skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From all things we can benefit from public domain, I think the ugly mouse is the most useless. People should just give Disney a "forever copyright" on the ugly mouse so that they would let everything else alone.
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I think this was well known for a long time, but interesting that it has come to light only now.
OnlyOffice Community Server: how bugs contribute to security problems
>because the average person cannot program.

EWD was right in the sense of his definition of "Program" i.e. as a mathematical object. What he did not quite foresee is that it takes only a few intelligent folks to invent/design/implement the entire infrastructure so that the general "mass of programmers" can use those to certain profit without much mathematical background. This was how the "Industrial Age" played out, we use a lot of machines everyday without having an inkling of how they work. I think Dijkstra failed to realize that this was as true of "Software" as of material objects. In his defense, the "Software Industry" was still being invented at that time and hence nobody could predict how things would turn out in the future.

But his fundamental thesis that a "Program" should be treated as a mathematical object and proved using rigorous logic is still true and by that definition a lot of us fail the test. This is quite independent of the fact that the society at large has accepted a watered down definition of a "Program" with all its shortcomings and failures.
Now that I think about it, I know many people, including me, who don't know how long the support for their smartphone is. At some point I guess you just stop receiving security updates but how would a regular user know and notice this means they lost security support? All people I know use the phone as long as it works or they just want a prettier one with a better camera. I've never heard someone say "oh shit, my phone is off support, now I have to buy a new one".

This being said, is someone implying having shorter support for a phone increases overall sales?
> Choir synths for music production can run for thousands of dollars

Do you have an example? Why are they so expensive, are there no community projects in existence?
I think Gruber's analysis is quite correct:

Full-page issue messaging ads are about reaching very specific demographics
in a conspicuous way. But in today’s world, it’s kind of transparent whom
Facebook is targeting here: old white politicians.

so I don't think those two are related.
You can write global reactions to state changes very easily.

This is exactly the problem, shared mutable state leads to "spooky action at a distance". It results in causal connections between parts of your codebase that are not reflected in the control flow of your code. If you have immutable unidirectional data flow causal relationships between parts of your code base must be reified in the control flow of the language.

Most components do not have any async effects.

At least when using Apollo / GraphQL almost every component ends up with async effects.

I think this talk by Andre Staltz is the best explanation and solution of the problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXdtrhn8iII
The article copy states that the faces are from real people who submitted photos. The next logical step here I think is using AI to create a unique face that [probably] isn't in any Face Recognition database.
Google: "Don't be evil (... that's our job!)"
Since this hasn't been a large scale security problem at all, it is probably a business move and an attempt to increase accountability. I host elsewhere already, but this is a bad move that cannot be explained by security arguments.

They might want have any 2FA solution to hold people responsible. Youtube-dl ring a bell? Even if the authors are known, this grants Microsoft new levers against unwanted code.

Get another source host asap. You either need a phone number or a smartphone app, which decreases overall security and compromises your privacy.
I know 3 immediate family/ relatives who have a car in Tokyo (all are living the 23). My wife’s cousin even has a nice old school Cadillac Escalade he imported from the US (it’s American style left hand drive). That said he likes cars and motorcycles, he’s also a bus driver to Seibu. I’m always impressed by the skill it takes to drive a bus around Tokyo.

I find renting a car in Tokyo super easy. It enables so many things like small day trips. We got one last week to go to the zoo. Often it’s easier to rent a car than take the train to Saitama. So even when you don’t own a car it’s still very accessible and affordable.

Per the article, minivans kinda suck in the US. Japanese ones are much cooler. I think there wouldn’t be as much minivan stigma in the US of Japan exported some of those designs.
The Oculus Quest 2 is $299 and it fits inside a small case.

I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but your alternative is a giant, heavy, antique that's hard to find and that probably costs a few thousand dollars not including maintenance; and it plays only one game.

I would highly recommend at least trying modern VR (Google Cardboard doesn't count) before having a stronger opinion on it
Also the premise, plot and set were dire too.

I think the only bit that made any sense was the section 31 stuff in the later film.
That's Dsundoku.
What I am wondering about: I worked with and designed clean room equipment in the nineties. I remember that HEPA requires a considerable pressure difference which cannot be delivered by an axial fan. You'd need a radial one which can deliver a considerable differential pressure, at cost of throughput (where the axial fan shine). If you strap a HEPA to an axial fan and seal it, the fan runs effectively "empty", i.e. it displaces only little air which most likely even doesn't pass the filter. That's why HEPA filters work in vacuum cleaners since they have radial fans. I am astounded by the results of the post.

I tested simply with a laser. In a normal room you can see the laser beam in dark. If you have a good purifier, you can't.
The lg smart TVs use webOS as their OS. So I guess everything you do with the TV uses it
Mine does as well. There are plenty of VR headset cover options depending on what you want. I would try it before dismissing it, because it doesn't sound like you've even tried VR.

