skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get a Bluetooth speaker that'll clamp onto your bike for $20, or some earbuds. Expecting a phone to blast out high-decibel music that you can hear while mowing the lawn seems like an insane ask.
Even in one of the world’s richest countries, hard time coexisting with wolves
How Could the Winds of Winter Be Published in Only Three Months? – Tor.com
I have worked with physicists. The ones that had respect for software engineering and learned it were excellent. I loved their math skills and they often provided interesting insights. there were others that kept writing crappy research code and didn't want to learn SW engineering practices. That didn't work too well.
When I first got my Pixel 2 a year or so ago, I was stunned when after a few weeks I started getting notifications like "Check out the McDonalds 1 Block Away!" or "Starbucks is 0.25 miles from you" (or something along those lines). I took about 20 minutes and found all of the setting related to this in Maps and Notifications, and disabled all of them. No, I'm not going to McDonald's daily during my walk to the train, despite what Google is suggesting.
I am a security professional and have thorough knowledge of macOS internals and the built-in security protections.

Almost all antivirus or security products on the Mac App Store should be treated with extreme skepticism. I recently saw that one of the top grossing apps was an antivirus product called Thor Antivirus. Looking under the hood, it was just ClamAV, and their claims about its protections were unsubstantiated. They probably made tens of thousands of dollars before Apple took them down in response to my report.

Several years before that, I audited SecureMac's MacScan[0], a once-popular antivirus app that had received accolades from MacWorld for years. It turns out it just checked file metadata such as modification times, and didn't even look inside.

Apple's app reviewers are not able identify bogus security products, and the result is that you might damage your system by allowing some half-baked program to run amok.

I don't run any third-party antivirus myself, but when I was investigating a piece of Mac malware, I discovered that Malwarebytes had beat me to the punch and published a great blog post on their investigation. I vaguely recall using their software to clean up a relative's Mac successfully.

By the way, at the time of writing, a program called Antivirus Zap - Virus & Aware is #6 on the Top Paid list of the Mac App Store. Antivirus VirusKiller is #41. I guarantee you they're both shit. (Antivirus Zap also uses ClamAV.)

0: https://web.archive.org/web/20110719013009/http://rgov.org/2...
Not exactly a solution. But I use this:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/779/clipboard-indicat...
No. Monocultures are a large part of the problem.

If you want a human world that is resistant to drug resistant infections, you want a bunch of individual efforts to grow things in the kitchen window of their city apartment and in small container gardens on the balcony and in square foot gardens in the back yard. That's the correct antidote to the monoculture of indistrial agriculture.

Biological and genetic diversity is how you foster a world where one genetic variation of one infection cannot simply run like wildfire through the global population.

You want an intentionally inefficient system. The efficiencies of industrial agriculture are the problem. They are how we are creating these super bugs.
Creating a GUI Application for Nasa’s API with WxPython
Sounds like a great project.

Designing a hopper was a recently project for me and it was really fun. I learned a bunch about mass flow and realized that there are all sorts of interesting industrial problems involving hoppers.
Of course! I've got a couple actually, they're useful in my other hobbies.

The capillary filler is still a beast to clean, though. It's not so much a matter of it getting crusty with dried ink as it is that it's designed to hold the ink inside.

I've built two things to address this: the first is a rubber bulb with a length of clear medical tubing that just fits over the back of the reservoir. This lets me force water and cleaning solution through the reservoir with a modest amount of pressure, flushing it out. The second is a felt-lined holder with a spot for a rag or paper towel in the end. I can chuck that in my lathe, put the pen in it with the nib facing away from the chuck, and turn it on low for a few minutes. Centripetal force forces the ink (or water) out of the reservoir, through the feed, and into the paper towel - aided by capillary action, of course.
I knew it was bad, but I had not realized that the CTE numbers were so high from the article "...read the work of the Boston University C.T.E. center, which found evidence of degenerative brain disease in 99 percent of brains obtained from deceased N.F.L. players and 91 percent of college football players and 21 percent of those who played high school football."

