skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see something like this as a plugin for OBS. I've been using it lately due to all the video conferencing we're all growing to love since it's got basic color correction/manual controls for my webcam feed.

It's got the option for "real" chromakey, but like the author, I don't have a green screen, Amazon isn't scheduling any deliveries for another month, and I don't feel like a trip to the fabric store would count as "essential" travel (especially if it's only so I can screw around with stupid backgrounds).

Tried a few different sheets/blankets I had at home, but none are a suitable color or uniform/matte enough to work well, even with proper lighting. I admit this is such a non-issue and only something I want to play around with, but it would be fun nonetheless.
For practical purposes Taiwan is a police state which is rather understandable considering that its neighbor thinks it is a rogue province.

Neither US nor Germany resorted to police state techniques. In a set of the Western democracies only France is getting close to it.
I use a DPT-RP1 13”. I use it everyday, however the pen has an adequate writing experience and the build quality isn’t great. I’ve used the ReMarkable before and it has a much better build quality and a better writing experience.

Foe just an electronic whiteboard there are Boogieboards.
The world would have looked differently if the Mirasol technology ever took of. It was a large e-ink that could do color and had a refresh rate good enough for video. Most impressively, it could have been produced at existing display plants with some modifications. Unfortunately, the MEMS technology was close but no quite there as the displays degraded. Beautiful displays however, extremely energy proficient, and absolutely splendid in daylight. A bit dull, but very comfortable indoors.
> The sad truth is that most devs fresh out of collage or a bootcamp aren't valuable enough to be worth hiring at large tech companies like Google.

.. which is really unfortunate, because those big companies are the ones that have the most resources to hire, train, and mentor juniors. At the opposite end we have small companies that can literally go bankrupt when their hire doesn't work out and is unable to deliver working software. Even if the hire works out well enough, they're not learning as much as they could in a well resourced team with enough serious talent & seniors to mentor them.

> I think the real sin is that we're afraid to tell people they aren't very good at programming yet, and we use technical interviews as a scape goat.

I don't know if it's useful to tell people that they aren't very good. It's a serious chicken & egg problem because everybody wants to hire seniors that can hit the road running and nobody wants to train the juniors. The juniors really don't need to be told that they aren't good enough, they need a place where they can get good!
goatlover said: "only the qualities of perception which are objective exist,"

If you change "objective" to "scientifically validated" you have defined a position known as "ontological positivism", and I would say Dennett does subscribe to this.

The funny thing is, the school of thought which says consciousness is computation by our brains and any computer properly programmed can be conscious, a school known as "functionalism", itself gives ontological status to a non-corpreal abstract thing, namely computation.

If computation can be abstracted from not just the brain but any substrate at all then it exists. So computation can take place on an AMD chip and a Intel chip and a Turning Tape and anything you'd care to rigged up made out of anything whatsoever so long as it could represent the computation of a Turing Tape.
To clarify parent comment: if you understand the security risks and wish to turn off these mitigations, on modern kernels the entirety of the linked website's kernel args can be shortened to:

mitigations=off

All of the rest is now redundant.

TIL: the default `mitigations` value, `auto`, leaves SMT enabled—even if it's vulnerable(!!!)—to avoid surprising sysadmins who upgrade to find SMT disabled. The full protection, non-default option is:

mitigations=auto,nosmt

Thanks for the doc link!
Authors explain why code signing (currently) was skipped here: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/234#issu...
Programmers who think they are good when they are not
Governments don’t create vaccines, they govern and approve them for usage, but private companies develop them.
Ask HN: Is implementation of encryption by WhatsApp reliable?
In the privacy fiasco of Zoom, I am looking for documentary proof of WhatsApp encryption implementation. I want a documentary evidence that WhatsApp encryption is poorly implemented or it is easier for Facebook to ferret out the conversations. )Please also recommend alternative secure messenger for healthcare)
Interesting. Too bad the research is not public and the article basically just PR for proprietary consulting services. Even from a commercial point of view a better strategy would be to work in the open, and grow a reputation from there for more individual (paid) advice.
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I was born and raised in silicon valley. It was pretty bad across the board. Tons of good programmers got killed including ones that were really solid.

Mind you the situation is different now so what you say could be right in a certain way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21318704
It seem the permanent immunity is unlikely https://youtu.be/4EUZEtJHQhE?t=639
At least until it reads credentials out of memory.
Sounds like you know exactly what your problem is. Technical interviewing is just like normal problem solving, just you have to narrate your thoughts as if the interviewer's inside your head with you. Get some sample problems that match what you're seeing in your onsites, roleplay having an interviewer there with you, and practice them while recording yourself. Best is if you can have a real human. If you're passionate enough, it would be a great idea to organize some kind of group for people in similar positions.

