skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mentioned bitlbee elsewhere in this thread, but in case people haven't heard of it, it's a similar beast to Beeper but it bridges chat systems to an IRC client of your choice (you can use an IRC bouncer or whatever else you want to connect to bitlbee). It supports several chat systems https://wiki.bitlbee.org/ including apparently Matrix.

I mostly mention it as a historical note because bitlbee's use of IRC as the bridged protocol means that it's of limited usefulness on mobile. It was fantastic for me in the days before smartphones became a thing, but I do at least 50% of my "chat" on my phone these days.
VW CEO Teases Tesla’s Elon Musk in Twitter Debut
I would say UTP joke but i am not sure if anyone catch it.
It's hard to imagine it is that much.

If I can buy a banana at my grocery store for 18 cents then the amount of oil/energy it took to produce that has to be less than 18 cents. Any fruit/veggie can be shipped at great distances at very marginal price cost/energy costs
I know, right?! People who haven't experienced it don't get it. I think the knee-jerk reaction impacts Nigerians especially unfortunately. (My parents used to live in Nigeria and when my dad tried to buy something on eBay, they froze his account. Later when he lived in Venezuela, people were more sympathetic.)

So are there any solutions we should be looking into beyond cash transfers / Western Union? Are any startups working on this problem?
The thing is, burgers are the same everywhere. Minimal wage isn't.

So once there's a robot that can cook burger in SF and break even, it works pretty much everywhere else where the minimum wage is greater or equal. Just take a look at Miso robotics.
Regardless of the discussion, Electron browsers are very insecure and is not a stable foundation to build a browser on. Electron even recommend that you do not try and build a browser using it.
>A large part of them believe that a researcher has to be an activist, i.e. research=activism.

A large part of them believe in other delusions such as "silence is violence", coming to work on time is "Whiteness", and "objective, rational" thinking is normalized racism.

In their deranged minds, the ends justify their means, so they can be the antithesis of their being because their crusade is holy, and just.

That's the complete opposite of being a researcher.
Whoah, I hadn't heard of White Castle's kitchen-bot. Pretty cool.

Initial trials went well, now they're rolling it out to 10 more locations:

https://www.businessinsider.com/white-castle-adds-more-flipp...
It's better done by some code that you (or anybody not focused on authn) didn't hack-up on half a day.

Knowing that the hashes are not stored on the database that most of your external interfaces access can bring a lot of tranquility, but you'll get some PII there anyway, so I'm not sure that tranquility is warranted.
There has only been one instance when spinach was contaminated with e.coli. Two things: Americans like to eat their greens raw. Which is weird to most of the rest of the world. At least 3 billion people think that it’s nuts. 2. In that particular instance, it was traced back to a pig that got lost and likely contaminated due to some animal that died during mechanical harvest. Greens get contaminated because of contaminated water too.

It’s very simple. Wash your vegetables. Wash your hands while cooking. Cook your greens and vegetables.

It’s not rocket science.
There is another, arguably legitimate differentiating feature:

How up to date the embedded web engine is (and how quickly you would be able to merge upstream changes, update the framework, wait for "browsers" implemented using the embedded framework to update their dependencies, etc.)
That can be a pretty big deal when there's a fix for a high-impact vulnerability.
People got mad at Notch for internet-age old reasons: expecting someone with high technical skills in one domain to have the right takes on social and political issues because they're now a internet social presence in addition to whatever creative work they've done. If people were realistic in their expectations of Notch, they'd never have been mad in the first place because they wouldn't have cared what inane ideas he spouted.
Somewhere in the middle.. I'm 5' 9", average weight
No, but there's a long time since those got to skirt regulations because they claimed they were not evil or did the right thing.

The problem with Google is it went from actual friendly actually competent giant to (somewhat) incompetent[1] giant monster[2] in one decade.

[1]: you might not agree, but come back when their own verbatim option works correctly over time: that hasn't been the case for a decade or so now. If they can't even get that right they are at least somewhat incompetent as a group even if every single one of them are brilliant.

[2]: Not because they want to be one or try to but this seems to be what happens with giant corporations. It is kind of like the AI paperclip machine: it optimizes (i.e. destroy) everything around it to make paperclips, or in Googles case: quarterly profits.
My favourite:

"What do we want?"

"Now!"

"When do we want it?"

"Fewer race conditions!"
Sure, anyone could do this, just come up with a meaningful idea, learn how to make large glass objects, procure glass panes of exactly the right size, attach them together, test the rigidity of the structure, probably some test shipments, make arrangements with museums to receive and display them, place them in the boxes, ship them, receive them, unpack them, take some photos, publish a website, done!
Honestly, I think that says something more about Javascript-ifying of the web rather than HN.
We build white labels of our open source, app, Umbrella (https://www.secfirst.org, which organisations use to train and manage their staff in digital and physical security.

