skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You replied to the question if they were intentionally picked from the crowd for being journalists. Not where they were located.
So what? We are developers, we are affected, we are making ourselves heard. We aren't our users (designer's motto).

It took me about 15 minutes to get my Android Phone infected by a malware by downloading just apps from Google Play. If Google is failing in such basic task for "ordinary people", all MS accomplishes is to annoy regular developers, making their apps "suspicious" to the public.
AI as a Movie Maker
You don't see the flaw in this line of thinking that if you solved what you suggest you just raise the bar and are left with exactly the same problem?
Works even in JSlinux.
https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=buildroot-x86-xwin.c...

Download old qemu.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e6UJcTC9FfwO20xzvcasTToPoaT...

Load into jslinux.
And execute the following commands in xterm.

gzip -dc qemu-0.9.1.tar.gz | tar xf - -C/

mkdir /dev/shm && mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /dev/shm

SDL_NOMOUSE=1 qemu -k en-us -m 4 pi.vfd

Necessary condition, Xorg must work with the fbdev driver.
I work in the speech recognition space and train my own models already. The existing open-source models aren't very good at noisy radio speech. I will specialize one of my models to this task once I have some data from the site.
Wayland Is Almost There
> But what really kills the argument is looking at how our medical professionals have stepped up and responded to COVID-19, putting their lives on the line every day, with utterly inadequate gear.

This is exactly an American hero obsession that is causing police problem. Everyone here : police, fire department, medical staff and so on have to be heroes.

From where I come, all doctors, lawyers, police or any other service provides are identified at best working for a pay or more commonly out there to rip off common people at first chance they get.

My US experience of doctors is not much better considering how much private, non-insurance covered treatment they "recommended" for my kid. It feels highly unlikely that they had my best interest at their heart.
If you want to maintain a historical record, shouldn't those tweets or whatever be archived using the presidential records act at the source?

This way a private company doesn't decide or is responsible what gets archived/deleted/censored/annotated but it always gets archived using what worked for every document produced by a president for decades.

I think you have a point of it being archived but I think you're wrong about who should archive it. At the moment the president tweets official policy (maybe debatable, but let's assume it is), so those tweets should fall under the presidential records act and be archived by the white house staff. Then it doesn't matter if they are later deleted by whatever social media company, or even if are censored or have a fact check attached to them. The original message is stored and kept. (well, at least in theory)
When I worked retail, employee theft was the big deal. From pocketing cash to a dock guy bringing up stuff for his buddies during busy times to the Theft Prevention team doing something to all get fired I think the employees did more damage than the shoplifters.

We didn’t have self checkout back then, though.
At some point Samsung flagship phones had world-writable /dev/mem
Civil liabilities go a long way. The bulk of the original civil rights lawsuits were civil suits stemming from constitutional violations.
> Because the sorted items are sorted, it's not necessary to examine each of them.

This is true, but I'm being pedantic and calling the quadratic form of insertion sort just "insertion sort", and the form that does a binary search on the sorted items "binary insertion sort".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_insertion_sort
Ah, yeah, that's less straightforward.

checks the docs

Looks like you could point it at IPFS "MFS" mount (Mutable File System) instead of whatever directory it's using now for its normal local storage media store (which I assume exists?), and that'd do the trick. Files stored in IPFS (so mirrorable through that, or whatever it is that you've got in mind) but appearing as ordinary files with normal names, so the normal file storage media store might manage to Just Work.

[EDIT] Incidentally MFS is exactly what I wished existed back when was kinda halfway considering using IPFS for my personal files. Been added since the last time I looked in on the project. Was too easy to "lose" files in IPFS otherwise. That sort-of fixes the problem, at least, provided the file tree can also be replicated pretty easily.
I have to admit I have no clue how to do that, any pointers?

I thought of utilising my 4 machines at home sometimes for such things and would hugely benefit from implementing this using standard tools.
That’s a great point. To your point, tackling the root of the problem should address the military hardware issue. I yield the point.
The article basically states that and addresses the value aspect.

"Whereas there are currently no results from randomised controlled trials to conclusively prove that vitamin D beneficially affects COVID-19 outcomes, there is strong circumstantial evidence of associations between vitamin D and the severity of COVID-19 responses, including death."

"Research like this is still exploratory and we need further trials to have concrete evidence on the level of vitamin D that is needed for optimal immune function."
Literally any accident where stopped traffic can be more dangerous than slow-moving traffic (such as any highway).

It's really not a strange concept and it's weird to me that you can't comprehend a first responder having a need to move a large, heavy, immobilized object.
there are recommended serum levels for B12: >200pg/mL for Europeans
Was there really a walkout?
According to jwz there wasn’t.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/06/everyone-at-facebook-is-qwh...

