skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saw this report a few days back and at first thought huh, typical marketing hype (which it is) but then in the comments section of one of the sources* pointed out that using an FDA type approved paper test strip as the 'sensor' element was a cheap way round developing (and getting certified) an electrical one. They also highlighted some accessibility advantages of a digital display. But yeah, I would be annoyed to find out that all the more expensive digital ones did was read the paper-strip result for me/the user. In one of the other sources* someone hacked an electronic version to display something rather funny.

* (I have been waiting to see if this got submitted by someone with a better link source than I had (saw this report a few days back but could only find 2x sources, both of which had way too many trackers on them for me to feel comforting submitting them since without a script-blocker and ad-blocker they are intolerable).
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This is probably the most important comment in this whole thread.
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Do the protesters control two branches of the federal government? Or indeed, any government at all? Do the protesters control the economic system by monopolizing most property and wealth? Do the protesters have access to a vast war-making apparatus?
Frankly I'm impressed things haven't descended into far worse than what has happened so far. Most of the demonstrators are showing an incredible level of restraint.
Very well written and surprisingly practical information in here.

I've used Paletton before when trying to make a good colour scheme but I've never been impressed with the results. I guess I was using it wrong:

> In the video above, I used the color tool Paletton to start with a tetradic harmony and then decrease the distance. Note how more beautiful the color combinations become.

> Our colors are opposite each other on the color wheel, so they’re clearly complementary. Yay! But they’re also unusable: The two oranges are way too similar. And everything looks so... bright. There’s where we need to change the saturation and lightness.
The benefit would be to kill the population of a city without destroying the infrastructure.
> his one, in particular, that “antifa is a violent mob that is super hypocritical”

For having met many of them during the Gilets Jaunes demonstration in Paris, it’s not only true but an understatement. In addition everyone of them I talked to was of an abysmal intelligence and seemed to come only to destroy. I completely understand police brutality has I have been gassed, beaten and shot with rubber bullets while totally cooperative and non violent. However the behaviour of antifas is unacceptable.

I highly suspect that the government used them to destroy any sympathy towards the protests. It might be also the case in the US.
How do bundles "help" with third-party cookies?
target people by the government even if you are at a peaceful protest

This is conspiracy theory grade. Show me a recent example of anyone being charged for just being at a protest.

The US checks 11 out of the 13 signs of fascism

According to whom.
>> I’ve found that most people I speak to can’t accept that most issues are complex shades of gray.

My own speculation on that. Shades of gray take effort to understand, and may not have clean simple answers. People may be too lazy, or not confident in dealing with complexity, or not smart enough, or something else so they refuse to engage with it. What I find odd is that so many who avoid the subtlety and complexity are really eager to tout their lame one-sided opinions, even as the world is falling apart and demands better than that... or maybe because its falling apart?
Not only this. Almost all there services works with bugs and slow. Youtube interface if buggy when you upload and manage your video. Constantly have to wait for 30-60 seconds to change any setting on the channel. Also constant censorship, likes/views manipulations, search results manipulations. They only want to control people minds hiding behind good intentions.
Not all programmers have computer science degrees and in many cases, it shows.

Some programmers do have computer science degrees, and in many cases it doesn't show. In my experience whether or not someone has a computer science degree is a very poor indicator of how good a developer they are.
People also put leeches on themselves to cure ailments in the 1800s. I don’t know if the ban is political or not, but stopping seeds from entering a country is nothing new. Customs paperwork has asked about it as long as I’ve been alive.

Australia has been wrecked by foreign flora and fauna. New Zealand airport biosecurity staff literally vacuumed my entire suitcase and tent in the when I arrived there once.
It's kinda weird that the only mention of Clojure is

> Clojure's license makes it a complete non starter for me, sorry. Live free or die.

when at first glance fennel looks a lot like clojure e.g. `fn`, square brackets, {} for maps / table literals.
The word "garderobe" (Old French "garder", to watch/guard + "robe", clothing) is interesting, because it's the modern word for a wardrobe in many European languages. According to Merriam-Webster, the word came into English in the 15th century and was primarily used to "provide English speakers with a word for a room or closet in which to store clothing". From there, it was then used for private bedrooms/bathrooms, until the word went out of fashion in the 19th century and today is only seen to refer to exactly what this article is about, historical bathrooms/toilets in castles.
I wrote a console-based email-client, using Lua for all configuration and scripting needs.

Using Lua is generally done because it is easy to embed inside a host-application. While it is possible to embed Python, Perl, or other languages, they're relatively heavyweight and not so commonly used in that case.

