skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The story of the last tasmanian tiger always makes me sad.

> The last captive thylacine, later referred to as "Benjamin", was trapped in the Florentine Valley by Elias Churchill in 1933, and sent to the Hobart Zoo where it lived for three years. The thylacine died on 7 September 1936. It is believed to have died as the result of neglect—locked out of its sheltered sleeping quarters, it was exposed to a rare occurrence of extreme Tasmanian weather: extreme heat during the day and freezing temperatures at night This thylacine features in the last known motion picture footage of a living specimen: 62 seconds of black-and-white footage showing the thylacine in its enclosure in a clip taken in 1933, by naturalist David Fleay.

> After the thylacine's death the zoo expected that it would soon find a replacement, and "Benjamin"'s death was not reported on in the media at the time. Although there had been a conservation movement pressing for the thylacine's protection since 1901, driven in part by the increasing difficulty in obtaining specimens for overseas collections, political difficulties prevented any form of protection coming into force until 1936. Official protection of the species by the Tasmanian government was introduced on 10 July 1936, 59 days before the last known specimen died in captivity.

> The thylacine held the status of endangered species until the 1980s. International standards at the time stated that an animal could not be declared extinct until 50 years had passed without a confirmed record. Since no definitive proof of the thylacine's existence in the wild had been obtained for more than 50 years, it met that official criterion and was declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 1982 and by the Tasmanian government in 1986. The species was removed from Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine#Extinction_in_Tasman...
I agree. The goal shouldn't be ditch digging. There is a huge amount of work that needs to be done in areas that will require plenty of upskilling that can take place while working.
I use one of these to use my camera as a webcam: https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/cam-link-4k
Scanning google images for the pasteloza, the nice looking building have strong colors and the horrible, depressing buildings basically a mixture of gray and pastel, a lot like greige, IMO.

https://www.google.com/search?q=poland+pasteloza&client=ubun...
Accessibility. Your nice images are someone blind's nightmare when the most important parts of a stem web page or pdf are actually just an empty alt tag.
Here's the arxiv link, for those who want to read the original article paywall-free: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04818.

To be clear, this isn't an unconditional speed limit. It appears to be something like "the maximum speed of sound in matter which consists of atoms" (maybe I've missed a few conditions). In particular, this speed limit is known to be violated inside of neutron stars (where the speed of sound is near 1/sqrt(3) times the speed of light, and may even exceed that).

The paper also mentions a proposed lower bound on viscosity. This is the KSS bound (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0405231), and various theories violating it have been constructed. The violations, of course, don't get mentioned nearly as much as the proposed (and all-but-debunked) bound.
When you look at yourself, I'm afraid you only see the electrons. The protons are the bones, but we see only the skin.
This is nicely put. It reminds me a bit of David Perkins's [0] "whole ballgame" approach (i.e. the best way to learn how to play baseball is to play a few games or approximations thereof, e.g. tee-ball; you'll struggle mightily at first, but you'll ultimately benefit by having a sense of how the game as a whole works, and it provides valuable context and motivation for subsequently working on specific skills like throwing the ball, swinging the bat, etc. And the ultimate result is greater mastery than if you had started from the skills and worked your way up to playing the game piecewise.) Fast.ai's pedagogy is based in part on this principle, and (as someone inclined to go down rabbit holes) it's been a huge help to me as I go through the course and book. [1]

I'd add too, recently released personal knowledge base apps (Obsidian, Roam, et al) are very well suited to fractal learning. I partition my notes into content (summaries) and concepts (with some Zettelkasten-style ephemeral notes mixed in). When I come across new concepts, I create a stub; then I fill it in when necessary with the necessary degree of detail, adding new details, revising, and forcing myself to make my account of it coherent as I encounter different facets of the concept in different books, articles, etc.

[0]: http://www.pz.harvard.edu/resources/making-learning-whole-ho...

[1]: http://course.fast.ai/
How do you separate "comments" from... speech? These are just people saying what's on their minds, after all.
- The wide angle (6mm) is the one I used. It has a good angle of view but with quite a bit of lens distortion.

- I haven't had time to look at the custom lenses, as this is quite confusing to me.

- Output is 1080p30. Here is the link for the specs: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/camera/
Spoiler:

They put them into gasifier and obtain electricity. The pine needles are on the mountain slope, so they can only be collected manually. This provides jobs for local people.

This is using existing technology develop in India 20 years ago. The Himalayan part of the invention seems to be that you need to chop needles before loading them into device.
Yes, it's a pain to write math related manuscripts.

