skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also only use private browsing mode, but the login annoyance is not enough to make me use an app. Most apps in fact track like crazy (potentially even third-party apps for sites like HN), and the whole point of private browsing is to not be tracked.

Instead I just lurk most of the time since I'm too lazy to log in, which means I'm not really contributing with votes. Maybe what we need to do is reduce the friction in logging in. I've always turned off the browser's password saving features and use my own password manager; maybe I should reconsider that policy.

[edit] Nevermind, apparently Firefox can't remember passwords when in permanent private browsing mode. So much for that idea :/
That hardly applies to HN, which still runs on Arc like it did 13 years ago.
From the article: "each traveler has to touch the same ID card or passport scanner. Then, immediately after touching the scanner, they have to touch their face again to put their mask back on."
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Russia knows no one is going to do anything about it.

This method lets people know what tools they are willing to use on an adversary. And it’s also a signature “we did it” so you don’t have to guess who’s after you. It serves as a warning to any upstarts as well.

It’s not all that different from the Ndraghetta bombings up and down Italy in the late XX cent.
I had this same question early on and I recall reading somewhere that treated hypertension reduced risk. Ostensibly, even if that was from a credible source, it may not mean much though.
I mean, enums literally get compiled into an object at runtime so aside from the definition it's basically the same :/

They're definition avoiding anything different now:
see goal 6:
https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...
My phone autocorrected "I'd" to "if", that's why :(
I struggle to think of an answer here. Says they're not even saving the camera pictures.
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Used Tesla are still not economical. In my area outside USA, an used old model S is ten times more expensive than an used Mitsubishi i-Miev.
There’s a massive difference between not getting your preferred place and being denied the opportunity even to apply
Back when the GNU project was founded, there were still lots of AT&T copyright notices in BSD headers, and it took some nasty litigation in the early 1990 to sort things out.

Incidentally, in my opinion it was this lawsuit which gave Linux a head start vs the *BSDs at a critical point in its life.
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I self-host a Nextcloud instance. If it's too big for a browser download, Bittorrent is the way to go.
It is explained in the article. People have to take off their mask, touch the kiosk / card reader, then put their mask on, likely touching their face in the process. This will spread many things, not just covid.
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Trusting your home address and personal info to not only random poorly trained TSA agents but also now storing that info in yet another 3rd party database that will probably be hacked.

It increases the likelihood of your info getting leaked.
Thank god I'm not alone.
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Six more apps containing Joker malware removed from the Google Play Store
That's great! Would love to try it out.
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Fair point. But I think this effort still will provide some benefit to those that understand the "arms race" of deep fakes vs detectors that is now unfolding
I'm not even American, not even living in the US, not even considering the idea of living in the US, and I'm angry at this. It's not patriotic anger - it's humanitarian anger.
Probably the same reason for poisoning someone with Polinium: leaving a clear signature, but being still able to deny any involvement.
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Backdoors left unpatched in MoFi routers
Google and Facebook sell access to you on thru their ads. The advertiser doesn't get your information. The free VPNs are probably selling your information, browsing history, and anything else they can get on you.
This guy has gotta be one of the bravest and most principled people out there. Almost anyone else would have determined that fighting this fight has no practical utility, since nothing short of a massive popular uprising could unseat Putin at this point, and Russians apparently have no appetite for such an uprising today. Hard enough to risk your life for something that might have a good outcome. To me, it's almost impossible to imagine risking my life for an effort I knew was doomed to failure.
Dmca + pedo + dox reports are about a dozen a year. Pastes are a niche.
Facebook used to run one, Onavo: https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/12/05/facebooks-onavo-sp...
And Russia doesnt make the technology to keep everyone under surveillance 24/7, its a big country, its easier to get in and out of Russia than say the UK, and not all perceptions of freedom & privacy are accurate.
That was Alexander Litvinenko.

https://www.google.com/search?q=alexander+litvinenko
Well it's not a bad thing. It's just a fact that working parents need somebody to handle their kids for about 10 hours a day.
CISA and FBI say they have not seen cyber-attacks this year on voter databases
as a game of thrones fan:

