skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Solid state digital" is a fairly generic term, and the actual device may bear little resemblance to what you think of as an SSD.

For instance, it could be a ROM, or something more closely resembling a flashable bios, or who knows what else.
After this fungus turns ants into zombies, their bodies explode
My pet theory is that these DDOS attacks are not just other merchants. I believe state actors are DDOSing to force traffic through nodes they control to deanonymize traffic.
That comment struck me too. Perhaps there is a difference between Opium overdose and Opioid overdose?

When I think consuming opium, I conjure images of old chinese artwork where they are smoking it in a hookah type instrument.

The Opioid overdoses are mostly Fentanyl and other extracts from opium. I'm not an expert, but if I am understanding correctly, it seems easier access to Opium which may be, according to the GP, hard to OD on, would reduce the Opioid OD epidemic.
Well, it's still around, that's for sure...

https://apogeedigital.com/products/symphony-io/configuration...

I mean, I can't afford $5K for that, but it's there.
> it insists on me giving more permissions to Google services

Can you clarify what you mean? I use Signal without Google Play Store/Services and am curious about said requirement.

> it relies on me a phone number as an ID

I dislike this also, but what's the alternative? A phone number is (usually) a long-lived, relatively immutable identifier which is convenient, memorable and portable. It is highly usable and that may be more important than other considerations.
I visited Iceland in 2016 for 10 days with two of my friends.

- We partied in Reykjavik on weekend and my god! I was amazed to see the clubbing culture there. It was so different from Bay area. Nightclubs were open till 4 and people stayed till 6. Not to mention it was summer; so sun was setting at 3am-ish while people were drunk on dance floor.

- We went towards laugavegur next day for our adventure of 4 day trail. It was a pretty smooth drive until we were attacked by armies of black fly who entered our car through open window and my friend almost toppled the car over while fighting them off (yes the road was 9-10 ft above the land).

- Next day, we started our trek where we experienced the unforgiving weather of Icelandic highlands.
I have been stuck in avalanches before (rockies, patagonia, himalayas) but this was a level up. The weather was colder, the wind had a deathly sting. We had to dig up our camp in snow and at that point tbh it seemed like I was digging my grave. It kind of made sense why they shot Castle black senes for GoT here. Don't get me wrong, I fully enjoyed the hike. The colors, the view and the greenery was amazing. The best part of it was making pinto beans over steam coming below 6ft of snow.

- Next 5 days we camped near beautiful waterfall of Seljalandsfoss. It was surreal. We used to drive to same grocery store in morning, get basic stuff to cook and get drunk in the afternoon (or night..? it was hard to tell). It was pretty close to popular Skogafoss waterfall but this waterfall was equally beautiful with lot less people visiting.

The point I am trying to make is yes, tourism is overwhelming for a delicate place for Iceland but you don't have to visit just the golden circle or the jokursalon.
Yes, these places are beautiful but the experience really gets terrible when there are a thousand people trying to get glimpse of snow island in 200 m long standing space.

My advice to the people who are in 20s: Try to hike, drive to unconventional places. Iceland has a lot to offer than what you see or read in blogs/instagram. The fun of travel is in experiencing local culture, exploring places and stumbling upon things. It is NOT about getting selfie and checking off things to do in a list written in some random blog.
The assumption is that this didn't happen. Hence you must remove these cases from your sample set while calculating probability
It does but you will not be able access SMS and MMS messages sent in your prior SMS app in Signal. This has prevented me and based upon multiple threads found while trying to see if it was possible many others from switching to using Signal as my default SMS messenger. It used to be able to import your prior messages but lost the ability to do so and the developers don't seem particularly open to bringing it back.
When you get down to it, the web is fantastic at displaying information not stored on a user's machine. It's also pretty good at taking user information and moving it somewhere else.

But if your product is not just about information retrieval or collection, rather based on things like complex user interaction, persistent local data storage, integration with devices on the users machine or complex interactions that need to override mouse/keystroke behavior... then I'd question whether or not it should be a webapp.

Discord is a really good example of this to me. They have a web client, sure, but the app itself makes sense on the desktop. There's nothing wrong with using web technologies to build the app, but the mental model of how browsers send/receive data from a server somewhere seems fundamentally incompatible with how such an app should work.

What I meant by hostile is that publishing apps sucks for a lot of reasons, from lack of user demand to platform issues, poor sandboxing, distribution issues, etc. It's a shame, because that's how we wind up with such crazy complexity in web apps, when we could just stick to native OS APIs and call it a day.
Previous threads for the curious: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> so we don't need to kill people for the comparatively minuscule amount in their blood

You’re sure that’s what would have happened then?
Russia Will Test Its Ability to Disconnect from the Internet
I'm a data guy, I'm all for data gathering when there is a business case, permission, disclosure, and strong PII protection. However this is just silly. GitLab, on the doorstep of GitHub actions rolling out globally, shooting their leg off by forcing a 3rd party script into a business system.

