skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kept expecting the demo to fall back into some kind of traditional combat scenario as the player character explored the environment, but I love that Epic decided to make the hypothetical game in this tech demo exclusively about exploration.

I would absolutely love to play a game like this, combining the sensibilities of indie walking-sims with the epic scale of triple-A productions.
That is correct. I have heard rumors that there are people at Google who want to wield their architecture to censor websites they disagree with. Essentially marking certain websites as malicious, solely because they don't want people to be able to view them.

I don't think it is at all far fetched. We've already seen domain registrars in the United States arbitrary delete domain names for purely political reasons that they made up on the spot. Why not revoke certificates from websites that they find objectionable?

It's not like most users would know how to force their device to connect anyway. On many Android devices, it is virtually impossible to force your browser to connect to a site Google doesn't want you to. But they've gotten this far because we trust them to only protect us from malicious sites.
Is it not possible to destroy them and then find the owner by determining who has standing for the case?
I don't think the Pocket was owned by Mozilla when they announced their integration. Looking it up, it looks like they bought it 2 years after the initial announcement so I can see it being controversial.
Tell that to the two machines that were rendered unbootable because of a recent Ubuntu update.
The video tells the story of No Man's Sky, the buildup of unmeetable expectations prior to it's release, the online anger towards the game developers after the game's dissapointing release, and the hard work of those developers to not only fix the game post-release but also extend it.
Can you find a person who is not choosing one way or the other?

My point is we all get to choose...and im not saying there are not trade-offs, or its easy, etc. But you, me, those mentioned in this article (and those who will never be notices/mentioned) we all have the power of choice!

Can we agree on that fundamental fact already?
There are general vitamin D recommendations available a google search away.

I take a 2000 IU pill every day since a few years. I think that's both safe and sufficient for normal people.

Nit pick: Vitamin D reduces the likelihood of dying if you get infected, not the likelihood getting it in the first place.
Love these sort of explanations on how companies and people run their infra. Great job KA!
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This demo looks more like a somewhat interactive movie than a videogame.
This is temporary while the Android team builds out and stabilizes the add-on APIs supported in the new Firefox for Android. Otherwise it'd be a total crapshoot whether an add-on you tried to install worked or broke randomly (potentially in gnarly ways).
Sometimes when I am wearing headphones, I get dissociated with the outside world and forget that my farts make sounds. So I fart without muffling it, and my neighbor thinks I'm just a jerk that toots openly. Then whenever he farts he toots openly too, in a game of one-buttsmanship. As a result, nobody is particularly comfortable working and I have to take walks when otherwise I would have been blissfully ignorant.
What, you don't bombard weather APIs with dummy requests about random cities so as to obscure where you might be going?
"The question is when the economic harm of quarantine-caused business collapses and job losses exceeds the economic harm of casualties."

The "casualties" are not the extent of the economic harm. Suppose a relaxing of the "quarantine" is followed by another large wave of cases, leading to panic, social unrest, and an emergency imposition of a more serious quarantine?

As for me, I'm one of the at-risk populations; me and my wallet are mostly staying home for the foreseeable future. If that causes any economic harm, I'm sorry. But I would appreciate being able to get groceries (and book shipments) in the duration.
You're wrong, naturally, and the fact HTTPS solves the general problem is proof enough it's needed.
I'm well aware of its limited use-cases. Its also a good heat insulator. I saw a prototype chassis get built with gold leaf being placed around the firewall and the tranny tunnel. While useful, in a very limited usecase kind of way, it still seemed rather absurd to have that material being used could be seen as anything more than commodity.

It's like saying Carbon Fibre should also be a currency as it has equally limited usecases.

But none of that really changes the fact that 'intrinsic worth' is just a convenient word/argument people throw around to dismiss something they don't like or understand, failing to see that fiat has lost any of its intrinsic worth for over an entire generation (starting with the USD in 1913) and has brought about a level of prosperity never seen before in the World.

It's a trade off I'd make in a heart beat if I knew for certain that the generations to follow would have a quality and standard of Life comparable to Nobels if I were a poor peasant in 1912.

Whatever paradigm metal backed currencies had utility in has been lost and while many may opine for its return, I'm glad it happened. I don't think you could truly fund a successful Space Program or something like the Internet without (at least initial) massive fiat deficit spending; and that is something most deluded 'libertarians' find unnecessary.

