skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whichever car designer decided to laminate simulated wood on the sides of the car needs to have their car taken away.
I think he wanted a citation for this:

> It was common to give the newborn away to a nurse if you could afford it until it had survived the first year

I wasn't aware of that practice, although before around 1994 there were all kinds of institutions that don't exist now, which is literally why downtown SF is the way it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation
How many scientists are LGBTQ? Federal survey delays frustrate researchers
CentOS's 10 year support window was unreasonably long given that there's no benefit to upgrading to RHEL (and it's paid employees at RedHat during the security backporting work).

The free RedHat tier should have a shorter support window that's still long enough to attract users who want a stable platform to build long-lived appliances.
> First, what is a 'dose' for a new chemical?

The dose is the amount you expect an animal to ingest in its lifetime.

> Second, there are all sorts of critical things that if you took 100x the recommended dose you would see a significant negative physiological effect. Like salt. Or water.

Uh, lol, no. 100x and 1000x multiples are standard EPA testing procedure, so you're not disagreeing with me, you're disagreeing with the EPA, and I'm gonna stick with the EPA on this one. [1]

> This is a far more nuanced problem that "let's just shoot up some monkeys with a gallon of the stuff and see if their nuts shrivel up". In fact, that sort of reductionist approach is why we have this problem.

That's a disingenuous reading. A 1000x dose of these chemicals would be less than a miligram, which is plenty to do harm. Even lead can do brain damage at the ppm level (some chemicals are even ppb). Don't be too embarrassed by your comment though, we all start somewhere.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_dose
Paid CentOS support is called RHEL - the whole point of CentOS is repackage GPL RHEL stuff without the licensing fee. The only way I see this being viable is them getting bankrolled by a huge cloud provider - but cloud providers already decided that having their own distros was a better option.
I loved your Leica Q writeup and have been contemplating one ever since.
The first option seems to be misnamed. When it's disabled it will cache the canvas widgets in cairo surfaces, but it will still use CPU blitting when it actually copies the image back to the window.

I couldn't find the second option, even grepping for it in git master.
more than likely a single "Rogue" engineer
I think Yahoo! Finance is an outlier in that it was pushed by internal management at Yahoo as something they wanted personally, rather than meeting the needs of a large userbase. At least that was the rumor I heard.
Maybe we should stop naming things after a man who was not only a nazi, but a uniform-wearing member of the SS? A future-looking project should leave such things in the past.
Keeping your GitHub Actions and workflows secure: Preventing pwn requests
CDC recommended masks be worn in public in Aril 2nd, just a couple weeks after the first US shutdowns. There were "only" about 8k total confirmed deaths in the US at that time. That was ~300k deaths ago.

They had it wrong for a few weeks, okay. But they changed their guidelines, and there was new data showing the efficacy of wearing masks(at least the combination of the masks and the social behavior they encourage), and they have stuck to those guidelines for nearly 8 months now.

I'm honestly amazed how long people are being hung up on that single, one-way change in guidelines during the early weeks. It's unfortunate the guidelines didn't come sooner. But looking at the timeline, where we were then, and where we are now.. The totality of it all.. IDK, it's weird seeing people constantly bringing it up and blaming public health official. Especially considering what the messaging from non-health public officials has been over the past 8 months and 300k deaths.
But it protects you if you fall off your bike.
> 1. a lack of child seat laws

Not even lack of, just less need to have three children in them at once.
> Why anyone treats PDF as anything but a write-once format is beyond me.

Because PDF is supposed to be like electronic paper and you normally can draw on a paper original.

In an ideal world OSes and apps would be better equipped to separate data and metadata and work with multi-stream files. Every file would have different kinds of pure data (e.g. scanned picture and OCRed text), metadata (e.g. title, author, ISBN/etc IDs, ToC etc) and user-generated annotations in separate streams. But our actual world is not ideal, we mix everything into one stream for every document and allow the apps modify it every time we view it.
Sadly age is only tackling one of the easier parts of gnupg, encrypting files. Implying age replaces gnupg is overselling it.

We don't have any good alternatives for a web-of-trust (or something akin) where we can sign files or attest trust to some identity. Signify does parts of this, but lacks the trust aspects which makes you establish convoluted key distribution schemes to ensure you have future signing keys lined up.

There isn't any good replacements for F/OSS developers that needs to have some from of signatures between them. Say replace linux distributions usage of signatures to form some network of developer trust.
I was watching the election hearing today. One of the senators said that tech companies are being looked into for illegal campaign contribution to the Biden's campaign. For when they jointly blocked the New York Post Hunter Biden laptop story before the election. Twitter blocked the story, and youtube messed with the search results so the story would not rise. Hunter Biden is currently under investigation for money laundering. Suppressing the story on these platforms probably helped elect Biden, since the election was so close.

