skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only something like 10% of users tweet regularly. I wouldn't be surprised if most twitter accounts are run by PR firms, bots and blue check marks. The other active ones are probably alts of power users who were self aware of their behavior and decided to be anonymous.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/22/21148516/twitter-suspends...

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/19/17990946/twitter-russian-trol...

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
I have the same behaviour. Techcrunch is redirecting to their spying partner and then the adblocker shows an error page.

I guess it's an http redirect but I haven't checked because I prefer to write comments than debugging crappy websites.

To the people behind this : Go to hell.
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I would say the problem is exactly that they redesign Windows overnight, repeatedly. If they left the UI roughly where Win2k was I think there would be much fewer complaints. Instead you have successive generations of some team trying to make their mark. It's all additive, too, with vestiges of each wave left in place.

By the way there are other operating systems besides macOS and Windows. Seems to be lost in a lot of these discussions.
How bad was your acute phase? Was it like a bad common cold or did you require hospitalization? Also, what symptoms do persist and how bad would you say they are? In what ways is your quality of life affected?
Exactly the same things! There's no too late with a virus, the same things work to treat it no matter what the infection counts are.

Stay home. If you can't stay home, wear a mask and stay outside. Don't travel. Get tested regularly if you can't meet these rules. Follow the instructions of the scientists we've all been ignoring. Vote for people who will (or against those who won't).

Your argument seems to be of the form "Well, we fucked up, but it's too late now so we might as well open up." That's just not true. We can still fix this and save tens or hundreds of thousands of lives.
Supposedly the iPhone 12 delay will only be a few weeks. (We’ll see.)
> but the anthropological component of language never makes it into the design because there is no timeline of evolving usage.

Not true. A lot of folk in the conlanging community, perhaps inspired by the world-building of Tolkien, very deliberately set their languages in a physical world, and a historical continuum.

As a concrete example, have a look at Biblaridion's video about Ilothwi here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpXsrBd2xn8
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> Did you read the article?

All I can say is I hope you read the HN guidelines [0]:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thank you. This should be the top comment.

If there is any increase due to the lock down, my speculation would be, that it is related to less cars on the streets.
Depends on what you consider significant. Even influenza itself is traumatic enough that the risk of long-term effects is part of public health planning; flu vaccines aren't considered so critical because of the "lie in bed eating chicken soup all week" cases. (Although I don't fully endorse everything upthread, and I'd agree there's not much risk of hidden damage where patients we think are recovered will actually end up being disabled.)

The first study I could find from a quick search: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17497-6
Colossus doesn't have directories either.

http://www.pdsw.org/pdsw-discs17/slides/PDSW-DISCS-Google-Ke...

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I'm sure there is, which is great for one's own use but you can't make everyone else use it.
> (otr they know it's bs).

Well, that's a new acronym for me. I wonder where it came from. Apparently it's "on the real". Sounds like AAVE?
Obtaining evidence a compiler probably isn't backdoored is the point.

>There's no way that every compiler would produce the same exact insrtuctions for each respected input.

You don't know this.
I wanted to comment this top level:

I switched from iPhone 6 to Redmi Note 8 Pro recently (early 2020) as I lost my iPhone. I have been an Android user before the iPhone.

I really can not overstate how happy I was with how long Apple supported that device - I used it from end of 2014 to early 2020 - yep! Every single day, new iOS supported till late 2019.

Google - well they are famous for killing things.
>why don't we assume it does? Then the knowledge and awareness might spread a little bit more

If the assumption is incorrect, then it would be misinformation that we would be spreading.
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They aren't feeling the competitive pressure from iOS anymore. At this point iOS is playing feature catchup.
I just don't touch my phone in the store and hand sanitize before I touch my wallet or car keys (anything I'm taking home with me) and then again after I put the cart away. At each of those contact points I'd need to sanitize my gloves as well so it doesn't seem to provide extra protection.
I would love to live in a smaller town but still couldn't create good work opportunities there. Maybe two-three years later, I will be able to get to the countryside
LibreOffice AND Google Docs fall in the same exact spot than Excel here. Try it. Type "SEPT-2" or "SEPT2" in any of them and see what happens.
Considering how Perl was chosen as the computational biologists lingua franca in 1990's - 2k's since it was good at text manipulation (since genes are represented by text) I would say they don't have a history of making good choices.
We are. b2b healthcare industry. About half our clients have Chrome available. The rest are still on IE11.
I play a lot of Magic and usually I do this. It’s hard to riffle shuffle a double sleeved 99 card library.
> This shit could be avoided if they had a "scientific mode" to not be smart with your data, and be the default mode for any file in CSV/TSV mode.

