skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a need for a dedicated image privacy offline program. On a technical level its very easy to preserve privacy, its just the tools people are using were built for other purposes (Non destructive editing is highly desirable in normal cases).

All the program has to do is scrub all exif data, have a censor box/brush that is 100% black and rencode the image so there is no remaining unneeded data.
It seems that the mosquito effort was not a success after all [0].

[0] https://m.dw.com/en/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-breed-in...
I re-read it and I'm wrong. I thought he said he was too trusting of their motives, or some such, but he didn't.
The estimation formula I used was:

($20,000/day for ICU bed + $20,000/day misc) * 21 days * 1.5 fudge = $1,260,000

Even I was skeptical for a couple of seconds, but hey, US. :)
Kernel symbols are NOT published by Mark Russinovich. What would be the purpose to publish them other than aid debugging the kernel and making sense of what's happening under-the-hood?

Debugging stuff and analyzing performance stuff doesn't make me feel like MS would like to hide internals.
There is already a project named Solid led by Tim Berners-Lee: https://solid.mit.edu
I’ve yet to meet a person that didn’t try to pay the minimum amount of taxes legally possible, but I’d agree with you on all the other points.
Overeating does contribute, of course.

I do think there are, again, many other confounding factors. Environment and diabetes are closely linked. Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes, for example, has increased five-fold in the past 50 years or so. As well as many other weird epigenetic diseases that seem to be linked to genes + our modern world somehow.

Off the top of my head, the super low rates of pre-modernity T2D could also be linked to:

- no antibiotics, which destroy huge swathes of gut bacteria

- very different, less sanitized environment

- far more time outdoors, sunlight, dirt, etc.

- fewer strong chemical soaps, antiseptics, etc.

- different diet, fewer processed foods

- different gut flora due to all of the above

- different physical lifestyle, more movement, etc.

- diagnosis criteria

Yes, being fat is a big problem for many reasons, but it is quite far from the only problem, and may even not be the causal problem. Just closely linked to some of the above. Sorry for being rash, I get testy when people hint at the diabetic = fat equivalence, for obvious reasons.
Yeah, it is pretty much known as locations are known. Is this even serious question?
The Elephant in the Room?
Can I download GitHub repos and have user search the code over the web?
I am unable to find any code search engine on the web. I tried searchcode.com and all I get is some json that says it didn't find my search terms even though I used simple terms including their examples.

I was thinking of creating my own online code search free service by downloading repos from Github and indexing the code. Anyone knows if this not illegal?
Court sentenced Pastor to death by hanging
The other angle is that firing people means businesses lose organisational knowledge. Even in relatively low skilled jobs, replacing your workforce means you'll spend a lot of money on retraining or lost efficiency. Keeping workers on the payroll means you have a much better chance of rehiring your experienced employees.

Incidentally the same is true for companies: keeping structurally healthy businesses afloat means society doesn't have to deal with the loss of organisational knowledge.

The different approaches taken by the US and Europe might reflect priorities in the respective societies.

On the other hand, the US did spin up a payroll program, which seems to just have been rather unsuccessful, with lots of money going to big businesses. So this may just the effect of a less competent government.
I don’t understand how they raised so much money.

Because “disrupting” is the Silly Valley code word for “ignoring regulations”. And all VCs know it.

Having said that:

They will provide the employees with two months’ worth of severance pay, keeping those affected on the company’s health insurance for the rest of the year, dedicating a recruitment team to find those affected new job opportunities, and allowing the employees to keep any company equipment such as computers.

Many firms would not have done that, so credit (no pun intended) where it’s due.
That is an interesting project. And looks like they beat me to Solid name by a few years. I usually refer to my project as SolidJS. But thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Oh yes, without any problems. And the cost shouldn't be exaggerated, in particular compared with the costs of doing nothing at all to reduce CO2 emissions.
I'm not impressed with the concept of the website but your comics are really good. Even excellent. No contract yet?
Not the coolest, but the one I enjoyed working on was a project to port Mortal Kombat: Dead Alliance game from GBA to a puny(but interesting) linux mobile phone. The linux phone had no graphics hardware acceleration where as GBA has. And I am no graphics expert, I am a generalist software engineer and there was no support or documentation* of the original source code and platform so it was super fun ;)

* Don't ask me why, there were some business reasons.
Sorry, but that is just nonsense. VSCode is running on plain Electron in this case. There is no "bypasses chrome" magic going on here.
Problems Faced by Amazon,Google,Facebook,Netflix
What is the problem Amazon is trying to solve

What is the problem Google is trying to solve

What is the problem Facebook is trying to solve

What is the problem Netflix is trying to solve
Agreed, unbiased news is an purple unicorn. Unbiased news is a person who has never had a racist thought in their life.