Edit:

1. Since I'm being down voted, here's the senator in his own words. Starts at 2 hours :36 minutes

https://youtu.be/xHtobbugTJU?t=9374

2. Changed NY Times to NY Post.
Tig is my favourite command-line Git interface.

Handy tip - you can enable mouse support by putting "set mouse = yes" in ~/.tigrc.
The hospital is owned and governed by the City and County of San Francisco. They definitely have plenty of power over it.

If what I've read is accurate, his name is on the hospital at the insistence of hospital administrators. They were hoping it would encourage other, similar donations. It seems he made the mistake of letting hospital administrators have something they wanted on top of the mistake of donating a large amount of money towards public health care.
This is talking cars in last decade. Not cash for clunkers. Which likely isn’t a big enough of a dent to mess with cars made after it
Actually looks like it's around 1500 USCF. https://chessgoals.com/rating-comparison/#Lichess_Rating_vs_...
Put the helmet on the bike?
Well, "dedicated" means different things to different people. I have a two year old kid. For VR, my space would have to be properly "dedicated" as it were...
Then it goes from best to worst
Actually, they should reboot National Lampoon's vacation with an electric vehicle. That would be funny to watch.
Yup, Google replaced the videos tab with YouTube SERP in top spot.
My memory of corporal punishment — three times in my life — was a reminder of the severity of how wrong something I did was and looking back at it was completely justified. It’s not fear as much as shock to remember the moment. The pain was insignificant and so there was no fear, at least for me.
My opinion of Ken Paxton might be different had he not attempted to overturn the results of the presidential election. Is this suit just as frivolous?
Study: VR seems to help prime people to have lucid dreams
There are two issues here:

1. PDFs are fully baked/static and made for one page format (the one original book was printed on). These will never work.

2. Ebook formats are basically webpages and they have CSS. There are defaults from the ebook reader app and but often there are css settings from the publisher of the book. Their css styles mash together leading quite often to bad results. They could be very responsive but i suspect publishers test only on Kindle/ebook readers.

I am not sure why they just don't make one "master" style thats tested everywhere. But it's probably because they are not software companies. For them epub/mobi just might mean "black and white ebook release".

Also mobi is probably most of the sales and it is pretty restricted design wise compared to epub.

So basically blame the publishers.
Isn't what it's saying about google having monopoly power over online advertising in general?

For a change I don't think this is a complaint about it being targeted, aside from the fact google is uniquely able to target.

You suffer because one company has monopoly power over targeted advertising, so companies must pay it whatever it asks for, which means higher prices / worse products.
Floyds permanently closing Munster brewpub
In the winter, I permanently attach one of my bikes to my wahoo kickr which you can get for ~$500 used from ebay. They're built like tanks. [1] If I need to ride outdoors, I'll grab another bike and ride that (the correct number of bikes that any cyclist has is N+1).

I use my iPhone to connect to Trainer Road, which is a fantastic structured training app. [2] Power measurements come directly from the wahoo kickr and cadence measurements comes from the power meter that I already have on the bike. I highly recommend folks watch their YouTube channel if you want to get a feel for what they can do for you. [3]

This year I splurged for a table [4] after using a box bungy-corded to my bars before that. It's great to prop up a laptop or an iPad to pass the time/distract from the pain during a ride.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m...
[2] https://www.trainerroad.com/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/user/TrainerRoad
[4] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BQZY9RL/
There was a point at which Facebook and Google were engaged in a death match (for example, Facebook built Connect as a pre-emptive action against a planned Google initiative that had leaked to them). And then suddenly, at some point, the rivalry just sort of ... disappeared.

I wonder how close the relationship really is. This ad deal seems like just one component of something more complex.
Advertising has done more damage to people’s mental health and self-image then just about any other industry.
Banning the word "virgin" but only in certain contexts seems rediculous to me.
Yeah but a bit more. Toddlers and pets didn't have to be kept out of the TV room. For VR they could wreak havoc...
That assumes the amount of advertising is constant, but buyers could simply purchase less, so I don't think it's necessarily true.
IDEO's Shape project is winding down, but it's open source now
People are negging this comment with absolutely no evidence to suggest that it's wrong.
Not if the government is the only real buyer
A clear case of "correlation does not imply causation": the problem for Millennials is not child-safety laws, but student debt and asset prices.
ATH = all-time high
So... who will be anti-trusted next? Place your bets now?
Given the wildly different rates of speed involved, incidents per unit of time would perhaps be more directly comparable.
big OOF
Yeah I felt similarly at parts.

I’ve been in way worse situations and I don’t think I’ve ever been exceptionally poor.

Reading her account especially that Chardonnay instance made my eyes roll all the way back.
SpaceX is a company that understands, respects and capitalizes on failure. Their entire development process is based around failing early and often in order to prune the search space of viable solutions as quickly as possible.