Though that same property is what is supposed to be the vanguard to prevent war, yet one needs to only look back in Imperial European and Asian History (especially feudal Japan) to see just how wrong that really is.
Given how fast and loose the movie played with physics in general (orbital mechanics, especially), I wouldn't go too far out of my way to try to explain gaps.
Plus any smaller browser likely just another Chromium or Blink fork. There is very little out there these days that is truly independent.
Monks? Like this perhaps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Armand_Bouthillier_Rance....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Habit_%28Order_of_Saint_J...
The fact that they were requesting https://*/* and http://*/* (i.e. full control over all your accounts) without it being absolutely necessary reflects terribly on them.

Still not clear why localhost (which can mean root access to the local machine since it may have localhost-only services that enable that) and cookies access is needed, also http://*.pushbullet.com is unnecessary since they should always use HTTPS.

If they had properly implemented the extension they may not have this problem now.
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Regarding a potential impact on the bitcoin price, consider that — assuming miners sell their mined bitcoins for dollars to pay for hardware and electricity — now only 6.25 BTC per 10 minutes will be sold into the market because of the halving. That’s a reduction in the amount of bitcoin sold into the market every 24 hours of roughly $8m.

I believe this is the theory behind expecting a price increase. Whether or not it materializes time will tell.
Depends on who you ask but.. no they are not. But I think they're pretty good from a cost/performance perspective.
Australia releases COVIDSafe App source code on GitHub
> TEMPEST [1] (or Van Eck Phreaking) is a technique to eavesdrop video monitors by receiving the electromagnetic signal emitted by the VGA/HDMI cable and connectors

I've always thought of TEMPEST as magic and incredibly cool. I get how this works for video, but why is it that infosec recommends for EM shielding of a datacenter? Wouldn't there be so much EM noise from a DC that the data you could pull off be .. noisy? lossy?
The JVM supports hot code loading, although this article seems to imply only BEAM supports it.
1 to 100 is easier than 100M to 250M (made up numbers, but you get the point).
I hate to bet against human stupidity, but yeah, essentially this virus will not cause famine. It just doesn't require that many people to grow and distribute food these days.

(Even before the virus hit we have been massively overproducing and wasting food globally. People go hungry today not because of lack of production but because it's cheaper to throw away food than give it to those in need. Shamefull, IMO, but that's the way it is. We could feed everybody on Earth but we just don't.)

Advice meant for the ruler of a small kingdom or city-state twenty centuries ago just isn't applicable today.
This is pretty cool but I am getting some strange results sometimes:

https://imgur.com/a/rv0wHN1
You don't need Graal when you have Golang around the corner.
Famously might be too broad and a bias from my own experience. I went to school in Ontario and knew a bunch of Blackberry interns and employees and people generally know a lot of absurd stories about RIM.

An intern who I went to school with told me about how legal once chose the colors for a dashboard he worked on as they did not want to seem to be copying some other company.

A co-op complained about them being in every meeting and constantly shooting stuff down.

The one written reference to it I know about was in a 2011 open letter.

https://bgr.com/2011/06/30/open-letter-to-blackberry-bosses-...
We had a similar interaction with the Chrome Web Store out of the blue. After a few maddening rounds of requests for clarification and nonsensical canned responses, I finally just gave up and accused them of gaslighting me. Our extension was restored the next day, of course with no explanation for the ordeal.
GitHub source: https://github.com/AU-COVIDSafe
Which is powered by Google's AppEngine, which scales very easily, at least technically easily.
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I use LastPass as well, but they have crippled their free-tier product. you used to be able to view/generate passwords in their chrome extension, now you have to go to the website to view a password. Worse yet, the website is unusable on mobile. I would not recommend it to anyone now.
How much of the cost of a Dominos pizza, for example, is the cost of delivery? That number is how much you can charge for delivering food. Nothing more. People just won't go for it.
Permissions seem to be a pretty empty metric if you don't' know what the result is...

What was the impact of fewer permissions?

Let's assume PushBullet was doing something bad with some of those permissions and gathering data? Do they no longer have access to that data? I'm not sure that's the case, permissions alone don't determine that.

If PushBullet wasn't doing anything bad, did anything change?

Is it a positive thing for users when the extension disappears in a few days?
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It's fine if you know what you're doing and are the primary maintainer. As someone who's encountered code maintained over a long period of time with lots of people coming and going, concurrency using locks is quite ugly, especially as people cargo cult "better performing" solutions that aren't actually & just add complexity/race conditions. My experience is primarily C/C++ but this is all agnostic to the language.
For me, if the content is compelling, I'm paying a monthly membership. I expect the multiverse to pay content creators based on how much time I linger in their content.

Did HTML / HTTP have a business model? Or were they a platform upon which other things were built?
Hi there

Thank you for the feedback. Some pointers from me:

- Did you try the help button on the top? It’ll lead you to a sample file that explains organice just like the emacs tutorial or the vimtutor would.

