skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, no.

Two aspects. The first is client vetting - such organizations (I have in mind a particular organization that's not NSO but also has products which rely on RCEs) simply don't sell at all to random companies - I'm not sure if they sell to companies at all as all the published cases have been from the government sector, but in any case they already know all the potential clients they might have, it's not like there are many of them in the world. And it's not trivial for Apple to falsely pose as, for example, the intelligence agency of Bolivia in a way that's not easily discovered. Also, in the specific case of NSO, every new client will likely require approval from Israel government for the 'arms' export license, and is likely to be vetted by Israeli intelligence agencies which are considered to be quite competent.

The second aspect is that such organizations generally are very wary of actually giving access to RCEs themselves - in many cases they will sell access to the use of RCEs, where the buyer won't get the ability to get the exploit but rather the seller will run the exploit themselves. Of course there are exceptions, but any less trustworthy clients (e.g. if selling to some USA local law enforcement which realistically aren't as secure as FBI) simply won't get the opportunity to compromise the 'goose that lays golden eggs'.
> because I increasingly think Adobe hates you.

This is probably pretty tongue in cheek, but this may be anecdotally more true than you think. I once had the privilege of being part of an Adobe Creative Cloud user research/focus group. It was appalling. They were very defensive of their product and even hostile towards certain kinds of feedback. It very much diminished my faith in Adobe as a company. At the time I just sort of shrugged it off because in many ways there just simply was no viable professional alternative, but I feel like this is increasingly not the case. In a way I think their chickens may be coming home to roost.
This is useful info for trivia quiz but if no practical value. As the server is now all Linux, that is the right way.
It's really cool
Needs some cosmetic fixes around the edges but it's fun
If you're open to trying it out, I wrote an open-license alternative to TrueSkill: https://github.com/philihp/openskill.js, which has been ported to half a dozen languages. I'd love your feedback on it.
Mao and Stalin didn't kill for religious reasons.
I managed my lifestyle to need <20k per day, almost per week, with occasional 150k runs. So your goal nicely covers my needs. Down here in OZ the discussion is dominated by people who are frankly on the margins, who routinely drive 100+km per day and who tow high loads for a living, or work rural and remote. I totally accept they have problems with this model, but I wish they'd be more overt they realize just how marginal they are to the vast bulk of urban Australia, who live within 50km of their job.

The strongest case they have, is that all of us want the freedom of not being constrained by range, however rarely we use it. Somehow the 45min recharge ruins the experience. I personally think battery swap was a model which got us there but Musk drove the (current) industry to another place, and nobody in the west is seriously offering it, outside of special needs like buses and trucks. It's alive and well in the e-scooter space in much of Asia.

If your life involves driving the birdsville track every day, you are not the target of energy transition to batteries.
not necessarily uncommon just the fertility of such mating and their decedents might have been lower than replacement rate. if a such mating pair were only able to produce 2 or less fertile children on average then their line would eventually die out. Its also possible that it was like mules where the offspring are starile 99.9% of the time but every once in a while one is able to reproduce successfully for some reason.
Twice seems smart. Too risky for a single click
I would say the NFT market places make it easy to buy/sell (liquid). Since contracts are composable it could be sold to a contract with distribution properties so there can be fractional ownership. Programmable money flows.
That’s the beauty of technology though. Once someone figures out something, no matter how inexplicable, the mere suggestion of the possibility is enough to propagate a new normal where everyone assumes it’s pedestrianness.

The atom bomb, nuclear power, iPhones , the list is endless indeed.
Or just “items”
I’m gonna say yes. There are tiny miniature human-like creatures still living in some crazy remote part of the world.

It feels like it would be something out of a fantasy novel, so I like it.
It’s pretty clear what human means in these contexts.
That makes sense. Will do that. Thank you! :)
> highly doubt ICE will be replaced

I think it will. For cars and trucks, at least.

There is a massive recurring cost to maintaining the refining and distribution infrastructure for gasoline, to say nothing of developing, building and selling a new vehicle. All of these systems have been built for scale. When demand dips below the level to maintain them, they become obsolete. At that point, one must build new infrastructure at the smaller scale, which, why?

There will still be ICE cars for enthusiasts. But you’ll have to special order the fuel at expense, have replacement parts custom built, all of which makes it infeasible for general use. (I’m expecting within ten years to see gas stations closures stranding isolated communities, with the phenomenon becoming commonplace by 2040.)
This is how it works in India: Once we click the button for a candidate, There will be light highlighting the selection on the voting machine. A printer that is connected to the voting machine prints the voted candidate symbol (and name?) and shows us the printed paper through a glass for a few seconds for verification and then drops it in.

