skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Covid-19 severity genome variants found
Because the users who were less clearly fake would still degrade the experience of the rest of the users. To use an analogy, consider currency counterfeiting. The government doesn't just look to see who is spending lots of cash without a job because it's a much harder problem than making the bills extremely difficult for the layman to forge. Same principle here - making the token extremely difficult to forge is the easier route. You don't catch 100% of the bad actors in either scenario, but why not use all of the tools available in your toolbox?
> 3. Configuring my preferred linux environment to work with 4k is either impossible or just super time consuming. I use i3 and it adds way more productivity to my workflow than "My fonts are almost imperceptively sharper" ever could

What issues actually? Xmonad on Arch user here and I find the sweet spot for me is 27-32" 4k, 1440p on laptop (I guess 4k would be nice here too, but not sure if it motivates the increased power draw). After getting used to the increased real-estate, I do feel limited on my older 1080p laptop screen; fonts smaller than 8p (which is still all good) noticably impacts the readability to the point I can feel my eyes strain faster. It did take a bit of playing around with Dpi settings to get it right, though, out of the box it's not great. The Arch wiki has some great material.

The only frustration I do have (which IS super-frustrating, specifically for web browsing) is with multi-monitor setups with different pixel density - your point 2, I guess. Even plugging anything larger than 19" with 1080p into my 1080p Thinkpad is annoying.

I think it should be possible to configure it correctly but I just gave up and end up zooming in/out whenever I do this and send windows between screens. Haven't looked at it, but maybe a mature DE like KDE or GNOME (which, if you don't know, you can still use with i3) should be able to take care of this.

Also, this is all on X11, have no idea if and how wayland differs.
Is any one choosing Teams for Teams alone and not because of already having a relation with Microsoft? That’s Microsoft’s playbook.

People are doing 50-200 person video meetings with Google? Has Meet really improved that much since March/April? That’s not that long ago. Otherwise it seems more like cost is the reason. Not anything relating to quality.
« I don't notice much of a difference besides feeling a little cold since the saline is at room temperature. »

I've always wondered: Why don't they warm it up?!
If Google created a separate list for questionable websites and allowed advertisers to opt-in that list, my back of the envelope calculations are:

* all these websites account for at most 1% of Google Ads network reach by the number of page views

* since these websites are to be opt-in, the advertisers' competition will be much lower, probably 1/10 of the usual click price

* since the number of advertisers will be low, and only marginal advertisers would opt-in the marginal website list, the relevance of ads (and thus the probability of a click) will be also much much lower, probably 1/10 of the usual click rate

So by banning all marginal websites Google loses only 0.01% of revenue from ads network. If my back of the envelope calculations is at least order of magnitude correct, this does look like a very little price to pay for relief from a headache associated with working with questionable websites.
Have you ever calculated how much you've paid in insurance fees over the years, and the interest you'd earn if you simply saved the money?
It seems there's no shortage of gripes with Apple's display support.

I'm still incredibly frustrated with just how much of a mess multi-display docks are with MacOS and how it just doesn't support DisplayPort MST at all.

https://medium.com/@sebvance/everything-you-need-to-know-abo...
I don’t understand. That means it’s fine. Theranos big issue was not having anything. Otherwise they lied a ton. Not unlike many, many companies.
Check out Moom. You can save window layouts and replay, save window positions and apply them to any app, arbitrarily move, maximize to a range with a customizable margin, etc etc.
https://manytricks.com/moom/
Yup, they actually acquired anti-reverse engineering startup Strong.codes after using their software for years
What does Zoom do that other free services (google hangouts) do not do?
But the article claims it will discuss "How around 50% of us appear to have (some?) Cell Mediated Immunity against COVID-19". If we're seeing farms where every single person falls ill, that suggests that 50% of us aren't immune, though I suppose "(some?)" is a cop out.
Apple among 83 global brands using Uighur Muslim 'forced labour' in factories
It's probably worth thinking about whether you're exposing the blowhard you think you are exposing.
Haha, yes. Probably not a great idea to start blood-letting while fighting an infection, but as a prophylactic, it looks promising.
This is an awesome write-up; I’m shocked at the level of effort that went into Snap’s obfuscation process. It implies that are entire teams of engineers out there whose sole job it is to play cat&mouse with reverse engineers and nothing more. Another comment mentioned that this effort is outsourced, so not only are there teams, but entire companies dedicated to this!

What a blast that must be... though the immense amount of [invested|wasted] (take your pick depending on cynicism) effort spent on this game makes me a little sad. All of these brilliant minds just... cosplaying Sisyphus?
E A S I E S T W A Y T O G E N E R A T E V I R A L T R A F F I C I S H E R E
Having observed that major search engines often seem to hide what I'm actually looking for - web search results - "below the fold" (assuming it's there at all) I can't help but wonder if there is an opportunity for building niche "web search" engines that search the web (rather than the adverWeb, the seoWeb, or the goog/twit/faceWeb.)

