skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see, thanks for elaborating and providing the citation - very interesting paper indeed. "This is absolutely not true" was not a charitable/informed interpretation of your comment, my apologies.

> So we didn’t promote the “invention” of AR by bacteria, but likely just accelerated the selection of AR strains

Well put, we are in agreement.
yes it’s only icloud photos for now. what’s going to be next?

are you going to have a huge scandal every time they turn on a new “feature”?
Nah, it means "boring", "yawn" and "soulless".
Yea a buddy tried out HughesNet and the latency was 1~1.5 seconds. Loading anything was death.
Coffee is like this a lot. I always check $/oz of the 20oz bag and the 12oz bag, and there's often a 10-20% difference in unit price for the same brand between the two sizes and I'll just buy whichever is cheaper.
> Some supermarkets will give you the unit price to help you compare.

I believe they are all required by law to do that. (What, of course, doesn't mean that they all do, but you should be able to get them a fine if you call your local PROCOM.)
China's state security laws trump all "strict controls" for employees.
Oh I see. Thank you, I didn’t think about that.
> I think it's a bad take to assume that everyone using a Mac needs a 1-2 click.

Huh? Nobody said everyone using a Mac needs it. Where did you get that from? You seem to be putting words into GP's mouth.

But some people certainly could prefer it, which is the whole point of it existing, for those people.

Also, your comparison isn't even close to equivalent. It's not the ease of installing Docker vs Postgres.app... it's the ease of installing Docker and then figuring out how to configure an instance with Postgres vs Postgres.app. Obviously Postgres.app is easier. Some people have no need or desire to figure out Docker, they just want to use tools installed locally.
I'm really excited to see k-sortable unique identifiers (flakes) be submitted as an IETF draft. This will help keep the UUID data type relevant.

However, I'd like to see the draft include a mention about the practice of embedding machine and data type identifiers into the format which helps in distributed applications.
Since we bought our house, we're saturated in ads for pest control companies who want to spray our entire property to kill bugs. It's unbelievable that this is actually legal.

I think that the use of pesticides should be strictly limited to acute infestations -- or small specific things like a barrier placed on the foundation of the house for termite prevention.
> that they value money over anything else.

Maybe or maybe they think that good computing devices are valuable to everyone now and that repressive laws can be changed eventually as they have in many countries, and denying good computers to people who also live with repression makes their lives worse, not better.
How about basing it on the cost of the medal itself? ( ;

gold - $815

silver - $445

bronze - $5

https://en.as.com/en/2021/07/23/olympic_games/1627028063_790...
"In some countries secret intelligence is used to control their people. In ours, it only exists to protect their freedoms."
Why would you expose a human to potentially infected people if it could be avoided?
That's not shrinkflation, as you can still go to Germany and get the real product. It might be false advertising or something.

A similar thing happens with 3rd world cars doing worse in crash tests than the equivalent US or European models.
I had not, thanks ! This seems crazy, I can't wait to see it in action.
it’s all ones and zeros. if you have nothing to hide you should not worry about it /s
Our parent company is an Akamai Enterprise user. We've opened a case with them as well.
My 2c as a catalan speaker. Apparently cunt is related to the latin "cunnus" (wedge). We also have a vulgar word related to cunnus for vagina, "cony". Its use is not as offensive as cunt, but it is up there with "puta" (whore) as the worst things you could say to a woman. However "cony" is also used in a sexual context: "Et vull menjar el cony" could be translated to "I want to eat your pussy".

Of course we have other obscene words for vagina. One of them is "conill" (rabbit), which is apparently related to "cunniculus" (burrow). The analogy between the action of the animal when hiding and the sexual act seems clear, but however this one is almost exclusively used in descriptive contexts: "L'hi he vist el conill", "I've seen her pussy".

"Conill" is also used more innocently. A young girl (~4yo) who is playing and running around naked could be affectionately called by female relatives "conillet". "Ai el conillet!" as in "oh, the little rabbit!". The goal here, I believe, seems to be not really shaming her to get dressed, but to make her aware that she is naked.