Later during the counting procedure, random ballots are counted for both. If someone arises some issues about the voting, those are then counted using printed ballot papers.
Point was being roped into bad (gambling-tier) investments. How funny, I somehow wrote Simpsons rather than South Park; There's no such thing as enough sleep in spring weather.
To them I hope we’re like Gulliver.
Everybody blames Linux DEs for looking inconsistent, but every time I have to use Windows 10, I see an OS with more than 5 different UI styles. There's no consistency among the OS anymore eversince Windows 7.

Pardon me, but I think Microsoft should get their shit together if they want to stop losing users and devs to MacOS.

Having a new UI style on the Desktop and every single click on it leads to a completely unpredictable UI doesn't have anything to do with "center".

When people ask me what to get I always answer "just get a macbook" because even when I would love to give them a shiny Linux laptop, the amount of maintenance work on there is insanely high. Macbooks compared to my Linux systems are basically maintenance free once they are setup.

Of course that depends on whether you want to develop software on it...but let's not kid ourselves here: most users are not developers. And most users don't want to use i3wm or the Terminal.
Something I learned recently while making a rough and dirty thing that generated SVG from JS: SVG does not do great with exponent forms (i.e. 1e+21). Probably not something that's normally encountered, but worth considering.
Does this work better? https://archive.ph/W2oZC
>Labeled Homo floresiensis and dating to the late Pleistocene

Australian Aborigines allegedly migrated to Australia in late Pleistocene time. Taken together with their unique genotype and physiology, why aren't they classified as a separate hominid subspecies?
Thank you, I will pass this along.
Lots of people here seem to believe that scraping should be legal because it is possible.

The flaw in that argument is that a law is never needed, by definition, to prevent things that can easily be avoided by technical means.

The laws against burglary protect your property and health but, more importantly, they allow us all to live in peace without investing vast amounts of resources into physical protection.
Yeah, still very new to all this, also it was my first posting on HN and I haven't actually received any meaningful comments on any platform or any guidance about the conventions and stuff. If you check out the article there is only 1 comments there while here it is about 170 now so I am learning a lot.
In India at least there is a lot of votes to manually count. Electronic just makes things smoother. As for people questioning the need I didn't hear anyone raising the during the last election I followed. Besides I'm pretty sure either the election commission of India or the various opposition parties will point out the problems with having just electronic vote records. As far as electronic voting with paper trail goes I see it as just a normal paper based voting system with an automated counting system that can be easily verified
> I want more people to start application companies

Are you aware of ways for a hypothetical start-up team to get cheap/affordable raw imagery data to attempt this? Instead of paying B2B prices upfront just for experimentation?
My main takeaway from this is that it’s hilarious that someone would think the Netherlands could disappear due to a paltry 5m rise in sea level :)
Beware that with many people crossposting from Twitter is frowned upon, found annoying, or may even lead some to block you. Your reposts will get different interactions than native ones. Less boosts, favourites and replies. An option may be to go Mastodon 2 Twitter instead.
Context is what’s missing. A dictionary of recently referred to entities. Most recent person, most recent place. Also things like current location. Am I home, am I moving, etc
But besides all that...?
If you are planning to buy macbook, I have a bad news for you. Some laptops have both soldered RAM plus a slot, so 8 is soldered and you can get additional 8 or 16.
Is MtG one of the few games where being able to spend $10,000 USD puts you at a significant advantage (if playing vintage?). I think Vintage is my favorite format but it is becoming more expensive than high end watch collecting.
Wasn't it already the case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping#United_States)?

That's why I usually recommend using US-based web scraping tools and services (such as https://webscraping.ai).

In other countries, it still may be a grey area.
Simula's VR Linux distro[1] is currently planned to be a fork of NixOS.

[1] https://simulavr.com
OpenBSD is in a similar boat and continues to fight the good fight. The developers continue to reach out to the hardware manufacturers to get permission to include firmware in OpenBSD without an NDA. Sometimes they're successful, but, more often than not, they're not. I think if more of the open source community stood steadfast in this regard, more progress could be made here. The saddest part of all this, perhaps, is we're all purchasing hardware that is, basically, useless without the firmware as it's not included with the hardware we purchased.
There’s a certain point where you’re just getting “generic college degree” and you should major in what you want.

The correlary is we need to take the “general ed” requirements more seriously.

It’s fine to major in underwater basket weaving, as long as you know how to conduct research, write papers, analyze complex problems, and acquire new skills.
Interesting, makes sense. Is this actually the recommended resolution process by the vendors as well or is this something that needs to be approved and adopted by each voting precinct?
The long haul people should be served by the 100 mile PHEV.

the 230 WH/kg should enable the 100 mile PHEV I think, although I haven't done the math on that.

I'm in the midwest, and while superchargers will probably take care of my needs (I don't tow), but PHEVs should serve all those people.

A 400 mile LFP should be doable for the pickup truck when we hit 260 wh/kg, maybe 500 mile. And if Li-Sulfer or SSB hits, then those people will be served all-electric.

