skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serving the public should always be a priority for a government institution. In the case of the weather, disseminating the forecasts is just as critical as making the forecasts in the first place.

These forecasts directly affect everything from air travel to crop planting/harvesting to sea travel. They are critical for our economic (and citizen's) ongoing health.

And the internet, for better or worse, is the primary means of dissemination for the NOAA. Failing in this is failing at one of their greatest duties, IMO.
How to prevent and mitigate a malicious use of Weave Scope
I use Cookie AutoDelete, which automatically deletes cookies after you close the tabs.

Combined with blocking all third party cookies, this seems to be pretty good.

Obviously, the issue is now that Google now prompts you almost every time you visit.
I don't get why facebook would even forcibly tie oculus to facebook accounts. All they had to do was "encourage" oculus owners to use facebook via various dark patterns, network effect or incentives. I bet they could have gotten 90% of oculus owners to use facebook accounts without much effort. Was that other 10% so important that they were willing to risk regulatory action? Was it greed? Hubris? Though I guess you could argue that VR is still in its infancy and there is no reason for any antitrust action. But why risk it?
Stop looking for grand plans and do something simple and fun. Yes, there are dozens of complex ideas I would love to work on, but they involve infrastructure and bootstrapping and a dozen other things that are useful, but not fun.

AdventOfCode, on the other hand, is completely worthless in the grand scheme of things, but has been fun as hell and provides me with a sense of accomplishment every day.

I’ve also got a Pimoroni environment sensor that was a lot of fun to set up and gives me fun graphs every day. Sure it provides (as far as I’m concerned) the same temperature and humidity reading as the $5 device I got at a random store, but it provided something for me to do that was relatively easy, involved an emerging interest for me (hardware), and in the end who doesn’t love graphs?
You opened this thread by lecturing others on the pronouns they used for the article author with no standing to do so. Who are you and why are you more authoritative on the author's pronouns than the person you attempted to correct?
I think what they are arguing is that you should only get one or the other -- that there should be no trade secrets required to put a patent into practice after it expires.
Calculate size and performance impact of switching to modern JavaScript syntax
I'm fairly certain they just got the license as a contingency in case their domestic/allied vaccines didn't pan out. I don't even know that they will decide to produce it at scale.
Finally! This was getting to be a real problem in my grazing goat as a service business.
I don't see the difference between issuing more stock and printing more money. Of course you can do it, but the value of what you get goes down.

As far as a monopoly on the legal use of violence goes:

1. I don't see how this makes a big difference in the question of financial solvency. Sure you can use violence to acquire more property (and the threat of violence to renegotiate terms with your creditors), but the amount of property you can acquire this way is bounded, so from an accounting point of view, the ability to do so is merely just another asset. Obviously it makes a big difference in terms of morals, externalities, &c. but at the end of the day, you either have or do not have enough resources to service your debt.

2. From the point of view of the victim, it doesn't really matter if the violence used against them is legal or not, only the extent of their injuries. From the point of view of the aggressor, it doesn't matter if the violence they wield is legal or not, it just matters if they think the consequences will be less than the gain.
Is it not a computer first, cellphone second?
Yes they do it for tax purposes and the tax laws do apply of course.
Yeah, other pandemics. Finally some progress. You even got a good example with the Spanish flu. It was utterly terrifying, considering that it wiped between 1% and 6% of the global population in a sparsely populated world where nobody could easily travel anywhere they wished at any time - vastly different from today's world, which is ideal for an infectious disease.

9/11 was direct act of violence against the US, of course people will take that more personally than something that not only is a whole separate kingdom from the one we're in, but it doesn't even qualify as a living thing. Had it been proved to be used as a weapon and the pandemic - a deliberate attack, people everywhere would take it so personally and dearly that nuclear weapons would be casually flying every day since March.

Therefore, 9/11 and the weaponized germs stuff you linked just doesn't make sense in our context. Go make another thread dedicated to weaponization of stuff, you can even include k-t extinction event as well for color, sky is the limit.
I agree I think the motivation for refraction was the weakest point - they introduced waves, and even showed that the waves have to be continuous at the boundary... and then... back to rays!

It just needs a diagram showing the waves refracting, and the geometry of the wave fronts. (Pretty annoying that they never explained refraction like that in school either - Snell's law was just a given when it's actually really trivial to derive from first principles.)
Sidenote, it appears the author works for Apple.
The open source community needs to work on a protection mechanism to prevent decay of certain properties/guaranteers upon acquisition.

I think one way could be the right legal language in an open source license (e.g. acquisition triggers the duty to open source).
I mean try using a smartphone with a banned apple or google account. A PS5 is a brick if sony bans your account. This is standard industry practice
Jailbreaking absolutely does not violate the DMCA, nor is it illegal. Circumvention that isn't related to copyright infringement is not covered under the DMCA, and jailbreaking mobile devices has been ruled explicitly exempt on those grounds:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-10-26/pdf/2018-2...

