skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gathering SMS sent&received times and content hashes, and call times and durations, that, together with the Android ID, allow them to reconstruct who is calling or messaging who. And there is no opt-out..

"Privacy issues" is an understatement. When does this become criminal hacking? Were users informed? There might be something buried deep in a EULA, but if polled, would anyone have been found aware of this?

If I installed a trojan to millions of phones that did this, I'd go to jail for criminal hacking. If Google does it.. I guess clicked-through agreements trump law?
Oh sure, but if you're looking at this text, you're also reading it. If you're a person, it's reasonable to assume reading comprehension (as opposed to an AI), and the sentence should just not parse. So I can only assume this is a typo and not a mistranslation. Unless they're using machine translation and OCR.
'We want to be the UPS or FedEx of the moon': A startup's big moonshot
> Offsets can change.

Indeed. So when the Turkey/France meeting moves, what then?

But I get you. You want the point in time to stay "the same" in the local "common sense" time, whereas I was thinking international cooperation in which case anchoring it in Turkey could hurt more than help.

> So a better option is to store UTC + timezone + revision

Well that means that you've decided on an exact number of seconds from now, no matter how timezones change. So what's the point?

Why not just have UTC+offset, then? timezone+revision is exactly equal to offset.
Just a guess at what country you were talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_Is_Not_Yet_Lost . OK, so not Poland, then. :-)
In fairness it's not a trial, it's a meta-analysis. So people looking at papers and creating a spreadsheet or something. They can be pretty cheap, rather than the billion or two it takes to get a new drug to market.

I haven't read the paper but the absolute best outcome would be that they list all the studies they evaluate for inclusion (which is most of the work, finding and evaluating) so that others could perform similar analyses with a big head start.
I don’t think outlawing gold would stop the trading. Drugs are also illegal. Also in a crisis such as the one being discussed the laws and the concept of legality doesn’t mean much.

Btw it is estimated that the last time gold was declared illegal, only about 5% of gold owners gave it up.
Agreed but the lack of these kinds of policies also lead to harassment and violence for many, so it's clear a discussion needs to be had.
Latest techempower benchmarks show ASP.NET Core being 37 TIMES as fast at runtime as RoR.

Think of that as 37 times as much AWS bill for your projects in RoR.. what were you saying about the syntax ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As an armchair expert:

I wouldn't worry too much about it. A recession is not even close to the worst thing that can happen to you (both as an individual and as a family). It's not cancer, divorce or a horrific car accident. The only reason they're noteworthy is because they affect so many people at the same time.

Worst case scenario, you lose your job for a year or so and your portfolio gets fucked, but you'll survive and your children probably won't even look back at it that negatively (I know I didn't when my old man lost his job).
The following has served me well, regardless of economic conditions.

0. Empower and partner with your spouse to make all the financial decisions. They should know absolutely everything. You can’t do it alone.

1. Zero debt. For a while I had house mortgage that I repaid at the first possible availability of bulk cash.

2. Max out tax saving investments. Try not to pay one penny more tax than absolute minimum.

3. Max out life insurance you can afford. Don’t combine life insurance with investment.

4. Buy good health insurance over and above employer provided.

5. Monthly investment in equity index fund.

6. Only when you are done with all the above spend whatever remains on your monthly expenses.

7. Don’t postpone making of a will.
Should the world seize the assets of Silicon Valley billionaires over the US invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan and other actions in MENA?

Probably.
Could the 3D model be used to interpolate the shape of an animal behind a cage?

I'm imagining a panda enclosure, with lots of people taking photos. 2D images are obscured by a line where the cage is. Eyes can correct for it by moving our heads around, but the photos can't.

There is an opportunity for cage-removal to be solved with software (guessing, or taking multiple photos and cross-stitching) or simpler hardware (camera on bottom of phone instead of top, use parallax like 2 eyes). But the lidar option might work too.
I always thought: Wow they seized his yacht; I never thought that these people had a bunch of these billion dollar things floating around... So they seized one of his many, many boats.

