skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is slower not due to drivers, but due to how the browsers[1] compose the final webpage. It does that using CPU, not GPU as on other operating systems, so hardware video decoding would involve moving the compressed video to GPU, waiting for it to decode, moving the decoded video back to RAM, do the composition, and then move the result back to GPU for display.

For hw decoding to have sense, GPU composition is needed. Hopefully webrender will bring that in for Linux too.

[1] Firefox actually, Chrome does use GPU composition. Chrome for ChromeOS even uses the same driver (libva+intel-vaapi-driver) as desktop linux for video decoding, Google just is not willing to support it on desktop. That's what some distributions enable in their Chromium builds.
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No it doesn't. In no way an RFID token is equal to biometrical information. I can throw away the token, choose not to have it on me etc.

The dataset you are talking about is not just in/out but is a lot more comprehensive than that.
It's not just possible, but highly likely. Graham Hancock has compiled an impressive amount of evidence for pre-Younger Dryas civilizations in books like Magicians of the Gods.
There is and any parent giving their phone/tablet to young kids should at minimum make sure it's YouTube Kids they're watching. It doesn't have ads or comments section, for example. As for its content being sufficiently filtered or not - nowadays I think it is.

We, the parents, should of course try to minimize the amount of time our kids spend with youtube or in general with phones/tablets/TVs.
Oh, interesting. I don’t think they can in Japan
I have the opposite experience (in LoL which I played for too long some time ago). If you encountered an enemy in default you knew you were in for a beating. Most probably a smurf (high level player on a fresh low level account).

Most of the really good players I knew couldn't care less about skins. People that did suck bought skins to feel better about themselves ("yeah, you won, but I have a $20 Udyr skin, noob!") Except one guy which was pretty good but had a gambling problem and liked the random aspect of buying chests.

What you describe is probably the social dynamics in your son's group of friends, which are probably kids and mostly suck, which makes buying skins the social signaling of their worth, for lack of a better metric.
That is incorrect? I just tried and it works just fine on my Linux host.

As long as the symlink is inside the ~/Dropbox folder, pointing to a file/folder also inside the ~/Dropbox folder, it works. I can open the file/Folder when tapping on the symlink on mobile Dropbox.
>I'm not gonna lie. The idea of doctors steering a thin cable through my brain is one of nightmares.

Not when the only alternative is open-brain surgery with drilling and sawing big openings in the skull.
> Some of the most free and wealthy (in terms of purchasing power) people I know do this. Compare the person who can't pay all the bills with $20k a month (a figure I recently heard from a real person!) with my friend also living in this town who is extremely frugal who spends $1000 a month and built up $40k in savings from a job.

Those two extremes both sound very unappealing. The obviously superior middle ground would be to make $20k/month and spend $5k, which would allow you to both save massively AND live very comfortably without pinching pennies.
This is a company-wide thing, so if there's no HR diagram then it's hard to poach both sales staff and tech people. I'm an ML guy and my title is ML Lead, but that's still a long way from "ML Lead working on this one specific problem".
In the UK the three compass points are on OS maps, sometimes with the changes predicted for multiple years.

The older the map the less useful it is. You then have metal in the local rocks which can cause problems.

Terrain recognition is far easier, there is far more error correction built in, but if you are hit by a patch of fog and visibility is down in to 30m (let alone 3m!) you need dead reckoning.

Trouble is even a 1 degree error can turn into significant errors after a very short distance.
Cross compilation always comes at a performance cost. Moreover, it is another compilation target your compiler needs to support. When that compilation target is a high-level language, supporting it is harder. This means java-script as a compilation target is less likely to be added.
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> How can you sell something, like an indie video game, for $1 in India and $10 is the US, and prevent Americans from buying the Indian version?

Some online stores just use the Credit Card billing address.
The figure I saw (on the BBC article and the linked Swedish article) was 17,000 hours per year in this school.

