skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My laptop camera is permanently covered with black electrical tape, but if it was uncovered there would really not be much to see except my bleary eyeballs and my pandemic-necessitated mad-scientist-looking self-inflicted haircut.

I worry much more about the microphone, not just in my laptop, but in my phone, and in who knows what other devices that have the insidious things hidden away. I wish there was a way to block microphones with tape to kill any audio pickup when not wanted. It's harder to manage than cameras, making camera covers something like privacy theater if the microphones are going to be left unblocked.

Yeah I know about the Pinephone with its microphone kill switch, but that switch is apparently quite a pain to operate. If I get a Pinephone I'm likely to leave the mic permanently shut off, and simply use an external or bluetooth mic if I want to make a voice call.
Ever heard of Cardano?
Yeah, T1 is pretty much just a pain whatever you do. Low carb does make it quite a bit easier, and I imagine would pretty much be the only safe way to eat if you were using a non-rapid insulin.

Unfortunately (doctor's orders) I also have to cut back on the cholesterol, which seems to be very high in all my favorite low-carb foods :( It's a constant experiment; it may turn out to make more sense to eat more fat but take statins, but I need to wait a bit longer and see how my lipids look with the current diet.

(BTW I'm actually doing fine -- pretty decent control/A1C -- but I had to rant in response to the Walmart insulin suggestion above!)
It was pretty much always symmetric connections at the beginning. It's only the economics of ISPs that changed it.
Wasn't too bad to use.

Biggest gripe was finding a PC with a 3-buttoned mouse in the uni computer lab when it was full.

Being able to select, copy, paste and execute without touching a keyboard was cool.

(We used it a bit in a 3rd year computer science OS course)
> As soon as they have physical access to the owner, it is seizable.

This is incorrect. If the owner doesn't reveal the private key, the government cannot seize the bitcoin.
https://blockstream.com/2018/11/28/en-simplicity-github/
I grew up on the east coast, and was always baffled by the notion that sweat kept you cool. In my experience, sweat just made you slimy. I knew the physics of it, but it just didn't seem to work.

Then I visited the southwest, and noticed that I was perfectly comfortable on 100F days. Then I noticed that I wasn't slimy, either. And then it all clicked into place: the basic physics explanation doesn't apply if the air is already saturated.
On Android, people have reverse engineered the youtube app to eliminate ads -- https://vancedapp.com/
Future Meat is focused on ground meat/chicken products. There are other companies in Israel focused on more refined products, check out Aleph Farms. More refined products are wildly more expensive though as you can't easily grow it in vats.
The only funding that's equivalent to the EU's $1.1bn this year has been GoPuff's $1.2b series G round, in a company that's been going for 8 years and has absolutely proved its market. Last year there were some bigger ones, Rivian's $2.5bn round for example, but even that wasn't exactly in a startup considering they'd already raised $3bn before. The VC funds in SV are definitely bigger and better than anything on this side of the Atlantic, but even in SV they're not exactly throwing huge bundles of cash at seed rounds any more. I wish they were. It was fun when people got a couple of mil to prove an idea. Reading the daft things that founders did (on Fucked Company) was a good laugh.
The way price controls are achieved for medicine in the first world is through negotiation between the state public Healthcare system and pharma companies. This actually, provably works, and has worked for decades, and is much more efficient than in the US in fact - both in terms of healthcare outcomes, and Healthcare costs.
But because in practice people will flake, the only alternative may be a technical solution. If you can't fix "stupid", Plan B may be to engineer around it.
If we’re starting from the 60s, there’s no guarantee that by now the two would be practically the same (which isn’t a given, even now).
ECS (which I have not used) sounds a lot like Traits. The name and core concepts for Traits were defined in 2003 in an ECOOP paper [1]. I think traits were first implemented by Squeak Smalltalk in 2005.

