skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair, and there are absolutely discussions to be had around the "second hand smoke" kind of impacts these technologies can have. (I really like that metaphor)

But I think it's wrong to throw the baby out with the bathwater here. I agree that there absolutely needs to be more regulation around this area. I'd personally like a law that mandates a tone or sound (and lights) when one of these devices is recording. I'd love some laws on the books in the US that gives those who don't want in this ecosystem a quick and easy way of ensuring they won't end up in them.

I also think that there are a LOT of things that all of the big players in this space can do better (like the by-default recording and storing of all the voice data indefinitely). But I also think that there has to be compromises. Saying it's ludicrous that these devices use the internet is the pendulum swinging way too far in the other direction, the internet-connectedness of these is basically the biggest selling point.

But I'd be over the moon if they did all of the simple commands "locally", and I'd love if users were given more control over their information (something like a weekly/monthly/quarterly email asking if Google can use the following list of recordings to train their models would be awesome IMO).

There is so much hyperbole and just straight up wrong information gets thrown about so often with this stuff, and there's a lot of extremism when it comes to privacy, especially on this website (I know this is a loaded word, and I don't mean to include any additional connotations with it, I just don't know how else to describe this). I also don't want to enable turnkey surveillance, but at the same time I don't want to live as a luddite to prevent it. There has to be some middle ground, and if that means it makes dragnet surveillance easier while improving the lives of many people, then I might be okay with it.
I've got a RAID-Z2 array that is being kind of weird, and I'm not entirely sure where the problem is, but it has never lost data. At first I thought it was a marginal disk. Now I'm thinking it might be the controller.

It's amazing how easy it is to work with ZFS though. I was able to take each drive out of the pool, run badblocks on it (read/write to exercise it and look for errors), and then add it back in once it passed the burn in test. Easy peasy. Even with each drive being a dm-crypt.

I've been using ZFS for a very long time, and never had data loss on it. Even back in the early days of ZFS+FUSE under Linux. At one time I had 5 big systems running ZFS for backups of ~150 machines.
You never heard of "all publicity is good publicity"?
The article also has pictures of Asheville and Berea, the former famous for it's ties to the super-rich, the latter a long time artists' colony. Was there even a picture of a trailer in the article? Or a church?
I apologise if I was unclear. What I tried to do was subtly to entice my readers to reflect on the validity of the ruling beliefs about women in STEM -- knowing full well that I'm flying outside the tech crowd's Overton window. Let me try to express my belief in a different way, using four bullet points. I hope it's more clear this way.

(α) All the studies that claim show that the reason we have more men
than women is due to malice (eg. misogyny, unconscious bias) are not
standing up to scrutiny. They have no scientific validity.

(β) The reason that there are so many 'studies' of
the kind I criticise as scientifically baseless is political. There
is a political will to have more women in STEM positions.

(γ) The overt explanation for this political will is structurally rather
similar to the explanation given by the early Soviet Union for the
promotion of non-Russian ethnicities over Russians in the policy of constructing the New Soviet man (новый советский человек). This reason is cogently described in Marxism and the
National Question [1].

(δ) I'm generally worried about policies similar to those carried out by the author
of [1].

[1] https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913...
Vodafone Goes Live with Ericsson 5G Technology in London
With services like DistroKid (from F'd Company creator "Pud") I'm wondering how big of a deal this actually is?

The optics definitely are lousy.

https://distrokid.com
It halved again (-$1875) where it will stay for another 6 months.
Hello HN,

I originally designed BonFive as another possible revenue stream for Content Creators, and a more centralized way to discover new content and creators across the different platforms. A DB for Content Creators if you will.

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The camera doesn’t capture a “scene.” It’s all just electrical impulses on a CCD. You the perform extensive processing to turn those impulses into something approximating that someone might see. It doesn’t seem a big stretch to, while you’re at it, interpret the signals in a way that reflects where the person would actually be looking.

“Emotional truth” is the wrong phrase. It’s the actual truth—the person on the other side is looking at your eyes.

The real issue is that the processing isn’t sophisticated enough. Instead of just moving the eyes, it should calculate what the camera would show if it were located in the screen.
Semax can make your hair fall out slightly selank doesn't . Ive heard good stories about both . Try them both out but start with semax . Do it long term .

Fasting can increase bdnf by 3.5 times . Research intermittent fasting and also long term fasting (48 hours) .

There is just so much that can increase bdnf but as a rule of thumb when it comes to herbs . Studies mostly are short term and just not as good .

