skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I tried to get xsecurelock working with LXQt and systemd. What a mess. Eventually I had to just give up on it and switch back to xscreensaver-lock.

I posted a thread asking for advice and did get responses, but I haven't worked up the resolve to go back and try to get it working again. Last I checked, people were just suggesting I try something else, which kind of misses the point of the activity to uses the most secure lock screen that seemed to be available.

I appreciated the help, it just seems like the whole issue should be something provided by a systemd utility that you specify your lock screen for in a config file. I know people hate on it, but systemd really does tend to make it easier if you just kind of want your system fundamentals to stay in the background and just work rather than having to constantly meddle with them.

It's a point of pride to me that I've kept my Linux system going for so long (it's outlived one Windows and two Mac laptops) but it does feel like there's often a very myopic design to a lot of applications. That is, the author often expects you to be willing to context switch out of whatever you were doing for a few hours to learn their software to use it, and doesn't feel like there's any usability problem with the state of affairs. In the case of a lock screen, this was turning into multiple days.

I can only imagine that if things were simpler, it would make it easier to involve more people, bring them on board, and/or just to get stuff done.

Anyway - enough soapboxing.

https://github.com/google/xsecurelock
But that's exactly it - if it's so cheap, why is data so valuable?
A bit of criticism - it “normalizes” an 8 week severance as a ceiling - maybe in the high flying startup world but any big company especially with long tenure 8 weeks is a pittance, especially to someone having been there for 5 years. May be worth a note.

> While it can sound jarring to say “and today is your last day,” it’s generally better for people because it makes it clear that there is a new normal and it starts right now

On what basis is this better? You’re opting into socially traumatizing people this way. When you take someone’s badge most people who remain immediately starts to shun the laid off worker. Your respect and trust of them as a person is immediately (rightly) seen as a lie. I’d really like more info on how this is better than allowing people to say their goodbyes.
I don't think it's correct to say that it favors popularity over accuracy. Actually I think that is a seriously editorialized take as well, not in keeping with the spirit of HN. I think it would be more correct to say that much of the time popularity is accuracy, in that it's what the searcher is looking for. When there are a variety of interpretations of a query, the most popular interpretation is the rational prior expectation. When not -- for example, when I search for "go" with a history of searching for programming related topics -- Google tries to give me what I'm looking for.

But it's also just a hard problem. That featured snippet about the dentist for example: Google's computers aren't investigative journalists. The purpose of the featured snippet is actually to favor accuracy over popularity by deferring to journalists when Google senses that the searcher is looking for information about an event that was covered in the news. However, if the journalists get it wrong, how is Google going to know? Dollars to donuts, if Google actually knew the right answer, that's what they would surface.
Losing 10 Kg a Week
Instacart and Postmates still seem to work, I'm told.

(I won't outsource mortal danger to someone poorer than I simply because they need the money more, and I don't want to give Instacart any of my business since they got busted stealing their delivery staff's tips, but those are your options if you want them.)
I just dont know whawt it means. So someone at the store tests positive, okay. Take precautions to ensure workers arent also at risk. Okay. Shut down the whole store and reopen... when?
Still more than $3 in California.
The elephant in the room: covid deaths are undercounted
The streets will flow with the blood of the nonbelievers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY7NE_jSk5w
A gallon of gas for 95 cents? It's here – and it will soon be even cheaper
I love gardening. Have a lot of really fond memories of playing in my mom's garden (despite terrible allergies) while she was working on it. Tomatoes, rhubarb, raspberries, all sorts of other spices and nectar plants for things like bees and hummingbirds. One summer memory in particular sticks with me, because it was probably my first lesson in the scientific method. Mom's hollyhock plants came down with what ended up being a bad case of rust[1]. We changed the watering routine, fertilizer...nothing worked. This was before google and all that, so we first went to the library and got some gardening books. Went out and compared pictures, but none were exactly the same. Next I clipped some leaves from the plants and we went down to the garden shop a few blocks away and, sure enough, the guy behind the counter (kicking myself I can't remember his name, probably 85 or so with crystal white hair) gave the diagnosis and recommended cutting off all the affected leaves and burning them. Saved the whole lot!

Unfortunately, because of work, I live in a city now and that means ... no yard with a garden. The wife also loves gardening. Anyone have any tips for setting something up in an apartment with a balcony? Irrigation is my primary concern.

[1] https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/flowers/hollyhoc...
I think we're talking about amazon warehouse workers. I absolutely agree and I would loathe having to work in such an environment but when your job is put the package on the truck as fast as you can a union is a very nice thing to have.
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Otherwise, every hyperbole will have to be considered as irrefutable truth.

