skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Veggie gardening! Tearing up weeds, pruning, harvesting, potting, etc.

Lots of repetitive 45min-1hr tasks you have to do at specific times on specific days during the specific weather patterns you have to be on the look out for, all depending on what you’re growing specifically… which in any other context is unbearable for me.

Anything that requires that amount of coordination ends in complete and utter disaster normally. I’ve booked many impossible flight connections.

But gardening, I’m not sure, it’s pretty easy. And I think learning everything I can about what I’m growing that season makes it pretty seemless. With a little knowledge and practice you just kind of know what you need to do based on what you’re seeing/feeling.

Bonus points for listening to the Freebird solo on repeat while gardening, but that might be just me.
It's one thing to get an economy car to drive a person around San Francisco, it's an entirely different thing to drive these trucks in these conditions.

It would be more reasonable to build a freight train line than to build self driving tricks that can do what 95% of human drivers can't
Yeah they seem to be applying legal theory like programming code. If what they said about Napster applied to every website then literally every site with user generated content would be instantly wiped off the internet.
It probably wasn't outsourced. Local authorities have their own GIS and data people because it's essential to a council being able to do most of the jobs it does.

Keeping track of things is a really necessary function of any council. They have massive asset registers that need to know where everything is, from streetlights, to bins, to bus-stops, not to mention planning. They track anything they are responsible for, because otherwise it's rather hard to be be responsible for it.

That includes street trees, which are the council's responsibility. This is why the London one doesn't include ones in parks, since those are maintained by the Royal Parks people. This is their internal register of trees that someone has slapped a

My local council (Bath and North East Somerset) has a small but excellent data team, and they have an online map with all their data in one place. There are layers for everything, https://www.bathnes.gov.uk/webforms/maps/
no, that's why you tunnel through seven proxies, each being used with different sets of credentials/encryption keys, all disposable. The last tunnel is not the main data channel, but the channel you use to coordinate command and control, and then you use a botnet to distribute pieces of your real communications.
I used the word "inspire" as a short-hand for "benefits which have no practical value".

We agree exactly on this: "Whether that knowledge has value or not is...subjective."

Ultimately, we're talking about whether spending money on X has value. If you agree that the value of both crewed spaceflight and robotic probes is "subjective", then by definition there is no objectively correct answer.

We support Hubble because it yields knowledge, and having knowledge is something that we (as a society) value.

We support crewed spaceflight because we (as a society) value seeing humans explore space.
Alcohol
Sugar

Words of Arabic origin
i made something like this as a hackathon project years ago, but it's _slightly_ more usable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ1KNP_R76c

https://github.com/shrugs/asdfghjkl
Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers
> Noone’s being discriminated against in this program

Objectively, people are being discriminated against as the program only allows some races and genders. That’s textbook discrimination.

I think what your meaning is that the discrimination is intended positively to increase representation as opposed to other discrimination that is intended negatively due to hatred or exploitation.
I liked this article. I still think my favorite article about riding along with a long haul truck driver is A Fleet of One (2003) by John McPhee.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/02/17/a-fleet-of-one
Some developers are pushing back against violent video games
> The council, no one voted for them to be in the position they are, has more power than the voted for parliament.

Luckily, that's not true.

Parliament has the final say, if a proposal doesn't pass parliament, it gets dropped or returned for 'refinement' into a proposal that does pass parliament.

Article talks about the EU Commission though, not the European Council (not to be confused with the Council of the European Union (not to be confused with the Council of Europe)).

But yeah, too much of an 'old boys network' that works behind closed doors vs. democratically elected representatives when it comes to proposing laws or general direction.

To say nothing of the complexity & inefficiency of EU machinery.
My strategy around this is to make it so that every project I make builds on top of the previous one.

My first project was a WebSocket client/server for developers, second one was a multi-blockchain ecosystem built using the WebSocket server/client, then I made a decentralized exchange to connect the blockchains. My current project is a no-code SaaS platform; it's being built using my WebSocket client/server and blockchain ecosystem as the auth and payment layer. When that fails at monetization, my next project will be to use the SaaS platform I will have made to copy successful existing SaaS platforms in various niches via a cryptocurrency-based subscription model. Then when that fails, my next project will be the lowest risk one, I will use all the stuff I built to offer contract-based development services to individual clients. When that fails, I will try to get into politics or write a book about failure.
“Alto” or “Pare” in Spanish. The Latin “stuppa” is unrelated to either as far as I know.
I would think if the LLM knew it was rookie code, it could actually be pretty useful, no?
I had to do the “do you want to startup a semi in your living room?” example to get people to understand running a generator indoors is a huge mistake.

Just turn on a fan they say. Open a door.

