skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an entire genre of white supremacist media that goes on about this "replacement" endlessly, and has politics to match such as the "quiverful" movement encouraging white women to have lots of children.

I don't think people on the other side are bragging.
They have their example video clips, but they also provide data. They say that in their better model, They get an IoU of 93.8% This means 6.2% of pixels are misclassified. Either it's your hair getting cut off or the background is leaking through. 6.2% of an image is a fair bit considering your head is probably 30% of the frame.
That only works when a session is a 1:1 relationship with a connection (e.g. a TCP service with sessions that can’t span TCP connections). That assumption falls apart with UDP, multiple TCP connections sharing session identifiers, etc.

The world of QUIC means the kernel is a little too out of the loop for this to easily work.
> Do we need billionaires for our society to function?

I think so.

Since antiquity, the advantages and disadvantages of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy have been mooted. The Founding Fathers vested the efficiency of monarchy in the executive and its long-term orientation in the Supreme Court.

But there is unique strength in the union of long-term orientation and efficiency. It enables a portfolio of moonshots. Musk, Ford, Edison, Bezos and Gates each pursued long-term non-commercial (or semi-commercial) projects that benefited the public. The government could have done some of these things. But it didn’t. And it couldn’t have done all—there isn’t enough political bandwidth.

As long as that money doesn’t turn into military power, and its effects on our politics are checked, the existence of billionaires is a net positive.
OK, that's fine. But as I said elsewhere you should always be entitled to get your data back if you are locked out and the law should guarantee that entitlement.
Yeah, which makes it a pretty annoying barrier if you want to make an ad-hoc call to someone. Sending a Meet link is more convenient. Plus, Zoom is pretty crippled on the web in the feature department.
It needs to be regulated in some way. At least for email providers.

I guess we'll have to wait for some high profile people in the EU administration to be mistakenly banned by Google so they look into it.
> As one who's never trusted my data to Google I really am curious why so many actually do so.

I expect that most users think on the same level as they do with metadata: "I have nothing to hide so can't be a possible target." And if an algorithm suddenly marks them as a target (for whatever I transparent reason) they do not understand that they might just be "collateral damage" …

My IT world view was formed in the 90s when various proprietary file formats became more or less inaccessible due to "software obsolescence"). Which told me that only more or less plain text (mark-up is fine, as it is text too) will guarantee that I can access my data years later. People who started their live with Big Tech (so-called digital natives -- or is that naives? ;-) might have to learn this sooner or later.
The chip on your shoulder is showing
I was lucky to get a pre-release version to test, and I decided to tear it down before I started trying it out. I posted this blog post with detailed pictures of the insides, and some more details and performance benchmarks: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-400-tear...

There are also a couple videos linked in the post, if you're more visually-inclined.

Fun fact: the Pi 400 (and Compute Module 4) both have newer revisions of the BCM2711 SoC (C0 instead of B0), and that's part of the reason the clock speed is higher on the Pi 400 (1.8 GHz) than on the regular Pi 4 model B (1.5 GHz)—the newer revision apparently handles faster clocks and scaling with less heat than the older revision.
The clock speed is up from 1.5GHz to 1.8GHz, and there is a heat spreader built in. https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/11/02/raspberry-pi-400-tea...
Very awesome!

Although there's a lot of blurring on the shoulder of the guy at the beach: https://i.imgur.com/D5ueGUh.png
I believe the Switch doesn't have a general web browser, because that wouldn't be reliably family friendly.
If you go to China you can make a story each day for years on end about replicated European landmarks.
Is conspiratorial thinking confined to the right wing? A sizeable portion of the country believes in a conspiracy theory where a sitting US president is somehow a Russian sleeper agent.
Be Your Own Bank: Non-Custodial Wallets
Non-Custodial Wallets are able to avoid the regulatory burdens that centralized, custodial products must deal with (no matter if KYC, AML, MTL, etc.)
As a developer I'm a huge fan of Google Cloud. But I'd actually think really hard about chosing them if I started by own business, as the customer service is both expensive and woeful.
You'd be happy to learn that some electronic ID "middleware" (being generous here) rely on the ability to talk to localhost servers (see NexU for instance — https://github.com/nowina-solutions/nexu).
There is a ratcheting effect in US conservative politics whereby the social conservative voting bloc needs to be cultivated with ever more extreme positions just to keep them interested enough to vote for the Republican party. This has mostly manifest through increasing racism but is also manifest by increasing hatred towards intellectuals and thinking people in general.

