skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a lot of people like to use the Florida insurance crisis (which is real) to push their particular issue but the truth here is more complex than "climate change".

First, you cannot talk about this issue without talking about the 2017 Florida State Supreme Court case Joyce v. National Federated [1]. Basically, this made it much easier for policyholder plaintiffs to recover costs in insurance litigation, sometimes punitively so. If a court deems a case to have been likely to succeed from the outset, it can award up to 2.5 lodestar costs for attorney fees.

This is well-intentioned. It should encourage insurers to settle rather than go to court but it had the opposite effect because of how rife Flroida is for roofing scams and insurance fraud [2]. Basically, dodgy companies would offer to inspect your roof, find a fault and then file a claim to replace the roof. Nothing was really done to curb this fraud and, because of Joyce, it was unprofitable to fight these cases.

This compounds to Florida accounting for 76% of homeowner's insurance lawsuits but only boasts 9% of claims [3].

Third, the current Florida government has shown no interest in actually tackling this problem. One bill in recent years simply gave insurers $1 billion [4] for really nothing in return.

Fourth, a lot of issues are mistakenly attributed to climate change. Take the coastal erosion in Cape Cod [5]. People like to say "climate change" (to be clear, I 100% believe in man-made climate change) but really it's just a longstanding trend of coastal erosion that probably has almost nothing to do with climate change.

[1]: https://www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com/blog/court-reaf...

[2]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/roofing-scams-florida-p...

[3]: https://www.roofingcontractor.com/articles/97786-what-you-sh...

[4]: https://floridaphoenix.com/2022/12/16/desantis-signs-billion...

[5]: https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/cape-cod-h...
If you want to be pedantic, in legal terms, no, the NFL is a big money org ($13B+/yr in revenue, with a commissioner earning $65M/yr).

They pay dividends to the teams, however, yes. But all that revenue (which is distinct from team revenue) is actually legally earned by the NFL itself.
always thought it was weird how all the SpaceX StarShield/Mars Program employees joined Castelion https://castelion.com/team

Makes sense now
SpaceX has been launching direct-to-cell satellites for a bit now (a couple per Starlink batch), IIRC they said they need to get to ~300 such satellites to provide consistent service in at least some places. Although, again, worth emphasizing that 'large scale' in this case is still just to provide emergency coverage in places with no other coverage.
Sure, if they put the same requirements to pay on everyone. But specifically targeting one major competitor to the for profit company that is controlled by the same person who controls the nonprofit?

That gets into a pretty.sticky situation real quick.
if a sub sinks in port, they recover the core. But I think it's more likely you're just trolling.
Why? Retroactive changes to tax law have been ruled constitutional. And besides - ownership always had a meaning. Selling things for purchase and then treating it as a limited license is fraud. Even under existing law.
I like how ML training is the worst thing you can think of and not stealing your identity and bank account information and all your money or seeing nudes or something actually damaging that normal people care about.
Very interesting. These are the technical details I could infer from the paper

1. Collected data by flying aircraft over the area. Used a land classification mask to restrict the are to ~ 600 sq km

2. Make image patches of 11m by 11m. I believe there is some overlap in the patches. Sharpen the images for contrast.

3. The training data comes from previously known glyphs. Positive label patches are ones with a glyph. Negative label
patches are randomly sampled from the vicinity of the glyph.

4. It looks like they fine tuned resnet 50 with these labels

5. Ran inference on other patches. They had false positives

6. Manually verified these AI predicted glyphs by ground surveys

I couldn't figure out how they drew the outlines in the pictures. I guess it was manually done
Real experts can provide good explanations that can be independently verified by oneself and by a large community.
What is the overlap of people who are reading a blogpost about Cloudflare standards and people who need a metaphor to understand what compression is? You have 7 paragraphs of highly technical information then just in case, you need to explain how compression works? Just tell your reader you think they're a moron and save yourself the keystrokes.
So this is a plan, and one of the questions is: how realistic it is? That is, do we have some good enough precedents in history when something like this was done and results were something like what here's declared? The author mentions some examples, more would be better.

"Something done" means that we want all parts of the plan being executable, with some reasonable results, which would allow following the plan further. Plans usually don't survive the collision with the reality - especially if we're talking about conquering an adversary - but the planning process at least is still important.

In principle the sketch is clear. What about the details? How, for example, we'd start, precisely?
MSFS 2020 takes up hundreds of gigabytes and takes many hours to install, so this is likely to be an improvement.
It continues to be an absolute travesty that Governor Kathy Hochul is pointlessly blocking NYC from reaping the same benefits...
So if those pieces of information are redacted then the document can be freely shared on X? This seems simple enough to test.
Thank you! Everything I'd hoped.
> You need a language that is small yet still complete. Even today, the only languages that really fit that bill are Scheme/Lisp, Tcl, and Forth.

