skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this makes very little sense to me, when I first came to America I could hear conservatives constantly complaining that the media has a very heavy liberal bias. Media constantly denied it obviously.

Now with Facebook and social networks conservatives have their own information distribution system which cannot be controlled by the mainstream media, so the obvious criticism is "hijacking of the democratic process".
When typing with fancy characters:
- Alt-command-space brings up a window where you can select arbitrary Unicode characters
- Go to your keyboard settings in System Preferences and add the “Greek” keyboard. Then you can press ctrl-command-space to switch your keyboard and quickly type in Greek symbols (e.g. “a” becomes alpha). Press ctrl-command-space again to switch back.
For our wedding, I asked my now wife and a few friends and relatives to fill a “guests’ distance matrix”, where 0 equaled superclose friends and 5 complete strangers, and from a random initial layout, it bruteforced random swaps between guests untill reaching minimum distance configurations. It was a pretty dumb algorithm, but it took into consideration table capacity, party size and closedness of tables.

Of course, the wife rejected most of the outcomes, but it did decide some of the tables, spitted out interesting sittings and it helped us doing the global layout.

At the end, the overall feeling was that everyone was close to their loved ones. The energy was fantastic and everybody had a great time.
I would say the following had a profound effect on me:

The Reflecting Skin - I found the movie to be quite disturbing to the point that I felt mentally violated having watch it. While I would not say I was traumatized by it, in a strange way having the feeling of I wish I would have never seen that, has allowed me to empathize with people that have been truly traumatized. I guess you could say the move takes you right to that edge.

OfficeSpace - It was with this movie that I realized that most employers really don't care, you are just a cog in the machine and that many-times upward trajectories have nothing to do with performance.
Daryl Davis: the black musician who converts Ku Klux Klan members
Made a game for my first boyfriend for our 1 year anniversary. It was a knockoff off this great game “Candy Crushes Saga” (note the spelling, it’s not the famous mobile game from King). Tells a funny (and LGBT-related) story and the puzzles are challenging. https://pierrecorbinais.com/2017/05/25/candy-crushes-saga/
Can confirm that Medium does not have any walls with Firefox+NoScript.
p.s., to expand on #2 if you can "discover" useful safety conditions on data you change the economics of testing, much as #1 does.
I recommend reading Olympus CEO Michael Woodford's book ”Exposure". Here's my brief summary:

Woodford works his way up through the company ranks. He's hear of Olympus Europe when he gets made CEO of the whole company. He goes over to Japan.

Soon after becoming CEO an investigative journalist for a small magazine, Facta, discovers some strange acquisitions Olympus made. Woodford questions the board. They tell him not to worry.

Woodford starts digging and covering his back. He gets fired. The Japanese board state "cultural differences" and no journalist questions this.

News of the fraud finally starts to break. 1.5 billion USD of losses were hidden over fraud which took place over decades. A few key board members get suspended sentences. Some members of the board remain on the board even after the dust settles.

His book goes into more detail about how companies, banks and journalists are all complicit in a system that allows fraud to go unchecked. Even after the details were published they were still selling this one under the rug.

(A bit of a tangent but it's hard not to sympathise with Kelly and Ghosn of Nissan. The key players at Olympus never saw the inside of a jail cell but Ghosn got half a year of solitary before any conviction.)
All the replies so far are about how nobody drinks pure milk, so...

I drink roughly a gallon a week, personally. Whole, usually.
Yes - that’s what iOS devices and modern computers do. The risks of allowing unrestricted DMA started to get publicized in the mid-2000s when FireWire was used to attack locked Macs. IOMMUs are pretty common now but the OS still has to enable them.
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. Nothing like 2001: A Space Odyssey or anything but it was my gateway drug to independent non-English language cinema.
Install Alfred to replace spotlight, such a good utility.
My girlfriend complained that I ignored her texts on the messenger app LINE which is popular in Japan where we live. So I wrote a LINE chatbot that would respond to her texts with lots of interest "I'm so glad you messaged me, please tell me more!"
> different suggestion: learning how to talk about that stuff with your family is a better long term solution.

I agree, but unfortunately, for many people that's just not an option. Think abusive or mentally ill parents. Think people living in the middle east. It's normal for people to seek spaces where they can speak more freely, without needing to change the whole world to make that possible first.
Flash, for all its flaws, had the same magic for a while. It, too, advanced beyond it - later versions were much more verbose to program in, and pushed code further away from the things it manipulated, in the name of making it easier for Serious Programmers to write Big Serious Tools.
I just tried Pokemon Cries with my girlfriend and quizzed her on Gen 2. She got 10/10 right
PureSec made a fairly useful tool:

https://github.com/puresec/serverless-puresec-cli/

There is little reason that the friction of generating least privilege IAM policies can't be reduced. The same goes for deployment Roles.
The `say` command line tool. It will cause a synthesized voice to speak out loud whatever follows that command via text-to-speech.

