skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such an insane problem. I've been trying to source N95s and everyone I've talked to, even very reliable people, keep bringing me counterfeits without realizing it.

I'm actually really concerned their physicians are using those N95 masks.

Thankfully face shields are less of a risk.
Or a government restriction due to the pandemic, if not the pandemic itself.
Good on them for helping fight the problem, but there's definitely a dystopian sci-fi trope of a familiar brand creating products that only exist because the world is in a disaster.

Sort of like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4lS9poHvpU
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Every cycle, since the invention of money, it's the same thing over and over again - not understanding that it's the demand (investors) that causes problems, not the supply (investments). Demand creates supply. Supply does not create demand. It's like blaming oil wells or oil companies for global warming, instead of the people that buy and burn oil (aka everyone). That is what I meant by "don't expect you to understand", because it seems people never do.
It has for a while. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Settings
Thank you! I had missed this news, so a link to a support article with no explanation was a little mystifying.
I had the opportunity to work in the analytics team at MindGeek a couple of years ago. My team would spend days researching about all these seemingly useless features in modern web browsers to find new and better ways to track users across all our websites. I still remember when the HTML Canvas Element [1] was introduced by Apple almost two decades ago, many of these adult websites managed to increase the accuracy of their corresponding device fingerprint algorithms [2] by leveraging the power of the new APIs. In fact, one of the reasons why Fabian Thylmann tried to acquire XVideos back in 2012 [3] was because their analytics team had engineered new ways to track users using WebGL [4] which was still quite new. I don’t know if device tracking is still relevant for their revenue model, but I am sure they still have the code running in most —if not all— their websites for one reason or another.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_fingerprinting

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XVideos#History

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL
What do you mean by:

> On top of that, the design is already commercialized.
And just like that, masks without continuous corners look so...downmarket.
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I see your point and can understand your position.

Just as a counterpoint I would still add that "undeniably false" is a very high bar that many believe is not reached with some topics, the "gospel" (not meant dismissive) on vaccinations being one of them.
AFAIK it's only the gameboy link cable. It went on to inspire firewire, but it's it's own connector.
Out of curiosity, if the client knows which parts they want, why aren't they ordering the parts themselves?
Thanks. So it's a term that's taken its own life in US, and is not itself offensive, but labels the user as a member of one faction in the current US culture wars.

Even if one was speaking only about Irish history without any link to US.

Sigh.
Naborly also provides plausible deniability. From what the article says, they do not provide a detailed risk profile that a tenant might contest and correct, they provide an overall risk score. The opacity is intentional and to get around local laws. Why is this even permitted? Company top brass ought to be run out of town on a rail!
For the section about how javascript can only be added onto (such as with typescript), I disagree.

Now that we have compilers and transpilers like Babel and Typescript, it means we can effectively code how we want (even with different languages like reasonml, ocaml, purescript, or ESNext), and in theory browser venders can simply make a new target language or version of JS that these compilers can target.
Don't let a non-technical founder take advantage of you. A good litmus test is if the non-technical founder has anything to do on a daily basis. If it seems like there's nothing for them to do, because "it's too early," or "the product isn't ready yet," they're probably taking advantage of you. At that point, unless they've got money to offer (and preferably pay you), there is little reason for them to have the same level of equity as you, and you should ask yourself what you're getting from the relationship.
Great news with this important caveat -- that they work as effectively as the Apple's original design and can take hydro/chemical stress from multiple power-washes using strong disinfectants and other industrial-grade cleaners.
I migrated my site from Google App Engine to Netlify
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No it had not.

I am a long way away but from what I can ell from he news I follow it has a good core business. It was run by a crook, who still has his hooks in, but the real estate business was sound.

Until all the income from short term leases evaporates due to curfews and the long term leases they pay keep ticking....
This statement that you made—about side effects requiring monads—do you know a proof for that?

I come from the other side, Milewski's book is to me "Functional Programming for Category Theorists".
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iOS 12.4. When I scroll up or down normally the intensity of the flick causes it to scroll faster or slower. It feels like there’s a “hard stop” on the page, the scrolling stops sooner. Scrolling slowly seems to be off by a pixel or something, almost like a judder. I didn’t see the same issue on Chrome on my Mac.
Some time ago I got it working with ffmpeg with raw video, but I'm afraid it got lost in bash history.

edit: Relevant section from my ~/.config/obs-studio/profiles/Untitled/basic.ini

[AdvOut]
TrackIndex=1
RecType=FFmpeg
RecTracks=1
FFOutputToFile=false
FFFilePath=/dev
FFURL=tcp://localhost:55555
FFFormat=rawvideo
FFFormatMimeType=
FFExtension=yuv
FFVEncoderId=13
FFVEncoder=rawvideo
FFAEncoderId=0
FFAEncoder=
FFAudioMixes=1
FFVCustom=
Encoder=obs_x264
FFVBitrate=15000
RescaleRes=1600x900
RecRescaleRes=1600x900
FFRescaleRes=1600x900
FFMCustom=
FFVGOPSize=50
FFIgnoreCompat=false

In the UI these stuff are set under Output > Recording, Type is "Custom Output (FFmpeg)". It did require some fiddling on the receiving side in my ffmpeg command line.
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This is an interpretation of a paper by Bereczkei et al. published in 2004. The paper, if I read it correctly, was based on photographs from "26 Caucasian families".

