skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't recall the keyword to search for, but I believe I've read there is a third option, neither (a) or (b) exactly, which was used prior to modern genetic engineering and arguably should be considered more risky.

That is using radiation or something else mutagenic to produce a lot of mutants at random and then selectively breeding them.

If this is not considered "genetic engineering" but "selective breeding" it would tend to support the idea that people are irrational about the label.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41sow2N%2Bi...

The mind boggles.

3 rings: provides redundancy over 2 ring

4 ring: additional stability and redundancy

... 26 ring? At that point, you almost have more hole than paper. Is there a reason?
Have a look at google earth some time. What franction of temperate and tropical land mass outside of deserts is some shade of green? Probably in excess of 95%. There are a lot of plants on Earth.
Before we get ahead of ourselves:

>The participant, who asked to be referred to as BRAVO1, worked with the researchers to create a 50-word vocabulary that Chang’s team could recognize from brain activity using advanced computer algorithms.

Fifty words, that's it. For comparison, a nurse a laminated piece of A4 paper and a patient who can blink get about 15 characters per minute from the English alphabet.

Great PR, but not a substantial improvement over the BCIs from the past 15 years.
This is a prosthetic that translates brain signals into speech at 18 wpm.

Human speech is generally about 150 wpm in english. I've read that the informational output is relatively consistent between languages, so in a language like german you get bigger words and fewer wpm. Assuming that's correct, 150 english wpm is probably close to the processing speed of the brain, minus the overhead of converting thoughts to speech.
"crypto mining isnt for qny country that has better things to do"

ftfy
Any sharing from anyone?
> The vast majority of police never actually need their weapons. So why are they routinely carrying them?

Your link doesn't support this. How many police have drawn their weapons?
> While this has already been proven to be a false idea based on the comments from the White House actively telling private companies which posts/users to take down

No, it hasn't. A government office telling private actors what it cobsiders to be misinformation and would like not relayed is not state censorship as long as there is no compulsory process. A private party can certainly use “I trust the government, and they say X is wrong” as an input to their consideration of how to exercise their free speech without it being anything other than free speech.

> What people don’t realize is the majority of censorship in China is being carried out by private companies.

China has and uses compulsory process to ensure compliance with its desired censorship, though.
To be fair security is often a car and mouse game. You beef up where you can and try to stay ahead as you go.
If they could do this on iOS, your Linux phone doesn't stand a chance. They'll find bugs in it.
Do we have same thing but for Tesla & Co ?

Cycling side by side with silent EVs is quite dangerous.
> In the end, nobody came. Nobody else cared.

From my experience just being an observer and not too much of a techie I’d say it’s one of the cons of open source products.

For example, if there’s an open source product you like to use but the maintainers are not very active, you may get aggravated and fork it and start another similar product thinking you can do it better justice. Problem is, for every new “fork” of a product you end up dividing the user base as well.

When users have too many options to choose from they usually do not compare differences when there’s too many to compare and just pick one.

Also, most of these similar products are not always backwards compatible which is one of many reasons people may not try to compare similar products.

Another way of thinking about it is the less effort someone has to input to copy something, the more “copies” you’ll have to pick from. From a users perspective it is very confusing and frustrating not knowing what to pick to use.
http://guifi.net has worked for well over a decade, providing monthly fee free internet connectivity to tens of thousands of homes and businesses across Spain.

NYC Mesh's model isn't groundbreaking, rather it is set up like Guifi.net to encourage other small businesses to crop up supporting individuals who want to join the network.
When we suffer anxiety we turn inward and get, to a degree, autisticky.

I think that this is not really news.
Zoom to buy cloud software provider Five9 in $15B deal
Not entirely. Remember some things, like kernels, require unsafe() calls which tell Rust to turn off the memory safety to function properly. There will be significantly less bugs, but there absolutely will be bugs with memory safety remaining.
Statistically, combat veterans are 6 percentage points more likely to shoot than non-veterans. (32% versus 26% have discharged their service firearm while on duty, other than at a gun range or during training.)

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/08/a-closer-lo...
Invisible surveillance: How spyware is hacking smartphones [video]
This is what Torvalds had to say about the developers of systemd

https://web.archive.org/web/20161210172826/http://article.gm...
macports also had Tesseract CLI available with a lot of language packs.
> the headline makes it sound like this was an AI falsely accusing someone based on pure randomness.

no, it doesn't. the headline makes it sound like facial recognition is unreliable for some reason.

the reason, in this case, is that the Apple store and/or SIS personnel gave the recognition system Ousmane's name when they weren't able to prove it was him, and the document provided for identification was not actual proof of identification.

Further facial recognition matches assigned further blame to the misidentified person, increasing the evidence against him.

