skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If zoom doesn't encrypt, bad actors will use (or build) another app, that does. All they are doing is giving a free peek for Chinese or Russian spies.
Have you checked out www.habitaware.com? It's a wearable you can train to help you stop behaviors like that.
Lattice Moves to Cut Off Free Software FPGA Toolchains
"LARP-leak"
Fashion World Insights from Pocket Square Designers Sebastian Cruz Couture
Hermes – a Nix/Guix-like package manager for Linux
Is the problem of injecting CO2 solved to the point where we can do it at a rate of 36 gigaton per year, indefinitely? And how much energy does that cost?
Please read into the federal program. It's literally chat, no special TTY hardware required. You still haven't read the page I linked to.

>My personal experience hasn't really needed much in the way of intervention. It just makes phone calls more of a hassle than the average person.

It sounds like you're in denial of your disability or you're just lying. I suggest therapy either way to help cope with your condition.
#CancelLinus
At this point in the US most companies will refuse to say anything about you other than confirming that you worked there and what your title was. To do anything more is a potential litigation minefield.

Laws are getting tighter too. It’s now illegal in many parts of the US to ask you how much you made in your previous job when that used to be a fairly common question.
Upvote Collector.... implemented in Rust!
Honestly, I'm a real proponent of keeping a clean digital life. I practice 0 inbox, aggressively delete old documents, photos on a regular basis. If I haven't touched anything in a few years, the chances that I'm going to need it later on down the line are slim and so off they go.

Important documents like tax info etc, are obviously kept for the minimum legal period but then again they don't take up all that much space.

I've been doing this for around 10 years now and so far I have not had any problems with missing old stuff, _touchwood_.

Long story short, just delete stuff you don't need altogether, makes backups a breeze and frees you from worrying about hackers exposing your musings from when you were a teenager :)
New Video – “Planet Suicide” by Johnny the 'Hobby Artist'
Seems pretty useful, but isn't that basically a makefile?
The companies behavior was indeed poor, but I wonder how many people realize that laws that make it hard to reduce your workforce lead to this bad behavior.

Business needs change all the time, and being able to adjust your workforce in response is critical. Not being able to do that can be very costly for both the business owners and employees in the long run, or even the short run if the business has revenue or cash-flow problems.
Without sold proof this is not possible to circumvent, this maybe more dangerous than not.

Here’s an example of AI being able to identify a blurred face:
https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1267609424597835777

Identifying an individual is not just about a face, but number of factors that are much more complex and very hard to account for in a systematic way.

—-

If Signal is really concerned about allowing individuals to control the information they leak, they need to prioritize releasing the feature that will allow users to use Signal without providing phone numbers; one of their staff recently publicly stated this is finally likely to become a feature. Not to mention stop repeatedly asking for the user to provide their name, access to contacts lists, etc.
FWIW I approach it from a libertarian perspective (namely in this case it's my view that large groups have a tendency to go sour and become abusive). So naturally I'm at best ambivalent about unionization, but I find it fascinating and enlightening to see socialists grapple with the things they advocate.
Isn't this about the earlier Huawei proposal that got shot down somewhat harshly?
LSTMs typically forget after more than a few hundred tokens (vanishing gradients?), so while you could probably BPTT 2000+ steps these days, there wouldn't be much point.

> I'm sure somebody somewhere is working to make a transformer with recurrency. The neural turing machine mentioned in another comment is such an example but it seems to have been abandoned.

Yeah, there's a bunch of Transformer variants which either use recurrency, compression for long-range, or efficient attention approximation for windows so large as to obviate recurrency. The NTM hasn't been shown useless so much as alternatives like Transformers proven to be way easier to implement & scale up to get similar performance, but it pops up occasionally; a particularly surprising recent appearance was Nvidia's GameGAN which uses a NTM-like memory module for learning to model Pac-Man: https://nv-tlabs.github.io/gameGAN/
I don't think it's likely the group started with sarcasm, more like they excused themselves with /s and Hey it's only sarcasm
If you look at the code it's not that far fetched. The facial recognition uses "off the shelf" third party libraries and a gaussian blur isn't exactly rocket science.

I don't know how much work goes into making a new Signal release but it terms of raw coding it's like two days of work.
If it's said in a kindhearted way with a twinkle in your eye, people usually get it. On the other hand, I stopped trying to please everyone years ago.
I also had bad experiences with Revolut including a completely unresponsive customer support.

More importantly, what alternatives are available? Ideally:

- has an API

- reasonably priced or free

- works in EU
I believe so:

* Transferwise has been profitable for a little while now.

* Their pricing if fairly transparent and they're always upfront when they need to increase some fees. I could be wrong, but it looks like they're trying to stay competitive but not take part in a race to the bottom.

* They haven't been trying to recruit new customers as aggressively as Revolut.

