skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The places that are growing are too early in the curve to move that needle. The developing world got it first because people travel more, but the virus has reached poor countries and they won't have as many options.
They can always pseudonymize and redact so that specifics are not revealed.

They have a point about a security risk but what they also sneak under that guise is their desire to hide intelligence capabilities and potential threats. It is not a risk if you don't have a specific threat or plan of attack,certainly not a risk to the nation. Vulnerabilty is not risk.

Revealing a request may thwart their investigation but the burden of proof that a specific threat that cannot be stopped if the information is public is required of them. Short of that, you can chit chat on the subway with a third cousin of a terrorist or something and they can say "if we can't monitor his DMs then we can't know if they are using code words to plan a terrorist attack"

On a different note, I think it is a failure if the US constitution to not clarify details like this. A constitutional convention to review and update the bill of rights and a few other things is long over due.
Really cool stuff. Is there something out there to replace background in a camera feed?
Well, good luck! Remember it's never too late to learn something ;)
James Gleick - "The Information" pop sci about theory of information and information systems at large. Starting from "0 & 1"
Anyone know what this is built in/with? C++ & GTK?
The goal is to run a server that my friends and I can connect to over the internet without the server box getting owned by various malicious actors on the internet. I expect to write the entirety of the server and client networking code myself.

There is a good chance that the server will not be a dedicated computer, but instead somebody’s regular desktop machine.
I thought this may the cause of mine...
The True CFR of the Coronavirus May Be 0.5% or Less
Apple doesn't even support their own HEIF on Safari. Why would one expect them to support WebP? Not to mention the gain on WebP is actually relatively small. JPEG, despite its age is still getting encoder improvement.

You would have expected or assumed nearly 30 years since the introduction of JPEG, we could compress an image at 0.5 bpp ( bit per pixel ) that has higher quality than the best JPEG with 1.0 bpp.

It turns out that is still not the case, Not with WebP, AVIF is closer but still not there. Just like in Audio, Despite all the marketing claims about mp3pro, HE-AAC... etc having mp3 128kbps quality at half the bitrate. It took us nearly 30 years to get an Audio Codec that sounds better than the best mp3 encoder at lower than 128Kbps bitrate. And that was Opus at 96Kbps. ( At this point no body cares about those bitrate savings any more )

That is not to say image compression aren't improving. [1] Is an 4K image compressed by the next generation VVC Reference Encoder at 350KB.

[1] https://imgsli.com/MTI1NDA
Go has had an equally bad packaging experience.

Kubernetes - which is one of the biggest projects built in go - has been struggling with dependency and package management.

Here's the CTO of Rancher commenting on his struggles

https://twitter.com/ibuildthecloud/status/118752909888666419...

https://twitter.com/ibuildthecloud/status/118753821015230873...

This is not trivial stuff..and it shouldn't be trivialised into a go vs python flamewar. Because it can't be.
For that to be true the compression algorithm mustn’t be very efficient.
Excerpt:

"In past research, Guri and his team at the Ben-Gurion university's Cyber-Security Research Center have shown that attackers could steal data from secure systems using a plethora of techniques such as:

LED-it-Go - exfiltrate data from air-gapped systems via an

HDD's activity LED

USBee - force a USB connector's data bus give out electromagnetic emissions that can be used to exfiltrate data

AirHopper - use the local GPU card to emit electromagnetic signals to a nearby mobile phone, also used to steal data

Fansmitter - steal data from air-gapped PCs using sounds emanated by a computer's GPU fan

DiskFiltration - use controlled read/write HDD operations to steal data via sound waves

BitWhisper - exfiltrate data from non-networked computers using heat emanations

Unnamed attack - uses flatbed scanners to relay commands to malware infested PCs or to exfiltrate data from compromised systems

xLED - use router or switch LEDs to exfiltrate data

aIR-Jumper - use a security camera's infrared capabilities to steal data from air-gapped networks

HVACKer - use HVAC systems to control malware on air-gapped systems

MAGNETO & ODINI - steal data from Faraday cage-protected systems

MOSQUITO - steal data from PCs using attached speakers and headphones

PowerHammer - steal data from air-gapped systems using power lines

CTRL-ALT-LED - steal data from air-gapped systems using keyboard LEDs

BRIGHTNESS - steal data from air-gapped systems using screen brightness variations
I'm so glad you enjoyed it :)
What is the conclusion that you make from these select quotes? Or are you just summarizing what you consider to be the most important information?
I do agree, that it would be nice to pay per seat, not per computer.

