skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author makes a decent case that some sort of licensing should exist for some types of software development at some point in the future. But the devil is in the details, and the merit of the licensing process needs to be proven.

A lot of regulators are valuable but we've also got a lot running around with red tape and power trips that they didn't earn. We're extracting thousands of dollars from low-income minorities for hairstylist licenses that benefit no one. We've got engineering boards punishing people for publicly (and correctly) disputing the math of red light timing. There's too much abuse.

Regulation isn't just one way. Regulators need to be held accountable too.
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Automated attacks like scanning for devices with known bugs that love to poke holes in your firewall to talk to their servers?
The lobbies only have to focus on swaying the committee members because all bills have to make it through the relevant committees before being voted on widely. There are ways for bills in some legislatures to skip the committee process but usually by unanimous votes or large percentages.
Oops, I meant to answer you but someone asked the same question [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31559612
> But in 2022 the DB interfaces exploration space is expanding, and there are some good alternatives to SQL to learn too.

What are your favorite three?
Where can I fly nonstop?
> You honestly think having measuring devices for two entirely different systems

If you want to make recipes based on imperial measurements, YES, and I’d also say the vast majority of people here would agree with me.

Having a full set of imperial kitchen measuring cups costs less than any meal you are bothering to prepare and takes up less kitchen space than a single salad bowl.

For your follow up edit:

> to which you completely ignored the response

I’m under no obligation to rebut every thing someone says, whether I find it correct or not. I said why I hate using Alexa for timers, I didn’t feel the need to go any further there.
With respect, you don't get more for less unless you are willing to forgo meat and make your own from scratch semi-vegan options.
No. Someone else decided to do some 'growth hacking' on a finished product. This sort of feature isn't something that originated from the person doing the actual design.
Not sure what you mean with "puck-style" detergent, but here in the UK, I always tend to buy 100 dishwasher tablets for £12, which works out to £0.12 per wash, and Rinse Aid for £3.50, for which the company claims 80 washes (though I haven't measured), which works out to £0.044 per wash, for a total of £0.164 per wash. £43 for 90 washes is pretty outrageous.
https://www.wireguard.com/formal-verification/

You are welcome.
Hmmm, I think TFA misses the fact that software engineering, isn't really engineering any more. We don't develop code that gets deployed and stays in place (well, maybe in embedded systems, but even those are getting IoT'ed).

Modern software is a service: it gets updated all the time, it's "hired to do a job" rather than perform a specific function. The latter is finite, controllable and could potentially be certified as an engineering product. The former relies on professional codes (and yes liability as well) to make sure that the service is acceptable.

All that is to say that the proper metaphor isn't licensing as for civil engineering or telco networks but akin to licensing for professional services, like medicine, accounting or law.

Which means different tiers of service, different expectations and yes much different compensation/service fees. But to get there we have to stop talking about 'engineering' as the correct framework. We're closer to lawyers or nurses...
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> Is it pretty common to have laptop/desktop firmware send usage data over WiFi or Ethernet?

Have you heard of Computrace? It comes pre-installed on the firmware of many popular brands of computers, and it does send data over WiFi or Ethernet.
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What is a cyberdeck? I googled and still don't know. It seems like a blanket term for "homemade laptop". I'm well aware of what the fictional one is.
The answer is 'this is a really boring, repetitive question we know the answer to so we're not going to have it in every submission because the point of this forum is interestingness'. That's it.
Not really. In CA, if h/a really wanted something, they could gut and amend an existing bill that did make it out of committee.

Or use the proposition system (public vote), but that system is just as captured, IMO.
Thanks for sharing. I read some of the ideas and I had some similar ones. Which is a nice feeling, as in OK I am not the only one thinking that!

I will have a good read of more if yours when you get time, and maybe make my own public list. I have a private one but it is pretty short at the moment due to bad discipline in writing them down.

They are private more because of inarticulate-ness than secrecy.
No, but that doesn't surprise me. So if daycare is inevitable, the child needs to go in "armed" with antibodies (including from the mother during pregnancy). Should pregnant women isolate? Does not seem like it.

Our family dog probably does a good job diversifying antibodies as well (I think there are studies showing the immunity advantages certain pets provide).
When I signed up for GVoice it gave me the option to enter the last 4 digits and it would give me the number if it was available. I took advantage of this to make my phone number a palindrome (except for the area code).
It's especially interesting that the author has open source experience, and decides to put a company that went through a ransomware attack as a way of discussing liability.

Imagine for a second that the ransomware attack comes via an attack vector because, say, there's a security bug in Spring, giant Java library/ecosystem, that almost everyone pays zero for. Then imagine that this is in a world where the engineer is liable. How does this play out?

