skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's more that obsolete concepts like var, AMD and Common.js are focused on.

These techniques are obsolete & lead to fragile code especially when blended with newer concepts like native js imports, let and const.
There is a significant difference in the relationship between parent-to-child and The State-to-Citizen. Children mature and achieve autonomy from parental control and can escape violence if present.

When am I ever allowed my autonomy from The State? According to its laws I am always subject to its rule regardless of my vote, intentions, ethics, personal values, or will. My only defense is the system itself and I have been given good evidence to not trust its outcomes or intentions regardless of how it is advertised.
I ran an exit node about a decade ago.

There are no freedom-fighting journalists in repressed countries using TOR.

There are only pornographers, BitTorrent users, crypto-haxxing "Z3r0cools" who use it to feel like they are doing something crypto-haxxy, and botnet command and controllers.

Countries in which TOR will be useful treat TOR users as de-facto criminals or block it altogether. Using TOR in a totalitarian state (and it is easily detectable) is worse than speaking out against the state.

Countries in which TOR is not needed are full of crypto-haxxing "Z3r0cools" who think they are actually helping someone by promoting TOR.

When you mention that TOR was an experiment-- one that failed-- to shield spies from foreign governments that crypto-haxxing Z3r0cools co-opted you get scorn.

When you point out that TOR fails in its primary purpose: non-attributable access to information or communications in totalitarian regimes you get scorn.

There is no space for criticism of TOR which makes it not a product or technology but a religion-like ideology.
Therapy can help some trans folks, but what they really need is a community that supports them regardless of how well they pass.

Trans passing messageboards are absolutely brutal. Brutal honesty is necessary for some, for whom passing is a matter of physical safety. But for a lot more, it can amount to self-harming. Any deviation from sometimes pseudoscientific models of "man" and "woman" is seen as a tell, an imperfection. This is made worse by the fact that gender-affirming surgery is utterly unaffordable for most people, let alone most people struggling with dysphoria and depression.

In addition, passing politics by nature excludes many nonbinary people, for whom it is by definition impossible to pass. Not long after I came out I kept trying to find references for how to be myself. It shouldn't be that way.

Where might we be if trans bodies were seen as natural variation instead of deviance?
Take a look at the Onyx Boox Max series:

https://onyxboox.com/boox_max3

They're 13.3" displays, work with Android and you can use them as an external HDMI display. However, the refresh rate is still poor, not nearly 20-30Hz. The Technology Connections Youtube channel has made two very interesting videos, showing the many caveats of the device (it's an older model, but I'd guess most of it still applies). The main issues are poor software and slow CPU:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfX0vlCa4k
I use my Kindle as a dedicated Reddit and HN machine before bed and it is pretty great.
The "easy out" for tools in this space is to give you export (For example to Selenium/Puppeteer/Playwright). A lot of the "premium" test tools offer this functionality.

The "less easy out" is an on-prem version with a contract regarding updates + a clause for what happens if the company goes under in terms of support + an escrow over the code (the company gets a copy of the code + the license to change but not sell it etc).
I meant no one is currently making E-ink displays of those sizes in bulk. Sorry for the confusion.
I too went to grade school in un-airconditioned building. IIRC, I think we started school 4-5 days before Labor Day. We did not have any fans in the classrooms, but we did have a large number of windows on one side of the room that would be left open when it was hot. Our water fountains dispensed tap water too (not refrigerated or filtered).

I may take some heat for saying this, but I also think that people were generally tougher back then as compared to now. What I mean by that is that people had less comforts and were consequently more accustomed to being uncomfortable. It was normal. In my experience, my body adapts and gets conditioned to the climate over time. After some period of time in a particular climate, your body gets used to it (the new normal).

I agree that it's worth considering. I think that there would be a lot of complaining and discomfort at first, but it would be quickly resolved.
Yes, the level of class difference is substantial. Doesn't make this particular argument much stronger though. It also shows Schneier put in some actual thought before firing this off.
Do you have the data on asymptomatic transmission? Because I've seen conflicting reports on that.
Awesome, thanks! I will read up on that! Wonder if it's as stable as using dedicated uuid programs or libraries.
I think they were addressing general mistrust of climate science and stubbornness to act against human driven climate change or even recognize its existence let alone prioritize environmental concerns like mine tialings and other pollution. In red states, run by conservatives who consider climate science a conspiracy and environmental regulations antithetical to business, this philosophy common. Many of these states (and blue ones too) have low population, no major urban sprawls or cities, and minimal pollution sources near people like chemical plants, refineries, and mines.

