skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The discussion is about businesses that suffer losses from being vandalized or robbed. No one can run a viable business in that kind of environment.
I don’t use GA on my own websites, or analytics cookies, or tracking pixels, or whatever. But I sometimes use goaccess on my server logs which tells me the number of unique visitors (based on unique IPs) and such. Whether they visited in private sessions or not, of course. So I guess in a sense I’m “tracking” them through logged IP addresses, but it’s completely orthogonal to whether incognito mode is on.
> they have unprecedented ability to forecast future events.

Per Matt Levine's "anything can be securities fraud if you don't tell your shareholders about it", then having the "unprecedented ability to forecast future events" and not informing your shareholders about it could be argued as securities fraud in court. Something to think about.
Obligatory post that even if heat may not slow the spread we know masks do.

Widespread mask usage is like compound interest. With it people get smaller viral loads, therefore shed less viral load, with their mask cutting that viral load down again for the next person.

We can kill this thing and it will be way easier than we think. We just need 80% of people to put other people before themselves: masks don't protect you but who you infect/don't infect
> Probably the single most effective thing to reduce police abuse in America would be to end the war on drugs and decriminalize drugs.

I agree 1000%. I wish more people would realize this.
Your proposal is for Google to abuse its monopoly positions to provide a better privacy experience for its properties than for others?
MinIO is like an S3 replacement: https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-gateway-for-s3.html
I find it very disappointing that the most reliably lucrative career arc for a programmer nowadays is to get hired by a tech giant and stay there as long as possible. And the second most is probably to go to work for a company that could get gobbled up by a tech giant.

I've made a career out of small startups, and I wouldn't trade it for a thing. On the other hand, if I'd gone to work for Amazon straight out of college, I'd probably have a boat by now.
Have you read anything about him that would suggest otherwise? I really haven't.

He's and entitled white kid whose success has only fueled is self importance and disconnect from reality.
Only certain types of work and usually very mundane work can be done with authoritarian culture. Note that creative people do not enjoy working in an authoritarian regime. Universities are an example of an anti authoritarian organization where creativity often flourishes.
He didn’t even try.
All Repositories:

Android repository:
https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-app-android-ch

iOS repository:
https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-app-ios-ch

Covidcode Frontend:
https://github.com/admin-ch/CovidCode-UI

App backend:
https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-sdk-backend

App config backend:
https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-config-backend-ch

Covidcode backend:
https://github.com/admin-ch/CovidCode-Service
Such a flexible design in a part that is out of view and non-serviceable by the owner only adds avoidable costs to the total costs of manufacturing each car.
The great thing is that there's such a range of noise to choose from, you're sure to be able to find some you like.
Decision probably motivated by this:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/covid-19-surgi...
This would imply the president would have been unharmed if he just took a walk to the church. I think it's unlikely that nothing would have happened. They've been throwing bottles (possibly bricks), smacking people with signs, and harassed/chased away a Fox News crew.

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/fox-news-crew-c...

A warning would have been nice.
I left many years ago, after the realization that it has the property of making people awful (including me).
Foxit Reader update removes Print to PDF
Unless that average family experiences a death, how the hell is the cost going to come close to that?

Here in the UK you would expect the monetary cost to be zero. That doesn't mean you shouldn't look after your health, but seriously, wtf?
When I was younger I was turned off by what I perceived to be the Libertarian obsession with drug legalization.

Now I get it, but I’m sure I’m not the only person who got tired of them sounding like a broken record.
How the US was regarded internationally, soft power, increased markedly under him though.
Show HN: Squawk – Walkie Talkie for Teams
The ACLU has too many objectives, so I don't think defending journalism is their primary goal. This fund is probably better, dollar for dollar: https://www.spj.org/ldf.asp
Is there an element or compound in the universe that will remain a gas at 0K? Does everything become solid at that temp?
https://www.spj.org/ldf.asp
> In the medium term, the dictator inevitably ends up severed from reality by the inability of (true) data to flow back up to the authority, which results in their decisions becoming increasingly suboptimal over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAFU_Principle
Instead of apologizing, I think people need to understand the system doesn't work. It is fundamentally broken, just like the police.

