skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too feel the same way. Before the only thing that stopped me from buying an overpriced laptop with diminishing features and utility was ambiguity over the racism of the CEO. But now that I know the CEO of Apple is not racist because he made a webpage that said he was not racist I intend to convert my whole ecosystem over to Apple, I will be buying their new top of the line MacBook Pro with its sleep 16 inch screen and up to 8 core i7 processor.
Is it different to the existing XPSs? I've had an XPS 13 and now precision 5520, and am totally happy with the keyboard. Sure it's low travel but it's not typical of most laptops, not as low as recent macbooks
> I'm sure self-hosted analytics tools like Matomo (formerly Piwik) can do this out of the box.

Yes, absolutely. I'm looking to switch to it already. I have the same concerns as you about Google, and I'm eager to get them off my website.

For the record, your points are all valid. They just fail to account for some of my needs.
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https://youtu.be/HJeu3GEsOq8

Perfection.
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CES will be held in-person in Las Vegas next year
A top notch career management tool. Something to tell me what I should be learning, the total benefit of various companies (if a company pays 70K + a 3K annual professional development expense account, that is really 73K in compensation), the average change in reputation of a company, lists of professional development opportunities, etc.
Thanks for the clarification. You're right, access to the internet at large is more or less egalitarian; having your voice heard (and not hidden), is not though, and therein lies the problem.

If a tree falls on the forest, and no one is there to hear it, did it even make a noise?

Also relevant is this very interesting research experiment conducted ~5 years ago on social media manipulation, in which they dubbed the term "Censorship 2.0"

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock...
> unless the photographers have to go through some kinds of security clearance vetting to get access.

Passport picture photographers will need a license in Germany.
will stop but i get 0 point so i think that it's not even being seen (maybe)
It's all empty gestures to me. Just like how VCs are now starting to invest in minorities. Spare me your fake sympathy.
Did you consider these questions?

https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/thebestquestio...

These questions are selected as particularly relevant to dating while being innocuous. Even if Virus Cafe is not a dating site but I guess they can still be great conversation starters. They are:

Proxy for "Will my date have sex on the first date?"

- Do you like the taste of beer?

Proxy for "Do my date and I have long-term potential?"

- Do you like horror movies?

- Have you ever traveled around another country alone?

- Wouldn't it be fun to chuck it all and go live on a sailboat?

Proxy for "Do my date and I have the same politics?"

- Do you prefer the people in your life to be simple or complex?

Proxy for "Is my date religious?"

- Do spelling and grammar mistakes annoy you?
It's a lot easier, safer and quieter to replace that traffic with electric vehicles or bicycles.
Simplified Monitoring of Patients in Situations of Mass Hospitalization: MoSimPa
Seriously? Look at https://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/04/... — do you really think there's enough information in those two rectangles to reconstruct the faces even approximately?
Sweden doesn't test nearly as much as other countries in Western Europes. Comparing deaths is already complicated, comparing "confirmed cases" is completely useless.
So their only paragraph on it,

> Artificial intelligence software, recently developed by TAE with help from Google, should keep the fusion fuel stable even at the 3-billion-degree temperatures needed in a commercial-scale power plant. “A year ago I was concerned about the ability to control the machine,” Binderbauer says, “but no longer.”Courtesy of TAE Technologies

which implies that it's being used for plasma control, is a lie.
a supercapacitor could suck up all that sudden power and send it right back out to get the vehicle moving again.
We should know more about this. Who was the individual? What company they wistleblow about? These facts matter.
p2p.chat does what it says on the tin. It worked a treat using Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04. No screensharing though!
Heavy acceleration... or a heavy vehicle slowly. F = MA and all that. Tesla's cars are all very heavy for their class though I'm not sure how they compare to a half loaded UPS truck. (On average, a truck is between fully loaded and empty, with emphasis on trying to improve the efficiency in the average case, with an empty truck as the degenerate case.)
Thanks, I've added CPPurses to the Notcurses OTHERS.md file: https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/blob/master/OTHERS...

Taking a quick look, I don't want to besmirch anyone else's efforts, and both of these projects look great. libtickit appears to be missing any kind of multimedia/pixel-based approach along the lines of Notcurses's ncvisual -- I'm not sure about CPPurses, but that one being written in C++ would seem to exclude pure C programs (obviously not if it's using POD structures etc).

Both look like good efforts, and there's plenty of room for more than one project in this space. I wish them both luck!
They take driver's license photos at the DMV... they don't even let you review them, they just snap them and that is what you get.
I very recently came around to this opinion. I used to loathe it as a waste of time and energy for everyone involved, but then I realized that as I participated in it more with my coworkers, I felt those acquaintances really start opening up into something more like friendship.

Of course, it's hard to apply that lesson now...
Awesome.

