skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. For several years I have been looking on and off for a layman way to locate a source of a sound, but haven't found anything.

A solution like this could resolve many of the lingering "hum" cases. Often they are only heard by a few people, and those in charge of environmental control don't tend to take it seriously because "they don't hear it", or because they or the higher-ups are hiding something.

Acoustic consultants are extremely expensive, may require many hours if the sound is only apparent during random hours, and even then may come up with nothing.

An app that would at least be able to give a good estimate of the direction from where a sound is coming would be extremely helpful.
This is not true. The code can be flawless, slightly buggy, maintennable with some effort, hardly maintennable or unfixable. And then there are personal preferences and opinions about what is good code.

The algorithm can be slow, slightly faster, fast.

The intro into framework can be in the middle too.
We also have social distance + better hygiene + more PPE for doctors + improved security protocols in elderly care.
Our devs to their own ops using our blessed ansible galaxy roles + creating their own when necessary.

It is all pretty standardized, is rare that someone needs to create a new galaxy role for example.

We expect our teams to know their way around Ansible ( which hasn’t been a problem ), we have internal docs and training
Is that 300-1000 unjustified deaths, or does it also include situations where the use of deadly force may have been reasonable?
I'm fully on board with changing these terms, both because of the racial aspects, but also because "AllowList" and "DenyList" are more descriptive.

I've already changed much of my cryptography masterclass slides and code, but I'm looking for good replacements for "White Hat Hacker" and "Black Hat Hacker".

Suggestions? I'm drawing a blank ...
I assume company blogs have a process where you have approval over what you write, both before and after the article is written. To this end (more so if the author has "evangelist" in their job title) the writing is a function of their job, and not a hobby.
It's great that people annotate biased articles with the words "Considered Harmful"
I've heard that arrogance is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Came here to complain about "considered harmful" click bait and was happily surprised to find everyone else already feels the same.
The series starts right after the Cylons, an artificial intelligence created by humans, destroys several planets. Decades before they fought another war when the machines first rebelled. By the time BSG tolls around, any artificial intelligence is taboo and Adama refuses to even enable digital communication between ship subsystems except in one scenario where they had to hard reset all systems to flush a Cylon virus.
Great white shark seabed feeding habits surprise scientists
fake scientific consensus that fits political consensus...

huh who could have known this was a partisan issue not about health
Serious question from non-US person - isn't one of the main reasons to also get some anonymity? As IT guy I know damn well how good face recognition software works these days, en masse. With all the biometric data US govt has on everybody, pairing would not be that hard for many.
I like FF for daily browsing but chrome dev tools are my heroin.
What are they going to do if people do reviews through tor or any other decent anonymity tool?
So there’s the boogaloo movement. There’s the Calexit campaign that was propped up by Russia in California last election. Probably you’re not seeing it because you’re not being targeted on social media for it and not going those parts of the internet. I really hope Zuckerberg was serious about policing foreign governments from buying ads on their platforms.
If in bay area, the magazine has a long association with a ranch in Ben Lomond (Santa Cruz County) which is now a really nice state park, the ranch house itself open to public. The original publisher lived here while making the magazine etc.

https://hilltromper.com/article/quail-hollow-ranch
Meething: DWebRTC Video Meetings Mesh/SFU Hybrid Using GunDB and MediaSoup
I agree with your first sentence, but without data, it's a super hard sell to the folks who think that the laws are the only thing keeping people from descending into hedonism.

I wonder there is way to put some numbers behind it. Typically, this is where natural experiments are valuable, where somewhere legalizes something and another places don't. Then you compare. But it's hard enough to imagine any jurisdiction legalizing crack or heroin, let alone doing so AND systematically capture data to answer these questions.
The existence of bad comments doesn't justify adding more bad comments, and certainly not worse ones. That's how internet forums destroy themselves. Putting all the blame on the other side is just another battle move.

This has nothing to do with not wanting dissenting opinions. That's a cheap thing to say, because everyone always feels like the mods are against their side and secretly supporting the other. The issue is that your comment was obviously in the flamewar style.

Please stop using HN for ideological battle. We've had to warn you about this more than once before.
When I hear things like that all I can think is that I have a wildly different idea of what a "service" is that it can be broken down to such a small chunk of functionality.

