skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenBSD does not keep things from spying on you. All it does is, it prevents things (and the people behind them) from breaking in.
Why is this noteworthy?

(I assume this is common knowledge or at least should be)
India is trying to build its own internet
I like it.

I get dropped in and almost instantly have questions about how exactly things work that poking at things just doesn't answer.
The problem may be that 330+ million people expect the politicians in Washington to do anything about these problems, while the problems just get worse and worse. And not just the tax code. They should be ashamed of health care, the complexity of the ACA, the laws allowing people to be ripped off. So many problems.

I agree with you that the tax code should be simpler. But it's about money in Washington, not what people like you and I think. The tenth amendment is there for very good reasons, part of the checks and balances. Bigger is not always better.
Interesting. I once had a language professor from cold-war era Czechoslavakia. He was in the military and had to stand around in formations for hours. He found a like-minded friend and played chess 'in their heads' as they stood.

Extra: After he moved to the USA, he applied his mental skills to poker where he became a world-class lowball player.
San Francisco's 25 public toilets don't cost anything to use, but they make quite a lot in advertising revenue:

https://missionlocal.org/2019/02/how-san-francisco-flushed-a...

(Unfortunately, the city doesn't see much of that)
>Apps like WhatsApp and banking apps are unfortunately needed for a large part of my daily life

That is the opposite of what they want. Do you think whatsapp and a banking app will allow installations that let them track users less? With banking I can sort of understand it, they have to protect the lowest denominator (reused password, no 2fa), so barring different installation methods that are used for "anonymous" purposes I can sort of understand the reasoning behind.
but something like whatsapp where the main commodity is your data? Hardly their priority.
I hate using the word "privilege", but I think it takes a particular mindset/history to equate "can't afford" with "doesn't want to pay".
For many people even in wealthy countries "can't afford" really does mean "I cannot purchase this without at least going into debt or foregoing necessities" even for <$1000 items
Would love to see that list or any other on which this choice descriptor finds itself.
That's very cool, good on you, and thanks for sharing. Given how much expensive places take advantage of cheap labour, it's cool to see that this can work for the benefit of the people on the other side too.
> I have never considered that “having chemistry with the team” could be a reason for being let go.

That about sums up these accounts of "discrimination." "I got a job because I was a girl! Which I'm totally okay with, except that I didn't know I was getting a job because I'm a girl, and that makes it discrimination."
Truly if one was to know the excruciating pain of those who have gone before these things of today thought of as worthy of attention would fade to nothingness.

Would our ancestors envy us or be happy for the fruit of their effort? There are setbacks and frustrations about the slow state of progress sometimes for certain. Maybe they would also be sad for the material orientation of many people and the loss of spirituality that gave them much hope and fortitude.
That's fair. I should have said he's arguing for the right to not teach the history of marginalized people, not that he's arguing that others shouldn't (though he does seem to be arguing that others should be allowed to not teach it).
Bubble Wrap Artist Creates Masterpieces by Injecting Paint into Each Bubble
A new take on pixel art!
Though the FCC's justification for the Fairness Doctrine was akin to part of their justification for prohibiting profanity in broadcasts: the huge scarcity of broadcast spectrum and the relatively small number of channels that could exist in a particular media market. They never attempted to apply the Fairness Doctrine to media other than licensed broadcast stations, and, when they repealed it, they noted that broadcasters would then have the same editorial freedom as print publishers -- who are allowed to be biased and treat others' viewpoints unfairly.
If you think it trough, Tesla is misleading in making anyone velieve their curren tech will ever have full self-driving capabilities.

What's really required for full self-drivung capabilities is infrastructure support. This will come as large eatablished car manufacturers and governments start defining standards for that.

