skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense and thanks for the info and the link. It will be very useful going forward.
This has got to be a US thing, as this would almost certainly be illegal under the GDPR.

Facial recognition is processing of biometric data, which belong to the "special categories of personal data", which are protected under Article 9 GDPR [1].

Customers would need to give explicit consent to this.

Contrast this with normal security cameras, which don't use biometric data: these do not necessarily require consent. For example, security cameras filming a cashier's desk are usually lawful because of legitimate interests (see Article (6)(1)(f) [2]).

But legitimate interests don't work with Article 9 data.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/

[2] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/
For a community that’s baseing their hypotheses on data usually, it’s a shame to see this on top with exactly TWO data points. Don’t form narratives that generalize without data backing up your claim.
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I'd also love to know what a 'haddock' is and why these docs are in a different format https://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-14.21/postgresql-simple...
Me too! Interesting to see you’re in Manchester too - not every day a fellow Manc hits the front page :)
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which takes more memory (and is slower)? LISP interpreter or v8/node?
Fascinatingly, a verdict means “a speaking of the truth”. Courts at least, consider the aim of the jury to speak the truth. So whether John did punch Jack would be an element of the truth of the matter being adjudicated.
Physicists don't understand gravity...neuroscientists don't understand the main...maybe the universe is a giant brain and the stars are neurons, the big bang was conception and we are bacterial growth. Better than all current theories.
The free market will fix this (chuckles).

In all seriousness, it does open a business opportunity to create proxies to do your shopping for you, essentially hiding your identity through third parties. I don't think that's the real solution. We need to legislate these issues.

Years ago these were clearly possible options. It's only a matter of time before we start to see dynamic pricing based on identity as well. Consumers need to stop allowing these practices to happen. Spend more and shop at smaller shops if you have to. Elect people who will stop letting corporate greed interests take over at the detriment of our shared society and living conditions.
They did also have point totals, but a given comment could only range from -1 to +5.
> If Microsoft wanted to take their toys and leave the browser market, they would have done just that...

With all the coupling with other Windows subsystems and some features just to enable a Windows-only PC ecosystem, I'm not sure that IE/Edge/Trident/EdgeHTML can be open sourced in a whim.

> Now that Microsoft _embraced_ Chrome, I expect the browser market to become more diverse, not less.

Internet explorer just became a OS vendor backed version of NeoPlanet browser. Just the same thing, in different shell.
The hidden "gotcha" in most spreadsheets is that formatting cells to currency or 2 decimals changes only the display, not the number itself. To do that and eliminate potential floating point errors, wrapping EVERY currency formula in one of the round functions is standard practice for bookkeeping...
Correction - 1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak was the last in Europe

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Yugoslav_smallpox_outbrea...
Also from Nature (2017):

"Bat cave solves mystery of deadly SARS virus — and suggests new outbreak could occur"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07766-9

(Wuhan lab apparently carried out the research)
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> Most Chinese people have no so much medical common sense, only a warning like this can stop them from trying to return home for the Chinese New Year.

The most important factor during public health crises isn't common sense, it's trust. The quarantines are worthless if they cause over 50 million people to go into a panic because they don't trust the central authorities.

The predominant commentary I'm seeing coming from both sides of the Pacific is currently "what are they not telling us? why shut down several cities during CNY if its only a thousand cases and a few dozen deaths?" Large quarantines are high risk and I doubt even the CDC, which has spent decades cultivating trust, could pull one off. If people start hiding symptoms and avoiding medical care because of the lockdown, this whole situation could spiral way out of control globally.
It's a well researched page that gets dynamically updated with new info. One we may be watching for a few weeks if we are lucky, a few months if we are not.
It seems to me that having a single pervasive open source web rendering engine is actually the ideal state of affairs. How is fragmentation helpful in this area? It's duplicated effort and it makes Web development harder (and less efficient) for the millions of Web developers out there. I personally don't see people taking this approach to, say, Linux; generally people are happy that it's dominant in the server realm and that they can learn one thing and use it everywhere.

IE used a proprietary rendering engine. It's now being replaced with a free and open source one. This seems like a strict improvement. It's the opposite situation -- a single proprietary engine being dominant -- that is the doomsday scenario, and that's what we saw a decade and a half ago with IE. The farther we get from that being a possibility, the better.

For related reasons, I'm not happy that DRM has become part of the standard Web feature set.
Not to take away from Dijkstra's brilliance but the problem with the narrative above is that Dijkstra wasn't part of the team that developed Algol 60 and that can easily be seen by the fact that his name is not on the Algol 60 Report or on the Revised Algol 60 Report. He did write an early book on Algol 60, he did write the first Algol 60 compiler and he did plenty of work on block structure language design but he didn't design nor was he a major participant in the design of Algol 60 itself.
Maybe it's time to run an e-commerce marketplace with no tracking, no "personalization" of anything, no ads, no marketing emails, non of that bullshit.

