skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're saying is true only if the data is unencrypted or not password-protected. If the data is encrypted, the government would have to crack it (which is not usually possible with decent encryption and anything short of the NSA breathing down your neck). They could not just ask you for the password.
Why Google Employees Don’t Work
I'm glad Google called the cops, someone needed to investigate a possible crime
Pandemic boomtowns hit by Housing Slump
I think we're not completely on the same page: I'm not saying we should repost the article itself, but rather repost discussions threads about articles (perhaps with names anonymized and the non-anonomized original post delisted temporarily to prevent cheating), and the task at hand being: nitpick the silliness of our former selves.

> And yet, every time, the same voices can be counted on to make the exact same points despite all evidence saying they are wrong.

Indeed, and many of them are surprisingly silly considering the intelligence on this site. Certain topics can throw very powerful minds into disarray and delusion, and this phenomenon plausibly can cause great harm, why not study it!!?? Do we really care about the wellbeing of humanity, or are we just here to concern troll?

> There are topics that probably should just be not allowed on HN due to how they bring down the overall level of discourse. But you know that would be the bogeyman of mean ol censorship. But you know, the comment threshold, flagging, shadow-banning, etc are somehow not. If you're going to moderate, moderate.

Alternatively, this community (and its leadership) could be a little daring and see if it can walk its impressive talk.

From prior conversations I'm pretty confident leadership "wouldn't be interested" in this sort of thing, but it would be fun to see a grassroots effort at it, and even more fun if it got shut down for "reasons".
> a simulation can provide information about what a particular scientific theory predicts. It cannot provide information about what the real world actually does.

If the simulation had come out in the negative, and it turned out this phase of H20 was totally inconsistent with all known physics, that would cause any reasonable person to assign a lower probability to the proposition that this phenomenon exists in the world. That's providing information about the world. Since the outcome would provide information in the negative, it also does in the positive.

I agree that there's an important distinction to be drawn between observational evidence vs. outcomes of simulations in terms of how they provide information, but they both provide information that was not accessible before.
The author describe's the other side as best they can:

> Google says they won't give Mark his account back because they found another "problematic" image in his files: "a young child lying in bed with an unclothed woman." Mark doesn't know which picture they mean (he no longer has access to any of his photos), but he thinks it was probably an intimate photo he captured of his son and wife together in bed one morning ("If only we slept with pajamas on, this all could have been avoided.").
Is my intuition right that this is not achievable on a smartphone due to the limited/fixed apertures?
Ask HN: Experience design for AR. Who is doing interesting work?
Many years ago, a user filed a bug report that the timezone information we used for historical places in Indiana was incorrect. I don't remember exactly what the user was doing, but I think it had something to do with train schedules or something.

I did not fix that bug. (But I did learn that the 'TZ' database has this information, though I think 'America/Indiana/*' had been pruned out of the copy our JVM was using.)
Pretty much everything on a car lasts between 100 and 400k with a 100k error bar. There is no reason to be replacing the overwhelming majority of stuff in duplicate.
>For many of us...

"Many" does not mean "all".
he is massively popular, which is the reason the govt isnt going towards elections.
This WSJ articles sums it up pretty well: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ousted-pakistan-prime-minister-...
And in Spring, when the broken pipe plugged with solid molten ice thaws, your house's molten ice circuit performs an emergency evacuation into the yard, saving you from the convenience of adequate molten ice pressure
novelty is definitely helpful, i have found I'm interested in things up until I get it then I lose all interest. I.e. A new game, I play it obsessively until I figure out how to beat it. That's probably very normal thing, but going from 1000 interest to 0 seems suspicious
MIDI Art – Landscape [video]
They don't but individuals with healthy and active lifestyles also tend to have healthy brains (healthier than they would without the said lifestyle).
Try and do that. Likely those people won't care too much about you, they lean towards authority figures in their community. It is way easier to find those guys and corrupt them. Rather than running some underground news agency changing minds of millions of people.

