skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I set up Tales From The Dork Web[1] on Substack because I wanted somewhere to write non-commercially, and Medium was a cess-pit.

I fully expect one day for Substack to end up like Medium, but having spoken to quite a few of the people there on all kinds of matters, they're fighting against it really hard.

When the inevitable does happen, I'll take Tales From The Dork Web elsewhere. Until then, It's the first non self-hosted platform I've used for writing that I'm actually ok with, and I'm pretty functionally paranoid.

[1] - https://thedorkweb.substack.com/
Wirecard Scandal Puts Spotlight on Auditor Ernst and Young
I'm conflicted.

On one hand, I don't believe citizens should have the ability to protect communications (or anything, really) from a lawful warrant. It is obvious that the right to privacy is not a right to perfect forward secrecy. If there is a tool that achieves this I'm not convinced it should be legal to use.

On the other hand I trip up over the whole "lawful warrant" thing because of the long history of abuse.

Someone smarter than me should tell me what to think.
Your idea of "justice" is based upon group membership, as unfortunately for many other people. I see absolutely no difference between a poor white person vs. a poor black person. Sure, there might be more poor black people, but so what? Do you seriously believe that rich white people would actively be trying to help poor white people and not poor black people? No, everybody wants riches for themselves, poor whites aren't given anything either.

This is what I tune out of the conversation whenever someone mentions "patriarchy" (the "modern" version, i.e. "men are in power" not "men own women") - I'm a man, but I've never received any benefit just because (most of) our presidents / businessmen are men (in fact, arguably (individual) women receive more benefits, because most of those men are heterosexuals).
They do indicate the region, and it does include sweden, finland, large parts of baltics and certain areas in russia:
https://mobile.twitter.com/SinaZerbo/status/1276559857731153...

Had you included the full quote you would have known why they did not point out the exact location: "We are able to indicate the likely region of the source, but it’s outside the CTBTO’s mandate to identify the exact origin"

If I interpret it correctly it means that they do not know the exact location and other organisations will now have to investigate it further to get the exact origin.
This, of all things, has finally convinced me to make a Fortnite account.
"Muh society is decadent / it was better before."
This is great. I've been wanting to do something similar for simulating attempts against the Microtransat Challenge[1] using realtime ocean conditions, sailing physics, etc. In fact I was just writing down the "feature" list yesterday, so very happily surprised to see this pop up on HN today! :)

I was working with sailsd, boatd and similar packages from "sails-simulator"[2] repo but wanted to simplify and make it simpler to jump in.

This looks like very similar work, could you comment as to how your simulation compares if you're familiar with the "sails-simulator" packages?

[1] https://www.microtransat.org/

[2] https://github.com/sails-simulator

Edit: formatting
Wouldn’t be surprised if nuclear fission waste is being dumped
> Would you accept "trust in the media" as one such measure of decline?

No I wouldn't. The whole gist of my comments is that increased distrust is a good thing. That it led to all kinds of factions trusting there own version of nonsense is sad, but the fact that they don't blindly trust news outlets is good.

> As to people paying for proper Journalism, we also used to say no one would pay for electric cars or for music. Maybe we just need better products.

The difference being that people did pay for journalism, and no longer do. 30 years ago, you would likely have had at least one subscription to a newspaper - often two (one local and one national).

Today, the number of people who have such subscriptions has dropped to half what it was (I'm surprised it is still this high).
The original data seems to be available at [^1] but I dont see any spike around the 22-23 of June ... Let's wait to know more before saying anything stupid (looking at you Greenpeace)

[^1] https://www.stuk.fi/aiheet/sateily-ymparistossa/sateilytilan...
Yes, that's unfortunate, but correctable. There is no excuse for the on-going refusal of the POTUS to encourage mask wearing.
Why not Android 10 ?
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Explorable Explanations: https://explorabl.es/

Interactive Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Statistics websites: https://p.migdal.pl/interactive-machine-learning-list/
It takes some time to get full support for the very newest hardware in Linux. This is nothing new. And it's why buying a previous-gen model at a discount can be a better deal overall.
It’s crazy how much waste we produce. You only realize that after you start separating your trash for recycling.
One of paper authors here. I'll try and answer some of the questions in the comments.

It seems like so long ago the paper actually went public onto the arXiv, but I guess the press embargo just ended.
> Thus Asians are definitely underrepresented in leadership vs employee population

Only slightly - the graph in the article shows Asians are ~87% represented in leadership roles, compared to their (over-represented) numbers in tech.