Normal texts are a simple character list, so they are easy to input. Math equations are much more complex, with more symbols, 2D placement. So we need to 'mark up' the normal texts to provide enough information for a proper math equation.

Current machine learning can help translate hand-written equations into the one computer can understand, I think this can help a lot. However, if we want to use keyboard only, it still seems very hard to design a system that can input math as smooth as texts without 'mark up' or GUI.
What does an API gateway do?
To me the right answer is the one that works and is most readable.

Personally, I find there are other factors that are far more important than early vs single return, such as nesting, doing too many things, unit tests, matching style of the codebase, and just being too long. If your method fits on a screen and only has one or two levels of nesting, it's usually easy to comprehend no matter what. If anything, I usually find "one return" to make things longer, as it requires additional variable declarations, and sometimes is downright awkard (eg: returning from a switch statement).

You can rewrite the entire example using a single return with conditional (ternary) operators, but how does that affect the readability? It probably depends more on if that's common in the codebase, and how the developer uses spaces, brackets and newlines then anything else.

Unit tests also go a long way here. They prove each branch of the logic works and ensure it stays working if someone decides to change the style in the future. They also force the code to be written in a way that's testable which (generally) means it'll naturally be narrow in scope, loosely coupled and short. I'll take ugly but unit tested over "meets project style guide" code any day of the week.
> Security alliance worries encrypted messaging apps can be used by bad actors

backdoors can be used by bad actors too.
It's a shame whoever put it at MIT didn't credit the author, the excellent Terry Bisson. Here it is on his home page:

http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/
Can someone chart the volume of misogynistic speech online vs. amount of sex people are having over time?
It's worrying that these supposed professionals don't even know what "herd immunity" means.

From the declaration:

> herd immunity – i.e. the point at which the rate of new infections is stable

This is not the correct definition. Here's a correct definition: https://www.livescience.com/herd-immunity.html

> Herd immunity describes the point at which a population is sufficiently immune to a disease to prevent its circulation.

These are very different definitions. If a disease spreads through the whole population (i.e. everyone eventually gets it), then herd immunity was never established, regardless of the infection rate.
Yeah, if you have an expensive mirrorless camera in a fixed setup then it's not bad, but it's quite a hassle if have to carry it around and expensive to buy.
or... you can rollback to an older version yourself
All they have to do is create a "user analytics package" which happens to read client side text. We would never know if it was implemented or not.

Alternatively they can look at existing analytics packages and look at the dependency graph and take over one of those to capture the screen and read info.
Sad yare yare sounds
Frictionless E2EE at scale is cancerous on society and the FYEV/JP alliance know this all too well.

As this subject has been iterated over many times, will keep this comment short.

* FB deploying frictionless, unbreakable encryption at scale makes the job of law enforcement harder, and makes it easier for less sophisticated criminals to get away with conspiracies (a word which, by the way, simply refers to two or more people secretly collaborating on criminal activity).

* As math cannot be stopped, more sophisticated criminals, as well as those with general concerns about privacy from big brother can still use their own open source tools.

Long before the internet, comms via telephony were anything but secure. We’ve tested the waters post-Snowden with E2EE which likely resulted in numerous secret case studies on the effect E2EE has on an orderly society.

* Don’t bring gizmos into your home if you want a modicum of privacy at home

* FB offering a frictionless, global private network out of reach of law enforcement isn’t a constitutional right. We can still gather in a home, use strong encryption when it matters (in more extreme cases, on an offline device, with write-only outgoing media transported via sneaker net to the transmission device).

* I’d rather have hardened devices and lawful access to the deployed encryption by major service providers, rather than flawed by design consumer device architecture. Then I can employ strong encryption software on those devices and have more confidence in preventing big brother from snooping at all.
I would call it sound in tennis balls. They're still using the same fundamental mechanism of pressure to transmit sound. But light isn't sound because the mechanism of propagation is fundamentally different, not just at a different scale or with a different medium. It's subject to different laws and behaves qualitatively differently. For example, it can be polarized.

I wonder about a neutron star though? Is that still subject to this theoretical speed of sound limit, or is it only atomic substances?
I find this hard to take seriously since it doesn’t say anything about comprehensive testing and contact tracing.
> I don't think NOT having a facebook account has ever prevented anyone from getting a job. Rather the opposite, actually.