PubMed shows several more recent papers which cite the paper. One is https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444291/ from 2012, which uses "22,861 individuals from 6,105 independent families". That paper says:

> A strong previous demonstration of sexual imprinting was subsequently found to contain serious errors (Bereczkei, Hegedus, and Hajnal 2009). The distinct lack of an effect in the current large sample using appropriate genetic controls indicates that sexual imprinting does not play a role in human mate choice, at least in terms of the range of physical and psychological traits investigated here.

Thus, I consider it very likely the conclusions of the first publication should not be regarded as conclusive.

If I had a Medium account, I would post a comment. Perhaps someone here would do that?
Oh, totally, Biden isn't a young chap.

Trump is a lot worse in this department. He started out as somebody with a narcissistic personality disorder who can't read and conned his way through life, failing upwards as he went, blowing his $400 million inheritance. He was never very truthful, but now he doesn't have the mental acuity to hide it. He slurs sentences and is unable to utter any details (i.e. "A number nobody wants to think about"= "A number
I can't remember"). I've hardly ever heard him cite a number that is accurate.

Really, discrediting Biden on mental health issues is entirely partisan, given the data we have on Trump. When Democrats said something to the effect it was in the primary election and compared to other candidates, not compared to Trump. Trump can't compete, intellectually, with any of the Top-20 candidates on the left.
Where they describe how to sterilize it: DO NOT mix those chemicals together (e.g., bleach + rubbing alcohol = chloroform).
Opened 6 years ago!
Shameless plug (I really did not intend to promote this yet but it can help so figured I'd mention it in case you are interested), but if you are using Kubernetes you could get pretty darn close with MeTaLS[1]. Generate self-signed certs that last for 10 or more years and copy/paste them into environment variables for your service, and you've got it. Of course I don't recommend that as it's not as secure as doing things "the right" way but it's definitely better than no mTLS at all (as you pointed out).

MeTaLS won't provide you with client-related stuff, but most clients and client libs make it easy to set a certificate/key with a request.

[1]: https://github.com/FreedomBen/metals
>Do you approve of the idea of using any combination of therapies found effective to cure people of believing in their religion, or to 'solve' political dissidents?

What I'm suggesting you consider is, what if it's only done voluntarily? For example I can't imagine a political dissident voluntarily subjecting themselves to belief neutralization. I have a hard time imagining how the voluntary rule could allow any of the authoritarian outcomes.
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am i wrong or security researchers aren't paid well. i mean not sure how much this bug is wort but def. $3500 looks like a small number.
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They did not own the buildings.

Real estate in big cities is (generally speaking) quite a closed shop. They had leases.
A part that's not super clear here is that the gameboy link cable comms are basically SPI. Running this over an Arduino is probably the easiest way to use this today.
The lowest estimate I can find for percentage of Americans that live paycheck to paycheck is 49% and the highest is 80%. This just feels like a list of people who didn't get paid in March.
XPath search is a good one. I've used to scrape some data from the sites and missing search by XPath forced me to use chromium derivatives. Great to see this feature coming.
Where? All I see are ones using a piece of foam as a spacer.
Does wireguard have a noticeable overhead wrt data size compared to a unencrypted connection? I was thinking of setting up it on a small RPi-Like board at home, then on the laptop I carry around (when the lockdown is over). The purpose would be connecting to the Internet through the home broadband public IP which could be handy. However the laptop connects through a metered 4G connection which, although the data cap is more than reasonable, raises some concerns should the encryption require a lot more data than normal.
Judging by the fact that at least ntpd gets broken by it I suspect it's again more a time issue. It'll take time to make sure that anything broken by it either gets fixed or properly documented as needing a work-around. Otherwise when it first ships it's going to break a lot of systems when people switch.
I mean that if you check Amazon, companies are making money of it. It’s great that it’s getting out just not so great that it’s selling with fat margin on top.
It would be great if they could make face shields that are dishwasher safe.
If you want to use F# to build GUIs, you should definitely check out Fabolous [1]. It uses Xamarin.Forms to render the widgets, and you get to write the application logic using the Elm architecture.

