skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but at that point you're directly interfering in the biological systems, instead of just selecting.

This may be a problem for a lot of people, especially as byproducts may enter the food chain.
This seems unrelated.

Some arbitrary 3rd party wrapper does not make any guarantees about the runtimes it wraps.

This is just more “happens to work at the moment”.
It's worth noting that emergent communities like this devolve into fascism pretty quickly (as more forums, reddit, & fb groups have proven) so you might want to think about this / bring in someone who is an expert on community management.
LunrJS looks great, but if one needs an instant text-based search, this is what I've got on my FAQ page:

function search(querybox, searchables, searchstatus) {
const t = querybox.value.toLowerCase()

let hits = [];
let misses = [];
for (s of searchables) {
// empty "t" matches everything
if (s.innerText.toLowerCase().indexOf(t) >= 0) {
hits.push(s)
} else {
misses.push(s)
}
}
if (hits.length > 0) {
for (g of misses) g.style.display = "none";
for (k of hits) k.style.display = ""; // default display style
searchstatus.innerText = hits.length + " results found."
} else {
searchstatus.innerText = "No results found."
for (g of misses) g.style.display = "" // show all
}
}

function setupSearch() {
const searchables = document.getElementsByClassName("searchme")
const querybox = document.getElementById("searchbox") // <input>
const searchstatus = document.getElementById("searchstatus")
if (!searchables || !querybox || !searchstatus) {
console.log("search setup skipped")
return
}
querybox.addEventListener("keyup", e => search(querybox, searchables, searchstatus), false)
}

window.addEventListener('load', function(event) {
setupSearch();
}, false)
How to Find Vulnerabilities in Code: Bad Words
> What makes you think saccades are random?

I didn't mean "random" as in governed by an RNG, just "random" as in we can't obviously predict their pattern. The opposite of that would be being able to tell when they'll happen and where they'll end before they start, and/or make them happen on demand and land on desired target.

> We have had machines that do what you describe for decades.

I didn't knew that. Thanks for citation. This leads me to ask: so why aren't we employing this for VR?
Donations can be made without the extension here
https://www.joinfudge.com/us/amazon
Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
"Don't use a message queue/broker/scaled out system".

"It doesn't solve a single problem that a set of queue instances on a single machine solve. Who needs any resilience?"

Weird take, that is provably incorrect and wrong.

No thanks.
Good question, but it helps me make my point:

The US (and surely Russia, China) all have clandestine operations within Facebook. This is not part of a 'deal' with Facebook, it's regular spy-craft.

But Facebook does not drive it's policy around the wishes clandestine operatives within the company!

The US and Russia surely have clandestine operatives within Tencent as well.

But the CCP has something entirely different: legit, out in the open entities there to oversee and ensure CCP party policy and Xi's orders are effectively executed. If the Executive team at Tencent didn't 'get with the program' they would be forced out. While they don't probably care about regular operating matters, they do in fact 'hold the real power'. For example, if Tencent decided to not censor certain subjects, action would be very quickly taken.

Not only does the CCP have minders in Tencent/WeChat - they have them in almost every Chinese company [1]. These 'inner minders' are literally the direct apparatus of state control within the ostensibly private economy.

When we talk about 'state control of the economy' - this is literally it.

The US corollary would be Government officials in every single US private company, overseeing that everyone adheres to GOP policy for example. So not just Facebook, but Cisco, Disney, GM, Mattel, CNN, Morgan Stanley, B of A, Goldman - etc. - many of which would also be directly owned by the US government, as of course in China most major banks are nationalized. If the CEO of Goldman doesn't do what Mr. White House and 'The Party' want him to do - he'd be 'out' and someone more 'pragmatic' about their capitalism (i.e. make money but bend the knee where they have to) would be 'in'.

From TheGuardian [2]: "(in Xinjiang) there are QR codes on people’s doors for when the party goes in to check on who is in. If someone leaves through the back door instead of the front door, that can be considered suspicious behaviour." - one of many chilling examples of control that is enabled by private companies, controlled 'from the inside' by CCP staff.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/26/china-tec...
I have definitely just spent 5 minutes importing csv tables into sqlite so I can run a query against them.
why unpopular? and why 20 years?
Related fun: MediaPipe has an iris tracking demo which can run in browser: https://viz.mediapipe.dev/demo/iris_tracking (top-right run button); blog[1].

Maybe "which 3/4 of the laptop screen needn't be rendered/updated fully"? Or "unclutter the desktop - only reveal the clock when it's looked at"? Or "they're looking at the corner - show the burger menu"? Though smoothed face tracking enables far higher precision pointing than ad hoc eye tracking. This[2] fast face tracking went by recently and looked interesting.

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/08/mediapipe-iris-real-time-i...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24332939
Why should a technology replace other technologies when it brings exactly the same things to the table that are possible with the technologies that it is meant to replace? Just because it gives you the feeling that you are under the dotNET umbrella?