Are there examples of the size of these individual services? What are they doing?
The Endangered Asian Century (Author: Prime Minister of Singapore)
Is this real and not sarcasm?
Background: building a live video application with $20k available funding

Can people recommend solid mobile development agencies (open to any county)
Yes, totally! I feel like this Zettelkasten technique is a step in the right direction with the idea of linking notes, but relying on these long, random looking strings to do the linking seems wrong. Human-readable tags that serve as links seem better, but I suppose that's more of just a software issue, not a technique issue. My ideal note-taking software for what you're describing would be:
1. platform independent (or at least very easy to use on multiple platforms, phone + desktop)
2. your "organically determined hierarchy of notes" idea ... a clustering map of some sort.
3. links via human-readable tags
4. FOSS

I'm guessing this exists already but that I just need to look harder.
For the most part this level of microservice solves the problem of: New engineering leader comes in. New engineering Leader wants to rewrite the entire thing cause "it sucks". Business doesn't have resources to rewrite (for the nth time). New leader and business compromise to create a microservice. Rinse and repeat. Cloud/container/VM tech as really allowed this pattern to work. The art of taking over an existing codebase, keeping it going at low cost, low overhead is gone. Nobody's promo packet is fulled with sustainment work. One microservice per promotion. Etc etc.
Obviously the people who write for fb or airbnb or netflix might well be professional tech bloggers or people in tech-leadership positions that tell other people how to do the work. Or even researchers (I see the last one appear in ms tech blogs a lot). Or it might have been heavily edited. Brendan Gregg is a professional tech author. Not a hobbyist. Mr Vogels is a CTO, far from a programmer. That's not to disrespect any of their content. In fact i think its great that companies bother with it and that we have so many tech authors willing to put in the hours it takes to come up with something sellable. Arguably the people writing such things put their companies rep on the line so should be more trusted than the average grunt programmer who is still on the implementation level. But if these are the best counterexamples we can find, then I'd say OP has a point. That's not to say coders don't write blogs, I've written a few technical blogs myself and I am very much on the implementation level. But that's not something people will actually read because it's pretty low effort and not about work stuff (every work contract has a secrecy clause these days).
Ask HN: How much of technology is directed towards developing better technology?
i.e. tooling?

Just curious, because most of my work is developing software to help others develop software...
Yep watching a Hatsune Miku live concert was a bit unreal.
But the medical use of morphine extends beyond palliative care.
Curiously, this is an idea who's time has come again. Keeping the return address space (call stack) separate from the display containing addressable data, could avoid some nasty security issues that plague most architectures.
> That’s wild. Microservices are mostly beneficial organizationally — a small team can own a service and be able to communicate with the services of other small teams.

And a cross-concern fix that a dev used to be able to apply by himself in a day, now has to go through 5 teams, 5 programming languages, 5 kanban boards and 5 QA runs to reach production. I never understood the appeal of teams "owning" services.
In my dream world, every engineer can and should be allowed to intervene in as many layers/slices of the code as his mental capacity and understanding allows. Artificial - and sometimes bureaucratic - boundaries are hurtful.

To me, it's the result of mid-to-senior software engineers not being ready to let go of their little turfs as the company grows, so they build an organizational wall around their code and call it a service. It has nothing to do with computer science or good engineering. It is pure Conway's law.
That's a weird chart there by the link. Tobacco can hardly cause any mortality in a direct way and if we consider indirect (via lung cancer) then we should also consider many other carcinogens. And if we swap it for pure nicotine (in form of a proper vape liquid, chewing gum or whatever) we hardly are going to detect any evidence of harm at all.

Ecstasy can indeed cause health damage if used improperly (it can be neurotoxic if you overheat, it can weaken your immune system and let a virus in, it can cause depression-heavy hangover if you use it too often) but they say LSD is even more harmful for your heath and shrooms are comparably harmful! For fuck's sake, how? Needless to say LSD and shrooms have extremely low addiction potential, ecstasy having it slightly higher.
What are your sources for data science news?
I think Django should set the behavior by default. It is exposed by pylibmc. I know because I wrote it.
Oh thank you so much, i search's for the Portugal example through the comments and here it is :)
For the ETag, yes and no that it's an MD5 of the object depending on encryption and multipart upload: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTCommonRe...

For the object upload, AWSv4 request signature uses SHA256 on the payload/object, but I don't know if S3 also computes & compares the digest or just uses the x-amz-content-sha256 header value.
> But are the protests really founded on something significant?

They're founded on 494 years of slavery, segregation, and oppression of a population based on a perception of superiority by the ethnic group in power. This has been endemic, has not come close to being resolved, and as you've exemplified, has been consistently the target of a litany of efforts to erase the argument (e.g. with whataboutism, such as your claim) to maintain a vice grip on a narrative.

Melding two different data sources together:

* https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...