* Their MasterCard is a little bit more lenient with offline transactions, which can sometimes be a problem with Revolut.

* On the other hand, the mobile app is a bit bland. It does the job, but the UX isn't as good.
Is this anything like "org mode" for Vim?

I am not an org mode user, but I've heard people gush over it.
It doesn't seem implausible. They're generally outdoors during both operation and storage so they'd get most of the day's sunlight. Though in cities they'd spend a lot of time in buildings' shadows so they'd probably get infrequent direct sunlight.
In Muslim countries, people who switch religions to/from Christianity have to change their first names if its the name of prophet/saint in the other religion.
You should not impute beliefs on others when you have not read their arguments. I would recommend reading this: https://selfawaresystems.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ai_driv...
Well I had "we know you've been out of school over 20 years, but we really need to know which exam boards you did your age-16 English literature exam with before we'll interview you for this science degree requiring position ... that we previously employed you for".

Thankfully I quite enjoy hunting down lost information but I was not impressed with the HR personnel in that one.
Your question seems to be: "Why don't the police do their job?"

I think you may be missing the main point of the protests.

People are out in the streets in order to bring attention to the fact that, in general, police have been doing a bad job.
While in "in the last few decades" you could dream about owning a computer, today you have a supercomputer in your pocket that you can use to complain about the remainder of unresolved issues of our imperfect human society. And we are reading your messages from all the continents in the world. Think! before talking about "globalization" as inherently "bad".
What about the case were someone leaves because the opposite user is trolling? I've thought about it for a minute now, but I really can't think of a great way to implement it without it being abused.
Usernames ending in 88 is another one. Or maybe those are all really just Dallas Cowboys fans.
1. They don't keep an air of uncertainty on purpose most of the time, generally it's because a lot of businesses are uncertain and a lot of the time product/project managers don't have a good idea of what's going on!

2. Again this could be incompetence rather than cunning

3. Most great bosses and a lot of rubbish ones aren't great with positive feedback. Have you read Steve Job's biographies or Shoe Dog? Not much praise there. One guy I really respected once told me I wasn't a great programmer, but I got the job done and that was probably the nicest thing he said about anyone...I was pretty happy with that!

I agree with all of your points, but maybe not your reasoning behind them.
> Programs are not designed to be readable, they are designed to solve a problem

I assume you've not had much experience with any legacy code where: if statements span hundreds of lines, variables have cryptic names which mean nothing to anyone but the original author (who is gone), and a distinct lack of comments.

I'm in the middle of such a project, and the lack of readability is severely inhibiting my ability to move forward. In fact, I've had to write software to parse this source code, just to follow the flow of logic.

This might be an extreme example, but it highlights how important readability is.
I mean the car I have(volvo phev) currently has a deal where Volvo pays me back for the 1st year of electricity used by the car, they do it by having the car automatically upload the number of kWh used to Volvo servers, then they will pay me back based on the number of kWh I've used during that year.

I don't see why something similar couldn't be done for taxes - the car keeps track of kWh used and you just pay tax based on how much you used. Obviously, that runs into certain immediate problems - like, what if you drive abroad? Normally you'd simply buy fuel while abroad, so therefore contribute to taxes there - but with this system this wouldn't work anymore.
VizPol takes a cue from apps to help journalists identify unfamiliar symbols
They didn’t do “next to nothing.” They used a cluster-based approach through their public health center network, that was put in place to combat TB in the 30s. Turns out, that was pretty effective at combatting COVID.

> In 1935, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, Japan opened its first public health centre (PHC) in Tokyo. The country then put in place a programme that led to the building of another 187 nationwide. They survived the war and the occupation. But the thing of note is that before and after the war, their priority, says Taniguchi, was always to “stay watchful all the time” for the emergence of TB cases. If one was found, they were tasked with rushing to the patient's residence, checking for clusters and sterilising the house
Seventy-five years on, 469 PHCs are in operation across the country, with each manned, on average, by 64 medical professionals, including one to two licensed doctors. They still locate clusters, track links and conduct tests. It is this “accumulated wealth of expertise, rarely found elsewhere” that has made the difference. Japan has not had to rely on mass testing strategies because it’s health care history had already left a cluster-crushing strategy embedded in its system

https://moneyweek.com/economy/global-economy/601264/cluster-...
If that gets you riled up, just wait until you hear how much commercial freight is transported over the interstates!
> What do you mean, that Apple should sell Colemak keyboards? I agree there, but it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation.

You're right, it's chicken and egg. But Apple have a history of making a bold stand around product features.

Phones without keypads, phones without audio jacks, laptops without CDROM, laptops without USB-A.