- Alternatively, you could check out the 10min introduction video: https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice/blob/master/README.org

- Or the extensive documentation: https://organice.200ok.ch/documentation.html

If you’ve got any pointer on how to smooth the transition from an experienced Emacs user like you to a first time organice tester/user, I’m all ears. Also, if you’ve got any questions, feel free to ping me anytime.

A good place to get help is also the community chat: Community chat: #organice on IRC Freenode, or #organice:matrix.org on Matrix

Thanks again for the valuable feedback. I’ll keep it in mind!

All the best and good health.
Restricted devices (Most Android and iOS devices) that can only trust certificates that are ultimately controlled by the government is a far greater vector for censorship.

Devices that can be made to update on the whim of some corporation (which can be compelled by the government) are also not at all secure.

I don't consider my house secure if the lock company and the police have a skeleton key to my front door.

Open devices that can use open protocols are best. That is why they are trying to deprecate them.
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New Ramsay malware can steal sensitive documents from air-gapped networks
I use

wl-paste | qrencode -s 20 -o - | display -

for this purpose. Shows the contents of the current Wayland clipboard as a QR code. For X11, replace `wl-paste` with `xsel -b`.
The biggest Trusted Setup Ceremony in the world
nailblast (n.)
1. a wound on the external surface of the nail
"her throat was swelling with nailblasts"

Holy crap, is she okay?!?
Deno 1.0 Released
There are substantial fixed costs around developing an app that are cheaper when amortized over a larger market. It’s more efficient to write one app to be used globally than 100 apps for 100 different cities.

Also people definitely get food delivered while on vacation or traveling for work. Probably even more often than they do at home since they don’t have access to a kitchen to cook in.
Different extension developer here. The Chrome Extension store ecosystem has become a nightmare for developers over the past year. Some items:

- Extension review times have gone from 1 hour to a variable amount of time ranging from 1 minute to 3 weeks or longer (try to plan a release or spot fix an issue when you have no idea how long it will take for a deploy to reach users)

- User reviews of extensions have been disabled (how are you supposed to build an audience or build up trust without reviews?)

- Manifest v3 was announced (this was actually longer than a year ago) which will completely break many types of extensions. Over a year later, it is still on the horizon but the beta releases of it are buggy so it is hard to even try to adapt to it at this point.

- Persistent extension related bugs in Chrome are not being fixed and new regressions are being introduced breaking previously working extensions (which you then need to rush out a fix for but good luck with that when the reviewers may take weeks to approve the update)

- Chrome is exploring hiding extensions by default so they no longer will show up automatically by the omnibar when you install them (say hello to a huge amount of confused users who don't know where your extension went)

I understand the Chrome team is trying to address a user trust and fraud issue with extensions and we are grateful for that. However, the Google extension team appears to be massively understaffed and are having huge issues managing and evolving the ecosystem.
US handles overflights and transfers differently from practically every other country out there. For overflight, TSA gets lists of passengers in advance, and runs them against the no-fly list - if you're on that list, you won't be allowed to board, even if your plane never even lands in US.
I work from home and since about February my productivity nose-dived. It suffered before they closed the schools because of worry and constant news checking, etc. Then when the schools closed here in March I have been near useless. I have started to claw back some routines and some short spells of focused work lately but as the main carer for the kids, I have constant homeschooling, cooking, peace-making, MacGuyvering, Wikipediaing, Joe Wicksing to do for them. Closing my home office door last about on average 3 minutes, probably.

The other problem is the confusion of what day it is and that since I got not much work done during the weekdays I also work at the weekend, which before was a complete no-no. Over the long term, this lack of time off for them and me probably is not good.
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There is web development and there is web development. To be able to contribute effectively to systems at the scale of something like Shopify (or anything resembling FAANG levels), there's a lot of value to a good theoretical foundation. You obviously don't have to do a degree to acquire that, but it can definitely help.
That is a management problem, not a development one.

The company must pay someone to do the cleanup. Otherwise, of course it won’t work.
Accelerate your Android Espresso testing by grouping relevant tests
> I feel compelled to point out gold has been outperforming Bitcoin for 2 years now and has been a performant investment to buy in to at basically any point in the last 15 years except 2012.

It what sense, because it's spot price remains at $1200, if you're talking about day-day roi then that's cherry picking at its finest as very few people who actually hold physical trade it.

The paper markets are, much like anything Wallstreet, a machination so far detached from the real thing its hardly relevant.

But, sure, lets assume the paper market has outperformed Bitcoin; lets see your numbers to validate that?
This is where the arguments start to get a bit silly. If the authorities are trying hard enough to find you and your phone is on, the network it is attached to can probably locate you very accurately under most conditions already.

