skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I call this "the permaresearch queue". Stuff that just becomes perpetually research, and you get more out of doing the research than doing the thing. For me right now is learning how to build a shed. I have a feeling it could also be called "procrastiresearch" too!
I agree.

Will Twitter be available? Because in some cases is even worse. Will they ban every social network? If so, what criteria will they use to flag a website as social network?

I think their premise is correct. Facebook is bad. But their solution doesn't make sense.
> Is it legal to have a camera on your house pointing at the street?

In the US, anyway[0], yes it is. You do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy when you're on a street, sidewalk, or yard (whether it's your yard or not).

[0] Every state is different; this is to say there is no national law prohibiting it (I'm not sure the federal government has jurisdiction for this kind of thing), and to my knowledge no state has a law explicitly prohibiting having a personally owned camera facing a public area like this.
The issue is that a PCR test does not actually tell us if a virus particle is live or inactive. A shed virus particle can still have intact RNA for the region tested by PCR.

There are published case reports where someone has tested PCR positive during an infection, then PCR negative, and then PCR positive again later and the explanation given has been that they did not get re-infected and their infection did not flare back up but just that virus had been continually shed and the later test was able to capture that.

edit: s/DNA/RNA. The PCR process actually operates on DNA so the virus RNA is converted to DNA as the first step of RT-PCR.
If you like this you may like the cyberdeck subreddit. It's mostly homebrew computer cases (often using Raspberry Pi's) with various displays, keyboards, radios, etc., intended to look futuristic/cyberpunk.

https://old.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/top/?sort=top&t=year
Thoughts and prayers with the devs.
It certainly takes a special kind of person, being a self starter, someone who always find something to do, and more goes a long way. I watched my father's brother slowly deteriorate from Parkinson's. From losing the ability to ride a motorcycle to even driving.

It also affects people in so many different ways, in my uncle's case the later years walking required a conscious effort to stop moving if shuffling ensued. If you stopped him a moment he could start walking properly. Little things that just required a mental reset of certain muscles. A body that knew how to do the motion but occasionally needed a reset.

I really don't know if I faced such an issue if I would have the optimism but we can all hope
China delists all remaining poverty-stricken counties
Why did she put a passcode on it if she didn’t want it to be secure? You can use an iPhone with no passcode at all.

Blaming Apple for “locking you out” when you were the one who locked the door and lost the key is silly.
Yep, lots of interaction tests that can be quite brittle and can take a long time to run, even with a farm of servers and consoles.

A lot of small and low level stuff can be unit tested but during production things like writing good tests falls through the cracks.
>In the "old" days one just didn't pay attention to opinions they disagreed with. Now they seek government to impose draconian censorship on opinions they don't agree with

Excuse me for sounding daft, but I think the intensity with which you are confronted with these opinions has changed drastically. I think you're purposefully being a bit ignorant here; no one (viz: 'they') wants to cancel opinions they disagree with. However to think that false information has the same platform today that it had 50 years ago is also just plain wrong-- and whether you agree with it or not, it does shape the public discourse these days. Unless you want to erode discussions to a point where its a battle of who can fabricate the biggest claim (true or not), you're going to have to accept that in a modern information society we will eventually need some form of controls.

Case in point: https://twitter.com/0x445442 (Seems you have a problem with "Leftists" and like to retweet right wing tweets)
A few years ago I worked at a company that was making a go of IoT (before it was called that). Everyone was trying to do home automation but the bills were paid by large companies just wanting a way to not have to roll out a guy to some remote place at 150 an hour (yeah that much). So the space was crowded with dozens of protocols and hardware hubs that all rarely worked together or promised to glue it all together. It was all kind of stitched together with odd bits of c/python/java/c# code. Each one tied to some proprietary protocol that wanted 5-30 bucks a month that would stop working when the company was either bought out, went out of business, or the product line went EOL.

Your always-beta made me think of this. I went the opposite direction I use as little of it as possible. A good old leviton toggle switch is kind of hard to beat for when you enter and leave a room. They cost basically nothing and work correctly for years.

When done up nicely it is pretty cool. But the cost still seems high on a lot of this and is very bespoke still.
Webcams would have been so handy back then. I bet some hacker managed to sent a picture of him in correct attire every now and then. Proving the whole thing is BS of course.
Since it’s made of unreinforced concrete, getting it permitted in almost any jurisdiction in the world would be exceedingly difficult. Which is somewhat ironic, as it’s the lack of corrodable reinforcing that’s enabled it’s extremely long lifespan.
This is what it looked like, briefly.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/11/21/Victoria-Shower-Struggle/
They define 4,000-yuan (about $609) as the national poverty line. Significant milestone.