I develop on Mac 95% of the time, so I own a license on Mac, but on Windows I just use the free version because I don't use it on Windows enough to justify paying for it on that device, despite the fact I am a paying customer. This is an annoyance for me. However, I rarely run into any of the free-version limitations on Windows since I am usually just logging in quickly to check on something on Windows and not doing anything major. If I need to do some hardcore work I pull it up on my mac, which has a better dev environment. But it is extremely annoying the few times when I do go to open several tabs on WIndows and remember that despite being a paying customer, I can not use these paid features because I am using it on the wrong platform.

I don't have a problem with the perpetual license that doesn't include perpetual updates. To me, if you are using the tool that often, you can support the team that builds something that you most likely make money off using. One year of updates for TablePlus is nearly equivalent to a month of updates from Adobe. At $60 a year we are talking about $5 a month. Which is very little to most developers, who purchase $6 coffees and $15 salads without batting an eye.

But I would like to see a per-seat option. Especially because I most likely wouldn't/couldn't use two different computers at the same time, it seems fair to let me install it on a few OS's if I desire.
As a 62 yr old, it saddens me to think that young people don't experience the pleasure of a good phone conversation. Protip: If you want to end the conversation just announce it as in "ok, it's been nice talking to you, but I need to get off the phone." That never fails to work for me with no hard feelings.
Downvoting someone for suffering from toxoplasmosis is ableism.
World of Horror is a creepy, retro, and completely hypnotic horror game
Only way to make it suck less

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/06/27/reinventi...
> Advanced cryptography algorithms for SSL/SSH connections.

as a feature limited to the enterprise version sounds kind of scary.
Yes, those are things from the article. Did you have some comment on them?

Are those the things you agree with most or are those things you disagree with?
> One detail is that bare metal bandwidth (especially egress) is radically, ridiculously, nonsensically cheaper than any of the big cloud providers.

I work in the ISP space specifically with folks who help place businesses in datacenters. This is 100% accurate - sometimes it can literally be pennies on the dollar for egress.

> Storage on the other hand is far cheaper

Agree - S3 will always be a backbone component of my toolbox when building out infrastructure. It's been solid from day-1 when I was in my early 20's using it on remix competition sites (wavs are big... 10-20 wavs per-song oh god). The awe still hasn't worn off for me as to how quick I can scale large-scale web-friendly/secure storage with tools like that.

---

On the VPS hosts... I'm weirdly loyal to them and have kept infra on Linode for years. I also have had extraordinary positive experiences with DO as well. I find they have the customer service that solutions like AWS lack for the little guys... if we're talking about a big spend then yea I will totally go to a more formal provider, but for my stuff I prefer knowing that there's solid engineers on the hosting side that I can actually talk to.

I'm REALLY excited to see folks like Linode/DO support things like S3-compatible APIs, K8s, etc. I think that's important for those solutions to stay relevant.

---

Thanks for such a great response - conversations like these are invaluable, and I've definitely learned from this! I am VERY interested in Vultr - totally could have used them 5-6 months ago for GIS crunching (fiber maps, lit building lists, geocoding, census blocks, etc). Once I open that up as a service to my users I'll likely be on the hunt for SSD-backed high-compute on-demand instances.
I loved his commentary on Co-dfns for APL at 54:38 in the video. I program in J[0], and dabble in Dyalog APL. Aaron Hsu's work on the gpu compiler, he's the implementor of Co-dfns, is nothing short of mind-blowing[1]. His arguments for using APL vs. more mainstream languages are cogent and persuasive. The paradigm shift from C-like or even Haskell (ML) type languages is too big a gap for most mainstream programmers to accept. My opinion is that aside from Python's clean, indented syntax, the real reason it took off for DL/ML, was Numpy and Pandas. Pandas was heavily influenced by the array languages per its creator Wes McKinney. Besides, I just like playing with J.

