skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to their recommendations you should be fine with any mid-high level PC built in the last 3-4 years:

Core i7-4790 or Ryzen 3 3200G
GTX 1060 6GB or R9 Fury
12GB RAM
70GB SSD storage
Windows 10 64-bit
Most modern cameras can autofocus in perfect darkness using a small AF light. Especially at f/0.95!

But really, I recreated the shot, in a perfectly dark room with a phone light as the only light source, and it focused adequately and the image came out more than adequate at 1/20x ISO 2066 @ f/2.8, or 1/30 ISO2400 f/1.4, all with good AF.
That doesn't sound right to me at all.

To your first point: consider a hypothetical person who is unable to recognise other people as being similar to themselves, i.e. as having minds of their own. We would treat this person as having a serious social disability. We certainly wouldn't conclude that the person lacks consciousness entirely. They could still be capable of experiencing pain and pleasure, and could still be capable of seeking goals, and of abstract thought. They would still have moral standing and personal dignity - it would be immoral to mistreat them, and we would consider that human rights still apply to them.

We are deeply social animals, and this is integral to our sense of self as we usually see it, but I'm not convinced it's integral to consciousness.

I have a similar objection to your second point. Lacking a sense of personal narrative and timeline would constitute a serious disability, but would not render a person unconscious. If you had total retrograde amnesia, you would still be conscious.

I see the same problem with your third point. I'm confident that, under the right concoction of psychotropics, my mental function could be degraded to the point that I would be unable to reason effectively about my future, or to make decisions, while still keeping me conscious. Someone suffering something akin to shell-shock might be unresponsive, but still conscious.
> I like makefiles in substantial part because there’s a very high probability of Make already being installed. I’m comfortable enough with them that I didn’t need to look anything up to write any of what I wrote above.

There's an even higher probability of Perl being installed, and I'd much rather use that than Make. I've even been known to write a Perl script that calls Make after doing something complex that would be "not fun" to add to a Makefile.
I'm wondering whether any legal team or similar have donated some time to figure out whether this is actually fair use or to set a precedent, because looking from the outside in, it clearly looks like an implementation meant to circumvent some form of intentionally-obfuscated protected handshake or access control.

From a strictly code based POV, it is intended to download protected objects with tests to ensure that protections are circumvented and the correct material can be retrieved. At the same time, removal of this code probably disables downloading of the majority of YouTube, and on top of that if there is no official collaboration on it, it'll be outdated within days.
That book is significantly exaggerated and decades out of date. Kitchens remain horrible workplaces but not really in the ways depicted in that book.
React doesn't have HTML templates though…? You can also have CSS-in-JS if you really want.
With asset build pipelines that do lots of preprocessing, compress everything, and pack things with a layout that tries to minimise disk seek time while playing, it's conceivable that relatively small changes in the source data can result in touching large amounts of the final compressed assets.

But I don't work in the industry, so read my statements as just the ramblings of an interested amateur.

Regardless of the technical reasons for them, I personally dislike the reliance on day-0 patches.
Exactly this. This is a situation where user input is only being sanitised client-side, not server-side. That's what's being (poorly) reported.

In the unlikely event that someone reading this doesn't understand why server-side sanitation of any user input is always required, xkcd.com/327 provides an amusing take.
I get the same thing on my android. I always wonder how an issue like that can go on for years with no fix.
Users don't want apps that paint their own widgets on a canvas. They want an environment that feels familiar, and that means working within the DOM. That's why Javascript won out over Java in the first place.

Nor do I see developers itching to depend on a project that hasn't been updated in over a year.
As an American, I don't care if I get 0% back, I'm still using a credit card because the identity theft protection discrepancy between credit and debit cards is enormous. I say this to people and those who have had to deal with identify theft before immediate are on board with me. Those who haven't proceed to argue.
Playing with nerf guns in the office isn’t much different than playing with your colleagues testicles? Huh?
Optical nav was flight proven a long time ago. For deep space (autonav, deep space 1), and for mars landers.
The (real) reasons for it shutting down were never given.

However, at the time it was theorized that in the event the maintainers had found a fundamental flaw, disclosing that flaw by issuing a patch would immediately jeopardize all preexisting truecrypt containers by revealing a method for breaking them. That would be untenable, and so the only alternative would be to shut down the entire project and recommend no further use of the software - as was done.

A subsequent audit did not identify any such security flaw, so the prevailing theory is now that the maintainers were forced to stop work by a governmental agency. It's considered safe and now known as veracrypt.

