skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that Prop 65 is at best a mixed bag, but it is hardly news that processed meat has been strongly linked to certain common cancers. https://www.who.int/westernpacific/news/q-a-detail/q-a-on-th...

The Western diet appears to contain more processed meat than ever, so it seems pretty reasonable to apply the warning in this case, because a lot of people are almost certainly unaware. That this association/warning would irk people so much is surprising. You're still allowed smoke and eat lunch meat every day if you like -- the point is to raise it to the level of a conscious choice to do so in spite of the best evidence on the risk factors. I'm no doctor, so I'm not saying smoking and lunch meats carry equal risks, but they are comparable, and more people should know that.

As for problems with Prop 65, for example, it does seem odd to label coffee as potentially cancerous, simply because acrylamide in the coffee bean roasting process has been linked to cancer, when the balance of evidence shows that drinking 4 cups of _coffee drink_ a day seems to have only positive effects. But who knows, maybe that'll be the new "alcohol only seemed good for you because we mis-categorized sick quitters as tee-totalers, so just eat grapes to get the touted red wine health benefits" and the acrylamide effect hasn't been observed yet.
Got an email? It's a bit more complex than some prefixes
sales? how so?

evangelist? elaborate please?
In the support area, generalists can be very popular. Lots of people will just bounce issues that sound even slightly outside of their wheelhouse; being the guy who takes on cases and owns them no matter where they go will win you a lot of friends very quickly.

I don't have the lofty "Sr" in my title but I have a special designation as the "edge case SME" in the list of experts. I also do big crisis management which is pretty fun. Not a dev, so take it as you will.
Talking specifically about censorship, all governments have been guilty of it. Many websites were blocked under Congress rule, the Congress government even banned books like Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Even the courts are no better and are wont to censor websites based on the judge's whim.
It's worthy of criticism. After all, many people are saying this style of communication will be the downfall of society. Experts agree.
Firefox – Sessions restore windows in random order
Facebook stands to benefit (again) from US Gov't action against a tech company.
If you already don't like the idea of assigning Final Goods Assembler liability to operators of major open-source repositories, I suggest skipping to 'How To Fix The Problem' (of security vulnerabilities in end-user software, especially in IoT devices).

Personally I like the idea of a UL-style or CE-style label at least for IoT devices that asserts that the devices will be automatically updated with cryptographically-certified patches for ~5 years. Then you can manually disable the updates, you just take responsibility for the security of the device.
I understand that... But as stated, the orders themselves are not illegal. It all hinges on intent of "your strategy to dupe other traders", but I fail to see how the algorithm creator would understand a black-box strategy developed by the algorithm. Eg let's say they algo was some form of reinforcement learning; it's not clear to me that you could even represent the policy space in a human-interperable way. All you have is inputs & outputs -- the AI has no "intent" beyond it's objective function -- say expectation maximization or risk minimization.
I've tried SLOBS many times. Like every now and then, months apart. Actually, just this weekend again. Usually only takes me about an hour to go back to OBS ... I am not even entirely sure why I keep looking into it. Probably subconsciously I am looking for something that justifies electron and the horrible UI.
> turtles had the misfortune in the nineteenth century of pleasing the palates of wealthy Europeans and Americans, who found the gelatinous “green fat” under the turtle’s shell a particular delicacy [...] Wealthy men in New York expressed their passion for turtle meat by joining “turtle clubs,” convening each season for meals in which the reptile’s flesh formed the center of every course—soups, steaks, chowders, and salads

Wow, what an interesting fad. I'm curious about what turtle tastes like, and if it has any comparisons with fatty tuna (otoro) or wagyu.

Edit: Like veal, apparently: https://reason.com/2010/03/09/sea-turtle-tastes-like-veal/. Also, according to the article, farming may be a sustainable source of sea turtle meat.
Whatever Bosch you get, avoid the ones with membrane buttons for the controls. I have one and it is horrible. The lettering is completely worn off, the buttons are not sensitive, and you have to keep pressure on them for more than a second to register your touch.

They have otherwise nearly identical models with physical buttons. If I were buying it over again, I would definitely get one of those.
I know but that doesn't make a difference. What I mean is browser cookies, canvas id etc that will remain and can be used to track the user between sessions.