I have looked briefly at Futhark, and the apltail compiler[2], but I am trying to focus on the APL family, because my time is limited. I am a GPU dilettante who has tried basic CUDA in C. I tried Rust, but Zig [3] is working out better for me given I make more progress with less effort, using C APIs are effortless, but my Rust difficulties may just be my bias with PLs. I find Haskell easier than Rust.

I just read an HPC article today about a survey/questionnaire about the languages used among 57 experts. It's still predominantly C++, but with a lot pain expressed by the experts/users. I agree SPIR-V sounds promising, and I hope to check it out. Just like DL, I think people don't realize it needs to be knowledge domain and algorithms, or experts and software. Somebody has to setup the computation based on knowledge domain and software knowledge. This shows itself to me when I wind up running somebody's program, because I don't have my own specific problem I'd like to try and implement as a learning exercise and knowledge exercise.

Great talk! I found it very understandable and paced just right!

[0] https://jsoftware.com

[1] https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/24749

[2] https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2016-06-20-futhark-as-an-apl-c...

[3] https://ziglang.org
There aren't any. Most regions with high risk of malaria (like India) have malarias that have chloroquine resistance, and the only places without chloroquine resistant malaria are in Central America and the Caribbean. Hydroxychloroquine is even less effective than chloroquine on those chloroquine resistant malarias. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12837731/

Most Indians, for example, don't take any antimalarials until they actually have malaria.
Was this to impress women or society at large?
I work with SQL Server. I really like general multi-db GUI tools like this, but also wonder if one is giving up a lot of power.

SQL Server's free native tool is SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio), which is one of the most powerful SQL clients I've ever used. (despite my carryover reservations with MS products from the 1980s-90s, SQL Server is indisputably an innovative and solid piece of technology -- MS did something right with their database group). One can interact syntactically with the database via pure SQL, but SSMS lets you access the deep corners of the database quickly via a GUI (SQL is a great query language, but many admin/ops tasks are much more easily done via a GUI -- writing SQL every time you want make a simple change is tedious plus nobody remembers the syntax for infrequently used features). Some of the features I use regularly: row/column/covering index creation, linked servers, user management, live query plans, create/alter script generation from existing objects (stored proc, view, index, table, etc.). I've never seen these features exposed in any third party SQL GUI client.

Postgres has a bunch of very powerful features too, and I've never seen these exposed in GUI tools.

Jetbrains' DataGrip comes the closest, but because it needs to support lowest common denominator features across databases, it doesn't expose deep features either.

I wonder if folks are giving up deep feature discovery by using an generic GUI SQL client.

Exception: Oracle SQL Developer. It's native to Oracle but is quite unpleasant to use.
We Are All Confident Idiots [pdf]
How GraphQLize is different from Hasura and Postgraphile?
University of Waterloo developing DNA-based Covid-19 vaccine
Did you consider visualizing cepstrum instead of spectrum?
Yes but we cannot function as a society like this, indefinitely on lockdown. The proposals to test, track, and isolate sound good but are preposterous in terms of logistics - funding, manufacturing, personnel, accountability. It will optimistically be 12-18 months till we “have a vaccine” - but I suspect it will be 4-5 years more realistically till we have applied it planet-wide sufficiently to eradicate the disease. So, I don’t think Sweden is totally crazy, we have to find some way to live with the disease, and that still means a lot of people are going to die.
What does Tor need 35 engineers for?