However, the question I have is whether a single crowdsourced security audit would be capable of finding a flaw that it took the developers themselves years (decades?) to identify.
Definitely agree that the fall of the West is best understood as a consequence of the civil instability/war. I also think it is probable the successor states where most likely better managed/fruitful economically (although I probably would not say that to a Briton who had just been conquered by the Angles). Would seem to be a step too far to not give the Germans due credit for the fall of the West though.

The title Imperator in the days of the late republic was an honorific given to successful generals. This is is quite an apt title for the Roman political head during the Imperium. It was hard for the formally republican Romans of the early Empire to counter the precedent set by Julius and Augustus, who killed their way to the top. Normal stabilizing mechanisms like the divine right of kings were anaesthetized by Roman sensibilities. Conquerors did not face legitimacy issues like they might have in a political system with more ceremonial/spiritual backing.

But when the commander of forces on the Rhine was no longer a Roman General commanding Roman Legions but a German commanding his tribe that same process of conquering yourself a nice political office seems to have more political implications. Sure the Lombards kept the Senate but the lack of political union of the German tribes probably has something to do with break in political union of the Western Empire.
It's interesting. What would be an "acceptable" mix of demographics for political ads recipients? That is to say, what is the answer to that question where there is no PR story, where Facebook doesn't look bad? If the answer is, none at all... I'm sure we can see where they are coming from.

In my opinion you don't really need to do the NYU study. Intellectually honestly, many political ads will disproportionately appear in front of users with different demographics than their census tracts, regardless of their targeting parameters. In my experience many of the demographics of users in many software products are arbitrary, telling you nothing about the content and much more about acquisition channels and technology usage patterns at a particular point in time.

As far as I know, Facebook allows some targeting parameters for political ads. So they should publish how often those targeting parameters are selected. Great, advocate for that.

Intellectually honestly, that will conclusively show that ad buyers have a wide diversity of targeting parameters that, in aggregate, represent a complex mix of objectives oftentimes only adjacent to a specific election. Almost certainly Facebook already looked at this and found that geography, gender, age and proxies for user's race (like "multicultural affinity") are among the top choices, and that looks bad, even though it may be an important part of all ads targeted anywhere.

Is NYU's study going to have enough power to measure targeting in an intellectually honest way? They can certainly write something descriptive.

That descriptive, "Well here are some ads we looked at, and some of them disproportionately appeared in front of users with e.g. this ethnicity more often than others, which we editorially chose" - I can see how that is a lose-lose for Facebook.
The mission has a very small sliver of that budget. Trust me, there's no "NASA" that comes running when things go wrong: It's on the mission team to handle it.
When I read stuff like this I always simultaneously have the intro song to 'Benny Hill' play in my head.

https://youtu.be/zQf2TiwBFHo
Did you buy those cereals recently? What method of payment did you use?
The code, not api
U.S. FCC votes to maintain 2017 repeal of net neutrality rules
Spoiler alert: they didn’t work.
I've never really trusted these image auto-optimizers. I always just do it my hand so I know what's actually happening.
You're right, Dendron doesn't easily integrate with web clients yet. Files are plaintext markdown and most of our users are using dropbox/nextcloud setup.

That being said, Dendron lets you publish your notes as static sites (eg. https://dendron.so is just published using notes) and we'll be expanding this feature to do private hosting of notes with limited editing capabilities later in December
That would be an interesting exercise in computer science, but wouldn't show us that you'd correctly determined the criteria for consciousness.
University PR releases about groundbreaking future developments that ultimately go nowhere are ubiquitous. No one should be taking this seriously.
What do you really get out of a lawsuit like that though?

Presumably you don't want anyone else to write such dramatic claims with such flimsy information in the future... but that's already a thing. I think most news orgs who are aware of the Bloomberg chip story would not want to reproduce those results as far as egg on their face and etc.
As a data point I've got 299 service workers according to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox

Time to remove these. Thanks!
Important correction:

> Having IBS doesn’t increase your risk of colon cancer

https://www.healthline.com/health/ibs-vs-colon-cancer
I’ve seen this publicized many times on HN before, mostly in comments, but I always dismissed it because it supported only PDF and didn’t support ePub (the format I primarily use, since I’m not in a field where PDF is mandated or necessary).

Since this new release has ePub support, is it possible to use it without the cloud and subscription?

Edit: From other comments here it seems like 2.x is cloud-only (and tied to the Polarized service storage). Though it says that there’s a latest update to the local supporting 1.x, I doubt if that would remain supported for longer (of course, someone could say it’s open source, so just fork it).

I wouldn’t mind paying a small license fee for the freedom of local storage or being able to use another cloud storage along with better support. Since 1GB on the free tier is not enough for me and since I have other cloud storage already available, even the Plus plan it quite expensive for me.
On average the credit card company is the one giving you the free loan.
How exactly is Netflix close to being a public utility?
My point is that the "debt" metaphor is what doesn't work, not the strategy of doing less work upfront. Specifically, having a scoping conversation, or a YAGNI conversation, or a "debt" conversation results in less work being done upfront.

