skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sailing and working in company that makes sail boats.

Have been learning a lot of sailing and boats from YouTube. Want to give it a try.
I haven't looked into it enough to know how "out there" this idea is, but I think I've read that there seems to be a correlation between lack of UV exposure and myopia.

Glass blocks UV. Which means people are getting next to zero UV exposure indoors, even if the room is brightly lit.

The past few years, we've been keeping out windows open basically from the time it's warm enough in the spring to when it starts getting too cold in the fall. We ran our AC for maybe a week total this summer.

Anyway, where I'm getting at with this is since our windows are open, we should be getting significantly more UV exposure, even when indoors. I wonder if the rise of air conditioning did a double hit to people's eyesight by both 1. Keeping them inside more often and 2. Leading to people closing their windows, which blocks UV exposure.

Anyway, a though I had the other day.
To add to this, there is also another line you can draw: do not eat anything which requires killing (not just harvesting from) another living thing. This is basically the line drawn by Jain vegetarians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_vegetarianism). This allows one to eat milk and dairy but does not allow one to eat root vegetables that require you to kill the entire organism to eat it (and potentially other living beings that live in the soil).
It wasn't Chrome either. It was Keystone, a separate program that updates Chrome and other Google programs. Most users have never heard of Keystone (and Google likes it that way), but Keystone is running on your computer if you've ever used Chrome or Earth or another Google program. A bug in Keystone caused this problem. Keystone is very hard to kill and if you succeed in killing it it has a nasty tendency to come back.

Keystone is malware written by Google and it needs to die.
Perhaps that's it, maybe I just disagree with the end result, and have somehow wrapped that up in a belief that the decisions are arbitrary. I guess I'm also using "arbitrary" differently, perhaps incorrectly. I don't mean it in the sense that people aren't thoroughly exploring the options and deciding on a course of action; I mean that the result isn't actually logically consistent and just flows from people being practical and needing to find a way to justify new things inside an old framework, whatever the cost. To me, that's "arbitrary". If that's not actually what that word means, I apologize, and will try to find a better word.

From my perspective, I see the idea of the "Shabbos goy" to be, at best, weird, and at worst, acting in bad faith. To me, an Orthodox Jew is saying "I'm not allowed to do these things, and do not want to do them because I prefer the comfort and equanimity of being disconnected", but then turning around and using the fruits of others who do not adhere to those restrictions.

Essentially people who use a Shabbos goy, to me, are trying to have their cake and eat it too. They want to benefit from the existence of the technology they are taking a break from, while pushing responsibility for that technology on others. Perhaps acting in this manner allows a practitioner to feel like they're preserving the spirit of Shabbat and gain benefit from the whole things, but to me, it's just dishonest. Obviously practitioners disagree, as is their prerogative. Just as it is mine to believe that people will often go through as many mental contortions as needed to justify their actions.
I wish people took this seriously. This is a slow moving disaster and that elicits a non-response from most of us. Once the temperatures rise beyond 2C, there are many consequences -
1. Food yields and nutrition drops significantly.
2. Entire species go extinct (we already see that happening). We cannot survive independently. An entire ecosystem is needed for us to lead a healthy and happy life. E.g. insecticides are causing die-offs of butterflies, bees etc..
3. Once wild weather becomes the norm - fires, food shortages, hurricanes etc.. massive rioting will follow. Insurance will be expensive or non-existent (they already don’t cover Act of God) and that means financial insecurity for most of us.

The other overlooked fact is that the greenhouse gases stay in the atmosphere for a long long time. So, once the climate changes it won’t be a 1-day/1-week or a 1-year event. We talk a lot of geo-engineering etc.. but why not make small sacrifices now (eat less meat, buy local and used stuff, no single use plastic, less air-travel etc..) and save the beautiful planet that we already have. Yes, it will cause some economic dislocations but we will be fine. Companies will adapt or healthy and environment friendly alternatives will come up.

Take this seriously folks. We don’t have another planet to go to and our children are counting on us.
He mentions the mech was changed in 2011, mentions there’s a probably little used retrofit and at the end of the video he comments that there are likely many compromised ones still out there.

Which is pretty expected if you've seen how buildings are maintained in general. I haven’t encountered a lock that doesn’t have this vulnerability in any 20th century post-war nyc building.
I’m currently a sys admin/sys engineer.

I’d become a farmer.

