skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if intentional, but this article really sounds like it was written by a neural network.
I prefer the Windows desktop over the various Linux desktops I've looked at. I've got Ubuntu 20 in a VMWare machine when I need it.
Magnets or electrically induced magnetic fields?
The Indian ISPs such as Reliance JIO have been caught doing deep packet inspection and MITM on internet traffic with absolute impunity - impersonating even Google servers to get user data:

https://twitter.com/kingslyj/status/1172737012316590080

The Indian national id called the AADHAR leaks like a sieve and the government insists that is not the case.

https://thewire.in/government/aadhaar-remains-an-unending-se...

As AADHAR is linked to all sorts of services which users can access, it reveals a whole lot about users - including details such as their bank account numbers and in some cases even transactions.

In one case, data for over 130 million AADHAR numbers was leaked:
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/aadhaar-data...

People have been caught selling this data for as little as Rs.500
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-42575443

Some of the people who are managing these things are totally incompetent and refuse to face facts. They have given stupid challenges to hackers and have had to face embarrassing exposes but they still refuse to acknowledge the problems:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/trai-chiefs-aadhar-da...

That apart, state governments have been sharing voter data surreptitiously with political parties.

https://www.newsclick.in/Telangana-MLC-Polls-Voters-Allege-P...
How does lxd fit into this space - similar to docker it's also based on cgroups and namespaces?
Certain truth to that.

When someone here writes "I work at FAANG", that usually means Amazon.
What makes you think that this article really sounds like it was written by a neural network?
> that doesn't involve any soldering

You do you, but if I may suggest that if electronics projects interest you at all, it’s worth a little bit of time to learn some basic soldering skills. Not only will it give you a lot of flexibility, even just a little investment of time in learning basic soldering techniques will almost certainly save you time in the long run.
I wonder if it's easier to write an eytzinger binary search (which is also cache-aware and therefore faster):

https://algorithmica.org/en/eytzinger

Funnily enough, the first example of a standard binary search contains the same overflow error.
My experience with Apple (in Germany) was mostly opposite: when I ran into hardware issues it made more sense to go to Apple's long term exclusive partners in the region, than into an Apple store, where I'd run into completely disinterested and barely competent Genius Bar interns.
The title reminded me of snarxiv, a generator of fake high energy physics article titles:

http://snarxiv.org/
All the best left-wing thinkers are also dead.
It's likely that people would travel here from the future if FTL was physically possible.
I found that management's incentives are aligned with the majority. Example reply from management: "our clients are not paying for tests" (yes they are - for the lack thereof, and not with money)

For years I thought that this is some kind of defect that I must work on, so I tried to fit in, but I just can't.

I never had the courage to remain in the role of a "disruptor" for long myself because the resistance I encountered was just too much. It's only the presence of other such people that allowed me to not give in to burnout.
I think the Reuters news website [0] comes close to this ideal. Generally neutral reporting of facts with few, if any, embellishments.
[0] https://mobile.reuters.com/
Could it be a misunderstanding of the outcome, or perhaps bias in Facebooks algorithms? The best predictor of your target is: your target. In this case it’s predicting who will buy your product. Using a proxy such as income and education is a good start but surely cannot be the best approach because it artificially limits the search space. The best target is some ML-determined combination of features. My guess is that for niche items such as expensive watches and cars, Facebook’s targeting may be too liberal with lower income earners. But I think this the result of being very good at targeting the general audience for medium-low priced goods and services.
I've seen this too, and I'm wondering how (or if) this fits into the shapes/additive/subtractive model.

"Ritual" work doesn't seem like it falls under additive or subtractive to me. Maybe it's some combination of being multiplicative / reshaping? If you can multiply/reshape you or others' efforts towards the project, the project (hopefully) becomes easier.

There's a bit of an assumption that someone is "modifying" work in a useful way--multiplying a shape won't help if more of that shape isn't useful.
Docker on Mac or Windows is a Linux VM. It's not magically portable.
Hey! Thanks. I’m glad your resonate with the concept. I’ll add more context to this in the upcoming days, but the gist is: an aggregator of companies that are transparent, question profit at all costs, want to stay small on purpose, and put people first.

It’s going to be a mix of remote companies and local businesses. And people will be able to suggest companies that fit this profile as well.

You’ll also know if some of them have any openings or not.
> This doesn't happen when I use a VPN.

That points at your network (ISP, LAN) more than DDG. You might try other less popular search engines (maybe Bing) to see if this behavior happens there as well.
I'm watching MacOS gradually become this, and I'm not pleased about it. I'm pretty sure I understand why it's happening: Apple is managing its full ecosystem for its own benefit.

My concern is that as a fallible lil' human, and moreover one with autism, I find it probably more upsetting than most to have stuff randomly break for no reason. I depend on continuity and repetitiveness to be well. As such I try to operate on computer systems that don't change out from under me at someone else's whim, because I can be thrown into the inability to function, by something at an unexpected level of abstraction blowing up.