Stop spreading fud.
What I've seen is a good explanation for is why so many low population counties are doing so badly.

Take South Dakota.

South Dakota has 19 (out of 66) counties with daily cases per 100k over 100. Here are their populations in units of 1000 people: 5.9, 2.8, 7.1, 1.9, 23, 2.1, 5.4, 5.4, 5.4, 28, 9.3, 6.4, 2.9, 2.9, 2.2, 2.2, 4.4, 3.8, 8.4. The first 5 of those have daily cases over 150 (and the top 3 are 560, 244, 217).

57 counties have daily cases over 50.

One county (population 0.9k) has 0. Here are the rest under 50: 20.8, 24.0, 25.6, 31.3, 31.9, 43.0, 44.8, 49.7. Populations in k are 1.4, 2.4, 1.3, 3.2, 6.7, 4.2, 5.6, 2.3.

Their biggest counties are in the middle. The 10 counties with population of 20k or more have daily cases of 99.4, 87.4, 84.8, 85.7, 64.8, 71.6, 123.9, 90.1, 189.1, and 68.6. (Populations in k: 190, 110, 61, 39, 35, 28, 28, 26, 23, 20).

Compare to Washington (picked because I live there, so use it as a reference). We've got 9 counties under 20 new cases per 100k, 17 from 20 to 50, and 13 from 50 to 94.1.

Our biggest counties (pop. in k: 2300, 900, 820) have daily cases of 22.5, 34.9, and 31.1. I'm in a county with 270k people, and we are hitting new highs now of 19.6 daily cases per 100k, which would make us the second best county in the state if we were in South Dakota.

Rural areas are supposed to be where you go to escape a pandemic. How do you turn rural areas into places that are hardest hit?
An additional 68 to argue about systemd and pulseaudio.
Unfortunately for some of us, passions fade. I still love coding, but it's not the kind of thing I'm likely to enjoy spending 16 hours a day doing anymore.

I've been there, done that, seen it all (server, web, mobile, firmware, games). It's routine now, but not something I can lose myself into like I used to be able to. I get bored far faster.
When you sue the county, that does not make the state a party to the lawsuit, even if the state is doing something similar. That's not a technicality; it's really fundamental to how lawsuits work.
Do you find this to be one of the more rewarding parts of your career / day-to-day?

One of the things I regret most about my time in grad school is not mentoring younger students / interns. I was only frantically trying to prove how great I was (to salvage my downtrodden ego). I definitely don't want to avoid such mentoring opportunities in the future (once I finally work my way into such a position).
MediaPipe Holistic – Simultaneous Face, Hand and Pose Prediction, on Device
Chinese and Japanese wouldn’t be.
TL;DR: browser anti-fingerprinting is difficult

Use Tor Browser so that your fingerprint will be identical to many thousands of other users.
You bring up an interesting point, but the Sherman and Clayton laws were passed over a century ago. Perhaps the FTC went against the will of Congress by approving them in the first place, which brings up its own questions around administration of the laws by the executive branch.
I feel the same way every time i read all those productivity tips like time boxing. No one seems to like to reflect on things
I'm not sure what you're arguing here, so I'm going to address both possibilities as I understand them:

#1 - Could there be anyone, anywhere, who believes that voter fraud is warranted because they believe the situation is so dire?

Sure, I'll bet there are some people who feel this way.

#2 - Does the possibility that some people, somewhere feel this way suggest that there is real possibility of fraud?

Without evidence, no. Remember that "some democrats" feeling this way is actually not very useful. Instead, various and multiple people with different levels of the election oversight process would need to 1) feel this way, and 2) be willing to risk a federal crime despite all other incentives, and 3) have the actual capability of carrying this out. Each step in the process here carries further inter-dependencies.

For example, the people who really feel this way must be multiple election officials in multiple locations. Recall that there are no "state" elections, but rather multiple districts, which are then collected for the state elections. And so there has to be fraud in multiple locations, and it must be coordinated. Before we go any further, it's important to understand that when we're supposing that we know "how people would feel," we suddenly mean "I know the motivations and incentives of multiple strangers, whose jobs and lives I know nothing about." This is where our ability to judge a person's incentives really falls apart. If we're considering scenario #1, where an imagined other might feel some way, that's probably fine. By the time we're in scenario #2, we already do not know enough information to determine all the incentives involved. One pole worker may be a republican, another a democrat. One pole worker may have a strict credo they live by (in other words, they wouldn't break the law no matter what) while others may be much more open to malicious actions. Some might be risk averse, so might be risk addicted. The point is we don't have factual information about all these different competing incentives.