The pattern of social conservatives demanding increasingly extreme positions from their leaders is not dissimilar to how addicts become desensitized to their drug of addiction and need increasingly higher doses to get their high.

In the 1960s, using dog-whistles to pander to anti-black racism (through the Southern Strategy[0]) was enough to bring out the social conservative vote for the Republican party. Over time, the demands of social conservatives have made the dog-whistles less quiet and the number of targeted groups has expanded from only African-Americans to Hispanics, people who live in urban areas, to scientists and other intellectuals, and now to all Democrats. By 2016, it took Trump's level of vile xenophobia--directed against anyone who wasn't a willfully ignorant racist--to motivate social conservatives to vote in large numbers. In 2020, the social conservatives are demanding fealty to QAnon, a conspiracy theory that is at odds with objective reality. Whatever degree of racist anti-intellectualism social conservatives demand in 2020 and 2024 will be worse.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
Does the other one posted here work on your phone? https://domenicobrz.github.io/webgl/projects/glass-absorptio...

I have an XR and the OP is slow/doesn’t really work but this one works and looks great at 60fps. Curious if it’ll work on an SE too.
Well, have fun:

https://rpcs3.net/
MS Teams has finally changed this on their video calls. Ah the hours I spent telling colleagues 'If you move your mouse around, you should see a black bar appear somewhere near the middle llof the screen'.
If you need to migrate out of Google Apps or for that matter from any IMAP server I highly recommend IMAPSync.
It has a number of features built in when having to go in/out of Google.

https://imapsync.lamiral.info/
Zoom has the same issue.

I bought an external microphone for my laptop with a hardware mute button.
It's a new design of boad (not a Pi4 in a case) and has a large heat spreader inside, and the C0 2711 chip which has better clock gating so blocks can be turned off the save power. This means we can run at 1800 by default. It runs very cool.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1752436#p...
They are a non-profit, aren't they?
Downvoted for not reading TFA

"...little May wasn’t unceremoniously shoved into a canvas sack along with the other packages. As it turns out, she was accompanied on her trip by her mother’s cousin, who worked as a clerk for the railway mail service, Lynch says. It’s likely that his influence (and his willingness to chaperone his young cousin) is what convinced local officials to send the little girl along with the mail."

Edit: snipped some
Google SSO is the best option to login into my country's e-government portal. The other options are:

- Bank (requires subscription)

- SIM card (requires subscription)

- National ID card (requires reader plus a maze of Java applets)

All of them suck badly. At least national ID has NFC so technically in future can be a bit easier.
Sometimes people may not be comfortable sharing their backgrounds, and may not have convenient alternatives. For example, if you have a bed in the background it can be awkward and you might want to blur that out.
For video off your own server, do you have a good streaming solution or is it a download?
JFTR, DYK There was a Full-Scale Replica of the Paris (uncompleted) just in 25 kilometers from real Paris.[0,1,2]

[0] https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/04/03/so-today-i-learned...

[1] https://theculturetrip.com/europe/france/paris/articles/seei...

[2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-french-built-a-fake-paris-...
Not many make money authoring books, despite copyright protections. Same goes for musicians and artists. By making money I mean not needing another job to pay the rent.
Thanks. I dont understand why for all elements of a set is first order and for all functions is second order - since functions (lets say R->R) are elements of the powerset of the cartesian product of RxR. So functions in math are usually part of first order logic, no?
I understand the skepticism and you're right certain things remains to be seen. Specifically that they keep techauthority open to aftermarket. Less so that they'd drop support for 20 year old cars on their dealerships.

