jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I bought a few UV-C lamps for this very purpose. I'm sorry I can't find the research I found, but it said that UVC does indeed work, but lowers the efficacy such that it's not worth it more than 5 times (although, I think'd rather re-use a UVC N-95 mask than make one out of paper towels or a home sewn one).

The same research said isopropyl alcohol was a terrible idea as it kills the electrostatic nature of the filter. It said a light bleach solution worked best and could be re-used indefinitely.

A DIFFERENT study showed that soaking in a saltwater solution (NaCl) and letting it dry was extremely effective. As droplets hit the micro salt crystals the a very small solution forms, then recrystalizes as it dries. The crystalization essentially rips the virus apart.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mask-coated-in-salt-neutrali...

There are some anti-viral masks that use citric acid, AFAICT for the same reason. bulk Citric acid can be bought in the canning aisle at any grocery store as it is needed to make jams. Although I imagine salt is even easier to find

http://ryanpharmacy.com/curad-antiviral-face-mask/
I wear glasses, having stopped wearing contacts for the same reasons you give, but have recently been considering an implantable contact lens (e.g. visian). They sound good but don't seem to have made the headway in the market that lasik has which gives me some pause, but this might have more to do with doctors having made early investments in lasik before icl were approved. Anyway, I'm not in any hurry as day to day glasses work fine for me.
There was a Vice podcast episode with the founders of Upworthy. It's not exactly an in-depth investigation, but interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMbn4awPF1o
Messages, communication, aren't they same thing, no? I don't agree with Alan Kay on this point; or perhaps I don't understand it correctly (it is just one sentence, he never really elaborates on it anywhere as far as I can find, the best I have found is [1]).

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlanKayOnMessaging
The argument for Basic Income was a Hacker News thread a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8184265
> You can hail a taxi by hand, and pay with cash, and no one will have your information in a database that can be used against you later.

No you can't. Plenty of taxis record the backseats of their cars, and you have no way of knowing which do/don't.

Taxis don't offer you enough privacy over Uber, and the reason he's coming after Uber is because he wants to stay relevant, not because Uber is particularly bad.
My android device already does a weird animation of a CRT blinking out when I turn off the screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zFwpb_LDHQ
Thanks!

Might I ask if there are others here who routinely read or search through old texts for interesting finds? I generally prefer this time frame (ie, the late 1800s/early 1900s), and mainly periodicals, but I have yet to dive into anything older or different.
Have you tested the same video Incognito?
The security concern (for the drone and the contents) is a bit overblown to me. What about all those ATM bank machines in all sorts of "insecure" places? We've somehow figured out how to keep money inside a machine that is unattended. The amount of theft that occurs on those things is minuscule and banks put the cost of such theft into their profit calculations.

The Amazon drone won't take off unless you confirm in advance (using the app) being able to accept the package, and you need to enter a code at arrival for it to release it to you. I am sure the drone can call for help, and keep lots of video and other evidence of what happened to it.

Ultimately, Amazon just calculates the loss of 1/10000 drone packages into their profit calculations.
What is the consideration of the user?

Contract Consideration - Something of value given by both parties to a contract that induces them to enter into the agreement to exchange mutual performances.
You claim "nothing good comes out of these places" - that's a strong claim to make. Here's my argument: having this stuff out in the open does have benefits.

Most people lurk. Lurking these sites has a lot of benefits despite the risk of being drawn into radicalization:

- It allows you to truly understand the motives of these kinds of people, and predict what they will do.

- Understanding these motives allows you to address root causes that lead to this extremism. For every radical who storms the capitol, there are a thousand people who have slightly watered down but directionally parallel beliefs. This is good to understand so you can contribute to finding solutions to any justifiable grievances motivating their higher order beliefs (some won't be justified, some will), to help pull them in the other direction.

- Seeing this stuff full-on and not heard about through second hand accounts demystifies it. There are people like yourself who look at this, get a sense of revulsion from it, and then that both hardens their mind away from it and also motivates them to counteract it when they see people in their own lives starting to echo similar sentiments. If you don't truly grok the mental models these people have, you lack the prerequisites needed to disarm any version of them in the minds of people you care about. This isn't a sure thing, but anyone who doesn't will have no effect.
Well there's a lot of safety features that require semiconductor components. Back up cameras, collision warning, lane assist, brake assist, tire pressure warning, etc. Humans are bad drivers.
Cloud native OS?
Except for that part where they murdered an unarmed Air Force veteran.
T_D === /r/The_Donald. It's since migrated to thedonald dot win; however vile the content, one of the virtues of the censorship-resistant open web is that we're able to keep tabs on what they're discussing. They were extremely unsubtle regarding their plans for the 6th; if anything, we're lucky that it didn't result in even more violence.

