skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much of the lockdown and gov't response around the world has been political. It fundamentally rests on virtue, not science. It's clearer with every passing day. There were legitimate concerns in the beginning, but by now it's bizarre to see when people decide to ignore lockdown with the right political justifications.
This is a better post than its parent, and in some cases, sure I agree. I can't argue with someone who wants the new & shiny, if it works for them, great. But it's being pushed on us so such luddites as myself have no choice any more - it's all touchscreens now. It's become marketing driven. The choice is gone.

> this is not representative at all of what the majority prefers

I was very careful to not to project my desires on others in my original post, but you're telling me about what "majority prefers". So back this up. I don't think you can.
Cet. par., if doing a job involves less disutility for the worker, people will demand less pay to compensate, since pay demands will be at the breakeven net utility point. Basic economics.
Dunno what you consider large, but it works well for me with 20 participants.
> You have always had the need to look at the buttons, like reaching out to the radio.

Aside from others' comments that one needn't look at buttons & knobs one has memorized, also:

1) one does not need to look as long at buttons and knobs as a screen to locate the desired control, because they do not change position. One also never needs to navigate a menu to perform a basic task. The closest most come is having a button that cycles AM/FM and channel presets.

2) it's possible to combine the fixed-location advantage of buttons and knobs with visual and tactile differentiation that reduces or eliminates the need to look at the controls even further. Some cars do this, but a really great example is the Nintendo Gamecube controller, which was clearly designed by someone who'd watched a young child try to remember what all the buttons on earlier consoles (SNES, N64, Playstation, perhaps) were used for. Size differentiation, most-used buttons in the most-accessible positions, larger, and highlighted by color, less-used ones smaller with diminishing vividness of color the less-important they were. A clear hierarchy of importance differentiated by color, size, shape, and feel. Auto makers don't ever fully embrace this because it results in a UI that doesn't look they way they want it to, but for maximum safety, they should.

A very, very consistent touchscreen UI could use some of this to great effect to reduce the harm that they cause, but they'd have to almost never screw with placement, appearance, or behavior of UI elements, all of which would need to be perfectly consistent and just about never change, which in practice probably means never receiving updates because there aren't a lot of teams that can resist fiddling with looks & behavior (this is a problem that plagues all web and frequently-updated software, and if you don't think it's a big one or causing some serious irritation and reduced-utility in computing in the wild then try watching someone who's not extremely "computer savvy" use their computer or phone for a while). They'd also need to radically simplify their UIs and work very hard on reducing latency and improving interaction accuracy (touch, then nothing happens for a second or two, is extremely confusing to non-computer-nerds, and it's 100x worse if it's not consistently precisely that unresponsive—sometimes instant, sometimes 1s delay, sometimes 5s delay, is the absolute worst way a UI can behave)
Gov and WHO changed Hydroxychloroquine policy based on suspect tiny company data
Some of us come from countries which have experienced communism first hand. Been there, done that, no thanks, keep me out of it next time. As a Polish(iirc, I could be wrong) saying goes, "Capitalism is a system on the edge of a tall cliff. Communism is one step ahead."
SpaceX to launch 60 Starlink satellites for megaconstellation tonight
See also e-sail: https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2019-04-09-archive-Issue-7/
Do those photo editing packages have buttons for things like portrait-mode to automatically black out the background?
Because they can ;)
Imagine you just land a tiny craft on that thing and let the thing take you to interestelar space without you having to burn no more fuel.

Unfortunately, if you can't catch it, you don't need it for that, as you'll be traveling faster that it to be able to intercept it and would just burn fuel trying to break enough to match its speed.
In that case it's very simple for the company paying but much more work for the employee since they are the ones responsible for taxes. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but I've found many employees don't want to do it. They need to make sure they are either paying their estimated taxes quarterly or be saving a significant portion of their income.

That also doesn't address that it is significantly cheaper for group health insurance in the US vs. individual. As a company I can be paying $400/mo vs. the employee who would be paying $2K for similar coverage.
It'll depend on their contract. But if Take Two doesn't get the existing codebase, it's hard to see how this move makes any sense.
I pointed out the Johnson and Johnson relationship only to say motives should be examined.

Surgisphere is producing studies based on data they don't actually have, according to researchers, Australian hospitals, etc. It could be for self-aggrandizement, or pay-for-publish or something else. I don't know, but it should not be tolerated for any reason.
Aureal A3D. Technology was developed in the nineties for NASA. Stolen by Creative. Creative simultaneously stole their patented tech and sued Aureal for bogus patent infringement. Aureal "won" the Lawsuit, but ran out of money due to legal fees. Creative bought their assets, IP and funny declaration releasing them from any damages from lost patent lawsuit.

