skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I think you are misunderstanding the point of the comment. It is the news releases. It is that Facebook is publishing about these cases on its website. Facebook is always involved in litigation to protect its business. It is that they are now highlighting these cases as if they are acts of "stewardship" or some defence of user privacy.

It is generally good that Facebook is taking these actions.^1 But the point I am making is that it is likely to be used as an argument by Facebook to try to hide the fact that Facebook created the problem in the first instance. And they have historically failed miserably as "stewards". And they are the much larger threat to user privacy than anyone they are suing. Their interests are not aligned with users. Facebook has reasons to keep others from obtaining user data that have nothing to do with user "privacy", a concept Zuckerberg is in fact actively trying to destroy.

1 But I am wondering what Facebook would do if a user was "scraping" her own data and the data their friends have shared with her. In other words, imagine the user writes her own "bot" to automate her Facebook usage and reduce the amount of behavioural data she gives to Facebook, i.e., the data she does not get if she "downloads her data" from Facebook. Clearly this is not "malware". TOS would surely be interpreted by Facebook to not allow any sort of automation. As anyone can see reading the public filings they make with courts and regulators, Facebook lawyers are heavy on the over-the-top rhetoric and arguments that border on the absurd. The user is not the customer so no reason for them to hold back on going after users.
ChinaVirus.live is launched for COVID19 tracking
I believe editorializing titles of articles on HN is prohibited. The mods might be by in no time to fix it.
I have had two structures in mind for some time.

One would be a solar powered water elevator that pumped water from the Pacific into the various endorheic basins in Nevada. These could then be drained during cloudy times or peak hours to supplement solar power.

The other is a causeway along the Antilles islands from Miami to Trinidad that would act as an eastern connection point between north and south America.
They are a company that makes crossover a solution to install manage and run windows software like playonlinux. It costs money but they also contribute to wine.
Debian is my favorite distro for web dev, but, MIPS is also near and dear to my heart since I learned its hardware architecture in college.

I view MIPS as the simplest possible instruction set that satisfies most of the modern scalability constraints (RISC, short pipeline, etc). It will likely be replaced by something like ARM which also incorporates instruction compression for basically free (since memory latency matters more than computing power more with each passing year).

So I'm sad to see them remove MIPS support since I think next-gen 16+ core processors will probably use it. But, after reviving more failing projects than I can count, it's not a huge deal to use old commits to re-implement functionality. Most of that work is probably around stuff like endianness issues, atomic instructions, protected memory, caching, etc etc etc. If it helps them to set it aside for now, great, but I hope that MIPS support returns someday is all I'm saying.
Maybe in 2021, politics can oblige us by having a week go by at some point with nothing of significance happening.
Yes I agree, idea guys are bad, but I’d like to make a contrast between two words that are often thought of as synonymous. There’s the ‘idea’ guy and a man/woman with ‘vision’. The difference between these two is that someone with a vision enables others to see and feel what they see and feel about the future of a project in a manner that produces action on everybody’s part. The visionary man/woman would act in accordance with their vision, because there end goal is to create and/or share something truly valuable to others. I could think of a couple of people with visions many of them startup founders: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Peter Thiel, Paul Graham, and Sam Altman. Visionary man/woman take risks on their vision and put their plans into action. Sometimes they’re the business manager, or the scientist, and at other times the engineer, but in some way shape or form they lead others toward a goal through their tremendous clarity in their own and other’s collective vision.
This is not the first time this has happened with someone associated with China. Are we finding this stuff now just because China is in focus? How many more people from other countries are involved with a situation like this?

It seems that our oversight is lacking from complacency rot.
It's worth noting that the original thread was posted Dec 5th 2016; a month after Trump was elected, but before he took office.

Politics nowadays is irreversibly different, and an attempt at a detox now would be even worse.
> You live in a town with no fresh water, and the only drinks available are sold by the local store.

Sounds like the plot of Idiocracy.
Tasker - Create Commitments and track your progress through hardware hooks(Mic, Keyboard, Mouse)

https://github.com/thebigG/Tasker
Sure, the Uighurs are just violating China's policy too.
I added a link to my website in my profile, my email is on there. Cheers!
Wow just had a read of the cryptochrome wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptochrome

Real eye opener, for some reason I thought I could replace millions of years of evolution with a capsule of vitamin D.
Can the Govt Regulate Deepfakes?
The modules for this are insane, e.g. https://library.vcvrack.com/Stalys/VCDualNeuron

Just learning synths now, and the idea of having a complete analog computer is just super cool.
Programming work that no one else wants to do, to the tune of $750k/year in annual revenue with one employee and one contractor. Think semi-legacy, like old-ish Java (but not as bad).
Recreating the Apple Watch Rings in Grafana.

