skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this, is that all your purchases in the Oculus store become tied to that account. So then if you build up a library worth perhaps hundreds or even thousands of dollars (as I already have), you are running the risk of losing it all if at any point in time Facebook flags your account. The only narrow path to mitigating this is if you buy everything through SteamVR but that really hugely limits your options, and it's not at all clear to me it would not also run into problems as Facebook could easily associate your Steam account to your fake facebook account.
New York City lockdown reduced coronavirus transmission by 70 percent
Of course, and Tor is an excellent example of an accessible turnkey solution to the problem. But you should never rely solely Tor or any single measure. 50% of anonymity is your own opsec.
Could you recommend any artists or albums? Love this stuff!
Climate change vs forest management.

Why is this framing so prevalent? Isn’t the real issue that you simply cannot do prescribed burns in places where we have houses (and now our houses are everywhere)?

I get it. It’s hard to deal with decades of poor land use planning, but isn’t it better to at least admit it so we don’t continue to perpetuate this mistake?
Very true. It’s not tco for sure.
Which is kind of funny its very difficult to pirate games on linux but easy to pay for a pretty good selection of games.

Windows has a larger selection but its also incredibly trivial to pirate.

I've never bought more games than when I had no windows install at all.
> Before the advent of the pharmacological revolution, it was widely understood that brain activity depends on both chemical and electrical signals. The subsequent dominance of pharmacology almost obliterated interest in the electrophysiology of the brain for several decates.

From The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., in a section about "Applied Neuroscience" as it pertains to resolving trauma. It seems that the wave properties of the brain have been under-valued since psychopharmacology really took off in the 70s.
But an Aston at 30 mph is still a lovely thing.
XsX has hardware decompression engines too (zlib + bcpack) along with sampler feedback streaming, though PS5 does still have the edge on maximum SSD bandwidth and can pull assets more quickly.

How much that increase in bandwidth will actually affect games is hard to predict. Some devs on twitter were claiming that it's a bit easier to hit 4K60 on XsX.
Known vulnerabilities or weaknesses that don’t have patches are not 0-days. A 0-day is a vulnerability that you don’t know exists yet. That’s how the term is used in risk management and threat modelling. You don’t have 0-days that you’ve known about for 8 years. They’re just known risks.
Assigning them unlimited liability for catastrophic wildfires leads to the unintended consequence of making it risky for them to run power at all during high fire danger conditions, so they turn off power in these areas.
After extensive testing of binaural beats over the years, I've concluded that, for me, they do basically nothing. Maybe some people's brains are more susceptible to outside influence though.
Try "Disposition, Reflection, Triad" by Tool :)
Truly an experience
Every image I tried got a "Failed: Didn't find any faces in the supplied image." Maybe it my images maybe the server has been slashdoted idk
Christian bosses and managers in certain parts of the country a couple of decades ago firing you when they find out you don’t fit their morals. Now, the same people fire you if you’re not woke enough. It’s good, it’s progress.
Tor will hide/obscure your true identity (i.e. the one that gets fingerprinted when you use a non-Tor-proxied browser) behind a separate, distinct "Tor identity"; but Tor makes no claim to be fit-for-purpose for obscuring/garbling the persistent aspects of said "Tor identity." (The Tor Project has this as a long-term goal, but they're nowhere near there yet.)

There's a "new Tor circuit for this site" button in the Tor Browser, but it's for circumventing dumb WAFs who've blacklisted a Tor exit node's IP. It's not for OPSEC.