The animal analogy (?) would be similar to that of beaver, I suppose. But of course no mother would call her naked girl little beaver.

Maybe it's just me, but I find it fascinating how languages converge and diverge, and how we find hilarious and imaginative ways to describe the world around us.
I get your point. We're here for black creators too, but our customers are black viewers, so we'll always put them first. But of course, there is no demand without supply, and black creators are at the heart of what we do, too. Fortunately, we can serve both entities!
I will say, I think the one point in this article I disagree with is about finding answers on the internet. There are certainly been many times I've needed to dig into the source of something I'm working on, but much more often than not I've been able to find an exact (or close enough) answer with a couple of different Google searches.

Granted, this may be because the areas I work in are less technically complex than, say, writing low-level code or IoT instructions.
Thanks for the link. It seems like the melting pot idea is old enough that it's defined in the same narrow way that "all men are created equal" was in the Constitution.

American multiculturalism up until WW2 was English, Scottish, Irish, French, Italian, Jewish and Greek. Strictly European, yet still featured plenty of discrimination within those tiers. The discrimination didn't end because people magically became more enlightened, it ended (or at least was greatly reduced) when the marginalized groups assimilated into a more homogenous "American" identity, which defaults to 'white'.

It's not clear where non-Europeans fall into this melting pot concept, because most are not racially ambiguous and cannot claim to be white. Most scripts will not have a protagonist of a specific race. But in casting, it will simply be assumed that the character in question is white. Because melting pot or not, that's what everybody's default is.
I use docker (well, podman) for postgres on my personal machine because it's the one package that causes me headaches in my rolling release distro. Postgres n -> n+1 always requires a migration process (and you can't shortcut n -> n+x), so if I spend a period of time not working on my Postgres using projects, I find I've updated from n -> n+2 or more and need to figure out how to get the old version installed again since it's a dependency of the migration tools to have both versions available.
Yep. I’ve preached this whenever I talk about dev process. The best way I’ve heard it framed was using two different terms: deadline and target date.

Target dates are internal goals, not tied to anything other than a rough estimate or a day somebody made up.

Deadlines are tied to contractual obligations, events, etc.

If it’s not a real deadline it’s a target and targets can move. Real deadlines mean you start talking about how to trim your requirements to have a shot at hitting it.
Using an home air sensor in my home office, I've become keenly aware of CO2 levels during the day...

Despite having a sizeable HVAC system, the absolute best way to reduce CO2 is to open the windows - which I now do when I wake up each morning.

Here is a visualization of the impact of opening doors/windows in the morning: https://i.imgur.com/4Ac8QHP.png

As my family of 5 wakes up, the CO2 comes down with them as their bedroom doors open (CO2 is heavier than air), and the CO2 level spikes downstairs - and can take a couple hours after opening the windows and doors to get down to the outside baseline CO2 level of about 420 ppm.

Here is a visualization where I did not open the windows right away, and had to close again due to the heat: https://i.imgur.com/1alDAfB.png

On summer days, my servers don't love the heat and humidity of outside air, otherwise I've learned to keep the windows open all day. I do seem to notice a difference in how I feel if the level goes over 1000ppm, but that's really hard to quantify.

Adding plants has not had a noticeable effect.
I concur that humanitarian aspect of Starlink is by far the most exciting, but fail to see how ability to have a stable fast speed connection anywhere is not a paradigm shift. Especially when you combine it with recent remote work transition.

Specifically if you wanted to start a company or even open an office either your business opportunities were limited to local area or you were locked into places with existing fiber connections. This means high paying work was also concentrated in places with existing fiber connections. I am hoping mega constellations will level economic landscape via increased geographic availability of high paying jobs.
They do exist now.
I suppose you are right about that actually. Makes me wonder why they chose to implement scanning of files destined for icloud (locally) when it's already a feature of icloud?
I use KSUIDs a ton in DynamoDB; it saves me from having to create and fill another index to sort items by creation time.