Then, because store owners and security firms really want to put away shoplifters, they claimed that video proof of the shoplifting was routinely deleted when there was no policy describing a deletion policy within Apple or SIS, only for video proof that the individual was not Mr. Bah to later be found.

in this case, facial recognition tech was unreliable entirely because of the people running it.
> We should assume NSA (and a lot of cryptocurrency nerds) is already monitoring the addresses of those old bitcoin wallets as a canary for someone making such a discovery.

I bet the NSA has better things to do than that, cryptocurrency nerds on the other hand...
Perhaps a better technique would be to go around the room and require everyone to come up with the best argument for why the plan isn't sane, regardless of whether they actually believe their argument.

That way the argument isn't attached to anyone's ego, and uncomfortable truths can be spoken with plausible deniability. It only takes one person to "jokingly" bring up how previous estimates were over-optimistic, for example, to which other people can nod and hum in agreement.
The overhead of the stream abstraction is typically a lot greater than the cost of accessing a byte array.

Also, maybe I'm wrong, but when I read "image parsing" I think that actually means "image decoding".
Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance
Given the victim and proposed motivation, there will never be publicly known suspects unless more powerfully connected journalists turn their attention to the matter. The motive being brought up is advocacy to that end.
Clojure doesn't have this problem, in Clojure nil is not the empty list, and the empty list is not nil.

;; Nil and empty list are different
(nil? '())
;> false

;; Empty list is not falsy
(if '() true false)
;> true

;; Only nil is falsy
(if nil true false)
;> false

;; Prints as empty list
(pr '())
;> ()
T (opposite of NIL) also existed <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_(programming_language)>
will they ever see it when we get to "enough" though? I am not sure...
What a weird comment.
I have little idea how this works in practice, but absolutely super in love with the idea of having security policy for describing different capabilities upon a desktop. Wayland made things secure, and this is trying to figure out how we make them share-able.
Not really. When the device reboots, hardware root of trust takes over and the bug must be manually, externally exploited to regain control.

There has not been a single known bug granting persistent loading across a reboot since iOS 9.
I still think its a good progress regardless
I’m not following. Are you saying citizenship replaced religion and it functions in the same way as religion did for empires and kingdoms of yesteryear?
I had a lot of album's in the 70's so I get the appeal - to have a 12 by 12" object to hold with artwork and liner notes to look at. It adds another dimension that digital audio lacks. You can't touch, feel and smell a web page that has the same material, nor see them all on the shelf to admire.

My question is, do people actually listen to the vinyl tracks or do they listen to the much higher quality digital file while holding the album?
Yeah that's a good point, especially if he wants to keep his guide or local contacts safe.
Fair point. It's difficult to determine much beyond that given the abnormal status of Trump.
Good decision on their part. Unfortunately ours was CL-inspired
Prayer should keep everyone safe.
> It could be argued that using that symbolism is more a form of respect than it is a form of racism.

Broadly speaking, the symbolism being used is usually either an obvious caricature of the real thing (see: the former Washington Redskins), or uses cultural and religious elements that are at best kind of offensive in the context of being used as a sportsball logo (see: most uses of peace pipe or war bonnet imagery).

There are exceptions, but they're of the kind that generally come with either somebody actually doing the research or people of the given group actually participating locally.
That's pretty much it. A maybe-slightly-better computer voice.
Firefox still has its own backend for non-Windows platforms. (ANGLE is used for shader translation but nothing else.)
How to Make a Font Size Slider in React with Material UI
Do you got a source for the idea that human mental preformance suffers in the the hundred ppm CO2 range? I don't see how it would since the body has homeostatic mechanisms. CO2 has only increased by several hundred ppm since the industrial revolution. Maybe you are confusing CO2 with CO which has completely different biochemistry (it binds more efficiently with hemoglobin than oxygen and or does not release as easily once bound).
“The 5-year survival rate for people with pancreatic NET that has not spread to other parts of the body from where it started is 93%.”

Jobs delayed aggressive treatment for close to a year. He finally had the Whipple surgery, but it reoccurred likely due to spreading.

Well never know what might have been but suffice to say he only shortened his life.
AnsiWeather – weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
I'm sorry but I don't quite understand how Reddit--a bastion for young 20-somethings, among which leftism is a major demographic, could ever be construed as a Q-Anon stronghold.

I feel as though this may more reflect your fears than the state of the site, and I feel as though so reflexively writing off a population that already largely agree with you illumines the opposite argument--that reaction to speech is largely an overreaction, and we will, without careful consideration, largely consider any bloc to be constituted of what we fear.
How is this youtube? am I missing something?
More than just electrical dependency. The output vs size/weight would be a very big revolution in engineering.
Well this is what is public now.
How can one determine from ones own device (an iPhone for example) if it’s been compromised with malware?