That still seems suspect: estimating a school year of 35 weeks that's 175 days, thus 97 hours per day across all teachers. Even if it were some mega school of 1,000 pupils and maybe 100 teachers that seems high, would imply they spent perhaps ten minutes of every hour in a six hours day taking & dealing with attendance on average! (obviously based on assumptions, so this could vary)

It feels like a number that was come up with (or at least inflated) to justify the project.
No, only if you are

- fighting someone who controls Stripe well enough to browse transaction logs

- or you are fighting someone who can access your bank transactions (more likely in this case) and manage to correlate them correctly with Telegram account creation time

Both seems like huge steps forward compared to sms validation.

Furthermore: Bitcoin is not much safer for the ordinary citizen. If anything it is way easier to trace than cash and I guess slightly more different to trace than bank transfers.

Or am I missing something?
That's what the linked article says. It makes a distinction between a symlink in your Dropbox folder that points to another item in your Dropbox folder (syncs both symlink and target) and a symlink that points to another item outside your Dropbox folder (only syncs the symlink).
Hello everyone,

Freshlytics is a self-hosted open-source privacy-friendly analytics software.

You can use it to learn more about your users in terms of visited urls, referrers and browsers used without invading the users privacy.

It doesn't use cookies and doesn't collect PII. While this limits what metrics can be collected, I felt that there might be a good portion of websites on the internet who don't need these invasive metrics.

It's built using Typescript (React/Express) and uses PipelineDB for storage. All the reports are pre-defined (not adhoc) so I felt this is a good use case for PipelineDB's continuous views.

This is still in beta, so please use it in production with care or atlas run it in parallel to other analytics software.

Please feel free to leave feedback as comments or as issues in GitHub.
I moved to Syncthing when they asked me to move to ext4.

I'm glad I did. Now my phone and tablet are first class citizens
when syncing and I can have multiple roots shared between
different devices. I wish I switched earlier.
No. I was bounced into iMessage support, which gave me a number to call. After a few minutes on the phone with a real person I was told I'd have to wait up to days for somebody to call me back (while I'm traveling in Europe) to resolve it.

Six days later I'm still waiting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it

When Microsoft put live tiles and telemetry in Windows, whoever signed off on that knew they were crossing a line.

It doesn't need to be defined that strictly. The OP talks about FM radio adverts. An announcer telling you that a new song like, exists, could be construed in some sense to be an advert, just as my profile telling you that I am indeed a software developer could be.

But that's not really what's pissing people off and abusing their attention here.
Given that Linux has 2% desktop market share (let's be generous) and Firefox has 10% (let's be generous the same way), that would mean that Linux has potential to be 20% of Firefox users. Is that something you are going to ignore?

Many executives would sell their families for less opportunity.
I think it comes down in part to ageism: there are a lot of adults who can't stand children. And then there is everyone who grew up suffering and therefore rationalised it as important and requiring repetition.
Adding types would probably slow down the code as some optimizations done by the engine wouldnt be allowed. Kinda like when you use bitwise operations for optimization only to find out they actually slow down the code.

We could hower add Interface and optional types as syntax sugar for runtime checks.
Thanks for chiming in. The anti-fruit (and then usually pro fat/ meat/ paleo) team is very confused yet very vocal.

> physiologically we are frugivorous apes, after all

If one does not (cannot) accept this fact, I'm not sure I even want to discuss the nitty gritties of diet that person.
well shut my mouth, that is far more advanced than i expected it to be, hats off to them for actually getting it to work on that level in the wild rather than just in lab settings is pretty damn impressive

i know im probably supposed to say its "bad" or "evil" but that doesnt mean i cant be technically impressed, i was one of the poor unfortunate fools to get a system crushed by the CIH virus back in the day but it didnt stop me being pretty blown away at what it did
I've been traveling all over Asia for most of the last ten years. At least a few times a year one of my cards gets flagged by some algorithm. I can resolve this almost instantly with my Capitol One card via an SMS or the app. Or I can call my back to have my debit cards unblocked in max 10 minutes.