However, if the conversation is one of "debt", then, in my experience, the necessary work is not done later, because there is no organization demanding repayment.
That's what OP means: https://codesandbox.io/s/elastic-rubin-hxpcw?file=/src/index...

And that's why reconciliation algorithms became so popular. You can't be serious when you say that losing input focus and text selection have never been relevant to you. Basically, dealing with the internal state of components down the tree becomes a nightmare.
The problem is that if you use "y'all" in a Zoom meeting with a bunch of people from the Northeast, the conversation immediately becomes about how "oh you're from the SOUTH what's that like."
It's absurd on its face and this topic has been beaten to death on this forum; the burden of demonstrating why social media websites are like utilities rests on the person making the claim.

However, for the sake of discussion, I'll start out with the fact that a privately owned website is not an example of shared public infrastructure. Think water, electricity and other basic staples of civilization... Facebook is not an example of that.
Unfortunately I feel like this is the new standard for security "researchers."

Bug bounty programs and flashy brand name vulnerabilities have created this ecosystem where lots of security "researchers" publish long blog posts about so called "vulerabilities" they have discovered, hyping them up to be way more than they are. In hopes of getting bug bounties or hired as contractors I assume.

I had to unsubscribe from reddit's r/netsec and r/blackhat due to the number of borderline false posts like this.

There's like this intense pressure of people in security to network it seems. In the rare times I would post on netsec/blackhat to correct a misconception I'd get reached out to to connect on linkedin and whatnot.

Of course there is still some tremendous security researchers out there, like those at Google ProjectZero, but this industry seems to also attract a lot of borderline grifters.
When Providing Wait Times, It Pays to Underpromise and Overdeliver
I heard that more important than ocean currents is the Rocky Mountains, which causes the jet stream to go south, then north.
Vikings were very much a culture group. The Old English called them "The Danes" in general (which was a generic name for Scandanavian peoples, not specifically people from Denmark as we define it today), and they settled much of England (the Danelaw) and Normandy (literally "(land of the) North Men").
You bring up an interesting point. I intentionally used "may" in that statement as using .innerHTML can be both effective and performant enough (and a lot simpler).

A couple possible problems off the top of my head:

1. CSS transitions won't work if you re-render a complete chunk of HTML instead of toggling a class.

2. <a>, <button>, <input>, etc. may lose focus or even data on re-render (e.g. while filling out a form).

3. Text selection may be reset on re-render.

4. If you don't use event delegation, event listeners may need to be reattached.

I agree that for raw display .innerHTML may be sufficient, but it's surely not in general. That would make React almost irrelevant, by the way, which would be a huge surprise.
According to the state of California, Waymo had less than 1.5 million miles driven in 2019[1]. That is basically nothing when it comes to proving a track record of safety. The fatality rate in California is around 1 per 100 million miles. Waymo's cars can be twice as deadly as humans and there would only be a 3% chance of killing someone in a 1.5 million miles.

[1] - https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...
3. Sounds like the company just found the people who had programmer tendencies.
I didn’t, a family member did buy one of the two via credit card. Could that be it? The. We got associated via the WiFi network?
Thoughtful critique is obviously welcome, but please don't break the HN guidelines like this. These ones in particular:

"Please don't fulminate."

"Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
in Terminator voice "Learn to code if you want to live."
at the end of the day, if you have a note taking tool that you like and are using, then my advice is to stick with it. that being said, we'll be launching an obsidian importer next week to make it easy for folks to experiment with dendron if the temptation strikes :)
Comparing Cambridge Analytica, who harvested data though means that were not transparent to users (and for malicious purpose), to NYU has explained what data and why, AND has the consent of its users, seems disingenuous at best.
This sounds similar to claims I've heard that consciousness arises from language. Taking a component of our cognition which is heavily intertwined with the rest of it and taking its ubiquity to imply some sort of primacy.
Any thoughts on whether this is actually going to represent a wave of inflation?
Ironically, living for your child will probably produce the opposite of the effect you intend on your child.
Is it hard to understand why people are disgusted by him? If you can't acknowledge that, it's hard to have a conversation at all.