[1] http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Scha03aTraits.pdf
Novolin is available as a pen without prescription. Costs a bit more ($45 for 5 pens).
Take this line of reasoning further and you reveal the problem with crypto to crypto taxation.
I think that's generally the idea. Extroverts drain their "battery" in isolation and recharge in social settings.
In the EU however we think that shelling out a billion - peanuts in the grand scheme of things - and then some certificates which amount to a big thumbs up (“Ursula von der Leyde and 25 others like this”) will create a vibrant startup ecosystem.

I’ve been extremely supportive of the EU all my life but I’m starting to wonder if politicians are in any way connected to the ground-level reality of business and personal life.
Did they just hand out cash freely? 2000 companies is A LOT to do due diligence on.
Trezor is open source, and neither of them connects to the internet directly. They only connect to open source programs on your own computer, so the ways they talk to the outside world are known.
No need to invent an electric car or go to space. Just a sauce can also be a MM business.
IPv4 adresses fit in a standard 4byte integer, that might be a reason.

Quite frankly, if they didn't allocate full /24 to single entities (including localhost...), we might still have enough addresses left.
From experience its not the tracking code that is the major culprit.

Like @djtriptych I do a lot of work on a major brand sites its poor FE design and implementation.
There is a study at https://dc.law.utah.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1216&con... .

Explaining the Recent Homicide Spikes in U.S. Cities:
The “Minneapolis Effect” and the Decline in Proactive Policing
By Paul G. Cassell
ABSTRACT
Recently major cities across the country have suffered dramatic spikes in homicides. These spikes
are remarkably large, suddenly appearing, and widespread. At this rate, 2020 will easily be the deadliest
year in America for gun-related homicides since at least 1999, while most other major crime categories
are trending stable or slightly downward.
This article attempts to explain why so many cities have seen extraordinary increases in murder
during the summer of 2020. A close analysis of the emerging crime patterns suggests that American cities
may be witnessing significant declines in some forms of policing, which in turn is producing the homicide
spikes. Crime rates are increasing only for a few specific categories—namely homicides and shootings.
These crime categories are particularly responsive to reductions in proactive policing. The data also
pinpoint the timing of the spikes to late May 2020, which corresponds with the death of George Floyd while
in police custody in Minneapolis and subsequent anti-police protests—protests that likely led to declines in
law enforcement.
The thesis of this article is that the recent spikes in homicides have been caused by a “Minneapolis
Effect,” similar to the earlier “Ferguson Effect.” Specifically, law enforcement agencies have been forced
to divert resources from normal policing to patrolling demonstrations. And even as the anti-police protests
have abated, police officers have scaled back on proactive or officer-initiated law enforcement, such as
street stops and other forms of policing designed to prevent firearms crimes. If this thesis is correct, it is
reasonable to estimate that, as a result of de-policing during June and July 2020, approximately 710
additional victims were murdered and more than 2,800 victims were shot. Of course, this estimate relies on
various assumptions, and further research on the issues surrounding the homicide spikes should be an
urgent priority.
If this article’s thesis about a Minneapolis Effect is correct, an important implication is that
policymakers in major cities should proceed cautiously before taking step to “defund” the police in ways
that might reduce proactive policing that is important in preventing gun violence.
My family can be best described as mostly clueless if it comes to virus/malware/phishing threats.

The typical setup is:

Gmail web interface for e-mail
Windows with the default defender install
Malware filter on DNS level (nextdns, Adguard or even through ISP)

Nothing bad happened in the last couple of years.
C structs are generally assumed to be laid out in the order defined with proper padding automatically inserted (as most platforms at best dislike unaligned accesses). Alignment information should only be necessary if you want to pack the structure or need to apply wider than standard alignment (e.g. need to align a 32 or 64b type to 128 bytes).

The one possible issue is that reading padding is UB (i think). But here there should be no padding: the struct is a pair number of bytes (alignment 1) and a word (alignment 2), which us aligned due to the previous, and the struct is if alignment 2.
I haven't seen much strong evidence suggesting that a $15 minimum wage is actually freezing people out of the labor market.

