skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly, even politicians who are trying to signal an "every life matters" stance actually harbor a different set of values that deviate from their public performances. I don't fault them for having those values, but I do fault them for enacting coercive/authoritarian policies while actually believing in something different.

Instead, I would rather they acknowledge that they should stop at educating the public, encouraging best practices, and making resources (testing, PPE, etc) broadly available. I would rather individuals and businesses decide for themselves how they will act. Those who are very risk averse can self-isolate for as long as they want (indefinitely if they want zero risk exposure in life), or can wear full-body coverings when they venture out, and so on. Those who are comfortable with [working, dining out, going for a hike, whatever] can do so at their own risk. I feel especially bad for the children and young adults affected by lockdown policies, as they will be set back socially, emotionally, and professionally despite the risk to them being almost zero. With the median age of a COVID death in the mid-high 70s, we're stealing from the young to accommodate the very old.

Ultimately, the coronavirus is a background condition like a weather event, and individuals should be allowed to make decisions about the risks they are willing to accept as part of living their life. Forcing particular tradeoffs between risk and reward on society is the same as forcing everyone to have the same value system. I don't think that makes sense in a free society.
The sadest thing is that wolves are demonized world wide as a nuisance/danger. Movies like "The Grey" where Liam Neeson faces down grey wolves that are hunting him is a great example of this.

Wolves are loving family oriented creatures that only hunt for survival. They have a complex pack order and prioritize the pack over all.

Just like the war on drugs, time has twisted reality and now we have a fear and hatred for the wolf without a real explanation.
I think he meant a parking meter.
GPS III Satellites Upgrade
Show HN: Recipe.wtf – Recipe text extractor. Skip the ads, life story, etc.
How is hCaptcha for page performance? Google Recaptcha ruins your page speed rankings as it ideally has to load chunk of JavaScript on all pages on page load to continually monitor user behaviour. You could e.g. only load it when someone starts filling out a form but this kind of integration isn't standard.
A Port of “The Last True Unix” to x86
Don't Build a Productivity App
I had a look at a couple of https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/search?q=artifici... answers but none seem understandable for a 10 years old, much less a 5 year old. Same with https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
Salesforce is a CRM. If you want to call that “sales lead tool” instead then go for it. Doesn’t change why people buy it.

Salesforce is a SaaS because it’s in the cloud. The first company to take a big het on the Cloud, in fact.

If you’re still confused, then spend an hour or so reading their marketing literature and kicking the tires in their free Developer Orgs. Simple as.
They should rename that region to us-chaostesting-1 . Problem solved.
Wait they actually use the labeling for something other than admittance? Well that takes care of my concern about this tech then, gotta go back and change some of my other comments...
If the people who develop this app are here, it took me quite a while to figure out that it uses a "virtual camera" to work, and therefore potentially works with most videoconferencing software. That should be front and centre - for a while I wasn't sure whether it was a separate videoconferencing app because the screenshots are just the app, rather than it being used in Zoom or whatever. The only reference is "Funner Zooming", but for some reason that wasn't explicit enough for me without an example Zoom screenshot.
true, but not in the latest world cup, as far as I remember. Probably having multiple VA referees instead of one makes a difference.
Tor exit nodes are forward proxies, they are used by the client-side to initiate connections to the public Internet but do not accept connections from the public Internet. You cannot host an Internet-facing webserver on a Tor exit (Onion Service exists solely within the Tor network), DMCA is not an issue, they do not act as a point of content distribution, there is nothing to take down. The main issue is the abusive outgoing traffic, which is seen as unavoidable and outweighed by Tor's greater benefits, so the existence of Tor exits is justified.

IPFS gateways (and Tor-to-Web) are reverse proxies, they are configured at the server-side to accept connections from the public Internet and route traffic to IPFS (and Tor), and they distribute content to the public Web. As far as I can see, this is a problem, someone can send DMCA notices, asking the gateway operators to take files down from the Web. The only protection I see is DMCA Section 512 (a.k.a Safe Harbor Provision), the operators are not liable for things solely hosted on IPFS, which is good, but gateways must comply with the takedown notices. So I think it's entirely possible for Cloudflare to put a huge blocklist on its IPFS gateway, and for smaller gateways that don't have the necessary resources to handle the requests, be DMCAed out of existence entirely. In the 2000s, RIAA launched campaigns against eD2k servers and BT trackers, including the use of honeypot servers to collect information. RIAA was not ultimately successful, but it created a major short-term disruption (eventually new servers would always appear in a different jurisdiction). A similar campaign against IPFS gateways sound possible if the publishers decided to launch an aggressive crackdown like the RIAA. The question is only a matter of whether the decision is made.