The average annual net income of impoverished people in these nine counties has risen to 11,487 yuan (about $1,740)
If that's the case, how did that link install the trojan?
Gradle plugin to deeply hide secrets keys on Android
This plugin allows any Android developer to deeply hide secrets in its project. It is an OSS equivalent of what DexGuard can offer to prevent credentials harvesting.

It uses a combination of obfuscation techniques to do so :

- secret is obfuscated using the reversible XOR operator so it never appears in plain sight,
- obfuscated secret is stored in a NDK binary as an hexadecimal array, so it is really hard to spot / put together from a disassembly,
- the obfuscating string is not persisted in the binary to force runtime evaluation (ie : prevent the compiler from disclosing the secret by optimizing the de-obfuscation logic),
- optionnaly, anyone can provide it's own encoding / decoding algorithm when using the plugin to add an additional security layer.
The overton window is the range of acceptable topics of discussion in society, and is largely determined by a social network's size and diversity. The larger and more diverse a network is, the more likely a statement is to offend someone.

Many of the social issues we see are caused by the overton window narrowing so quickly and fiercely that it's causing backlash. I'd bet that by slowing this restriction, we'd reduce the chance of social and governmental conflicts arising from swift social change. Banning facebook would do this.
Covid is not a DNA virus.
Is emergency use authorization the best way to get a Covid-19 vaccine public?
My favorite building in Rome! Here is a recent photo: https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/GRS-20201031-103011/
Bayesian stats actually let you integrate stochasticity into deterministic models fairly easily, in a way you can't really do with frequentist stats. Bayesian methods are common for geophysical inverse modelling, for example. Probabilistic programming does this, for example. Exact Bayesian inference is impossible in the general case, but approximate inference often works well.

Subjective priors are one of the main advantages of Bayesian stats. Regularization used in ML corresponds to using subjective priors, for example. L2 regularization finds the MAP with a normal prior, favoring parsimonious solutions.
My history isn’t amazing, but let’s say they did those things. Why should USA presidents care what non-Americans (myself included!) think? I can’t vote them out, nor the Senators supporting them. (Would I even be able to sue them if they injured me with their policies?)

What matters is limited to their actions with regard to America and Americans. For the actions which led to the impeachment, for their actions during the pandemic, and for the post-Election behaviour, a normal politician would demonstrate shame. And those are just the biggest and most obvious ones.
Does it compile to threaded forth or does it compile to a blob of lowest level instructions or what?
You can order a USB HDMI capture dongle for around USD 10 on AliExpress, e.g., from AIXXCO. It's not perfect but it should suffice to setup or debug a headless system. TinyPilot uses such a dongle for server KVM purposes.
From the article:

"Most damningly, the cloud database included whole phone books from users. Whenever a person joins the Communities social network, the app asks if it can invite friends to join. If a user says yes, the app uploads the user’s entire ‘phonebook’ from their device, containing all contacts and associated information."
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don't own ams/zzounds (ams split off after a separate acquire iirc)
Stonehenge is approx 250 metres from the A303, which is one of the main routes into the South West UK. The A303 at the closest point is a single lane in each direction, and frequently very slow at that point, so isn't massively obtrusive in the sense that a 6-lane motorway would be. That said, there is a plan to dig a tunnel nearby to get rid of the road completely.

Stonehenge is debatable as a visitor attraction, especially if you are in the UK only for a few days. By coach from London it is pretty much a full day, when there is a lot more history in London itself. In my opinion. Stonehenge itself (as opposed to the larger archaeological landscape) is small compared with Roman or Greek remains, so if you don't have an appreciation of the history of the place, may be underwhelming. It also gets crowded very quickly, although the fact that a close approach to the stones isn't usually possible means that everyone gets a view. Last time I went I arrived early, and got some great HDR images of the stones under an impressive moody sky.

[Edit - I also agree about Avebury being worth a visit. You can walk amongst the stones themselves, which are almost part of a historically pretty village. The really impressive structures in the nearby vicinity in my opinion are the hill forts such as Old Sarum [0] near Salisbury and Maiden Castle [1] near Dorchester. These are truly massive Iron Age earthworks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Sarum#Prehistory

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_Castle,_Dorset
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And I'm talking about BASIC, which spawned a generation of programmers. PIC-BASIC, QBasic, TI-83 BASIC, Commodore BASIC. That's how programmers got their start back in the 80s.

> Assembly wasn't that hard on those old things

Assembly is harder than BASIC, and its harder than Javascript.

You can go to any store and pick out a beginner Javascript book these days. But how many Assembly tutorials or books are there?

