skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Statistics show a different reality but even then, if everything outside the house is closed it stands to reason that the percentage of infections inside the house would grow by a lot. Simply because there are no others. And it turns out to be pretty tempting, once infections start rising again (despite the restrictions) to use these percentages to impose even more draconian restrictions.
That would be nice.

Reality: the task manager will not open because there is not enough RAM. Simply moving the mouse pointer can become impossible.

Attempting to close a window goes like this: estimate the mouse movement needed, carefully move the mouse, then come back in 15 minutes to see if the pointer has moved and if it is in the correct location. If it has moved but not as desired, make another attempt. If it hasn't moved, come back in an hour... then try several hours, or maybe the next day. If somehow the mouse is in the correct location, click the button very slowly. Maybe hold it for minutes or hours?
I like Sciter for the possibilities, but it needs better compatibility with web standards. Being able to port an existing application that uses React -for example- and have it just run would be the cat's meow.

Needing to rewrite with other UI/JS frameworks to account for quirks gives me pause.
I was never taught how to type... I'm fast enough, 120-140wpm depending on the keyboard and what I'm typing. I think the speed came from playing online games and needing to communicate quickly before suffering the consequences of not controlling my character.

The end result is that I have a strange typing pattern and I use the "wrong" fingers for keys.
Disclosing documents to a federal investigator (or regulator) is wildly different than sending it to an ex-coworker.
I posted an Ask looking for answers on why X is suddenly "abandonware" while still-green Wayland is promoted as its replacement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26176037

It seems like the primary reason is that X has been abandoned by its developers in favor of Wayland.
From the article:

"Members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army cannot lie on their visa applications and come to the United States to study without expecting the FBI and our partners to catch them." said Assistant Director Alan E. Kohler Jr. of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division. "Time and again, the Chinese government prioritizes stealing U.S. research and taking advantage of our universities over obeying international norms."

It doesn't matter if she was unsuccessful at exfiltrating secrets. What matters is that, apparently, she's an agent of a foreign government who lied about said affiliation on her application for a visa.
This is fascinating to me. I would love to contribute to Dream research. I also keep a dream journal and consistently have very vivid and colorful dreams. The most frustrating thing to me is that I would love to share these dreams somehow with the world but I'm not a great writer and I'm even worse at drawing.
AI system fires AI ethics leader? Hmm this wasn't the machine uprising I was expecting.
In addition, because each of our data viz is connected to live data feeds, it creates an ever-expanding library with decreasing effort/time from HiGeorge. More content, more revenue, less time/effort as time goes on.
That theory makes as much sense as the theory that "chemical imbalances" (i.e. low-alcohol) cause social anxiety.

Alcohols are produced in your brain naturally and adding more changes behavior. Clinical trials show that more alcohol increases sociability compared to placebos (but with side effects). There are some concerns about giving alcohol to three year olds, but it is better that they become socialized at a young age than deal with the consequences for life.

In short: science + tons of money = not science.
The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
I've had to say this a fair few times here, but I'll keep saying it.

IEDevToolbar, which Firebug was pretty much a clone of, came out a year before Firebug. And it took Firebug years to catch up in feature parity, as far as I remember.

So, firebug didn't make it the dev tool of choice. We all just hated microsoft. And tabbed browsing was great.
Without going into too much detail on my own situation, in addition to other meds I'm also on Modafinil. This is mainly to combat fatigue side effects, but modafinil is also a very good (for me at least) anti-depressant. I'm depressed less often on it, and when depressed it keeps me much more functional. There's a decent body of research in its use for this purpose as a second-line anti-depressant, such as: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16035049/

Not all doctors are familiar with its use in this way. When I had to switch doctors after mine retired, I had to educate them in its use so that they would continue prescribing it.

It is also not an automatic approval by insurance companies. However, if denied by your insurance, you can get it at a fairly reasonable price using GoodRX.

If you're still struggling after what you're already one, and have gone through a few other options (and maybe even if you haven't) then I would highly recommend talking to your doctor about this.

Something to keep in mind though is that this will, mostly in the first week, impact your sleeping patterns. Taking it first thing in the morning would be the best time, and perhaps ask your doctor about using an over-the-counter sleep aid such as diphenhydramine during initial usage.
It was nice when the OS was 64-bit and multi-threaded, but the browser was not. The browser couldn't grab more than 1 CPU and 4 GiB.
Its purpose is not just those, another is protecting society. I actually think that is its primary function, rehabilitation can be done in better ways.
I think jail should only be considered where a threat to the public is posed. This case is an open and shut example of a dangerous threat.
< Many people have suffered re-infection

Citation needed. Every source I’ve heard has said reinfection is rare in both percent and absolute terms. And resistance to the disease is proven to last at least ~9months and estimated by the medically knowledgeable to last much much longer.
I also hate electron apps, I refuse to install them on my personal machine, and use a(n independent) web browser.