I agree, that it's unfair to (a-priori) castigate free-speech-absolutist platforms; there are good-faith, civil-libertarian reasons for them to exist. Nonetheless, they inherently act as a moth-flame to specifically those people that are banned from more mainstream platforms; after all, what motivation would non-controversial communities have to migrate? I absolutely the right of such platforms to exist, but from Voat, to Gab, to now Parler, in practice they quickly skew towards conspiracies and "hate speech" and the like.

I consider SSC's heterodox "Culture War Thread" [0] to be the canonical case study in this pattern: "It's very easy to remove spam, bots, racial slurs, low-effort trolls, and abuse... But once you remove all those things, you're left with people honestly and civilly arguing for their opinions. And that's the scariest thing of all."

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread...
I'm rather tired of the "both sides" rhetoric. One candidate refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power. One candidate has a history of racial bias (Central Park 5, apartment zoning, Judge Curiel, etc.). One candidate openly asked for and received aid from a foreign nation. One candidate built up a mob and pointed them at the Capitol in an attempted coup.

On the other hand, one candidate lost a son to drug overdose. One candidate had debunked conspiracy theories regarding their other son's interactions with Ukraine.

Do I think that Biden is perfect? Gosh, no. Do I think he is a good person? I don't know if it is possible to be a truly good person while holding any high office. Do I think that Biden is a better person and a better choice than Trump? Absolutely.
I've been lurking on that web site since before the riot and it had the most extreme content. Law enforcement should get involved.

They were openly writing about throwing liberals off helicopters etc...
Former PM at a videoconferencing company here - this is a great great great idea. You should consider integrating with Blue Jeans (guess where I was a PM at), Zoom, etc. If it works well and you can get in touch with some folks at the company, you could probably get some promotion in their app directories.
Tips are not begging any more then putting a price on a menu is begging; just because a price is not fixed up front doesn't make it begging.

I think restaurants are different in that the interaction is more frequent and personal than most other industries. It also seems like a very fluid job market where servers can change employers with minimal cost to themselves.
I can't get to the New Yorker article but this is a theme starting to play out in the US Press. From March 8th: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/world/move-over-mao-belove...

“You can see the whole Chinese propaganda machine has geared up to promote his personality,” said Xiao Qiang, an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who monitors developments in Chinese media and censorship for the website China Digital Times. “It’s become over the top.”

While many Chinese welcome a strong, plain-speaking leader, critics say the zealous promotion of Mr. Xi has begun to show some of the hallmarks of a personality cult, alarming those who see echoes of the hubris that engulfed Mao."

I think XI has been in power long enough that it's safe to start to call out trends like this if they're apparent. To me it's chicken and the egg. Do you need to have this type of unassailable position if you're going to root out very powerful corrupt peers/figures? Or do you root our very powerful peers so you can have an unassailable position? Or does 1 morph into 2 after time?
there is one thing you can be very happy about... there is no Project Lead in Apache Projects, right?
Can't speak for other countries, but at least here in the Netherlands, chip based cards are still the main type of card, though most of these cards support contactless payment as well. Almost all PoSes also support Apple/Google pay too which is actually pretty convenient. However, I think many (supermarket) PoSes also support magnetic - they appear to have 2 card slots on them.
When someone/something gets associated with Parler, 4chan or Gab, it loses a lot of legitimacy with the mainstream. That's why conservatives are fighting to not be relegated to such corners of the internet, but instead allow to eat off the legitimacy and reach of mainstream platforms like TikTok and Youtube.
I haven't read it yet, but looked at the headline and debated if it was related to the FAT file system and there was a language called short.

I'm still interested in why engineers who know FAT should be valued more. It seems like an interesting thing to look up
As a JavaScript developer I feel kinda sad when I see how compact and clean such python and ruby examples are. You can shoot a thousand modules in JS and you still never get here.
Thank you for that, that was a thoroughly enjoyable read.
They may say that, but it's unsupported by science. The red flag is that nobody says anything more specific than "toxin".
Sadly, one no one wants to look head on and talk about
There is long range infra-red: https://www.mmo-association.org/infrared

I'm involved in setting something up like this in Australian waters.
> at no-point in the past 10 years have I come across any "serious" PHP web-application software intended for private or on-prem usage since vBulletin or SVN.

There's Phabricator [0], which incidentally uses MySQL.

[0] https://phacility.com/phabricator/
I hope a cache of these photos leak to the public. Nothing finally gets people out of their easy chairs like making it personal.
It is not a Gov currency
So, spread the change out over a number of years, say 15 or 20. Building public transport won't happen over night either. People can't expect their living situation to stay the same forever, societal change requires personal change too.
This is exciting -- the only similar thing I'm aware of is BitTorrent Live. Seems like the same idea, except I'm pretty sure they have no intention of making BitTorrent Live open source. (The protocol is patented[0], even.) Seems like they've stopped developing it, too.