In my own application I always felt annoyed that mutt didn't have "real" scripting. Just an ad-hoc configuration that made lots of things possible, but neglected some basics (such as loops and similar).

Configuring a mail-client in Lua was a nice exercise, but eventually I moved on to pay for gsuite rather than self-hosting a mailserver of my own so it became a "done" project. Definitely a useful learning experience though, experimenting with user-interface, embedded scripting, and going through lots of learning relating to MIME-handling & etc.
>I also find it fascinating that the users of the Portland subreddit will shun or ban you if you are not actually in Portland, as I am sure that a lot of those folks strongly favour all immigration in general

What's wrong with that? You can be in favour of immigration but still want to have a subreddit for people actually in the town. You're free to move to Portland and join.
Do you have a test document?
Honestly, the media is way off about the Portland protests. Take it from people on the ground: the picture painted by the media is largely wrong and mostly inadequate.
"these professional journalists think that their readers can’t understand a nuanced world of gray and need everything reduced to black and white."

This is one of the main phenomenon of an issue becoming "political," or what Orwell called "nationalism" in a clunky-but-brilliant essay. It's a "with us or against us" dynamic. Every fact, opinion or take can only be an argument for or against a position.

When it's at peak (like now in the states), you get completely warped pictures. It's either peaceful protests vs brutal police and pro-trump militias or anarchist riots vs embattled police and law abiding patriots.

I think part of the problem here is that everyone is a belligerent. The media, the police, the protestors and (obviously) the government are all objects of protest, which makes them participants. The CNN siege in NY was a sharp example.

Another part of the issue is the typical modern leaderlessness of populist politics. Spokespersons usually moderate a position, establishing boundaries to consensus. This can take some of the edge off the "my side, your side" dynamic that more extreme actors benefit from.
This is my about half of my (modest) charitable giving goes to media organizations like Propublica and NPR that try to maintain journalistic ethics. Without them, we are lost.
Great discussion there. That USBguard tool seems interesting. I'll take a look, but the tricky thing with these USB Drop Attacks is the range of forms they can take and the levels of complexity. That USBguard mentions it blocks them from userspace, and without having looked at the code I imagine there's still negotiation that happens at the firmware level, which still leaves quite a lot of room for bad things to happen. For example you could make the perfect whitelist of your devices, but someone could still easily plug in the $60 USB Kill stick and it would fry your system. They could also take advantage of firmware level USB exploits such as a DFU (device firmware update) attack to inject malicious malware at the firmware level of your system. Off top of my head, I would guess USBguard wouldn't be able to stop that lower level of exploitation, so that's why I stick with not plugging anything in that isn't mine and in more sensitive IT departments, they can disable USB ports completely from BIOS.
Reason? Bunch of propaganda BS.
It's not exactly the same but arbtt[1] (automatic rule-based time tracker) is what I use on my desktop for tracking time in apps. It would perform the what-for-how-long data collection without providing a cloud-hosted UI for access/review

I'm unable to comment on how easy it is to analyse the dataset it generates as I've not yet got to that myself, but data collection is straightforward.

[1] https://arbtt.nomeata.de/#what
Is this still possible with Postgres?
Right, no one ever died from being arrested by the police.
I was on the edge of the Tea Party protests a decade back.

The Deep State crushed that effort via the IRS leaning on the leadership.

Social Media has us on the cusp of genuine, organic local leadership of society.

But there is a continuous tension to resolve between the Young Turks and the Ancien Regime.
I don't see how. Web bundles don't affect whether a cookie is considered third-party or not. Either the content is provided and signed by the actual website, which cannot place cookies for the advertiser's domain, or it's provided and signed by the advertiser, at which point it would be subject to blocking just like normal web traffic from the advertiser. Is this any different with bundles?
Maybe the press needs drones.
The US is the same way, most reporters are democrats. See:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/25/media-bub...

https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Do_97_percent_of_journali...
Corn? Tomatoes? Potatoes?

America was also largely industrialized with chemicals that were developed and used indiscriminately.
> What we do know is that if you are an organization looking for change, if you're not very careful, your well intended movement will be usurped by those who have ulterior motives

It seems to me, as an outsider, that this has already happened given what started as good intentions from occupy Wall Street down to whatever we have now. I can’t imagine the goal was actually burning buildings, but is a subversion of the goal.
Bias towards Union busting you mean.
I haven't spent any time with Fennel, but it seems more promising to me.

