skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have to partner with an HIV researcher, saw this on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/dmggms/cur...
Also, to what extent can Ring verify that requests are from a real police officer who is currently employed? How rapidly can they invalidate portal credentials after an officer is fired? Do departments use shared credentials for these portals, and if so, how frequently are they rotated?

Would be great if there was a national database of law enforcement officers' name and badge numbers, that typing in both with a match would show any member of the public an official image of the officer's face. I'd love to be able to authenticate whether someone is a cop before letting them into my home: fake badges are cheap.

Similarly, would be cool to have a facial recognition database, so a citizen could take a picture of a cop's face to lookup name and badge number if they are a real cop, or report impersonation of an officer if they are not found.
> I feel like he exaggerates his contribution. After all he has was basically a sharepoint admin.

I have the same feeling. I have not read his book but watched his interview with Joe Rogan and honestly he sounds borderline delusional. Just jump to 1:05:20. I just find it hard to believe that a low-level contractor can do this.

"so now I come in and now I'm the sole employee of the office of information sharing but I'm not close enough to retirement that I'm ok with just doing nothing at all so I get in business and I come up with this idea for a new system called the heartbeat and what the heartbeat is gonna do is connect to basically every information repository in the intelligence community both at the NSA and across Network boundaries which you normally can't cross but because I've worked at both the CIA and the NSA I knew the network well enough both sides of it sides that normal workers at the NSA would never have seen because you have to be in one or the other I could actually connect
these together I could build bridges across this kind of network space and then draw all of these or records into a new kind of system that was supposed to look at your digital ID"
It would be helpful to share evidence on assertion #4, it is a claim that often appears but usually without proof.
from the article - "The microbiota-deficient mice were unable to update their response, and showed persistent fearful behaviour long after control animals had adapted. Chu et al. found the same phenomenon in mice that had been raised germ-free in sterile isolators and so had never developed a gut microbiota." Seems conclusive enough though I wished they gave further details about the microbiota and whether something like fecal transplants were effective. The supporting DOI document is 404 at the moment.

(personal note - although animal research troubles me ethically I accept that there are few alternatives to it currently, although Cerebral Organoid research is proving interesting. Link if interested https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/madeline...).
Ok from there they have about 1 billion in debt related to leased vehicles and a little over 1 billion in debt related to customer's solar installation financing.
I want both digital and meatspace.

The requests should be done in person in a way that naturally limits it to when it would be required rather than just curiosity or convenience.

But the requests themselves, the requesters, the durations, and the judges that signed off on them should be digitally available.
Hackerspaces are a huge relief. Many of them are the last bastion of computing not being spoiled by capitalism.
That is a pedantic but valid point. We should not procrastinate. It would be terrible.
In my experience, any company that claims they are a "X year old startup", where X >= 10, is full of bull.
One is an anecdote, the other is factual data. As someone else said, guns might be okay for someone's personal circumstances but on average they are far more likely to hurt you than help.

Someone thinks they know their own circumstances until they become a number contributing to that average. Also I'm curious about your distinction between urban gun access and rural access and how that affects the stats here.
in his case, being a writer and a grifter seems to have worked fairly well
meal time doesn't have to be torture.

use it to expand tastes, being open to new flavors/textures will go a long way in those kids futures
Chroma – a new way to build cameras
You should not use Brave Browser to access .onion websites. It makes you easier to target and identify and you stand out.

Tor Browser has millions of active daily users VS Brave Browser has only a very small amount.
ML paper – Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
> Does someone know if WebAssembly support is available on the open-source Qt?

it is. I know that on windows the toolchain is available directly from the online installer, but I think that it isn't on linux. It's a quick build however :

git clone qt5 https://code.qt.io/qt/qt5.git
cd qt5
git submodule update --init qtbase qtdeclarative
mkdir ../build
cd ../build
../qt5/configure -xplatform wasm-emscripten -nomake examples -nomake tests -opensource -confirm-license -prefix /opt/qt5-wasm
make -jwhatever && make install
I sometimes go on Google Maps and explore remote areas and I always wonder what life is like in the bleak wilderness; and I think how helpless I'd be if I lived there. I grew up in the SF Bay Area and the thought of being so remote scares me. I crave being near humanity, or at least having a good enough internet connection to pretend I'm near. It's a fault, for sure, but I am what I've been made to be.
Something like experts-exchange.com?
Really? I don't think this is a lie people believe, nor is it the biggest. The biggest lie, I think, that Americans tell themselves is that hard work always leads to success.
> Generally, it's best not to run Tor relays from home as services will start to blacklist your IP as a proxy.

