skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It certainly could be, and there are good arguments that it probably is, but it also could be something they put in for testing and forgot to take out.

No, because you will find stuff like this in nearly all of their products.

It's fully intentional.

> It's also not a backdoor that the Chinese government (or whoever) can particularly easily exploit, since it listens on your local network.

Network isolation is well known to not be a reasonable security measure. Especially in home networks. I mean think about it many people have ton's of not necessary supper secure/trustable devices in their home network like:
TV setup boxes, the TV itself and most of IoT. Furthermore especially vendor provided routers are known to often not be so secure and well maintained taking often way to long to get security patches or not even get them at all.

Sure this is probably not build intentionally by the Chinese government to spy on US people. In a certain way it's worse, as it shows how Chines companies put backdoor by default in all kind of things "just in case" they are needed by anyone.
As I understand it, it’s crystal clear under EU law that these I Agree popups violate the GDPR.
FTA:

>An in vitro experiment by HU researchers showed that 99.7% of the SARS-CoV-2 viral culture was killed after a 30-second exposure to 222 nm UVC irradiation at 0.1 mW/cm2.
The short life span always interested me, especially being high intelligence. It lives long enough to breed, serving it's short singular purpose.

I'd love to see a comparison of the life spans of various animals/species. It would make for a good graphic/visualization. I'm guessing this sort of lifespan is more common than not, compared to say whales living ~50yrs.

Edit: I found two good infographicy examples, although Id love something far more in depth

https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/13/443926/6626429/ANIM...

https://www.alansfactoryoutlet.com/how-long-animals-live-the...
Is a "halal certificate on some financial instruments" a relevant thing outside of Sharia law? This is a serious question. Are more moderate Muslims okay with interest, or is it pretty much across the board? I'm sure you can find some of any group okay with just about anything, I just mean in general. I'm not sure where on the spectrum of atheist to Islamist something like this falls.

Right or wrong I have always associated refusal to use traditional banking a more hard-line Muslim belief.
This is upside down - it ignores the reality of what is happening.

WeChat in particular is de-facto a tool of the CCP, it's a giant information gathering and control apparatus that is used to serve the organs of CCP authoritarianism.

It's 'disappointing' that people don't seem to understand the nature of these systems.

If you dare to 'say the wrong thing' on WeChat - you risk your life and career to arbitrary detainment and punishment. If you speak out on HK protests on WeChat, you may very well never be able to enter the country, and your peers will be flagged.

Here's some research [1]

WeChat censorship [2]

Here's is Amnesty International's view of WeChat Tencent - literally 0/100 score for 'privacy'. [3]

The CCP implants state organs into every company in China, a 'private controlling entity' to ensure the board, executives comply with state directives [4]

From the Guardian: "One recent survey by the Central Organisation Department, the party’s personnel body, found that 68% of China’s private companies had party bodies by 2016, and 70% of foreign enterprises. Although these figures sound high, they don’t match the targets the party has set for itself. In Xi’s old stamping ground of Zhejiang, for example, officials set a target in August 2018 to have cells inside 95% of private businesses." [5]

Tencent/WeChat, possibly TikTok - they are under the control of the CCP and far from being any kind of source of 'freedom' - they are 'enemy number 1' in creating a dystopian nightmare.

The actions against Tencent/Bytedance should not be arbitrary edicts from the White House - issues need to be codified in law, or in terms of trade policy, and then applied fairly and objectively, but the outcome is appropriate.

[1] https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch/

[2] https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/wechat-surveillance-explained/

[3] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/10/which-me...

[4] https://thediplomat.com/2019/12/politics-in-the-boardroom-th...

[5] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business...
But that would lead to users telling their browsers to reject cookies instead of being tricked into accepting unnecessary ones, and that's bad for advertisers. Can't have that. /s (see also: DNT header)
Until clicking I didn't know if this was going to be a software product or an animal ;)
Wow. Surely there's a more nuanced approach that would better meet the needs of both sides of this technology? That's practically a killing stroke for browser notifications, if it's really going to be the new normal for Chrome.
No. Sunlight contains ranges of UV, INCLUDING 222nm, but it is filtered before it gets to us. "Sunlight" is all light emitted by the sun, not just what gets to the ground. The reason this is important is because of words.

