skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check ydotool for an xdotool replacement: https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool

The lack of a common screenshot protocol isn't related to security. The desktops just haven't been able to agree on a common protocol (yet?)
Just imagine the world where local bus operators will deny you access to public transport because the algorithm decided your movement pattern looks suspicious.

Zoom is a utility to allow people to communicate. Denying ability to organize a webinar is akin to selectively denying people to meet on a plaza where there is no possible direct damage from the meeting (ie. no possiblity for disturbance to neighborhood, violence, etc.) and only possibility that law is broken by speech.
Crews vacuum 'murder hornets' out of Washington nest
States are people, my friend.

(Hopefully that's a less controversial statement than Romney's famous line).
I would think that the engineers developing then already did the cost benefit analysis and decided that shipping them activated (and tested) is the best option for their users
Apologies; I misunderstood one of your links and thought sway had been renamed to wlroots.

To be clear the "adventure" I'm talking about is for replacing desktop environment niceties like the ones provided by gsettingsd and the tight integration provided between devices and the system management tools offered in full desktop blown environments like Gnome and KDE. I used i3 for six or seven years and it was never as nicely integrated as Gnome and I spent a LOT of time yak shaving to get it nice and keep it that way. Eventually I gave up. Gnome is really nice these days.

But maybe I missed the point of your original comment.
I have a mid-grade phobia of stinging insects and arachnids.

I once blew a few hours to anxiously watching youtube videos of people destroying nasty wasp/hornet infestations. (I'm still not sure why. Probably some mix of morbid fascination and aggression fantasy.)

The soapy-water-shopvac trick appeared in a lot of those videos. (Less commonly: thermite, or quad-propeller drones.)
No! Don't do that. You'll just make yourself a target. The "Spartacus" defense doesn't actually work in real life.

The RIAA is the industry licensing group for a multi-billion dollar industry. They have the resources to go after everyone who claims ownership of the code, and copyright damages under the DMCA are no laughing matter: they could drive you into bankruptcy or saddle you with debts for the rest of your life, precluding home ownership, paying for your children to go to college, retirement, etc.
Programming Audio Effects: Oscilloscope
The US has no more qualms about coercion of employees in order to further foreign policy than China or Russia. US legal options for such things are incredibly wide and far ranging.
Neat, this helped me realize I haven't switched away from my provider's default DNS when I moved in, which is something I usually do.

How to choose a DNS server? I usually just go with 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4, I used to always test this with Namebench (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namebench) and these always turned out as the fastest - but it looks like it hasn't been updated since 2010 - are there any better tools for this, or any considerations in general? I prefer performance over privacy here, I think privacy should be on a different layer.
Working out at the gym and walking to the grocery store are very different exercises considering heart rates involved etc.
Also in many cases the air will not be very good on the way to the grocery store vs. when you go for a run on a track that you specially chose for running.
My biggest issue is when people say that it's a probabilistic model, and therefore it wasn't wrong in 2016 because 28% chance of winning is pretty high and you don't get probabilities. Well, guess what, this kind of model that provides a probabilistic estimate on a future event that cannot be repeated cannot be validated or falsified. It's basically junk science (if it has any aspirations of being scientific).
It is entirely unsurprising and unrelated to me that the year you were born helps predict income.
I love the run-around time between idea, implementation, release! Great job.
What is the legal distinction between DeCSS and the decryption code in the firmware of a DVD player?

One comes from the publisher and is intended to play back the content in an approved way.

The other is a reimplementation of the first, intended to circumvent the restrictions imposed by the first. That's illegal, per the DMCA. It's black-letter law in the US and elsewhere.
See also this Twitter thread from Nate Cohn (who has no dog in the fight): https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1320042092694065153
I think Taleb still makes a very strong point when you compare the chart shown in this article (which shows very weak linear growth at best) with charts which show income percentiles (which show exponential growth). That's not even going into wealth distribution which is even worse.
My daughter needs a hoist and we’ve used https://www.uktoiletmap.org/
Basing on 10,000 graduates of Wisconsin high schools in 1957 happens to “control for” (in a by-and-large way) many or most of the confounding influences one would have in a study today or in an area such as, for instance, Maryland or New York City.

To your point about high school grads, though, it is absolutely worth noting that in 1957, “no child left behind” wasn’t a thing.

In 1950, 36% of whites and 13% of blacks over age 25 had a high school diploma.

In 2010, it was 92% and 84%.

Then, graduation was generally a vocational choice by household and student rather than a performance bar. Today, it’s an externalized requirement, largely for the system to be funded: you will be graduated despite yourself.

A few other diffs:

1954: Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation ordered

1951 spending per student: $215 for 155 days of school. 2010: $10,615 for 180 days of school. Average teacher salary then and now: $4K vs. $39K.

