skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?”

— Sister Miriam Godwinson, “But for the Grace of God”
I suspect it's a way to avoid the uncanny valley, and serves to highlight the photo realistic quality of the environments even more.
Lock Account After 4 Failed Tries. Good UX or Bad UX?
After the many fiascos of UE4 and the shit Sweeney and Epic have pulled I dont really care, I'm sticking with blender and godot.
> Typically, lowly skilled engineers find it easy to gain employment elsewhere and are the first to do so

Not really.
https://youtu.be/00gAbgBu8R4 - did Epic manage to pull off what Euclideon Holographics could not?
Honestly could not parse your argument. We should suspend taxes because we do not intend to pay bond holders?
You Got Rejected by a VC, Now What?
Before anyone gets excited for Ryzen laptops, the only GPU option if you lean that way is the RX 5600M. The Dell G5 15 SE is available with up to the Ryzen 9 4900H (8c/16t 4.4Ghz 45W).

If you stick to Intel, you can get the RX 5700M and all the Nvidia fixings up to the RTX 2080 Super 8GB (full wattage version, though Max-Q also available).
Of all the reasons to be in favor of UBI, this is a first for me to hear...but to the point, the alternative to employment at a company deploying these kinds of tactics is not destitution, it is employment at a company that does not.
That's also the case to a large extent in the UK, which makes me wonder whether it's a hold-over from the Empire rather than the caste system? I thought castes were more about who you're born as than what you end up doing?
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I’m working on a desktop app in this space right now. Bridging the gap between Excel and SQL, or between the business analyst and the developer. Alpha version should be ready at the weekend.

It seems like every company I’ve worked at is populated by business analysts who pull Excel spreadsheets together, often in half baked or inconsistent formats, and then pass it onto the dev team with something along the lines of "Can you update the database with this. We’ve spent days putting it together."

My app lets you generate custom SQL per row in an Excel file where certain conditions are met, auto populating the SQL based on specified columns in the Excel data.
You can modify the suggest answer here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3047375/simulating-key-p...

to instead of simulating a single keypress, have it open a text editor and simulate typing in the source code of the app you're working on. That way any keylogger running will pick up a lot of code. If manager is dumb enough to use a keylogger he probably won't recognize that it's the same code each day.
Nationalism Gaining Ground in India
That was back in the day you trained and educated employees (to save money and built loyality). Back when they offered a living wage a single person could raise a family with.

What happened? Free trade.

Cheap goods from other countries gutted the local industries. Hard to compete on price when labour costs are so different. The only jobs remaining become min wage or importing.

People not working as hard as a generation ago doesn't factor in.
The Great Geomagnetic Storm of May 1921
What's going on behind the scenes to explain the jump in graphics quality? Hardware? Algorithmic?

Does this involve some breakthrough somewhere or is this incremental?
I am excited to announce that Meltano (which has been discussed here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17667399) is heading in an exciting new direction as an open source platform for ELT pipelines!

Our goal is to make the power of data integration available to all by turning Meltano into a true open source alternative to existing proprietary hosted ELT solutions, in terms of ease of use, reliability, and quantity and quality of supported data sources.

Dive right in by following the examples on our homepage at https://meltano.com, or read on for further details and context:

If you've been following Meltano for a while or would like to have some historical context, start here:

Revisiting the Meltano strategy: a return to our roots: https://meltano.com/blog/2020/05/13/revisiting-the-meltano-s...

If you’re new to Meltano or are mostly interested in what’s coming, start here:

Why we are building an open source platform for ELT pipelines: https://meltano.com/blog/2020/05/13/why-we-are-building-an-o...

We're building this for people like you, and we literally won't be able to do it without you, so please give it a try and let us know what you think!
Isn't spyware just a subset of malware? This is definitely spyware
The Internet Archive helps maintain that information far more reliably than a 20-year-old unpatched webserver could.
This is not about how human forecasters or computer weather models are conscious.

The idea is if the cloud formations and rain generated by the model are indistinguishable from what you are seeing from your window. It doesn't mean that the model is actually producing rain. It may look the same on camera, but if you go outside, it is very different: only the real rain will make you wet.

In the same way, if a computer behaves like a conscious entity. For example a chatbot acting like a human, as in a Turing test. It doesn't mean that the computer is conscious.

Note that the computer may be conscious, but it is not a requirement in order to run a model. In the same way that a weather model could use actual water, but doesn't need to.
This is so true, * Build what people are asking for.
Hopefully. Another unrelated thought is that History is really waking up. It's crazy seeing things finally happening, hundred year old books becoming relevant again, and true unpredictability come back. As one said a bit over a hundred years ago, there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen.
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I tried to figure out whether the new GI used raytracing, and it doesn't seem like it is? If it is using raytracing hardware it isn't nearly as impressive. If it isn't, then it's sheer magic.
Work surveillance leads to employees who feel disrespected. Employees who feel disrespected don't go that extra mile when it really counts.

