skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ban was a national security move. Psychological warfare is a well known military doctrine, if you want to see the sciences behind it, use the filetype:pdf tag on google with the terms psychoacoustics, psychographics, psychovisuals. They teach these techniques when going for marketing degree's and there are well documented studies on how the use of these techniques have ridiculosuly boosted profits e.g. supermarkets playing calm music and building their store like a maze to force customers to listen to calming music for a sufficiently long enough period of time to cause the autonomic and limbic nervous systems to relax thus increasing susceptability to other signals and triggers on packaging. This specific technique has been linked to a 30-50% increase in revenue.

There is a strong argument these adversaries have built domestic terrorist cells who have been running around in gangs threatening people, razing buildings, and engaging in nonsensical political discussions about disposing with government services, and they are using a social media company owned by a foreign state with stated military objectives to organize. Whether you want to view Antifa or Trump supporters as the terrorists, or TikTok, Twitter or Facebook as domesitic or foreign companies is a matter of perspective.

The fact is weapons of psychologcial warfare do not differentiate between targets and may yet proove to be as deadly as any WMD.

The reason Section 230 is under attack by the current regime is that astroturfing exercises on boards like this one to force perspective change and create sounding boards for corporate political policies has become a well documented business model as the recent deposition of FB and Twitter's CEO infront of congress showed.

The real insanity is that any CEO would ever think messing with people's brain chemistry without knowing what you are doing in order to make a buck was ever a good idea.

E2E solves none of the above.

Welcome to 2020.
The law doesn't require this style of pop-up. They are voluntarily made annoying by some site owners (same for ads, it is the site choice).
#20 Trending products that will be bestseller in 2021
I am obsessed with trends (not surprisingly!). So I thought that with the ending of 2020 drawing closer, a good idea would be to instead focus on the near future and the products that are really going to be making moves in 2021.

#1: Seamless clothes
#2: Long Sleeve Crop Top
#3: Athleisure
#4: Boyfriend hoodie
#5: Air fryer
#6: Ionic hairdryer
#7: Rugs
#8: Minimalist wallets
#9: Pulse Oximeter
#10: Blue light blocking glasses
#11: Acne Patches
#12: Massage Gun
#13: Avocado Oil
#14: Hard Kombucha
#15: True Wireless Earphones
#16: Portable Solar Panel
#17: Jigsaw Puzzle
#18: Beauty Fridge
#19: Chessboard
#20: HIIT Equipment

Which of the mentioned Trending products will you go for in 2021? Please, drop your thoughts, ideas, or products in the comments below.

https://blog.trendlab.io/posts/20-trending-products-we-predict-to-sell-in-2021-pt1
> But only because someone plugged a USB drive into the centrifuge computers.

Either that or one of the Siemens engineers who showed up at the plant's laptop was infected in anticipation of them showing up there to fix stuff.
Neat!

I know very little about licenses. This on is GPL4. Would this license support business use or even forks a hacker may want to create to play with?
Yeah agreed, combining social engineering with technical exploits and you can get really good results. I almost fell into one trap myself one day: Basically I was having an argument with a service provider, and somehow I received an email talking about the same type of issue (just high level, without the minute details) with a link attached. I had to check it many times to make sure that it was a fraud email...
>I'd advise you try to not think of all reading as something that needs to "improve" something in you.

Well said! This is the curse of the modern society/economy that everything you do should be towards some "improvement" either materially or otherwise. The concept and importance of "play" has all but been forgotten. Incidentally, much of Science progressed only because many of the Scientists actually loved "playing" with what interested them. The actual inventions/discoveries were more accidental like.

Knowledge for Knowledge's sake is a very good thing.
This is a very good answer. Perhaps one thing to add is that the underlying problem is always a mistaken belief that you can draw a general conclusion from a limited data set.

The data may be flawed in many ways, so there is no automatic assumption that any conclusion is correct.