The UV region covers the wavelength range 100-400 nm and is divided into three bands:

UVA (315-400 nm)
UVB (280-315 nm)
UVC (100-280 nm).

As sunlight passes through the atmosphere, all UVC and approximately 90% of UVB radiation is absorbed by ozone, water vapour, oxygen and carbon dioxide. UVA radiation is less affected by the atmosphere. Therefore, the UV radiation reaching the Earth’s surface is largely composed of UVA with a small UVB component.

Also, 222nm isn't listed on the Internet as safe at all for humans given it exists in the "hard" UV range. While it may be that someone discovered that 222nm exactly doesn't penetrate skin, that doesn't mean their assertion is correct or is useful to us in this matter.

I own a UVC bulb which makes me an expert on these matters. I can assure you that 222nm or whatever near it creates ozone, and you do not want to inhale that shit.
As I understand it, This is how most traditional cad programs work if you work with their command line interface
If those ... "features" ... prove to unreliable due to collateral damage from annoyances filters, they'll be abandoned. And good godamned riddance.
> Italy, France, and Spain did not industrialize anywhere near the scale that existed in Britain or the US.

???

Northern Italy has been among the richest, most developed parts the world non-stop since the renaissance. They didn’t achieve that without industrializing. France was so rich that it conquered half of Europe after 1800 and then it got richer with the Industrial Revolution. Paris was one of the biggest cities in the world for over 200 years by any standard. No history of the West, or the world would make any sense without France since the Revolution. You do not manage to acquire imperial possessions on every continent without industrializing early and fast. Spain, sure. It, Portugal and Southern Italy did not do as well as most of the rest of Western Europe.
I love elevatorsaga!

It would be an interesting idea just to have a candidate go to the site and screenshare to watch them do some coding.
Math is hard. Half is literally 50%. Trump only has 1/5th of the population's vote last time, and this time? We'll see... The figures seem to show that 65% of the pop hates the man, so you might need to revisit statistics before you die on this battleground.
The examples in your README look cool. But, I was wondering about this sentence:

> SDFs make CSG easy

Can you share some more info about how this works?
Thug is historically a racist dog whistle. Ignorance of this, pretended or otherwise, isn't a valid defense.

I saw a couple videos of burning buildings, sure. I had trouble caring though, because the only places that happened in are the ones where soldier cops got insanely abusive with peaceful protesters. The onus is on the state to back down, not the people.

Did you see video of out of state proud boys driving in armed caravans to protest areas, paintballing and pepper spraying indiscriminately?
Biden appear to be pro-China and has gone on record saying he would end Trump’s China tariffs.
pathetic europeans!! you can downvote me as long as you want, but I hate all of you. You bаstаrds are responsible for this crар with consent boxes!!!
Why is it Discord/Facebook are "just companies who can sort it out" but TikTok and WeChat are magically individuals?

Do Discord and Facebook not transact with individuals?
It is likely a bug, some cache needs updating somewhere. I had similar issue with Twitter. I used some sort of extension to delete my old tweets. It removed all of the tweets but tweets count didn't change. I am sure count is cached somewhere and when a job or some event triggers update, it will go down.
What I love about this engine, is that I can really easily read the code and reason what it does. I'd guess that given an hour or so of study I would feel reasonably confident in trying to modify it.
> In software we work with things that are just so _abstract_, it's nice to just be able to understand a system and it's flaws at a glance. It's nice to be able to see/hear/smell/touch what is wrong, what is right - in software, the most common way we get data is through text. Sometimes we even see a 2D image that (usually badly) represents some complex concept.