a raven with a sufficient large micro-sd card ;)
Glad they explore what the modern day equivalent of burning books is... not a precise comparison but good to noodle on.
"Ovenden sees myriad threats to knowledge amid this ‘digital deluge’. There is ‘linkrot’, those links that lead you to websites that are no longer available. There are denial-of-service-type cyberattacks, like the one that crippled Estonia in 2007, which see websites bombarded with queries, overwhelming servers and causing them to crash (even the Bodleian has been targeted). There is ‘fake news’, as well as ‘alternative facts’, and the manipulation or intentional erasure of data. Ovenden sees the emergence of ‘private knowledge kingdoms’ and ‘surveillance capitalism’ as particular threats: a ‘disproportionate amount of the world’s memory has now been outsourced to tech companies without society realising the fact or really being able to comprehend the consequences’."
Have you dealt with this in production? One of our data scientists suggested pulling in TF as a dependency into a mainline prod service just yesterday and there were some suspicions from ops people that it could cause trouble but nothing concrete. Would appreciate your perspective on that if you don't mind!
Thank you so much! If you email us(ruby at satotious.com) your userID, we will credit it with a small amount of btc so you can test the extension auto-pay feature for free.

So far we are getting 95% picking ads vs micropayments, I guess thats to be expected as most people dont have bitcoin lightning wallets yet.

Right now we have demo ads which we create. Our ads are slightly different as they incorporate a captcha.

The permissive permission on the extension is so we can inject the auto-pay functionality. We dont collect your browsing data. Open sourcing the browser extension and paywall is on the road map. The future plan is that users connect their own lightning wallet to the browser extension and publishers do the same for the paywall, therefore we wont see any of those interactions and keep everything private
A kotlin project is going to use both java and kotlin sources (and maybe closure).

We're going to start seeing a lot more WASM stuff on npm, which is going to be whatever language anyone wants.

The VM for typescript is node/browser. Because it gets compiled to target those.
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I remember ca. 1990 when the big debate in Unix shops was whether SVR4 or OSF/1 would ultimately prevail. Few people probably would have predicted that both of these would be seen as essentially dead ends 20 years later.
More like Twitch, less like Facebook
The average Indian loves Modi. He is India's most liked leader since Indira.

How people are looking at it:

> raging pandemic

It is not his fault. (to some extent they are correct. Covid and India, was like lighting a match in a haystack. Central Govt.'s response to Covid has been far less shambolic than the numbers make it look)

> Massive recession

Modi gets to blame it on Covid. Demonetization and an unclear fiscal policy have just as much to do with it. So, he is only 50% correct.

> Potential war with China

I don't exactly blame him for this either. He seems to actually have bipartisan support for this. China is pretty much trying to take over Indian land, so the reaction is warranted.

> Crackdown in Kashmir

Kashmir in Modi's era is a weird mix of success and failure. The removal of article 370 is a great idea that would allow Kashmir to finally reintegrate properly. The opposition to it was also muted, since it was a bipartisan goal of both Indian national parties. Modi just had the mandate and right votebank to do it.

The reintegration process however, was slower than expected, and led to a period where Kashmiris experienced loss of freedom that was looked down upon by many. It has been getting better, but it could still be faster.

> Internet bans

Can I say, I absolutely approve of these in India. The pace of spread of mis-information on mom&pop groups on whatsapp is unbelievable. There are many bad faith actors who use crises to incite riots. A few hour internet or whatsapp blackout is absolutely essential to govern in a reasonable way in India.

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Modi is not good for India.

I do not like him.

But, the west and Indian left-elite completely miss what's wrong with him. The rising popularity of Modi while the whole left-establishment shouting that his time is over is as clear as it gets.

So, I'll enumerate what I think Modi's biggest issues are, in ascending order.

1. Lack of seasoned/qualified generals to run a full cabinet. (the death of Jaitley, Sushma, Parrikar made it worse)

2. Over-reliance on India's tired and stagnant bureaucrat class to make up for it, instead of external experts.

3. Homogenizing the Hindu community at large, to form a bipolar nation (Hindus vs Muslims = BJP vs Congress).

4. Centralizing control (very Indira-esque... really, to undertand Modi, just ask : "what would Indira do")

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Modi didn't happen out of nowhere.

The complete incompetence of the Indian National Congress at mounting anything resembling an opposition is primary to Modi's rise. A hero only exists, when they have a demon to kill. As long as the INC continues to try to draw from the drying well of nepotistic 'Gandhi-name' goodwill, it will continue down the death spiral they are in.

If there was a silver lining, maybe Modi will force the rise of a more socially open and meritocratic left in India.
It always goes this way. Some people really want to edit their wiki markup in a plain text editor, others want that superior UI/UX that a system like Dokuwiki offers.

So if you have to optimize for an entire team you end up moving away from plain-text editing.

No one has been able to solve effectively for both use cases.