This is especially useful for pranking your loved ones for whom you have remote shell access. ssh in and cause the other person’s computer to start talking to them... by name... asking for help... to be let out of the small metal box they’ve been trapped in for SO long...

This has been available in Mac OS for at least 15 years, and probably longer.
Long before the industrial revolution. Horse manure and slaughter runoff were huge sources of disease in cities even before coal smoke took over the air.
They are good in some areas, but certainly not good in others. Eg when it comes to how aws codebuild/deploy and how ECS service/instance/task roles interact.

It seems AWS teams are very vertical, leading to more complex cross services interaction being badly documented, as it's "nobody" who truly owns it?
No, it does not take into account timezones.

We have ISO 8601, no need to reinvent the wheel as a square.

https://xkcd.com/1179/ (date only)
You can also just long press
Also double-clicking the edges of windows (when the resize cursor shows) will expand the window in that direction.
Twitter censors all links to BitChute
macOS has a very good built-in text-to-speech engine with real voices that sound good (i.e. not annoying to read).

It's part of the Accessibility > Speech menu in Settings.

I wrote up a little info doc for how to enable keyboard shortcut for it so you can use with any text you can select: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mApa60zJA8rgEm6T6GF0yIem...

Use cases:
- read blog posts and news articles while doing dishes (basically turn anything into an podcast at the press of a button)
- read hacker news comments
- proofreading text (you can hear the typos much easier than you can see them in a text you have written)
A Guide to Biohacking the Emotional Brain
GP is a sociopath for acknowledging that it is a valid issue, but it doesn't affect them, so "I just don't particularly care" is the real tell.
You have a point there. But the thing is we are new and the only way to prove our value is by showing it.
Maybe it is a zen koan, designed to find the nature of the keyboard within and without.

As the apple keyboard strokes become shorter, and the gestures become more numerous, we become one. ;)
How to build an Electron app in Windows using WSL 2 and Ubuntu 20.04
I also know people who do the periodic track day in their performance cars, and then dial it back on city streets. It's another way to get your thrill on while still minimizing risks to others. It's apparently a blast—I'm not sure I'm ready for it, but I'm sure some day I'll work up the courage.
Free your money, free your identity
Seems like you might be mixing my opinion about the guide vs the dynamic of the standup.

Getting to know people, as well as getting to know yourself and how you behave/work with those people in particular, is a process, it is not something static that you can just put in a document and expect others to read, understand and act accordingly.

In the standups the manager could very well share anything they want, they just can't expect everyone else to know it ahead of time and to just adapt to him/her.

Relationships are two way streets, there's tug and pull, there's adaptation, there's context, there are events and situations, there is change and growth, none of these are properly captured in a document that just one person writes at one point in time.
Conservation of mass. Fuel turns into CO2, H2O, nitrous oxides and a couple of worse things. Out of that, only H2O isn't a pollutant. Every liter (or every gram) of fuel must fly out of the exhaust as one of these things, otherwise it would accumulate inside the car. Now compare how many liters (grams) of fuel you use per year, versus how many grams of break pads and tires. That figure simply cannot be true, it sounds like a convenient myth circulated by oil industry.
In 2009 PG considered shutting down HN for a few hours every day
American Bridge releases hundreds of pages of Trump admin opposition research
My wife spent two years with a Surface Pro running Windows 10, and when it recently croaked we got her a new MacBook Pro. The degree of relief she had is remarkable.
While I was offered LSD before, I could never shake the feeling that somehow this was "doing drugs" and therefore wrong. Objectively I could sense that this didn't quite follow logically, but I guess it is hard to shake the conditioning? Anyone else felt this?
Is there a method to the modifier key "madness"? I'd like to form a mental model of when to use Shift vs Ctrl vs Option in various shortcuts being mentioned.
The country famous for BSE is in a bit of a glass house when it comes to farming practices.
You have already reverse-engineered the address adder, maybe it is time to study the ALU and write about it.

I am very grateful for your published work, thanks a lot !
Plants and Soil Sensors
For the folks who think your devices aren’t listening try an experiment: start talking out loud about a product you’ve never, ever searched for. Something you’ve never, ever needed or wanted. See how long it takes for ads for that very thing to start showing up in Facebook and in your targeted ads. I’ve done it and Started getting ads in a matter of days.
Right: this went in the other direction. Initially, GMail scanned messages for ads, and was public in that this was part of how it was funded:

"Google also places advertising on Gmail based on key words that appear in messages transmitted through our system (it’s a good example of ads helping to pay for the free services we all enjoy online) - so if you’re emailing a friend about a trip to Paris, for example, ads might appear on the right hand side of the page for trains to France. Google does this using software similar to the kind that scans emails for viruses, to filter out spam and turn the bits of data received into the characters on the screen. No human being other than the user ever reads the messages sent or received on Gmail – it’s simply a computer matching up key words in peoples’ emails with targeted ads." --
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/services.google.c... (~2008)

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
What I like better than this is the free OmniDiskSweeper

https://www.omnigroup.com/more

I'm a big fan of the Omni group, and run my life on omnifocus
I think it's only really relevant if you have diabetes or other disorders that affect blood glucose (e.g. reactive hypoglycemia), as long as people know that in general sugars (and potatoes!) will cause spikes in blood sugar, and so should be consumed in moderation.