Here's a very simple example. Imagine a stop sign. Tesla's and Google's aproach is to detect the stoo sign via cameras. This can be problematic when the canera can't see the stoo sign (weather, tree branches blocking it partly, a truck in front of you). It would be much simpler if the stoo signbwas able to communicate to self driving cars that they have to stop. Now imagine an accident because your Tesla didn't recognize the stoo sign. Who is going to pay for the damages? Tesla for false advertising? The city for not cutting down the three? Your insurance? You?
This and since covid it doesn't even have to be SV.

I know our company is looking for people "globally" now and what it really means is that it has to be within reasonable time differences to existing offices. But if you're off by a few too many hours but willing to work the time zones closer to the offices, then we are OK with that.

It does make sense to me as long as it's not too far off. It has to be livable. What that means I guess depends on your life situation and whether you are a night owl or an early bird for example and what covid opening hours are in stores etc.
At Georgia Tech, not at MIT. Still a great achievement though (go Jackets!).

Edit: my bad, looks like he was an associate prof at MIT, which means he was indeed tenured before moving to Tech!
Universal Android Debloater can remove them without root, using ADB (Android Debug Bridge): https://gitlab.com/W1nst0n/universal-android-debloater/

In case you do want to install a custom Android distribution (ROM) to clean out the Samsung bloat more thoroughly, the risk of hard-bricking your phone is almost non-existent nowadays. The worst that can happen is usually a soft-brick which can be fixed by reinstalling the original OS. As for Play Store, most custom ROMs either include or support installing Google services and Play Store with full functionality.

(disclaimer: I work on custom kernels and ROMs)
Neither of them says that. The xi CRDT was not about shared editing. The second paper just says that CRDTs are not superior per se. But CRDTs are being used in production for text editing and they are performant if implemented correctly (even in js).

The following article shows that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24176455
It's not quite a modern smartphone, but it's the best we have at the moment; have you looked into the PinePhone? I have mine running openSUSE Tumbleweed.
> BlueROV2 costs almost $3000[1]

If they could do this for as cheap as $100,000 and 10% maintenance then it would sell out.

I think even with millions of dollars it wont work well enough to deploy.

Cost of just the cameras to detect drowning -

"The cost to install Poseidon will vary depending on the size, specifications and number of pools. The average cost to manufacture and install the system in a standard pool is between $150,000 – $350,000." - https://drowningprevention.com.au/#:~:text=Cost,pool%20facil....

Here's $6,000,000 for shark spotting using an easier tech -

https://www.zdnet.com/article/au8m-fleet-of-shark-spotting-d...

(A SMART drumline is a buoy that sends a sms when the hook gets pulled on - https://www.sharksmart.nsw.gov.au/technology-trials-and-rese...)
It wasn't known to anyone before.
This might be important. Practical FHE would be a big deal. But this is to TRY to make it practical, and that is not the same thing. I wish them luck.
Don’t fully understand the argument here. One the one hand they claim they built a successful solution with minor problems without test driven development or a lot of unit tests.

On the other hand they claim to really like tests and have it as a goal to do more of them.

But this is a contradiction. If they successfully built a large site with minimal testing then why exactly do they need all these unit tests?

If they where successful without test driven development then why do they need TDD?

To be cool?

It sure what to make of this. The argument seems inconsistent. If I had major success without best practices I would have proclaimed loudly that those practices are BS. But these guys seem to want it but ways.
I think what the parent poster is getting at is that many of us are bewildered at the way you are using the word “safe”.

I take it you aren’t saying that students believe that an assailant will be hiding in the classroom with a bat ready to assault them as the enter the classroom.

