skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But, is it just me or has it become rarer for open source project maintainers to feel free to let projects go?

Social media - and GitHub is definitely a social media tool - gives people an easy way to shout at you whenever they're unhappy, and gives them plenty of tools to get in your face while making it very hard for you to cut them out.
Google, Facebook, Chaos Computer Club join forces to oppose German state spyware
thanks for the tips! I think long covid has more similarities to POTS than to hEDS, but most of us have POTS or OI too, so I agree it will help.

on the subject of sketchy gray-market meds, have you heard of BPC-157? I know an hEDSer who seemed to really bounce back after using it, but I can't quite work up the nerve to inject myself with internet peptides.

What do you read to stay informed about this stuff?
Blockchain allows multiple parties to amend data using distributed and untrusting infrastructure, in a tamper proof way. The problems addressed are a bit more involved than a spreadsheet.
Google is a cesspool because the spammers and SEO-hackers are in full force, and Google is only reactive to these threats these days. I mean, does it really matter if they are making hundreds of billions of dollars a year? They seem to be doing something right.

The only time something will change is when traffic starts decreasing to their site, but it's good enough such that people won't change. Look at Facebook, I don't know anyone who uses it as much as they used to 10 years ago, but it's making the most money it ever has. Why on earth would any behavior change? From their points of view, everyone is happy with it!
The high bit of the right answer to this question is that you don't want to replace PGP; one of the things we've learned in 29 years is that you don't want a single tool to do lots of different cryptographic things, because different applications have different cryptographic needs.

For package signing: use something in the signify/minisign family.

To encrypt a network transport, use WireGuard.

To protect a web transaction on the wire, TLS 1.3.

For transferring files: use Magic Wormhole.

For backups: use something like Tarsnap or restic.

For messaging: use something that does Signal Protocol.

To protect files at rest, use encrypted DMGs (or your OS's equivalent, like encrypted loop mounts).

To encrypt individual files --- a niche ask --- use Filippo's ungooglable "age".
Started to wonder why there is a switch on the charger box. Finally dawned on me: You cannot have the LED blinking and using 20 mA when your total energy production is 50 mA.
That's a bit dismissive. I use android and iOS devices regularly and of all the options facetime is what I use the most for the following reasons: 1) The latency is very good, which is critical for a comfortable video chat experience. 2) Performance and experience is reliable and consistent and it handles less-than-ideal network condition very well. It's the one that I know is most likely to give me an acceptable experience the first time.
Actually, I apologize. I now realize that Radon's actions were not morally wrong. My only contention was that he broke the non-compete agreement. But I believe that agreement is itself is illegal in California.
Lead acid batteries suck for more reasons than just their size and weight. One major disadvantage is that the faster you discharge them the less of their charge you will actually recover[1]. Additionally, discharging them below 50% capacity significantly reduces their life in terms of total cycles (even for cells rated for "deep cycle" operation)[2][3] so you need to oversize your battery system to get the same effective capacity if you want your cells to last. Lithium batteries suffer from neither of those drawbacks.

If those weren't enough, even when treated well (not discharged too deeply) lead-acid batteries don't last for as many discharge cycles as lithium iron phosphate cells. If you do the math, for batteries cycled daily modern LiFePo batteries are about the same TCO as lead-acid despite the higher up-front costs because the lithium batteries will last significantly longer and you don't need to buy as much absolute capacity for the same effective capacity. Here's a good presentation on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRqRDZh74F0

[1] http://omahamakergroup.org/2015/05/14/battery-derating-and-c...

[2] https://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/lead-acid-batteries/char...

[3] https://www.solar-electric.com/media/wysiwyg/cyclelife2.gif (Graph shows cycles (y-axis) vs average depth of discharge (x-axis) for a typical "deep cycle" lead-acid battery. Note the y-axis is logarithmic.)
Compositions 1960
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9044175?hl=en

>Google issues a manual action against a site when a human reviewer at Google has determined that pages on the site are not compliant with Google's webmaster quality guidelines. Most manual actions address attempts to manipulate our search index. Most issues reported here will result in pages or sites being ranked lower or omitted from search results without any visual indication to the user.
Two-day underwater avalanche sent mud 1,000km into ocean – Africa
The requested pcaps are linked from here:

https://sneak.berlin/20210202/macos-11.2-network-privacy/
Do you use it in Chrome? I have tried chrome and Firefox but they both make my fans spin for one video stream and four audio streams. Zoom's native app OTOH seems to handle multiple video streams with ease. This is on macOS.
Ask HN: Would you sign up for an immersive VR under these conditions?
Ask HN: Would you sign up for an immersive VR under these conditions?