Patents long expired, nowadays smallest $2 microcontroller can run it in real time.
Maxims of Signal Processing
No one is arguing in favour of that, but the statement that all the data lets them perfect their strategies and shut out competitors is provably wrong.
This is one of the reasons politicians shouldn't wade into these decisions. They raise the stakes and create opposing incentives.
Jitsi works great for me with 20 participants, never tried more.
>In that case, HSBC should be held liable for damages

I've no love for HSBC (at all) but in this instance it appears they are the victim of fraudulent representations made by Huawei.

Your "solution" proposes prosecuting not only an innocent party, but one of the victims? That's an ... ummm ... interesting take.
I may very well be part of a minority, but after working with Windows for the last 20 or so years I got used to it's quirks. And yes, I actually like it. Windows 10 on a Dell Latitude or XPS is stable, fast and I can run everything under the sun. Office applications, very domain specific applications like the Adobe suite, uncountable useful utility software, cross platform tools like Gimp, Blender or Krita. And still there are many, many applications I absolutely love which run on Windows only.

The half-baken "Flat UI" trend in Windows or the telemetry does not really concern me. Really, it is no deal for me and my colleagues. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? Oh come on. I'm far more concerned about Microsoft losing against other players. That's the world you should be afraid of.

The best thing about Windows though is Visual Studio. The general consensus is, that it's slow, clunky and hard to use. But actually, that tool is so utterly powerful, streamlined and deep, that every other development environment I every used is missing something of its glory.

And I also love Linux in some ways. I used all different kinds of distributions, either through dual-boot or through Virtualbox, but actually the only thing I really use it for is server-side web-development. And well, what can I say. I love the server side applications. But all those arcane commandline wizardry and the configuration madness still irks me now and then.

But well, to return on topic: It's clear that I mostly work with clients, which mainly use Windows. And there is a lot of software written for Windows environments which can probably never be replaced by other software running on Linux. The thing is, that the push of Microsoft to cross-platform .NET Core or even cross-platform UI (MAUI) opens up those applications to other environments. I'm not fully convinced, yet, but we'll see.

Sorry, for rambling. Just my thoughts.
Oops, off by an order of magnitude, sorry. It’s been a while since I’ve seriously optimised anything in this sort of way (purely for fun).
The giant pyramid hidden inside a mountain
Ha ha. I am pretty sure middle-manager and bureaucracy-centric software will run on Linux as well. Both SalesForce and SAP have Linux support.
I'm certainly sad to see a company that took security seriously and "did it right" being bought by a company that arguably did not and got large mostly by trading security for convenience, even going as far as saying they were E2EE when they were actually not [1].

How do you compete with that?

Most users don't care about security/privacy and maybe that's fine but it was nice to see a company that seemed to genuinely care about these things.

[1] going by the commonly used definition
> there is no legitimate way to have a conversation

really, as in having that conversation would bring it into your home???

i dont know where this intolerant shutdown ofconversation even among the educated folks is going to lead us...
How to Deep Learn Music: Two Suggestions
The best portraits I ever took were with a 75mm lens and 2x teleconverter. Nothing is out of proportion and the people look natural because they don't have a camera in their faces. That's hard to do with a cell phone.
> Just because our world is being polluted by conspiratorial thinking doesn’t mean we can just stop thinking on a basic level

There's a difference between thinking and speculating, and having certainty. I suspect he was suicided, but I don't believe anything.
Pose Detection in Twilio Video with Tensorflow.js
It would depend on which corporations owned the founders
Disclaimer: I work for Google.

FYI - Google does offer a series of tools for you to manage your data. If you are signed in there is my activity[1], and takeout[2]. There are options to control targeted ads[3] and auto-delete location and activity data older than 3 months[4].

[1] myactivity.google.com
[2] takeout.google.com
[3] https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en
[4] https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/automatic...
I still strongly oppose your use of aside there. (And it was indeed that that I was referring to in my original comment here.) Those cards are part of the flow of the document, not tangentially related to the adjacent content.
Yeah, I was surprised when I found out this is how it works. When I first signed up with a PEO I assumed it was all taken care of. But then they handed me a big list of states I needed to register with and all the very antiquated processes each of them uses.
"What’s more, Lenovo will also upstream device drivers directly to the Linux kernel, to help maintain stability and compatibility throughout the life of the workstation."

Particularly liked this bit.
Passion is goodwill.

Goodwill is profits on the table.

With this new studio they are not beholden to prior promises of not having microtransactions.
The article is sparse on what a detailed map for mathematics would look like and merely points out that some topics have related techniques for solving them.

