skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes sense. Craftspeople make their own tools. The better the tools a craftsperson can make the better the craft. And in design, the more skilled the designer the better tools they will design because designing tools is ‘just’ design.

At the edges there are not enough people for off the shelf solutions. And doing it yourself is more productive than shopping for a silver bullet.
Looks roughly like https://www.the-syllabus.com/, although presumably less firm (no criticism, just a different approach).
I think we the people could, in theory, make a difference and stop buying anything else but necessities from China or at least reduce the amount of crap we buy from there. But I don’t really see that happening. Western people are addicted to “cheaper” anything and CCP knows that weakness
Do you have evidence of the claim that mask mandates don't work? Not trolling - I'm genuinely interested. My understanding was that masks worked to reduce transmission.
Why didn't you stay with Julia? PyCall.jl might be helpful to replace Python.
I think President Trump's speech at Mt. Rushmore was great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXD4zPY4Ai0
Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?
More and more often when I search (using text queries, not image search, which I know has been polluted by Pinterest for years), I get pages upon pages of Pinterest results, sometimes the same Pinterest page but from the different pinterest country domains like pinterest.fi for Finland and pinterest.se for Sweden. Does anyone know if Google gives Pinterest preferential treatement in SEO rankings?

Edit: A few comments were asking what my queries were to generate search results where Pinterest dominates, so clarifying that a bit. I run a site that has a colour search engine for lipsticks and since Google is one of the dominant ways in which people land on my site (searching for things like "nyx budapest lipstick dupes"), I was studying various makeup related queries to see which sites ranked highest .

Edit2: Edited the title for clarity - I mean text search, not image search
Well, if you want to be technical about the history of hardware and software platforms in Hollywood, it was Atari and Silicon Graphics until the mid-1990s, when most studios switched to a combination of Windows/nix for their needs. Apple was briefly in consideration for DAWs/audio work in the late 80s/early 90s, until Windows DAWs started hitting the market in force.

Today, most Hollywood composers use Cubase, which was definitely Windows-first. TV productions favor Studio One, which again, was Windows-first (and from the same developers as Cubase). Pro Tools is industry standard for Hollywood movies...but it didn't become the standard until version 6, running on Windows. Ableton Live, which is the most popular tool for recording live music, was written first on Windows (but originally commercially released simultaneously for Windows and Apple).

And Logic on Mac was very much inferior to Logic on Windows, which is why Windows was the preferred platform for running Logic. The Mac version didn't become better than the Windows version until version 6, for which there was no Windows version. While all accounts say that Logic is a great DAW these days, because it's Mac-only, the only production companies that run Logic are ones that are exclusively Mac-based.
To abstract the way a trillion dollar company operates in 2 paragraph necessitates simplification. Point still stands: you don’t attribute revenue to just iOS or just iPhone hardware or just marketing team.

I think you know exactly what I mean. If you’re just trying to engage in an argument at the margin, you are not going to get one.
Mutated Covid-19 strain confirmed in Japan as case tally hits record high
Transmitting your hardware serial to Apple along with your direct IP permits Apple and anyone with access to Apple's databases/logs a record of your travel history, because IPs are city-level geolocation.

Macs and iPhones also maintain a persistent connection to the Apple push notification service with a TLS client certificate obtained via registering with the hardware serial.

Just because you personally are okay with Apple and, by extension, the US military having your travel history doesn't mean that there's no problem with it.
Really enjoyed that. I think I will also really enjoy a longer version that talks a little bit more concretely about the tech stack being used. Also, not sure if the qr code is just prop or not, scanning it didn't work.
I feel like this take is just overused. This whole line of thinking presupposes that Western Democratic Societies gain anything from locking people down, which I don’t think they do. Our economies are (generally speaking) consumer economies built on a base of individualized consumption and hedonistic pursuit with no regard for collective good. Locking people down and inhibiting the engine of our capitalist economies serves no benefit. Not to mention all the other avenues of control that are already existent and much more obscure. It wouldn’t make sense to destroy the economy and the legitimacy that props up the current power structures in order to gain control that already largely exists either through the state or private industry.

This feels like a way of contrasting the current situation with measures take post 9/11, which I think are much more nefarious and unjustified.

To be clear, I’m sure historians will be interested in the measures taken to fight this pandemic, just not for some “totalitarian control” reasons but rather for the necessity of fighting the virus on a global scale. The scale of the measures are unprecedented, but locking down isn’t some crazy novel idea. I mean even in Camus’ “The Plague” there is mention of that kind of strategy.
Right, elliptical. I meant to say she thought it was because of it.
I’ve been following some of these projects because I think there are a lot of cool applications for some of this stuff and it’s relatively cheap to get the hardware to hack on. GoTenna made a decent business out of making these consumer friendly even. They’re a great tool for when you’re out of cell phone range.