1955’s most popular youth book: Charlotte’s Web. 2012: Hunger Games.
> It didn't take very long to do the analysis. But it did then take another hour or so to write it up.

It's very interesting to see how long it takes people to do things. I am amazed that entire article took 1 hour to type up. I've spent entire afternoons trying to write shallower pieces of work.
Leonard french, the favorite copyright attorney, went over some of the legal parts of the DMCA claim yesterday. https://youtu.be/wZITscblMBA

Philipp sounds very proffessional, and it's obvious that youtube-dl's goal isn't simply infringement of copyrighted music, its also a tool that allows creators to use content within fair use.
Having a high IQ is a tool you can use to get ahead in life. If you have a lot of it, you’ll generally have more choices. If you don’t have it, life will probably be tougher for you. In a similar way in which being ugly or unsocial could mean some doors are closed for you. The essence is that it’s generally an asset you’re born with, and in the increasingly complex world we live in, not having it can be a liability. If you have a good amount of it, count yourself as a lucky one.
I've used to youtube-dl to watch videos hosted on legacy sites using defunct flash video player.

Hopefully, youtube-dl project will remain alive.
For those wondering about the soapy water, it effectively suffocates the hornets because soap allows the water to penetrate and clog the spiracles which prevents them from breathing.

Soapy water is actually a powerful insecticide against many arthropods:

https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/insects/insect-c...
> Is it though? I bet you get similar correlation with wealth.

Why aren't those two sides of the same coin? I mean, smart people can generally figure out how to accrue and maintain wealth.

Someone will say by way of counter-example that, let's say the Kardashians are not smart. But they seem awfully clever at manipulating their publicity in ways that bring them wealth.

So it really seems to have more to do with whether one has a narrow conception of intelligence as being able to, say, find new theories in QCD or derive relativity, rather than being able to figure out how to accomplish things beneficial to themselves. Which might be D-K in effect, but who knows?
"No longer" is doing a lot of work here, because by its nature none of this stuff comes out for a number of years after it occurs. We might also ask whether the "rebel" groups the US arms in e.g. Syria are terrorist organizations from another perspective, where four years ago DoD-funded groups were fighting CIA-funded groups: https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-...
Design considerations for a Geospatial Intelligence App and it should be Qt
Facebook tries to block tool aimed at promoting transparency of political ads
Thank You for the ever improving org-mode parser. Org-mode is in general difficult since it's a bit of a moving target, so I'm surprised that it's so well supported!
The whole device is encapsulated for waterproofing so supplying any current at all to it is tricky.

It says it's light activated. So likely they've put a tiny light sensor in it that the microcontroller polls occasionally during the lowest power mode. That might be a tiny solar panel too. But using that to electrically drive an electronic power switch is tricky if you don't have the budget for a custom ASIC; if you don't have that budget, you'll add a decent amount of weight in a device that tiny.

Honestly, I'm not at all surprised that they've chosen to accept a short shelf life instead. It's pretty remarkable that they can squeeze that much functionality into a 11mm long by 3.5mm diameter cylinder.
Sales tax exists in some states but not all. It's also less than ten percent. In my state the PS5 costs $535 after tax while in the UK it costs $587.
Thanks, I use it like this for some of my pages.

But please, only light, non-commercial use! It is on the cheapest static IP that I could find with no failover or anything.

It is really easy to run your own copy if you need it for a commercial project.
You can check their forecasts on Senate and House races, where we have a lot more data points.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/checking-our-work/
If I tell you an unweighted 6 sided die only has a 1 in 6 chance of coming up 6 and we roll it once and it comes up a 6 then that is not junk science.
"IQ was developed to predict which children would perform best in school so that they could be streamed..."

I believe it was developed to predict those which would perform worse so they could be further examined for specific issues and extra help.
> Right, I can name another one after operant conditioning. The stroop effect, and that's it to be honest. Can you supply some more?

>Can you explain why you do not believe IQ to be rigorous?

That's a much longer and more complicated argument than what I'm saying, which is simply that IQ is not anywhere near the most essential nor the most studied question in psychology. Classical conditioning is another. Attachment and critical periods in developmental psychology have received a lot of attention. In particular, pretty much any effect which generalizes in a simple and reliable way from humans to animals is easier to experiment on and has a stronger evidence base than IQ: instinctual drift, childhood amnesia, most of the theory of perception, etc.