I love growing plants. I love being outside. I love being away from electronics. It’s perfect for me. If only it paid more... (but I’m working on that, in 2-3 years I hope to be able to make the transition to full-time farmer)
The way I see it, this European law is already quite dangerous and will become more so as tech merges with our brains. People might wake up one day having 'forgotten,' for example that Trump grabbed someone by the pussy, because some court decided so. Similar to how users saw copies of the book 1984 disappear from their Kindles not long ago because Amazon felt like it.
I don't know if opening the platform more or having alternative app stores is the answer, but Apple should have some responsibility to give the developer a clear indication of what triggered the investigation, what they believe the issue to be is and a reasonable expectation of how long the investigation will take with a human that is responsible that you can communicate with directly. I'm not usually in favor of more regulation but I think Apple, Google, etc. have been getting away with this behavior to the detriment of the developers and their customers for far too long.
Compare selling on the App Store to selling physical goods in a real store. Can anyone just make a thing at home and take it to their local Walmart and demand they sell it? Of course not. There are quality controls. There are things you have to learn first — that your packaging needs to be in a suitable box, that you need to get a barcode, that it needs legal notices, etc.

If Walmart offered a “seller’s course” where you could go and learn how to do these things nobody would bat an eyelid. They’d probably be praised for it.

Here’s where my analogy falls apart, of course. Walmart still won’t list for sale the crappy useless thing that you made at home. Apple will.
The cynical side of me thinks that candidates are screened for this because screening for things like technical ability and communication skills is actually really hard, so we screen for this easy thing instead.

I wonder if "excitedness about the company early in the interview process" is in any way indicative of on the job performance later on.
AT&T redirected pen-test payloads to the FBI's Tips portal
BootRogue, a roguelike game that fits in one boot sector (510 bytes)
Integrate Linux Commands into Windows with PowerShell and WSL
Possibility to help with my Open Source stuff during Hacktoberfest
Octopodes have their own evolutionary barriers though, irrespective of intelligence:

- They only typically live 4 years and the act of reproducing kills them

- They live in coastal ocean biomes, which have high selective pressures

In order for intelligence to flourish, a form of communication is needed and the method to transfer knowledge from one generation to the next. An octopus is a solitary organism, unlike mammals which are tribal. It does not live long enough to develop social skills or to transfer knowledge to their offspring, so there isn't any accumulation of information for their species to build cities or technologies. Each individual is forced to self educate and re learn survival.

Your criteria for intelligence is more criteria for safe habitat than intelligence. Just because they don't live long enough to learn language or write books doesn't mean they are not intelligent.
Perhaps it would, but there are plenty of other restrictions on freedom of speech. And this particular law does not apply to news media etc, as far as I understand - just search engines and similar databases.
Completely pointless non-actionable advice.

"Help! My compact got stuck in the snow"

"Buy a 4x4 and replace the wheels with tracks, that will get you going anywhere"
All those things you mention represent information. Information encoded in matter. Information that can be compared. We could hypothetically compare two neural circuits that respond to red and thus see if they have the same activation profiles for redness.

Batness could similarly be simulated and then made available to a human brain as read-only stream, perhaps as a dream-like experience.

This is entirely speculative, handwavy and would take fantastic levels of technology, but it does not seem information-theoretically impossible unless you assume that there is something immaterial, at which point things just turn into religion.

Thus it is within the realm of scientific study, albeit it requiring currently hypothetical instruments. But so does the study of quantum mechanics in strongly curved spacetime.

> If you want to know more about why someone would believe this lookup Searle's Chinese Room argument.

I am familiar with it and agree with the position that the (turing-complete) chinese room is simply a way to describe an AGI which speaks chinese and the operator of the room is the computational substrate of the AI and thus a red herring. It's really just an anachronistic analogy.
Painterro – open-source JavaScript painting library
Wow! I'm a twin and this is the first article I've read that really puts into words how I feel about it at times. Especially:

" Not coincidentally, twins are at strong risk of being objectified. First, we get reduced to our appearances: what matters most about us is how our bodies hit the senses. Second, we get treated as fungible: interchangeable with our fellow objects. Third, in many cases, our subjectivity is ignored. People don’t deny, exactly, that twins have rich and distinctive inner lives, just as sexists don’t deny, exactly, that hot young women do. But those lives often aren’t what’s interesting about us, and they’re easily glossed over. "
A $5 part used to modernize nuclear warheads could cost $850M to fix
You can whitelist a kext.

https://eclecticlight.co/2019/06/01/how-to-bypass-mojave-10-...
He's not "doing it again." He's just "doing it" for the employees of a subsidiary they acquired.
I have a similar problem with Youtube. I created original content and they blocked, saying that is not original. No details, impossible to talk with a person.