Or, is the 'who comes up with wittiest hyperbole' is
the type of 'thought exchange' framework you would like to engage in?
About as much as we have right now. The difference is people can at least make backups of the content they need.
I wasn't referring to the difference in values, but the difference in meaning - though I could be misunderstanding, you appear to be defining "hydration" both as an exclusive percentage (75 water + 100 flour = 75%) and an inclusive percentage (100 water + 100 flour = 50%).

Edit: Nevermind, just saw your correction!
i'm afraid there is an option that legally allows them o call me non-stop if I press 1 or something :) so i just mute and leave the phone on the desk to add some noise to their voice learning (and they have to pay for the call if it is over 4s)
similar - places around us (outside raleigh) are still $1.89 last several days.
Building a fence, and then leaving an open gate with a sign saying "Anyone that wants to look at my garden can come in, as long as you pinky promise not to take pictures", and then proceeds to leave it unmonitored, does not give the landowner the right to prosecute people under the law for having a photo of the garden. (Watch me be wrong about this :P)

Or more plainly, it's the webmaster's own responsibility to "just not serve" if they don't want it to be served, and their failure to implement their own desires as software doesn't suddenly give them carte blanche to claim whatever they want was breaking the law.

In this case, the data is effectively public. Sure you have to "tell them your name" and "agree to ToS", but neither of those requirements are binding the applicant to tell the truth. So Microsoft chose a method of authorization that is unfit for the purpose of keeping people they don't want to have access out of their system. "But but but how else would they keep people off?" I don't know, but it doesn't matter. Make people sign a contract under supervision of a notary, or validate their drivers license, or whatever. The fact that Microsoft is too lazy to implement a solution that effectively implements their desired policy isn't material to what the actually implemented policy enables.
"Honda has done what no other car maker is doing, and returned to analogue controls for some functions on the new Honda Jazz."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200335
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And yet the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is still not quite full as of a couple days ago.

https://www.spr.doe.gov/dir/dir.html
The percentage of state and federal taxes per gallon is becoming significant. So there is some floor at the pump.
> US gas prices are down to $0.95 - $0.97 / gallon.

In a few places maybe. For the vast majority of the US no, at least not yet.
yup. use gopher instead
What would Zoom use when it’s working in the browser if it’s not WebRTC?
Looks like the post got updated with some reasoning:

> Why can’t we put a read-only archive online currently?
The Wiki, even in it’s read-only state, was presenting security risks, and it was deemed necessary to take it offline.
More precisely an over-cautious interpretation of HIPAA that happens to annoy patients and is specifically called out by HHS.

Note that an individual has the right under the Privacy Rule to request and have a covered health care provider communicate with him or her by alternative means or at alternative locations, if reasonable. See 45 C.F.R. § 164.522(b). For example, a health care provider should accommodate an individual’s request to receive appointment reminders via e-mail, rather than on a postcard, if e-mail is a reasonable, alternative means for that provider to communicate with the patient. By the same token, however, if the use of unencrypted e-mail is unacceptable to a patient who requests confidential communications, other means of communicating with the patient, such as by more secure electronic methods, or by mail or telephone, should be offered and accommodated.

Patients may initiate communications with a provider using e-mail. If this situation occurs, the health care provider can assume (unless the patient has explicitly stated otherwise) that e-mail communications are acceptable to the individual. If the provider feels the patient may not be aware of the possible risks of using unencrypted e-mail, or has concerns about potential liability, the provider can alert the patient of those risks, and let the patient decide whether to continue e-mail communications.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/570/does-hip...
I appreciated your earlier comment that talked about how you used signed distance functions to make the virtual joystick slightly expand. I used that as inspiration for some terrain generation in a very basic game I’m making to learn the ECS design pattern. So far, it’s working really well!

Thanks again!
Synthetic at Every Scale
But how do you temper managements abuses for lower waged work though?

If only there was some sort of system to enforce laws. Oh wait, that only exists in a perfect world where a government actually cares about your rights...

Honestly I get it on both sides, but I really think the union has to be a jerk. It's annoying to most small independent types or middle management areas, but the people in the union need that type of power to influence the BS corporate hierarchy of exploitation to absurd degrees. It's fine to be exploited, it's annoying when the company will drop you in a heartbeat because some minor issue thats come up. If we had laws that at least made it easier for employees to exert their rights (through agencies that the government didn't short change like they love to do) we would have no need for unions. Culturally it'd be a precedent that management can't be dicks.
> Does anyone ever thought about a legal way to shut it down and lock up couple of admins?

Why on earth do you feel like this is an appropriate response to some people joining random zoom meetings?
Doesn't California have crazy fuel taxes? Or is there some other reason for their always high prices?
I tried using the web client in Chrome today on my Mac, and the audio was playing to me at what felt like 50% speed; everyone sounded like slow motion to me.
In this situation workers are taking on risk by showing up due to a pandemic.

Did the situation you reference have similar urgent hazardous conditions?