I have to agree with everybody else in this thread, not a big fan of blaming the people of Russia for what their dictator does; even if they are in his so called "inner circle". Perhaps these people can pressure Putin to change his mind, but he doesn't look like a humble man looking for advice.
What do you expect? The Russians are a pretty comfy enemy. From Call of Duty over Mission Impossible, we are familiar to the evil Russian, hence, those reactions are so satisfying to too many people, unfortunately.

I have Ukranian/Russian roots. My girl, born in Germany, was just pushed by classmates and called nasty words just last week in school.

This reminds me of the racism against Asian people when Covid appeared.

This war only has losers, the Ukranians, the Russian people, the Europeans, the Americans.

Edit: Somehow some posts were deleted from this thread, also my experience with Racism I have faced a few days ago. That is strange.
It's also only a dirty trick if you fall for it. I've spent my life being accused of having autism, sometimes it's good to strategically not be aware of social norms like that.
> * Ukrainian stocks ("buy when there's blood on the streets" also means "invest when the country most needs it")

Keep in mind buying stocks in a public company doesn't directly "support" it; buying stuff from them, or buying their bonds, does. This is basically the issue with ESG index funds.
The Pi-Search Page – search the first 200M digits of Pi
Happy Pi Day, hn.
Literally all API design articles are marketing. There’s almost zero, aside from foundations that came from academia, early industrial or military specs, or very shallow blog posts that are almost useless when you actually build something beyond a prototype.
I would choose reducing real harm caused by the actual distribution of abuse material (anyone can be abused in this way even in marginalised communities) if the only cost was potentially chilling the distribution of trans-oriented adult content. Seems like a small price to pay to reduce the effects of one of the worst things the internet has enabled.
It's almost as if the context differs between upvoting on a forum and threatening a leader to their face in their own country, in a room full of their supporters. I'm certain that if a Russian did the same in front of Putin, the results would be similar if not worse.
It takes electricity to make one bitcoin. You can't lie about that -- if someone gives you a bitcoin, it means provably someone somewhere on the planet took some time to bottle some energy up to make that bitcoin.
Jesus these answers are hilarious.

Assuming you’re in the U.S. or similar you don’t need a farm, a shotgun, and a Honda full of silver ingots.

Diversify your savings, avoid consumer debt, and be wary of new monthly payments.

Consider changing to more stable job if appropriate.

That should do it.
Not according to people who know more about ZFS than me.

https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/zfs-dedup-disable-...
Yeah, I'm not looking forward to when Argentina decides they can seize the property of any US citizen because of the US invasion of Iraq.
For my consulting projects, I've found that Halide[1] is a worthy game changer when it comes to performance consultations, due to their architectural decision of separating between code and their scheduling (or algorithms and execution).

Whereas previously I had to run careful benchmarks and profiling for a given target hardware, I can play with different scheduling approaches or even run their DL based autoscheduler to get me quickly in to the 90th percentile of where I want to be.

[1]: https://halide-lang.org/
> submitting design and usability improvements to open source projects

What format does this take. My experience is that more often than not, design and usability improvements are abstract (mockups) and requires implementation by someone else. If the improvement is a working update to a QML file that improves the interface, I'd say chances are that it would be received well.

Sorry if this sounds defensive, but

> bikeshedded into oblivion by people emotionally attached to a bad ui

doesn't sound fair to me.
In such case - you're right. Good CTO should know if what employee requests is within market range for his position. If so - not much point in arguing with the market - it will come to bite you sooner or later.
The Deepmind control of plasmas is interesting, and I think that some of the more recent successes at NIF have been related to more run-of-the-mill deep-learning based control.

The problems above are not just a plasma instability problem, which has impeded progress. The interior walls of the fusion reactors are just pretty extreme environments, and the extremity is made worse by the fact that if you control plasma flow with magnetic fields, you trade the ability to control magnetic fields with dose -to-the-magnets-.

