skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they already do, to some extent. Now this is my own experience and intuition, but I would say that at least 15% of people's photos on dating apps are doctored in some way. I know some might dispute this, but I've seen enough questionable artifacts in such photos that I believe quite a few of them are artificially flattering. This isn't even including those puppy-face photos. And yes, already there are people who outright steal other people's photos. I've been on many dates where the person looked nothing like the photos.

There are a few problems with these kinds of fakery. If you are simply touching up photos to make them more flattering, that takes a lot of work that the average person doesn't want to do. There's AI that can make you look sexier, but said AI is often inconsistent, and isn't that good at arbitrarily modifying features. People who might want to use photos of people who aren't them may have a moral hangup from using someone else's likeness, and that prevents them from going ahead with it.

Deepfake technology solves both of those problems. You can use it to change your eyes, your hair, the shape of your face, consistently at every angle, and possibly I real time. More people would feel comfortable using a likeness that isn't theirs because they don't feel like they are stealing, especially if they have no intention of meeting people in real life.

I'm not saying that all or even most people would use this technology in dating, but it would require only an appreciable portion of an audience to be dishonest to cause many people to throw in the towel.

These are just my crazy theories, so maybe I'm way off base. Soon we will have deepfaking that is easy to use and requires minimal training, and I believe they will be used often and eventually be normalized in society.
It doesn't only read like a asinine complaint, it actually is. "How dare someone highlight what we've left undone"

Saying things like "it's scaring our users", "others are not using it", "it's bad timing", "transit providers should be filtering", no actual non-emotional arguments why they aren't doing it and only shifting the responsibility to secure the internet. I'm too done with companies like that.
> Can we just ponder for a moment that we are being asked to believe that anything Twitter does or does not do could pose an existential threat to the United States?

Are we? The article just mentioned grave or imminent harm to national security, not an existential threat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...
Very interesting, thanks.
Documentary about it:
https://youtu.be/lUh5exBJXBU
For some, it's never the time they should do something. ISPs are notorious for dragging their feet and they'd just find new excuses if CF had delayed the publish.
It's just an implementation detail.
If you're saying A) I ignored the cryptocurrency, unfortunately you are wrong.

If you're saying B) I didn't explain to you what a sybil attack is, you're right, albeit I did provide a link.

In a global unique namespace that has no centralized control, there needs to be constraints and scarcity built into the system itself in order to prevent someone from launching a "sybil attack" which, in this context, means someone could register a trillion names without anything stopping them. By introducing a coin that in itself is a limited resource and including an auction process, essentially, there are a limited number of names since there are a limited number of coins, and, in addition, the auction process itself helps to prevent someone from getting a lot of coins and registering many names.

This explanation really just touches the surface as all the intricacies of the architecture are better detailed in full, in our project design notes [1] as I have continued to urge you to read.

[1] https://handshake.org/files/handshake.txt
> there are compilers that target JVM and CLR

So could you wrap it and slowly add new features and replace pieces with Java code over time, using JVM for interop?
It still does. When you do a mouse click, the lock screen moves up very fast - the animation is also a hint for the future. If you have a touch-enabled device and touch-press the lockscreen, it jumps up a little and falls back down, suggesting the swipe movement. On top of that, just typing on your keyboard works.

So MS has managed to make an interface that works just the same on desktops, laptops and touch-enabled devices, and the UX isn't bad on either.
Wallace-Bolyai-Gerwien Theorem
Okay, I was being annoying, but I would actually like to know what the difference between "monotonically worse" and "worse" is.
WSGI is purely an interface between a webserver and python. What has WSGI to do with state?

The application server model makes it so there's a running application, with a state, and which exposes an HTTP endpoint.

> Flask has been multithreaded for many years

So? You run a blocking thread to performing a long-running task in Flask? With Python? Try, then report what you find.

Flask/Django are mostly designed to work with a stateless approach. Nothing wrong with that, but it's got drawbacks.

> multi-process queues that don't need an extra process.

More processes usually imply more complexity. And still, since you don't have a central application with a state, you NEED an extra piece to manage the result from the queue.
kind an andy grove approach - sounds smart
Arcosanti: The Unfinished Futuristic City
Sure. You can do the same with the application server model. But you haven't to as long as you don't want to.
Damn this is a hoot! Love that people are keeping these machines alive. I had a Mac LC with the Apple IIe card in college. After college I tried to keep it alive as long as possible. I connected a 56k modem to it to connect to the internet by PPP. I saw the modem lights flash on and get faster and faster, and then stop and come back on dribbling in slowly only to speed up and then stop again, over and over. I then learned that the LC didn’t have hardware flow control. I then admitted to myself I had to let go of the LC. :(
Windows 10 has the same stupid UX, they likely learned it there. It also supports hitting Enter, or any other key. I don't know if Ubuntu supports other keys too, I use Xubuntu to avoid these exact pointless changes.
It is absolutely still rampant.
I could count at least 5 cheater encounters in the last 30 days (blatant cheaters, btw).