The infrastructure will come around. And recharge times are something that when viewed from a total systems level with home charging is actually less than gassing up, and when chargers are available basically in every parking lot.

The fact that the fringe cases are hyped up is just astroturfing, and it is a symptom of a dying campaign. The economics are behind alternative energy and BEVs, there's nothing big oil can do anymore. From here the vehicles fall under price points that ICEs will never compete with, and even the "middle used market" may get chased out by cheaper chinese entrants.
Pygmy populations are ordinary humans with conserved genetic mutations, due to inbreeding, that limit the expression of things like growth hormones. They are anatomically modern humans, just much smaller. The ease with which these mutations can occur is evidenced by the existence of unrelated Pygmy populations in different parts of the world. There is no evidence of speciation or material genetic divergence in these cases. While we can't say anything for sure, the genetic divergence between modern humans and these other hominid species is significantly larger.
I'm usually on the FSF's side about everything, but this is one place where I disagree with them and agree with this article. A free OS with free firmware is definitely better than a free OS with proprietary firmware, but both of those are way better than a proprietary OS with proprietary firmware. By making the middle ground difficult, a lot of users have to choose between ideological purity and working hardware, and almost all of them will choose the latter in a big net loss for freedom. (E.g., "What do you mean this Linux thing doesn't support my network card unless I jump through all these hoops? I'll stick with Windows, where it just works out of the box.")
[seek the advice of an expert not internet commenters when it comes to this stuff]

From a safety standpoint, age isn’t your problem - it’s whether the aircraft has been properly maintained.

As to price, they’re cheap because they 1) have meaningful deferred maintenance liabilities (inspections, engines) 2) have high variable operating costs (fuel inefficient) 3) need upgrades (avionics, interiors)
4) maintenance volatility (could be problem free or have a $300k issue tomorrow / no maintenance service plan)
I personally think Rust is one of the best and the most unique language in its form and will grow to play a far greater role in the dev world. I am just beginning to learn it and am most fascinated by it. Just published about "V" because new and independent ones like it also need our love and support to grow and mature as others have.
Taking a photo of a copyrighted photo (and distributing it) is illegal. You're just saying that anything that's technically possible should be legal, since there is no need to prohibit the technically impossible.
I wrote another blog post on the topic, with lots of pictures and simple explanations:

Intro to Lie groups for rigid rotations
https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y2021m07d14/
> "As the simplest example, a democracy that required 55% of the votes wouldn't stop being a democracy."

Good point. Considering that 55% is > 50%, would we not say that anything that requires more than 50%, is a supra-majority system? In a multi-party system, they sometimes require some thresholds which requires runoffs but I would consider them supra-majority or supra-variations on the majority rule.

> Claiming a 17yo is not a person in the US but is a person in Argentina undermines the notion that there's a universal definition of democracy... which is the premise of this entire argument!

Societies the world over different notions of what constitutes legal age for driving, marriage, enlisting and in general to be considered of age. Voting is just one more manifestation of that inconsistency.

Your other point about lottery systems does seem interesting but could we not say that term-limits are a (poor) version of a lottery system? Term limits have pros-and-cons and those would transfer to the lottery system, namely lack of institutional knowledge to run a govt in which case the bureaucracy (also called the deep state in fringe literature) would dominate.
> Why not?

Well, because you can't. This is like asking why the word for "dog" isn't "grup". It just isn't, and thinking there might be a reason is an error. That's not how language works. But in a different world, the word for "dog" might be different.

"Let us have a cup of tea" isn't something that anyone would say (outside of a demand for permission), and if you say it, at best you'll get very funny looks.

Here's what CGEL has to say (page 935):

> Syntactically, this construction indicates that the specialisation of let has been taken a significant step further. The 's here is not replaceable by us [...] It seems clear, rather, that let and 's have fused syntactically as well as phonologically, and are no longer analysable as verb + object: they form a single word which functions as marker of the 1st person inclusive imperative construction.
The issue is that Google Earth imagery is good enough for most manual processes, Open Source imagery is good enough for a lot of automatic processes and there are relatively few markets that are willing to pay for frequent (1 month+) updates.
Niche ICE run into a refueling logistical issues. It’s possible to get gas cheaply in large part because there is a vast amount of infrastructure devoted to extracting, refining, and distributing it. Gas prices in 1913 where the equivalent of $9.29/gallon without any special taxes and it gets worse the further back you go.

