skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every vehicle displays a unique number in large, readable type, and has for longer than any person has been alive. I haven’t seen any objections.

Because the bar to getting that data used to be quite high and limited in scope. Now with license plate reader software in conjunction with street light cameras, the dynamic has completely shifted to easily record and store a detailed tracking log for all observed license plate numbers in a city.

Big power dynamic changes like that result in fundamental shifts like “right to be forgotten”, the GDPR, etc.

The only thing that has prevented an uproar so far is that you can’t go type in your neighbor’s license plate into a website and get that detailed tracking log at the drop of a hat. Similar thing for cell phone location records from cell companies.
>The guy is obviously an asshole and needs help but if there was ever an argument for privacy this should be it. Basically all they have on him is him being close to the fires.

Does your conclusion change if he is in fact guilty? What of the homes that didn’t burn, the lives that were not destroyed because he was caught?
A feature that I miss about HN is the ability to subscribe to old posts. It would be nice to be informed when those debates continue, e.g. from references like these.
Burnout is brutal. I dug into people's experience of it on Twitter in 2019: https://twitter.com/gnat/status/1082537720335888384

A recurring pattern that I saw was that the pressure of responsibility for others had to be lifted for healing to happen. Some people never returned to a job with responsibility for others -- one friend resigned as team lead and now works as a sole contributor, leaves at 5, and spends time with his family. Responsibility was the thing that had disproportionate weight and any responsibility for others was too much.

If you do get back into coding, you should interview carefully. Plenty of programming jobs these days are collaborative and meeting-filled. If meetings and social ambiguity have disproportionate crushing weight for you, then you'll need to find a programming job without those. Not to say you can't find a place you will thrive in, but it'll take more of a filter than "programming" to get it.

Good luck!
A much higher fraction of high school students are going on to college today. High schools may not operate as if they are the end of the student's education anymore. They can pass off students to college assuming college will fix any deficiencies through remedial courses.

Who is hurt, of course, are the students that can't or choose not to go to college. Their high-school education deficiencies stick with them.
Not in the article, but the implication from this study is that it is surprisingly easy to "bug" a room using purely opt-mechanical devices and keep all detectable electronics far removed.

For example, single strand of very thin glass fiber that can't easily be detected by an eye and receiver several rooms away or even hundreds of meters away.

To protect against laying out thin fiber inside concrete or even under the paint beforehand would make eavesdropping undetectable. No wonder they watch every phase of embassy construction so carefully.
EXIF is the greatest thing about photos and videos. It makes every photo a tiny portable database of itself. A library of photos is a collection of these tiny databases which share a schema. Doesn’t matter what device takes the photo - and it’s been like this for decades.

I wrote a program that’s been organizing my photos based on EXIF for 7+ years [1].

I’ve also blogged about my reasoning (have co-founded 2 photo startups prior) [2, 3, 4, 5]. I’ve since moved off Google Photos to Synology Photos but haven’t written about that yet. Relying on EXIF makes that super easy.

1. https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

2. https://medium.com/@jmathai/understanding-my-need-for-an-aut...

3. https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...

4. https://medium.com/@jmathai/my-automated-photo-workflow-usin...

5. https://medium.com/@jmathai/one-year-of-using-an-automated-p...
"Rubber hose key extraction" is a USA idiom representing a beating with a rubber hose with is supposed to be a way to inflict pain without leaving lasting marks so it can be used by the authorities to extract information without leaving evidence of the beating - IIRC there are recorded past cases of some sheriff's departments doing this.

Other cultures don't bother as much with the aspect of leaving lasting marks. The equivalent Russian language idiom is 'thermorectal cryptanalysis' which involves a soldering iron inserted into the anus and is expected to reveal passwords of any length within a minute.
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git stash list?
Hey there,

Yes please ignore the comment!

Also, yes, it's a website builder! this comment was to test a notification tool that I'm using right now to notify whenever a new mention of "Typedream" shows up on HackerNews!
>a repair technician doing anything with anything other than what they're supposed to be fixing is wrong.

I don't understand this statement. Why is this wrong?
I see the same usernames over and over and over again.

dang (obviously), WalterBright (D, C++), pc (Stripe), steveklabnik (Rust), antirez (Redis), jedberg (Reddit), gwern (gwern!), burntsushi (rg), patio11, fossuser, kube-system, api, sillysaurusx, smoldesu, dragontamer, ethbr0, and our favorite, hnthrow(away)?.*
An ecosystem isn't alive, it's a collection of independent species that have an emergent behaviour.
The only time things break for me because something is replaced by homebrew is because c/c++ projects seem to so overly rely on dependencies (headers, .a files, etc.) being installed by the os globally. Maybe this is better when the project uses Bazel instead of make/(auto)configure.
Only because the creator is on here: oops has two O's. Unless you were making a pun with ops in which case maybe remove the elongation so it doesn't seem like a typo.
Propeller in biology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellum
Mat2 – metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of common file formats
You thought badcppdev might be nervous about the modern equivalent of high kick marching competitions?

