skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree, they should have kept the fingerprint sensor. Even by implementing the two together, it may have offered a compelling and unique 2FA combination.
I think I can take it as an axiom that in order for a democracy to function well, the people in it need to know what's going on both domestically and abroad. Who do you suppose should go out and find and publish needed information? If your answer isn't "journalists", then what separates those people from journalists?
Mainstream news media has really gone to the dogs. Doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum you are on, I highly recommend not watching mainstream media on TV and instead find indie youtube channels.
That's a pretty bad take.

The other half the story is that the Dems object to every cleanup and always claim the Republicans are trying to suppress votes, but never have any suggestions on how to do it better, only "don't do it now" or "do it after the next election" in perpetuity. That's how blue states like Michigan end up with court orders requiring them to do cleanups (court orders which Michigan is violating).
"Hey, this steak house's hamburger tastes terrible. Therefore, all other steak houses can be ignored and we can all just eat McDonald's instead, because who needs quality?"
A lot of the alternatives posted look like they'd be a good fit for my group. However, I feel the discoverability isn't there. The local UX meetup will likely choose one platform. The local frontend developers meetup will choose another.

Reliable, consistent members will follow the group regardless of the platform but I've always liked how easy it is for a local developer to just stumble across my group.

The best part about running these meetups are the random devs that decide to come to one event and stick around.
It's not a problem to publish novel observations without being able to plug it into a theory right away.

Sometimes, novel observations are important enough on their own without being able to generate conclusions right off the bat. Penicillin, in particular, was published based on the observation of inhibition of bacterial growth in a petri dish which had some fungus in it. It took later scientists to isolate the chemical agent which caused this antibiotic effect and form a theory about it.

In fact, a paper on an observation is probably more important by itself than an observation plus some mediocre theory. The theory paper can come later.
Ah, yes. The good old "don't make that tool because bad people might use it" argument.

Similarly, we should ban sharing information on hacking/security because bad people might use it, and require that all communications be visible to the government to prevent abuse.
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Presumably they didn't go for a 'turn it off, do the transfer, turn it on again' strategy. I'd guess they transferred the bulk of the data beforehand then applied incremental updates until the databases matched then turned off the old db.
>Amazon have been using MySQL even before all these forks happened. And not only that, if Oracle decided to pursue a lawsuit, or if MariaDB, Percona, Elasticsearch or EnterpriseDB did, Amazon will have to cough up.

Pursue a lawsuit over... what, exactly?
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For sure, in modern history there have been horrible things done to people in the name of war or medicine.
We hate Oracle because they're a deeply unethical rent-seeking company.
I would have been OK with We buying Meetup if they offered their space for meetups ... but alas ... they did literally nothing and likely we'll see that the product was killed in the end.
I have noticed, um, great variation in "Chinese" food when I've travelled, and other than immigrants adapting to local tastes, I have wondered if different countries haven't had more immigrants from differing regions of China, thus affecting what "Chinese" food is like in these places. I the USA, in addition to the crazy sweet dishes (concocted to please the American palate), you also get a lot of quite spicy Szechuan influenced dishes. I found "Chinese" food in London to be shockingly bland and tasteless by contrast.
I like your optimism, but I've failed to witness a law that has never been twisted into some gross contorted display of what it was normally used for at least once.
I believe it was typed in a tongue-in-cheek' manner.
People who grew up with classical music don't need to jump through that hoop. Or do you require them to acquire a taste for Hip Hop?

If not, then it is exactly as I pointed out before: the bar is much higher if you come from the 'wrong' cultural background.
Pigo, the Go face detection library is capable for facial landmarks detection
They don’t even have to be Chinese. Anyone can be bribed or paid to be compromised.
Just based on a random seed set when the browser loads and the domain name being loaded (that is, external resource requests get the values for the sourcing page domain, which is already tracked in browsers for security purposes). You'll get persistent per-domain values per browser run. If they can already track you definitively beyond that (bookie, session, etc), you're not hurting yourself at all by doing it, but it will possibly help with all the other cases.
Zig is doing this, an interesting feature.
They will jump and say "no we have 300 hundreds sources and own index blabla" but in practice it's essentially a Yahoo reskin.

Yahoo itself is running on top of Microsoft Bing which explains some similarities you have seen.

DDG's official address even was duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net

When you click on ads, of course your IP and search query is sent to Verizon, and Microsoft.

It's even directly sent by the client browser.
Gitlab, for example. You can see the multiples in the json used for the salary calculator (eg. Vancouver 57.367 % of a SF salary): https://about.gitlab.com/salary/data.json
Suggestion: make the favicon match the theme selected, since we see it a lot in the address bar when using DuckDuckGo as the default search engine.
Fair points. I stand corrected on many of them

I posted it mainly because SO is copy-left, and not clear, but only really compatible with gpl

That is a negative reason tho, and we can say that SO really has had massive positive benefit -- and I should aim for something better

-- But yeah, on the link topic...