Proper Agile development, but for rockets.
The current legal theory for monopolies is that they're only bad if they increase consumer prices. Tech companies who give out products for free don't seem to do this.
Gorn.

You have absolutely nothing like that in the non-VR space. Being able to physically swing weapons is night and day vs clicking a mouse. Picking up a bad guy and throwing him, etc.

Also, in some FPS type games (like paintball, or Battle Dome).. being able to literally peak around corners is a game changer for the feeling of immersion and it makes a huge gameplay difference.

Finally.. Climby! Being able to have a climbing simulator that you are really using your hands/arms and having a feeling of vertigo. You don't get that with keyboard/mouse & 2d.
Yeah I was just genuinely curious and hoping someone who was more knowledgeable than I would know.
Nice article! Which EPA filters you ended up using? Thinking of building one myself.
How does it make money? Do you charge the user a fee, or get an affiliate commission?
LiquidPiston's “inside-out” rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract
> I think it might be because I don’t want to be standing and moving around when playing a game and if you’re not doing that, the motion is kind of unpleasant.

I'm the exact opposite. I enjoy that a lot more. It's more immersive, and I've already lost about 15 lbs just playing VR. imo it's a fitness machine disguised as a video game peripheral
If allegations are true, it doesn't seem to be frivolous.
Show HN: GoldenDict as a Desktop Google Translate App
I'm someone who hosts MANY meetings, and recognizes the importance/value of good meeting minutes. I often cringe when we have someone who does not understand the subject matter or worse - we forgot to ask someone to take minutes (time lost!). However, I work a lot in the U.S. government sector, and I've also worked in the private sector where we were discussing proprietary or sensitive info. We can only use cloud services that are heavily vetted for security - or offline versions of software.

If your software is certified/vetted by MS Teams for government use, I could use your product. Or, if an offline version is available, I can potentially use your product with some vetting by security. The risk is obviously not that you're a bad actor out to steel trade secrets, but that the security of the servers you use have not been verified.

I'm just letting you know in case you weren't aware. There are a lot of cool products that tie to the cloud that I would love to use but simply can't due to security concerns.
Google buys Neverware, whose software turns old PCs into Chromebooks
-$30? That sounds reasonable, someone to pay me to take the test.
Mikrotik and nothing else.
> I'll tell you what: instead of "don't use PGP," how about "Don't use SHA-1 and don't use any tool that accepts SHA-1 by default."

OK - lets see the implications of this:

> Today, in 2020, that means "don't use ...

Debian.

(As far as I can tell, the known SHA1 attacks have no practical impact on the security of using PGP to sign software updates, where the key management isn't reliant on web of trust... )
"The halcyon days of Google’s youth are a distant memory."

Cheers to the legal assistant who won't get nearly enough credit for this.
That happens almost never.
> the vast majority of cars today simply don't work for a family of five

I recently visited Pakistan for the first time, and was amazed to see a family of five riding around on a small Honda motorbike. The father was driving, a small child sat in front of the father, the was mother hanging on behind the father, and the oldest daughter sitting on the far back with both legs hanging off to the left while holding an infant. None of them were wearing helmets. It was both terrifying & impressive.
for sure. it's easy to say "I wish I'd done X" when all the effort required for X would already be in the past.
> That'll probably just get you penalized by Google Search...

Then don't add it for Googlebot User-Agents or IPs.
So where do I actually get this upstream (RHEL8) source of say dracut? Because I was reacting to the comment "Red Hat publishes it's sources on https://git.centos.org. Those are then used to build CentOS Linux packages."
Technology is the problem. You cannot fix it with more technology.
A data broker is something from Cyberpunk, I think.

People might think they exist in the real world because they think Google "sells your data", which they don't do, they sell ads. Their business model relies on nobody else getting your data.
I feel the biggest thing that FB brings to the table is multiplayer and social. Because their device is both capable, inexpensive, and easy to setup; it's the most democratic. I can almost always find others to play with or against compared to Steam, where only a few games have a lot of players.
> Just trying to encourage reasoning about viewpoints different to your own.

Great. Thanks. Always a good thing for people to do and we need more of that. I wouldn’t say it’s warranted here, however, because I can see viewpoints and also think they are “out of control”. (Just a term of convenience so please don’t read too much into that specific way of phrasing things).

For example, I can see good intentions or the viewpoint behind letting people defecate and do heroin in the streets, and also come to view that letting people do so is still a crazy idea. (And I do, in fact I think it’s absolutely out of control).

Similarly, I can understand a small town in Alabama wanting to teach the Bible in their public schools because it’s their schools and they pay for them, but also find that utterly incompatible with my views.

Good ole’ Midwest. Right smack in the middle ;)
I don't think anyone argues that in specific incidents helmets are safer.

