skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it will, and all your e-mails and all your personal and company documents. You should think of anything going through Google as "I am giving this to Google to profile me and extract ad targeting information."

I bet they crawl the Google Cloud block and object storage volumes and extract information too, which means that all SaaS hosted at Google is probably mined by Google. That would be my expectation unless the contract contains very specific non-weasel-worded language prohibiting this. Any company that does ads or ad-tech as a significant part of their revenue is guilty of maximal privacy invasion unless proven innocent.
A Publishing Giant's Risky Fight Against Book Bans
Sounds like Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

"I'm not dead yet!"

"It's just a flesh wound!"
Ultimately we need to pick some point. Someone doesn't undergo some transformation upon becoming the age of a legal adult on midnight when becoming of age. Nor does age of consent suddenly confer reasoning capabilities that didn't exist the day prior. Legal definitions don't do well with nuance, we end up having to define thresholds that up close seem ridiculous. Whether it's a certain number of weeks, or upon birth, up close it would always look ridiculous like any other threshold.

In your example 8.5 months vs 9.5 months they may have actually have been conceived quite close to each other as well since gestation time is not actually based on date of conception but date of the last menstruation. So this, as well, is a relatively arbitrary measurement.

It's the reality of having to have universal absolute measures and terms in a world of edge cases and grey areas.

Being a thinking/aware person wouldn't happen suddenly, it would be gradual. Gradual rights would be damn near impossible to codify, so like everything else we have to pick some point that feels reasonable and yet will feel silly and arbitrary at the same time.
This post is peak HN. Why not just get a feature phone? It seems like a better choice for the über paranoid like yourself.
I wish something like this was possible with ffmpeg
(I wasn't trying to make a point.)
As far as I know, that's what the initiatives like PMPC¹ are for.
I think in Switzerland, a law recently passed that seems to go in that direction² (Open Source should by default but some leniency as far as I can interpret the text).
According to this³ OSOR report, something similar happened in Italy in 2019.
So, I think we're slowly going in that direction in Europe.

¹: https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/pmpc/PMPC-Modernising-wi...

²: https://www.admin.ch/gov/fr/accueil/documentation/communique...

³: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/inline-files...
Define "negative."

Include externalities.
Inflation adjustments don’t really work well for projects like this across such different periods. Project Mercury spent $277 million (1965) or 2.6 billion (2022) to get 20 uncrewed developmental flights and 6 crewed orbital launches plus all associated R&D.

Which seems insane by modern standards, Mercury however wasn’t quite that efficient, manpower costs for example have risen faster than inflation. Which makes a huge difference for non automated tasks like building novel spacecraft.

Similarly a barrel of oil in 1969 was $3.09 or 25$ today vs the actual price of 82$ today.
> maths degree

Then you want differential forms for EM, differential geometry more broadly for GR, and a bit of functional analysis for QM.

The hype around geometric algebras (Clifford algebras over R) just comes from the fact that it's not the plug'n'chug explicit numbers and coordinates approach, which is all most people ever see. They do not do a good job of tracking the physical structure of electromagnetism, and in fact end up baking in a lot of assumptions about the setting that fail to generalize.
Probably didn't get a permit to build a mcmansion extension or something.
Well, I interpreted your question 'How do you define "minimum safety, correctness and quality standard"?' as to be about the process, not about the outcome.

I actually have not invested much thought into what the outcome should/would be as I think it's unlikely to happen anyway. So why invest time? But maybe ask the author of the original comment?
> I have the same feeling about how the word 'literally' is now defined as 'figuratively' in some dictionaries. Makes me want to tear my hair out... but the people have spoken.

Usage of "literally" to mean "figuratively" dates back hundreds of years, with citations by top English writers. If you believed that "literally" meaning "figuratively" was a recent change, you were mistaken.
Yeah so in your example:

"Disable all extensions" = OFF.

Does this mean all extensions are currently on, or off? Does toggling the switch to on /enable/ the disable-all-extensions subroutine?

A switch brings in a bunch of double negatives that can be avoided in most cases.

Hella confusing!
The idea is that you can copy-paste the C code into an existing program or at least use it as a reference to know exactly which libcurl API calls are needed to replicate the curl call.
For distros the best one is the most thoroughly tested and debugged. That definitely used to be Ubuntu back in its glory days. I'm not sure who it is any more - perhaps fedora.
> I cannot think how starting from already hot water vs. letting the water warm up and boil from the stove, could make any noticeable difference.

The idea is just that the beans don't get cooked as much by the heat ahead of the brew phase. For me it's made a big difference.
And that's not what a "minimum length" in this case means. We're not talking about space having a minimum unit. We're talking, at best, about (presumably massive) objects having a minimum extension in space .