Achieving high magnetic fields also require high currents -> super conductors -> low temperatures (0.1-20 Kelvin).
Birmingham's invisible woman
Isn't that quite easy when the other side is banned?
Because it helps get rid of Putin and its something we are able to do. Getting rid of Putin is our objective right now.

Is it technically ethical and nice? Maybe not, that can be debated. But I don't see why we should care. Russia's also seizing foreign property as well as invading another country, if you do want to have that ethical argument.

This is how the world works, I don't think we should get bogged down in whether it's technically entirely OK for those poor Russian-govt-linked billionaires to have less yachts. It's in our power, it's in our interest, and that's how the world works.
I hadn't been on reddit for a really long time (way before all this started) and I logged in yesterday and was pretty surprised by how much war glorification was dominating the popular page and the simplistic narrative being pushed.
Why do you think it has so little use?

One thing that comes to my mind is portrait background blur - so far computational implementations on smartphones that I’ve seen were not very good, I suspect this can improve effects like that a lot which seems relevant to consumers.

On the forward looking side I think app developers can also get a lot of value out of this. Eg (just a thought) changing the way clothes or shoes are bought by letting you scan body parts to determine fit.

And this can generate a lot of data feeding into their vision models + what you already mention about AR/VR.
I'm French, this story makes my stomach wrench.
> With epoch, from whose perspective are units counted? Mine? Someone in Greenwich?

That's the great part of about (at least UNIX) epochs. It's the same so it doesn't matter.

> Still needs a timezone so determine when something did or will happen.

Nope, it does not. That's exactly why it's better. At least for describing exact timestamps, like "when an HTTP request came in". It's less good at describing "no matter what changes are made in political circles, I want to represent noon in this native american tribe in Arkansas today three years from now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
I’m still waiting for spider-like drones to supplant most manual exploration
there isnt much of incriminating evidence in the article to justify the writing as if they discovered some terrorist cell or sth. searching for revenge porn and banning shady stuff is laudable, but there s so many people willing to make porn nowadays that it doesnt justify creating panics around it. even facebook and google have corporate structures in the carribean. The names they are printing are probably the owners of companies who serve as directors. I mean it's cool if you want to fight the global shell company system and all, but starting with a medium euro porn site doesnt seem particularly fruitful.

I wonder whose audience is this article; i don't think germans are so scared of porn
32 year vegetarian. Never had to take a supplement.
Another is ThingsMobile:
https://www.thingsmobile.com/business/plans/shared-data-pack...

They have many data plans and have worldwide support.
3He on the moon occurs in regolith at a concentration of maybe 10 ppb. At that concentration, simply heating the regolith to drive out the 3He uses more energy than the 3He would produce in fusion, unless extreme heat recycling can be achieved (and good luck transferring heat into/out of powders in vacuum.)

Even if it could be recovered, all the 3He on the entire moon might power the world for maybe 100 years.
A small tip to HN readers: Whataboutism is key to Russian propaganda.

I'm not saying people here are Russian trolls, but if your key reaction to "What's happening in Ukraine is shit and we need to do something NOW" is to say "Oh but what about what the US did in the past?", you're amplifying Russian propaganda, and it may be because you've been hearing Russian-funded articles/media, directly or indirectly.

Nothing, in the immediate, will be done about the US's past war crimes. Should something be done? Yes. Is having this conversation now while Europe is at war and civilians are dying every day, hospitals are bombed, and millions are fleeing Ukraine? No, all that serves is to strengthen Russia's position on the web, which is a very important part of their strategy (as it has been for the past 8 years).