Serious question, since Tor is basically the server-client which was finished a long time ago and then a browser that basically is a fork of Firefox ESR.
Show HN: You can drive 136.000 km with the energy to train one NLP model
I personally strongly disagree with this. It's my opinion that what people need to do more of is to own responsibility, not avoid it, even if the only realistic capability we have is philosophical. Without the basis of a belief that WE are responsible, we are robbed of its feeling of ownership, and we'll never move toward anything permanently good for any of us.

If it's one thing America needs more of, it's to stop scapegoating everything we can point the finger at and get back to working together knowing that it's OURS to fix.

*Rant over

The rest of your comment I agree with, but we have to start with a different belief system (I think anyway) before we'll ever be any good at the rest.
It sucks? I switched from Chrome last year and am nothing but happy. Who decided it sucks?
> Other places maybe not so much...

You probably don't notice them, all little birds, insects, lizards, hedgehogs (I saw a cat mauling one once, same with lizards and birds),..

Actually, in my city, near woods, there's a small outdoor refuge for "wild cats" as the woman I talked to call them. She was feeding them, so I wonder how wild they are and how much they harm the local ecosystem, on top of all the other pets

I think there's an unhealthy addiction and love for pets. If you like animals, you could let them live normally in their natural habitat, and observe them once in a while. I hope this mentality will change
No, not “lots of people”, I don’t see anyone saying that. Given that it’s factually impossible to lock down the economy for a very long time we need conditions where the hospital system retains enough capacity to handle the really sick people.

Since it looks like we’re close to this (even in places like NYC that are sitting on a vent stockpile) we can start loosening the economy back.
Not the social services non-profits. Food security is crazy up, the one I’m associated with has an extra 1/2 of the yearly budget as surplus now because Feeding America just dumped 100 million donation from Bezos, the like FOUR relief packages congress has moved, and while physical food donation is at zero cash donations are slightly up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_predation_on_wildlife

"As an invasive species and superpredator, they do considerable ecological damage. In Australia, hunting by cats helped to drive at least 20 native mammals to extinction, and continues to threaten at least 124 more. Their introduction has caused the extinction of at least 33 endemic species on islands throughout the world. Feral and domestic cats kill billions of birds in the United States every year, where songbird populations continue to decline."
what is iq option? how to use

https://coinmarket01.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-is-iq-option-...
The article mentions thin margins and declining volume due to SSDs. I wonder where the truth lies.

Anyway, I'd rather data-starve for a couple years and save up for a big SSD rather than feed those responsible for such consumer-hostile practices.
For context I studied physics for about 2 years in university, before I switched to maths with the intention of returning with better mathematical foundations.

That being said let's start with the maths you will need to be comfortable with:

- Complex Numbers (e^(i*theta))

- Linear Algebra (Matrix Multiplication, Basis of a vector space, Finding Eigenvalues)

- Calculus and some Differential Equations (Taylor Expansions, Solving DEs)

- Probability, Expectation values and Distributions

That's probably what you'll need to dive into textbooks. For a deeper understanding, it would help to know these (worry about these later):

- Analysis (My math major friends say that functional analysis is required later on)

- Hamiltonian Mechanics (QM is littered with Hamiltonians)

- Group theory (if you want to get into Particle Physics)

I'd also recommend having a good grasp on classical mechanics because quantum mechanics builds on it. On my todo list is to review this using:

- The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I available at https://feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html

- Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics by Sussman and Wisdom available at https://mitpress-request.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/...

As for books, at uni we used:

- Quantum Mechanics by McIntyre, Manogue and Tate during 2nd year

- A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics by Townsend during 3rd year

They generally do a good job covering the material and explain things well.

As for other resources, I haven't read these but they are generally recommended:

- Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by David Griffiths (I liked the author's writing style in his EM book)

- The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III available at https://feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_toc.html

- Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott Aaronson (I was recommended this for understanding why complex numbers are used in QM)

Some other miscellaneous resources:

- http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/primar...