Why don't cops go to jail for breaking the law? Because they are the ones who investigate themselves for their crimes. It's the same with politicians: they make the rules and write the laws for themselves. They go on TV and say things they think people want to hear, but when it comes to action they don't follow through.

Politicians are glorified TV personalities and aren't actually held accountable to their supposed policies. They wage a war of disinformation against citizens to get votes, and then engage in gerrymandering to make sure they stay elected.
Regulations don't make the problem go away.

In fact, it's more likely Google will use the regulation to corner the market with regulatory capture.
Zuckerberg has the charisma of a fish though.
>Couldn't even get a proper health care bill passed.

Perfect? No. Hell of a good start? Yes.

Ever heard of pre-existing conditions? Well not anymore. That fucking ALONE is worth all the mess that everything took.

You realize that before obamacare.. let's say you lived abroad for 1 year, developed some type of health condition, then moved back to the US.. you would be denied coverage or have health coverage but everything related to your pre-existing condition not be covered.

That basically means that you were fucked. I mean literally, if you developed cancer living abroad.. and tried to move back to the US- you basically could not without a financial death sentence.

Also every health plan has to provide maturity coverage, large companies are required to provide coverage.. etc the list goes on and on with regards to healthcare.

So please, don't parrot this garbage that obamacare basically did nothing.
I'm really shocked that this is the case. I work for a big evil company (not entirely by choice, my former company was acquired). I really didn't have anything nice to say about them before the pandemic, but so far through the last couple of months they've been doing everything you're talking about. If my company, with their incredibly damning Wikipedia article can do it, I'm at a loss to why anyone else can't.
That’s very interesting, but to be perfectly honest it’s almost the exact opposite of how I’d tend to think of things whilst building or manipulating a model. I don’t want to offend anyone, but it feels baroque, like something bolted-on, and it kind of breaks the whole “spreadsheet extruded into arbitrary dimensions” (cube) metaphor.

(Such as how in the accursed Excel, at least up to the last version I was blighted with having to use, one couldn’t take a cell of a Pivot table as the input to another formula elsewhere.)
I thought it only had 1MB of RAM?

Might be an interesting target for Janet though!
I'm talking about the more extreme cases like India and US, but if you want to take it there I'd say compared to the US the opportunities for you and your children will be better when you're in the top income bracket.
Now, but will you think the same in 20 or 30 years?
i dump them in my homedir for a while, and then periodically delete old stuff.

i've never felt a need to organize my files as files. if it's important enough to organize, it's important enough to put in a wiki or git repo or some more structured way of organizing things than files on a filesystem.
Or have dedicated prosecutors who aren't already overloaded and underpaid as public defenders are.
This is the problem with laws, especially when the company that it's supposed to regulate is a top 20 lobbyist/briber.
Now, a subgroup of the people near the rally start to pelt the cops with bricks and rocks. The cops are surrounded and wildly outnumbered.

Why, and where did they come from? I'm not here for this scarifying nonsense, which is little better than pro-cop propaganda. The police are a heavy militarized force and the police's use of less lethal weapons in the current conflict is being done to escalate and injure; for example, rubber bullets are meant to be fired from 40-70 feet away and bounced off the ground to deter approach while minimizing injury, but cops have been firing directly at people and causing serious injuries, including the loss of eyes. Yesterday evening cops in armored vehicles in Walnut Creek CA were telling unarmed protesters with their hands ups to 'get out of the way or you will be dead'. There are Tiananmen square moments happening all over this country right now so you can take your imaginary wild subgroup and stuff it back into the collection of worn out authoritarian tropes that it came from.