So I ask of you:

1. Do not amplify Putin's message and propaganda. You want to talk about this stuff? Wait for the war to end. Please.

2. Stop making everything in the world about the USA, FFS. My friends and girlfriend's family are hearing bombs fall every day, why do you have to make this about you?
When economic hardship hits crime rates spike and they spike worse in cities I don't want to be even near cities with sky high rent and a big homeless population. A community doesn't need much hardship to become unstable.
I think the heuristic of giving this a weight of approximately zero is reasonable, since nobody here is actually going to go check out every study in the meta analysis nor is anyone here going to verify the statistics of this paper.
A 7.5-feet-long mushroom canoe demonstrates the powerful versatility of mycelium
GM mode for Divinity: The original sin 2 gets a lot of praise
I am going to make a claim that may sound a bit odd to you since it does not reflect your experiences: installing, updating, and removing software is much more user friendly under Linux.

Almost every Linux program I use is available through a package manager. Installing, updating, and removing the software can be done through a graphical package manager that resembles the Windows Store. In an apples-to-apples comparison, I would claim the graphical package manager is more user friendly since it is focuses upon managing software rather than marketing software, but I can appreciate that opinions will differ.

In the case of Linux, most software is available through the package manager. In the case of Windows, a significant portion of software has to be obtained separately. The typical case involves finding the vendor website, downloading the software, then running a multi-step installer. If the software doesn't seek out and install its own updates, the process of updating software is the same. Removal of the software is usually similar to using a package manager under Linux, but there are cases where dependencies must be sought out and removed manually (e.g. Visual Studio). Modern Linux package managers handle dependency removal automatically.

Then there are the still relatively common outliers. Many Windows programs are distributed as zipped files that must be installed manually. Usually this is a case of extracting the files, yet you have to read the instructions to be sure. There are also going to be the uncommon outliers, with installation processes that resemble that of Radarr. (It happens, though I have only seen it with development tools.)

In my experience, the software management frustrations under Linux come from a limited number of outliers. Ironically, those outliers all use installers that resemble their Windows counterparts.
Well, I decided to check the number.

20% is for uncharged, non-rotating BH. 42% (maximum) is for rotating black hole.

I have to agree with 20%. 42% assumes that you are robbing the black hole of its momentum and that cannot be sustained infinitely, as you are throwing more and more stuff into it your best possible efficiency will drop asymptotically to 20%.
I am confused on the suggestion to become vegetarian.

In economic hard times, one mist be picky and learn how to eat anything available.
Should have probably mentioned "Russian Oligarchs" in the title, didn't see anything about Jeff Bezos (an oligarch by definition, he even has his own MSM thingie) and the like.
I've been looking forward to this after enjoying another game from the same dev - Marble Marcher[0]:

> Marble Marcher is entirely ray-marched (similar to ray-tracing) in real time and is played on the surface of evolving fractals. The goal is to get your marble to the goal as quickly as possible. There are 24 unique levels to master.

[0]: https://codeparade.itch.io/marblemarcher
I was curious too, so I decided to build it. The build process took exactly 5min8sec on a M1 Pro, and was pretty flawless. Only gotcha was that I had to install rust v1.59.0-nightly using rustup because of one of the dependencies.

If you want to do the same:

brew install cmake git-lfs
git lfs install
git clone https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren.git
cd veloren
cargo run

Based on this, I see no reason for a downloadable M1-ready version of Veloren to be made available. Compilation is trivial and fast, so might as well.
> With the convenient icon next to the clock in Sway

Wait what? I never even considered this. I am in love with Sway. Having a tiling window manager on a phone might be quite the facinating use-case, mapping swipes to tiling actions similar to [1]. I think this article just won me over to try a linux phone.

[1] https://v.redd.it/n3a1jk05p0211/DASH_9_6_M
Arguably, anything alien to you, and 'ethnic' to something else, can use the word 'ethnic' as a valid adjective.

That use may not be idiomatic (in the sense how, say, an Indian or Chinese mainlainder would never describe a civil war between white people on US soil as 'ethnic tension' in the English language) but it's a valid use of the word from their POV.