In fact quite often the former is the case + cheaper + less time to execute. "Western" societies will be more resilient to this scenario. So, mostly its gonna be a lot of "political" art we gonna see.
Well, ok, I'm unsure about the science, but it looks neat. Hey, why not take a picture of Earth? /sarcasm.

The deep field was amazing. Am I the only one that wants more deep field images? They should image the entire celestial sphere like that, then virtualize it. Why are they wasting so much time on close ups?
I would assume all linux GPU drivers would need to be adapted at least a little to support the larger page size (most linux AARCH64 kernel level code is writing assuming 4kb pages).
It's not incorrect input. It's incorrect handling of accepted input.
The "opportunity for bugs" I didn't realize until I was over 10 years into my professional career:

10 AM

11 AM

12 PM <- AM/PM and calendar cycle is here.

01 PM <- n%12 cycle is here, an hour later.

02 PM

03 PM

I see large software systems for things like airlines and trains sometimes make this mistake, for instance a 1 hour trip on a ticket that says "11:30AM - 12:30AM" which is actually negative 11 hours.

I have a collection of photos somewhere of every time I've caught it. If I could change anything about time that probably nobody would care about, it would be to align those two cycles.

The fact that I catch it every couple months on widely deployed systems I interpret as the signal that basically nobody notices/cares about it as everyone knows a -11 hour train ride isn't how time works.
OpenCL is not an OS level API. I guarantee you they were basically just redistributing Intel and NVidia implementations. GCD isn't OS level either, it's just a library, but it is at least a new API.
I'm sad for all the hate this place gets in the sibling posts.

I live here and its not that bad, but i also know that i can't just grab you from the internet and show you around the place and its non-hateful sides.
Did you mean fair trade?
To which countries that have different idea about using them? So far there's only two camps - the US who has used them on civilians on purpose, and everyone else who have not used them.

Most countries aiming for them want them to prevent American(and maybe Russian ones too now) invasions like what happened in Iraq.
> If you're concerned about this, contribute to the EFF

Doesn't this just prove my point? No individual can make a difference - only large organizations can.
(Medium platform - if it asks you to sign in, try reloading in an incognito tab or similar if you don't have an account.)
Is the binary no longer the software? All precedent would suggest otherwise. (Though I can see it may not be a copy of the software, as compilation is usually more than that.)
Ok now I understand.

You can come to the RxDB discord for a chat if you want. I am really interessted in using WebAssembly for browser side storage.

I look forward to the day where someone reimplements IndexedDB via Webassembly, with the exact same API, so that we have a faster IndexedDB which uses the old one as storage layer :)
Engoogled or enandroided? LineageOS could help you.
IMHO Bonjour/mDNS adds a lot of points of failure and doesn't really buy you much. It's so easy to just open a multicast listener port on a specific address and port and then just send out UDP packets to communicate.
There is no such thing as “basic CSS”. Of all things it’s the most wildly moving target I’ve ever encountered.
The Emperor of Stones (2020)
I am a music recording engineer by hobby, and for me it was obvious that some threshold had broken. I was embarrassed for the sound team. (They had flubbed a Joan Jett appearance the day before.) I did not expect it to play so bad nationally.

A big piece of context missing from the media is that before Dean came on stage, the room was full of the loudest hooting and hollering group of Texans I’ve ever been with. We had all bussed up from Austin to volunteer. So he probably made a tactical error to try to go over the top of the crowd’s energy instead of coming in calming.
That is not so; the CC0 explicitly states that patent and trademark rights are not waived.

Contrast that with, say, the Two-Clause BSD which says "[r]edistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met [...]".

Since trademark and patent rights are not mentioned, then these words mean that even if the purveyor of the software holds patents and/or trademarks, your redistribution and use are permitted. I.e. it appears that a patent and trademark grant is implied if a patent holder puts something under the two-clause BSD. Or at least you have a ghost of a chance to argue it in court.

