skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is it unpopular to say HN is more varied in opinions than it seems?

Yes. Many people seem to believe HN conforms to a single political or cultural ideology, and often that the mods enforce this.

In reality, the population is diverse, and host to many conflicting "groupthinks", but people tend to segregate themselves by thread subject and time, encountering the same people and discussions over and over, making the userbase seems more homogeneous than it is.
Some human populations, notably in the east, have sequences that enable efficient absorbtion an use o non animal protein, but for the rest of us it leads to a sort of sick and foggy half life if w don't eat animal protein.
As a side-note: 95th percentile latency statistics are pretty meaningless at this scale. With a million requests per second, a 95th percentile latency of 10ms still means that 50,000 requests per second are slower than that.
Misrepresentation of the images is something Microsoft has no more power over than Google Image Search. At the very least their dataset here wasn't including names/locations/etc. I don't really see how this is any different from Google using their own data in projects like DeepMind. At least Microsoft admitted the project didn't go as planned and they're shuttering it, and cleaning up their data.
There are many TOTP implementations like SAASPASS Authenticator & Password Manager out there. Many sites have also adopted it.
I'm really glad to see the microbiome and the immune system finally getting their due respect insofar as their contribution to literally every bodily function. I suffer from an autoimmune disease (ankylosing spondylitis) and I've anecdotally felt like the immune system has been neglected research-wise because it is such a difficult, complex system to understand.

Three cheers for microbiome and immune system research :)
I wonder if ROMs like LineageOS remove this telemetry.
Workers paid by the hour are 'always going to fall behind'
That is a beautiful analogy.
> But why do we trust the New York Times? Because the New York Times is composed of humans using their brains to do exactly what these detection algorithms try to do

This reasoning sounds circular and doesn't go deep enough. Couldn't NYT or individual reporters at NYT abuse our trust on rare occasions if they felt the stakes were high? Couldn't they unintentionally mislead us because they were mislead by a source? No: we trust NYT because they have a financial interest in being a reliable source of news. People wouldn't read NYT anymore if they thought that they didn't take that responsibility seriously.
Vuln in Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) and Cisco Expressway
Right, that's why I wouldn't concern much about it, if they trying to sue me then i wish them good luck with that.
I always think it is pretty neat when somebody responds, “I’ve never thought about it like that.”
What is more scary is that there are many Chinese Americans using WeChat to connect with family members. There is no doubt some of them work in the U.S. government or other sensitive companies or agencies. By tracking their location alone, the Chinese government can obtain huge amount of data.
They are either a pest and should be killed (in which case either check your traps frequently or use a quicker killing trap) or they are not and you should use a live catch and release trap (which you are going to want to get used to emptying daily)
Maybe we should go back to shop class in public schools. For me at least, this was my earliest exposure to making things, at it set off a lifetime continuing curiosity.
A successful bookseller in California chose to sell wholesale books to the Apartheid Govt of South Africa, even into the height of the media outcry, Nelson Mandela etc. When almost all the employees complained, the response was "we sell books to all people" .. which was clever, but probably not sincere. The objective was to make money, and the willingness of the govt and business in South Africa to buy went up when the political pressure was increasing, because trade partners were getting scarcer.. In short, it became easier and more profitable to sell to the besieged state. This scenario has probably repeated itself throughout history.
Provably Safe Pointers for a Parallel World (2018)
Beg to differ. The attitude came as a response to a typical corporate practice (here in the US) of your employer telling you who to vote for and taking the entire company to the polls to make sure you voted for that person.

This was the norm in the late 19th and early 20th century when we had party bosses. Parties/Candidates promised companies contracts, so your financial interest became your political interest.

You're lucky today that you can vote for whoever you damn well please.
It happens in technical threads as well, but isn't considered "low quality" because it isn't politics or mainstream.
A flaw was found in the way samba implemented an RPC endpoint emulating the Wind
What we seem to be missing now is things like .. a lot of the artists (70s-80s "dad rock") I listen to have "the BBC sessions" LPs - or even better, The Peel Sessions. I've lost track of the number of artists that made it because Peel found them and gave them that spotlight.

Being able to play whatever you want, whenever you want, is indeed fantastic. I'm not sure I'd want to go backwards from here either. But we've solved availability, I don't think we've solve discovery - I don't think algorithmically generated playlists replace John Peel. They seem to solve "everyone else has found X and you haven't", they don't solve "X haven't been found". So we end up back in this trap of "finding" the music the labels have decided to promote, rather than the artists that deserve to be found.
I agree with what you said (as far as I know) but that isn't exactly what the comment that the GP replied to was saying.