WiTECH isn't entirely brand new here. This release (WiTECH 2.0) is a continuation of WiTech 1.0 (installed software) that has existed for decades with full support for all OBD2 model years up to 2017. v2.0 is all web based so you can print off whatever you feel is important while you have an active subscription.

You can still get a haynes, chilton, etc manual but I feel we're comparing apples to oranges there. Those sorts of things are not shop manuals + dealer tools even on a 30 year old car. I'm pointing out that the dealer tools are starting to be within grasp of a shade tree mechanic and they're letting YOU service the modules. You don't have to settle for a reverse engineered manual based on a teardown or 3rd party tools. But they aren't stopping you from using those either. I appreciate it with how computerized cars are getting. Who else lets aftermarket flash modules with OEM firmware updates? This is the exact opposite direction tesla has been going in.

All that said. I very much respect a carbureted vehicle that only needs a dull spark on 6 out of 8 cyls to get you down the road. No question about it.
The BCM2711 SoC inside is a newer stepping (C0 vs B0 in Pi 4 model B), and can run faster and slightly cooler than the older revision.

Thus the Pi 400 has a 1.8 GHz default clock, while the Pi 4 model B has a 1.5 GHz clock.

Note that I just checked my Compute Module 4, and it also has the C0 revision of the chip... so it's interesting the Pi Foundation chose to keep it at the default 1.5 GHz.

It might have to do with the fact that the Pi 400 has a massive keyboard-sized heatsink attached to the SoC in the unit!
It’s a custom pcb in keyboard format with vents at the back and huge metal heat sink/anti flex plate.
Rather ironic that my above comment is being downvoted and I am being accused of having a chip on my shoulder in a discussion about how Einstein's first wife got insufficient credit for her contributions to his work.

I'm merely explaining what informs my point of view to someone whose handle was about 30 minutes old when I replied to it on the assumption that they have no idea what my background is.
> What you wrote about the virtues of newtype was explained quite well in the post itself

The post implied that the newtype-based approach was somehow "not type safety" and offered significantly less safety in practice than the constructive model approach. The first of those is definitely false, and based on my own experiences I don't believe the second.

> Further, it's important to understand what the critical additional steps are in such approaches to achieving that safety and avoid cargo-culting "newtypes make things type-safe", and to understand the ways this safety can be violated.

Naively it sounds like that would be important, but I'm not convinced it actually is in practice. My experience is that even a cargo-culty use of newtypes delivers most (maybe even all) of the defect rate benefit, and that these vigorous warnings about newtypes are more likely to reduce real-world safety (because people faced with cases that they can't produce a constructive model for will be encouraged to use an alias, or no type at all, rather than a newtype) than improve it.
> in the name of minimalism

Ironically forgetting that visual minimalism produced by hiding things isn’t really minimalism.

It would be like me throwing all my things in the garage and advertising my house as Spartan. No, it’s not, it’s a mess. The mess is just hidden until I need to do something.
What have you learned from your early users?

What is your objective in launching this MVP? Is it to attract these users, learn more about what users want? For example, we're offering early access to some users to refine our platform.

Will your users be the buyers or do you plan to charge administrators/managers, etc?

You might want to look at GitLab's pricing model[0].

- [0]: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/pricing/
It's a very real emulator, just nowhere near cycle accurate :)
Why was it not just called a "home computer" ?
> It should cost you <$1k but will cost a big company >$10k just to respond.

And... let's just compare my personal finances to Google's finances.... carry the 1...
We need better email providers. We need to stop using phone numbers as unique identifiers. We need email that has encryption built in.

Which kinda suggest governments should run their own email services.
Like everywhere else, schools here in India also have gone online. But students here do not have computers. They are taking their classes using parents smartphones. Now you can imagine all the issues that one can face while using this setup. Moreover it's not feasible to sit with a mobile phone for 5-6 hrs of classes.