The number of people who would without hesitation start a generator indoors is far too high. It’s against OSHA of course.
And how does that compare to all the bugs on Github?
Self hostable? Open Source?
You don't really have a choice in this market. You take what you can get. And as a college dropout with no experience, you won't be getting a junior role anytime soon, not in-person, not remote. Get a shitjob to help you survive while you work on a one-man software product in your free time, which can also serve as your portfolio. It's going to be a while before you get a junior dev job.
> Is there a similar program that a white male would qualify for?

You can Google "startup communities" and find thousands. Often, a local startup community (like San Diego's istartupsd.org) will help you find your local programs and events. If your startup scene is nascent or non-existent, start with Meetup and/or start your own monthly event for like-minded people.

FWIW, underrepresented attendees can bring a colleague. I see no requirement that the colleague must also be underrepresented.
"Stealing words"

That's a bit harsh. We borrow words (or loan them). We certainly don't steal them - you are welcome to take them back at any time.

My favourite borrow word conundrum is "biftek". That is a loan word from French by quite a few languages (not English) - bifteck. Now, bifteck is derived from "beef steak" (English)

English is a bit odd due to having several different words for an animal and its flesh via the Norse invasion in 1066. Here we have a cow and beef for the flesh. Cow is a Saxon word and beef is a French word. We also have sheep (Saxon) and mutton (French) and a few others (eg chicken and pullet, pig and pork).

So we have biftek -> bifteck -> beef steak. However beef is a French word (boeuf).

I gather that during a siege of Paris by British troops back in the day, the Parisians noticed that the rostbifs, roasted their beef over barbies. The locals usually boiled their beef, which was a heinous crime. My mother in law also managed to remove all flavour from beef, despite using a sanctioned method of cooking.

Thankfully the Parisians noted that frying or roasting beef was the best way to do the job and also invented "medium", "rare" and "blue". The Brits basically charcoaled their beef.

Despite being British, I like my steak blue.
Perfect. Now I finally don't have to click the links
They say at the top that the exploit can install Pegasus, so probably some or all of Pegasus's functionality. That doesn't really narrow it down, but it likely can constantly run in the background, use the sensors, read texts, and send info over the internet at least.
I’d settle for being able to toggle the individual controls (specifically iMessage attachments) instead of full lockdown mode.
UI Context and Rails Variants
Sure, some are funny and witty, but they're still helpful and the user has to rate the game, not just write a comment.

There's the occasional "in joke" comment that usually only makes sense to people who're already past a certain point in the game (or reference a meme known about the game), but they're nowhere close (not even in astronomical terms) to being being the majority review type. Even then, they still have to rate the game.
In Persian it’s “na”. Also the words for Mother, Father, Daughter, Brother and some other primitive concepts are very similar. But it’s not really surprising.
The photos in the article really made me want to watch a documentary about the Alaskan wilderness, especially the tundra during summertime.

Does anyone have any recommendations?
i like the modesty involved
How about:

"Mighty bells hearty maidens ring vibrate nearby chairs."

You can move it slightly closer to see how it starts to line up.

"Mighty bells mighty bells ring ring mighty bells."

Closer...

"Mighty bells mighty bells bell bell mighty bells."
I think attackers would just try to make the system offer to disable security whenever possible then. Anything as easy as clicking an already offered option by the OS itself will be used often enough to negate most of the security benefits of that mode IMO, meaning you deal with it being slower be default and probably not as secure as you think because people will opt out often for convenience, so the worst of both worlds.

As I understand it this was a real problem with earlier versions of Windows where it kept asking for admin privileges all the time for simple things, and people got conditioned to just authorize it. They made a concerted effort to provide APIs that didn't require it for most actions to combat this.
Global superpower gets the dynamics exactly backwards. Another hobbyhorse of mine: Belize could be a major player in these kinds of threats if they wanted to be. At the scale of sovereign states, none of this is real money.
Human lives are more important.
I don't really follow this comments. It's a bit too rambly and circuitous for me to follow, and I gave it a few tries, but I do admit I'm not the best at reading walls of text.

From what I can tell, you're trying to argue that semver is useless while also saying that not following semver means that you don't get any benefits, but that just doesn't seem like a proper argument, so I'm surely misinterpreting.

I think SemVer is a social construct, but that most of the time we can predict what changes will be breaking. We may get it wrong of course, but that doesn't mean we should throw our hands up and not try.
NSO seems more like a business. If Israel wanted to, they could pay NSO to keep their software internal/private, no?

The more devices that get exploited, the more exploits that get closed. That's how you lose your edge against your enemies.

Unless they're so confident in their stream of exploits that it's worth burning a few. Or these nation states are buying the devices to operate these exploits and operating them in their security labs...hrmmmmm...
I think taxi (spelled differently) is in Russian, Greek, and Spanish
It actually does. You can see dependabot listed in the contributors when a project accepts its contributions. I think the legal ramifications of this are significantly unadjudicated as to be concerning. In affect, you’ve made GitHub a contributor to your project so now Github has some ownership possibly and I don’t want anyone being a contributor without signing the CLA for my business critical projects.