Efficient software is great, the cool parts of the projects I work on are efficient. In my case, the GUI doesn't need to scale in the same way, and I'm pretty confident the customer would rather have better cross platform support (at a lower cost than if we had to test a bunch of OS web views) than 100MB of their disk back.

But yeah, there are plenty of examples of software I use where I disagree. Although this is often based on my aesthetic dislike for an inelegant system, than on any kind of resource constraint.
Uh, no, other countries don’t have 65% of the hashing capacity. The USA could put a gun to miners heads, but it wouldn’t give them 51%, so there’s no point.
very correct. my bad for forgetting we had yet-another project hijacked.
I think this is conditional, not universal. If someone did a crime for greed, or because they are a "bad person" who is seemingly rational but simply enjoys hurting people, I think you'll find that most people are not sympathetic.
Yet, eating bacon and cha siu makes me happy...
Of course you're right. USA has been continually at war, grinding the lives of brown people into profits for rich bastards, since before independence from Britain. Lots of Americans moved to USSR, especially non-whites. Truman had four years in which Stalin would have been happy to sign away nuclear weapons forever, but instead he was led by the nose by the armaments manufacturers and kept creating ever-more-deadly nukes. USSR continually tried to rein in communists in other nations in order to try to preserve peace, but was painted as a great instigator by the airtight propaganda that we Americans choke in from our births.

Still, it would have been better not to restrict emigration. That was not humane, and betrayed an antiquated view of how the world works.
I’m not sure what else, but this alone would prove she lied on her Visa application and lied to authorities in an interview. From the article:

If convicted, she faces a maximum statutory penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for the visa fraud count; up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for each of the obstruction and alteration charges; and up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for the false statements charge.
Totally agree. It's a kind of narrative/availability fallacy.
Year Zero: A Novel by Rob Reid is one where the entire galaxy got hooked on listening to our pop music that's been transmitting this whole time and how Earth is now owed insane amounts of money due to copyright.
I haven’t contributed in a while but I feel the same. I contributed because I want free maps.
other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26198789
Missed one point:

There has not been increase in cold weather events in Texas. Rather, the shift to energy producing technologies that are more susceptible to going offline in cold weather is why Texas is now going offline more often.

Back when people burned coal for electricity, it was a lot dirtier but did not suffer the issue of windmills freezing. Attempts to politicize this issue and hijack it for whatever crusade you are waging means that the Texas grid wont be made more reliable, and this is going to be a growing problem in other areas that are beginning to rely more on energy sources that are subject to being disrupted by cold weather.
Well no wonder they fired her after she wrote that terrible racist book, "Gone With the Wind."
It seems every couple of months there is an alternative to Electron posted here which uses system webviews. A quick search turns up a wide variety of them.
Does anyone else get the same feel from Wayland as from WebExtensions? That is, being forced into a new system with less functionality while these shortcomings are swept under the rug with "we'll fix it later" and "nobody uses that" excuses?
Or they'll just conclude the whole thing was a waste and only caused negative publicity and hard feelings and have legal and PR and relevant stakeholders from any given project manage ethics going forward like normal BigCos do.
It's pretty important to get this story straight: She moved files when she wasn't supposed to. This seems like a pretty standard firing. People are already claiming on twitter that Google is assaulting ethical AI, and I just don't see it.

Google did not immediately comment on those claims. Its statement said of Mitchell: “We confirmed that there were multiple violations of our code of conduct, as well as of our security policies, which included the exfiltration of confidential business-sensitive documents and private data of other employees.”

Yeah, uh, don't do this.
I use my left thumb for left shift, and for all other left meta keys.

(I also hit 'a' with my left thumb...)

My pinkies are completely unused, except for right pinky on enter.

No idea how well I'd adapt to 'proper' typing!

(After all these years, my left thumb is notably more flexible than my right!)
> Freedom of speech entails the right to not say things you don't want to

Ars clearly wanted to say it, which is why they published what they originally did. However, because of the chilling effect, they felt the need to go back and retroactively censor themselves even if they didn't want to.
> However if you want any sort of efficient lookup on the external key (UUID), your database still needs an index on the UUID, and you are back at square one.

Well. Many systems already do a form of this. They store a session ID (the browser cookie) in something like redis which maps to an internal database id which is often incremented. The internal database ids are never seen outside the DB.

In this case it's fine because the external IDs are ephemeral (relatively) and centralization is a hard criteria (you typically can't have two people creating an account with the same user name, or having one email address linked to multiple record IDs, etc.).