The only case where I don't use them is if I don't want to create time of the item to be known to the user.
Docker for Mac's builtin Kubernetes cluster keeps getting better. These days (as of a year or so ago?) if you create a LoadBalancer Service it will wire up the port forward to your Mac's localhost, which is really nice. If you set up a local CA cert (minica makes this easy) and add an entry in your hosts file like "127.0.0.1 localhost.myhost.com", you can actually get full HTTPS to your development pod, using a production-like LoadBalancer Service setup.

I haven't tried microk8s, does it do full Service proxying to localhost? I did try Minikube a few years back and the Service proxying wasn't implemented yet.

I'm a big fan of fully replicating the production-like environment (including TLS) in your dev setup, at least for iterating on k8s-layer config changes; taking the cycle time for k8s changes down to seconds makes for a very pleasant development experience.
I think the point was that with Google or Amazon, you know what their real motive is. With another product, they might actually just be selling a security camera.
Rather than try to rehash the arguments myself, I'll just point you to Matthew Green's detailed takedown: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14230910979334266...

But just to highlight one aspect, the list of maintained hashes has a known, non-negligible fraction of false positives.

> That’s it for now.

If this is an attempt at "first they came...", we're not biting.
OP here, I was pretty burnt out by pandemic life so I made this. I'll be happy to answer any questions about it.
The article calls crypto-currency a "trillion-dollar industry", that seems like a gross exaggeration or I just misinformed?
Gentlemen - you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
How have they done that? Encapsulating the soil with a barrier layer?
If more developers had had this mindset, DLL hell might not have ever been a thing.
I absolutely love this (I was part of this Twitter conversation).

My take on SemVer is that the ideal version number would be something like 1.452 - 452 new feature release without ever breaking backwards compatibility.

Almost impossible to actually achieve this, but it's good to be ambitious!

Also: doing SemVer properly requires you to provide really good documentation. A bug fix should correct an issue where actual behavior differs from the documented behavior.

Without this, a "bug fix" is indistinguishable from a breaking change.
Well first of all I think there's a large portion of home automation users that are tech people and just enjoy the process more than the results.

There are some generally good use cases though.

My most useful automation feature currently is that I can turn the air conditioner on and off in my attic office without having to walk up two flights of stairs or even be home. Sure I could leave the ac on a preset temp, but that would be a huge power waste.

Then there's home security features, which are really all just a subset of home automation. The only low tech solution to this problem is basically to move, but that isn't exactly practical.
What problem is a smart home the solution for?
I'm just surprised they did it for CP and not terrorism.
Same with the energy label of food. In the metric system:

Portion sizes of 65 gram in a 90 gram container. Then the label shows for 10 gram, portion size, and 100 grams. But not the actual weight of the container!

I mean, what 'portion' consists of 65/90th of a container? They know full well that the actual portion people consume $PRODUCT in is what is in the box.
> If you want to be needlessly pedantic I guess. But for 99.999999% of usage hash collisions don't exist in practice.

Oh right, that very soothing. The very device I spent $1000 on has 0.0001% of ruining my life by causing a no-knock raid due to a false positive. They should put this stuff on their ads, makes me wanna buy more Apple products.

I'd much rather sell all my current Apple devices and permanently switch to linux than do this.
Who said anything about it being illegal?

You are being sarcastic and not engaging in good faith.
My problem isn't Fn and Ctrl, but that Shift may or may not be the same shape.

If Ctrl is on the outside I am guaranteed to hit Shift when I push them both with my pinky straight up.

I have two Lenovo laptops in front of me right now.

The key straight up from Fn on the Ideapad 3 is a pipe.
On the Thinkpad the shift key is the correct length (two keys wide).

The two have opposite Fn and Ctrl keys.

Consistency, am I right?