Currently all tails sessions are pretty much the same because they're all fresh sessions every time you use them.
Really? I should abandon my ethics and morals when I look to a different jurisdiction? If "what the law is there" is unjust, immoral, unethical, I should STFU, because that's what the law is there? That's an 'interesting' world view. It's a convenient one, because standing up for morals and ethics is inconvenient, but not everyone swings that way.
That seems like hyperbole to me. At least according to the data i found after a fairly quick search.

https://www.hydropower.org/maps/worldhydropowerstatistics

https://ourworldindata.org/renewable-energy

https://www.kfw.de/stories/environment/climate-change/intera...

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/09/these-3-maps-show-wha...

https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Price_co...
I remember how as a little boy I was instantly hooked on my father's Dragon32 and its BASIC interpreter.

A screen plus keyboard plus an instant-on Micropython board setup would be very appealing to children.
> A radical, uncompromising, plug and play personal server, offering one-click installation and simple configuration of open source software services that run over Tor V3. The Embassy is your sovereign territory in the land of the Internet. No technical expertise required.

I have technical expertise and that paragraph goes down like molasses.

Imagine if instead it just said

> Plug this in and you have a cloud in your own home.

Sure HN types might nitpick the use of cloud for self-hosted hardware but at least there'd be some hope for non-technical users
This is the most concerning factor - Facbook reach is tremendous across it's media platform and most people still do not associate WhatsApp or Instagram as Facebook properties, even though they literally updated the apps to say "By Facebook" on them.

I do not know how to rate the governance or ethics of either company (FB/Alphabet.)
RTFA. The article covers why this wasn't Azure related.

Or keep on beating the same old drum while the rest of the world has moved on.
> It can configure itself to be a virtual camera (similar to OBS) [...]

OBS can be used as a virtual camera? I assume not out of the box but only with some third party software/plugin, right?
People are starting to care a great deal and it will become the biggest issue over the next few years. The dangerous effects of big tech's monopoly on information and social exchange on the internet have to be dealt with.
For people who are concerned about monopolization of internet search, look into things like YaCy.
For what it's worth, your name alone has become quite famous in the performance world, and that's due to your blog posts and books. I would be a bit shocked if an interviewer for that field didn't know you.
The WHO's definition from their classification of red meat and processed meat as group 1 carcinogens (from https://www.who.int/westernpacific/news/q-a-detail/q-a-on-th...):

What do you consider as processed meat?

Processed meat refers to meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes to enhance flavour or improve preservation. Most processed meats contain pork or beef, but processed meats may also contain other red meats, poultry, offal, or meat by-products such as blood.

Examples of processed meat include hot dogs (frankfurters), ham, sausages, corned beef, and biltong or beef jerky as well as canned meat and meat-based preparations and sauces.
I made about $0.03 per hour from my book.

BUT

I wrote the book at a time when I wanted a change in my career. I had been doing Network administration and tech support and simple repair work, but I wanted to switch into software development.

The book got me interviews. And my life was very different after that.
True that the reservation system gets abused a lot in India. Living in North India, I frequently see rich families enjoying reservation benefits even when they don't need it. They don't realise they are eating up positions for the people who really need it. And the children of these rich families that the reserved seat as something they are entitled to and not affording any respect for the opportunity.

It's infuriating that reservations have become so abused, but any step by any party to change it would be met with such a fierce opposition that it's literally impossible to change.
My understanding is that these methods work well, when the learner has already reached at least a basic level of fluency in the target foreign language. But what about those just beginning the journey as well as those who have already started and still are moving toward that basic level goal? I assume that traditional approaches (textbooks, courses, sprinkled with some live conversations with native speakers and watching some movies/TV) remain the right ones. If so, I'm curious about what, if any, might be the optimal strategy for achieving that goal, in other words, what is the approximately optimal ratio between efforts using relevant methods (say, 50% textbook, 30% course X, 10% live conversations, 10% watching movies) and whether such strategy's ratio depends on specifics of the target language (say, Spanish vs. Chinese).
Same service in Helsinki: https://ai.hel.fi/en
I love fish, and use it for almost everything.

The one thing I haven't been able to get it to do is to define and export environment variables properly..

So I typically open the terminal in Bash, do whatever sourcing bash scripts that set up environment variables, or do something like that by hand, then run fish.

Kudos to the developers for building a great productivity tool. No tool is perfect, fish has its warts but it's made me much more productive.
Some of our core assets are still in Fortran.
His books are excellent, especially the latest bpf one. Highly recommended.
Depending on what you stream or trying to achieve, just get a Windows/Linux VPS and set up everything via RDP/VNC like you would on your own box. That's what I did for a "twitch plays" channel that was up for about a year.
Long story short, Google is using its search dominance to provide unfair advantage to other Google and Alphabet products. This is primarily done through features or "snippets" competitors cannot earn or even pay for.