With a focus on quality, peace of mind, and best value for money products, focus on minimizing SEO plays and fake reviews.

The infrastructure exist and is rentable from many(although a bit pricy).

Maybe all of those, together, would offer enough value to enough people to make prices reasonable.
Is it fully open? I thought the lower-level WLAN firmware was only available as binary blobs there too.
The hateful comments are all passive aggression in my experience. I don't mean anything anti-semitic content or anything along those lines of hate - I just mean bad faith arguments, ad hominem attacks, etc.

As for non-mainstream, basically anything that the moderators don't agree with. Could be about technology or politics. Anything which dissents from the prevailing opinion of a comment thread is also at risk for being moderated. They don't moderate the discussion, they moderate the topic.
This is why I grew up ignoring copyright. I just isnt a concept that ever enters my consciousness.

I'm going to continue to pirate what I want. If the friction to legally buying something is low I'll buy. Otherwise I simply don't care. I've been doing that since I was 6 years old and will do it for the rest of my life with no consequences

I simply don't care
Apple says EU push for universal phone charger would 'stifle innovation'
Having never used an iDevice, is this actually correct? Is a Apple ID/Account actually required to use the device?

Android devices certainly dont require a Google account or any other account to use.
I have no credibility to answer this question, and I don't even know what any of the words on that page mean, but is it possible that it was always the same virus and just documented under two different names? After all, pneumonia is a symptom of coronavirus, so wouldn't it make sense that people thought it was just the "Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus" until later reports and information indicated it would actually be a "bat SARS-like coronavirus"?
That makes no sense. The main advantage of offloading filtering and steering is that the packets can be dropped in the NIC, without being sent to the host. This avoids wasting PCIe and memory bandwidth along with CPU cycles. Doing the hw offload in a GPU, while more generic and programmable, would involve peer-to-peer DMA of the traffic to a GPU, which will waste PCIe bandwidth.

It sounds like what you want is a programmable smart NIC
Define "directly". The definition of dark matter is that it's electromagnetically non-interacting, therefore observing it's gravitational effect is as direct as it gets.
Daniel has been tweeting his journey from Amazon employee to solo-preneur. It's been very fun to follow, I would recommend: https://twitter.com/dvassallo
A lot of it boils down to codebase quality. I know some hardcore browser developers, and they prefer Chromium.
Thank you so much for your feedback. I have started publishing recently and I am learning a lot of new ways of writing and marketing, hence the SEO-ish tone. But you are right, my main aim is to share knowledge.
> The odds of the Chinese government making a super virus based on Coronavirus seem smaller than that, and the odds of it escaping the laboratory might be decent, but when you combine them, it's pretty slim.

I don't think anyone is arguing that this is an outbreak of an unusually dangerous virus. It's just an unexpected outbreak of a new flu-levels-of-dangerous virus, and it happened suspiciously close to a BSL-4 facility. A facility like that stores dangerous viruses and works on them, it's not at all implausible somebody fucked up and something escaped containment.
Don't worry, Google is not that stupid :)

It could just use my interests to predict how much I'm willing to pay for getting rid of ads.

Or even the type and number of devices that I'm using Google on should be a good enough predictor, or just the country (which is the case for Youtube Premium).
Instead the price would just go down more slowly. So the price drop that you'd otherwise expect is paying for the new features.
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6W Framework for bussiness challenge to the technical solution
Just to add-on, note taking app to track expenditure as well, certain notes can be shared and updated by other people.
The bank requires their own ActiveX control and external software which the ActiveX control communicates with, both of questionable quality. Surely that's one of the more likely attack vectors you could have on a system?
Yes, do mention CNN without the context of Fox News and AM radio.

Due to social media, we know more of the unfiltered thoughts of Trump and his supporters that any other president and political movement ever.

My opinion of both has been formed by direct exposure to their utterances.
I can't speak to RDS specifically, but if you can get RDS into either S3 or Glacier, then there is an easy path to rsync.net: rclone.

The ssh access is not to Amazon, or S3 or RDS, etc. - you run the rclone command at rsync.net, over ssh:

ssh user@rsync.net rclone s3:/some/bucket local/rsync.net/dir
I’ve not studied it in detail, but from the images I’ve seen of the human remains of Herculaneum and Pompeii, I got the impression that those people died a relatively quick death - some painless, some not so much, but relatively quickly.