Sure there are different degrees of bias, some sources are definitely biased to the point of being far to much work to see through the bias, but others reliably have decent articles amongst their less decent ones. And who’s to say that the articles I feel are decent aren’t just the ones that most alight with my biased views.

Unbiased news is not physically possible. Holding out for it is to hold out for something that is literally impossible to happen.
Or was it "T for torus"? Seems a pretty bad choice, unless there was context that it was always names or something.
Does the game Queers in Love at the End of the World have an influence on your website? You mentioned your audience is very LGBT. This, combined with the "time is running out" feeling of your website, made me think of that game immediately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queers_in_Love_at_the_End_of_t...
The End of May
E-scooter startup Beam raises $26m in Series A round
Last donation dictates the charity that gets the money and resets the timer
Germany has a similar concept in Winter, it's called Fasching. From 11.11 on everything absurd and stupid is allowed. But different to Japan it's not much needed anymore. Germany is an extremely liberal country now (after WW1) and Japan still one of the most illiberal and strict. It got a big better in the 90ies in the labor market, but it's still extreme.
#5 is invaluable.

"Hacker" or "tinkerer" mindset is very helpful. When hiring, especially at the entry level(s), those who hacker/tinker outside of their job usually standout and have a better understanding of how all the "things" we work with as Engineers connect because they are out there trying/failing outside of their 9-5.

The challenge with "hackers" is learning how to unplug, so make sure to develop skills/interests that are completely unrelated to "work".
Depends on personality too, I guess.

I finish projects when they're for work. Or at least, I stay focused.

My own hobby projects are more fulfilling to me, but I often put them aside for long periods - sometimes years - because I don't need to finish them to get pleasure out of
doing them, and it's much harder to stay motivated to finish
the often very boring parts when I don't have to.

But it feels good to finish things up too. I can push myself to do that for side projects,
but the time and energy it takes to get me motivated to do that when I don't have the
external pressure to motivate me is much harder.

If I "retire" I'll probably have to do a startup again to have some of that pressure...
It's easier than you might expect not to need to scale beyond what a 2017 OS can handle with a process per dynamic request.
Are there any video games which simulate sieges like the one at Helms Deep - Kind of like Command and Conquer for sieges?
Is your MacBook running slow? Easy home fix to Kernel_Task CPU usage on macOS
Is your MacBook Pro running slow? Is your Kernel_Task using CPU at a high level? There are a few things we can do at home to try to resolve the issue. This test was done on Macbook Pro 13-inch, early 2011 with macOS High Sierra installed and worked 100% perfectly
Can you use react components with it? All the libraries of beautiful components are the main reason why I use react. Like I know you can but with cross component comms and stuff.

Does the state thing have the same gotchas as react hooks? Not a big fan of how that's impl'd in react.
I think the word you're after is latency, because scalability isn't the issue. CGI-hosted web apps tend to use fronting HTTP caches plus memcache-like distributed caches or RDBMSs for app data once a request has actually resulted in a process being spawned. Historically, what's slow about pure CGI/process-per-request architectures are dynamic language runtimes that need to parse the entire CGI implementation code for each request (like old mod_php/mod_perl). That source of slowness can entirely be eliminated by using natively compiled CGIs. IMO FastCGI, or any other architecture inviting huge long running userland processes without GC, always end in robustness problems, memory fragmentation and grave security issues due to lack of process isolation, and still have about the same overhead as process creation in process-per-request architectures. What may help is a way to supply CGI params (PATH_INFO, QUERY_STRING, etc.) not via environment variables, but via eg. sockets, such that a number of pooled CGI processes can be started ahead of time, before a request is coming in.
Weird take. I've been programming for 40 some years. I don't do it full time, trading time for $ anymore, but I still do it to write tools for my business pretty much every day. Cuz it's fun.
Understanding Regular Expressions once and for all [PART 3]
It is superpower when you know where and when to use it for benefit.

That is pretty much opposite of autism, where the person is using it randomly and often to personal loss.

> If you're wrong, the backlash prevents much damage and everyone learns something "new".

Backslash gets autistic bullied in retaliation. Often by people who perceive autistic to be bully and feel righteous in "self defense".

> In many cases, the boundaries are self-sabotage and immaturity, ie. org silos.

I meant personal boundaries. The set of limits healthy people impose on themselves and the world around them. They define responsibilities, what’s acceptable treatment and what isn’t. How you don't allow others to take advantage of you or manipulate you.

The boundaries are healthy and not immature at all. People who dont have them end up being treated badly and prime target for narcissists and such.
It took a moment of thinking to decide which of "literal CGI script" or "lambda function" you were attributing "language/platform/dependency freedom" to.

I would've attributed them to CGI.
But it’s been such a long since browsers were first invented and they have changed to accommodate for web apps. Chrome, safari, Firefox et al today are far more capable than the browsers of old, and they do so because the overwhelming majority of users, virtually all of them want web applications.