I recommend coming over to the nootropics subreddit and research/ask there
Isn’t the use of the lock buttons, like, the standard way to test whether the OS/hardware still responds to something or if it’s reboot time?
the character is named after him.
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My perception is that if a man works less than full time, people think he must be a go-getter who isn’t afraid to ask his boss for it, must be earning a lot already, etc. It’s seen as an enviable position to be in. When women work less than full time they tend to be called “unambitious”.
Making a huge selection with mouse in LibreOffice spreadsheets even today goes faster if you move the mouse while dragging one endpoint of the selection over the spreadsheet borders which causes the sheet to scroll. Likely the very same cause: there's a timer or other repeating tick to scroll content at a reasonable speed but the sheet is also scrolled when input events wake up the same loop.
Lol it's both. Men don't get pregnant
After reading this thread I really think we need more people like Richard Stallman in the world. "Embrace and educate", you'll say. No, people don't care. Let them do what they will. I will not participate in the destruction of privacy. However this, to me, isn't even the scariest part. The real scary stuff is when you realize what this data is most certainly being used for.

Remember when the CIA gave unknowing citizens LSD? Remember the unclassified docs that revealed their intentions to be able to basically warp a mind, and control it at their will? Well, today, we hand them the data for deep examination. Our emotions, intelligence, etc. will be revealed by a quick scan of our face. Just imagine the databases these government agencies have available. I imagine labs filled with scientists and engineers trying to crack the data.

It sounds conspiratorial, but come on. Imagine if you held humanities brain within your hands. Would you not study it, trying to figure out how to make it work more to your personal needs? Or maybe you'll tell yourself it's to make society better, to make it safer.

Just a note: I'm not accusing the CIA exactly of doing this. There is no doubt in my mind, though, that somebody is out there doing this (the CIA seems most reasonable).
Sorry for rambling, I've been awake for 24 hours (is there irony in that?)
Maybe the author meant more in a geographic sense. Like I've definitely heard people say Austin is in the heart of Texas, but they're mostly saying it's centrally-located in the state not that the city itself is a canonical representation of Texas culture at large.

Edit: And while Morgantown is only 9 miles into WV, really the entire state of WV is the heart of Appalachia. No matter what part of the state you leave from you're still going to be in Appalachia, just in a neighboring state.
http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/09/no-one-ever-went-brok...

TL;DR: Not Barnum. Paraphrased from H.L. Mencken.
You would know if your phone was uploading loads of voice and room data real time.

There are of course more subtle ways to do this, but not for real time monitoring. You can transcode the audio with an encoder that does advanced mathematical quantization and batch upload it. If all you care about is human voice, then you could upload an hours worth of audio in a couple hundred kbytes, if even that much.
If women want to stay home with children more than men do and successfully achieve that, it's quite the opposite of sexism. Most stay at home moms are doing exactly what they want and it's actually sexist to question their decisions.
Credit schemes and overdraft facilities certainly aren't the main benefit of a bank account either, they're more like very dark patterns that you take for granted and turn off where you can.
If you plan to keep the server running you could run pihole on it.
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Naspers Appoints CEO for South African Operations
Government EHR proposals threaten patient privacy
No, it’s actually a little-known feature that allows Win95 to temporarily upclock the CPU during peak loads, using the power generated by vigorous mouse movements.
Most antinatalists reject rationalism.

No, not "rationality", "rationalism" as a philosophical position
Your concerns about privacy at this level are nice and warranted. They are also a day late and a dollar short.
I also thought about this when I saw it. It's incredible how ahead of the times DFW was!
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I know exactly how that feels. A switch flipped at some point though and it stopped bothering me:

I gave up on any notions of mysticism - religion, higher meaning and all that and instead just accepted causality is all there is. Things happen because they're the only logical thing that could happen given the conditions. Think of it as taking Markov to a broader sense.

You know what's so great about that, that relieves me so much? That there's no plan for me. No one is going to fix my issues, no one but myself. So I found comfort in having agency over my own circumstances. And I slowly started to fix whatever made me unhappy.

The stuff you mentioned will bring you down for sure. Start attending to them and life will slowly get really awesome. No silver bullet of course, there are ups and downs but it feels so much better. And get help if you have to!
I was a kid in the 70s, but even at that tender age I thought the synthetic substitutes looked like shit. They didn’t look “new and modern”, they looked cheap and like someone was trying to make do with the economical alternative.

So don’t be fooled by the brochures. We weren’t.
Where is the link to the site?
Right now when they land on the website, they can see which priority dates are current, although they don't get to see a customized view of how many days behind the dates are from _their_ priority dates. Thanks for the feedback, that would also be useful information in the email that goes out as well.
What to learn about Technology in Africa?
What would you like to know more of about Africa's (or specific country) digital technology sector/ecosystem?
Next step would be to rewrite everything from Ruby to Go (they already did for some parts of GitLab infrastructure).
> Not really and the ones that exist are expensive and have poor selection.

- Bandcamp

- Boomkat

- Qobuz

- 7Digital

- Bleep

- Juno Download

I buy everything I like (and it's a lot) in a lossless, digital format and the only time I can't find a legal lossless purchase option is when it's actually a physical-only release.
Agreed.