I think this also specifically refers to exit nodes, no ? Running an intermediate relay should be fine as you'll only be shuffling encrypted tor traffic to other relays.
U.S. Senators Ask FTC to Probe Amazon over Capital One Hack
Spot on! Or take the Funnyman scene from Boondock Saints where a criminal boss tells a guy, "They tell me you're a Funny Guy. Tell me a funny joke." "Now? A joke? Uh... um, uh... A joke. Yeah, alright. Um... <awkwardly starts an offensive joke>... I'm not funny today. I-I know. I'm havin' a hard day. I-I-I- This joke sucks. It's-it's-it's a stupid joke."

That's kind of like how I code when sitting down for an interview, whereas I have no problem otherwise. My coding looks like an awkwardly told joke (oftentimes).

If all I had to do was pick some code I had memorized and practiced and "perform it", i.e. type it out, then yeah, sure, no problem. But I get asked to come up with the answer to something on the spot, something I usually take a little time to settle into, maybe do some Googling, etc, and always seems to be something I missed when spending several days to a week refreshing my memory on what I think I'm going to be asked ahead of the interview.
Ah, that makes sense then. Thanks.
You pay about $20/month today for a digital subscription for one of the global brands like the New York Times, Economist, etc. which still have ads to a greater or lesser degree.

They're doing kinda/sorta OK with digital subscriptions but basically journalism is expensive to produce.
Such a bad example. Just because a company is currently spending $460 on advertising to make $400 doesn't mean they can't one day spend less on advertising. Blue apron is spending so much on advertising so they can become ubiquitous and they don't have to spend so much money on advertising. That's like saying an electric car company can never become profitable because they spend so much money making electric cars. They're going to get cheaper eventually and they need to take losses for a bit.
Unless you specifically stayed in the resort areas with the Brits, which I could understand hating, I don't see how anybody could hate the natural beauty on Tenerife. There's 2 biospheres on one island!
A Roundtable of Hackers Dissects 'Mr. Robot' Season 4 Episode 3
This was my impression too. Most of it sounds like the kind of stuff that kids who who think too much of their intelligence spout off in grade school. It's kinda cringey to everyone else.
> Oh my! I feel sooo old now!

I've handled 5.25" floppies on old computers (running DOS and old, old, ~~Mac~~ Apple operating systems), but 8" floppies specifically are an extra level of ancient and hard-to-find.
No, you only have to make your proprietary compiled object files available. what lgpl requires is for the user to be able to update the LGPL parts - so Qt in this case and this does not need your code.

Source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#LGPLStaticVsDyn...
I would point to the graph here: https://baekdal.com/thoughts/what-killed-the-newspapers-goog...

The increased income of Google (which is nearly all ads) matches the decreased income of the newspapers, so it doesn't seem like the ad spending actually decreased, it just moved away from the papers.
Tape? More reliable than SSD? I thought you said you were old?

Jokes aside, the best reliability is probably more redundancy.

Take a few SSDs, write the same data over and over (multiple times on each). If more than 50% agree, then its legit.

You can increase the reliability by arbitrarily increasing the redundancy in this case.
Considering the recent piece I heard on NPR about the link between sugar and Alzheimer's Disease and the anti-fat/pro-sugar campaign, that makes sense that those numbers are up significantly.
Your experience is probably worse. I had issues getting into school, and likewise, no one who said they cared actually did. It feels like my life was taken from me and given to someone else.
The parent was just pointing out how silly the grandparent's sentence was by replacing the word "gun" with literally any other noun. The rest of the sentences didn't really matter, and were just as silly, not to mention just as inaccurate.
It's not just the company though. It's Wolfram Notebooks, Wolfram Cloud, Wolfram Language, Wolfram Foundation, Wolfram Knowledgebase, Wolfram Player, Wolfram Demonstrations Project, Wolfram Data Drop, and Wolfram Data Repository, just in this article.

I guess he saves time and effort naming things (and naming things nowadays is nearly impossible), but at some point it starts getting weird.
Self-reply.

The paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3107898

On methodology: "A stratified sample of 65,326 Kickstarter project creators was surveyed via email. Of those projects, 10,493 completed part of the survey (16%) and 7,788 (12%) completed the entire survey.'

That's already several forms of sampling bias: Kickstarter vs. conventional start-ups, and a < 1:6 self-selected response rate.

Sampling can make or break a study. This one is off to a poor start.

"Response rates varied by amount pledged with larger projects responding at a higher rate."

The discussion fails to not most of the confounding factors I've listed, though it notes "this research is descriptive in nature owing to the fact that founders have agency in choosing with whom to found a business".
So you so hired plenty of people without never looking on code they wrote?

How that variable affects the outcome? Is your hiring process any better/worse comparing when you can read their code and when you cannot read their code?
Drug possession has been decriminalized in Uruguay since the mid 1970s. As you mention, Portugal also decriminalized all drugs in 2001. Switzerland provides safe injection rooms and needle exchanges for harm reduction
Android devs get new UI toolset
Cool; next question - you have a library that returns Futures. You have another library that takes CompletableFutures. How do you feed the output of the first into the input of the second?

