skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eight Marvelous and Melancholy Things I've Learned About Creativity
The question is: which is worse for the environment? A leaking battery or plastic?

Genuine question. Are there any studies on this? And I’m asking about any kind of battery. People toss out used AA and AAAs all the time.
It wasn't a strict syllabary. Like Egyptian hieroglyphs, there were logograms as well, and rebus forms were also used (combining logograms representing more than one syllable, along with syllabics). And like hieroglyphics and Central American writing systems, there were several alternativechoices representing the same syllable/consonant. 600–1000 characters is big for a syllabary, but consistent with several early writing systems. Writing ain't natural; it took us some time to figure it out, if it can be said that we've figured it out at all. (We probably won't have a real answer until we somehow manage to freeze and ship a "gold" LTS release of a language.)
Can you send a message to <guix-security@gnu.org>?

https://guix.gnu.org/en/security/
Er, that's his point. That unlike your sailing boats, good headphones don't really need replacement of critical parts (drivers), but auxiliary and easily-replaceable stuff like earcups and cables.
I have an old broken iPhone on my desk for similar a reason. Australian tax office _requires_ you to have an Android or iPhone to login (MyGov App). Even if I am trying to do things on my desktop.
Not that such things aren't without their own flaws, but I like to toy with real-world analogies when thinking about computer crimes. One that seems applicable here is that of a library -- there are stacks of books, and if you know where to go you can read any book you'd like. If a librarian wishes for a book to be inaccessible then the easiest thing to do is to remove it from any indexes and stop telling people about it, but they're still fully within their rights to browse every book till they find what they're looking for. Absent some sort of additional access control, disposal, etc, it would be hard to blame a patron for reading that banned content even if they started their search with the express purpose of uncovering such banned material.
Apparently OpenSource software contains vulnerabilities exploitable by hackers, but in good news Microsoft can sell you some cloud thing that protects you against it.

The hacker must have compromised the company's website through the open-source software vulnerability I saw in Azure Sentinel, she thinks

This is a slow moving soap-opera with the most boring plot, characters and products ever.

But it is woke. Except for the fact that all the bosses are men.... except the nasty boss lady from marketing.
> Whereas these crashes can and do occur today, the non-realtime aspect of settlement and clearing mitigates to a large extent. See the 2010 flash crash example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash

How so? I'd argue that the SEC policy of breaking "clearly erroneous" trades before settlement exacerbates that kind of flash crash: market-makers can't step in to prop up prices and then hedge their exposure, because their trades will be broken and their hedges won't. If settlement was real-time, preventing flash crashes would be profitable and people would do it.

> Also this feels like a diversion tactic from the implosion of Robinhood of the company from last week's debacle. For those unaware, RH also put limits on AMD stock to be traded - what the heck?!

It's not a diversion, it's a genuine explanation - the collateral requirements were why RH had to impose a bunch of limits.
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I have used a lot of smartphones with keyboards in the last 20 years or so. I think it started with a Palm Treo 600[0] and on top of my head I've used plenty of others (in not the right order): HTC Blue Angel[1], Sierra Wireless Voq[2], Nokia Communicator E90[3], Motorola Milestone[4], Motorola Droid 4[5] (where I had to solder the SIM-Card into the phone to use it in Europe), Nokia E71[6] Nokia E75[7], Nokia N900[8] (running Debian on some point), BlackBerry Curve[9], BlackBerry Bold[10], BlackBerry Q5[11], HTC Dream[12] and I probably even forgot some.

I really loved the latest Nokia pones with Symbian S60 as long as it worked. Working browser (Opera Mini), GPS navigation, Emails, Calendar and Contact syncing (via ActiveX I think) and everything with a week long stand-by time.

I would love a recent Android phone with a small form factor, full QWERTZ keyboard (preferabbaly slide-out) and decent camera. But I think the BlackBerry Key2 is the most recent smartphone with a physical keyboard and unfortunately it doesn't get any software updates. Right now I just hate typing on my phone and most of the time I wait until I am at a computer before I respond to any texts or mails I get on my phone.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treo_600

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Blue_Angel

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Wireless_Voq

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E90_Communicator

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Droid

5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_4

6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E71

7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E75

8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900

9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Curve

10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Bold

11: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Q5

13: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream
I didn’t have my diagnosis until 3 months ago. We are in all time zones with people 11 hours diff. Communication is hard for everyone and when you are in a severe depressive episode even taking a shower seems is impossible.
I mean it's a good idea, it's a fire hazard but still.
> "It's a highly educated population that has put the brakes on the most destructive policies from the very start."

Anecdote : I live near a busy high street in London and went out for my daily lockdown exercise at around 6pm today.

About 10% of the "highly educated population", as you say, was wearing a mask. Even more worrying, if you looked through the windows of estate agencies and other such ""essential"" shops, it was exactly 0% indoors.