If someone is able to ween the world off it's QWERTY habit - it's Apple. It doesn't need to be Workman or nothing. It could be as simple as offering Workman as an alternative replacement, signalling a shift toward Workman as the future. Then one day, probably before everyone is ready, no more QWERTY MacBook. Baptism by fire is the only way, in the end.
I'm not sure I understand your counterpoint analogy. Regardless, I take issue with your second statement on the blind person asking for help if needed. Minorities do ask for help, I think it's disingenuous to imply that minorities have never requested assistance in being treated more like the majority. I think many times we push responsibility for achieving equality onto those who are treated unequally, the old 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps'. Martin Luther King Jr: "it's a nice thing to say to people that you oughta lift yourself by your own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he oughta lift himself by his own bootstraps."
Openstreetmap Foundation and GraphHopper: GraphHopper Routing Engine 1.0 Release
Do you think instances of anxiety are inherently irrational or unhealthy? I know of the effect of sustained stress on people, but I was trying to bring to light potential positive effects of anxiety bringing clarity or insight into ways to relive that same anxiety. It seemed like your post was something born out of such a thing.

I've encountered so many younger people in tech, making $200K+ in places that support lifestyles that need less than a quarter of that for comfort, who complain about their jobs and the golden handcuffs that keep them there. They seem to be locked in much stranger and fantastical anxieties than those I understand.
I've spent around 34 years writing code so far. My last project was an online order system for a lunch restaurant. To get an idea what kind of problems they're dealing with, I started by working two weeks in the restaurant.

To my surprise I found that I actually enjoy delivering food more than writing code. As long as the customers get the food they ordered delivered in time, everyone is happy. And once I'm done, I'm done. No more lying awake at night going back and forth over some design decision and worrying about consequences from choices already made.

It's not as mentally stimulating, and I earn way less money, but I'm finding it harder and harder to find the motivation to go back to writing code.
I dont understand how these new startup banks can stay in business. Previously banks could make money on the deposits in check accounts, now with negative rates they can only lose. Even big European banks are slowly dying.
Can someone explain? From what I understand, they don't plan to replace TCP/IP. The body of text merely states it has been a staple of internet protocols, somehow saying it's been even further proven during covid-19.
Secrets Sprawl Across the Internet
Ask HN: Any good Agile user story(s) for learning?
but other countries are having worse results due to mismanagement by their authorities, and yet are not at the center of the public discourse.

I am inclined to agree with grandparent's comment: there is a lot of "we did better then them!" at play in the media.
The first URL doesn't seem to work, and the second URL brings to an "empty" project. Just to make sure -- maybe it's just me?
The Deutsche Post founded a company which develops and also sells electric vans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetScooter
Retaliation. As it happens for HK Protesters
Consider the moive "Silence of the Lambs": Lecter was able to get his cell neighbor to swallow his own tongue just through his powers of persuasion.
Your local representative is spending 90% of their day talking to lobbyists who pay to talk to them and doing fundraising calls with rich people.

People press the button on a machine in lots of countries, that doesn't necessarily make them a republic. The practical reality of the situation is they are spending every day NOT representing people as much as possible. This isn't an abstract thought experiment in political science definitions, this is the actual reality we are living under.
As Orwell said: "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - just long enough not to kill someone who is in perfectly good health, but possibly long enough to kill someone with reduced lung function."
Same. I'm sure they're seeing a lot of traffic just out of support, curiosity, etc. Definitely would be interesting to know how they distinguish that from an attack.
> No, the point here is that the fuzzer "caught" a bug in sqlite. The blog post mostly clears things up.

Could you explain what you mean? What bug is there in sqlite? What blog post are you referring to?

Via someone else in the thread, this was reported as a bug in LLVM, which was confirmed and is now fixed: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46194. In light of this, I wonder why you claim that this was a bug in sqlite.
Libsimdpp: Portable header-only zero-overhead C++ low level SIMD library
> I am amazed it took so long.

It didn't really. The European and Chinese markets are further along:

- Peugeot e-Expert: https://insideevs.com/news/423332/peugeot-electric-expert/

- Toyota Proace: https://insideevs.com/news/425503/toyota-proace-electric-15-...

- Opel Vivaro-e: https://int-media.opel.com/en/04-28-vivaro-e

- UPS Vans: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/29/uk-electric...

- Citroën ë-Jumpy: https://www.electrive.com/2020/05/12/citroe%cc%88n-e%cc%88-j...

Some US ones:

- Workhorse C-Series: https://insideevs.com/news/404214/workhorse-deliveries-c-ser...

- Ford Transit: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/03/cars/ford-electric-transi...
Disclaimer: I work for GM, anything stated here is solely my own opinion.

I think competition is a great thing. There would be no Tesla without the EV1 (at least not as we know Tesla today). Likewise there would be no Volt PHEV without Tesla, no Bolt EV (My own opinion only).

