skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...some of you want to know more about the tech behind Vanguard. We can’t get too deep into the technical specifics without potentially compromising Vanguard...

That in itself tells me enough about the efficacy of the system. Security through obscurity is only a hand wave of security. Making the trade off of all the security architecture put in place over the past decades for something that needs to be hidden to remain secure is a really poor value statement.

I understand why they want this in place, it does raise the level of effort on cheating but there are other ways this can be accomplished without compromising a user's security.
Before codexes – the kind of book we use today – scrolls had worked for centuries.

> the stacking window managers work well from Windows 95 and XP why change it?

To get something that works better.
The SBA has set the interest rate on the loans to a very low level. Low interest on a house isn't bad b/c it can go 15-30 years and has closing costs. A low interest rate short term loan probably doesn't cover the legwork for the banks to manage it. So they really don't want to. And even though the govt is securing them, it is even more paperwork when a bunch of companies default and need to be processed.
I do like the cleverness of it.

Raku is the language.

Rakudo = Raku “Do”

Rakudo Star = Rakudo* (i.e rakudo, rakudo-devel, rakudo-doc,…)

It has more linguistic cohesion that the tooling of a lot of languages.

Java, javac, java* seems totally normal. I feel like it’s because “Raku” sounds alien and so you don’t read Raku-do you read Rakudo because Raku “isn’t a word”.
except of course where the system is ossified and you can no longer make changes for fear of affecting that lack of downtime.

In the organizations I've seen with mainframes, what happened was a panoply of supporting systems sprung up where new requirements existed as everyone was afraid of making significant changes to the mainframe environment.
It seems like the author just wanted to write about something, and he chose something he's not familiar with but what appears as quirky to him. I expected the article to talk about IC design and peripherals (the placement of which is what is actually something that might seem unintuitive at first to many, well perhaps more annoying than unintuitive).
Tip: you should credit (note) the artists used in your demos.
Pro-tip: Handshake coins can be exchanged for US dollars or Bitcoin on the Namebase exchange. This is a great time to HODL and use your airdrop to bid on available Handshake domain names. As the adoption of HNS and Handshake domains increases, we are likely to see the value of both these assets increase over time. As early airdrop recipients, you are the best advocates and builders of Handshake.

Yeah this seems super legit. Can I do it too? I'd like to blockchain ARP. I'll pre-distribute my ARPCoins to open source developers, so it'll be totally above board. Down with the IEEE Registration Authority! Up with the people!
A NSL doesn’t allow the government to ask for the contents of a DM. They would need a warrant for that, providing some checks and balances.
What Is Contact Tracing?
Landing Page Hashes
I’ve yet to see a Who’s Hiring post result in a meaningful number of applications.
“The wrong reactor at the wrong time”: inside the UAE’s Barakah nuclear plant
After reading your comment I tried Rust Analyzer and wow, it makes a huge difference. I was previously using rls and it was misssing a few key features (I didn't even realize it).

Thank you for the suggestion :-)
I have recently (within the last year) joined AAISP, and I am in agreement with you on this.

One thing it does show to me is that, even though the site was made available by Cloudflare only recently, my ISP has already acknowledged and responded to the post. Given that they have explained the situation, what it means, and that they are actively looking into it. The trust they built up with me since I started with them, means that I do trust that they are looking into this.

BGP as a whole does need a solution, and this may be one of a few ways to achieve this.

I am glad they are not rushing their solution so that my connection stays online while I have to stay isolated.

On the flip side, I do agree that some ISPs will drag their feet, and try to ignore everything for the sake of "money" or "can't be bothered" types of excuses. These are the ones that really should be pushed hard against to make the changes that are required. - I am just glad AAISP isn't one of them.
"monotonically worse" means it never gets better. "worse" without "monotonically" means it may get better for a bit, but overall it will be worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonic_function
What social safety net? You mean like universal healthcare? Paid parental leave? Decent unemployment benefits?
Usermode software might be far more dangerous though. Any software you run on your machine can change the files in ~/bin, and you won't know the difference.
Which tech company are we obligated to use?
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22335846
Here's a nice use case: I wouldn't mind getting a notification whenever someone responds to my comments on HN.