I use silicone covers and I have a small towel on my neck. It works fine. There are other options as well.
Congratulations! Driving a van sounds like a good choice when everyone has to go.
I'd love the same. I often think that a good data science IDE will end up looking like RStudio with mlflow abilities. I barely use R at all anymore (or IDEs really), but RStudio is still the best attempt at a data science IDE that I've come across.

knitr/Sweave integration for literate programming, dedicated panes for plots and printing `help` documentation, and not having to mix code and output like notebooks do. It gets a lot of things right (for me).
Or XMonad's layout processing pipeline.

But it's a nice trick and I will fully admit it :)
I think the big news here is that Qualcomm SoC releases were a fire and forget operation before this deal.

How could they become the dominant chip maker without providing better after sales support for Linux/Android untill now?

The cynical in me thinks this is related to Google soon releasing their own CPUs.
Probably because there is enough competition on the credit card and payment market; do they have a monopoly? Are they driving the competition out of the market?
I think in general the demoscene is more heavily weighing technical excellence. Ie the audience is expected to understand and be awed by that, more than the artistic part, though the latter can be important as well.
The Story of Pez
Launching the marketplace of Wialon-based solutions
If there was a party on Surgeons Birthday, he might be hung-over the next day. Like the day after Christmas. or New Year.
Hooks are the place to segment out effectful code from otherwise pure code

The effectful code shouldn't even be there. It should live separately from the render / view code to make it easier / faster to test without having to simulate a fake DOM. The average call to `render` takes around 100ms. The tests could be orders of magnitude faster and so much easier to test if people would just keep their business logic and effects seperate from their render code. Does no one remember MVC?
Anecdotally, We got a couple of Bengal cats a few years ago. We got into the habit of saying 'Hello <cat-name>' every time a cat walked into the room.

Now the cats say 'eh-owww' whenever they see us, and also say the same phrase in different ways depending on what they want/need. It took us a while to work out the meanings of the intonations, but now we are pretty good at working out if it's a greeting, request, or just acknowledgement.

I'm not sure who trained who, but it seems to work. :D
My son is still an infant, and sometimes things (teething, stomach aches, who knows) keeps him from sleeping. The Kindle makes it much more tolerable to walk around and rock him at night.

Of course, it also helps that my employer will reimburse any book purchases I make.
The studio behind Nintendo’s most unexpected game of the year
Don’t leave us hanging. Why is the minivan peak of automotive greatness, particularly in comparison to the other cars you mentioned. I would surly think a 911 is a much superior machine.
This is interesting and sounds eerily similar to the justifications made by the anti-net-neutrality lobby: "Here at Comcast, we're not penalizing your content, we're just prioritizing traffic from our Valued Partner sites..."
You might want to update the link here to the medium post itself.
The only car you mention is the RX-8
So buy a PSVR then. You're locked in software wise, but it sounds like you don't care if its a Playstation.
I am overjoyed that Google is finally getting payback for AMP.

Small sites don’t have the resources to support it, and are therefore at a major disadvantage compared to the big clickbait news factories, who of course have the resources to build entire second versions of their pages for AMP.

Meanwhile, if you don’t comply with Google’s AMP demands, you likely wont appear in the “articles for you,” suggestions every time you open chrome on mobile. Nor will you be featured in certain content carousels on Google search. This can amount to shutting off 30% or more of your traffic.

If Google wanted to make the web faster, they could have just tweaked the search algorithm to more heavily favor faster sites. Problem solved.

Google can only force the adoption of AMP because of their monopoly power. They claim it is an “open source” project but this is questionable. 90%+ of commits are Google employees. It’s not like “the community” designed it or has any power to change it.

I always cite AMP as the most cut and dry piece of evidence that Google is a harmful monopoly. I continue to be astonished that higher ups at Google ever greenlit the idea in the first place.

I love Google and what they’ve done for the internet, but it’s clear they need to be reigned in.
I understand wanting to get rid of FB, but whats your reason for whatsapp? Whatsapp is end to end encrypted, so they can't get access to your messages, no? Is it just that they are owned by FB, or do you have greater security / privacy concerns that I am missing?
Is trampolining automatic, or does it have its own syntax as well?

Even a little thing like (recur ...) could be a tiny amount of friction. But good to read, that the usual cases are apparently handled well in the language.
Ask HN: Best iPad App for Handwritten Notes?
I am embarking on a little project with my old and sick father-in-law, helping him write down notes of his past.

I would like to use an app on an iPad that allows him to take handwritten notes, using Apple Pencil 2. (these were my early Christmas presents for him).

