skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but modern cashier's machine are more expensive (again, in France) than this new white terminal the new businesses around me uses.

> old good pen&paper seem to work great as well

I think that for food businesses in brick and mortar shops in France, if you take cash, you have to get a cashier's machine. Not 100% sure that's true but that's the explanation i got from a bubble tea shop who didn't take cash.
But would I have done it if the police weren’t following me? What if the computer is identifying at risk paranoid schizophrenics likely to be pushed over the edge by noticeable increases in their personal surveillance?

Frankly that seems more plausible than telling the future
this is basically the Netherlands being weird.

almost every bank in almost every european country issues Visa/Mastercard debit cards that can work for ~everything that claims it wants a credit card.
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Decades of binary compatibility without concern for emulation bugs?
Locals near train derailment report dead fish and animals despite safety claims
From the paper and for contextualisation:

> In the same manner, the trained deep learning for pancreatic cancer urine dataset (Figs. S13a–c) clearly showed superior classification performance with a sensitivity of 98.6% and a specificity of 100% (99.3% accuracy, 0.9892 AUC, 59 epochs).
I have zero experience with pkgsrc. From a first glance (from pkgsrc.org), I can say that nix claims to have 80k packages whereas pkgsrc 26k. Also, nix'es main selling point is reproducible builds, which is pretty cool. Other than that, nix is satisfactorily fast (much faster than homebrew, not sure in comparison to pkgsrc).
Can someone explain why parsers can't handle nested selectors which don't start with a symbol?

I've written plenty of parsers (recursive descent, packrat, Pratt, and using generators) and not a single one would have any trouble parsing something like:

html {
body:has(p) {
width: 1000px;
}
}

The only thing I can think of is that they are trying to avoid a lookahead, i.e. you have selectors like "body:has(p) {" which initially look like they could be setting a "body" attribute to the value "has" until you reach the "(". But these lookaheads aren't hard to implement in practice. There are performance issues if the lookahead has to go too deep, but CSS developers can use the & in those cases as an optimization, and you could limit lookahead depth to something like 256 (which would handle the vast majority of non-malicious use cases).

Perhaps the lookahead has a lot more drastic effect than I'm expecting on performance for short lookaheads, but I'd like to at least see some profiling of that, as it seems to me like this possibility was discarded without much consideration or explanation (it wasn't even included in the poll).

There's also another way to do this without lookaheads at all, by building up a structure for each potential path and then discarding the one that doesn't complete (I think this is basically a DFA but it's been a while since I read literature on this so I'm forgetting the terminology). This would probably avoid the performance issues but also probably be a larger departure from the current implementation of the parsers.
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As a German native I think you're a bit off both on translation and based on understanding of the foundations of the German constitution.

No constitutional law expert myself, trying to contextualize in the hope it helps:

Core pillars of the German constitutional system are informational self-determination (i.e. personal data has a very high degree of protection under the constitution, see Germany's history) and proportionality (in using its powers, the state must choose methods appropriate to specific situations, obv. to hinder misuse of power - see Germany's history again).

So the ruling in essence, as I understand it, says among other things:

1. Automated data analysis needs to respect informational self-determination of anyone (i.e. no data mining per se on people who are not suspects for a given type of crime being investigated)

2. Automated data analysis needs to be proportional, meaning that the purpose of running any analysis "for the benefit of the public" must be reasonably well established and the analysis must have a strict goal.

I.e. if John stole something, you have to analyse the data such that you can credibly prove that identification for theft was the purpose.

Starting with looking for thieves but ending up identifying X movie pirates, Y weed consumers etc. is not proportional and crosses the right to informational self-determination.

So in the above example, the movie piraters and weed smokers might have not had an official investigation into their offenses on record, so by law the presumption of innocence must hold - you cannot do blanket investigations without reasonable cause under German law.

In the final paragraphs, the text actually states under which conditions automated data analysis would fullfil constitutional requirements:

1. The legislative needs to codify which data points exactly can be used for a given offense where offenders are to be identified with data analysis. Laws also need to explicitly codify limits of usable data.

2. If automated data analysis is performed by authorities, they must document the reason for initiating an analysis, the methods chosen, the criteria for labeling the outputs as "guilty/innocent", document the entire procedure and be able to release all of it to the public domain so that public data protection officers - or anyone else - can audit the results.

All of this sounds super reasonable to me.

To be clear, automatic data analysis for the purpose of extreme threats to national or public security are exempt if I understand correctly. These would be cases where it is proportional to perform such analyses for the greater good.

But you cannot do mass number crunching on ordinary citizens.

