skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a Fourth Circuit decision, it is not applicable outside of their district. Of course it does improve the chances that employees elsewhere can copy data and prevail if prosecuted, but it might require going all the way to the top (SCOTUS), and even then, they might reverse this decision.
It's been pointed out by someone who still has access to the internal org chart that they're not actually fellows so the point is kind of moot with respect to that. I assume they're distinguished engineers but I'm not sure.

I actually do think that Go in its adoption by Google is a reflection of Google engineering values. I still don't think that someone who comes in to Google at the level that the Go creators came in would have the same experience as someone who came in entry level cut their teeth moving up through Google but that's just my perspective. A lot of people I met had only been at 1 or 2 other companies before Google (my TL had actually been at Google his whole professional life) and a lot of their opinions about engineering were shaped by how Google did things.
That's exactly what I was mulling over in my head today (I'm the author of this blog post). If there's some way to simply provide a v3 of this patch while leaving the credit with the original author, I'd love to do it. I just didn't want to step on anybody's toes, and I don't know the etiquette. I think this kind of thing happens more often than we realize. I've seen similar situations before on other drivers.
I'm looking into mini splits for an apartment and project room I'm building in my shop. I really like the Mitsubishi ones partly because they have a documented port to connect to them and people have already written code and schematics. Unfortunately, they are twice the price of the cheap ones that only have a proprietary wifi dongle that I'd have to reverse engineer myself.
that's pretty funny, but no they just don't want to deal with it, all they hear is "what do you mean, lose users?"
Just get a mini split and save yourself a few hundred man hours - this being the engineering equivalent of polishing a turd.

Even a poor mini split will outperform these in terms of efficiency and silence - and they can be wired directly to a nest or simple thermostat.
>Things might be different now with Wifi6 but there really hasn’t been a single reason to go beyond an AirPort Extreme for 6 solid years.

I was an idiot to want and buy a faster 802.11ac Router, I gave away my AirPort Extreme to my friend and bought an ASUS.
It was faster, slightly better coverage / reception. But in the end I discover I value stability over absolutely everything.

I cant remember what problem I had with Ubnt when I had one set up in my friends house.
Many people want to buy it, very few people are selling it.
In general, a lot of contribution workflows are fairly daunting to newcomers–when I tried to submit a fairly small patch to the Linux kernel it took me a while before I figured out what to do, and even then I messed it up and it didn't end up going in. (Full disclaimer: I commented about it here and someone was extremely kind in sending me resources on how to actually do this. I haven't yet followed that advice, sorry!) But even with this, it's still really complicated to figure out how each project does things. I understand many don't really care about one-line patches, but it would be nice if this kind of thing (which I personally consider "outreach") was better supported.
What's an NBA?

But seriously, I'd like to say I'm boycotting professional basketball, but I never really watched it anyway.
One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist etc. There are 11 year olds in Abu Ghraib. No one thinks they should be there, but here we are.

If you're position is US good, China bad, and Pompeo is not a China-hawk (forgone consensus among China watchers) then there's very little we can reconcile on. At the end of the day, these instruments aren't designed to be fair or moral, but welded for self-serving interests and China has hers. China didn't start the decoupling or cold war, nor start and continues to ramp up bellicose escalations. You're welcome to believe US/Pompeo is virtuous in their crusade, and CCP is bankrupt, but it doesn't stop the fact that China is big enough to respond, has responded, and will continue to.
This is at the stage where you cant really make assumptions about what may happen because you don't know what could go wrong. (A.K.A you don't know what you don't know).
I mean if you are going to potentially die otherwise then that's one thing. But if you go to the doctor with a sore throat and they hand you some random script for something you've never heard of, hard pass is a pretty good strategy.

The appropriate way to make medical decisions is based on data, but if a drug is still under patent then the data isn't there.
Well Congress can definitely ban foreign owned companies from operating in the US under at least 2 sections of the constitution that I can think of.

And Congress has delegated part of that power to the President.
There's a potential good use for fake images.
Virtual, or well photoshopped, images could be used to lure dealers into distribution, so that a known trace can be followed, hopefully helping to bust them.
K-means clustering. This is a solved problem.
My personal favorite icons are https://heroicons.dev . All tiny, elegant SVGs.
Not to mention, you know, the cost of high speed rail in a country of 5 million.
> ... once you're up to speed ...

I suspect a lot of folks get tripped up during "the boring middle". It can be hard to resist the temptation to do something, anything.

I check my account balances and financial planning spreadsheet several times a week. But instead of mess with money, I try to channel that energy into modeling. "What would happen if I increase my savings rate by 5%? What if we took a year sabbatical?" Most of it goes nowhere, but I'd rather be futzing with a spreadsheet than gambling on Robinhood.
Recently, I read back through some of my forum posts on HN and elsewhere from the past ten years. In hindsight, I see that I often erred on the side of harshness, and often conflated cynicism and intelligence. As I get older, I see increasing value in a bias toward kindness. Thank you for your kind words.
Right, and if OPV is what they're focused on, the thing is: Nobody is attempting a live attenuated coronavirus vaccine. So the OPV reversion situation is completely irrelevant to this exemption.