As I've mentioned before, my favorite flavor of Google is Google Scholar. I'd also like to be able to slice/subset search results to get scientific, non-commercial, public interest, etc..
Yep. Roughly same source, but a very different "pathway" of energy. Nuclear bombs depend on prompt neutrons, whereas nuclear power depends on delayed neutrons. Hence why the enrichment of the Uranium is important.

And those who bring up the Chernobyl explosion, those were due to Hydrogen gas build up. Which is an interesting case study of Murphy's law.
Can you explain how using a TSA lock on a gun case you're flying with, if you want to, is "a big no-no and could result in problems with the law"? That's the part I'm disagreeing with. Surely if a knave uses a stolen master key (or makes unauthorised use of a master key they have as part of their job) to open your gun case, that's not your liability.
I would be surprised if the feds were not directed to make arrests and charge as harshly as possible.
I started coding in Windows Visual Studio again recently after decades of absence, and the enormous length of their variables, function names, and function parameter lists, has me >120 columns again. All my non windows code is 80 (or 100 in very rare cases).

So now I need a wider monitor. I was on an NEC 6FG until 2011 and then went to a small dell flat panel 1280x1024. I suppose it is time to join the 2020's.

I have multiple VNC and RemoteDesktops up at any moment, so maybe I'll really splurge and go for one of those fancy curved ones.

This article is written in a style i can really appreciate. That's a lot of research.
When does it not? Seriously, has anyone here worked somewhere security actually was front and center but people were also able to build new things?
Taipei is actually pretty OK. Other cities in Taiwan, not so much.
No other company right now can get the reliability and “just works” like Zoom. If they open source everything, why wouldn’t all the competitors including the biggest companies in the world not start seeing how Zoom is doing things. We already see open source “borrowed” frequently. Amazon’s AWS being a regular.
Iron Condor
Why I Keep a Journal
It’s largely a question of your data plan. HTS-M5000 For example is 0.39$/MB which still puts your movie at 2,000$, but you can get lower costs per MB with higher monthly fees. https://kpp-public.s3.amazonaws.com/DS_TPV3HTS_AirtimeRates_...
These aren't new: they were actually re-released in 2011.

The original site is: https://911.wikileaks.org

That site explains what the data is:

9/11 tragedy pager intercepts.

From 3AM on Sunday September 11, 2011, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLeaks is re-releasing over half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.

The messages are being broadcast "live" to the global community — sychronized to the time of day they were sent. The first message is from 3AM September 11, 2001, five hours before the first attack, and the last, 24 hours later.

Text pagers are usualy carried by persons operating in an official capacity. Messages in the archive range from Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Department exchanges, to computers reporting faults at investment banks inside the World Trade Center

The archive is a completely objective record of the defining moment of our time. We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war.
Having read the article, I'm still not able to fully grasp why the old techniques for improving text legibility can't be "scaled" with screen resolution. We had imprecise pixels before and we still do, in the sense that they are very finite. I totally get why smoothing and other tricks aren't as necessary as they used to be, but I don't get why they have to be detrimental on Retina displays. At what resolution does this reversal happen and why?
The dictionary of special values is a good approach to deal with this. Without it, you'd need billions of iterations before randomly trying 0x80000000 for a 32-bit integer.
> To make your life even more miserable, Snap ocassionally deprives you of recognizing some basic standard lib functions ... You won’t be very happy after spending a day or two reversing a function to find it’s memmove in the end.

That sounds particularly devious.
Those keypads, you could throw anything to them and they would still give you that travel, click and satisfaction.
Yeah, Illustrator (or SVG, DXF, etc...) as a source format is pretty common, but there was almost certainly another piece of software (or possibly firmware, depending on the device) in the pipeline there.
The source format is only the first step, you then need to generate tool paths from the source that actually direct the machine -- those involve converting the primitives from your drawing (something like "filled circle of radius r at point x,y") to a series of x/y/z motions that achieve the stated result, while accounting for all sorts of physical constraints like the nature and size of the tool, cutting speed, feed speed, etc... That's what the software mentioned is doing, and isn't something practical to do in Illustrator alone.
MakePython A9G GPRS/GPS Shield
Jitsi is a fraction of what they do and something they didn’t even own that long ago. The company is tiny, 42x less valued than Zoom and doesn’t appear profitable. It isn’t growing in the right direction at the moment. If anything, it is a reason for why Zoom shouldn’t do what Jitsi or 8x8 are doing.
Virtually every u2f implementation I've ever seen allows otp as a backup, reducing the security of one to the other. U2f is so much nicer than otp but hardware keys have devolved to being convenient not more secure than otp.
I think this really depends on the work you do, also. Pure development or content creation and I'm good with just a laptop. For research, with team communication, concurrent terminal sessions, debugging, management - I really do want at least 3 screens.
LibriVox recordings are Public Domain in the USA. If you are not in the USA, please verify the copyright status of these works in your own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws.