The actual content and priorities of psychology as a field of scientific research is quite different from the few topics which get debated with unreasonably high frequency on the Internet.
So all statistics and probabilities are junk science because they can't predict the future 100% of the time? Surely you can't be asserting that...
The point is that you can get them on-demand and it doesn't require root privileges. As the Red Hat article notes:

> For example, your distro might package debuginfo and source files separately from the executable you’re trying to debug and you may lack the permissions to install these packages. Or, perhaps you’re debugging within a container that was not built with these resources, or maybe you simply don’t want these files taking up space on your machine.

Also, FYI, sneakernet is the wrong term for what you meant. Sneakernet is the transfer of files over something other than a computer network (i.e. walking a USB drive to a friend wearing sneakers).
Incidentally, that is what calibre does: the DRM-cracking parts are separate plugins, so if those get DMCA'd the rest of the program is unaffected.
> So either IQ is useful in classifying both success and failure.

No, statistical relationships are not symmetric in general. You shouldn't expect equal absolute predictive power for events two sigma from the mean in opposite directions if the random variable doesn't have a normal distribution. IQ is normally distributed, but many obvious and conventional measures of success are clearly not.

> Your second argument essentially states that "measures that don't take time into account ... don't take time into account".

This isn't what I'm intending my argument to "essentially state". My second argument is just that drawing conclusions from "top line" statistics like R^2 is dangerous and potentially misleading.
It's been a while since I read (some of) Taleb's arguments, but it's pretty clear to everyone supporting IQ's value in that respect that it displays more of a potential for genius than actual genius. People with high conscientiousness and high IQ are extremely likely to be successful. But there are other factors.

To wit, consider how most famous serial killers have high or very high IQ (120 and above). The reason is simple: you don't get to kill that many people if you're dumb ... because you get caught quickly.
Ask HN: Go programming language is over ten years old. What do you think of it?
What are your thoughts on the Go programming language?
This is a computer science course, not a programming one
Doesn't show IPv6 for me.

I always use IPleak.net [1]. Works for public IPv4, IPv6, DNS server, Tor/AirVPN exit node, BitTorrent, geolocation, and all kind of browser metadata.

Browsing through comments shows this can do some things IPleak.net can't do such using wget/curl with API.

[1] https://ipleak.net
I get your point. But until those benchmarks at least correlate with behavior users see, they are not worth much.
> No fancy beekeeper suit necessary

Does that perhaps depend on the species of wasp, or maybe the reach of the wand?

IIRC, there was one youtube video where the little bastards went straight for the dude's face during shop-vac'ing. He could smell the venom they were trying to spray in his eyes.

When one of the wasps (or hornets?) went straight for his GoPro sensor, its face filled my large monitor and I nearly had a heart attack.
Same w/ "bees," but not arachnids. Also blew a few hours watching nest extermination videos. I generally wish the best (within reason) for our non-human beings, but it was very cathartic.
Well, quite. None of this is exactly taxing the shit out of fossil fuels.

They'll gradually and then suddenly ratcheted up as the fossil fuel industry loses political power in various countries. It'll be far too little and too late to mitigate the worst effects of global warming though.
The US has sponsored terrorists covertly for decades now. Just because they stopped publically sponsoring terrorists doesn't mean much when most of the last century was spent covertly sponsoring them too.
Is mental healthcare not healthcare?
Great update. This seems to be very much in line with the note-taking and review techniques of Tiago Forte and Ali Abdaal, but for code.
Someone else in this thread suggested GRC's benchmark utility [1]. It sounds pretty comprehensive, but I haven't tried it yet.

[1] https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
“Not often do you see a warning telling you *not* to make your code reusable”
Yeah, but what if we could never roll that particular die again?

I think that's what he's talking about.
Well, the anecdotes are kind of real, and vast in numbers. I suspect many readers here never used X on a 90s PC or workstation, so they could be forgiven for not realizing it was up to the task on hardware that is now pitiful.

Another example I like is the Nokia N900, which ran X on a phone no less, phone hardware from 2009, and it was pretty good there.

Part of the problem is surely software bloat over time on higher parts of the stack, rather than X itself. You couldn't get the 486 in the comment above to run recent gnome or a recent browser. But you could run software of the era well.
>I've repeatedly heard exposure therapy described as the single most effective treatment in psychology. If true, our approach to microaggressions may be backwards. Protecting people from them may be exactly the wrong treatment for people that are stressed by such behavior. Exposure therapy may be the best.

Exposure therapy may be highly effective, but I still don't think this follows in the general, public case (e.g. on internet forums). This SSC post puts it quite well, I think:

>They say that “Confronting triggers, not avoiding them, is the best way to overcome PTSD”. They point out that “exposure therapy” is the best treatment for trauma survivors, including rape victims. And that this involves reliving the trauma and exposing yourself to traumatic stimuli, exactly what trigger warnings are intended to prevent. All this is true. But I feel like they are missing a very important point.