Not to mention, people work under the table all the time.

That said, the wage credit idea isn't bad either. The problem is that now the government is just subsidizing companies that pay low wages with no way to recoup even part of the subsidy. You're basically opening a firehose of welfare from consumers to employers.
Why would it be a double standard for "right wing watch" to not repost left wing content?

(EDIT: For the record I am all for a "left wing watch" that only reposts influencial left-wing's voices that the posters believes violates terms of service on the website they post on. I just don't understand why "right wing watch" should be expected to do so, or why it's a double standard if they don't.)
Search for URL, should be hardcoded into a new standard|
Every PERSONAL IDENTITY/WEB URL should exist as its own resource cluster on the hosting server, either as a microservice on a distributed kuberenetes and provide API's to query information |
NEWS and ELECTIONS should be blockchain |
Blood donation/organs should be on global blockchain |
A new Data standard for open health analytics |
Pollution, toxic levels of chemicals from known pollution control boards of every country, based on location should be on blockchain.
What left extremists accounts?
I haven't tried it personally (I worked in a different part of the lab), but I've been told that its pretty indistinguishable from ground chicken/beef.
The stablecoins that succeed aren't very interesting because they're simply blockchain representations of actual funds held elsewhere. Or at least funds that are claimed to be held somewhere. Those stablecoins are simply a redeemable, tradeable representation of money held somewhere else.

These artificial stablecoins that attempt to get clever with algorithmic finance and smart contracts are interesting because they inevitably collapse when someone pokes the system enough to make it unstable. The strangest part is how it happens over and over again yet people still put money into these flawed algorithmic stablecoins anyway.
No they liked to reward regular people with non-material things.
What I mean is that traditional avenues for change have been closed by the pharma industry lobby. It is not very different from the situation with the oil industry. The traditional political system has been corrupted by these industry forces, which support both parties.
I share your opinion. Printing money and giving it to Lufthansa isn’t better in any way.
It did reliably generate numbers that produced zero google search results. Maybe that's what they meant?

Though it did also occasionally spit out a "number" with a letter in it, like "q29199.951301068788".
Are there any interesting mathematical or other tools that you recommend to evaluate hidden bottlenecks systematically? I wonder for example, about Toyota making a decision to add inventory buffer for chips vs other auto makers. Great decision in hindsight, but how did they evaluate that in context with other possible actions.
> It is, using standard industry terminology.

Just to add some support here, concurrency definitely has very little to do with actual independence of progress. It has far more to do with encapsulation of knowledge (for an active agent, not a passive entity like an object [^]), and how different agents coordinate to exchange that knowledge.

An echo server + client is a concurrent system, despite having only one meaningful scheduling of actions over time (i.e. no interleaving or parallelism). Serialization and parallelism are both global properties, as they require a perspective "from above" to observe, while concurrency is a property local to each task.

I can appreciate everyone is saying upthread, but I've definitely found it valuable to think about concurrency in these terms.

[^] Even this is overselling it. You can easily have two logical tasks and one physical agent responsible for executing both of them, and this is still a concurrent system. Dataflow programming is a lot like this -- you're not really concerned with the global parallelism of the whole system, you're just describing a series of tasks over local knowledge that propagate results downstream.
If they don't add commentary, then it's literally just a compilation of videos that they think YouTube should cancel, so it's no surprise that YouTube would cancel them.
How universal is this experience?

I remember a math grad student friend who said "math is a young man's game". He compared it to cycling; nothing you do in your old age would compare to what you could do earlier.

In fact according to him math is worse than cycling, if I'm correct that cyclists peak in their early 40s. Contrast that to economics, which specifically offers the Clark Medal for the best work performed by someone under forty, because old-timers would otherwise snaffle up every prize.
I read this article earlier this morning and I have one question that I haven't found the answer for:
Are the old Intel firmware blobs still available somewhere, and can we choose to not load this "upgrade"? If yes, how do we revert?
Yes, but the EU as an institution is (ironically) exactly the sort of small hands-off interstate-trade-focused organisation that the American right wish the USA federal government was.