If cops find themselves in your fantasy situation it's because they have earned such ire. I advise them to put their hands up and allow themselves to be disarmed and taken prisoner.
This actually bugs me about articles on new discoveries: they almost always try to talk about potential applications, no matter how far-fetched they are. Sometimes the most honest answer is that we currently don't know any potential applications.

In this case, we have something that may be similar to graphene, but can only exist at 4000°C and 1.4 million atmospheres. Graphene is interesting for electronics, so they suggest black nitrogen might be useful for electronics too. But of course graphene has the slight advantage that it's relatively easy to produce and doesn't dissolve at temperatures lower than the surface of a star.
Drawing on QR Codes
You absolutely don't need to appeal to them (unfortunately). You win over the 11 most populous states and the presidency is yours even if not a single person in the other 39 voted for you.
Which primary votes do you think gave Biden the nomination? Is the older black base in MS pro-legalization? Did he get any black voter enthusiasm from the under 40s?
No one is defending child sex offenders. Just find another way to catch them that doesn't involve invading private conversations. It's the first step down a really bad path that you only have to look once at China to see the results of.
So what, we're supposed to wait 100 years for sensible policy? What are you advocating? Why can't we fix things now?
Repeating what I've said in the past, anyone that has worked in scientific research for at least five years probably has a list of high-profile papers in their field that never should have made it past peer review. There's definitely at least one Nature paper in my personal hall of fame, and I'm still pissed off about it after six years.
I just tried booting my Windows 10 in "Safe Mode" It, too, didn't display custom lock or desktop image in this mode.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12376/windows-10-st...

Microsoft knows what its doing.
This is because you folks down south have tanks - and that's the same reason our PM had 21 seconds of silence when, if we were talking about a press crackdown in a third world nation, he would have spoken up immediately. Good old might makes right.
The submission is using an editorialised title "The Trump Troll vs. the Mods", instead of the actual title "The President Versus the Mods"
My suspicion is the Public Defenders’ offices are nearly universally underfunded and overworked, so the only way to make this work is to make sure they’re resourced appropriately, which would be a tough battle politically.
I suppose the boring business model needs some secret sauce, i.e. advanced technology, to stay competitive -- since it's boring, many people are likely to do it, the margins are thin, you need to optimize.
Well yeah usually the more fun job pays less. That’s just basic economics. Life is all about trade offs.
Both of my cars are old enough that they don't have a screen. I don't need to look at the buttons to use the radio, turn on defrost, adjust the A/C, etc. It is all muscle memory. I can do it all blindfolded. But on those occasions when I rent a car that has a touchscreen it drives me crazy. There is literally no way to use it without taking my eyes off the road and looking at the screen. It seems like a huge safety issue. It has convinced me to never buy a car with a touch screen. If there are no newer cars without a touch screen, I will just buy older used cars.
> “Lee. Got more name. Lee papa family name. Call Lee.”

“I’ve read quite a lot about China. You born in China?”

“No. Born here.”

Samuel was silent for quite a long time while the buggy lurched down the wheel track toward the
dusty valley. ““Lee,” he said at last, “I mean no disrespect, but I’ve never been able to figure why
you people still talk pidgin when an illiterate baboon from the black bogs of Ireland, with a head
full of Gaelic and a tongue like a potato, learns to talk a poor grade of English in ten years.”

Lee grinned. “Me talkee Chinese talk,” he said.

“Well, I guess you have your reasons. And it’s not my affair. I hope you’ll forgive me if I don’t
believe it, Lee.”

Lee looked at him and the brown eyes under their rounded upper lids seemed to open and deepen
until they weren’t foreign any more, but man’s eyes, warm with understanding. Lee chuckled.

“It’s more than a convenience,” he said. “It’s even more than self-protection. Mostly we have to
use it to be understood at all.”

Samuel showed no sign of having observed any change. “I can understand the first two,” he said
thoughtfully, “but the third escapes me.”