Lua?

It's used in (and used for?) a lot of embedding:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)
That's 25 MHz if you're doing everything serially, but you could probably do it with a 11 or 12 bit parallel bus. There are ADCs on the market that have parallel rather than serial interfaces. The only reason I'm suggesting this is because 25ksps is a rate that's low enough that the headaches of using a parallel bus are minimal.

Deskewing isn't all that hard to do, and there are plenty of designs you can steal ideas from. FPGAs generally have FIFOs in the SERDES that are used to deskew multilane protocols like PCIe or 40/100Gbps ethernet (in QSFPs). You bit/byte slip during training until things sync up, then throw an error and retrain if sync bits don't match what's expected (to keep the check in the fast path cheap). That should work in software as well, but it could very well be challenging at 25MHz. Those are but a couple of the reasons serializers / deserializers are giant complicated bits of intellectual property found on virtually every chip these days.
Wow. The things people will do to avoid learning cron syntax
Google Earth desktop basically gives you that with even better Earth model. Last I checked you could enable a super simple airplane mode that even worked with joysticks. It always felt like future to me :)
Desperately hoping they include the Fox & Hounds multiplayer mode, which is some of the best fun I've ever had with a LAN game.

My colleagues at The Digital Village (we made Starship Titanic) spend so much time on that one mode, we mentioned Stainless in the ST credits.
I'm selling xCopilotAI.com (Not launched)
> All OpenAI is doing here is decoupling ownership of the for-profit

All? As far as I know this is unprecedented.
Pretty much all open source projects on GitHub rely on section D.6 of GitHub TOS (when you submit PR, it's licensed under project license and you have a right to do so).

TOS are not just fluff and paper, but legally binding. Granted, when there is a conflict between two conflicting requirements, it's never clear cut, but it's not just "GitHub will be mad."
I hate I know all of them...

> Backslash line splicing

One reason a trigraph was gone is that `??/`, a trigraph spelling for `\`, also acted like `\` in this context.

> Using `&&` and `||` as conditionals

Not only this is uncommon, but chaining them is not always correct because `a && b || c` doesn't equal to `a ? b : c` when `b` evaluates to false.

> Compile time assumption checking using `enum`s

Please use `static_assert` already.

> Matching character classes with `sscanf()`

This can be combined with `*` to ignore certain characters. For example `%*[ \t]` will skip all horizontal whitespaces, unlike a plain whitespace which will also skip newlines.

> Detecting constant expressions

This ultimately comes from C's weird way to say a null pointer, which is defined as any constant expression which type is inferred to be pointer. So a non-constant expression can be distinguished by multiplying it with a known zero constant.
For future reference, it's posit, not deposit.
It's Neil Stephenson's snowcrash come to life :-)
VS Code is a product of Microsoft Corp, not a nonorofit foundation. Wordpress.org is a nonprofit foundation, and as a nonprofit, there are rules they have to follow that for profit organizations don't have to.
It feels like a situation where we just need laws to make it illegal to do a data grab like this and apps in country's without those laws should get the scrutiny.

I think a random phone app WOULD do that because there are no repercussions for doing so. Facebook, LinkedIn, and then late comers ruined the phone ecosystem by doing all the shady things they did when you wanted to do one simple useful thing. I should be able to grant contact information to an app so that it can connect me with my friends on the service. I should not have to worry about all of my contact information being harvested for spam and sold to anyone the company thinks they can make a buck from.

But I also can't imagine using a program on my computer that was prevented from having full access to my file system if I wanted it to have it. MacOS slowly killing the system is making me considering switching to a different OS for the first time in over a decade
Sounds like an empty dodge.
Picture is unimportant, its about teletext, DVD recorder wont transfer that
If DeSantis doesn't believe science about climate change maybe he believes money.
Crazy how Trump pitching to revive Star Wars, Musk stating the obvious fact that it'd take much longer to get a nuke to Mars is all it takes for you supposedly smart people to devolve into Jewish Space Lasers tier conspiracy theories. Although maybe that's to be expected from people assigning any credibility to a post of someone calling this a Project 2025 thing based on leading conversations with an LLM.

How is that evidence that Starshield is supposed to be a space-based ICBM interceptor network?
> if you don't meet buildout deadlines and cover x% of pops within a specific time period, you forfeit the license

The issue you have to surmount is this reduces the value of the licenses in the short run. Which means less cash for the seller (the public) now versus a recurring productive asset.

The useless response is to decry hyperbolic discounting. A productive response would think through how to design the auction such that the public would prefer to have the productive, recurring stream of revenue versus some shiny thing today.
The US is thankfully positioned in the world where it's pretty geographically isolated compared to let's say for example EU countries. I agree, I don't think a large scale ground invasion could ever be a possibility as they would be detected and get rekt way before even reaching anywhere near the US.
>I call it Lisp for humans.