They try their best to isolate cheaters with a "trust factor" system but the reality is, unless you pay an external service with their own anti-cheat software (that's probably as bad as Valorant's) you will get a high amount of cheaters.

Given they have zero transparency on the trust factor system, I could have a lower factor than you (I definitely rage too much), so because of it I see them more often. But there's no way to know if I'm in the cheater bubble, or you're in the no-cheater bubble.
FWIW not all ventilation is intubation, you can have non-invasive ventilation. Just in case you weren't aware, this makes stats hard to ascertain as some sources seemingly are interpreting orginal sources as if they were synonymous.
They tried compromises like VCR Plus+[0]. It was basically a 6 digit code that would be printed next to the show name in places like TV Guide. You would enter the code into your VCR instead of a time, and it would figure out how to record it. I think it still required a working clock, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_recorder_scheduling_code
Could anyone one please tell me what is the purpose of the Web Notifications, other than invasive marketing.
Why is this important? Especially in regards to the author's point about keeping frontend development simple?
Simpler in a technical sense, but given high end gaming PC's run into the thousands of £s, It's not really the right solution to just buy another machine; the better choice is probably to not play their game (in all senses of the phrase).

Maybe a viable option is to hot swap your drives, and use something with firmware you can sign personally and verify on boot.
European Tax Heavens
> the reality in a lot of cases was few customers and no route out.

I am keeping an eye on decommissioned TLDs - https://twitter.com/fanf/status/1245512707459158020?s=21

Most of them are closed .brand TLDs owned by companies whose business isn’t DNS. The struggling open TLDs seem to be traded and collected by big registries that can get economies of scale, rather than closed, so there is a limited way out. I have seen at least one .brand TLD (.bond for Bond University) converted to an open TLD and sold to a big gTLD registry provider.
What is national security other than the continued existence of a nation? Any other sub-existential attacks can accurately be classified as "crime", which is a police matter, for which we already have a legal framework. They have to inflate it into something big and scary otherwise people would say "hey, wait a minute, that's not constitutional..."

Don't get it twisted: it's just a cover for domestic criminals inside the US government who have become accustomed to getting to break the law as much as they want for the last two decades. By making it seem special or important (it's not) they get support in suspending basic human rights such as publishing.
I call it telescope or pennant code, it's definitely a smell.
Lite – A lightweight text editor written in Lua
Confounding factor: obesity rates and comorbidities

From a glance, the US averages 3x the incidence rate of obesity as Sweden. Obese patients with existing health problems will result in substantially worse outcomes from Covid-19.
cool, thanks.

(that link goes to the question. here's a direct link to the first-person account: https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/69363)
So you can go to the office ;-)
Most of us are staying at home, doing less exercise, and eating more. That's probably bad news for glucose levels.
GSL 3.0.0 Release
This has nothing to do with the government.
FHM could have made suggestions/recommendations earlier than when they did it, when it comes to physical distancing, maximum group size, behavior in restaurants, public transport, care homes, or even the usage of masks in public (which still isn't even close to be encouraged). I've been following the situation in various countries, and it became strikingly evident how FHM was late with pretty much every single eventually recommended counter-measure - presumably because they didn't see evidence yet (or, alternative explanation: On purpose, as part of the high-risk herd immunity strategy, which does obviously require many people to get infected).

It's a beautiful thing that recommendations (instead of law enforcement on the streets threatening with fines) work good enough for large parts of the Swedish population. But then everything still comes down to the quality and effects of the recommendations.
with cuda or opencl, you can launch a kernel and get results back in something like 10 microseconds (for trivial 'results' like setting a flag or something). Varies by hardware, platform, etc, but that's the ballpark.
I wrote Python/Flask because the application server model is inherently flawed in Python, while Flask is not asynchronous AFAIK; you MUST use an async model (because Python and multithreading still don't work well together), you can't use threads for long-running tasks.
That's not the case at all, but feel free to make false assumptions.

That being said, given every single time you appear in a thread and have a counter opinion and downvotes ensue seconds after and then cease immediately, it's clear you know exactly what a sybil attack is - if your email address wasn't enough of a hint.

Now speaking positively, not normatively, you can continue to make up stories, but the majority of the coins were already distributed to open source contributors.

