skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scimago Graphica: A new way to explore, communicate and make sense of data
Smart phone makers do not support this in their software (i.e. iOS does not provide some police spy dashboard), but there are many spyware-as-a-service providers like NSO Group (maker of the Pegasus spyware) that buy exploits and build a turnkey surveillance product. This bill simply provides a legal framework for LE to use such tools against French citizens.
Just to be clear, he's charged with espionage, just like most government whistleblowers are, according to a very questionable interpretation of, I think, a 1914 espionage act, that previously wasn't interpreted like that at all.

What he did was clearly not espionage, because he didn't sell info to a foreign country, he released it to the American public. And if I recall correctly, he made sure not all of it was released, and it was redacted as responsibly as he could. That's not how espionage works. Charging these whistleblowers with espionage is a flagrant abuse of the law.
Agreed! Companies were basically sticking a bunch of people in a primordial soup and then stepping back and hoping for abiogenesis. It turns out people are pretty creative, so you would often get it, but that doesn't make the primordial soup the be-all-end-all of company organization.

At some point you have to develop self-awareness, you have to develop structures capable of improving intentionally. Those structures will dramatically outperform the primordial soup approach, but they do take work to build.
>I don't understand how...

It's actually fairly simple. They're financially invested, one of the strongest biases of all.
I genuinely appreciate Monica, and congrats to the team. However, I've been searching for a native Android app and haven't come across a suitable alternative, as the Monica app has been discontinued.

I'm looking for an app that helps me remember significant dates and details about my acquaintances, provides birthday reminders, and allows me to take notes on them. Does anyone have any recommendations?
It wouldn’t be a fork, it would be another implementation. There are already a few.
Imagine you were tasked with implementing a linked-list in, let's say 'C', but anything really.

So you choose 'cell' as your name for a node. OK, that's .. fine.

Now you choose 'car' and 'cdr' for each cell's 'data pointer' and 'next-cell-in-list pointer'. How many 'WTF?s'* do you think you'd get in code review? (except from lispers, I guess)

* obviously it's a rhetorical question, no-one writes or says WTF (out loud) in actual code reviews I hope.
You are making my argument for me. Do you not see it? Make the leap.

I am NOT saying Astrology is true. I'm saying that a lot of people over history, long before astronomy exited, observed the stars, and traced their movement, and yes, some of them attributed their movements to 'gods', or did what today we called 'Astrology'. Then eventually, someone was like, man, these celestial bodies seem to follow some patterns, and drifted away from thinking it was 'the gods', and started putting math to it, and boom, we look back on it and call it 'Astronomy'.

But Astronomy did not pop into existence fully formed as a science.
> We don't need any more unsolicited banners or prompts.

If you open https://squoosh.app on a phone (or in browser dev tools emulating a phone), you will see what I think is a great example of use of an install prompt that I personally would be totally ok with.

screenshot – https://i.imgur.com/NALZpz8.png
> Because a lot of the hardware cost isn’t the solar cells proper, I think predicting a price drop of 50% already is fairly optimistic.

Perhaps optimistic, perhaps pessimistic.

Things can change on a dime if the politicians can make a campaign pledge along the lines of:

"I went to Europe the other day. Know what I saw in the budget supermarket? Solar. Complete system people can put on their apartment balconies for about a dollar per watt. Standard unit costs about the same as a family's weekly shop, and then they get free energy for the next 25 years."

(The 150W balcony units Lidl sell for €219 are in the middle of your price range; this is just to demonstrate that it's possible to cut out the middle-man).
All that will happen is criminals will just get good at opsec. This is downward selective pressure. Nature will respond.
It's quite funny and depressing, how one of the youngest and wealthiest countries on Earth has already fundamentally forgotten huge chunks of its history - after barely 250 years. Ten generations are clearly enough to lose a lot of data.
The 90-s have very little to show for, especially in the area of Web projects and standards, the testament of the failure of the latter is precisely the required scale of "the needful"
The green dot is meant as a privacy indicator - it tells you when something (camera, maybe mic?) is on. It doesn't relate to "remote" activation, and presumably would turn on in all circumstances.
The stable ABI for all the major OSes at this point is expressed in C, or put another way, C is the language of FFIs at the moment. This is not something I am happy with, and I wish we could start moving away from it, but the result is that the way you describe the ABI of your OS right now is to provide a C header file containing function prototypes and structure definitions.

In principle, it's also worth pointing out that libc is really three separate (conceptual) things. There's libsyscall, which is the bare wrapper around system calls; there's libuss, OS services provided entirely in userspace and not the kernel (dynamic linking and some aspects of threading come to mind here); and finally, libcrt, which is the actual C runtime that implements the C standard library (e.g., fopen). It's really unfortunate that on most OSes, all of these are combined into one library called libc, although Windows actually separates these into different libraries (ntdll, which is not stable; kernel32-ish, which is stable; and msvcrt, which you have historically had to ship yourself!).
Many of the old-school computer magazines are available at the Internet Archive.