Rather I take you and others to be using safe to mean something like comfortable. But unsafe and uncomfortable are two different words. There’s rarely or never good cause to make someone feel unsafe, but sometimes being uncomfortable can lead to growth. Or at least people used to believe so.
This is not how homomorphic encryptions works. The schemes in use are not deterministic.
Not if the roads are mapped. You have prior knowledge of exactly where the markings are even if it’s not entirely visible due to rain.
oh my. I don't see why bloomberg got all busy with hidden Chinese chips. It looks like intel already have it covered.
Fully agreed, there's a whole lot going on beyond stories of bad experiences. It's a complicated issue, I just think we're focusing on the wrong problem if we're just looking at this from a pipeline point of view and not asking what factors contribute to the pipeline being sub-optimal. Too often I hear, "women just like people more than men," and other similar BS, which lets us as an industry off the hook for creating sub-par environments.
If the road markings are visible, do you use them? Or do you ignore them and never use them since they may sometimes be covered?

The former?

So makes sense for an automatic system to do the same?

> a light coating of crystallized water

Do you mean snow?
Weird that he's saying that. Someone shows up in the comments with one on top of a car that seems to indicate it'd fit fairly well.

https://twitter.com/astrajamz/status/1369051953523744773

Seems like you could definitely fit one in the family minivan. Maybe skip it for the Porsche.
> Kristof and the Times, of course, would prefer a national infrastructure project to provide free toilets. If you've followed this over the years, you will see many efforts at government provided toilets. Costs are often hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the effort falls apart. There are some free toilets. In Chicago, the park district still had some. Without the incentive to charge a bit of money, they were typically disgusting and dangerous.

Most cities and towns already have a large number of free toilets in parks and businesses. Some are privately owned and maintained, some are publicly owned and maintained. There just aren't enough of them (in most US cities). This is clearly a problem that can be solved with a little planning and adequate funding.

And realistically, a root of the cost problem is that one could expect that about 90% of the costs are created by 1% of the users. Bathrooms aren't expensive to operate as long as people don't make a mess. I find it surprising that even working a tech industry job in a building complex populated by generally competent, responsible adults that there are almost always paper towels on the floor of the bathroom. I can understand once in awhile maybe dropping one, or not noticing that it didn't make its way into the waste basket. Or a person with joint or mobility issues might not be able to reach down and pick it up. But still, it's a continuous thing. Why?

Ideally we'd find a way to alter the average person's behavior not to make a mess in the bathroom, but that's easier said than done. I don't know what the right policies there would be that aren't overly intrusive.
Companies do this all the time - seek an opinion from outside legal counsel. It's a CYA exercise and demonstrates intent to not violate the law. It certainly isn't blanket protection, a company can still be fined or leadership jailed for violating the law.

I assume if you did this as a person, not a company, it could be taken into account in sentencing - it may support the idea that you didn't intent to violate the law.

But a lawyer going to jail instead of you? Why would a lawyer agree to that? There is no benefit to them.
I started listening and by the third track I was sold and purchased on bandcamp! Great stuff!
I’ve been doing music for many years, but only recently letting other people hear it! My last two released things are a 20-minute mostly electronic melodic-ambient suite [1] and a string quartet piece (my first!) [2].

[1] https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/paleotone/juxtapose-part-o...

[2] https://youtu.be/MYcfIxjsF_c?t=16m04s (starts at 16:04)
> A huge amount of operations, such as XML-whitespace removal (aka: SIMD Steam Compacting), Regular Expressions, and more, have been proven ~30 to 40 years ago to benefit from SIMD compute. Yet such libraries don't exist today yet.

That's exactly why I don't believe it's ever going to happen. If these things could actually be useful in practice, surely someone would have done it already.
Except he gives technical proof how this is done.

No, it's not possible to see what Amazon does with this information but it's clear they can do way too much. And, they can change the behaviour at any moment without the user getting notified within these existing wide permissions. At the very least it's very poor design.
Actually the article does say that the 100MW is served for about an hour that makes it 100MWh. But I do agree that it is a sloppy journaism to confuse power and energy. Basic high school level physics.
Sounds like a pair of golden handcuffs. Is your family at least covered as well?