Many of the details are not yet public. The individual investigations (some being conducted by states) are said to focus on multiple issues, but the one with the most discussion and evidence centers on the issue I described.

For example, google a flight you may take regularly, or just "LAX to JFK". Your first result after ads will probably be a Google widget. Can sites like Kayak or Expedia get that widget? No. Can they compete with Google showing real-time prices right in the SERP? No. It's the definition of anti-competitive behavior.

Google originally argued they don't advantage their own products. They've since admitted they do. Meanwhile they company is moving into more and more verticles and squeezing others out using its search engine as the weapon.

The vast majority of qualified traffic comes from search engines, and for my sites it's more like 95-97% Google. Many have argued the 90% market share figure is too low, because Yahoo and Microsoft include their internal searches to sound better. If Google decides to create a search widget competing with some function of my site, even if Google's version is really shitty, my business suffers badly. This isn't theoretical. Go Google "speed test." Your first result is a Google widget they added to search results. Ookla IMO has a much better product. But Google's widget is first for basically everyone who searches for a speed test. The M-Lab/Google test caps out for me well short of my real bandwidth. But I guarantee Ookla's traffic took a beating when Google decided to insert their own product at the top.

Unfortunately, Google has a lot of lawyers, and it's also reported that Barr is trying to rush this thing forward to provide a win for Trump. The actual career lawyers are arguing they can build a solid case, but they need more time. My fear is we'll see this thing rushed through and the changes will be cosmetic. And I do think Google's actions are a real problem. The most recent testimony before congress was pretty shocking. Facebook and Alphabet execs were basically admitting to anti-competitive behavior.
Haha, yes the difference in the bathroom stalls is real. I've had a few hilarious conversations about these issues over beers in a pub. Personally, I think the stalls in the US are as they are to discourage problematic behavior inside the bathroom stalls (vandalism, drugs, and worse), and it's just good etiquette to not look through the cracks. Having an actual little room to yourself with a full door in a public toilet in the UK is nice.
It shouldn't surprise you, public schools and universities sell themselves as jobs programs. Ignorance is not an excuse, and I'm going to go ahead and venture a guess that your surprise comes from arrogance and not ignorance. "We need to be careful" is not a solution. The article itself is about the fact that universities are dying out, so you being "unclear" on the abstract nature of western education itself doesn't add anything to the conversation.
"Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine" is an animal rights group in disguise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicians_Committee_for_Respo...
Good points, it makes you wonder how many day to day things could have vastly improved user experience if government efforts were targeted at underlying problems instead of symptoms (borrowing your definitions of those two things).

But plastics recycling comes to mind as a bit of a counter example, where all the effort has been put on dealing with the end problem, when perhaps they should be targeting the symptom (regulating unnecessary plastics and packaging, and taxing the producers instead of the consumers). Currently plastic producers have incentive to generate more plastics, and consumers are left trying to deal with the waste.
Top Startups of 2020: The 50 U.S. companies on the rise
How to Convert Images to WebP Format in Linux
Like the muon. "Who ordered that?"
Because windows 7 is the last "good" version.

Microsoft has produced lots of versions of MSDOS and Windows. A surprisingly small number of versions can be considered "good" (and that "good" is relative to the era, not absolute):

MSDOS: 2.1, 3.3, 6.22

Windows: 3.1, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 7

The other versions were mainly mediocre with several being outright bad:

MSDOS 4, Windows ME, Windows Vista, Windows 8.x
This is awesome, I built a toy ML project which ran in a simulated traffic system as a way to explore ML. Like the author, if the individual traffic lights modulate to traffic density "waves" emerge in the simulation of vehicles going through intersections. And, as noted by the author, you only have to do this at the light, it doesn't need any other inputs except an ability to recognize cars coming toward it.

One of the surprising thing is its "disaster" response. Which is to say to totally wipe out like 6 intersections to through traffic. The lights with a way around begin cycling more rapidly, this makes the flows that the lights downstream "see" have more openings in the direction of the exit so they start cycling more vehicles that way, and if the simulation is set up so that vehicles begin to diverge to open roads if enough time has passed with them sitting at an intersection. All of the cars begin to flow around the obstruction.

