skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow! Bad news for Hunter’s election campaign!
Waymo Driverless car(no safety driver)
Screams into void...

Where's my open source dot matrix?
Outwardly Cloudflare seems like an amazing and great company.

But at this point they have more control over the web than most governments. Or maybe all of them.

So I would assume that intelligence or military cyber agencies or whatever would feel compelled to somehow hook into Cloudflare. Similar to the way I assume they have done so with other mega tech companies.
I've dreamed of a great bookmark system that works everywhere. Instapaper has been my favorite, but then it was sold then it was bought back and little growth in features, and more importantly it seems on borrow times, which is the issue with most all of these that the point of them it save data that you can reference later on, sometimes many many years. Like how I can reference emails from over decades ago. But other than things like Gmail most services don't stick around. Which is why I hope eventually it's something that is offered natively in iOS. They have reading list which is the start of that, but it only has about 1% of the needed features, and so far has seen little to no attention from Apple. Open source self hosted options can solve some of those problems, but typically then don't integrate with countless services as much as premium ones do, and requires a lot more ongoing maintenance and don't have the polish or the native apps like the premium options. Having said all that, since there is no ideal long term solution, using something like this in the meantime maybe worth it, but 100% would require being able to export all the data at anytime.
It couldn't be due to a decade of easy money trying to chase yield, no sir, couldn't be that at all.
Regarding the waste -- I find that I go through iterations of prototypes until I manage to make the piece I need. So there's definitely wasted material.

That may have to do more with my inexperience with industrial design -- having to iterate with physical objects vs in virtual space.
Yeah, I agree. If I remember XMPP was dropped while using that old adage of "scale", which maybe was real, but in the end the net effect is the same. Advanced users know a broader breadth of the internet while most internet users only know the depth of Facebook and other various platforms.
I have zero faith in my predictions but... I don't think the free money era will end before the demographics change and boomers stop deciding every election. Until then any government that let's asset prices fall (or even fail to rise fast enough) is toast...
Damages would be an order of magnitude higher here. Probably two.

At least the cost of the entire campaign.
The Hunter Biden story: What the different sides are saying
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Big app makers should band together and boycott the Apple platform until they get what they want -- and provided "what they want" is not unreasonable; being able to tell the truth in a changelog is reasonable.

People will eventually notice if many important apps are no longer available on iPhones.
Why is this allowed on public roadways and not confined to a lab until reasonable levels of safety (either via developmental process or time-in-service) can be demonstrated and verified by a regulatory agency? FAA wouldn't let fly a self-proclaimed 'safe' and fully autonomous aircraft around national airspace without such assurance. Why is this different?
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Google is not a government. It just acts like one.
I guess Google's ToS is between the employee's husband and Google and not the employee, the employee's husband, and Google. So there is no authorization for some random employee to "check up" on their partner, even though it sounds like escalating internally should help. (It should at least trigger, "we'd better look into this very carefully", though. If it didn't, that sounds like a problem. If it did, and the result is "yeah, this is legit", that's a very awkward position for everyone.)

I was in a similar situation when I worked at Google. My brother kind of disappeared, and my family asked if we could at least check if he logged into Gmail. I asked and was told no, and I understood why -- it's up to my brother to share what he's up to, not Google. (My brother was fine; just didn't like replying to email or answering his phone.)
Superconductor technology for smaller, sooner fusion
BTW: Surely for compressed air systems that are pumping into a high pressure container it would be possible to use a vacuum bottle design and solve the heat loss+add problem.
This just reinforces my opinion: Programs, like ships, sink in the C.
I stumbled upon this while going through the orders yesterday. Note that, Justice Thomas is talking in terms of how the law has been interpreted wrongly by providing concrete examples (his statement is definitely worth a read). The issue basically arises from previous judges trying to enact and enforce what they believe Congress' subjective intentions to be, not the text of the law they passed.

Unlike what many might fear, this is not a case of a Justice trying to enforce what he wishes the law were.
I wonder if this is why color printers won't print out black & white print jobs when they run out of color ink, even if they still have black ink.
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This was my first question, thanks!
Your product looks interesting to me. My minor beef is with recurring annual subscription ( assuming no updates, I just want to pay once ). I do like the idea though.
It's not a duplicate if the previous discussion was more than a year ago.
I suppose so, but if there's one sport where men and women should be able to compete on equal footing, I'd expect it to be chess. I'm surprised the Polgar sisters are still an exception.
Distributed programming is a means to an end, not a goal. If you had a computer with infinite cpu and ram and it could never crash and be geographically close to every customer, you would just use that and build your system on it as a dreaded “monolith”. Much simpler to grok such systems. Much easier to debug and monitor.