This most recently happened under OSX Mojave when my (non-Apple)_apps could no longer check with the authentication server and would not launch. I lost a day to trying to repair my system: Apple had never told me 'by the way, everything you run now has to talk to a server of ours or it'll refuse to launch'. I disabled the functionality, but I can't have things like that going on. It makes Apple the cyber-terrorist they are trying to 'protect' us from.

Again, I understand their motivation as they are a titanic collective entity trying to administrate and tend another titanic collective entity, their userbase, which they feel is a part of themselves.

However, as a lil' human type, I am too deeply committed to maintaining usefulness for lots of older computers owned by other lil' human types, many of whom can't consistently throw thousands of dollars at Apple to stay in the ecosystem as Apple understands it. I find Apple's actions morally reprehensible (granted, among the least reprehensible actors in the world of computers and internet, but still)
This argument is entirely based on emotion. Even if it's true, which I think it is, there is no objective evidence that black leadership in police leads towards better policing for black citizens. Thus, people only apply this logic when it fits their worldview. The same people who celebrate black leadership in police will call these same departments "systemically racist" when something bad happens, which is exactly what happened in Minneapolis.
Easy. Spammers. If there is no caller ID and I don't know you I don't answer the phone. No doubt I miss an important phone call from time to time. This is the uncounted cost of spam. I hate it. We put up with it for some reason.
Both have large privacy concerns. Facial recognition should not be used in a way where you can't opt out.
or kurosawa
I identify with the "rituals" bit a lot. My most vivid example if this is from a project, much of whose code I had co-written. It was a real-time model delivery system, which mostly used to work fine, except for a few minutes every day (or sometimes once in two days) where it'd hang and had to be a restarted. The ritual was this: it became a practice to restart the process at a predetermined hour everyday!

I tried to convince the team to debug the issue, but no one was having it: why break something that works.

I am somewhat fine with restarting being a fix... only if we know what issue it's s fix for.
Just want to jump
in on this - watch the video, read the slides. It's powerful
stuff. No all the answers are not there, hell most of the questions are not there, but just take 2 minutes and read it.
> The Safe-Inet service was shut down and its infrastructure seized in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and the United States. The servers were taken down, and a splash page prepared by Europol was put up online after the domain seizures. This coordinated takedown was carried out in the framework of the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats (EMPACT).

I like how they specify ; "Since September 21 2020" in the takedown notice to stir up some paranoia for the lulz.
I don't know whether Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism or not. What I do know however is that it brings out the worst in me and in many others with whom I've played the game.

I haven't played it for years after deciding that it was too divisive and caused too much acrimony among players. For example, deception was often the order of the day—I and other family members would hide assets like surreptitiously sitting on a $500 note only to suddenly produce it to pounce-purchase some property after other players had failed to keep tally of one's earnings/assets and so on.

Fights and arguments would often ensue with people not talking one another for hours, sometimes days. Frankly, it's a horrible game that one could easily argue was designed specifically to bring out the worst in human nature.
> GoDaddy has a free monitoring service [1] ...

Does anyone other than GoDaddy have such a service? I would use this, but wouldn't trust GoDaddy not to steal the domain out from under me and then try to extort me for money. (Or just be obnoxious and try to advertise to me left and right.)
That's not a bug, it's Germany! The aerial imagery comes from the Austrian basemap.at dataset, which only covers Austria. If you use imagery that covers multiple countries this isn't an issue, but for this project I wanted to try out the basemap.at data. See https://github.com/felixpalmer/procedural-gl-js/ for more
Feedback for New Social-Media Voice App: BlackBird
Hello everyone! After watching a few years ago a video about coffeehouses in the 18th century and why they were the center of innovations within that time, I finally made the step of starting Blackbird!

Interesting fact is that, in those coffeehouses people thought coffee made them more creative and helped them come up with new ideas such as the lightbulb but actually it was the community! People would meet and just talk and brainstorm together for hours drinking coffee. I felt like this is missing nowadays and new things we learn can't be shared as easy as in that time only through voice.

That's why I started BlackBird! To help people like you and me to discover new interesting topics, enter those channels with other users and simply talk about the given topic with a bunch of people.

Link: https://blackbird.launchaco.com/

Hope to get some feedback from you guys and ofc some interested users hopefully who might be interested in joining the first version of it! Thank you all and wish you great holidays with your families and a great start into 2021.

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PS: I know about Clubhouse haha we are learning from their mistakes and having 4 more major features in the pipeline to offer.
I think clipboard history (Win + V) in Win10 is completely enough to replace ClipX.
Transferring only deltas is a performance optimization, not a question of semantics. Git-lfs needs to be able to perform binary diffs to save you from uploading 2 GB every time you touch a 2 GB file, not so that it can display useful diffs.
"Why is is that every snake-oil startup sounds like this?