I always end up enforcing my theory that some companies are becoming too powerful.
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Weight Loss Solution That Works Wonders
"Those using Smart Summon must remain responsible for the car and monitor it and its surroundings at all times. "

Does this come with an "oh god, stop!" button of some sort?
I don't really understand how this is news -- not because of the date of publication, but because this is basically just a gimmicky HR stunt being pulled by the Army to increase retention. They're telling PsyOps soldiers, hey you're so special that we're going to promote a big chunk of you so you can have higher status in the Army. The Marine Corps has done this a few times in recent years with the HUMINT community; it's a kind of intuitive thing to do when you have an MOS community with relatively low numbers, a selective and long training pipeline, and worse-than-expected retention. I'm sure they're giving out great reenlistment bonuses too. What totally bewilders me is why the HN community thinks this is interesting and upvoting it.
Smart summon is here; hide your young children.
I was desperately looking for a short-term furnished apartment / long-term hotel in Manhattan and spent ~$4k month for a studio at WeLive. The leasing process was worst than most traditional NYC landlords. Point being, it's an overpriced dorm for adults who want to "network" / make friends. If you're looking for this sort of thing in NYC, look into "ALTA+ by Ollie". The leasing staff there actually treat you like a customer, instead of you trying dozens of times to contact WeWork's leasing / management office.
They do, although the image processing can get sluggish on some devices so your mileage may vary when it comes to smoothly transitioning it.
Better privacy, simplicity etc.

Cookies were a hack to add sessions on top of http.
Right. And that's what I find disturbing about most organized religion.
hoping to see that upgrade that recognizes stop signs for full self driving soon!
New ES2019 JavaScript features
Though I do agree with the sentiment that disproving bullshit is more work than writing it, the linked Google Sheet is a literal import of the raw and modified data sets freely downloadable from the NOAA ftp site.
Title is somewhat misleading. "Number Theorist Fears That No Published Math Paper Is Certain To Be Correct" would be more like it. The fear isn't that everything is wrong. The fear is that any given piece might be, and therefore we can't have real confidence in any of it.
I concede it's probably closer to 80% money and politics. Have a good one!
I agree, but rankings are by their very nature zero sum.

If one person goes up, another goes down unless they are exactly equal. That level of equality is something I think impossible to achieve and even if we did, humans would find some other way to rank people.

But compared to the past, we can make it better. There is no reason why the 50th percentile today cannot be equal to the 60th percentile of yesteryear.
Firebase is probably a bit of an edge case on this one, because it was a paradigm-shifting developer product before dev products were cool.

If you were a top-tier developer, there was a >0% chance that you would be super excited about the product because you realized the pain point that it would solve for you if you were building a real-time product at another company. And that excitement or lack thereof was a useful litmus test for Firebase specifically.

I agree that "excited about our company" is not something you get up front if you are interviewing at a company that is building an on-demand AI marketplace for ML-optimized scooter rental office spaces.
Reading is usually more attractive in my opinion.
They're a private company. They have the right to decide what they do and do not want on their platform. If you don't like it, you can always build your own pro-LGBT tiktok.
There's also the content analysis that they definitely held milk. And Bronze Age is when Europeans would have just been developing lactose persistence:

"A genome-wide scan for selection using DNA gathered from 230 ancient West Eurasians who lived between 6500 and 300 BCE found that the earliest appearance of the allele responsible for lactase persistence occurred in an individual who lived in central Europe between 2450 and 2140 BCE."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence#Evolutiona...
> when you normalize the results between the countries, adjusting for the relative poverty of the students taking the PISA tests, the U.S performs significantly better, ranking 6th in reading and 13th in mathematics, a drastic jump in both categories.

We're doing better than that. When you break the results down by race, the US generally ranks second or first. (US whites do better than whites in Europe; US asians do better than asians in Asia, US blacks do better than blacks in the few countries with a large black population that aren't afraid to take these tests in the first place...)
>You don't want an employee to join you because their top choices turned them down -- you want to be their first choice.

Why?

Unless you're offering FAANG levels of compensation, isn't it pretty arrogant to think you're anyone's top choice?

Candidates can easily lie to you about this. In fact in my last job hunt I was instructed to lie about this by recruiters who are actually being paid by the company I'm lying to.

I told every company I interviewed at they were my top choice.
Three separate meteor apps on three different ports.
It’s slightly less powerful than NVIDIA’s self driving offering.
That is a great blogpost! It also explicitly undermines your point:

"My primary hope is that it’s just not a real problem. Certainly there has been very little in the way of speech restriction so far, and what little there has been has been against things which, on the object level, I’m happy to see gone."

> This is literally corporate fascism if done in an extralegal way.

I resolutely and absolutely oppose corporations acting extralegally. But Cloudflare and Voxility have an absolute legal right to not do business with 8chan and Epik if they so choose.
Why is my non-Admin user doing an update? If they are locked down then they are locked down. Other means are probably being used.

Plus, thinking about it, how does Google deal with Carbon Freeze?
I’ve always thought this would be a money laundering opportunity. Sell an app for an outrageously high price, buy App Store gift cards with dirty cash, and then buy your app from yourself. You could almost certainly get an army of cheap labor to buy your app on their phones if you gave them a gift card worth say 110% of the app’s cost. You’d lose a pretty big chunk to App Store fees and taxes but it’d be clean.
> with it enabled, there are several significant, legitimate things you cannot do with your own computer.