Yay in my book.
Sentient[0] or conscious awareness of self[1]? Sentience is a much more narrowly defined attribute and applies to a lot of living and some non-living things. LLMs can certainly perceive and react to stimuli but they do it in the same way that any computer program can perceive and react to input. The question of whether it has an internal awareness of itself or any form of agency is a very different question and the answer is decidedly no since it is a) stateless from one input to the next and b) not designed in such a way that it can do anything other than react to external stimuli.

[0] https://dictionary.apa.org/sentient

[1] https://dictionary.apa.org/self
>Possibly mixins, loops, and variables, which, unlike CSS variables, can be used in media queries.

Please god no. CSS is intended to be completely declarative. Loops and conditional logic were the very worst ideas SASS ever had.
This is a real bummer. I've been a subscriber for many years, and one of the last of many paper magazine subscriptions I still enjoyed.
I use asdf for tooling I need to keep several versions of. People have also mentioned Nix, but I haven't tried it out yet.
The fact that there's a computer in there means that there's a computer in there, which is the OP's point.

Yes, we get it, those computers are intentionally locked down by their manufacturers. That lockdown is what the problem is.
What really shocks me is people have latched on to lasagna like it some insanely unachievable thing. Lasagna is a cheap and easy meal to make. I find it baffling that we have gotten to the point where a baked pasta dish is now "too hard" for people.

>> If you don’t have an oven? If you don’t have a refrigerator?

Is that really a problem for most people. Most of my family is on some kind of government assistance or in government housing, all of them have Ovens and Fridges.
Ransomware gang uses new zero-day to steal data on 1M patients
Indeed, you're right: the worst that can happen is that chat recipients would see a "your security number has changed". But nothing will happen when talking to a whole new person, or when you join a group you've never been in before.
Microsoft's Bing AI Prompted a User to Say 'Heil Hitler'
I don't know, can't you be skeptical of a thing without having a better alternative?
In Telegram the first is available opt-in, an equivalent to the second is available opt-in (key change = shows up as a different chat), and the third is equally true.
I'm not a very technical person, but I think MacPorts adheres better to macOS standards and security practices. (At least it asks my admin password before any major interaction.) Been using for a few years, coming from Homebrew, and it's running smoothly.
Balkan barbarians? What about the Dutch barbarians who were trading with humans? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Dutch_slavery
YouTube summary features are in the latest version, still under review.
LOL! Might be a legitimate front. Go check the back room! Say ChatGPT gave you the tip. :))
This looks great, but expense tracker apps are challenging for me to adopt. Either they ask to connect to my bank, or they ask me to manually enter my expenses.

Neither of these is at all appealing to me.

First, I have no idea who the developers are or what their incentives are. I do not hand over access to my bank accounts lightly. No bank connections. I also don't have the patience to track every single purchase manually. It's really disruptive.

If you can solve both of those, I'd consider adopting. Till then, good luck!
Cool. But are they still closed-source?
Is it still slow?
>the kind of service developers used to pay money for

I've donated to homebrew, I support them that way.

The moral issue is, I'm using their tools and trusting them, and they are violating that trust by phoning home and sending analytic data without my involvement or approval. While it may seem trivial to you to set an environment variable, having to do that with every new homebrew install adds up, and when its forgotten about, results in a negative impact on my networking and IT resources.

> a trivial opt-out mechanism

Its not trivial, and thats the point where we disagree. No, maintaining environment variables to prevent tooling from sending unknown analytical data: this is not trivial. It is an anti-pattern designed to gain the data from un-sophisticated users, rather than treating users with respect and letting them have agency over whether their resources are used by the homebrew developers.

Tracking should always be opt-in and if it isn't, that is simply a dark pattern being used to scam resources from the users.
Oxford study to trial cannabis-based medicine as treatment for psychosis
What's wrong with JW? Sure, they're mindless fun action flicks, but that's ok? Most of the population is crying out for escapism most of the time.
The only thing worse than SMS-2FA is SMS-1FA, which I believe is Telegram‘s default.
What's with all the free CS programs? How about a free law or pre-med curriculum?
Car is your new Mobile Device
Apple has never released a product that required getting "it in as many peoples hands a possible at the start."

They always target higher margins if they can.
Could an air quality sensor be made by using a spark gap and then a spectrometry on the light produced by the spark?

You should be able to measure CO2, NOX, and various other pollutants this way, either via emission or absorption spectroscopy. For solid PM2.5 pollution, you could potentially identify the chemical make up of the particles, which should be good for identifying the iron metal dust from machines, the stone dust from building work, the organic skin dust, the rubber dust from tyres, the carbon dust from engines, etc.

Seems like a single cheap sensor that might be able to provide a lot more info than other more complex sensor types.
63.5MB? Why so big?!
I'm not sure the precise details, but there's an "industrial exemption" for engineers who work for a company that makes a product. Most of the MechE's in my department do not have licenses. One colleague is pursuing hers, but mainly on the grounds of "just because I can, so why not."
I'll bite: why would someone want to use this instead of Spice ?
Why do you insist on lying?