The thing that is utter shit is that they could really achieve any reasonable analytics needed from their server logs on their hosted systems.

Pendo is the same as Heap analytics in that it logs EVERYTHING the user does, including things like scroll depth, time on page, form element selects, even clicks on non-clickable elements. You could just ask me how to make the UX better, GitLab; there is no need to do indiscriminate bulk collection.

Or here's a novel idea: maybe actually give the users who choose to give you their behavior some kind of reward. A pro feature for free, some build runner priority, or even just a icon that glimmers with some gratitude. And an incognito switch for times when I don't want be seen.

And a 3rd party? Its not that hard to put a pixel on a page and stand up an endpoint. What's to stop that 3rd party from injecting a keylogger and start harvesting secrets? Trust?

If I were owning analytics at GitLab, I would:

1. Develop a way to get cleaned up server access logs in front of the UX team. This should get 85% of the work done.

2. Provide a 1st party controlled, open source client analytics tool that users can inspect.

3. Make it optional, off by default, and most importantly, fully accessible to the user. When its active it should provide a visual indication. Give opted in users a reward for participating. Give them the ability to see the data that has been gathered on them. Personally, I could find that log of my own activities quite useful if it were shared with me.

4. Prove the value of client side-tracking and share the wins with all stakeholders. Like, build a step in issue triage to gather metrics and share the results on the ticket to inform the decision making process. If the data doesn't does add double digit value to the company, kill the whole thing off.

This was a brutal blunder for a company that's on Series E, and shows that leadership is not in touch with their customers. More actual face time with developers by leadership could have stopped this from happening.
In that timeframe I had a heart condition. The local cardiologist I saw was really into hunting. He even had some trophy bucks and bass mounted on the waiting room wall. His wife, a nurse at the hospital I was in for a week, described him as "a good ol' boy". It wouldn't surprise me if he at some point took some hunting related payment instead of cash. Medical insurance, while common, was less of a thing back then and barter was quite common in the community. Mostly people trading boats, trucks, rifles, and appliances with each other but services happened too. It was the type of informal arrangements that work in areas with high social cohesion.
Is it paywalled? Maybe your exit node was used to scrape? I don't read NYT much but when I've checked out the .onion such as today I've had no issue reading articles.
The server was not always opensource and until the phone part moved from redphone's implementation to signal protocol, that was also proprietary.

Additionally, they have been hostile to federating, 3rd party appstores (fdroid), and until the past year or two it was not possible to run the android client without Google play services and analytics.
Government IT: Yesterday’s stuff, tomorrow.
Thanks a lot for this. I'm in touch with the red gate folks now and I appreciate you sharing your experience.
F-16s still use PCMCIA cards to load targeting data. They have enough space, they work fine, they're not too big, and they're not too small. You really don't want to be trying to insert an SD card while wearing gloves in cold weather.
reading your comment, I feel a sense of dejavu because its almost the same as the response I would have written. I've gone through a similar path of trying every knowledge base under the sun and settling on a text based, git managed custom knowledge base with plain text files (currently managing +10k notes this way).

currently building a service that can index and query across text based knowledge bases. you can find demo here: http://demo.alphacortex.io

would love to hear your thoughts and talk further about organizing knowledge :)
> 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.

As is tradition, frontend developers are still slowly reinventing the techniques from other fields.

The neat thing about UI is that your end user is a human and a human can't visually process too many items at once on a screen. This means you should never really need to consider more than O(thousands) elements to render either. That should always fit under 16ms.

This has been known to game developers since forever. Don't spend resources on things that won't be displayed. If you are doing too much work that means you aren't culling invisible objects or approximating things at a lower level of detail.

In practice for frontend developers, this just means using stuff like react-virtualized so that even if you have a list of a bajillion objects, only the stuff in the viewport is rendered.
Yea, that definitely made things immensely simpler but it's still a good reference for seeing what kind of problems happen. I'd also imagine that for most connectors you aren't going to need nearly as robust or detailed drawings or data about them to make something that will work. In this case they also wanted something that would mate up perfectly without any possibility of damage or excess wear on the connectors.
Private equity buyouts and their effects
By deleting the universe 1/3 of the time, you change the nature of the problem. It starts to resemble a quantum immortality argument. And if I can delete universes where certain events happen then screw probability, I can guarantee a win despite picking randomly.