> However, mosquitos have absolutely no value and can be exterminated to extinction.
This is unnecessarily negative. I’d imagine all UWP apps are that big, and who knows how much explorer.exe functionality is in DLLs you’re not counting. The author can’t help it if modern frameworks are bloated crap.
Print is dead. Worst industry on the planet to focus on. Had maker picked one thing and done it right, it could still be here. It tried to be too many things at the same time.
This data literally sells for "dime a dozen" from multiple data vendors; I'm guessing the article is mere reactions from the Americans because their our platforms have missed out on the data cow that is China. They have India by the balls though, so that's something.
Local radio stations of my childhood did one thing that no streaming service could provide... community. Not the "fake" online community crap. You got the news of your community. You learned the away high school basketball game had been rescheduled. You learned about crimes that may have happened in your community. It helped get local news out in a town that had a weekly newspaper. You got to hear fascinating stories from old timers in your community. Oh and there was music thrown in for good measure :)
They do give p99 latencies in the table on page 10
A landlord brought glue traps once upon complaints of a rat.

After the rat was caught, I had read about how they slowly suffocate over days, often chewing off their own limbs in a largely futile attempt to escape.

I ended up bludgeoning the rat. I still remember the high pitched scream it made upon receiving the first blow. It only lasted about a minute but it was a pretty fucked up experience, and that was going the merciful route.
Facebook/Twitter have been used to manipulate politics in many countries. China does not want WeChat to be used in a similar way. Somehow here in the US/West everyone gets the real news?
Severe Vulnerability in Exim
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/bxn1gi/severe_vulne...
There was a junior in one of the early companies I worked at who claimed to have found a JVM bug. He insisted JVM handled comparison with null incorrectly. He had a String variable that was null, then he guarded against NPE with "if (str == null) return -1" followed by code that dereferenced str. The code looked innocent at first glance, but somehow it failed with NPE. Finally it turned out the string was "null" not null. :D

But I also have a good counter-example story:

Some day I found an HTTP rfc violation in one of very popular oss HTTP client libraries. I filed a bug report with detailed reproduction. It was closed immediately, with "works as designed, you misunderstood HTTP". Then we had a debate in ticket comments for many days and I couldn't convince them to the right interpretation of HTTP (I admit, the text is not easy sometimes). Finally I posted a message on HTTP mailing list and Roy Fielding confirmed I was right. They reopened and fixed.
I must say this is really hard thing to argue with somebody with an edge in experience and not come out as arrogant.

In particular - when somebody responds with "I have more experience / I've been doing it for 20 years, and you say I'm wrong?". How to best handle such cases?
You're thinking of the Golden State Killer and GEDmatch.

Although both 23andme and GEDmatch match up relatives, I don't think they share your actual genetic sequence with your matches. 23andme's research and data publications are anonymized.
Related: A New Proposal Looks To Loosen Radio Ownership Rules

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/07/730323196/one-more-scoop-of-v...
Java Web Start Is Dead. Long Live Java Web Start
It often makes me wonder, why especially Americans largely don't prefer to use the most economical to buy/own/operate vehicles, like European/Japanese small cars that give close to 20-25 kilometers per litre of petrol.
Looking beyond records: better constructors (and deconstructors)
Once everything went to surface-mount parts, I lost interest because it all became too difficult to hack.
I helped to set up a syllabus for a part time coding bootcamp. One of the things we did was to eliminate any grading, although students who completed the project would get to graduate with honors.

The idea was that when I was in college, I found a lot of students avoiding the electives where they would learn a lot, in favor of electives where it was easier to get good grades.

The good part was that we could push them extremely hard. There's a point where most of them feel like it's not the right career choice and we can push them past that plateau. Since a lot of them are doing it at night and weekends, they don't always have a lot of willpower or commitment. The drop out rate is a little lower than expected.

The bad part is that they don't push themselves hard enough. A lot of the difficulty is in things that they can just grind through - loops, arrays, functions, conditionals. But they don't work hard enough at it, and don't become 'literate' enough to solve some basic problems.

The other downside is that a diploma sells certification, and not necessarily education. Something that's easy to pass is 'not recognized', even if the students learn more in the end.
Their corporate contact email: comments@sbgi.net
Storage is actually pretty cheap. Only RAM usage matters now. So 55mb is not that much of a big deal now. But this is an attempt by the author. No one is forcing you to use this. I dont know whats the point of being so negative to someone's efforts.
This is really just an incoherent anti-religious rant, with a whole lot of completely unfounded assumptions you’ve made about me personally thrown in.

I have a tremendous amount of faith in science, I have a degree in physics. I simply happen to understand the contextual limitations of the knowledge that I’ve derived from it, something you seem far too arrogant to do yourself.
Earthrise: Celebrating the Photograph That Changed (How We View) the World
Hasn't this ship sailed already?
You are assuming your reaction is the only legitimate reaction.

