skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about moving one eyeball?
https://youtu.be/FaC2RXBss2c

These sorts of quirks indicate to me that we may have much more conscious control than we assume.
Cool project! I saw something similar to this, but written in javascript earlier. I wish you best of luck. Looks useful.
I have a Logitech G305, which I love. I configured the buttons inside of a VM, threw away the VM, and I never intend to touch the software again. (Unless I get a new mouse.)
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I worked part time at a grocery store as a cashier while studying.

Several times people would come up to me while I was out in the shop restocking or similar, and clearly assumed I was the manager or ask if I was.

The only common theme I could figure was that I was the only guy at work at those times. A couple of times it happened when I was together with the actual manager, a woman about my age.

I saw the same thing with the assistant manager, a slightly older guy. If he and the manager were standing together, people would address him first, asking if he was the manager.
Teenagers are minors. Doesn't sound like a very trusting environment.
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Let's see.

So, you have an email address at Gmail which you're using to authenticate everywhere, which is your username at most services, and possibly your main point of contact.

Then you mention something innocuous, I don't know, a cucumber maybe, on YouTube in a comment, and now your account is gone because apparently cucumbers are a part of some neo-nazi slang or a secret pedophile ring slang, and you got reported into oblivion.

Since your email address was also a part of getting into your bank account, now you've got a problem of getting your money, too.

The hoops you have now to jump are worse than changing spelling of your legal name or changing the fucking citizenship.

Still, the internet hivemind is raving that "it's not censorship if a private company is doing it", "they are a private company so they have a right to boot anyone off".

Of course another cohort of smug internet users will say: just self-host your email! Well, good luck getting your email deliverable if you're a Joe Schmoe and not one of the big players in the first place.

The big companies pulled the blanket so much that without using their services, you may as well not exist on the internet. They've made it extremely difficult, at least. They got, in some sense, bigger than many individual governments in regulating information channels. And yet they dodge all responsibility on the premise of being "private companies".

What a wonderful world to be living in.
Well, step 0 is obviously to use a device that won't blab its sensor readings to all and sundry. The only thing you should have to worry about is cell phone tower records and call/traffic logs.
So, you're suggesting that 10% of all people over 60 years old died of Covid since this began? I would love to see you try to find me a source for this statistic.

I'll wait…
Maybe you just don't look like a salesman. Typical CEO look :)
But Palantir's business is spying, so if a Black swan event blocks them from spying, how is gold going to save them?
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Probably too late. But the virus lives for 3 days in nasal passages before moving to lungs:

https://trialsitenews.com/finnish-biotech-secures-u-s-patent...
Who is their target market exactly?

IME (at least in Europe) you get either Visa or Mastercard depending on what your bank uses, and I don't think there are any differences.
This is still the case today, you can tell by which murders get covered in the press.
Ask HN: How do you handle organization verification?
Facebook, Twitter etc. have verified accounts. If you were adding this to your own application, how would you do it?

I imagine no matter how it's done, it will involve some amount of manual approval. I would be pleasantly surprised to learn that this can be automated.
Can someone "sell me" on Deno? I'm still not sure why I should be interested in this versus for example NodeJS. Most of the features it lists seem rather dubious.

> Secure by default. No file, network, or environment access, unless explicitly enabled.

Great, but we're talking about server software so the first thing any project is going to do is enable all of that. And it's not like you can trust this on the server, you'd still need to sandbox to process if you truly want isolation.

> Supports TypeScript out of the box.

Okay so it's coupled to Microsoft's take on Javascript. What about Flow or any of the other compiles-to-Javascript languages? What's wrong with using Babel with sourcemaps?

> Ships only a single executable file.

I guess that could be convenient but I'm struggling to think of a situation where installing node has ever been a problem.

> Has built-in utilities like a dependency inspector (deno info) and a code formatter (deno fmt).

Is this not the job of the package manager? Or does deno force you to use itself as the package manager? Will that not just bring about another npm situation in a few years?

I feel like I'm clearly missing something with how excited everyone is about deno, but I have no idea what it is.
Nah, that wouldn't happen more than once.
Thanks, I created it as a need while working on a different go project.

