skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has previously worked on real time audio apps on Mac, I find the price justified.

Supporting MacOS with anything that needs kernel drivers requires constant updates and the potential market is so small that it kind of needs to be expensive per customer or else you need to cut corners with the quality.

Windows has 5x the market share, so there you can sell for 80% less per user because you'll sell more licenses which compensates that. And a windows version for $2 per month sounds fair, so then $10 monthly on Mac is fair, too.
That's why centralization of internet is bad.
It's because it's very time-consuming but ultimately it's more security theater than any meaningful benefit. An attacker has many ways to easily bypass tools like Little Snitch and they only have to succeed at one of them, whereas you have to hope that you take time away from your job to successfully block all of them.

If you're trying to prevent data exfiltration, you don't trust the client at all — confine it to a dedicated locked-down system on a restricted network which only allows egress to the minimal subset of trusted services. That's a much more winnable battle than trying to prevent every possibility on a general purpose computer running tons of things which are allowed to connect to the internet and legitimately uses lots of outside services.

Similarly, a lot of the data breaches you hear about are caused by people with legitimate access saving the data somewhere insecurely. Spending time on that is a lot more beneficial to most organizations than tracking every TCP socket.
I see the product is offered in 2 plans, though the only paid plan is enterprise without publicly disclosed pricing. Anyone has info whether it's affordable also for small and bootstrapped businesses or it's primarily focusing on larger enterprises?
It's a very good goal because of how many defenders he evades all on his own, but it's considered the "goal of the century" because of the context: a World Cup elimination game against the hated English.
Bingo. I think the most likely way to view this is that although they were breaking the restrictions, they knew there was actually little to no risk involved.
But in this analogy, we are "patients" only by legal force.
Many companies tie uptime and outages to performance reviews, either directly or indirectly.

Admitting that your services are down could be costly to your career progression and bonus. When people know this, they go to great lengths to avoid admitting fault. Updating the status page is the first admission of fault. The longer the status page shows an outage, the worse it gets.

I worked with an ex-Amazon engineer at a previous company. After each outage, he would spend days or weeks writing long reports explaining how the outage was not his fault. He didn't care so much about downtime so much as not getting blamed for outages. Predictably, this was terrible for team morale and most of his team members ended up quitting.

If anyone else finds themselves in this position, the solution is have another team responsible for monitoring uptime, and to rate teams on how quickly they acknowledge outages. Once the response time and accuracy of your status page becomes a performance metric, people are less likely to play games with it.
Google reCaptcha likely discriminates against non Chrome users, hCaptcha does not. Also, we support and co-develop https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy-pass !
No, the number of G's are related to the deceleration when hitting the ground.
Surely this ML must be presented a wide set of data on the user and their browser to make this determination? So just like recaptcha, they determine if they should admit you based on passively snooped data rather than active challenges.
Please note I did not include a judgement on whether the rules are justified or not. Whether or not they are justified, if an elected official enacts a rule they expect others to follow, you can be damn sure I expect them to have the integrity to follow it themselves.
No, the deceleration on hitting the ground is a lot more than 1g.
WPA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/works-progre...

Government as employer of last resort.
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Expecting politicians to live by the rules they impose on us commoners? Preposterous!
I think it makes perfect sense logically as to why that would be the case.

When a situation like this occurs, the side of the people who are pro-stated-value are disincentivized from critiquing other pro-stated-value people who are being hypocritical (not in the least, because it feels like hurting "your team"), while people who are anti-stated-value have absolutely no downsides or disincentives to criticizing hypocritical pro-stated-value individuals. So it makes sense why, given two opinion groups of about the same size, there will always be more of the anti-stated-value people being outraged and and doing criticizing.
1 MJ is the optimal energy scale for inertial confinement fusion. Going larger makes the fuel harder to compress, going smaller means there is less fuel that gets compressed; either way your ratio of input energy to output energy goes down.

Also while these energies are low, they are also for very short durations. 1.8 MJ in 1 ns is 1.8 PW.
Politicians are constantly claiming credit for positive outcomes. In our state, the governor was celebrated for early success in keeping rates low due to their policies enacted (one of the best in the nation). They didn't change any of the policies or have a major change in heart about anything, yet the pandemic then got drastically worse (and now we're one of the worst in the nation).