For those wondering about such a use case: the only way to get eGPU's working on <=2015 MBPs is to disable SIP (and use purge-wrangler). It's not officially supported because 2015s don't have TB3
The Librem 5 smartphone. Now shipping
Technocracy – Finale – Social Credit System
I've been trying to figure what makes America the outlier. One could say egalitarian Enlightenment values, but that didn't prevent the French Revolution from turning into a bloodbath and eventual authoritarianism. Do you know of any theories to explain the difference, well-accepted or not?
Getting Some Closure with JavaScript Closures
Project quotas appear to be more similar to cgroups. They are available in xfs and ext4 https://lwn.net/Articles/623835/
Boeing Underestimated Cockpit Chaos on 737 Max
Really excited to finally get Spotify integration, that's huge.

Also hoping they install WiFi at superchargers so you can watch youtube/Netflix while charging there. Not sure where else I'd use that feature.
My 2 cents. Use your own domain. It’s really cheap and now you own your email address and can move it to another provider whenever you like.

Setting it up in Fastmail is super easy if your halfway computer literate. It literally says what DNS records you need to creat.

Importing your Gmail emails is even easier: log into Gmail from within the Fastmail options. Grant access. Now it’ll import all your mail in the background.
Trying to play psyop terrorism in the center of global hardcore terrorist activity was a really dumb idea. Scare Iraqis? That's laughable and all it managed to do was invoke indignation and get a bunch of Americans beheaded.
"What makes us so confident that plants don't also meet this criteria?"

Brains or other possible organs for processing information are metabolically expensive to operate and entropically expensive to maintain the genetics required to build them. If there is no evolutionary advantage for plants to have sensations and emotions, they will not evolve the machinery required to have them.
The supposed use case described here is a parking lot also, where there will be lots of pedestrians darting between cars.
My position is "never talk to police without an attorney" -(although this wouldn't apply if I were reporting a crime). Uber has plenty of attorneys either way. There is no conflict.
> They aren't good for consumers either.

They're at least a little good for consumers. Look at the Windows software world of the early internet era for what can happen with a completely unrestricted software installation paradigm. As annoying as it is to be an app developer with a good app banned for silly reasons, remember the developers used to be pushing straight up malware along with their apps.

At least now you know that your music purchase isn't installing a rootkit.

Could it be better? Yeah. But it could also be a lot worse.
Your article is great, too! I've saved it along with other Bluetooth resources for reference. Way more accessible than a video, thanks for posting it. There was nothing like it when I was deep in needing to maximize throughput.

The thing I really appreciated in the presentation was the visualization of how each of the options increased throughput. I also was very thankful that CoreBluetooth handles so much for us. I was able to get our firmware updates to get to 85% theoretical speeds without having to do much fiddling (besides good algorithm design).

I am jealous of your lab gear, though. I got Ubertooth [0] running for sniffing, but could only successfully follow a connection event about 25-33% of the time.

[0] - https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth
The early issues used such weird slick waxy paper that I'm afraid they'll slide right off the scanner... =)

Oh, and they're HEAVY.

But you're right, I should drop him a line.
Search for "Launch", choose "Open App" in the actions category, pick Spotify.
They have loose plans for building one, there is no current construction, or indeed even a definitive descision. Even when the chinese decide is uncertain: could be next year, could be in three years(1). The only thing that exists is a conceptual design, that isn’t even sited!

(1): https://indico.ihep.ac.cn/event/9832/session/0/contribution/...
First gas station in America to ditch oil for 100% electric charging opens in MD
Yep, same page.

Chrome 76.0.3809.132 (Official Build) (64-bit) (cohort: Stable), Windows 10.

That said, I guess I needed to update Chrome, so I just did to 77.0.3865.90 (Official Build) (64-bit) (cohort: Stable)
, and same error.

Here's a "copy as cURL" for the request, maybe that can help?

curl 'https://blog.timac.org/2019/0926-state-of-swift-ios13/' -H 'authority: blog.timac.org' -H 'cache-control: max-age=0' -H 'upgrade-insecure-requests: 1' -H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36' -H 'sec-fetch-mode: navigate' -H 'sec-fetch-user: ?1' -H 'accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,/;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3' -H 'sec-fetch-site: cross-site' -H 'accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br' -H 'accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9' --compressed
If ad networks would behave ethically, I would agree with you. But they don't, so I don't.

It's not all black and white. If you want to charge me for content, charge me for content. If I think it's worth it, I'll pay. Don't force an unusable, emotionally-manipulative, probably malware-filled experience on me from the get-go because you don't otherwise have a sustainable business model.
The Hippocratic License – An Ethical License for Open Source Projects
Session support is what cookies were supposed to solve, a proper support would make things simpler and not allow to abuse cookies for other things.