SLC is in a red state that generally follows GOP talking points on these issues and has not acted strongly to protect air quality in the area. Polling in the state suggests people do support climate science though. If the city took action like LA/CA to improve emissions standards, implement better public transit to replace commuter cars, and pressed local companies and industry to limit emissions it could get an early start and a rising taxable population to fund these programs.
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So instead you're effectively 100% guaranteeing you get a placebo?

If you're down, do it, then get an antibody test after the fact.
Um... Yeah the problem is it was an idiotic stance to have at all, let alone from someone who specializes in these things. Masks filtering particles of certain diameter. It's not hard. There was no reason for them to initially lie to the public that masks do nothing.
Wait a sec, they have multi-color e-ink now and not just red or green? I cannot wait until we can get large versions of these that can hang on my walls! I'd love to put them in frames and have different paintings rotate in and out.
“Buy the rumor, sell the news”

https://www.ig.com/en/trading-strategies/-buy-the-rumour--se...
Generally speaking, Verilog simulation tools don't support the transistor-level primitives. You have to move up to at least the gate level to get something that'll simulate at all; even then, certain special combinations of gates (like registers) have to be specifically recognized to break combinational loops.
and also, how much time one people will be imune, and if new doses will be needed to reinforce the response of the imune system. People are saying September as a date for the vaccine to be avaliable, but it seens to be still many questions to answer before that.
Or machine learning?
Has anyone ever seen this in the wild? I didn’t even know it existed. Who knew there were so many different status codes.
There are a variety of anti-vax philosophies. At one extreme is the people who thinks that all vaccines are harmful. I don't actually know anyone in that camp. I do know people who believe that we have many well-proven vaccines, but we give them too early, and prefer to wait for their infants to become toddlers. I know other people who are fine with the schedule, but oppose mandatory vaccinations because of the details in the legislation that has been proposed - much of the legislation includes a blanket statement of "and any other future vaccines" which opens to door to a corrupt government mandating new drugs for reasons other than health. That last camp isn't against vaccines at all, they just want some controls around the process of how a new vaccine is added to the list.
If everyone gets the vaccine then does the distinction matter? Genuine question not rhetorical.
Science isn't consensus based. If you've got proof, show the proof. Stop turning science into a popularity contest.
I wrote an article about Cypress. I was a big fan (gave panels about cypress in conferences) but am disillusioned. For a very specific use case Cypress is great and arguably the best choice though: https://www.testim.io/blog/puppeteer-selenium-playwright-cyp...

Even if you use something like Cypress you probably need something like Reflect (or Testim where I work but don't represent - for that matter) - you would just end up writing the framework in-house.
AT&T was a monopoly of local phone services. It was split up into geographic regions, each with their own independent physical infrastructure.

There's no physical locality to Twitter. You can't put all the California users in one system and all the Washington users in another.
I hope that one day truly large scale e-ink systems become somewhat affordable. I think it could be revolutionary for architecture.

The appearance of buildings would no longer necessarily be static.

More generally, I believe that the extreme minimalism, "tranquility" (or blandness) and simplicity of more contemporary styles may some day become unpopular.

So I expect that we will see trends in the opposite direction eventually. More colors. Maybe a changing facade with e-ink. Rather than simple, boxy shapes, more intricate and more organic shapes. Large-scale 3d printing could make the use of such forms more practical.

I also expect to see architecture that is more dynamic in that it will automatically reconfigure itself in response to weather changes or the day/night cycle, winter/summer, etc.
Volta: install and run any JS tool quickly and seamlessly
I didn't really liked Ready Player One so ...
The Four Steps to the Epiphany

The Startup Owner's Manual (note: this and the entry above are sorta/kinda the same book, just different editions. But there's enough difference between the two that I recommend both)

The Art of the Start

The Lean Startup

The Mom Test
Isn't that the point of this post? Force companies sending email commercially commercial to process a reply.
I don't entirely disagree that it might remove some motivation. But right now the whole world is in crisis, and I don't think gaining leverage by tying everyone's fates together is the best solution.

Anyway, the travel restrictions I mentioned would hardly be bulletproof. Vaccinations don't confer 100% immunity, and tests aren't 100% accurate. So countries could still reduce their risk by supporting worldwide vaccination.

Also, this might be a moot question if we can't produce enough vaccines to do it all at once.
If one of these apps leads to avoidance of a handful of serious cases (by identifying clusters earlier and thus reducing spread) it has paid for itself. An ICU bed costs _at least_ 2000 euro a day (that's for a normal one, ongoing operational costs only; rush-job new ICU capacity is presumably more expensive); it doesn't take too many averted hospitalisations to pay off one of these apps.