They're now trying all sorts of policy changes, none of which have any effect on the real data. What's more likely, that them staying the course led to a drastically opposing outcome all of a sudden, or that their policies have minimal effect in the first place, and it's really about human social nature in the state?
https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/173307 can be helpful to finding this out.
Both numbers are made up, but do you have any source showing Obama started the military age male policy? All I can find is a government source agent said he "embraced it" in regard to drone strikes while the practice was used in several other areas during the Bush administration, such as who could face "enhanced interrogation." Further, some of the earlier sources I found retracted the statement to clarify that Obama embraced the Bush designation.

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/opinion/2012-05-29/ana...
I remember the first time I tried to plot a vector field in MATLAB. In Mathematica, the function it is of course VectorPlot[]. I spent quite a bit of time fumbling around until I found that some funny MathWorks developer had named the equivalent function quiver() because, of course, it holds lots of arrows!
I'm guessing that the comment you're responding to uses Chrome/ium, and that you don't.
If these politicians had any compunction, they would repeal the restrictions which experience had taught them were intolerable.
It might be regarding insects, but I don’t think it is that much regarding farm animals. Also, not being able to nail it in a materialistic framework does not put it in the nothing can be known/fair game territory.

But let me set this aside since it might obscure our dialog. What surely can be measured is the degree of immune system depression this animals experience, how far do their life cycles deviate from control, and what health an behavioral consequences they experience from being forced to live the way we make them live. We can also measure the impact this ways have on ourselves and the environment.

Would we put the family dog trough this experience just because it is not clear (to us) if it fully understands or experience what is happening, ignoring all the fairly obvious signals that it will experiment a great deal of suffering?

I once witnessed an organic cow’s sacrifice and no one in its right heart can argue it didn’t experience an great deal of distress and suffering.

I don’t judge people from being meat eaters, I’m no vegan myself, but I won’t play conceptual games to ease people’s minds. If you have the heart to kill this animals and eat them (and I don’t mean this pejoratively or disrespectfully), go ahead. Just don’t pretend there is a gray area in what this animals will be experiencing and what does this means in terms of their lives. I mean, we eat calves that have been kept all their short lives strained in cages just for the taste, and we do this in mass scale.

This is not something to run from.

(To clarify, I’m not trying to make it personal, english is not my native language. On the contrary, I’m very open to talk about this topic with an open mind and a warm heart).
It is. For most parts regexes like "\d+" are ok, but when there is something more complicated I pull Verbal Expessions into a project. To these days reactions on CR were mostly positive or netural at worst. If it was built into the standard library I would probably use it instead of regex, but adding a new dependency and interfacing it with libraries that expect Java regex objects has its cost.
i always assumed it was a time for major releases but never tied it to re:invent. you may be on to something.
As a professional Blenderer, I'm most excited about Mesh to Volume. Making realistic clouds has never been easier! absolutely love the software and can't imagine where i'd be without it.
next time you wonder if you are encountering overt age discrimination, remember how your own words and actions were the things that actually disqualified you
No disrespect but I see this "I'm an athlete, I need more protein" thing all the time. It's yet another meme that has spread that has the convenient side effect (or main effect) of shutting people off from considering the effects of their food choices. There are an abundance of plant-based protein supplements for hitting your nutrition targets.

I don't know if you're talking about the broader community of people who self-identify as athletes but I'll restrict the discussion to professional athletes for the sake of clarity.

Here's a few household-name professional vegan athletes:

* Venus Williams

* Lewis Hamilton

* Colin Kaepernick

* Kyrie Irving

* Tia Blanco

* Meagan Duhamel

Veganism isn't very popular in general so I'm not sure if this "if professional athletes don't do it, then it must be bad" argument holds. I'm also not even sure if that claim is true. If we could compile a list of all professional athletes, find the vegan population, and then compare that to the general population, I would wager that veganism might have a higher percentage in the athlete population than the general population. Pure speculation, though, and obviously I'm biased. But I follow lots of vegan channels and they're very proud and vocal about vegan athletes and it's the kind of news that I think you won't be exposed to unless you're inside the vegan community. In other words we should both acknowledge that there's a lot of selection bias / echo chamber at play here and I don't think either of us can definitively say whether veganism is more popular or less popular among professional athletes.
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How does support for Privacy Pass interact with services that pay humans pennies per thousands of captcha solves? Wouldn't it be easy to buy a ton of these blinded tokens then have an extension that provides them on demand to the captcha service?
I didn't really expect to see very much moving from 2.9 to 2.91, but I just keep on scrolling and there just keep on being more features when I scroll down. And they're substantial features, too! The sculpting tools and the holdout option for grease pencil look like they're going to be really useful.