My point is, the market reacts to what is put out there. There is almost no case where you can find a car without parallel from another company. You can certainly find better and worse, cheaper and more expensive, greater or fewer features, etc; but rarely does the market leave the field open for one player to run wild.
Hrm, yes, though flagged.

(I'd searched the FB link, didn't see the LinkedIn post.)
We need another rule for when the ironic goatfuckers have been taken over by actual goatfuckers and the latter are now ironically pretending to be the former.
>but there's an actual anti-fascist movement happening as well.

Movement as in organized movement, or just more people identifying as antifa?
How much does it cost to run your website
Webion is a cloud-based website builder that allows anyone to build and host custom websites just by defining the user interface.
C++17 If Statement with Initializer
here the beeswax recreation by the archaeologists that appears in the article: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/recre...

to me it looks like a guy that went on a dismembering spree? or maybe someone showing us his collection of weird antlers? or a guy attacking wifi signals with a sabre?
I also use offlineIMAP, but I find that every few months it freezes and needs a kill -9 to exit. My current workaround is killing it once per week and letting my service manager restart it.
Their have been various articles from credible sources over the last year or two making it clear that they are a really shitty company. You would be crazy to trust them with either your money or your career.
Dokuwiki for the overview of all projects, instructions for setting up and "how-to-do"'s with links to github code. Each github repo has their own description codes of course.
I have a 900GB FLAC music library, because cloud music services can disappear tracks down the memory hole from the middle of your playlists your now-dead loved ones made for you years ago[1], and also because they simply don't have a lot of the latest/newest interesting/underground music in their cloud catalogs.

Also:

nostromo:~/Pictures$ du -sh LightroomMasters
1.5T LightroomMasters
nostromo:~/Pictures$ find LightroomMasters -type f | wc -l
207655
nostromo:~/Pictures$ ls -1d LightroomMasters/* | sort -n | head -1
LightroomMasters/1997
nostromo:~/Pictures$

I've been taking photographs of events in my life for a long time, and I look at them regularly, which brings me joy. Sometimes I send loved ones photos I took of them 3, 5, 10, 15 years ago that they've never seen, and it brings them joy as well.

There are different paths, and digital minimalism is only suitable for a subset of the population. Many of us derive immense value from having high fidelity records of our lives and the lives of those close to us.

Also, if you store your historical data for a long time, you can do super cool shit like this: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-ana...

[1]: In case you can't tell, this happened to me.
Employment lawyers would salivate at a case like this
Sweden’s position is that the trolley in this set of choices is eventually going to roll over roughly the same number of people no matter which lever is pulled. The timing varies in different scenarios, not the total numbers.

It just appears that the numbers are worse for them because the scenario hasn’t fully played out yet in all countries, and they chose the lever that has them taking their hits early. Comparisons with other countries aren’t appropriate, they would say, until all trolleys have stopped rolling.

And they are choosing their strategy deliberately, because they think there are various benefits (including epidemiological ones) of this path.

>rather than just a few

No. It looks like just a few. But that’s a false conclusion, taken only because we are still in the early stages. Other countries will catch up to their numbers.
Mark Cuban's #1 Rule for Growth
A Picasso artwork was just sold for cryptocurrency
How proper is proper? You can write LaTeX for math in Markdown, getting simple prose and readable math at a loss in elegance but a big win in simplicity.

http://flennerhag.com/2017-01-14-latex/
The document in question is only accessible for ITU members, but I found an accessible source discussing Huawei's proposal: https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2020/discussio...

Personally, I would not trust anything Huawei produces because of their history of design flaws and bad software practices, as well as their ties to the Chinese government. However, I do see value in reworking some systems, such as BGP and DNS, which have been patched with optional additions to compensate for the trusting nature of its designers back when ARPAnet was small and contained little reason to execute hijacks of resources.

Protections for existing protocols are available though, so instead of reworking protocols and creating telecom-only protocols, perhaps enforcing certain features (BGP security, DNSSEC, etc.) for a provider to be able to name their service "5G" (or "6G" or whatever the next standard is) to make companies give a damn about security. The same tactic can also enforce proper filtering to prevent spoofed phone calls on the backbone that American wireless carriers seem to be so awful at.
You've gotta be kidding me. No, I'm not defending anything Trump has said on the platform, but I see FAR worse from many other people, the same people over and over, routinely, that goes unchecked.
Saying only criminals would want to cover their face is the equivalent of saying only criminals worry about privacy. The old "if you aren't doing anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about" argument. I've never looted a store in my life and I don't ever plan to but I still don't want images of my face stored in a police database or used in facial recognition software. Wanting to protect my right to privacy is not and cannot become a presumption of criminal intent.
Idea: since abstractions like functions exist in order to help you prevent bugs in sufficiently complex systems being manipulated iteratively, is the problem not that testing for correctness is bad form, but that the assignment wasn't sufficiently realistic for them to need the abstractions?