I think programmers are very good at building intuition about systems without help, partly because we rarely have good help from documentation. When we want to share our understanding of a system, we go to a whiteboard and have a very rich conversation about a simple diagram. Sometimes we draw different diagrams for different contexts: the performance context, the business logic context, the security context, etc. Fully detailed diagrams are overwhelming. Once we have good understanding, we intuitively edit the big picture down to the relevant parts. I don't know how to reproduce this in static documentation.
I am happy to spend the 10 hours less in travel a week on cooking a proper meal as I am less tired from the travel so enough energy to cook. Also during the day I can do prep work like cutting veggies during a short break or watch over the soup stock boiling.
except in the case of baking cakes, at which point the government will force private companies to do something they didn't want to.
Note that Google's consent form is already invalid and completely useless from the GDPR's point of view.

As per the GDPR, consent should be freely given (you are not penalized for declining) and it should be as easy to decline as it is to agree (something as simple as pre-ticked checkboxes is already in breach). The ICO's (UK privacy regulator) website provides more details: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

The current Google consent prompt fails the second test. There is an easy "I agree" button but no "I decline". The "See more" button leads you to some more filler text and turns the button to "Other options". Clicking that gives you more filler text and some links to Google/YouTube history and ad settings, but setting those doesn't actually dismiss the modal and you are still supposed to click "I agree". Furthermore the Google personalized ad opt-out says the setting can take hours to apply, which would also not comply with the GDPR as ad tracking should be opt-in to begin with.
Carbon Offsets Burning
It is technically a popup, but the video gets paused as long as it’s open.

YouTube has been annoying me much lately (especially when all videos start playing at low quality for the few first seconds) but this really is the last straw. Unfortunately all videos on the internet are there. So all I can do about it is bark here. Woof woof.
That fact you are even able to write this is proof enough of the falsehood of your statement.
There's an interoperable Golang Magic Wormhole, "wormhole-william", which works quite well.
> It might, however, protect against infection by a related, worse virus.

It might, but it's not what the linked article is about.
It's not visual noise to me. I currently have:

* 7 Brave (personal) windows with ~3-5 tabs each

* 6 Chrome (work) windows with ~3-5 tabs each

All of these windows relate to different things. For example whenever I check HN I fire up a new window. I might not have 2 hours of time to read/research everything interesting I happen to find so I just leave that window open for later.

Whenever troubleshooting I do the same as you, a window can get up to 20 or something tabs, but once the problem is solved those get closed. Or if there are interesting tabs in there that warrant future research, they get grouped in a new window.

On Mac I Cmd+tab through apps and Option+tab through windows of a specific app (don't remember what the default combo is). Or I swipe three fingers down to see all app windows. And I also use Tab Switcher[0], which allows me to Cmd+Shift+K to fuzzy search all open tabs.

This setup is not optimal, but it's not that messy/problematic for me.

[0] http://flowapps.co/tabswitcher/
There is no concern about the data. Trump got trolled by TikTok users who RSVPed to his Tulsa rally. That's the entire reason, full stop. This has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with TikTok's business practices.
I'll go a step further and say that this is in a way more wasteful. For the previous commute, driving was at least necessary. Driving 2.5 miles is like having a gas-powered robot fetch the morning newspaper.
However CIA also pushes their own agenda like Timber Sycamore, a secret operation lobbied by CIA director David Petraeus, to overthrow President Assad of Syria, that led to a war that created a humanitarian disaster.

President Obama signed off the operation, however it was a CIA creation & execution, with the help of Arab intelligence.

CIA does way more than lying and propaganda. They create wars too.
The links to additional tools (other than this NIST collection) are very handy, indeed.

A quick copypasta, sort, and count shows only 6 tools from that initial NIST site are annotated as having been updated in 2020.
Crazy Fintech outages I've seen over the years
> As the UK proved, a nation in the EU is free to leave the EU, but a state in the US is not. (Without consent of the US, of course.)

