skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't really pirate Windows. They offer download links for free for anyone to use. You can use it for free and while you have an "Activate Windows" watermark, it'd be fine. The only way to get Windows Pro would be to get a license key, which can't really be pirated also.
Self hosted weight loss dashboard powered by OCR and OpenCV
If the security team is a blocker it might be that they’ve been brought in too late.

Security is everyone’s responsibility and creating an environment where it’s like this, and making it as easy as possible to get people to report stuff they see without playing the blame game is key to getting trust and demonstrating that togetherness.

There’s only really hate in them v us type environments (I’ve seen it also in other cross team interactions like Dev v Ops for e.g.) or security teams blindly giving teams lists of controls to implement without having even done any kind of risk assessment with the asset owner (and quite possibly without taking other business risk priorities into account).

As for convincing non-technical staff of the importance: The technical vulnerability (or whatever) needs relaying in business risk terms they can understand.
> Burn a Live USB. Boot it up and have a look around.

Note however that if your device is designed to run Windows you may have occasional problems with WiFi or suspend. This is not a Linux fault. I am using a laptop designed for Linux and it is rock-solid.
I didn't see the package offer? I'll look again. I am in the EU.

But yeah Ali is the problem for me. Ordering from Ali is such a PITA. Waiting for all these parcels to trickle in, missing the postman for some of them and having to go to the post office to pick them up. Getting hit with import charges for some of them...

I'd really prefer to buy the whole thing in one go. I'd have one running on my balcony already then. But I'll have a look again to find that kit.
Manchester University in the UK announces permanent move to 'blended learning'
Hong Kong has been indisputably part of China since July 1, 1997.
https://fishtail.ai | REMOTE | Full-time | Web lead

We're solving global warming by incentivizing good supply chain behavior with cheap money.

The problem we're solving

When P&G ships to Walmart, P&G doesn't get paid for 3-6 months -- Fishtail pays P&G the minute they close the doors of their shipping container with an interest rate that's tied to the sustainability of the individual shipment (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate). Fun fact: transportation is responsible for ~30% of the world's green house gas emissions and there's really no good way to identify the best option to get from A to B.

Tech stack

Our web stack is Ruby on Rails + quasar/vue + graphql - data stack is python/pytorch. We get a boatload of data tracking every boat in the water/every plane in the sky (among other datasets).

What we need

We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on all fronts (engineering, data, sales, marketing, operations, etc) but are mostly looking for a web lead to help us build out our customer-facing product.

Reach out to hiring@fishtail.ai if you want to help save the planet with us.
MS Teams refuses to work on Firefox. It's pretty much the only reason I need to open Chromium these days.
Disclaimers first: I'm not a geneticist or even remotely close.

I'm mostly aware of this dynamic from h. sapies and h. neanderthalensis (or h. sapiens sapiens* and h. sapiens neanderthalensis* comparisons. In a nutshell, Neanderthals were in numerous ways the apparent heavy-duty / high-output model, Sapiens the more efficient / economy model. Neanderthals had larger muscles, shorter limbs (less speed but greater strength, simply on leverage), and larger cranial volumes. All of which would have, everything else being constant, increased overall energy demands.

Mind: this is all my own conjecture, though I wouldn't be surprised to find some literature suggesting similar mechanisms.

Where Neanderthals were competing against other mammalian species and each other, the differentiation was apparently favourable. Possibly also in an ice-age climage.

With Sapiens on the scene ... Neanderthals largely disappeared from the record, though in all likelihood also interbred with Sapiens to some extent. For whatever the reasons, the Neanderthalic adaptations seemed less suitable than the Sapiens ones. The presumption is that this was a fitness selection, though it could well have been other factors (mating preferences, superior numbers for Sapiens, dumb luck and/or chance).

But ... in general, while bigger can seem better and more appealing for various reasons, it often is not, and adaptations which require higher energy or have a higher minimum sustaining requirement ... could well prove to be less suitable especially where the environment itself is in transition, or where resources are highly marginal.

There is a fair bit of research into the loss of vestigal function, particularly among sequestered cave populations such as blind fish and invertebrates. It turns out that visual processing has high energy demands, and in an environment in which sight conveys no advantage, lack of sight is actually advantageous, as it reduces neurlogical metabolic load (by as much as 1/5 to 1/4 if I'm recalling my sources correctly).

In the case of "Dragon Man", we're looking at a new instance and have little data to go on. But other homo variants and general evolutionary trends suggest at the very least possible directions.
Thanks, this is precisely the feedback I was hoping to receive.
A relative got a dog from what was obviously an unqualified breeder. The dog was always anxious, distressed, waiting at the window. One day I pet him on the back without making sure he heard me coming. He nipped me in panic, then ran and hid. It was obvious he thought I was going to hit him for it. And since I would never, that must have been from a past experience.

