skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hate that this will be added to internet vernacular. It's become such a mish-mash of typos and puerile crap. 'pwned' has always been cringe-worthy to me. Not looking forward to seeing 'meowed' repeated ad-nauseam.
But is it really?
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Maybe they have 10 years of code sitting on it? It's what a colleague calls sound historical reasons.
You're pointing to a book "authored" by a person who runs a pseudoscience YouTube channel and has no scientific training whatsoever. Please, start looking for information in less biased and more mainstream places - your worldview will be improved as a result.
I would guess more people use Windows and Mac because it is the path of least resistance and presumably they are more heavily invested in learning their art and the many complexities of the tools required.

Pixar is an interesting case because as pioneers in their field they made a lot of their own tools and run them on Linux. Presumably unlike single user incentivized to select whatever they are used to they are instead liable to pick the best platform.

Pixar uses Linux

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/pixar-film-production...

Aftershot Pro, Lightworks, Maya, Bloom all seem to be pretty good.

They have in common that they charge money and thus have a budget. Pixars choice seems to suggest linux us a perfectly viable platform and these able tools seem to suggest we can have good tools if we are willing to invest our money in such. This isn't to say that such tools must be commercial. They could well be foss if we change the way we choose to support FOSS. Instead of heaping praise upon them we need to open our wallets and regularly.
They’ve leveled off here in Washington too, despite our daily new cases being double what they were before we locked down. I wonder why that is?
Their sensitivity is only 97dB/mW. But I think it's more complicated than that. The amplifier might be able to deliever 26mW into 33 ohms but can it deliver that into 300 ohms? It would have to be able to produce high enough voltages. Also the impedance goes up to almost 600 ohms at the resonant frequency of the headphones, requiring even more voltage [1]. You'd obviously get some sound and it would probably even be loud enough, but there would likely be a significant effect on the frequency response and possibly more distortion that you'd like.

[1 PDF] https://www.innerfidelity.com/images/SennheiserHD600.pdf
Universities are forced more and more to market results to the masses. I could imagine that some poor researcher's arm got twisted into writing something for a press release and that's what came out.
Of course it's not a universal rule. But apples-to-apples, with a wired vs. wireless set of similar construction, cost, and intended use, the wired will outlast the wireless, solely due to the battery (not to mention the other complexities inherent to a wireless set).
Evolution does not have a strategy. It might very well be that this mating concept will be unsustainable in the future. Or it might be that it doesn’t do enough harm, so there isn’t enough pressure for to lose out.

Extreme example: there are plenty of unsustainable human behaviors that are the norm right now.
because asking the average user to fine tune their experience to avoid questionable sexual content is going to piss a ton of users off who expect this to be the default experience on the site. So Facebook does a calculation and the result is that removing that stuff is easier than having a million people complain about being exposed to it and that's that.

The same reason any other forum or platform moderates their content and usually removes sexual content, you want the default experience to be good for the average user on the site.
How to Detect Graviton?
I'm not trying to disregard the negligence concern but I am trying to ensure that the perpetrator is also called out. Several of the top rated comments on this article are praising the perpetrator.
That is true, but there has been some progress on the adoption of the FOSS model in the Android developer community. The most commonly used Android recovery software, TWRP, is open source.

https://github.com/TeamWin/Team-Win-Recovery-Project

The most popular Android rooting solution, Magisk, is also open source. All Magisk modules (plugins developed by the community) in the official repository are required to be open source.

https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk

https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/submission
Well menstrual cicle is a gold mine. But I miss the connection with headphones...
That's answered in the article that people are taking proactive measures because they don't want to expose themselves for the sake of herd immunity.

New York City has an estimated 13% of people have had Covid-19. That's nowhere near the 50-80% needed mentioned in this article.

Just the back-of-the-envelope time and scale needed for herd immunity shows how far away we are. The US would need 200 days of 1 million new people each day catching it to reach herd immunity. That's with the most generous assumptions about reinfection. Any health system (especially the US') would crumble under that load.
My Sennheiser HD25 have been with me for 10 years and I stepped on them, dropped them used them outside in the rain, in sub zero degrees and three times a week while jogging.

10 years of that is a heavy thing to survive. In fact I know hardly any object that would have survived this long.
Bootstrap something you want to exist?

Being your own boss brings a lot of freedom of choice.
1. Only two asymmetric algorithms are widely supported and almost universlly recommended, RSA and ECDSA. Compared to RSA, ECC needs smaller keys for same security.