From BU's site, here was the methodology: "For the study, the researchers began with the donated brains of 202 football players. Pathologists, knowing nothing of a patient’s history or symptoms, examined each brain for evidence of CTE. At the same time, clinicians—blinded to each brain’s pathology—used medical records and interviews with family members to collect detailed information about each patient’s medical history and symptoms. The group met for regular consensus meetings, where the pathologists and the clinicians presented their findings. They limited the study to football players, providing a somewhat homogeneous sample."

Stated another way (based on the study) 9 out of 10 college football players are going to leave with CTE.
I agree that DL/ML is destined to fail in domains like this but can you expand on this reasoning? What exactly do you mean by "quantitative math" (I haven't heard this phrase used in this way before)? And what were the equivalents of DL/ML for physics before calculus?
The Other FO You Need to Know: FOBO – Fear of a Better Option
I've got a recent Corolla and the Bluetooth integration is buggy, frustrating, the microphone's bad enough people struggle to hear me, and it doesn't much like deciding between multiple phones in the same car.
Battling Bots Bring Dystopian Warfare to Your Living Room Floor
>Deep learning and machine learning don’t work. Quantitative math will always prevail,

I have a neural net onboard my phone which automatically detects songs offline and tells me what they are. Is that semantically 'quantitative math' and not machine learning?
This is often reflected in the surprisingly low insurance premiums relative to the cost of a supercar. Although there are plenty of YouTube videos showing trust fund babies people wrecking them, most owners are middle-aged men who only drive them a few kilometers here and there, they are purchased as trophies, not as daily drivers or race cars.
Install NoScript. The web gets 100x more usable.
"I begrudgingly use IDEA because for some languages I cannot get nearly the same level of productivity with better tools" Hmm. That's an oddly worded complaint.
I am not sure I follow you on this. For example state lotteries are widely known to function like a tax on poor people. Even though some people win the lottery, it’s fairly uncontroversial that most people would be better off if the lottery was simply disallowed, and nobody wins. We don’t need a replacement for the lottery, just to remove it.

I don’t see why it’s different for college football.
I noticed the update mirror uses http. In my inexperience, I'm not sure whether this introduces a MitM vector or not.

Can anybody comment?
I also recommend looking at ipyannotate if most of your workflow is in jupyter
In my experience, Nope.

I wanted to create a FB account while giving as minimal data as possible. While it's possible to create an account using temporary emails / temporary phone numbers, FB eventually asks you to submit more details.

This includes clicking verification links, uploading your photo, providing phone numbers etc.

Even when I managed to do all these (using fake data), my accounts got disabled in few days.

PS: when I used my email id associated with my FB account deleted back in ~2012, I found out it wasn't deleted. FB asked me to recognize pictures of my friends. So I believe no detail that ever passes the event horizon of facebook can ever leave it.
451 "exbipositions" should calm some of those people down (and further antagonize others).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#exbi

BTW don't bother Googling for exaposition or exbiposition. :-)
The episode where Hacker and Humphrey argue about subsidizing the arts is one of my favourites, with the latter taking the position that local league football is commercial and shouldn't be subsidized, whereas arts cannot survive via market forces alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvNw0P5ZMbA

Especially since it comes up again in a later episode, with Humphrey discussing the ramifications of civil servants conceding the reigns of power to ministers who'd be under pressure to carry out voter demands.

Humphrey: "How would you feel if Radio 1 played pop music 24 hours a day? Or if they took the culture programmes off of television?"

B responds "I don't know, I never watch them"

Humphrey says "Well neither do I, but it's vital to know that they're there!"
Not sure if you're joking. So many programs are broken on OS X. Mostly Electron ones like Teams.
If we take the definition to refer to points that are exactly distance d, rather than points that are within distance d, I think the original formulation is correct.
Prismo: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Ruby
The correct way to solve this problem is to make it so that poor but intelligent people can get into college and afford it, not to give fake credentials to people based on football skill.
"...Steltonites didn’t hide their radicalism, raising a red fag on the water tower (which angry locals climbed up and tore down)..."