Some people like being uncomfortable because it motivates them.

Being comfortable for some people can lead to complacency.
Which is good. And puts both Open Source and Free Software in a less than wholesome light, ethically.

"We don't care what you do with this as long as you reshare/etc" encourages a misleadingly narrow focus within the bigger picture of corporate and professional ethics.

IMO there's no realistic presumption of unquestioned goodness on the part of GPL. If someone wants to create code with a "No evil" license, they're perfectly entitled to apply one. Everyone else has to live with the consequences, just as they have to live with GPL etc.
Print may be dead but I read every Make magazine and am always happy to find it in the mailbox.

edit: Not meant to add anecdotal data but instead to validate target audience of article.
10 Years Jail for Buying, Selling, Mining Crypto-Currency in India: New Bill
The author is a student, so I think we can give them a pass. Besides, the code gets compiled! It's hardly as if that if statement is contributing to bulking out the executable to 55MB.

UWP apps tend to be pretty big, especially when compared to Win32/whatever Explorer is written in. That has very little to do with the author and much to do with the framework.

It's a little dispiriting to see this as the top HN comment on a high schooler's project .
Could climate change make Siberia more habitable?
Owning nothing is now a luxury, thanks to a number of subscription startups
the user had uploaded their exported 23andme (or similar) data to GEDmatch on their own volition.
DepthPhoto-Portrait photo to Facebook 3D photo converter app for Android
The difference is all in that most qualifier. I genuinely have trouble finding discussions of these "non-technical" topics that are genuinely worthwhile in an "intellectual curiosity" sense. It's a bit jarring since even e.g. Reddit does a lot better once you find the right niche-subcommunities. And again, it has nothing to do with political stance, since both sides do it!
You are leaving a DNA trail in your wake, and it's only private or personal insofar as no one looked at it. But it seems like it's something that we really have no hopes of keeping private over any reasonable timeline into the future.
Everest through the eyes of a Sherpa
Translation of genes more complex than expected
55MB sounds OK to me. At least it is much smaller than typical Electron apps. And the piece of code you show is completely unrelated to your point.
I've found a good way to do that is running a personal blog. In fact, I write as if the audience of my blog will be myself in the future. It's nice to help out others who face the same problem tho.
So ironic Meduza is operating from Latvia.

Meduza focusing more on Russia proper, I'm not aware of any decent quality local Russian language news media in Latvia. That leaves a large part of the population exposed to "news" worse than Fox News. That is not a healthy situation...

The _local_ news media in Latvia are mostly bad quality. Apart from ir.lv and small initiatives like rebaltica.lv, that is. Those are both Latvian language. The biggest newspapers diena.lv and nra.lv are both linked to local oligarchs. Quite ironic, especially when you know that nra translates to _independent_ morning news...

P.S. If anyone can point me towards decent quality Russian language media in Latvia, I'd be really grateful!
It's the difference between exit and voice. I can perfectly well understand that many people may love Russia and it's culture, and hate the politics, so much that they're willing to die to change the politics. I'm sure they would rather not, but they appreciate the risk.

I can imagine that to readers, a journalist reporting from abroad looks less earnest, or perhaps readers think they are more susceptible to control by foreign interests. To the journalist, he or she can't interview Russians. And unfortunately, the Baltics wouldn't be much more safe for the determined state anyway.
I'm rather skeptical of this news and perhaps just some typical PR effort by singapore government.

Remember Singapore has a notorious education system of sending children in different tracks at an age as early as 8.
That is, in your 3rd year in primary school, you'll sit an exam that would probably determine your life trajectory.

If you do well, you'll be enrolled in better programs, better school and would go to college. If you don't, you'll be wrapped up and sent to classes with little resources and guidance and often times incompetent teachers, and what's more, you would not be qualified to sit an college entrance exam, which means, the best you can achieve is Polytechnic schools. In singapore's caste system, a Polytechnic student is at the very bottom.

The intention and justification of this system is that people are born with different levels of intelligence. To allow all people to have a college education is not merely a waste of resources, but also not useful and meaningful for those who are just average.

How do people cope with this system, well, rich people can either hire tutors or have mother work as full time educator(often in case when the mother is highly educated). Their children would win out in that race at age of 8 and would continue to win and would go to the same several elite high schools, which ends in a situation where the transportation minister has never taken public transportation ever in his/her life.
There's plenty of terrible radio around, but Sirius isn't the cause.

In fact, IMO, Sirius is the savior of radio. It's where all the really good radio talent went when terrestrial radio was mostly turned into garbage. Most of the biggest names in radio from the 60's through the 90's are there.

People balk at paying for Sirius, but there is real quality entertainment there. It's not an iPod pretending to be radio like streaming services. It's actual radio, with on-air talent, and an ever-expanding library of original content.