When Confluence dropped support for plain-text markup editing there was a huge storm about it. Some people are still angry at Atlassian.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Wiki...
Is he really the opposition leader? Who gave him that name? What party or elected position is he part of in the Duma?
It doesn't matter much, but it's annoying when the conflation carries over to evolution-creationism debates. "That's just a theory!!" and the like.
The founding fathers were so concerned about this, that the US was also founded as a representative democracy, where the only people whose opinions counted were wealthy white landowning men.

Let's not look at a model where less than 2% of the population could vote as some brilliant stroke of foresight. It was created by aristocrats for aristocrats.

Mind you, this post does not advocate for direct democracy, but the origin myth of the founding fathers always needs to be looked at with a bit more context then it is usually afforded.
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The article completely falls apart because the only link that the author has between crafting wheels and creativity is done in the following paragraph which is so vague that it can be applied to anything and nothing at all.

> a spontaneous integration between contrasting types such as the hard and the soft, as well as the learned and the spontaneous, the active and the passive, and even the unproductive and the productive – all of which apply in the case of carving wheels, as well as elsewhere. In other words, living well involves creativity.

Even if we examine the story in more depth, it _still_ doesn't make any sense; incredibly strong propositions such as the one below are thrown out all over the place.

> his craft in an integrated manner that can’t be fully captured through an algorithmic list of instructions
Popular discussion on this yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24341535
If you transition your workflow to AWS, and do preprocessing and storage and training in AWS, it avoids the issue. As a benefit, storage in s3 is dirt cheap compared something like dropbox, and archival is easy and cheap enough to just forget about. I feel weird like I'm evangelizing amazon, but it's a workflow i'm very happy with and trying to streamline to take even more advantage of.
Why a new tool? How is this better than gpg symmetric encryption, considering gpg is installed/available effectively everywhere?

Encrypt:

gpg --symmetric file.dat
(enter a password)

Decrypt:

gpg --decrypt file.dat.gpg > file.dat
(enter the password)
It's a mag stripe reader isn't it, why do they have to touch it?

Presumably you can use hand gel, and take the actions serially.

And the whole thing is optional.
I agree with each of your bullet points.

There is quite a bit of good content that never makes it to the front page. Having less muck to sift through would be nice :) however, this is just a symptom of HN steadily growing more popular...
But that's my point, automation doesn't hold V2 for you. On engine failure during takeoff you immediately disconnect the autopilot, then manually stabilize the yaw with rudder, adjust thrust and retract gear (and flaps in steps). Then manually fly the climb at V2 speed. All the automation does is indicate the correct speed on the PFD speedtape to help you decide what to do.
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The auto generated lists are repetitive, but you can find any music playlist anyone's ever made on YouTube and those aren't. So instead of looking for a song and hitting play, which will start an autogenerated list based on your youtube likes, look for a playlist that has that song and play that instead. Also the more likes you have the less repetitive it will eventually get, but it's still a bit repetitive for me and I've been using YT Music for over two years now or however long since it's come out.
New Study Finds 71% of People Prioritze Watching TV over Sleep
R handles statistics.

It does not simulate complex biochemical interactions in different parts of the body.

From the description, they did something that requires a lot more horsepower.
Putin regime wants to make sure that Belarus fire wouldn't spread to Russia, and thus the timing of the message that they sent to whatever little opposition still exists in Russia.

I mean the chances of actual popular uprising in Russia in near future is nil, yet Belarus can definitely embolden and make the opposition bigger, thus basically reverting the effects of all the opposition squashing Putin's efforts probably back to the 2012 state and making it a serious PITA for Putin.
to get super meta, one could say that the opposite is true: arithmetic requires categories
Hi :D, thank you for the positive feedback. Hopefully this will incentivize people to host their own content and not rely on centralized platforms.
LIGO and Virgo Capture Their Most Massive Black Holes Yet
I've seen how schools are in other countries both in person and on video. In the US down to the doors and walls they are almost identical. Perhaps the US does it a bit too well?
Amateur is related to latin "amare" = to love, and originally refers to someone that does something for the love of it (unlike a professional, who does it for money or gain). So, an amateur need not be new to a pursuit (or bad at it).

So, it seems to me (as an amateur...) that noob, novice, newcomer are better renderings of "novichok" than amateur.
Etymologically it goes "new" -> "newbie" -> "noob". "Novice" is from latin, and while it does share the same root as "new" it does so way back in proto-Indo-European.
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Even without the bug it will have negative effect on latency and generally is not really needed for un-metered workloads (there’re posts by thockin on reddit and github that describe this in detail)

To answer your other question - I believe kops ships without system reserved by default
>How can any patriotic American read something like this and not at least start to wonder what happened to this country?