* https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219

We have the following outcome:

Ethnicity | EOY-19 killed | July-19 pop est | humans per 10m

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White, non-hispanic | 370 | 198,256,671‬ | ~18.7

Black | 235 | 43,984,096 | ~53.5

Hispanic/Latinx | 158 | 60,067,832 | ~26.3

These numbers aren't perfect, but that's an almost 3x and almost 1.5x multiple for LEO-on-Black and LEO-on-Latinx crime as compared to LEO-on-White.

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There's been a war between upvotes and downvotes on this post; I'll let the downvotes stand as a commentary on hackernews's readership. I'm not backing off.
Intelligent life seems rare on Earth. We all seem to like it a lot, but we're the only ones in the entire history of Earth, we've not been around for very long, and we seem to be slowly sabotaging our existence. How far could someone with our technology actually pick up the signals we sent out? How many planets are realistically in that range? Then again, our existence on Earth is so brief and recent, for how long have we been looking? Less than a hundred years. That's barely anything when you talk about planets and galaxies.
I don't agree with the comparison of dying of a natural cause, which Covid is, to being murdered in some cases, killed carelessly in others, by people you and fellow citizens pay and give special privilege to so they would prevent crime rather than commit it.
I'm making a mobile mmorpg using this engine.

We're currently in the early spriting & game mechanic planning phases but Grid has been a perfect starting point.

It's the sweet spot in-between LÖVE (Grid extends LÖVE) and a heavier engine like Defold, the multiplayer features are killer.

If you're wanting to make a tile-based multiplayer game, I highly recommend it.
Auth-Process: React/Node/Mongo
Their statements make sense if you realize that public health experts have not been speaking to the American people the way scientists would speak to an informed audience. They were being political because they didn't think the people could handle nuance.

They oversimplified the explanation of the science and pushed for lockdowns at all costs with no exceptions. Now, by admitting there are exceptions, they reveal that they were not being straight with us all along.
This is an ok thing for some Americans to believe in, but at least Google encrypted all its traffic between data centers specifically to avoid NSA eavesdropping. And many people in the rest of the world don’t think US respects the rule of law as it advertizes.
That RFC/PR adds ACLs at the document level to CouchDB, but it has been open for a year now. I hope they merge it as well. Until that PR the party line has always been to do ACL outside the DB like you would with any other DB, which really doesn’t make much sense to me.
> 3) people who adopt someone else's thought-system are effectively admitting they are bad at thinking.
> You can get Leo Messi to teach me football but my first touch will still be sub-par.

Isn't that conflating practice with thinking? You would also never invent football on your own if you'd never heard of it. If you want to be good at football, letting Leo teach you is likely to be a lot faster and produce better results than not learning from anyone.

Everyone adopts thought systems from others, you do and I do. Failing to admit that is to be actually bad at thinking and fail to admit you're human. It's not possible to have only original thoughts, and even if it was, it wouldn't be practical.

Try to be honest with yourself and think about how many things you know for certain, that you weren't taught by someone else. How many facts do you know that you've verified yourself first hand? How do you know the sun is 93 million miles away, or that there are electrons in your CPU? I trust scientists who've studied it and thought about it, I haven't verified those things myself. How do we even understand words and speak languages? As children, we learned everything about the world from others, including how to think.

Isn't this is a feature, not a bug? We learn from each other over time, and we'd be nowhere without people having adopted and then built upon the thought systems of others.
The browser's Private mode does NOTHING to protect you from Fingerprinting
Brown Owl remarkable head stability
Title should say "party/recreational drug" or "narcotic" instead of "drug".
These protests are going to result in the deaths of thousands of people. They are clearly irresponsible during a pandemic. Gathering in large groups with no physical distancing is tantamount to conspiring to commit mass murder.

The problem of racial inequality has existed for "hundreds of years" so why not push the protests back 1 year so it won't unnecessarily cost many people their lives?

There is no reasonable suggestion that police will kill thousands of innocent black people in the next 12 months. There is no actual emergency here that can justify killing thousands of people.

It is incredibly obvious that the urgency here is false. The false urgency is driven by pandemic-related issues like stress and unemployment. Anyone can see how clearly thse protests have become an outlet for a number of issues, only one of which is racial inequality.

It is possible to fully support racial equality, elimination of poverty, and modernization of policing and also believe these protests have been carried out in an incredibly unethical and irresponsible way.

Claiming to support a good cause does not make it okay to inflict death on innocent people.
> in this country, black-on-white violence is a much bigger problem than white-on-black violence

In the interest of discourse, I am genuinely curious: how did you arrive at the quoted statement? Links to anything that would allow me to understand your view will be very much appreciated.
The most heavily abused drugs are the legal ones. This fact for a long time made me an opponent of drug legalization.