Either you will learn the skill enough or you will find a position that fits your current skillset along the way. Being understood by other people is where the rubber meets the road for ideas having any impact and communicating your technical ideas is an important skill in general.
For the quoted 1500$ for the display I could buy a printer and print the page for quite some time...
Chicken and the egg?

You need high volumes to drop the price and you can't get high volumes with high price. The E Ink technology has a lot of downsides compared to OLED and LCD, such as update speed, limited colors,...

We (http://www.visionect.com) have been building E Ink solutions for past decade and we just stoped convincing people that they should use E Ink where they could use LCD or OLED. E Ink is useful only as a niche solution for specific, mostly not consumer (exception being Kindle and Remarkable) products. We've sold a platform for any application and after a while we saw that it only makes sense to focus on specific niches (digital signage, transportation, bus stops) or go for finished product (see our https://getjoan.com).

In the end it is what it is - everybody says they'd use an E Ink display everyday, but almost nobody is prepared to spend the cash when they can use iPads, phones or huge LCD/OLED instead.

E Ink will have it's day in digital signage as they solve the colors as these screens will replace all paper advertising eventually, but untill the you'll see this screens on ebook readers / note takers, on conference rooms and on digital bus stops.
I’ve always wondered how mechanical or civil engineers are interviewed? How about accountants? You never hear about interview problems for them.

As an industry we should take our dignity back.
I'm pretty sure this is not lawful so you can't be sued if you lied in the first place.
It's quibbling, because you are apparently unable to understand that a person saying words is not what was being asked for, which was "actual data" that "demonstrated some real purpose". It's quibbling because you keep ignoring the meat of my point, picking instead a word choice to argue about.

I don't believe that everything that uses a blockchain is "gibberish by definition". I do believe that so far every single thing I've seen promoted under the banner of "blockchain" has ended up being vastly more hype than substance. Or, as I said, "so heavy on theoretical possibility and so light on actual data." Your turning up with more hype, more airy possibility is willfully unhelpful.
Doesn't make sense to me, sorry. I imagine paying for servers to run free Jitsi for all the people is tens of thousands of dollars per month (if not hundreds). Are you saying that it makes more sense than hiring additional developers for that money?
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There may be other explanations such as past use of vaccines for other diseases, that varies country to country.
I don't want to identify myself too much, but we make measurement equipment, so we have a real mix of skill sets. The machinist is kind of an extreme case, but we also have people in general administrative roles, etc.
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Of course (not meaning to be snarky to you) Chromebooks can do hardware acceleration. Off the shelf hardware that supports Linux can also do it with no issue if you compile ChromiumOS yourself.

You can see it for yourself if you have a reasonably modern non-Nvidia device. You can find a build here [1], and 7z x it to a device or use Rufus, and when you boot it you can check a guest session and see how watching a YouTube video does not light your laptop on fire.

I am very glad that Firefox is getting there too. Judging by this Reddit comment [2] it's still got a long way to go, but that's quite fair when it's just the one Red Hatter working on it I believe.

[1] https://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/?dir=daily&order=modifie...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/fwk3yt/firefox_750_r...
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Ask HN: What is total mass of human-infecting SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19 virus
If you took all the SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, virii / virus particles that have infected all humans since the beginning of the outbreak in late 2019, what would be their total mass? Would they all fit in a shot glass? beer glass? wine cask? moonshine bathtub? brewery vat? Frank Sinatra's wine cellar?

(I'm curious and Googled for this but get a lot of unrelated stuff.)
There are a number of things. The first is the feature creep. It is designed to do CW, but it does it quite poorly. The first 2-3 characters are dropped when you send. Secondly, the new version has a fancy screen that at least upon release, was tremendously slow. Lastly, it took them several versions to get it harmonics down to levels that were legal in the US. Before that, tons of modifications were required. The design is solid, but the PCB layout is poor.

The other thing is the PA. The layout is very poor. The higher the frequency, the lower the output. It's great at 30 meters and below, but 20 meters and up suffers. The BITX40 suffers from this too, but it's a single band radio and at 40m it works fine. I replaced the IRF510 with an RD15HVF1 and it worked great on 20M too. Mind you, this isn't an issue with the IRF510- it's an issue with board layout. The QRP Labs 10W PA uses two IRF510's in push/pull and can even work on 10m at full output.