To people outside the UK reading this : supermarkets here have only made face coverings mandatory a couple of weeks ago ("unless you tell us you're exempt", of course) because the government finally asked them nicely to.

All these months, their CEOs have been emailing us bullshit newsletters about how "your safety is important to us in these unprecedented times", and to that effect they were politely asking customers to "keep your distance" and "wash your hands" and "follow local guidance about face coverings" (i.e. "none"). Meanwhile their employees were free to spend their whole shift unmasked and potentially filling the air with virus, getting their colleagues and customers sick : that was totally cool. And no mention of any effort regarding store ventilation or aerosol risk either.

There is no enforcement of lockdown whatsoever, except for the most egregious cases of partying. It all seems to be based on a gentlemen's agreement, except there seems to be very few gentlemen left indeed. It is all so hypocritical.

This situation is in stark contrast with what I hear from friends & family on the continent. Last time I was in Paris for instance, mask adherence was probably 80% in the street and 99% inside shops. And the French are not exactly known to be fond of rules.

So yeah, B.1.1.7 probably didn't help, the government has probably f**d up on everything except the vaccination programme, but the behaviour of the population alone is in my view, more than enough to explain the terrible UK death/cases figures.
Lol “renowned epidemiologists” who insisted the total US mortality would remain under 100k deaths. These clowns can be safely ignored.
The aspect ratio media query just lets you apply certain CSS to the page depending on the viewport aspect ration. It does not set an aspect ratio on an element.

Maybe there’s something I’m missing, but I’m not sure how knowing the aspect ratio of the screen would help make an element 16:9. If my browser is narrower or wider, that doesn’t affect how I would style the element.
Dogfooding Automated Tests CI/CD Workflow with Reliza Hub
And that's fine. Write one for X if you want to do it now. Some things will come earlier than others.
Some developers would interpret your rule as being, if it doesn’t make sense for you to make this property access on this specific object, the value should resolve to undefined and not null. Problem is, there already are mechanics for a kind of check like you describe (the in operator and hasOwnProperty both kinda do what you’re looking for). Moreover, if you were to design the DOM API from scratch, by your logic some developers might assume that text nodes, which never have children, should have a firstChild set to undefined and not null, because it should say “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” You can debate this last point, but know that some people are going to interpret the null/undefined rules as you describe in this way.

I’ve seen null/undefined semantics play out; they more or less collapse under the slightest of deadline pressures or scaling of team sizes. There are infinite ways to splice the idea of “emptiness” or “lack of data” and any definition you provide (the definitions both you and OP provide give a lot of wiggle room) would be interpreted fifteen ways by fifteen developers, so much so that even changing hands just once will cause any null/undefined distinctions to sublimate in any codebase.

There are so many languages which do just fine with one null type; I don’t understand why JavaScript developers have to do these sorts of mental kinesthetics to justify the existence of two in JavaScript, especially given the more or less insane fact that `typeof null === "object"`. If you consistently use undefined or null exclusively internally, and accept both via the == null trick externally, you can pretty much avoid having to deal with null/undefined semantics entirely.
I don’t think they’re questioning whether it’s worthy of existing, but rather why Google would choose to target this video specifically given that it has ~0 reach and the potential PR consequences of lying.
>> That's a lot of speculation.

Yes it is, but I didn't speculate as to how that might be related. It is a bit of a stretch.
The StyleGAN2 paper[0] actually addresses some of the biggest clues. They didn't completely solve everything but symmetry is one of the biggest indicators. Specifically ears and eyes. But also really pay attention to the teeth. If you go to ThisPersonDoesNotExist[1] you'll see that there's still phase issues with teeth and eyes. It's an improvement on the original paper but it is still weird. For eyes you'll notice things like them not pointing in the same direction (this isn't always super obvious). Another big thing to look at is the neck. Sometimes women will get Adam's Apples and men will lack them. Collars won't be symmetric and necks can have weird wrinkles. Lastly pay close attention to the background because that's where you'll likely find monsters. Lots of portrait photos have blurred background so "lack of detail" isn't a great metric. But backgrounds that are a bit disjoint are great indicators. None of these metrics alone is a great tool and you gotta use them together (unless someone messed up big time when selecting the photo). Poke around through [1] a bit and you'll start seeing some of the features I'm discussing. But I should also note that these flaws are known and being worked on so this information's usefulness will degrade with time (it's still good information because it helps us know how to look and what's difficult about faces).

These of course go along with standard identification techniques like lighting, shadows, etc.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04958

[1] https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
A successful corporation performs its mission smartly and reliably.

This may or may not include specified behaviors, tasks, growth, marketing, sales, profits, goods, services, employees, competitors, etc.