One of the biggest challenges we face is on the side of the organisations we are building for. The technology, design, content etc we know how to do but a big chunk of our work is identifying and helping people within the partner organisation who we can work with and develop the concept of what they need.

For many it's their first time building a product and so sometimes it takes a lot of time to help them understand how to deliver the bits on their side that are needed. Also to get a sense of who/what/why they want if they ask for stuff like new features. Inevitably that can lead to a lot of internal politics within them that we have to navigate. Also different organisations want different levels of input to a white-label, so there is a balance between that and your own roadmap. Some want a turn key solution, some will bring their own people, experiences, inputs, designers etc etc.
I would say that "protecting users from applications" (or at least, external attackers) has been commonplace for maybe even two decades now, ever since major malware 'plagues' of the early 2000's (pre-SP2 Windows XP) like Blaster or Sasser.

That said, in that era it was often assumed (more so than now) that software the user installed himself is trusted.
shrug. You could imagine, for example, that too little Vitamin D is bad, and too much is bad, and arrive at a similarly (flipped) nonlinear fit with negligible linear correlation
Indeed. To intentionally skew the data such that, for example, men are over represented as nurses, is in fact introducing bias to the data based on prejudice.

You’ve essentially created a fictional data set because it’s biased due to the underlying prejudice (preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience) that men ought to be nursing more, despite that not being reality.

We’re in a strange situation where we have large concerted efforts by activists to inject fiction in to our facts (whatever the medium) with the aim of distorting perceptions in such a way as to some how correct what they perceive to be injustice in the real world.
We just need to get the price of energy down https://www.pnas.org/content/117/32/19131
This study was “using participants of European descent.”

It is not a study intended to say anything about the correlation/non-correlation for non-Europeans.
See https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
>What exactly are you expecting OP to provide as satisfactory evidence here?

I like how this is phrased. It's a more pithy question than the one I generally use with people who have loosely defined interrogatives or claims, which is:

"What proof would you need to make you believe otherwise"
Seems to be this one:
https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug#bridges
That have been my experience as well. It requires too much of time dealing with non essential issues. Been doing Scala for spark development for a bit, but I get this vibe, that may be I should go back doing mundane Java or learning either Go/Rust.
Farmland is good for more than one crop. If the lettuce is all grown vertically, most of the farmland won't go back to "nature", it'll be used for slightly less profitable crops.
How much skill is required to make a readymade? Isn't the whole point (and the origin of the name) that you don't alter it at all?
You’re drawing a false dichotomy here.
IANAL, but I would think the artist would have copyright as normal for a couple of reasons —- the involvement FedEx did was for hire —- and FedEx’s actions were used as tool in creating the work that they didn’t even know was being created. The artist still caused it to be created.
I don't think anyone is confusing the Republican party with the left.

However it seems who gets to be in "the left" and who doesn't seems to be very up for debate these days.

I'm fairly certain if you asked anyone in the 90's if the clinton administration was on the left they'd answer in the affirmative.

I understand the social democratic part of the left has evolved and differentiated itself since then. This is great, but I think it problematic to retcon the history exclusively this view.

Just because the social democratic faction would like complete ownership on the term "the left" I think does not make it so, or at least can be agreed to be a subjective claim.
I can only thank you for your work. Open messaging ecosystems are much better off for it.
"It's obvious in retrospect"

True of all good design - Art and Software included
Salmonella is different. It can get into the plant. Stomata can absorb pathogens. Likely contaminated irrigation water.
Yes and no. If you live in a northern hemisphere country, it is possible to spend hours in the sunlight with pale skin during the colder months and not receive enough vitamin D if you don't have supplemental sources.
I don't know what the ratio of Black Americans / White Americans are in the healthcare and in nursing homes but perhaps that plays some role in the discrepancy here? If so we should see numbers closer to the the general population in the next phases of the roll out targeted by age?
> Misuse may be a violation of federal law.

Why does it say "may". Is it or is it not?
I guess depends on the misuse?
Any Fediverse/ActivityPub plugins for traditional server-hosted forums/message boards? Support in Wordpress is nice but that's purely a single-user thing; it's not much of a "social" platform.
Dirty little secret: when software vendors speak, they will frequently blur the purpose of a given security measure and who, exactly, it protects.

This measure helps protect Google. And much like a politician stretching the definition of the national interest to include themselves, Google might say that they're protecting you by protecting themselves.
That’s a great approach! It reminds me of a similar approach I did when I still commuted to work: putting the sticky notes directly on the laptop.