A better approach would be to trust the employees (hand-picked by the company), and set measurable performance expectations.
This seems very useful; a universal solution at the OS level makes it easier to firm the habit of using PTT rather than relying on each individual app to offer (and then need to configure) PTT.

On a related note, I started using Nvidia's RTX Voice a few weeks back; I've never found anything better to remove background noise (and the noise of my mechanical keyboard). That includes some very expensive hardware solutions. It's incredible.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/nvidia-rtx-voice...
Does anybody here know where to go to have conversations with the TypeScript team about adding browser features to better support TypeScript?

A lot was happening back in 2018. A Googler put together a proposal to add ignorable "pluggable" type annotations to JavaScript, which would allow browsers to run TypeScript directly without transpilation (and without type checking). https://github.com/samuelgoto/proposal-pluggable-types

And a member of the TypeScript team at Microsoft put together a proposal to add enums to JS. https://github.com/rbuckton/proposal-enum

Neither one of these seem to be active. What happened? What would it be like to get these landed?
1. Identify a large number of email newsletter signup pages that don't use captcha and which either send an opt-in confirmation message or a welcome message on signup.

2. Identify a target for some kind of account takeover attack. (Assuming you have other details needed for takeover.)

3. Rent botnet.

4. Perform thousands of signups for the target's email address starting shortly before your attack.

If the account's only security notifications (e.g., password reset, etc.) are in the form of emails, the flood of spam will usually keep the target from seeing them until too late.

These are real attacks, frequently seen in the wild.
What you describe seems like the result of only allowing a tiny amount of new housing. If housing is highly restricted, then only the most wealthy will get served by new housing.

The problem isn't the builders, it's the citizens of the city/town that are trying to keep people out, and limit supply. I'm that environment, the only builders that can exist at all are the ones trying to extract maximum dollars, and those who try to experiment with more affordable building types are locked out of the process. The process is selecting for exactly what you claim to not want.
For engineers, is it ever really worth it to understand the business?

I can see the enormous harm having no technical people who know the domain causes in my current role, but the benefits of learning it seem to be slim to none for the individual engineer. The harm is in low productivity for my employer, but they don't seem to care about retention anyway. Most do not.
May 1921 Geomagnetic Storm
Scientists built a Genius device that can generate electricity ‘out of thin air’
Can you think of generating electricity from the paint on your wall, and the method is completely renewable. this sounds something fishy or like a concept of a sci-fi movie, but what if I say that is true.
Author here.

Firstly, this is a rather silly argument in general. One could say that Embeddable Common Lisp and Guile address the same niche and all developers from one project should consolidate in the other.

I have not used Guile to any extent, nor was Janet really influenced by it, but the comparison has been brought to my attention several times in the past. Janet is not scheme nor common lisp, so there are of course many differences that I cannot address here. However, as an extension languages, there are several things that I believe Janet does better than Guile.

Guile is not an ideal extension language for C projects (this is distinct from an extension language for GNU projects). Firstly, they address garbage collection with the Boehm GC, which takes some control over your runtime and is not known for great performance (the runtime/non standard C is the bigger issue). This was of course a decision made by Guile devs to make it easier to write correct bindings to C libraries in Guile, but it is not without it's downsides. Secondly, the project is not easy to embed in foreign build systems. Janet is more like Lua - built in tracing GC that is not conservative nor platform specific, no external dependencies beyond libc, and can be added to a project as an amalgamation (a single C file and 2 header files). This has enabled people to get Janet running more easily on a variety of platforms like mobile phones and even recently someone has been doing some work on getting Janet running on the Nintendo Switch. I believe Janet is also significantly smaller than even the smallest build of guile. Basically, Guile is not simple, which is (IMO) antithetical to an ideal extension language.

At the same time, Janet should feel like a much less minimal language compared to Lua. While core Lua limits itself to pretty much only standard C, Janet goes a little further to provide some abstractions over different platforms (that can be turned off via compile time options).
reCAPTCHA can already be configured to be invisible and only display if it suspects the user could be a bot.

For the majority of users, they won't see a captcha challenge and it is a seamless experience with no added friction.

Those who have lots of tracking/privacy protections however will more likely be flagged as a potential bot and usually have tougher challenges as a result.
That's a dramatic exaggeration...companies you describe exist everywhere and it's up to the individuals to change if they don't like it.
Life, part 8
> For the first, I don't know what to tell you. If they aren't qualified to know when security must exist, they are not likely qualified to implement it.