Total GDP for the USA and the EU was fairly similar before Brexit, but the 2019 EU budget was €148.2 billion in both revenue and expenses compared to the USA federal budget of $3.5 trillion revenue and $4.4 trillion expenses.

Most of the budget and power is in the hands of member states.
Nope its not the major issue
I did exactly this once: trained a simple language model (Karpathy's Char-RNN iirc) on a txt file with SMILES strings.

After validating the output, it was easy to plot a (2D) skeletal formula. I never got around 3D renders, but I guess a SMILES -> 2D -> 3D pipeline with some molecular mechanics structure energy minimization for the 3D part is cheap to do.

I found the output surprisingly diverse. Model was very good in adding branched lipid tails that kept rambling on forever, though...
Are there Keirin races in the US?
> 20 years ago, if you asked people "what does a computer look like?" they thought of Windows, and they were excited about it. Today, it's Apple.

Where?

> App store sales ($138/user/year! [1]), iCloud subs, branded accessories, line-extension stuff

Yeah...because everything there is expensive and therefore aims for the upper class (or people who want to look like it).

But I'm quite sure they feel very much supreme.
Now this is cringeworthy for sure.

As someone living in the EU, this makes me embarrassed. We should be able to do better than this.
But would using local time help in this case? For example, what if the future event is something like the solstice?

It's usecase dependent so it seems like the application should deal with this, at which point persisting in UTC is still a reasonable choice.
> Plenty of people are being harassed in public for their sexuality, race, etc.

Harassment, regardless of motive, is illegal. Is there a need to make it more illegal?

> you don't need a 20 years long control study to prove that outlawing hate speech will improve their rights.

Restricting a collective right does in no way grant more rights to a minority. It may (superficially and short term) improve their lives but do you really thing people will be less hateful from being told they are hateful? I always found that conclusion odd

"Hate" is fuzzy. Some Jews believe hate is any kind of critique of Israel. "Racism" is fuzzy. Some black people believe it is racist to dance a certain way if you're not black. "Sexism" is fuzzy. Some women believe they have been violated by a compliment.

Definitions change. Most of the time irrationally. What was well-intentioned yesterday becomes hateful tomorrow.

This is a slippery slope my friend. Not many things in life are absolute but freedom to speak your mind must be one of them.
Oh I worked at a company where the primary B2B website was like that. The login had been created in PHP by some folks who were really good at the relatively complex business domain, but thought "just throw a login screen up" was good enough security. For services where the customers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars. There were a handful of predetermined landing pages, depending on what "type" of user you were, and deep linking generally didn't work.

OTH I see this more with SPAs, because there's not really a "page" to redirect back to, just a bunch of browser-local React state that shouldn't be trusted across authentication boundaries.
This woman is a chess champion – and she's blind
Is there any country willing to start openly sinking Chinese nationals ships en masse? I have a feeling china would rather send military escorts with their fishers than allow them to be sunk, whether they do illegal things or not.
Those people would argue that learning to code has nothing to do with IQ.
Presumably the violations are in the original videos that RWW posts. It's not enough for Youtube's current processes to post them under a different context that (hopefully) makes it clear that they're false; presumably Youtube's concern is that they're indistinguishable from the originals.
> Imagine you want to earn money and thus you need learn a skill. Which would earn you more money:

learning to code or learning to weld? Highly skilled work is highly paid work.
Early TSX hardware from Intel had unfixable flaws. The problems were fixed in later CPUs but that left the burden of detection on developers. Then along came side channel attacks and TSX became a vector for that. Plus it's Intel only, so you have to use another approach on AMD, which has completely distinct instructions, and this is an area with extreme subtleties where you really don't want or can't afford to deal with multiple implementations.