Walmart is rarely the Only option. Where there is a Walmart, 90% of the time there is a Kroger (or Kroger Brand) Store, or Mejier (if in the Midwest), or some other store close by...
How can you not see how bad security practise of Telegram is not directly related to Telegram?

Do not let sms 2fa slide for anyone.
We know from experience that most users never change defaults. For that reason alone, Telegram‘s "secure chat" is anything but.
The same amount as would be if they were using MacOS or Windows 11. This isn't an OS issue, this is a "I didn't manage and configure my ACLs and RBAC correctly to minimize lateral movement in my environment" problem. Linux isn't anymore secure than Windows in that regard, as can be seen with ransomware such as Elbie. I can also say with extremely high confidence that in a number of orgs that are ransomware victim are running Linux seployments for their servers (usually Centos 6.x-7.x or RHEL6-7)
Websites of several German airports not reachable
Pretty sure they're still on erlang.
Eh, no.. a failed concept, to grasp the techological deep roots needed to supply something with specialists and machinery at all times, at a location that is 9 months off limits.
And I doubt you've ever bought the Brooklyn Bridge but that doesn't mean you can't call out the con artist trying to sell it. The price of the snake oil isn't the problem. The problem is that he's scamming people out of money making a bunch of claims that fundamentally do not apply to modern drives. If you have a MFM hard drive that still spins after all this time and you want to do whatever low level interleave Spinrite supports on it then sure, it probably works just as well as it did back when that hardware didn't qualify as antique. Most people getting suckered into buying Spinrite aren't going to have anything that ancient and for what Spinrite can actually do on somewhat modern drives, you might as well just use ddrescue, it'll do a better job.

> If you have a bug report, file it, my guess is that you don't.

This is extra hilarious in light of the fact that there have been plenty of bug reports against 6.0 reported well over a decade ago. Steve promised they'll be fixed in 6.1 which is totally coming out any day now.
There's several threads every day, how much more air time would you expect?
How to build nuclear missile interceptor in your garage

I do not have the answer you are looking for but I would suggest a much less expensive alternative would be to use the earth under your garage as the interceptor and build a hardened bunker deep under ground. It's still going to be expensive to do it right and it will need to facilitate healthy living under ground for a long time but does not require the permits one would never get to build missile interceptors.
> people generally ignore this message.

Because it's noisy. You get that message whenever your conversation partner switches phones or re-installs Signal. The reaction on seeing that message is more "enjoy the new phone, what did you get?" than "have you been hacked?"
The page is difficult to read on mobile. There are huge margins which only allow one or two words per line.

Ignoring that, the point is valid. A few days ago there was someone on HN with an existing mailing list asking what they should write about. One of the options I recommended was to consider not doing it; if you don’t have anything to say, sending junk only hurts.
It's just playing "Yes and..." it'll agree to and expand on whatever you say to it.
Why is this worrying? At least for exists, talks back... it even has messianic and apocalyptic potential. Maybe we shouldn't have deities, but so long as we do, better cybergod than spirit god.
>Either they ask to connect to my bank, or they ask me to manually enter my expenses.

What other options are there?
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I don't see a globally coordinated anti-AI effort happening, let alone resolving the free speech and privacy implications of such a measure. We're going to get weaponised AI because that's what humans want to build.
'deals with the ethics' is a creative way to describe a horror show
The scary part is that people can start dismissing the opinions that they don't agree as "AI generated".
I would think that the main audience for this books would be people who enjoyed the other books in the authors' "Little" series, which almost all use Scheme, so it wouldn't be something new to learn.
> Withings announced a reusable urine analyzer for your toilet bowl at CES

Doing several tests a day on someone could create a lot of false positives!

Perhaps if the sensor detected possible symptoms as well: urinating more frequently in the night, difficulty in starting, weak or interrupted flow, blood in the urine etc.
Yes, Stuart Russell is a grifter. Some of the more advanced grifters have gone beyond tweeting and are now shilling low-effort books in an attempt to draw attention to themselves. Don't be fooled.

If we want to talk about problems with biased data sets or using inappropriate AI algorithms for safety-critical applications then sure, let's address those issues. But the notion of some super intelligent computer coming to take over the world and kill everyone is just a stupid fantasy with no scientific basis.
Paper especially was very expensive until approximately the 19th century.
I was just wondering, have they considered storing all that in an SQLite file? And then you could refresh the file every 6 hours, say, and post it on a CDN?
If that balloon could go anywhere anytime then why can't I?
iPhone has a decibel meter
How did FDR buy up all the gold? Just pass a bill, no army needed.
Isn't the USA a rule of law state?