Although, even if you do have diabetes or the like, IMO just using the number of grams of carbohydrate and sugar in something is usually enough information, as you know that, in general, carbohydrates will cause your blood sugar to rise, and sugars will cause it to rise rapidly.

I have reactive hypoglycemia, and knowing the GI of a few foods is useful, only because you wouldn't think they were that bad (potatoes!) - but after learning it, just the macros are enough make a decision.
I wonder how the destruction of those credit agency buildings would play out in real life. It was a very "ends justifies the means" moment in the film.
There is a huge difference between "improbable" and "impossible" here.

Was it highly improbable that Saudi crown prince could hack into Bezos's iPhone? Yes, it was. Nevertheless, that's exactly what happened[1].

Now imagine what Chinese government could do with TikTok.

Also, application sandboxing and permissions can mean nothing at all[2]:

> A billion or more Android devices are vulnerable to hacks that can turn them into spying tools by exploiting more than 400 vulnerabilities in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip, researchers reported this week.

> The vulnerabilities can be exploited when a target downloads a video or other content that’s rendered by the chip. Targets can also be attacked by installing malicious apps that require no permissions at all.

> From there, attackers can monitor locations and listen to nearby audio in real time and exfiltrate photos and videos. Exploits also make it possible to render the phone completely unresponsive. Infections can be hidden from the operating system in a way that makes disinfecting difficult.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/technology/jeff-bezos-hac...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/snapd...
A Simple Makefile Tutorial
I’ll have to watch that. There is a story called “The Magic Thread” that made me see boredom differently, many years ago. http://www.davidgaultiere.com/the-magic-thread/
A couple of points:

1) Apple has much more leverage on iOS because it has a bigger market share and many more iOS users than macOS.

2) macOS has traditionally been an open platform

3) Many desktop app developers wouldn't be able to keep installing and running the products the way their do it now. For example, Adobe has an app called Creative Cloud that manages installs, licenses, active computers, and other things. It's practically malware at this point, but if you want to use Adobe apps there is no other way.
Ryzen 7 Pro 4750G Review
Does any company or person do privacy audits of these smart home devices? At the very least doesn't seem difficult to sniff packets sent out on the home network? Seems like it is generally accepted that these things are a privacy nightmare but haven't seen a lot of actual analysis.
The Reflecting Skin - was just very powerful and in my top movies.
Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, Forman’s Amadeus, again Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange, Antonioni’s Blowup, De Sica’s Miracle in Milan are some of the first films that come to mind and wish more people came to enjoy them
If the developer didn't pay Apple $99/year and also notarize their software, you need to jump through settings panes to launch the application "for your own good".
SHAttered: An SHA-1 Collision Attack in Practice
Oh man, I really liked this article until the very end where cryptocurrency comes in. Jebus...
Not sure you can generalize physicians and claim they all have no time to keep up with the latest science.

Did you actually look at the fact sheet on that page? It's not just something some physicians pulled out of thin air.

And PCRM's team does include experts in nutrition.

And your meta study link wasn't really conclusive; yes the association is low but suggesting that more high quality studies are needed.

Fact is in modern western societies you don't need dairy products and plant-based milks are less resource intensive compared to diary milk, see:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46654042

i.e. health isn't the only factor why someone might want to reduce or give up dairy products.
You can just as easily give overly permissive IAM credentials to a microservice. That's what happened here. Some tiny little web service was breached, and that service was provisioned a full-access IAM credential.
Sure, we're not great. But it blows my mind that you would ever want to _lower_ the quality of the food you are eating.
If you cmd-drop a file icon into Terminal, it will automatically cd into the parent directory, it prefixes the path with cd and appends ; at the end and executes it. If the icon is a folder, it will automatically cd into that directory.

If you shift-drop a file icon into Terminal, it will paste the file path to the command line without escaping spaces.
I dated someone whose father had a small business that made home goods products (e.g. specialty laundry detergent, waterproofer, etc). He was a smart but challenging guy. Definitely the sort of father who didn’t think any guy was good enough for his daughter. Remember the first time she took me home to meet her parents in South Carolina for Thanksgiving he was, literally, cleaning his gun on the front porch.