I... assume this is a typo? I had to reread a few times.
But there's nothing stopping your community-run farm from engaging in ecologically aware practices... the right move seems to be to take control of industry, not to decentralise it into home plots. I feel you're losing levers and knobs with which to operate your ecological concerns, and one ends up hoping the decentralised winds blows in their favor.
Except that doesn't work sometimes on Gnome Terminal. I've never been able to pin down exactly what causes it to break, but I have some machines where I have to do the key combo to make the copy and paste work and it's really annoying. Also, annoying is if you highlight something, then hit ctrl-shift-v and it puts in the text from the other cut buffer.

But the GP might be referring to the fact that copy and paste with anything but straight text is an outright shitshow on X. Compare to the copy and paste facilities from even ancient MacOS 6 it's downright stone age.
This is the tenth time this has been posted in the last month, stop with the spam.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19323084
Woman chiming in: I'd only consider using this if it were Bumble-like, ie. the women can choose who sees them. Like, men don't even get to swipe until they've been selected first (then of course, men get to choose too). It's a good idea in theory but all the comments here are well too realistic.
It's much quicker to dump the bag of Skittles out and snap a photo than to arrange them and count them.

My program isn't perfect, but I only spent a couple hours on it. I think it could be improved, and better lightning when taking the photos would help too.

However, I was curious how well it did so I compared it to the author's results. My program misclassifies approximately 80 out of 27,740 Skittles.

I searched for matches and it did indeed find the same match the author found:

(0, './skittles/images/334.jpg', './skittles/images/464.jpg')
(1, './skittles/images/103.jpg', './skittles/images/384.jpg')
(1, './skittles/images/111.jpg', './skittles/images/134.jpg')
(1, './skittles/images/118.jpg', './skittles/images/353.jpg')
(1, './skittles/images/139.jpg', './skittles/images/168.jpg')
(1, './skittles/images/152.jpg', './skittles/images/281.jpg')
(1, './skittles/images/158.jpg', './skittles/images/244.jpg')
(1, './skittles/images/198.jpg', './skittles/images/255.jpg')
(1, './skittles/images/198.jpg', './skittles/images/334.jpg')
(1, './skittles/images/198.jpg', './skittles/images/464.jpg')
(1, './skittles/images/201.jpg', './skittles/images/338.jpg')
...etc

(first row is identical, subsequent rows are one different)

Since there are some errors, I did get lucky. However, if it's good enough, you could also manually verify ones that are close.

Anyway, personally I'd rather write code than manually count 27,740 Skittles, but I'm grateful the author did this because it's an interesting dataset to work with.
Exactly this. If this becomes popular bar owners will need to have signs saying they dont mind women checking in at their bar - but that men should avoid it if they want any women to show up at all.
I am purposefully playing with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19686972 . Prismo has already implemented basic ActivityPub support and it is possible to get notified and comment on posts from other Fediverse instances.

Honestly, it is rather exciting to see all the AP-compatible projects pop out now.
Anti virus - Sophos home
Free & according to me the only real antivirus
Little snitch is excellent for severing unintended network connections
Search engine - startpage.com. This one has been excellent as I get privacy + search results same as Google
I use adguard... Very effective.
Dns 1.1.1.1 from cloud flare
Great idea.

It is exactly my complain with dating apps: They shifted most of the dating scene online in a predefined "boring flow". It is unfortunately extremely rare nowadays that people approach each other in real life.
I think there is a couple reason why that became the way it is:

- Online dating app wide acceptance made it in such a way that it became the "expected flow" through which dating occurs.

- Trying to approach people offline is now seen as more and more awkward since less and less people do it.