There's a whole lot of business use of CSV/TSV with Excel that benefits from the existing defaults. Heck, I've seen federal government websites distributing code lists that are actually in CSV format with .XLS extensions and that are expected to use the default “smart” conversion.

Even if Excel should arguably have had different defaults, the impact on other uses of changing it now would be enormous.
This isn't surprising given the Pixel 4a and the 5 being coming up soon. With the price difference there is really no reason to purchase a Pixel 4 now.
The 2020 State of Crypto Crime Report [pdf]
How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19
As a budding stargazer I hope this dark-nights idea spreads to other countries.

Light pollution has the potential to get even worse with LED lighting which is no longer filterable like sodium lighting was.
I love my 6s. I got a new battery last year and it still works great. I don't expect support to last a whole lot longer but the SE is not a very expensive replacement. I just don't want to give up my headphone jack.
Glad to see at least something happening on the web side of Twitter. Because frankly their website is a hot mess of invalid, incorrect or messed up UX states and interactions.

Hopefully that will be the next step after reducing the bundle size.
Insects are a pretty damn important part of the ecosystem that provides us our nutritions.
A hack to make a Polish TTS speak Esperanto
Filling in the entire area results in 7% camouflage, 3% tractor, and 2% yoga. Does this reveal any explicit shaping or bias in the data?
People love to hate (which seems justified on the surface) on Apple's high prices, but the unparalleled years of support makes it worth it for me. Especially for phones like the SE.
"They still serve ES5 bundles for older browsers (the versions that are supported by Twitter)"

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1291405828843421696
You should probably be hand sanitizing when you're getting in the car - if you keep the gloves on you're just smearing whatever you picked up at the store all over your car doors, keys, and steering wheel, as well as the strings of your mask. Assuming you use the car gloved in the next day or so, it's now on your hands as well.
I feel that I hear people say « we’re having a unusually hot dry year » every year...
RSocket vs. gRPC (Benchmarking)
Long Hair in Singapore
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I've always heard that it's the SoC that doesn't get updated after X number of years so Google is supposedly limited by how much support Snapdragon is willing to give their SoC.
The main thing is I buy Google because I don't like Apple (for a number of reasons, starting from the OS itself). The last thing I want is them trying to be more Apple-like. People who like Apple will buy Apple. They need to design for everyone else.
Exactly. If you're constrained by production, there isn't much sense in making more of the old version when you need all the capacity for the new version.
Fireflies certainly are in decline in urban areas, and from that in a holistic population sense. The amount of natural areas continues to decline worldwide leading to reduced habitat for a lot of insects and animals.

However I was replying to someone who stated that they live in a rural area so lighting isn't the cause. I also live in a rural area, albeit on the edge of a very large city (e.g. there is the large light bubble on the horizon, actually from several large cities in each direction), and fireflies are absolutely rampant, and have been for years. My comments makes zero claims about the worldwide population of fireflies, or about how many fireflies there are in your or anyone else's backyard. In mine there are loads.

However it is a reality that localized ebbs and flows happen. Nature is prone to waxing and waning. The reproductive potential of many insects is so enormous that one year can be a dearth and the next overwhelming. Small seasonal weather variations, of the completely ordinary and natural kind, can dramatically impact the mix.

To go back to the ladybugs, specifically the Asian ladybugs, last year they were everywhere. Every corner would have a bunch of them. They'd get in the house and then smash into the ceiling near every pot light leaving discolorations (blood or something). This year I've seen barely a dozen or so all season. It's just a complete 180.

Aside - I swear I am not intending to be combative, but the citations make me recall a prior comment-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23899565

The Wikipedia page you link cites the second link you gave as its source to demonstrate the worldwide decline in fireflies. That citation cites nothing as its source but fond recollections of youth.
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The best thing we can do on a personal level is to stop using broadleaf weedkillers like Scott's Weed and Feed and other herbicides like glyphosate (Roundup).

I've been doing handyman work at my boss's house during COVID-19 and he has clover growing in his yard. He has a fair number of bees, certainly more than on my end of town which is all chemlawns.

It's arguably ok to use a little weed killer by hand on dandelions if you must (better to spray 2-3 courses of vinegar instead). But killing all clover, morning glories, and other broadleaf flowers in lawns has led to the near-extinction of bees in residential areas. Herbicides and pesticides in agriculture wiped out the rest.

