skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I also have no idea, in the context of modern web browsing, how large or small 300,000 DNS queries per month is[1]. It seems quite large to me - as if even my entire household would never possibly produce 300k DNS queries each month ... but perhaps I underestimate how many queries modern web pages produce ?

I just looked at my NextDNS stats dashboard for the previous 6 hours and it says 5900 queries. I was surprised by that high number. The intuition is to count in terms of manual clicks on urls but the part I underestimated is how "chatty" many web pages are with Javascript (e.g. analytics, ads, etc). In my case, I see about 1000 hits in 6 hours to just 2 urls: msh.amazon.com, content.googleapis.com.

Based on being awake 16 hours a day over 30 days, I extrapolate ~540,000 queries per month. This is for 2 people with no kids at home at the moment.

If my modest internet usage is ~540k queries per month, I'm guessing NextDNS definitely did the spreadsheet modeling to come up with 300k threshold so most people easily pass it after mid-month and therefore enticed to pay for the service to continue the ad blocking. When I get to that point, I'll re-evaluate the idea of setting up a Raspberry Pi-Hole. I really don't want to mess with hardware.

Maybe if I'm more aggressive with a local "hosts" file to locally block more sites to 127.0.0.1, I can drastically cut down the number of DNS queries hitting NextDNS.
It's kinda crazy that we can produce all these water-intensive crops in the central valley, and producers are draining aquifers for basically the cost of drilling and pumping ... but workers can't afford to shower regularly or wash their hands often. Somehow I don't think the farms that own the wells and the workers are paying at comparable rates.
> you cannot just drop this comment without elaborating

That's false.
There's probably nothing as terrifying as having to die without the company of people you love. Even more so, having to die within the chamber of a cruise, surrounded by strangers and being unable to touch the land because you're seen as infectious. I was actually discussing this issue with https://mootools.net/forge/profile/ShilohBrown because there are plans to create a database for surveying, that people with the disease can access and would give them something like an Uber for medicines.
It’s sad how it’s acceptable amongst Marxist fans that a no true Scotsman is a valid response.

If all it takes is “a cursory reading”, then you should certainly be able to provide a short summary and enlighten the capitalist slaves.
Better performance and UI than the others. I work in an environment where I use just about every major video conferencing tool available when working with customers.

We use Zoom internally, some customers are on Webex, still others use Hangouts.

Webex has been having difficulties ever since the mass exodus to work-from-home. Audio quality especially has been inconsistent over the last few weeks. Hangouts is pretty good from a quality standpoint, but I (and others, apparently) find their UI confusing.

I've never been asked yet to use Jitsi or any of the other also-rans.
I wouldn't even consider common stock options as a form of ownership. You are basically last in line to get any sort of compensation after an exit.
>"China is responsible for this whole thing"
This is actually pretty racist

China is in fact responsible for the global pandemic. How is this racist?
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As someone with metal implants, my experience is that metal causes extreme scattering in CT imagery which makes the modality often useless if you need to get anywhere near the site even with state-of-the-art computational filtering techniques. So I guess it depends on how much metal is still in there and where you need to look.
If you run mypy or pyre-check on the code above, it'll give you a type error, just like a C compiler would.
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Re: Instruction List

> This gives you immediate access to the machine itself

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean, IL is no more low-level than ST, it's just another interpreted representation.

If somebody wants to know the main difference between PLC programming languages (and this is all about superficial syntax):

FUP is a sequence of essentially very simple flow charts that connect "function blocks".

IL looks like Assembler. You have registers and load and store instructions.

ST looks like Pascal. It has simple control structures like loops and checks.

LD is like an electrical plan (and for good reason, it is targetted at electricians who "don't know about that new-fangled computer stuff").
Really interesting concept! One of those "how has this not been done before?!" idea!

Seems hard to scale, which isn't necessarily a problem, but I'm wondering:

1) How are you accessing audience data? Is this by scraping their insta or youtube or something or are you directly accessing accounts? Given an account is literally an influencer's livelihood, I can imagine that would be especially risky for them?

2) How do you relate audience products to data? Are you saying, for example, that if an audience is 50% metropolitan females aged 18-24 then it is likely they would purchase beauty products? Or do you go more in depth?

3) And then as a result...how do you intend to scale that? Machine learning?

Anyway...love it!
Plus a lot of other family-friendly sites for the edification of your kids:

$ host www.stormfront.org 1.1.1.3
www.stormfront.org has address 104.22.6.143
And you're worried that your child will use this exploit to gain root access to your system?
>China's 'authoritarianism' has nothing to do with the origin of the outbreak.

China's authoritarianism has normalized silencing of dissent, independent thought, open communication with murder or threat of murder. This cost the world valuable time.
Wish Jon didn't bash so much and contributed to the project instead :(
Tweet removed and re-posted as https://twitter.com/DanAmodio/status/1245329512889487361
> This is entirely not true when discussing the conditions of work: see the National Labor Relations Act.

The NLRA is pretty much toothless nowadays.

https://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-firings-were-about-unionizing...

https://medium.com/@GoogleWalkout/google-fired-us-for-organi...

> Nor is it strictly true for speech that takes place outside the workplace.

You are nominally correct. However, if I am your employer and I want to fire you I can almost certainly come up with some legitimate reason to put on the record. Your only recourse will be to file a wrongful termination suit and try to prove that the real reason I fired you was something other than what I said it was. Good luck with that.

Also, if you're in an at-will state, I don't even have to come up with an excuse. If I want you gone, you're gone.
Forth is mentioned in the title, do you really need to add that it's before the 2000's if that's the case? ;)
Yeah, absolute statements about this (and many things) are rather silly. It depends on so many variables - office setup/environment, home setup/env, type of work, personality, coworkers, commute distance, etc.