...which is why numerous high-quality implementations already exist.

There isn't a way to say this without risking offending you, but if you can take it for what it is, I think you would benefit from it: you have posted a few examples in this thread where you think no one would care about encryption, and there are people posting here saying they do care about encryption in those cases. It might behoove you to approach this with a bit of humility and acknowledge that you are one of the people who isn't qualified to know when people need/want security, and your opinions are borne from that fact.
Many fiascos? Are you talking about how epic didn't pay dancers for their dances in fortnite? Or the crunch they pushed on their workers to ship fortnite content?

I'm trying to think of others, maybe you could expand a bit?
Unreal engine 4 does, so I suspect yes.

You'll probably have to compile it yourself, but it isn't hard. (I did it).

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Platforms/Linux/Beginner...
It's kinda interesting that color, sound, and space all have three dimensions. What are some other fundamental three-dimensional things?
Thanks for taking the time to answer. I appreciate it.
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I assume if you want good results actually using these today, you need to be careful to select a VGA font that was originally on square pixels. Is there an easy way to tell which those are?
Will React Classes Get Deprecated Because of Hooks?
It seems she's demonstrating the experiment with different temperatures and different ginger juices. There are two temperature ranges and two ginger juice types (one filtered and one unfiltered old ginger). The only success case is the one with unfiltered ginger juice at certain temperature. I'm guessing the unfiltered juice has ginger starch/fiber in it which helps the milk to crystallize at the right temperature. Crystallization requires "seeds" to serve as the nucleus to start the process.

I'm guessing two essential factors are temperature and some fiber material like ginger root. Other fruits with the right kind of fiber might work too.
Have an example of this? Would be interesting to see it.
That's definitely a case where I would find some way to lock that down in at least two ways. PLCs seem to be in that "interesting/terrifying/lucrative" triangle to me, with the middle part being the kind of thing I would protect with layers of security.

Overall, I have had to support some very odd security situations, back in the day. As an example: someone's philosophical position somehow got translated to an org-wide policy forbidding firewalls. I'll repeat that: they forbid firewalls. Because we were "open." And I had to support FTP sites. On Windows NT. I managed it without incident through layers of security and care, with watchfulness and compliance.

PLCs? Yeah, I'd lock that down like crazy.
I love this book! And if you didn't meant it, I much recommend Seveneves.
I'm not awared it supports keyboard navigation.

Edit: there is hint to use keyboard on the trello case study, but the hint isn't visible (if any) on the tinder case study.
Honestly, I think this is less about the Midwest and more about purposely siting a company in a town with relatively low labor costs and few other options.

At the time, there were few other choices for technology work in Kansas City.
Definition of malware: software that is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system.

You could argue that tracking software is "disruptive" but more so to the user, not the system itself. you're conflating your dislike for both tracking software and malware as the same. Again, I'm not defending tracking software, just disagreeing with your false equivalency.
The mastermind of Google’s Pixel camera quietly left the company in March
For people not working in video games in might seems super impresive but I can assure you that major publisher have similar rendering visual in there in-house engine. Super cool none the less!
Will Covid-19 help end the open office floor plan era?
With more organizations likely moving to permanent WFH arrangements, more abundant office real estate, and the risks of cramming too many people in a small space for several hours per day, will we see a return of the individual offices? Or something in-between?

I'm a declared WFH proponent but a private (or lightly shared) office could go a long way into making co-located work tolerable.
Sites that make you create an account and then re route you to login drive me nuts. Can't imagine it helps with conversions either.
We are so far off from saturating the peak density in American cities that its not even worth worrying about. Ground space is somewhat scarce, but we could easily bulldoze Sunset District and replace it with 40 story high rise apartment buildings.
(Int).FillBytes is great, thanks! I had resorted to using Bits and reimplementing the Bytes logic on top of that...not pretty.
It's not even simply a matter of pay. Even companies that pay well often have a fair bit of churn.

What often matters is whether one is in a position to develop skills and enhance one's impact on the organization.
> Vitamin D levels are severely low in the aging population especially in Spain, Italy and Switzerland. This is also the most vulnerable group of population for COVID-19.

It could also be that age is the important factor here and that Vitamin D actually isn't relevant at all - as they said Vitamin D is low in all those populations already.
A corollary to this, don't ask users for information that you don't need.

There are a number of popular web services (Spotify was the most recent) that I haven't signed up for because they keep asking for information I don't want to give them or had to think about, such as gender. Every time I'd start the sign-up process, fill in some information, then be confronted with a question where I wasn't sure what the answer was or why I needed to provide the information, and give up. This even delayed me creating an email account by about a year.
The ease of conversion is definitely a component. And that has a few parts. Maybe you hope that people forget they don’t want it (like you said). There’s also hoping they don’t forget they do want it. People are pretty lazy and forgetful.