I don't think a map for math techniques is feasible, but a map relating topics via mathematical steps is possible in Physics [1]. (Disclaimer: I'm the author of that map for Physics.) I think the reason that a map in Physics is feasible is Physicists do not use math techniques in the way mathematicians do, and the objectives are different.

https://derivationmap.net/
For anyone who doesn’t want to read the legal complaint, the named class action plaintiff (Jared Goyette) was shot in the face by the police with a “less lethal” round[0] and nearly permanently lost his eyesight[1] after he had just finished reporting on a man who had been shot in the head by the police with a “less lethal” round.[2]

[0] https://twitter.com/JaredGoyette/status/1265786797650558976

[1] https://twitter.com/JaredGoyette/status/1266115234420400129

[2] https://twitter.com/JaredGoyette/status/1265779746153078793
That this comment is still up five days later, and amidst the current news, is a shocking failure by the mods.

What an embarrassment.
Vote those people out then. I know it is easier said than done, but I don't hear too many calling for the mayor of Minneapolis or city council members to be recalled.

Someone in the staff advocated for the current police contract, why not start by firing them?

Or maybe the problem is not as important to local progressive governments as it is being to made out to be?
>Why might that be I wonder?

Because our president was idiotically and irresponsibly championing a drug for which there was no good evidence of efficacy at all.
Twitter thread by a Minneapolis city council member about how they tried to do police reform. He talks about wanting to do changes slowly but was met with resistance by police, including the police delaying responses to call from areas where the members voted against police interests. He is now talking about disbanding the police altogether and starting over.

https://twitter.com/mplsward3/status/1267891869691850754?s=2...
AD for settings is a very poor replacement for what puppet or ansible enable on Unixoids.

That's true, but Puppet and Ansible aren't meant for end user device management. They're primarily for deploying/running services. AD is the opposite, it's strong in end user scenarios and weak for running services.
Apple uses a bunch of hexspeak for error codes in iOS, including 8BADFOOD ("ate bad food"), C00010FF ("cool off" - related to thermal events), and DEAD10CC ("deadlocc" - deadlock).

There's also DEFEC8ED ("defecated"), which was used by OpenSolaris for core dumps.
Google has removed that viral Chinese-app scanner from the Play Store
Is the project linked here what you use to add OBS output to a video call or is there another way?

What would I do if I want the enhanced stream to be piped to screen share instead of webcam? Most video chat solutions will show webcam and shared screen differently
How about: "Websites shouldn't do digital fingerprinting to intentionally circumvent incognito mode." Does this make sense to you as a legal argument?

And yes, this does mean that if it comes to litigation, a lot of this will depend not just on what you did but why you did it.

If you write analytics, unaware of incognito mode, you're probably okay.

If you write that same exact code because your boss comes in and says "shad, we're losing A LOT of user data to users in incognito mode. Could you do some kind of digital fingerprinting so we can still track them?" then you might be criminally liable for digital trespass -- you've intentionally bypassed my security mechanism.
My experience posting on the “Who Wants to be Hired” thread on HN
Do you know the“Awesome” lists in GitHub? I made one about anti-racism
Most of the time I spent solving problems on my linux was creating personalized solutions that I could not enjoy if I was using windows
An awesome list with anti-racism material
You're conflating criminal law with civil law.
Besides this, the US makes it's financial infrastructure available to those who play by its rules. Your argument about how dare the US seek criminal charges against those who utilize that infrastructure is completely missing the point.
Why not 8:46? I originally read this as 8 feet, 46 inches...

anyway - sad times we are living in. But possibly good w.r.t. catalyzing positive change. Hopefully we emerge with a better civil-society
The amount of smoke and mirrors surrounding this entire case is incredible. It's sort of happening out in the open, with even the president seemingly involved to some degree, yet all details are conveniently hidden away. I'm expecting a somewhat chilling documentary 20 years from now on the subject.
You can't have an interface implementation throw exceptions not declared in the interface, hence all implementations of a given interface have to declare the same failure modes. And then everything is nicely coupled.
Researchers conceive smallest semiconductor laser
From what I see, corruption in capitalist countries is rampant.
Ask HN: Is Comcast Down?
It appears to be down in South Bend, IN at least.

Maybe it's just the midwest.

https://downdetector.com/status/comcast-xfinity/map/
This is "keeping myself informed, whilst possibly having other people
pay me"

it's a sensible idea.

I think i have a lot of side projects that with some effort might become something
people would pay for (obvious thing is a auto delete flag like outlook rules in gmail)
Firefox containers does the same thing with a lot less work. If you get the multi-account-containers extension and the temporary containers extension, you won't have to log back into everything all the time but will still get isolation.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Edit: See below with a warning about using this with profile sync.
Yeah. Looks like that changed after Raspian Jessie. Still, that shipped on a lot of Pis.
I mostly agree. Windows gives me less of an ass ache from a desktop perspective. At this point it mostly just works and does so a lot better than any Linux desktop I’ve used in the last 20 years or so. On the server side I’d rather be burned alive and will use Linux for everything.

If Linux sorted the desktop issues out or windows sorted the server issues out it’d change the market.
You nailed it, and even included all the security steps they go through.
My experience so far after posting myself on HN: https://www.alexdangelo.com/my-experience-posting-on-who-wan...
> Apparently, nothing was catching that exception, so the whole process was terminated.