If you weren't included in this, I would suggest finding some great projects to contribute to instead of building up 300,000 karma on hacker news by spending all day trying to force your false narrative.
neovim: Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
Ask HN: Are there any good self-hosted alternatives to Miro or Mural.co?
Over the last couple of weeks we've been using Mural.co and Miro (realtime collaboration boards) quite extensively. Do you know of any good self-hosted (potentially open source) alternatives to these?
I wonder if "sensors" tend to work more in legacy code. no matter what I need to do at work, something similar probably exists already in the code somewhere. first step is almost always to find that similar code, copy-paste, and tweak it until it works. if you try to get too creative, you get bitten by some weird edge case that would have been handled if you just followed the pattern.
Ok so how about an app that does the opposite of this, and can prove that the video/audio data hasn't been tampered with since it was created? I don't think it would need much more than public/private key encryption, and a blockchain ledger to record every-time the data was transmitted from one user to another. Thoughts?
Do you? Those are some of the best dirty burgers you can have on this planet.
> I'd expect we'll get much more value from higher bandwidth, ultra high definition streaming and features like 3d cameras / virtual reality. I think we have a tendency to really underestimate how important high definition is for human communication.

Low latency is probably more important to me.

Recently I seem to have a 3 second delay on many VC calls at work (and just for me it seems), and I either end up interrupting people or feeling reluctant to talk at all since it becomes impossible to time gaps and conversations right.

Despite that I get a crystal clear HD picture for all participants, but I'd happily sacrifice video quality (in fact I'd accept audio only in some cases) to get a more real time experience (disabling video doesn't seem to have any effect).
I think the critical thing is we don't know

So best to err on the side of caution until this disease is more fully understood.
> Even Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) which is considered by many to not be very intrusive, used to intercept DNS queries to detect communication with paid cheats DRM.

I was surprised hearing this. It seems like what they actually did was if VAC already found something, it checked the hashes of the contents of the DNS cache against a list as a second check. That's quite a bit different from "intercepting DNS queries".

Overall VAC always made a reasonable impression on me as far as privacy and security are concerned (no SYSTEM services, no kernel driver, no screenshots, no scanning and uploading random files etc.), although this non-intrusive approach naturally limits the kinds of cheats it is able to discover. I feel like the approach taken by Vale is, on the whole, well balanced.

Source: https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Steam-Software-69900/Specials...
That’s mission was never to replace C or C++, it’s true.

From the very first introduction of Rust to the world: “a complied, concurrent, safe systems language.”

Then it was “memory safety without garbage collection”.

Now it’s “A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.”

Sure there is domain and design overlap, but the goal was never explicitly attracting C or C++ programmers. At least not exclusively.
Redash sends you a web notification when a long running query has finished. Clicking on the notification opens Firefox to the right tab where you can see the results.

Just one example of legit use not for ads.
Use Web Feeds
Do you have an iPhone 6s? https://youtu.be/qWKUFK7MWvg?t=85
- Calendar event notifications

- Instant messaging notifications (e.g. Riot.im, Glowing Bear, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack)

- Changes to files in cloud/collaboration services

Basically, any time you would use a push notification on a mobile device, but when the "desktop application" is essentially just an electron wrapper of the web UI.
I sincerely would leak depending on its severity. Sometimes you need to do the right thing regardless of the consequences.
They're useful on desktop, for having things like Gmail open in the background, but they're not hugely useful on mobile. Usually if you want notifications you would already have the app installed.
For the past 7 years Ukraine has suffered from poor national security even though there has been very little risk of its ceasing to exist as an independent nation.

Ditto Syria even though even if Assad's government had fallen, Syria would've almost certainly continued to exist as a nation.
2) is spot on.

This type of style is illustration equivalent of gradient and drop shadow. Anybody can use them to make things look decent without much skill.

Also, for the most part, people who are paying these illustrators do not have trained background to understand the extra cost associated with higher effort work.
Is this utility comparing to the same resulting quality?
The Soul of a New Machine:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
ICU death rate percentage still would be relevant in terms of ICU effectiveness?

Likely an ICU patient in Sweden is in really bad condition seeing we have something like 90 ICU spots on 2,4 million people in Stockholm.
I can't find the icons in gimp on a recent ubuntu because they all look the same these days, every icon is just 'light grey geometric shape on dark grey' with no visual distinctiveness at all.
Pretty cool! Any chance the app could import some audio file to visualize ?
My point was that it whitewashed exactly those areas which had the most information. However, this is inline with their stated goal of mimicking a long exposure. It's not inline with "seeing in the dark", but that's not their goal.
"Labor rights veganism" isn't the goal. You seem to be suggesting that unless someone can achieve ethical perfection, there's no point in doing anything. I don't agree with that.

You also seem to be applying black-and-white thinking to problems of right and wrong. Some things are more wrong than others.