First, you could claim that the bug is in OSS Spring, and that they can't waive liability. In that circumstance, I'd be surprised if OSS continued existing: You get very little for your contribution in comparison to the liability risk. It's the same for corporate sponsored OSS: Imagine telling your company's counsel that you want to open source a library that is unrelated to the core of your business. Never. So this either has cataclysmic consequences to OSS, or we get to say that anyone making OSS's legal disclaimers are legally binding.

So what happens instead? Anyone building applications for a company is responsible for all the bugs in the libraries they chose. OSS will still be mostly poisoned by this. Imagine the fun of taking liability, as some kind of signing engineer, for a half a million lines. And those lines are almost sure to have some vulnerabilities: It's just that we don't know of them yet, and you need patching forever, just like you do today. And along with the patch, we'll have great discussions about who brought in the patch that introduced the vulnerability.

Note that this is especially fun in a world where security is covered by this. It's one thing to assume that ones code to control a car will not accelerate without bounds, risking deaths to the passenger. Then your design is narrow, and can have a semblance of good testing. Testing that your code cannot be used as part of a security vulnerability is testing a far wider field of possible inputs.

Either way we slice this, all I see is the world building a whole lot less software, because the dangers of writing it make all kinds of products dangerous. We either move to a world where a lot of code is shared and owned by a few companies that take all the liability, and hit major trouble whenever they have a vulnerability, because suddenly they are to blame for possibly millions of breaches, or a world where we share very little code, we evaluate it more thoroughly, and we hope nobody pays attention. I bet my libraries to handle certificates would be worse than the ones experts built today, but I could hope nobody examines them.

But yes, as others say, the world could do this right now: We can hire a firm to build something and take the liability for us. It's just that, in general, we don't, because they don't give us anything more secure, or better: mostly more expensive. Instead we might just buy insurance, and hope we don't have too much of a counter-party risk.

If we cut security vulnerabilities out of the equation, maybe there is a good defense that the world the author describes might be different, but not worse than the one we live in today. But with security? Tough.
The hepatitis outbreak seems to be related to strawberries [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/30/hepatitis-a...
> Instead of tablespoons and teaspoons, it has: a dash, a pinch, a smidgen, and a drop.

I wish recipes would stop using these vague terms. Just give me the exact number of grams or whatever and I'll gladly measure it on my food scale.
PDF: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/stigler-lecture.p...
It would only be odd if you didn't know we've had 30 years of wage stagnation and continously rising inequality.
> RSV immunity debt

What is this exactly supposed to mean?

There is no vaccination for RSV where I live so the only way to get it is via child care or other contacts with toddlers.
> With a 75% of Californians being pro-right to repair, and with bipartisan support - you'd think this would be an easy case to argue

“Bipartisan support“ is, since we are well out of the pre-1990s realignment period, mostly a sign of low political salience, an issue that doesn't have much relevance to voting behavior to most of the public. Breadth (%) of support or opposition is far less important than depth (impact on voting, volunteering, and donating behavior), and this is an issue where the depth of support in the general public is near 0, where the depth of opposition from entrenched industry interests is high.
I think it's based on the plots they have on big storage freezers in in the biology world. These circular plotters are used because if there's a temperature spike (power failure etc.) at midnight for some reason you can see it next day by glancing at the plot. For this, they're basically just taking the normal temperature graph plot and wrapping it around a year over and over again. Mathematically, a switch to polar coordinates would be used I think.
I would explain it as "hit by pitch" in baseball, but it counts against the batter instead of the pitcher (bowler). In baseball terms, both the batter and pitcher are more mobile, so the batter has a responsibility to get out of the way or reposition to make the hit / protect the wickets, so it makes sense in both cases.

I've had some success explaining it as "baseball, but 360 degrees and most things are a hit instead of an out". In MLB the best batters have a batting average of something like north of .300 while in cricket you're probably looking at something above .900
I’m optimistic we could find a way to ramp nuclear up and down. We don’t do it now because it’s easier to run it at full capacity for economic and safety reasons. Adding some thermal storage (which the SMR companies are trying) or varying the reaction rate are in the area of research but certainly seem feasible.
> I am kind of fascinated that there is so little call to do things like improve ventilation. There's some, but people haven't seemed to catch on that we could do things to reduce disease that cause ~no individual inconvenience.

Some countries are actually putting significant resources into this. But if you're in a country that isn't, well, realistically, who is going to pay for it? Public health experts pretty much everywhere are saying that it should be done (mind you, they were saying that before covid, too; "proper ventilation would be beneficial" is hardly a new idea), but the only way it happens is through state funding.
Justice as in our justice system? All the time. If it wasn't we'd have easily modelled it by now and have the legal system replaced by code.
It's an open secret in politics that government jobs are a revolving door to/from industry.