After badcppdev pointed out the US historically flew nuclear armed bombers to the borders of the USSR 24 hours a day? Including with the deliberate goal of escalating the nuclear threat to the Soviet Union, in order to improve America' position at the negotiating table?

Your statement "US jets intercept and turn them around" is incorrect - these flights are not turned around.

"High kick marching competitions" are not training exercises. Nor are they surveillance operations.
You need to commit them first. If you did not commit them, it doesn't work. But yeah, maybe I can just define an alias to add+commit+reset, which should solve this problem.
It seems like EXIF data isn't used enough in machine learning; for instance if you want your model to know what color something "actually" is, it would help to feed it the white balance and exposure values, not just the pixels.

(Doesn't help they're all trained on low dynamic range sRGB images and not real camera data.)
They also do this while other parts of the government have their budgets gutted. How do they pay IT to implement security?
You’re oversimplifying - there were also biolabs and the pigeons genetically engineered to detect and target racially pure Russians.
Same here. Those notifications are great. I just disable sounds and vibrations for them.
> Once designed to feed a family of four, at ten rods, or poles, an Anglo-Saxon unit of measurement—roughly two hundred and fifty square metres—they now can be half that size, a quarter, or even less.

Wow, so 60 sqm is still typical? Around here a typical community garden plot would be maybe 4 to 6 sqm.
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And are a net exporter by around 10%. Meanwhile in Germany: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-turns-electrici...
I’m doing Perl for a living and I don’t see it. Perl died because it sucks as a programming language. It’s good as a scripting language but that’s it. Perl was created before some widespread modern concepts existed so the terminology and implementation is all wrong. Also tons of Perl libraries go way too far and implement new keywords (well not really but it’s just like it) and modify the structure of the language. Error handling sucks, debugging sucks, tooling sucks, Cpan sucks both as a tool and as a repo library, even logging with Caro sucks, wtf kind of level is « croak » or « confess »? Also each minor version of Perl breaks everything, with JSON::encode we have issues with scalars not properly encoded as numbers between 2 versions.

Perl is a dumpster fire for real programming, that’s why it died.

I also do Typescript for a living, and on the contrary, the ecosystem (yes) keeps improving. I use Parcel 2 on my projects and it’s amazing. I’ll try Vite someday but it’s not a priority because Parcel works.

For your other examples, well yarn is less relevant today but it helped drastically improve npm.

As for Make, do you really think it’s a perfect solution? I use it but it’s syntax is opaque, it doesn’t support env files easily, it’s not even really cross platform because of GNU make/BSD make. It’s dishonest to think there’s no reason to reinvent Make
Sanctions cost lives too. And sure, there is no equivalence between them and the literal ethnic genocide Russia has been perpetrating for the past five months, but you can’t really claim US isn’t actively hostile towards Cuba: it literally destroyed the country and is forcibly keeping it like that purely to keep votes of Cuban diaspora.

But that’s besides the point, which is: like it or not, in politics might makes right, and Russia very obviously lacks the might.
If the human mind is a product of evolution, how can we be sure that it is reliable at arriving at the truth? What if false or irrational beliefs produced greater evolutionary fitness than true and rational ones? But, if that were so, it would undermine all our confidence in the very belief that the human mind is a product of evolution, making that a self-defeating idea.

Hence, if the human mind is a product of evolution, evolution must ultimately prefer truth to falsehood. But, what then to make of evidence that, in the long-run, natural selection prefers religious beliefs to non-religious belief? Can you see how that might be a problem for those who are convinced that all specifically religious beliefs are false and irrational?
> Fragments of another Chinese Long March 5B landed on the Ivory Coast in 2020, damaging several buildings in that west African nation, though no injuries were reported.

Was there ever a follow up to this? I can only find news reports of the event happening, but not what happened afterwards at a national/diplomatic level.
The windmill was probably used for charging a cell phone.
My assumption is that your comment about things that happened a century ago is referring to slavery. This is something that has impacted numerous generations of people and the racist ideology that sprung from that period has put into place numerous legislative systems to prevent people in poverty from gaining ground. We exist as part of a system, so yes it absolutely is relevant.

Mobility is at an all time low, so examples of "but I made it" are irrelevant
> Population control probably starts to come into it.