Well, you're wrong. I've had interviewers ask why I host my own blog instead of using Facebook, and said it was very unusual that they couldn't check out my social background.

And Craiglist rental ads often screen applicants using social media, usually Facebook.
The vast majority of "smart home" devices automatically shovel all of their camera data to the manufacturer's servers, because most consumers don't want to deal with a NAS box and remote access.

With this kind of architecture, law enforcement doesn't need 0-days, they only need a warrant/NSL, or to just ask the manufacturer nicely. Some manufacturers (e.g. Amazon/Ring) are a little too eager to essentially hand all of their data over to the police in real-time with almost no strings attached.

Devices that don't already upload everything to the cloud (e.g. Apple and Google's pinky-promise that smart assistant audio is processed locally) automatically receive and apply software and firmware updates from the manufacturer / carrier that can arbitrarily change device behavior. The government can and probably does compel these companies to write and push custom firmware to targeted devices.

"We encrypt your data so hard that we couldn't access it even if we wanted to" is almost always a lie, is never verifiable, and is ultimately subject to the same automatic firmware/software update problem.

It will never be possible to secure systems like these from government snooping, and people largely don't seem to care.
You know, interestingly, in the 12 years I've used Linux, I've never once needed something like rundll32, but I've needed it in Windows several times. I suppose because Microsoft buries the advanced stuff as function calls in dlls, and Linux just lets you do whatever.
I also feel like we hit peak input around 2000 with the Natural Keyboard Elite and IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 (thankfully, Razer makes mice that are nearly identical).

I've been using the Natural Keyboard Elite since 2001. I'm on my second one, not because the first one broke, but because it was so dirty that I replaced it in 2012. Really regret getting rid of the old one.

I never liked the newer Microsoft ones as much, and I can't go back to a straight keyboard, so I'll have to go down the rabbit hole when this one breaks. This discussion has been really informative.
I think you are missing the idea of what I was just trying to say about how music producers, especially in the traditional pop realm worked and thought about vocals in a song.

And you misinterpreting my words and giving them meaning in a way they dont.

Aside from my meaning, she has worked with many producers besides me, as well as managers and A/R people. I know for a fact how much fun she was having in 2010-2012 or so. I watched the narrative change over the years from "I am this hard rapper from Oakland" to "I am an artist, and DJ, and a rapper" to finally "I never wanted to be a rapper and the industry took advantage of me and others like me" .. That gradient is a bit more complex and long, but that is the sum of it. Narratives change with success and popularity.
I switched to mousing lefty a long time ago. If you want to get up to speed, just play a few games of solitaire or something like that.

Unfortunately, gaming while mousing lefty is often inconvenient. Many games are set up assuming your left hand is on the keyboard. In most cases you can re-bind the keys though.
I think it's the same as the relationships between the octane numbers you see. So if the pump as 87, 89, and 91 grades, then the mid-grade will be a 50/50 mix (ratio 1:1) of the 87- and 91-octane fuel. If the grades are, say, 87, 89, and 93; then the ratio would be closer to 2:1 of regular:premium to get to that mid-grade.

Only reason I know this is because premium gas in California used to be 92 octane. So the three choices were 87, 89, and 92. When we dropped to 91 octane, a lot of the stations near me had to swap out the yellow sticker on their mid-grades to read "88.5". That was my clue that the ratio had not been adjusted yet.
Interesting points but I’ve never seen a comment like this anywhere but downvoted to oblivion.
"Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West" is a fascinating look at that topic as well.
Sure, but for Apple to change its policies specifically in this case is for Apple to take sides in a political conflict/civil war. I don't think that's a viable outcome either.

Apple doesn't have any good options here; I think their strategy of a toothless demand with no follow through might well be the least worst option for Apple, and for Telegram.
I tend to agree. There are already well established methods to investigate individuals suspected of some crime without needing SigInt, but it's more expensive.

That's all this is about: cost. It's more expensive and the system would have to dedicate more resources to fewer targets, being forced to prioritize their efforts.

Sure, that means that investigating truly bad people will be more difficult. But, that extra cost means that the average well-meaning person won't be nearly as vulnerable to bad actors who use Total Information Awareness for nefarious purposes.

This shouldn't really be controversial now, in-fact it's a well established principle in criminal law called Blackstone's Ratio.