- I also feel like the whole #MeToo and political climate makes it more difficult to approach people of the opposite gender as more people are now worried that it could be wrongly seen as sexual harassment.
Happy to help out. When you are ready to plant the next one we will be happy to help
I agree, ownership is a poor way to look at it. In fact, there is a rich body of property and tort law that address this whole subject in vast detail and has identified a large set of principles and criteria that can and is applied.
I actually stopped optimizing my app for your screen size. I have no idea if it even works. Surprised there are people out there still using these!
A grocery store where I live advertised that the blue shopping baskets were for singles, while the red were the ordinary ones. Despite being single, I did not want to pick a blue one. Maybe I should have. They got plenty of press but I don't know if any matches happened.
How well can you control your xfce desktop with keyboard shortcuts? One of the main reasons I use gnome is how easy it is to avoid touching my mouse.
Samsung did the same thing at MWC after the unveiling. Most of the demo vids I saw on YT had Samsung employees handling the device.

Huawei on the other hand gave the Mate X to YT'ers for them to shoot 5-10 minute videos examining the phone and fold mechanism from every conceivable angle.
Python Projects with Poetry and VSCode. Part 2
Mind over matter is definitely a thing, but where it becomes toxic is if you choose to ignore problems in order to keep the good vibes going, and could lead to a worse outcome than if you kept an objective mind. Reality distortion fields only work if they actually influence reality, and not just your perception of it.

With that said, I have a friend who is in a depression rut. He hates his job but believes any other job will be just as bad (he's definitely wrong), and seems to refuse to take steps to improve his situation, because his negativity keeps him from taking action.

So ultimately its just a balance.
Yeah I mean to me “tech” means technology, and I’d put Tesla and SpaceX as more “technology”-companies than Facebook.
My own machine if possible, ask for ThinkPad or Dell XPS Dev. Ed. if client insists on their machine. Worst case, for short periods: anything with a decent keyboard.

Arch Linux on my machine. Kubuntu latest (LTS is acceptable, if not preferred) on client's. Worst case, for short periods: anything close to Linux with an up-to-date stack (say, homebrew on macOS).

ed25519 SSH keys, preferably my own. ssh-agent (GnuPG, when on Linux) with compulsory confirmation on every sign. SSH certificates a must for host authentication, preferred for client authentication.

ZeroTier or Wireguard strongly preferred for VPN access to client networks. OpenVPN et al. begrudgingly accepted, but only for short durations. TeamViewer et al. strict no on own machine.

LXD and/or systemd-nspawn for containerisation. Docker strict no on my machine.

Terminal Emulator: Konsole or Konsole-based if possible. Worst case: anything with decent colours and keybinding support.

Font: Whichever suits the display, resolution etc. the best among: Iosevka (family), Hermit, and Fantasque Sans Mono.

Editor/IDE: At minimum — Vim or Neovim; Preferred — Emacs 26 with own spacemacs-based config.

Version control: Minimum — git; maximum — magit.

Plugins: On vim/neovim — few, if any, in-editor plugins; on Emacs — custom config tuned for specific stacks; Out-of-editor — stack-specific CLI tooling.

Almost every stack I use I try to stick as close to latest vanilla as I can (e.g., C/C++ is just ordinary text editing with compilers in -Wall -Werror etc. modes). Some stacks that are somewhat non-vanilla:

Python: 3.7 strongly preferred; 3.6 begrudgingly accepted; 3.5, 3.4, and 2.7 only for legacy maintenance. flake8, pylint, et. al. with possible Emacs integration. Sphinx (with a tuned config) for documentation, autodoc favoured.

SQL & DB: Emacs's org-mode+org-babel for playing; Sqitch and pg_tap for committing.

Racket: Emacs with Geiser. Org-mode (and thus org-babel) for small scripts/projects.