So that's why I asked which Polio vaccine.
The genes essential for cancer cells to grow in vitro could easily be quite different from those required to establish the tumor micro-environment, invade new tissues and fight off the immune system. They'll have many false negatives from the mismatch in context. Simultaneously, they might have false positives from e.g. differences in layout and density of tumor cells (2D/uniform vs. 3D heterogeneous tumor).

And even if they get the right targets, finding drugs with an effective therapeutic index is hard.

This might be a useful screening technique...but it's not the first high throughput screening method. They might have some successes, only trials will tell.
Even non anonymous users spew out whatever narrative they believe in and a large population does it without verifying facts.
The Japan Rail Pass doesn't let you ride the fastest Shikansen variants (namely the ones that stop at the fewest stations), FYI.
Cached and Confused: Web Cache Deception in the Wild, HacktivityCon
That's a good idea! Right now I am using a server edition of Ubuntu, but I like that idea too
Does Odin support task queuing like SQS, RabbitMQ, Redis, etc, or is this just for scheduled jobs? The debugging info looks very cool, but I need this for queue jobs more than scheduled jobs.

Relatedly, how many jobs/s or queries/s do you expect Odin to support in the suggested 3-leader configuration on typical VMs? What kind of load do you run this in production?
Outrageous bullshit like this appears in modern court cases all the time today. For example, it is common to cite astronomically small odds that a DNA match is in error, completely ignoring the far higher odds that the sample was accidentally contaminated, or the lab deliberately falsified the result to satisfy prosecutors, etc. I'm not saying that DNA evidence is bullshit, only that the only way to get something like a 10^-21 odds of error is to ignore all the largest possible error sources.
The U.S. has many tactics at its disposal:

1. Sanctioning bad actors: Placing wide ranging economic sanctions on bad actors is a potent tool but it can backfire. U.S can penalize any company that does business with sanctioned individuals. In the case of China, applying sanctions on party members would make it virtually impossible for them to transfer their wealth overseas via global banks, property markets, investment vehicles, etc. This ratchets up the pressure on the Chinese government as it immediately and adversely affects the interests of China’s powerful elite. The downside of this approach is that China is likely to retaliate against U.S. economic interests within China. It’s a large market coveted by many U.S. companies, so there is likely to be political blowback, which makes this unlikely to happen.

2. Diplomatic pressure to isolate China: China cares deeply about how it’s perceived on the world stage. We rarely hear strong international condemnation of China’s social, political or economic policies. This is partly due to the China’s success in using their economic power to strengthen their global standing. Much has been written about China’s debt diplomacy, for example. China now plays an outsized role in organizations like the WHO and various UN bodies. It’s even a member of the UN human rights council. The U.S. on the other hand has been withdrawing from these bodies, effectively ceding the stage to China. The U.S could apply pressure on China by once again assuming its leadership position within these bodies, and working with allies to counter Chinese influence and condemn China’s internal and external policies. China has no effective response to this tactic and it’s therefore one that they are particularly concerned about IMO.

3. Stronger military and economic alliances with Taiwan, India, Japan and Australia would create a counter balance to rising Chinese dominance in the region.

4. The U.S can also take steps to prevent knowledge transfer to China by limiting foreign student intake, or preventing research collaboration with Chinese universities.
Do you really, though?

I'd bet you don't need to look at the controls to use your turn signals or parking brake. Pretty much every traditional control, including AC and radio, is designed for use by feel only: you jab your hand roughly in the right direction, find the control by feel (perhaps remembering that volume is the right dial, temperature is the left), and adjust it all without looking at it.

If you remember the ordering of the controls - which you automatically will after spending more time using them - you'll be able to blindly use them. The problem with touch screens is that, even if you know the exact location of the control, you still must look at the screen to find the exact location. You can't "walk" your finger over the touch screen and press the second button from the left. You can't use any form of muscle memory.

Sure, you must still look at the AC if you want to set it exactly at 25 degrees, but nobody does that anyway. You usually just want it to be a little bit cooler, so you twist the knob a tick or two counter-clockwise. And grabbing stuff from the glovebox? Personally, I'd consider that highly irresponsible. You simply shouldn't be doing that wile driving. Wait until you're stopped for a traffic light or something.
The problem here is that Ubuntu’s kernel modules are signed.