My father is a teacher and I had this idea to let his students use Raspberry PI with TVs but this is perfect for them.
I think this is a very impressive implementation in WebGL.

However, I believe the same approach could easily have 2x to 4x the frame rate (or 2x to 4x more battery lifetime) if it was using compute shaders, but those aren't available on WebGL. So I'd count this as an example of why WebGL will not replace "proper" desktop OpenGL anytime soon.

Also, it appears to be reflecting by the same amount everywhere, which makes it look more like glue than like glass. Typically, glass has a fresnel reflection, meaning that it reflects more strongly the lower the angle between the light and the surface. That's why glass bottles usually reflect at the border (which is curved away from you) but are fully refractive in the center (which is facing you).
Just watched the teardown video from there. Man, that's a lovely design.
that's why i work on Free Software.
i serve customers to pay the bills, but my focus is on supporting FOSS in whichever way i can. it is probably the only area in tech that genuinly contributes to the advancement of civilization. all other tech will eventually die, only FOSS will survive.
I don't bother, but then I live in my own home and my background is an empty study.

I have coworkers who are in house shares with 5 other adults all trying to work from home around tiny desks. Background blur for them is a nice way to hide some of the chaos of their living arrangements.
Absolutely. If we bring the law into it, one should also know why they are being locked out and have a valid human-lead channel to contest it. I'm in no way condoning what's going on sometimes. It's terrible.
I mostly equate the two parties. The “left” as an actual voting block is synonymous with the Democrats, since a third party will never emerge in America, but it is 2020 so who knows.
While I totally agree that hooks reduce code size a lot, and have used them to great effect, the feeling that hooks are weird has not faded.

I know exactly what they do, and usually help co-workers with weird edge cases, but I still have a feeling that we could do better.

Anyway wanted to mention that since redux is so ridiculously tiny, its simple to actually nest it. Components can have local state, and only transmit global state on business related changes.

Now with hooks and useState thats a bit more ergonomic, but you could do that way before hooks were introduced.
Search and find old emails, that's where a CLI shows its merits. I can use grep or agrep (approximate grep, to search for spelling variations) on mailboxes, or mutt to have a tool which handles the base64-encoded stuff.

I have to use Thunderbird at work too, but every so often I'm glad that mutt handles IMAP as well and helps me find stuff that Thunderbird will not.
Show HN: Wannahireme – A hire me button for your repositories, blogs etc.
I wonder if someone will build a little custom (long) case for the Pi 400 board. It's a very simple design, and in the official Pi 400 case, it just snaps in with two snaps. Could be 3D printed easily enough.
All of the advice after fact would not help a person who actually lost his account. Nor if you are among 99.9 % of population who don’t know how to setup your own mailserver etc. Lots of advice here seems like victim blaming. If you have lost your google account then somehow it’s your fault. For me it seems a nightmare if it does happen to me as well. Can we discuss solutions that can help general public in these situations.
This is genuinely scary. Photos, Yale locks, Fi, WiFi and Nest thermostat can all be poof gone because I made a silly YouTube comment? How is this not regulated?

Google photos also 'helpfully' offers to delete your uploaded photos with 'some guarantee'!!!

If this isn't an indication of a giant shitty monopoly that doesn't care about its customers at all, I don't what is.

They have some AI ML fucking crap but can't figure basic user trust because that won't get anyone promoted nor grow some Director-level person's headcount.

Large promo-manufacturing teams that casually handle all your data. Pray to God that some L4 didn't get promoted doing some impactful work because they sure ain't gonna do maintenance work protecting your shit. Their motivations are not users, product nor team: manipulate some metrics to get promoted and move out. Horrible.
I love it, I really do.

The logitech keyboards w/ the touchpad built in suck.

This just looks adorable.
Let me explain what happens when my house burns down, taking along all my hardware:

- I buy another laptop and install Linux.

- I connect my Google, Dropbox (which contains google backups) and Github, and they contain all data I own.