Is there any easy-access repository that goes over the copyright patchwork for different works around the world? I yearn for the day when we have a more global schema for copyright/distribution rights.

As someone who travels frequently - it does my head in when a subscription content provider geo-blocks something I'm accessing.
They have come out to say some very good things, as you say. But is it still principled if it only comes right after failing to win a big contract to do the opposite? Not as clear
You're missing out on a lot of opportunities by not giving LI consideration. A lot of good companies use it, GitHub is also important for developers.

However, you can double your income by thinking differently about LI. If that doesn't speak to its value as a network, I might need to reassess what network value means.
Section 3.

Here's Josh's own description of the legislative intent: "Big tech companies would have to prove to the FTC by clear and convincing evidence that their algorithms and content-removal practices are politically neutral. The FTC could not certify big tech companies for immunity except by a supermajority vote"

If the FTC has the authority that Josh wants it to have then it will 100% be politically weaponized by whoever controls the white house at the time of passage (so, Trump, because it'll only pass if R's sweep in 2021). IMO it's quite naive to think otherwise. In general, but also specifically with respect to Trump.

But, assume Trump is this amazingly neutral and high-minded person uninterested in using political power to shape social media narratives. Okay. I have a PhD in machine learning, have tons of experience designing and deploying systems, and I'm pretty up to date on all of the fairness literature. I have No. Fucking. Clue. how I would convince even myself that a content moderation algorithm is "politically neutral".

Even with a clean spec, this seems hard because content moderation algorithms are huge and complex. Wasn't it just a few years ago that a bug in Java's sorting algorithm was found by trying to certify its correctness? Like, bugs live in freaking sorting algorithms of the most popular languages for years and years. Even with a ridiculously clean spec, ...

...and the spec here isn't nearly as clean as "sort the list".
The question of what "politically neutral" even means is extraordinarily political. So even if the FTC wasn't explicitly weaponized -- and, dear god, it will be, because the counter-factural here is insane -- the judgements here will still be implicitly political because the spec ("politically neutral") is inherently political.

Proving that a hugely complex ML algorithm is fair simply won't be some sort of apolitical mathematical exercise.

Also, note well: I wasn't even referring to the Ending Support for Internet Censorship Act specifically. But I don't really want to start a debate around this point because that's all beside the point.

I'm curious. What do you think of the proposal made in this thread that people should be able to use their own filters and the big tech cos should be required to implement a clean api for enabling third party filters?

That seems like it solves the "some people don't want to see X" problem in a pretty politically neutral way, but also in a way that acknowledges the difference between the walled-garden network effects web of 2020 and the more decentralized web of 2005.

Seems strictly superior to Josh's proposal of creating a huge incentive to politically weaponize the FTC and giving that almost certainly weaponized body broad authority.

If you think that the "user-chosen filters" solution is not better than Josh's proposal, I'm really interested to hear why.
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This seems like pro-virtue-signalling-as-a-term virtue signalling. We get it, you want all the other people who use the term virtue signalling to like you.

ALWAYS dismissive and reductive. ALWAYS. It's not a good faith argument. If you think someone is all-talk-no-action, accuse them of being performative. If you think someone's cause is dumb, attack that. You can call ANYBODY advocating for a viewpoint a virtue signaller so it is an entirely meaningless attack.
Are the numbers different for you? 8x8 appears to have a market cap of $1.55B vs Zoom’s $67B. 40x difference.
Full report:
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale

and full pdf
https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/ad-aspi/2020-06/Uygh...
3840x2880 34" would be so nice.
I think she/he/it was referring more specifically to mammals and other animals with blood.
Do NOT misunderstand this. Recognition != Identification. Microsoft just pushed how to detect faces, they don't know who they are.
I see. I mean, yes I obviously know the difference between pointers and arrays as general CS concepts (and articulated how other languages get it correct), but we're not talking about CS, we're talking about C. Perhaps I should have said in my original context, "array syntax" is the same as "pointer syntax". But while the CS concepts of "array" and "pointer" are indeed different, the C syntax elides the two. C does not track the immutable length of the array for you.
If you’re gonna do a crime, do a complicated crime...
95% less slogans and soundbites might've made this an interesting read.
That makes sense. I remember absolutely huge data sheets and reference manuals for the IAPX432. So it's very possible that Intel didn't think hard about re-licensing the somewhat janky 0x86 design because they expected it to be a dead end.
The Chernobyl explosion was a steam explosion caused by superheated cooling water.