I also run Microsoft Teams in the browser, getting notifications for messages is quite useful.
I totally agree. I have a license but would have liked to use it also on my workstation, not only my laptop.
I know--I'm subscribed to his blog's RSS.

Are you arguing that we shouldn't limit .org to nonprofits at all? Or that we shouldn't limit .org to American-style nonprofits?
> Herd immunity

What does her immunity actually mean though? What other diseases do we try to tackle using herd immunity? How many deaths would make herd immunity acceptable or not acceptable?

There are 350m people in the US. We need to get about 60% of them to have had covid-19. That's 210m people. We don't know how fatal covid-19 is yet, so here are some lower numbers:

0.1% = 210,000 deaths
0.2% = 420,000 deaths
0.5% = 1,050,000 deaths

And once we've killed off all these people what have we achieved? Covid-19 would be in the population and will come back every year as a seasonal respiratory illness, killing off more people every year until we get a vaccine.
I tend to agree. I'm not sure about all devices but a license being install-able on somewhere between 2 to 5 devices seems reasonable.

I'll be a paying customer but I need a little flexibility. I use more than one computer and some other devices - I don't need an SQL tool on all of them but definitely on more than one.
Beware, the binary .apk's have unreleased patches you can't get from compiling yourself.
Beat Sage: AI-generated levels for Beat Saber, a VR rhythm game
Examining nuclear energy from a technological innovation systems perspective
I've had a voice-activated recorder in my nightstand for 30 years ... so many times the solution to a problem I've been working on gets solved by my sub-conscience. My wife got tired of me turning on the light to write in my journal so having something voice activated works well. It does require some editing as it will record other conversations/activities. (though normally I transcribe the important parts and let the tape record back over itself).
Don't know if the person who posted this has an affiliation, I do not, but I'm a huge fan of TablePlus so feel it's still worth it for me to comment about this.

It offers so many features that seem so natural. Quick editability which in some cases saves a ton of time. Tabs for different tables, plain text editing for queries with highlighting for ease of reading. There are other database interactors, that do the same thing, but really for me, I've found the UI/UX looks and feels so much better than others, and as a user, that really is a huge part of it.

As for the licensing price, I started by trying it out in the free, two tab version. I then stepped back and thought about how for me, the benefit it gave me was well worth $60.

Again, I have nothing to do with them, but for how nice it's been for me, I feel it deserves a shoutout.
I think the results would have been much better if he'd taken into account the rotational inertia of the ball... It turns out that affects the bounce angle quite significantly...
Concur. Not needing to bolt out of bed is key for me. If I can stop myself from reaching for the phone to check the overnight email, I’m rewarded with some satisfyingly trippy characters and images. There was memorable body paint and related contortions involved last night. Who comes up with this stuff... oh.
Scalable Efficient Big Data Pipelines Architecture
I haven’t left GraphQL myself, but after seeing what’s necessary to expose GraphQL for consumption, it’s very clearly an attractive waste of time.

After having worked on a codebase with it, I would prefer RESTful endpoints backed by RDBMS or document stores instead.
As an experiment I grabbed all the images from v/home/f/images/iphone-takeover.

Originals: 584 KB for 18 files. After running them through ImageOptim: 353 KB.

So, I made the images ~40% smaller on average just by running everything through a JPEG optimizer.