The question is whether or not the second order effects of compulsory helmets outweigh the benefits for the individual, namely;

- helmets make biking more inconvenient and compulsory usage of helmets suppresses cycling rates. In addition to the argument that is is a net negative because people get less exercise, there is also a second argument; because cyclists are less common, drivers are less familiar with how to interact with them, which leads to poorer judgement and more accidents per capita for the people still cycling. (In some cases, unfamiliarity also breeds anger and resentment; many a cyclist has a story of getting run off the road, drivers rolling coal at them, etc.)

- drivers are generally overestimating confidence and safety when it comes to cycling. They may generally act more dangerously around people who look like they know what they're doing (e.g. the stereotype of the Lycra-clad road biker), which leads to more and deadlier accidents.

As far as your sister's accident goes, there are two modes of thinking about it. One is to create more regulation, which generally tends to encumber the more vulnerable user (e.g. mandatory helmets), and depends on pretty much constant, vigilant enforcment; the other is to physically engineer a road environment where a high-speed intersection collision is less likely, if at all possible. (This may involve things like a tight roundabout to force slow speeds and paying attention; raising the crosswalks or even the entire intersection; narrowing the road and installing chicanes so that one cannot speed in a straight line down a road; or creating a shared space by removing all curbs and road markings so that one must pay attention because the environment is so uncertain and confusing.)
Well there go my theories about 76 trombones or Freddie Gibbs
Attorneys-General typically have other attorneys working for them.
RFC: Error Handling – Chaos Programming Language
The Animals of Chernobyl
As we stray further away from true market competition, this sort of behavior for those at the top to collude against the market versus compete for it is going to be too great for them to resist.
> e.g. very few bags might hold a 15-in laptop and also a helmet

I clip the helmet to the backpack straps.
Does Alexa still maintain their list of categorizations of the top N million websites?
Pretty standard horrible/biased/misleading headline.

They're letting some random new driverless vehicle startup test their software/hardware on one specific route, a specific two mile back road. That's it. They're letting them TEST it. They're not saying that the same software/hardware could be used elsewhere. They're not saying that they have driverless trucks developed. They're not saying anything other then they're letting some random company test things out with one of their truck on a short, barely populated road, in perfect conditions.

Yet any random member of the population that reads that headline would assume that Walmart would have driverless trucks in 2021. But that's not the case whatsoever. 2021 will come and go and nothing will have changed.
KaiOS is a joke though... More akin to your desk calculator than a phone that we have become accustomed to. They sell because they are cheap, not on any other merit.
This is great news. The thing I can't understand is, Ellume is an Australian company and somehow, the US has approved these rapid testing kits and Australia has not. Just seems strange and backwards to me.
The world’s first autonomous motorcycle – GhostRider
A member of the Texas A&M University Reveille Racing team was co-lead of the Blue Team that developed the world’s first autonomous motorcycle, GhostRider, an semi-finalist entrant in the DARPA Grand Challenge (DGC) 2005 with Ansys as a sponsor.
This is a large motivation of mine for reading fiction and watching good drama. The best of it can provide insights into my own life that {categorized mental dynamic} is too blunt an instrument to probe. The Crown springs to mind - the latest season is absolutely fantastic for furthering my understanding of the human condition. My wife and I find ourselves discussing every episode and character at length for all their nuances, which are often difficult to put into words.
But thats such a specific example. Math books have so much complex notation and wierd inline elements... he had to invent TeX for that. HTML/CSS wouldn't handle it.

Basically for all normal texbooks you will want epub as digital format. And if you have lot of ilustrations or wierd format book then just get the printed version.
If this is actually true, it has huge ramifications.

Google and FB have become two of the largest companies in the world. Why? Because they have an exclusive lock on digital advertising.

And remember the illegal non-poaching agreements?

Google might look a lot more like Yahoo if these two scandals never occurred. What would be a fair punishment? I am thinking a fine to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
Important in 1925 was the start of electric recording, so the sound quality gained significantly compared to older works.
Still early on (I launched during the pandemic), but my make-at-home dog treat mix business is rapidly heading in the right direction and should hit profitability early next year. That said, that's in large part because it's just me and I'm not paying myself.

I came from enterprise SaaS before this, and on the one hand it's great to be dealing with something tangible. Every time I get the Shopify notification on my phone that I've sold something, it is the greatest feeling that someone has decided to shell out money for something that I created. Of course, the downside is that I have to actually pack and ship something every time that happens... that's the upside of SaaS - build once, sell over and over.

I was already making the treats for my dogs, so I started by getting a designer on 99designs to make the logo and packaging, throwing a Shopify site up and telling people I knew. Thankfully now I'm at the point where I'm starting to manage profitable search ads and I think I'll have profitable Facebook ads soon.

The business is https://coopersdogtreats.com/.
About half the people in the US think he was trying to uphold democracy by removing all doubt that a free and fair election occurred.

I don't care either way, but I wanted to point that out.