skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The allegations about turkey are certainly not false. Flynn was being paid ~600k$ during the campaign to lobby for turkey. This for example was an oped he released under turkish supervision on election day: https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/305021...
He only declared this conflict of interest some months later. Nobody disputes this. The only question is if it can be proven that taking money from a wealthy turkish business man and friend of erdo to further turkish national interests constitutes working for the turkish gov.

He continued his pro turkey stance in his short term as NSA and tried some shady stuff like selling nuclear tech to the saudis while enriching himself and some friends.

This guys corruption is pretty impressive.
Your version is definitely more performant, but the three liner is just a bit nicer to read (especially for beginners) :)
Start by making agents by using heurists and not AI. Once you have these in your game at least you can release it. If you are not happy with that performance then you can start to look at RL methods.
The origin seems to in England in the 1600s and linked to non-racial uses of black as bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting

However, the at least some proponents of phrasology changes have also included any words that portray black or white really regardless of context.
> and broke 3dfx by poaching engineers

I don't like the term "poaching". It implies that the engineers who took better paying jobs did something wrong, whereas they were just trying to retain a bigger portion of the enormous value that they were creating.
Emulating Windows system calls, take 2
same experience when i was on android (around v7) and f-droid.
it basically crashed/failed every time. i use ytdl quite a lot and updating it once every few months is sufficient ...
Ooh a political article that starts with an Elon Musk quote.

Communism has "failed" in a lot of places, mostly due to the US strongly intervening to make it so.

Why does the "success" of captialism not have to account for the millions of people suffering in abject poverty? Or the toll on the environment? Or the deaths caused by American embargos / sanctions? They have better medical care in Cuba than in the US, despite being under an embargo for more than half a century.

BTW, Elon Musk is the son of a family that got rich off apartheid and then he left SA when apartheid was ended. He's also accused someone of being a pedophile for being more heroic than him. The man is human garbage.
Closest Pictures Ever Taken of Sun Show Tiny Campfire Flares
USA and UK both reportedly took actions to stop funding pandemic response infrastructure, removing stockpiles and failing to fix known failures.

The chances of both countries doing this just before a global pandemic seem similar to the chances that there's a virus lab in a Chinese mega-city that saw some of the first cases.

So, it's proven Trump and Johnson are secretly Chinese operatives working as part of a covert group hellbent on destroying Capitalism with engineered viruses!!1one /s
The risk of compromise of the sitting president's account poses a much greater threat than does that of a former one. Also, the prominence of Twitter as a means for a head of state to communicate official policy came much further in prominence during the current president's term than before.
This postmortem (if it exists at all) will never see the light of the day...
Retired to join law firm he was fighting while heading BfV. Clearly no conflict of interest there.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-ex-spy-chief-maassen-to-join-la...

I hope the revolving door didnt hit him in the ass.
Why Not Draft the Next Congress?
This right here is why I'm glad my office has a policy of no more than 3 hours of meetings a week, and no more than 1 hour any given day. If you can't fit it in that time, you have a week to think over how you can be more efficient without waisting everyone's time.
Because I don't care about the environmental cost beacuse people like you who don't eat meat will cover for my cost, god bless.

Also tbqh I'd prefer some trees chopped off than to quit eating steaks.
"Moral immunity shields the alleged victim from criticism about the means they might use to satisfy their demands. In other words, victim status can morally justify the use of deceit, intimidation, or even violence by alleged victims to achieve their goals. Relatedly, claiming victim status can lead observers to hold a person less blameworthy, excusing transgressions, such as the appropriation of private property or the infliction of pain upon others, that might otherwise bring condemnation or rebuke. Finally, claiming victim status elevates the claimant's psychological standing, defined as a subjective sense of legitimacy or entitlement to speak up."
Although "pour encourager les autres" is similar to "the floggings will continue", I do not think that it is the same sentiment, or in the same lineage.

The sarcasm lands on the word "encourage" - so that it does not mean "encourage to have better morale", instead it means "encourage to work harder out of fear of punishment".

The phrase means "to make an example of someone, as a warning to strike fear into the rest, and ensure compliance". (1) It is a crack of the overseer's whip.

On the other hand, "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves" expresses a self-defeating cycle of interventions that perpetuates the situation.

1 ) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pour%20encourager...
Friend, let me first say that I'm not a js coder, I don't know whether the criticisms in that issue are justified or not. It is certainly an unkind response, if someone doesn't like a library they could suggest improvements or just ignore it. You would be justified in closing the issue with the comment "this is not an issue".