And - as this answer says - this is a completely different process to discovering a robust causal mechanism that can reliably explain a correlation and predict its persistence into the future.
Community Takes All: The Power of Social+
You are totally right! But it would make the logic way more complex than it is right now. I have as "tussenvoegsel" already two words, but how to handle also last names containing two words as well.

Most of the time a distinct between first and last name is already enough for presentational purposes.
Emissions Gap Report 2020
Why did you ever believe something like that? The Obama Admin expanded drone strikes and some of the surveillance the Bush admin started. They lessened the amount of troops in the Middle East while expanding drone sticks around the area.
Ray Dalio, of Bridgewater, is answering questions on Reddit
William Shakespeare has been vaccinated against the coronavirus
Why Ethereum Keys Are the Core of Space Accounts
>”Break-even" is nowhere near enough to get practical power out, because the energy extraction process must be so inefficient, with two stages of heat exchange before you get a working fluid you can run through your turbine.

Correction: break-even is most of the way to a working plant. A “burning fusion plasma” is one that self heats. The plant requires very little power when the plasma is supplying most of its own heating. Keep the confining coils cool, keep the control systems (correction coils and heaters) running, and watch as the heat comes in. Q = 1 is the balance point. The distance (in terms of lawson criterion) between Q = 0.5 and 1 is much larger than Q = 1 and infinity,

Also, two stages of heat exchange are not needed and not a killer for power generation regardless. A liquid lithium wall blanket operates as tritium breeder and coolant. Run the lithium through a heat exchanger to boil water. Watch as the turbine spins. Very similar to PWRs.
That's funny, I was just thinking this exact same thing the other day. HomeDepot.com has been getting seemingly worse and worse (especially this year if I'm not mistaken), but had to get some stuff from McMaster a few months back and it was refreshing to be reminded of how useable their website is.
Google Street View: ISS
"The dataset we publish contains 2231142 cooking recipes (>2 millions)"

Where are the actual recipes? Sorry if I missed it, but I've been opening folders and couldn't find a huge file with all the recipes (nor a folder with many files or similar).

I've also tried searching for common terms and I've only managed to match those against some sparse tests and URLs. Is the actual data not here and supposed to be fetched from their source urls?
Ask HN: Where do I start with first principles in 3D rendering?
I'm struggling finding a path towards understanding the first principles in 3D rendering.

I can find a lot of complicated books and tutorials that assume a bunch of things like OpenGL or Glad or C++ or Dynamically Linking library X Y Z and magically creating a scene but where is the "build it yourself" path?

I essentially want to build my own "hello world" 3D engine to understand how to manipulate pixels/shaders in 3D space.

I'm searching for tutorials and books around building a game engine from scratch as that seems to be the best fit -- I'm still searching. Nothing I have found yet seems thorough and to the point and self-bootstrapped. For example I find this walkthrough of building a text-editor from scratch absolutely perfect: https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/

I have no preference for language - I'm familiar with most. Anything more "raw" without including a bunch of libraries will suit me best. So "single file/header libs" are the largest I'd like to play with. Having said that, C might be the best fit if it's the easiest to compile and get up and running without any dependencies.

Some embarrassing questions:

1. What is the most basic way I can create a window and render pixels in it?
2. Same as one but essentially with the most direct way of creating "fragment shaders?" (Is there something more direct than GLSL?)
3. My second question implies OpenGL as the API - is there a more direct or easier way to manipulate a window and pixels within it than OpenGL that is specific per OS?
3a. What would be the most direct API/layer to access per OS?

For context: I'm currently coding on Windows/WSL - I recently switched from MacOS. I'm most familiar with MacOS and unix flavors for dev environments. I mention this in case there is a more direct way to accomplish my goal being on Windows than trying to go a cross-platform approach way (OpenGL).

I'm specifically avoiding any engine like processing, unity, webGL, etc - these abstract too much of the fundamentals I'm trying to learn.

I'd be really happy if I can just:

1. Create a window
2. Render pixels in that window that allow 2D/3D space drawing/coloring.
3. Create some basic shapes from a square to a cube and further real-time transformations.

