skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asian is such a generic term that I think one could characterize it as racist. My commanding officer in the US Marines were Korean-American and I can confidently say he was a great leader and someone I deeply respect and would follow into battle again even today.

There is such a broad and rich smorgasbord of cultural traditions from the Asian continent in the US that I don’t think it’s fair to lump them all together. When we start using personal anecdotes to prove some belief, we revert to some sort of pre-modern bigotry.

One thing that is for sure, in an attempt for equity, those with cultural norms to work hard, study hard and excel in life are being discriminated against. In the previous generation it was the Jews (in the US, as well as Europe) and today (broadly speaking) its Americans with an ethnic heritage from Asia. But the same underlying philosophy that killed undesirables in the Gulags of the Soviet and the death camps of the Nazi, are hard at work in the US today under the false pretense of “equity”.
Zettelkasten – How One German Scholar Was So Freakishly Productive (2019)
Crypto Miner Ebang Files to Go Public
You can change your keybindings in settings.
> individualistic modern society.

I'm sure you don't really mean that premodern societies were more selfless and humble, but that's how you writing can be interpreted. Family name, fateralism and class based society puts even stronger incentives to skew the the truth than individualism.
There's an interactive version as well, with changes

https://runestone.academy/runestone/books/published/thinkcsp...
In Austria it is mandatory to cover your mouth and nose when inside supermarkets and other buildings accessible to the public. In the Czech republic it is mandatory outside a home as well. Fun fact: it also has one of the most liberal gun laws in Europe.
The key takeaway from the article (as far as I'm concerned) is this:

> "So if you write a book it should not be because you want to make a lot of money from it but because you have an idea that you want to present to the world. And as an author, you owe it to yourself to get your idea in front of as many people as possible. By putting the book in your web site, you make it available to many people who would not otherwise have access to it: poor people, high school students, people in developing countries, and so on."

... Which is why I give all my books away for free[1][2], and have been doing so for over 10 years.

[1] Obligatory spam link to my website: https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/publications

[2] The fact that there's no money in writing poetry is entirely incidental.
this is an interesting approach that I hope we see more of! but i specifically meant to refer to security components of a protocol: e.g. that whether a party can impersonate another with access to some information that is public or can be disclosed via some attack.
Coronavirus seems to mutate much slower than seasonal flu
It's not clear to me how creating a directory of local online businesses in any way makes anything "extremely complicated"
I would love to see testing capacity stats per country.
> I still remember in one of the classes when Boneh was talking about the Diffie-Hellman protocol he paused to ask us, "Do you know where this was invented?" Nobody knows, then he pointed to his left and said, "In a room a few yards from here".

Boneh works at GCHQ?
How about Czech Republic?
I think that's an even better example.
Moreover in each country the definition of recovered is very different. The most strict is in Italy were you need two swabs both positives within 24h
Ink/Stitch
This reminds me of using OBS to make entirely custom virtual cameras and when Shopify's CEO offered $10k for feature support.

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2568
Thanks as well! I have extremely awesome memories of playing Liero 1.33 and then Liero with ProMode like... 20 years ago? And ProMode was possible due to the tools your have created. I even fooled around a bit in Polish forums and IRC channels related to the Liero 'scene'...

I remember that you were reverse engineering Liero as Joosa lost the source code. Also there were some other attempts to recreate the feel of Liero with projects like Wurmz etc. I kind of stopped playing Liero back then but from what I remember 'physics' in those clones was always missing something. So TIL that there is Liero 1.36 and I wonder if it can brings those old memories ;-)
For free software proponents there is GuixSD
So this error was in the code that actually ran the experiment, not the analysis. The experiment was effectively doomed from the beginning. The mistake amounts to failing to calibrate and test your experimental apparatus, which is a little hard to forgive, since it would have taken hardly any time or effort. Perhaps I’m being harsh but scientific enquiry is too important to be satisfied with conducting unrigorous experiments then apologising, which of course one could do ad infinitum.
From that article:

“The first thing we want to do is make sure that we're protecting the safety and the privacy of individuals. Everything that can be released, will be, for sure,”

I don’t share your cynicism but I do hope that “everything” means everything.
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Yeah I was pleasantly surprised.
This is pretty common. Many jet engines (on airplanes) are sold as a service nowadays. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/12530
would they not be just vandalised?
The same is true in Belgium. But i heard there is a strange benefit: You are allowed to copy anything if the source is legally yours at the time of copying.

So person A lends some music to person B, person B copies it and returns the original to A. This scenario is legal. The nice thing is person A can be a library.

Now if person A makes a copy and gives it to person B, this is illegal, even if the end result is identical. Bits have color.
Turn the HN angry mob mode off

Funny how, to the rich and powerful, any amongst the lower orders who dare to ask questions are always an 'angry mob'.

We’re all in this together

That would have been nice. Too late.
Just FYI, uBO blocks YouTube ads if you are using Firebox on mobile.
This app records everyone you have been in contact with for more than 15 minutes and there is no timeframe as to when the government will stop needing it. There is no evidence a vaccine will ever exist, which means the government will want people to use this application potentially forever.

This is authoritarianism plain and simple. The government's solution to the virus is to track everybody, all the time. This is the path governments have been going down for a long time, and I personally am sick of it. I don't want them to know where I am, who I associate with, or anything else. They have already encroached too far into my life. Way too far.

Your company is also terrible and barely even hires Australian workers. You and your company represent a lot of what I hate about the path the world has gone down. For anyone who wonders why people use JIRA, despite it being a pile of garbage - it isn't for developers, it is for managers to enable them to micromanage you and show upper managers the reports. I can see why you would love this tracking software, you will probably get asked to analyse the data. JIRA on a global scale.
Combining metals thought immiscible at nanoscale to create bimetallics library
One of the more interesting differences between US prison populations and others is that smoking tobacco is way more prevalent:

> Estimated smoking prevalence among inmates was approximately 50% in 2003–2004, compared to 21% among noninstitutionalized adults. [0]

Which might play a major role in the spread and the actual severity of COVID-19 as French researchers are speculating that nicotine could be responsible for blocking the ACE2 receptors that COVID-19 uses to get into cells, which could explain why there's such a low incidence of tobacco smokers among patients, far below what should be expected [1].

There's nothing really concrete yet, for now they want to experiment with nicotine patches as treatment.

But in that context, prison populations could make for an interesting control group: Maybe the prevalence of smoking is what keeps the virus less severe, due to reduced viral load reaching cells, and thus fewer carriers are symptomatic?

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5100810/

[1] https://www.qeios.com/read/article/574
A Realistic and Rational Program for a Better Life
IMHO, the fact that they app is unobfuscated and can thus be easily decompiled is even better than released source code since one can't be sure that the released source code truly matches the actual build in the app store (unless they also go to the effort of having 'reproducible builds' - which would be quite impressive).

Also it's good to keep in perspective that the 'government' can already track people to a great extent, e.g. via cell towers and face recognition.
Sure, why not, they are doing great too. However, Turkey has a population of 82 million(and more than 5 million refugees) which is in par with the UK, France, Germany. You don't have the excuse of "It's a small country" when it comes to Turkey.

Thousands of citizens were repatriated, large PPE deliveries to the UK, Spain, Italy and so on, the death rate is at 2.5, the hospital bed occupancy rate was at about %50, ICU occupancy rate at about 60% last time I checked.

The country is doing something right and is doing it right at scale.
Guix also uses a functional language and it was much easier to grasp for me.
I agree. I write code all the time and I've never had a single bug. She was careless
Can confirm Czech Republic is also doing it.
Not disputing, but do you have a link for when they got source?

Opentrace was open sourced 16 days ago https://github.com/opentrace-community/opentrace-android
Tomanowos: The meteorite that survived mega-floods and human folly
It is certainly more expensive than Disney+ and the content why high in quantity on Netflix isn't necessarily high in quality across the board. Note, I am using 4k on all my streaming services.
Powerful API service tool for Web Scraping
Netflix can grow by getting more users by offering attractive services and features instead of advertisements.

Even if they stop getting new users, and just maintain their current user base, what is so bad about that? Nobody is going to go broke from that.
I wish, there would be a way to make this urbanization less extreme. For example, real estate prices in Munich are absolutely insane. Kindergarten and other state owned employers can’t find personell. People just can’t afford living in the city.
Bridging the Gap Between Kubernetes RBAC and Kafka ACL
Doesn’t make much sense to put steaming steaks on a conveyor... A lot of places use tablet menu/ordering with pictures these days. Like a supermarket grocery ad but you can tap to add to your order and send it. That with a robotic delivery could be a future.
Can I just say that I find this incredibly cool and inspiring. Especially how you fulfilled your ambition and got your degree via the OU.

I share your ambition but had to put my OU course on hold when I migrated abroad. I hope to one day either finish it or restart. Once the kids are a bit older, perhaps.
To add to that, there are electric hobby RC cars for sale with enough power to hit 70mph stock.
CDC confirms covid is a bad flu with deathrate of 0.1 ie 99.9 recovery rate. I hope Americans shoot fake news reporters soon.
That all depends on if you can trust the numbers coming out of Turkey.
I thought I’d take this opportunity to describe my recent experience submitting a bug report for WhatsApp on iOS.

When you export a chat, you get a zip file containing the messages as plain text, plus any media files referenced in the chat. The .txt file unfortunately only contains the text-only messages, not the text captions for media items. I reported this as a bug and was told this was functioning as intended.

So this is a warning to anyone who thinks they are backing up their WhatsApp chats via the export feature that their backups are incomplete.

As a workaround, you can get hold of the ChatStorage.sqlite file from an iTunes backup of your phone. All text is in there but you obviously have to query the database and format it into a readable sequence of messages.

This really, really sucks as a workflow and I hope if any WhatsApp engineers ever read this they start working on a real export feature.
Selection Bias in Ads
> no dramatic decrease of cases in most places

What does that even mean ? It's slowly going down everywhere with serious lockdowns instead of going exponentially up. Anything less than exponential is a _dramatic_ decrease.
It looks like a nice exercise, but for a real patent you sadly need a real layer. There are a lot of standard patenting tricks to ensure nobody can make a stupid generalization of your patent and get a patent that includes your idea. Does you patent apply to cubes with N layers? Does your patent apply with cubes painted with less (or more?) colors?
I believe this is reason enough to take the company apart. They should separate it to parts that are not that powerful and have less data.
Don't have a public source, sorry.
We hated MS because they wer planning for DRM in the OS, the last 20 years has proven the original slashdot nerds like ourselves correct.

MMO's, steam, origin, uplay, are all DRM systems the original slashdot nerds feared.

Modern hackernews nerds, even if they could be called that, are pro DRM, pro steam, and PRO DRM in windows 10... a giant wtf for any real nerd.
Yes, it's a misuse of the term "open source". It should be described as "source-available" [0], not "open source".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
I think it’s silly to scratch build rovers. Something like a motorized Renault Twizy would be a better fit.
I think the Nix/NixOS debate gets confused by two separate goals:

* A workstation machine where you do everything from development to watching netflix

* A server (whether VM, Metal, Container)

The former wants convenience and flexibility. I agree with you - I also use Fedora because (particularly with Lenovo hardware), you install it and you're done. Everything works. I don't want to have to go and write nix expressions because I want to run a not-very-obscure thing that isn't packaged. It's ok for me that my workstation is a 'pet' and I blow it away every 6 months to a year.

The latter case is more interesting and has some specific requirements on it. We all know about configuration drift. The idea of getting completely deterministic setups, and unifying how you do that across VMs, native and containers is great.
This need is actually a legal one, not only a recommendation.

The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (i.e. the 'constitution') says

Art[ikel] 8

(1) Alle Deutschen haben das Recht, sich ohne Anmeldung oder Erlaubnis friedlich und ohne Waffen zu versammeln.
(2) Für Versammlungen unter freiem Himmel kann dieses Recht durch Gesetz oder auf Grund eines Gesetzes beschränkt werden.

Notice sentence (2) which says that gatherings outdoors can be restricted by law. This law is called Versammlungsgesetz [0] here and, among other things, it states that all gatherings except spontaneous ones (i.e. without any advance organization) have to be announced 48 hours in advance at the latest.

From what I can tell, such a relativization also exists in the Dutch constitution [1]. I do not think that I could look up the actual law specifying the details in a reasonable timeframe, though.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versammlungsgesetz_(Deutschlan...

[1] https://nl.wikisource.org/wiki/Nederlandse_grondwet/Hoofdstu... - "Artikel 9:
Het recht tot vergadering en betoging wordt erkend, behoudens ieders verantwoordelijkheid volgens de wet.
De wet kan regels stellen ter bescherming van de gezondheid, in het belang van het verkeer en ter bestrijding of voorkoming van wanordelijkheden."

----

Edit: This, maybe? https://www.parlementairemonitor.nl/9353000/1/j9vvij5epmj1ey...
> wouldn't have reached anywhere near the level of fame (and thus sales)

Cory Doctorow in 2008:

> For me — for pretty much every writer — the big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity (thanks to Tim O’Reilly for this great aphorism). Of all the people who failed to buy this book today, the majority did so because they never heard of it, not because someone gave them a free copy.

* https://craphound.com/littlebrother/about/

Now that he's more established and has a fan base it may be less applicable (just like Stephen King may not want to give away his stuff), but if anyone is starting out, getting readers is a challenge in the first place.
Delivery to street isn't complicated and is straight forward to being secure.

Drone tells you it has arrived and then in the app there's an unlock button in the app.

Drone arrives & calls where you're asked to press 1.

Drone arrives & SMS where replying would achieve the same.

Drone arrives and connecting Bluetooth via the app would unlock.

It's 2020, KISS mentality. Assumption: Why do us in software development have a tenancy to over engineer.
This is actually false. Japan’s per capita GDP is still slowly going up. What’s happening is that slow down of population cancels it out in total GDP
Out of curiosity, would a bottom-tier but legitimate Ph.D granting institution be necessarily laxer, at least in some respects?
Whataboutism is apparently not reserved for China criticism
The trends you see may not means anything. You’re looking at garbage data.
Or like a 9/11 death toll every day for months?
There would be no levies on storage medie. And it would be opt-in. It would only be illegal when you torrent and have not opted in to the p2p fee.
I had such a thing once. It was so much fun. A friend of mine had some others. Oh boy - what a past time.
Most Porn Watching Country in the World, Up from 4th Last Year
Ask HN: Email client that threads by sender, IM-style?
Does anyone know of an email client that groups emails by sender like IM?

The UI would be a list of sender names ordered by latest message with a preview of latest email under them, and then clicking on that would reveal all the emails by sender threaded by subject?

This seems like such a superior interface especially for regular senders, yet there doesn’t seem to be any clients that support this. I’m kind of baffled honestly considering how popular this UI is for chat apps.
So, he taught topics.
>Windows OS has probably the most out of the box

Are you sure about that?

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/take-screenshots-or...
I know but Turkey is not North Korea or Iran, there are many western journalists based in Turkey and they are indeed reporting that the situation is fine and the hospitals have plenty of capacity to go. There are some concerns on reporting methodology but these concerns are not different than those in the UK. Nothing that will change the picture substentially.
I’m curious too! I just heard about this on Twitter this morning and figured I’d come check HN to see what others thought of it and was surprised to find nothing! I’m planning to watch it this morning and will check back.
Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems
Facebook is a machine built to amplify influence.

It just doesn't know how to exploit users influence without allowing them to express their individual views, extreme or not.

More to the point, Facebook is designed to maximize how much marketing influence it has over you, which it does both by maximising time and exploiting the existing trust you have in Facebook friends, to convert that into implied endorsements and peer pressure or popularity based groupthink. Or exploit your mental state of engagement to equate content from an ad with content from a friend.

Which I point out, because Facebook is basically working as intended, they're just upset that they've built a machine which (by it's design and very nature) they can't monopolize control of the content of influence, since they rely on amplifing users' influence to express theirs (or their advertiser's).

Like most tools, it inherently just does a job, which is to get you to to influence your friends. Just like real life, friends can be a good influence or a bad one.
Nix can be approached incrementally by starting with the package manager on your current machine. Perhaps use home-manager to build out a user environment or nix-shell for custom local development environments.
One thing I never hear mentioned is, how are meal g to load these things?

Is there going to be a lineup of them outside the restaurant to which staff must carry the product, will the drones, enter the restaurant, will there be some other way?
Well obviously, I'm just pointing out why you would want to spend some time figuring it out. NixOS isn't just another linux distro, it's the next generation of operating systems.
Are there concerns that unpatched Android devices could be vulnerable to the Bluetooth bug discovered in February this year?

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2020/02/07/google-critical-an...
“If that’s the case, it would have essentially no impact on revenue.“

Then why be against it? Why not say “look, we enacted 90% top marginal rate and it hasn’t helped at all?”
> I wish I could say I'm above it all, but I've certainly internalized it to some extent

IMO, you are well above it all, or may be you will get there in a couple of years. You are doing fantastic for someone who is 16. Most people do not achieve this level of self-awareness even when they are 60. But there is a dark side to this precociousness. You are not ignorant, and that will often drive you to despair when you observe the simians around you. Like they say ignorance is bliss.
Yes! Same takeaway, and the main reason I published my thesis online first, turning it into a video tutorial to boot: https://spmx.ca/trp. Specifically I was frustrated at all the sources I had to get behind various kinds of walls, pay- and otherwise: https://spmx.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/00-headaches.png

Nina Paley (from Rita Sings the Blues) had a great talk five years ago on how restricting information is a form of cultural cancer that is very relevant here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XO9FKQAxWZc.
Not just media, one could extract WhatsApp's cipher-key and message-db (not sure if it works on current versions) without requiring root: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2770982 (2016).

And here's a desktop viewer to search through decrypted files: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1583021 (last updated: 2018).
Turkey is essentially a dictatorship, if you want to believe in their numbers feel free to do so but I'm very skeptical about the accuracy of their reports.
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ok bascially you are saying that no deaths have been or will be caused by the lockdown

and why vaccinate since herd immunity already affects everyone (never mind 10 if not 100 million vaccines have not been administered)

there is no such thing as a weakened immune system after being locked up in a house for weeks if not months.

and that is your scientific reasoning ...
And the latest revelation is that there is at least one non-scientist in SAGE, the government spin doctor, in fact
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/26/attendees-of-s...
Midgard is usable - GNOME Shell and KDE Plasma usable.. even SuperTuxKart with GLES3 usable now: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2020/02/27/expe...

Bifrost is quite early as you can see from the article this thread is for.

> Surely there are loads of GPUs without open source drivers

Mali is very popular (so many SoCs from Rockchip, Amlogic, Allwinner, etc.) and actually was sort of the last holdout among them.

Etnaviv, VC4, Freedreno all predate Panfrost and (the resurrected and upstreamed version of) Lima.

Now I guess the last holdout would be PowerVR but it's not like there's so many devices with their GPUs. Nokia N900 and early iPhones I think?