- I buy a new smartphone and connect it to Google

Simple as that. And my house doesn't need to burn down for this, when I buy a new laptop or smartphone I do the same.

Plus, all my email, documents, source code is accessible from anywhere, for when I don't have my hardware with me but have access to another device.

Everything has benefits and drawbacks, my approach definitely has drawbacks, but running your own server at home also has drawbacks.
When banned, do they allow you to download all your data alteast?

If anybody has not downloaded their data - https://takeout.google.com
Got myself a pre-release version to test with Ubuntu. The higher clock speed at 1.8GHz makes such a nice difference, https://ubuntu.com/blog/raspberry-pi-400-with-ubuntu-support
Regarding Safari, info is at https://www.apple.com/privacy/features/
I would buy immediately if it also had a display and a battery to make a laptop (and a cooler so I wouldn't have to worry when I start a long compilation routine on it). Looks great otherwise.
And Duo.
We are in the era of three seashells. There is no turning back from this. Soon you won't be able to find the power button for anything tech industry related.
Validate your business idea in seconds
Which country is this? Who uses Google SSO to login to a e-gov portal?
The Greeks (and Romans after them) knew what, where, and why to build.

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/the-...
He introduces the mouse pointer as bug:

"So I can sit here and move this and point quite accurately and I never look down on my hand. I'm looking at that spot on the screen that we call a bug and this thing we call a mouse. They've been with us long enough so these names are carved in stone now."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odv_vNFGOX4&t=911
Ethanol is an indirect subsidy to corn farmers at the expense of the environment. Saying that as the son of a corn farmer, who’d agree.
Too bad for the WHATWG.
Python needs funding due to PyCon 2020's cancellation
Moved to Fastmail years ago, because my spider sensors were telling me for years that I need to fear companies where I can’t reach a human to resolve conflicts / problems. - They have an excellent Email service, calendar and contacts management. Most important: At fastmail I get a very quick response from a human who will always help me very quickly. Also I use my own domain name so that I can move my Emails to a new service provider whenever I want.

And while I was at it, I replaced Chrome with Firefox on my Mac and never looked back.

Finally I moved all my photos to iCloud, replaced my Android phone with an iPhone, got a paid account at Dropbox, started doing backups like there won‘t be cloud services tomorrow (Carbon Copy Cloner ftw!)

I have a google account, only for using Youtube (paid). And I like their search results. Even that is too much google for my taste.

Edit: Ahh, Gsuite. I migrated to office365 (microsoft). But I use it mostly offline (Word, Excel). Actually for legacy stuff. Because I started writing my documents with Emacs + Org and export to whatever format my recipient needs, doc, html, markdown (using pandoc extensively).
I have to say I don't understand this website/news.

Winamp 5.8 Beta was indeed first leaked and then officially released over at the official website https://www.winamp.com/

Among other things, it has better support for Windows 10.

And this happened two years ago.
That was my very first thought too. Joyful moments indeed.
>>Economic activity is generated by the act of expenditure.

The tendency toward expending money for products is not a scarce economic resource. It is always abundant, and leads to almost everything produced being consumed, as it reaches its market clearing price.

What's scarce is capital and production, and only the profit-motivated investment that emerges when people are secure in their right to their private property has been shown to rapidly make it less scarce. Witness China before and after its market reforms.
I agree; from my non-lawyer perspective, it is this sort of thing (rather than search results or Android App Store policies) which harms consumers.
To be fair a lot of sites do need it, especially for more power user level UX. See BetterTTV, RES, etc. Sites generally don't target power users, understandably.
The Greek economy had its death warrant signed the second he was kicked out of the party.

He was one of the only people willing to stand up to the EU bullies & should be respected for that reason.

I think your comment here is a bit of a stretch, and is presented as fact instead of opinion.
ebay's stupid about this. you can reset your password but then they'll still send you an SMS(!) to verify it's you when you try to use your successfully reset password.

I no longer have access to that old number, i ditched that particular account cos it didn't mean much to me and opened a new one, wasn't worth the hassle.