As for the spaghetti code yes, it can be, but it doesn’t have to. I’m not gonna say it’s beginner friendly, but the software React is meant to be used for it’s not for beginners either
They don't know how they do it because they delegate it to specialized hardware. You have specialized hardware too but your brain has repurposed it to other tasks. You have to train yourself to do social interaction, and you can get pretty good at it. The people who have it implemented in hardware, however, unconsciously employ a series of tests to determine whether you're ingroup or outgroup. Some of these tests are timing-based and you will flunk if you cannot produce the correct social response at the correct time. Difficult to do unless you're hardwired with their ingroup's form of social programming.
well, they have for early versions of msdos[1], though probably anything less than 3.3 only has historical value to anyone.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
It would be much harder to maintain homogeneous artificial gravity so I imagine if/when it is invented, it will look like waves creating centers of higher gravity and lower gravity underneath each deck, making you feel like you're riding on a bumpy road instead of walking straight.

``'-.,_,.-'``'-.,_,.='``'-.,_,.-'``'-.,_,.='``
I just started Permanent Record, by Edward Snowden. I thought it was going to be more tech-heavy, but, at least the start, seems to be more on the memoirs side.
This SolidJS project already has more legs/traction than that's ever going to have.
That's true but if you're going to disagree you have to be presenting your own argument and be ready to genuinely convince them. Too many slightly autistic computer science students would just go on a tirade against the thing the other person said without arguing for anything else.
I know the NATO phonetic alphabet, but still don't use it. It confuses the hell out of people, especially in other languages.

I also tend to forget letters, leading to something like "bravo uniform xylophone"
My question is how is destroying small businesses and disrupting the lives of innocent people in your own community protesting cops? If anything, they created jobs for the police. And they've caused people that otherwise would support them to not support them (except out of fear for their lives).
What is tone of voice? Any basic primers for the autistic?
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The basic notion of program as theory fits into what I personally stumbled upon recently on my own. Notably, expanding on it, I like to see every execution of a program as an Experiment - in that it may support or invalidate the Theory (by manifesting bugs/undesired behaviors). I'm happy to see I'm not the first one to think of this idea. However, I am not necessarily convinced by the main claim the article seems to make based on it, that the Theory cannot be resurrected from the code of the program + documentation. I think it may be very hard, and depend a lot on many factors (quality of code, docs, the resurrecting team, their time, and as suggested, access to the domain where the program is used), but it may still be possible to a huge extent. I believe some sentences used by the author actually provide hints in support of this claim. Also, in other sciences like math or physics, albeit not easily, knowledge/theory transfer through writing can be done, or at least helped significantly.
With user namespaces you can get different uids inside the container. They are usually mapped to something above 65535, in blocks of 65535, according to /etc/subuid. When you run as rootless on podman with uid=1000, you end up at 66535, or 1000 above your start range in /etc/subuid, for example. This is what NFS/GPFS doesn’t like. Locally, in other file systems on the node, it’s fine.

When you run as uid=0 in same the container, you are actually mapped to your uid, since the range starts to be applicable for uid=1. If you can stay as root, you can write to NFS/GPFS just fine.

The issue with this is that lots of available containers have moved away from using things as root. For example, you couldn’t start the vanilla redis container with a data directory on NFS for snapshots because redis runs as user 999.
I still use them. I had to make a few binary and multi class classification models in NLP and while Transformers models gave nice results, it was impossible for me to use them long term.

Why? Because data were confidential, I could not use the Cloud to get a nice GPU, and I needed almost one model per enterprise. Training DistilBert for 3 epochs was like 12 hours and it was a domain where data/concept drift happen often which means re-training was mandatory on weekly basis, at least.

After some feature engineering, I was able to get almost the same performance (<1% difference) with a model that was able to train in less than 5 minutes and could be use in production easily.

I love the fact that SVM, at least in scikit-learn, have a built-in early stopping mechanism. Really handy.
As long as your external actions and your underlying goals are in harmony there is no dishonesty.

Look at it like this:

I have a friend.

Friends try to do good things for each other.

My friend seems different today than they are usually.

They are sad.

My friend likes getting flowers.

I want them to be happier.

I will say something nice and buy them a flower.

It cheered them up a bit.

I will ask how they are, because I notice that other people do that for their friends and it helps.

On the one hand you could say, hey that's calculated manipulation. Which it kind of is and that sounds negative and dishonest.

But there is nothing dishonest about it. It's something many people might do without even thinking about which is why it seems odd to spell out as a rational process. But if you don't get it intuitively, you may have to resort to a rational process to figure out how to cheer your friend up.
That’s a terrible analogy. Obviously they’re more at risk of dying a violent death and that’s why they need to pay more
I've been through SVM explanations before and I always get to the part where they start talking about kernels and the logic seems recursive. ie: if your data isn't linearly separable, let's choose a kernel that matches the shape of the data, and like magic it's now separable. But guess what, the reason I'm doing machine learning is I don't know the shape of my data. If I knew that, and if there was actually a simple transformation, I would just transform it in the first place and use a linear model. So it seems like a bit of a bait and switch. Is there some part of this that can automatically select a transformation in a similar manner to tuning hyper parameters in a neural net?