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation
Mapped: America's $2T Economic Drop, by State and Sector
Same with the Ogallala aquifer.
Hey man.... your text is really really light. Could you please darken it? how did you do that? make it bold or something, my eyes hurt.
Some really fascinating breakdowns, the downturns in Nevada, Hawaii, etc. were expected from the tourism shutdowns but I didn't realize how badly some of the other states were hit.
It could, if there weren't a century or two of legal precedent for treating your home differently from your phone calls.
>The ‘think-tank’ behind the Great Barrington Declaration is part-funded by right-wing American billionaire Charles Koch, reports Nafeez Ahmed

https://bylinetimes.com/2020/10/09/climate-science-denial-ne...
I'm not entirely sure about this situation, but sensor size numbers often don't reflect an actual measurement of the physical size of the sensor. It's all based on old film standards.
Why not cgroup like cd? It is not new
> targeted 0-day exploits

"this app wants access to your microphone: YES/NO"
Yes, removing such spof’s should be a design requirement.

Yes, it’s a difficult problem with social implications, and not simply technical challenges, as you noted.

Yes, Snowden shouldn’t have so easily been able to steal so much data. Apparently the IC has installed numerous checks and balances to help prevent another such insider threat.
To be fair, electronics used to be boring too. When I was growing up I had a Packard Bell PC with a 13" CRT (which weighed something like 20kg), and a boxy Epson printer. All three had a case in the standard 90s white/cream with grey highlights, where the white part turns yellow after a few years.
Any mirrorless will have a better depth of field, color accuracy, and perceptual appearance than the small sensors employed in run of the mill webcams. I wouldn’t overthink it if you’re just using it as a webcam. My coworkers are all using their old DSLRs now that driver and firmware updates have enabled their use. They look better than the very expensive Logitec cameras they installed in office.
And that capability would be trivial for Belarus to side-step.
I need one that actually consistently works with my 4k screen (at 60hz)
I can't speak for Usenet, but the internet already had more than its fair share of influential shitholes by the early 2000s. 4chan, ebaumsworld, TOTSE, LiveLeak, etc. existed at their very worst at that time, and even websites that are widely considered toxic/unruly today (namely Twitter and Reddit) are quite tame compared to what was going on then. You are definitely better off for having missed them, but that doesn't mean the behavior didn't exist.
I'd love to hear a short description of the old stuff. Why isn't it replaced? Is it very hard to replace?
Nice. Here’s a fun demo that I just recorded from that site:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ji9xvlIE50
One of many timeless works from Butler Lampson. The patterns are still widely in use to this day. The trade offs between lease times and availability are so clearly put, reading this could save a lot of hard earned lessons. This paper is such a great top-down explanation of consensus and Paxos.

If I could go back in time I’d start off my interest in distributed systems by reading just this paper. That would have been a much better approach than feeling like I’m getting beat in the face over and over again by a water mill. The path I took was like many others: You see some distributed database that gets you really excited. CAP leads to Paxos, that leads to FLP, you rebel for a few months by getting interested in CRDTs, and then you have a bunch of hang overs from papers not using the term consistency consistently. The rest of it can best be drawn by giving a toddler a box of crayons.

Just read this instead.
Risk of dying from Covid-19 in Sweden is greater for men an the unmarried
> chief market strategist at Prudential Financial Inc., who admits she checks sites like Twitter.com often to gauge retail trends.

If their approach is just to read it, I think they’re too late.
Curb Excess Capitalism to Save the Environment
The latest on this is “Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications” by Nassim Taleb.

I liked this PDF so much I bought the book.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10488
This is awesome. I was actually trying to make something work for fun to deploy a small website with my "edge ML" board but couldn't figure out an easy way to make a simple front end and tie it to the back end (I do not do webdev stuff often). This makes it so much easier!
Killer Mike's New Black-Owned Bank Launches
> I wonder how much of the hate was because she was a female programmer vs just because shitty human beings...

Your inquiry here is kinda the very basis of intersectionality. No matter where you go, there are shitty people who will harrass you for being different. Only it's not just "different" when there's predominantly violence in a single direction across an axis; some people get way more shit than others, and it's not "just because", it's not just.
Computational Lensless Imaging (2016)
Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) Seminar

PRESENTER: David G. Stork, Rambus Lab

TALK ABSTRACT: The central insight underlying the field of computational sensing and imaging is that the joint design of optics and signal processing to yield a final digital image or estimate of some property of the scene can relax the traditional constraints on optical elements need to make an optical image that "looks good." In our lensless imagers, binary diffraction gratings with special mathematical properties yield blurry, blob-like optical images that nevertheless contain sufficient information that a digital image of the scene can be computed.