Even with a "minimum length" (in this specific sense), you have an object at position p, and can (move/observe) it at any p+dx continuously.

importantly, the question is whether the best theories of physics in a world with a minimum extension-in-space require continuous mathematics, and there's nothing about this plank length to suggest they wouldnt
I did wonder about that... it would have been pretty clever.
> pretty bad about reconnecting to the cell network when emerging from the NYC subway

Unrelated to your overall to point, but maybe this helps a fellow reader.

Most stations have cell signal now, you just need to toggle airplane mode once you are fully out of the tunnel.
1. Forbes is a terrible news source.
2. If you're a Gmail user, Google also reads your emails, do this isn't new ground being covered.
You are a rare breed... Someone who values a utilty product for it's utilty.
Ooooh... they finally found that hanging AMD GPU bug ?

I have to admit, AMD GPU hangs have been very rare lately, to a point, I wonder if that was not definitely found and fixed (navi10 XLE) (I am using AMD dev kernel though, and I play dota2).

Regarding that stuff, Linus T. is the focal point of so much, I guess this is very hard to keep things polite and not passive-aggressive, and to "vent out privately" (I do that, and yes, I feel better afterwards).
> “a parliament of owls” draws on ancient Greek mythology, in which an owl accompanies Athena — the goddess of wisdom and reason, representing freedom and democracy across the Western world.

This is rich, given that Athenians never had a proper Parliament. The Ecclesia was not a representative body. Just goes to show how silly this whole concept really is.
Yes, it has always been possible with libcurl but you had to write the boilerplate code yourself.
> That was true in the 90’s when you’d post a whole page

I'd say that to the extent that is true, it was equally true for radio buttons in the 90s.

These days I find myself scrolling around pages to look for submit/save/apply buttons to determine whether checkboxes and radio buttons are intended to have immediate effects or have to be submitted to be applied, because there really seems to be a lack of consensus on what these elements mean in those terms.
Google really are the absolute monsters in this world.

Great, so now we won’t even be able to have a choice around having our private messages off their AI surveillance machine for the Five Eyes… because just the mere sending a message to someone who has an Android could be doing this.

Buckle up folks, one day the Trump Junta or their descendants will be using Google’s SurveilAI tech to come for all you true Trump haters (incl me!)
Useful idea
... or guide them on atomic bombs tech.
Kotlin Multiplatform.
"It" here refers to Jaxa, not the lander.
So many edits. Tell us what your car is then? You keep picking different cars.

Model x 5400lbs, BMW x5 4800lbs. 12%
> an automobile-sized nuclear-powered drone over the organic-rich sands on Titan

Wow! Can’t wait for Dragonfly!
I clicked "New Challenge" and it just said "China The Forbidden City". Instructions unclear
It didn’t die. It’s just trans.
It's a practical simplification, not a misconception.

It's the same argument as "Einstein corrected the misconception that Newtonian mechanics is how bodies interact, and it's irritating how rote mechanical engineering of a car is."
The UNRWA sees funding from several nation states currently on hold because it's been established several members of the UNRWA did personally participate in the Oct 7th attack. That is serious.

Freezing funding to a UN agency is not something that's done lightly: it's done for a reason. And the reason is there are people at UNRWA with a deadly political agenda.

Have you seen the school books that children get in Gaza? They're basically comics, for kids, but with gentle palestinians holding AK47 killing evil jews. This was exposed years and years ago.

That's what all these non-governmental organizations are funding in Gaza. Instead of developing Gaza, the money is spent on a war machine, meant to herald death.

If someone decides to donate to UNRWA now that person basically says: "I want my money to be used to build tunnels beneath schools and hospitals so that terrorists who swore to kill all the jews of Israel can hide there. And print more of these cute children books btw!".

People have seen bank accounts frozen for less than that: for example truckers and the people donating to the truckers when they went on strike.

Now I don't think that freezing people's account is justified.

Let people donate if that's how evil their mind is. But point out that they're donating to terrorists, likely because they're anti-semitic, while hiding behind the excuse that it's for "humanitarian" reasons.

I know what people donating to UNRWA now, right after it's been exposed the agency was infiltrated by terrorists, are made of.
Just a guess .. but I get the feeling the 'law' is more to get this in the mind of the parents.

It gives parents tools and guidelines that can help them direct their children.

Whether this is a good approach or not, is a whole other argument.
> But if companies are held liable if customer data was leaked as a result of best practices not being followed, well, I imagine the situation would improve quite quickly.

One might argue that GDPR does exactly this, it holds companies financially liable for data leaks. Would you say it has improved the situation?
Are protons the only reference object? Am I missing the comedy point of this?
I use the browser equivalent of this all the time to generate javascript code for requests. It’s very cool to see this for C and hopefully other languages, too.
I am seeing 404s for YouTube’s RSS feeds. I hope this is a temporary bug.
Actually, now that I skimmed it through, it surely is implicitly there, and these design people surely have some good, visionary ideas (on paper, at least; the explicit connection to technology is still quite so-and-so).
>is that how the coloured buttons were usually arranged?