Which article or amendment of the U.S. Constitution forbids a state to leave without permission of the U.S.?
I sometimes wonder whether a better solution would be to require a comment with a downvote i.e. there was a heated thread about Assange yesterday, in which my karma was oscillating from -25 to +5 around the amount prior to making the comments, but only one proper counterargument.
How spatial computing will impact the Covid world
On this episode of The Artists of Data Science, we get a chance to hear from Irena Cronin.

She currently serves as CEO of Infinite Retina, an organization which provides research and business strategy to help companies succeed in spatial computing. She gives insight into what sparked her interest into spatial computing, how she sees spatial computing influencing our world, and the potential data problems that will result from more spatial computing technology.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

[4:09] Spatial computing and 3D

[8:15] Concerns of spatial computing

[17:20] The four technical paradigm shifts

[28:56] Spatial computing and autonomous vehicles shaping our future
QUOTES

[16:59] "Technology…it's always been a tool for us. But even more so with spatial computing."

[43:12] "I'd say the most important thing you can ever do is to be extremely persistent, no matter what"

FIND IRENA ONLINE

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infiniteretina/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/IrenaCronin

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irenacronin/

SHOW NOTES

[00:04:02] What is spatial computing?

[00:06:47] The future of spatial computing
[00:10:51] What is the prime directive?

[00:14:35] How will spatial computing change what it means to be human?

[00:17:07] What is the fourth paradigm?

[00:20:08] What's the intersection between spatial computing and artificial intelligence look like?

[00:21:29] Voice first technology, spatial computing, and the prime directive.
[00:24:42] Can AI create a government for itself?

[00:28:36] How will spatial computing and autonomous vehicles help shape cities of the future?

[00:31:02] Can you talk to us a bit about what Data bubbles are and what they have to do with the cities of the future.

[00:33:24] Concerns that local municipalities are having with the use of this spatial computing technology.

[00:39:39] How spatial computing will change the way we attend live events in a COVID world
I think you're right. I've been thinking for a while that the real future in electric vehicles is not Teslas or any EV to replace a car but Ebikes. Cheap, great range and you're getting some exercise and for every person on a bike. Other traffic flows better.
I think Epic initially violating the rules and getting Fortnite taken down initially would have been enough of an action to justify the suit.

Epic willfully not coming back into compliance with their contract is entirely on them, and lends more credence to actions Apple take against them.
You're talking about two different sets of people, neither of whom intersect with the (empty) set referenced above. Of course it's a mistake to believe a presidential candidate who promises peace. In my lifetime, maybe Carter (if one squints hard enough to obscure Iran) and maybe Clinton (if one squints hard enough to obscure Africa) kept that promise. The "lib-owners" couldn't care less about that issue. The idea that Pence would rein in either partisan nastiness or stupid wars, if he even could, is still risible.
Just look at how much bs China is making the biggest corporations in the world jump through to be able to do commerce there. And what do the companies do - they adapt and grovel to get to that market. This is just one of those hyper-capitalist talking points that has never been proven true but keeps coming back up. If you do X then all the companies will leave. Like there are infinite other Chinas or Americas out there.
> It is ironic that the person who first described how hard spaceflight by rocket is, due to the exponential nature of the deltaV equation, is also the person who described the best way to side-step that problem with non-rocket launch.

That's not ironic at all!!
Ads and marketing in general aren't binary. It's just that the ones that are only trying to grab your attention or build brand awareness tend to be on the more intentional and less helpful end of the spectrum of reputation signals.

Things we like to label "good marketing" tend to be more towards the middle of the spectrum by sharing useful information as a way to build reputation. On the opposite end of the spectrum from ads would be word of mouth, like that coworker who everyone loves for their competence.
Have a look at Opera's workspaces. Unfortunately there's a limit of five, but if i could have one of those for each topic I would be happy. My tab problem is considerably worse than yours.
Look at Invidious: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious.