And the release page is performant and pretty, and it works without Javascript but it still has all these great little diagrams and demo videos for each feature. Like, you can look at this page and even if you knew nothing at all about 3D modeling you'd still want to go download this thing immediately.
I might be biased here as a German native that follows the German tech media a fair bit...

...but those are among the three organizations I would trust the least with such a choice.

It would be like recommending a housing strategy implemented in San Francisco, or a public transportation strategy implemented in New York.
Yes, seroiusly.
It's our duty to not deteriorate back to the stone age.
Why is planning for doom a better avenue than actively working to avoid doom and make the world more sustainably comfortable?
Remembering Maradona with their latest Instagram Posts
Duh. But I suppose we had to try, since it was the easy thing to do (marking obviously false and misleading postings).

Anybody could have told you it would fail. But since the alternatives are much, much, much harder, it's no surprise that we put off even pretending to think about them.
Trauma Room One still exists. At least it did several years ago. I went to Parkland for a CT scan (my wife is a doctor there) and in this rather bustling, fairly mundane room, there was a modest plaque, identifying the room as Trauma Room One. Kind of an interesting feeling to be there.

A few years ago, Parkland built a huge new hospital across the street, and I doubt that that room is still in use. But I could be wrong,
I see the downvotes but no explanations!
For my own learning, the poster "vermanden" is (ab)using the U+1F600 to U+1F6FF table of Mayan/mathematical symbols (except for the first right arrow, it's another set) which you can reference here: https://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl

It breaks down like so in hex mode:

E2 80 93 20 ->
F0 9D 9A 9F v
F0 9D 9A 8E e
F0 9D 9A 9B r
F0 9D 9A 96 m
F0 9D 9A 8A a
F0 9D 9A 8D d
F0 9D 9A 8E e
F0 9D 9A 97 n
This needs a memetic hazard warning! I had just eaten, and the linked illusion caused me instant nausea/motion sickness, which has not gone away after hiding the browser tab.
I wrote a post earlier this month on some types of legislation that could help with in terms of Section 230 reform:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/is-meaningful-section-230...

I doubt we'll see anything like this though.
That's opposite of my experience at AWS. It's likely that the culture at AWS has changed over the past few years, it's also likely that there's a difference in culture between teams.
> 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.

It has certainly caused a loss of trust for me but I don't think it will pan out as change in upcoming elections because COVID has become a political issue, with political outcomes at stake. The leveraging of a crisis for political gain is a classic pattern, but we don't seem to be acknowledging it is happening right now. Some examples: COVID is being used as a vague justification for universal healthcare, for permanent closure of streets to vehicular traffic, for increased low-income housing, for increased taxes to fund safety nets (like homeless shelters), for normalizing deeper state involvement in business practices (like evictions), and so on. Obviously, COVID was also a big factor in the presidential election, since it hurt an otherwise strong economy, enabled the George Floyd incident to turn into months-long protests and riots (employed/busy citizens would not have the time or energy to do things like block highways daily), etc.

The political underpinnings of lockdown policies are clear when you see how heavy the pushback is against any transition to remote learning or decentralized learning or school choice. We're being told at once that even saving a single life is worth shutting down the entire country, but also being told that in-person public school education is an essential service (this is the position of the Biden COVID task force). Anything that might enable alternative education models is off the table since it goes against the politics of teacher unions and the Democratic platform, particularly with education increasingly becoming a vehicle for early political indoctrination (for example introducing gender politics or the factually-incorrect 1619 project into schools).

How can all this be taken except as partisan exploitation of a crisis? But in the US, with people as divided as they are, I expect everyone to just stick to their tribe. So it goes...
Cargill: The company feeding the world by helping destroy the planet
Yeah, I scanned the landing page, then scanned the "Product" page, and couldn't figure out of this was an add-on to Zoom, or a competitor with Zoom. That absolutely needs to be made clear right at the top.
Lately I came back to Blender after years to design some visuals for Summon The JSON programming decks. It is amazing how easy to use it became over the years. And it does not crash like it used to. I'm impressed by it. Never thought me, a programmer, will be able to generate real 3D stuff
That depends on how different they are.

There are different kinds of invention, and they're not interchangeable - in the philosophical sense of how much new creative and physical space they open up for exploration.

Modern computing is qualitatively different to a 17th century calculating mechanism like Napier's Bones. It doesn't just do the same thing but faster, it does a lot more besides, and it creates social, political, and economic effects that extend far beyond the physics and math involved in construction and programming.

QC will probably be similar. It's too early to tell what the qualitative changes will be, but QC's place on the developmental tree of technology will depend on how unexpected and extreme they are, and not just on how hard it is to get to a useful number of cubits.
Never said anyone should give up but my point is that to my knowledge there's no actual proof of how to solve this. We're just stumbling in the dark trying ideas.