Meaning, using the article's own numbers, a random Asian is 5.3x as likely to be in tech as a random white, and 3.9x as likely to be in tech leadership.
> Start in an instant: A built in lid sensor allows you to open the lid and power up in milliseconds, no matter what power-state you are in.

Really? < 10ms resume? From hibernation, too?
It's really not "perfectly" explainable by physics since we don't understand all aspects of physics yet. If you said "mostly" explainable by physics I would believe you.

Also, if an alien happens to be shining a beam at us rhythmically, that's also "explained" by physics but we won't actually know if the source is a natural phenomena or an alien shining his super flashlight at us.
AFAIK that's one Project Veritas video dealing with Google.
Interesting article, and of course we don't know the reason for decrease in trust. Is it because the media is lying more, or because the people have better access to information and thus are realizing the lies of the media? That's probably impossible to measure.

And interesting that

> Democrats' Trust in Media Highest in Past 20 Years

While Republican has gone down. I wonder how much effect Donald Trump saying "Fake news" on Twitter all the time has on people's perception, versus what they would think if he wasn't saying that.
Ask HN: Visual website builder for muggles (not Wordpress)
Seen elsewhere, asking for an acquaintance, although I expect the demand for this exists in a wider context:

I'm looking for a visual website builder that either runs on a local machine or is self-hostable, that I can provide to several people who have expressed a desire to have a website, so that I don't just install wordpress for them.

Something that produces plain HTML would be ideal.

I'm looking for, essentially, a static site generator with a UI instead of a markdown and templating based experience.

Added in edit: To clarify ... imagine something like Word, but designed to build a simple, static website instead of a single document. No markdown, just editing via the GUI. Thanks.
Original author here, happy to answer any questions.

I also appreciate the load testing! For the curious, we're at 30 open rooms, and I'm seeing:

- 0.0 server load

- 2.6 MB of RAM used by nginx + its worker process

- 4 MB used by pont-server
The paperwork has to lie to cover up the misappropriation of actual money.

If the paperwork's lie were the only problem, then it could just be corrected to account for the theft, and all would be well.
Qualcomm is also nowhere near a startup or a fledgling SMB
People are always mentioning Gell-Mann amnesia as well. I think this is one area that independent writers, especially ones who have a lot of experience in a particular industry, can add a lot. They can write about events, technology, and scholarship, from the perspective of an expert. They can be better at passing on the who-what-when-where-why because they know enough to not just have to take anyone's word for it, and if they're good, they're confident enough in their position that they don't have to signal any sort of ideological credentials to have their facts accepted, so they don't signal. Obviously this is an ideal, but I think it's a very plausible one.
Well, even if the better unit is liters per 100km, you’d still face the same problems because the UK/US would be talking about gallons per x miles where they would still face the issue the poster described of differing units of gallons.
trading != investing
Oh, good grief. So I left out the word "mainly". That in no way refutes my point, which is that this entire discussion has been politicized. And the fact that you are picking at such a tiny nit just further proves my point.
I implemented a bunch of cache oblivious search trees and benchmarked them against their classical counterparts. The results showed that while the cache oblivious ones were more cache efficient, they were slower overall.

The implementations and benchmarks can be found here if anyone is curious: https://gitlab.com/VladLazar/cache-oblivious-data-structures
Can I ask what steps you took and arrived at the error?

I've tried to cover bases with tests where I can but i'm sure i've missed some
Capitalism is slaved to thermodynamics too hard. We wanna be green? Biomass energy is green. Cut down all the forests and burn them for power! (What? We're not burning coal. This is renewable.) Meanwhile, the actual, durable alternative (nuclear) is off the table because it's too scary and expensive.

Also, all those batteries and solar panels are a continuous (fossil fuel consuming) production burden. But I guess that never stood in the way of profit before.

Ironically, the most profitable model would be if there was just stuff you could dig out of the ground and use right away that was extremely energy-rich.
I’m using Tokio and Async_std (Actix Web, redis, reqwest ), everything’s great and feels pretty mature, except for the scary part of no warning when using sync code from it.
The problem with "independent journalism" is the loss of a shared coherent narrative about the world. There's just no shared context. Many don't even watch/read the news anymore. Earlier this year I introduced my grandma to YouTube, but I was surprised how fast she got hooked and stopped watching conventional news altogether, so much so that she hadn't even heard of the George Floyd protests. Whereas previously I used to talk with my grandma about stuff on the news, that stopped after she started watching YouTube, because her channel subscriptions do not intersect with mine, so we have nothing in common to talk about.