I couldn't get comfortable with Hy. It drops so many lispy things, such as let statements and persistent data structures, in order to stay close to the Python substrate. (You can get both from libraries, but at the cost of easy interop with Python packages, which kind of defeats the whole point of being on the Python platform in the first place.) It ultimately came out feeling less like I was working with a lisp, and more like I was working with an s-expression syntax for Python.

OTOH, if you think that Python, while otherwise great, is really suffering for lack of defmacro, Hy absolutely succeeds in getting you Python with defmacro.
Service proxy, pod, sidecar, oh my
I have also seen little reporting on what I suspect (admittedly, merely judging from photos) has driven a lot of the more confrontational protesting in Portland: youthful energy and enthusiasm that doesn’t actually think that much about theory or aims. Press coverage and the attacks of ideological opponents depict these protestors as a focused political force that knows exactly what it seeks and why it is doing the specific things it is doing, but I don't believe that is actually the case.

You would think that after May '68, people would be aware of this. Back then the French Communist Party, the Maoists, and the Situationists who developed elaborate theory and carefully pursued their goals, were seen as boring windbags by the actual masses of young people in the streets. Most of those young people were not coming out with clear policy aims and strategy, but rather they were motivated by a more vague feeling of discontent at the authorities, by the pleasure of rebelling, and by the satisfaction of being part of a community with fellow protestors.
I wouldn't have wanted to buy a house at 20 - the thought of getting tied down with property at such a young age seems rather alarming.

Now at 35 I can't imagine it more readily, even if not quite yet. But even at 30 I chose to go abroad and spend four years in a different country, and wouldn't want to miss that experience.
So what's the accurate picture from people on the ground?
You have no idea how sketchy these companies are.

ZoomInfo (public company) for example provides a free plugin for sales people which is scanning email for all the email signatures and then they sell all that data to their customers. Even crazier is they take data from their customer’s CRM systems.

DiscoverOrg is buying data from third parties without really knowing how they got the data.

There are a bunch of apps and browser plugins that read your emails or contacts and then those companies sell that data to third parties like these data brokers. I use very few browser plugins because of this threat.

If you have somehow acquired a list of contacts you can get a lot of these companies to purchase it with very few questions.
It's the other way around: it's because diplomacy and lack of war that economic interdependency can be built.

China needs to trade far more than we do. That's why there will be no war even if some decoupling happens. China can't afford it, at many levels, including the US being the oceanic route police.
>And they are preaching the world about optimizing the web?

The transformation has been amazing. Google properties, to the extent that they used to have a unified aesthetic, used to be quite lean and mean. How anyone can look at a product like Gmail and say that this is coming from a standard bearer on efficient use of resources is beyond me.
Thanks for posting this. I took a look at Fennel a few months ago and although they list 2 web frameworks on the front page, there's little documentation (that may have changed since then) about how to interface with other Lua projects. I kept running into things I couldn't figure out when working with the existing Lua ecosystem and projects.
the police have been making it worse. Using questionable tactics, using disproportionate force, lieing, inciting/supporting one side over the other, using beyond questionable reasoning for declaring a riot, using agent provocateur ...i could go on. Check out Blue Leaks as well. The fact is the majority of the media covering Portland are not showing the whole story.
The obvious warning - be very careful if you intend to fire it, do your reading first, yadda yadda. It's legal in America, though some states restrict production of certain things. Yes, you can absolutely make a non-replica, but if you want to actually design your own weapon, I recommend reading Chinn's The Machine Gun which has most of the requisite mathematical details.
That’s the same attitude as the OpenOffice.org team that led to the split that caused LibreOffice.

The other side of this equation is: if you get forked then expect either that your software will be fragmented, or the form will take over from you.

If the software is under a free license, and you won’t accept contributions, then the corollary to the assertion that you cannot expect your PR to be accepted is: don’t get upset when a competing fork of your project takes away your market share.
The difference is that people who have NOT ordered these seeds are receiving them. That raises all sorts of troubling questions as to the motive of the sender especially since it appears to be coming from China.

27 States had to issue advisories against planting these seeds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/us/seeds-from-china-mail....
At least one thing that you do is allow others the freedom you want for yourself.
Disappointing that the author concludes : "As a user, there is little that can be done in this regard other than to watch how this will all unfold in the future."

As with all other power grabs, the ability to resist it is simply a function of how organised the resistance is.

The apathy shown here directly counteracts any urge to resist.
Lua is way more common for game scripting than Python. One of the few major games which used Python I can think of was Civ IV, and Civ V switched to Lua.

Lua is smaller, easier to embed interface / interact with (e.g. it's way less ceremony to expose a native function to Lua than to Python), and tends to be faster, especially when jumping back and forth between the engine and the scripting. Embedding / scripting (within a larger program) is the original use-case of Lua, not so Python.