I am not defending Zuck, but it seems like the media is trying to paint a story about Facebook that is not.
Project Shield by Google
A Lean, (Ever)Green Machine: Website Tips for Small Shops
Loony Pyramids (aka icehouse pyramids) are another attempt at this sort of thing. They're just nestable, stackable pyramids in three shapes and several colors, but people have invented or adapted a hundred or so games for them.

They pair well with piecepack or playing cards.
Whatever the "end of the world" means, I don't think there will ever be a single thing we could point at and say "Yep, that was it. That was the end." I think it's like that saying that you can boil a crab by putting it in warm water and slowly raising the temperature without it even noticing until its death.
It's a wildly implausible assertion that there's no evidence for.

No...it's an entirely plausible assertion that there's no evidence for. That's why it's gained traction so easily. Biohazard accidents have happened before. There's a lab doing work with dangerous microbes in Wuhan. That means plausible.

Conspiracy theories thrive on the tiny bit of truth buried in all the crap. If you dismiss the tiny bit of truth out of hand, it just becomes proof to the conspiracy that you're lying/deluded/part of the cabal.

highly trained researchers working according to strict protocols

To turn this back on your demand for evidence...how do you know? Is it plausible that someone was careless? Poorly trained? The protocols weren't as strictly adhered to as they should have been? Plausibility.

The Trump administration is acting extremely recklessly by spreading this unsupported conspiracy theory.

Well, duh. But you don't fight back with equally poorly considered knee-jerk retorts.
I think any platform that lets people post things without sufficient moderation runs the risk of spreading hate. I'm not familiar with how Mastodon works though.
Proxy Forces Undermine Conventional Strategy
Magnetic fields force new perspective on Milky Way's black hole
You will see racism where you want to. I heard the use of thugs and didn't think about racist context. Most of the rioters aren't black people, if videos I've been watching are any indication. Consider that you may want to take everything as a bad faith expression to fit what you want to believe. I may take things in good or neutral faith to do the same. I consider that. I hope you do as well.
This is going to be very dependent on location. I've commuted on various 20-40 mile stretches of highway for the past decade and it's rare to see debris for more than a day or two before someone cleans it up. And I've seen a car "engulfed in flames" exactly one time in my entire adult life.
$100 USD
Ask HN: Any good way to access ICPSR3160.DS003? (Project on Policing Neigh.)
In light of widespread concerns about police behavior, I'm interested in exploring the data referenced in several papers exploring "use of force" (e.g. The Effect of Higher Education on Police Behavior by Rydberg and Terrill). I think the encounter-level data is ICPSR3160.DS003 but please correct me if you think otherwise.

As far as I can tell, the data is secured at the ICPSR as "restricted data". I totally understand that some anonymization is needed to protect the officers, but does anyone have an idea of how to access this encounter-level data? The project authors apparently didn't post an anonymized version of the data. I don't have a commission at a university nor a doctorate, so apparently I'm not eligible to Apply for Restricted Data...
Given that its closer to end of quarter, I would think erasing even a couple percentage points off the top line revenue is "big enough". I don't know enough about FB financials however to know. Hoping some FB employees chime in...
Dunno if I'm a hacker but the only censorship I have issue with is censorship backed by government force.

As private companies, Facebook and Twitter can do what they like. Likewise people are free to

- use their services (or not)
- complain about their policy choices and/or advocate for different choices
- make personal judgements about the people who choose to work there
If we're being honest, and I sure hope we are, several accounts have been banned for more minor infractions. Trump has shown his narcissism time and again; this isn't opinion. The mere fact that he refused to use the official White House social media handles and insisted on using his own personal ones, allows him to carry his influence/reach well beyond his term as president. That is not an accident.

He's flouted federal rules and guidelines and now we're debating whether private companies are allowed to operate as they always have?
Cooking Numbers
We develop cross-platform projects in an environment where Windows is a second-class citizen but accounts for the vast majority of our user base. WSL2 is a really nice stepping stone towards having both operating systems treated equally.
Then that is what the media should be focusing on. It is not a matter of paying attention, whenever I hear something Trump in Europe (like now from the BBC) it is about one of his Twitter gaffes and not about the issues you mention.

Why do Facebook people walk out over a tweet and not over these issues? That is what is mind-boggling.
Ancient DNA is offering clues to puzzle of Dead Sea scrolls, say experts
Why is this flagged? If it contained misinformation it would be useful to know what.
Should the very talented and accomplished progressive rock band Isis change their name? I don’t think so.
I guess, I hadn't heard of Acorns before. Thanks for the tip.
Any surprises with the uptick in traffic? Do you see increased usage ahead of news-reports of protests?