What if your partner gets in that car crash, or your kid has an expensive birth defect? Expensive care is a matter of time, not a matter of luck. It really makes me uncomfortable as well that timing or location (or employment) seem to matter.
Show HN: Video virtual backgrounds for virtual meetings
I don't meant this as a personal attack but there is something faintly ironic about this statement

Orwell is pretty the much the one-stop gramophone record for quotes when someone wants to express concern about censorship or authoritarianism in a vague, semi-lyrical way
Isn’t Linux sufficient to achieve what the OP is asking?
That's not the right premise for the discussion.

A stone is a physical object, some stones are worth more than others.

You can call the fact that humans apply value to thing a scam but that would give you a suboptimal understanding of the world.
> And that’s after only a year of relatively minor restrictions on daily life, not 5 or 10 or 50 years of being held in captivity.

Not to understate the restriction involved in being imprisoned, but “relatively minor restrictions on daily life” is really understating the experience of many people over the past year.

I haven’t seen my parents, sibling, 1-year-old nephew, most of my friends, and any of my co-workers in over a year. I haven’t taken any vacation time because there’s nowhere to go and nothing to do. I’m fortunate that I’m comfortably employed, but none of my regular activities are happening, so my life is essentially in a holding pattern where every day is just some variation of working from home, cooking for myself, working out by myself, and reading.
I feel like at the very least we could have some super basic open air toilets. No toilet paper, no roof, just a toilet with running water and a tap. Almost no maintenance, and people won't camp out inside, but objectively better than a tree or something. I suppose the lack of TP would be more ok for men than women though.
Do you have a source for the “years ahead”. Not being sarcastic, I’m genuinely interested.
> However, there are some recent discoveries and theories. There was a study which found DNA adducts from cipro, others are looking at mtDNA and collagen issues.

Have any links? And find anything that helped?

I’m doing much better than I was before. But not knowing whether the issues are due to Cipro I also can’t be sure that anything I tried addressed it.
that's an example of one particular dutch engineer though. It's not representative. The average salary in SF for an engineer is about 120k-160k.

So the 300k guy is in that last segment of the 'tripolar' camp the author talks about, but that is a small one.
Anti-virals aren't like anti-biotics, we don't have great general purpose antivirals. Adamantine, interferons, etc are used generally, but their efficacy is pretty poor.

That's why hepatitis C was so difficult to treat. It required a very specific molecule to inhibit an enzyme specific to hepatitis C.
> I do find it hard to believe that "the best" candidate is more often than not a straight white man.

So do I, which is why I find this diversity hire exercise entirely pointless.
What are those roles in in TW? McD employees, for all their troubles, are well above "pooping in the park" in economic comfort.
I’ve been producing electronic music since the early 2000s, and I’m still not sure what genre it is. It’s definitely not dance or EDM, but it’s not downtempo or ambient, either.

https://presteign.com
It's really funny to me that this is 'inclusivity'. We have a tiny clique of upper-middle-class people who want to control all discourse in the name of 'inclusivity'.

If you're one million percent sure that you're right about everything, that's justifiable. You're maximizing inclusivity. But if you're not?
No, but it is radical to do that while redefining “racism” to encompass literally every aspect of existing society radicals don’t like: capitalism, the U.S. Constitution, individualism, being white (“whiteness”), etc.
> Except for a handful of very over-priced models that I can't afford to buy

Which models is he talking about here? Those Raptor Power9 workstations that are like $7k are the only things that come to mind.
This is the paradox of tolerance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Each of Chicago Review's two choices (to publish, or not to publish) will generate disapproval.

My personal view is that deplatforming intolerance is ok -- that the Chicago Review are right to deplatform intolerance.

Was Kunin's article intolerant and who decides? I have no idea, an uninformed opinion at best.
It’s certainly not, they are very real, but that doesn’t mean the article contains any.
Absolutely agreed. It's sometimes really hard to understand how 'Americans' can't fathom getting stuff done 'the European way'. Somehow it seems impossible to them that having 30 days of vacation from day one of your career is possible. They can't fathom that hours in seat don't equal output. They can't fathom that you can care about your work and still just go home at reasonable hours (and still take care of say a production issue when needed but then obviously go home early next Friday or take the day off entirely).
Sometimes they literally are the law, for example where paywalled standards are “incorporated by reference” into regulations. There are official workarounds [1] — sometimes — but the situation of a law that isn’t freely available is disturbing.