That said, even though the words were unkind, you would be wise to ask yourself if there is any truth in them; do some research on the criticisms that this guy made. If there is grounds, then you have an opportunity to improve your library, and more importantly your skills, if not then you have a coherent argument as to why your approach has merit. Don't do this immediately, leave GitHub alone for a week and come back to it when you've had a pause to reflect.
WebGPU is very similar to Metal. While it is closer to Vulkan than to OpenGL, it's still higher level than Vulkan and easier to use.
The problem is the availability of vegetarian / vegan meals in western society. Sophisticated food culture revolves around meat. It requires planning and work (in addition to dealing with the lizard brain).

In particular, as a gym-goer I want my protein, and if soya is out too, then it's quite a bit more difficult. Excuses, I know.
And then when you're done you can move on to his other project: https://esoteric.codes/
Not to mention, unexpected hurdles (the pesky public) got in the way.

He did his part, and should be compensated... at least, that could be the logic.
And does the creator then pay YouTube for the delivery service?

If not then there's still a shortfall.
Email charges: 'They've got you over a barrel'
After reading Krebs' initial take on the incident[0], I think a plausible explanation is that whoever created the hack isn't the person who exploited the hack.

The hacker managed to get an amazing level of access, but exploiting that, and extracting value from it, and getting away clean is probably really hard. So they sold the access to whoever was willing to pay for it for a guaranteed return. That also gives you an extra middleman that law enforcement has to get past before they get to you, and confusing the trail between the middleman and you might be easier than confusing the trail between your targets and you.

Except whoever paid for the access and used the exploit just didn't have the imagination to do something that made as full use of the hack as they might have done. And now dozens of other criminals are facepalming themselves to death for not having been the ones to have bought this opportunity for their own ends, which they think would have been much more epic.

[0] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-e...
What do you mean? NoiseTorch deals with PulseAudio, it doesn't deal with hardware directly, so, yes, Linux needs to have a driver for your soundcard.
I'd structure the pricing page a bit differently. Having a "Lifetime" plan isn't really something that's common for a offering like that because everyone knows it's not actually lifetime. I only realized that there are more "normal" plans once I scrolled but on the first glance it looks like the lifetime plan is the only one available.
Optimism and Emergency in the P2P Network
I kind of, very minimally understand the comparison. But it doesn’t hold up on any dimension. As a thought experiment, could you write a script that tied together “web apps” that only invoked the apps through some kind of interface? No you can’t because they don’t have a uniform interface.

The fact that (some) web apps transmit data via an API, which is text, doesn’t mean that text is their primary interface.

Also, what web application does just one thing today? The most popular ones are absolute seas of features. Unix commands also became fairly poor at sticking to this, but nowhere near to the level of web apps.
Not bad, they just need to get it to tweet. Then it'll be looked back on as a prophet.
BS. It's just monitoring marketing performance. That's cool, it's alright, but just say it, don't lie about it.
But if you can use a framework then that is going to save you a ton of work, both upfront and in maintenance costs. Since developer resources are almost always limited, that means you end up with more time left over for actual application features.

(And by "use" I mean use directly, not through some framework-abstracting metaframework you've written yourself - I think it's very obvious that's going to be a disaster. The whole point of a framework is to abstract over different APIs, so if you have to abstract on top of them then they serve no purpose. It brings to mind horror stories of hand-rolled database engines written on top of other database engines!)

I think your comment leaps directly from "if you can't use a framework directly then you're best off writing your own" (fair point) to "I don't like frameworks at all", without tackling the key bit in middle: how often is it possible to use a framework directly? The truth is, most applications can be built just fine with a framework like Qt. There is a gap between "hello world" and Krita that encompasses almost all practical programs.

Even in Krita's case, with all the pain they've encountered, they're still not seriously discussing abandoning Qt. They're even talking about maintaining their own patch set! Given how much experience they obviously have on the subject I think that shows there is value even in a framework that doesn't fully work for you. (I know that's an appeal to authority but I think there's some value in that argument.)

One compromise is to use a framework like Qt for all the boring bits of your program, like the dialog boxes and window decorations, then write your own wrapper for low-level APIs for the main display area if it needs it. I must admit I'm not sure how feasable this actually is given that something else in ultimately in control of the overall rending - maybe it isn't at all given that Krita doesn't do it.
The headline, the problem and the solutions are all different things.

- Front end tracking did not lie, the people tracking it were not aware. If opendoor was spending on Ads, the marketing team would be the first to see a disparity between the clicks on an ad network and pageviews on their end.

- As such this is also a reason why you need to check your server hit logs with your Analytics.

- Where is the author is right it Frontend numbers being incorrect largely due to blockers

- His understanding of bounces is also incorrect. Bounce is when there is no second "interaction event", many marketing folks fake-fix the bounce rate, by sending a scroll event as an interaction event.