Also: Thank you! I've been listening to Broadcastify both at the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak and yesterday, to track nascent looting <2 km from our home.
Astronauts ring opening bell for Nasdaq from space station
I believe the use of cannabis in this particular ritual is referred to as the ancient practice of suffumigation. This practice goes fairly far back in the literature.

> Suffumigation, by definition, means "to fumigate from below." This practice involves herbal incenses burned for magical purposes and is used in Ceremonial Magic to attract certain spirits. When an object is consecrated, it is held in the smoke of the incense, thus suffumigating it.

(The Witch Book: The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, Wicca, and Neo-paganism)
> The problem isn't the rent.

Yes and no. I'm making free software for the world, not running a business, and I don't appreciate getting shaken down by a megabillion$ corporation.
I hate to break it to you, but the Boston Tea Party that conservatives were so fond of hijacking for their own partisan purposes destroyed over a million US dollars (in today's money) in other people's property. YOU are comfortable sitting there and "defending property" because it props up a system that benefits you.
SAP and Deutsche Telekom -- two large IT corporations -- are the main developers. I don't know why the government doesn't hold the copyright, maybe it should. They've released it as free software, though (Apache license).
Got it, thanks. Good luck!
Location: Seattle, Wa
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: C++, python, Javascript, Express, React
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oUy-0CH2bjawugDEsztz0l5QoUPmOCuu/view?usp=sharing
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levistoddard/

I've been working for two years after getting a Bachelors degree at the University of Washington. I'm an ambitious software developer with many years ahead of me.

I am interested in almost any challenging software development space, but particularly back-end web development. I also have an large interest in robotics and compilers.
I do not have an interest in almost anything ad-related. I don't like ads :)
> The OS and apps can't tell if you're eligible for an update because they don't know if your hardware/drivers will run the new version, because you won't tell them what hardware/drivers you're running now.

Why do you need to give Microsoft a bunch of details about your hardware for this? Why can’t Microsoft publish info about which hardware/drivers are supported in the new update, and then your machine determines whether or not it’s compatible?
The argument about sexism is, I think silly. That's unless there is a peer reviewed paper showing otherwise, this is science after all.

But the copyright argument makes sense. Debian is very strict in that regard. Going as far as to rename Firefox to Iceweasel to avoid issues with the brand and logo. I wonder why it is back to Firefox btw, did the license change?
I work in molecular biology research, and I think this is a great article that strikes at the heart of many problems in the field. I can't comment on the climate change stuff, although I wish he hadn't included it because it was almost certain to distract people from the overall point.

The problem is that there are no remotely comprehensive, predictive, and mathematical models of what goes on inside of cells. It is pure empiricism: you run an intervention, and see what happens. Write it up in a paper.

All well and good, except there are no viable models of what is happening inside that are predictive in the sense of being able to know what an intervention will do until you test it. We really need that if we want to develop treatments for molecular diseases that are more than marginally better.

The Santa Fe Institute, systems biology people, and others were working hard on this problem at the turn of the century, but progress has stalled. It's too hard. We don't know how to do it. A new "mathematical epistemology" that could handle this problem would be a huge step forward, if it is possible.

I can see why the author would extend this idea to things like economics or climate science. The thought in systems research was that, perhaps, different fields share similar underlying "complex systems" mechanisms, and if we can solve the problem in one area, we may have insights for how to do it elsewhere.
> At the end of the day your computer is no different from an expensive space heater. Might as well mine some crypto with it.

Or, you know, you could just turn the computer off while you're not actively using it. It saves you money and does a small little good thing for the environment too.
Why DC is different? Bellevue and Kirkland in Seattle expected visitors with AR-15s.
I suppose that depends on your tolerance for drama and legal cartooney. One of my former employers and a three letter agency would go after people publicly disclosing such things and the people always backed down. The cooperation between nations can blur the lines depending on what nation you are in. That said, I am not a lawyer so it is probably best to get their input rather than mine.
A Constructive Look at TempleOS [2015]
I agree with your assessment of the situation. I also agree with getting rid of posts that incite violence.

I am just concerned about whether it grows over time into eroding away the ability to speak on the internet.

This is just one thing. We don't even have any visibility in the true special sauce - the algorithms that determine what to show to people. Do you see the problem with this or you think that people who are responsible for these algos are good samaritans and they don't need any public oversight?
How much clearer can you get that the police are committing property destruction and using it to blame protesters? Like there is no justification for the police doing this outside of using to make their own narrative so that they can bust some heads at the next protest.
> Federal government's purpose is international relations, trade, and defense.