Muscle memory is a thing, and even the same manufacturer isn't doing things the same way between models.
Lambda isn't syntactic sugar, it's a language feature.

In Java it's kind of a syntactic sugar (lambda is a shortcut for an anonymous class with 1 method) because of historic reasons, but I'd prefer if it wasn't the case TBH.

It was always a dirty hack.
You have a point. There are wind pollinated plants.

It is not entirely clear though how effective the pollination would be for those plants without bees.

But these crops do require bees. Coffee is one of them! Just saying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crop_plants_pollinated...
Thermal tiles, they’re waiting for the rest to arrive
After what happened to Revolv customers when Google bought them I'm never going to spent more on a smart device than I would on a good lunch. Sure, I'll put some five and ten dollar smart switches on lamps but this whole home integration crap is for the birds.
Chicken too. It often comes to the grocery store "brined."
Yes, it does. Because this is a officially supported hardware list (read: liability to support, which heavily influences enterprise and business purchasing and upgrade decisions). It's important to remember that "support" in this context does NOT mean function, that's an entirely separate and unrelated issue. Put another way, Disabling those mitigations does not prevent the product from functioning, but it will allow MS and Intel to deny support and push a new product as a fix instead.

Just because you can disable the mitigations or that the new family of products may well be flawed (in a similar manner, or in entirely support manner) is frankly irrelevant, and suggesting as such entirely misses the point.

This is a business (Intel) pushing a product through a partnership (With MS) with the idea that they'll both see boosted returns from upgrades to newer hardware families and in turn new OEM/Enterprise licensing. Why fix the problem when you can bury it under new quarterly sales.
if you read the paper Apple put out, this check takes place right before the icloud upload. also, they are allegedly not doing this for all existing pics. only new ones that get uploaded to icloud
I had one of these as a kid, in the early 1970s. It was my first 35mm camera, and I'm sure I was given it because someone got it cheap or free. As the article states, they were made in huge numbers, and even now, there's still a lot of them flaoting around. It was kind of a pain to use because it wasn't it good condition.

(Later, my dad gave me his Nikon F, which I still have, so bye-bye Argus).
> To no great surprise, Ookla found Starlink beats HughesNet and Viasat handly. The company found that "Starlink was the only satellite internet provider in the United States with fixed-broadband-like latency figures, and median download speeds fast enough to handle most of the needs of modern online life at 97.23 Megabits per second (Mbps) during Q2 2021. HughesNet was a distant second at 19.73 Mbps and Viasat third at 18.13 Mbps."

This is really deceptive. You can actually get really insane speeds on HughesNet/Viasat, the issue at hand is the service profiles available- Both HuguesNet/Viasat have 20Mbps down plans. If starlink goes full release at 100Mbps then sure? But that's highly unlikely unless they implement bandwidth caps or dont sell to the public (or limit subscribers to a tiny percentage?), as satellite bandwidth is extremely constrained (ESPECIALLY for leo constellations).

Where starlink is a clear undisputed winner is latency (not capacity). You'll actually be able to make video calls and play games on a starlink connection.
Majority of Black Americans are a distinct shared cultural group, like Hispanic folk, who come in many different pigments, also like Hispanic folk, who also tend to have an identifiable manner of speaking and protocol, also like Hispanic folk.
Wait until someone argues that they need to not be disease resistant to have empathy.
I'd love to see a write-up of is how developers have asserted status over time
>That said, I can't seem to find any credentials or publications by the author of this piece "Dr RollerGator PhD".

That is probably an alias. I think no one is going to commit career suicide by getting themselves labelled "Anti-Vaccine" doctor. (Even when this article does not suggest vaccines are bad)..
A brief History of Julia's C++ REPL and interop [pdf]
Crikey. This gives me a great idea.

BoomerFlix.

What better market to target if you want to make a few coins?