If you follow any high-profile women in tech on Twitter, wade into their mentions to see sex-based harassment directed at them. It's consistent and ongoing and must be exhausting for them to deal with. (I know it would be for me.)

If one's answer is that that's somehow not representative, I'd like to know why one thinks that shows up on a public forum but doesn't translate to any other parts of the industry.
Sometimes the software itself may even just be designed that way too. https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Hidden-Tax-Moves
Great answer, thank you. It seems like the accessibility bar is often described as equal enjoyment for all, not merely attainability for all. Based on that, I figured an inconvenience or annoyance should be below the bar, and you are very forgiving to instead find them acceptable!

Your point about minorities is well taken, but I guess the reality is that creating for the majority involves more obvious or ubiquitous knowledge, so creating with minorities in mind takes more conversation, teaching, learning, and card-like moments. Empathy in the latter but not the former is probably innate at some level.
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> or wouldn't even notice happening

That's the problem.
Although I generally agree with your sentiment, please don't forget that, unlike the US, the EU also has antitrust and anticartel laws with teeth and has applied them in the past against large quasi-monopolists like Microsoft and Google.
The same is true in MS Word and even in many web browsers.
If, for once, you can get of all the middlemen it allows you to create your own.
Former Equifax executive sentenced to prison for insider trading
Hacking, Glitches, Disinformation: Why Experts Are Worried About the 2020 Census
You're looking wrong.
Yes, good point. As O'Neill pointed out in a blog post last year on "Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range" [1], the impact of choosing a faster PRNG is smaller than the impact of choosing a good algorithm to generate an integer in a range. There'll be very few applications where choosing a faster PRNG has any significant impact.

[1] http://www.pcg-random.org/posts/bounded-rands.html
plex, tor relay, bitcoin + lightning nodes
A lot of credit card deals lock you into particular airlines. Either through a card branded with that actual airline, or companies like AmEx making you choose exactly one to reap benefits with.
Has anyone investigated Stratis? I only recently heard about it, and it sounds like it has a ways to go to match feature parity, but it is targeting ZFS and Btrfs, seems like it has made a lot of progress in the last 2 years, and has Redhat behind it (?). It's not clear to me how closely it will match ZFS features, but it seems like it might be on a path to maturity before Btrfs.

https://stratis-storage.github.io/

I really wish we had HAMMER on Linux.
The problem with this sort of article is that it's generic advice. Local advice will be more useful, but harder to find.
How fast do these fungi grow?

Might they be a future food source? Radioactive materials could be coated in an inert material and made into pellets which would be easy to filter from the final resulting food.
In my opinion hitting the FY19 numbers will depend on getting production running in Shanghai. I think they’ll need 20k cars Made in China to get solidly into 360k+ territory.

Currently lines will make ~1,000 per day. The Shanghai line will be the next big leg up in volume. When it turns on will determine the year end volume.
That's what I thought would happen. I really wonder whether the WM-7 actually has an optical sensor.
Ask HN: Human replacement rate be adjusted to 1/2 surviving progeny/person
Should we adjust our replacement rate from 2.2 to 0.5 surviving child per person?

Setting aside emotional reactions, wouldn’t we all survive as a species if we have a manageable population.

If we continue to compete with each other for gene pool domination, isn’t it folly as none of us will survive and it is akin to species suicide?

A request: Please don’t downvote or flag this post if it offends you. My comments get downvoted when I suggest population reduction and that’s ok.

But I would like to discuss this without the topic being considered taboo or untouchable.

It would be nice to explore different scenarios where we would be at 1..2..3 billion total population or a time progression of population growth at 50..100..150..200 years at various replacement rate levels. How does one project this?
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> Just that you traded it away for some (stupidly minuscule IMO) benefit.

I think this is the disagreement. You are treating privacy as a binary thing. That once you trade any amount of privacy away, it is entirely gone.

That is not how most people approach privacy. Most people view privacy as a spectrum. Someone can choose to sacrifice some (but not all!) of their privacy to get a benefit.

What's key is they should be able to prescribe the limits as the poster above has described. We should be able to severely punish companies that lie about their behaviors, because that would make it impossible to make informed trade-offs about how much privacy we are truly giving up.
And one of the authors of said book is also quite a prominent member of the ReactOS team.
Isn't that what smart was supposed to do?
No. This happens even without swap, OOM killer might as well not exist.
They have addons for most support issues, including priority incidents - throughout the years we've been with them, it can take ~2-5 hours before someone even reply to complete server downtime.

We mostly host proxmox nodes and use HA, so it's not much of an issue when it's used like this.

OVH is very similar, although, Hetzner is often quicker.