TL;DR: Over complicated, poor PCB layout, feature creep.

That's not to say that Farhan isn't a nice fellow and a great ham- he definitely is! They just let this one out too soon before all the bugs were worked out, and allowed compromises that shouldn't have made it into production.
Surely you can understand that an issue in a platform-specific implementation of a fairly obscure feature doesn't really support your assertion that it is "broken out of the box". It's likely that config option is not set by default because it's known to be buggy in some other way. You can read some discussion of this setting here, which has seen some activity in the past year, so it is being worked on: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1403085
Thanks for the tip. I think some responsibility lies on the author as he chose which platform to publish with.
Movie rating aggregator with streaming availability
I imagine you're talking about a specific econometrics professor at McGill?

I'd say he's extremely unique, it's far from the typical.
"White collar" doesn't normally exclusively mean managerial, it means 'professional' in a kind of poorly-defined, rather obsolete, classist way. A "you know it when you see it" thing. For instance, a doctor is white collar (but probably not a manager). So's an accountant, or an engineer; again, they're mostly not managers.
It’s not in standard SQL, but is present in most SQL implementations:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-explain.html

https://www.sqlite.org/lang_explain.html

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/explain/
With VPNs besieged, cloud desktops get their close-up
I was gonna say...unless it's the wall across from my toilet, I'm not sure it would be functionally compatible with me.
Indeed, I wasn't touting it as a best practice, but as an example of a fairly mainstream traditional practice.
Woooow also nice!!

I will try it out! I have a use case for this that has thousands, will try both tools out to see if I get better results than with my current d3 script that I found laying around on the internet.
You're talking about "refusing to discuss" rejections, I'm talking about "refusing to implement" rejections. You're right that the former would prevent us from discovering good solutions, but the latter would only stop us from implementing bad ones.
Good question, I wonder the same. I would say E-ink is still the best bet in terms of no-light emission property. Someone from ReMarkable could give really good insights as they are the hottest startup building a product within this space. Other than that possibly the cheapest option would be to tile old kindles and find a way to interface with them...

Sad that Amazon makes Kindle very closed to modification in terms of software. Therefore I am a huge fan of ReMarkable because an underdog may allow us to finally build e-ink apps: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
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Both are walking dinosaurs at this point waiting for a meteorite...
Availability of hospital beds is certainly important, but about 80% of COVID-19 patients placed on ventilators die. We should deploy more ventilators but even if hospitals run out that will have only a small impact on the total infection fatality rate.
From skimming through their website, it looks like they target business applications with bigger displays (Health Care, Transportation, Industrial & Packaging, ...) which I would assume are high margin contracts.

So maybe another reason would be that offering lower prices for big displays would reduce profits from these business clients more than it would increase profits from the additional low-margin mass-market volumes.
mds=off

Does this mitigate MDS attacks?

https://mdsattacks.com/
Which is perfectly fine for personal use or in a data center where you control the whole server.
This is my only grammatical pet peeve, so thanks for the link. I'll be posting that around some. :)
I hear this sentiment a lot about FAANG in particular.

Of course their bar to entry is very high, they are the one of highest paying employers in tech. If you want the pay and prestige, you have to play their game.

Where I would agree with you is when non-Google companies use Google tactics for hiring but pay like a mom and pop shop.
> I pay the premium because of the walled garden. I prefer it.

As a Debian user, I can mostly relate to this.

The problem is when Apple's incentives are not aligned with the consumer.

That they do not allow a real Firefox on the iPhone to keep their browser engine relevant might be a small price to pay for some people, but certainly not for everyone.
I've been itching to develop a FIRST-like bot on my own (mostly envisioning an electric go-kart I can also hook other things onto) since I graduated high school, but the biggest barrier has always been the hardware and electronics cost. I haven't done enough research but no other robot controllers seem to have the same plug-and-play ease-of-use that the FIRST platforms do.
The address bar is awful but, most importantly, it breaks my keyboard workflow. When I press Cmd+L, I'd expect the focus to go to the address bar and the whole url to be selected (like it is with any other software). Now, Firefox doesn't do this any more. The focus goes to the address bar, but the text is not selected. I have to select it myself. It's really badly designed, ugly and not useful.