> Javascript

Nobody who cares about doing anything secretive is using Tor with Javascript enabled. (Fun fact: most of the "dark web" stuff operates using early-2000s-era phpBB forum tech, which works perfectly fine without JS.)
Athens is pretty far behind most alternatives. I use logseq.com and it is miles ahead of Athens and even edges out Roam in a lot of aspects. i.e. it’s based in md and org-mode and all data is stored locally and synced with GitHub. The team is great and super responsive (minutes from message to new deploy) and are open sourcing after beta. They took all the best features of all the trendy note taking apps and put it into one beautiful piece of clojure web app. Super recommend!
Quite right. Don’t know why the downvotes.
Ammo is a good example... as absurd as it sounds, the intent in warfare is not to kill the enemy; merely to wound them. Consequently, full metal jackets are used as these increase the likelihood of survival.
Police, on the other hand, shoot to kill. Not to wound. Hence, hollow-points. (In addition, the rounds won’t penetrate and keep traveling after impact with the perp and kill bystanders as military wounds are apt to do.)
Cf.lumen has this feature (yes, true red colouring, not just a yellow tinge like night shift), but it requires root and it's not updated anymore. (you need to find the 3.72 beta version online for it to work on Android Q)
The HT target mode is already in the beta and ready for testing, but will get even better with a future VRHealth Institute app as they are planning to add cardio profiles with varying intensity and that will be supported by VRWorkout
I assume it’s because the cable it insulates needs to sway in the wind, otherwise you’ll get shearing on the cable itself as it sways between completely fixed points?

Alternatively it might be made this way because the cable angle is variable (depends on terrain topology) so a fixed-angle insulator would require every single tower to be customised when installed. A 100y mtbf seems pretty good by comparison, you’d reasonably assume the component would be replaced long before that.
> I find these approaches to be borderline abusive.

They are not only abusive but based on a racist ideology, since these "training" sessions are often racially segregated therefore imply that some races are inherently racist. It builds up resentment and division, which is exactly what corporations want, employees at odd with each others so they won't question actual abusive management techniques designed by the higher ups. This is cunning.
Simple suggestion - take $500 each month and go to a soup kitchen near your house. Buy something nice for everyone there - you'll be shocked how far your $500 can stretch. It can be as simple as 400 doughnuts and several gallons of coffee from Dunkin Donuts.

Then, spend the rest of your evening serving food and carefully notice how everyone smiles and thanks you as you serve gruel, mashed potatoes, plain pasta, and water.

Next, think how much that person might earn in his lifetime and compare it with 3 years of your salary.

Then, you'll begin to appreciate that life is more than just making 150k or 200k.
We are no longer doubling / 2x every 2 years. And hasn't been so for a few years now. But we are getting 1.8x. So not too bad.

People will like to show you graphs, especially with 10 - 50 years time scale. Well you will still see a straight line, because only the end tip of that graph is beginning to curve.

Assuming a perfect execution, TSMC will get you ~1.8x transistor density improvement every 2 years all the way till 2030.

You may also want to read [1] David Kanter on Transistor Density. But TD;LR not all transistor shrink at the same ratio, 1.8x is the best case scenario.

https://www.realworldtech.com/transistor-count-flawed-metric...
Oracle Will Review TikTok Source Code to Watch for Chinese Access
Highlights from the Joe Biden Climate Plan
It's obviously for emacs users.
Apologies if I'm misunderstanding, but I think you're saying that you'd condemn them for admitting to hold that viewpoint. I think many of us would as well.

It seems to me a downside to that approach, though, is that we'd never learn why they had those views, and probably never get a chance to reason with them about why they should believe otherwise.

Perhaps I'm too optimistic about the possibility of talking things out. It's hard to tell.
At least that hybrid model with QWERTY has aplausable use case. But mine is just a grid. As for mine, there's only so many shortcuts you can assign to 128 anonymous keys...
What is it called after there is a patch against it? Does it just stay at like a 27-day if it takes 27 days to patch?

I feel like in common parlance calling something a 0-day would imply that it is something the manufacturer didn't expect and has no solution for which is a big problem. I guess whatever communicates information best. I kind of feel like we just use 0-day to mean big problems, everything else is just a bug that has some age, and then fixed stuff doesn't get remembered. Right?

That seems fairly useful, at least in communicating to the general tech media.
> blameless post-martens as a best practice in engineering

First, those don't exist -- despite any evidence to the contrary.