Until now, you could take your passport photo conveniently at home for next to nothing. I'm sure they will introduce exorbitant fees for a simple picture now.
I live by this. Anxiety fuels increased work speeds. Without unnecessary anxiety I wouldn't have gotten anything done.

Mixed with weed driven development it seems to get positive results but awful for meetings.
Something to try is Spacemacs which provides vim bindings for emacs and then use org-mode directly.

https://www.spacemacs.org/
> The government on Wednesday backed a law requiring people to either have their photo taken at a passport office or, if they use a photographer, have it submitted in digital form over a secure connection

So photographers are still able to submit doctored photos. If they really want to stop this practice, the government must have full ownership over the chain of custody of these pictures (including hardware and software), OR be able to detect morphed pictures that are submitted by anyone.

In my opinion neither of these strategies will be implemented in practice, so this new law seems pretty pointless.
> Also deployments don't make use of dependencies, a single uberjar bundles it all up.

That's not actually completely right... there are problems with deploying a single jar. With Java 9 modules, you're actually throwing away module encapsulation if you deploy a uberjar. The current state-of-the-art is to deploy the whole app + the JVM in a jlink image, which requires no uber jar.
The original anonymous hackers now have children and real jobs. Some random twitter accounts from 9 years ago are not anonymous, one of them was used as a kpop account. Anyone saying anonymous is back is either a dolt or using for political posturing.
> Speaking at a cocktail party in Davos on Jan. 22, Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, repeated the worn Silicon Valley cliché that Facebook is trying to make the world a better place.

How out of touch is Sandberg, yikes. The hubris of a FB exec still clinging onto that old phrase after everything they've become associated with.

This being written by Soros and not an article about something he said makes this message much more interesting. He's putting FB on blast in public forum, it's a much louder message.

> In 2016, Facebook provided the Trump campaign with embedded staff who helped to optimize its advertising program. (Hillary Clinton’s campaign was also approached, but it declined to embed a Facebook team in her campaign’s operations.)

Will this become a theme for all elections? Does FB also do this for other elections and in elections outside of the US?

It feels like a bit of a dirty game to embed your engineers into a political campaign.
better than nothing, but so corporate-speak that it's hard to take seriously (as much as i'm bought in to the apple ecosystem).

it's a vision statement, not an action plan. that's ok, but it doesn't really put any skin in the game. it especially doesn't lay out any concrete outcomes they're committed to achieving. granted, it's not solely apple's job to change the world, but either commit or hold your chips. hedging doesn't help.

so mostly branding, like most CSR† initiatives (again, better than nothing, but not much).

† corporate social responsibility
That is exactly what these protests are - part of the democratic process. To show the majority, who are not affected by police criminality through a combination of race and chance, the severity of the grievances by the minority who are.

As for the decentralization argument - I really don't want to be on this side of the states' rights debate, but that ship sailed a long time ago with regards to civil rights. It's not terribly unreasonable that individual rights are protected by state governments ior the federal government when an individual state is unwilling. Although we are currently witnessing a direct failure mode of this centralization, with the federal government having gone AWOL with regards to enforcing the law and even inciting lawlessness.
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The one that gave me most hope from this point of view was the Polywell design. It made some waves a few years ago then got classified and sputtered out, then this happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell#%22Final_nail%22?

I'm entirely with you as far as tokamaks go - they're relying on unobtainium for a significant component - but I think other designs are possible, just under-researched.
My Google fu has failed me. What is that "phrase-encode" tool and where can I find it?
An implicit assumption of commentary here is that no one has bothered to test how reliable task and resting state fMRI results are. But that simply is not the case:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,47&q=%22te...

Results are: from poor to excellent, depending on task, sample, methodology.

Speaking as someone who had conducted longitudinal fMRI analyses, I would say two things:

1) its been fairly well established that within-individual correlations of BOLD is generally higher than between-individual

2) within-individual correlation can be weak to moderate, but group-level patterns are very often quite robust. For example, in a cognitive control task you are going to see presupplemental motor area, dorsal anterior cingulate, anterior insula, and so on. For risk tasks, you are going to find that anterior insula correlates with risk; for learning tasks, you are going to find striatum signals for reward prediction errors.