Not so with the CC0, which spells out that you don't have permission to use any patents and trademarks in the work.
Thanks. I didn't know switchy was available for Firefox too. That's great. It must not have come up in my searches. Probably because of its date.

I am aware of foxyproxy. It works OK. I was using it until the containers gained proxy support.
> So while GPT-3 is truly remarkable in its ability to generate text, it cannot, by definition, communicate

GPT-3 does nothing without a human inputting what it wants it to output. GPT-3 is as much a tool for communication as are sounds, words, symbols, etc.

Whether it was carved in stone by a human hand or generated on the cloud by an AI, the intent to communicate is always coming from a human.

If you think the text generated by GPT-3 does not carry the right meaning or has "no underlying _thing_ that is being communicated", it just means that the human behind is not using the tool properly. Just like sometimes you use a word that doesn't mean what you think it means.
Some of what this does is what the fancy software on the phones tries to do in software.
The proposed moral of this story, and those like it, is to avoid re-implementing general-purpose libraries.

Yes, good. But not all applications need a “platonic ideal” understanding of time. Often when you type just the code you need, the system performs excellently, and the code is minimal.
Ask HN: How do you tell if online content is AI generated?
I no longer can tell if articles that I read online have been generated by an AI. Or podcasts for that matter. Are there any tools that can tell me if they are or are not? If not what are your strategies to filter disinformation? (How can I tell if the comments to this post are AI generated or not?)
> losing your Gmail account is as bad as having the police called on you in the first place.

Gmail won't chase you and throw you in a cell if you run from them. The police will.
I don’t think you understand geopolitics in that part of the world. Shia dominated Iran has very little influence on Sunni Pakistan. As far as I can recall, Pakistan always had their entire existence centred around anti-India perspective, the war they fought with India over Kashmir in 65 and then over Bangladesh in 71 predates the shah movement. Soms of their most fanatic military leaders were actually before the 71 war.

Every country plays games but not in a self destructive manner. If Pakistani leadership had any sense and if their people were not always fooled by thinking that their leaders are leading a jihad and protecting Islam, they would have realized focusing your entire foreign and economic policy based on the geopolitical rivalry over a piece of land that has less than 1% of total GDP is not a good cause.

Just wait till they have a balance of payment problem. Their reserves are drying up too all because of these stupid economic policies. Instead of doing trade deals with your closest neighbour and one of the largest economic powers, they actively sabotage any economic influence. These people are really stupid.
And then some sellers converted 1000 Lire = 1€. I still remember looking at shop windows and seeing everything doubling in price. Instant inflation and instant poverty....
You’ll be surprised to learn that doesn’t work without some amazing tech to process the photons. Different settings will produce a different photo.

Hell, just changing focal length makes a bigg difference to what your face looks like: https://imgur.io/gallery/ZKTWi no digital manipulation required.

Which of those faces is “real”? They’re all just recording photons hitting the camera, but look very different.

It gets even worse when we start talking about colors. For example: it took cameras decades before they could accurately capture black faces. Where accurately means “an average person would say it looks right”

https://www.vox.com/2015/9/18/9348821/photography-race-bias

Edit:
here's a fun example of how journalists use perspective and focal distance tricks to support their desired story angle. No digital manipulation https://twitter.com/baekdal/status/1254460167812415489
The Pueblo Chile Growers Association is more than ready for the fight!

The next Chile & Frijoles Festival is Sept 23-25th
https://pueblochilefestival.com
They're each great on different foods IMO. Nothing better than a green chile cheeseburger, or a red chile enchilada plate at The Shed.
well then no beer for you - I understood wheel's point as mostly hinting at alcohol serving a purpose as a social lubricant. and that's pretty established and well-observable. doesn't form an imperative, though. to call "BS" on the podcast's content is of course a bit over the top.
or, pigeonbots? :-)
Now consider the rock that somebody threw at your face, and knocked out your tooth. Is it still neutral?