You may be thinking of Fukushima which was mainly due to the build up of hydrogen gas.
> 2. If the 4k screen is on your laptop, good luck ever having a decent experience plugging in a 1080p monitor. Also good luck having anyone's random spare monitor be 4k.

I have been running two 1440p displays on a 4K retina MBP and the experience has been impressively seamless. Both with Catalina (the latest) and High Sierra

The biggest problem is with Apple port splitters; they are crap and sometimes monitors wake from sleep with a garbled picture
Throttle your internet connection or add simulated latency too!
From the article referencing the Wikileaks taskforce - "The CIA acknowledged its security processes were so “woefully lax” that the agency probably would never have known about the data theft had Wikileaks not published the stolen documents online.

If hollywood did one thing well - it was to inspire in me a misplaced faith in the competency of security/government institutions.
I can't help but wonder if it's more of a "a little from Column A, a little from Column B" scenario.

There's no doubt they have skilled security staff, but - as a company overall - they also grew very quickly.

How much of that obfuscation is intentional and how much might just be old code from a few years ago that nobody got around to removing? Before it was passed through obfuscation.
Well the crux of E2EE is authenticity, so yes. Key distribution is a fundamental problem of public-key cryptography: you can’t get my public, authentic identity key without trusting someone to not tamper with it along the way. We implicitly trust [Zoom|iMessage|Telegram|...] to do this.
>I agree that ACAB - but drugs aren’t illegal “so the police can murder black people with impunity”. Arguments like yours damage the credibility of the civil-rights movement.

It does sound absurd doesn't it? How about this one:

A law was created so that one group of citizens could keep another group of citizens as slaves; buy them and sell them; whip them and beat them; murder them with impunity. They authorized the creation of a police force to hunt and kill any that escaped. The system was so entrenched that the leaders at the state level chose to take up arms and fight a civil war.

Does that sound crazy?

Now, do you believe that that entire system of racism and economic servitude just vanished at the end of the war? Do you know that the Thirteenth Amendment, contrary to its propaganda claim that it banned slavery, just changed the requirement from "being black" to "being a criminal". You get that right? You can be a slave if you are a criminal, under the US Constitution. Do you think there might be a correlation there? Something a racist state could game? The US used to have the most slaves. Now it has the most prisoners. The prisons are for profit and their labor is for profit.

Wake the fuck up.

This is not a few bad cops. This is systemic. From presidents on down. If you think any of these statements damages the credibility of the civil-rights movements, then you aren't going to be able to vote for the changes that are needed, are you? You'll vote for the little ones, that fit your definition of what the problem is, but you aren't going to help with the root cause. You aren't going to help end what has been going on for centuries, and is still causing black people to be murdered indiscriminately.

And yes, murdering black people helps keep the white folk in line. It helps at the ballot box. It means you can talk about thugs. "Look, the fact that we kill a disproportionate number of black people is proof that black people are criminals. Better vote for someone who will fund the police!"
For what level of options trading, 3? 4?
Curious why Samsung and Sony were pulled out of the headline? Surely people aren’t convinced that Apple is the only corporation in the world with questionable things in their supply chain.
some resources you may want to use:

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/10/using-smartphone-ca...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4950215/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6166694/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVQzu9AL3IU

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_best_measure_t...
Nobody? Anybody? Any links to where might be a better forum to pose this question perhaps?
I'm surprised this isn't a bigger deal for people, more the essentially concentration camps.

Any ideas why that is?
It's not meant as an argument, but as an illustration: people who I respect more than the author of TFA, and whose skill and accomplishments I've witnessed first hand, weren't eager to upgrade from tiny screens. It's not that they would've refused a better screen if given one, it's just that they didn't ask for it and it wasn't a pressing issue. Indeed, for them it was not "time to upgrade the monitor".

It taught me the valuable lesson that creating software, to them, was mostly about thinking, not about the gadgets you use to write it down.

Like another commenter said, it seems gadgets work as proxies for talent for some developers -- "you should use a mechanical keyboard and a 5K three-monitor setup, like real hackers do" -- because actual talent is harder to gain and demonstrate. A sort of cargo culting by accumulating tech gadgets.
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Gravy, the podcast, did a piece on this corn as well: https://www.southernfoodways.org/gravy/a-taste-of-place-whis...
The data on this map makes it look like they're going for pretty uniform coverage already. Is there a source for the early orbital planes having a specific purpose? The earth rotates underneath each plane, and the times of day it will be available to any given ground path change over the course of a year.

It does seem pretty convenient that the inclination they've chosen lines the satellites up nearly in a straight path from New York to London, but I imagine this would be relevant to many transatlantic communications.