Corporate executives frequently go in to politics, and when politicians retire they often get cushy, high paying jobs at the very corporations they benefited while in office.

They don't have to be outright bribed while in office (though it's not unknown for that to happen), but they know they'll be handsomely rewarded once they leave.

That's not to mention them or their family members investing in companies they know will benefit from their actions while in office.
Well, the salaries have gone up quite a lot.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...

And Wikipedia fundraising messages, like those used currently in India and Latin America, regularly imply that the Wikimedia Foundation urgently requires funds to maintain its independence, keep Wikipedia online, etc.

In fact, the Wikimedia Foundation's revenue has soared. Each year has been a new fundraising record:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Financial...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#/media/Fi...

So there is a mismatch between fundraising messages widely taken to indicate that the Wikimedia Foundation is struggling to have enough money to keep Wikipedia going, and the fact that its top managers' salaries are rising steeply and it is accumulating hundreds of millions of dollars in assets, as well as in this endowment (which is not included in the Wikimedia Foundation's reported assets).

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...
> PCB-free

Interesting coinage. I wonder if something like it will gain traction. I see 'silicon-free' has been used on HN twice in relevant contexts so far:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=silicon-free&type=comment
From what I heard, cellophane just tastes good to cats due to some components in it or whatnot.
Cool stuff. Reminds me a bit of Boehm-Demers GC that can be used with C/C++ that made free() a no-op and used heap scanning to find garbage, though that wasn't security motivated.
I'm only playing devil's advocate, I actually agree.

But people are ignoring the fact this tiny dishwasher likely REQUIRES commercial grade concentrate. If you look at the design of it, it is almost identical to countertop commercial dishwashers but scaled down (and using plastic instead of stainless steel). Those also need to use concentrate. If that's the case, then the manufacturer had to figure out a way of selling commercial dishwasher concentrate directly to consumers that was both safe but also makes it hard for them to use the wrong product (e.g. avoid them buying off-the-shelf dishwasher liquid/gel at the supermarket).

Again, I'm totally playing devil's advocate here, but I do feel like they maybe started out with an actual design goal here (reduce mistakes, improved UX, protect detergent during shipping) then got greedy when they decided each "cassette" only contained 30x washes, and that they'd cost like £5~/per. So I'm giving them credit for solving one problem while criticizing them for getting too greedy anyway.

I feel like they could have struck a nice middle-ground by copying "ink tanks" from inkjet printers. Just downward facing 1 liter bottles of commercial concentrate, with the reset being done in software exclusively rather than tank-DRM (simpler/more reliable anyway). They could still upcharge, but with less waste/less re-ordering.
Dread is a Reddit clone specifically for Dark Net Markets. It was created just before Reddit banned the DarkNetMarkets subreddit.
>If depression rates in children and young adults are anything to go by, younger people absolutely cannot ignore ads(sic).

If you had toddlers in the early 00's(the only time I witnessed it), or were a toddler then, you were likely exposed to plenty of Disney Channel and the frequent barrage of 10 second commercials. Bad programming, IMO.
They're also tenured. Even if they disappoint, what are people going to do vote Republican?

Same one party rule situation exists in some very "red" states of course.
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> No, but that doesn't surprise me. So if daycare is inevitable, the child needs to go in "armed" with antibodies (including from the mother during pregnancy).

Not sure how this works. Where to you get "armed" with antibodies if not from a vaccination (unavailable for some viruses) or prior infection? Antibodies from the mother vane over time as far as I recall.
Great answer, thanks, I was wondering the same. I love the "switch" switches on this one, especially the one with a red fold-down safety.
It would be interesting to join a team which uses a series of data diodes to harden satellites against attack. Reifying a physical, instead of logical, separation of command and data flows could go a long way to reducing vulnerabilities for systems built in the future.

Perhaps a project to create low cost data diodes, and a set of best practices for their use, could be helpful.
Interesting, can you provide a source? I suspect you may be referring to calorie restricted and not nutrient deficient diets. The former may lead to a longer lifespan and a better health but the latter will lead to health issues or at least degrade your quality of life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction#Life_exten...
The car thing is very frustrating. It's the most dangerous thing most parents do with their kids (myself included) but for the most part we're blind to it.

Of course, pedestrian deaths have shot through through roof in the US and that makes it harder to justify walking to school.
[EDIT: Below I have demonstrated a slow brain rot that has robbed me of my ability to do basic dimensional analysis. My lecturers are spinning in their graves, least of all because I forgot that the kilogram is between the gram and the tonne. Luckily I was off by 3 orders of magnitude in both directions so I guess it sort of balances out?]