* You have no knowledge of the fact that you're in a virtual reality

* The simulation will threaten you with eternal torture if you attempt to remove the headset early

* If you resist the programming, the simulation will psychologically and/or physically torment you such that you'll eventually remain in a perpetual state of suicidal ideation

* If you accept the simulation, you'll be rewarded with pleasure and fulfillment as desired
Yes they would have. OMG that was 10 years ago and ...what is new in Google search these last 10 years. Maybe a lot but I don't see it. I just see ads and, when I do some long tail query most of the results are just random sites in russia or whatever with keyword salad (is there a word for that kind of site?)
there is some line that it's unethical to cross in copying a former employer's product

I wonder how many YC startups came about from employees of a company failing to get buy-in from their employer about a better way to solve a problem and leaving to start their own company to do it. Many of those will surely have copied large aspects of their former employers' products, including the flaws.
If your goal is to apologize, you don’t need to justify your actions. That’s what people are criticizing.
On its face that would appear to be a bald assertion. Investments inherently contain risk which would dissuade potential investors if they have a stable source of growth. Investments would have to have very high upside to be worth a stable but lower rate of deflation. Secondly, I'm not sure how you can be certain that investment returns, without regard for risks, could be higher than the deflation rate.
Show HN: What is Technical debt in Sonarqube?
Everyone who matters to the government already has this information and more. At least with these new HealthKit features we can act on our own information instead of being separated from it.

Also, if I was a business owner, I would 100% want some sort of vaccine verification system if I decided to lift the mask mandate. Why would I want my employees or other customers to get sick when the cure is available for free?
There is. Preventing overcurrent, as the automatic balancing process you are describing can be over hundred times faster than the charging rates the batteries are rated for.
> I think that the people here speculating about the FBI and private keys are greatly overestimating the competency of these hackers.

It's like if some dumbass was beating the crap out of people to steal their money and everyone in the boxing community was suprised that he's not a world class boxer.
Be aware that this can be completely different between HDDs ("spinning rust") and SSDs. HDDs don't get data cleared until it's explicitly overwritten, SSDs with OSes that support TRIM shouldn't have a lot of stray data left behind.

Also when wiping SSDs get something like Parted Magic (since at least 2018 likely earlier) that can properly erase SSDs. DBAN is NOT appropriate for SSDs in any way - extra wear from the writes, and wear leveling means you have zero idea where they're actually going.
Is there any enterprise grade software contracting firm that have a great track record? It's a difficult space.
> Many food banks will give people who want food, food. Few questions, sometimes no questions asked.

> It is rare to have similar access to health care.

No it’s not, you just described Medicaid. The Venn diagram of people that rely on food banks for food and people on Medicaid is basically a circle.

Also, it’s debatable if food banks are a superior way of getting food to poor people, vs expanding food stamps and/or a UBI which can then be used at grocery stores.

> Where did I mention nationalize?

You seem to be attacking the profit motive as a mechanism by which to provision goods and services for which there is highly inelastic demand. My point is that if you think that the way we provision food is workable, then the concept of private healthcare with subsidies (basically the Swiss model and MAdv) should be as well. In both of those models, profit and “making money” is still key.
It’s the weirdest feeling when you’ve been working on an iPad all day with the Magic Keyboard and apps like Blink (ssh), Working Copy (git) and Textastic, and finally return to a Macbook: FREEDOM at last!
Like you’ve spent working in a crippled environment all day jumping through all kinds of hoops to do the simplest things.

So annoying, with such a powerful machine…
The rest of the world doesn't live in high density built up areas. Many small crops farming trains in rural areas can not and will not be allowed to run power through the tracks in above ground situations.
I would say no, it is just a candidate driven market right now.

I work in an office with a load of recruiters and Candidates are basically turning down interviews for many reasons but these are the primary reasons:

- Interview process longer than 2 stages
- Interview processes that contain silly code tests / spec work / whiteboarding
- Seeing technologies they "don't like" in a JD and might have to deal with
- Requirement to be in an office
- 100% work at home (some like the flexibility of working at home and office)
- Top Salary (Seriously - some of the requests are ridiculous)
- Company reputation, seeing this more and more, if there are bad reviews on Glassdoor - then plenty of other companies to look at!

Short and tall of it is - either make it an attractive place to work or you are not going to find the top talent you require right now.
Inside the ‘Jeopardy ’ Guest Host Rotation
1. This guy is doing SEO but I don't see any scam.

2. There is a qualitative difference between life-changing money and day-job money.

3. "I won't risk my life any amount" is a dumb ideal, because everything has a risk of death.
> WordPerfect was a huge monster, ... sluggishiest DOS apps

Hmmm, I don't remember it being sluggish. I worked at the university computer lab at the time and remember WP being of of the snappiest programs. It was mostly written in assembly till the later versions.
Firefox... until it updated a few days ago and promptly stopped loading anything and couldn't even open preferences or respond to clicks. Restarted, etc, then tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Wouldn't let me reinstall. Now I'm on Safari.
I mean, Muslim countries and Muslim NGOs and the like, the same people who were making the noise when Israel was fighting with HAMAS.
DarkSide's announcement that they were shutting down said that their servers were compromised and taken offline. Presumably the private key was on the server and the server was hosted on a business that responds to U.S. subpoenas.
So the answer is: zero. Not surprising.