On a scale from "single mother cheating on her taxes so she can feed her kids" to "cold-blooded murder," Amazon is (in my opinion) beating puppies with sticks. When someone does something not just wrong, but inexcusable, and is unapologetic, I don't say to myself, "well, lots of other people have done/do bad things." I doubt you do either.
It's not a solved problem for CSGO, but surprisingly the situation now, as a F2P game, is much better than what it was before F2P. It's really quite rare to run into cheaters, most people are just smurfing.
> The irony comes from the fact that Apple decided not to add WebP support to the Safari browser

I don't get it. Why is this ironic? Did Apple create the performance optimisation tool that suggested WebP?
Possibly related: http://rpki.me/
Elon Musk says he sent ventilators to hospitals, they got something else instead
You are proposing slowly letting it run until there is herd immunity, which would likely kill tens of millions of people worldwide.

We should aim to do better than that.
It’s one of those topics that is so easy to discuss in moral sense simply because there’s nothing immoral about segregating children by their abilities and it only comes down to money.

Discussing money is boring, however. If there was too much of it we wouldn’t be asking the question; but since we don’t have the money we may as well moralise as that makes us feel useful.
MGH is proning a bunch of awake patients (who have the physical strength to do so) and about ~30% of our ventilated patients.

There is no "shocking degree of arrogance from the West" but there may be a failure of adequate reporting, in this article and others, of what we are doing in hospitals.
> Obviously there's a difference based on the area

Yes and that makes the question unanswerable.
Coworker of mine who happens to be Chinese bought portable oxygen for use in this situation. She bought it in February, after looking at videos about what was going on in Wuhan. We all thought she was kind of crazy. Doesn’t look so crazy now.
To nuance your comment, you can still get some form of parallelism, "just not" thread parallelism in Python. You can still spawn multiple handler process, or have threaded code in a C extension.
Show HN: Online code converter to migrate Oracle to Snowflake / Bigquery
I’d prefer to write a hundred or so lines of code to adding a dependency. I can usually get those 100 lines of code right in an afternoon, but keeping up with the dependency is ongoing maintenance.

The dependency could break compatibility or add a bug a year from now.
Terrorism is generally a criminal matter, not a military matter. It gets its power from the overreaction of the target. It is the violent equivalent of trolling, and your attitude is what feeds it.

Weak points - like unreinforced flight deck doors - should and have been fixed. But you don't throw away a free and liberal society.
It's one of the few remaining features needed to create fully functional web applications, on par with the functionality of a native app.

As an example, I refuse to install a native Facebook application because of privacy concerns, but a web version with push notification support could provide the same functionality.
Even then the heating fuel/electricity could be used to heat houses and displace fossil fuels there. There are rare exceptions like the mentioned iceland situation.
The average of paraboloids is more or less a paraboloid too
Smug people apparently don't like being called smug.
The footage from inside Italien hospitals a month ago shows most patients lying on their stomach.

Starting at 1min
https://youtu.be/rfkbv_WQtn0
Coronavirus at Smithfield pork plant: The story of America's biggest outbreak
Sweden's deaths per capita attributed to COVID-19 is currently the 8th highest in the world (exempting a few tiny city states). That's about 20% more deaths per capita than in the US.

It also has one of the lowest testing rates in the Western world at 0.7%, compared to around 2% in Spain, Italy and Germany.
This is a perplexing article. Prone ventilation has been known to reduce mortality in severe ARDS from randomized, controlled trials for almost a decade[1].

Proning is great! It keeps people alive. We are doing a lot of it. It's not new.

1 = https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1214103
Yes, we should do more about the flu.
Bypass Paywalls Clean for Chrome/Firefox
Note at the moment, but I will work on this. Thanks for feedback! P.S. It looks much better with actual audio rather than microphone, see Instagram videos on app website.
That’s now how monopolies work.

Standard Oil and US Steel weren’t easy to opt out of.
If the OP was saying that Crank is less magical then I agree. Although it always made me sad that we measure APIs based on how little magic they bring. Like go to Disney World or something.
I'd like to see what the potential issues with RPKI are (if there are any), this seems like a blog post that would address those but anything about the protocol isn't mentioned, outside of "it takes time to implement and we'd rather our upstream do it".
According to Nobel Prize-winner, we will find alien life within 30 years
I second the already expressed sentiments!

An utterly brilliant great idea!
Just do it anyway, pull the curtain back Jack!
other mediums can look good on screen too.

the biggest reasons is skills and cost.

Very few people can actually do digital watercolor, pencil, oil, collage, etc. well. Those take years and years of training.

Flat illustrations are no picnic, but they're much more forgiving to novice.
Correct. I'm just saying it's naive to think that once your data is shared that it will only remain with the party initially shared with.
It’s ironic because it’s apple.com that of all sites would benefit from Apple supporting WebP. (according to the author, not me)
OhioHealth is bigger in the parts of Ohio that I've seen than Mercy health which I've never heard of.
The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder is fantastic. The story of developing a Data General mini-computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine