skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea was to spam the comments forum so FCC can just ignore the comments altogether. Majority of genuine comments were pro NN[1][2].

[1] https://medium.com/ragtag-notes/bot-or-not-verifying-public-...

[2] https://medium.com/@csinchok/an-analysis-of-the-anti-title-i...
There is an method to export the terminal as HTML. See https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/console.html...

Here is an example of the output https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/appendix/colors.html
The problem with the touchbar is that you cannot build muscle memory with it. You have to look down to do anything with it. That goes against the entire UX of a keyboard. How Apple hasn’t understood that basic fact yet is beyond me. This new MacBook is nothing special. A Ryzen 4000HS surface is more attractive now. The cheaper CPU Ryzen has 8 cores and is faster than the current 16” 6 core i7. Time to get rid of Intel and it’s over heating 14nm CPU’s.
Sounds like a cartel
Just put a backdoor in the code and f them later
And a VPN isn't subject to exploits or misconfiguration either?

I'd much rather put my back office behind a 2fa in the browser than use a VPN, it's a far better user experience. Using an off the shelf reverse proxy or commercial solution mitigates to some extent the risk of developers messing up the auth, but both a VPN and proxy can be misconfigured.

https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp
I got the impression the NYT is waging this battle more to figure out who was behind fraudulent comments rather than to determine which comments were fraudulent and which were legitimate.

First rule of any good investigative reporting: follow the money. Whoever paid for the comments must have had some motivation for committing fraud and identity theft en masse.

The fact that the FCC is fighting to keep the comment-purchasers IP address(es) secret is telling in and of itself though I suppose.
Pulitzer prize goes to.... liberals writing issues that only extreme liberals care about! Surprise!
> Some researchers argue that in order to build real common sense into computers, we will need to make use of phenomena outside language itself, like visual perceptions or embodied sensations.

As in Merleau-Ponty's lived experience, which I understand has been taken up more recently under the label of embodied cognition.
It doesn't matter, mining difficulty is automatically determined by how much mining is being done.
> He was trying to explain why most card players weren't gambling seriously and I think he was right about structured activities providing a social lubricant analogous to alcohol.

I don't have any research to support this but I have come to the same conclusions on my own organizing social events at the workplace. I've found that working on a common goal-oriented task which requires communication is an amazing medium to get people talking. The conversations start around the goal and eventually move outside of the task and into more casual conversation. But having that base that requires communication (think like "pass the ball" in soccer) is required.
What narrative... that COVID-19 is most deadly for those over 60? That's literally the only fact that most people know about it. If you think that has been absent in all the coverage, I have no idea what coverage you have been paying attention to.
How long will it take for this information to mysteriously go missing?
Fantastic news. B2 Storage is one of the most requested backup storage backend for us.
In the US, it's not mandatory that you get one. Many people don't get one unless they plan to leave the country. This is especially true given that many driver's licenses are valid as a form of federally recognized ID here (i.e. you can fly domestically or whatever).

The people "not eligible" for a passport are those too poor to afford the process or those without any other reason to get one.
So the question becomes now: who is buying this instead of a thinkpad/Linux equivalent laptop? Who is coming back to OSX now that the keyboards are better?
I have also experience close to burnout and recovered multiple times, in the process I have lost very precious relationships, and entire years were spent in darkness. I also have friends who have been in tech for close to ten years, and are close to burning out though they would never admit to such. This is the nature of the beast, all things that appear glamorous on the outside ( Hollywood, Finance, Tech, many nonprofits) is very rotten on the inside.

You can't change the past, but you can recalibrate your expectations and medidate on what went wrong. Here are some thoughts, and I will be very harsh:

1. Your co-workers may be amazing, but they were never your friends. You ran a business and rented their years to help them build a nest egg, of which you would claim the majority share had it hatched. Alas, the business failed and thus, you no longer add value to each other's lives. Move on.

2. There's what you love, and there's what you do. It's best to keep some distance: because no one cares about what you love. VCs are vultures and this is well known, but they are also reflecting the reality of the market. In the market you're just a vendor. Think about all the food stands that you have walked past in your life, within each stand is an immigrant family who slave away for decades hoping for a better life. Have you ever thought about them and gave them time/money for their suffering? No, you only cared them inso far as they can cook for you. This is how others saw you.

3. Big companies, and indeed most big institutions is made by a silent majority of the defeated. Many have experienced what you have said and have long made their peace. They found joy elsewhere, and found distance between themselves and their work.

4. Find self worth and self-love outside of your role in the machine, there's the product you produce to trade time for money, and then there's you. They are different things. Imagine Instagram influencers who post pictures of themselves but feel depressed when they don't get enough likes. This is you right now, you're looking for external validation from how big your integer is in some database. You have to look elsewhere.
For most people it's not about trying to be successful. It's about not having to be stressed out daily about basic needs like home, health, transport, kids upbringing etc. Unfortunately it all costs a lot of money these days, which makes you take a compromise for the sake of security for you and your closest relatives.
Looks great. I have fond memories of Caddy 1.x, but I keep looking for a reverse proxy that can do social auth to protect selected endpoints (I was betting on Traefik having an easy to setup extension for that, but 2.x has been a challenge in other ways...).

Anyone know if Caddy 2 has any such extension beyond the basic auth provider I see in the docs?
There is actually a plenty of "cousin" coronaviruses around, they are just not that dangerous. 15% of all common colds are caused by them. it might actually explain why some poorer countries appear to have lesser incidence of Covid - people catch cold there more often than in the first world. These "nicer" viruses might provide some immunity (not epidemiologist though).
Whether you provide all of the basic needs for a man and he farms for others, or whether you provide him a wage.. it's all the same in the sense of removing his autonomy.

You'll notice from the writer's essay that he started to become "more happy" when he was able to exercise some autonomy without all of the pressure.
Wow.

A bit depressing (and I don't even work in tech anymore!), but I think he nailed it - it's the rat race. It applies to anyone right now who feels stuck in a job with no meaning.
How feasible would it be to actually enforce that in the code? Would be great if edits were append-only after some period of time. So you could correct a typo immediately after posting still, but after a few minutes you'd just be able to append. (Replying to your own comment doesn't serve the same function, since it could be lost under other replies.)
Couldn't say; using arch, on non-touchscreen, all good.
On the "hacker's" resume for a security job? No, it doesn't count.

From the user's perspective who had their data leak? Of course it counts.
How to Build a SoC
That's just not true.

Only 42% of Americans have passports. A passport is not in and of itself required to live in a country, just to leave one. It's also expensive -- out of reach for many lower income folks. All you really need to get UBI is proof of citizenship, like a birth certificate.
Could not agree more with this. I'd sooner buy an "ancient" secondhand MacBook Air than use Windows or attempt to use Linux on a laptop.

I find the the touch bar obviously annoying, but that annoyance is so minor compared with the annoyances of Windows or running Linux on a laptop. Honestly it seems like a lot of people have quite the double standard when it comes to Apple products.

This is also coming from someone who was forced to use Windows professionally for several years (worked on CAD software).
Yes and no. At the start of an epidemic the excess mortality is not yet measurable, its within the variation of normal deaths, and the "official" numbers of corona deaths (people who die after having been tested positive) are not yet observed because there is no testing.

CDC estimates the basic reproduction number to be 6, German Robert-Koch-Institut IIRC around 3. Maybe the presence of earlier, undetected cases have lead to an overestimation of R0.
I think it's obvious given the context of this thread that by "work" I meant labor traded for financial compensation as the means of procuring food and shelter through the marketplace, not work in the sense of literal physical activity.

And in that sense, capitalism is the only system in which that is required.
I always heard (from a teacher, in a self deprecating fashion):

Those who can, do.

Those who can't, teach.

Those who can't teach, teach others to teach.

Those who can't teach others to teach become school/Uni administrators.

...

In reality I think it's hard to teach stuff you can't do, and teaching it becomes a great way to learn how it actually works.
You're not insane, but you need to take into account that the CFR would be higher if the healthcare system were overwhelmed with patients. Also reducing death is not the only target, we are reasonably sure that many patients will have long-lasting damage to their lungs.

There is of course some trade off between number of deaths avoided and amount of money we should be prepared to throw at the problem. Where on this spectrum are you?
No, you're correct.

We know from the high rate of corona infection in SF with low mortality that corona stats are being improperly analyzed.
I mean... wouldn't any method of determining the orbital parameters work? Stellar tracking, determining position based on known ground reference points via cameras, etc.

It's not like these are dumb birds, they can sit there for awhile collecting data to figure out their orbit, and then communicate that to the lander before it attempts to land.
I always think it is a bit odd when a company wins a case like this, but then people blame the company, not the court or the law.

Not saying, that you don't disagree with the courts decisions, but I keep getting this feeling especially from the US. Why do people realistically expect a company to not stretch things as far as legally possible? I get why libertarians would see it this way, but everyone else?
There's a wonderful, interactive playground of variable fonts up at https://v-fonts.com. Most variable fonts let you interpolate font weight, width, or slant, but some go much further. See for instance, http://variableemojis.com
There's bunch of things other than productivity that make companies (especially for those multinational giants) hesitant to allow full WFH + remote, like tax/visa/regulatory issues. It's not impossible, but the cost adds up.

I guess the benefits outweigh the costs now, so I hope those companies will more proactively consider more WFH friendy employment options.
This happened to me last week.

I did not notice at first, but I could not reduce the volume, since its control was gone.

Then I tried to restart finder, but the escape key was ‘gone’.

I have an even better story about the one that replaced this (same model).
I think this is actually quite innovative from the Uk government, take the existing NHS brand which has been a thorn in the side of the Conservatives for decades, co-opt the brand for dodgy spy software thta not only tarnishes the NHS brand, but also continues the UK government attempt at tracking every step every citizen takes.
> This is maybe a radical argument, but I make it in good faith; if your business can only exist by paying workers at or below poverty wages, and/or enacting dehumanizing controls, it probably shouldn't exist.

Come on now, those antebellum cotton plantations are operating on razor thin margins. You can't ask them to change their labor practices.
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It was submitted here [0]. Let the MBP bikeshedding continue... ;)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20229123
What's the best way to escalate this? Or rather, how do we make this recommendation to moderators and/or devs?
The price/specs don't make any sense even when compared to Apple a couple years ago.

Two years ago the prices were $1299, $1499, $1799 and $1999 for the off the shelf models. Currently the prices are $1299, $1499, $1799 and $1999.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180503185423/https://www.apple...
I've been feeling burnout, although not to the same extent as OP, for many of the same reasons. The main difference is I never stopped loving programming or the creative aspects of making things. Ideally I'd like to be a full time hobbyist programmer, but that seems out of reach financially. If you want to get back into making stuff I suggest doing zero pressure hobby projects focused on whatever you enjoy about the process of making (not around a mission, or users and definitely not around money) and don't actually worry about finishing. Just focus on the act of making stuff happen
> To avoid any false positive result we have taken all the usual precautions and we also confirmed it by two different, techniques and staff.

Sure? No. But taking their statement at face value, it does seem unlikely.
One of the standout locations of virus activity for me, and just due to sheer lack of it, is Vegas. It makes no sense how a global city like Vegas who had multiple large scale events during the January/February even into early March time frame, and tons of visitors especially for the Chinese new year...215 reported deaths so far. That number although sad is still remarkably low. In a region of 2.2 million with a not great reputation for health and hospitals to only have a death rate of .01% seems amazing with how NY, and countries like France, Spain and Italy have fared.

Studies like this and I'm sure the many to come make me really wish we had better contact tracing from the get go and hopefully in years to come there can be some better implementations
Llyod’s of London released a report in May 2013 on the potential effects of a significant Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). The projected costs were 0.6 - 2.6 Trillion USD.

https://www.lloyds.com/news-and-risk-insight/risk-reports/li...

As other comments have said, the biggest pain would be the availability of replacement small transformers.
Given the combination of a positive PCR test result, the symptoms and imaging I think there is strong evidence for an infection.
Is there a tool that will parse a v1 config and report breaking changes and recommendations for upgrading to v2?
I think you're missing a word or two in the second sentence.
Somewhat related... it makes me wonder whether 'old' zoom camera lens - which you can readily find for a fraction of their original price at thrift stores - could they be disassembled and their high quality glass lens used in something like this?
Interestingly even though MSSQL server uses an extremely different implementation of MVCC, it internally has a vacuum equivalent. (Which is required even when all MVCC support is disabled! It is used to enable efficient implementation of deletes, without having to use absurdly coarse locks).

MSSQL just handles doing that cleanup silently in the background while exposing basically no no configuration except a trace flag that can turn it off.
The whole album addresses this topic, it's very Pink Floyd-ian in the story that it tells through a nearly continuous track. "Pictures of Cats" is one of my favorites, an elegy for the 24/7 cycle of bad news and the toll it takes on us. Definitely worth a listen.
One day a chicken will finally win, which will be a pullet surprise...

But seriously, congratulations to the winners!
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I'm not sure.

Very surprised that Pat Bagley wasn't even nominated, his cartoons have been all over the place in the last year, particularly on social media. Which I find particularly interesting as he isn't from a major market like CA or NY (he's published in a Colorado newspaper I believe).
It's possible that there wasn't much transmission from visitors to locals, but rather just visitors transmitting to each other.
The chinese UBIC coin reached a very high OTC price there. A passport would generate about 4$ of daily income. This attracted a lot of people. Now that figure has halved.
"What if I want to switch" is a valid question if your business is at the mercy of a single vendor with a history of abusive business practices towards its customers.

While I may have a selection bias, I have seen quite a lot of companies migrating their applications, successfully. Most for exactly this reason. And many, perhaps even more, that would very much like to migrate if it was less disruptive.
If I want to use an operating system based on Unix O/S with a fancy window system, I'll use Elementary OS and pocket the $600+ bucks, thanks. There is not a single Mac-only app that can't be replaced by a better app at free or equal cost.
Cloudflare doesn't charge for bandwidth, it's as neutral as it gets.

The charges are from the cloud (storage) providers. And most of them charge for bandwidth usage, but they don't discriminate based on what data you send. It doesn't matter if it's source code, photos, or linux binaries so there's no net-neutrality issue here.

You can potentially argue that Backblaze is discounting traffic based on the upstream network but that's not active discrimination. There are hard costs to internet transit and some companies can offer better pricing depending on where the traffic goes. For example, downloading from Australia is more expensive than downloading in America because of the infrastructure costs, and this isn't considered a net-neutrality violation.
Look at a map of NO pollution and overlay covid outcomes. It isn't nearly as bad if you have high vitamin D (Vegas) and low NO pollution (mountains only on one side = good).
I'm curious what do you think about the fact that the Chris Smalls timeline doesn't add up?
> How do they read them? NFC? OCR a string of letters inside the passport?

I actually work on software that does this. To read a passport you first need to OCR the two lines of text at the bottom of the data page, the machine readable zone or MRZ (actually: you only need the document number, date of birth and date of expiry, but OCRing the MRZ is the easiest way to input these without error).

These 3 pieces of data form a kind of password to access the chip, this is so someone can't skim your passport, they have to already be looking at the data page with all your info before they can access the same info in the chip. (Note that there is an additional way on some passports, which uses a PIN code printed on the passport but this isn't very common yet).

Once you got the key, you can authenticate yourself towards the chip and read its data. The data is digitally signed by the government of the issuing country and if you have the root certificates you an verify the data is genuine and not tampered with.

Then there is also a mechanism to detect if the chip is not a copy, which is what the cryptocurrency seems to use, called 'active authentication'. You basically send an 8-byte challenge to the passport, which signs it and returns the signature. The passport's public key is readable, the private key is not and stored in a secure way in the chip. By verifying the response against the public key you verify the chip is not a copy. This public key is part of the signed data so you can form a chain-of-trust back to the signing authority.

Notice that what this cryptocurrency is doing (signing data using a passport) is considered a problem by some governments (specifically Germany) and thus a new standard was created called EAC-CA (Extended Access Control - Chip Authentication) that specifically prevents this from happening. Both AA and EAC-CA are optional features.
I believe these are cases where the publication itself didn't nominate the piece or author for consideration as typically happens, but the board decided to consider it anyway.
Take a week off, step away from the keyboard, find some humans, animals, get a hobby or go back to the one you had. Watch that Naval Ravikant Joe Rogan podcast.
Which version did you try? That is to say, what metal and which band?
I am not anti-crypto, but I am anti- stupid ideas and get-rich quick schemes that are incredibly prevalent in the "blockchain" space. I am for one or two cryptocurrencies/tokens, and that's about it.
I would recommend hacking. Not cracking, mind you, but tinkering. Focusing not on building a product, but on toying for just a few hours with something you find cool, and have fun with it.

This is what made it for me when I started being disillusioned with my work (I became a developer thinking the internet would bring direct democracy like printing brought democracy, and instead it brought mass surveillance and complotism).

I play with the decentralized web (dat), with raspberry pi, with system programming, with whatever new (to me) I feel like. And just like that, I'm happy again and enjoying my craft again. I just want out of "the industry" and can't wait to have saved enough to be able to do that (gladly, this is a work line where we're lucky enough to be able to retire early, if we're good with simple life).
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This is why normal, sane, people will put up with the Dilbert-esque world of business. They only have a month's savings and they have a mortgage and two kids to feed.
Not only that, my fingers also occasionally hover over touchbar and create accidental touches constantly creating chaos. I actually got cold feet of using my Mac because of that and sticking to my PC most of the time.
> why did the deaths lag significantly?

Because nursing home patients don't travel, so they lag in catching it, then die.
The 1619 project is at its core flawed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project#Critical_resp...

The American Revolution was simply not about protecting slavery. You can't say the birth of America was a racist endeavor - it's factually incorrect. This is historical revisionism.
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