- I always tell people that analytics numbers are "signals", not "metrics", they are not accurate enough to be called "metrics"
Just show ads that fit into the site's content. I don't need to see vacations when I'm browsing tech docs. How hard is this?
Different people have different time preferences (preference for futures vs current satisfaction). Evidently most people don't even care what their diet does to their own health in fifty years time (given the massive rise in diet-related preventable illnesses), so I don't imagine they'd care about much about the environmental effects either. And there's nothing wrong with that; there's no "objectively correct" time preference, no objective way to say "X units of satisfaction thirty years from now is worth Y units of satisfaction today".
I don't like the slippery slope fallacy in general, but with this topic I am really asking myself how things will develop eventually. Will colors be outlawed, to be replaced by wavelength numbers? Will hierarchies of all sorts be forbidden? How will we be able to make movies or write books or computer games about historic events?
They disabled the account that were identified to be compromised. That isn’t enough?
Luc Montagnier has gone completely nuts long ago. He's on several occassions proclaimed that DNA can teleport, that autism isn't real or caused by vaccines and joined anti-vaxxing movements and supported homeopathy, and the idea that water has memory, among other things.
I wouldn't say soya is out. It's about relative impacts: soya has a vastly lower environmental impact than meat.
Income 365
Looks like there's space in the market for a 3rd party email forwarding service. Call it O2N ... it would look like this:

* You provide O2N with your login credentials for your old account;

* Every day O2N logs in as you and collects all your emails;

* O2N then forwards the emails to a designated address;

* Each day you can set it to do this every minute for an hour.

This last lets you continue to use your old email for 2FA.

The old BT service here says you can access your email via a web interface, but not via an app. O2N would provide a halfway house for the ones that matter to you, and give you time to migrate.

I'm sure someone could design a better system ... there's a market for it.
I use the same trick, the problem is in this case the code examples don't work, you need to unblock JS for a moment.
Not the OP, am on mobile and too lazy to search for links and it’s also about Italy and not Mexico, but there were some studies made a few years ago that showed that the Calabrian organization ‘Ndrangheta was worth about 50-60 billion euros at the time. They had started getting big in the late ‘80s by smuggling Columbian cocaine into Europe but nowadays I think that the drug trade represents a very small percentage of their revenues. For example I live in a reasonably big Eastern-European capital and I’m pretty sure that the biggest waste disposal thing in our city is controlled by ‘Ndrangheta.

Presumably a similar transformation will be carried out by many Mexican cartels when and if the drug trade will dry off.
Lets build a gatsbyjs and markdown blog together
If you have a calculator on hand, could you post the n such that these two rules are equivalent? It’s wrinkling my brain.
Ecuadorian hummingbirds chirp ultrasonic songs of seduction
Just because there's no objectively correct measure, I wouldn't say that means it isn't wrong. There's nothing objective in ethics.

In your example of people not caring about their health: the environmental impact of diet is in a different ethical class for me. If you choose to ignore your own health that's your deal, but if you make choices that negatively impact the lives of millions I think the ethics are different.
I see this down voted, and frankly not surprised, this is a really unpopular opinion somehow, but this is not wrong. As a community we do see the duty of protecting environment imposed on us, but as an individual I don't think many people see it as that.

I don't know how to put it in words exactly, but "future is doomed" is somehow "everyone knows" one way or another (at least I am going to die before doom happens and a single individual cannot be held responsible for the doom anyways).

And then we also have the factories polluting the environment where we can debate on how useful the end product is, but when it comes down to a person eating meat the discussion just never would convince meat eaters in my opinion. Meat eaters could say "who's ultimately benefiting from the factories polluting environment" and the answer would more or less be some corporation. Why should they have all the fun ?
Are you implying I can't do any sound I/O without having a driver for said I/O? Preposterous.
I'm the target audience of NewPipe and also the target audience of Bandcamp, which is by far my preferred way of giving money back to the artists
Announcing the Release of Apollo Client 3.0
I've started building one last day and documenting the steps.

follow along and discuss the future implementations.

Don't mind the current looks of the blog. As this post is for those who are thinking of or want to develop one. So that we all can work together.... :)
Technical solutions can always be defeated by social engineering. Training is supposed to prevent that.
Sure - but I think it should be up to the OP to do so, rather than hoping somebody will get round to it, it seems pretty lazy and too supportive of paywalls. Or at least in the FAQ an explanation of how to read a paywalled article.
Also i am posting updated on this twitter thread

https://twitter.com/raevilman/status/1284204852155830272?s=2...
in the olden days, i could walk into a newsagent/video shop, pick up a product, exchange some plesantries, put down some coins, and walk out. no-one would know my name or anything about me.

nowadays, if you want to pay for a newspaper article or a video, you have to fork over all your pii and oblige yourself to paying a certain sum in the future unless you do something to cancel it.

there is no fairness in commerce any more. they treat us like hostiles, and we have to treat them like hostiles.

the current choice isn't between paying for it or pirating it, it's between handing over your identity and future income or actively hiding.

one party to this commercial transaction doesn't need to eat and has an income the size of hundreds of thousands of the other side.