This particular project looks most aligned with Meshtastic https://github.com/geeksville/Meshtastic-esp32 I’m sure they would welcome additional hardware expertise!
As the article states, certain parts of the eye like the retina are actually considered a part of the brain, too. They form from the same embryonic tissue that forms the brain.
maybe automatically switch from dark mode to light mode at sunrise in Uganda, and switch back at sunset?
I don’t think it’s fair to blame Windows for all random behavior with arbitrary hw and sw configurations. If you build a Windows desktop with compatible components, it mostly works fine. If you install SW from parties who don’t have adequate expertise or quality control in place, you will start experiencing weird behavior. This is because Windows let’s the installed apps/drivers do a lot.

Windows 10s should fix some of these issues by restricting what the SW can do and what SW one can install to the machine they own, but not everyone wants to be restricted like this.
Yes, e.g. some old OpenSSL and GnuTLS versions will fail due to this, but it was considered a lesser issue than failing on old Android versions (by default): https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/questions-re-extending-a...

They will probably post details more prominently about that later.

You can also still offer a chain that works with old OpenSSL and GnuTLS but not with old Android if you prefer that.
Prof. Michael Levin's work, e.g. "Endogenous Bioelectric Networks & Regenerative Medicine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKWyB9qLP_s

Let's figure out how to regenerate limbs and organs, eh?
> Monocultures reinforce bad habits.

Very true but it is interesting that Apple is often used as an example to follow on avoiding a monoculture. In the business press anyway.

https://www.torbenrick.eu/blog/strategy/avoid-an-organizatio...
My other reference point for big tech companies is Facebook, which is mostly open internally. There were many times over the years where I was able to search around and find someone who had worked with a specific external partner or tool I was evaluating or developed something relevant internally, where I could reach out and get insights and pointers from them. Occasionally that turned into longer collaborations and a couple of times even people switching teams.
Well firstly you can literally compare anything ;)

But to be more precise: both "emit" light depending on the ambient light. Of course it's comparable.

The only thing really throwing off the LCD would be the white balance, but with the right sensor that too could be fixed (e.g. a camera with fixed wight balance behind milk-glass).
Cloudcraft is only for AWS and doesn't have all Terraform resources available, and the generation of the Terraform code is not complete.

Brainboard supports all cloud resources for AWS, Azure and GCP (Digital Ocean and Alibaba planned next) and fully supports any field available in Terraform (even map of maps).

It supports Terraform variables and have a git based versioning + a market place to design and distribute your blueprints to your team, organization or public.
Sorta. They run heat exchangers between the in-bound municipal water and loops that go to the office buildings.

So it helps with some eco-effects (ie: there’s no dumping of the heated water), but everyone’s municipal water is a bit warmer in summer. I don’t think the effects of that have been calculated. Can offset water heating a bit; but other office towers use that water for their a/c cooling needs.

They deepened the water intake too, so it definitely means colder tap water in winter too, which residents mostly have to heat up inefficiently.
Parent comment was correct at time of posting :-) This was a project from last Christmas that I was encouraged to post again; after inspiration from another thread here I added a new version that fits in a single sector.
Presumably by disabling system integrity protection.
Adafruit has a ton of stuff. I've been buying various boards from them and they even have "bonnets" for RaspberryPi that are plug and play with python example code.

https://www.adafruit.com/search?q=lora
Here is a list of 24 published papers that demonstrate lockdowns not working, in various forms including mask mandates. https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-co...

Here is a new study (not published) that suggests mask mandates are counterproductive https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1340725086278434821?s...

Would be nice if the mainstream media covered any of this.
Yes the only way around that is to have sudo activate a Secure Attention Key. Windows has had that for many many years ("press ctrl-alt-del to continue") though they seem to have ditched it in Windows 10. Presumably users didn't know what it meant or why it was there and just did it when asked by anyone.

I don't think it's really possible to make sudo use a SAK on Linux though because it requires tight integration of lots of components and Linux systems are cobbled together with glue and string.
This is the one app that keeps me from switching to linux as my primary OS
>> How do people get the next job after Apple? Let's say someone has worked there for a good couple of years - are they not allowed to share anything about that period in the job interviews or on Linkedin?

You have to be creative and toe the line. I have just spent some time interviewing after working at a place with a hardcore non disclosure agreement.

My LinkedIn for this job is a brief blurb that reveals the scope of my work/seniority without revealing details about the company. In the Apple case it could be something like "led team of X engineers developing the core server side infrastructure for payments." This is OK because everyone knows that Apple deals with payments and that there must be people working on the backend of it, and its meaningful that you led people in that context. (or whatever one did.)

My resume goes into a tiny bit more detail but also says "details protected by NDA." It's important because w/o saying that it just looks like you had no accomplishments.