So far I have extracted and loaded the xml data from the Health.app into MySQL tables. Next to recreate the rings in React.

Also need to be able to load a 'delta' of xml data, as the loading can take a loooong time.
Politics has a way of ruining everything.
Maybe it will sound less snobbish (although more self-serving I fear) if I tell you I'm Mexican?

Mexico is a mixed race country, you will find people of all colors here, the concept of race is so weak common people are barely aware of it. There are racists who see whiter people as more beautiful, or darker (specially indigenous) people as lesser, but hate is extremely rare and frowned upon.

It's the hate part that I can't wrap my head around. Xenophobic tribes maybe hate visitors for their race, but they also could reject them for their effect in neighboring tribes, we don't know.

TL;DR: I can understand if people find Scottish people attractive, or Mexican people ugly, but I am indeed guilty of not understanding how people can actually grow hate from that.
Users Are Changing Their Online Dating Profiles to Say They Got Vaccinated
Yet another interpreted language.

I've been focusing more on implementation rather than an actual language design and have been blatantly replicating what commonly works on other languages (i.e. from the C family).

My goal is to eventually have a bag of tricks that is big enough to be reused if I ever decide to make a proper new language. At that point, it would "just" be changing the front-end.

There are a lot of good books, but eventually you're on your own if you want to reach the functionality of languages in daily use. It's fun programming challenges and a lot of rabbit holes.

Not making any assumptions that the code will be lean and clean. But at least it is code that I understand better than any ready-made publicly available code.
I hadn't seen that—looks perfect for my use case. Electron has certainly had its downsides (app size, of course), including the difficulty of integrating with Rust (via Neon).

I'll keep an eye on it though I'd be concerned about reliability of continued support at this point (in comparison to Electron).
Oh yeah. Along the same lines I also have a fond place in my heart for Buckminster Fuller's tensegrity spheres.
The Entertainment Software Association has taken down games from Archive.org
It like other neural network research was ignored because neural networks were considered a dead-end at the time. In the early 2000s I recreated his LeNet-5 implementation, and no one was interested despite the great results I was getting in OCR and medical image processing with tumor detection.

Younger people don't realize there was strong bias against using neural networks in the late 90s up until Hinton's talk on NNs around 2007. I get the feeling we're going through the same thing where novel research is becoming ignored because everything must fit the deep learning paradigm to be noticed.
TL;DR it's PR fluff around the meat:

Advanced Audio:

This option in Advanced Audio will enhance “Original Sound” mode,

allowing you to disable echo cancellation and post-processing

and get rid of compression.

...this setting will also raise audio codec quality from 22kHz to 48kHz, 96Kbps mono/192Kbps stere
This is a profoundly dispiriting stance. Many individuals have made a difference in the past and will continue into the future. The primary way individuals make differences is either by changing the way people think about something, by assembling a group to strategize around their issue, or physically preventing the bad thing from happening.
Some unlikely 2021 predictions (lwn)
An app for learning Mandarin Chinese through (speech-recognition) conversations.

https://www.incrediblechinese.com

Right now I'm working on more content, sprucing up the interface and making the conversations more "live" (changing conversation pathways depending on the user's response, giving the bot a memory for the user's answers, and so on).

Eventually I really want to get to open-ended conversation (as in, not multiple choice unless the user specifically requests a prompt).

The problem is that language learners usually can't form a grammatically correct sentence longer than a few words, so the app will need to be able parse poorly constructed sentences (and ideally, correct them). This isn't an impossible task, but it will take a few months.

Not applying to YC though may be looking for private investment in the coming months.

Any and all feedback is welcome!
Thanks for asking! I'm working on an on-site polling tool called Zigpoll (https://www.zigpoll.com). It's an easy way to collect user feedback about your product or platform and can be triggered at any point during the user journey.

I also built and maintain JQBX (https://www.jqbx.fm) which is a turntable.fm-like website except it hooks into Spotify.
This is important. I was initially shocked to hear of a big round of layoffs at Microsoft, until I saw the date. Maybe we can add the year to the link?
Thanks; as someone whose three favorite languages include Perl and Erlang, this gives me more reason to look at it.
I am working already 4 years on notes manager for macOS and iOS.

https://fsnot.es - open source, swift, secure :)
Distortions like these? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma
The author appears to have conflated "Linux" with the "kernel" - for example, "When calling a Linux service the function number goes in X16 rather than X8.", "X16 - linux function number", "Call linux to output the string", etc. in the macOS assembly code.

Linux refers specifically to the operating system kernel that's used on Linux systems; the macOS kernel is called Mach. Technically, the non-negative-numbered system calls on macOS are those derived from BSD; macOS additionally has another (negative-numbered) set of system calls for its Mach microkernel.
A Microsoft manager ran a blog with inside scoops.
“Anyone monitoring the traffic outside of Apple can do it, as well”

Well this is true of every single connection made by every single app on every single device, for every upstream.