I understand if you’re not concerned about this for your own projects, but I feel differently. Hope you can respect that.

To explain why people are voting it: I think it’s kind of a funny situation where you have these two bots and they’re both supposed to be helpful but the bots don’t actually cooperate with each other like the dependabot doesn’t sign the CLA I think it’s quite funny.

I understand if you don’t find funny, no worries! I guess other people appreciate it too. It’s OK if you don’t! The world is the diverse place. Hope you have a good day :)

One difference with your example is the use of the structure of collaboration of open source development.
Another example is plasma donation to make plasma therapies. No country produces sufficient plasma for plasma therapies to meet the needs of their patient population unless they compensate for that donation. The few countries that do compensate are US, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czech Republic.

> The U.S., with only five per cent of the world’s population, provides more than 70 per cent of all the plasma used to make plasma therapies for the whole world.

> If you add plasma obtained from Germany, Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic — the other countries where compensation is offered — compensated plasma accounts for 89 per cent of all the world’s plasma for plasma therapies.

> This is worth emphasizing: There is no country in the world that manages to collect all the plasma needed for plasma therapies using non-compensated plasma collections. Every country in the world that uses plasma therapies depends on compensated plasma collections.

https://theconversation.com/not-compensating-canadian-blood-...
You can do this with LLMStack. We are adding the datasource handlers to pull data from Google docs etc., Slack integration is built in. More info at https://llmstack.ai/docs/apps/integrations/slack. Happy to chat if you have questions.
I really like your idea, one simple feature I would like is just a button or else to simply display a language at random.
And out of curiosity, in which language did you code this site ?
The filters by paradigm are a good idea.
I agree the benchmarks are difficult to find and also sometimes kinda biased, so I think they may be not a good idea to add.

Maybe another feature could be to add a link to google trends.

Anyway, good idea, keep up !
"We" don't though. Plenty of people like telescopes but not meat cans (not least because you can get like twelve telescope for one meat can at the going rate!), and you can't short-circuit that (subjective) debate by just declaring "inspiration". At some point you need to convince people of a value proposition.
Snap of Xi’s finger and they mostly disappear.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/tim-cook-silent-fox-reporter-con...
Oohh, this is exactly why you can't. I just commented similarly, but yours made me realise - this must be an agreement between the companies, Mullvad doesn't want you to fairly easily have all devices on the same tailnet, single exit node using 1/5 keys on Mullvad. Without Tailscale, if you configured them all separately, it'd use as many keys as you had devices.

You can similarly bypass it without Tailscale, the same way you had to do it in Tailscale before this announcement, with everything egressing via a server which is the single Mullvad client. But it makes sense with the built-in solution (with probably better latency etc.) that they wouldn't want that.
Would definitely be a humoros pivot
How about the tools read the flipping patch notes like they're supposed to? IT'S ALL THERE.
> You don't think we need to, or you hope we don't need to?

I'm researching this to have some concrete data, but I doubt I'll have it together soon enough to share in this thread. Will definitely share on HN when this topic comes back around with what I find.

> Look around: all the ideas to replace them right now are wishful thinking.

I don't think this is true at all. Solar is improving at a rapid pace and is already cheaper. We need a large scale rollout, but that's a will issue, not a tech issue. Nuclear is always an option as well. You can see this in many places, here's a graph of solar production in the US, that rise looks amazing!

https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T...
> but not as corrupt as the US

I’m wondering how you determined this?
Grsecurity generally focuses on the kernel side of things, although it does include a number of userspace mitigations as well. Still, when you have such ripe primitives not even Grsecurity can protect you.

What we really need is to just have radically lower bug density. Buffer overflows need to die. UAFs need to be made far less common. The "distance" between vulns needs to be greatly increased. Having design and validation issues sitting smushed between a dozen memory safety issues is just not something you can deal with through software mitigation techniques.

An app like iMessage is just too sensitive (ie: unauthenticated communication with many image parsers) to be built the way that it is. Fundamentally it just can't be safe without core components being rewritten with memory safety in mind. Grsecurity and other mitigations would be an awesome defense in depth and would be particularly helpful to avoid subsequent privescs, but I'm far more concerned with "anyone can text me an image and own me thanks to 1990s style bugs".
I think the only missing keyword of failing/irrelevant businesses is "subscription"
Advert loudness should match the sound levels of the main program.

People yelling at me will immediately cause me to mute the channel. If I happen to be watching time-shifted programs, I will automatically fast-forward through the ads.