That’s what temporal enables.
TFA quotes Augustine on this, but no idea how much he said.
I'd say the article is self-consistent, but not necessarily credible. I don't think "hack" means literal network intrusion. If the article's own description of the provenance of the information is taken at face value, cloning a hard drive at a repair shop without authorization still qualifies as "hacked", and in violation of Twitter terms.
Which is why it remains hilarious that when sites block/mask out the first five digits and show only the last four, the last four are the only real "secret" parts for most SSNs before 2011.

That's often the case with Bank Account and Credit Card numbers too that the parts commonly masked are the least significant from a security entropy standpoint (are often built algorithmicly and tend to cluster; CC numbers often encode processor and bank in the first bunch of numbers). The parts left unmasked to make them easy to recognize are easy to recognize precisely because they have the most security "entropy" and are the most sensitive parts.

SSNs adapted in 2011 and CC Numbers are in the process of adapting (and I suppose Bank Numbers are adapting at a per-Bank rate), but it's almost funny how universally this "best practice" of masking these security identifiers started from the "wrong end" and have forced their own generation algorithms to move a lot more entropy into their prefixes and middles.
We have smartphones now with a pretty wide rollout - I wouldn't be surprised if people that legitimately all share the same computer do have problems getting flags on their account from facebook.

Honestly though, the real answer is who knows - it's entirely proprietary information and all we can do on the outside is observe the fact that is does seem to be a pretty flawed detection system and guess at why that is. Does facebook use sentiment analysis of posts or post frequency to ban users they think are fake? Do they look for similar content of posts from different users to try and detect troll farms? I don't know and FB really doesn't want to talk about it.
If you are implying deliberate misdirection by ATC, then I do not agree. It's more likely ATC prompted the pilot with the jetpack possibility because they believe it's happened before recently in that area.

I think ATC, expecting a jetpack, may have inadvertently primed the pilot to interpret an unknown object as a jetpack.
Telling the truth is a problem? What times we live in!
Everybody not living under a rock knows that some day you might get banned/destroyed by some amok running script from Google. Are we supposed to be enraged that this can happen to buddies from Google employees also?
Yelp has class action lawsuits filed against them.
Scumbags!
The noise depends on the printer I suppose. The Prusa MK3i is really quiet.

My main gripe is with the weakness along layer lines.
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Because what happened is exactly what you said?
Wine does have a commercial purpose.
I'm late in the thread and this will probably get buried but:

I think this looks amazing. Lot of comments here saying it's yet another useless abstraction.

Sure, maybe it doesn't do anything you can't already do yourself, but the experience looks like one I would enjoy and could see myself using.

Obviously I can't pass judgement that quickly so will reserve further comments until I can spend some time this weekend experimenting, but it's an experiment I look forward to.
Don't other apex predators hunt for size as well? And aren't whales similar in some ways to dragnet fishing? They don't target the weakest straggler sardines or the injured phytoplankton only.
reminds me of the old google-opt-out cartoon
https://www.walyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/google-opt...

seriously I just checked the google takeout page and saw a looong list of services. I would be devastated if somebody were to 'disable' my google account.
Well I mean you might need quite a number of random numbers per second, in this case 32bit floats was what we used.

Even fairly trivial scenes can require over 20 random floats per sample and more complex scenes over 100. And you want to actually use those random numbers for calculating reflections, intersections etc. In the renderer I worked on the PRNG typically took at most 10% of total CPU time.

So assuming the above those 4GB/s would translate into less than 5k samples/sec, which would be considered quite slow.

Just to refresh my memory I just ran a quick test with a fairly simple scene. There's 6 samples for the camera, at least 3 per path vertex up (depth 32) and another 2 per light (8 in this scene). There might be some more I'm forgetting but lets use that a lower bound. For this scene then that means 6 + 3 * 32 + 2 * 8 = 118 random numbers per sample. On a single core I got 14.04kS/s, so that works out to at least 1.6M random numbers per second.

And this renderer was focusing more on physics and fidelity rather than speed. For animations and similar you'd need a renderer that's at least an order of magnitude faster than the one I worked on.

For reading further you could try PBRT[1]. It's a great book but not free. Luckily enough though the free chapter is about sampling and reconstruction so you can get a feel from that what is needed.

[1]: https://pbrt.org/
95 years from publication for a work for hire.
I've noticed this too. I've made it a point now to call up some of my team members at least once a week for no purpose other than to have a venting session.

I don't think I ever realized how much of this venting must have subtly happened in person, but since COVID I think most of it gets bottled up and people get very frustrated when they can't casually talk through these issues in person. My team has collectively agreed that these "venting calls" are great if only for the reason that they make you aware that you're not the only one with frustrations, and I think that really helps morale.
OneDrive is pretty damn cheap _and_ comes with access to Office on the web. 1tb per family member, with Office? Goodly.

There's no official Linux client, but there are open source ones that perform well.