It doesn't. The population we would "control" (mostly poor people in developing countries) contribute tiny amounts to climate change.

The vast majority of non-industrial emissions are produced by wealthy people[1]. They produce orders of magnitude more than even the average US citizen, which is astonishing.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/05/25/...
Good point, thanks. It makes sense from this perspective.
In the USA at least they're actually about 1 in a thousand (373k out of 330m)
Find sensitive data that stored in your shell history

https://github.com/rusty-ferris-club/shellclear
An ecosystem is exactly what it is though, a rich and messy landscape of individuals and groups competing for habitat and resources with finite inputs. Like a biological system, there's a lot of similar forms with subtle differences trying to find or invent a niche, with many constantly evolving or going extinct. I mean literally you have individual organisms (programmers and projects or companies) competing for fitness, with a finite input of dollars and time, striving to reproduce and gain widespread dominance. If that's not a ecosystem, I don't know what is.

Perl was the first language I seriously learned. It wasn't really an ecosystem. More like moss slowing growing on an old tree. It was so niche as to be endemic.

In contrast, Javascript is a bustling ecosystem. It has a genome that is constantly evolving, extremely rapidly, not unlike how pop and rock music have evolved through the decades. It's very much a living, breathing system, and a fascinating case study of group dynamics and organisms trying to optimize for some local maximum while still being a part of a bigger system in the abstract.

Organic life is beautiful and messy because there was no predefined "best answer" and it's all just information vs information, algorithms and processors trying to find their place in a vast, cold world, scavenging what little energy the sun happens to shine their way. Javascript really isn't so different. It's utterly chaotic BECAUSE it's alive.
This is a complex topic, mostly emotional ones (since cold hard facts can be presented on both sides but they don't sway most people at this point).

I was all for various covid measures, did all the vaccines, didn't travel, practiced social distancing meticulously... to no avail, we caught it 3x by now, all the times through our small kids. At this point its milder/similar than common cold for us, unlike those being hit for the first time.

Looking back, many governments around the world applied ridiculously strict restrictions, which just highlighted how badly incompetent in the best headless chicken form they are in SHTF scenarios. You couldn't travel more than 1km from your home (ie France), you couldn't be out after 6/7/8 pm even if you just want to go for a stroll or run in the forest, alone (which I do a lot). Things like these were completely needless and heavily infringed on common folks basic rights, not even going into the topic of fucking up population physical health massively down the road. Not surprisingly population's overall mental health decreased significantly too.

Forcing education of kids from home is seen as failure of even greater proportions. Not only was the system utterly unprepared in first months, but this form just doesn't work as well as direct physical contact. Kids missing tons of societal development that will never work well in digital form. We should have just put extra care into protecting vulnerable and otherwise move on with our lives. If I would be an old fart and somebody would give me choice of fucking up my grandkids lives for some potential extra safety for me, I would choose my grandkids anytime, everytime.

When we could have handled it ie like Sweden (from what I've heard), without any significant basic rights restrictions, and with resulting covid numbers very much the same. Next winter will show how missing 2 cold/flu seasons will bode for us, I suspect mortality stats will jump through the roof (within these diseases number ranges of course). Diabetes, cardiovascular and mental issues are already up.

And one more point I haven't seen much mentioned - society as a whole completely fucked up its approach to healthcare workers. Yes there were evening claps for few months. While a nice gesture, they won't fix the burnout many had. So anywhere I look, health systems have much less medical personnel, mainly nurses simply left their jobs. The situation ie in France is so bad some big cities have to close emergencies through the weekend (!!!). Some emergency doctors left too. There is no quick fix for this. An example - I've recently spent 4 hours to get 1 blood test done (something taking 15 mins before) - and that is already optimized for timing and location since my wife is a doctor.

This period won't be judged nicely by our descendants.
I don't think it's contemptuous to say that someone is behaving in a shocking way. If you stick your finger into a burning candle I will be shocked but not contemptuous of you.
Commercial power-to-gas facilities are in operation in Germany, but large scale investments make little sense right now. The money is better spend in increasing the supply of renewable energy, or electrifying things that currently burn fossil fuels. Days where we have too much renewable energy are very rare still. It would be a waste to turn it into Hydrogen.
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> Telegram is already shady, it has no clear funding source while having the highest operating cost of any of the main stream chat apps due to it storing everything you send with no limits.

It's founder, Durov, is a billionaire and he has quite clearly stated he's bankrolling it but looking for monetisation avenues for Telegram to become self-sufficient - first it was some token scheme that was shutdown by the SEC, now there's Telegram Premium.
Battery backup was good for 8h. Seems pretty risky to me, there are many scenarios thinkable where a power outage for more than 8h could occur.