[1] https://github.com/fsprojects/Fabulous
I know Firefox for iOS uses WebKit so not sure how useful the information is, but the same “issue” is present there. The scrolling is just different.
> On the other hand, as in technical hiring, it is probably better to miss 10 good tenants rather than rent to one bad one. Right?

Sure, if there is a shortage of housing and surplus of potential tenants. But in areas where there is a surplus of housing, it might be better than fill a unit with a tenant who has a 15% chance of not being able to pay rent (but who is otherwise a good tenant) than leaving the unit vacant for a year.
> It feels quite funny though to be so specific about the ramblings of a man,

He either said it's a hoax or he didn't. In this case, he didn't. If you don't care what he rambles about, that's fine, but then don't say he said something he didn't as a proof to some point, as if it were a well-known fact.

> He might as well have said it and nothing would change

But he did not. So don't say he did. It's a lie. It's not ok for Trump to lie, why it's ok for somebody else to lie about Trump?

> But it's quite hard to adhere to a high level of truthfulness when the other side clearly has no regard for it.

So far the side that says the facts don't actually matter and whether he said what you claim he said or not is immaterial seems to be you. I think allowing yourself to disregard the truth because "the other side is doing it anyway" is not a right way to do things.
Why sad? This is a massive global issue that we have not experienced in modern times. Who cares about attribution. Apple has donated a bunch of masks? Who cares its just a face mask and this design is different then what Prusa is printing. As long as lives are being saved thats all that matters right?
I'm not sure I get how the problem is related to WhatsApp.

WhatsApp is a platform for (largely) private messaging among individuals or small groups. It's a SMS/Call replacement/enhancement.
I wouldn't want health officials, or anyone else for that matter, to be monitoring what gets exchanged over WhatsApp to detect misinformation. This is not a platform problem, this is a "there's disinformation out there and individuals are spreading it problem", I think.

This is different in my mind from semi-public/public platforms a-la Facebook, Twitter, etc.
I was listening to a podcast about this, apparently he registered a ton of domains (including Corp.com) for free a long time ago and has been squatting and slowly selling them back at extortion prices. He's done this many times before and already retired because of these payouts. I'm not happy to hear he got a single cent
I use this solution in a similar way, but I usually share a single window. I use this command, change /dev/video2 with your virtual output and WINXID with the XID of the window you want to view (use xwininfo to get it).

gst-launch-1.0 ximagesrc use-damage=0 xid=WINXID ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw,format=YUY2 ! videoconvert ! queue ! v4l2sink device=/dev/video2

Also, I usually combine it with scrcpy, so I can share my Android phone/tablet's screen on my computer's videoconference session.
Does that factor in the insane increase in legal spending they’re going to have this year?
Done. Had to tweak title for character limit.
That kind of thinking was what lost Clinton the election, even if maybe in your particular case it didn't matter as much.

Overall, the absolute number of voters is a political argument, so even those votes count.
I was hoping everyone in the US might be able to buy one.

Ideally, they'd be cheap enough for municipalities to buy and distribute.
If the entire effect were guaranteed to be attributable to the magnet intervention with 48% as the baseline likelihood of remission, the p value is ~0.0003.

That's just math.

The question is how believable it is that the entire effect is attributable to the magnet intervention.

Exciting research results announced in university press releases turn about to be something cool infrequently to put it mildly (also true for small studies, also true for medical results, also true for self-reported studies, etc), so my prior is that most or all of the effect will go away.
Air pollution linked to far higher Covid-19 death rates, study finds
As Frere Jacques notes, it is almost pointless to speculate without the actual contract in hand.

For instance, large events often have cancellation insurance, but they have found that the terms are much narrower than they expected when they signed the insurance contract.
That is a good thing - Apple clearly isn't making them as even a revenue making object, let alone a profit center, so I can't imagine they'll object to others also manufacturing them.

The goal at the moment for global manufacturing to produce PPE and masks in huge numbers as fast as possible. Not to create new sources of revenue.
The "boy's club" isn't a formal institution. It's not like something you carry a card for.
The shortsightedness of not making the default domain something Microsoft already owned is, to put it mildly, breathtaking.
I don't want to buy a bunch of lumber, hire a bunch of guys, and wait for months every time I want to move. But somebody had to do all that relying on compensation in the future. I rent from them because it can be better for me than committing to buy permanently from them.
Looking at the pursa video, its a different design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP7z3iw76GA
Note that the paper does compare a switch-based dispatcher to a computed-goto version ('jump threading') - cf figure 2. The latter used to have a significant performance advantage over the former, which is apparently no longer true (cf figure 3 (a)). That of course doesn't invalidate your point.
I get what you are saying, but there have to be incentives for manufacturers to start making them. A fat margin at first will do that. If it's an open design, manufacturing competition will swiftly reduce that fat margin.
Zoox, citing Covid-19 shutdown, lays off its autonomous vehicle backup drivers
Is there any plastic that is actually dishwasher safe? I thought just about all of it started leaching when exposed to high temperatures.
What's stopping anyone from printing and selling them at parity or at a loss?