NewPipe doesn't need to be trusted where Google actively requires you to trust them - yet repeatedly acts untrustworthily.

If they want me to happily give them money, let me do it without trusting those who do not deserve my trust. I shouldn't have to trust corporations.
Arguably top 10, no?
“Chief Purpose Officer”. What a cheap joke...
anxiety === lack of documentation + lack of frequent communication + general desire to be _done_ as soon as possible
How ultra-black fish disappear in the deepest seas
I strongly suggest you don't ask these questions. I upvoted your comment because I think it's worth being upvoted, but I'm generally a downvoter when I see that someone asks, regardless of how much I might agree with the comment, and I think I'm not the only one.

I've been wondering if that's a good approach, but I mostly feel that it's a good principle to uphold the HN rules over whatever comment I might agree with, so I downvote comments that include complaints.
> That’s why we have so few pandemics!!

Depends on how you define pandemic. Just in my lifetime I've seen the rise of HIV, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, H1N1, SARS-CoV-2, and perhaps others that I've forgotten, that meet the dictionary definition of pandemic. That is more than one pandemic per decade, on average, which seems like a lot.

But you can also avoid calling them pandemics. HIV, for example, is officially a "worldwide epidemic". As per the dictionary definition of pandemic, I cannot find any difference between pandemic and worldwide epidemic, but I suppose to an epidemiologist there is a difference.
I'm inclined to agree. Framing environmentalism as a problem that individuals need to solve isn't going to get us anywhere. It's a problem with the rules of the game, it requires political willpower.
> Tracking that makes your life better is useful. If Opendoor knows you are looking for a new house in Arizona, and they can show you just the right house before it's sold to someone else, isn't that fantastic?

I bought into this reasoning for some years until I realized that I never saw a useful ad (except on Facebook properties, which is ironic since they are the ones who know least about me as far as I can tell.)
Coursera Raises $130M At Reported $2.5B Valuation
Most noise suppression I've seen so far can shave off a few dB (worth gold already), but when you try to suppress more noise it always starts to impact the signal very negatively. Interesting to see whether these ML approaches can do better. I suspect they might depend even more on the type of your voice than conventional noise suppression.
As far as I can see this uses RNNoise. If you haven't checked it out yet you should, because it is simply amazing. It is a super effective noise gate / noise removal tool that does not require any configuration whatsoever.

My study mates and I have been using it over the last four months when working from home. It removes the noise of keyboards, seaguls and vacuum cleaners.

It is essentially the same as Nvidia RTX voice except it is much lighter on the system and does not require an Nvidia GPU. In our testing RNNoise performs similarly.

This project looks super cool. It seems to make RNNoise much more accessible. Normally you would have to manually set up the pulseaudio plumbing for this to work.
This feels like someone scuttling the ship.
- VPN based in Hong Kong.
- VPN claims to not keep logs but does (ie. willing to descieve customers and secretly compromise their security).
- New national security law effecting Hong Kong speech and liberty.
- VPN likely to be challenged to turn over user data to Chinese authorities in the relatively near future.
- Hong Kongers acquiring VPN services in droves for the explicit purpose of avoiding Chinese state monitoring of their internet traffic and communications records.

If I was working at UFO and saw the risks to my fellow citizens created not just by the company's poor security but their willingness to descieve customers I'd worry the company would quietly hand over whatever the Chinese authorities asked for - no "warrant canaries" or truth in advertising - and if probably look to throw a figurative grenade into their operations. If that meant data exposure, better now before they perfect the application of the new security laws then later when everyone feels comfortable and the CCP is just sucking up all of UFO's traffic and logs.
400k usd is a really large amount of money.
"Fuzzy X theory" are all crank theories. Why? Because they're trying to find a solution to the sorites paradox, and if it were as simple as some new system/mathematics/framework, then there would no longer be a sorites paradox and philosophers would say "whew, job done!" and cite the inventor alongside Aquinas or Aristotle as the three greatest philosophers who ever lived.

But despite the hundreds of fuzzy groupings/fuzzy set theory/whatever, that never happened, has it?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans
Really getting tired of the everyone-who-doesn't-think-like-me-is-wrong culture.
Journalists should ‘cancel’ the cartels.
I think that the fact the world will continue to spin without twitter is exactly why the hesitated to make that type of call.
If a C level exec joins a failing company accepting stock compensation presumably they understood the risks. Having lost a bet, they could renegotiate a higher salary for future work but hardly need to be compensated for a lost bet on past work.
What kept the Segway from getting stolen like a bike?

Did anyone use motorized bikes?