For example some natural disaster, which across ubiquitously deployed nuclear would occur every day somewhere on earth.
Yeah of course they don't make it harder to finger. They make the song harder to compose in the first place.
Do you experience using DOs in this way?
That’s one way to see it. Another is that those “abusive comments” aren’t abusive in any way - in fact abusive comments are widely tolerated here - but they are politically incorrect to you.

Did you warn users who posted “abusive comments” towards covid denialists or flat earthers?
Agreed. It’s also the easiest way to improve latency and fix bufferbloat.
Unfortunately not all Merlin-supported routers support the CAKE algorithm.

My choices are the RT-AC86U, and the RT-AX68U if you need Wifi 6 support.

Don’t get the RT-AC88U though, it has no CAKE.

(If you’re lucky enough to have a gigabit connection, you’ll need more expensive stuff.)
My one annoyance with Carbon’s promise is the lack of ABI stability; I know why they are doing that, and I know that C++ has the same downside, but as someone who binds C libraries constantly in other languages and finds the pain of C++ and now likely Carbon frustrating, it makes me a little sad to see the same mistake repeated.

A C++ replacement that is just as difficult to bind/link/work with in other languages as C++ itself just seems like a missed mark, despite the fact I know this is not on their priority list at all.

I hope my read of this is wrong, and it will be easy to bind and link to from other languages after all.
Great that the alternative is renewables then!
I could write an article solely about npm and just the swear words would take up more space than this article.
Sticking to Putin’a versions here. Extended universe is even crazier, indeed.
Thanks for the question. It is the biggest problem ever.
I wanted to stop a million times.
A super hard problem to solve and super taugh to get motivation to move forward.

There are few quotes which helps me in bad days: "I choose whether I will succeed or not.»
That it's vital that the US develops these robot zombies before Russia/China does.
Right, it is not fully free. And it makes sense, right?
why would you want to do that? genuinely curious
Yeah I get it. Your code is fine.

I just find it hilarious how that guy wanted you to implement this as a shell script so he could “audit it very easily”. I mean, bash-preexec.sh isn’t the worst shell script I’ve seen (It even has a Bats test!), but anyone that thinks shell scripts are easy to audit is full of shit.
None of this addresses the issue that recently enacted laws prevented the victim from receiving treatment.
As a kid I hated that we couldn’t watch tv in the living room for dinner but instead had to sit in the dining room with no tv. My parents were so uncool. Didn’t they now my classmates could watch TV during their dinner?

When I moved out I started taking all my meals with tv and later video on my computer.

I’m now in my thirties and I see the value of my parents decision.

I don’t live in the states, but I read online that cinema in the states are quite noisy. Where I live, the main benefit to me of going to the cinema is the forced focus. Dark room. No pause ability, no phones, no talking.

I’ve seen a few “no Wi-Fi, no laptop” cafes and thought them silly, but I’m starting to turn around. It would be nice with a no smartphone cafe, but I’d still want a picture …

My point is: no, you’re not the only one with these concerns and I think you are right that there was a tipping point where we “lost”, but the battle has been ongoing for a long time.
There are as many perspectives on the doctrine as stars in the sky. A computer is a tool of my trade, it is a part of my work. A phone, or one of the fancy cable TV's on the other hand, is not, and those have a much more pernicious nature, so I don't have them.

Not everyone is a beachy amish, not everyone is a schwartzentruber like you see in movies or imagine when you hear "Amish". You might have a hard time finding any one town where everyone has the same commitments, except for the schwartzentrubers, mainly due to it being the simplest lifestyle. Most of us just prefer a community centered, simple family unit with as much harmony with our neighbors as possible.
Thank you for the feedback. Can you please tell me about the case? Here or at ruslan@ playcode.io
Colleges often make deals with local businesses. If you look around you may find that the student council, or student affairs, or somebody can hook you up with cheap movie tickets, coupons for pizza, etc.

At the college I attended I found that administrative guidelines were not as inflexible as they seemed on their face. I can't remember the number of times I was wait-listed for a class but was able to get in anyway because I showed up the first day and asked the professor if they could help me out. Generally my strategy to any bureaucratic problem I encountered was to work my way up the food chain until I found someone that was empowered to help me.
I recognize a few people if I look at usernames, but largely yeah, I mostly just read the comments. I thought that's what everyone does.
DNS over 53 is implementable on Fly [0]. And in the near future, Cloudflare Workers should support it too (at least over TCP if not UDP) [1].

[0] https://github.com/serverless-dns/serverless-dns/issues/67

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-socket-workers/