So, extra loud adverts will always backfire on the advertiser where I'm concerned. I will find a way to avoid them wherever possible.
illai in Dravidian languages
If you read the lyrics of this song

> https://genius.com/Nina-hagen-band-tv-glotzer-white-punks-on...

you realize that this song is about some lowly educated proll who watches TV all day. By deliberately using quite some colloquial and unsophisticated words and phrasings in the lyrics, the singer/songwriter sends a very clear message how much TV dulled this person's mind.
This is why (so far) it's just PR, not actual legal protection. Brad Smith, being an attorney understands this. Why would he otherwise risk Microsoft (a $2.5T company) with an uncapped liability guarantee?
The problem with the current approach is that it does not specify whether `libfoo-1.2.3[unstable-bar]` is compatible with `libfoo-1.3.4[unstable-bar]`, nor whether the latter is compatible with `libfoo-1.4.5[default]`.

(also I'm not sure under what circumstances recompilation is required)
‘Russian-only’ businesses in Thailand’s Phuket spark backlash
Don’t take middle eastern people not being eligible for the programme as Apple refusing to label them underrepresented.

They choose which underrepresented groups to target based on the resources they have. If Apple didn’t have any non-binary people qualified to provide counselling, then they can’t offer support to them.

Hopefully they source experts externally in the future and expand this offering to more underrepresented groups.
I guess that is why Dagon is a sea god in Phoenician
I'm not exactly an Android expert but... android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES, getRuntime.exec()... these basically are permissions for remote code execution, are they not?

I think this blogpost is hyperbolic in its discussion and that's a bit unhelpful. But this does look like a serious problem on my first glance. I'd like to see what a real Android-developer thinks about these permissions though.
What's new in Emacs 29.1
I discovered lsd because of this thread. It has a great tree output:

lsd --tree
Upgrade everything you need with a commit per upgrade, then if something breaks `git bisect` to find the troublesome package.

And read release notes for everything you upgrade too.
how compromised are you if you are affected? can you read token/cookie data from other apps (like banking)?
Ah I see, thanks. I'm pretty open to 'defector stories might not be as straightforward as reported, never mind self-described'. I think this bit

In the 1980s, Andropov begins running around looking for a pretext to launch a nuclear war.

is at odds with everything we know about Soviet doctrine and intent, both from the period itself and the voluminous info that's come out subsequently. The bar to hang a serious (or even plausibly fictional) theory on this is very, very high. I'm not suggesting you did, of course - you qualified it as 'spitballing and counterfactuals'. But it's a really long spitball, to my mind at least!

Edit: if you happen to speak Russian a recent interview with Soldatov/Borogan covers some of the interesting differences between outward projection and insider culture regarding defections in the Soviet security services.

https://meduza.io/episodes/2023/08/17/kak-ustroena-rossiyska...
NSO Group is just one vendor; there are many more: Variston, Dataflow, Azimuth, Cytrox, …
“If suddenly the demand from smaller customers hits 90 widgets one week.”

Demand and price are linked. If you’re selling 40 units a week at 10$ and demand increase to 90 units @ 10$ that doesn’t force you to sell at 10$, you can spike prices to 50$ and suddenly people aren’t trying to buy 90 units.
>no [...] Non, niet, nein

These are all from the same language family (the indo-european language family), so it's no wonder that there are still noticeable similarities in a word this fundamental even after thousands of years of divergence.

>non-European languages

"European" languages isn't a particularly good category, since europe has a wide range of languages that don't belong to the indo-european language family, such as basque and the uralic languages, of which there are too many to list in europe, but some notable ones include hungarian, finnish, and estonian.

For reference, the word for "no" in finnish is completely different: "ei", but it conjugates similarly to a verb, so it's "en/et/ei/emme/ette/eivät" depending on the person and number. In the very closely related estonian language this system has already eroded away and left only "ei", and in colloquial finnish a similar process is already underway and the "emme/eivät" forms have already disappeared.
How is it possible that Retool login page [1] loads 6.4MB of resources? The app.js [2] alone is 4.0M when loaded on local machine. Is this common?

[1]: https://app.retool.com/auth/login
[2]: https://retool-edge.com/app.cd90db16bade51faa017.js
Keyword is imagine, because with Mojo you do have to write your code in a new language. You cannot use the Python parts if you want speed. That's writing code in a new language.
Sounds like they made the right reflections!
Maybe their AI Cloud for Business product
I'm not sure how far along the Apple II version is, but that's not surprising given its ability to autoboot from a card. As I discuss in the linked thread, FujiNet for the C64 is not and cannot be the equivalent because of lack of SIO or something akin to it.
They won't be good enough for at least a decade, if not significantly more. Too much can go wrong on such roads with such oddly weighted freight.
> > Portable generators are one of the deadliest consumer products on the market, killing about 80 people in the U.S. each year

That doesn't even seem to register compared to that other deadly consumer product, the personal automobile.
Serious Eats says Bialetti, even after all the changes, is still much better than anything on the market.

https://www.seriouseats.com/moka-pot-cheap-espresso-alternat...