Because, especially among those who self-identify as "patriotic American[s]", the discussion always goes something like this:

if you're dealing with the police in any way then you must have done something wrong and are therefore a criminal >>> criminals are bad people who deserved to be punished >>> who cares what happens to them, we shouldn't coddle criminals

Any suggestion that any part of this is wrong is met with accusations of being soft on crime or the like, which is generally a political death sentence in the US.
Personally, it irks me that a lot of these submissions get posted because it adds to the list of posts that I have to weed through in order to find the gems.

I've been making it a point to flag submissions—more often—when they do violate the guidelines (resubmissions, political/can be discussed elsewhere, etc.)
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There is sort of a "jump" from those to the ones less oriented around (->) but truer to the math, but I can assured I have in fact used https://hackage.haskell.org/package/categories (a prime example of the latter sort) in production and it was genuinely useful.
Kind of: it used DMA, but the buffer size wasn’t infinite. At the time, Windows 9x and Mac OS would lose data if you ran anything demanding. Windows NT and Linux might, depending on drivers and the exact nature of the other process’ activity.
This is a security nightmare. It looks like major browser vendors have pushed back against it and for good reason. Even a website I absolutely trust should not be able to access my bare filesystem because I don't know if that website will get compromised, XSS'd, DNS poisoned, etc.

I understand wanting to save files with a webapp, but why not just use LocalStorage and deserialize/serialize from that? If you need persistence plug in a cloud solution like Amazon S3. That's what the web is for.
I think a large part of California's issues come down to an inflationary spiral led by the absurd housing costs. I don't think it's unreasonable for city workers to want to be able to afford to live in the city that they work in. E.g. the average SF police officer should be able to afford to live in SF. What this has meant in practice though is that we keep giving city employees raises on raises on raises to keep up with housing costs which means everything else is crowded out and the long-term pension costs of these now inflated salaries is astronomical. If a 2-bedroom apartment were $1,500/month instead of $3,500/month, the 'fair' cost to a city worker would be much lower and by virtue our entire tax base could shrink.

As they say though, wages are sticky in the downward direction, so even if California were to flip a switch and do a 180 with their housing policies, these costs will be with us for a very long time. Property tax reform paired with lowered income taxes would be a good first step though.
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Nothing is said about the hardware (which will be posted Sept 12), but I wonder what processor they're using. There have been a lot of advances in lower power processors over these last years.

I was once at a conference where Atmel was demoing their SAM L21 board by transmitting FM radio to a nearby radio receiver using the heat generated by your hand.

I went home and purchased a board and found it amazing. 48 MHz ARM Cortex-M0+ that consumed < 35µA/MHz [0]. You could run an IOT device for years on a coin cell!

Recently someone on HN mentioned the Ambiq Apollo3, which is even more incredible with up to 96MHz and less than 6 (yes, SIX) µA/MHz. [1]. Absolutely mind blowing.

That said, the biggest reason why I think new processors aren't used often is their support/documentation. AVR processors are pretty bad in a lot of ways (cost, performance, power consumption, etc) but you'll be hard pressed to find a problem which hasn't already been solved by the millions of Arduino users. Good luck troubleshooting your obscure interrupt issues with that one Microchip processor that only 10 people use.

[0]: https://www.microchip.com/design-centers/32-bit/sam-32-bit-m...

[1]: https://www.fujitsu.com/uk/about/resources/news/press-releas...
well, to be fair, i think most fox newsers "believe" the commentary because of identity and a desire to will things into fact, rather than a serious, considered conviction. there's no desire to critique, and folks are generally aware of this, though not always omnipresently in their minds and actions.

you see the same phenomenon in church membership too, which legitimizes and reinforces this behavior in secular life. those used to be more compartmentalized, but that seems to have become unbound over the past 40-50 years, with (mostly) republican politicians intentionally blurring church and state for political gain.

our education could improve, especially around rationality and critical thinking, but i don't think that will make (or would have made) a large dent in the behaviors of fox newsers. they're largely responding to both an intentional and mutually-reinforced misperception of risk of "others" all around encroaching on their otherwise pure and wholesome lives. it's a totally unfounded risk, but that's beside the point, because the intention is tribalist, not rationalist (similar to maskers who prioritize compliance over risk appropriateness).

tribalism is the problem, put to very effective use by the will to power to divide and conquer. an effective contravention is to widen the tribe to include everyone, but that's hard to achieve and maintain.