At the end of the day, I’d put the laptop in my backpack, and the sticky notes would get crumpled, so I would have to write new ones for the following day. It didn’t work as well, though, because I’d occasionally lose sticky notes, and forget what I did yesterday.
Despite being a really stupid-sounding premise, that is actually kind of interesting.
Jill invited me to this app about 3 months ago, and it's helped me kick my social media addiction.

I wanted to stay on social media to keep up with important stuff going on with my closer friends and family. Engagements, holiday snaps, birthdays, ect. Basically, I had Fomo.

The problem was that I was spending an hour a day scrolling through, mostly ads and low quality news on my feed. I think my last actual post was over 5 years ago.

With Sundayy I know that if anything actually important happens I will find out about it on Sunday. The delayed gratification is refreshing, in a world where everything else is just a click away.

The other benefit is I now have an extra 7 hours a week that I didn't spend mindlessly scrolling.
At some point imagination has to make touch with reality otherwise it can become unhinged. Yes, security researchers can enumerate concrete cases where "the harms of an attacker obtaining user credentials" caused damage.
Is there any general topic for this site? I often find myself with questions, maybe not necessarily hard, but niche and not on-topic for many of the goto sites. There are times I would definitely pay to get help in one of these areas.
Lmgrep
GREP-like CLI utility that suports Lucene query syntax, language dependent text analysis, and is compiled with the GraalVM native-image.
Would be a fun technical challenge but current people might be defensive about what they built, could end up being more politics then progress.
Personally I kind of lost confidence in the non-viciousness of the microblogging fediverse, when Wil Wheaton got driven off of it because he got upset at being trolled by someone.
It's even worse. It's uninstalled when upgrading macOS.
Isn't this just how DRM works? It's precisely why so many were concerned about EME being adopted into web standards, and why so many are passionate about DRM-Free media. DRM is designed to put restrictions on where, when, and how media is played, including what software it's used with.

This doesn't invalidate any of the author's points, and they're right to be upset. But the problem isn't Chrome per se, it's DRM-encumbered media.

And that's why I buy audiobooks from Libro.fm†, games from GOG†, and (out of necessity) movies and TV shows from iTunes—which are still DRM'd by default but are at least relatively easy to decrypt.

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† Among others, I don't use any one source.
Does Pay-for-Performance Perform?
I don't think it's comparable to teaching arithmetic from a highly theoretical basis, since the type of low-level beginnings I'm advocating for are starting from a concrete foundation --- logic gates from relays and such, not unlike the approach used by Petzold's book Code.

Incidentally, that book has been praised for making computation easy to understand for non-programmers, which I would consider to be evidence for starting out low-level.

but times have changed

Not for the better, if you look at the average state of software today --- and I think a lot of it can be explained by the general lack of low-level knowledge.
COVID-19 and Human Microbiome
Yes. It's an ongoing problem. It has to do with how Windows manages something called Side by Side (usually SxS).

We make Windows software. We install and uninstall a LOT. Windows folders on our text machines balloon to alarming sizes, at which point it's time for a new VM (or, if it's your laptop, it's time to wipe and start over).
Go set up a artificial growth environment and try run it for a cycle longer than a month. It takes huge amounts of resources to maintain that environment. And no it's not chemical free. Also yes water is used and wasted. If you ain't doing bulk washing your applying huge amounts of product to keep algae blooms out of your systems. Try run that environment for a year. I give it 2-3 month before your first insect/pest bloom. Less if your unlucky. An I'd be blown away if you fix your first pest bloom the first try. Vertical farms are sick on paper...that ignores masses of requirements to actually get the task done.
I had an awful experience with Cylance and some open source software I maintained, too-- false positive detections, and they wouldn't fix it.
Do you think that LED grow systems and the nutrients/chemicals being used to help grow these plants are pollution-free?
Could be. I suspect that's a factor in the fonts available for download or document support in Catalina and Big Sur:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210192

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211240
I want to thank everyone for the answers here. Really appreciate the open and honest discussion on hackernews. It helped to see things more clearly. Thanks a lot again and stay healthy!
Yup, especially as you often need to access dict's with foo["field"] and you get a syntax error if the f-strings is also f"". JavaScript backtick syntax doesn't lead to this extra syntactic friction.
If your goal is that new browsers should only be able to be made without DRM, then you're effectively saying that we can't have any new mainstream browsers unless they're built by already established companies and commit to not doing anything creative or new that Google doesn't like.

I run Firefox without DRM support on my computers, and I believe that the web would be better today if DRM had never been forced into the standards process. However, ideology aside, if you want to make a browser that ordinary people can use, then it is unacceptable for that browser to not to play Netflix. DRM on its own is a threat to the Open web, but DRM that is only usable by a few big players is an even bigger threat to the Open web.