I'm not saying that IPFS requires the use of IPFS gateways, they don't, and in a sense, gateways are counterproductive for the decentralization goal. But they do currently provide an useful service for the Web, and I'm just speculating whether a major disruption is possible.
Very cool, my favorite feature seems will be "FROM DRAWING TO 3D". Btw, any testing for the M1 Apple chips, will it work on M1 MacBook Pro's?
I tried this during the beta. Unfortunately, as others experienced, the resolution is severely limited in certain applications (I used Zoom). Zoom compresses the stream as if it’s video, when it’s in fact a slide.

I discovered this when I was setting up for a very important presentation and had about 5 minutes to go to a fallback plan. I was pretty upset that there was no warning about this, since they were totally aware of it, and it completely undermined the value of using it in a live presentation.

Later, I had to record a presentation to submit for a conference. I used it there and it worked fine in terms of quality. But even though I had bought a green screen, there were difficulties that resulted in subpar edge detection. I had to change my shirt multiple times to create enough contrast, and I had to use a background image that was ‘busy’ enough to mask the static that was visible.

Maybe things have improved in the last couple months, but I was pretty let down when I tried this out.
C “everything is a pointer” approach is a problem for new C++ project
Why would you conclude this?

This is a completely automated process, and the algorithm is "embarrassingly parallel". It's cheaper, of course, to merely sex the chicks and grind up the males, but there are a lot of ways to handle that, from charging extra to simply mandating a switch to this process.

Small-scale farms could pool the purchase of the egg processor, or buy their chicks instead of breeding them, and the price of any industrial process goes down fairly predictably over time. I'm just not seeing what you're seeing here.
But it's rare and usually conditional. Large sections of the US IC still haven't forgiven Israel for Pollard.
The NIF was never intended to produce power, but it serves as a good science experiment for understanding the challenges of inertial confinement fusion. You need to make something that works before you can make something that works better.

The only fusion devices humanity has yet gotten to produce net power are thermonuclear bombs. Laser fusion tries to replicate those conditions as best as possible without detonating a fission primary. Yes, this means laser fusion is good for validating nuclear bomb models, but it's also the only route to fusion where we know for a fact that every issue is strictly an engineering problem.
True but internet wasn't as ubiquitous then as it is now. Most laptops didn't have WiFi and sometimes not even Ethernet. In many cases they still had a modem.

Also there was much more scrutiny in those days. I think Windows phoning home in those days would have been a huge thing. Similar to the resistance to the TPM which eventually made it in (but in a more watered-down version which didn't have so many privacy and vendor-lock-in concerns as the original proposal).

Of course now all companies are doubling down on all of this. The TPM on steroids now exists as Apple's T2 (and built into M1) chip, Intel's ME, and Windows systems are getting next-gen lock-down crap with Pluton now.

I feel like when we protest for privacy, even a major win is just slowing down the other forces, not stopping them.
The politicians doing what they please and trying to justify it as some have done is just par for the course. Few are giving real thought to how it really impacts the average person because they have long lived above them economically to the point all they can do is pay lip service. Fear is an incredible political weapon and its being used adeptly.

The real issue is with schools is we have a perfect scenario for real education reform but we are doing everything but that. Instead we are leaving an incredible number of students behind because everyone is thinking of their political power under the guise of their health and that of the children. Parents are frustrated because many of them have to work because either their job is deemed essential or apparently not as much of a risk; as if the cashier at a grocery store is not more at risk than a teacher.

If anything the pandemic is further reducing the trust people have in their elected officials and one can hope it pans out in upcoming elections both local and national. This won't be gone even through the majority of next year.
Raising fuel taxes to EU levels would not be enough, but it would be a significant start towards environmental improvement, and not necessarily bad for the economy.

In a hypothetical future that is where people realise there is only one earth and some compensations are provided for the economically weaker whose livelihood suddenly gets threatened by these changes.
A bit disappointed that the arrows are not what is driving this (see other comments).

But would it be possible to have a "semantic optical illussion"? Was any such thing discovered?
Harm-Avoider Constitutionalism
I was wondering about the name too, but the first example (and the logo) made it clear. It's just full of arrows.
This is great news for Microsoft Teams! Salesforce will slowly kill it!
I know a couple of RNs well and went to a school where approximately half of the students were going for nursing.

What you’re describing is what doctors deal with, not nurses. My grandpa was just in the hospital and ornery due to not having any nicotine in him, but the nurses sure as hell couldn’t give him a patch without a doctor’s order, nor should they be able to.

Nurses know some anatomy, major no-nos, and how to do things like place a catheter, an IV, etc. Don’t get me wrong, they’re absolutely essential, but I’ve regularly been amazed at the lack of medical knowledge at least some RNs have.