In other words it's been a total shit show. It doesn't have to be, but until Intel takes it seriously and produces a unflawed and secure realization it's going to continue to be a shit show. Even then you're still left with the Intel != AMD problem...
I would say that's quite ridiculous. While the serum is very important when experimenting, later on the goal is to grow the cells serum-free (from what I understand). These types of cells would die from any high exposure to petroleum...
Solving america’s problems with tech has a pretty good success rate. We tried addressing covid with social solutions (social distancing, self-quarantine, etc) and it was generally a complete failure in comparison to the technological solution (mrna vaccinations)
I'm not sure what he you're referring to. But quanticle clearly said what I quoted. And Nadella said the same thing: "The web itself was born and grew up on Windows." https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/24/22549007/microsoft-window...
Separate data and views.

Basically: servers focus on serving their data, and then it's up to the user to figure out which "renderer" they want to use to display it. Ofc defaults would be provided.

But, say, you wanted to view tweets in a table form: no problem.

Or maybe, you want to have a really wacky "whip the llamas ass" UI for podcasts: go for it.

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The big benefit of this is that it would allow for artistry in websites, rather than the boring old blue, black, white, grey material design.
Not all consent is created equal. Consent from people who are at a power disparity is not the same as consent from people leading the project. The women having their breasts measured aren't exactly in a position to impact meaningful change on this video game franchise.

It reminds me how Harvey Weinstein used to demand that women shoot nude scenes in his movies. Many women agreed to shoot those scenes in an attempt to help their career. That might technically be consent, but the power imbalance in the situation makes it at least partially coerced consent. I'm not saying the people developing DOA are monsters on the order of Weinstein, but the women who have their breast measured are in a similar compromised position.
To be fair, "anki" (暗記) simply means "memorization" in Japanese so it's hardly super original by itself.
Virtual assets are not legal in Mexico, authorities confirm
That might be true for consumer tech startups, but they do have programs to help startups. SBIRs, STTRs, FAST, and other programs (not to mention funding from agencies like DARPA) are all run by the federal government. It’s just that they typically invest in things that likely wouldn’t be funded by VCs due to high risk & limited market (e.g., advanced technology development for the military or space).
WebP is good iff it improves rendering times (which it does). That's not google's fault really. Any way you can come up with to optimize images is valid under Core Web Vitals. I really don't think any of it is skewed towards Google's solutions except the testing/measurement methodology. I would love open source data collection across browsers for instance.

Lazy-loading can be implemented sloppily, but browser-native lazy loading is now good enough to be considered optimal.
That's a simplification--they determine the intrinsic size.

The aspect ratio is determined by a combination of CSS rules and the intrinsic size.
Is Kumar Eswaran's proposed proof of the Riemann Hypothesis correct?
> As long as everyone agrees i see absolutely no problem.

They didn't all agree, though. Now there's Ethereum (the people who agreed with the fork) and Ethereum Classic (the people who didn't agree).
As the holder of the credit card I can't think of a good reason why I would/should pay the debt off for a purchase I didn't make. I did not initiate the sale with the merchant, I did not verify I was the rightful card holder, I did not authorize the funds to be transferred, and I will not send money to that bank to make up for any of that. Banks are in the business of encouraging transactions and my card number could be skimmed from a physical device, or from hacked website on the internet, or I used it at Target https://money.cnn.com/2013/12/18/news/companies/target-credi..., or someone physically stole my wallet.

If they did try to collect then that sounds like a great reason to go back to cash because even if I get mugged, criminals can't spend me tens of thousands of dollars into debt by stealing my cash on hand. They are limited to what's in my wallet.
Who do you think in part supplies the cash for SV VCs :)
Ask HN: What is going to change in EU companies with remote work?
I see through job ads that several companies operating in Europe are expanding their hiring market to the whole EU. Having worked on some international companies I see this as very positive and also like all changes I think it brings opportunities.

What are new challenges for these companies? What are their needs?