It's a sort of regression to pre-modern tribalism where only "local" events matter to you -- except "local" means whatever independent content creators you are subscribed to, and their respective tribes. While this was always the case for much of the developing and pre-modern world, this is a new state of affairs for the West. The educated Western public is now regressing to a state of ignorance about global affairs to the extent that they have no idea what "global affairs" even means, all the while believing that they have a "better" worldview due to their "woke" independent analysis. The real problem is the loss of a shared context and common knowledge with which to engage in conversation with people around you.
are you looking forward to reading all the crazy people's takes on why it's actually aliens that you found?
I’m not even sure if a lot of these businesses do that. Some of them seem more like a mechanism to shovel VC money around than an actual plan on how to make a product or service that’ll make money.
>Trust in the government is at an all time high
Sure, after successful handling the pandemic. Was a nice surprise for me as well, especially compared to China
How is that? The minerals we dig we know how those formed through natural processes.
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What? You think the same Russia that offered bounties to the Taliban to kill US soldiers might be up to nuclear shenanigans, again?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghan...
From their website:

> We neither develop nor support the Linux drivers for our devices, and this is common, as free and open source is the Linux way.

> As such, if you encounter an issue with your Killer Networking adapter in Linux, your best, quickest, and most accurate line of support is going to be the community, either for the Linux distribution that you are using, or the driver itself.

Easy way out I guess.
Journalists don't take statistics classes.
Personally over the past few decades investing in US equities, I have found arbitraging information found in Asian-language tech sites and real-world locations such as Shenzhen surprisingly profitable. My best example was a tip I garnered in 2011 from a Beijing KO employee brandishing her new iPhone 4. When I idly asked her if other employees in the huge KO (hundreds of staff) had iPhones, she offhandedly exclaimed 我们都有！ ("we all have them"). That moment set me up for a very comfortable retirement.
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Losing the Narrative: The Genre Fiction of the Professional Class
I remember back when microfinance was winning Nobel prices and I had just started studying economics I considered investing in it.

This was the true promise of capitalism - investing money will make everyone better off.

However, the only microfinance organizations available would only take donations not investments.

So I would have had to donate money to someone in order for them to lend it to a poor farmer for outlandish 30% and above interest rates!

I’d rather donate it to an actual charity in that case.
Release notes can be found here: https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_ulyana_cinnamon_whatsnew.php
The individual and the society are always in tension.

The truly nefarious are going to use things like one-time pads and couriers anyway.

I'd fall short of calling this "security theater" (like the TSA) but flawed crypto seems more along the lines of keeping honest people honest.

Once the flaws are inserted in the crypto, then it's only a matter of time until Bad Actors figure out how to exploit the flaws.

It's not the first time that harm has been done in the name of good. But the technically savvy need to get the word out: this is not a "solvable" problem, and the optimal choice is to let crypto be crypto, if the individual citizen matters at all.
Should read "Senators propose weak encryption"
My question was exactly @Retr0spectrum's, the cost in performance, but I don't accept your answer (yet). I presume you mean intel and intel has a large transistor budget to burn, and quite like did to get that fastest perf. If you don't have to enforce strong ordering, how much extra a) actual speed b) transistor budget could you free up?

(not a hardware guy
it's not just him, there is a sizeable contingent of people who focus on just these apps for all their uses, and I think it would be much bigger if mobile didn't promote separate apps for everything.
> I don't believe citizens should have the ability to protect communications (or anything, really) from a lawful warrant.

Supposing there was a method to read thoughts or memories without physical contact, would you allow police to do so as long as they had a warrant?

edit: typo
The guys over at Talk Python has a dedicated course that sounds like what you need: https://training.talkpython.fm/courses/explore_dotnet/python...

I can't comment on the quality of the course as I haven't taken it, but generally speaking Talk Python usually has high quality stuff.

Hope this helps!
Yes, i think Reddit shows a note saying content restricted in your country in response to a legal notice. And then it says geoblocked in India.
If you're in an engineering discipline that does calculations involving mass and force, it's probably a good idea to work in metric even if you need to convert the final answer back. At least in my experience, it's way too easy to mess up when using pound force, pound mass, and slugs.
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More on coconut oil specifically: http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/coconut-oil.shtml
If a government has a great firewall installs its own root certificate on locally sold devices, it can pull all sorts of shenanigans.
This is basically an introvert vs extrovert thing.

My favorite way to tell this is to ask if someone prefers beaches or mountains. Extroverts prefer beaches, introverts mountains, and a lot of the population sits somewhere in between.
Joplin would be my suggestion right now.
There are reports about it working (till various degrees) in USA. Till what extend, I do not know. Consult the forums for more information. Its a friendly community.
The web of 1995 leaves me nostalgic for simpler times
> Many young art teachers have never heard of MG

I find this almost impossible to believe. MG is like the VERY first graphic designer you're introduced to in Art School. Any art school.
Autochrome was an early technique for color photography. Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation [1].