2. I did that couple years ago already, I think it actually was 521 bits, the best one recommanded by FIPS at that time. The hardware has no relations to FIPS, it's not even _that_ expensive and should contain no secret data. I just saw no reasons not to implement the best security available: development time is not affacted by the count of these bits.
A large portion of your notifications would go ignored, and some portion of your notifications would likely trigger the owners of those databases to go on the attack against you.
Interesting: I wouldn't describe an "append-only" database as "immutable" (after all, you are mutating it by adding things to it) but it appears that the common parlance actually does refer to databases that are append-only as immutable, perhaps as short hand for immutable-entry databases.

Annoys me disproportionately. But the people have spoken.
Yah very true, but the Bernie thing shows how disconnected the top of the democratic food chain is from the next generation of liberal voters. Education and the environment are two sticking points Bernie nailed. He deserved better and now the democratic base knows the best candidate on their own ticket can't be nominated. Shenanigans I say.
Well said. His work seems to have some elegant ideas. Imagine what he will be doing when he's finished college. Some people are truly brilliant.
Oh, look, the answer is easy. Manage these projects with SAFE. SAFE is a corporate friendly Agile methodology that essentially says, "Fuck that agile stuff. Use the Agile vernacular to keep being as unproductive as you always were."

This is like heroin to these corporations. They use Jira and Rally to create a cult of numerology games that reduce tasks to filling time-boxed, random things- to-do. Be sure the Agile coach is drilled in the game and clueless about "technical-things". Add an equally clueless Product Owner whose background is Word and Excel and you'll create the best Big Ball 'O Mud anybody ever wished for.

And if you're running late, add a dozen or so new inexpensive -cough- "developers" from your favorite outsourcing firm.
The Protein-Combining Myth
They aren't victims? If you forget to lock your car door and it is stolen or something inside it is stolen are you also not a victim by your logic?
Did you write this without reading anything at all about this database?
Does Amazon not have... logging?
they seem pretty much identical on my connection. Basically everything loads in under a second. I thinks it's probably just your connection/where you live/the path between them and you.
You're right that it's not at all a quick fix, and that it requires a lot of energy. But it is the only sustainable solution: if we want to restore a preindustrial climate we're going to have to put the fossil fuel emissions back where they came from.

So we're going to need a lot of surplus energy to do it, and it will take a long time. Which means that we need to start the R&D now, scale it up when we have surplus sustainable energy, and plan for the time it will take to execute.

Concurrently, we need to push through the sustainable energy transition as fast as possible, and probably also figure out how to reduce solar heating of Earth while we do carbon removal over the next century or so.

Welcome to the Anthropocene :)
I would be more convinced by a solid trail of data of this committee getting full cooperation from the NYPD.

I’m not sure we’ll get to absolute confidence. But at least knowing we have a complete data set and sound, valid process.
I’d say all this is a feature.

This means that it’s difficult to write a flashy app with bold text, links and images.

I like programs with minimal text ui, so I don’t mind.
Thank you!

I did see this when it appeared on HN but thought it was effectively a Visual 6502 but for the Z80. Having downloaded and looked in more detail I see that it has a lot more information than I originally thought.

Even better, the accompanying blog posts (eg [1]) give as good a description of the layout of the Z80 and the relationship between the various elements as I have seen anywhere for any CPU of this era.

I think there is still scope for something which gives a complete 'walkthrough' explanation of the operation of the Z80 based on this material. Maybe something I might start to work on!

[1] https://baltazarstudios.com/z80-ground/
You have LAN ports in your bathroom?
There's nothing special about PGP that makes it good for signing git commits, and plenty of alternatives exist. Signify is a simple tool to do signing, used by OpenBSD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9708120. Minisign is also an alternative, though it doesn't seem as popular: https://jedisct1.github.io/minisign/. These may not be well integrated into git, but aside from 'everyone already uses and integrates with PGP,' there's no real reason stopping the usage of these other tools.

The two things that PGP does are pretty simple/straighforward. What makes PGP bad is that PGP itself it is really complicated, and the way it is integrated into email etc. is also complicated and carries a lot of historical baggage. But if you just want to make a public/private keypair and then use it to sign & encrypt data, that's pretty easy (or as easy as writing any crypto code can get). Signify, Minisign, and Age are clean, simple implementations.

Age does encryption: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21895671

Of course this is sort of a https://xkcd.com/927/ situation. PGP is already used by everyone so why switch?
Ask HN: Random glitches of color in macOS 11 / Big Sur
I know it's a beeta and all, but just wanted to know if it's just me or someone else is experiencing it too..

I basciallly get this weird green background buttons on my touchbar at startup, it fixes itsellf after the system starts, but it's weird.

Now I got the same on my finder sidebar on a filepicker view, but with red background instead of black.