Lee said, “I know it’s hard to believe, but it has happened so often to me and to my friends that
we take if for granted. If I should go up to a lady or a gentleman, for instance, and speak as I am
doing now, I wouldn’t be understood.”

“Why not?”

“Pidgin they expect, and pidgin they’ll listen to. But English from me they don’t listen to, and so
they don’t understand it.”
“Can that be possible? How do I understand you?”

“That’s why I’m talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your
observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”

- East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Whatever the ultimate merits, I find the admission of mistakes refreshing. Hard to imagine anyone in American or UK politics doing that.
"Our fellow citizens are not the enemy, and must never become so." Yes actually, in a riot, your fellow citizens are your enemy, and their own.
Yes, it's quite interesting, and it borders on semantics. I.e. someone misunderstood privacy in this context as understood in general, that you keep things for yourself. But private/incognito browsing on Chrome means privacy from other people using your computer, not from the biggest user-tracking company.

Maybe instead calling it "incognito mode", which is totally inadequate, they should call it "temporarily disable browsing history" instead.
Definitely. They have logic that links data sets, all it takes is one slip up for them to know youre the same person, probably with levels of probability about whether you are the same person.
I unfollowed everyone a while ago, and have recently only re-followed the police departments in my neighborhood, because of my proximity to certain events.

I've kept the Twitter app on my iPad but not my iPhone, mostly to follow certain trending topics in my downtime.

I don't miss it a whole lot, and I've upped my RSS feed count reading.

But mostly I want to stop consuming as much as I am consuming right now.

Read some books this last weekend... it was a far better use of my time, and a much better outcome for my mood.
Intuitively I would think so since 0K is a motionless state. By definition everything would be solid because nothing would be capable of e.g. filling a given volume, or for that matter, doing any action at all.

But this isn't my field of expertise.
did they announce they wont open source it? don't think ill be giving it a download then :/ shame
Andrew Gelman put it very well:

"No, the real scandal is that the respected medical journal Lancet aids and abets in poor research practices by serving as a kind of shield for the authors of a questionable paper, by acting as if secret pre-publication review has more validity than open post-publication review." [1]

[1] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/06/01/this-ones-...
> I think it must be a lot easier to be a weird misfit now than it was in 1935.

Jane doesn't have children, and people are always asking her why she doesn't have children. Jane learned a long time ago that it makes people angry and suspicious if she tells the truth, which is that she doesn't have children because she doesn't want children. So she's in the habit of explaining that she can't have children as a result of a medically necessary hysterectomy. Then people are okay with it and even sympathetic. (There was no hysterectomy.)

Some things don't change all that much.
Oh my word thank you so much for linking this.
User registration and sign-in with Laravel and FusionAuth
Ask HN: Is HN's ranking algorithm deprioritizing posts on racism?
In my opinion, politicians love wars on drugs because that way they can keep the monopoly of whatever they want to sell.

If you make the laws, you make something illegal, and then don't follow your own laws because you're also the enforcer
PDFs and reference material not written by me is stored in mendeley/zotero (I'm using both right now) so it's easily cross referenced and text searchable across my devices and I'll have my reference material at any job I go to. My background is engineering not research but when I discovered these tools my note taking/referencing skyrocketed. I put every worthwhile pdf I find in it. I've begun following a lot more research/science types lately to learn their systems because it's stuff I never really encountered on this end of tech.

Code is in ~/workspace which is typically ~/workspace/$company/$github-repos

My markdown docs (snippets, research) are in ~/workspace/docs/$whatimresearching

I do everything out of my workspace. This lowers the amount of cruft I have to move between systems when migrating. Mostly dotfiles and ~/workspace and I'm good to go. And I keep offline backups of course.
At this point, I've decided 75%+ of stuff is transitory and doesn't deserve the time to be filed into a hierarchical local file system, so I just leave it all in Downloads on OS X. Github, Overleaf, Google Docs, and email has all the critical stuff. And of course I have full backups for years. This horrifies some people, but has worked well for me for about 5 years.
I never got it either, outside of possibly just the momentum of having a relatively easy to install Linux distribution early on.