It can't be that complicated can it? Hah.
I love this kind of design analysis so much. Bordering on the neuroscientific ;)

And I miss old school tumblrs for inspiration. Sites like MLKSHK & FFFFound would provide a steady random stream of highly curated visual juxtapositions. Seriously needs to be revived...
It is estimated that 22% of all dollars ever created have been created this year. [1] Couple that with continued lower interest rates and another likely stimulus this number will only go up.
I suggest reading the book -- How To Be A Programmer[0, 1] and see how you want to move ahead with more books.

0. https://braydie.gitbooks.io/how-to-be-a-programmer/content/e... (Free to read, Community Edition)

1. https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Programmer-Robert-Read-ebook/d...
IBM Chef Watson was quite good at it though, already five years ago. But I haven't found any similar service since it was turned off, what makes it so hard to replicate it?
Until recently I would've more or less agreed, they didn't seem to add much.

COVID has suddenly made them a big deal here in Spain though. QR codes are everywhere now. Restaurants and bars aren't supposed to pass menus around for hygiene reasons, so those are now all QR codes on every table. Gyms and swimming pools etc now must require reservations for entry to control numbers, so those are all managed with emailed QR codes you scan at the door. You need a completed health form to enter the country, and you have to prove it at the border by scanning a QR code from the form.

They've gone right the way from niche gimmick to day-to-day necessity at incredible speed. En route this has improved lots of things too - e.g. quite a few bars & fast food restaurants let you order and pay directly from the menu behind their QR code, and there's far fewer annoying paper forms anywhere. I don't see them going away.
I have 8GB RAM and it loaded fast for me. Shrug.
Somehow that article turned into a political advertisement for a defense spending bill. Like: “We can’t keep looking at this picture of a balloon unless you give us a few hundred billion dollars. Think of the children!”
I agree. To me, it's the only approach, but I've been doing it for so long. On some level, the students understand this as well, but doing it is a different matter, especially when it comes to programming. I teach on some very practice-orientated higher education programmes in Denmark at the level of a bachelor's degree. We tend to get different types of students than those who would apply for a bachelor's degree at one of our universities, which could also be part of the explanation.
Where did you write about this lizard war (your thesis)?
paraphrasing the antagonists digital revolution sales pitch

"We'll add click analytics to government websites to digitize the flow of information and solve the pandemic!"
2020 in Photos: A Year Like No Other
Yes!

This is one of the key feature of PlotJuggler.
They are called "layouts".
As stated in readme, the dataset is downloadable from our website
Arguably the most technically advanced EU country Sweden always avoids Franco-German initiatives and the leader in chip technology in Europe is the brexiting UK with the globally dominant ARM platform (soon to be acquired by NVIDIA from Softbank).
I've have set page load monitoring for employees and clients in grafana. Been asked to add device/locations dimensions. That's OK to know and understand how tech stack influences customer's journey. But that info has no impact on looking for a ways to optimize site even further. On slower device - site will be somewhat proportionally slower, but will remains times/percentage faster than any alternative being crafted without taking care about performance - related aspects. Key to understand that once you put your website under Cloudflare or any other CDN, it'll always be very close to where you live. I do not know for sure but I think I live 1.5km from data center where Cloudflare is hosting their server :) Of course here comes the rendering part. But if you have minimum JS, and sane images, and class-based CSS (they say it's fastest) - what is it what can slow you down? If delivery is fast because of cdn, rendering is fast because of sticking to basics and best practices, I think you have it all covered.
I still think that this kind of approach it's only a "problem moved" from CSS to inline HTML, which makes me mad because i still need to jump from HTML to CSS all the time, plus custom modifications can be painful with tons of overrides and "!important"s. Exactly like bootstrap.

BEM (with none-to-few utility classes) was a game changer to me (even if far from perfect) and its most natural conseguence are web components.