I think it depends on the system in use, but from my recollection it was a hierachical system - so from the home-page you may have links to News, Sport, Weather and TV Listings; from the News Page, the links may have been to National News, Regional News, etc.

Maybe when you got to an individual story one would be a link to 'next page' (or story) and the other 'previous page'?

One of the best uses I found was a low-fi daily quiz. Each page had a question and four answers, and you pushed the button for which you thought was correct. I think it also demonstrated that pages need not have a completely numeric id - I recall the quiz pages being something like '12;' - presumably to stop you cheating and jumping directly to an answer.

For more info on the quiz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboozle!
Yes phase information is really important. Try this:

1. Fourier Transform an Image
2. Set all magnitues the the spectrum to 1.0, but do not change the phase
3. Inverse Transform and look at the result
4. Now try the same, but this time keep the maginutes unchanged but change all phases to 0°

Spoiler: When changing all amplitudes the image is still regocognizable, when changing all phases, it is not. See example: [1]

But in what sense are you saying the Nyquist-Shannon theorem is incorrect (when applied)? It only says something about the most general case of perfectly reconstructing a signal.

For getting an playful and intuitive understanding of time/frequency transformations my fourier-cube visualization might be useful [2]

[1]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/phase.png
[2]: https://static.laszlokorte.de/frft-cube/
So exactly what do they mean when they say that conversations are encrypted?

Or do they not say that, and just falsely imply it?

I can't get through the fog to see exactly what they claim.
We desperately need a way for the people you communicate with to be able to OPT IN (not out, out should be default) of companies looking at your communications.

As an iPhone user who has removed Google as much as possible out of my life, I have basically zero control over what happens with my messages when I send it to people on Android. Same with email, my contact information (particularly if they just allow any app to get their contacts), etc.

Put simply we are beyond the point that just because information is on your phone that it means all of it is "your" information and you alone can consent to it.

Particularly if it's sensitive texts, photos, whatever. But it shouldn't matter how sensitive it is.
Any amount of harvesting increases losses.
You’re right. I was referring to the more obviously made-up and never used ones.
There are several companies employing devs for this kind of free software work.

If you think you could contribute you can apply for them.

I guess you will probably find there are already brilliant and competent people working on this stuff and the problem is not so easy as you believe.
Ask HN: When it comes to micro app themes, which do you prefer?
Hey HN community, when it comes to micro app themes, what's your go-to preference? Are you all about that sleek sophistication with a Dark Theme, or do you prefer the fresh clarity of a Light Theme?

If you find both themes okay, how do you implement it? Is it provided by the internal tool builder or do you set it up with hand code?
You clearly haven’t owned or driven one. Most have a configurable setting for regenerative braking, where the rotation of the wheels turns the motors to put energy back into the battery, and this has a very similar effect on speed. Less flexible, perhaps, than engine braking, as most EVs have a single forward gear, but I’ve now driven 86,000 miles in mine and am still on the factory discs and pads.
First time I read that I assumed they meant they asked the Bard organisation in Google, but no it seems they expect Bard to be up to date with Googles policies.
Seriously!!
First, you can: many electrics have a regenerative braking mode that you can engage that will provide some amount of "engine braking"-equivalent slowing down. And on some of them you can select how much slowing is applied. It's very similar to manually selecting a gear.

Second, huh? How does engine braking reduce tire wear at the same speeds? Brakes do not contact the tire. It reduces brake wear...

Gentle braking reduces tire wear but that's possible with either mode.
I'd say in a residential setting our switches make a lot of sense.

The light up variety are mostly to aid turning on the lights in the dark and aren't usually the default. It's nice being able to see the switch when entering a dark room.In a residential setting it's a bit more rare to have a switch control a light you're not either immediately seeing or are often imminently going to see, like a closet or looking out a window next to the switch. It's not like you're often turning on and off lights across the house, so having it light up when the room lights up is rather redundant instead of offering that dark time help. Finally, having an on light would be really redundant since you can usually easily see the switch is physically pointing up or down and they sometimes even say ON or OFF.

As for up being on and down being off, it's about being easier to toggle to the safer state. It's more likely for off to be a safer state (think changing a bulb, having it connected to a garbage disposal, etc.). It's generally easier to flip the switch down than flipping it up, so it's easier to toggle to the safe state rather than the unsafe.
Conditional Approval for Human Drugs
The compiler has been thinking about the answer for a few decades ...
Caltech is too obscure.
Stanford starts gaining provenance with Silicon Valley Internet tech bros I believe.