We want to see people treated better. But part of that means accepting them when they don't do or believe what I want -- and we can't force that onto them -- or by extension onto SO or other companies either

So I guess I should do what you suggest, and aim for high standards, but build up, rather than tear down

... Going forwards tho, it's going to be sadly hard to use SO for BSD or cc0 projects
Google products (Sheets/Analytics/Gmail) simply run slower on FF these days. It's clear that Google optimizes their products to run well on Chrome, and doesn't bother benching performance on FF. I have a chromium portable laying around for the sole purpose of logging into google products that I need to access for work, and access everything else in FF.

I don't think Google is maliciously making FF slower on their products, but I believe they simply don't care to tweak/tune performance on FF like they would have years ago. As everything else google does, the devs metaphorically cover their ears and proclaim "lalalalalala we are google we don't care!" ...and it's more telling every passing year.
Sure, don't trust them but still make it legally clear what's allowed and isn't instead of this grey area we have today. Then they'd have to do parallel construction because they can't admit there's a still secret biometrics database out there. And secrets love to be whistle-blown about so that'll happen eventually and reset their progress.

There's no silver bullet, just a long battle of attrition.
Why bother teaching your children if the world is going to end before they are adults?
Ive thought a lot about this.

For many residents, building more housing and letting more people in would irreparably change the “character” of the neighborhood. This can mean more crime, traffic, and pollution.

Past a certain density automotive transportation becomes unfeasable and people will be forced to rely on public or other alternative forms of transportation like walking or riding a bike.

Reducing housing costs would mean changing the way we build cities,shifting to a European or Asian model. Whereas most Californians are very attached to their way of living.
"Regular travel"? This is not a historically aware definition of "the American dream". Regular travel isn't even a goal of most people today.
Indeed - even cities like Nashville have seen dramatic increases in home prices in recent years: https://www.nashvillepublicradio.org/post/after-years-surgin...
Even just not sending your children to school can be a legal issue. There are religious exemptions though (I was mostly home-schooled, for example).
Why doesn't someone with a phobia just stop being scared?

Exposure therapy works for phobias; people exposed to their phobia in a way that increases their anxiety, long enough for their brain to notice they haven't died and recalibrate its fear response, stop being scared.

Why not just tell an obese person to eat less food?

Because they enjoy eating food? Eating food isn't what they want to stop, being fat or sick is what they want to stop. Eating food is delicious, comforting, filling, reassuring, is it any wonder people resist giving that up?

It's not that their eat-less muscle won't respond to training, it's that they won't work their eat-less muscle because that involves eating less, and they like eating.

A depressed person would say, "Doing X will not improve my situation or make me happy." And he might be right.

That doesn't say his happiness muscle is broken and won't respond, it says he has unexplored reasons for preferring the status quo more. He gets more benefit from unhappiness than from doing X. Go explore those reasons.
Sometimes a sufficiently good story is payment enough.
Thanks for telling everyone how great your life is going. I came here, and I was worried that I wouldn't hear about you and how well your life is going...but I am relieved now that I have heard how great your life is going.

Serious comment as the above will totally tilt the neckbeards who will miss the point: housing is a problem in aggregate, bad policies are a function of local/individual thinking. Every thread about housing (or personal finance) has these comments - I have my pension so everyone else should be fine - they are dumb and part of the problem. What seems a logical viewpoint individually, is catastrophic in aggregate.
Doesn't work for every term, or for every person.

When Google ignores it for me, it is usually on "high value" terms, with lots of potential ad views.

But to say "It works exactly as expected" is only correct for you and your machine.
It's Yahoo actually and Yahoo is running on top of Bing.
(Hold your finger on a DDG ad and you can see the chain of redirects).
I wholeheartedly disagree with this statement. I think that all streaming has done is allow for easier access to music, not "less meaningful" access.

Many family members of mine LOVE music and cherish it no matter if it's an old mixtape, a vinyl, or a Spotify playlist. My friends go to concerts of bands they discovered through youtube, I found a new love of many genres thanks to these services.

The people who don't value music (value as whatever it means for your definition), are just the people who never really got into music. If streaming was non-existent, these people wouldn't suddenly magically get a love of music, they just wouldn't listen to it as much.
At the office, we tend to have frequently scheduled sync of any important data from personal devices to a server, and other important data is centrally hosted on servers anyway. Servers have RAID set up. So far none of that is really a true back-up, but it gives us some resilience against immediate hardware failure.