My Apple card has been blocked for almost a week now and all I'm getting is automated responses.
Very interesting analysis!

For more context: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/30/755994591/president-trump-twe...
Hmm, when can parents consent on behalf of children? Can children retract the consent given for them by their parents?
No I'm not. I'd imagine that a contract would be enforced by both parties respecting it, especially given that there's not that much to win for Google, and much to lose if, say, an employee would leak that it was being violated.
Indeed I do use my local library. I mostly borrow eBooks, and sometimes physical books and rarely DVDs. I also use my library to escape my home office for a different place to put my head down and work.
I am wondering if we are not too pessimistic about feedback for that application : why not use physical chord-like movements to different actions (delete characters, words, sentences) or like making distinct handsigns assigned to more used phonemes and less used one to chords of several finger joins like index / thumb, etc. Would be weird at first but, as learning vim taught me, building a coherent grammar can definitely make a big difference.
The Wallet app redirected me to iMessage support, which then asked me to call a phone number, which led to somebody on the phone that told me to wait for a call back. Six days later I'm still waiting.
You are practicing a form of time-restricted feeding (TRF).
Yeah that is not it
I am wondering if there was some private company involved that provided incentives perhaps. I know an IT consulting company was involved with the design but I don't know their relationship.
There is a huge discussion amoung evolution scientist if we can even adapt that fast. It usually takes muuuuch longer to adapt. We certainly did do selective breeding to ensure that the current population of humand is "better" at surviving meat/dairy/grain/extracted-fat consumption. But adapted? That's much contested.

And yes, high meat is one thing in modern diets. But dairy/grains/extracted-fats certainly also need to be considered as "foreign to our original diet"
I've read something very similar before (also facebook) and one thing disturbed me, and it's given in your quote, the difference in bugfix uptakes by devs depending on how it's presented. I have to say that shocked me as it appears so unprofessional (yes, I read the reasons but still).

The root of that shock was the human factor. Us devs aren't machine parts, but our essential job is to do stuff and fix the inevitable bugs. The fact that presentation of bug reports could change things so radically was an eye opener, and one I'll generalise and remember.

Then again I've never worked on huge codebases, and I assume the devs there were top engineers so I'm not attributing this to laziness or indifference - but still, amazing and not in a positive way! I'd just assumed static analysis = bugs found = bugs fixed = better code; end of story.
You're probably right. After-hours trading is so large these days that the big movers don't care when the news is announced.
> Web 2.0 brought none of the democratization it promised

It introduced formula "If you're not paying for a product, you are the product", while in old world model delivery of value is more about givers/takers ratio.
It's not due to larger industry trends. The paper shows that startups in the US got more funding in the same time period, including early stage startups.

I remember warning about this when GDPR was being considered. People said it wasn't a concern. Later in 2018 I linked to a draft whitepaper that showed a decline in funding for EU startups. People replied that it was a statistical fluke and that we needed more time before we could draw conclusions. Now it's been a full year and the US-EU investment disparity is higher than ever.

At this point I don't know what would change people's minds. It's like talking to climate change denialists. I get the same response: "There's not enough data. The data doesn't support that conclusion. Even if it did, the trade-offs are worth it."
Dropbox is still OK for easily sharing files with other, especially movies and stuff that its sharing web UI supports.

But in 2019 it is basically an inferior and antiquated tool for syncing your own files.

I moved to the open-source SyncThing[1] some years ago, which gave me:

1.) the ability to sync any arbitrary set of folders I want, which of course completely obviates the need to care about things like this issue (i.e., no need to use symlinks to sync other folders, because you can just sync those folders themselves)

2.) the ability to actually sync folders that contain symlinks, as many types of software projects do (Dropbox and many other purported sync tools can't do that, which means there are many common types of folder that they can't sync without corrupting them by replacing the symlink with the contents of the symlink destination) EDIT: Or, have they fixed that now, and is that why they are making this announcement? I am not sure. Back when I used Dropbox for syncing, it couldn't sync a folder containing a symlink, but this may no longer be true. (?)