No. I’ve had a few drinks, but I wouldn’t say I’m drunk."

Seems intentional to me
can you explain to me how that fixes it? Thanks
> You would not hear the end of it and sanctions and actions against them would be instant and severe.

If you really imagine that any country in the world has either the means or the will to impose sanctions on the US or the UK, you definitely live in a different international community than I do.

And blaming China, which was giving correct information about the virus by January, for so many states refusing to take serious measures EVEN TODAY would be a total farce.

China did try to cover up the virus in December of last year, and should be condemned for it. But they then showed the world how to deal with it and shared all of the relevant information as early as February. The failed responses by all European states and the US, most/all Latin American states, most Middle Eastern states etc. can in no way be blamed on China.

If you want to see what a non-story this virus could have been if there were political will to do the right thing, you need only look at Vietnam. They are a 100M-people state taht have 4 times fewer cases in total by today than 10M people Sweden gets each and every day.

Edit: China tried to downplay -> China tried to cover up
Santa Physics
Last year I witnessed a code review war between a "good shaped" and "bad shaped" developer.

He latter eventually won, because it appears that the "good practices" the former so zealously enforced were actually just his practices, and only made sense in the context of his own habits.
After WWII Japan’s exchange rate was fixed in a way that penalized consumption and subsidized production (for export). The result was the rapid rise of Japan as an industrial power in the 60s to the 80s. This is the same strategy that South Korea followed and China is following today.

While this strategy in the short term dramatically increases capital investment in a country in the long term it seems to come with a demographic drag. Workers simply stop having children as they are the largest consumption driver. Long term this creates profound demographic changes that ultimately are culturally fatal.
I found Directory Opus a couple years ago and I love it as a file manager. One of those tools that I didn't mind paying for. I know there's other 2-pane file managers, but this was my favorite after testing them.

https://www.gpsoft.com.au/
Source-Level Polymorphism in Rust
Hic Hic Mac late to the party yet again! Steve Jobs really did create a cult Burp
The difference between West Germany (Roman Germania) and East Germany (East Elbia - everything east of the Elbe river, later Prussia) is not something that originated during the cold war under GDR. The east has always been different from its western counterpart kingdoms in terms of language, religion, culture and so on and so forth, since its earliest records in history under the reign of Julius Ceaser.

So it might be surprising to those unfamiliar with German history because mainstream media and pop culture is only interested in German history during the World Wars and Cold War but has failed to portray the rest two thousand years of history.

[0] "The Shortest History of Germany" by James Hawes.
It's strange that this isn't a thing. Commercial pilots occasionally have a chief pilot observe their performance during flights and make suggestions on improvements.
This absolutely should be more of a thing in any healthcare setting too, not just surgery. Not just something that happens during residency.
After I launched a rocket, it was a bit of a letdown. (I mean I was sad it ended)

Before that, it was amazing.

"Do I fumble my way forward with my current way of doing things or try this new thing? (struggle struggle) Oh wow!"
I literally can’t work without Fences:

https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/

It is an amazing feature, I still can’t believe no major OS includes something similar as default.
Wonder why Canadians would be interested in moving to Finland. Don't you guys have enough cold and snow already?
I recall that was an area of complaint about AI researchers a year or two ago. Valley companies were hiring them away from Academia and little research was being published as a result.
Does the underlying datastructure allow for permissioned collaboration with others?

Can I share just a project with a co-worker without sharing the entire task database?
How excaty did you find "useful" [ one of the fine qualities to name it as best ] this video?
Moved from an iMac to a self-built Win10 workstation after the Catalina update completely bricked my Mac's firmware and Apple store in my area wanted to bill me 1.5k EUR for the repairs without any guarantees it'll work. Suggested I buy a new machine.

So I did. Went with a slightly odd choice of Windows 10 for Workstations, but the stability, extensibility with PowerShell, WSL2 and ReFS are super solid. Great for development, great for the Adobe suite.
> Yes, but even more: resolution. I don't want to think of whether I need HD or 4k later, I just want to do a cut now.

Got it, so if I understand correctly, that means reasonable defaults.

> Maybe you can check out what is easy to re-mux with ffmpeg if you use that. Often it's just the audio that needs to be re-encoded.

Unfortunately, I can't use ffmpeg in a commercial app. But yeah, I'll figure out something :)
We'll likely just end up with both. We'll end up with most of the facial recognition tech in black neighborhoods, because they police will decide where to put it.
In Java (I think that is the implementation language,) longs are 64bit and ints are 32bit, so I think this problem doesn’t come up
Hi HN, Merry Christmas to all!