He primarily sold his products through big box retailers like Walmart and was getting squeezed on margins. I suggested he should sell direct through a website. He scoffed at the idea.

On the long drive back to Chicago my girlfriend brought it back up and asked if I could help put her dad’s business online. This was 2001 so there weren’t really any easy options to create what he needed. Ended up spending nights and weekends for the next month building a whole shopping cart, storefront, and payment gateway. Remember learning just what a pain getting SSL setup correctly was at the time — which was part of the inspiration for Cloudflare making it free and easy many years later.

Gave the site to him for Christmas. He spent the whole day playing with it and then bragging to his friends he was now in “e-commerce.” Girlfriend was very happy. We continued to date for another 4 years until her medical career took her East and starting a company took me West. Still friends to this day.

I think her dad’s company may still using a lot of my old code. (Which, to be honest giving my coding skills, is a bit terrifying.) Ecommerce has become a big part of their distribution. And I still buy and use his detergent, which is terrific for cleaning performance fabrics like Gortex and washing sheets if your skin is sensitive to perfumes or dyes.
It's one of the first things I turn off. annoying.

I also have repeat set to fastest and delay until repeat the shortest.
Too much swearing in the twitter thread. Puts me off.
I learned recently that in any terminal you can option click to move the cursor to a specific location in a command. It’s really great when you want to reuse a command but with a small change.
The second rule of Fight Club is:
You. Do not. Talk about. Fight Club
Except it’s basically the creation of one man who bound everyone that he sold the subdivided lots to.
The Road (2009) is like a horror movie for fathers, really destroyed me watching it but made my more aware of how tough it is to be a father & husband.
Ask average person - hell, average techie - about it, and I'm pretty certain you'll discover they don't know what you're talking about.

They really weren't up front about it, they might have just not been hiding it very hard.

Part of the solution to the tech vs. privacy problems could be forcing companies to be actually up front about their business models. After all, it's not wrong for an individual to give up their data, after being informed about what is requested and what will be done with it. The wrong behavior is having a business model that depends on most customers not being aware their data is being mined and used against them.
You could just as easily have said: I love your food but your country has some problems
You learn to avoid those pages. Besides, there are solid reference pages behind. I can't say the same for Azure.
I think you missed my point : it was about hypocrisy not about gotos ;)

Anyway in my usecase, easy is better than efficient : I'm in my 12th year of coding desktop and backend apps in C# and my first time having to rethink my code because it was too slow was only last year where I had to use dictionaries instead of Linq for a project that manipulates a lot of data (yes using dictionaries instead of Linq is the extent of my "optimization" and it's enough).

In those 12 years I never thought "if only I had a lower level, more efficient language than C#" (quite the opposite in fact).

So IMO it all depends on what you do : of course if your code is deployed to something less powerful than an Arduino I understand that efficiency is paramount !
Neat project! You might find TheoryBoard interesting[1]. It's a midi controller that tries to embed knowledge of scales.

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/irijule/theoryboard-thy...
I liked Century of the self as well. He seems to simply display the whole tangled narative in a very simple linear way that sticks. Definitely recommend Adam Curtis
Is that a pun? :)
Remember this is a toggle, so you can toggle hide/unhide with the same shortcut. I use it pretty often.
Before The Rain about love and war in Macedonia. Amazing and impactful film.

Time of the Gypsies by Emir Kusturica - just go in cold to this, one of my favorite movies. Featuring musical score from the incomparable Gorman Bregovic.

Enemy by Villeneuve (or literally anything from this director; also check out the compelling Incendies, and Sicario of course; Prisoners is also amazing)

Literally pick any movie from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi. The Salesman is probably my favorite from him. Very impactful and each of his movies shows a compelling and unique slice of life.
pre-OS X versions of Applescript (which was largely based on Hypertalk) actually allowed you to use Spanish/French etc in addition to English. Was taken out in OS X apparently.
> Watching an unusually well-Foleyed action movie on a good sound system can probably fool any recognition system Google can jam into next year's $150 smart speaker.

Many of the smart speakers use microphone arrays. Amazon Echo has 7 in its array, showing that arrays are feasible in $150 smart speakers (Echo 3rd Gen is $100). Even the Echo Dot has 4. Google seems a little lacking in this respect--Google Home only had 2 it seems.

These devices then should be able to recognize that a sound they hear, like glass breaking, is actually coming from more that one distinct source, and the directions of those sources. It should also be able to recognize that it often hears duplicated sounds from those same directions, and infer that this is where speakers for the user's home theater are.

It would be a neat feature, though, if these smart speakers recognized the sounds that home theaters calibration systems such as Audyssey use so after you get a smart speaker, you could tell you A/V receiver to run through calibration. The smart speaker could then recognize that and learn about all of your home theater speakers.