3.) better sync reliability

4.) better sync performance

5.) completely superior security story; end-to-end encryption means you are in control of who can access your files (no access for employees, governments, etc)

The tradeoffs are:

a.) a little bit more work to set up (but it's really just a little bit... I walked my dad through it over the phone... basically the same amount of work as getting your credit card billing setup on Dropbox)

b.) weaker story on mobile, no iOS app

c.) no "cloud" so you have to do your own (e.g., leave an iMac running 24/7 back at your house or something)

All in all, after 2+ years I am extremely happy with Syncthing, and I don't think products like Dropbox have a very strong case to exist anymore, at least not for the original purpose of syncing folders full of computer files.

That problem has now been solved better, way more securely, and for free. (Which is probably why Dropbox seems to be trying to pivot to become some kind of enterprise team commmunication hub.)

[1] https://syncthing.net (if on a Mac just install the Mac app and it will install the other components for you)
My friend can use my RFID card too.

Why not use a fingerprint reader if automation is needed, or just place trust in the teacher to not cheat and give them a web page or app to enter absences?

Attendance is a safety thing (or viewed that way). If my 8 year old unexpectedly doesn’t show up to school, I would like to find that out at 8:30 rather than 15:00.
My mother had one of these knitting machines, I think was a Brother one, as a child it felt like a space ship dashboard :D
Thanks for the link!
My thoughts exactly. Ten or 15 years ago I would think "cool, they are going to make something awesome with it".

Three years ago: "they'll shut it down when they get another exciting idea".

Today: "userbinator beat me to it only I am worried they will come up with something worse".

Sorry to all googlers here. I'm trying not picking on you individually but the company you work for has worked long and hard to erode mountains of trust and it is starting to pay off :-/
Ok but brokers aren't less regulated, exchanges are, and Twitter isn't traded on every exchange.
Wikipedia article on USA-224: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-224
FlowStorm Porthos Multithreading (MMT) Packet Processor
What to do once you admit that decentralization never seems to work (2018)
One cannot say any diet component is absolutely bad or good. It needs to be compared to something else, quantities/quality needs to specified, bodily condition needs to be considered.

If you're interested see Greger, McDouggal, Esselstyn, Fuhrman, they are evidence based "meta study" doctors, that try to bring all evidence together. They also (each) have videos showing how to spot a paid for study (like the one showing butter is not bad by comparing it to huuuuge intake of coconut oil, which no-one does, but then "butter is back" get's printed on TIME mag).
rfid cards? I can just give mine to a mate and have him check in for me
Wherever that “supposed” claim comes from is BS. They have the dog mode to prevent dogs from cooking, and you explicitly enable it when leaving a dog in the car. Hence the name.
I’m actually all for it. I don’t think it would be a big deal if unarmed Iranian drones are flying above US airspace zone or above the orbit high enough to consider it being outside of what atmosphere is considered. I mean US drones fly above Afgqnistan skies all the time and they are even armed, so I don’t see a problem so long as its done on some common agreed rules.
You are comparing server logs containing your IP address to human trafficking. That's a fun bit of rhetoric, but it doesn't help anyone in this conversation discover what's true.
If you’re saying you write code without knowing what you’re writing then yes you should have a mental model.

It’s a lot easier to build in your head than to write code. You might go through a dozen ways of doing something in your mind which would take an age to do in code.

Further, writing code to produce a mental model is limiting because every line you write naively commits you to fewer possibilities. You can be a lot more revolutionary in your head at no added cost and without throwing away hours of work.
More discussion on the author's Twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/cgbassa
> c.) no "cloud" so you have to do your own (e.g., leave an iMac running 24/7 back at your house or something)

> That problem has now been solved better, way more securely, and for free.