The neutrality is gone as soon as people are involved
SQLite isn't that small, about 1.3M compiled as a shared library on my system, and the "amalgamation file" is 240k lines of code, or 8.2M (160k lines w/o comments). I don't think a bunch of functions will add that much to it; it's probably more about developer time, maintenance burden, etc.
Hmm the only one which seems to apply is:

> having one or two days per year which are part of no month is stupid

which I've cleverly circumvented by adding almost a while week. I believe in this case the stupidity overflows and it becomes a good plan again.
I can't imagine resistive heating winning against this, since current photovoltaic panels are relatively inefficient compared to just shoving the radiation directly into your target.
Many of the decisions were made my Merkel who, despite lots of flaws, is with absolute certainty immune from the allure of money. She's never shown any interest in it, had any income other than her government salary, and spend 16 years while in power living in a modest apartment within walking distance from the office.
People with Autism have similar speech patterns across languages
This is very strange and/or confused.

All sort methods can and should be tested with the same tests, that assert that unsorted input is converted to sorted output.

Choosing heapsort for performance reasons should normally not affect your test suite at all.
As I see it, the difference between the Tauri approach and Electron becomes visible when you have multiple apps running.

Each Electron app will load its own browser back-end in RAM, while all tauri apps will share the same runtime on disk and in RAM.

This makes for quite a big difference as the number of running apps grows.
What is the point of republishing it on Github? They (GitHub / Microsoft) will just remove it and ban it again after announcing it.

A better way instead, would be to do what all other projects like GNOME, KDE, Tor, wireguard, etc have done before and that is to just self-host the repositories instead.
I agree. I'd wager most programmers don't need to actually worry about calendars, but most occasionally need to worry about time. Just use a library and read the docs for what to expect to happen when you do something like getCurrentTime. What is the resolution, does it monotonically increase, etc.

If you actually need to worry about calendars and user input, you have my sympathy.
And to get the very best price for those clusters your you'd need to commit to the CSP for three years!

Would love to know the TCO trade-off between procuring, securing and deploying on your own clusters vs having them managed via SaaS.
It's _possible_ to build a secure Electron app, but it's also very easy to build an insecure Electron app. Even if you follow best practices regarding context isolation, it's very easy to introduce a subtle security issue like

contextBridge.exposeInMainWorld('myAPI', {
send: ipcRenderer.send
})
I love that smell so much!
You both can be right with Christmas! (Red & Green)
The only channels that promised fewer ads because you pay for it and delivered on it (not switching to double dipping within a decade) are the ones financed by mandatory TV license fees.

People do pay and it does not work. The only thing that works is government regulations.
Yeah, I was just trying to start a NM flamewar.

What's more confusing to me is that different places cook them differently. Some places I love green and hate red, and some vice versa.

Though in places that do both equally well, I gotta say I'm team red :).
And that's all we'll ever hear. Good luck trying to find an actual person to talk to.
Tornado needs TVL to effectively launder money for criminals. Forks without much TVL don't seem that dangerous
> Seems important to me.

Maybe I'm dense, but why is this necessary, or specifically helpful, re: kernel development? As I understand it, the Linux kernel doesn't assiduously follow the C spec (it uses many GNU specific extensions). And C spec itself is often not fully implemented on many platforms (see C11 Annex K). If the answer is "It could break", well, Rust probably does more to prevent breakage than any language I know. Definitely more than the C spec ever has.

Would it be nice for the devs to take an extended holiday to write a mind-numbing technical document for the benefit of 2-3 teams working on alternative compilers? Maybe? But, also, maybe not.
Would be interested in your math.
if (distracted < 15000ms) {
electrocute = 300ms;
}
Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled
A lot of it has to do with the governments incentivizing less efficient practices to support smaller farms.

A megacorp running a million acres would be a lot more efficient than a 1000 families running 1000 acre farms but, for various reasons, the system is biased towards the latter.