Cheers,
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I know of an 11T MRI (in Paris, IIRC) which knocks people unconscious when they move too fast. Apparently, the field across your skull inhibits (some) spike propagation. Doesn't require that much power.
It seems strange to state in one paragraph both that (a) art can have value simply because it represents a point in art history and that (b) NFTs can't hold value as long as they're digital-only. Because, there's nothing about being digital-only which makes it so that they cannot represent a point in art history.
Could this data be used to create heat-maps of who is funding what research and who is peer reviewing what projects and project categories?
Macs are just missing a lot of extremely basic mouse features. In typical Apple fashion, using it "the right way" is dead easy, but anything different is impossible without third party tools.
What gets me the most is seeing something like piper:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27871956

Where its (mainly) one person in their spare time that is able to put these official drivers to shame.
They have this in China too. I've heard it referred to frequently as a 'chop'. Its extremely cringe to look at another culture and start listing details of their life as examples of being 'backwards' because you sign your name with a digital stylus pen. Cultural determinism is a thing.
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I don't think someone like this would actually get hired…
The citation is right over there, next to the citation for EV's having fewer parts and being more reliable. The correct statement would be that EV's have fewer moving parts which is correct but irrelevant because with EV's there are many thousands of non-moving parts that can also brick the vehicle.
The research is funded by the government and the profits are kept by the companies. You don't need to get on your high horse with "really bad characterization" or "nonsensical". We were told two vaccines would be enough, and now it seems like we're getting a third. That nonsense you mentioned is happening. Whether it's happening because we didn't have the data for the Delta variant at the time of research, I can believe, but you won't convince me that the CEOs of those companies aren't joyful finding strains that resist their vaccines.
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I've always taken the shoulder shrug to mean "I don't know" but have
been told that in England it's an unfriendly way of saying "I don't
care". A theory I like but can't confirm is that the gesture
originated during the French revolution to mime the effect of the
guillotine as a way of recommending silence about a dangerous subject,
and that it may still carry that connotation in France.
I assumed it was just being used as additional evidence that you shouldn't tie any frustration with this post/its format to original original author.
Yeah, first realised this when it became clear that all the "breakthrough infections" (with the 0.1% rate for fully vaxed) were actually "breakthrough hospitalizations" and that the US was not actually tracking the former consistently.

For the second point I guess it depends on the jurisdiction, there was a nice chart from the CDC in an Ars article indicating how you should still expect a relatively higher rate of vaccinated people in hospital when the vaccination rate is high (and also less people in hospital overall!).

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/pandemic-of-unvaccin...

In Ontario they are quite open about most details, you get breakdowns like what you describe daily and a nice dashboard from the science table.

https://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/ontario-sets-new-multi-mont...

https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/ontario-dashboard/
A good mate of mine runs 5B, the company that may end up deploying all the panels if it goes ahead. He’s a legend and if it happens throughly deserves the success. Would totally change australia!
It looks like you need to be logged in now to do that, which is a relatively recent change.
It’s complicated by the fact that if you do give the public schools money, they spend it on $10 million football facilities for 15 year olds, this is what happened in our community.
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I really, really, really, really hate this trope.

You have to go back to the days of drum brakes and no power assist for this to even be close to true. Yet it gets tossed around in every comment thread about modifying anything that rolls because it gets easy virtue points from the safety crowd.

OE brakes on damn near every vehicle made in the last 50yr from a Walmart bike up to a semi truck are more than capable of stopping harder than even nice tires can grip the road. Will you go through more consumables if you use the vehicle harder (enabled by having more power on tap) sure? You'll also go through more tires too. That doesn't mean the brakes are insufficient.
Where's the code?
Anybody can write up an idea, that's the easy part.
Would you mind explaining your comment a bit more? NFT "scammers" have made a lot of money recently, and this purchase doesn't at first glance seem such a great moment.
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> isn't the scanning only happening on iCloud?

No, the scanning is happening on local devices, but only during the upload-to-iCloud process. That’s the key difference that is upsetting a lot of people.
Thanks, here's my summary of claim 1 for each (that's the main bit that matters):

- https://patents.google.com/patent/US8588949B2

The ability to add separate speakers to groups, and control their volume via a single master volume control.

- https://patents.google.com/patent/US9195258B2

Covers two speakers synchronising playback by exchanging timing information between themselves. This one is not very clearly written.

- https://patents.google.com/patent/US9219959B2

A playback device that receives audio from the network and then equalises and plays it back, with two different equalisation settings. (This is for stereo output with two smart speakers.)