Even if that is the case, your counter-example does not produce a counter-fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_example
Making an "if" statement depend on the value of the uninitialized memory is an example of what is meant by using the value, and thus UB.

In the compiler discovers UB, the Standard places no requirements of any kind on the program or compiler. It is free to launch missiles, or (more likely) assume this code cannot be reached, and omit it from the program, along with any code that reaches it unconditionally, and any check that would send control that way. Such elision is the basis for many important optimizations.

Implementations are free to define things left undefined by Standards. For example, "#include <unistd.h>" is UB by the ISO Standard, but defined by Posix, which implementations also adhere to.
Did you actually watch it? They point out that at the very least aluminum recycling make sense. At the time glass and paper recycling seemed to have some questions around profitability. They mostly spent the episode dedicated to plastics.

They also admitted that despite their findings they found it very difficult to personally give up on recycling. That's what makes the lie so effective. We want to believe we are helping, that we are doing something effective that makes up for our wastefulness and excess consumption. We aren't.
In general, a good place to start looking for new papers to read is the reference list of a paper, textbook, or Wikipedia article that interests you.

Here's one I enjoyed:
"Congestion avoidance and control," by Jacobson, 1988.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/52325.52356

The paper documents "congestion collapse" in the early internet. Too many TCP packets were sent at once, some were dropped, resent, dropped again, resent again, and so on, causing bandwidth to drop. The paper then goes on to present ways to scale the number of packets sent according to the number of packets acknowledged or lost.
This is mostly due to tax.
Some marketing people cannot grok user-generated content and absolutely freak out over the perceived lack of control. It's completely irrational but I've had pinhead marketing droids kill my content before with no replacement plan. It's infuriating.
> The bug report is datelined 2020-04-26, interestingly. There might be a bug in the bug reporting system.

No, you can type whatever date you want. The "add a new radar" screen is just a bunch of text input boxes: https://i.imgur.com/nNf457J.png
Huh? I don't think I've ever checked into a hotel and not been asked to hand over my driver's license so the clerk can punch in a bunch of info from it onto their machine.

I assume it's to help them track you down if you cancel your credit card, trash the room, and flee.
In Sacramento area it's like 2.40, I have seen it as low as 2.19 at the cheapest place.
Medical Staffing Company Slashed Benefits for Doctors, Nurses Fighting Virus
Pretty sure it's not a financial problem. As in their announcement, it is a "security issue"
Coronavirus: India's race to build a low-cost ventilator
18.4 cents per gallon is a federal tax. States and local governments add on various sales and per gallon taxes that average close to $0.50 per gallon, though the sales tax portion will have driven some of that tax cost down. California adds 58.8 cents per gallon of taxes plus a 2.25% sales tax. Other states can be much lower but no matter where you are, there's a price floor due to taxes.
Can confirm, this works (at least for the rabbits).
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Storage is cheap, collecting the data is expensive. I mean this company had to run a national chain of hotels to collect this data. That's not easy.
FaceID uses this technology?
Wrong. Prepaid MVNO Metro By T-Mobile has this feature as well.
Sounds like compassionate and practical advice, but nothing particularly insightful.

Having seen the shit-storms of the early naughts, yes, I can say there are worse ways of doing layoffs. Hint: deactivating key cards at lunch time isn't a best practice, nor is dribbling out lay-offs in waves like a year-long "last man standing" game show particularly helpful. Nor is calling an all-hands meeting and having the CEO cry on a theater-sized video projection. But these things are fairly obvious to non-sociopath leaders and companies with a professional HR department.

This is the second essay from a VC concern that I've seen discussing this. It makes me wonder why are VC's giving out this advice in such open-letter forums?
And they are proud of that? I would consider that a misfeature, even a bug. What are the use cases for that?
This has been a thing in the last five years only. Prior to PiS all governments have been both appreciative and enthusiastic about the EU. Please don’t tar all Poles with the PiS brush.
This is the stupidest thing I’ve read today.
Libido for the Ugly
This is a great bread, btw.

I use a simpler version, but very similar.

I like to roll it (or just coat the bottom) in seeds or cornmeal to prevent sticking, rather than dealing with parchment, oil, etc.
I stopped running Gentoo for my personal machines when a Linode VM update caused all of my programs (compiled with -march=native, of course), including Make, to start failing with an "illegal instruction" error.

And a Gentoo box without Make is just hosed.
Why Hey Had to Wait
Isnt code just vastly different... abstracted from 94’ era lingo?
Having longer pauses is good, but also randomizing your pause length ensures that there is a fair distribution among who gets to go first. It's kind of like the collision logic in the WiFi protocol.
I suspect you’re assuming too much about Tesla buyers. You are overlooking the possibility that the product is actually good.
I answered my phone today, since maybe people are calling due to everything that's happening

Turns out they're still doing that robocall scam where they say you won a free cruise
At this point the only two things that are stopping me from leaving Apple:

- The hope that iPhone 9 will not be a gigantic phone and it might actually be around the size of SE.