Would love it if anybody would explain this to me :-)
WILCO.
FYI: there was a powerful, contagious flu in SE Asia (outside China) as early as Dec. 15 that was probably corona.

If you're in Jakarta, what time did you get sick, and were there any other reported flu types in late 2019 or early 2020?
Govt is 100% funded from the free market
Organisations have a culture that flows down from the top.
A&O’s Fuse Incubator Returns with Legal and FinTech Streams
People will probably just learn to ignore the meter. If mist showers are so good for the environment, they should install them into every home for free, or even pay people to do it. Too many times the environmental friendly solution costs $$$, pricing out the majority of people, so only wealthy and hip people could afford to use them and virtue signal on social media about it.
Inspired by this HN Post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23373982) if you press the link it will log you out, it is an exploit in the url
100% this. University exposed me to a much wider range of society than I’d ever encountered before. Those social interactions have been foundational to my career. The knowledge you learn in classes is secondary to the skills you learn living and working with people who are nothing like you. Embrace it.
No Hook Rules. Hooks are an amazing feat by the React team as they basically come so close to emulating the behavior here with running through top-down VDOM reconciliation. But they can't be nested etc.. This reactive approach is similar to MobX or Vue Composition API and doesn't have those constraints.

That being said for the same reason. No React Compat. The library doesn't work even remotely similar. People have used them together, but this is no straight swap in.
To be honest I think they're probably here, reading this, feeling bad about it, realising there's little they can do, so not saying anything.

Microsoft wrote the post acknowledging the copying, they know it was handled badly ... what else could they do at this point?

I hope their investigation finds out what went wrong. I might suspect it was:

- averro being their usual rubbish selves and ghosting candidates. Microsoft needs to massively improve their hiring processes.

- Clinick realising that the WinGet announcement should have credited AppGet.
You’ve just invented the next big thing: Serverful Architectures!
No we round the sum. So as long as your runs each month are lower than 10000 you pay nothing.
Re: trying to get friends to install Signal
Been there, but <rant>it got even harder as Signal makes it mandatory to set a PIN now which cannot be skipped, all because of future 'cloud backup' feature. It kinda stinks to me, as Signal bragged about not keeping almost any metadata, and now they want to keep backups. Whats worse, it seems there is no opt-out.<rant/>

Makes it hard to recommend Signal now.

As a Signal user, what do you think about Signal's recent development?
Amex actually did launch a startup targeted charge card that doesn’t require a personal guarantee, presumably to compete with Brex.

Brex’s gameplan though seems to be a full set of financial products targeted at startups that integrate well together, like per-employee charge cards, cash accounts, and revolving lines of credit. In that sense, they would start to look more like a streamlined and modernized (but riskier) SVB.
If your library/framework/etc's goal is to make life slightly better, just don't do it. This just looks like React.
So much facepalm. I keep forgetting this a WASP hive, and one of the bigger ones actually

Anyway, anyone with half a brain can see that logging risks are accidental and not due to combat and violent confrontation

Unless these are LOTR ents of course
I used at work as part of a NLP system to extract valid relations between named entities on context of politics. Since I didn't have labeled data before, I annotated some hundreds by myself, and because was not much label data SVM outperforms other models (compared with ANN, Gaussian Process, KNN, Naive Bayes, and others that I forgot). The best kernel for this approach was a Linear one.

The system has a compound set of machine learning models and parsers to finally extract from the government official public news (http://in.gov.br) documents with the following structured info:

- who was/will hired and fired (PERSON entity)

- which job role it will/did
have. (JOB entity)

- when will happens¹ (DATE entity)

Each entity is extracted individually using a custom trained NER and each sentence is passed to the Relation Extraction system, which is built using SVM. Features are concatenated word vectors² compound by the slices of the text in the form (entity1, entity2, before, between, after).

The system is being alive for almost two years. It produces great results. Just did need retrain the entity recognizer twice in all that time (built using spacy which uses a averaged perceptron).

The SVM part (Relation Extraction) was not retrained since the first day deployed and it still works gracefully :D

¹this info is on the text as natural lang, sometimes is different from the post date
²gensim.Word2Vec custom model trained on this corpus.
How much does the price increase , in how long a timespan, before its considered gouging? Who gets to decide?
someone said "Could you publish your source code thx“ lol
Not sure how closely it can simulate a siege at Helms Deep, but Stronghold back in 00s seemed to be quite good overall at depicting siege warfare.
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