Is apple planning color-customizing features a-la windows? lol

I need to backup and reinstall prob too
I forked this with the intention of adding a music visualizer. I never got around to the visualization part, but I did add a few more features, a Soundcloud player, and typescript type annotations:

https://github.com/justjake/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation
You don't know who was the storage vendor and who's data was being deleted and you have no idea what that data represents or what the consequences are of having to restore it.

You are making several unfounded assumptions.
You do realize that Europeans et al have to deal with AML/KYC because of international agreements your countries have entered into? This isn’t just the US unilaterally saying “your banks and money processors must obey our laws.” The US passed extraterritorial laws, and then sought agreements from other countries to enforce these laws. The EU hasn’t done this. AFAIK there are no trade agreements or such that offer reciprocal rights to enforce GDPR. If the EU wants to enforce the GDPR globally, then that’s what they’d need to do.
It’s Time for Companies to Stop Using God Accounts
Except the data substantiates the image of a force of violent goons
> "Bose Connect app was found to be tracking what users were listening to and sending that data back to the company to be sold".

I did not know that!
I have two friends that were former investigators for the CCRB, both as part of a criminal justice lawyer track.

The stories they told were horrifying, and even in the clearest cut cases of obvious police abuses absolutely nothing ever came from any case.

It was a glorified suggestion box, gutted by NYPD’s union, masquerading as oversight.
Given that the purpose of language is to convey meaning, I'd say yes.
I think my point stands that some allegations are more serious than others and the aggregate seriousness of this database is a function of how serious the allegations in the database are. This seems almost tautologically obvious.
Yes, exactly. I think what was confusing to me here is the interaction between child environments in for(;;).

Usually, scopes in JS work like the OP link describes them: If a block is entered, a child environment is created that has a reference to its parent environment. A variable either belongs to the parent and is shared with all children - or belongs to one particular child and is initialised through assignment. However different child environments can never influence each other.

for(;;) does something different: It takes one child environment (of iteration n) and clones it for iteration n+1. The effect is that there is a single let i = ... statement which leads to the creation of several independent variables.

It's easy to see why this was done - it's the only way how you can have both mutating statements like i++ and closures that capture state from a particular iteration - but I'm not aware this is done anywhere else in JS.
They've been doing this to fish for a long time[1], I guess it just got approved for beef and chicken?

[1] https://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/when-fresh-fish-i...
It feels like that, but I wonder how long it will be before one of the regulators decides to make an example of one of the big data-hoarding companies. Their whole business model is morally and now also legally dubious, and it's so obviously against the spirit of the GDPR that it seems like a matter of time before someone decides to pick a fight. I doubt it will be a single case like yours that starts it, unless perhaps it provides a convenient excuse to start an investigation, but it will be a thousand or a million situations like yours that motivate it.
you might like Foam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrsCQ3pApTs

https://github.com/foambubble/foam
Of course the adjectives I'm using are in relative terms rather then absolute. There doesn't exist an absolute measure on how meritocratic a society is. But it's very clear that US society most certainly is a more meritocratic then most other societies.

> Black men born into the top quintile of family wealth are as likely as black men born in the bottom quintile to die in the bottom quintile. White men born in the top quintile are highly unlikely to drop even to the next lowest quintile. Americans criticizing India's caste system is laughable.

First of all I'm not an American. It's quite funny that you criticize me for not using precise and absolute terms while you yourself use the same terms. Your point is even self-defeating. That a black family(which you indirectly compare to a low cast family in India, which I don't agree with. But that's beside the point.) can be in the top quintile already means that the situation in America is vastly better then in India.
"democratically elected"??? It is not true. They oppress opposition and lie to people. They did not need to cheat in the day of election, as they cheated before. Gerrymandering, fining parties to death, buying people in other parties, making mainstream media unreachable for opposition, changing laws to make sure no one can outvote them, and this could be continued through pages. They have stolen a huge part of the previous EU budget, in plainly criminal ways. Why did the EU gave them more money with a licence to steal?
The problem is that your wired headphones might break if you're not careful, but if you don't then they will work essentially forever. Your wireless headphones on the other hand will break at some point because the tiny lithium battery inside them will eventually stop holding charge. It's not a question of if but when.
Ask HN: Best channel to sell online course?
I always thought “meteoroid” was an odd term. It’s something like a meteor, except it hasn’t entered the atmosphere. It’s like calling a slice of bread a toastoid.
> Instead of pursuing Rocketreach locally on that basis alone, the CNPD just gives up arguing it has no jurisdiction in the US.