Who's in?
You could link to the post itself so the author gets credit
I’m not saying I necessarily agree with this:

> A self build system blows the air through a filter. Nearly all commercial systems suck the air trough a filter. Big difference.

But if you’re strapping a filter to a fan, it’s probably more efficient to blow through, since the air will be more focused (plus, it’s easier to mount due to front being flatter).

> I can believe that some home built box fan purifiers out perform some commercial units, but not as a blanket statement that a home made filter outperforms all commercial units.

Agreed. I recall seeing the stats they published and it looks like there are good purifiers among the more expensive ones (US$1000+), but apparently even in that price class they’re hit or miss and don’t always perform as well as a DIY solution could. Generally there’s a lot of information asymmetry, manufacturers want their margins so commercial air purifiers might often use something custom rather than a standard-compliant HEPA filter (either worse or slightly better but 10x more expensive than it should be) and make it difficult or impossible to swap it for something from a trusted third party. They’re counting on very small percentage of customers having properly calibrated particle counting equipment set up at home, they get away with providing misleading tech specs like CADR (or not providing them at all), and so on.
> Apple gets paid by its users and should have no other interests than to get paid as much money as possible, regardless of who pays them.

That’s exactly why they are doing this. Providing a safe haven for child sex predators is bad for their brand.
People are disillusioned with the government and official institutions. You see it in all kinds of anti-government sentiment, it's partly because of the manipulation there's been via advertising and propoganda. And they can tell something is wrong with the system, but they're not sure what exactly.
So you got the API wrong - because you didn't have omniscience about every possible problem your code would need to solve in the future.

There's no shame in admitting that with a major version bump. None of us are infallible.
Manual review. So in other words they're going to go through your private photos unbeknownst to you to decide you're innocent. And you're never even going to know it happened. Wonderful.

What if it really was a very private photo?
I can't find the quote from Tyler Perry, but Madea is definitely not just for Black people. All of his stories are like this: they trick you into watching because it's funny, and easy to watch - but at the same time every story also had hard to talk about problems related to things like family life, drugs, intramarital issues, and prostitution. I listened to an interview with Tyler and he called it a bait-and-switch.

Tyler Perry has already played into film tropes with Boo! and Boo! 2, where Madea gets into some ghoulish hijinks - so Madea's Gilligan's Island would be along those lines.

I love tropes, or playing with tropes more like. it's an inversion of science fiction - where sci-fi relies on changing the parameters of the world (What if we had robots? what if we had telepathy? Predict t he future? How would human life change? What would happen?), a play on tropes allows you to explore how a character you already know might deal with a situation that has been played out manifold times.

Yes, Madea is made for black people, but I'm not black, and I absolutely adore Madea films. I wish more films were made like this - it's an underrepresented category in film. It's been tried by some christian film makers, but they usually come of hard on the nose and aren't enjoyable. Or you have just straight comedies, okay fine. How about we mingle the two and use the story to convey a clear message everyone can grasp? I love it - through all of Madea's characters personal faults, and through the other characters faults, trials and tribulations, there's redemption.

Tyler perry, please make this movie.
> "[white] identity was expanded to be inclusive in order to build social cohesion. That was a good thing.."

Social cohesion largely as a means of sharpening anti-Blackness and of labor control, particularly during and after the defeat of Reconstruction and due to growing relevance of the industrial organized labor movement. Du Bois did an immense amount of work critiquing pretty much exactly this.
That is because people who like Thinkpads tend to use the nipple instead.
I've been trying to get more clarity on this point (`it goes to manual confirmation`) but was unable to. Remember, they're saying this is something that happens on your own device, with your personal photos, not in the cloud.

Is this saying they can randomly choose to upload any personal files (photos) on your device to their servers for a person to look at, because they match a "hash"? Is this not absolutely batshit crazy !?
I thought that "internals" means read the Git code and understand how each module interacts. In that case, it is probably a waste of time unless you are really passionate about it.

I would just phrase it as "understand the tools' fundamental concepts and philosophy really well".