Ahh but the idea of defense runs straight into the chicken and the egg of public health. Correct me if you disagree with me, but if anything, the ability of COVID to have completely overwhelmed our medical infrastructure and overrun our country and really the world has made me deeply question whether we as a country have adequate defenses to any possible bioweapon attack. If we can't muster a good response to this, what happens if a modern version of smallpox or Spanish Flu hits? I mean, Congo has just been hit by a second Ebola outbreak.
Could we run the audio stream through YouTube livestream and enable caption?
"I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941 a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 8, 1941

If FDR posted that, should Twitter and Facebook filter it out? It is a clear call for violence. Or does it matter why violence is being called for?

It's hard to construct a curation rule so clear that it can't, easily, turn on political calculus.
You can create shell corporations anonymously where the only thing that ties you to the company is possession of the bearer bonds
I haven't read the article, but I believe it will say something like, the continual investment is necessary in order for the transactions to be irreversible (settlement assurance). I'm sure there are some forgotten altcoins out there still chugging along, but it probably does not take much money to hire sufficient hash power to double-spend those alts, or even re-write their history.

For as long as bitcoin miners fight, tooth and nail, to hash incrementally more efficiently than their competitors, it will be prohibitively expensive for most actors to reverse transactions.
A very cool project that has had some success is https://althea.net/. Perhaps you could start a network in your area.
> It is very easy to (legally) buy military grade weapons in most states.

I would love to know what you mean by "military grade" because by every definition I can think of this is so wrong it's either a statement with no bearing in reality, or an intentional lie.
There's actually a book about unreleased games, written by Frank Gasking, just about to come out (taking pre-orders as of today).

Myself and other team members were interviewed by the author, some time back, about one of the unreleased games I worked upon (Chips Challenge, NES).

[I have no affiliation with this publication, apart from being interviewed]

https://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/products/the-games-that-werent
Rioting and looting don't generally kill people. Cops do kill people, time and time again, and they usually get away with it. That's why it is absurd to equate the two.

"There was a consensus that what happened to George Floyd was an atrocity."

Who cares? Thinking something is an atrocity accomplished precisely jack shit. Peaceful protests get ignored or mocked. Police forces continue to get more militarized. Far right politicians, like the president, encourage violence from their bully pulpit. At a certain point, people need to respond. To not respond is to encourage those who seek to abuse power.
* no mobile contact tracing - lots of actual.

I'm not sure how much the mobile protocols would even help in protests. Don't you need proximity with someone for 30 minutes or so to be tagged a contact?
Call me a cynic, but I think that might be the desired intent; the main difference now being that there is the initial framing, which may the only true effect Twitter's policy may have, I think: you will approach the tweet differently if you only see it through that framing.

It will certainly be abused for much more ambiguous things if they continue to hold the policy. If they don't, then they've shown themselves to be political in motivation, which is not good for anyone. So it's a loss all 'round.
Please check out Firefox about:telemetry - that I believe is how it should be implemented so users don't freak out. There is nothing about me there. That is a simple way to help project.

I like this idea so much that I've found and opted-in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pkgstats
You make good point. From what I read here apart from medical professional or software developers, forget increment, no one really deserves the pay they are getting now.
> With that kind of money they can pretty much bypass any measure an OS manufacturer could reasonably put in place

Exactly. That's why this should just stop. Because it hurts without helping.
Ask SFBay: Where are you moving to?
Excluding some (e.g. OpenAI) papers that have limited their released results for ethical purposes, why would the authors generally not include their code?

I remember going through a digital image processing course in uni where the final project was to implement a paper and check the results, and I remember that our results, when coded were different from the paper’s authors (although I can’t remember if it was because we didn’t code it like they did or if their results were not to be trusted).

It’s just so frustrating and borderline disingenuous to publish results, mention bits of code, but not include the whole code.
There are sometimes non-legal reasons to be careful.
> Free speech is overrated. Speech can be dangerous and therefore we need to regulate it on every level.

I know you're being sarcastic, but this is kinda true. Prior to social media, speech was regulated at every level though a hive-mind of individual choices about what to disseminate and the fact that broadcasting was expensive enough that systems of peer review (of the speakers or their works) had to be implemented to access it out of necessity. Social media took the peer review out of broadcasting, which does not seem to have been a positive development in many respects.

The speech part of free speech is overrated, and the editorial function of the broadcasting peer review systems is greatly underrated.
There is no basis in American jurisprudence for a restriction on “shouting fire in a crowded theatre.” The quote is from the majority opinion in Shneck va US, which was overturned and the same Chief Justice wrote both opinions.

Speech not protected by the 1st amendment includes: obscenity, fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats, and commercial speech such as advertising.

Note that incitement is VERY narrowly defined.