Which is true and obvious. Why anybody ever thought the GDPR would have teeth outside the EU is beyond me. It was always laughable to me that anybody believed that the EU had made a law that applied to every company in every country in the world.
It's a play on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl
Nobody is mortgaging 10x their income. You'll have tough time getting 5x.
Said small businesses might have no idea their data wasn’t secure. That would be on whoever developed their technology, not necessarily the business. Not all small businesses with customer or sales data is a technology company.
Haha - We have it too easy these days and can just spin up a VM with Virtual Box (or similar) to test stuff like this.
Wow, this is really cool. I wonder how far the author plans to go with this? DSP gets pretty complex pretty quickly . . .
Headline needs a "(2016)" suffix.
C’mon, the obvious context here is SpaceX which wants to make a colonist of 1M people on Mars with solar power.
The Worst-Case Scenario
Understood. The thing that leaves me curious though, is why the females seem so reluctant in general -- enough to make forced insemination the norm. Even though being a parent is very expensive, where is their reproductive impulse? I guess it just isn't needed or ever selected for if reproduction happens without it.
Are you referring to taxes and tips? While not always visible, they can be calculated.

The last time I booked a rental car or hotel, I paid exactly what I was quoted at booking time.
I think we know very little about psychology and how individual vs cultural human consciousness is.

Like... Samurai’s and self-immolating monks are human.

Post-enlightenment, post-Kant, social sciences treat man as an individual unit “homo-economicus” — nothing could be further from the truth.
> You are suggesting that modern society is fighting human nature then. That's unwinnable, barring genetic modification.

Why? Modern society is built on things that go against human nature: The national state, living till we're 80, flying, not killing people, monogamy.

I think you are making the classical moral mistake of assuming the natural state of things is the best state of things.
Fascinating, quite the artwork. I think I'd like one of the cheaper pieces just for its novelty. Wouldn't trust it to take the load, so maybe the lampshade or something.
Why bother to support something that 1 in 1,000 people (high estimate) is going to be using?
Is the performance of the app the same as the website? I’ve only ever run Slack in a browser tab, and haven't had much in the way of performance problems.
Except if you are actually well-educated then you would know that “irregardless” is widely used to mean the same thing as “regardless” and thus to use it as such would not be a sign of a lack of education.
I suspect he'll be figuring out more new and unique ways to serve us ads.

edit: and that's no knock on this kids skills / talents!
> Stopping and even reversing deforestation is the single most efficient form of CO2 reduction/capture we have available.

No it isn't. Reforestation might be the most aesthetically and ideologically pleasing option, but it's not the most physically effective one. Trees get you $25-$50/ton-CO2 removal costs; accelerated weathering gets you around $8/ton-CO2 [2]. Iron enrichment of the ocean can get you down to around $1/ton-CO2 removed.

Focusing on pretty solutions in harmony with nature will lead us down the wrong path. Every great thing mankind has done has been the result of science, technology, and industry. We don't fly around the world by stupidly copying birds, and we won't get control of the climate by sowing plants.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0485-x
[2] https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/22/1004218/how-gree...
[3] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/300/5616/67.full?maxt...
> try working with a professor informally (perhaps starting with software engineering for some project) and go from there.

I’ve been wanting to do this for years. Any tips on how to find a project and a willing professor? I’ve emailed interesting professors but I’ve never heard back.

(I was even curious to start a website to match up researchers with volunteer programmers.)
It's readable and appendable, but not updatable. That doesn't mean immutable; with versions or timestamps, you can create mutable semantics on top of an appendable store.
See SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07350

If you are a hacker who removed microphones from your computer but is worrying about this exploit, fortunately, a simple mitigation is possible - just put an audio amplifier or unity-gain buffer between the speaker and the audio output port, so the audio signal cannot travel back to the audio chip. Any "Hi-Fi" headphone amplifier can be used, but a $0.5 opamp is enough - a daughterboard can be tiny enough to fit inside a laptop.
Drop the occulty aspect and this is the premise of the 1985 movie Explorers:

A kid sees in a dream what he thinks is a circuit board, so he takes a drawing to a techy friend of his who fills in the missing parts and builds it. Turns out to create a solid floating sphere, that they get the idea to use for space travel - and end up meeting the aliens that sent them the dreams.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al75vXD6koc

(That said, the stylized form of the circuit in the dream could totally be the source of the occulty aspects - a gear looking like a sun, for example, as seen in the trailer at about 0:23, not to mention the flying aspect)
I really wanted to stop and say thank you.

This was amazing find. I really am a nerd in this subject but had no idea compressed air was used in the 18th century. This really changed my thinking and historical perspective. You blew my Sunday that I will forgive. I will blow all next weekend trying to figure out why compressed air didn't catch on wtf. From my (limited!!) research the valves were super expensive and took an amazing amount of craftsmanship - which didn't allow for mass production (eg Brown Bess).