You could drop your mbox onto a OneDrive sync and then use fetchmail or similar to rip it out of your provider. Each email could be individually encrypted, so you won't have to deal with a 500gb blob to sync.
Amazing tool, neat trick. It requires xposed framework though, which is an interception framework for Android that requires root access to install.

Less and less devices seem to have root, and almost no devices these days seem to allow unlocking the bootloader, which is even better.

It feels like users are getting kicked further & further & further out. We are less & less able to have any chance to understand what computing is, & this deeply deeply hurts us, I tend to believe.
Sorta, but WeWork would be like a middle man parasite compared to leasing directly from the landlord. So not nearly as efficient.
it's only 10 pages, single column. you want someone else to filter what the judge is saying for you?
This will help you with future Sec 230 hot takes: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
>> Is there a pilot conspiracy?

Groupthink. Pilots see strange things, strange things very quickly moving past their aircraft. If they have "jet man" in their minds, they will see jetman.

Similar things have happened with drones. Brief every pilots about small drones and for the next couple weeks ever paper bag or large bird whipping past them on approach will be identified as a drone. They aren't tell lies. They actually believe they saw the drone. The human brain is just very good at filling in blurry images with known things.
Because considering and understanding other perspectives is important for actually getting things done?
Refusing to deal with Taiwan's CDC in a reasonable manner is a massive and continuing fuck up.

The WHO is a politically captured organization lead by a man who covered up three separate cholera outbreaks in his own country. I have little respect for or interest in them.
Pets.com

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com
Not a lawyer, but lawfareblog coverage should be accessible no? (I'm reading it right now).

https://www.lawfareblog.com/supreme-court-declines-review-se...
Wait, what? There are only 100 US senators and Google already spends tens of millions of dollars per year lobbying them. I'm not saying I agree with the GP point, but if Google wanted to give those senators free personal tech support it would not be prohibitively expensive.
It's hard for me to imagine how it could get worse in the short term. I encounter the following from human drivers on a regular basis, and I can't imagine any reasonable software doing them:

* Notice me attempting to use a crosswalk and choose not to yield

* Drive dangerously close behind my bicycle while honking for additional intimidation

* Pass my bicycle at obviously unsafe distances

* Park in crosswalks

* Blatantly disregard lane markings

* Run stop signs

* Pittsburgh left turns
Yikes. This prompted me to quickly find a way to backup my years worth of photos on Google Photos. Was looking to move over to a self-hosted Piwigo instance anyway.
I'm always impressed by SpaCy's web design, it's so distinctive and the documentation is a pleasure to navigate and read.
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Green new deal is absent of nuclear energy and does not include anything about base load mitigation. Instead there will be magical battery storage.

The affordable care act included chiropractor and acupuncture.

California is under a strict lockdown that has been admitted in their documents that it will never return to green and the WHO is returning to their previously held statement that lockdowns hurt the poor disproportionately and do not provide ultimate success.

Masks do not work, then work, then only special types of cloth (two layer gaiters no, two layer cloths, yes).

HCQ with zinc does work in early treatments until endorsed by a party leader, opposition locks out doctors (trained medical professionals) from using the drug in certain states with no scientific backing.

Science in the political realm is non existent if it interferes with the scoring of political points.

It is not Republicans / Democrats are anti science, it is the political positions each side is beholden to that drives these narratives and then are used to make the opposing side look dumb.
That just shows how wrong the whole system is. API and chapter headlines seldom reach a high threshold of originality.
If someone wants to move away from a Google free account, is there a way to see of list of all sites/apps that they have previously granted OAuth access to?

I found a way to view this if you have a paid admin account for your organization, but I don't see a way to view a list of previous OAuth granted requests for a free Google account.
Frankly, Android with just okay brands such as Motorola, is totally fine. I wouldn't call using such a phone "taking a bullet". It works well for everything. Maybe the camera is a little inferior (but if photography is your thing you should use a real camera anyway). For all the rest... it's just as good, for 1/4 to 1/5 of the price.
How fast are you looking for?

Most consumer FDM printers are using 0.4mm nozzles. I've found that 0.6mm is more suitable for general use, and that cuts print time by ~50% - it lays down 50% more material, which accounts for a 33% reduction, but the fact that it results in fewer discrete motions accounts for the rest.

When I'm printing something bigger than, say, 100mm^3, I switch out to a 1.0mm nozzle. Larger objects generally don't require such fine detail in all dimensions.

As for noise, my primary printer is a modified Creative3D Elf CoreXY, and it sits about 5' from my computer. It's quiet enough that it doesn't interrupt my flow. TMC2209 drivers and StealthChop go a long way.
The Supreme Court isn't warning anyone of anything. The only opinion in here belongs to Justice Thomas and Justice Thomas alone. And it has as much legal significance as his solo dissents in actual cases -- which is to say, practically none whatsoever.