Given the landscape, my hunch is that a heavier-than-air gas - like carbon monoxide - probably inundated at least some areas, and the people there died of asphyxiation. I hesitate to say they “suffocated” because that implies (to me at least) that they felt as if they were suffocating. Instead, it looks to me like many of them just kinda laid down and went to sleep. That would be consistent with how people die today in enclosed spaces, like chemical tanks, when the oxygen in the air is driven out by a heavier gas. Without the buildup of carbon dioxide in the air there is no indication to the person that anything is wrong until they fall over from lack of oxygen. In an enclosed space that’s already filled with the gas before entry, that happens unexpectedly and immediately. In a space where the oxygen in the air is replaced gradually - or if not gradually, at least while people are present - I would expect people to experience drowsiness, lethargy, and perhaps euphoria.

There are examples of entire families perishing there, and they don’t seem to be in tortuous poses. I expect that they saw that the people around them were dying. They didn’t understand why exactly but likely attributed it to the gods. They felt tired, knew what was coming, and chose to lay down and accept it with their loved ones. Adults likely did so with the full expectation that they would die, in order to comfort their children and loved ones.

There are other examples where it’s obvious that the people involved were desperately trying to crawl away from something. Examples where their mouths were open, obviously struggling for one more breath. Those I expect died through asphyxiation by ash, or even by smoke inhalation caused by secondary fires set by the eruption.

In short, my intuition says that there were likely three major causes of death from the eruption: “gentle” asphyxiation through the replacement of atmospheric oxygen, “harsh” asphyxiation through the inhalation of smoke or ash, and direct inundation with pyroclastic flow.

Again, I’m just a lay person here, and haven’t even spent a great deal of time studying the topic. It just seems simplistic to me when I read articles that seem to treat everyone in Pompeii and Herculaneum as having died through a single mechanism.
It’s funny how some people will arbitrarily become a right-libertarian to come to the defense of some company but wont follow that defense through to its conclusion.

Sure, Google is a company comprised of shareholders but it’s also a publicly traded company, which invokes numerous protections and services of the State, which no private person could ever dream of getting for themselves.

Many governments have entangled themselves with google, which is one of the most compelling reasons for Alphabet’s current enormity. They do sketchy things for intelligence arms of governments, law enforcement, etc., which is taxpayer-funded.

People who truly believe in the principles you’re invoking here - the idea that private property rights allow people to do “whatever” - would disagree with your fundamental premise, which tells me that you don’t apply this position in a principled way.
Wait, so you endorsing a site that not only engaged in large scale piracy, but also allowed hateful content with no oversight? Wow.
A cronjob does the job just fine - far less babysitting than keeping your OS uptodate with security patches (ok that’s another cronjob if you’re happy with auto reboots on occasion)
This is a fantastic summary!
We hit PMF in two weeks. Scaling was hard but we consistently got about 5% week on week growth with no funding.

The problem was mostly that there were plateaus where cash would have made things much easier, but nobody was interested in funding it. For example, taxes hit and our 7% margin went down to 1%. We migrated stock to in house, and holding half a ton of stock got margins from 1% to 30%.

We could have hit 80% margin with about $50k plus distributed it in a lot of major stores. It would have been better promo than billboards and made money. But I think it was a hard time to close deals - everyone we approached either was buckling down for recession, investing in crypto, or chasing after some other kind of sexy tech (e-commerce was going out of fashion).

You can lose PMF though. We've slipped it a couple times. This is why you need product teams.

Consumer market, e-commerce. Moderate tech. Low capital. Target market was diet/health so we got a spike in income at the start of the year which slowed down a lot then rose again end of the year, near wedding season.
To quote Intel CEO Robert Swan (on CNBC); the Moore's law is going to come back live in the 5/3nm Fab capabilities. Intel is at 11nm, aiming for 7nm. Whereas Texas Instruments is going for 5nm. Per Robert, they had lot of learnings from 11nm to 7nm but expect the move to 5/3nm much faster.
I'm not sure this article is celebrating EEE, just more celebrating innovation in general. Regardless of the goal of these features, in isolation these features are interesting and fun to read about. And not to mention they did lead to things like SVG, fetch, etc, so it wasn't all bad in the end.
Devil's advocate: HTTPS centralizes the web around big players. The CA trust model gives a privileged few the right to say what websites are "secure", even in cases where no user input goes down the wire. "Not Secure" in the top left brands and shames amateurs. Come on, just make a Medium page! You should be posting this on a FAANG property! Let's Encrypt is great, but don't forget that it could disappear overnight--after every browser started de facto blocking non-HTTPS traffic.
Awesome... small world :)
>You walk in and your neighbor is working the cash register.

This is a total fantasy.