Edit: fixed the first sentence to distinguish between broadleaf herbicides and glyphosate (which kills everything).
That's exactly my reasoning!
Footwear manufacturering/sourcing industry (meaning also targeting footwear brands). B2B with a global crowd; a significant chunk on old company computers (or phones). It's not many, but it's been quite steady at 1-2% of our user base. Since it's fairly easy to support IE11 (not pixel perfect) once everything has been setup, we have to keep it. We're thinking about doing a similar approach as Twitter, but it's not been prioritized yet.
No wonder there's so much division in the world considering people live in their own echo chamber, and consume media that's an echo chamber comprised of journalists creating their own echo chambers.
You do realize we've been at this for a few thousand years, right? Catastrophic is putting it mildly.
Lessons in the Decline of Democracy from the Ruined Roman Republic (2018)
CFS has long been suspected to be caused by an immune deficiency, causing hard to detect chronic EBV/strep/... infections that result in the manyfold problems affected people have.
A quick google search found this PDF as my first result:
http://watermanagement.ucdavis.edu/files/4114/3891/2385/A01_...

According to that paper, 700 miles of canals lose 9300 acre feet of water per day. They say the price per acre feet (in 2015) was $107. Almost a million dollars per day is lost according to that paper. And California hasn't been cooling down since 2015.

It looks like the paper looked at one section of the canal and extrapolated the evaporation loss to the rest of the canal system in California.

*this paper seems to be from a class at the university. Just using it as an example that it might be more evaporation than stated above
If everything is hunky dory there’s no need to put any energy into labor organization.

And to be slightly cynical: if all is well, an organization designed to drive opposition is going to need something to complain about just to justify its existence.

(The second point is often used by anti labor folks to claim that all unions are malign. I am Not one of those people — in fact I’m pro labor pro union. Just pointing out there’s a legit reason for a union not to have been formed)
Google really needs to figure out their phone hardware plans. This is a mess. 9 months? Who is buying these phones? Is the hardware division even profitable? I can't imagine it is.
There's the saying "science advances one funeral at at time."

'‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.’ This principle was famously laid out by German theoretical physicist Max Planck in 1950 and it turns out that he was right, according to a new study.'

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/science-really-does-adva...

Also the story of Ignaz Semmelweis who discovered that if doctors washed their hands it reduced deaths during childbirth - but for a variety of reasons his findings were resisted.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/3756639...
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/3756639...

Point being, as awesome as science is, it's still a human enterprise, and humans are still, well, human.
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Because their manager wants the data in Excel, because their managers used Excel, because THEIR managers used Excel.

It's managers all the way down.
The intent behind most of this is to drive a constant sense of fear and worry without any rational cooldown, so expect to be depressed among other things.

Until HN wakes up from fearmongering and "doomscrolling", the beatings will continue.
His father was a Russian oligarch
> Chrome team has tried to make some changes to improve the situation

The remote code execution ("RCE") capability requested by the extensions is programmatically detectable by simply looking up the `content_security_policy` key in their manifest (which is JSON format).

The extensions had the following `content_security_policy` in their manifest:

script-src 'self' https://fly-analytics.com;

The best change the CWS can do to improve the situation is to forbid RCE capability the first place -- such capability means that it's impossible to code review such extensions and conclude they are safe.

Mozilla's policy is no-RCE allowed. I didn't try but I believe Mozilla's extension validator would programmatically reject any extension which asks for RCE through a manifest's `content_security_policy`.
Congrats on launching. It looks like it’s only email login. Do you have an idea when you will release Oauth logins?
I think you might be confusing 3 and 4. 3 still had unlimited storage and the best camera. 4 doesn't have the unlimited storage and camera is still top notch (you can refer to many reviews) but lacks the zoom lens unlike other flagship phones. Looks like you forgot to put your reference link. Plus battery on 4 XL is good, 4 had really undersized battery.
Global warming migration is a forthcoming transformative crisis
same, I hold unto my se until I could, waiting for another midrange iPhone to materialize that was not completely gimped like the C line, I really enjoyed all the years with it. eventually switched to a mi a2, which is not as good, but workable replacement.

and hey, it cost a fourth of an iphone, so I can have extremely short replace cycle to work around the chronic android updates issues.
Whoa! But great move.
And zip codes.
From the HN guidelines

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports

This seems very specific to a certain constituency of US voters, and not relevant to anyone else on here.
You can even rent an apartment here that doesn't have a kitchen.
Have you looked into Macports (or Homebrew) at all? At the command-line level macOS is really quite like other Unix systems, once you install a bit of standard tooling.

The semi-exception where I occasionally run into problems is TCC. It's usually not a bother on the command line, but starting with Mojave it can occasionally interfere. But, since Mojave came out in late 2018, if you haven't touched macOS in years you didn't run into that. :)

(I really really really hate modern TCC...)
The issue is that we assume that there was a building somewhere, where a group of people sat down and designed and produced a device. (the soap dispenser) But we don't actually know that. If there is a single spot where this was done, and also where the testing was done, and there was an abundance of skin tones available, then this was caught. But that's a lot of ifs.