I think he was actually dissociating since I sat there with him for about 10 minutes and he didn't move at all, just stared off into a wall. He finally snapped out of it and accepted one (1) headpat.
Ah thanks, I'll have a look. Yeah Pimoroni has great stuff like that full colour EInk screen too, but most of their stuff is perpetually out of stock :(
DIY builder makes 'breathing' RTX 3080 PC
I would say, almost the opposite: It is much easier if you essentially do not have to work anymore and you can do it just for the kick of it.
Like starting a space race.
Very interesting but also so disgusting for the spirit of sport.

Here you have the confirmation that it is not the best human performance that wins in the end, but the one that has more money to spend in R&D and product development for the bicycles or tools.
Ask HN: What is your experience with non-fiction book clubs at work?
I read a lot of books on management and software development and communication. Starting a book club during work hours for coworkers might spark useful conversations and grow informal networks.

Have you done this? What advice or recommendation do you have for getting started and for sustaining a recurring discussion?
Taste those boots
Do you remember which extension?
Are there any good tutorial on how to use Darktable that don't presume previous exposure to Lightroom?

But man, the presets are already great and my RAW images are popping with details and color.
Swedish media is reporting that this is part of the Kaseya hack; Coop's hosting partner Visma Esscom was using Kaseya's remote management tool.
Fuck Unicorns.

What's wrong with being large enough to live well,

but still do the job correctly, and not botch your email migration?
That's quite a stretch. No, the DNC didn't "rig" the primary; Clinton actually did receive far more votes than Sanders. Also, nothing you linked implicates anyone in "buying" federal appointments.
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Have a look at Google Cloud Platform's ToS:

"Benchmarking. Customer may conduct benchmark tests of the Services (each a "Test"). Customer may only publicly disclose the results of such Tests if it (a) obtains Google's prior written consent, (b) provides Google all necessary information to replicate the Tests, and (c) allows Google to conduct benchmark tests of Customer's publicly available products or services and publicly disclose the results of such tests."

https://cloud.google.com/terms/service-terms
That’s been the case for a very long time with all sports unfortunately.
The fitness target isn't a stationary one.

Larger heads might have been facilitated by a larger pelvic girdle (this seems to be the case in Neadnderthal skeletons AFAIU), which is an adaptation which would enable large (and possibly inefficient) brains, but at a cost for bipedal mobility, speed, and/or efficiency.

Supposing a later competitor emerged with 1) smaller and 2) more effcicient brains as well as 3) narrower hips, then the previous advantage would become a (comparative) liability.

It's a bit like Clayton Chistensen's Innovator's Dilemma: evolving yourself (or your species) into a corner. Advantageous for a while, but ultimately maladaptive, and hard to back out of.

As with my other comments here, all but entirely conjecture.
I know multiple people who've gotten one personally. They are perhaps a bit less common now as less people torrent without a VPN.
I was too young to see the original release in a movie theater and was all the more exited to catch up on this when the Final Cut was released. Truly a remarkable and timeless piece of cinema. The 4K Dolby Atmos/Vision version is also highly recommendable if you've never seen this gem.
> with all the investigations going on

There are no investigations going on. What the F are you talking about? The communist dictatorship is not letting in any investigators. They have every incentive to prevent any investigation, and they do so.
A woman's battle to prove she isn't dead
I believe the parent comment is referring to user freedom, not really user privacy. Freedom isn't Signal's strong suit (e.g. strict stance on third party clients and incorporating bloat into their application like MobiCoin), something with federation like Matrix might be a better option.
In the case I had in mind, the company runs a mix of windows and os x. And some android. Luckily it's mostly mac in the shops now, but personal laptops and tablets that connect to the LANs are also involved, and definitely the most dangerous point of failure.
I think the initial marketing/examples for Phoenix Liveview and the like really did a disservice here; when you ask the team always says that the live part should really just be replacing what would have been xhr requests in an SPA - where you need server-side data or functionality. For local interactivity they recommend Alpine but too many people have already seen the counters example and drawn their own conclusions (and even built entire applications this way).
The West would have legal standing to sanction, freeze the assets of, and arrest employees of oligarchs who use their wealth to commit financial crimes in the West. So yes, having leaks from Russia is very useful.
It would seem this should be easy to work around. Simply assign the worst possible benchmark value since test cannot be conducted and make annotation as to why. Infinite time to run a query since benchmarking requires sneakernet approval from commercial provider, or some such.

Put open source in the best possible light and highlight the DeWitt clause at the same time.
How do the attackers get into their network?
Is it due to compromised Windows servers?
For context, I've started collection a list of books that would be relevant to my coworkers [0] as well as a list of discussion questions [1].