I would argue that we should be concerned when the largest browser on the market effectively has the power to decide whether or not websites will work on competing browsers. To me, that undermines the entire point of having web standards in the first place.

A bit of rant, but this is something that advocates warned about when DRM was in the process of being added as a web standard. It would be better if we didn't have DRM on the web at all. But at the very least, if we are going to have DRM, then there needs to be a consistent, accessible licensing model that allows any browser to interface with that DRM component. I'm sorry if Netflix has problems with that, but Netflix's current business model is not more important than the platform that literally created and enabled Netflix's currently business model. And companies like Google should not be allowed to decide who can and can't compete with them, it's anticompetitive through and through.

If you want a diverse browser ecosystem, then anyone building a browser should be able to interface with Widevine to play protected content.
No, therefore its not a rumor. Its an accusation.
Vitamin D deficiency is caused by a lack of exposure to UV light.

I wonder if the retrospective studies that correlate low vitamin D levels to worse COVID outcomes are actually finding that people who spend more time indoors are more likely to have a higher viral load due to sharing more air with contagious people in poorly ventilated areas.
This was about Cylance being jerks, not Apple. I've fought Cylance quite a bit on Windows for flagging open source software as malware, too (and they fail to respond / fix).
This. Brave famously migrated away from Electron because of the security implications of that approach.

Also, it kind of makes sense: You'd effectively be implementing a browser (or the GUI thereof) in a browser.
Local food that cuts transport end storage costs is the future. Vertical farms will replace most of what we grow in large fields. Almost all of large factory sized farms ..at least in Ca..goes to feed the rest of the country.

As hydroponics and roof top gardens and vertical farms and warehouse farms and shipping container farms become the norm in places where they have winter and have now hacked it with no need for California produce...California itself have to rethink its Ag policies. And work towards growing our own and sustainably. And locally. Automating and mechanizing a lot of it because Ag labour is going to dry up soon. Not to mention water.
>With the COVID-19 vaccine, right now I think it would be political suicide to accept a 30% daily loss rate on expired vaccines, even if it meant we vaccinated people twice as fast. There would need to be a higher vaccine supply available where vaccine expiry becomes as moot point as a spoiled burrito.

Or use the Oxford vaccine:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/oxford-vaccine-cov...

which can be stored at a more reasonable 2C - 8C (35.6F - 46.4F)
Converting a field into a solar farm so that you can power artificial lights to grow plants is indeed not exactly ideal...

But there are also energy and cost savings because you can remove most of the transport, which at the moment involves ICE vehicles, and the energy does not have to come from solar sources (just within renewables there are other options).

Longer term we can also imagine artificial lights powered by fusion power, which would probably be the best option in term of space saving and environmental impact.
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No surprise DejaVu development has stalled. The wind was taken out of DejaVu's sails by the Noto project, which has greater Unicode coverage and is on pretty much every Android phone and most Linux distros.
> It had a specific license explicitly disallowing mobile use. Everything else is irrelevant...

The Java Specification explicitly allows people to re-implement the Java Language as long as they follow a few guidelines (which google allegedly did not, hence the lawsuit) -- even if they decide to target a mobile platform.
Advice to Team Biden: Delete Your Twitter Accounts
Ask HN: How do you invest your money?
Mainly looking for rough % allocations to asset classes (including the full spectrum, from cash to own business to real estate), but also if you're in a stock or crypto that you really believe in I don't mind a few shameless plugs.
'Intentionally conservative' test params to blame for premature end to SLS test
"After the weekend's shorter-than-hoped-for test firing of the core stage of NASA's monstrous Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, engineers have confirmed the hardware remains in 'excellent condition' and blamed 'test parameters that were intentionally conservative.'

The parameters were designed for ground testing and were exceeded by a hydraulic system during gimballing by thrust vector control hardware, resulting in the shutdown. 'If this scenario occurred during a flight,' the agency explained, 'the rocket would have continued to fly using the remaining CAPUs [Core Stage Auxiliary Power Units] to power the thrust vector control systems for the engines.'"
Wow, I try to avoid Facebook so I didn't know.

Thanks!
Thats just lettiuice and similar leafy based products.

If you want a whole meal then you'll need to do what de kas did in holland: https://restaurantdekas.com/

And its totally tasty.
What was the environmental impact of replacing whatever was in these urban environements with concrete, steel and asphalt?

Literally just looking at the economics here, I'll say again.
A kind of editor plugin I generally appreciate is the kind that tries to find color codes in text and highlight that text in the color it describes.

rainbow-mode is this sort of thing: https://github.com/emacsmirror/rainbow-mode
Bill Gates predicts 'the rich world' will likely end pandemic sooner