I've been trying using Apple's "Notes", which seems ok. But I'm wondering if there's something else out there that uses a better file format, and allows for more flexible integration between normal text (meaning: keyboard input) and handwritten notes (or should I say Apple-pencil-written?).

Thanks for any pointers.

Edit: I've looked online, and found lists like this [0]. But it seems quite hard to discern whether an app is a good match for what I'm trying to do.

[0]: https://collegeinfogeek.com/best-note-taking-app-for-ipad/
Ask HN: How do you process b2b payments?
This is how YOU solved it. Let us know if it's physical or virtual.

I found an old post from 2019 mostly about b2c payments, wondering how people do this for higher value b2b payments where customers might want more payment options. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22175695
It looks the consensus here is pretty much that anyone who tried the latest tech understands that we have went beyond a certain point here.

Comparing to phones, I think this is the point where we have keypad-phones. Content is still limited, but using your imagination you can create good experiences.

Personally, I switched to VR/Quest gaming from PC this autumn, and I feel good about it. I feel healthier than sitting in front of PC. I also feel less isolated with the family, as we have more 'playing together' now. As a developer, I'm exited to try out to create new kind of experiences, like I did 16 years ago with phone SDK's.

If you think yourself as a creator, I think you feel a fool if you wait another ten years - seeing the times when a single person could do something meaningful, going past.
Agreed. This isn't a "Ulbrecht never should have gone to jail", this is "putting someone in jail until they die is too severe a sentence".

I mean, people who have actually murdered other people are usually at least given a chance at parole.
With the same throughput radial fans are much bigger than an axial fan. But they can deliver differential pressures in the range of several 100 Pa, which axial fans cannot.
I am not completely up to date on the right/left positioning, but I agree state-funded media is needed as a baseline to at least properly convey any purely factual issue (i.e. it's optimal for official info, like which law passed or who won the elections cough).

Of course it can't be the only media, nor should be trusted that much more than other media for any generic topic. In particular it shouldn't be trusted to be complete nor people focused, so there is still the need to find other sources that complete the picture with different angles that can be crucial.
Three years running Kubernetes on production at Bedrock
Same thing here, though we don't have a kid just yet. In my case the TV cable decoder just stopped working for whatever reason a year and a half ago and I never really managed to call the TV cable company to tell them to come and fix it.

I can still watch football (soccer) matches by casting from my computer to the TV and we do have a Netflix account (which we don't even use that heavily) shared with a close friend but that's about it. I can confirm that the change for the best has been considerable.
Probably HN title filtering that did it. They try to prevent titles like “10 facts about cats” etc, automatically removing leading numbers. But sometimes, like here, it doesn’t have quite the intended effect.
If the future is autonomous drones killing kids in Pakistan, I don't want to go there.
What are your impressions so far?
In my experience embedded or control system software is more about the thing being controlled than anything else so that would seem natural?
We have open source, open hardware build instructions for a very reliable Air quality sensor that can be used to measure PM2.5 and also CO2.

https://www.airgradient.com/diy/

We have tested it extensively and it is very accurate for the fraction of the costs of commercial sensors. You can build it for less than USD 20 and send the data to our cloud server or any other backend.

We also measure CO2 because if you have purifiers running you often do not have enough fresh air ventilation and your CO2 often gets very high (often >1500ppm) causing headaches and reduce cognitive performance.

We measured this in classrooms some time ago and the results were not very good.

Details. https://www.airgradient.com/blog/2020/02/07/we-measured-the-...
The correct translation for German Language is "Deutsch" instead of "Deutsche"
Via QEMU.

Which means really, really slow.
Thank you, Mike. For anyone who wants to get Newsletter feeds into Feedly: https://blog.feedly.com/get-newsletters-in-feedly/ (we have also Twitter feeds)
Severity of drug crimes tend to have to do with volume (Ross' was vast) and also things like whether weapons or violence was involved.

You don't have to be convicted of attempted murder for hire to have evidence that you were attempting to commit murder for hire in your drug case. The judge can surely use evidence presented in the case to decide severity.
Jeff Bezos would probably just subsidize the launch cost by dumping another couple billion into BO, making it the cheapest option to Amazon.
As soon as you don’t have to put that huge thing in your head anymore.
Apple products have social media baked into them - and one that cannot be used on other devices. Remember iMessage exists?
People have more money than time. It's that simple.
100% agree on that.
The budgets for arts & culture projects are very small, most companies could afford said division
GetBlock and Hive.io Hold a Crypto-Christmas Giveaway
Wacom does make a special 6 DOF pen for use with VR: https://developer.wacom.com/en-us/wacomvrpen
I haven't seen "using Oracle Linux will result in me being sued".