I'm loving the Bulma approach BTW.
No. It is a tool to visualize one-dimensional time series.
You can certainly do microsoldering in $1000 area now. Not sure about BGA as I have not done those, but I can imagine an oven wouldn't cost more than $1000 as well. There are so many affordable tools available now, it is within reach to build your own phone.
I think trying to split names into such parts is a losing battle. If you need to split it up ideally I think the user should have a say on how their name is presented.
As opposed to decades of companies and governments arguing in court what constitutes a monopoly? I mean, composability would just be the intended net result, not a part of the legal framework of the mandate.

I think you could also avoid using the word API entirely. I could see the end result being similiar to how default app selection works in Android.

That said, I still haven't sat down and thought through the unintended side effects.
I would be interested in seeing a "level of compliance table" of this piece of software (or its Ruby ancestor) against each of the falsehoods programmers believe about names [1]

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Range launches new Chrome extension to make daily team check-ins even easier
This is just a bad idea. Apart from abusing browser rendering quirks (which is unfortunately a sad tradition of the web, something that has claimed the life of entire technology stacks like xml/xhtml), it removes any hope of producing webpages accessible from screen readers and similar. In comparison, JS-only pages look like model citizens. This is the equivalent of abusing IE hot-comments and other CSS-parsing bugs to style your website, but worse (at least that technique was useful).
Obtuse? Projecting

Let me play you a sad song-

There once was a poor minority boy who had bad parents through no fault of their own. They wanted to become a programmer, they got a $100 Android and started working on an app. Upon finishing they publish their app for a one time 25$ fee.

But that only reached half the market.

So next the boy bought a $1000 mac, a $400 iphone, and a $125/yr app store subscription. Lol
That is why ownership of information is so important, in the extreme, is the data I have on dropbox mine, or can government search it and claim they are searching dropbox's data? I thi k all reasonable people would agree that in case of cloud storage I would have legal standing to sue if the search is unreasonable. I probably don't have that standing for IP logs, but there is loads of grey in between.

If you take the view GDPR takes, most data about the person is their data.
In my experience they lived up to the hype.

Boarding passes have them so you can easily see if your flight is delayed.

Restaurants have them so they offer cheaper meals by not printing menus.

All venues in Western Australia now MUST have them for the SafeWA app (for contact tracing).

Most warehouses I’ve seen, including Australia Post, have them on their articles so workers can quickly scan them (without needing to line up the old linear barcodes or manually enter a code).

Many pamphlets handed out at various events have them so you can quickly find them on social media (often via LinkTree).

They seem like a success to me!
Thanks! This is very interesting to me.
> The website is readily available to be consumed outside the browser via JSON, but also still presentable to users accessing through the web browser.

Wasn't XHTML (and thus html5) supposed to be parsable, since it's basically XML (specifically, the html spec redefined as XML) ?
What kind of allergies? Against proteins? There are a lot of other allergies that can cause an anaphylactic shock.
Found this comment sum up the post well

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/k9b4g8/im_ray_daliofo...
I like this kind book list. My only complains is most book list is too US centric. I cannot appreciate some of the items in the list. Is there any good book list that is more for international audience?
In terms of License, it is actually LGPL-3.0 License, the same as Qt itself and some of the dependencies it uses.

This means that you can develop proprietary (closed source) plugins to create your own custom interfaces to parse data, if you want/need to.
Apple Airpods Max, Pro, 2 Gen Detailed Review: Share Suggestion / Feedback
Software contractor fined for favoring foreigners on work visas over Americans
Free Hosting providers for your next project
> Compare this to even the least expensive stand alone 5.1 system and it's a very inexpensive alternative.

I've had the same DTS/Dolby Digital 5.1 system for nearly 20 years. It still works flawlessly. I very much doubt that these headphones will be functional in 20 years time.
It is. Their fusion power research program is essentially retired and it operates as a nuclear stockpile steward research facility.
Sounds cool but no examples in the README so (lazy) potential users have no idea whether it's worth looking into.