It's easy to bypass, as the article shows, but also sad that this user-hostile practice has spread to Linux. I'd expect this for Windows or Mac, but not Linux.
Facebook has to follow the law. Now, we can debate if the law is fair or not, but distributing in Brazil the content of these accounts goes against the law.
thank you so much for this reference, yeah really worth a reading, still very relevant today!
A few that I go out of my way to recommend: Logitech, Fellows, Dyson and Breville.

Each has just straight up sent me a new unit or full replacement part when the previous one failed with no rma or warranty check - none of that nonsense just great service. Dyson support even sent me full factory service manual for the unit 5 years after it was discontinued (and 7+ out of warranty) since I wanted to troubleshoot a power supply issue which ended up working fine after resoldering the main power cord to the power board.

These companies are increasingly rare.
I dunno, weren’t university logins tied to real identities for many decades?
Show HN: Searching all 2.5 million songs on Jango Radio
Jango. It's internet radio like Pandora except it's not Pandora.

Earlier this year I was distraught to discover that certain obscure songs I wanted to hear again had mysteriously disappeared from Jango song search.

Then chroma virus lockdown happened and work became slow at the day job.

So I spent the next few months of nights and weekends building my own song search that searches Jango the way I want. It finds everything including the obscure stuff that mysteriously disappeared. I managed to duplicate the functionality of Jango song search while adding additional search methods Jango doesn't provide like reverse search of an audio file URL.

https://jango-index.ml/

I wrote the whole thing in Bash and PHP using SQLite.

https://jango-index.ml/src/

Searching 2.5 million songs presented a challenge which I was glad to meet.
> The article seems to provide factual support to the sentiment, that HSBC has a record of criminal behavior, in legal terms.

It doesn't. A deferred-prosecution agreement means that the case never went to court and they didn't admit guilt.

Obviously in theory a company that was confident of their innocence would refuse such an agreement. But the laws are ambiguous, public sentiment is against them, and in practice the industry regulators have a lot of discretion and will make life very hard for you if they decide you're fighting them.

HSBC does seem to have more than their fair share of allegations against them - but in my book circumstantial, ambiguous allegations never amount to a smoking gun even if there's a huge number of them.
If you're interested, check out my blog: https://cryptm.org/category/Posts.html

I used to work in finance doing portfolio analytics. I'm not really advocating day trading, but rather using quantitative methods for optimal portfolio construction.
I serve near StackOverflow levels of traffic. Similar # of page views and more than 5x the egress bandwidth. Also .Net.

Also running a traditional monolith style system. One main SQL DB. Another for some logs. Redis. Blob storage. KISS.

We have various miscellany and a dozen+ web apps for public website, internal admin, content editing, monitoring, on-the-fly image resizing, etc. but even the API's serving those live in one web app, and our high traffic data & content service is just one app. Nearly everything in one solution and repo.

Tbf, we've been utilizing chromium more over the past year and I think we're going to have to split that out into its own service.

We do a lot of data-driven image generation and used a couple .Net imaging libraries for that until last year. Since then we've been building new data-driven content solely in HTML/JS and screenshotting through chromium to generate static images (we serve the same content in animated HTML and JPG and used to build each separately).
While we're on this topic I would love a live OCR app that just overlays furigana on kanji. Like Google Translate's camera feature but without obscuring the original text.

Kanji is my biggest hurdle but I can't find a good combination of handwriting and OCR recognition in the same app.
Itanium 2 and beyond were fast, but no argument that it failed. Even so I read that HP took final orders for Itanium systems this year.

SPEC benchmarks fom 2003:

CINT2000
Itanium 2 1.5 GHz - 1322
Xeon 3.06 GHz - 1242
Opteron 1.8 GHz - 1095

CFP2000
Itanium 2 1.5 GHz - 2119
Xeon 3.06 GHz - 1173
Opteron 1.8 GHz - 1122
Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Uncertain Biological Basis of Morality (2013)
The risk is very high that such agreements lead to long term harm by providing fuel to anti Vaxxers and reducing the effectiveness of vaccines. Wasn’t this scary example enough for politicians to learn to forever kill these kind of deals? https://www.buzzfeed.com/shaunlintern/these-nhs-staff-were-t...
I'm amazed at the large fraction of the die area that the adder takes.
Can you not use mobile hotspot/tether internet as a backup option?
Then you don't know the geography of the country you live in. The Shinkansen goes through numerous tunnels in it's normal route.
Then you are clueless about shinkansen and geography. I also live in Japan.
Yeah, right. The link posted at:
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=272007
was showing performance right before covid19 hit.
Check out Yomiwa (if you have iOS)
One thing with dual hose ACs that I would also like to see improved is an extension of the exhaust hose. For me often the hot air will heat up the window which then radiates heat back into the room. We do have 1980s aluminum framed windows, which really makes that problem worse.