Rather than Fedora, though, I opted to run Debian sid. I get all the up to date fresh-from-the-oven software packages I care about, can pilfer from external Ubuntu apt repos if I need to, without having to clear out any of the garish brown and sponsored Ubuntu junk, and it's fairly easy to install and maintain. Despite being the permanently unstable branch, it's never really meaningfully broken on me.
BE condensate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensa...
My interpretation of this article is it's related to incognito mode.

How is it circumventing a "decision of the user not to be tracked" when "private" modes usually explicitly state they can't/don't stop websites from logging information.
Logs are not permanent storage. They're auto deleted after a few weeks.
>I wonder how one can sleep at night with the knowledge one was directly responsible for thousands of deaths.

I have to disagree, this is not how public policy works and there are more than just loss of life to consider such as economic impacts and cascading effects. You cant consider this from a "all lives are sacred and must be preserved" perspective. Believe it or not public policy DOES put a price on life and for good reason: you cant mitigate away ALL risk of death. Think of speed limits or even the normal flu death rate. You can't have a functioning society if everyone lives in bubbles and drives 5mph because all life must be preserved. Even the US CDC acknowledges this, and they themselves calculate on average the economic loss of a human life is 10 million USD over their lifetime. When the mitigation cost (including cascading effects) exceeds this, then its not considered reasonable to implement at a public policy level. Sure he is an epidemiologist but he has been designated to make a public policy decision so I don't think its fair to place the blame on him. Flatten the Curve focused on hospital capacity and the avoidance of overwhelm and triage death, not necessarily covid related death and not preserving all life. The area under the curve is the same, we will all be infected at some point. I highly doubt any vaccine will be effective since they were failures for SARS or MERS. My money is on better treatments.
I am only getting takeout from places I know.
I have there menus in a drawer by the fridge.
That way, I know I am calling directly.

Much of the gig economy is just shyster business, wedging themselves between actual customers and actual providers, and taking far more than the actual value they provide.
imho american programmers are in for a world of hurt. Day of reckoning is coming. Its just not today. So if you say its today, you naturally get the derision and downvotes. But that doesn’t mean there is no such day.

Just 2-3 days ago we sent 2 chaps into space. 50 years ago with far more primitive software we sent them to the moon. And you are bitching about how your software profession is so fragile it’ll be messed up because of culture, because of time zones, because of skillset, because people “over there” don’t look like you think like you talk like you walk like you. How long can you put up with this farce ? For a long time, thats for sure. But not for ever.

This stuff aint particularly hard, people. Yes not everyone can do it. And yet, its also true that wasting the best years of your life trying to design a 10mb facebook page isn’t perhaps the best use of your brain cells. Perhaps if you are truly that smart, why not work on something more worthwhile ? Go solve cancer or robotics or self driving or....not this agile webcrap for christs sake. Is this truly what you want to stake your future on , that someone in a different part of the planet can’t write javascript as good as the L5 sitting in Menlo Park ? It doesn’t even sound good on paper. Next you’ll tell me you believe in the tooth fairy.Jesus.
That's nonsense. He directed his DOJ to avoid prosecuting low level drug crimes (which Trump immediately reversed), his budgets were the first since Carter that proposed spending more on treatment than on criminalization, thousands of Federal drug prisoners were granted early release, he did a ton that apparently people choose to ignore..

https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/12/19/13903532/obama-war...
But is it a criminal matter for which individuals will get arrested? That is, the agreement is agreed to at risk of what?

But really though I doubt it is hardly enforceable, if you look to buy lot of high tech equipment is available to buy, without much of paperwork. This case seems to be about HP computers. I doubt it is normally feasibile for any one to keep track of sales and reselling world over.