The heat absorption is a good point, I don't know what native foliage is like to live in compared to the concrete hell you'd be left with without lawns. But, I find it hard to imagine that turf grass in climates where it can't survive without massive irrigation and ceaseless human intervention sequesters more carbon than it costs to maintain.

The numbers I've quickly gathered are all over the place, but given that:

- The average Californian lawn is ~500 sqm [0]

- Grass sequesters ~ 85g of carbon per sqm per year, or 42 tonnes per year [1]

- As of 2011 the average Californian household uses 190 gallons of potable water a day on landscaping [2]

- About 0.004 metric tonnes of carbon is generated processing 1000 gallons of potable water or 0.76 tonnes per day of watering [3]

So, the average Californian lawn sequesters 42 tonnes of carbon a year, while the energy cost of irrigating it emits about 277 tonnes.

This is all quick back of an envelope math, but the carbon cost of irrigating a lawn where it wasn't meant to grow is massively larger than the amount that the grass sequesters. It's honestly bad enough that you could tear up every lawn in California and not even bother replacing them with native foliage, and it would still result in a net decrease in carbon emissions.

[0]: https://www.homeadvisor.com/r/average-yard-size-by-state/

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282543110_Modeling_...

[2]: https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/11525/how-much-water-do-califor...

[3]: http://leansixsigmaenvironment.org/index.php/how-much-impact...
In practice, what seems to happen if you shut down nuclear in favour of renewables, is that renewables will replace maybe 30-50% of the nuclear power, and the rest will be covered by gas.

The total price tends to end up around $0.15/kwh, plus taxes, or around the same as new nuclear, with all associated regulations. (but more than already established nuclear, or the cost nuclear should have if built economically).

For those who really care about global warming, nuclear is still much better than such a mix.

If you're really not worried about global warming, gas + renewables make a lot more sense. Especially if you don't want coal or nuclear "in your back yard".
What sort of time commitment does this require?

I’d be thrilled to join a team; I work as a senior developer (web and mobile apps) but unfortunately have no CTF or “real” cybersecurity experience. I have a deep interest in space and relevant technologies. Would such a skillset be useful?
A "tropical paradise" at the poles, with uninhabitable equatorial regions, and untold disruption to human civilization as we know it. The transition to that global configuration is unlikely to look paradisal.
So many times it’s necessary to ‘identify’ two more objects which are isomorphic, and the ‘canonical’ is supposed to justify why this doesn’t cause a problem.

The reason it is necessary here is that the mapping D(f) -> A_f is a priori multi valued, and we need it to be single valued.

However it’s fairly easy to make a definition which is trivially single valued , so I don’t think it’s a very instructive example of the phenomenon.

Probably more pertinent is an n-fold tensor product with different bracket ordering
For that matter, my measuring cups have both imperial and metric units and my digital scale handles both as well. Seems far more foolproof than doing a lot of unit conversions.
As some have noted, the growing alliance between big government and big business carries 'substantial fascist overtones'.
Agree. Still, most people seem to be under the impression that there's a "tipping point" and then temperatures will spiral into infinity.

It's disruptive, but nature and humanity is adaptive. Many species will also thrive, and total agricultural output will rise with more co2 in atmosphere.
I can't figure out whether you simply don't understand why a single PHP file makes deploying easy, or whether you're purposefully misinterpreting things in an attempt to push your product.
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It could be misleading the other way too, if the starting radius was extremely large and the increments very small, then it could be made to look like no big deal. But that's the thing with temperature. We rarely start graphs at absolute zero (-273C), so what's your point again?
TL;DR

To objects/sets are equal if and only if there is a canonical isomorphism/bijection between them. What that is is not necessarily clear, but there is an exception regarding abelian groups accotiated to a field, where the canonical isomorphism is clear up to a minus sign by the main theorem of global class theory[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_field_theory
It's not possible. 1/11th of our population in Sweden has an immigrant background and we have a far higher standard of living than most of the planet, including the US.

> The best thing you can do for people in other countries is help them clean up their own countries

What do you live in hole or something? They're coming because they cannot survive in their own countries due to war, genocide, famine and other very serious problems that cannot be solved anytime soon. Get real.
Why buy such a thing in the first place? It's 300e and for that money you can buy a full sized one. I'm seeing similar priced mini dishwashers on amazon.

As a sensible cosnumer you should have considered buying something standard and invest you time in something else.

If they would sell the dishwashers and 1/2 price and rely on recurrent income from detergent that's a different story but in this case I see no really reason why would someone even consider it. Let these companies bite the dust.
https://text.npr.org/574044232

NPR's site is in blatant violation of EU legislation mandating cookie opt-in, and instead uses a cookie wall. Shame on them.