That means everyone is tacitly accepting the military spying going on on the networks to which their servers are connected.

That’s not actually an unreasonable position as far as I’m concerned, and you previous comments about this being true unless Tor is embedded have some validity. I say some because I’m unconvinced that Tor is quite ready to handle all traffic yet.

What is unreasonable is your focus on Apple.

By excluding the fact that your complaints are a general problem with TCP/IP and apply to essentially any service, you don’t seem to be doing a great job of informing people about the reality of the problem.

It’s also worth noting that if your position has now moved to how the tracking could be being done by someone monitoring Apple’s network rather than Apple themselves, you are tacitly acknowledging that your claim that Apple is keeping records of your location are just speculation.
Ford among mobility companies researching bike-to-vehicle communications
Edit: * their TOS is user friendly and they carry more images. [1] = https://pypi.org/project/rake-nltk/
Had a fixed aimpoint - Tel Aviv. Can't blame Mossad one bit.
I found that PostgreSQL was good for all of the cases I would use with NoSQL. Even on AWS, I found Dynamodb's query language really unintuitive. There will be use cases for NoSQL but for the 99% cases, it doesn't make much sense.
A retained mode GUI for a 2d games library that uses the same canvas, drawing commands and event pipeline as the library.
Sequoia Buys Shares in Zapier at $4B Valuation
Valéry‘s line “the wind rises; we must attempt to live” from his poem le cimitiere marin was the inspiration for the title of Miyazaki’s film of that name.

My favorite Valery quote though:

We shall soon have to build heavily insulated cloisters where neither radio waves nor newspapers can come, in which ignorance of all politics will be guarded and cultivated. Speed, numbers, effects of surprise, contrast, repetition, size novelty, and credulity will be despised there. And thither, on certain days, visitors will come, to look through the iron bars at a few specimens of free men.
Anecdote: My phone has been on my desk for a year now and I feel like I should get tested for low testosterone. I will say however, my sperm count is probably fine seeing as my wife got pregnant during lockdown.
> With proof of stake, you can literally throw around money to gain influence over a network.

But can't you do the same with PoW. You just throw money at minners and buy their rigs or rent them for a good premium.
How far apart (roughly) were you and your bandmates? I'm guessing in the same town/city?
A phone number you can call, scream, and hang up. It's called Just Scream! and you can check it out at https://justscream.baby

I call it a participatory sound art project. Many others have called it a scream hotline. It's been getting a lot of press!
I do have to say i'm rather impressed after your comment inspired me to look at the docs for the first time.
I'm building a Visual Basic style web based IDE at https://yazz.com/
Google under fire for experiments with local news results
CMake quietly lifts heavy things behind the curtains. Cargo uses Rust, which uses LLVM, which builds with CMake.
Yep. The solution is a stationkeeping orbit around Sun-Earth Lagrange 1.
Yep. All the talk and writing mean nothing when push comes to shove.

Are you willing to die for what you believe in? And, before one answers this hastily, think about it.

I have come to realize most are quite selfish in various way, myself included.
Australia rebukes Google for blocking local content
MIPS (Little Endian) and MIPS64 (LE) are still fully supported architectures!
It's pandering to the Ig Nobel Prize Committee.
The Greatest Books of All Time
Bit unrelated, but I recall an old webpage that had a grid of 10 or so YouTube videos embedded, each with a different instrument playing (they didn’t auto play).

This was pre-mobile, so it was expected that you could play multiple videos at once. I was amazed, and it was the intent, that independent of how few or many videos you played and no matter when you started each of them, all sounds blended together nicely.

I don’t know what to call it when there’s no inter-sound coordination - a timing independent harmony? It was so cool.

Anyways, I would be super interested in attending a zoom concept of that sort that might side step some technical difficulties.
I would also recommend following Akiyoshi on Twitter (https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka) so you can have a daily dose of visual hackery on your Twitter feed :)
> I've got to spend more time investigating a way to remove this question for users...

At least on Firefox AMO, their new “verified” add-on badge is worth a look.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-badges
Who is they? Me? I can't answer a question directly when you don't ask it directly. At least Grustaf and I have the fortitude to post with an account that wasn't created on the same day as the comment. Grustaf didn't address my question about high school directly, but zacmcloud, feel free to post a direct question to me and I'll reply. I can't read your mind, but your framing doesn't seem to match Grustaf in any meaningful way. If anything, Grustaf and I are finding a narrowing spectrum of disagreement, whereas your post is mostly a trite argument made against corporate PR of all kinds.
That tracks with what's written in The Hacker's Diet, and I think it's largely right. If you look at how much running you need to do to burn off a daily burger it's intimidating.