Even corporations without any shareholders are common, found in the non-profit sector, but you do need corporate officers regardless.

Would it be better if there were a couple non-profit corporations with one or two million employees each the size of Amazon or Wal-Mart, to go along with what we have now?
NZ is easy mode though. They are not a nexus of international travel and commerce, and their border is quite hard (an ocean). They did well, for sure, but the UK or any other European country could not have followed the exact same strategy - except maybe Iceland or Far Oer.
I used to repair cell phones for a living and OMG that device was so bad. I think they came out with a v2 that was only slightly better. Yes the whole screen was also a button.

It broke really easily in addition to being hard to use.
The tiny, tiny percentage of interactions that are fatal account for the largest causes of death for certain groups.

source: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793
I think we're talking about different things here.

The unproven strategy that I meant was the one where a longer period ellapses between first and second jabs than had ever been tested. This new data is the test and shows that we probably don't now need to be concerned about that as we did when the strategy was first decided on and implemented.

The conservative approach would have been to ensure everyone got 2 jabs with the elapsed time between them the amount of time that had been tested until this data came in to show that a longer period would actually still work.

I don't know what the advantage of more people with a single jab is. Does anyone? Are you less likely to die? Or we hope so but don't have the data yet - the other leg of this bet so to speak.
Or hand it down to your kids as your hearing gets worse

Maybe a few people hand down usable audio equipment, but the only stereo equipment I got from my parents was an 8-track tape collection and a console stereo.

For you youngsters that don't know what that is, it's a stereo system (usually tuner + turntable + speakers, some of the more modern ones had a cassette player too) built into a piece of furniture the size of a dresser. My parents, being the audio connoisseurs they were, had an 8-track player that sat on top.

https://www.google.com/search?q=console+stereo&tbm=isch
> By contrast a considered and careful strategy is to be commended even if it turned out to be incorrect based on subsequently available facts.

But the EU also gambled - they gambled that more time thinking would pay off, and it didn't. I think this is where you're going wrong with your argument: spending more time for care and consideration is also a gamble.

How do you know how much care and consideration is the right amount? Is more care and consideration always better? Would it be better to still be considering whether to buy any vaccine at this stage? Would you commend that? No, obviously not. So at some point more care and consideration is bad, and you can't just say 'more care and consideration please' forever. At some point you need to apply judgement to stop considering and act. That's a judgement. That's a gamble. It's a gamble to stop considering your situation and it's a gamble to keep considering your situation.

Both the UK and the EU took a gamble. The EU gambled that more consideration was better and they were wrong.

So everyone's a gambler, if you want to look at it like that. But one gambler had better judgement than the other.
The balls were fairly easy to replace.
If I was Theseus I would buy something that does not require separate amp (need to preserve batteries on yacht) and fares better in damp, salty conditions (I have delrin flute for that purpose, though everybody begs me to leave it at home).
Two Multi-Billion Dollar Companies Started with Less Than $1000
Probably the fact that Solarwinds clearly had no businesses being a corporate contractor, let alone a high-level government and military one.
It seems like people have been saying this from the beginning. But no one can say for certain that there is little or no fomite risk, and hand washing and surface cleaning gives people something to do that helps them feel like they are in control.
I've never heard Platonov mentioned in the West when it comes to Russian/USSR literature dealing with ideological totality. Probably Platonov's language is very hard to translate in the way preserving his sound. To me his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Pit is if one removed all the fictional elements from "We", removed even any [anti] glory of "dystopia" and any color, got down to the very ground, and what raw core left would be it. On some plane it is close, though much more brutal on the reader, to the Strugatskis' "Snail on the Slope".
I predict we’re going to look back at ourselves in a few years and find a few things particularly egregious, much as we look back at “smoking is good for your health!” ads from the 1950s:

1. Our early guidance that masks don’t help (because we needed to save the real masks for healthcare workers); and

2. Our collective obsession around Mar-Apr 2020 with surface disinfecting. The shortage on Clorox wipes, the obsessive cleaning of hands and packages and groceries. The wiping down of airplane seats. Hand sanitizer everywhere.

In the end we’re going to realize it was all about close proximity airborne transmission.
Holy Roman Empire is not a factor - Dante was found guilty and exiled under the laws of the Republic of Florence. Ultimately Italy has jurisdiction as the successor state of Florence -> Tuscany -> Sardinia -> Italy after 1861...
>It's not like corporations really have a better track record.

The governments of Russia, Germany and China killed over a hundred million of their own people last century, no corporation comes anything near that.
None of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration said anything of the sort.