This kind of BS (along with other UX annoyances with the official YouTube) finally convinced me to run my own instance. No more problems since then.
Given their intelligence, one wonders what they would be like if they lived say 20 years? Would they be ruling the oceans?
I've noticed a rapidly amplifying trend for right-wing opinions and even conspiracies to get a load of comments on this site. It's weird because in the past political conversations have been either avoided or limited to very factual discussions. I can't imagine any troll farms consider HN to be a high-value target, so I can only assume they are sincere.
This is slightly long to effectively remove the virus from air with people in there breathing it.

It's good for an airlock or surface disinfection though.
Yes, they are? Facebook, google, youtube, uber, twitter, goddamn wikipedia etc...
> And yes, it's possible to run it unsigned but Apple has intentionally obfuscated how to do it.

It's literally right click on the .app and click 'Open'. Or alternatively, open up the security settings and click the 'Open Anyway' button.

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Certainly not ideal for developers who do regularly open up unsigned binaries, but you have to admit it's probably somewhat effective at preventing malware for non-developers.
Do the insurers of local homes and businesses know about this? If so I'm sure they are going to push pretty hard for protections like these elsewhere.
Huawei floats an agreement that “promises a no-backdoor and no-spying” for 5G
> If Epic prevails, it pretty much wrecks the idea behind contract law. This case is about Epic agreeing to a thing and then reneging on the agreement, then crying “look what the evil mean company did!”

Courts have invalidated parts of or entire contracts for ages, extortionary practices by a dominant entity being one of the chief reasons.

We are just unused to this sort of legal battles.
I was referring to wrapping typed arrays in "normal" scripting languages, allowing integration with a larger eco-system, which is I believe why NumPy is more commonly used today than APL.
Neuraxle – A Clean Machine Learning Framework
FYI the pine64 has an open source camera called pine cube launching soon(ish?) https://www.pine64.org/cube/
It's not clear to me how this differs from Magic Wormhole, which is in wide use already. If it's a Golang implementation of the idea, there's already an interoperable Golang Magic Wormhole: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william.
Pretty much every raytracer uses denoising. Every "industry-strength" raytracer anyway.
Don't we just end up with a balkanized internet? A Euro-net, US-net, China-net?

I guess Canada goes in with Euro-net?
Or more importantly, huddled together in small enclosed poorly ventilated spaces.
It's not censorship. Dealing with a bad actor by excluding them is not "silencing" them.
My RTX-2060 runs well on Pop_OS!/Ubuntu

I've had pretty much nothing but good experiences running Nvidia on Linux the past 4-5 years, barring one strange issue with multiple monitors, a DisplayLink adapter, and trying to rotate a screen sideways.

I can see fiscally how it doesn't make a lot of sense for them -- but why write a platform-dependent implementation and not use code that's generic?

Is the problem the GUI? Build it with Qt or something
And Apple has a few weeks of damages accruing in the other direction while Fortnite on iOS has/had a 3rd-party payment option. Technically, I think you can still launch a pre-installed Fortnite and buy stuff even if you can't play the latest season.

But agree that Fortnite's 70% of IAP in presumed perpetuity is going to be a larger number than Apple's 30% for a limited window (the time during which Epic's own payment solution continued to work).
If that was the case Facebook would be banned as well, it’s just another grift as usual. He even explicitly said that a US company could buy it as long as the federal gov got a cut of the sale: pure grift.
I know some people who tap a can of Coke before they open it, because "that prevents it from spilling". Each time they do that, they are more convinced that their hypothesis is correct.

But is it correct? To find out, we need to try to invalidate it. Try opening the can without tapping it first. If the Coke doesn't spill, the hypothesis is clearly wrong. It the Coke does spill now, it's quite strong evidence in favor of the hypothesis.
Android’s face unlock was so terrible that they removed it afterwards.
There's plenty of evidence it is not lab made.
You might be forgetting just what kind of things they were up to at that time. People got in contact with __a lot__ more dirt that we did. There was much more manual labor and much less cushy jobs like we have.

The levels of hygiene were nowhere close to the ones we have today. Simple things like bathing weren't by any means standard depending on which time in history and part of the world you're talking about.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24515461

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24515540