Why does it surprise you then that doctors and patients don't take the solution seriously? You don't have any skin in the game! Whereas the doctors are on the hook for malpractice, and as for the patient, well it's life or death for them.
The defense might press the source of the textures As well. It’s the old if you take a photo of someone’s graffiti, is it your art (the photo) or is the art the graffiti artists still.

Is my brick wall or the marble floor, mansion door or cracked glass the art or is the photo of the item the art...can any photographer take a picture then turn around and sell it?

I guess you always ask for a lot in these lawsuits but the 12million seems high based on the price textured get licenced for today. Not bad for a book from 1996
> Hey everyone, I want to apologize for the inappropriate use of power here. I should have called him to understand his point of view and work it out. Which is what I'll try to do now, and see if we can get his project back up again. I'm sorry Radon.

> The lesson for me here is that I now have a responsibility towards our community and supporters to be kind and model better behavior. I'm sorry I let you down and I promise to do better in the future.

Fixed it for ya!
Siri will finally work offline with on-device speech recognition
They are using the term "machine" and "process" in multiple conflicting meanings I think. I mean maybe they improved this since I used it 1.5 years ago but I kind of doubt it.

If I remember correctly there is a definite problem if you remove one of the processes that end up guaranteeing your configured redundancy mode. So then suddenly your entire cluster is inoperable. Yes really, I think it doesn't even properly respond to cli commands anymore and shows nodes as simply missing. Oh and suddenly those long wait times for your cli commands are really starting to bother you...
I don't really want to talk more about it because it's been a while but I just wanted to make the point that the user experience was quite bad.
I can think of a few usages for it.

Batteries could get a train up to cruising speed requiring a smaller train engine and less fuel.

Batteries could save on line expansion, instead of installing a 3rd rail for the whole line, they could go a 3rd rail every 50 miles for 10 miles.

I agree a 3rd rail would be cheaper in the long run. Batteries could help bridge the gap.
Thanks, this is a great recommendation based on the Amazon reviews!
> i would be pretty irritated if someone ripped off my idea after working with me

Are you sure he really 'ripped off' anyone in the first place? The first thing I thought of when I read this article was 'that sure seems like the same thing Jupyter was made for'. A quick google shows that Jupyter was a couple years ahead of Repl.it, and I doubt that Jupyter was the first to come up with a web app REPL shell in the first place.
As a visual artist and coder, it is somewhat sad to see how this HN crowd all seem to question the license or the artist. If it were a coder that had published code in a book, and Capcom clearly used it in a commercial game, this discussion would look a lot different.
I think the basic argument here is that the book and cdrom are marked as copyright judy juracek, all rights reserved.

There are some specific contemplated and limited uses in the blurb/text. It's not clear to me how those play against the plain fact of the copyright, but I doubt that claiming an author needs to repeatedly claim copyright for it be valid is going to get far.
> G can't fix it.

Yes, they can. They should simply stop measuring only positives, and start measuring negatives - e.g. people that press the back button of their browser, or click the second, third, fourth result afterwards...which should hint the ML classifiers that the first result was total crap in the first place.

But I guess this is exactly what happens if you have a business model where leads to sites where you provide ads give you a weird ethics, as your company profits from those scammers more than from legit websites.

From an ML point of view google's search results are the perfect example of overfitting. Kinda ironic that they lead the data science research field and don't realize this in their own product, but teach this flaw everywhere.
How do you manage to sustain 140-160 WPM? I consider myself a very fast typist, and I don’t think I ever broke 100 WPM (it’s the maximum I ever got in one of those typing tests)
then they shouldn't have agreed to join the WTO and abide by their rules then. you don't get it both ways. If you want access to the rest of the worlds markets you have to let yours open up too.
iPhone 13 on new renderings – will there be a completely different camera?
I will make a point of discouraging using Repl.it .
Please refrain from using homophobic language.
Neither does SMS for large parts of the world. Not everyone has unlimited SMS like US carriers do. And/or as soon as one participant is abroad you're talking international SMS prices.

This isn't a clean fallback option.
"brain-computer interface" and "typing" should not go in the same sentence
It's sad you decided to give up because it wouldn't make money easily in the US. As you said, there are plenty of countries around the world that would have loved to lower medical costs without kowtowing to the doctors. Once it was a proven technology in places like Asia, I'm sure you would have been able to make it back into the US a lot easier.
I’m confused. I read that article and it has this:

> But, as a new report from Wired shows, nearly three years on and Google hasn’t really fixed anything. The company has simply blocked its image recognition algorithms from identifying gorillas altogether — preferring, presumably, to limit the service rather than risk another miscategorization.