EV’s got to skip that growing pain because they could piggyback on electrical infrastructure.
I mean, “don’t leave stuff in your car” is a pretty basic tenant of parking on the street in any big city… but yeah, it’s kinda as described and has been for at least a decade or more.
I think we should assume the distribution is pretty non-normal. Feels to me like performance in many careers, especially so knowledge work, follows a power law. There's pretty good evidence for it: http://www.hermanaguinis.com/PPsych2012.pdf
The UK is quite xenophobic as it is. No need for extra laws to prohibit foreigners to ascend to positions of power. Your peers will take care of that. I'm quite surprised that an UK born citizen of Pakistani heritage is currently the mayor of London. Maybe Labour is less xenophobic that the others.
Windows users just look at CPU utilization, which is what most Linux users should be doing as well. Monitoring both total system and single core utilization.

Of course, 100% CPU use also isn't a "problem", it's just a fact. PSI is the thing that actually reveals problems. I'm not aware of a Windows equivalent.
Not really? Having alts can be a bit like how people have NSFW alts on Twitter (or, for artists, an art account and a personal one), except if you put them on different instances you can find a local timeline that's more relevant to the kind of thing you're posting.

Some people (notably, it seems, Eugen) think "the point" of federation is to provide a seamless Twitter-like global experience that just happens to be hosted modularly. A lot of the current site culture prefers to consider each instance like a little neighborhood, with federation augmenting a local-first experience. (Conflict over product vision ensues.)

But really, no matter what you're looking for, the vast majority of the time you can just use whatever instance and it's fine -- mod drama whole-instance-blocks get a lot of attention, but it's way more of a problem in theory than in practice (especially now you can move your followers if you move instances).
Was hoping for some genuine insights but left dry with generic truisms.

If anyones looking for any discussion worthy truths here are some from my experience:

1. Metrics are important but you have to find the balance between too many thresholds and too few. The only metric with a set-and-forget threshold I’ve come across is using the Kolmogorov Smirnoff test to look at changes in distribution. Otherwise the only thing that works practically is to monitor trends of factors like fill rates and unique values on log scale over time.

2. Create a UI for everything. Your RBAC, your pipeline overview, your configurator, whatever. The moment you slap a UI over something the engineers don’t need to be involved in implementation anymore.

3. The moment you have more than 2-3 people touching code and configs add an RBAc service and force everyone to modify things through a ui so you can leave an audit trail and full reversibility. Benefit, when it comes to SOc2 or whatever cert, you’re already there.

4. Focus on creating a robust configuration service as soon as possible, and start using it everywhere. Nothing should be hardcoded.

5. Some engineers are just not good with big data and data troubleshooting. That’s reality. It’s almost futile trying to onboard them on big data pipeline or product work. This correlates with an engineers ability to have a very large mental model of both the code and the data schemas which gets more complicated with data pipeline companies.

6. Airflow sucks. It’s one of those tools where it doesn’t fundamentally solve the problem it’s supposed to be solving. If you can get using astronomer or something from the beginning please do. Same for great expectations.
> Only some Falcon 9 launches recover the first stage

Almost all boosters are are recovered.

Flights that need enough acceleration to make the landing impossible are extremely rare. Falcon 9 already provides more payload capacity than most sats need.

I think some upcoming Falcon Heavy launches will expend the main booster though.
This is a bit misleading. The use of Litz wire to reduce RF losses dates back to the earliest days of radio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litz_wire
OpenBSD kinda does what's proposed here. The firmware packages aren't included in the distribution per se, but they're auto downloaded. It's pretty transparent for users.
From wikipedia, it can land on as low as 120km/h. (That thing can be really slow, it's impressive.)

Still, I expect an empty second stage rocket to weight little enough that one can get by with a smaller plane, that can fly slowly due to its little weight, instead of sheer engineering feat.
In the absence of a written constitution whatever is unconstitutional is the ad-hoc interpretation of the Justices (or whatever they are called in the UK). There are arguments in the US about strict constructionists vs. judicial activism in regards to justices and judgements.

How do those debates and decisions happen in the UK? Do they just go with whatever the Judiciary deem to be constitutional zeitgeist of the land?
‘The FBI Guide to Internet Slang’ : https://www.pentagram.com/work/the-fbi-guide-to-internet-sla...

>Pentagram’s latest annual greeting, challenges readers to decipher the cryptic acronyms found on social media.<
This could be seen as a benefit and a downside. It’s basically suggesting that you find other distros nicer to use but chose to use the less nice one due to principals. Most users will pick the nicer to use one.
Open source doesn’t actually matter here. A closed source electronic system should work just as well. Why?

The way it should work is the machine should just print out a scantron AND a human legible copy (probably with a bar code linking the two). The person submits both by hand. You get early results by counting the scantron. Before certification, there is a statistically significant manual counting of the human legible ballots. For tighter races you recount all. The linked barcode lets you also statistically cross-validate in case there was a discrepancy between the machine readable copy printed and the hand ballot (you sample randomly).

Open source means absolutely 0 here. There are too many vectors of attack (eg physically compromising a machine, chain of custody, malware etc). Better to assume the machine is compromised and build a system that doesn’t care.