Apposite moment perhaps to refer to the mind-boggling finding in "Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures: An Analysis of Production Failures in Distributed Data-Intensive Systems" (Yuan et al, Usenix 2014 https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/...):

"almost all (92%) of the catastrophic system failures [in the real-world study] are the result of incorrect handling of non-fatal errors explicitly signaled in software"
Thanks for sharing your opinion.

Unfortunately it's hard for me to read more into your argument or position after I read the opening line.

Microsoft has the software support it does due to the monopoly position it has enjoyed for 30 years- this is not an argument to continue that lest we crown Microsoft "lord of the operating systems" because people actually pay them attention;

Thousands upon thousands of hours of non-microsoft employed developers time goes into supporting Microsoft's bottom line, only microsoft benefits from that.

Also I get a very "I had to go through a punishing time so I would prefer everyone else to be punished in perpetuity" vibe from your comments; similar to adults spanking children because they were spanked themselves and "they turned out fine".

I think we can do better, all of us.
freaking cool! have you seen recent React take on atoms?
I haven't dived into that, but from the surface it sounded like they're playing with Vue's approach.
Perhaps Vue is more developed in its own approach though :-)
In-country presence of american companies has been proven to be nonviable because american courts can order data to be handed over from the foreign daughters to american agencies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
Stanford lab envisions delivery drones that save energy by taking the bus
With physical controls, you can verify using touch (ie without sight) that you are touching the correct control, and then activate it.

With touch controls, as soon as you've touched it, you've activated it.

And touch screens have very few ways to verify your position by touch, since it's a large flat screen. Controls with a plethora of knobs and sliders have all kinds of terrain that you can use by touch to verify your position.
All 3 major telecoms in Canada will be working with Ericsson instead of Huawei
Random example: hospital mergers don’t have a negative impact on patient outcomes: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1901383
Which they won't be perfectly aligned as soon as you start turning. Because as you turn the wheels rotate differently as they travel a different distance.
As a counter point, I've been working with Linux for the last 20 or so years, and I've gotten quite used it its quirks. It would take a lot to get me to switch at this point - I vastly prefer using it to both Windows and OSX (I used a OSX machine for 4 years at my last job, and have used Windows off and on).

If Windows was free, and Linux cost $200, I'd still go with Linux.

I guess my point is that a lot of the reason so many people use Windows is because it's what they are used to, not because it's actually better.
Not at all. If the people tried to topple the monarchy, they would be actively in conflict with the military. I am pretty sure you can start a co-op without risking conflict with the military.

Can you tell me the exact things the government is preventing people from doing in this case?
That's why we can't have nice things, only things that are barely fit for purpose.
I'd much prefer it to having cities hacked with Ryuk again and again and again...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/lake-city-florida-rans...
Suppose Tim Cook’s daughter was arrested in Thailand for Apple’s alleged breach of China’s sanctions against Saudi Arabia.

How would you Americans feel about that?
As it is open source you can always just run a new docker of Send, tweak the ENV variable for max file size and bobs your uncle.

https://send.mirorauhala.fi/
WebGL: getParameter: enum 0x9246 - fingerprinting 3d hardware. Personally I run a shim that rotates a list of most popular gpus.
webgocat: A command line WebSocket client that doesn't require Node
I've heard there will finally be an api for keyboard state change.. not sure if that's added to the upcoming android version
Andrei Shleifer was definitely his pal, definitely helped loot Russia, is STILL at Harvard, despite their settling a lawsuit over insider trading related to his activities, and Summers was not forced out from his position there for any malfeasance. He was forced out for saying things. Which shows you where Harvard is at; commit crimes, loot multiple countries? No problemo; just don't say things which trigger people.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot

There was serious intermingling back then.
Disclaimer: I've used these tools.

Google is really good about takeout. It's really bad about maintaining my privacy. The opt-outs are limited in scope to the point of being almost meaningless. I don't mind ads being targeted as data being collected about me. Google's privacy tools are a joke.

Google's security tools are a joke too. Google silently drops security support for Android phones after two years, and people unwittingly walk around with zero-day exploitable phones. Chromebooks are similar. If you want to maintain a secure Google Apps domain, you need to pay Google huge bucks. It benefits everyone, especially Google, if the Internet is safe, and Google's attitude here will come back to bite it.
The majority of the viewing public seemed to agree, and to consider her perspective largely factual reporting rather than opinion. Many people were more concerned by the preposterous defences of Cummings' stunt than his errors of judgement themselves.

The partisan condemnation of her reporting, and the BBC's craven response, have been widely ridiculed.
Another metaphor: "Linux is open and free, it can be a major desktop OS if everyone just switched to it, but because they haven't they obviously don't care for it."