[1] https://www.nist.gov/standardsgov/accessing-standards-incorp...
Interesting work!

Are there any treatments that kill the pathogenic but leave the beneficial microbes?

Does mouthwash kill them equally? What about h2o2 or xylitol?
Yes. But not only the data, also the algorithm isn’t visible to the computer doing the computing...
> One of the top 10 principles of economics is, don't silence prices in order to transfer incomes.

My Google-fu can't find this dictum anywhere. Is it usually said in some other form?
I think I agree with the premise of the article. I was never diagnosed, but lets just say I don't thrive in traditional office environment. Then all of a sudden, after Covid hit, I was unburdened from coffee/water cooler rituals, morning bs talks with 'management by walking' types, pointless social idiocies and meetings about best ways to appoint committee to spend money for a new a pizza party.. and all of a sudden, I could focus on what I am paid to do, work.

My productivity skyrocketed, I learned some R, showed my boss some of the neat things we could do with it. I got promoted despite my boss's boss apparent dislike for me. Yeah, the new norm could absolutely help the 'previously socially handicapped'.
In your definition of tolerant, is it required to tolerate even attempts to destroy the tolerant person? i.e. is there a line beyond which tolerance doesn't apply? Where do laws fit in here? I honestly thought that tolerance already included this concept - it actually means tolerant of difference of opinion, except for attempts to overthrow and replace the system of tolerance itself.
You appear to have missed that this is a discussion of in-person conversations.
I had the exact same thought. I skimmed through the rest of the article. The author's frustrations seem to center around the fact that she is a diversity hire, which is made even more evident by the discussion in the comments. The excuse is that they are "raising awareness" but this is something we are all painfully aware of so it comes across as "my personal anecdote about {buzzword}".

Some of the best and worst co-workers I've had in my relatively short career have been women. In my experience, women are much more sociable than men and bring a certain positive energy to a team, but are less competitive with the other men on the team. Men will always compete AGAINST other men FOR women. They want to be the alpha, which fundamentally means that they get the most women.

This means that women won't bother to compete with men and vice versa. Hiring a woman to work on a team of all men is probably exactly like hiring a man on a team of all women. It will bring undue, subversive, and potentially aggressive behavior between team members of the opposite sex because of the fundamentally sexual, subconscious forces we are subject to as human beings.
"Perhaps I am looking for something like the x286 DOS computer I had in the early 1990's [...] Instead, I have a computer that is designed largely to maximize the profits of the computer industry."

Who's going to tell him who made the x286 and DOS? Not exactly 501(C) organisations...
Do most pathogenic microbes tend to be gram negative? If so why is that?
This SV clip says it for me. In the words of Guilfoyle "... we should hire the best person for the job. Period." [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dek5HtNdIHY
Do you find long term partners tend to have the same oral microbiome?
I don't have much that's at all polished, but I've been recording things ~daily since early on in COVID and have been posting them at http://noise.nateeag.com.
If you only know there are 10 heads and 30 feet, how many chickens are there, and how many pigs? As algebra students learn, there’s a set procedure for figuring it out

If there are 30 feet, then there are 15 chickens. Because pigs don't have feet.

Where do I pick up my algebra prize?
Why are the last two pure wastes of time? It seems to me that they could be productive lines of inquiry.

Also, let's not be coy -- it's pretty obvious what their agenda is. At the very least you and I both know. I've seen you round these parts before, partner.
This is really fascinating. Is there a reason why we haven't seen more of this approach as it seems like it was pretty successful for IBM. Is there a practical reason that would prevent an open source project from building something similar?