I'm curious if you've actually had a chance to read Ken Thompson's compiler virus hack. The Guix bootstrap path from stage0 still doesn't solve the problem as at the end of the day all compilers eventually self-host from a previous version. So whatever compiler you're using for stage0 can have the virus, inject it into the produced binary, & you'll never find it since the virus is in the binary not in the source. Now obviously this is an extreme example and no one actually has any knowledge of whether or not such attacks are practical or have existence proofs beyond a proof of concept.

My overall point though is that everything boils down to trust & the question is who you choose to trust & where. Ultimately, we're all "careless" on that front as there's just too many dimensions to evaluate on. Beyond just basic malware packaged with the code, is the privacy being respected? Are the security practices good enough to withstand attacks? etc etc. Complaining that WhatsApp is slurping a copy of your messages that you are reporting to them & therefore E2E encryption isn't valuable is a fallacious & misdirected argument IMHO.
Why do people have a problem with Facebook owning Instagram and WhatsApp if there are countless social media sites and chat apps?
What happened to 'small' studios? Or is everything just 'indie' and 'AAA' now?
A discussion thread[0] from post of that article on Twitter

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25198834
> What we need is another category of transitional employment, with both much lighter regulatory barriers to turnover

In the USA (based on COBRA mention I assume you're in the USA) employees can be let go for no reason whatsoever effective immediately and without any notice.

There can't possibly exist a "lighter regulatory barrier" than that!
> it's really about human social nature

I agree completely, and this is why I think it is futile to argue about aspects of the pandemic in Sweden, because the behavior of people is much more important than the policies of their government. So unless your state is actual populated by Swedes, arguing about those policies makes no sense. This also, in my opinion, accounts for the great variety of outcomes between jurisdictions within California.
The flaw is that it's based on self-reporting. So, more people in the US/UK will self-identify as lonely, whereas in Japan, it might be kind of embarrassing to admit to that, or people might not tend to think of themselves that way?

Japan (at least in major cities) seems to have a culture of insane overtime that creates loneliness issues. No time for friends or dating. The US might be headed in the same direction because rents in some large cities are rising fast, and some people have no choice but to work multiple jobs to make ends meet.

We're also living in a time where love relationships are seen as having an expiration date, as being disposable. The rise of Tinder, it seems like we're applying consumerism to relationships. We have a short attention span and we don't care for close connections. Just my opinion, but I don't think this is going to do good things for the world.
AWS Kinesis Down
No idea what happens on AWS as I don't work there, but I have another perspective on this.

There are perverse incentives to NOT update your status dashboard. Once I was asked by management to _take our status dashboard down_ . That sounded backwards, so I dug a bit more.

Turns out our competitor was using our status dashboard as ammo against us in their sales pitch. Their claim was that we had too many issues and were unreliable.

That was ironic, because they didn't even have a status dashboard to begin with. Also, an outage on their system was much more catastrophic than an outage on our system. Ours was, for the most part, a control plane. If it went down, customers would lose management abilities for as long as the outage persisted. An outage at our competitor, meanwhile, would bring customer systems down.

We ended up removing the public dashboard and using other mechanisms to notify customers.
Nothing is wrong with a joke, but most people have difficulty separating entertainment from facts. No matter how often Rush Limbaugh says he's "just an entertainer," he's clearly misleading his audience. Also misleading is sandwiching a comedic rant between a serious article and a serious quote by MLK.

> And, see how many corporations also funded Trump

Corporations aren't a unified block. Biden got over half a billion more in funding, which is telling.

> Political polarization keeps people from seeing the robber barons that are benefiting in excess from others own hard work.

This is a narrative invented because if people find a purpose to polarization, they can blame someone else besides themselves. What is the greatest distraction from the proletariat rising up against the "robber barrons?" It's Netflix, not Fox News. Without polarization, people won't suddenly be plotting about how to take down the rich. They'll go back to rewatching the Office. If anything, polarization brings more attention to class issues.
Not my video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y04uPXDElt4
Wouldn't the contract specify the remedy? Or do they actually on paper really promise uptimes that on a single isolated data-center level no one can keep?
well the slight improvement in usability is a win, but is it really any more anonymous than recaptcha?
So Salesforce is a huge Access database in SaaS sauce?
He'll be missed, what a wonderful player !! Make sure to watch this video where Manu chao serenades him by surprise: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c9tTjR4zY_c ;)