Byte: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine
Dr. Dobbs: https://archive.org/search?query=dr.+dobbs+journal
Compute!: https://archive.org/details/compute-magazine
maybe this actually are best space between seeds:)
Agreed.

I live in a town in the South West of UK and the nearest train station is more than 45 mins drive away, no direct bus link with our nearest city, unreliable local buses, nothing in the way of cycle lanes, virtually no taxis, no uber etc, etc - basically 0% public transport.

It's amazing how far out of touch those in London (i.e. politicians) are with the rest of the UK.
I think there was <=60s in the middle of the video that actually talked about the process. The rest was a ~3x repetition of a summary of The Market.
FINALLY. I only have Sketch installed so I can use Apple design resources to build icons and such. The raster ones don’t work well in Pixelmator, and Photoshop is too expensive for something I use every 3 months. I’m very happy they’re publishing Figma resources.
What is the sample? Psychology students and people who want to be paid 10 dollars to fill out a survey? People who agree to have a long survey via telephone?

Doesnt sound representative for me at all
> "[...] which would be reserved for cases of terrorism, delinquency and organized crime."

Because of course it will
As far as I know, the title is wrong, only the senate approved the bill. That's not enough for France to legalize anything

The way it works in France is there's two chambers of parliament, the senate and the Assemblée nationale (that I translate to "the parliament"). Unless the law changes something in the constitution, the senate is just there to advise the parliament. If they'd voted no, it wouldn't have mattered.

It is up to the parliament to vote laws into effect

But the neolib right, the far-right and the conservative right compose >60% of the parliament so there's no need to hold your horses too much. For the retirement law, they didn't have the support of the far-right. Since I don't think the far-right is going to suddenly find themselves privacy lovers I think we can safely assume it'll go through
So, how do they plan on activating cameras/microphones? Backdoor?
Most of your comment seems to be "I'd rather stay with an extremely insecure authentication scheme to avoid learning anything new".
That costs more, and the consumer wouldn’t buy it.
There's a reason criminal rings buy crime-suited phones. Buying a cheapo android with the camera removed/disconnected is going to increase in Europe. Once again, I doubt this security measure will make anyone truly safer.
I can walk around my home office, go downstairs make a coffee without having to navigate society and social structure in the office. Put myself on mute for 5 minutes... Unless you are already hiding away from everyone in the office, good luck doing the same on a floor, and good luck not having someone run up to you to say oh hey can you come take a look at x,y,z.
> I am a little surprised how much anti-Psychology sentiment there is on HN. I know it is typically viewed as a 'liberal' field

It has nothing to do with “liberal” or “conservative” fields of studies and everything to do with reproducibility and predictivity. If psychology could make predictions to the 13th decimal place like we are able to do for the gyromagnetic ratio of the electron (and confirm via experiment), there would be no complaints.

There is also a tendency for the outcomes of psychology studies to be “oversold” in a sense. To be fair, this is more often due to the media sensationalizing the results or reading something into them that isn’t there, but you don’t see this as often in physics (well, maybe a bit with quantum mechanics and black holes).
The Apple sycophants really never stop here, do they?
How can LLMs transform the robotic design process?
This title is useless. I can identify >99% of all AI generated content with a function that is just "return true;".
I've literally never said yes to this question unless it was something incredibly urgent like prod being down or whatever.
While it seems like the most rational approach, it isn't. Companies don't typically include many employees in an improvement program, so when 'low performers' who haven't been covered by such a program are laid off, the remaining employees start to question the fairness of the performance evaluation and the company's commitment to its employees. [1]

The whole industry switched to stack ranking. I wonder what potential long-term effects could emerge.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/layoffs-use-cut-low-bad-perf...
You can just google it. Or bing it or whatever, since Google sucks these days.

It's happening everywhere now. Like I said, this is akin to someone demanding proof that there's war in Ukraine right now.
Ah yes, the political conspiracies of “Big Scales”.
That is not true. National popular elections still rely on the same voting booths with known numbers of local voters. A location with a thousand voters turning out a million votes would be instantly detected and investigated.

Someone wanting to swing a national popular vote fraudulently would need to compromise tens of thousands of ballot boxes to steal on the order of ten million votes -- a much harder ask than compromising a hundred ballot boxes to swing three states in the Senate/Electoral College or gerrymandering twenty districts in Congress.
There are many users of Guix at research institutes who aren't running Guix System (i.e. the full system). But the difference between Guix and Guix System is pretty small; even with just Guix you get the "guix system" command, so you can build containers and VMs that run Guix System. You only can't benefit from full-system rollbacks and the integration of Guix system services.
We use Algolia, and we have an index of that is 10 million records, 1 that is 5 million and 1 that is 4 million. Performance and reliability have never been an issue. In fact, it's the only thing in our stack that we never have issues with. (knock on wood)
Yes, and it works really well for two parties if both parties are equally informed and competent.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08781

For n>2 the simple I-cut-you-choose stops working.
That simply does not work.