Obviously, it would have been better if the German app has been cheaper. But rush jobs are expensive, and the cost involved is pretty minimal relative to the cost of managing the pandemic writ large. If it's even slightly effective, it was worth it.
I believe the question you were answering was asking why that is.
> - Because of Cypress's design, it's not so easy to get Cypress tests to run in parallel.

I am not sure why you think Cypress is hard to parallelize but if you don't like their managed service (dashboard) you can use https://github.com/agoldis/sorry-cypress - it's quite possible to do.

(All the rest of what you wrote sounds solid - good luck again :])
Right, and many projects and companies openly work with that model. Many frameworks go in that direction, as does pretty much everything that's "customizable": The hard problems are in theory solved at the core, by a small-ish expensive team, to be glued together by others, often cheap external workers.
I really can’t understand this for a COVID-19 contact tracing app. You should find out how to give feedback on this to make them change availability to global.

It boggles my mind that I have to remind many app publishers that we live in a globalized world and that it’s a natter of a few minutes work to just select the countries to make the app available in. More so for free apps where the publisher doesn’t have to worry about taxes and payments.

Even for apps that are not localized to English or other languages, the publishers should prefer to get them out to as many people as possible in the whole wide world who may be visiting or on a long stay in a specific country.

In this case, the app developer can surely include help text that explains where the app is meant to be used or would be useful (it’s also not like people with a German App Store account living in some other country would be able to use this app effectively).
This isn't surprising given how cheap soda is.
I don't think cloudflare supports such a configuration.

The DNS is part of the load balancing, they serve different IPs based on location of the DNS query.

Edit: Apparently they do support a CNAME configuration if you pay for one of their business plans. That gives you the option to quickly switch away (if your TTL is low enough) but will impact performance by having to fetch the CNAME every 60 seconds.
for non commercial use I have used github to host my website for a long time, and I have had some instructional videos on there. For small purposes like this, or maybe how-tos on open source software, I can't see github having a problem with or noticing the bandwidth
Good ideas from the past now have a place in a world with data centers, personal computers, and mobile devices that even a brilliant computer scientist would have struggled to imagine in 1966.
What Coronavirus Job Losses Reveal About Racism in America
I don't think it is a fair point to say that the American view that govs are bad because they get into the way of companies.

The view is more along the lines of they are corruptible and frequently serve the interest of the business and political elite at the expense of the median citizen. Moreover, the government will use its power to thwart attempts at fixing the government. Therefore we should limit the power of the government.
Please Don’t Put Your Suitcase on the Bed, Ever
Watches, Hedge Funds and AVs: Complex or Complicated?
I think this is the part that ain't nobody for time for
A friend in an ED just told me that 90% of her colleagues tested positive for antibodies but many of those worked the entire time and didn’t have symptoms.
Ye but it has been doable with modern movie production technology for some time without any fancy AI. The biggest difference is the price drop of it?
For me, YouTube is doing 2160p.
True, however at AWS at least, customers are specifically told "multi-cloud doesn't allow you to fully leverage the benefits of AWS", whatever that means.

It makes sense that cloud companies are inclined to keep customers from giving money to competitors, but they way they sell it and structure services, reserved instances, and enterprise discounts is such that you basically are putting all of your eggs in one basket.
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There are a lot of documented rhetorical devices that can deflect your opponent, and one of them is sometimes called "assigning homework".

A URI that is a 3 minute read is fine. But you'll see people say they won't even entertain a discussion with a person until they have read a book, and that is not a road to dialog.
TileDB is designed around supporting multiple compressors or filters. We have architected the code so that we can add different filters as we find use cases or customer requests. Currently we support compressors such as gzip, bzip2, zstd, lz4 and also filters like double-delta, byteshuffle or and RLE. For a complete list see our docs[1]. Adding support for specific image compressors such as JPEG or video codecs is on our roadmap.

[1] https://docs.tiledb.com/main/basic-concepts/tile-filters
Woah buddy. Next you'll be pointing out how the CDC intentionally lied about masks to discourage hoarding. Make no mistake "misinformation" ibly cuts one way with the sheep around here.
> One feature in beta that we’re really excited about: For React apps we have the ability to target React component names as if they were DOM elements (e.g. if you click on a button you might get a selector like “<NotificationPopupMenu> button”). We think this is the best solution for the auto-genned classes problem described in the bullet above, as selectors containing component names should be very stable.

I remember looking into this exact idea. Theoretically, if you're able to capture the React state, and you're working with a "pure" React app, you should be able to auto-gen readable tests from human interaction. And, if you're capturing the state in a granular enough fashion, you should be able to "time-travel", but for non-technical users.

IMO the biggest use case for E2E tests are for critical things like auth & checkout. If you're able to auto-gen, maybe you can get even deeper than that.