I made this as a demonstration of the open data available from the Austrian government under the www.basemap.at project. The rendering engine is built on top of THREE.js and can be found here: https://github.com/felixpalmer/procedural-gl-js/

For those in the southern hemisphere, there is also a similar visualization of the national parks of New Zealand: https://felixpalmer.github.io/new-zealand-3d/
Would these work? They look like OpenWRT LoRaWAN gateways.

https://aliexpress.com/item/4000156211665.html

https://aliexpress.com/item/4001155475503.html
I was hyped for a new Half-Life game for the past ~13 years. Half-Life: Alyx delivered. Granted, it was my first VR experience so that definitely contributed to my enjoyment.
I wish I could work in a place like this. Here each designer is held hostage by an army of VPs, few of whom know anything about design, who oversee all decisions and can override any design at whim. Thus us engineers have to constantly deal with design changes, up to and even beyond shipping, which often make little sense to anyone much less our customers. The design team often has to go through multiple design reviews by various levels of these executives, leading to long process times where nothing can be delivered waiting on the schedules of the execs. Changes that could be made in code in a minutes might take weeks to deliver, but no delays in shipping are permitted, so often we guess and hope it's close to being right.

I hate reading about places that are sane.
> Persistent offending occurs in the context of the desire for fast money (p. 179), alienation (p. 182), rejection and defiance of authority (p. 183), and the view of the
criminal justice system (p. 184) and society/the world more generally as unfair or corrupt (p.186).

Who would have thought ?

For further insights ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Shakur#Discography
Mnemonist, Curated collection of data structures for the JavaScript language
There's a low-cost tracking antenna mount that's quite popular for first attempts, known as "a friend".

You lash an inclinometer to the boom, and hand them a compass. Tell them where the pass begins, and hope they can acquire it visually after that.

The hardest part is doppler correction, really. Get the software for that squared away well in advance.
Sometimes you have to be careful with your timing.

I went to Yosemite once mid-summer and it was crowded. Slightly off-season (after school starts for example) and it's a much different experience.
Minor personal confession, and a minor shameless plug.

I really enjoyed the Online Lisp Meeting talks[0] that have happened throughout this year. They show a lot of amazing and recent developments that have been occurring in various parts of the worldwide Lisp landscape, despite how much energy seems to go into repeatedly proclaiming the Lisp family of languages dead, over and over and over.

It was a good choice to host these talks regularly after this year's European Lisp Symposium. I'm glad that I did the work related to that, and I'll be glad to do more of this.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgq_B39Y_kKD9_sdCeE5S...

(Disclosure: two of the talks there are by me; my above comment, naturally, doesn't refer to them.)
I remember throwing nes controllers. Mega man was particularly good at upsetting me.

I also remember taking it as a challenge if we could break a controller. Took a fair bit of effort, all told.
Actually you would not expect it to increase the Downs rate at all - the null hypothesis is that there are X% Downs babies born and Y% identified through amniocentesis (where X-Y is z% the percentage of parents choosing termination)

edit: actually there is a Zt (percent of parents choosing termination after detection) and Zu (percent age of undetected cases going to term). Zt is a social / moral thing and won't change based on better pixel resolution, but Zu should not be expected to change either - we are assuming there has been no change to the real rate of Downs (which requires something else) and no change to rate of parents choosing termination (see morals)

so ...

If Y% increases a lot (better detection of an underlying true rate) then either X% must increase or z% must. Neither of which i think we expect or know about.

So what I hope happened was dramatically better training for operators on the new ultrasound (kind of like exactly what did not happen onthe 747Max)

So either the OP was one of the first to spot this issue, and tipped off the whole medical industry, or, and this is where my money goes, he followed the reasoning of dozens of professionals who were several years ahead of him (naturally) and was reassured by someone who just saw "anxious parent" in front of him.

But that's fine too :-)
No, the chances for real, long-lasting peace in the Middle East have actually ended with this year (or at least, this presidency).

While 4 years ago there was some hope, it is now impossible to imagine that:

(1) there will ever be a peaceful 2 state solution to the Palestinian crisis

(2) there will ever be another deal between the US and Iran

The fact that a handful of arab states have agreed to join Israel's side instead of Palestine's is in no way an end to the threat that the conflict between the two creates.

And let's not forget that the war in Yemen is still ongoing, with US military support for the aggressor, Saudi Arabia.
ah damn. I've been working on a project that is supposed to emulate getting The Sunday Paper.

Only updated on Sundays with the top headlines of the week. No annoying pings, no data collection, etc.

I was demotivated when I scrolled through this, but luckily I still feel as though mine is different enough.
If profit is the motive for automation, what happens when people have less or no income?

Who buys the product so automated?
Spycursion (Hacking/Espionage MMO for Linux, Mac, and Windows): Trailer
They started off like that and got rid of that rule a few years in.
Another fun fact: you aren't allowed to cuss!