- There's nowhere to go to. Can't go back to generic Android. That's just a non-starter. There are no OEMs who supports a privacy focussed Android ROM and sends "timely" patches and OS upgrades (there are some niche ones but they will either never start direct service/support in my country or in a decade maybe).
Makes sense, non-type-safe language, we can push type safety guarantees to the persistence layer by coupling the domain models to the type-safe data models.
Given how cavalier zoom is about privacy and its history on the Mac, the only place I'd be willing to use it is on my phone or ipad where it's boxed in by Apple's restrictions and has undergone app review. Apple had to push a silent OS update to remove zoom's insecure secret web server.
Excellent and humane in all aspects. Definitely a bookmark
GDP is obviously the only metric that ever matters.
Or better yet, switch to MacPorts - https://www.macports.org/
More like second order side effects justifying obviously deviant ends.
I certainly support universal solutions for universal problems like healthcare which everyone needs and can benefit from sharing the risk, and the rewards of a healthy community.

But ignoring the balance sheet of the insuring entity (company, pool, whatever) will only insure that people don't get that healthcare. It still has to be paid for.
California is tier 3 gas which is more costly to produce. I think the rest of the US has to 2025 to change over.
You are a complete idiot if you think that what is happening in Hungary is in any way comparable to how Germany is governed.
I love this. Amazing work — thanks for making this process easier.
Yeah, we have pretty high fuel taxes but it's a good deterrent for driving since we have high smog too. Adding taxes and having high emissions standards really helped reduce a ton of smog in the air since the 80s

In the summer we use a special blend of gas that costs more due the heat causing an inversion(?) I think
This is a cool concept. Could be really useful. I’d prefer it as a web app over a mobile app. Any plans for that?
Special formulation for gas limits supply as well.
It doesn't really matter what tax pays for this. Ultimately, the customer pays for it (the average person). Corporate taxes are just a roundabout way of taxing the investors. This means that it will affect where investors are willing to invest - they will still want investments to pay back what they expected. This means that investors will simply put their money elsewhere to get their expected returns.
Fascinating new (to me) stuff here...

"The resulting XRQ-72A has a general planform reminiscent of other Northrop Grumman designs, including that of the B-21 Raider stealth bomber"

You mean "platform"? Nope! It really does have a similar planform, a word I last heard in what, high school drafting/CAD? You mean "B-2" bomber? Nope, I just hadn't heard about it...

Also interesting that it has no landing gear and uses a fuel generator to power electric engines...
The film is thin, and it will burn away during melting. So it will certainly help to reduce the plastic pollution compared to pure plastic bottles and cans.
Meanwhile Texas government doesn’t see need to allow extraction rate to change. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/30/texas-oil-producers-...
Nim has a heavy focus on metaprogramming using both templates and macros, and so the syntax is designed to be very permissive, and parse (but not understand) a very wide grammar so that users can write macros/templates to transform them. Kind of a middle ground between lisps which have very little syntax, and complete syntax extensions to languages which require compiler extensions so the compiler can even parse the file.
> Do you think Xor filter would be a better fit compared to Bloom here?

The 8byte key is the only scenario where you should consider XorPlus (i.e a 8 bytes mapped to a long).

The lookup properties of the Xor filter are better with that case, but the real question is whether you have an entire collection to start building the bitset or not.

The sketch production isn't incremental - there is no add(k) after building it once.

So you can't build add data once it is built, while the Bloom filters do support adding entries after the fact (in fact, it can add bloom filters into it, rather than sending all the new keys).

And both of those approaches are missing an unset operation.
> What isn't right is when someone votes for a tax they won't feel the burden of.

The real freeloaders are the well off republican voters that keep voting for more and more tax cuts, deficits be damned, putting trillions of dollars of burden onto the next generation.
...and the even more predictable, dismissive, contrarian response: "Look at how silly and repetitive all the critics are. They always point out problems, haha."

Fortunately, we have really enlightened people among us who point that out.

Every time.
Name + DOB to disambiguate are the lookup keys they pass to data brokers to identify you, given a government ID (required to check in to a hotel). It gives them access to things like address history, email address history (for crosslinking of account records), credit rating, marketing channel tags, et c.

Same goes for the phone number that some website registrations demand. It's not to call you, it's to lookup your name and address and annual income.
Demagogues running amock in the guise of economic liberators.
$2.40 to $2.60 in San Jose, CA.
It is good for companies, it makes it that much harder to quit or retire if you can't ensure your health care remains.
People like to razz on it for being a free market, but it's really a gov. backed oligopy.
this is likely due to lower demand still buying through gas from weeks prior. Prices are usually updated at the pump when a new truck brings a new delivery.