The only caveat I've learned is that weightlifting can make a dent. It's one of the few things where as you improve, you can burn more calories in the same amount of time instead of fewer (partly because you're doing more work as you add weights, partly because the muscle you build is more metabolically expensive to maintain).

I also had success restructuring my life so accessing food was way more of a hassle. Kept a mostly empty fridge. Meal prepped so only whole meals were there. Don't take money unless I know I need to buy something, found a few reasonable options at local sandwich places that became routine, etc.

I'd love to see a correlational study on fridge size and obesity. In America we buy SUV fulls of food, in Europe it's much smaller frequent trips, i.e. generally higher hassle per calorie.
Just low quality human comments we always see on FAANG posts.
Hard to say (that’s what make p-hacking evil) but 3 variables blue light, hunger and men does raise questions for me.

I think an other study would be worth it to double check. Especially if we can artificially induce an other sense. It means we could also maybe find ways to enable it.

Also some commenters do mention blue light triggers similar things in other animals so at least that variable has prior work.
For the US, there is a whole raft of literature of non-American intellectuals writing about their impressions of the USA.

It is well worth reading, especially if don’t travel outside the US much.

Democracy in America by de Tocqueville is the earliest famous work.

https://www.history.com/topics/france/alexis-de-tocqueville

But pretty much every global intellectual in the 20th Century found themselves in the US, usually starting in NYC, and wrote about their impressions in a book, essay or article.

A random few

Hermit in Paris, Calvino

Journey down a Rainbow, Priestley and Hawkes

America, Baudrillard

America day by day, de Beauvoir

Also

USA for Beginners, Atkinson (Penguin)

“Ces Cochons D’Américains!!”, Lehman...focusing on pork production I suppose, I don’t read French

America as Americans See It, Ringel, is a collection of essays from 1932 by US writers about the US. A wonderful collection both about America and the early 1930s.

Those writings about the US need a crisp word to describe the genre, like nihonjinron.
I have the same feeling; it seems the 2020 election fight was far less intense than the 2016 one - but it might just be me being less on Reddit.

One very important factor is COVID, though - a lot of headlines simply focus on everything surrounding it; it steals the spotlight quite well, which would otherwise be on politics.
> What makes you think Google wants Apple to have the only good smart watch?

Wear OS shows how little Google care about good smart watches. It's six years old and still bad, if they wanted it to be good they would've fixed it years ago.
I'm working on an anonymous bookmark sharing web app. The key to the app is that anyone can keep a bookmark with just the url and the password, without signing up.

The main use case is for multiple people. Think of it like Pocket / Instapaper but with the ability to share your collection of bookmarks with password protection for individual collections. One of the reasons for this website is to replace GitHub's "awesome-something" repos. Instead of having a GitHub repo which requires Git abilities (it is trivial to tech workers to use command line but not to others), I provide a simple interface for them to share bookmarks.

One of the use cases is for course resources - the professor can simple provide a link to a collection and update course readings / other resources there, and students will be able to access the most updated information. (The anonymous part is actually inspired by sharing of protest resources)

http://axomark.herokuapp.com
What is "better", or "healthy" or "proper", and for how long these definition will hold?

Because yesterday I could say some words that would be considered improper, unhealthy, and worse today.

Tomorrow, will be different words.

And, we have not even discussed better, healthy, and proper opinions.
I always wondered if it would be possible to run flexible pipelines floating close to the bottom of the ocean which could transport fresh water between far flung areas. Imagine if you could siphon some of the freshwater outflow of, say, the Columbia River and send it down to SoCal or AZ farmland.
Even when dueling was considered acceptable upper-class behavior, most men never fought a duel. It was a drastic, last-resort kind of affair. And even when duels did occur, the duelists sometimes just went through the motions for honor's sake rather than shooting to kill.
The internet exposes us to astronomically more people than we ever could have seen in the 80s and 90s. Really heavy people are still rare today, but if you look at enough pictures of enough people, especially if these sites showing these pictures self-select for oddities, you're going to see quite a few, which makes them seem much more abundant today than they really are, plus much more rare in the past than they really were.

Again, look at pictures of groups in candid settings and you'll notice similar levels of obesity.
That's so far why not use two closer bodies of water and just cycle it endlessly like the smaller scale pumped storage already being build?
https://histre.com/

Smart Bookmarks, With Notes, Highlights, History, and Sharing

Histre helps you efforlessly create a personal knowledge base. The core idea is that the signals that users generate as they go about their day on the we can be put to good use for them. Right now it visualizes their research path, save notes and highlights, collaborate with teams, and such things related to creating and maintaining a knowledge base semi-automatically. have ambitious plans for where we want to take the product.

There are a number of integrations including with Hacker News, Pocket, and Pinboard. I'd love to hear your feedback.