Even if we could establish the various incentives, there's further information we don't have: What is the structure of the various election boards? Which individuals would be required to coordinate malicious to reach the desired outcome? And, which of those individuals do we think have the "wrong" incentives? In other words, were enough bad actors in the right place?

Lastly, (and shortly since I'm getting too wordy) supposing we could work out the first two problems, do we think such a group could escape the nigh-historical oversight which has been playing out after this election?
It might be true that she faced more hurdles than her white peers to get to where she is. That is irrelevant to the question of whether she was weaker than her peers.

That is a simple statistical problem: If your program has lower admission standards for a certain group of people , a randomly chosen person from that group will be weaker than their peers.
Remember with NOAA and NWS you always have GOP pressure originating from Accuweather, which really wants to be a the gatekeeper for this data.

Over the years they have attacked the NWS web properties in particular (Rick Santorum was their attack dog a few years back) as their business of selling graphics to TV stations has declined along with traditional TV.
All iPhones are computers, not all computers are cellphones.
>Most wars have been fought by people that value their form of liberty over death.

Most wars have been fought by conscripts, slaves or soldiers who otherwise only wanted to come back home alive, pawns in chess games played with human lives by the elite powers. Even the American Revolution was for the most part a tax revolt by the wealthy against the British Crown.

And none of those wars have been against the tyranny of medicine and science. Benjamin Franklin, the man responsible for the famous (and almost universally misapplied) quote about those who trade a little freedom for security deserving neither, lost his son to one of the many smallpox outbreaks in the early US. In his autobiography, he mentions bitterly regretting not having given his son the smallpox vaccine[0]. He did not once declare that affording his son the "liberty" of dying from smallpox was worth the sacrifice versus the "temporary safety" of vaccination - and this was during a time when vaccination was new, still controversial, and much less safe than now. Rather, he became a passionate advocate for vaccination and public health.

So believe what you like, but the Founding Fathers very likely would not have been on the side of the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers or their form of liberty.

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2653186/
yeh, but trying is just read & understand. For posting I need to signup anyways - which is fine, at least it tempts me to do that.

Feedback:

0. This is similar to https://getchirrapp.com/ but UI is much better here.

1. Though it lets me to do the writing, I want to also

a. Read my posts

b. Read posts by other writers (may be by the root tweet link) Similar to

c. Delete my published article (if not edit)
This is a common but specious argument. It is possible to make large, complicated apps without creating a monstrosity. That you are making something like this is a manifestation of an engineering culture that has too many cooks in the kitchen, a lack of specific engineering talent spent on finding issues and telling the teams shipping them to stop, people shipping libraries that they don't need and tech debt that was never pruned away. An app with 100x more people working on it should not be 100x larger, because it certainly won't have 100x more features in it. Sure, Uber is more than "a map and a couple views" but the fact remains that their app should never have been in the state that it was.
They do a pretty good job. Their priority is to keep things civil and authentic, so I think flames/insults/hyperpartisan politics/spam get the priority treatment.

Low effort comments can simply be downvoted.
I think the new site is horrible and bloated and slow. I've been using their multi sensor page for a couple of years now and think it is much better: https://mrms.nssl.noaa.gov/qvs/product_viewer/
I find tech workers on HN, and other places, to be incredibly privileged and Entitled. Some of the responses you’re getting show it pretty clearly.
so you were a total dick to a random person and you're writing this story like you're the hero?
European companies in the USA or Asia are exposed to the same arbitrary laws that favor local players. They only are wielded at major strategic actors rather than small startups though.
The items you've listed don't appear to be things that would contribute directly to the size (in MB as installed on the device) of the app. I don't think GP was making a comment about the complexity of the product, just the size of the installed app.
I'd even go as far as suggesting that everyone delete their Facebook accounts now.
Ask HN: I'm quitting my job, will create a game – any advice?
Summarizing, after a nice adventure at a startup, I'm quite tired of it. My main issue is I have a lot of decision power in this company (without being in a management role), and I know that I cannot just move to another company and do what they say. I want to have something truly mine.

I am going to create a mobile game. I already have friend who is a graphic designer (and a gamer). We are pretty excited about some ideas and mechanics we've been exploring. I don't want to create "yet another RPG" that no one will play, but a "simple", entertaining game with a well defined business model and a well defined market target that hopefully will have enough traction to generate income. HN readers. I ask for advice! Some info you may find useful

- Country: Spain
- Runaway $: (Just for me, for living) 12 - 18 months
- Skills: Software engineer, programming mainly for Android and iOS, with a little of JS (Vue and friends) and a little of Spring + Big Data DBs.

Please share similar experiences, any advice regarding the project (still have not decided if Unity or Unreal Engine for instance) or just some encouraging words because I will need them.

Thanks!
For screen height specifically there may be an alternative way to get to that information that would be more difficult to patch: css media queries. It says deprecated but not unsupported.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/devi...
I’ve implemented both amplitude and mixpanel for event tracking on Django apps.