[0] http://www.scribd.com/doc/132418122/bittorrent-live-patent
> It's really just slow, heartbreaking death from starvation and disease, with horrible violence from desperate people and regional warlords mixed in. Think "The Road", without the extreme environmental destruction.

Yeah. People do live through those kinds of times, though. And I'd wager at least a few end up thinking it was worth it! Perhaps the Black Death was comparable in that sense, in that it killed 30-50% of Europe?

I also do have some hope that we wouldn't slide back in to warlords, disease, and famine everywhere. Everyone alive will have pretty deeply inculcated norms around fairness, cooperation, and institutions. In some of the less destroyed areas perhaps we'd be able to organize and rebuild a semblance of our current life reasonably quickly (albeit much more local).

P.S. fuck DRM :-)
I don’t buy his line. As others have mentioned, picking one country’s state media or corporate media over another’s is bias, no matter the rationalization.

I would stop using DDG, but I am not yet aware of anything better…
"Hey Zach, you could sell ice to Eskimos!"
"Hey Zach, you're a visionary the likes of whom we haven't seen since Steve Jobs!"
So saddening. When was it written?
Arguably. But, good venture capitalists give you not only huge sums of money that you wouldn't otherwise be able to pool, but also advice and access to their professional network.

I just find it peculiar how this entire HN community seems in love with the idea of giving away equity in exchange for money and advice, to hopefully increase the odds that your programming work will eventually turn into a big payday...but you seem completely standoffish about the idea of receiving equity in exchange for working on a product that already has proven traction, which would sky rocket the odds of your programming work eventually turning into a big payday.

In other words, you'd get the same increased odds of success that venture capital brings, but you'd be receiving equity instead of giving it away.

In one case, you're bitter about the prospect the person who increases your odds not putting in as many hours as you; in the other case, you gladly accept the prospect of a person increasing your odds but not putting in as many hours as you.

My question is why you're so fixated on hours of work, and instead aren't just look at it in terms of business opportunity where you can make a ton of money? Hours of work seems to be a bad, arbitrary metric to obsess over.
That seems like a reasonable question to ask on a Java list back in 1996.
: ) yeah I know how you feel
I actually like the design, fwiw.
The article explains that Prineville is a railroad town.

Some time back most railroads switched to using fibre optics for signalling purposes, not least because copper requires more repeaters and is more likely to be dug up by dickheads.

The amount of bandwidth needed for railroad signalling is pretty minimal, so many railroad companies now moonlight as telcos.

Also, back in the 1990s, a lot of firms laid additional fibre along the railroads because of the existing rights-of-way. Laying alongside a railroad is much faster because the legalities are settled -- you only need to negotiate with one organisation, not every little county you happen to cross.

Consequently there is a lot of spare capacity running along railroads.
Maybe stop complaining 'cause you aren't getting something for nothing and ask about consulting rates? It's a fast and easy way to jump to the front of the priority queue.
Can also be sued to stream a desktop to other machines. Or for screencasts
Came across it 7 years ago when new at my current project. Did research into efficient compression schemes. Had to change our scheme to avoid the patent. It was Hughes I think.
> But it uses FILENAME_MAX, which could be too large for the stack.

That's extremely unlikely.

This is definitely not pretty or good quality C code by any standard but let's not start spreading wrong information.

The stack overflowing because you use alloc for something of FILENAME_MAX length is just as likely as a malloc call running out of memory. After all, the heap grows 'up' and the stack grows 'down'. Other than that the mechanisms are roughly (very roughly, ok) identical.

The only time when you have to be extremely careful with alloca is when you use it in functions that might be called in a recursive manner. But then you're playing with fire anyway if you do not have hard upper bounds on the depth of your recursion.
I've read about this project before. This isn't the first collection of film from a soldier's belongings that he has located. The most melancholy thought, for me, is that there is likely only one reason why the images were never developed by their creator.
IANAL but the word you're looking for is "derivative works". In order to develop film, you need to take someone else's work and apply your original interpretation to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work

> Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:

> (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
The problem I found with blocking and muting people is that twitter continues to show tweets from people I don’t follow - entirely in the hope of engaging me of course, which most of the time means trying to pull me into an argument.
The UK, the US, Russia and China all kind of got their own vaccine. France failed trough Sanofi and the Pasteur Institute

Link (in french) gives more details than the free excerpt published in ParisMatch website teasing an exclusive lengthy investigation in their weekly magazine

(Google-translated)

"Foolish internal jealousies, a series of maneuvers and a series of clumsiness would have ended up annihilating the work of researchers. This is why Pasteur is silent"

"Witnesses recount rather surprising facts. One morning, for example, a researcher realizes that the mice on which the pretests are carried out have disappeared. It is therefore necessary to bring in new mice and restart the testing phase, which slows down the process.