His type of behavior and language brings out hate and revulsion in even the kindest people. If you don't get it, I don't know what to say. It has nothing to do with his politics or policy stances, it has to do with his behavior.
The original Old English term "þa Deniscan" (the Danes) was pretty clearly a people group as well, and they established colonies in England and France. That there is a narrower sense of "pirate" doesn't prove that there isn't a broader ethnogroup sense.
If it’s for documentation, BookStack is fantastic and user friendly.
I can cook dinner, heat my house, call 911 and even check out government websites on the internet without google or facebook.
Your rewards program is the reason for the fees in the first place, gtfo
I think he means if you want to offer React server side you will need some-sort of web framework to serve it. Usually that's Express or Fastify or something like that.
Cloud is required. Mobile was a big feature request and we can't support mobile without cloud.

Subscription isn't required for < 1GB of documents.
If you read the discussions to end, you will notice many objections to the benchmark that you have posted here. Even I have objections. -O3 is not the end of all possible optimizations in C and Fortran.
That sounds like you're talking about the distinction between an unlimited connection with a SLA, and an unlimited connection provided on a best-effort basis. But the modern corruption of "unlimited" doesn't even rise to the level of "best-effort".
Don't miss Alex Stamos (former Facebook Chief Security Officer's reply): https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1320006154424967170

If I'm understanding Alex right, he's saying that Facebook's 2019 FTC consent decree requires them to limit the personal information collected by apps on the platform.
What's annoying is there's no real reason it has to be harder to stream through an FPGA- it's largely just that the ecosystem and FPGA vendor tooling is so utterly garbage that installing it will probably attract raccoons to your /opt.
Documents are almost always hierarchical, but yes for reading purposes, something like an "expand all" is helpful for presenting it all in a single view, so you just need to hit down arrow key if you want to perhaps read it from beginning to end with minimal user gestures. So the GUI interaction is a separate issue from the storage format and representation.

The way Quanta works is that every sentence or paragraph can have an entire conversation thread underneath it, which is light-years ahead of the "Revision Marks" feature of MS Office/365 for example. The model Quanta is using for team collaboration on documents means for example you can post a big long question about a single sentence in a doc, and it doesn't get in the way of the main doc, or become visible unless expanded.

They way Quanta works is definitely the future, even if it's some other platform other than Quanta where this takes off.
Wait, a client app is able to freeze your Linux computer to the extent that you have to power off your computer?
This isn't some CRUD app where they can refactor to use another class with a matching interface.

The models they use are incredibly opaque, complex, and work based on statistical inferences that are built into the data. Making fundamental changes like assumptions about where that data came from is not trivial. Even more so given that we're talking about safety-critical applications.
Also, you guys were asking about Firefox support so I did a deep dive and we're ready go to but Google Firebase doesn't support the moz-extension URL scheme. Just the chrome-extension scheme.

I added a feature request for them to support chrome-extension here:

https://github.com/firebase/firebase-js-sdk/issues/4002

I'm going to submit a PR to them to support moz-extension too.
Should be called SveltePack IMO :)
For a long time it was a indeed the best in many regards. I've always been a Firefox fan and users, but for a while I had to admit that continuing with Firefox meant making big sacrifices. Today, those sacrifices are only the rare website that was never tested on anything but chrome or brings my 8 cores to a halt.
Ninja is especially beneficial on large projects with lots of source files. Where Make can take 30+ seconds to run a "no-op" build, when nothing needs rebuilding, ninja does it instantly.
So just “remove” it. Out with “rolling cipher circumvention” in with session token handling.
I was not familiar with the history of firefighting until now and this is pretty wild. Thank you for clarifying what you meant with your earlier comment. I agree that for-profit healthcare and pharma is a huge problem, exactly because of the misaligned incentives for companies and patients.
What happens if there are millions of pages?

Wish Next.js would have a "scalability issues and solutions" documentation...
MSN Messenger was pretty good.
They were forced to give Microsoft exclusive access, because it was one of the terms of Microsoft's billion-dollar cloud credit investment.

But you can't pay employees with cloud credits, so time will tell whether it was a correct decision. (It probably was. And I exaggerate slightly; the investment included a substantial sum of real dollars too. But most people see that billion dollar investment and think it's all dollars, when in fact it was largely credits.)
This sounds very rational but it is mostly wrong.

Stock market like many other assets are driven mostly by credit cycles. Bubbles are created by natural credit cycles. The vast majority of money in the USA isn't hard cash, its credit. And low interest rates and other things can rapidly expand the amount of credit. We are in a period of extremely low interest rates and quantitative easing as well as deficit spending by the government.

Hedge funds like Ray Dalio's track credit and do it to a precision that is widely regard as even better than the federal reserve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
I thought it was a massive use case for Facebook. I recall seeing Facebook engineering tech talks about how they write their JavaScript with different types of import statements to optimize what gets rendered in SSR versus on the client. I think this is a similar video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT3XKDBZW7M
Since you mentioned Svelte, you may want to take a look into Elder.js, if you haven't: https://github.com/Elderjs/elderjs