skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's interesting how they took the warnings on creating feedback loop "bubbles" and social media addiction causes and used that as their business model.
Two things here, from my perspective...

First is that trusting my suggestion is no different than trusting the instructions in your repo. Both can equally harbor nefarious things. So, the question is: do I trust Docker's script over someone that was just on the front page of HN? Probably.

To address the technical side - there are a number of things that can be improved from a security point of view in your compose file:

1) Restrict any new privs.
security_opt:
- no-new-privileges

2) Drop all privs then selectively add.
cap_drop:
- ALL
cap_add:
- NETADMIN

3) Limit CPU and memory.
deploy:
resources:
limits:
cpus: '0.50'
memory: 50M
reservations:
cpus: '0.25'
memory: 20M

4) Change the running users - looks like all the containers are running as root, which is no different from the system user.

There are others, but.. Just because the container isn't explicitly 'privileged' doesn't mean it's operationally safe.
How are these "Smart Streetlights" and not standard CCTV cameras that governments and private entities have been installing for decades? Is this just clever marketing to reduce public outrage?
Who gets to decide who has children? And how many?

This is a really dangerous line of thought you are pursuing here. "We need to control population" is a scary thought and I hope this never becomes a serious solution to the problems we have to solve.
He does point that out in a part I omitted. I wish the work was online so I could just link you but please, don't take my selective quoting as a faithful representation, it probably isn't, I'm just some internet rando.

Go get your hands on a copy, you can probably find one for under $7 on eBay
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Not to mention, imagine the legal headache for the DOJ to stop a merger on as-yet unpublished principles. "Arbitrary & capricious" and various violations of rules like the Administrative Procedures Act would be thrown out in court. It's a little sketchy as is that the DOJ can change its criteria without any decision in Congress, but at least this is closer to following the contours of the law as is rather than arbitrary decision-making.
You can also do this for Linux kernel console, if you implement export for vt.default_{red,grn,blu} kernel command line parameters.

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation...

That would be very useful :)

Or this:

https://github.com/EvanPurkhiser/linux-vt-setcolors
> Additionally, we collect payment information if you choose to use our Premium services, and we automatically collect technical information, including log data and usage information, for legitimate business interests, such as improving our product and providing customer support.
> You can bet that means they're building a credit profile of people and likely selling the information.

Huh? That seems like a bit of a leap
ah, good, nuanced, points, thank you
I have little-to-no understanding of law, so why is LinkedIn not considered anticompetitive when part of its product is people analytics?

Following are some references for my question

From page 15:

> Moreover, even if there were a voluntary course of dealing between LinkedIn and hiQ, hiQ still must show that LinkedIn sacrificed a profitable course of dealing in the short term in order to benefit long term from the exclusion of competition

...and passing over Aspen references...:

> ....Thus, hiQ implies that LinkedIn lost business as a result of hiQ’s being excluded from access to information publicly available on LinkedIn’s website. But hiQ has not specifically alleged that, e.g., employers stopped using LinkedIn’s services (or discouraged employees from using LinkedIn’s services) after LinkedIn blocked hiQ from accessing its website. Its theory of short-term sacrifice is far from obvious or even intuitive. Absent specific factual allegations, it is speculative to assume that LinkedIn gave up any short-term benefit by refusing to deal with hiQ

From page 17:

> In the instant case, hiQ has not explained how LinkedIn has exploited its locked-in customers (i.e., users). Indeed, hiQ does not appear to claim any exploitation of locked-in customers; instead, it suggests that LinkedIn has used the lock-in to harm people analytics providers.
Speculating: maybe they want to pipeline former students to their main product after they graduate.

Maybe they decided instead of risk another social media site going through the same lifecycle as Facebook did and fragmenting market share, they could keep it all under one roof. I suppose it could also be an attempt to keep the engineering simpler, too.

Hardly an expert, though.
How would I do this on iOS, if I had just my phone and no CaptureOne on a laptop or the like? Are there apps that let me use a gray card to set the white balance of raw photos?
> There's no money in being an also ran in the space.

AMD has spent nearly its entirely life in second place as the resident "also ran". But they're still around...
I will quote the article were commenting on:

> For what it's worth, the official Go Blog tried to clear the situation up some, and posted a write-up about it.

> blog.golang.org/v2-go-modules

> Even as a seasoned developer, I found this write-up somewhat impenetrable. For how important and unusual of a requirement this is, the write-up is not accessible enough.

Somewhere in the comments someone mentioned that "the actual info" on modules is here: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules which is slightly better but for some reason isn't in the official docs, and also basically brushes aside things like actually specifying v2+ modules in go.mod.