The "slices" are done so that each slice have roughly the same amount of people.

So if one party has sliced things so that all the slices are nicely cracked and packed, the "picking" just doesn't matter. The slicing is the picking.

However, a variation of your idea is to have each party take turns drawing districts. But that doesn't really work, because you'd quickly learn that the winning strategy is to draw districts to maximize the other party's voters. Because you want to force the other party to draw districts favorable to you.
I want a developer's view on this landing page
Rust is a "memory safe" systems programming language. That has a specific meaning which does not include the method of allocation failure handling.

I would bet money that the majority of C code doesn't check the return code from malloc. What Rust does is strictly better than that. For people that do care, the APIs for fallible allocation are being added over time.
Meh. I worked from home while we had a toddler and an infant, now a first grader and pre-schooler. I’m not going to claim it didn’t have its challenges, but even at its worst it was better than commuting. I did some of the best work of my career during COVID lockdown. I was genuinely happy with life.
Why would we do that? This is not something we want to do. We don't even have tracking.
And also, we advocate everywhere that users should host their own instance.
You could look at how window AC units are installed -- "temporary" (ie, reversible, but long-term) installations, using various kits that generally boil down to foam strips and extensible accordion partitions to close off space not filled by the unit.
It worked because ISA _was_ the CPU BUS back then.

CXL memory can only be treated as paging storage, random access is abysmal.
For web apps using wasm for development could be a game changer
During COVID, some fast food places closed their dining rooms, keeping only their drive-"thrus" open. I once tried to walk through one of these, and was denied service at the window. I didn't make a fuss about it, but I was thinking -- I'm right here talking to you; I am offering you money in exchange for goods and services; there is literally nothing that is stopping me from handing you payment right now or from you giving me my food; but you won't do it because... why?
> Not only is Crypto/blockchain technology not equipped to handle this situation, not being able to do anything about this situation is a fundamental feature of the ecosystem.

Yeah, in it's pure form (no interop with fiat) it's the financial equivalent of anarchy. Rules/laws are impossible to enforce, no police or justice system to stop bad actors. It's lawlessness. This is a feature, not a bug.
If your goal is maximizing acreage for farming, a pretty good idea would be to get rid of land dedicated to our number one crop: grass that gets mowed. We spend over 40 millions of acres in lawns, as farms get replaced with subdivisions that are well over 50% lawn, and most of the rest is asphalt.

Your typical American metro area is very low density, but not because it has a lot of land dedicated to farming, or old growth woods, but because we dedicate so much space to very low density development that erases whatever was in that land in the first place. The trees are not local, the plants aren't local, and neither is the concrete.
Wire tapping has been approved this way for ages the 'for now' trope is getting old, because in some countries laws do work.
> society has got quite a lot out of being generally high-trust

I agree. The vast majority of times you pass someone on the street and don't expect that person to turn around and stab you in the back and take your wallet, is not because of the existence of laws, but because of the existence of trust. Laws (particularly criminal code) must exist for the minority. This is one of the reasons why I hate "trust-less" systems -- societies cannot function that way. It's as if a program was not trusted to access even the memory that was allocated to it, and the OS had to check permissions and run validations on every single CPU instruction issued by the program. Trust saves resources.
The current push to return to office is because that was the way things were done before. It doesn't seem likely that THIS change would be on management would go with either.
>sacrificing spontaneous conversation & ideation

Only thing I've ever gained this way were some bread-making tips (which admittedly were pretty good).

Our office has handily addressed this problem by making communities of expertise that anyone can join, occasional icebreaker events, and monthly showcases of what we're working on or investigating (this usually is just a few minutes of presentation by each team and is optional).

Make it easy for people to connect and they will do so. Meanwhile when I'm at the office, it's headphone-city and the open office format makes those random chats very distracting and frustrating.
Between the letters and the History of Middle-earth, we have an incredible insight into the creative process. I don't know of any other author whose work is so profoundly documented -- and it happens to be an author whose process is so radical.

Not just in the languages, though those are the most obvious, but the lifetime obsession. It can be hard to recall that in his lifetime he only ever published The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He never published The Silmarillion, because he kept revising and revising. It was never fully compatible with either The Hobbit (it wasn't intended to be) or The Lord of the Rings. The published document we have is a posthumous construction (for which his son really deserves co-author credit.)