You haven't accounted for the cost and maintenance of the 24/7 iMac (or VPS) if one doesn't already have that, and not everyone does.

I'm also a happy SyncThing user but I wouldn't say it's as easy to use as Dropbox for the general user.
Well then it seems the 1st amendment ought to be fixed if it's that obviously broken.
Perhaps it is a number based on the time that would be required for teachers to perfectly track attendance. But of course they don't in practice!
As a parent, I constantly make choices on behalf of my children that they (or I) may not be happy about in the future and it’ll be too late.
A Canadian firm has taken on Wall Street’s private-equity titans
Any alternative suggestions? SyncThing that is discussed here seems to need you to manage your own always-on system, which I suppose can be implemented via a cloud server?

I've been using Dropbox for years but this change means I need to re-organise, so may as well look at other options at the same time.
Note that PCBs are made of dielectric (non-conductive) composite materials such as fiberclass-resin laminate. The conductive copper film covering the substrate is on the order of 100 micrometers thick.
Gaming is also one of the main reasons why I still have a Windows box. However, thanks to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton, this might be less of a problem in the future.
Here's a good associated reddit comment analyzing the resolution of the satellite.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cxmfjd/president_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cxmfjd/president_...

tldr; potentially 15-20cm resolution taken on this angle. And if it's the KH-11 (or later advanced kennen/kh-12), it is the first image since 1984 (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Janeskh1...)
One can only gain weight when over eating calories.

But if one over eat calories but NEVER takes high fat foods it becomes A LOT harder to put on weight.

If one overeats but eats a lot of fats (especially saturated fats) COMBINED with sugars (the softdrink at the snack meal) and COMbINED with inflammetory foods (all animal drive foods and processed foods) then putting on weight is super easy.

Making fat out of carbs (sugars+starches), lipogenesis, is something humans are not good in. Eating low fat is healthy, but do the math because you will easily think you eat low fat without even going under 10cal% from fat (which is like the cut off value for actually a low fat diet — I dont reach that usually, but then I'm not gaining weight).
Any alternative suggestions? SyncThing that is discussed here seems to need you to manage your own always-on system, which I suppose can be implemented via a cloud server?

I've been using Dropbox for years but this change means I need to re-organise, so may as well look at other options at the same time. I really enjoy the ease of right-click to share, if any other service has replicated that.
China is using Kublai Khan’s methods to quell protests in Hong Kong
> c) no "cloud" so you have to do your own (e.g., leave an iMac running 24/7 back at your house or something)

You really buried the lede right at the bottom didn't you? The entire point of a Dropbox type service is off-site cloud backups. If I have to buy and maintain a second server and leave it running 24/7 in my house (i.e. I'm not insulated against losing my data if my house burns down or a burglar breaks in) then clearly this product is providing an entirely different and far more limited service than Dropbox and is not an effective replacement for it.
I wonder why more people don't take Google to court over this. Yes, you'd need extraordinary funds to fight them properly, but on the other hand them sending anyone to court will also cost them extraordinary amount of money - so I imagine before they accept any such legal challenge they would ask the CS department to actually have a look at the case first. Having a lawyer send them a letter saying that you are going to take them to court is comparatively cheap compared to having your entire AdSense account shut down.
This is unfortunate. I have symlinks in dropbox to sync certain application config and dot files on Linux. I guess I'll have to use a proper dot file solution or another tool.
Agreed, but I don't think this sentence is true: "In a sense, they have to, or else they'll be out-competed by someone who does."

No they don't. It would be fine for everyone if instead one of being one of the richest companies in existence they would only make the top 10.
Well, I'm amazed they allowed you to run the code at all. In an interview you are expected to test the code by going through it and write the state of the program as you go (i.e comments about the state of some variables in each iteration of some loop and stuff like that). The rest of the feedback is just how they justify themselves.