My sister is one, and she’s coming home to visit my parents for Thanksgiving. My dad has lupus and finished cancer treatment this year. She thinks it’s ok as long as none of the patients she sees today have symptoms of COVID. The term incubation period means nothing to her, and that’s just one example.
It already is. In 30+ of them. You can find them on:
http://verbalexpressions.github.io/
Ask HN: How to skip some CSS animations?
How to skip CSS animations so that if an animation only plays once it will be skipped and display only the end of the animation?
Reading their website:

>Presented Challenges:

>Comparison - Select all images that match query

>Bounding Box - Define bounding area for objects

>Categorization - Identify the corresponding labels

>..and other simple tasks.

No, hCaptcha, no way am I going to train your neural networks for free, so please join Google on your journey to hell.
The Economic Impacts of Covid-19
It's not ok on HN where clickbait titles and editorialized titles are not ok, 'factually correct' or not. You can't just say we should agree to disagree on whether to have clickbait or editorialized titles.
No. No. Please No.
Of course someone on the far right would be opposed to such bans
> could be straightforwardly removed or replaced with rate limiting login attempts per IP

This is very outdated intuition. Fresh IP addresses cost peanuts.

For example, your solution still allows an attacker to run a 50k item /login combolist against one of your users with $5 of botnet time, each IP address trying a single uname/pass combo.

Here you pay $18/GB to multiplex your abuse (cred stuffing being classic non-volumetric abuse example) across 72 million residential IP addresses. https://luminati.io/
Adobe will stop distributing the Flash plugin and has removed its archive of old Flash releases. Will Leaning Technologies be redistributing an old Flash plugin or will CheerpX customers need to find and host an old Flash plugin on their own sites?

Also, Adobe's recent Flash releases include an EOL "time bomb" that will refuse to play Flash content after 2021-01-12. Will CheerpX bypass the time bomb in emulation?

https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html
I'm really starting to hate all the captchas with a burning passion. Partly because the corporation I work for seems to have gotten our NAT addresses onto a blacklist so I get captcha'd constantly, and partly because my close up vision is getting noticeably weaker (pushing 50, that's why) and without hunting down my reading glasses it can be difficult to make out the smaller details necessary to solve the puzzle. Especially when I'm on my phone.

I really wish we could find something relatively foolproof that didn't rely heavily on tracking or really good vision.
Well, they have succeeded in turning my entire team off JIRA. We basically don't use it anymore, mostly because their A B Z priorities didn't include making it not feel painful to use.
Uhhhh...quite a few companies?
This doesn't make any sense. If someone is opposed to a policy, and they see the person mandating they follow the policy not adhering to it themselves, why wouldn't they rightfully be opposed to it?

To remove the narrow-minded political context in which you're probably thinking of it, imagine how a supporter of abortion rights would feel about a pro-life governor flying his daughter out of state to get an abortion.
They have a recording functionality that generates interactive videos (as a person watching, you can still move the presenter around and jump to specific slides and images). So they might offer online hosting for your productions, à la YouTube or SlideShare?
That's no secret, ... that's exactly how it is supposed to work.
thanks for making something that has capacity to break google recaptcha v3.
Sales and Revenue do not always equate to quality and user experience. All these companies when they get to this size start to lean on M&A vs build it yourself. Look at the history of Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and you'll see the same pattern.

Slack is the new Sharepoint, everyone uses it but no one really wants to and it doesn't really fit the bill but everyone else is doing it so companies adopt it.
The two shockers to me were:

> State-ordered reopenings of economies had small impacts on spending and employment.

and

> Stimulus payments to low-income households increased consumer spending sharply, but little of this increased spending flowed to businesses most affected by the COVID-19 shock, dampening its impacts on employment. Paycheck Protection Program loans increased employment at small businesses by only 2%, implying a cost of $377,000 per job saved.
>or having to write crappy unit tests is far smaller.

don't know about you, but I'd much rather write crappy unit tests than be exposed to infectious patients 8 hours a day.
Those downvoting me really need to read more history.
Anyone looking for a non-Java implementation: This library has been ported to 30+ languages, and you can find a list of them at http://verbalexpressions.github.io/
There are many things we may not be able to stomach, which are morally acceptable. I would not be a good surgeon, content moderator examining gore and child abuse, crime scene cleaner, spider wrangler.
Arrows. Lots of arrows.
I'm rather skeptical that having the federal government (regulatorily) involved in local zoning is feasible, practical or even constitutional.

The only way I see the federal government having any influence would be to dangle a big pot of gold in front of municipalities in the same way the dangle gold in front of school districts and transportation departments to get their way with drinking ages and school reform.

In order to fund any YIMBY type program, legislators would have to agree to offer incentives to typically already affluent communities and those communities would have to agree (by vote) that the incentives were big enough to justify a change in zoning laws.