HTTPS is useful, and it should normally be the default for web traffic potentially crossing any untrusted network, but let's keep it in perspective. It's an application layer protocol. It can't protect you against attacks at lower layers.
Context and receipts are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170485
The local manager of the Burger King doesn't decide what beef is on your burger, complaining about the temperature of fries to HQ is not going to help you either.
Here's a counter argument against what you just said for N dimensions, in almost exactly your words.

Get a square, inside of that square, plot the x axis for dimension, and the y axis for time (the x axis is discrete, taking values of 1, 2, 3, ... up to N). For every dimension x, at every time y, choose a luminosity level going from 0 from null amplitude to 1 corresponding to the entire amount of energy in the observable universe.

That square will be able to represent perfectly ND position over time, which I claim is N dimensional (plus time), in a three dimensional space.

Much more simply, you can represent an Nd point in 2d, with the first dimension indexing dimension, and the second dimension indexing value. The 2D representation isn't the space. It's a single point in the space, which can vary along some number of degrees of freedom (N in this case).

If that first dimension of the two (the index dimension) was continuous, and the second still represents value, then we're representing the set of 1D functions, which is infinite dimensional. That's how we represent a frequency distribution.
I've seen cases where Apple will actually decompile/debug your app and point you the exact feature / method / line that they find unacceptable. Despite all of my other complaints about iOS ecosystem, they _do_ keep their App Store walled garden fairly well tended.
Item availability has been really random at most grocery stores lately. It's something I took for granted most of my life and has been difficult to adjust to. Usually we make meal plans for the week, then go buy what we need. Now I have to go to several stores, assess what meat or produce is available and figure out on the fly what meals we can make out of it (hopefully remembering all of what I bought at the last store).

I can't imagine how hard it is for services like Instacart to handle. Same chain of grocery stores a few miles away from each other often have wildly different items in or out of stock on the same day.
It doesn't really work that way. The entirety of the situation is taken into account.

What matters is what you knew, what you should have known, what you could be expected to know, what you were told, what you observed, what you were thinking, what actions you took, and why you did it, etc.... and how all of these things line up with your local laws which will vary to a degree.

If you walked into the place confused because it wasn't clear what was a home and what was a business, that might be a valid way to demonstrate a lack of intent. But it wouldn't be because of zoning, it would be because of it way it appeared to you.
I’m absolutely loving Firefox at the moment.

I have temporary containers extension plus an extension to manage google and Facebook containers and the whole thing has become such a pleasurable experience. Combined with pihole it feels like I’m reclaiming the web back again. Such a blissful experience.
My interpretation (which might be wrong) of the study abstract is that it is known that Vitamin D levels vary in different regions, and it's also known that COVID-19 mortality varies. And these things are the motivation to study whether Vitamin D levels have a connection to mortality. So they measured Vitamin D levels and measured mortality and looked to see if there is a correlation.
"virtue signal some sort of privilege" - I'm referring to a particular "let them eat cake" sentiment I'm detecting by your posts. An apt analogy because it was a signal of her misunderstanding of the lower classes food situation.

"vulnerable populations" - people who are unable to quickly and efficiently move either laterally or vertically, in whatever industry they are in, such that they run real risk of losing food or shelter.
How an Idea from Bell Labs Is Improving Office Design Today
One important fact is that we hear sound frequencies MUCH better than we see light frequencies.

With sound, what we hear is pretty much all the frequency information within our range.

With light, the huge frequency complexity gets reduced down to our three base colors. This is why a certain "color" can be produced with an uncountable number of frequency combinations.
Interesting how these demos used to be about how awesome everything looks. That still matters, of course, but previous gen engines already achieved cinematic photorealism. Now it’s all about ease of use and workflow. No more need to worry about poly counts, normal maps etc.
Good news! They won't. They're only providing an API to give everyone who needs to run contact tracing access to the Bluetooth Beacon system.

EDIT: /me wonders what "contract tracing" is going to be
This review found nothing, so they found ‘no clinical evidence on vitamin D in COVID-19.’ No evidence for and no evidence against.

‘We found no trials of vitamin D in COVID-19 that have reported results.’

‘As our searches returned no relevant results, [...]’
it depends on what you have to scale, if this is just php rendering, this is still relatively easy to do.
One second code: Do YOU know how much your computer can do in a second?
I've used Erlang/OTP only on stateful servers, and observed its use in semi-stateless containerized deployment (but in that case, we were generating the containers to have a fictional state; we always had nodeX@hostnameY even if the container being that node moved around). However, OTP ships with a diskless mode, where all of the code and config, other than BEAM and modules critical to starting dist come from dist.