1. If I was concerned about it, I probably would have noticed before entering that he was there.

2. If I knew him, I'd probably know where he worked and could avoid him.

3. If I didn't catch myself in time, I could walk in and buy something mundane, or nothing at all, or a gift card.

4. If I was really concerned, I'd go the next town over.

5. There's a massive difference between taking a very low probability risk of being identified multiplied by further low probabilities of it being spread notable, remembered, and spread around, and a 100% chance of being categorically identified and logged by an automated system.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but if it's the ranking of the current submission, that's because users flagged it, which is the usual reason why stories drop in rank.

As for comments by people with domain knowledge, I was just looking at this a couple weeks ago. Here are a few I randomly ran across:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22025961 ("I'm the lead author on this paper")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21997642 ("I can remember when I first met Gary [Starkweather] in 1988")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21906624 ("I’m actually one of the architects of this processor.")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012453 ("I'm a dentist who regularly treats OSA with dental appliances")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21963509 ("As a working scientist" followed by "Biology postdoc here")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22127746 ("I'm an anesthesiologist")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21744337 ("I wrote the original software for Long Bets")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21670257 ("This is my father's family doctor and was my doctor throughout my childhood. He actually birthed me")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21635488 ("I was the person who blabbed about the top-secret _callback parameter the weekend Pipes launched")

Edit: from a few minutes ago – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22148337 ("I am a computational cognitive neuroscientist")

Edit: from a few hours ago – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146986 ("I'm a researcher working on exactly this problem")

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22141584 ("I’m a b-school prof/associate dean")

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22148438 ("I used to do the soil lab testing for a guy that dealt with this waste in my state.")

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22161404 ("I started this project")

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22172066 ("I was a grad student at the Media Lab in its early days.")

There are tons of these, many of which don't get much notice. We've periodically published a highlights list, but I'd like to come up with a way for users to nominate such posts as highlights when they run across them... something like a positive 'flag'.
FYI you can still access these options (and more) with the Google Advanced Image Search: https://www.google.com/advanced_image_search

edit: Oh, it no longer has "custom" under the sizes. Hmm.
I’d be shocked if there wasn’t some variation across individuals, but suspect that at a high level, the major structures are the same.
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I think the specs could benefit from some "minimum-requirements standard" but the plug hardware should be off limits.
Content authors usually get an invite when one is asked for in the lobste.rs chat.
Yes, that's an ongoing issue for enclosed bathrooms. A pissoir only has a privacy screen for the elimination but is otherwise exposed and not suitable for shooting up.

It doesn't address the other bathroom needs but it could be a part of the solution.

And it looks like there is exactly one in the city, and (of course) it's not without controversy: https://sfist.com/2016/01/31/sfs_first_open-air_urinal_makes...
Trade schools would analog very nicely to how you describe the knowledge gap between some students in CS programs.

Most other programs people goto post secondary to learn the subject at hand ... for a lot of trades and CS related programs they go into them because they enjoy that work and have been doing it on the side for a while. Those people immediately have a leg up on anyone who came in fresh.
Boredom is usually a good thing. You can use this time to meditate and just let your mind wonder. I love it. Doing nothing is much harder than doing something actually.
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Ditto. As I understand it, that program largely put me and my sister through college...
Mostly agreed. In my eyes, the takeaway from this piece is not that neuroscience is futile and that we should give up, but rather that we now should redouble efforts on analysis methods to make sense of the large, complex datasets that we are on the cusp of generating.
Everybody in the history of humans has said the latest technology is the best model for how a brain works. There used to be a piston model for the brain.

Self driving cars can't leave an enclosed environment and might never do so safely.

Richard Dawkins spoke very highly of the brains ability to do some kind of natural calculus for the sake of tracking a ball in flight, but most animals run on simple tricks and reference points.

Deep learning might be the "good think" for the next ten years, some of us are not going to let go of the transcendent truth that the brain is not defined by what we think it is. I see limited reason to see deep learning as more likely than some emergent behaviour from a vast number of simple rules. Like animals flocking together in a boid sim.
There are so few browsers that don't support HTTPS that it's not worth worrying about it.

Besides, if the security negotiation is to be done in plaintext, then it's trivial for an attacker to MITM a connection, replace the User-Agent headers, and then trick a server into thinking it should serve content insecurely. This is a huge gaping attack vector. It's better to just always serve securely.
How does Let's Encrypt fit into this? Are they part of the 'privileged few?' Can we trust part of The Few more than other parts?
And the second worse thing is to expose it to completely novel viruses. How about we expose it to as many common viruses as we want, but try to prevent novel viruses from popping up?
Here is a TV host forced to apologise for popularising bat soup.

https://summit.news/2020/01/25/chinese-government-forces-tv-...