Back in the 80s, it was more about Commodore BASIC books being distributed with the Commodore itself: ftp://www.zimmers.net/pub/cbm/c64/manuals/C64_Users_Guide.pdf

Pre-internet, it was books like these that allowed programmers to learn and grow.
Rust does have tier 2 support, but it hasn’t made its way to stable yet. This means if you did try in upstream today, it would work.
This isn't responding to the OP's point, which was that war profiteering (making money by providing weapons to kill people) is morally different from selling vaccines (making money by providing medicines to save people's lives).
> the angles and positioning are supposed to be pretty good

This seems hard to imagine, your neck is still going to be strained by looking "down" on the screen all the time. If you have to work with a laptop and don't have access to an external screen at least put it up on a pile of books and use an external keyboard / mouse. That doesn't cost much and improves your posture so much.
I really appreciate that you included a transcript of the interview.
Facebook may have played a special part here with their real name policy. Before, it was normal to have a relatively anonymous persona online, which drastically reduces the bullying and reputation risks.
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Better than waiting for Facebook to regulate itself or a national government to regulate it away, which might never happen. Incremental progress with the tools available to you.
If I remember right, VAC doesn't necessarily immediately ban a cheater. It might instead put them on a list. After the hack's popularity increases, there is a mass ban of everyone detected using the hack at a later date.
From the article:

Dr. Tong said: "Well-balanced and predominantly plant-based diets can result in improved nutrient levels and have been linked to lower risks of diseases including heart disease and diabetes.

Headline (paraphrased):

VEGANS BAD!!!!!!!
Apple Support cannot do anything if you forget the device passcode, there is no back door. Best advice I can think of is, is ask her to restore an iCloud backup, after erasing the phone.
Now we're talking. They need to make cash to survive but beyond that they get greedy, right? So, if agreed on that, we can now talk about blocking ads or cancelling subscriptions where they abuse the user, but perhaps still pay those people (like the linked website) who need it.
Ask HN: How to master basic data structures in Python?
Hi there,
I have been learning programming for a while now. I have been stuck with fundamentals for a bit. I try to learn data structures and algorithms, but most of the places they are super long and boring. I haven't found efficient ways to learn them, or master them. Language of choice is python, for now. What are some of the ways to master basic data structure and algorithms? How should I approach while learning them? Thanks in advance.
This time around it’s not a pure software solution. ARM has a significantly weaker memory model than x86, which makes translation generally difficult and/or slow. It appears the M1 natively supports the x86 memory model which makes the rest of the task substantially easier.
> Static Python is not still in an Experimental phase and might not be available in your editor.

Not still?
How about “no”.
musl is a Linux libc, so you can't use in on any other OS (because it wouldn't know how to send syscalls to the kernel).

macOS handles libc a little differently from Linux; whereas the Linux kernel publishes its syscall API, and allows programs to make syscalls however they want (e.g. with glibc or musl, or with go, which does syscalls itself), macOS's syscall API is subject to change at any time, and the only (supported) way to make syscalls is to dynamically link to the system libc.
"Civil war within capitalism" literally makes no sense. There is no such thing.

In fact if you were to try to associate civil war with economic system. Brexit is 'civil war against socialism' A no deal with the EU harms not the UK but it harms the EU. Worse yet, it harms the Eastern EU that much more whereas France and Germany benefit. That's why no-deal is going to happen.
Sure, here you go. That'll get you started. We didn't adopt any of that or a specific solution/library/way, but they were good resources to think about the matter.

That's from our internal wiki, and "Plugin Architecture" was the first entry in that, just to tell you about how important it was.

Also, given that you describe yourself as a "junior developer", here's a reply to an Ask HN about "How to become a senior developer".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25025253

Plugin Architecture:

Dynamic Code Patterns: Extending Your Application with Plugins - Doug Hellmann

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K72DPDOhWo

Description: Doug Hellmann talks about Stevedore, a library that provides classes for implementing common patterns for using dynamically loaded extensions

PluginBase - Armin Ronacher:

Link: http://pluginbase.pocoo.org/

Description: Armin Ronacher is the creator of Flask, Jinja, and a bunch of other stuff.

Miscellaneous links on plugin systems:

https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins

https://techsini.com/5-best-wordpress-plugin-frameworks/

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/07/fundamental-concept...

https://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2013/dynamic-code-patterns-exte...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooking

http://chateau-logic.com/content/designing-plugin-architectu...

https://www.odoo.com/documentation/user/11.0/odoo_sh/getting...
On desktop you could be interested by this: https://sponsor.ajay.app/
It can target glibc in a cross-compile setting.

https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...
Plus, they travel to the rich countries.New vaccines are coming in. China will probably use their own, India will copy one and costs next to nothing. Donations will make sure everyone has one.
I think this really comes down to if you think the startup will be successful and by how much. It can also depend on your contract (where's that equity coming from and can they dilute it in the future, etc).
I mean that sucks for your wife, but what prevents literally anyone else from impersonating someone and unlocking a device? There are very good reasons that Apple does not "cooperate" in theses situations. Passwords are not supposed to be bypassed by third parties.
I started developing iOS apps for iOS 5, and me my first apps still run on iOS 14 unchanged. Not sure what you are on about?
> target is only sftp and not directly to any of S3...