Even on what you might think are low-interest channels like the 40's channel, or the Sinatra channel, or the Jimmy Buffet channel, or Tom Petty channel, there are new shows made daily, live concerts, and all kinds of things that "real" radio used to do, but gave up in favor of automation.

There are even hyper-niche channels like one that plays Carolina Shag (coastal North and South Carolina music from the 50's and 60's), or the one that's all independent Canadian music, or half a dozen stand-up comedy channels. Or something that I enjoy way more than I'd like to admit: Yacht Rock, which is the kinds of music that you'd imagine that a couple named Chad and Buffy would play on their yacht off the coast of Montauk. Or as the channel describes itself, "Everyone's fifth or sixth favorite soft rock songs from the 70's and 80's."

There's still excellent terrestrial radio, but you have to seek it out. WXRT/Chicago, KCSN/Northridge, KING-FM-HD2/Seattle, and KGFN/Goldfield leap to mind, but there are others.

The rise of Citicasters/Jacor/Clear Channel is what made me quit radio. But these few holdouts (some even corporate-owned!) are still producing quality radio, and if you can't find something to listen to on Sirius, then I don't know what to say.

/ Worked for 10 years in radio on-air and behind the scenes

/ Happy Sirius subscriber
At least on mobile, Brave is reporting blocking 32 ads and trackers.
I'd fly in something that looked ridiculous if it was a pleasant enough travel experience.
> Just that was the only way to access music back then?

It wasn't the only way to access music back then. You had recorded media and live music.

I'm not actually from around that time but I've been playing around with a Walkman recently. For me it started as retro foppery but I noticed a few distinct differences:

- You're not in total control of the radio. You can pick the station you like but you can't reorder the playlist, select specific tracks, rewind, or repeat anything. This evokes a feeling of surrender, of "letting go." While listening to the radio, you're freed from the responsibility of curating your own collection and selecting the best music for the occasion.

- Much more than the targeted algorithms of services like Spotify, you're at the mercy of the DJ. Compared to the algorithm, there's absolutely more of a connection there. If you enjoy what's on the radio, then you're sharing that enjoyment with the DJ. It's a direct analog precursor to the "space of flows," a pleasurable social bond formed between two people who don't share physical space or even traditional spoken word conversation.

- You're off the grid. The radio doesn't track your favorite artists or your location. It doesn't correlate your listening habits with your recent purchases. This makes the experience feel more elective. When you can decide to turn something on, that means you can decide to turn it off. It's different from our always-on, always-connected everyday experience.

- The endless sea of digital media sometimes induces analysis paralysis. The bigger your MP3 library, the more mental resources you must dedicate to mentally searching for the music most appropriate to your mood and surroundings. Narrowing your selection to a handful of radio stations, each one playing only a single song at a time until it ends, frees up a lot of mental resources.

- Paradoxically, being exposed to music you don't like actually refines your taste. Further, suffering through a bad song on the radio heightens your anticipation of the next song, and if you end up enjoying the next song it's a huge, satisfying relief. Compared to Spotify where you can skip past an unsatisfying song, or be reasonably sure the next song will be more to your liking based on whether you just skipped, the emotional experience is more varied and granular. It's more exciting. It's also closer to reality: contrary to what the countless ads and offers claim, you can't always get what you want and you won't always be satisfied. Annoyance, boredom, dissatisfaction, and disappointment are going to find you eventually. There's nothing better for practicing acceptance of life's unpleasant, unskippable moments than suffering through a terrible song on the radio.
How do you anonymize an individual's DNA dataset (600k-900k DNA markers)?
There are benefits to driving a larger vehicle for some people. It's fun, it's safer (for the occupant, less safe for others), there might be prestige?

Europeans would also drive bigger cars, if their petrol was as cheap as in America.

And you can see the Americans reacting to at-times more expensive petrol by buying smaller cars for a while.
How is this related to tech?
He was arrested because he was involved in selling drugs at gay clubs. There are evidences about that. Not everyone who is against russian government is innocent. There are many really shitty people who doesn't support russian government too.
What about notebooks with touch screens?
There's two kinds of license compatibility one might care about, relicensing compatibility and license merging compatibility (“can a project using a particular license adopt components with another license with no effect on the restrictions imposed downstream” [a somewhat weaker form of this that is unconcerned with additional notice requirements that have no substantive effect on what downstream users can do is perhaps the more common form] vs. “can a project use upstream component under one license simultaneously with upstream components under another license at all”). JSLint has license merging compatibility with some F/OSS licenses, but not even the weaker form of relicensing compatibility (although permissive license will often have at least the weaker form of relicensing compatibility going to the JSLint license.)