Unfortunately, as a longtime Firefox user, I have to admit that Chrome is the best browser. Cleanly designed and fast, it's just a better experience. Too bad it's run by an advertisement company. This is really the only reason I'll stick to Firefox: because I believe in the importance of a free web and I dislike Google. But really, it's not because of any merit of Firefox.
No doubt some people do. On the other hand, that flexibility was Firefox's main selling point.

Even today, there are several things I used to use on a frequent basis that are missing or limited because the Quantum changes broke so many add-ons. The equivalent functionality hasn't been or in some cases can't be implemented by add-ons using the new APIs instead.

I'm a programmer. I understand the technical arguments for why they wanted to make the internal changes. But when you are dumping your #1 competitive advantage because of technical details, it's probably time to start asking some tough questions.
It's a legitimate question. I can't be sure there is such a silent majority. I do know there are a dozen people using Rust at my company, none well-known, and we haven't blogged about it or publicised it.

> My impression is that if a company does something in Rust there's going to be blogposts about it and the engineers involved are active community members.

You must recognise that this is pure availability bias, right?
Has anyone used it to better estimate size of the infected population, like a statistical binary search combined with random sampling ?

Here in South Africa, we are really unsure if our lockdown is having the a meaningful effect.
If you watch the video, it's pretty obviously fake (and his colleagues notice this). But the concept is worrying when you extrapolate it to abuse of identity verification methods. Some KYC / ID verify companies will do something like have you connect to an agent for a quick chat where you hold up your license and verify who you are. This is ripe for abuse, and it's never been easier to open a fraudulent bank account online.
Interesting reads, thank you.

As for confidence, I should learn to fake it already I guess. I am a realistic down to earth guy who doesn't deny when he doesn't know something -- nobody can know everything. But that's likely not the point; more likely it's about projecting an image of "nothing can give me a true pause"?
Personal use usually involves a web browser, which usually executes untrusted javascript from the web. You won't find me disabling these mitigations on any of my workstations any time soon.
My own pet feature, and prior to 75, the only config I changed, is "middlemouse.contentLoadURL=true" -- the default middle button action is some goofy scrolling feature copied from IE; much more useful to use it to load links.
According to Fark.com, there is unprecedented drops in Ad revenue. Companies have cancelled mid-quarter.

https://www.fark.com/blog/DisseminationMonkey
I think 12 nucleotides is too small, I would be happier with something north of 30. There have already been strains identified with a deletion of 382 bases [0].

0. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.987222v1....
This vague "America is special so can't be compared" line of argument often gets used to explain away things we compare badly on: residential internet, public education, health care, the coronavirus response... I'm sure I'll think of others, later. Point is, it's a rhetorical thing that distracts from the problems rather than explaining them.
National Geographic?
Honestly that would filter out basically anyone senior, and anyone who could get an actual job elsewhere. Given the choice of going through a normal tech interview process before leaving my current job, or leaving my job for this, why on earth would I pick this?
One summer afternoon I was walking in the woods with a 2 meter handheld (140-144 MHz) and made a contact on somebody 200+ miles away across Lake Ontario (and land.) He was a Canadian who enjoyed tropospheric propagation events across the lake, particularly tuning into the My Network TV station in Syracuse which has an absurdly powerful transmitter.
Firefox succumbs to needless change for the sake of it, ruining the address bar with this horrible giant thing.

Not really sure what alternatives there are though. I hate that Firefox seems to be falling victim to the “hah we haven’t updated that in a while” intern mentality yet nothing else stands out to replace it.
Commodore was effectively “Senior Captain” I believe.

In the UK Brigadier is still similar - “Senior Colonel” and not a general officer.
This works just still fine here..
Yes, competent leadership. Doing things in the way you described. I have a real conundrum, however, when I compare countries that are held up as good examples and the place where I live, Thailand, which is largely ignored in all the multi-country charts.

You see, as of today we have 2,473 confirmed cases and 33 deaths in Thailand. Denmark, on the other had 5,819 confirmed cases and 247 deaths as of a couple of days ago. I am sure the data is noisy and that testing here is not nearly widespread enough. But the bodies are not piling up and we don't really have the kind of censorship here that would keep it hidden if there were a lot of deaths from Covid-19. And most importantly, the words "competent government leadership" and "Thailand" should never be uttered in the same sentence.

So I guess leaders have done some things right by listening to the right experts (a form of competence I suppose). Or maybe it's the weather (popular theory that seems to have been dismissed). Or cultural habits have saved Thailand. Because I look to more advanced countries, especially in Scandinavia, and don't understand why they are doing so much worse than where I live.