Except for upvar.
I'm a little confused why this is even an issue. Persistent queues have been an option since the days of Windows 9x.

Maybe it's a Gnome problem. KDE let's me see what I had previously printed if I want to see it, or reprint something.

I also know many people in pre-press who make good use of that.
The issue at hand seems to be WP Engine using Automattic-sponsored infrastructure for their own for-profit services, not modifications to free software.
Space is still a relative unknown, so overbuilding and conservative estimates are far preferred to aggressive cost-cutting and thin margins. You see the same thing with other technologies like cars and appliances -- early versions were mostly very overbuilt.
Slip
Parent means that your desktop OS is not sandboxed and your editor has permissions to read any file you have access to, including mounted Cloud Drives, as well as showing a custom file explorer (which both Vim and VSCode do, btw) and does not require special scoping on a file-by-file basis to happen in some OS controlled, confusing back-and-forth dance.

The security model on mobile, despite being gate kept and sandboxed to an extreme, still has massive giant glaring problems with malware, phishing and tracking (although that’s more of a feature). To double down on this strategy, by whitelisting, reviewing, authorizing, auditing, and blessing entitlements in holy corporate water – shows an amusing incongruence in contrast with say Linux which by almost every metric is more secure despite none of that, and to a lesser extent, macOS and Windows.
Peter Zeihan too talks about how USA is perfectly suited to have transport boats on its waterways but because of the Jones Act and lack of US shipbuilding we have to use trucks and rail which not only are clogging our roads but are much more expensive as well.
Perhaps, but we must all play the cards we are dealt.
I think another problem exposed by %n was that you can't easily compose format strings. Sure, `printf(str)` where `str` is a user input would be easy to detect and can be automatically turned into `printf("%s", str)` with some macro hack, but `printf(fmt, ...)` where `fmt` is composed from multiple partial format strings would be harder to reason.
This mirrors my experience with Android, ported a game, jumped through all the regulatory hoops, got in on the app store, then endless bureaucratic nonsense to keep it there.
Looks like those are just headings, not product names.
Maybe it's a new level of accessibility to data that's afforded by AI?
> can be temporarily reclaimed for exclusive in case of a ground invasion on the continental United States

This is a silly line to draw. In an existential conflict, the military gets what it wants. Commandeering spectrum would be a basic part of war powers; we’ve done it before and would do it again for stakes much lower than an invasion of the homeland [1].

So the practical value of such a proposal is in messaging. Given the threshold wouldn’t have covered the attacks on Pearl Harbor, 9/11 or even a nuclear first strike, the only thing messaged is unreasonableness.

Put another way, were I a lobbyist for the military to the Congress, I would want someone to propose this language. Because it lets one brand, with a laugh, the entire effort as being as ridiculous as the caveat.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-confiscated-half-b...
Honestly, this is why firewalls exist. This really isn't problem for anyone with basic computer hygiene.
Maybe some may fall into the IOT/Embedded category. Wouldn't be very surprise if i.e. a cheap wifi camera have cups installed just because and jumps out in this scan.
Maybe other manufacturers are also this bad, but I know Kia is this bad. I’m never buying a Kia.

But wait, they patched this! Yeah, but they also shipped it.
> SpaceX ICBM interceptor stuff used to be whispered, but now it looks like it's openly advertised

The GOP wants an interceptor. Musk probably agrees with that. It foes not follow SpaceX is developing an interceptor. (None of their current kit is interceptor stuff.)
As of v1.19 and Android 12, yes. That's not a nag regardless.
Open source projects on GitHub rely on D6 section of GitHub TOS. That is the part where a user declares that when s/he makes a contribution to a project, s/he does so under repository license. Also that you have right to do so (e.g. when you are on employer clock, your employer must agree).

It's not just a duty of copier to ensure they are granted a license. Legal stuff is never clear cut, but if someone agreed to TOS, it should be generally (that's a funny word that can mean anything) safe to assume that s/he does abide by it.

In this case, there is an obvious conflict and when there are two conflicting clasuses... that's fun for laywers.
Many do these days, actually.
A similar quote, paraphrased, is "Every one dies twice. The first time is when they stop breathing, and the second is when their name is spoken for the last time".
NTSB issues urgent safety alert after Boeing 737 rudder failure
I'm OK with the risks in exchange for the convenience :)
> probably didn't imagine Stripe would be the one today

I guess being michael jordan of listening does't help with imagination
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kafkatrap#Noun

>A sophistical rhetorical device in which any denial by an accused person serves as evidence of guilt.
Or you just put the burden on the developer who has a very high interest in jumping through hoops since money is on the other end.
ElI5: what is the problem then? Why would I want to give a random app access to all of my files on Google Drive?
Just turn every single IOCCC winning entry into a video, you now have a year's supply of contents.
>I think the first generation struggles the most, but their children, who are raised - if not born - in the country face less issues, and things then improve from one generation to the other.