Also, as a note, FutureTask is the only implemented class out of those; the others are all interfaces.
'Rewilding:' One California man's mission to save honey bees
you know whats more interesting than this kind of vague arm wavy bullshit that offers facile solutions and ignores the fact that not everyone can be good at stuff? hearing from people who are actually very good at something.
Years ago, I'd think "Yay! Go science!"

Nowadays... don't worry, antivaxxers are going to bring it back.
Vast quantities of antibiotics are used by agriculture in the US, with little regulation or control. The stuff is in our water and food supply, whatever additional increases allowing people to purchase/use antibiotics without a prescription seem pretty small by comparison.
Except Marc's team actually had highly detailed mechanical drawings of those parts, so the only hard part was finding someone who could manufacture them. Thankfully they had connections in that area.
My wife tells me uefy does local storage. Worth checking out.
I can't tell if you knew iPython / Jupyter were recreations of the 1988 Mathematica Notebook interface, for Python.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica
It was one of my course books as well, but I think it's aimed at the American market and style of learning/presentation. I much preferred Stroud's "Engineering Mathematics" which was a course book for engineers at my university (I studied physics).
Great looking website! But... I hated it. As soon as I opened it the fan on my 1 yr old Macbook Pro started spinning like crazy. As I scrolled down, so many things were animating it made my head dizzy. I fully understand the need to stand out but shouldn't the #1 goal of a (landing) website be to educate the user (me) about what you do and why it's relevant to me. Maybe this product is super useful and I would pay serious money for it. Maybe it will solve all my problems in the best possible way. Unfortunately, I will probably never find out due to this first time experience.
Heck, Computer Shopper was an absolutely huge magazine that was almost nothing but ads. There were some mostly low quality articles to lend a little credibility but basically people bought it for the ads.
Hydrogen can be generated by dissociation powered directly by sunlight, with no side trip through electricity, yielding much higher efficiency.

Nobody has found a use for the oxygen that would be released at the same time, although it might be usable for purification, if it could be delivered as h2o2. Then again, concentrated h2o2 is usable directly as rocket fuel.
Author of the article gives one TedX talk, then goes on to proclaim that he's an "expert" at public speaking and ranks himself in the "90" percentile for public speaking. What a joke!
This may be of interest. It was formerly only available to Senators and their staff as a 3000-page hardcover.

https://constitution.congress.gov/
What? Barcelona is one of the most visited cities in Europe, to the point that they think to start limiting tourism. How is not that mainstream?
Did some academic rewrite the article or is there some explanation as to why so many of the citations on that page are so un-Wikipeda-like?
This demo is helpful. One thing that stands out is that fetchProfileData is made in the global scope. I presume (I hope) that it will be possible to do this from include an useEffect hook instead.
What's even wilder is that the people working for game shows utilized this strategy long before it was a known, publicly verified thing. So someone who wasn't a world famous mathematician figured it out and was confident in their work - the same work that a renowned, industry-leading professional refused to believe.
Getting Started with BlackBuntu Linux 2019
What backends do you support for secure artifact (certs and keys) storage?
Do you know that you are quoting the junk science that Clinton via the CDC asked Kellerman and Hemmenway to produce as a lead up to the 1993/94 Brady Bill and Assault Weapon Ban? The same of power that lead the 1996 congress banning the CDC from promoting policy advocation.

Among other issues such as full data never being released, the specific quote you have there was derived from police reports where someone was shot in their home. No other factors were considered like drug or spouse related, not if the home owner was shot by their gun, or any one of a number of other factors that would paint a better picture.

Do you seriously think police reports where someone was shot no other questions asked is a good indicator for gun ownership in the USA?
I guess the army war college is like grad school for military. I thought University of Phoenix was their grad school. The more you know.
Stroud's "Engineering Mathematics" is better for my money.
The browser gives you 16ms to execute JS if you want to avoid stutter. Even with the tightest, hand rolled, vanilla JavaScript there are plenty of situations where that isn't enough time, especially on low end devices.

Seperation of concerns is all good and well, but there are some product experiences you simply can't do with plain HTML.
> Every Qt application I've ever used has been ... off.

even Microsoft OneDrive ? even battle.net ? even your AMD drivers ? even Telegram ?
I feel like the easiest way to fund open source is to offer dual licensing and somehow charge businesses. There have been many that have done this and it seems to work well, most notably IMO is mperham with Sidekiq, but there are many others. Open source developers are too timid of charging for their code.

Relying on donations seems like a bad move, business-wise, because I'd guess (no data to back this up, just gut feeling) that most donations will come from individuals and not busineses, yet the businesses are the ones making money off of your code.
And so we come full circle...
> In this case, the first OED cited usage of 'revert' in the 'reply' sense is nearly half a century old and from the Times of India.