In interviews you can usually manage by being abstract enough. EG: you can say "I had to design a system that handled millions of transactions per day" and then talk about high level things that go into the design of such things, you don't need to say what the system specifically did or exactly how many millions of hits it got. You can be explicit about the NDA here too and people have always been very respectful of it.

However, in my case - most of my experience was prior to this company so even if the question is "tell me about how you did X at your last job", I just say "that gets too close to the NDA, but let me tell you how I did that at my previous role."

Basically, it's not a problem, and you gain way more from having Apple on your resume than you lose from not speaking about certain details.
I agree; cvs, svn and git work ok and don't need that much change, what needs improvement is separation between code and media!

I'm making a simple .zip over HTTP solution for my MMO now.

It just has a naming scheme with dates and you send your last .zip date to the server and the server sends a list for you to download.

The good part with dates is that you can consolidate the data retroactively without breaking the system!
Missing TortoiseGit in that list. Everytime I see someone struggling with Git I wonder why they don't take the easy way.
Health Checking DNS Load Balanced Web Servers
systemd-run -p DynamicUser=true <yourcommand>
Is it? Solar PV overall efficiency is probably 15-20% of the incoming solar power. While, a solar thermal hot water system can reach 50% or higher efficiency, even accounting for storing the hot water for several hours.

Solar thermal also just requires fairly cheap mirror like surfaces, while solar PV requires semiconductor chips.
I wouldn't call that "like anyone else would". Those blog posts are planned in advance and get approval before being put online, as they are essentially considered to be official statements from the WebKit team.
My answer to the question "Where do you get all your ideas?"

https://youtu.be/MJmqaWq7PJY

Its about creativity and how to think about ideas.
The story of mRNA: From a loose idea to a tool that may help curb Covid
Sounds about right.

Was in a trapped situation. Not allowed to leave; flashback to childhood assault.

Started seeing seeing things in effort to get away. Was not really seeing anyone trying to talk to me.

0/10 would not recommend.
Also if a person wants to leave a situation, for the love anything, let them.
EU Companies Complain That Chinese Sanction Favors U.S. Tech Firms
Given how much COBOL is still in production, I suppose it depends entirely on your definition of "dominant" ?
What about the the blue light emissons?
Agreed, and I think Vitalik on Eric Weinstein's podcast is also super interesting and information-dense: https://youtu.be/8TwNNgiNZ7Y
I miss the old Aero Windows-Tab thing, that was neat
>> Even better, you can claim that you were in fact a senior product manager of let's say iCloud and who can say otherwise

I guess that's a hypothetical risk, but in reality they'll ask you a few behavioral/situational questions and if your caliber is off they'll know pretty easily.
Maybe he is from the UK :)
Also this could be Many minutes to hours after a situation. People generally tire out eventually.
It's sometimes funny how those things worth with the government. I was talking to an acquaintance who worked at a company that built satellites for NRO/NSA & Friends. He could tell me things like "we had a great test of the cryocoolers last week and some of our design tweaks really improved the performance. On the other hand he wouldn't tell me what the satellite was for or even its name.

A coworker of mine went to a foreign country once on a business trip. When he asked what he could tell his wife about his trip, the guidance he got was "You can tell her either where you're traveling or why you're traveling. Not both."
What makes you think that the lockdowns will be lifted after we are all vaccinated for this particular strain of COVID? That’s like saying “surely the government will stop monitoring private communications and correlating metadata, and disband unconstitutional FISA courts after Al-quaida has been defeated”
Yep - 100% this. Once you get a household name on your resume you're golden if you can do a simple whiteboard interview.
Very cool! How is the elevation data textured in this demo?
if wasn't for ruby, I'd probably be done with programming; I remember my frustrations with PHP and Zend Framework, then I discovered ruby and rails, it was night and day; Thanks Matz and to all the great devs around this, wish you all the best!
What Happened to the Democrats Who Never Accepted Bush’s Election
Have newer Lenovo laptops fixed the keyboard matrix issues where typing too quickly causes the speaker to beep?

Words like “should”, “would” or anything that may risk an n-key rollover problem have plagued Lenovo laptop keyboards for me for many years now. I have a couple years old T480 that still does this and typing on it is miserable. The keyboard feels nice enough but the constant missed keys and beeps drive me crazy.
'Hug room': Isolated Italian nursing home residents touch family for first time
Gandi at least actually forwards these emails, I tested it with my own domains recently. But generally you're probably right...
I like to hear about my friends' inner lives. Not all the time, and I have to already care about the person first, but it gives me a sense of intimacy and trust. It feels impersonal and dissatisfying when someone maintains a "crushing it!" front too well. Like we are just Facebook acquaintances.
https://archive.vn/iDclH
Anecdotally contact tracing in UK is basically non-existent.
Covid-19, presidential election top Wikipedia's most-read articles in 2020
It's true mac OS is the most common Unix, but that doesn't mean it's the only Unix which could be considered common.
Leiwand!
Equal => return Some(key),

The article's implementations return the index, not the value being searched for as you've done here. Do slices give access to their underlying offset?