And as the article shows with links to examples, people forget to specify v2+ modules (yes, even Google forgets this), or just don't do the whole v2+ thing.
I've long been annoyed at how the tech tree basically requires you to research _everything_ to progress. At least in Civ 5. Civ 6 has a handful of dead ends you can ignore, but they're few and far between.
I propose a new "law" to add to the ranks of Murphy's, Moore's, and others: "Any technology that can be used for surveillance will be used for surveillance."

(Likely, this phenomenon has already been described, but I'm not sure how to google it...)
I'm optimistic. I work in agriculture and so see all the advances coming - right now there is more than enough food to go around despite bad weather, and yields are still going up fast. In the mean time world population growth is slowing down as third world countries advance to the point where more babies is bad for the family.
Seems like a hard problem. You could keep track of IP addresses that the user plays from, and allow resets from that IP. You'd only want to do this for very low risk types of accounts. Sadly, game sites tend to be high target for account takeovers, so this may be a very bad idea. Adding some other fingerprinting would help.

In fact, the more I think about it, there's a paper I saw that can identify users solely by their mouse movements. If you maintained that kind of fingerprinting in game, you could simply ask the user to play a few rounds then offer to reset if they're from a typical IP address. Might work well for this particular website.
I want to know why the Dragon 32 didn’t have lower case characters but displayed inverse coloured upper case ones instead. Used to play havoc with Basicode 2 programs.
Can people please stop to use "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" every time they write some list of thoughts about some topic? It's maybe a little less creative and unique than you think.
I run a site that takes payments for a subscription, but then just stores a cookie on the users machine proving they've paid.

It will give them the cookie again if they re-visit from any IP they've previously used.

It also re-gives them the cookie if they try to pay again with the same credit card.

Support just tells people to try to resubscribe if their subscription has 'vanished' - but it seems to happen to very few customers.
I think QHD+ is a little more ambiguous, as it could also reasonably be used to refer to taller displays (16:10 display at 2560x1600, for instance).

Also, annoyingly enough, QHD itself can stand for "Quad HD" or "Quarter HD", the old smartphone standard of 960x540, which admittedly has pretty much entirely fallen out of use
True, there were problems with it, it wasn't perfect by any means.

I guess the main complaint at the time was that it appeared to be "not invented here" syndrome. The community was converging on dep, and then the Go team decided to do something different, for reasons that weren't completely clear. It kinda rammed home the reality that Go is not a community project, it's a Google product controlled by a small team. That definitely has benefits and good points, but it doesn't match everyone's expectations.
Eh, seems about the expected result to me.
RT is here to stay, both next gen consoles have it.
In other words, technology that makes our lives easier can be used by people we don't like to make their lives easier also.
I meant the dimensions of the monitor i.e. 27in, 32in, etc. 27 inches seems to be one of the most popular dimensions.
APT Groups
Linux support exists, but is a royal pain. With my 5500XT, even on Arch linux it wasn't properly supported unless I compiled a few things from Git.

I applaud the open source effort, but let's not pretend it's all sunshine and rainbows.
Some modern consumption is far better than others. Plant based meat substitute is generally much better than beef. Electric vehicle are much better than non-electric. LEDs are better than incandescent (light pollution is much less severe problem than climate change, obviously, and solving it simply involves turning of lights).
Your point is valid. In fact, after San Diego missed its last payment, Ubicquia shut down all access to the "smart" data sensors & kept only the cameras running, for police use.

So, we can go ahead and drop the whole Smart Streetlight charade now and just call them surveillance cameras now.
But who likes this stuff? Who really wants to use it? I don't know anyone especially the younger crowd as I have teenagers, that want anything to do with facebook
Android 11 tightens restrictions on CA certificates
> Groups have been more prominent and getting quite a bit of promotion

But they made them worse with the new look. You can‘t see the number of new posts anymore so if you are in slow moving groups you have to click on them to check for new posts. So instead of checking FB several times a day to see if there is a significant count of new posts in one of my groups I switched to checking once a day and just looking into my favourite groups.
> the results aren't 100% clear.

Do you mean to say that anyone believes even for a second that a politician (by no means a lowest common denominator) didn't see it coming that a centralised system full of cameras could be used for surveillance? It's just completely mystifying what sort of results need to become clear here. Good faith is impossible in this case.
For text, a 5x7 dot matrix font fits nicely in 7 (wide) x 8 (high). 8-pixel wide characters look funny: characters have to be an odd number of pixels to get symmetrical letters like A, so you either have 1 or 3 pixels spacing between.

While NTSC allows 320 pixels, typical analog TVs overscanned a lot and you'd miss the right and left column or 2 of text.
I was studying abroad when Facebook started expanding beyond Harvard. I was in a dorm filled with liberal arts students from across the US.