Second, engineers don't have shareholders demanding stock buy backs.
After listening to Rob Inglis narrate Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit, everyone else pales in comparison. Aside from Kenneth Brannagh's Heart of Darkness.

Fry's reading was good, but he's got nothing on either of them. It was also inconsistent. There's even a passage in book three where he appears to give Hagrid Hermione's voice. On top of that the voices he gave to women in general, were too shrill for my liking.
Could he do that though? I mean, hypothetically. I'm based in the EU so GDPR applies, and a picture of my face is definitely personally identifying info. So, unless I clicked something saying I consent to the data be stored/sold, I assume it would be illegal to do so.
It is really confident in its answer, but that does tell you much about how likely the answer is correct.

For example, if I built a model that always returns the same plate number, it would be 100% confident, but wrong 1947791 times out of every 1947792 plates it sees.

That said I would have thought confidence would be lower for plates with 5 and S in it.
I’m not sure how you can say that. The first examples of anti trust action have been about vertical integration and ownership of critical infrastructure by a market player not allowing entrance by others because it’s not easy to lay down more railway or more phone cables or telegraph cables. That’s the case for the web advertising situation.
Yep, I think fitness is actually the hidden "killer app" for VR. As in, it's not the thing I will rave about to my friends or what blows me away with how exciting or fun it is, but it has locked in as an essential part of my life for an hour+ a day, and it easily more than pays for itself.
Disagree. An 0-day is only a 0-day for 1 day after public disclosure. (and before)

It's a useful distinction. 0-days are special because your target has no idea such a vulnerability even exists. This makes them very different than known but still unpatched vulnerabilities.
The device in the hero image is an OP-1, a portable synthesizer made by Teenage Engineering[1]. It's a MIDI-capable device, so I'd imagine you'd want to interface with it over WebMIDI rather than WebHID?

[1] https://teenage.engineering/products/op-1
Sorry, I should have been clearer, it was an apartment.
I spoke to Adam Levine on the same topic in the summer of 2013, right after Snowden told us (for the nth time; credit also of course to Mark Klein et al) about the large-scale passive monitoring of network traffic.

This is a known issue, which, like GMail being accessible to the US government without a warrant, one that a lot of people simply need to block out to go on with their daily lives. It's difficult to emotionally integrate the fact that you can't travel anywhere while holding a cellphone without the military knowing exactly where you are, and exactly where you've been, for the entire time you've had a cellphone.

I encourage you to watch the interview, where I describe this precise attack:

https://youtu.be/9k4GP3Evh9c?t=2018
Hugo, s3, cloudfront? That sounds neither simple, nor well suited, for a lot of use cases like the local bakery or artist that wants to maintain a site. Most of the static site generator ecosystem seems to be aimed at developers that want too dabble in solutions way oversized for the problem. I don't need global CDNs for a site that sees loads easily served by WordPress or some other non-sexy CMS on a single instance of a random HTTP server, I need a CMS that I can put on there in 5 minutes, create an account and let people administer content. Sure, I realize there's a) valid use cases and b) options for that in the SSG space but quite a lot of the development there seems like solutions for imaginary or self imposed problems the world at large has moved on from.
Did you look at the photos of the hook, it should be visible to a proper inspection. That marketing video of inspections is either picked for nice panning shots, or is simply inadequate operation to make it look like they can inspect faster than they should to be effective.
The most useful outcome to society would be for every 100-year-old piece of PG&E infrastructure to be replaced, at whatever cost to the company is necessary.
You sound like someone who might change their opinion if you tried the Quest. Standalone and tether-free just makes a world of difference to how you perceive it. I use it intensively for exercise and that is pretty much a killer app for me.
More and more I see new apps being released and having a subscription model. Pay X for the tool plus Y every year to get updates. Paying 99$ and then 49$ each year is (at least for me) too much money and a no go. If after a year bugs are discovered on the purchase that I initially made, why shouldn't I receive that for free? Subscriptions are ok for services and I don't really care, but products shouldn't be on a subscription model. Just my opinion.
100% of the time for me, I wouldn't wipe my butt with a trackpad, let alone use one for work.