Changing local zoning is notoriously difficult by the way and until you have tried to get a variance passed in a affluent bedroom community (and I have) you can't really appreciate the passion that people have for preserving the characteristics of their communities.

To be clear, I am not passing any sort of judgement on people speaking out and advocating for what they see is the best thing for their community. That is exactly the kind of political action I think we need more of. More local civic participation.

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Not related to the need for more quality housing but just to illustrate how hard it can be to change local zoning laws...

I live in an affluent bedroom community that is in a suburban "outer ring" melting into rural. I have a large property (more than 200 acres / 100 hectares) with a mix of pasture and forest with a house situated in about the center of the lot. My driveway is 1000 yards/meters long and the house is not visible from the public road.

When we wanted to build a horse barn we offered a site plan that placed the barn beside our house BUT critically on the side of the house that was closest to the public road. It was naturally graded already.

Unfortunately, this required a variance as local zoning laws require outbuildings to be placed farther from the public road than the main house. Several neighbors, (friends of ours) stepped up during zoning hearings to oppose our request for a variance citing the need to preserve the community.

Despite the fact that the new barn would not have been visible from the road we ended up having to re-cite the barn to the far side of the house requiring the extension of our driveway, the clearing of 100 canopy trees and grading of the lot.
> It's actually a bad idea in this case because regex is mostly the same in every modern language, so if you know it, you know it everywhere. What you don't know is this.

I disagree, at least in my experience there are significant differences between multiple regex engines I'm used to use regularly. In no particular order: are parens and other operators treated literally by default or do they need to be escaped? Are character class like '[:alpha:]' understood, or do I need to write them explicitly? Similarly, do I have access to \w \W \s and friends? Can I use + to mean {1,} ? Can I use '?' to match 0 or 1 (common) or do I have to use = (vim)? Or maybe just {0,1}? But then should I escape the braces? Do I have recursion? Do I have named captures?

Those are not theoretical concerns, that's stuff I routinely end up getting wrong because I forget that this one feature that works in pcre does not work in vim or works differently in sed etc...
Interesting. I wonder what the license is (haven't downloaded the ISO yet and apparently it's on there).
I can't tell if you're being facetious or you just don't care about automated testing and continuous integration for your code.
What do you think about Mulesoft?
Lasyt time I was on SF they had lots of we are hiring ads in the BART (it was before SF bougth them).
This is pure speculation, but they may have changed it to foo==false. In C a boolean is just a byte which conventionally has the values 0 or 1, but an attacker which controls a boolean can give it the value of 2, and 2!=true and 2!=false. This has lead to real exploits:
https://windows-internals.com/exploiting-a-simple-vulnerabil...

When writing C or C++, never compare against true.
Concentration of capital is the essential point of capitalism. It's the ultimate end goal. Also, capital is a unit of power in a capitalist system and in all systems, power wants to concentrate. Power has a gravitation pull.
Quite. I’m sure that commercial fusion power from tokomaks is only five years away, as it has been since 1949.
Can someone explain to a soccer novice why this goal is special? It looks similar to lots of others to my untrained eye.
Indian reservations are independent from their surrounding states and semi-sovereign (technically at least) but essentially managed by the federal government by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Many conservatives believe the state of many Indian reservations are due in part to the mismanaged “welfare state” policies of the BIA that hinder NA’s from improving their lives. Personally I don’t know enough about the situation to say. I was only a child the last time I lived on an Indian reservation and barely remember it.
There's a big distinction there and I agree that the former has more moral authority.

But I don't agree that the latter is necessarily bad faith. A lot of the motivation behind the latter is to criticise the perceived sanctimony and condescension of the authorities/media/"elites" who don't pay the price of small business lockdowns but dish out snark at the conservative anti-lockdown protestors, while secretly disobeying their own prescriptions. I believe this to be the psychology behind it.
There already are small scale fission reactors. USSR launched satellites powered by them (one even infamously fell on Canada). From military use, why would you need fusion?
Am I missing something? I don't see any mention of a blacklist in that thread. They did close it because of course, they don't want to be in Limewire's position, where they get held responsible for the tech they built because they supported, even in a minor way, its use in piracy.
Just looked on Takeout and there don't seem to be any reCAPTCHA data there. I wonder what a GDPR request would produce.
The distinction between iOS apps built in Swift and distributed on App Store (for example) and a website built in JS/HTML/CSS and distributed via the web's decentralized architecture is pretty clear IMO. Case in point I don't see hCaptcha/reCAPTCHA on iOS apps as frequently as I do on websites. The way I was taught in my elementary networking class was: the web is an application of the internet. The internet as a concept is much broader than the web.
You only put hCaptcha / BotStop where you actually need the protection, and it certainly doesn't follow your users around unnecessarily