Common Lisp: SLIME (with small extensions in elisp, primarily for remote editing), sbcl (always built from source and installed with sources), quicklisp (augmented with small, private dist), erudite (+ private extensions) for literate programming (rendered, via Sphinx, to PDF).
It's like the dating app equivalent to Network Decay [1]. The problem with dating apps is the same problem with Facebook (or even more accurately, LinkedIn): the business model does not align with the interests of users. For a dating app, users don't want to mess around in endless cycles of conversations that go nowhere. Users want to actually meet someone and have a meaningful relationship. Match Group do not want this. They want users to stay on the app long term and keep going on dates but never settling down.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NetworkDecay
I was spoiled by a Droid Turbo. Now I can't buy anything with less than 3500mAh of battery, which severely limits my options. Too bad Motorola phones never get software updates and are super locked down
Given the author's observations, I would draw a different conclusion. I would conclude it isn't so much that gardens are good for you but that urban living, surrounding yourself with noise, strangers, glass, and concrete is bad for you.
Do they have a culture of "know how to disrupt the metabolism before you leave it to grow on its own"?
Sort of off topic:
One of the more frustrating things about going out in nature where I live at least, is seeing the pattern of invasive plants over and over again. I can identify every plant in my area, an area that would have been full of thousands of different trees and bushes now has repeating landscape of about two dozen different plants.
I'm assuming you don't buy a new toilet every 3 years or so. And therein lies the problem.
How is that far-left?
Did I mention that they were magic boxes?
By now we all know how Mark Zuckerberg rolls.

"Dumb fucks" wasn't just an episode, that's his character.

He'd probably be a good friend of Martin Shkreli if he wouldn't care that much about what others think of him.
KDE is honestly amazing. My environment is exactly they way I want it, every shortcut does exactly what I want.

I used Gnome before it for a while. I remember writing extensions for it and fixing other people's extensions. I remember logging in to some crash message every day, possibly because of the idiotic way extensions work: they just monkeypatch the actual DE code (?!?!??!)

KDE provides all the functionality that I need without extensions. Nothing crashes, ever.

I think Gnome is fine for people that are OK with default settings. For anyone that needs more, Gnome just doesn't suffice.
> testing to see if another route could be faster [...] and when it re-routes to the path I chose, it's a minute or two shorter

Anecdotes != data, but I'm pretty sure I've experienced this with Google Maps as well.
>Kotlin:

>Some readers will question why this chapter doesn’t include Scala. Although it’s a language that has great support for concurrency, its original guiding philosophy was more centered in functional programming. Kotlin, however, which was inspired by Scala in a way, does have a specific focus on concurrency.

Something similar can be said about Kotlin: The main design goal is the two way interop with different platform APIs (JVM, JS, LLVM). And of course it has many features a modern general purpose language is expected to have. Specifically for asynchronous progamming it has coroutines. However, I think for asynchronous and parallel computing Scala and Clojure have more to offer...
> Do most college football players get brain damage?

FTA: "[...] the Boston University C.T.E. center, which found evidence of degenerative brain disease in 99 percent of brains obtained from deceased N.F.L. players and 91 percent of college football players and 21 percent of those who played high school football."

91% certainly qualifies as "most" in my book.
Basically, Triumph of Sales over Engineering.
That doesn't sound exploitable by stalkers whatsoever! </sarc>
I wonder if this forced positivity thing isn’t an American thing only (which is creeping its way through to Europe, I agree). For once I’m happy (no pun intended) that I grew up and still live in Eastern Europe where you can really tell how things are and how you feel about them without having to worry about what other people might think about your thinking.
I honestly find that this form of complementing to be toxic in general. I've heard too often "Other people are <insert negative trait>, but you are <insert positive trait>!" I generally appreciate the complement part when a comment like this is directed towards me, but the comparison to other people is not necessary. You don't need to put others down to build others up.
but I'm sure, given your anticipation, you prepared alternative pathways to employment, such as taking CS classes, doing internships?
One of my hobbies tends to attract a fairly rural and blue collar crowd (or at least more rural and blue collar than Reddit and HN) and the requirements of the hobby mean that you probably have your shit together at least a little bit. The "everything else" sub-forum on our forum is so good at giving life advice that it's become a running joke. This sounds like exactly the kind of answer their wives would give. That said, they'll bite you back real hard if you act like a jerk.