It's not like you can print out that Apple page on your ink jet printer and wear it.
When this change was made in FF Nightly I was annoyed enough to find out why it happened and file a bug report about the regression (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619801, and a dupe at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621570), but apparently it was an intended change. What's annoying is that instead of just changing the default for Linux to be in line with other platforms, the option to not select the URL when clicking was completely removed.

Now I have to click on the URL, wait a second, and then click again to place the cursor instead of selecting all. Especially annoying if you accidentally move your mouse off by a character between the two clicks. This makes me quite mad the few times per day I run into it - the feature is quite useful for changing URLs, which it turns out I do quite often, even though I'm usually not a web developer.

I'm currently compiling Firefox with the patch reverted. EDIT: It worked!!! Compiling took about an hour with an AMD Ryzen 3800x (8x 3.9-4.5 GHz) and NVMe SSD and 32 GB RAM. I'll post a link in a followup comment here with instructions on the simplest way to do this on Arch Linux (uses the build infrastructure already setup to create Arch's regular Firefox package, just modified to also revert the patch which removed this preference). Of course there's no guarantee that this will continue to work in the future as the FF codebase is updated.
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>Landowners are as a rule completely worthless

That's funny seems to me that without them we would have a LOT of homeless people. They have an asset and allow others to use it for a fee.... banks do the same thing, they have liquid capital they offer to others for a fee... would you say that banks as a rule are completely worthless?

If we are talking about a fantasy utopia where 250-300 families who don't know each other are all going to gather together and put funds together to build an apartment complex in a major city and run it like a co-op then continue to live in fantasy land because that rarely if ever is the case.
It's a mixed bag.

Initially there was fear that 'deplatforming' would make these ideas stronger, and the people promoting them 'martyrs' and their 'martyrdom' a 'cause célèbre' that would promote them even further. In other words, that the Streissand effect of deplatforming someone would make them more powerful.

Reality seems to contradict that. People who used to enjoy quite a bit of notoriety a couple years ago have essentially disappeared since being deplatformed. Idiots like Milo Yiannopoulos, Gavin McInnes, Alex Jones and a whole bunch of other alt-righter 'personalities' who promoted white supremacy, homophobia, xenophobia, etc. have lost their audiences and are only recognizable by a handful of people who were aware of their positions before they got deplatformed.

On the other hand, the people that put the effort to continue following such personalities and ideologies in whatever platforms they managed to stay on, belong to the extreme fringe of the original audience. Because the platforms that still host these people tend to host all kinds of terrible stuff, it's possible that some are being exposed to bad views they didn't espouse before. But let's face it: anyone digging through white supremacist sites to get the latest from Gavin McInnes was a lost cause anyway.

In conclusion: deplatforming seems to limit exposure of new people to such perspectives, without requiring government-enforced violations of the First Amendment. There's nothing we can do against people actively looking for such anti-perspectives, because they are already biased against the 'normal' perspective. Conspiracy theorists have existed forever, but only recently they've become mainstream and affect public policy.
> They offer the service of providing limited-term accommodation with no assumption of liability for regular, small payments. Contrast this to owning a house/condo, where the owner has an indefinite right to the property, but assumes liability (e.g. mortgage debt, property taxes) and/or plunks down a very large amount of cash all at once.

This presents a false dichotomy in my view. If a property is paid for, there's no emergent liability set upon the owner that isn't also set by the state (which grants them absentee property title in the first place). All of the market mechanisms that incentivize transformation, maintenance, and occupation of land can exist without recognizing absentee title as legitimate, enabling people to occupy spaces they don't own without having to pay a rentier in perpetuity.
Why? Most ordinary non-healthcare-worker people have no need for this level of PPE, especially if they're following social distances rules like they should be.
I did some due diligence before letting them hoover up my data and it seems they are in partnership with the IRS to get this done.

Probably the most annoying web form I've ever filled out but...
> Did they close their whole country to control the spread?

Yes, they did... eventually. You certainly could make a case that they did it far too late (though that could also be said of other countries).

> Are they mostly open now?

Maybe? They say they are. Other people have questioned that claim.

> Did they have the same rate of infections and deaths (even if they fudge numbers some)?

Hard telling, if they fudge the numbers. There are huge discrepancies between the official numbers and what other people try to estimate by indirect means (cremation urns, for example). Depending on who you believe, their death toll may be horrific.

Mind you, I'm not saying that these other claims are correct. I'm saying that we don't know that the official claims are correct, and if they're wrong, we don't know how far off they are.