Source: I am lazy.
Nano problems [How to Solve them]
Spicy Tomato Sauce

Inputs
tomato olive oil garlic salt sugar pepper

Ingredients
1 (10 ounce) can crushed tomato
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 garlic cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt (to taste)
1/4 teaspoon sugar (to taste)
1/4 teaspoon pepper (to taste)

Instructions
Combine all ingredients and heat in saucepan.

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Not sure this is going to win any prizes.

Admittedly I put in some pretty tame ingredient choices but the recipe is essentially "eat ingredients".
I think it will be difficult to convince someone to pay $100 for an online course without some free samples to evaluate them.
You’re absolutely right, it’s not turning $180mm into $150 billion, it’s turning $180mm into $1 trillion of total value created, most of it not for himself.
Microsoft already lost this battle. Google has decided not to fight the battle.

Apple has their segment walled in like North Korea.

Tesla uses religion to control their followers.
Not excatly like this, but there is another project, https://jasonelle.com, that renders JSON to Android and iOS applications :)

Nice project though!
Law Enforcement Is Accessing Locked Devices
At the end of 2016 there were 50,000 coal miners in the US.[1] Their average annual pay is $29K.[2] We could give each of them one million dollars, invested and paying out 3% annually, and the $50B it costs would be a drop in the bucket compared to the economic benefit of eliminating those carbon emissions.

In fact, it would even be cheaper than the healthcare costs of pollution from coal plants, which amounts to $187 billion in the U.S.[3] And in Appalachia, healthcare costs from coal production are $75B annually, so we'd come out ahead there too, which would be a double benefit for the miners since they'd be both richer and healthier.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_Stat...

[2] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/coal-miner-salary-SRCH_KO...

[3] https://e360.yale.edu/digest/coal-costs-us-half-trillion-ann...
I agree the analysis is different under a GDPR view. And Congress could adopt a similar view and that would affect the 4th amendment analysis without changing the constitution.
The skunkworks program has no published details and what has been published has been put in the “been-there, tried that” category by physicists. The slunkworks program is little more than a way to funnel money.
>Of course, Sherlock Holmes would disapprove

Ah, No! As a lifelong Sherlockian/Holmesian i cannot allow you to cast my hero in a unflattering light :-) That was Holmes being flippant. Over the timeline of the stories, it turns out that Holmes is actually very well and widely read and has a large personal library into which he often dips for some long forgotten fact which has suddenly become relevant to his current case.
If you liked this article, you should not ignore Bret Victor's recommendation to read Seymour Papert's "Mindstorms" [1]. Whilst "Learnable Programming" is a critique of programming education approaches, Papert's book can be seen as a critique of the education system. It was truly ahead of this time. This book describes ideas behind Logo/Turtle and its use for teaching programming, but it goes beyond just that - it's more about teaching everything through programming, including maths and geometry.

Shameless plug: I'm also trying to implement these ideas at Low-Level Academy [2], teaching systems programming concepts in a visual way.

[1] http://worrydream.com/refs/Papert%20-%20Mindstorms%201st%20e...

[2] https://lowlvl.org/
I'd only use something like this to fill out default name variants, and allow users to edit those variants (or have it be editable by an admin, if you're storing customer names in something that isn't directly customer-facing), considering these: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=falsehoods+programmers+believe+abo...
I also read Range and I too was a bit underwhelmed. I took it as a sign that I’ve read too much in this area already as much of the book was familiar. It would probably be a good introduction for those who haven’t read about the topic before.

I keep telling people that 2020 is our chance to both address the lousy situation many are in, and to recognize what is truly important in our lives. The fact that many people did in fact have a very lousy year and you did not also falls into that category. Why do you think your year was not lousy, and what can we learn from it?
That's all true, but I would argue that in practice, the colloquial meaning of "I could care less" and "I couldn't care less" have become the same through usage. Much in the same sense as how "literally" came to mean "figuratively" through misuse, to the point that at least some dictionaries now contain an entry for "literally" that refers to the sense here it mean "figuratively". #headexplode
Apple did it 10x worse with their iphone apps and now no one cares anymore.