The true back-up is dailies (or on demand if appropriate) from the server to an off-site backup service. All data already encrypted on our side before it leaves the building. We take some measures to ensure consistent snapshots, including for tricky applications like databases and source control repositories where a filesystem-level snapshot may be insufficiently robust.
Sometimes using !g improves a search, but for the first time in years I'm seeing the opposite in some cases, including computer science related stuff.
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Well, for a given chip, it usually just refers to a wider temperature range.

But there are other types of flash that are better suited for this environment. I see parallel and SPI NOR flash a lot in ruggedized embedded devices (usually with a minimum of 100,000 erase cycles), but they're generally a lower capacity.

I don't know the exact cause of this failure, but there are ways to design around unreliable flash too. They could partition it such that the firmware image is in a read-only partition, and it runs out of a ramdisk, with only user settings and log messages stored in a R/W partition. That may be what they're doing, and perhaps the issue is due to the software crashing when the write fails. I'm not sure.
‘AI needs to span every battle system we have’: US Army AI Task Force director
It is not guaranteed, but all the libraries do. In fact in the past the bound was O(N²) as the expectation was that quick sort would be the default choice, but because all implementations used introsort, the bound was thighened.
Show HN: Interactive visual solver for the traveling salesman problem
RHEL is free to download and use, you just can't get support for it unless you pay for an entitlement.
Republicans say Democrats just want to get all the poor people/illegals registered to up their vote, Democrats say Republicans want to suppress votes to keep control.

I think most Americans have a problem with the government keeping lists about them. How that makes sense in the modern age of driver's licenses, SSNs, and the Patriot Act, I'm not sure, but as long as people here are so against the idea, it's kind of dead-in-the-water.
The only scenario I can think of that's merely incompetence is that someone outside of ABC sent them the video, claiming that it came from Syria, and ABC made no effort to validate that person's credibility.

If the video was produced anywhere inside ABC's organization, it would be dishonesty rather than incompetence. Anyone who downloaded a video from YouTube and edited out the people with phones at the bottom would have known that the video was not footage of a battle.
How possible is it to realistically fake something like this, instead of just re-purposing some gun porn? I'd be more concerned about that than some anxious journalists getting trolled into publishing something that is, to the initiated, obviously not from Syria.
>“This video right here appearing to show the Turkish military bombing Kurd civilians in a Syrian border town,” Muir said. “The Kurds, who fought alongside the US against ISIS now horrific reports of atrocities, committed by Turkish-backed fighters on those very allies.”

One possibility is that it was Kurdish sources who supplied the video to ABC, falsely claiming that it was a fight against them in Syria. If that turned out to be the case, then would the media fess up to being duped by them? It would force ABC to change their narrative on Syria - something that I believe they're unwilling to do, no matter what.
duckduckgo-owned-server.yahoo.net ?
Same results and order as Yahoo on obscure keywords
If you're going to eat a plain, sliced-bread sandwich every day, why not make your own to bring from home? Not exactly hard, expensive, or time consuming. Always tastes better fresher. Why pay more for a shop bought cold sandwich that isn't fresh, hot, or luxurious?
Obama (or any president) is not responsible for every line of every proposed bill that makes it through a committee reading. It's not his job. Blame the committee chair at the time.
While IPFS has been used successfully for censorship resistance (ex the Catalonian independence movement: http://la3.org/~kilburn/blog/catalan-government-bypass-ipfs/), I completely agree that anonymity is not something that IPFS claims to support right now - and users should be very careful in how they use the network for censorship resistance. While there have been some experiments in this space (ex OpenBazaar's onion/tor transport for IPFS: https://github.com/OpenBazaar/go-onion-transport), none of them have been audited for reader/writer privacy.
Even if it's incompetence, I suspect it will still be based on some element of media bias. It's just a matter of who will get blamed.

Like if the film editor (or librarian or intern) that filed the original footage thought it would be funny to label a bunch of gun-loving Kentuckians as terrorists. Video gets tagged "Terrorists waging jihad on Americans. Automatic gunfire and explosions at night"

A few days/hours later someone searches the library for recent footage of Syria, and the keywords fit.
So long as the harm caused by those taking advantage of it is less than the good created by the change, it should still be put in place.
I too developed this habit. Then I forced myself to stop and realized that DDG actually was working fine for the great majority of my queries. I almost wish the bang wasn't there, because it makes it so easy to second guess DDG's results and develop the habit of always using !g when in reality DDG is actually quite good at this point.
1. If that's what you believe, then you're acknowledging that the officemate's complaint was necessary for the guy to be removed, not just going to management about the password. So you're agreeing that going to management about the password couldn't "almost guarantee someone is going to get fired".

2. "maybe we just sent a weird password to HR, and they did the default thing and fired the guy"

You just acknowledged in the prior paragraph that an actual complaint was necessary.

"years later we remember the justification that he must have deserved it because he's gone. (Details? Sorry, can't!)"