Nicolas Escriou ends up officially joining the project management team. According to certain accounts, reported by Paris Match, he then posits "as a true commander-in-chief of the ongoing research, ostensibly eyeing his superior, going so far as to suggest that he had better bow". Frédéric Tangy, visibly annoyed, then understands that the Pasteur Institute supports the competition opposed by his rival, younger and therefore less close to retirement. A competition which according to him can only be counterproductive.

The rivalry between Nicolas Escriou and Frédéric Tangy becomes so strong that it slows down the development of the vaccine candidate. Weakened by internal maneuvers, the joint project ends up imploding. The two men then go it alone again. In April 2020, Pasteur is forced to make a choice: the results of Nicolas Escriou's vaccine candidate are more promising for the Institute. It is therefore he who is now piloting the V591 project. But in January 2021, Merck throws in the towel. An abandonment which was experienced as a failure for the whole country and which has raised questions about the performance of French research, which has still not succeeded in developing its own vaccine against Covid-19."
How does customer service detect a false positive as such any more than a machine can, without 1) enabling social engineering 2) damaging the privacy of unrelated users by snooping in their account?
Both are good. The flick is quite faithful to the book, especially in tone.
I'll echo this reasoning as one for choosing GCP. Many of the offerings are fantastic on their own - BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Firestore, Cloud SQL, GKE - they're all (IMO) great products that my teams have used to work wonders. On top of that, they're all well integrated and more seamlessly work together in my experience vs AWS services.

I've also found integrating access controls via IAM to be really powerful and also pretty user friendly. In one experience, this helped us scale the sales process and allowed us to easily address sales push-back on data security and compliance.

Also, engineers really seem to enjoy using the cloud console, even at later stages when it was mostly just read-only and had a lot of access controls. The UX is just way better than AWS.

As mentioned, I've experienced issues with GCP and there are reasons to choose AWS instead. I can expand on these if anyone is curious, but wanted to list out the reasons to use GCP, as I feel like most of the posts you see about GCP on HN skew more negative than my own experiences.
The party is elected, and then they can change the prime minister at will. The two major parties are almost exactly the same: they both vote to pass the worst laws like anything under the national security umbrella. There is no real constitution like USA has. The people are much less engaged with politics, will never do serious protests and care much less about their rights and freedoms.
If you use a local wallet to store your BTC, let’s say on a HDD, the the magnetic pattern on the disk that makes up the bits that represent your coins would be physically owning then. They can’t be retrieved any other way.
Could you be more specific in what you mean by "the various virtualization technologies"; e.g. are you referring to the ASICs?
I self-diagnosed myself with ADHD approx. 3 years ago...
Who says they won't do that?

Not to mention: If you get value from Adaptive Multimedia Streaming then pay for it. Why should they necessarily provide you value for free?

I'm personally getting tired of folks who ride the coat tails of "open source" because they simply read it as "I don't have to pay" rather than getting behind the ethos of what it's actually about. I don't know about your specific situation to say this is the case here, just venting on a pile of comments that are poo-pooing the fact these folks want to make some money from the MASSIVE value they are providing the world.
Very good read. Thank you.
Hey, I have a question. If I wanted to advertise to /technical/ people in your area, where would I do it?

Note: I'm not really interested in business people; I want *NIX enthusiasts who are /not/ spammers, who can write English and are capable of running a Linux box that won't get compromised, and who don't need much help from me to run the thing.
I have been travelling (for some definition of that) for a year and a half and I have been bringing my Sony eReader around, now replaced with the iPad. The simple reason: it's an easy way to carry around books!

If I went on vacation for week, I might prefer a paperback for the reasons you stated.
boy this is an awkward post.
So when a 14 year old, having heard you speak, and knowing what you do, comes to you and says:

"I love maths and programming - what do you recommend?"

... you'd just reply with ...

"Go look in the library."
What is it about the "seriousness" of an app that would demand Apple's crappy interface builder?
I actually got so used to the feeling of headphones on my head, that I wear them when I'm alone at home and not listening to anything.
As a mainland Chinese who frequents Hong Kong I have very bad impression of their subway. It is so expensive and with old technology. Guess that is how they make such profit.
Well the rest of the repository is the french civil code so it makes sense for it to be in french, I'm guessing the readme being bilingual would be acceptable (though obviously judging of that is the repo owner's prerogative)