"Picks a random door out of all closed doors, but that door is never the winner" is a contradiction. It doesn't give you a different chance of winning because it's not a coherent scenario in the first place.
MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Computers That Didn't Work
Opting out now won't matter in the future when they reset the default and then reset everyone's configuration "to let you make the choice with new information" or whatever spin they want. Then you miss that new choice in your automatically-deployed update and... well then what?
What is complex about the tooling?

If I want to implement a rich text editor in my website, it will be as easy as 'npm install ...' and an import statement in the relevant file.

Is there an advantage to make a state machine to solve this?
> 2/3 of the time it will be one of the other two

I was debugging my monty-hall simulator to try and work out why my intuition was so wrong when I came across my comment "Iterate through doors, open first door without prize" when this point finally struck me.
"Algorithmic Decision System" is not a good term. Some of the systems that are described this way do not make decisions, strictly speaking. For example, facial recognition systems don't make decisions- they make identifications. They are classifiers, yes? Planners, game-playing algorithms, decision trees and decision lists, etc, those are systems that are commonly thought of as making "decisions"- but those are very rarely the subject of scrutiny of AI systems these days.

Take for instance a system that is used to determine whether a person is in risk of recidivism. The system will cough up some number, probably a float from 0 to 1. The number will be _interpreted_ as a probability that the person will recidivate. Then, based on this _interpetation_ a decision will be made by the person or persons using the system, whether to treat the person as having a high risk of recidivism or not. The system hasn't decided anything at that point- it's the person using the system that has made a decision.

The matter is complicated somewhat by the existence of systems that incorporate AI algorithms in a more general automated decision process. For example, self-driving cars use image recognition algos to identify objects in their path but navigation decisions are not taken by the image recognition algos! However I'd wager that those kinds of integrated systems are not what most people think of when they speak of "algorithms" making "decisions". But I may well be wrong.
...including security clearance investigations...
That was the late 90s and early 2000s when the manufacturing was off-shored and hired out.

I rehabbed my dads old IBM XT a few years ago, 10/10 new in box 5.25” floppy disks were in perfect condition.
>What is a floppy disk?

It's a 3D print of the Save File icon.
I often read about moms feeling bad because of other moms' perfectly curated instagram feeds. As someone who doesn't remember ever feeling instagram envy - and btw all photos of my adorable children that I post are adorable :) - I must admit I'm envious of people whose feelings of sadness and inadequacy are cased by things farther removed from day to day life. For me the most disheartening feelings are usually the result of interactions with people close to me, mother and mother in law particularly so. Nine years after becoming a parent I still am unable to not let it phase me when my mother says "oh, they never act in this [terrible] way when you're not around" or when my mother in law asks "oh, did you want to brush her hair before the family photo?" "did you want me to get some cute plates for her birthday party so she feels special?". I'm sure much it can be helped by me just growing thicker skin - but I do feel lonelier sometimes when I think, people worry about instagram, they don't often talk about family making them feel like they are not good enough, I guess it is me.
>The best way to increase your odds of getting shot is to own a gun

The three things you can do which will reduce your odds of being killed by a gun by about 95%:

1. Don't shoot yourself. That reduces your odds by nearly 70%

2. Be Asian or Native American. This reduces your odds by another 70%. If you're not able to do that, being white or Hispanic still improves your odds substantially.

3. Be a woman (reduces your odds of dying by another 80%)

If you are able to accomplish all 3, congratulations! You've reduced your odds being killed by a gun from .01% to around 0.0005%

If you're able to understand basic safety rules, owning a gun is not that dangerous. Accidental deaths are incredibly rare (literally less than a one in a million occurrence), and have been trending down since gun safety has become more popular (the modern conception of trigger discipline has only existed for like 40-50 years). I think you're conflating the inherent danger of firearms with some confounding variables that lead certain people to be more likely to possess them.
Better GPUs is what enabled modern ML, it wasn't a CS breakthrough.
> The US didn't become involved in Syria because of climate change - rather climate change caused the conditions for the conflict to erupt

The Syrian conflict has nothing to do with climate change. There has been longstanding discontent among the Syrian population with the Assad family, namely 1) like his father, Bashar al-Assad is a dictator with a secret police that is quite nosy and bothersome in Syrians’ everyday lives, and 2) Assad comes from a minority sect of Islam that most Syrians are not sympathetic to (and he has given important positions and financial opportunities to other members of his minority sect). The country was already a powder keg of sorts, and gradual radicalization of the Muslim population and social media lit the match.