Doesn't make it correct. You're saying it's not possible for the Times of India to be wrong? I used to read it daily for 10 years and they had their share of mistakes.

> documentation of 'revert' in the 'return' sense

'return' is not the same as 'reply'.
> If your app is architected to have any rendering operation take long enough that it's perceptible to the user, STOP DOING THAT THING DURING RENDERING.

At my workplace we frequently encounter cases where the rendering itself - just the evaluation of the pure React functions - takes hundreds of milliseconds, if not several seconds. This is after memoizing every part of it that can be memoized, after profiling it for places where work can be shaved off, etc. Sometimes there really is just that much rendering, and unlike other types of computation, today's React gives you no options for putting that in a worker or breaking it up. Tabs' single threads mean you can't even scroll in the interim. Concurrent Mode is the only hope we have of solving that case, other than avoiding it with paging, which is what we currently do.
what's stopping someone running an exit node through a "no logs" VPN? (serious question)
I found the easiest way to convince non-mathematical types is by suggesting we do the million-door version: “Ok, pick a door between 1 and 1,000,000. We’ll call that door N. Now, I’ll open 999,998 bad doors. So, now only door N and door 223,205 are still closed, and one of them has the good prize. Want to keep door N, or swap?”
I agree with that. If someone has a security cam pointed at their driveway, I don't really care as long as the owner has full and complete control over it.

Ring is building a global surveillance network and using dark patterns to get homeowners to pay for it.
Ask HN: Is there a way to automate the occasional micropayment?
I've been toying with an idea for an app which would occasionally make automatic donations to a charity.

I've been googling for a while, and it's not clear to me that there's an easy way to try this out (e.g. the paypal API).

Anyone know of a place to start? I'm looking for something lightweight to make a start prototyping.
We cannot know it by anecdote. We can know it using a well designed longitudinal study. Why settle for the former? Why do so many proudly refuse to read the literature?

The only other thing I can compare to the anti-intellectualism around hiring is a similar phenomenon around nutrition and dieting.
I think ripple could be a game changing company, I am long on XRP, the real world problems its solves, along with its scalability make it a great investment compared to other cryptos.
Jack Dorsey: “I have some personal issues with (Mark) Benioff”
Just wanted to follow up to let you know we're starting work on Python soon. Feel free to subscribe to the issue here to get notified of our progress: https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/roadmap/issues/1 .
OK I've spent all morning reading about this. I think that when you say "work", you're talking about the work of doing DOM updates. Rendering a VDOM is still considered cheap.
So very cool.

A random wiki with a few points gets on the front page

Meanwhile all Jul I an As as ange wiki.... Leaks news is buried. Say hello to your masters.
I saw an interesting perspective on the Monty Hall problem from judegomila earlier this month -

https://twitter.com/judegomila/status/1183425802399969282

"Your brain will compute monty hall problem in fast casual causal mode AND/OR compute slow mode formally for the exact answer. Probability predictions that accurately map reduce to efficient intuitive representations in our brain dictate direction in our evolutionary biology."

"[since] we don't solve the monty hall problem effectively with our intuition, an evolving life form would be poor at resource collection from such problem sets without knowledge of axiom representation and formal probability."
StackOverflow is also pivoting more towards enterprise.
Think about it: a poliovirus is about 30nm in diameter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliovirus) It takes only one of them for it not to be eradicated.

We discover new species that are a million times its diameter (3 cm) or 10^18 times its volume all the time, and species that are 10 times larger still regularly (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/13/new-mamm...)

On the face of that, there’s no way we ever could decide it has been eradicated. We only dare make this claim because, to the best of our knowledge, the virus will not survive for long outside the human body (a few months, according to https://www.who.int/features/factfiles/polio/facts/en/index3...)
If you’re blocked on network, throw is not gonna put a dent in that. We only use throwing when work is blocked on IO.
The average person's knowledge of routers and home networking probably stops just short of knowing how to assign static IPs, and definitely stops short of setting up a home VPN. If people knew how to do those 2 things, there might be less need to rely on "cloud" solutions like Ring. Blue Iris and a PC on the network is a great alternative...
And in cities like that, $15 an hour goes about as far as $10 in a more suburban area with a lower cost of living. I mean, I could have said "COL adjusted minimum wage", but I think the point was fairly clear.
A while later, they did pump the breaks completely by reversing the ToS changes.

This means they would have to change the ToS before trying to implement it again, which means the current result isn't moving the goalposts at all and is not a step forwards to the original solution.

See: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/... and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...
Different article source... but here's the discussion from the other thread from a week ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287944
True, but if you don't trust the website, just run the code locally
as someone who has shipped a few projects made mostly in QML, it's clearly not rubbish