>Granted, for generations there will be a difference between their standard of living and the one from their non-immigrant counterparts on average, but that gradual reduction might be enough to avoid reaching the tipping point.

This is the conventional wisdom about immigration in the US, because that's what the historical record says, but you shouldn't accept this as a given. The historical record shows that immigrant groups assimilated well into America ~150-~50 years ago, but those were also times when the American economy was expanding at a huge rate. So of course there was lots of room for newcomers to fit into that economy and help build it, at a time when everyone's standard of living was constantly rising. This is no longer true: America is being vastly outcompeted by other economies, namely China's, and American society seems to be going downhill in general, a process that seems to me to have started (at least most visibly) in the early 2000s.
I think you’ll find quite a few people have access to vacation lodging, but they don’t talk about it for one reason or another.
The story is told basically in every single course on computer vision around the beginning.
I venture that, if you counted calories, you could eat, like, hamburger patties, with onions and some french fries (no bun), and supplement with a multivitamin, and be mostly ok. Fat/grease isn't completely awful, so long as you actually include it in your count, and stick to under 2,000 kcal/day. You'll just find that relatively small volumes of food are required.

Potatoes you don't want to go overboard on, but as carbs go they're among the better ones -- better than bread -- because their glycemic index is lower. And with the skins on they have nontrivial vitamin/mineral content.

If you did a little more cooking at home, particularly with beans (not in sugary ketchup, just beans with butter and spices -- salt, pepper, cumin, say), then you'd be a bit better, on account of the fiber. Add frozen or, failing that, canned vegetables, and you're almost actually good.

Often you can find canned chilli that's nutritionally pretty good; just make sure it doesn't have sugar; they put sugar in too much stuff.

Getting more of your calories from nuts is also a good option. Surely you can get a jar of peanuts? A large handful is 300 kcal. A couple of those spaced over the day can fuel you quite well with a slow burn.

The car-deprndrnce of the country is an issue; you probably would not naturally walk far enough. If there's some way to schedule in about two miles a day -- walk to the gas station for a black coffee? -- then that'd help to maintain some minimal baseline levels of activity.

Stick to the calorie count and maintain some (frankly modest) level of light exercise and you can maintain your health in a fairly wide range of circumstances.

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I get what you mean though. There's a real class difference. You go to higher class places and there are plenty of salad places around. You go to low class places and there's fast food junk. The latter isn't even much cheaper. It's enough to make you start wondering if people are in the classes they are because of the standards they have. That's not a comfortable thought, but, when you look at how all the bankers seem to also have good gym routines, you really do start to wonder.

...

You don't need to do anything superhuman though. You don't need to even summon the willpower to hit the elliptical machine every day. If you just think about what you're eating, count calories, reduce sugar and fast carbs, and walk a bit, you'll do pretty well.
Who are we kidding, they're all doing it. I'd be willing to bet 80% at least of proprietary distributed binaries contain FOSS software and are in violation of licenses.
Why do you ask that question as if that is the obviously most important factor?

My history is read much more than it is checked out. And definitely much more than it is stress-tested by some CI. Readability matters more.

I’m having a hard time imagining all the supposed “commit for coffee break” committers who also are die-hard bisect users that go nuts when someone doesn’t run the whole CI on every commit.[1]

And if you don’t have that many commits to check because you “squash merge”: `git bisect start --first-parent` gives you exactly the same result.
Cups needs permissions for Foomatic and some printing filters.
How did you discover that blog? If not seen the vim article first, how did you came to it later?
If they're not infringing on free software licenses I don't see why this would impact that decision.
What people say is one thing but one should draw conclusions instead from what they do. Too often the GPL is used to enforce a two-tier system in which everyone is free but some are more free than others. The original creators of a work retain proprietary and commercial relicensing rights while everyone else gets serfdom.
For the record, plugging into a PC and running a few ADB commands allowed me to disable every Google App (including system apps) on my KeyOne - even the ones that had "Disable" greyed out in the UI.

Start here [0], though I typically verify the device has ADB enabled (under developer options), is allowed to connect via ADB ("Trust this PC" when connecting/running the first ADB command), and recognized (adb devices). Then drop into the shell (adb shell) to issue the removal commands (pm disable $package), and search for more apps I don't want (pm list packages|grep google)

Drop me a line if you're after more specifics for the walkthrough, I'm always happy to help others get further from Google. Otherwise, note that this is only ever disabling apps - you're able to re-enable them, or a factory reset will bring them back as well. Nothing you're doing can even soft-brick your phone.

[0] https://www.xda-developers.com/disable-system-app-bloatware-...