What I've seen is "Oracle is evil", "don't trust Oracle", and something like "my prior history around Oracle has left such a lasting bad taste that I throw up a little in my mouth every time I touch something with Oracle in it, so I'd rather do almost anything but use something from Oracle, since using it on the daily would inevitably lead to permanent esophagus damage."

I mean... Oracle buying up MySQL was enough for MariaDB to be created and move to being the default. (well, and some of what Oracle did right afterwards).
This can be a way to trick street surveillance/face recognition systems.
EfficientDet: Guide to State of the Art Object Detection Model
Monica's compulsive cleaning and neat freak characteristics are central plot points in season one already. The ending of S1E6 ending is one of the examples of this.
They only pay £500 if you're already on low income. Is there any basis to your claim that suddenly a lot more people started getting infected? It's my recollection that cases were already rising fast when this was announced.
I think I might have a solution!
Lost its soul and became twisted along the way? Not at all, Facebook was always like that from the start. Check its first pitch deck - they clearly mention classifying (college) users by their demographics and interests to advertise to them.
I've got a stacked 64Gb Dell XPS 5550 and an ass end M1 MacBook Air. I'd rather use the Air any day.

But I'd rather just use my desktop M1 Mini than both. It has a 27" screen and a proper keyboard (Durgod K320) attached to it. All my shit is in AWS now.
> But in today’s world, it’s kind of transparent whom Facebook is targeting here: old white politicians.

Is the word "white" here really that important. Is is true that within this issue there is an adversarial relationship between races and people of different skin color?
Same situation with WhatsApp. It's deeply engrained in my home country's social groups. One group of friends followed me to Telegram, along with my direct family... but my more distant relatives and other groups of friends didn't bite. The other difficult one was Facebook Messenger.

Guess I'm banking on people finally realizing how creepy Facebook is. But since some of my friends have abandoned Facebook in favor of Instagram, of all places... guess I'm playing the long game.
Rosetta uses Ahead-of-Time compilation of instructions. For running a VM, you need real-time compilation, which qemu can do.
The math of free vs paid has been long settled. If a product can get hundreds of millions of free users from "Western" countries, free trumps any paid model. Firefox still has 250 million users, so free still makes the most sense.
Except processing power is not a currency, so it's the opposite way round...
I agree with you on those projects and Mint, my only response is that they are all much smaller projects that lack the funding and size/force of will that Ubuntu was able to achieve. That isn’t to take away from them at all, but aside from System 76 (a boutique reseller who until recently has primarily just sold re-badged Taiwanese laptops (good laptops to be sure, Clevo is a solid ODM), most of them are either largely community projects or very nascent businesses with a few full-time employees.

Again, that isn’t a criticism — I’m friends with some members of the elementary team and absolutely love what they do — truly. But none of those projects can make the type of investment that Canonical did or that the other big Linux vendors who have all but abandoned the desktop (SuSE/Novell, Red Hat) did, or even now-bankrupt/sold for pennies to PE companies did (Mandriva (née Mandrake), Corel, Linspire (remember those crooks!)) or that some promised to do, but later abandoned (Steam).

Maybe that’s OK. Maybe the number of Linux desktop users is content with work being done and sustained largely by community volunteers or very small companies. But as good as the work many of those groups do is, I do think the lack of a Canonical type of company does hurt the whole ecosystems ability to grow, innovate, and reliably attract new users. On a personal level, I think that everyone should give up the pretense of Linux on the desktop ever evolving beyond an extremely niche thing, and be content that the Linux kernel is at least the basis for stuff like ChromeOS and Android (which while absolutely not Linux on the desktop or on mobile, are at least major desktop platforms), but that’s just me.

Deepin is interesting because it has a strong source of funding and developers/partners and has made really great moves on the UI front and it’s partnerships with ZTE and Huawei (Huawei even ships Deepin on many of its machines now). My personal concern with Deepin is the security and privacy with it — and I have those same concerns for any state-sponsored version of Linux or any operating system to be honest. Deepin is also very insular in its development (far more than even Ubuntu), and that might just be necessary to achieve the sort of polish it has, but that distinct lack of community could be a turn-off to many.

What I’m saying is, I don’t necessarily disagree with your assertion that Canonical should pull out from the desktop even more, but I think a lot of people underestimate just how big of a void that will leave in the desktop space and as good as those projects you mentioned are, I don’t think any of them individually or collectively can fill it. Especially financially.
Fully automated software to make a fulltime income working at home trading forex
A lot of this work reminds me of a guest lecture by the photographer Andres Serrano that I saw in college. At one part he showed us some recent work of his from a series titled 'Ejaculate in Trajectory'. While I expect that like Serrano the artists have enjoyed making these I'm not sure what else there is to gain from them.
There's a dashboard for it somewhere and iirc something like 50-80% of bitcoins haven't moved in over a year.