These Silicon Valley tycoons are trying to “disrupt” agriculture but they aren’t going around telling anyone what they’re up to, just buying up a bunch of land and hoping nobody notices. The political winds will not favor their usual shenanigans.
Hopefully the government can identify any forks that achieve meaningful TVL and taint the coins
Python specific:

- `pytz.timezone(timezone_name)` will give you the current offset for that timezone
- well, it will at least be some consistent offset
- surely, every timezone has the same reference starting point?

What `pytz.timezone(name)` actually does is initialize a timezone object at the point in time of the first entry in the tz database for that zone. For example, New York had an offset of 4:56:02 prior to 1883 November 18, 12:03:58 [1]. That is the "starting point" for America/New_York and US/Eastern (which I think is an alias of New_York before a certain date). Which is why you get

>>> pytz.timezone('America/New_York')
<DstTzInfo 'America/New_York' LMT-1 day, 19:04:00 STD>

Ish. Not sure where those 2 seconds went. But that explains why you see that strange 19:04 (-3:56) offset. The real way to use it is

>>> pytz.timezone('America/New_York').localize(your_specific_datetime)

Timezones without a reference time are deceptive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#Example_zone_and_r...
None of their civilian governments have lasted an entire term.

Pretty damning.
wtf. anybody know in which countries google acts like this? is it only the US?
Lousy Smarch weather (doh!)
> Working in an office is now considered as "being pushed around like a bunch of peasants".

Having to be in a particular location for a set number of hours per day because someone else says so, when it has exactly zero to do with your effectiveness on the job *is* being pushed around like a peasant, yes. It's someone trying to exert power over you for no other reason than the fact that they can.

> Keep being so entitled and watch Shenzen surpass Silicon Valley within 5 years.

Except that Biden has kept most of Trump's trade policies toward China in place, and even tightened others (chip making). Thankfully, a healthy distrust of the Chinese has become a rare point of bipartisan agreement in the U.S.

More likely, we're going to end up with multiple distinct internets and computing ecosystems in the future. Whether this is good or bad, who knows.

Economics aside, I can't believe someone on HN is seriously making the argument that our labor policies should be more like China's. Good grief.
Steam Down
Remarkably ignorant post. Like saying that everyone in India/Pakistan/Bangladesh is homogenous because they're all subcontinental "brown" people. The conflict between whites on one hand and Asians/Latinos in modern America pales in comparison to the conflict that existed between different groups of northern european Christians at the time of the founding.
Really its unparalleled? Even by america.
> Yes, by that definition, most photographs already aren't real.

What if I use no digital manipulation at all, but play around with focal lengths or perspective to produce the desired effect. Is that a real photo?

For example from covid reporting: https://twitter.com/baekdal/status/1254460167812415489
We're in the same boat using Mapbox, we've been debating leaving for the OpenStreetMaps container since we only use them for static images and map display. https://github.com/Overv/openstreetmap-tile-server

Our bill last year was $80k and honestly its right on the cusp of being worth the effort to switch.
US govt has banned Tornado Cash the organization, not code of Tornado Cash.

Github complies to sanctions by removing all repositories owned by sanctioned organization. Doesn’t mean you can’t have a copy of their code.
This could describe my wife breastfeeding our 6 month old, you know, an activity generally requiring some nudity.

A bunch of people need to be fired at this point in the story.
I wouldn’t ask a doctor to evaluate the architecture of my web app.

Please consider consulting with a specialist.
If you need to hire 1 more developer at $100k to help maintain your data warehouse or pay $100k for Snowflake or BQ, its a no-brainer to use SaaS.

Also humans cost more than their salary: Recruiting, management, benefits, attrition, vacation, the risk that they are just not capable.

A human will also cost you more year over year (raises, promotions, etc), SaaS will typically cost you less year over year (optimizations, negotiations, competition, etc).