I encourage people to visit Neurosynth, which performs automated metanalyses. Here, for example, are results for "prediction error" after accounting for activation that occurs generally during tasks:

https://neurosynth.org/analyses/terms/prediction%20error/

and here for "interference"

https://neurosynth.org/analyses/terms/interference/

(default mode network and task-positive networks anti-correlate in activity, another super-reliable result)
Don't they take fingerprints for American passports? They do for the French ones so you have to be in-person, but they still expect you to provide the pictures yourself oddly enough. You can use an accredited photographer or, more commonly, one of these automated photobooths you can find in train stations and shopping malls.
It's ironic that as someone from a similar "shy" culture, I do not dare to tell my manager that our outsourced programmers in a low-cost country sometimes don't write a single line of code in a day, and one of them is not even familiar with programming beyond a "hello world".
https://youtu.be/jCq-eD3Fdmo

It's mostly peaceful going up in flames...
Yes, it may well have been his ex-wife... that was my guess when I read the headline.
It was a huge oopsy. I haven't booked through them again.
> there is not a passport office in every city of a large country

My little suburb of 20k people has a USPS employee who handles them. Should be entirely possible even in rural areas.
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The models are insufficiently multidisciplinary and some of the needed expertise is almost entirely outside of academia and scientific circles whence expertise is drawn to create the models. This is really evident when you look at the epidemiological models that were actually used.

What you find in practice is that the quality of the myriad sub-models that make up the models is extremely uneven, and reflect the expertise of the people building the model, both good and bad. Some key elements of the models are expertly designed, but other critical elements are so naively designed for lack of domain expertise that it completely destroys any signal one might hope to find from the expertly designed parts. This is unfortunately endemic, I've seen this in every model I've been asked to look at.

As for why multidisciplinary expertise is not used to build these models, in my experience there is a lot of gatekeeping against non-academics, even though critical state-of-the-art modeling research and know-how on things like population-scale behavioral dynamics is done almost completely outside academia.
Can I see any samples of digital doppelganger photos. The one on the website does not like a photo of 2 separate people.
"At this point, they all know how to build an electric vehicle."

Just not an EV that's profitable that consumers actually want, or can compete with other EV's at similar price point. Tesla Model 3 being best selling car by revenue means consumers are already sold on the idea.
That's why they will now require you to have your photo taken either at a passport office or at a photographer's. Although the wording in the article is not quite precise on the latter part.
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There's a new version of the TTGO watch which includes face recognition:
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/06/03/ttgo-t-watch-k210-k2...

At this point, you have to really look at it and say actually, this'd be really good for robotics - esp32, add a motor shield, 6axis sensor, motion depth sensor, k210 with camera, wifi, BT, lipo capable, grove connector, all in one unit!

Even the product page has an idea for a robot on it...
http://www.lilygo.cn/prod_view.aspx?TypeId=50036&Id=1256&FId...
I would definitely shorten IPv6. If IPv6 had been 64-bit it would already have replaced IPv4. The loooooooong addresses are a huge usability problem, and usability is the largest influencing component for adoption.

Advocates seem to respond by saying "use DNS," which shows me that they've never really done any IT work or are forgetting their experience. Every IT person knows "its always DNS." When DNS is down, the first thing you have to do is type IPs. You also have to type IPs a lot when setting things up, often on keyboards hanging off things in data centers and other inconvenient spots. Don't get me started on embedded stuff.

If IPv6 continues to stall, I think it might be worth introducing an RFC to retroactively shorten it. You'd leave the addresses the same really but you'd re-interpret the first 64 bits as the IP and the last 64 bits as a kind of extended port field. Specifying those bits is optional and they default to zero.

Then change assignment recommendations so every ISP endpoint gets at least a /48 (/40 preferred, /32 for business and larger links) and deprecate SLAAC in favor of DHCP6.

Lastly change the representation to something like:

feed.d00d.dead.beef[.deadbeefcafebabe]

(that's valid hex for anyone who doesn't know that's valid hex)

Anything whose least significant bits are all zero like feed.d00d.0.0 would of course be an IPv4 address.
Maybe in the 1950-60's. Now its a shark tank and no room for ideas like that. Not in industry anyway.

And maybe you're mistaking board meetings for the executive suite?
German passports have fingerprint info stored in them - won't that prevent someone else from being able to use the passport? I would hope they check fingerprints at the border.
Well, that's the point.

> Such manipulation of photos is typically invisible to the human eye, the researchers found.

(The picture in the article is just a file photo of a passport, though. Not an example of the manipulation.)
I think the genre is "woke capitalism"
I pulled an epidemiology textbook from the 1970s, from a reputable author.. the math is very dense, but basically an extension of calculus-type curves from the 1950s or so.. The overall effect seems overbearing and self-referential (to my untrained eye). The serious gravity of the subject, with so many lives affected in an event, leads to a combination of erudition and also solemn, unapproachable pronouncements, it seems. Maybe there are useful aspects to this curve approach, in hindsight.. but, as mentioned in other posts here, data-driven feedback is now a thing, where it just was not a thing then..

lessons learned -- Question Authority!? use good tools .. look for data and use it well.. ask the right questions..
From the technical side impressive! But if a website plans on using AI to generate content does it really need to be there? Personally, I couldn't think of a situations where turbocharging my fluff generation would lead to a better website. Is this strictly for SEO?
Arctic Circle oil spill prompts Putin to declare state of emergency
JFC, please don't answer these questions to strangers who almost certainly do not have your interests at heart.