Then, once the conflict broke out, the Syrian regime began forcibly conscripting Syrian young men to fight on the regime’s side. This was not an attractive prospect, to say the least, and so a lot of them began to flee the country, joining those who were forced out by the fighting itself, and some of them took up arms against the regime.
move worked to begin with, that was even more fun

they fixed it some way through Win98 I thought...
Corporations beholden to VC, shareholders, etc. are all about growth at any cost (ethical or otherwise). Private companies don't have this problem.
I'm excited for the new products that this version will enable them to ship.

At the same time, interesting that they completely rewrote an angular app with react. I wonder if that was truly necessary and if their engineering effort could have been spent on more important things than constantly rewriting their frontend apps using different libraries.
'cause it's a website?
I use Signal because the most important thing to me about a messenger is security and privacy. Other features notwithstanding, iMessage simply does not offer the same guarantees as Signal so long as Apple manages encryption keys vs the users themselves, and obviously remains closed source and proprietary. In other words, I would only consider Signal to be a truly end-to-end encrypted application of the two, and that's of utmost value to me.
I am sorry but you are wrong about several technical issues regarding XSLT.

FF and IE had XSLT processors in 2006 and I suppose they still do (although could be wrong about the still do), there were at any rate XSLT processors in browsers back til the early years of this century, although hey, not in every browser. Opera was definitely dead set against ever implementing one.

You did not have to output XML, you could output XML, text, or html, depending on the output format the processor would handle how your output format should work (as it was a declarative language) thus if you output html the processor would handle turning XML like br elements into html br elements, not that that is any great thing, but it is a fact you could output other things than XML
The Mission to Scan the Whole Planet with Lidar Before It's Too Late
Please consider submitting the digital version to the Internet Archive as an item.
If you're looking for a book that's both easy and stimulating to read, but that discusses a lot of mathematics in reasonable detail, I highly recommend the novelist David Foster Wallace's Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity.

It's probably the best book on mathematics I've read. It's not a textbook the way the Feynman lectures are, but it's stimulating and a good read. Other books mentioned like Visual Complex Analysis or Courant's book are dry and take a lot of effort to get through. Some of the older books mentioned may be great (I've found many older textbooks much clearer than more recent ones), but I personally haven't read them so I can't make a recommendation there.

You can also check YouTube videos/courses e.g. one I found great was MIT Professor Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra course -- his videos are easy to follow, stimulating and clear.
> Federation isn't possible with this protocol, which kind of sucks

Moxie has a blog post explaining why Signal won't support federalization: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

"After three weeks, sealed sender now represents over 80% of overall Signal messaging traffic." https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1075918894521495552

This would be impossible to achieve with federated protocol.
Mozilla: Cloudflare doesn't pay us for any DoH traffic
The SMS import still works, I did it just a few days ago.
An email address? A username?
It's up for you to decide
You could get something like an iotawatt hooked up to your wifi with CT sensors on your mains breaker and get live readings of your power usage as well as "sense" when the power changes from Public to Diesel Gen. https://iotawatt.com/
> I.e. now what would previously have been letters from the front might be sent as a text, phone call or E-Mail.

There are hundreds of email archivists working at universities across the country. The reason you don't hear about them is that email didn't exist until ~1971, universities don't accession email collections until either after someone dies or at least until relatively late in their career, and once collections are accessioned they are usually embargoed for some amount of time -- e.g. IIRC 50 years in the case of Harvard.

Also, even though there are 15 or so different email archival software packages, none of them is really fully baked yet, so right now lots of universities are just putting email into longterm storage formats and then they're content to just wait another 10+ years until the email archival software is in a better state before processing them for publication.

If you have good email threads you want to publish on the Internet now though, you can use our tool https://www.fwdeveryone.com.
Please read the complete article, it does not state that the officer updated but that the tickets appeared altered later which seems more like NYC has a group of people doing it.
Good point - and very potent. Thank you for your thoughts.
> but what's the alternative

Making phone and e-mail optional, and being a tier-1 identity. That's what Matrix does.
Her column was written for an audience that was familiar with the show. Monty Hall had, at that point, been opening doors and revealing goats-but-not-cars to contestants five days a week for more than twenty years.
I think this might be a case where keyboard shortcuts are more descriptive and fool proof than trying to use tech specific phrases like "Go to Start menu".

"Hold down the windows key on the keyboard and press the S key while the windows key is held down, and then type notepad and press enter".

And if they get hung up finding the windows key on the keyboard you can explain it by saying it's likely near the bottom left in between the ctrl and alt keys and has the 4 squares.
Very important, otherwise new generations might honestly believe that 'male privelege' and 'white privelege' actually existed.
Some ISPs will say they don't "support" or "allow" it in their legalese, but it's just words they never enforce. It seems ridiculous to me as a customer to have an Internet connection yet only use it for outbound connections, and I've never had a problem running public-facing services on my "consumer grade" home connection.