The starch grains were randomly scattered on one side of the photographic plate, and acted as filters so that small portions of the plate would capture certain colors. The plate was then developed as a positive image.

When you would shine light through the developed plate it would go through the starch grains (still on the plate) as well as the developed image. The developed image controls the luminosity while the colored starch grains again act as a filter and control the hue of the transmitted light, roughly reproducing the original scene.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome_Lumi%C3%A8re
Probably my favorite videogame of all time. And that's despite (or maybe because) of the fact that even after all these years playing it, I'm still not very good at it!
I don't think that in general (even in organizations) the KRs of OKRs have to be quantitative, they just have to be more-or-less binary. For example "agree upon the spec for feature X" is a perfectly valid KR.
two different books, just like people, can have two different styles right ?
> I don't believe citizens should have the ability to protect communications (or anything, really) from a lawful warrant.

Seriously? Should the government have the right to know what I whisper into someone's ear?
Anecdotal experience like this is totally useless. Sometimes I can’t even make it through half a day with my XR.

About the same time of ownership; battery health is 91%
it has a custom ui, aside from security which can be patched, why would they update its android version
What TFA is doing is basically the inverse of a digital camera sensor. They're essentially putting a coloured tint in front of each pixel (actually a block of 4 pixels) in a bayer pattern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter), and using software to mosaic (convert) a colour image into its Bayer components if you will so that a block of four pixels under a green tint for example is lit only with it's green channel, and so on for each colour. You lose some spatial resolution this way of course.
Patents are expenses that a startup should not spend. There are too few upsides. And if you need to defend yourself against a bigger player or patent troll, you are bancrupt anyways
Maybe people in the future will make fun of anything besides that Dropbox comment.
I wonder how much the biofilm on the surface manages to prevent erosion of the substrate.
It's probably not a problem... probably... just a showing a small discrepancy. It's well within acceptable bounds.

Seriously, I’d be interested in some stats on how various nuclear accidents have been disclosed/reported. Feels like a good litmus test of transparency.
There is more. Individual ISPs can ban or even slow down websites as per their own wishes. Airtel in india (which is about to raise an investment by Amazon) blocked a lot of websites like Streamable when it wasnt even legally banned. Just showed the error as address could not be found. I circumvented by changing my DNS to cloudflare and it started working. Jio totally blocked telegram with no directions from court or govt.
Generics ARPU is still above $300 / year. New generic only requires 24 people to get FDA approval.
I dropped 5 Kilos in lockdown by focusing on one metric
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Why would you expect grads to come up with the logarithmic solution? That's a piece of trivia that says absolutely nothing about their actual capabilities, just how well they remember their linear algebra.

Also why stop there? An actual smart coder would have looked up the constant time solution instead of bothering with any of that.
you should not be. the us gov has plenty of ways to catch bad people. they don't need this.
They were in 1987 when SBIR gave them their first grant [0]. That's sort of the point, parent comment asked for an example of a company that exited with SBIR help, and I gave him a wildly successful one.

[0] https://www.sbir.gov/node/285190
Yeah, it made it impossible for me to take the OP seriously when they weren’t even around in the timeframe they’re referencing. Nor did they do the research to get it right. Real crusader putting in the work.
I was certain, but I was wrong (2000)
As much as I can agree to this, for me personally it wouldn't be worth it to work at a place where clearly defining your feelings and letting your coworkers know is seen as a weakness. In many of my interviews I've had no problem asking for a minute or two to recompose myself due to nervousness, and even though it might have led to me being rejected, at the end of the day it just means I wouldn't enjoy working there anyways.
Stop Firing the Innocent
Different frequency bands, mostly. With a side of CDMA / device authorization on Verizon and Sprint.
> in C that would mean a null pointer

It's a Rust-ism. In Rust there is no null.
This is why I come to HN! Thanks for sharing this.
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On a side note, HyperDeck looks great! Is this open-source?
Pulsars aren't 100% ruled out, but I think they're considered reasonably unlikely. The problem is mostly the apparent brightness. If you place almost any known pulsar (which are all in our galaxy) at the in the host galaxy of a localised FRB which(only a fraction of FRB's do we have measured distances for, but they're all quite far away), if would be far too dim.

The only exception to this is the Crab pulsar, which is observed to occasionally have "giant pulses" which are 1000s of times brighter than a typical pulse. If you put the a somewhat brighter version of the Crab pulsar in an FRB host galaxy at the low end of the known distances, you might just about be able to see it.