I currently have a project that uses both auto JS and python-based track() calls using mixpanel.

I’ve found people commonly block js analytics and it isn’t safe to rely on for user behavior.

For example, you can instrument react hooks, but you really aught to instrument the api calls they rely on or they will not get captured in many circumstances.

I also have found mixpanel’s anon / known user ID merge to be poorly documented and the community support to be kind of slow and did not get the sense the folks answering had not personally done the implementations being discussed.

One of the biggest things I wanted out of event tracking was to build event bases web hooks to trigger drip-contact events.

Mixpanel quietly deprecates web hooks a few months ago and now wants you to use partners that process your data and do this for you.
Facebook Announces Plan to Break Up US Government Before It Becomes Too Powerful
For those wanting a degree, check out WGU. It's accredited and you can go through it as fast as you're able.

I dropped out of traditional college. Last class I remember they were talking about what a GET and POST request were. I had been a professional web developer for years at that point. I felt it was a waste of time.

In WGU I had a similar easy class, stuff that was "way below me". Not to worry, I passed the class in a day and stopped worrying about wasted time.

I recently did a C++ assignment that was filled with artificial requirements making it artificially difficult, yet I learned some things about pointers and figured out the basics of CMake for the first time. Useful stuff. Now I'm doing a similar assignment with Java. I knew I would have to set aside my distaste for things like Java (gross!), and with that mindset things aren't so bad. I'm actually enjoying JavaFX.

WGU's calculus class was harder than calc 1 at my brick and mortar university, but easier than calc 2. Once again, I knew most of the material and passed after only a few weeks of review.

I do agree that a CS degree doesn't teach as much as it sometimes gets credit for. I do believe WGU's CS degree is as good as many brick and mortar CS degrees, but with minimal "bullshit", though there is still some.
Naturally Occurring Equivariance in Neural Networks
There's a difference between forcing you to use a gaming account for a gaming service, and forcing you to use a social media account entirely irrelevant to gaming with your entire real-life identity (and web history, ad profiling, and in-store purchases) to use a gaming service.
Goats as a Service has been around longer than The Cloud. I think you already missed that gold rush.
> What if I, the job candidate, want to give you, the interviewer, a test ..

As an interviewer, we always allow for that! Our standard procedure is to leave last 10-15 minutes for "questions for the interviewer".

People usually ask things like "which stack do you use" and "how many hours per day you work", but once I had candidate ask me programming question, related to the one I just asked them. We've had a nice conversation about algorithms and runtime performance.
As a 22YO, I use it just as much as messenger. The generation a under me uses insta DMs even more.
I can tell you that people stomp around outside in Chicago's gentried neighborhoods with no mask at a 50/50 clip from the naked eye, particularly in the daytime for some reason.
I don't use it that often (I just open up another terminal), but you can also use ^Z to put vi in the background. It would be more useful if I didn't always forget and open up a new vi which would refuse to write to the file :)
You laugh, but growing up, my family used goats to keep brush down on our property, and would occasionally loan them to neighbors for the same.
Here is a loophole that property developers use.

Let's say you're building a new subdivision called Rosewood.

Create a new company for the project, e.g. the Rosewood Development Company and dissolve it after the project is complete.

This deters or possibly prevents your company from being liable for construction defects.
On the topic of AdventOfCode, I also find it fun (I am using Raku/Perl6). Unfortunately I have fallen behind a few days.

I checked the LeaderBoard out of curiosity. These guys are submitting answers <5 minutes! It takes me that long just to read the problem and come to some sort of understanding.

Amazing!

I wonder if any of them streaming this stuff?
If majority of humans acted upon majority of their beliefs, the humanity would have destroyed itself several times over. You cannot have good ideas without bad ones. How would you learn anything otherwise.
I don't know what are you talking about then if not about censorship? Are you only asserting: bad people do bad things?

I don't know why, but it seems that of all the silly ideas out there, flat-earthers have a special place in the minds of some people here on HN, since they are brought up so many times.
In short, Clojure is far the best professionalism filter I have stumbled upon, in all of my 20 years of coding for money.

It takes around 5 minutes to figure out whom you are talking to, when you are talking about Clojure.

This worked perfectly for me on both sides: as a contractor on hire and as an employer for some project.
For those like me who had no idea what eBPF is — https://blog.pixielabs.ai/ebpf and
https://blog.pixielabs.ai/ebpf-http-tracing/
I was mostly talking about RTX 2080Ti which he is comparing against.

It's like you're moving just across the street, and loading every single box into a car, crossing the street, then unloading the box instead of just walking on foot. You need to drive further (bigger networks) and load more boxes at once (batch size) for a car to actually be useful in this scenario.
I mean... have you ever used Matomo? It isn't good. I checked it out earlier this year.