To be clear, you have already said you have no basis whatsoever to believe that he made up the details that justified the firing.

Just like I could suggest, with no basis, that you actually dumped your ex-girlfriend in a mean and nasty way over her struggles with addiction, and while distraught over the breakup she expressed her displeasure with you in conversations with mutual friends. You weren't actually present at any of these conversations, but you're sure she called you schizophrenic, satanic, and a creep, details you made up because it's easier on your conscience. You were the only person who ever perceived her as "frenzied", her job never did and neither would the cops, but it's easier on your conscience to say the only reason you didn't get a restraining order was to keep her out of jail.

All that would be entirely consistent with the facts you've told us, if I wanted to view you in the worst possible light with no basis whatsoever. Just like you're doing to jedberg.
It's a shitty situation, I doubt ABC knew it was footage from the US. But how do you verify that a random video clip, filmed at night, actually took place in Syria (assuming the crowds were cropped out before they saw it, otherwise its fairly obvious)
Unless you get very lucky with housing living off $40k/year is pretty difficult in San Francisco. Even if you manage I would definitely not call it comfortable.
Work for yourself eventually?
What's a "reference"? You can enter arbitrary info during a transaction?

Genuinely curious. Is this a UK thing or available everywhere?
I keep being amazed at this attitude.

"I do not want to be tracked" + "$15/mo is too expensive for many small groups".

Big Mac in Philadelphia is $3.99. 15/mo is 4 Big Macs. That's expensive for a small group in the US?!
I repeat:

> What are á and à?

The concept of variations on a common letter wasn't exactly new at the time. If you're supporting German and Greek, it seems safe to say you're also supporting French.
I don't think its fair to say that living outside a city has to be boring. Many value and enjoy being among nature. My ex-coworkers who live in rural areas seem to have a good time on their quads, tending their gardens that sometimes approach small farms, hiking/biking, boating on the lake in summer, ice fishing in winter, hunting, camping, etc.

Your Friday night at a bar is their Friday night around a fire with their hounds.
I do this and I want other people to know it's possible too.

I'm putting together a list of the best places to live for remote workers with families, hoping to turn it into a little website that you can filter by schools, available internet speeds, median house price, that sort of thing.

Hopefully it will help someone out there when there's more data.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X2JihFpA97EEAMz8kD-j...
Thanks - yes that's exactly what I meant
"Household income" so a couple with incomes of say $75k and $25k would put you in the "low six figures."
Ireland is looking really nice now
But there's nothing stopping me from stopping the DVD halfway through.

And who's to say I'm being drip-feed these movies on autoplay? What if Ghibli had their own service (please no, not another one lol). I would have to make the deliberate action of going to their platform, searching for the movie I want, and clicking play.

I don't see the lack of streaming as preserving value, the value should (and definetly does imo) come from the movie itself. The animation, the story, the colors, the music.
There is no departure fee. As others have pointed out, this is simply data transfer.
Like paying taxes. Taxation is theft after all.

Also, possible military service maybe?

But the GP poster is 100% correct that purposely not registering your children with the state in this day and age is hugely suspicious. You are giving up so many services and getting very little apparent benefit in return, there has to be some ulterior motive. It's not a good place to be where the least terrible answer is that you're a bit crazy in the head.
Yep. Even before the acquisition in 2016, GitHub was doing fairly well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13218842
The current owner is a lady married to a local politician. She inherited the farm 4 years ago from her aunt. She visited the property a few times and never noticed something suspicious. The rent was paid for promptly every month.
Many questions remain unanswered.

article in Dutch: https://www.rtvdrenthe.nl/nieuws/153066/Eigenaresse-boerderi...
Some of Vernor Vinge's books deal with the 'alien' in alien intelligence in ways that were quite illuminating/shocking for me at the time. They weren't just humanoids with animal instincts. He created intelligent spiders that were believable. And the only sympathetic treatment of a hive mind I've yet encountered (Card's are pale in comparison)

But one of my favorite inventions of his was a creature that had somehow evolved wheels. With veins and nerves and such there is hardly a creature on earth that can rotate a limb farther much farther than 200°, and the ones that can, like owls, we treat with a certain reverence.

Developing an artificial wrist that can spin arbitrarily would be, I'd think, a quite compelling compensation for someone having to use a prosthetic arm. It would also make for some wicked Rubix solving skills. I wonder how proprioception would deal with that though...
Don't forget the highly underrated community college systems in VA.
I'm not even at a tech company and requested 32GBs, as I sometimes have VS and Android Studio open, running mobile emulators and checking what is going on the API end. You add VMs to the mix and one really needs 32GBs. My company had no issues providing the ram. Plus, it is insanely cheap right now.
Because that's how it works? They even document it themselves: https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/?redir=1