It's always fun for me to meet people who do things the complete opposite I do them. It's oddly satisfying, like, I'm glad someone is my polar opposite on an issue or activity.
I work with CoffeeScript (yes, I'm the one person, hah), SCSS, and HTML. No frameworks. No editor extensions. As minimal a setup as possible, aside from my two fave transpilers.

The perf I'm taking about is just purely motion to photon, with a plain text file.
NHK World is also a good option to watch if you get the chance
We will have themes with settings. We would like to support custom themes but certainly not at launch. It would probably make more sense to work as a headless CMS so you can plug it into your SSG of choice and have total control.
I love Panic but I don’t see why I’d buy and use this instead of PHPStorm which I get on Windows also.
I mean, it does seem to me like Signal is deliberately courting the mainstream audience, and has been from the start. That's why it uses phone numbers as identity keys, that's why stickers and such, etc.
Fascinating. It sounds like the exact opposite of "mindfulness".
localized power generation will be the future, bloom energy, fuel cell energy, ballard power, plug power, etc
I screwed the base stations into a piece of wooden 2x4, and stuck the latter to the wall with two bits of Command hanging tape. Super easy. The kit ought to come with these pieces imo.
> Everyone struggles with being selfish. It's good to be aware of our own self-interested impulses and work towards counteracting them. So why not have mandatory training at work that teaches us that we're all selfish at some level and that we need to address that character flaw?

A for profit corporation is the very definition of selfishness. And you think that a corporation can teach you "not to be selfish" when the entire goal is productivity in order to make someone a whole lot more money that you will ever earn? You don't see a contradiction in what you are saying?

It can't get more hypocritical like that. These trainings only exist to benefit the corporation, not the individual subjected to these. The perfect alliance between soviet style propaganda techniques (struggle sessions to break the individual) and hyper capitalism.

And no, everybody does not struggle with being selfish. Everybody isn't selfish.

By victimizing their employees with "diversity training" on the other hand, corporations have found the perfect way to break them, with the approval and moral support of the left. In fact, many corporations known for their anti-union schemes do also force their employees through these "diversity training" sessions.
And The Hobbit! After listening to Rob Inglis, I'm honestly often embarrased for other narrators when I listen to them.
True but the above compounds over time.
Audible has actually been adding that recently. I’ve listened to a few of their "included" titles and enjoyed it.
FPAAs don't really exist as products you can buy, as far as I know (unlike FPGAs, which are a very mature technology to the point that I suspect there's nontrivial (say, >5%) odds the average HN reader owns something with a FPGA in it somewhere.))
I've always understood it to mean : time/version since the software is vulnerable. 0 day ,from first release of the software, meaning all versions are vulnerable.

Which was/is more relevant when commercial software is updated at most once ever year or two

But it appears no one can agree anymore, making the term useless.
> Telling people "We need to turn off your power for a couple days every couple months for inspections" is going to create a lot of backlash, no matter how good the reason.

They were happy to tell people "We need to turn off your power for a couple of days because of wind." Granted, in this particular case, they weren't talking about the 115kV line that ultimately caused the fire.

To me, this just further highlights their "run it till it breaks" philosophy. This becomes a little more obvious when you read their plans for fixing this mess, and it involves a dual-circuit transmissions system. So, you can literally shut half of it down without completely stopping power.

It's also not impossible to serve one neighborhood with two power lines, in fact it's quite common.

> Also, the lines in question aren't like closing a two lane road in a small neighborhood

It is a single 115kV line. That's exactly like what it is. For the rest of the state your analogy falls apart because there is a significant amount of redundancy and additional capacity that can be used to route power. For example, lookup "Path 46" and the "Pacific DC Intertie." Which is interesting in it's own right because it can be run in two different modes, one for nearly double the power capacity in certain conditions.