I’ve never seen my phone present any kind of scan results or notice of infection, nor are there any kind of malware scanning apps in the App Store (since they wouldn’t be able to leave the app jail to scan anyway)

Is this just like a glaring hole in mobile security for iOS?
Visualizing all the vacant office space in San Francisco
I can't make out any nuance of this kind in the title. I'm curious what kind of association you're drawing it from.
something I found really handy for testing/retaining windows installs was a $30 external USB SSD (not a flash drive, a "external drive" that is flagged as "non-removable")

you can install windows directly on it and tell the UEFI to boot off of it with absolutely no fuss
You have to try it. It is such a joy. The pages turn like butter and never tear out. You can lift the entire binder by a single page. The paper size feels much
more human-scale. I exclusively use J-Binders for my notes.
Previous article listing few more details
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/revealed-leak-...
Yes, That's why most people are against the use of military equipment by police even if they're not against defunding them.
Disable Windows print spooler or you could be hacked, says Microsoft
As a proponent of biolinguistics, my bet is that as we study those neural substrates more closely, we'll probably just learn more about the sensorimotor systems (which we largely share in common with other mammals) that have been coopted for expression of language in humans.

We already have a useful pathway for investigation: data from speech/sign of a speaker of a particular language. In fact this already yields a kind of overabundance of data. The tricky part is finding the right kind of data via careful experimentation and organising it, by building explanatory theories of language that meet the conditions of evolvability and learnability.

(Which is not to say that cognitive sciences can't shed any light on this, but studying the brain independently of linguistic experimentation is a dead end IMO. Brain imaging studies coupled with linguistic studies have yielded interesting results - see Andrea Moro's work on "impossible languages").
Primaries are also winner-take-all which is why incumbents have such an advantage. Alaska got rid of party primaries and so it'll be interesting to see how the next primary goes, which will be between the top four candidates voted for in the primary.

Arguably 4 is too low a number to represent the varied interests of any state, and the first round will likely leave people unsatisfied until candidates can start researching the actual values preferences of their electorate and offer e.g. the top 4 ways to order the most important issues and alignments. I think there will be a strong force to abandon divisive hot-button issues that sound good on TV but are actually lower on most people's preference ordering.
What? They're referencing the events of the first season. The whole first season was about making their data useless.
They discovered old powers, really.

The Spanish flu was a thing way back when
From the article
"Five9 is a pioneer of cloud-based contact center software. Its highly-scalable and secure cloud contact center delivers a comprehensive suite of easy-to-use applications that allows management and optimization of customer interactions across many different channels". In less corporate speak , as someone mentioned it's a call centre management solution.
Day 199 and Vaccination
Data leak reveals Israeli NSO Group's spyware used to target activists
Thanks for giving me some thoughts to turn over in my head. I have to admit, having been able to support most of my projects on a simple LAMP stack, I may simply be overly worried about scaling. But my hope is always to have a sideproject skyrocket.

Did you read the article a little while back about Discord's challenges with storing tons of messages and how they upgraded their tech stack? Did it make sense to you?
Many of the people who say they want to "abolish the police" actually just want to be the police, but under a different name and under their rules.
The big problem there is not that he does it, but that it can be done. You can't be sure if someone else (i.e. some intelligence agencies) know it already, and is actively breaking encryption, even if he doesn't. Your encryption is by definition not safe, and everyone should change it.

Unless, of course, it requires magical/unachievable technology like some impossible yet quantum computer or hundreds of years.
Where is here? A few percent market share? The average age of vehicles is 12 years. Even if all gasoline vehicles are banned in 2030 you’d be looking close to 2050 to eliminate gas.

And that’s in rich nations. You think India or China has the money to buy all new vehicles?
There might have been a lead on the suspect if the camera watching the cell hadn't been "accidentally" erased https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51053205
That's actually a really interesting question, because if I'm not mistaken, a lot of in-store security cameras will use IR for night vision. Assuming they use the same cameras for both facial-recognition and security, it would be reasonable to assume there's no IR filter, otherwise there would be no night-vision (and would make for a pretty poor security system).
For comparison purposes, 15 characters per minute equals 3 words per minute^, so this would be about six times as fast as that approach.

^by convention
Situation (1) has two cases - (a) they know how you are doing it, and (b) they don't.

In (1a) or (2), then why kill the discoverer, because if one person figured it out, someone else will.

I'm not sure this is how everybody does/would think, but it seems common-sense-ish to me. For example, Newton/Leibniz.
"Privacy"- Apple commercial, black background and white text
This is fine. We know that China has the upper hand on the US for low manufacturing costs. If there’s anything you want made at home it’s defense systems first followed by communications.
Maybe. Too Big to fail. Too pretty to jail. A lot of wealthy people have done things that would have wound most folks in jail. She’s got brains, beauty, and supposedly some money. Perhaps I don’t have a lot of faith in juries.
> so nothing us small folk can do will likely change things in any meaningful way.