Also the article manages a single branch per iteration. How well does this cmp / match perform in comparison?
The Biggest Video Game Surprise Hits of 2020
> Hypothetically, a group of people of different races grow up in the same small town in the same economic conditions, go to the same schools etc. Is race still a good indicator of diversity of experiences? Not at all.

Even more so in that scenario, I'd think.

If you've eliminated all the other variables, race would be the only differentiator of experience in that grouping.

(Of course, the reality of the non-hypothetical world is that people of different races tend to also have different schools, economic conditions, etc.)
“Deconstructing Pinterest’s reverse-image-search SEO growth hack”

https://www.rankscience.com/blog/pinterest-image-seo-growth-...
If it’s good enough for Shaft it’s good enough for this guy.
There's no intentional or manual effort at Google to promote pinterest.

Pinterest shows up because they understand how the Google algorithm works and built their website to display all the signals that Google looks for in relevant image content.

They understand user intent and generate URLs that present content in a way that google expects to see.

Examples of how they do this from their engineering team:

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/demystifying-seo-wi...

More:

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/tagged/seo
Are we using different googles?
Convolutional Neural Network for Detecting Cancer Tumors in Microscopic Images
Hear, hear, except that Darcs' philosophy lives on in Darcs, thanks to Ben Franksen particularly, and I don't think the world needs anything else like Github. An "experimental" implementation of the Darcs 3 theory is in the current release https://hub.darcs.net/darcs/darcs-2.16/browse/CHANGELOG
What about them?

(E-)Paper reflects blue light, LCD backlight emits it. The only difference is that the color balance and brightness don't change with the sunset on your screen unless you install a tool like flux.

Light is light. Looks the same = probably is the same. Bands are just a bit narrower with LEDs, but I wonder if that makes any difference biologically if it looks the same.
Spouse Used to suffer severe Panic attacks.
Crazy eyes are a thing.
Facts become meaningless.

There is usually a building up period, like your cat stalking analogy.

If your hyper alert to signs, you can often stop it before it gets serious. Of course then your on edge constantly for signs.
Darktable 3.4.0 Released
Expect law abiding citizens migration to other places. The same way people migrate now from California because of tax issues. I don't understand what is the problem with computers doing facial recognition, at the end of the day it lands on some cop desk who can just look and see if there is real match, the same way he would have done if he had to browse through a folder manually. We did it for fingerprints, why not for faces? I don't get it.

I also don't understand what is wrong with "predictive" policing, whenever there is an area ridden with crime the locals complain why there is no more police there. This is exactly what predictive policing is about. People just don't want to deal with fact that there is more crime in black neighbourhoods. All those people who complain about it here will never go and live in those neighbourhoods because they do the same predictive algorithm in their minds but just based on prejudices rather than facts, they will not even live in a black neighbourhood even if there was no crime there, so now they complain about computers?
Remember US newspapers running cover for Communists exterminating millions?

Not much changed, lure of the totalitarian regime with nice commie tint that can tell plebs what to do is still strong.
First thing that comes too mind is: MMM, Organized Chaos... All in a single remote management packages, Just in time for Chrismas
Don't these things overlap some?

More complete automation is ultra expensive.

Wages, in general, are flat. Cost and risk exposure on the rise in many parts of the world, and in the US in particular.

This is a real barrier to more complete automation.

Maybe give people money, health care, lower cost and risk exposure now?

Or, maybe value labors differently?

Or?
I work at a games studio, where artists/designers create and manage game assets via our game's source control. I personally dislike Git, but I absolutely think Git is a borderline-unacceptable choice for everyone that hasn't been hazed into the industry with it. The amount of "I accidentally lost all my animation files for ____ feature" is huge. I think most of the positive talk about git UX just waters down to "I know it already", which is evidenced by most of the responses to valid git UX criticisms being "You just don't understand." To me, version control should be as complex as a user wants it to be. Meaning, UX so obvious that you don't need docs or manuals or youtube videos to do the simplest of tasks if you don't want to. There should definitely be room for power users to be power users, but I think git absolutely fails at letting both novices and those that aren't interested in version-control-as-a-specialty be consistently productive and safe.

It's always been very curious to me that, for so many parts of dev, we re-invent the wheel a thousand times to try to find the "right" configuration, which ultimately leaves you with a very wide array of options for every one job, but for source control we seem to have just kind of shrugged and said "Git's fine."
I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but I can barely get any velocity built up, even holding down the thrust key. It's not even enough to dodge a shot, let along overcome the effects of gravity.
I see Pinterest appearing disproportionately in image search.