But the destruction of culture and civilization in all the transit and production countries (Mexico, Colombia, central america, southeast asia) made me realize we need to deal with our own problems with drug use in our populace and needed to destroy the economic rewards in shipping and production of narcotics.

The main chart does not seem to include opioids aside from methadone, which are rampant in the US and responsible for the resurgence of heroin abuse.
All you did was link a 20 page paper without quoting what you think is relevant, and yet I already said that it contradicts what you are saying. It doesn't talk about children or infants or babies but it does talk about how shallow the penetration depth is.

I've given you real numbers from your own sources and broken them down into intuitive examples. You might not realize this, but this is just an exercise in seeing what someone does when they have to continually reject information while having none of their own to hold on to a belief that is rooted in emotion.

> I'm saying -maybe- we should research a new technology

Now you are saying that, before you were saying "what about penetrating a babies thin skin". It has been researched, you found some research, it just doesn't say what you want.

We haven't even gotten to the fact that microwave communications are already on lots of cellphone towers and used to communicate with office buildings etc. Not only that but these higher frequencies don't even go through walls. They barely go through rain or fog.
I don't know, are go-to statements and code reuse a small twist in the dogma of software engineering?

Is your Python-level code directly interacting with CPU operations and memory bit flipping a small twist?

Hi-C 3D DNA structure experiments as well as small RNA fragments interfering with transcriptions and protein function are not a small twist in my opinion - it's like finding out there's an entire extra hierarchy of layers to the system.
"If someone came along and replaced that money, they would leave it behind."

Who could "replace that money" and why has this not happened?

Mozilla is a bit like Facebook/Google. Users are not paying for Firefox. Advertisers are paying (via Google). It is a service to advertisers. Users need only be enticed to keep using. Data is collected. The primary value of the data is not to usere but to the organisation that collects it and their customers. Mozilla sends data to Google (search queries) and gets paid for it.

This is not opinion. It is fact.
I know someone who does this and people lap it up. I've heard other people refer to his expertise too many times for my liking.
For the record, Grid is also a racing game https://www.codemasters.com/game/grid/
That’s kind of similar to the format I usually use for writing for my blog. I’d use the blog itself as the permanent folder, and the act of publishing it the ritual which makes it permanent. As I am writing new essays they live in emacs or notes or notion or whatever note taking app I enjoy using currently. Such notes are almost never long lived for me.

If I were to write something large like a book, I would probably maintain distinctions between early drafts vs later drafts of chapters. I am imagining that most writers do have some system which captures the notion of the stage the work is in.

Publishing externally is the ultimate way to make it permanent though- otherwise nothing stops the author from amending.
Sure. Like any generalization, there is always some truth. But it's still a generalization.

Also, generally, well-run companies don't need covid-like events to cull the herd. They're managing low-performers out regularly.
"Considered Harmful" has become a meme and a self-reference with several levels of recursion.

I hated the obnoxious tone of the quote when I first heard it, nowadays it makes me smile with a grin.
Honestly, I wish I could just remove commercial results from google as part of the query. Some terms are essentially now useless because the first N pages are just ecom sites. Google definitely knows which sites are commercial because they’ve been pushing product metadata for about a decade now and serve ads for the same clients....
Ease of embedding has been pointed out.

Another reason for using Lua in games is that its garbage collection strategy is well-suited for the task.

Python uses reference counting (which has a predictable performance profile but can lead to long pauses if a large object graph is deallocated at once) and stop-the-world GC for reference cycles.
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How did you meet people if you didn't go to the talks?
That really depends how you count them and how you manage the entire application landscape. For audit, compliance, security, and risk management purposes you really need to know what the service is doing and what criticality level it is.

Surely, you can make the creation of services really easy - so easy that it's not even viable to define meaningful business names for the services, thus creating an unmaintainable mess. But still, having an application registry or automation that crawls the cloud resources for services can be done afterwards without significantly impacting the speed of creating new services.
A lot of times I want to share, and while I'm a pretty good writer, I really don't have the bandwidth to write a great article, but can usually throw it up on a screen. Example:
https://medium.com/@bdcravens/fixing-docker-for-mac-and-rail...

I'd probably share a lot more, but it's not about not having time to share, as much as not having the time to bring the quality up to a level I'm willing to attach my name to. I suspect many are in the same boat.
The letter -- which went on to draw more than 1,200 signatures -- focuses on techniques to reduce harm to people protesting racial injustice.

The letter does encourage social distancing as well. It seems that you are looking for "whataboutisms" here.
Does Gson still force you to write "beans"?

In any case, this project kind of didn't need any auto-magical serialization library, but the promise was reduced boilerplate. Instead, we just got way more complex boilerplate and a damn dependency forcing me to change how I want to write my code.