P.S. I believe MIT has strong prominence in Asia is mainly due to its proximity to Harvard.
> optical observations of the surrounding environment

turn cam on. take pictures of rocks.
I got the impression from above, that this is something possible now, yet I have never seen such a capability. And I thing the effort will be way greater the reward to implement from scratch ..

("Easy" assumed, there is already something there)
Thx, English is not my first language.

Also I feel like it's actually getting worse, sometimes I am wondering if this is a covid side-effect thing.
I confirm. Now I see 404s now.
One convenient thing in browser web developer tools is the ability to copy requests from network tab as either curl commands or even as javascript code. I love to see more this sort of things!
Game engines can afford to be generations ahead : they might even be targeting specific hardware (single console release), they typically assume a sandboxed environment that they are in total control of (at best, they'll make a limited and tightly controlled GUI framework for modders), they might have restricted themselves to a limited number of inputs/outputs (single screen with a specific resolution, gamepad only), they don't have to worry about unknown unknown uses by other developers...

None of these apply to a generalist renderer, therefore it can only "lag behind" the game ones. (Unless maybe if we're talking about the "human side of the question" : what are the best designs, layouts for a generalist human/machine interface ? Here it's the generalist GUIs that I would expect to be a couple of generations ahead (Xerox' labs, Apple's Macintosh, IBM's Common User Access standard, CERN's World Wide Web...)
Well, the checkmark itself is pretty angular and hard to look at. I think we should take a page out of East Asian visual language and adopt the circle as the "yes" mark. That is, radio buttons and check boxes should look like this:

( ) Radio button off
(·) Radio button on
( ) Checkbox off
(O) Checkbox on
But that's completely backwards from a normal rocker switch!
In an enthusiastic tone of an AI enthusiast: Thankfully, now that we have ChatGPT, this feature is obsolete and the curl executable doesn't have to contain half-baked quines in it anymore!
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Song_and_Dance_Festiva...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Song_Festival
Well done, I would add an option to view the available dates in a calendar format too, with checkmarks on days where all the partecipants are available (otherwise if people select too many days of a month it becomes a huge list)
I also absolutely hate switches in almost all contexts. In some applications it can make sense, like the UI that controls your WiFi or something.

The reason why a light switch is so effective is because we can see an immediate response/impact on our action, the direction that the toggle points in is actually irrelevant, because either the lights are on or off, and toggling the switch changes that state, and I can verify with my eyes. Usually it's safe to toggle the switch back and forth until the desired state is achieved.

In software that's not always possible, and often changing the state has destructive results. So you can't experiment.

And then you get the abominations that bring in double negatives, and things that use switches to control something more complex than a simple boolean state.

"Disable the nuclear missile warning test = ON/OFF" - like what the hell does this even mean, and how can the user be expected to understand what the right option is without trying first.
In my opinion, Forbes is not a reliable source. Additionally, every email and document sent through Google essentially grants them permission to extract ad-targeting information. Furthermore, data stored on Google Cloud and SaaS hosted at These days, No document is safe and private on internet.
This is the version I've always heard.
Where are you redirecting us?

"The code you entered has already been redeemed on a different account. Learn more."
It would be interesting if a later report talked
about attempting to grow them again.
Nothing that you said is a real criticism of X in general though, just its client/server model.
Sure canvas can render text, but its filled with problems and limitations. It doesn’t do linewrapping or any of the font rendering correctly. Doesn’t do aliasing correctly. It needs so much hand holding and manual handling to render semi decent that basically all canvas apps just opt out and use html to render text on top of canvas.

Canvas is almost always the wrong choice if you want to do layouts.
Um, they do. Have you been in any of the Rust threads?
The recent "The things nobody wants to pay for in open source (lwn.net)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39151000

comes to mind...
Okay, let's think this through.

- a large area is necessary

- the machinery is going to be extremely expensive

- it's still going to be a subpar experience as the virtual area will never be fully represented unless you remove vegetation, cliffs etc

- it needs to be supported by the software (which nobody will, because there is no market for it)

If you now make a venn diagram that represents all people potentially interested in this, you end up at pretty much 0.

Thus, it doesn't work.
Apparently you have never founded a startup bub.
Wow. $20k seems like a paltry sum to end a friendship over.
I have to admit I've never experienced this. When I check the "all" checkbox it goes and checks all the other checkboxen for me. Maybe I've only interacted with "nice" unsubscribe pages.
This kind of thing was one of the reasons Visual Basic macros for Microsoft Office was so successful. You can perform actions in Word, Excel, watch the macros they produce then customise themselves to your needs afterwards in code. It is a simple and powerful concept, so good to see it in curl.
Of course that's only a good thing if you're buying new. You can get a great deal on used thinkpads that have been treated very well and are in very good condition, as large organizations buy them and then they end up as cheap surplus.
related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_song_festivals