What is the biggest lie you've told without getting caught? Holy shit.
That's likely true at freeway speeds, but I expect the typical UPS van spends most of it's time running at 20-30mph.
That entirely pragmatic reason was to be assembler with curly braces. See memory capacity of PDP-7 and think what you can reasonably compile with those resources. Fun fact: if you don't specify variable's type, modern C compiler assumes int, this is how the first C compiler worked, you don't need types in assembler, the register type (machine word) is almost the only type you deal with. Implicit function declaration is an assembler feature too.
"You/they could have just..." always depends on what the goal was.
I think the network permissions allow you to specify IP ranges it is allowed to connect to. So you could limit it to only being able to connect to the DB server. It would still be an issue for things that need global internet access, though.
I don't really see the point of this post.

Any two points on the earth are connected by a great circle. The two points divide the great circle into two arcs. The length of the shorter arc is the distance between them. The midpoint of the two points is half the distance between them along the shorter arc starting from one point.

Are any of the values above particularly expensive to compute? I can't imagine why I'd want to compute the midpoint between two points by averaging their latitudes and longitudes. Not only does it break if it travels over the prime meridian, but it's also just wrong. The post even says that: "But is the midpoint in longitude, latitude correct? In many cases, it isn’t."
So basically what you intend to do is to treat them like they are children with no accountability. That will surely help them raise to the level of white people.

Honestly your post feels like trolling. And if it isn't, get out of your bubble, for your own sake.
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Ask HN: Tooling for Cross-Platform Handbook?
I am starting a medical residency, and many departments at the hospital I am at have paper/PDF handbooks with in-house protocols and resources. They are often a little out of date and hard to find/use on your phone.

I'd like to convert these to a very simple app to improve searching, navigating, and updating the content.

Background: I am an ex-software developer, but mostly backend/scientific-computing and have never built an app so I'm unfamiliar with the territory.

What framework do you suggest for creating an iOS/Android app of what is essentially a reference book with search (i.e. table of contents, chapters, sections with text and images)? My development environment is linux, currently. I'm looking into frameworks such as flutter and react native.

I think my ideally the handbook content would be stored in a public repository, perhaps as markdown, so that it can easily accept contributions / issues. Separate code bases would turn the content into an app, PDF document, or website possibly.

Thanks!
Hey guys, I've lost all my production data and I'm here to share how I handled it.

A while ago I deployed Quarantine Notes (https://quarantinenotes.com) and posted about it on HN as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22728460).
I had built it for learning purposes only but, then people start posting really interesting comments on it. Sharing how their life was going, replying to other people's notes and everything. I was really proud of it.

Of course, with time things started to slow down and the traffic wasn't the same and that's totally understandable, but then I lost all notes I had.

In the blog post that I'm sharing here with y'all I explain what happened, what actions I took, and how one can prevent it from happening in the future.

I hope you find it useful! And, of course, feedback is welcome!

Best,

grott
If a photographer is caught sending doctored photos (easy to detect after the fact, especially if the photographer does many of these manipulations) they'll be in deep legal trouble.

As often, why bother with an overcomplicated technical solution when a social one will do the trick just fine? Oh, who am I kidding, let's just use the blockchain instead!
It's unfortunate (though understandable) that you bricked both before discovering the root cause. I remember hot-swapping EEPROM chips to repair a bricked motherboard from a similar era.

While attempting to upgrade the BIOS, something went wrong. Most likely there was a bad sector in the boot floppy I used. The result was an unbootable machine. Solution? Swap in a working EEPROM chip from a compatible motherboard. Boot to a floppy disk that has a BIOS imaging utility and image file. Hot-swap the bad EEPROM chip back in. Re-flash the BIOS. Or, if you had money, you could sometimes purchase a pre-flashed replacement EEPROM chip.

I don't miss those days, but am fortunate to have experienced them. It forced us to learn more about how a computer really works.
Friday is probably a reporting deadline. You see similar spikes on Mondays after the weekend. You would want to take a weekly average basically.. or some do a 3 day rolling average.
The e-Pedal in the Nissan Leaf is wonderful, if you lift your foot off of the accelerator completely the car will apply optimal regen until the car stops.

Its really freeing not to have to look at the regen gauge at all, I just keep my foot over the brake pedal just in case I need to stop quicker than the regen braking.
Do you believe this invalidates a cause, peaceful protest, or protestors?
I am curious as to what is the benefit of having employees chit-chat with each other, or become friends. I have never personally worked in a dev team that has the `esprit de corps` but as long as you give me a good design, I will implement and release it, and I will work with others to help them in their work.

But I am absolutely not interested in their political opinions, what they had for lunch or what their girlfriend told them last weekend.