[0] https://graphthinking.blogspot.com/2021/04/reading-list-for-...

[1] https://graphthinking.blogspot.com/2021/07/questions-for-non...
I threw this together because I hate making small database edits using SQL. I already find it useful.

So far it is tested with postgresql and sqlite3.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I want Ostrich feet now.
Private NFTs on the Public Blockchain
How practical is it to transfer a million USD in gift cards to a criminal in another country on the other side of the globe? What kind of logistics would be involved?
The two symptoms do seem similar, from this layman's perspective. Perhaps they are both the result of one process.
Vue components are transpiled to JavaScript code when you build your app. Moving this step to client side makes your app take much longer to start. You also will need to ship the template compiler too, which is a few more kb.

https://v3.vuejs.org/guide/installation.html#runtime-compile...
Talking to a machine is not an opportunity to be polite because you cannot actually be polite to a machine. The point of being polite is to be respectful of other's feelings. Machines have none. The only thing you can do is mimic politeness by inserting filler words like "please" and "thanks" at the appropriate, but ultimately arbitrary, times. Which isn't the right lesson to teach either.
ICFP Contest 2021
Convince them that the world is a globe, when it's actually flat, so they get their navigation calculations wrong and their plane's crash when they run out of fuel.
RaidsForum/LinkedIn
Hello , How shoutbox ( Raidsforum) speaking linkdIn ?
Does anyone know what this means:

> last year we ran 32mm tires labelled as 30mm

That sounds dodgy, but maybe I'm missing some context.
Really? What kind of staff are you talking about and what new implementations did they resist you on? And why?

I'm curious cause while I'm not on my company's security team, due to heightened awareness and wanting to ensure we're protecting our trade secrets, etc, we've ramped up security in basically every way across the entire organization, and it's been basically a pleasant ride internally for all few thousand members of the company across the globe. The technical teams (dev, support) had some speed bumps, but a frank discussion with IT Security to discuss what our need was and why it wasn't being met, we found acceptable new routes. If anything, we've used the locking down of potential security risks as a leap-board to overhaul and optimize a LOT of workflows for the better.

Our customers now, that's another story, and it's like trying to make a pet take medicine. Our largest customers are fine and understand (even appreciating) the security changes we made for our interactions, but a lot of the small business customers only care about the fact that they can't do what they previously used to in some cases.

But I'm fairly curious what resistance people are seeing from their implementations and what these implementations are.
I am sure Pfizer and Co. will be paying a lot of people to divert any negative publicity and amp up the company line. You can buy a lot with billions of dollars. No PR agency needed.
Yet another reason why I think Switzerland would be a great country to move to.
There's a risk of confirmation bias though, because the search was performed by the developers of the system who are strongly motivated to find no problem with their work.

I have done this to myself many, many times. I look, carefully, at length, for problems with my work until I satisfy myself that there's no obvious problem with it. Then someone else points out the obvious problem I was overlooking. Actually, this has happened often enough and it's painful enough that I learned to really look nowadays.

In the context of the search for "snippets that are verbatim from the training set" there's all sorts of things that can go wrong. The search (a regex search I think?) can be unintentionally made too weak to catch obvious cases. Or too strong, probably. The search for "snippets that are verbatim from the training set" may ignore snippets that are 80% verbatim. Or the code generated during the experiment can be generated in such a way as to only generate verbatim snippets very rarely, contrary to more typical use. And so on and so forth.

There's so many ways to fool oneself when looking for errors in one's own work.

Edit: They explain their search methodology and with only a quick look I gave it, it seems legit, but it was a quick look. The devil is in the details, yes? Maybe people who are really interested in this issue should take a closer look.
What makes you believe you can run a unicorn size organization and not see its general level of quality for the employee/customer become shitty like the rest?
Wow, thanks for documenting the idea, this could be a nice alternative to my tiddlywiki markdown setup. I could do all kinds of queries on my knowledge base. Still I could use grep as well for document counts and lists. It's neat that it's all in one compressed sqlite file - but I can tar ball my markdown directory as well. The only benefit I see is that I can use sql to query my documents and it seems like a step up from org-mode tables by using database tables.

It would be nice if there was cgi script that could serve a sorted and paged index with links to the html, md or gmi to a web or/and gemini browser.
Yeah, that's Neovim 0.5. But it's been like this for years: when I tried Neovim 0.2 (or something? I don't recall the exact version, years ago anyway) I also got many errors and incompatibilities.

At this point, I think it's probably better to see Neovim as its own editor rather than "an improved Vim". Obviously based on Vim and still with close ties (many Vim patches are still backported), but the "it's just like Vim but with async + true colours"-days are long gone, and the differences will only increase in the future.