Everyone will have to figure out what works best for their particular situation. For some that'll be remote, for some office and for others a mix of the two.

I think the important thing is for companies to consider the options in a thoughtful, big picture way. Also not assume that current remote productivity is indicative of remote work during non-pandemic times, heh.
Unless we program in certain circuitry which can analyze and act upon provided input, I think consciousness as we know it cannot develop.

Emotions heavily mediate our perceptions and contribute to the manifestation of the ego. And sensory input defines the world in which we inhabit. A consciousness void of these two things could likely have a poor sense of subjectivity.
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Human challenge studies to accelerate coronavirus vaccine licensure
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Why is he stepping down? Seems to me like he was the reason for the success of T-Mobile.
The US has a common film rating system for all cinemas etc, which is at least some standard the whole country is implicitly supporting.

Europe doesn't, and so a film can receive different ratings in each country.

The first film I found searching for a good example of this, Eight Grade, is rated suitable for children in Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden etc, and 15 year olds in the UK and Ireland -- with the UK possibly more concerned with the language than the sex.

The US rates the film R, so 17.

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what version of macos are you using?
It has good usability, and not much trouble in video conferencing. No nonsense. Plus it has a catchy name: Compare "Google Meet" or "Microsoft teams" vs "Zoom".
The setup is easy and the video works very well, including with many participants.

That's it.

There is nothing else. They managed to do one thing well.

This thing that skype used to do correctly but now don't.

This thing that no other free softwares seems to be able to manage correctly either. Not teams. Not hangout. Not Jitsi or BBB.

It makes you think.
Reddit also has a flag inside of their api called `nsfb`: Not Safe For Brand. They'll let you post it, and they'll host it, but they don't want most people to know that they'd host it, so they hide it from public, not-logged-in sections of the site.

It's really shameful; they need to stop the hypocrisy and either become a content-neutral host and own the consequences, or censor arbitrarily, and own the consequences. They're trying to have their cake and eat it too, and it's entirely unfair, much in the same way shadowbanning is.
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I'm doing something similar on Linux, although a bit more complicated.

I'm using v4l2loopback [0] to create a dummy video device, ffmpeg to create a stream endpoint that streams into the dummy video device, then setting up OBS to stream to localhost.

It is actually really nice to have the capability to fully control what is going in to the video input.

I haven't run into a need to also change the audio input yet but if it becomes necessary, it should be possible to set up loopback with ALSA.

[0] https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback
Naturally it isn't fair, but one cannot expect teams to drop velocity and diminish their productivity only on basis of adopting a new language that doesn't support existing workflows, IDE tooling and libraries.

It is like telling someone to delivering games in Unity and Unreal that they should use Amethyst instead, without understanding what it means to actually having a team working in those ecosystems.

Naturally Rust will get there, however it took C++ 30 years to be where it is today, and that is what any replacement attempt should take into consideration.
I tend to agree, I still have libertarian instincts on a lot of issues, but in situations such as a pandemic where we have a large collective action problem and no time to evolve the sorts of cultural technologies and norms that generally evolve to solve collective action problems, having a government coordinate action is a net benefit.

That said, the libertarian inside me worries a lot about how the surveillance mechanisms we setup to deal with the current pandemic will persist and be repurposed for more nefarious means after the current crisis is over.
The 30 teams in MLB are by far the best in the world, and have many players from every country where baseball is popular.

If the English Premier League were so dominant that it were nearly impossible for any team from any other league to compete with them, it wouldn't really bother me if they called their winner the World Champion soccer club.
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I'm looking at Sweden's numbers on worldometers.info and both the number of cases and deaths are growing exponentially.

Thus, I fear that their "radically different" approach will soon follow the UK's and the Netherland's...
Remote work seems to slow EVERYTHING down every time my teams have been fully (or near fully) remote. I expect the shortening of the work week to boost productivity, but I don't see remote work doing the same, at large.
Considering the demographic targetted by the meme was teenagers, I'd say it doesn't matter if you taught them or not. Disinformation campaigns on the internet are a thing.

Kids don't flawlessly execute every piece of good advice given and sometimes you really do need to stop little Johnny from jumping off a bridge just because his friend said so.
This is the thesis of Popper's "The Open Society and Its Enemies." He argues, correctly I think, that you can find intellectual strands going back to Heraclitus and Plato which revolve around the idea of some "central force" or "law of history" that enables a thinker to predict the future. He says that the alternative and preferable society is a skeptical one that views history as a series of experiments and tries to infer what amount to rules of thumb rather than grand "world historical" theories or forces.
But that's not the original point, though. jetrink's claim was:

> they also still have buttons and dials everywhere. ... The reason is obvious: when you're taking photos, you don't want to be looking down at a screen

I agree that physical affordances are very useful. But I don't think the cause of DSLRs having them is because current manufacturers believe buttons have superior usability. It's because SLRs have had those same controls since before touchscreens existed and today's self-selected DSLR camera audience specifically wants products with that "vintage" user experience.

My evidence is that today's cameras generally only have hardware controls for features that existed since before the digital revolution. Purely new capabilities (like file management) have not included corresponding new hardware controls. Likewise, hardware controls that are no longer that useful, like mode selectors, are still present.

To me, this implies that camera manufacturers are not just trying to provide a "hardware control" UX, they are specifically providing "the hardware control UX of 90s SLRs".
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There's no such thing as political legitimacy, at least in terms of the philosophical concept existing in reality. Legitimacy in practice just means that there are not enough people opposed to a regime to take it down. It's just really a restatement of whether people have confidence that it won't collapse.