This is really why these discussions are pointless without specifics and a concrete system.
Well, I asked people who are world class competitive security competitors and had succes in HACK A SAT how's the satelites and stuff security and they said that it aint good
I'm replying late but...By "strategy" here I'm referring to the strategy for humans to eat less meat to achieve environmental goals — not any particular strategy to achieve a reduction in meat eating. I agree that achieving that outcome is going to be hard.
you are not wrong. My /mistake/ is that in most of the world, libertarian means US-progressist and liberal means US-libertarian. it's confusing. i may have even screwed up the terms here as i'm multitasking. look up wikipedia to learn more/better :)
IIRC, the word 'Alexa' and the configurable alternatives 'Echo', 'Amazon', and 'Computer' are encoded into the firmware of the device itself with a wide variety of different accents accepted. Using an arbitrary word would mean everything the device hears would need to be constantly sent to Amazon so their servers could detect your custom wake word or you'd need to train the device to use your custom wake word, which would never be as accent complete as the built in wake words. That might be fine if it's just you or if everyone in your household are willing to also go through a voice recognition training session with the device.
Not just exfiltration but sharing outside the organization, as per news articles about it.

There's no story here, this is an obvious outcome.

Edit: to add that the more interesting question is whether they should sue her. If they don't, that may be the contextually-appropriate version of letting her off the hook easy (to live up to their culture or for morale or for optics or whatever reason).
I dont believe that people have anxiety disorders for no reason at all...

e.g. an autistic teenager who got beaten up for being socially clueless or abrasive. Anxiety might be the thing that saved them from being seriously harmed.
Wonder if there will be some big leak or bus throwing article from the exfiltrated data the reporting references.
The fraud Facebook habitually engages in is one thing. The psychological effects of their apps on their users is another. Machine learning gears the content toward what spikes emotion in the moment. Social media is the new cigarettes.
- 135,000 Google employees

- 2,000 signed a petition to support Timnit [1]

- 2 employees resigned to support Timnit [2]

When it comes to voting with your feet, no one actually gives a shit.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/04/thousands-petition-google-fo...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/04/tech/google-employees-quit/in...
Most of the cholesterol in your body is synthesized, not from your diet.
I don't know how you can say it's "literally everyone" when at least one knowledgeable authority says otherwise, in addition to many other non-authority figures.

I get the same feel from it as systemd and WebExtensions, where a more complicated and less capable product is forced on everyone and any arguments about its shortcomings are ignored, swept under the rug, or hand-waved.
*Wayland lacks many feature that users have come to rely on.

Can you explain what you think these are? In my experience, this is not really the case.
The making of d20 version 3
https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/product-requirements/r...
SPAC Rap by Cassius Cuvee
If you think outside the box there’s plenty of things to do:

* quarantine the infected person outside the home
* develop protocols to avoid infection of the others
* use medication that blocks people from getting infected
* use measures to block infecting the others

It is kind of strange that in this situation somehow the government is justified in taking no action. While in others apparently they are obligated to act.
The perils of attempting to “electrify everything”
Ditto. Unless I have to go back a lot of edits, I don't actually use the plugin that often. I've mapped my undo/redo keys to traverse the undo tree instead of the undo stack:

nnoremap u g-

nnoremap <C-r> g+

It takes a little bit of getting use to, but it takes care of most instance where I need a previous edit from a minute ago.
I share this experience and my typing on a normal keyboard is still only using a few fingers and moving them around all over the place. On a split keyboard even, i still 'misplace' some fingers because my pinky finger is so short i can't hit 'p' key comfortably with it.

Still, I think having a split keyboard has overall been a benefit to my typing experience and type faster on it than I could on a normal keyboard.
> My understanding is that people in those other countries have not been lead down such a path

Ah, that makes sense. They would require evidence to believe something. So for example, in an election where there was no evidence of fraud, they would not believe there was fraud. Such as the one which occurred in 2020 in the U.S.
Let's be real. The whole idea of this "Ethics Board" was only ever done for PR. Period.

Google never actually intended to follow through with any of their recommendations if it meant going against its financial interests.
Already has but it isn't enforced yet. According to what their new "as much storage as you need" you have to ask them to increase it which I assume means they'll look at bandwidth usage and see if theres any one user abusing. Good luck if its just a one person "enterprise" too. It's kinda like what Dropbox "unlimited" is.
Relatively well is, well, relative :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka
When I wrote the post I mentioned, it felt like just writing down my feelings on an extant system.