It could be that the device as designed and completed for manufacturing 15 years ago, the manufacturing was shifted around between 2 companies and the supply chain has 10 levels deep of participants that all did their own tests on their part in their own company in their own country on their own continent. And between that and the consumer it turned out there were 4 companies that just trade and don't actually look at, touch or use the product.

This is probably not what happened at Nikon, I'd guess that they have a few departments that may not work together as well as they could. Would be interesting to see how this actually came to be, I imagine there are many ways to create a (partially (bad)) product, and equally many ways to try to prevent that.
I would think that the folks responsible for crimes like misusing charitable funds would be punished with fines and/or jail. What's the authority/law under which a political advocacy organization can be forcibly disbanded? I can't recall something like that being done before.
>usually the only good avenue for a fix is to format and re-install Windows

This doesn't sound right at all for modern Windows. You sure it isn't a hardware issue?
Project Zero is about making their competitors look bad, not helping the public. There's a reason they went after Fortnite immediately upon announcing they wouldn't distribute through the Google Play Store: Project Zero's job there was protecting Google's 30% revenue cut.

There's nothing ironic when you understand the actual purpose, as opposed to what they claim it's about.
Google is one of the richest companies in the world. If they wanted to, they could demand updates for longer periods or just create their own chips.

It's just not a priority for them.
isn't the 4a camera a step back tho? hard to judge on paper spec but still.

I was eyeing it as a replacement of my current phone, a mi a2, mostly because the android one landscape is really limited
and to your children, it will be the way nature always was.
It took 3 days for the result of the battle of Waterloo to reach London, but that was 1815.

In 1912, Titanic had a radio telegraph, as did 3 ships that responded to its distress calls.

In 1916 Shackleton’s polar expedition had a radio on Antarctica.

I think this might have been important enough to make the news, and be communicated to those working with tons of this stuff.
I would be interested in seeing data on that. When you say "5 years is not that old" it can be read as "a 5 year old phone works just fine" and I fully agree with that, but it may be considered old in the sense that not many 5 year old phones are in use today.

Do a lot of people ignore their carrier's emails about upgrading at the expiration of the contract? I know I do, but I always assumed most people just upgraded almost right away to the new version.
The video for it is here, if anyone wants to see it being used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqIy4iuSpzI
> It actually doesn't matter what obscure zero-days you discover and patch when you distribute malware directly that relies on supported functionality.

Zero-days are often used by state actors, so their impact is larger, but less visible.
> Nobody's changing their plan because you have a pulse ox of 93 instead of 95.

Threshold values are used to.make decisions, dark skin people do read higher (meaning decisions not informed by knowledge of the difference are likely to delay intervention for darker skinned people) and also have worse outcome with otherwise similar presentation for many of the conditions where pulse oximetry would be a factor in decision-making. It's quite possible that the outcome difference is in part because of the measurement difference, even if the likely impact in each individual case is minor.
Peat bogs still exist; so the world is still slowly producing (low grade) coal. OTOH peat itself has quite a lot of stored energy and humans gonna exploit... so who knows what the future will hold.
There are tons of bacteria that are either neutral, good for you, or that you even *need". You just only hear about the ones that are bad for us, because they are comparitively rare.
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
«Stable» is such a problematic word. OpenCore is stable in the way that it never crashes, but it's unstable in the way that its configuration files always changes for every update.
I think you meant "astronomical" sight-seeing? ;-)

Yes, constant light does have a strong effect on animal circadian rhythms, but for insects, the problem is rather that they exhaust themselves from flying around the light source too long.
I doubt that they meant it literally. May have been a reference to the xkcd “my hobby” strips. See https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:My_Hobby
Sounds like every browser toolbar from back in the day.
not when you exceed the size of the pagefile/swapfile :-)

But it's a good project, otherwise.
From going through the discussion I'm getting the impression that the only feasible attack vector provided by USB is by emulating a keyboard like a USB Rubber Ducky. Is this really the case?

For instance, if my laptop is locked (with a proper[0][1] lock screen like xscreensaver) and that lock screen is capturing all keyboard input and magic SysRq keys[2] are disabled, too, is there really no way an attacker could use a USB device to hack my laptop?

Similarly, if my laptop is not locked but comes with unusual key bindings (maybe even a different keyboard layout), what are the chances of me getting hacked with a USB device? (Let's assume that the attacker manages to secretly plug in said USB device but doesn't want to access my unlocked laptop directly – maybe because we're in an open office and people are watching.)

My impression had always been that USB devices are dangerous beyond simple keyboard emulation but I might be wrong.

[0] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/04/i-told-you-so-again/

[1] https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key