We only use server-grade (Like Xeon or EPYC), not the desktop ones (No ECC memory).

If one need many IP's, OVH always wins in price due to it being a one-time cost, while Hetzner charges monthly.
There was a recent thread with Raspberry Pi ideas that you might find useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20264911
Since I can't read the article I can only go with story time here- my wife has cameras in her room and she loves them. Fights about 'who started it' are ended with the words, 'Ok, let's look at the video'. And when some little bully gets called on the carpet and their bullying parent comes in all set to steamroller administration with 'that's not what my child said happened why are you picking on them' the principal just rolls the footage and watches as the realization that their kid is a little shit dawns on the parent.
This also happens without swap.
I have a 4-bay QNAP x64 appliance that I wanted to put a full Linux distro. I wanted to have a matched 3-drive raidz pool for /var, /usr/local and /home and have the rest of the system live off an SSD.

My goal was to have a media server for the home with DVR capabilities to use a Hauppage USB tuner to use within Plex. QNAP pulled DVB support 2-3 years ago, unfortunately so a native solution wasn't working. I considered FreeNAS but LCDproc is not available which is a must have for me.

I tried several ways of going about this: installing the system to the SSD and copying over those specific directories to the raidz pool with appropriate changes to mounts. I tried doing the debootstrap method, and chrooted to create the raidz within the new install.

However, either I ran into issues in either configuring grub, or the remapped directories not mounting at boot. I am sure there was a simple element that I was missing, but within the time constraints of personal life and a skillset not to par with an IT admin, I gave up and relegated my self to the QNAP environment, without the DVR function I so badly wanted.
Check these out:

- reddit.com/r/homelab

- reddit.com/r/homeserver

I'd say the content on /r/homelab is about 33/33/33 distributed between

1. Masturbatory massive rigs at your home that consume thousands of watts of power but look cool and its fun to say you have a 10-node vSAN cluster next to your dehumidifier.

2. People who like to pirate content like its their job - setting up Plex and all the newsgroup/torrent apps to auto-pirate shows and movies. For a 13 year old, that can be cool. For an adult who clearly has the cash to spend on non-essential items and in a world where time is money: I do not get it.

3. People with an old PC running Kubuntu for a remote dev / FTP environment who want to do more cool shit with their gear!

So as long as you enter the homelab reddit knowing this, you will have a better experience there.

I definitely second Pihole. I might suggest experimenting with virtualization: so you can turn that single computer into 5 or 6. Tools like Proxmox or even just installing KVM and managing it with (https://virt-manager.org/). You could Also look into running your own installation of Gitlab (although due to the footprint of the install, I might suggest keeping that isolated to a virtual machine)
I remember this with any selection in windows on at least 3.1/95/98/SE.

This happened if you kept the mouse just inside the window and moved it about 10-20px up and down in/out pf the window in the direction of the selection.

It was a way for me to scroll faster than with the wheel or cursors on web pages if you selected some text and then kept the selection on the end of the screen and moved the mouse wildly in the edge of the screen.

As I was younger then, there was probably a better solution to do this but I was not aware of it.
What is the point of comments like this besides aiming to seem smarter than the original poster? If you get your way then you would stifle open discussion and information.
I'm assuming the commentary is about this book: https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Elegy-Memoir-Family-Culture...

This book is specifically written from one (white guy's) point of view -- somebody who grew up in the area.

I'm not sure how the ideas that circulate about this place do active harm. Most (if not all) accounts I've heard about this place are personal accounts. The truth from people who have lived or traveled there.

Sometimes the truth hurts. Denying it's truthful isn't helping anybody.
I don't really think it was as dramatic as you're making it sound - the Ford Falcon sold 1 million cars in the first two years, and the Ford Mustang sold 1 million cars in 18 months. The Falcon continued to be sold for years afterwards, and it appears that there are many enthusiasts who would reject the definition of the styling as plug ugly.

Also, if you read the article, it makes it sound like McNamara understood Iacocco's genius salesmanship, and promoted him into a position he could be effective.

In the same article, it talks about how Iacocco was president during the Pinto debacle, so it would seem that he had both successes and failures.

Overall, I think we need to have a little more balanced view than a simplified retelling of history that says that Iacocco was a hero and McNamara was a tone-deaf robot. Both contributed greatly to Ford and both had their blind spots.
You really shouldn't believe anything someone (male or female) with a high profile on Twitter says. The more someone is driven by attention, the less trustworthy they are.

They are outliers and not representative of the actual community or workforce.
And you shouldn't need to be disabled to get excused from HN's mean-streak. Lots of maliciousness and bitterness in that comment towards people.
That's sweet. It will make his day.
> I hear that the european market for online advertising imploded

Good.
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To my knowledge, the US government (or at least the FBI) “negotiates” a takedown of a problematic app with the developer directly.