LINQ? Clojure and Scala can offer you much more than LINQ. Java is on par.

dotNET Core libraries? I don't know, I have never heard people complaining much of the core libraries in the JVM world.

VS and VS Code integration? JavaScript and TypeScript has the best VSCode integration, other languages are just supported, including C#, F#, Java, Scala etc. JetBrains IDEs are much more powerful than what VSCode will ever offer. VS is not even cross-platform.

The C# used in game industry is a far cry from the one used in enterprise and I don't think C# is the longterm answer for scripting in game dev.
Yeah, they might need a feed from the local weather bureau as well. It seems odd to describe that as "powered by a supercomputer", though - unless you'd also say I "used a supercomputer" to decide whether to take the car or the bike on any given day.
Its a cult. They have to defend the slightest perceived threat to the brand.

Which has some good engineering, but many missteps in manufacturing. When some other established manufacturer puts some real engineering effort into a vehicle, teslas many flaws will become more apparent.

When the home improvement store wood being used in manufacturing came up a few weeks ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24424567 people seemed to ignore that it's necessary and normal to spend 10s of hours disassembling your car to fix panel alignment issues upon delivery.
> Unlike normal programming languages, fragment shaders always execute both parts of each branch due to gpu limitations.

GPUs do have real branching and even loops these days, you just can't have divergent branching within a shader group.

I'm not sure how efficient it is to splatter individual pixels like in the mask used in the article since adjacent pixels will likely need to be evaluated anyway if the shader uses derivatives. Too bad that the author didn't bother to include any performance numbers.
FAQs on aerosol transmission of Covid-19
Was curious, and found a "custom search engine" (previous name of this product) for my tumblr blogs (which are still online) that I made back in the days.

I tried it ... and it's terrible for my use case. Because these blogs are mostly not hyperlinked anywhere (one is a personal quote collection, another is a collection of hacks and tech tips I found useful), Google doesn't seem to even have them indexed. Nevermind that I manually submitted them for indexation back in the day.

Not that I expected much better from Google at this point.
Show HN: Fieldproxy – Asana for field sales, operations and delivery teams
Over bed tables are a much simpler alternative. I have been using one for decades so I can get things done while stuck in bed due to illness.
Ok that explains how space becomes timelike. But I never hear anyone address how time becomes spacelike. In what sense does it become spacelike? Can one move back and forth in time inside the event horizon?
Hi HN,

We recently launched Fieldproxy - a product that helps anyone with an on-ground team better manage their operations.

We have built a simple interface in the front end for managers that helps them create and assign workflows, tasks and routes for the field team. The field team has an app which helps them focus on what to do next - so that they can cover a maximum number of locations in minimum time.

We have beta clients across multiple use cases include field sales - where they use it as a CRM (similar to salesforce) or for field servicing appointments (similar to servicetitan) or for assigning deliveries to their field teams

Would love to hear your feedback and answer any queries.
You are welcome!

For #1, I totally agree, used B cells as an example, and also implantable devices/sensors could bring more challenges (foreign body response, encapsulation, a big issue for implantable sensors). I am thinking more of a new virus detector that can be used in vitro or outside that can automatically adapt to viral changes (mutations). Let's call it "molecular morphing" virus detector, if you will (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Principles-of-the-molecu...).

For #2, sweet! Thanks for sharing! The new virus detection platform could be used to create personalized vaccines, yes.

For #2.1, oh. Software can definitively do things faster like try million iterations until they find the "perfect match" or strong bond (from my previous comments) for viral spike proteins.

For #2.2, also agree, I am more interested in the detection/screening side of things for diseases in general.
This maybe true, but on existing hardware isn't super useful.

Even on the potential neuromophic hardware it's "only" parallel with the number of layers. That's useful but not as parallel as current approaches.
Oh, I red somewhere it was called thus due to some diagram shape. Is that completely wrong, or does it refer simply to an other kind of diagram?
I couldn't see Matrix in the play store, the web page is unusable: I wanted to try it, not ,,learn more''.

I installed Element, but it required username/password pair. I understand that it's a bit more secure than using phone number+email for first authentication, but it makes discovery of friends too hard. It trades too much UX for security, just like PGP.
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Yeah, I don't get it either. Even wired I don't think I've ever seen a ping time of under 10ms to anything on the broader Internet here in the UK and I have both FTTC and cable connections. POPs seem to be weird in the UK generally though, I often get geolocated to somewhere 100+ miles away.
Mozilla has finally become a company where the pay of the execs is completely decoupled from actual operations. This is obviously more important than keeping the engineers they just sacked.
Apple Pay and Express Transit Mode Now Support Pasmo Transit Cards in Japan
Way better recommendations.
Why is it so bad for accessibility? I don't know much about web design.
Ask HN: How do you fight email/phone spam?
Recently my email address was listed on a public website for conformity and not a day passes by when I don't get unsolicited emails/phone calls. What is your tool/practice of choice to counter this?
Flooding is somewhat of an existential crisis for Venice. If they don't get it figured out the money will stop flowing and they'll be underwater economically as well as literally.