This used to be (as in, from 2008 to 2018) difficult, one of my past companies made a good deal of money by offering an sftp gateway to S3. But AWS continues to do a great job commoditizing their complements, and tackled SFTP back in 2018 when they launched...

“... AWS Transfer for SFTP, a fully-managed, highly-available SFTP service. You simply create a server, set up user accounts, and associate the server with one or more Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. You have fine-grained control over user identity, permissions, and keys. You can create users within Transfer for SFTP, or you can make use of an existing identity provider. You can also use IAM policies to control the level of access granted to each user. You can also make use of your existing DNS name and SSH public keys, making it easy for you to migrate to Transfer for SFTP. Your customers and your partners will continue to connect and to make transfers as usual, with no changes to their existing workflows.”

“You have full access to the underlying S3 buckets and you can make use of many different S3 features including lifecycle policies, multiple storage classes, several options for server-side encryption, versioning, and so forth.”

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-transfer-for-sftp-f...

Because this did not exist for a decade, it seems most folks don’t know it exists today.
Work on forgettable output as the future moves along, for a few bucks to burn, or foster human community that would be there if/when the work stops

One should not prioritize ephemeral value stores above our true value store: other humans
The thing is before facebook, instagram and youtube communication was mostly text based. With the advancing broadband capabilities, smartphones and easier to use software our communication shitfted to a more picture based form of communication and as we all know... one picture says more than thousand words AND it transports hate easier.
If anyone here doesn't watch The Modern Rouge, I highly recommend giving it a shot. Very much in the hacker ethos
I was on the last PPC during the ppc->x86. My experience on it was that after a year it was starting to be hard to find new releases containing a ppc build already, and those who did very frequently were poorly tested. Although OSX releases continued to support ppc, at the user level it was pretty clear I was on a dead end. Even on the OSS front I had to rebuild for PPC frequently myself, as more often than not the x86 build was the only one available.
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I doubt if vaccine research can be done just by a group of interested people. It's not a paper-and-pencil affair like pure maths. You need a lot of computers, drug manufacturing machinery; then you have to run big, well-organized RCTs. If you've got an example of volunteer-driven health research at scale, I'd like to hear about it.
>Everything has to be a choice, or else it’s a form of addiction. I always want to 'choose' to use my phone because otherwise, it might be equivalent to doing nothing.

This is so true. "Using" instead of "choosing" to use your phone and scrolling endlessly is simply being on autopilot mode. I have all the notifications blocked that saves me a great deal of time.

In this age of political drama, if we choose to spend our time in a more practical way rather than bashing everyone on social media without following that pyramid of "how to debate online" (iirc), there'd be a lot of essential time saved on our sides.
I visited a stately home in the UK once. One 19C owner had been an early adopter of electricity, and had used ferrets to help lay the cabling rather than rip up the impressive wooden flooring.
There's 'popular', and then there's mainstream. It looks like AS is set to become mainstream. A mainstream ARM desktop platform is going to be revolutionary in that it will force mainstream commercial developers to include ARM compatibility.
I think on the A340 the crew rest area was actually in the hold, accessed by stairs down from the passenger cabin:

https://www.airliners.net/photo/Air-France/Airbus-A340-3/214...

It was integrated into a cargo pallet, so could be removed on planes serving routes where it wasn't needed:

https://www.airliners.net/photo/Lufthansa/Airbus-A340-313/43...
Well that and out of the box git isn't very user friendly, even for developers who are used to dealing with command line tools. To this day in my experience most devs have a relatively shallow understanding of git and often need assistance for anything more complex than commit and push. I can't count the number of times I've had to assist a colleague for what ended up being a relatively simple merge.

I think you'd need an extremely good GUI if you wanted to market git to the masses.
It's weird that in any homebrew/macports discussion I don't see much at all about pkgsrc. Is it not any good? Has issues? No "market share"?
For the most of people, we, vegetarians are the same as vegans. So the either thinks that vegans are vegetarians or vice versa.
How about "why not?"
I have no idea why this is downvoted, because its actually hilarious and true.
It compiles, ahead of time, to low level web assembly.
That kind of looks useful, would be nice if it handled Perforce and could be installed on private servers.

Don't think the company would want to release all the code publicly.