I dislike non-idiomatic uses, as idioms have their uses in language, and not all idiomatic usages are inherently racist or sexist. (Does the word 'white flag' connote something bad? Or does the phrase 'as white and pure as snow' mean something derogatory, as it does not include other colours?)

The phrase 'ethnic tension' to me usually means some arguments between factions in a failed government, local militia forces, autocratic regimes with many tribes, etc. I don't think use of such idioms should be governed. It is definitely censorship.
And let’s not forget that cheap meat is possible only because of industrial-scale mistreatment of animals, the abuse of antibiotics, mass devastation of the natural world to grow feed for said animals, etc., etc.

We reap what we sow. We’re killing Earth’s biosphere, and soon enough our own species will face its doom.

But hey, let’s get another bucket of chicken and keep stuffing our faces with hamburgers.
Maybe but in Blazor you have the choice of Property or Constructor DI. This choice is in all the major DI container libraries I've worked with in .NET, around a dozen over the years.
According to the Gervais principle, managers are "clueless", and sit between "sociopath" leaders, and "losers" (engineers like me, I guess).

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

Having discovered that it's easier to be self-effacing, the quick way to the top is just to directly contact the sociopaths (who usually just say "yes" to everything).

As for requirements specifically, I believe that to make it easy, they should all be 0 or ∞, which makes it easy to test. In practice, laws of physics will add other limitations, but having a grasp of those will make it easier to articulate the design decision (e.g. we can't make that faster because it's already at the speed of light).
> But if you're FAANG and launch that sort of MVP going against mature products from your competitors, often replacing a more feature complete product with an existing user base that you try to port over... well, you're going to get destroyed.

I think what you're describing though is if you cull too many features, i.e. if you try to launch _below_ the minimum that's viable for your product-market fit, you'll always get destroyed.

You get some more leeway if you're the only offering in a problem space, but going up against incumbents really raises the bar of what the viable minimum is.

That said, you _can_ offer less features but a better execution — e.g. there's a lot of challenge banks (Monzo, Revolut, Starling, etc.) doing well in the UK at the moment (in the sense of customer acquisition, at least).

I remember when they were applying for their banking licences, a lot of people working in traditional fintech were saying that they'd be a flash in the pan & that customers wouldn't switch to these new businesses until they had parity in terms of offering things like loans and mortgages. But the offering of trad banks was _so bad_ that people were willing to overlook a lot of missing features for a better UX on their day-to-day banking.
We’ve turned schools into battlefields, and our kids are the casualties
Ivanpah isn't solar PV, it's concentrated solar running a steam turbine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility

edit to add key excerpt:

> The project also received an investment of $168 million from Google.[29] However, in November 2011, Google announced that it would no longer invest in the facility due to the rapid decline of the price of photovoltaic systems.

So your PR man was attacking a site that was considered obsolete by its own funders 7 years before his talk happened.
Their minimum is €0.02 per MB:
https://www.thingsmobile.com/business/plans/pay-per-use-plan...
with fee of 2EUR.

Without subscription:
https://www.thingsmobile.com/business/plans/pay-per-use-plan...
it's €0.1 per MB.
Nah, the USD will be fine. Where are you going to go? China won't let you use the yuan and everyone knows they'd be even more controlling with it.

See Question D on https://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/ukraine/.

Also, USD has actually gotten stronger in the last month, and the sanctions were mostly on EUR anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline
tldr: Math.random()
Bangpath email addresses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path

Munnari being the UUCP connection between Australia and the rest of the world, run by Robert Elz:

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

https://dif.vic.gov.au/editorial/4194-a/a-computer-server-an...

running Usenet news and people paying for newsgroups to subsidize the phone bill to Hawaii.

Dial up bulletin boards, connecting via FIDOnet, then slowly being absorbed into Usenet groups and mailing lists.

gopher servers, ftp servers, spam email, "endless September"...

I'm old :)
"just have money" - this is my new mantra.