- https://www.youtube.com/3blue1brown (The essence of Linear Algebra series is excellent)

- https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm (In case you want to watch lectures)

- https://physicstravelguide.com/

All of this is at an undergraduate level. It's probably best to grab one of the books and start running through, consulting the others when you want another explanation.

Let me know if you have any further questions. QM is damn cool dude, I hope you have a fun time delving into it.
Counting spain, UK, italy, france as sweden's neighbor is a bit odd. why not compare it to their actual neighbors, rather than tourism hotspots with lots of transit?
As a dog owner, i have always wondered why my indoor dog needs an annual license, while my neighbourhood is saturated in unlicensed "wild" cats??

Seems like utter crap, and it is clear the cats are killing the local birds.
Yes; we know for a fact that we can make much quieter supersonic aircraft, even for large transport aircraft (existing smaller aircraft of the same period as Concorde were already much quieter, and we've improved on that since). Note however no current proposal for a SST is anywhere near as big as Concorde, which already gives them an inherent advantage.
You can also get TablePlus though a Setapp[1] subscription. (Unfortunately Setapp is also licensed on a per device basis, but you get 2 Macs out of box and you could buy extra seats at $5/mo/seat.[2] I think named licenses are hard to offer because a lot of people abuse them by sharing with coworkers and friends.)

Having used TablePlus for a couple months with both Postgres and SQLite, I only have positive things to say.

[1] https://setapp.com/

[2] https://setapp.com/news/setapp-launches-extra-seats
No host FS or clipboard access means it would be rendered useless.
Chelsea Manning, not Bradley
It's worse than that. Many countries publish sums of their regions' counts, and the regions count differently
Not sure what's your location but if you are in the US then make sure to visit computer history museum. They also have an online tour - https://www.guidigo.com/Web/CHM-Revolution-Tour/DHTH2i2fYjA/...
Google recently introduced something like that for Audio in Duo: https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/improving-audio-quality-in...

> WaveNetEQ is a generative model, based on DeepMind’s WaveRNN technology, that is trained using a large corpus of speech data to realistically continue short speech segments enabling it to fully synthesize the raw waveform of missing speech.

I don't think you need to train for each person specifically, you can just train a model for all heads, then maybe transmit a few high quality pics when the call starts, and interpolate from that afterward.
Can confirm. For general knowledge I recommend two fantastic channels: (1) Click Spring (2) Matthias Wandel. They're always doing interesting things and usually some technique comes up in the videos that I didn't know of. There are probably countless others.

Youtube really shines in this because there is much to see happening. Much of the information is visual and mechanical on how to do things well (or at all).

You generally need lots of tools to build stuff though (you can sometimes trade time for tool cost), but these days finding an equivalent to a maker space or hacker space shouldn't be too difficult.

* ClickSpring's clock series is one of my favorite video series ever.

Wandel is a little unconventional that he builds many of his own tools, but I find he's quite practical and insightful in doing things.
Macintosh Y2020
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson is a must-read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovators_(book)
I do not know whether it's actually possible but if you partitioned an 1TB Intel 660p to only 140GB and left the rest open would it make that into a 140GB SLC SSD? If so, then the 1 USD/GB for an SLC drive is an absolute bargain...
DBeaver is great for MySQL databases. HeidiSQL is another good one for MySQL databases.

pgAdmin is not good.
Anyone know how practical these attacks are in the real world? Are they just an academic exercise or is there a real threat?

One issue that jumps out at me is if the system is air-gapped, how does the malicious software get there in the first place without being detected?
Mild disease that caused of rationing of care in multiple countries. Filled up all the hospitals and stopped elective surgeries through out the world. Killed more people in the US in 1 month that the flu kills in a year even with the largest states going into full lock down to prevent spreading. What disease besides Spanish flu has caused this must disruption to our medical infrastructure?
It is scary how confident people are when discussing the unknown.
My wife would tolerate me talking to myself about my dreams a lot less than a small light, pen, and pad. When it’s not your dream it’s pretty uninteresting.
Because dogs pose a substantially greater threat to human life than cats do.