Contrast with NYC and SF where people just keep pouring in the dollars no matter how late the trains are or how rampant the petty crime is. Those cities won't pull their collective heads out of their collective asses and figure out solutions until the problem reaches existential proportions.

There seems to be only two ways big infrastructure projects get done in the western world these days. The first is a boondoggle graft laden handout to buy votes (e.g. the Big Dig) and the second is to ignore the problem until you can't anymore and then you finally get serious and implement some solution that has been on your radar since forever (e.g. MOSE).
Why I am building permapeople.org
> Baseless insinuation that tech companies are staffed by agenda driven liberals who tamper with search results and purge straight white male employees

Is this baseless? Was the Breitbart discussion not legitimate? or the google materials [1], or the github slides [2]?

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/ok-google-youve-been-served-151...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/github-the-full-inside-story...

edit: 2 mins in and already downvoted. Is this still a hacker discussion site, or just minimal linked-in..
I don't know what those calculators are using but last time I played with this it's pretty hard to power an MCU off even a phone sized solar panel from indoor light (you have to play crazy games with sleeping and have a special supervisor task that monitors how fast you're draining backup capacitors etc.) I feel like most of those were only powering the display with the solar panel and had a watch battery running the electronics. But it could have been that the flash and ram were eating a lot of the power in my experiments.
In what country can't you?
Incompatible Validation Criteria for Ed25519
There is some irony in this being a reddit link.
So what's the big deal? Just read back the numbers, if it's less than 10 digits prepend zeros. Am I missing something (probably, which means you're leaving something out in the description of the issue)
Giving the government the option to show up at your door with some random garbage data and asking you to make an impossible proof of innocence or go to jail has some very obvious problems.
People online should know that George Soros is a capitalist who loves Karl Popper and named his foundation after the Open Society. Trumpism is breaking apart the Reagan coalition of economic liberalizers and social conservatives. George Soros would have been part of the Reagan coalition, but Trump feeds resentment that economic liberalizers in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s forced social conservatives to take the shorter end of the stick. A lot of people online think Soros & his foundation are purely for identity politics, but he's more of a Popper partisan than anything else.
"purchased" video. The "terms of use" limitation does not say "until we go bankrupt" or "until we decide to not let you for business reasons", and it does say "purchased videos". That has a well defined meaning, which contract weasel words can't change. Courts in Europe have ordered refunds for e.g. PS3 updates that removed Linux abilities - I'm sure the weasel legalese originally said Sony is allowed to do that.

There is a law of the land, and it is not overriden by an amazon webpage in general, even if it does in some US states.

If Amazon folds, how come my "purchased" video disappears with it?

Words have a meaning that cannot just be redefined at will with legalese. Try to pay someone salary, subject to the limitation that it is in negative dollars, and see how far that gets you in court.

So far, companies like Microsoft who shut down their DRM services have refunded those purchases ; Companies that folded did not. I suspect if Microsoft got to court without a refund, court would have ordered them to refund or give a DRM-free copy. Either way, it's clear that for Microsoft, the public relation + court costs outweighed the refund cost. My suggestion is to make that effectively law, so that not just microsoft (who stand to lose from this action) would actually consider it a-priori.
I can't. Napster was shut down for copyright infringement. Bittorrent is blocked in some places on similar grounds (although, notably, BitTorrent itself is still alive and well - the law enforcement action has been against distributors of copyrighted materials and sites like TPB).

But even if someone really wanted to get Mastodon banned and created a server full of illegal material to give politicians the fuel they'd need, the law enforcement answer there would be to go after that host. The overall network would not be liable because it wouldn't be hosting/distributing the material.
The idea was that different households picked different devices/services/companies and fed each with a random but plausible keywords to see if this is actually covertly picked up and ends up coming back to us on some other channel later on.

I had an Echo that I installed in a spare room in the house and used for a short time exclusively to have these made up conversations next to it and keep talking about a "Whirlpool washing machine" without ever using the Alexa hot-word. The keyword really couldn't leave that room except via the Echo. After a short time to my surprise I started seeing this in my Amazon. I have no doubt that the Echo is (at least occasionally) listening and sending information without any indication that it does.

My friends tested their own stuff in their household with their own keywords in much the same way that I did. Google Home, Apple Homepod/Siri, Facebook, Microsoft Cortana. The only 2 people who saw their keyword pop up again were myself with Amazon and one other with Facebook.