Now, ten years later, it feels like I documented a part of history that hasn't replicated itself. I can't help but feel really sad about that.
If we can agree that he is the destroyer of many lives, how would he ever overcome that debt? I suppose organ donation is one way...
Ultima IV is maybe my most favourite game of all time. I still really liked Ultima VIII. It had a great story and was just very different, which I also respected (IMHO sequel-ism is something that often plagues modern games). This article is an interesting opinion piece though. I hadn’t read about the development background of VIII by Lord British so far, worth reading for that alone.
Reading this mailing list thread, I'm really not a fan of 'Linux' application that only work on WSL2. This feels wrong and some would qualify it as the expand part in EEE (embrace, expand, extinguish).
At the same time, Google unveiled a "Black owned businesses near me" on Google Maps. How has that been received? We need look no further than Twitter: (the Tl;Dr. racists are using this to lower all ratings of these Black owned businesses)

https://twitter.com/dmetaxak/status/1362856231212212224

Google recently added a feature allowing users to search for "Black-owned businesses near you". They're advertising it all over the place (see below).

I've also already started hearing from Black-owned businesses I follow that they're seeing an influx of racist fake reviews...

BLK MKT Vintage, for instance, got over 30 new, clearly fake reviews in 24 hours (e.g., calling them "a store that promotes segregation", saying their items were "broken" and "covered in dead cockroaches").

And if you look at the users writing those reviews...

The users leaving those fraudulent 1-star reviews for this business are also leaving 1-star reviews on dozens of other Black-owned businesses.

All this while Google pays for PR lauding this new feature.

We need to ask: is it always a good idea to make marginalized groups more visible? Whom does it benefit?

Have such companies thought through the consequences for those they're "helping"? Was this done at the direction of those groups or paternalistically on behalf of?

This is yet another example of why app features cannot and should not replace community networks and mutual aid.

Technosolutionism, the white savior complex, and paternalism towards marginalized groups lead to selfish PR efforts that actively harm those they ostensibly "help".
Good point. I'm not sure expensive meat is that healthy either. We'd probably eat more cheap meat than expensive meat though, so if it's all unhealthy then we might want to think of cheap meat as more-unhealthy.
Exactly! It made total sense at the time, and still does to some degree.

I'm sure SQLAlchemy is lovely, but after spending so much time with Django ORM, I'm finding it hard to shift my thinking any time I try to look at SA. I'm sure if I had started using SA first, the opposite would also be true, so we just took different paths. I'm guessing you'll enjoy SA if you love SQL, based on all the other comments I'm seeing.
This is more humorous than any sort of meaningful metric. A bit like bringing a Ford F-150 into the Alaskan wilds and saying "Ford has 100% market penetration in all directions for 1,000 miles!"
The point is: why bother prosecuting that crap when patently no state secrets are involved? Why not simply revoke the visa, deport the person and ban her from re-entry? Do they want to create uncertainty for people who have served in the PLA or generally discourage Chinese researchers from working in the US? The purpose of the exercise is wholly unclear! What is the Department of State up to?
+1 to this. On my very first day of my very first CS class in college over 10 years ago, a guest speaker came in to beg to take girls to an all expenses paid conference about women in CS. I was never afforded a similar opportunity.
In general, the wayland protocol is not the same as the X11 protocol and is probably not going to have all the same features implemented in the same way. If it was the same, it would be called the X11 protocol. From a user perspective it doesn't matter what the protocol is or how certain things are implemented, ultimately the only thing they care about is if the application works.

Just my observation, asking for X11-style sandbox escapes to support Wine is a mistake, it's much better to work with the system so it becomes feasible to run Wine applications within a sandbox. It just doesn't make sense to break Wayland's design because of other insecure legacy designs in the Win32 API.
I am not sure I necessarily buy your comparison. Do you have any records where the employees have done something similar, e.g., giving ultimatums to manager, sending inflammatory emails to a large group of employees, leaking internal documents to outsiders, in MSR, but didn't get fired?
I think it’s possible to care about AI ethics and not like Timnit.
I typed it into YouTube and every result (of the first dozen or so) is years old, including the most recent video citing an example where it's impossible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bml8ovt4nfI
If amazon ruined the name it was surely when Alexa was first used as a spyware IE plugin and it's accompanying website popularity ranking.

I'm kind of surprised they ever used the brand for anything after that.
>She moved files when she wasn't supposed to

If that's true, that's not very ethical is it?
Linux to the Mars before Doge to the moon!
Ask HN: How do you organize your job search?
How do you keep track of
a) which jobs you've applied to
b) which jobs have rejected you
c) all the different interviews scheduled at different stages of the process for different companies
:) Also, Mars has gone completely solar and nuclear. No petrochemicals at all!
So, this is one of those things that would likely be very painful for a short period of time as you adjust to typing on a split keyboard. I was the same way when I typed on a normal stagggered layout, but being completely unable to do that, brain relatively quickly adjusted to that change.
Uh-huh. The agencies of, let’s say, the US federal government, or the Kremlin, or similarly those of governments in the UK, France, Germany, all have no history of overseas intervention or onshore direct action to preserve economic interests. Got it.