When you compare that to the ~50% average reduction the author saw for two of the images, it makes WebP seem even less interesting.
The Life of Einstein’s First Wife
But our hospitals do have enough capacity. So far we have not seen widespread hospital overruns as predicted. Army field hospitals were set up and then taken down with no one treated. New York wanted 40000 ventilators but only needed 5000. Surely we should increase availability, but the original predictions that inspired this level of lockdown have not come to pass and with the information we have now, we know they are just delaying the inevitable.
Well, because the design of the US federal government with both the electoral college and two senators per state without taking the population into account. If you live in a more populous state, you have much less voting power than “Middle America”.

Not to mention gerrymandering and widespread voter suppression.
exceed was a pretty terrible server too. Really glitchy. Once I discovered Xming I never looked back.
Best thing about the editing is the staging mode, allowing you to preview a few changes then flush them at once.
Here's a small interesting tidbit:

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/51018/was-donald...
>>But once we reduce things down to simple logical axioms and constructs, these exist as much as anything can be said to exist.

I agree.

But this assumes logic and at least the principle of non-contradiction: not both A and not A - is how reality "really" is.

We can't get past the idea that it must be this way because only provable nonsense lies on the other side of this assumption. But our brains may be fundamentally unable to process ultimate reality and the nonsense a contradiction represents may be a statement not about reality but our brains, our thinking.

So logical contradictions aren't actually nonsense, they're the sound of us hitting the walls of what our minds can conceive of. All animal have such limits. We assume those limits look like darkness- stuff we can't peer into. What if they look like impossibility instead?

That's the point of view I'm entertaining here. I am not saying this is true. It certainly isn't useful or provable as far as I know, but it is possible.

The practical value of such an exercise, if it has any (and I think it does) is to twofold.

One seems to expand my imagination to the maximum extent pops me out of the assumptions that frame my thinking and this seeps into my thinking about things, technical problems, generally.

Two it confers humility and a certain openess and makes me less judgmental. So that, for example, when I hear or read people with claims to spiritual knowledge I don't automatically blow them off as crazy / bitter / ignorant because what they're saying "makes no sense".

Thinking and talking about Ultimate Reality capital U capital R, ought to fill us all with humility if we're being intellectually honest by our own standards. Yet, I find people totally lack that humility. They make huge pronouncements about Ultimate Reality which they can't really be sure of, and the effect this has on the world, and how we think of each other, and therefore how we treat each other, and even the effect on one's own mind, is one of diminishment generally.

Mea culpa, I was one of those people and I didn't like it.

If you get down to the core of knowledge and how we know something, this is what's really there, and it's good to be reminded of it.
And if I oversleep they are especially vivid.
Send a PR... It would probably be easy enough to add...
These products all do more or less the same thing. If Valentina Studio free version supports your DBs of choice, I've found it to suit my needs perfectly well - Postgres user here. Oh, did I mention it's free?

These products should have a mandatory feature comparison chart to their competition - it'd speed up the inevitable decline of mediocre competition that relies on gaming google search results for its survival. I back in the day had to download and suffer through half a dozen DB clients that do the same thing slightly differently.
I don't know about Ubuntu but on Windows you can also just click with the mouse to open it, no need to swipe up.
There are a few practical issues with this massive stockpile idea. Firstly, this pandemic looks like it might go on for about a year rather than 90 days, which puts the stockpile size required to have one mask a day for everyone to more like 130 billion masks. With a five-year lifespan, that means producing about 2 billion a month, only a fifth the rate at which you'd have to produce them with no stockpile at all - except you have to do that all the time, whether there's a pandemic or not, and store, rotate, and dispose of all them. Secondly, you can't just dispose of the expiring masks by selling them to people who'd need them normally, because the pandemic-level demand is so much higher than normal demand that just refreshing the stockpile produces way more masks than we'd normally need. 3M's normal global production of these masks is apparently around 50 million a month, meaning that even your 90-day stockpile would involve continuously producing and disposing of about ten times the normal, non-pandemic demand.