Personally, I even stopped making my plugins compatible with Neovim. For example methods ('foo bar'->split(' ')) aren't supported, but were added to Vim close to two years ago (Aug 2019). It's not that the Neovim people are against it: just no one bothered to port it as they prefer to work on the Lua stuff. I find it very convenient so I use it, and Neovim users... well... Sorry :-(
How come bones are able to heal, if basically every creature other than humans has not evolved human group assistance? Are there animals whose bones heal without needing this?
That's what you use VM for
It is more about being able to produce the receipt to the tax authorities. Even street hawkers have to have a certified machine in sweden now.

https://www4.skatteverket.se/rattsligvagledning/edition/2017...
I appreciate where you're coming from and your thoughtfulness.

Someone as large as the Youtuber you've named may not be interested in using Ownnit. You're right about that.

Ownnit is really designed for the smaller/middle-class of creators. I'd recommend checking this piece out: https://a16z.com/2020/02/06/100-true-fans/.

From a customers POV, finding a creator in a particular niche that resonates with you (I.e. a nutrition influencer, or fortnite streamer or crypto blogger) is like a parent finding the right teacher for their child...You know there are other teachers out there who may be a good fit, but you've found the one you really trust, have faith in and want to work with.

Ultimately, I agree with your point that certain creators are too big for personalized services to make economic sense for them. I also agree with you about the potential for creepy stalker folks - there are some mechanisms in place to deal with that currently, but if/when it becomes a bigger problem action will be taken. Our disagreement seems to be confined to the focus of smaller/medium size creators.
At "Ask HN: Do you self-host your database?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27671376

is this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27673359

"We're currently transitioning from a multi-tenant 2TB postgres DB hosted on AWS RDS to using sqlite instead, a separate database for each client.

We're doing this for multiple reasons:

a) As our DB grew the service became very expensive, one of the biggest items in our AWS invoice;

b) Keeping the PG servers up to date is a pain, we simply don't have time for this;

c) We wanted to be able to migrate to other clouds and even be able to offer a self-hosted version of our platform."
I think you are not familiar with
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01731-3

And you are talking about something else.
Security architecture: Under what circumstances does this entire product or solution bankrupt the company and ruin customer lives?
It certainly helps but gaming your psyche has greater reward.

10% of X might sound a lot until you realize that X only accounts for 2.2% of the total.
...so low- and middle-income people are not buying their own homes under that system, which is exactly what I said. What is the disagreement here?

You say that interest rates are not higher, but that is a meaningless statement if people do not generally buy their homes on credit. Low- and middle-income Americans typically buy a home using a mortgage, and credit scores are an important part of that system.
What I didn't understand, and maybe someone can explain it to me...

In both Firefox and Chrome I couldn't see the webkit logo on the right hand red square, HOWEVER if I copy/pasted the right hand red square into Paint.NET the logo was VERY visible. Why did it work in one app and not the others?
You can certainly pirate Windows, even Pro, insofar as activating it without paying for a license.
Depends on the goals; personally I prefer an implementation as close to the original as possible because I'm interested in how they did it and what performance they were able to achieve. If on the other hand the goal is to have a Lisp machine like working environment/experience translated to todays standards/performance then I assume mirating the original code to an SBCL/Linux setup would rather be the way to go.
My own hypothesis is walking not only freed our hands, but also freed our mind. The human are the rare if not only species relies heavily on remote projectiles for attack. Most other animals are melee main. (I happy to be proven wrong)

Now the fun part. If you are melee main, you just out-run your food and bite them, simple. However, to master remote attacks, you must predict how the prey moves. You have prepare carefully, plan how your projectiles fly, or else you get nothing.

This enforces us to mimic other animals, the better we think like the prey the better we catch our food or avoid big monsters. This is how primitive animal worship originates. Those who understands animals best are the most wise person in tribes.

This also give us apathy and self-awareness, and ultimately, the consciousness, and it catalyze our social structure, because collaboration makes hunting much more efficient. This motivates our ancestors to evolve as a group.

Projectiles gave us an artificial world with a beauty of its own. Parabola is studied extensively throughout history.

A species's food source depending on ultilizing projectiles think differently than other animals. Bipedalism hominins are meh, but bipedalism hominins having stones in their hands are extremely dangerous.

(Btw, are there any books or papers supporting my idea?)
It's easy to be 1000% dedicated to your job when you make over $9,000,000 an hour. But he wants the same dedication from people he pays $6.

He's also vicious about crushing unions and is known for giving employees so little breaks they have to piss in bottles.

Fuck Bezos. The US has a real problem with wealth worship. People lap up every drop that comes out of this asshole just because he's a million times richer than everyone else. So they think he's a million times smarter.

Jeff Bezos is a rich asshole and treats his employees like toilet paper. It's laughable that anyone would take life advice from this clown