Now, if the railroad bosses are willing to fight with the federal government, they are welcome to hire mercenaries. I hear Wagner wants cash.
I would argue that the trust wasn't necessarily always misplaced; one of the lessons of the book "Lying For Money" is that some level of fraud is unavoidable because the cost-benefit tradeoffs of always checking everything don't make sense to try to drive fraud to zero.

However, AI moves the point on the cost-benefit curve.
"The Thing" was best viewed when alone on nightwatch just before walking across to the meteorological building in the dark at 03:00.
For those going down this rabbit hole, perceptual downscaling is state of the art, and the closest thing we have to a Python implementation is here (with a citation of the original paper): https://github.com/WolframRhodium/muvsfunc/blob/master/muvsf...

Other supposedly better CUDA/ML filters give me strange results.
I monitor Russian war channels and some people there insist on using Telegram only for Russian military people. If you use Whatsapp, Ukrainian officers will get all chats from NATO.

Telegram accounts of opposition were hacked by belarus police as well. It's known and documented.

My takeaway is that for truly private chat one should write his own software using simple crypto without all those fancy clients. Ideally just use one time keys and xor everything. Can do it with pen and paper.

Signal might be safe, but I think it's a honeypot.
imho we have to look at what limited set of tools and functionality we really use. The days where we didn't know what computers were used for are long gone and the justification for doing everything in software along with it. You want to exchange strings of text with video and images. Not much more than morse code offered. Direction of dataflow can be easily enforced in hardware. The backup drive takes input that you can't read, you break off part of the print and it becomes read only permanently. It can easily be made an insane amount of work to regain write ability.

A completely finished os can be stored on a read only device.

We just have to start from scratch :) that is all it takes :)
No doubt some bright spark is hard at work on a specialized anti-balloon munition that can do it for at least a little less.

Or they will be if it becomes a real problem anyway.
You can do paid apps. You just have to login to Aurora using a Google account instead of anonymously.

This isn't so bad if you use a privacy focused ROM and create a special, single purpose Google login that is only used for app purchases. I also suggest keeping a Google gift card for the occasional purchase.

Privacy invasion doesn't really kick in until you start re-using your Google login and your phone/apps are reporting back to Google on a regular basis with your location, device IMEI, advertising ID, hardware fingerprint, email address, browsing/search history, banking/purchase details (aka Google Pay), etc..
Levels.fyi served millions of users with Google Sheets as a backend
What you're asking for is called Server-Side Includes, it's been a feature of Apache for ages, but is also supported by Nginx and other servers.
Somehow from the tone of both of you I feel you both assume that a woman around 20 can be only a victim and never a pimp or a recruiter.
has anyone found the price of these?

I have some second hand awair sensors, which I got for about £50. They are brilliant, but cost £200 new.
Thinking about CO2 levels isn't common sense until after you've been keeping an eye on one of these gadgets. After sitting in a meeting room for an hour, people may find it feels warm or stuffy or notice a slight headache, but they won't necessarily draw the connection that they really ought to open a window or door or adjourn the meeting for a few minutes. The importance of breathing fresh air becomes much more common sense after you've learned to tell the difference.
Thanks. Google search is still better. It's a good idea to build summaries on it than on Bing.
Super interesting ruling in my book.

Skipping ahead to the fact that automated data analysis is not prohibited per se, just needs to be reasonably targeted, the two most interesting paragraphs are the last ones for me.

Basically the court mandates that any future laws passed for legalizing automated data analysis must explicitly

1. For any given crime to be automatically analysed, define the data model and define appropriate analysis techniques or methods.
Those laws should be interesting reads.

2. For any one analysis happening, document and later publish to the public domain the reason for initiating an analysis, the methods chosen, the criteria for labeling someone as "guilty/innocent" - basically the entire process so that the analysis is auditable end to end.

Again, this is not a suggestion in the ruling, but a requirement.

This is really good news for personal liberties in my book.

Stark contrast to US/ China data mining on citizens.
That's not actually CCS, but the Type 1 connector part. In Europe we have Type 2 + CCS combo and there is no such latch at the top: we just stick it in and it start charging. The latch is directly in the car.
Red states join push to legalize magic mushrooms for therapy
Paracetamol for children was stored in the fridge and just lived there in my household. It’s a sweet syrupy liquid.

It’s not over-the-counter where I live, but the adult (tablet) version is.
I've wondered about this. If I install an air monitor in my room, what do I do if it shows low quality? Open my window in below-freezing winter temps? Hire someone to overhaul my furnace and vents?
The bigger problem is that the pixel domain is not a very good domain to be operating in. How many hours and of training and thousands of images are used to essentially learn about Gabor filters.
Funnily enough, many people on here have the opposite perception of Google: they argue that search results have been hijacked by no-name blogs and that reputable authorities are further down the page.
Looks nice but too aggressively asks for monthly subscription ($10/month).
“What's so courageous about telling the truth?”
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