I remember when about a third of us got "approved" for Facebook, and two thirds were just jealously wondering why their elite private liberal art schools weren't "good enough". I've never seen a clearer case of envy/FOMO.
"Hello fellow kids"
MicroG 0.2.12 released, adds support for Covid-19 contact tracing apps
I never really understood why TikTok is such a threat

Except for maybe collecting too much data, but that’s any app, and luckily Apple is taking their measurements for certain things
I can recall when using Mixed case in your Hollerith Constants was considered a bit flash :-)

Hollerith constants where the way you did text to terminal IO in Early Fortran's.

For example "Press 1 to exit, 2 to edit settings, 3 to start run?" instead of just "?"
Server was hugged by HN it seems.
more generally auto-completion helps users go combinatorial on new territory
Why did you go with a non-relational database?
When you click Edit on a photo, you will have bunch of edit options. Warmth and Tint sliders represent white balance. You can increase the warmth until it matches what your eye perceives.

Essentially you are telling your camera post capture what the temperature of the source is.
> The surprise announcement came days after the city floated a plan to hand over the camera management and access exclusively to police

How do I stay up to date on information like this? What can I do as a resident to help the cause?
At the same time, the city government is adding explicit surveillance feeds for law enforcement.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/east-county...
it works both ways, the ironic thing is people on either side of the spectrum believe they're the good ones and the other side that should be removed by facebook, and don't recognize they're part of the problem themselves.

I miss the days when Facebook was about sharing personal connections, stupid and fun stuff, as a shy kid in high school who didn't speak very good English, facebook has helped me made friends and connect with kids in my school as I was more comfortable talking to them online. Hard to imagine that would ever take place with the way Facebook is today, where you log on to scream at other people's political opinions which are different from yours.
This was really cool about 16 years ago, when Facebook launched. Because this is what Facebook used to be.
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Does anyone know of an open source recommendation engine?
I would love to just explore how one works bet it seems like this solely in the realm of proprietary software at the moment.

I have a dream of naively making a open source recommendation engine using data from good reads and imdb.

There is a real utility here that I worry will be captured entirely by companies without an open source alternative.
A system like this could be used as a massive phased array microphone to literally listen to anyone between 2 or more poles.
I watch a lot of YouTube and haven't really noticed any artificially long videos in my bubble of channels. I agree that intros are annoying (I have no idea why people do them), but other than that... it's just the usual video stuff. The nature of the format is that a one page blog post becomes a 10 minute video. People talk slower than they read, so it's somewhat unavoidable. There are also YouTubers that are really into the long form video essay format (hello, ContraPoints), but I don't think they're doing that to milk as much ad revenue as possible.

But again, that is just the random subset of YouTube that I watch. I doubt any of it is that popular, and I am always shocked when I get logged out and am on the default main page. So my experience could be totally off-base.
None of these problems your listing are relevant to TikTok at all. You don't seem to be familiar with how TikTok works or how immensely popular is world wide.
Or if you are an open source developer. Many projects have moved to discord only approach with no public forums.
Why do you think this is a good experiment?
Even if Jared is spending 20 hours per week on this project now, that will not be the case after construction is finished.

As such your calculation does not hold and 160 customers will not be needed to recoup costs, cash or non-cash. There need only be enough customers to cover running expenses, administration costs and once off investment costs over time.
Your statement is also naive. White balance set in camera does not affect the raw capture. Only how it’s represented.
I think that Errant Signal's video on Civilization offers a really interesting counterpoint to this view. When you think about it, despite it's cheap cosmopolitanism, it has an extremely narrow contemporary liberal view of civilization, government, technology and "progress". I think it's worth looking into.

https://youtu.be/xBlEscMLjy0
Ask HN: Franchising zoom for companies a good idea?
After a conversation with a peer in [PeerPull](https://peerpull.com/) and an interesting idea came up.
As of today, many companies are using Zoom to share online links on their social networks and engage with their audience. Free webinars, paid ones, QAs, sprint weeks, you name it. The company buys a licence from Zoom based on their audience and use it as a tool to communicate online.
But as a company, there is no way to keep an engaged audience during the before or after. You see what I mean right?

Companies could leverage a tool to keep an engaged community active for their external communications. The reason I said franchising is because these companies could use subdomains to stay visible and own the platform to their branding.

Has anyone thought about this before? Is anyone tired of the zoom flow of clicking on a registration link, downloading zoom, launching the program from the computer , etc.?
previously on HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24411357
Despite their best efforts to do so, I would argue that most people don't know that FB owns Instagram or WhatsApp. For college-aged people, IG, TikTok, and Snap are what they live in.
The Poochie of social networks.
I'm not sure there's enough real data here for any sort of conclusion, but it is interesting.

For those that are considering a move strictly based on recent events what's primary driver? Are those that are unhappy with how recent events unfolded(Covid or political unrest) looking to move somewhere that more closely aligns with their views?