Congrats on the launch, it looks cool!
> "ownership of your own social graph"

What would that mean?

> If these platforms were forced to act more like email

Who decides who's "following" who?

Say I decide to use a competitor. Do I then get to "take" my Twitter followers and can still broadcast to them on Twitter from a different app? Under what conditions can Twitter block your activity? Either they will have to let a lot of spam in or they'll have to ban most non-Twitter activity from coming in.

How do we define interoperability? Do we make Twitter as it is right now a government mandated standard? How do we introduce new features?

I just don't see how you can do all this or how it makes sense at all.

Although email does certain things well it's not without issues. Running your own server is tough. Even many fairly mainstream services have deliverability issues.
Spam is rife. And it's especially a big problem when running your own or using a small provider.
Email is terrible for initiating unsolicited interactions (in some places might even be illegal).
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Logistically you can't give everyone the vaccine at the same time. If immunity is only temporary (few months) front line hospital staff are likely going to get vaccinated before the rest of society.
2160p also shows up for me on Firefox & Brave.

Golden rule: don't use Safari for Youtube.
Even if it's made mandatory, which may not happen, manufacturing and distributing enough vaccines for everyone to get one will take years. Ideally we want to get everything back to normal once we have enough vaccines stocked up to strategically deploy in hot spots, but if the vaccine doesn't severely reduce the disease's spread that strategy won't be effective.
The point is that it's not nonsense, but a useful and contextual continuation which encodes some level of comprehension (unless you mean a different thing by comprehension than I do). Look at this demo for an example: https://beta.openai.com/?demo=2.
Cute and well made job. I suspected that the video simply took a standard Nixon televised speech and used CGI to remake just the lower half of his face (thus the odd head movements even though his words and lips synced correctly, and if you look closely you can see that the lower part of his face looks somehow "cleaner" than the upper half), what stumped me a bit though was the audio. His voice sounds odd but recognizably his own, especially since Nixon had a rather unique voice. so I thought maybe they cut together words he'd said in different recorded contexts and digitally modulated the audio to construct a speech with an even tone, but no, they actually faked his voice, which impresses me more than the face CGI.
Ungh Google OAuth is kind of frustrating - the major reason is that websites are pretty good at blocking pages that are coming from automation - and you get all sorts of issues and problems (not to mention if a company like Google (not the real example) uses you to test their platform and then SafeSearch picks up their staging login as a phishing site and blocks you ^_^).

I warmly recommend _not_ testing Google OAuth and instead passing a token and bypassing it on your server's side.

The way automation can work around it (in Testim.io for example) is "mock network" which is supported in our codeless solution but also available in most test infrastructure (like Playwright which is FOSS). You would mock out the parts that leave the user with a token they can use to authenticate.
And was dressed as a FedEx employee... I think that's an important detail. Pretty brazen.

Oh, and the suspect supposedly shot himself. Convenient.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/us/federal-judge-esther-salas...
This pandemic is global so anything that helps countries to combat the virus is a good thing. The Irish app seems pretty good but the great thing about open source is that you can branch it to make your own app or just use the code to learn how others resolved the technical issues associated with creating a decentralized contact tracing app.

Of course an app is not a panacea but as developers we can't create vaccines or provide medical assistance. Its not perfect, as it depends on getting enough people to use it. No mean feat when there are people who don't even believe Covid exists or think it is only dangerous to older people and don't want to take any precautions like wear masks or socially distance. Even then, there are lots of technical challenges trying to use a technology like Bluetooth for a purpose for which it was never intended.

There will be a vaccine at some point (plenty of anti-vaccine people too, which might be a problem for the future) and there will be better treatments in the medium term but right now, speed is important and if it helps States to save time and get a contact tracing app quickly then it has to be a good thing. That way we are all safer.
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This seems to be more an argument for avoiding internet discussion altogether.
Introduction to Spatial Modelling: Honeycomb or Fishnets?
How about a clock where day and night each take one full half, regardless of the time they take. So the hands would go very fast in northern countries during the day and very slow at night. What unit should one use for such a clock? Is there something more intuitive than the hour for this? Maybe the angle of the sun/moon in the sky, 0 to 180?

Edit: Silly idea: If this post gets traction it would be fun if we each made up our own clock.
Risk homeostasis is real, yes; but the answer is a mixture of your view and the article's view. Those in charge declared themselves prepared, and weren't consciously lying. But in their heart-of-hearts they didn't think it would happen (on their watch) so they never examined realistically what prepared would actually mean. Delusion is our daily bread. Fantasy is just the butter.
One thing that will come up and we've found out: users want branches, they want merging and they want the ability to track their git branches with their tests.
Do the video decoders take advantage of this? I was under the impression they did not.
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