I do believe it's important to continue to think of the published works in themselves, and not just as part of a vast secret being dribbled out with the rest of his papers. The new edition of his letters will surely illuminate our appreciation of them, but it would be disrespectful to forget that he published his books as stand-alone novels. The Lord of the Rings is unchanged (pace some lightly edited later editions), and it's a monumental work that merits a lifetime of re-re-rereading.
I use docker because it's very easy to deploy home-server style. I don't care about dependencies.
This is a failure to design. You can't go remote but make no other changes in your org—effective remote requires you to be intentional about the things that you previously just hoped work. There are lots of different ways to make it work, but it sounds like your company hasn't done anything.
You're exaggerating.

Requesting for people to communicate more in group chats instead of direct messages takes 5 seconds.

Scheduling regular 1:1s with juniors keeps a tight feedback loop. Schedule it once every x weeks and there you go.
Having lived in both urban and rural areas, I don't think either has a monopoly on ignorance of the other.
Cost.

They system has found an equilibrium: customers are willing to pay ~$X for a scale. For $X you can afford Y accuracy.

If you increase the accuracy, great, but now your scale costs more then $x.
That's really helpful. Do you know of an open source passkey client?
>hasn't found many real world uses beyond gambling, drugs, confidence schemes, money laundering, tax evasion, and other financial criminality

Lots of people believe the war on drugs is a stupid, counter-productive endeavour, and indeed empirically there's no evidence of its success. The value on crypto is absolutely in that it gives common people a means to "fight back" against the power of the state and it's never-ending quest to control their private lives.

Most "financial criminality" in practice works out to "anyone doing anything the US government disagrees with", and not everyone believes the US has the right to police how the rest of the world spends its money. Nobody sanctioned the US when it killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq; do you think that's a fair system?
House of Representatives to hold hearing on whistleblower’s UFO claims
Sure, but the same is true of rural peoples’ understanding of urban areas.

Given that no policy can be perfect for everyone, why do we think that votes should be proportional to land area and not number of people affected?
> The House of Representatives plans to investigate claims that the US government is harboring UFOs after a whistleblower former intelligence official said the US has possession of “intact and partially intact” alien vehicles.
For someone who is unfamiliar with French law, is the parliament able to propose legislature (either by advocating in the senate or by pushing up to the senate)? Or do they only determine / vote on what becomes law?
How to Split Equity Among Co-Founders: YC Startup Library – Y Combinator
The fact that he found refuge in Russia is a great tragedy. I strongly preferred that a European country had offered him refuge. Switzerland, perhaps? But US intelligence has long and strong arms, and I guess Russia seemed like the safest place at the time. And then Putin went full fascist and now he's stuck there.
Generally part of why I stop by the water cooler or whatever is also giving my eyes a rest from the screen and stretching my legs.
Maybe, but someone from a farm in rural upstate New York is also quite different from someone from a farm in Georgia. Because of mass media and news, Americans aren’t necessarily attuned to their cultural differences.

Anecdote: my parents moved to the Virginia side of the DC suburbs in 1989. In 2018, they moved 50 miles to the Maryland side, to be near my wife and our kids. I moved around a lot between high school and now so I didn’t notice it. But my dad (he travels all over the developing world for his career) immediately noticed. (And they both hate Maryland, lol.) He can tell the accents are different. The way people make small talk is different. In his view (as a Bangladeshi and then a Virginian) people are less courteous. When he pointed it out, I couldn’t unsee it. Maryland is the southernmost part of the mid-Atlantic (NJ/DE/PA). Virginia is the northernmost part of the south. Even just looking at places 25 miles on either side of DC, the Maryland side has way more Jewish people and Catholics, and way fewer Asians. (Growing up in northern Virginia in the 1990s, I don’t think I ever met a Catholic. Apparently, Virginia is only 8% Catholic compared to 20% for Maryland.)
I remember a talk at NIPS, a number of years back, where a psychologist was criticizing statistical approaches used by ML practitioners. And telling us that unlike ML practitioners (who still live in the dark ages), modern psychology researchers had realized their wrongs ways of the past. And now they register their studies and the statistical methodology upfront. They review it, register the experiments and only then conduct these, publishing both positive and negative results of the registered study.
TI Explorer used it as standard, but similar option was available for Symbolics machines in place of IIRC BNC.

Both were used to put consoles (display, mouse, keyboard) in the office while the possibly much louder central units and any attending extra gear would be placed in a dedicated computer room.

Made more sense when you consider things like TI Explorer having optional DSP coprocessor card which might be paired with various RF hardware for realtime processing.
I was there “lucky” making $135k in Atlanta back in 2016….
One of these things is not like the others

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rsRjQDrDnY8
Unless the light is physically connected to the power line of the camera sensor (and most aren't), it's useless as an indicator of covert camera usage - the spyware can just not turn it on.