Small folks DO have the ability to make change--it's called a labor strike. And, while the little people aren't thinking of it this way, that is precisely what is happening right now.
It's the inbetweeners that's the ideal target audience. Analysts (including me a few years back) that knows SQL (through Tableau/BigQuery), but don't know how to get comfortable with CLI to set up their own DB. Already sent this link to someone I know that can use it.
GP is talking to application developers, not compiler devs.
Why build all of that though? Why build a map editor? Why build a 2D animation suite? Those aren't game engine features. They're workflow features. You say sprawling, and I say lame FOSS competitor to Blender.

That's my point: all of those features are pointless to spend labor on. Go spend some time in the game development FOSS ecosystem, there are plenty of people already building those tools.

A game engine team does not need to reinvent programming, map making, animating, and so much more.

Go take existing standards and defacto gamedev file formats and build momentum on things that actually matter.
"Apple and SIS are said to have told the New York court that neither firm has any written policy on video retention."

Why would there not be a written video retention policy?
Please note: This is the same institution that published outrageous claims of multiple tech companies detecting backdoored Supermicro motherboards, which everyone denied and no one claims to have know anything about.
No. Entirely anecdotal and of my own observance.

I traveled from Ontario to British Columbia two years ago when the forest fires out west were really peaking.

I noticed smoke in the air as far as Winnipeg, and it only got thicker as I approached Vancouver.

Surely all of those white/reflective particles in the upper atmosphere are reflecting the sun's rays.

Also, weather predictions that year where WAY off. Predictions were always much higher than the actual high of the day. I assume this is resultant from historical weather data being a poor source for an altered state weather season.

The smoke covered almost all of north america at some points and it really got much cooler than seasonal averages.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27878412
Norwegian welfare software, built on k8s
Nowhere in this article does it support what you're saying.
The "highly curable" is relative to other types of cancer.

While Jobs did undergo surgery, he waited 9 months and didn't get surgery until after the cancer had spread. I don't see amy credible medical claims that this dis not have an impact on his survival.

> But Jobs refused surgery after diagnosis and for nine months after, favoring instead dietary treatments and other alternative methods...By the time Jobs finally opted for surgery, the cancer had spread. [0]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-j...
I am ready for our AI overlords.

Laozi suggests we go with the flow. Is there really an alternative?
It could be. How large is that carbon consumption in the first place?
I've got professional experience with null in Java, C#, and C++, as well as Clojure. From my experience "nil" in Clojure is the least "issue creating" of the bunch.

Generally when "nil" is an issue in Clojure, it's actually from the Java side, where Java doesn't "do the right thing" for "nil" and just throws a "null pointer exception" instead.

In Clojure it's mostly a problem when it hides that you just aren't getting something because of a bug, as opposed to because it truly isn't there.

The most common one for me being map lookups:

(get m :fooo)
;> nil

Now everything after will "work", because everything handles "nil" input and generally does "the right thing", like treat it as false, or returns nil if given nil, or treats it as identity, etc. But you actually just messed up the key and that's why you are getting "nil", where you wanted to do:

(get m :foo)
;> "foo"

I'd say this is the most annoying case for "nil" for me in Clojure.
>a government who lets cops shoot you because they shout "gun" would say

Fairly recently there was a crazy guy who shouted "gun" (or "he's got a gun") near a cop, and the cop shot him.

In other words, they will assume you're speaking in the third person about yourself, if you say "gun".

Not that, for instance, you are observing that the officer has a gun and is dangerous.
Ok, good idea—thanks! Will consider.

(Except for the partners part. I don't have that kind of access!)
Is Beef Bad for the Environment?
No one thought that Go was impossible except people who weren't involved in engineering/software and shouldn't have been taken seriously in the first place.

Superhuman game AI has existed for decades. It's entirely unsurprising that one can play a strategy game, and no one thought it wasn't possible.

I'll send you $500 USD if AlphaFold derivatives lead to a single new therapy or drug that helps real patients in the next 5 years.
That's the sort of thing we can do, but only if it turns out to be a problem. Good case of "I never write a line of code that isn't needed" --pg
I've used tesseract directly and there definitely is some footguns when it comes to PDFs and being sure not to re-compress them and lose quality.

If you're looking to add a text layer to a PDF (for search purposes for instance) I can highly recommend OCRmyPDF: https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF/

It uses Tesseract and works quite well for most PDFs, I made a semi-functional script before I discovered it and it would have saved a lot of hassle.
Same here! Launch HN are usually way silly and boring compared to Show HNs. If I was a YC startup, I would skip doing Launch HN and do Show HN on my own.