There are other components. Credit card entry acts like a captcha, but it’s actually a useful part of the process (unlike clicking street signs).

And the marginal cost of a free trial is low, but it’s not zero. If I can have less free trial customers but end up with similar paying customers, that’s a win.

There’s not only one reason.
Learn GNU Guile, it's a dialect of Scheme. AFAIK, Scheme is specifically intended for use in teaching programming. I spent a late night reading the manual and hacking out some toy programs, and the rest is history.

TLDR: Guile is very easy to learn
Counterthought: anyone who would knowingly and willingly install spyware on their personal computer deserves to lose their privacy.
I think you overestimate the ratio of riot cops to renters. By a few orders of magnitude. Also, everything else failing, there is really nothing stopping someone from throwing a molotov at a rental property. There would be essentially no way to find who did it, following the principles of stochastic direct action. This happened in history a few times.

For better or for worse, the stability of civilization is a lot shakier than it seems.
> Of course there is. If they're HTTP, they're insecure, which makes them an open attack vector.

If so they are only insecure because malicious JS can be MITMed into them, and realistically speaking browsers can’t defend against malicious JS.

> Modern computer security is about removing as many known possible attack vectors as possible.

So let’s remove enabled-by-default JS permissions instead of removing HTTP-content. Most old websites don’t depend on JS and would in fact be just fine.

Even better: make JS opt-in only for HTTP websites, and let users like me refuse the “upgrade” to HTTPS.
I'm almost certain they are. HW raytracing is of the big selling points of the new console generations, and if they achieved these kinds of results without it, then I would have to reconsider my skepticism of the occult.
I did see that mentioned as a theory a few weeks ago. My best guess is that in the United States especially, it's a combination economic/socitial factors and vitamin D deficiency that's making the virus have higher mortality in populations of racial minorities with darker skin.

Here's a study that looked at vitamin D levels and found that they're significantly lower in both people with darker skin, and (independently of skin color) those who are overweight. https://www.jabfm.org/content/29/2/226
Some thoughts on pole surveillance:

https://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/pole-camera-surveillance-f...

It's not 100% consistent, but part of it is a reasonable expectation of privacy, compared to what the public would normally see. E.g. having a camera up in the air is not what the public normally sees. Which in some cases violated suspects' rights.

That means LE should have warrants for these cameras. Plus, they're not allowed to go on fishing expeditions.... These cameras aren't designed to only look at one place, but a wide area... Which means public oversight is required to keep LE honest. If there are no public records, then it's unreasonable search.
> I find the "we'll just ignore laws we find inconvenient and disagree with"

If the laws were just inconvenient, Alameda wouldn't have given in. They are wrong and destructive and there's little reason for them other than putting authorities in a cosy spot (lockdown means nobody can blame authorities for casualties) while everyone else has to suffer.

It's stunning though how many people will just switch off their brains and chime in with the fearmongering when they get scared and instinctively turn to authorities for help, rationalizing their measures, however meaningless they may be.
A Palestinian surgeon, a Jewish patient, a Nazi medical text – an unlikely bond
You're in a delicate situation, since you'd be to blame for your co-workers potentially loosing their jobs. Nevertheless, doing nothing is also risky, since someone else from another department could show up and automate away your jobs leaving you in a hard place, and you won't have any control over that.

If you propose the automation yourself, and plan it's adoption within your team, you may have a chance of taking advantage of it, and even try to bring in more responsibilities within the company to your team to secure your teammates jobs.
Yes, of course. But fully animated CGI traces everything back to camera and single screen in movie quality. This setup has 1,326 individual screens, 123,904 px/m² filmed from several meters away for 180 degree view. None of those screens were rendered even close to movie quality.

btw. Only about 50% of the scenes were made with this setup. rest was traditional ray-tracing.
Isn't it that when someone is sick or their health is detriorating, the first thing that happens is that their body stops producing Vitamin D? And since they are not able to go out from that point it further reduces vitamin D?
Are you sure? Looks more like a https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupferstich to me, no acid involved.

(sorry for the german wikilink, but it has more pictures than the english equivalent)
Play around with one and you'll see quickly that these are designed for remote surveillance. Traffic / weather cameras don't have telephoto lenses, motorized 3 axis control or high-quality sensors.
Haha wow, I love this. El Santo is still huge in Mexico to this day, like a Hulk Hogan. I love the description on monster heels, any chance you would open this up for submissions?
This simulator would be so much better with this music!