Also, if countries bring their production home with some surge capacity, then this actually gives really great redundancy compared to the status quo because all the countries which do this end up with production capacity that can be used to sell supplies to other countries in the case of some regional crisis there. It's much better than centralizing it in the lowest-cost country as often happens now.
Yes. Streaming services provide 1080p or 4k resolution images but it doesn't matter because they apply heavy compression in order to save bandwidth. In my experience, even 100% black frames have artifacts. No wonder people turn to copyright infringement.
So when was this utopian time that the US government did smart things for people? During the 60s with segregation? The War on Drugs?
Finally, the solution to the “haircut problem” with videoconferencing. My gf spends 3-4 hours in meetings every day and is quite concerned about this.
Sorry for replying a bit late, I'm new here and not getting notifications for replies is something I'm not used to. We have a similar problem with Payoneer, so many restrictions that it's very difficult to deposit to our banks so people go to Uruguay and use their ATMs to get cash or alternatively they use the Payoneer card to buy things. Unfortunately I have zero experience with Dukascopy, if you have a Reddit account you can try asking in /r/Argentina or /r/merval, some people there have accounts with that bank.
Very noice! I am not normally not a huge fan of stick figures (a la waitbutwhy), but this was very pleasant to read :D
And noice work picking an example I can relate to
In addition: If you know a tool well enough that you can design an intuitive UI for it, you don't need it.
One of the most annoying UI design features to me is multiple ways of doing the same thing on the screen at once.

Windows 10 does this endlessly. You can use the taskbar to get to your files, you can use the Start menu to get to your files, you can use the tiles in the Start menu to get to your files. This actually makes it far more confusing when trying to quickly get to your files. At least on macOS there is one single button to get to your files (the Finder icon).

If you've ever used Maya you'll know it's the same thing. The layout is incredibly overwhelming and when you want to quickly and effortlessly switch to a different tool, you have to think about what button to press. I switched to Cinema4D as their design is simple and very intuitive.

Good UI design to me is about having labeled buttons that have a depth of interaction, rather than putting all the buttons on the same screen at the same time. Obviously you don't need to abstract away menus all the time (like the proliferation of pointless hamburger menus), but at least cleaning up buttons makes UIs more usable.
In China, foot binding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding) was a status symbol (and a lot more cruel than dueling scars)

I thought the Kayan practice of wearing lots of brass coils around the neck also was a status symbol, but Wikipedia doesn’t mention it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayan_people_(Myanmar) )

Not having a tan (shows you don’t have to work in the fields) also was a status symbol at some time. Then, it became having a tan in early spring (shows you’re well enough of to go on a skiing holiday) or winter (shows you also can go on holiday in autumn).

Nowadays, having a tan year round again can again show lack of status (uses a tanning bed because of lack of funds to go on holiday)

I guess obvious (but not too obvious) use of aesthetic surgery or Botox served as a status symbol at some time, too, but here, too, that signal is confusing nowadays.
That sounds shady. Thank you for the warning. How does one determine that?

Also not found on F-droid. Hard pass.
I mean, the bigger ISPs will just ignore it like they've ignored IPv6 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the other hand, AAISP started automatically assigning IPv6 addresses ~9 years ago, so you can hardly accuse them of dragging their feet. The OP was published on a Saturday, after all.
Firefox on mobile has extension support, I am using it right now?
Isn't everything on twitter public in the first place? It's the least of any worries.

Just a reminder all kinds of "government" for any reason is reading all of your email any time they want without a warrant and it's perfectly legal. Just has to be 180 days old but I suspect that doesn't make a difference.

