn You an Agda - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8688070 - Dec 2014 (70 comments)
`site:reddit.com` has been worked poorly for me recently, although I've used it many times in the past. He's my most recent search (I was traveling and trying to watch Netflix, but geo-block was preventing some shows from appearing):

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Areddit.com%20ne...

The entire first page is for NetflixViaVPN subreddit (not linking to avoid SEO). They have a stickied post that seems to shill two VPN providers I haven't heard of. This is plausible, as maybe Netflix hasn't either... The stickied post has comments disabled, so it's hard to tell. Then if you click other posts, a bot auto-links the stickied post, but everyone is making different suggestions that may imply the stickied post is wrong.

Interestingly, the same search on DuckDuckGo only has three posts from that subreddit. This better matches what I wanted! The first one I'm seeing is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN_Guide/comments/rgh2xn/best_netf...

This seems much more plausible. All those comments suggest a provider I've heard of and that I've heard other people mention IRL. Google seems to rely too much on the URL or the page header, so it's stuck in a single subreddit.
The token server seems like a ripe attack vector.
Aren’t all of those exactly the features of a CRDT?

Regarding cheating and bad network, you still need all the same client side stuff and to define the conflict resolution policies into the CRDT, but the rest of the needed features (e.g. consistency, rewind, replays, etc) are all part of CRDTs.
A great reason not to have Web Assembly.
It’s hard to find flat-earth-supporting videos on Youtube now (which feels nannying), but the few I’ve found seem to wilfully ignore actual science and geometry or veer into outright deception (such as denying the disappearance of the far shore of a body of water).

At least Mike was actually going to do what science calls for and make his own observation. Rocketry takes, well, rocket science, and a bunch of weather balloons and a lawn chair might have served him better, but he will always have my respect for going for it. Very sad he didn’t make it, but he died doing Mike and that more than most of us will be able to say.
Contract Enforcement and Decentralized Consensus: The Case of Slashing
GHC seems to be more of a platform for crafting your own language than rust. Yes, rust nightly has experimental features that can enabled, but they seem to have gone through more vetting and design, whereas in GHC the features seem to be much more exploratory, or more explicitly, research oriented. It seems as though every contemporary haskell program is written in a different language, though rust at least, always has stable, which seems a much more sensible default than GHC's.
Consumers don’t want to see the results of their search or find the answer to their question. They want the assurance of being told the answer by an authority. Google has tried to become that authority. It’s true, just Google it.
US priest uses wrong words for baptism; thousands may need to redo rite
Perhaps true for some things, but technology related Google is still irreplaceable.

Haven't found a better search engine for my problem solving. Yes, a lot of answers point to Stack Exchange but it's not the only place where you can solve issues.
Wittgenstein said "you can't have a clear picture of a stormy sea".

(At least I read or heard that he did. I forgot where. If anyone knows, I'd love it if you could point me to it.)
Car makers are required to maintain parts availability for 10 years. I think it would be reasonable to have at least similar provisions for bionic parts and service. Say requirements for insurance/trust fund as part of FDA approval. Thus it will be priced in from the start.
5G, obviously.