> The problem is, these systems are old, too many people rely on them, and there is no redundancy.

The California regulator has been asleep at the switch here, and they do share some culpability, but again.. it's not impossible to design around this constraint. You're going to pay twice as much for aluminum and nearly twice as much for everything else, but it's not impossible to solve. Just no one wanted to and no one was going to make them.

> Also, their profit margin for one year is not a fair argument towards them being at fault.

They are a state granted monopoly. I think it's entirely fair.

> Economics at scale is not a black-and-white, napkin math, solvable problem.

Sure, but you can start on the napkin and see if you're even in the ballpark. I think if you put even $100 million down on a napkin, you'd be surprised at what can fit in your ballpark.
A use case: all the apps I use for Instagram photo editing in a folder. I don’t always remember what some of them are, or what they’re named, so keeping them together is helpful. Don’t trust App Library to organize those the same way.
Thanks for feedback! It looks like a decent lib and I would recommend anyone who need richer i18n support (like plural forms) take a look.

As for a18n, it's a deliberate choice to use current format (JSON with extracted key/value pair) instead of standard like ICU messageformat. Here are reasons:

1. This lib is built to enable automated i18n workflow for existing projects (~200kloc), with minimal human interfere and impose minimal complexity for build configuration, in this regard current format is working great.

2. This lib is used by both projects, plugins and components in our company, so to keep its footprint down (in case it's not deduped by bundler), it means fewer features (like plural forms, date, list) are supported, and...

3. ...we originally planned to add support for ICU messageformat if these features are desired. But after two years in production, we found the demand is not too strong to justify the cost.
You are correct - for an average person, fear of COVID-19 will cause quite a lot more brain damage than the disease itself:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26651008/
Yea, that or a dictionary.
Trying it out now. My findings so far:

- no vertical tabs (ditto for vscode though);

- no diff, unless I'm missing it;

I try to live without vertical tabs, but missing diffing is a show stopper.
The parent comment is talking about solving differential equations. That's a very different thing from computing differentials. Automatic differentiation doesn't help with differential equations at all.
cutting out of the publication with scissors. (Yes, I am old enough to remember "cut and paste." It wasn't completely manual: we had a special machine to apply the paste. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23560138 )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_monitoring_service has nineteenth century examples of clipping services.
there's also that whole fraud-by-scopolamine tradition in haiti that contributes to zombi-mania....
Imagine an alleged arsonist going to court, and his defense was "not guilty your honor, I didn't put all that fuel in one place, I just flicked a tiny lighter!"
Here are the two markets I was comparing:

Seattle salaries: https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Greater-Se...

Switzerland salaries: https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Switzerlan...

Cost-of-living Seattle vs. Zurich: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Income tax burden in Seattle @200k p.a. was 26.28% in 2019: https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes#qWHU75h5ug

Income tax burden in Zurich @200k p.a. was 20.41% in 2019: https://swisstaxcalculator.estv.admin.ch/#/taxburden/income-...

So you "pay" 8% of purchasing power to get everything I mentioned (plus socialized health care but let's not go there).
There are changes between each beta. There are also changes between the beta and GM.
Having not yet read the article I hope this is still relevant - for people who like music you can really lose yourself in ("trance inducing" is a bit cringey ...), check out Nusrath Fateh Ali Kahn. One of his most famous songs linked below but obviously his repertoire is huge and easy to find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDfELfpumEE

From Wikipedia: a Pakistani vocalist, musician and music director primarily a singer of Qawwali, a form of Sufi Islamic devotional music. Widely considered one of the greatest voices ever recorded, he possessed an extraordinary range of vocal abilities and could perform at a high level of intensity for several hours.

These performances, in tents with everyone sitting on the floor and sometimes smoking copious amounts of hash in chillums is something I wish I could have attended.
The post seems to be focused on hidden service operation. Traffic confirmation can be used to attack normal users but it is a lot harder.