I did find a big improvement in getting duct insulation and wrapping the exhaust hose in that. For the window portion, I cut out an insulating foam board to mount the hoses, and taped the outside edge with reflecting tape. It's keeping my large bedroom around 76, unless it gets above 95 and will start creeping to low 80s.
That reads like you are simply ignoring any information you disagree with. For the sake of argument let’s assume it’s the best possible option on any scale you choose, now what do you feel should be done?
Ever Shutting Down
Hey man, I don't like Trump either.

But we're nowhere close to the Nazi party in the US.
It's not a question of caring about names over code, it's a question of dealing with software written by people who are at best emotionally immature and are likely to have negative values of half the population. This is a warning sign about the quality of the code too. Cultural assumptions can make a big difference in the design of a program.

I also wouldn't use software written by white supremacists no matter how well-written it is.
What would decentralization accomplish?
How to get up and running with EvCxR, A Notebook Kernel for Rust
China’s ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided to ban the popular short-video app.
Yeah, I would translate this as "stop saying we hate crypto, we have allowed some crypto stuff, and we will allow more in due time".
Bravo. Sometimes those one-line patches are gold. I still use a one-line patch for a popular Perl serial/rs-232 module that some kind soul tried to contribute, but failed to get accepted. It's been that way for 10 years or so.
How about a Brazillion?
I waited all day to see it live but then I had to take the cat in from outside. And missed the live undocking. Plus I got bitten.
I believe that Radio Shack marketed and sold these as the TRS-80 Pocket Computer. I was probably in my 20's then.
Isn't this whole new cold war all about the US trying to contain China? the failed "prosperity then freedom" China policy for the past thirty years all about? It's perfectly normal to not care, but "Policy makers" care.
I don't know if it's true today, but back when I had a SodaStream (~5 years ago), a "purchased" SodaStream CO2 canister came with a printed copy of this: https://www.sodastream.ca/en/assets/ulc.jpg
I'm happy you've been beating index funds and hope you can keep that streak going. Have you considered the opportunity cost of spending time researching and picking stocks though? You don't just need to beat index funds, you need to beat index funds plus whatever you could earn by spending that time on something else.
Confirmation bias: "the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values"
It's not an unbiased opinion. Musk has factories over there.
I don't have to look away for those things, but to be fair, I've been driving the same car for 10 years.

*As for your actual question, I'm no authority on this topic, but I suspect the precise hand-eye coordination requires much more of your focus. With your vent example, you can probably see it just fine using your peripheral vision, while staying mostly focused on the road. Failing that, you can at least keep that peripheral vision on the road while you focus on the vent. When you're focusing on a screen, you don't see anything else.
Censorship resistance, potentially
...but it's still worse than market averages.
I'm not claiming that OP or I are experts, but there's actually a pretty big body of knowledge for capsule re-entry. It's more 'known problems' than 'unknown unknowns'.
I'm sure most of us have seen far worse and more nonsensical code, it's a nicely designed snippet to teach basic security issues and show silly mistakes though.
Based upon what?
why? coke is easily the most recognized brand on the planet.
If foreign speech is a threat to a free country's national security, then I think that the free speech experiment has ran its course, and its time to pack it up. /snark

Just imagine what would happen if the foreigners say the wrong things at us. How is our freedom so brittle that it cannot handle speech?

This whole avenue of argument sounds an awful lot like one that authoritarian regimes use to block Google, Facebook, the NYT, etc.
What is it going to take for facebook to voluntarily exit a country? Courts/governments all around the world are pushing the limits on what their jurisdictions cover, and facebook is being spineless. With this case it's somewhat reasonable, in the sense that the action mainly affects Brazilians, but how long until countries try to use its citizens as leverage to get facebook to conduct foreign influence? eg. country A (50M population) wants country B's (5M population) president to be blocked worldwide because he badmouthed country A. Will facebook exit country A, or cave to their demands because they got more leverage?
I thought this was a pretty good video that gives some insight into what they do: https://youtu.be/TLPzK4vrxo8

Also this NYT story: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-...
The data already exists, or will exist when such distributions are caught -- is it unethical to use it?

In the extreme, to produce better models, your business would eventually be incentivized to create new data... but if you limit yourself to the usage of data collected as a byproduct of stopping criminal activities, it's not clear to me what the morality case should be.

A historical example might be the nazi human experiments -- the experiments themselves were horrendous, but now that they've been done and we have the results, is it unethical to use that as the basis for further, ethical, research? That is, would it be unethical for me to read the outcomes?
People seem to forget (for some strange reason) that there are actually laws against things that you can say. For example, defamation laws are in place to punish the distribution of much of what is today qualified as "fake news". If you spread false news on purpose, or if you threat someone of violence, if you make racist comments (in countries like Brazil), these are situations where you can suffer consequences for things you say or write. In other words, free speech is not an absolute right as some want us to believe. A communications platform cannot be considered legal if it enables crimes to be committed with no consequences.
You can transfer faces from non-pornographic videos onto pornographic videos.