As someone in Pennsylvania I've come to terms with the wide political differences across the state. I couldn't imagine calling anywhere else home despite wishing to be in a more progressive environment.
I don't rate this shortcut either, but there's an easy fix for your .emacs:

(when window-system
(global-unset-key (kbd "C-z")))
Would have been nice to see where these residents think they will go. Domestically? Internationally?
> The burden falls on every module developer who wants to use a version number above 1.x.

And this is fine as it gives module developers an opportunity to make breaking changes which they wanted for quite some time. It makes much clearer for module user as opposed to Java where one does not know which module will blow up code was it 2.11 or may be 2.13.2 etc.

> There's an assumption here about v2 meaning breaking changes that not even Go 2 itself may adhere to

If anything Go is trying to be even more conservative that they are avoiding breaking changes in 2.0 as opposed to being rash making breaking changes in 1.x. I see no problem with that.
This is awesome. I'm glad we have have insurance in case no one fills the void of HTC leaving. You can argue that Valve is, but given the massive back orders of the Index and their discontinuing of their controller and streaming box; I'm not totally confident.

Now we just need controllers and maybe even base stations.
That's not actually a question anyone is asking.
Thank you for the elaboration. And thank you for sticking with me here :)

So, if I am getting this right, we have the following factors: Person A makes a statement (this could be an impostor or not-impostor), Person B observes that there is an impostor at work (or not) and Person B could either be educated or not and lastly, whether they agree or not.

So we have the following possibilities:

1.) A -> non-impostor -> B educated (B trusts A based on shared knowledge, easy)

2.) A -> non-impostor -> B uneducated (B has to trust A, A made argument well enough to convince B, but B has nothing but a 'feeling' to rely on)

3.) A -> impostor -> B educated (B immediately figures out A is a sharlatan based on knowledge, argument ensues...or it's just obvious A is no good)

4.) A -> impostor -> B uneducated (B has figured out A is an impostor, but that could be for who-knows-what reasons and is therefore less valid)

And the conclusion here is that in case 4.), the person has used their lack of education about the subject matter as a way to add weight to their statement (or to embarrass the impostor further), when, in actuality their lack of education just indicates that they have little reason to participate in the discussion in the first place.

Am I now kind of getting it? I feel I'm being slow today, but it bugs me when I don't understand something.
they have sensors on them that collect environmental data. In fact, the cameras by default are used to generate pedestrian and vehicle data. You have to specifically add the vendor's "situational awareness" module to get a console for viewing raw video footage.

But you're right, Smart city technology is always wrapped up in marketing lingo to obfuscate its surveillance properties.
Look at weirdceo.com

Wisdom, Emotional Intelligence, Initiative, Robot, Dastardly or something like that.
What if they actually can’t?
For example if trump kicks out fortnite?

I’m sure there have been some incidents, maybe murder, related to fortnite.
Panos Panay on how the Surface Duo transforms Microsoft again
In fact we do very similar things - that is to say, of course spec cannot reverse-engineer my "this is valid sql" predicate to do it automatically and I end up having to hand-code a lot of generators anyways. The generation features of spec [for us, not for everyone] end up being a relatively minor value add compared to plain-ole test.check
So cost of entry is $20k and up per year? In other news, Deans of admission might be silently thanking Zuck for this feature!
This thing would be ringing every couple of seconds in my world.
The 10min. to master CSS Flexbox
I probably played Civ1 the most, on the Amiga back in the day.

IMO, Civ II was the best in the series, and if I find myself craving a game of Civ, I go for FreeCiv. Never tried Civ VI, the last few iterations just did not hook me the way the original did. If I'm looking for a good world sim, I like the Paradox series of games - Europa Universalis, Victoria, etc.
Same. Catch all aliases are the way to go.
Does anyone have a failed photo? The article is awful.
ARM based platforms such as Allwinner and Rockchip CPUs which are free of these security measures. Though the performance is very poor in comparison, however over the next few years the situation might improve.
yea its def race against time. It is slowing down in places like india but africa is just getting started.
Smartphones have tiny lenses. As great as they are, a tiny lens has more distortion than the bigger lens of a dedicated camera.

(FWIW: My "dumb" camera is collecting dust. I rarely take it out, and never bring it on vacation.)
They have more than just cameras. They have atmospheric sensors and microphones too. I think some of them also have compute modules to do local inference in the images collected.

In theory they're supposed to be for things like real time pollution monitoring and real time traffic so they can change light timings, that kind of thing.
We swear by Notion, it looks like it's a similar use-case
With Python you forfeit parallelism either way due to the GIL.
Great, emailing you now.
"I did not inhale"
Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content
COVID-19 really is a benign virus, as far a viruses go. I don't agree with the rest of that statement, but its effects on people infected are absolutely mild when compared to some other viruses: Polio, HIV and Ebola have much worse effects.

Other viruses that we control for with vaccination regularly have much more severe long-term effects than we now know from COVID, like causing birth defects (Rubella), deafness (Mumps), immunocompromization (Measles) or cancer (HPV).