Is that not an example of human intervention in ML?
I type @, #, and especially () more than I could ever hit a function key.

Those are two-key characters. F2, F3, F9 and F10 are the same keys with a different modifier.

It's really not a big deal. ErgoDox is great (even if I'm still miffed my first one died two months out of warranty).
You should report this to google, its clearly a huge violation of terms of service.
I have been seeing this a lot recently too. Especially with the first result or two. Or the section up top that gives you a partial answer without having to click through. All of them always seem to have been freshly written like some made to order meal at a restaurant. It’s just too suspicious really.
Huh? Capcom's use has exactly nothing to do with fair use: "the doctrine that brief excerpts of copyright material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder".

I think what you mean is that Capcom may have believed they had the right to use the images.

As always, the simplest explanation is the most likely: Artist + Deadline = Nobody's gonna know anyway because I like flipped and transformed them.
Law enforcement agencies arrested hundreds after police infiltrated an app
Not always available for every model, and obv. credit-score has to be pretty good. good luck!
SWOT Analysis of Heroku
I'd refuse to use it just like anytime someone tries to setup a Zoom meeting.
I'm searching "android developer forum". The forums that pop up seem lackluster. About 1 post per day, and most are beginner questions.

By contrast r/androiddev has about 20 posts per day, and there's always a lot of new things to discover.
0.1X coverage is nowhere near enough to get any useful information. The Nanopore error rate is huge (10-15%), with substitutions, insertions and deletions all common. The required coverage is more like 10X to 30X or more to get some accuracy in base calling and identifying variants.

Far far better idea to just pay someone to do short read resequencing. Long read sequencing is great for assembling genomes and finding structural variants.

Nanopore looks cheap in the first instance, but it's just not designed for this job. HiFi sequencing gives the best of both worlds - accuracy of short reads and decent length.

https://www.pacb.com/smrt-science/smrt-sequencing/hifi-reads...

Not accessible to the home user though.
When I'm coding, the frame-rate of the IDE is the least of my concerns - I'm busy thinking about what to type. Even if my IDE takes a while to start up, I'm ok with it because I don't really restart it/reboot my machine that often. In terms of ergonomics, both VSCode and Jetbrains IDEs support vi mode and work well enough to not be a show-stopper. Anyway, we definitely can do with more solutions to ensure diversity of choices so good luck to the project.
Anticipating War with China, the US Air Force Is Fanning Out Across the Pacific
The article links to the original paper.

> A new study, however, published in [Nature Astronomy in February](link to paper)...
I second affinity. As someone who often resorted to pirated Photoshop because of it's very infrequent use, the first time I saw that affinity got all of the PS and Illustrator features I use for $50 combined I jumped on it. I couldn't be happier with my decision.
"vaporware" is a pretty harsh accusation for a project that has:

- A performant lazy functional runtime with sharing implemented from scratch in Rust

- A dependent type system with substructural types

- Parsing, tooling, a standard library, ability to run on the web via wasm

- Content-addressing and serialization to IPLD so that packages can be shared over IPFS

That's what we claim to do in our README, and that's what we do.

It's true that Yatima doesn't have an effect system yet, nor is it production-ready, but it's a pre-alpha programming language project, what's the standard being applied here?
I don't have a dog in this hunt but it's plain to see in black & white where Radon says:

"I'm not a business person."

Radon only needs to say it once, it's straight and to the point.

Now at Replit, Amjad is claiming not to be a business person either.

Over and over again.
RIP google play music. They had the _best_ recommendations - my suggested new releases would often include a fantastic album by a band I’d never heard of. Since switching to Spotify, i get suggestions for new music by artists I already know I like, but I haven’t found any new artists I love in the same way.

I miss what for the same reason
Our standard library is here! https://github.com/yatima-inc/introit
I also noticed that Apple users see way more fake online shop results than Linux users, from the same IP, with regularly cleared browser cache and identical search terms.

Those fake shops are part of discussions in politics right now. Usually they're registered in Ireland or Malta as companies due to their specific banking laws. They make millions with those scams and people can't differ between legit online shops and fake ones - because the legit ones actually look crappier than the fake ones when it comes to the website designs.

In Germany, we have at least for hardware the "geizhals" website which is kind of an index for all kinds of electronics shops and they try to verify as much as possible.

But for other online shop sectors (e.g. clothing or home stuff) I wouldn't trust anything. Even on Amazon I got scammed a lot and heard absurd things from others...like getting packages with no content in them and Amazon refusing to see that the seller is a scammer etc.