I couldn't get my "car model" to do an illegal u-turn (as I've seen many cars do in real life when stuck at a traffic light where they could go back the other way) so there were always vehicles that remained stuck trying to get through to impenetrable divide but it was a nice example of emergent behavior from a complex system with automaton type rulesets.
From court docket:

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.364265...
My general experience has been that seniority almost implies specialisation. A good compromise is to be super skilled at one (or a few) tasks and have working knowledge of others. The former makes for a good resume and will get you hired. The latter will help you grow at the organisation you join.

https://jtauber.com/journeyman_of_some/ is a particularly eloquent way of putting it.
I think that you're thinking of poisons; the central slogan of toxicology is "the dose makes the poison" [0]. Carcinogens, chemicals which aggravate the chance of cancer, follow different rules; usually DNA damage is occurring.

Some very specific viruses are carcinogenic; not all viruses are. Similarly, some very specific molecules are carcinogenic, but not every substance is carcinogenic in sufficient quantities. An obvious counterexample is water, which is toxic in large amounts but not carcinogenic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison
FYI, because I know it will be brought up; GHC models linearity differently than Rust, so you can't compare the two against each other, even though you think you would be able to do that.

Rust puts linearity on the types, GHC puts linearity on the arrows.

https://imgur.com/s0Mxhcr

https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/11067-keynote-linear-ha...
Do you purchase the fruits and vegetables in your household?
Text Summarisation Using Transformers Language Model
Barnacles obviously came from Xen after the Resonance Cascade
US/DOJ with no priorities. Off my head, there are a few other companies that are universally hated and definitely a monopoly wink wink ISP wink wink.

But hey let's sue Google first to force them to share my personal data with its competitors. Wtf
Do this kind of Apple incidents happen more often than before? Coz recently I had a bad experience for my MacBook (to an extent that I wrote a blog post about it), which made me feel that Apple is getting less committed to its products and service level.
“things like”? is there anything else?

yacy was pretty meh when i tried dealing with it. though it did tend to turn up some stuff google didn’t (sometimes for the better, but mostly not)
PrivacyWall is probably referring to the "PrivacyWall" android app [1] run by Social Game Media Inc according to the trademark[2].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.privacywal...

[2] http://uspto.report/company/Social-Game-Media-Inc
> It's more of an appeal to emotion than a rational reason.

But that is precisely the rational reason. In a free society you want people to act freely. To be able to act freely it helps tremendously to not be under constant surveillance by authorities, powerful actors and/or personal and political enemies. If one happens to have the same cultural background or political ideas as all those on the other side and one is generally a careless nature it helps in not feeling threatened by that surveillance.

The new thing digital surveillance brought is the ability to automate and for search things that happened once. Where in communist Germany the state had to have a giant apparatus that would break into your flat and install microphones, have people constantly following you around and listening in on every word you said. The impact this has on a free exchange of ideas is quite obvious, isn't it? These things have become far less resource intensive in the age of the web.

And if you now say: "Yeah but they were communists" — that is the point. If you are hoping those in power will be respectful because your values (currently) align with theirs; or because your information is (currently) more useful to them when not disclosed to your enemies — then this is a very optimistic view of the world. But things can change, and not all have that sense of optimism.

Not having to think about whether somebody will knock your door with state police in a decade because of something you wrote online is the reason why privacy exist. Not having to censor yourself because you are afraid those fringe lunatics on the opposite political side will destroy your life is the reason why privacy exists. Not having to censor yourself because your violent husband reads everything you wrote is the reason why privacy exists.

So maybe you can read this as: Power that sees what you do can (and does) change how you act, even if they don't come after you. Not having them see you is a good way of not having to change.
Or Adama from BSG?

Or the short track olympic skater from US?

Or Apollo.io for structured sales data?

Or are we talking about Adaptive Patient-Oriented Longitudinal Learning and Optimization?
Luigi for data pipelines – things I like
The "jack of all trades" in many companies may go by the name "System Engineer".

If you are a jack of all trades that wants to be involved in management, the job title to pursue is Technical Program Manager.
Absolutely agree. If the actual cost to use plastic packaging was related to the externalized costs of plastic disposal it would immediately cause change and innovation in packaging.
Interesting. Basically the premise of west world season 3.
Thought I read this before.

> Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on the blog of the Computer History Museum.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23582070
What's the importance of having to use a value? I.e. isn't this the same as discarding it? Or is related to things like resource finalizers — i.e. once you open a file, you have to "consume" it in order for it to be closed?
The page now tells me that everything is operational.

However, I cannot get this information without enabling JS and image display.

All for a small page with a couple lines of text.

Wrong.
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