This kind of çomment is unhelpful and uncharitable. It's an ad hominem attack.
Who on that list is a "renown epidemiologist"?
You're not factoring in president 45's incompetent handling of the pandemic as it spread through the US. The number "100,000" might have been a realistic figure as long as reopening hadn't been too premature.
Telegram should have a setting to choose the default (secret vs regular chat) and ask the user on installation. I understand about the backups part but a lot of users may don't care about backups. This will remove a lot of bad mouth on them and also save server resources as they don't have to save secret chats forever. I really like telegram for their cool bot-api, instant-view and channels.
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This is more or less what we have at the moment, with DPI scaling ensuring that 16px in CSS roughly is the same amount of physical distance. On a phone with a 2x DPI scaling (like an iPhone), that’ll render as 32 physical pixels.
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It doesn't work. That is why we have this conflict.
> as long as reopening hadn't been too premature

The Barrington folks were among those pushing for that premature reopening. It's their whole thing.
Sure, but in a sea of billions of views a day[0] YT isn't targeting specific channels - at this scale, there's going to be at least one moderation mistakes for every million views (and that's being generous).

0: https://blog.youtube/press/
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Yeah I did replace mine at least once, I think I snapped the plate clip off so it was wonky after I put it back together oh well.
> what do you mean by "Robinhood's most recent miserable failure"?

I mean "failure" in the literal sense. It's not a particularly reliable brokerage.

"FINRA said in a statement that the brokerage failed to make sure clients were getting the most favorable prices possible from October 2016 to November 2017." (19 Dec 2019)

https://qz.com/1772017/robinhood-fined-1-25-million-by-finra...

"As Robinhood's stock-trading app failed, the company was maxing out its credit" (10 Mar 2020)

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-10/robinhood-...

"failing to satisfy its duty to seek the best reasonably available terms to execute customer orders" (17 Dec 2020)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/investing/robinhood-sec-settl...

> Is he blaming T+2 for forcing him/Robinhood to prevent users to buy stock? How so?

In a sense, he's blaming T+2 for tying up his firm's money, which his firm uses to make margin loans and put up collateral.

> I still don't quite understand what T+2 means

It means that if I buy stock from you today, I pay you (and you give me the shares) in two days' time. The trade is instantaneous but its settlement (where we actually exchange the goods for the dough) is not. That transaction is carried out through a clearinghouse.

> all trades are recorded by a centralized entity (NYSE)

NYSE is one stock exchange. It doesn't record all the trades. Look up DTC and NSCC.
From some quick Googling it looks like LoRa accounts for the hidden node problem by using varying timing? Sure, it increases the amount of time required to send a message but as long as the device continues to attempt until it gets an ACK it seems like this could work? Of course, it also eats up the available airtime for the mesh but that's the trade off right?

I'm not a radio hardware expert and I'm not fully up on LoRa or the code of this project at all so I likely have no idea what I'm talking about. Was just wondering if someone else does?
I'm sorry, what? SpaceX are the undisputed champions of re-lighting engines. They've landed orbital rockets 73+ times, each of which involves multiple engine re-lights while falling through the atmosphere. Let alone gets it wrong "with regularity" — the Falcon 9 Block 5 is a remarkably reliable rocket.

Anyway, landing Starship involves a bunch of things never before attempted: landing a fully-reusable second stage, landing a vehicle of this size, relighting and running engines during the belly-flop-and-flip maneuver, and flying and relighting full-flow staged-combustion engines. Probably some other firsts too.
Because people are too cheap to pay. I thought that was clear in my comment.
Apply for affordable housing lotteries while your income is still well below the area median.
> My copy of NixOS had no password on the root user by default, which is not ideal but I assume most deployments aren't like that (right?).

By no password, do you mean:

- it is impossible to log in as root with a password (a good thing, I'd think, as people should be using sudo), or

- it's possible to log in as root without any authentication (a bad thing, obviously)?
This whole thread is about google making $40B. They don't need your money. Keep it and give it to somebody who does.
Yeah I don't think patents will play a major role in the price. WiFi would be a lot more patent-encumbered with technologies like MIMO. Yet it doesn't seem to preclude cheap commodity hardware. My Unifi WiFi 6 AP was only a bit more expensive than the AC one.
1. Was just a flat out lie by various public health officials that they justified for the greater good. It was probably the biggest and easiest-to-prevent mistake of the pandemic, and it certainly cost many lives.

2. It still makes sense to wash hands, use gloves, and wipe down anything coming into your house that was recently touched by strangers. There's no good reason to allow a known vector, even if it's lower risk than airborne.
It's not like Great Britain is an island, after all.

:)
I'll be THAT guy as well! On Gentoo, "equery f <package>" displays a list of files installed by that package, "equery b <path>" says which package owns that file or directory, if any. (f and b are the short versions of "files" and "belongs", respectively)
It’s not even necessarily close proximity: “Infected after 5 minutes, from 20 feet away: South Korea study shows coronavirus’ spread indoors” https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-09/five-m...