The law allowing it is 30 years old and why the Clintons had their own private email server in their basement in the first place. Congress was going to close the loophole but Jeff Sessions and Trump stopped it.
In ublock origin add a line in "My Filters" for:

www.google.com##[id^=ed_]

I only created this today so I'm unsure if the ids change over time or if people get different ids for sections but it's been solid so far.
I like tableplus a lot and used it mainly as a redis GUI (we have a querious license at work so i use that for sql).
I did encounter some wierd things around version 290
it seems that when you use a filter (which is called "advanced filter" not sure why) on a mac everything works but the same filtering action was blocked for the free version on my windows machine. some versions later it was also blocked on my mac but i cant seem to find any way to filter redis keys at all. other than that i really like everything else
Has anyone compared this to Navicat? Our non profit has a non commercial license for Navicat Premium, and I just love the product (despite more than a few quirks).
Any hope of being able to run this on a machine with an AMD GPU?
you are swapping Free Software with open source everywhere.

open source was coined exactly to stride away from any spirit and ethical standings, focusing only on the code and its practical advantages when available to be shared. This way, enterprise can be more likely to accept it. (also because English-based enterprise is deemed too dumb to understand free can mean two different things)

Free Software is the thing that sees practical and ethical advantages as an indivisible unit. And it's fine to sell Free Software as long as you guarantee the buyer's right to acquire the source, in the case of the GPL for example.
The Taming of the Crew (Worker Management at Lucky Dogs) (1999)
You can just start typing the password and it will input it correctly, the Enter is not actually needed (at least on 19.10)
It's a cat, so it can do no wrong. If the cat is pleased by killing wildlife, the wildlife has to die.
Pony.ai Team: Launching Autonomous Delivery Services to Support Our Communities
Ask HN: Is anyone interested in a Hacker News virtual poker night?
Hey all, is anyone interested in a virtual poker night? Pokerstars lets you run private games, we could organise a weekly Hacker News tournament. Let me know if you are interested, a range of times that might suit and a buy in you would be OK with. I'll try to figure something out that suits the most amount of people if I get enough interest.

I'll start, Friday or Saturday evenings 6pm-12pm GMT would suit and a buy in up to $30.
QLC with a decent SLC cache seems to work just fine as well, for most consumer purposes - see drives like the sabrent Rocket-Q
This simply isn’t possible, and it’s a maddeningly irresponsible shifting of the goalposts. The public was sold these extreme tactics on the basis of preventing excess deaths, not locking down society for years on end until the virus (hopefully) goes away.

Respiratory viruses, once endemic, have never been completely suppressed. Even China is seeing a resurgence in cases. What we’re doing now isn’t sustainable or ethical, and we have to move on to smarter tactics soon.
Perpetual license but not perpetual updates. And you have to pay per device instead of per seat.

I think the pricing is low enough to overcome these annoyances but I’d rather pay double and not have to be concerned with buying another license when I dual boot another OS.
i just checked and according to speedtest.net, here in Indiana, I have 12. 29mbps down.
> Dueling fraternities are the reactionary minority of a conservative minority.

As someone that knows quite a few people from dueling fraternities (recent graduates), I don't think that's a fair generalization (even though that's the common trope). There has been a lot of organizational changes in the last two decades around one of the biggest associations for dueling fraternities (DB), where a lot of fraternities that didn't align with their reactionary views left and founded associations of their own. As a result of that, DB is now half of its initial size. And there are probably also a few that didn't leave where the younger generation has more progressive views, but they weren't able to convince the old inactive members (which are the bulk) to leave.

So yeah, they are generally of a conservative political mindset, but I would say that the strong political tendencies portrayed in media and hearsay only apply to maybe ~1/3 or less of dueling fraternities.
Thanks for this! Certainly I have some experience with this already from my legal services business. The main difference being the clients trusted me first.
The speed of small transfers is going to be dominated by congestion window limiting, not bandwidth. So round trip time matters more than bandwidth.

All that said, Apple primarily cares about existing Apple users at this point, why would they optimize images for non-Apple users? They're much more likely to push HEIC if they care --- which for 250kB of images in the modern web, I kind of don't think they would.
coming back with the next firefox on mobile :)

beta already has it, but lost extension support (for now, slowly coming back)
added logged out demo page so you can have a shot before registering (beat will save if you sign up)
https://www.oceanwaves.io/demo
The new one has very limited support