>YOU DO NOT GIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY TO PEOPLE WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT.

>Psychotherapists treat arachnophobia with exposure therapy, too. They expose people first to cute, little spiders behind a glass cage. Then bigger spiders. Then they take them out of the cage. Finally, in a carefully controlled environment with their very supportive therapist standing by, they make people experience their worst fear, like having a big tarantula crawl all over them. It usually works pretty well.

>Finding an arachnophobic person, and throwing a bucket full of tarantulas at them while shouting “I’M HELPING! I’M HELPING!” works less well.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/30/the-wonderful-thing-ab...

Now, in a private session with a therapist, with the patient's consent? Sure.
That's no reason to add another layer of avoidable compositing.
If it isn’t broken, then give an example of a compositor that isn’t broken.

A protocol with zero practical implementations is, in practice, broken.
I use youtube-dl to download conference talks for offline watching.

And now I can't? This doesn't seem right.
Or... if you think for a second about what probabilities are supposed to mean, there is an obvious way to check if a probabilistic forecaster is accurate https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/checking-our-work/
Could this just be a result of low sampling by the author? If you reduce a sample to only include some tiny edge case, the resulting data points are going to be weird in random ways.
No one is purporting election forecasting to be scientific.
Had we all been wearing surgical masks in public since the 90s, probably well over a million lives would have been saved by now from flu deaths alone.

Basically, since the 90s we've put a much much higher value on human life. I expect mask usage to extend far beyond covid and handshaking to cease being a cultural greeting.
Do you mean blockchain or technology inspired by blockchain? Lots of cool merkle tree stuff (trillion, certificate transparency); also several international shipping supply chains use blockchain for chain-of-custody (txns are irrevocable cosigned transfer of custody with no trusted overseer). I would love to see criminal evidence and deeds of ownership move onto a similar framework.

I expect digital ID will also benifit from an auditable, immutable log (e.g. sovrin)
I wonder what percentage of these devices actually end up in a regularly used application and how many just end up in a plastic box organizer, sitting on a table somewhere.
I like how it is almost 2021 and the RIAA is still spending money going after a command line executable, geez even Napster had a gui.
Six years ago I weighed in at 265 pounds with a 44-inch waist. To make a change I decided to start walking nightly. Began taking my dogs with me for encouragement (perhaps the thing dogs are best at), and eventually settled on a route that covered almost exactly two miles with some good hills to get the heart rate up. Today the dogs no longer come with me because they have grown too old to keep up. My weight is down to 215 and my waist to 36" and the nightly walk is such an ingrained habit that I feel like a complete slug if I can't take it for some reason.
It looks like it was written as a single stream of conscience. While I couldn’t write that article, if I hit a flow state and was interested in the topic, it seems possible.
“Debt is morally wrong” is a useful heuristic in the context of working class people, consumption spending, and delayed gratification. In the context of the tax and liquidity challenges of the ultra-wealthy it’s just a tool.
You can run from any platform on a remote server without GUI support?

It's a huge difference.
Discover the advertising web with Ads.txt files
Almost universally, the citizenry will actually be even more angered towards the Americans too. From what my friends tell me, this is largely the case in Iran. It doesn't help that the US is sanctioning alone.
It's not surprising that supporters on one side of the political spectrum resort to outright lies to defraud voters and the public. It's part of the standard toolbox of facism.
Duly noted. It's ok, most of my scripts just pile up the cobwebs and never get used anyway, and they are all personal, not commercial. I would of course consider standing up my own for any real use. Good work!

Now you have me thinking about the economics of api as a service... another rabbit hole.
Clicking on the link doesn’t do anything. It might open a banking app, where the user could make the suggested payment, or perhaps alter it, or perhaps not do it after all.
Why Are You Not as Effective When Working from Home?
The article misspells DMCA as DCMA. I find it distracting, but admire the consistency.
> It was the ability to respond, within hours, to a change made on any given site. I.e. youtube-dl stopped working? No problem, file an issue, wait a day, solved.

That's funny. You must have not been around on the repo for the last six to eight months. It was practically abandoned, with several broken extractors not being addressed, and essential PRs being ignored for months or even years. See this:
https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://webcache.googleusercon...

As an example, take the tiktok extractor, which was (and is still) broken for almost a year without even being acknowledged by the maintainers:

https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://webcache.googleusercon...

https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://webcache.googleusercon...

https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://webcache.googleusercon...
Also, you can do actual strength training in the gym.
I was following the light phone 2 for a long time and ultimately decided not to buy it because I wanted access it from my desktop. I really like the approach they're going for here. Signed up for the beta so we'll see. If it doesn't work out, I'm just going to have to roll up my sleeves and make my own eink phone.