Flagging for title change.
> In general, if you read or write data from a user's device (including cookies, but also things like User Agent from HTTP headers), you need consent unless it's strictly necessary for providing the service that the user requested.

What's the rational behind this if the data stored locally isn't used for user tracking or even uploaded anywhere? By the same logic, why shouldn't we have to ask for consent to cache web files and to store data in a URL parameter?

Thanks for the links. I think part of the problem is there's just so much information and discussion on this, that it's hard to get a clear answer you can be 100% sure you can trust. PECR, GDPR, Irish DPA, ICO, UK law, EU law, cookie sweep... how are you suppose to keep up, know what applies to your particular case, and be sure you've interpreted and collated all the guidelines correctly?
>Permanent WFH will eventually become an artifact of covid time like mask usage.

Lots of us were remote before this, even if we were commuting distance from an office.

But, in general, I don't disagree. I expect a lot of people will move back to being in an office at least 1-2 days a week.
That’s real bad news for Hunter’s 2020 election campaign!
No, it isn't. That's really scummy.
Ugh flying cars would require a whole different level of infrastructure to protect pedestrians and property from idiots/malignants in vehicles. We already have giant cement blocks and metal poles everywhere, now we need human-permeable cages.
Because it is necessary to develop a "theory of mind" to figure out why some entities behave the way they do. You'll encounter fewer surprises that way :)

edit: also, I have the battle scars from moderated a few niche online forums/properties that were mildly popular. People who abuse services are surprisingly tenacious and creative. If there is the potential to make money - even a little - you get abusers who are tenacious, creative and sophisticated
Is the source for waypoint.run open source? Can we run our own?

I've not had a chance to dig for the source and it wasn't obvious when I skimmed the project.
Some people aren't as well versed in the law. Give the guy a break.
Chill.
Am I right in thinking they'll be sued into oblivion if Oracle win their case against Google?
Street parking can and should be removed even without driverless taxis, but I agree that the taxis reduce the amount of ammunition people have to fight the change.
The Federalist is like a conservative version of Mother Jones or HuffPo. Not what I’d consider reliable but it can collect together facts that can be verified that other organizations won’t necessarily put together. For example, there’s an article right now observing that, while we’ve had a Supreme Court with a majority of Republican appointees for 50 years, for a lot of that time it’s been appointees confirmed by a Democratic Senate. (Democrats held the Senate almost without any gap from 1936-1982.) So candidates that ended up getting wobbly like Souter and Stevens were compromise candidates. The NYT just isn’t going to highlight facts like that.
A high-level language like JavaScript certainly lowers the barrier to entry, and eases the learning curve.

This year I started playing with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, various sensors and motors. So far I've mainly used Johnny Five ¹ on Node.js to orchestrate things. It was so simple to jump in, with an easy ubiquitous language, and I was able to spend time learning the actual hardware and developing the logic. For my needs, an interpreted language has been plenty capable.

As I get deeper though, I'm finding a need for near real-time control (timing, to be precise), as performant as I can make it. For that, I'm (re)turning to C, a language I last used a couple dedades ago. It's tougher going but definitely rewarding.

I'm so glad for the friendly introduction to the field, like Python and Arduino sketches. It reminds me of my pre/teen days, hacking at a personal (well, family) computer, getting familiar with a marvel of technology through exploration and discovery.

¹ https://github.com/rwaldron/johnny-five/
Somehow, what surprised me the most here—given Apple's recent news—is the fact that they were able to strong-arm Facebook into complying. One would think that, if there are companies with enough leverage to ignore Apple's odd whims, Facebook would be one of them.
I don't know anyone specific, but I've heard about astroid mining as an alternative to mining rare earth metals.
Incredibly there are countries in the world which are not car centric where people have infirm grandparents.
It’s just the price to earnings ratio. Literally all it means is you divide the price and earnings. There is no canonical way to “read into” it, however typically higher P/E ratio means the market is pricing in growth or is (perhaps overly) optimistic, a lower p/e means the market does not anticipate as much growth and thus will only pay a price that is justified by the earnings (meaning people buying it intend to recoup the investment through dividends or because they thought the market sentiment about lack of growth was wrong)
What browser does that work under?
Intel asserted this right against Zilog (names, etc.) with Zilog settling by changing the names of all Z80 instructions and registers. Binary compatible but source requires translation.
This. I've used mine to make:

* an adapter to let me my old vacuum cleaner attachments on my new vacuum

* a number of irreplaceable little plastic gewgaws whose breakage would have destroyed the utility of various products

* custom hooks for use with 3M Command strips

* mounting brackets that let me use some spare casters I had lying around with an Ikea Lack coffee table
How many wrappers of abstractions of wrappers of abstractions do we need?