I can't draw the conclusion that Google does not do this, maybe they just do it smarter. But I can certainly say I cannot under any circumstances give Amazon the benefit of the doubt.
I'm amazed at the aggression this comment is getting. There's a strong moral argument for not eating meat. There's a distinct but also reasonable argument for not consuming derivative products. It's a sane position and I think it can be advocated for.

I can eat meat and still believe I may be wrong in doing so. There's absolutely no reason to take this quite polite advocacy as a personal attack.
The Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems go back 55 years to work starting in 1965. No joke. This has be to near a record in time lag between the work the Nobel committee recognized and when that work was first published. Better late than never I guess (but too late for Hawking, as has been mentioned elsewhere..) EDIT - a detailed analysis: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.2012/full...
The radial direction of the inside of the Schwarzschild Black Hole is timelike. This means that; inside the event horizon, the inevitable passage of time becomes the inevitable move towards the singularity at the center of the Black Hole.

To answer your question in clear terms: No, you cannot move freely in the radial direction. Only towards the center, in the same way you cannot move freely forward or backwards in time.
It just becomes like space. You can freely move around it without any issues. It’s no longer time, just as the radial direction is no longer space.

How it happens? Normal spacial direction has positive sign. Time has negative. When crossing the horizon the equations become such that t gets a positive sign and the radial direction a negative one. After that they behave as expected.
pure functional programming is so 2010. rewrite it in Rust is the 2020 way.
Examples:

Would it make sense to have more fields visible at once? Maybe making users not have to dig though 10 pages to find the “Covid” checkbox would be better.

Would it make sense to have a single schema monolith with simple HTML forms vs microservices, 100 schemas, persistent connections, streaming, and burn-rate-heavy cloud infrastructure?

Do you need all of those JS libraries that look simple but are actually more complex than vanilla JS to setup and maintain?

Object storage seemed simple, but how will you translate all of that JSON later when the model must change over and over again?

Is that code that uses lambdas and annotation-based cloud logging that is so much more readable and maintainable generating frequent delays for customers due to GC and latency than the loop and shared variable equivalent that writes to file?

Counter-examples: code that could be simplified without cost, storing customer data whose structure is out of your control, use of well-maintained libraries that save time and add value, and relatively low cost use of the cloud services due to good planning and design.
Covid: 19% of cases responsible for 80% of transmissions
Ask HN: Do you think 'normal' working will ever return?
Interested to hear everyone's predictions for 2021 and beyond. Do you think we will actually return to offices? Or will WFH become the new norm?

Also — would you WFH if you had to take a pay cut of 10% or greater?
For the UK:

https://www.seat61.com/dogs-by-train.htm

> This bit is easy. You can take dogs, cats and other small animals with you free of charge on all British trains, up to a maximum of two per passenger, as long as they do not endanger or inconvenience passengers or staff. Dogs must be kept on a lead at all times unless contained in a basket. Dogs without leads, cats, birds and small animals must be carried in an enclosed basket, cage or pet carrier which must be rigid and not open (to prevent escape) and the animal able to stand and lie down in comfort. Animals and containers must not occupy seats, otherwise a charge may be made. If you want to use a Caledonian Sleeper to or from Scotland, you'll need to pay a fee, see here. For full details of dog & pet regulations on British trains see www.nationalrail.co.uk/passenger services/luggage animals.html.
Granularity levels in AWS IAM policies
They are of course right here, on AliExpress [1] and they're $0.70 which seems a pretty sensible price development. No idea how much they were in the 80s, but probably a little bit more. :)

I do think the actual design is the same, the image slots right into my mind's idea of how a solar-powered credit card-sized calculator looks, down to the color scheme (black and gold, yeah) and font.

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32652366421.html
Very much deserved, but why does it take so long to award this prize? Clearly they could have valued this research 20 years ago?
EFF is being disingenuous here, probably at the behest of so many internet service companies, who need your data, and technically own your passwords. They never have, and don't care about your privacy. Don't shill for these companies, not even the ones with good intentions.

Your passwords are still protected by your right to privacy, and the 5th amendment. This bill won't change that. It only forced (at your state's discretion) that internet services give records to law enforcement.

This could weaken internet services, which only pretend to protect your privacy, and then sell it everything else about your "private bits".

It could strengthen privacy by forcing people to get real about their security and take encryption into their own, private hands. Run your own servers, and end-to-end all the things.

But the electric sheep can't see this, and trust too blindly EFF and the same internet companies that they otherwise despise for their use of your data. The time to choose in nigh. Either you let MSFAANG keep the lock and key to your data, full wise that they will give it up for ads and authority, or your realize that the only way to change the web is to adapt and use it differently.

These companies never cared about your privacy. We know this because of their willingness to comply to, for instance, Chinese authority. Ya'll have been red-scared all over again, decrying China as a threat to the world, while your own Government eats away at your own liberties in the name of protecting you.