I believe it's also much easier to secure / sandbox (remove bits you don't want script writers to have access to) as well, the stdlib is smaller and I think it has less interactions between modules.

Python embedding / scripting tends to be more common for software where the securing / restriction aspect is smaller but flexibility & larger embeds are necessary e.g. 3D, CAD and other "production pipeline" software tends to be scripted with Python.
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2 recent examples, and 2 old ones :

Recently Syrian Kurds (YPG) are more or less anarchists and had decisive military victories, mainly but not only against ISIS...

Zapatista Army of National Liberation is close to anarchism too... The conflict never was an all-out-war, so I would not called anything decisive military victories though...

During the Spanish civil war, anarchist had been instrumental against the nationalist forces, especially at the beginning of the war.

And in post WW1's Ukraine, the Makhnovshchyna had played an important historical role
I am suddenly very envious of Pakistan.
> The CNN siege in NY

I believe that was in Atlanta.
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Certainly. I even catch myself doing it too. I’ve had to develop a kind of framework for considering political issues to avoid it:

What’s best for me?
What’s best for my family?
What’s best for my community?
What’s best for my country?
What’s best for the planet?

Often these questions have contradicting answers. However once I think through them, I can at least begin to structure an opinion.
It doesn't turn it into the equivalent of another data structure, and it doesn't allocate it on the stack, that's why it's better. It turns each value in the collection into a dataflow edge which then goes into a register, or the stack, or anywhere.
Add tracking - I had a love & hate relationship with Rescue Time. Just because one can track something does not mean it is easy to change behaviour. Diagnosis is not (yet) a treatment.

I've found a way to hack Rescue Time to to the job - by wiring the newly open browser tabs to it. Now it actually changes my behaviour, and there is not friction (I don't need an extra task on "check RT sometimes").

More in "ADHD tech stack: auto time tracking" (https://medium.com/@pmigdal/adhd-tech-stack-auto-time-tracki...).
Personal anecdotes about habits and promises. I've tried many different things to motivate myself to either abstain from behavior like smoking or to keep up healthy streaks.

An example would be a promise I made last Christmas to my fiancée. I've had a hard time quitting smoking because it's my go-to solution when life is stressful and feels like the walls are coming down. I gave her 500€ and told her that money is for a small holiday for us next summer if I don't smoke. If I smoke she can keep it all and use it for whatever she wants.

Now when I wanted to smoke, I'd have to weigh the decision against that promise. The downside was, I had a clear price that I could decide to pay if I wanted a cigarette. Needless to say, I failed in two months and now she has a new sewing machine.

On the other hand, I've now managed to keep a 45 day streak on duolingo. It's a way smaller thing and there's nothing externally motivating me except that damn little owl and a little lit flame icon displaying my streak. There's no penalty for failing nor is there any way to wiggle out of failing if I choose not to do my daily exercises. My main motivation is just to learn Welsh for the sake of it and I find it much easier to keep this up than any other habit which comes with internal or external pressure.

Making your friends hold you accountable to something just sounds like the recipe for getting unmotivated and losing the actual goal and swapping the enjoyment of doing something into fear of some sort of penalty which one could decide was worth facing.

I've also heard that talking too much of your ideas and goals will decrease motivation as you gain some feeling of success which should be rewarded to you after you've actually done the deed. I feel that this personally affects me and I've stopped talking about goals and I'm just trying to reach them and celebrating afterwards.
I've been an IT consultant for many years. I have been using MacBooks since around 2009. After an initial bumpy migration to macOS (OS X back then) after at least 10 years of using Linux (mostly Debian) exclusively, I never looked back.

It mostly just works and I can focus on writing my applications and operating my systems. I get a nice UNIX-like ecosystem on the metal and almost everything I need to write code I can get on Homebrew.

It runs Docker for those times when I want actual Linux locally, although I've been using that less and less since I can build and run my containers on the cloud.

I haven't counted but I suspect more than half of my IT colleagues use Macs, and almost everyone else uses Linux. Windows is the exception, where the only people crazy enough to inflict that upon themselves tend to be .NET/C#/F#/Microsoft-oriented devs.

macOS is the most hassle-free experience you can get. I say that whilst keeping a very close eye on Linux development since I'd like to break away from Apple eventually. Unfortunately no Linux distro comes even close to Macs in terms of simplicity and reliability.
I find it ironic that Firefox can not render the content at that link. Or maybe the opposite of ironic, ie ironic.
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