- https://patents.google.com/patent/US10209953B2

This is just a better worded and more specific version of the second patent. It describes how you would use timing information to synchronise playback. It's nothing clever - just the very obvious solution of using pings to measure the clock differences between the devices and then delaying the audio appropriately.

- https://patents.google.com/patent/US10439896B2

This is a description of the standard way of setting up smart devices - they announce their presence, you connect to them directly, send the wifi details, and then they indicate they have connected. I bet they wish they had just written "device" instead of "playback device" in this patent because then literally every smart device in the world would be violating it!

I was at least expecting some sophisticated synchronisation or room measurement stuff. But no, just 5 obvious patents that should never have been granted.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/0muvw

https://archive.is/HlP3K
Thanks for the update! :) Awesome article btw!
Meanwhile I wish they'd still sell the Roccat Savu. I bought it on a sale and it turned out to be the most ergonomic mouse I've used so far. Runs perfectly fine without the official drivers and the few extra buttons have decent default settings.

But I usually avoid "gaming" hardware. Even if it's not overpriced it rarely looks good and has the same quality at best.
Bitcoin crossed 50k (again), US senators are debating cryptocurrency regulation as part of historical legislation, and major global companies like Visa are making moves in the space. Is it possible the HN decade-long dismissal of crypto and blockchain has been totally wrong? Or is HN just a tiny minority of people who are simply smarter and wiser than the US government, Fortune 100 corporations, and hundreds of millions of people who own crypto?
I don't have a technical answer, but I would probably find out how online tobacco/vape companies verify people and implement that. They ask for taxpayer ID, credit card info, some other bits. It is fully automated and real-time verification.
You're a joke.
Yeah, I guess you're right. Do you have experience with SEO? What would be the best way to improve search ranking?

I suppose running a blog with good content might be helpful so that someone might find the service using a search term like "video streaming api" or similar.
Sounds like fear to me.
Why is he selling?

It might be as simple as him wanting to pass on the torch. If it is then go for it. If not then think about it.

Go have a heart to heart with him.
I'll second this. I've had a Zowie FK1 since 2015 (when I was serious about playing Dota 2) and it's still going strong.
Well, I'm sure Logitech was sensible like most HackerNews developers and saved costs by using Electron for their driver. This gives you a nice 300MB+ base package to drive the UI with a lot of unneeded code (most likely asking for the firewall permissions) and then additional actual driver download.

I'm sure that allowed them to iterate quickly, hire developers who know nothing but JS to build their driver package and ship the MVP with low costs!

Isn't that the type of software that keeps being defended here? ^^
This reminds me of Windows 10 itself. A fresh install of windows 10 has all its builtin apps including the calculator (for currency I am guessing) allowed through the firewall by default. In the security world, the default should be off and only upon request should an app allowed to talk over the network. Not to mention the fact that apps like Facebook messenger are installed by default in Windows. Microsoft can sell me their operating system in a minute if they just stop all the stupid telemetry, remove the bloat and by default turn all privacy and security options to on and not off. It's not a bad operating system for most people, it's just a privacy nightmare that Microsoft seems to be fine with somehow. Because no matter what your privacy 'policy' is, the best policy is to not collect any data at all.
There's not much difference between 400V and 800V in terms of deadliness. Both will kill you pretty damn quick, and the systems are designed to make it very difficult to come into contact with it.
Interestingly enough, the only reasonably high DPI mouse manufacturer I've found that actually has functional config software on Mac is Steelseries.
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I've taken a tick out of my dog in Germany and I've taken a tick out of my dog in Canada. The German tick was nearly an inch long with. The Canadian ticks I take out of my dogs are specks with legs, or at the most 2-3cm long.
Exactly. Or EVs could be taxed for road use, but a subsidy put in place to not discourage adoption during the transition.

Oh, wait, that's exactly what Victoria has done: https://www.solar.vic.gov.au/zero-emissions-vehicle-subsidy

Personally, I'd keep the EV tax as is, remove the subsidy, and significantly increase the ICE tax. Cars are awful, and their negative externalities don't stop at CO2 emissions.
An alternate spelling could help with this; how about 'Vue'? \s
One patent is just on how to set up a playback device by connecting to it directly and sending wifi details.

It's lucky they wrote "playback device" and not "device" otherwise the entire IoT industry would be violating it.
Stoopid, naive question: Why do we care about Afghanistan? If the world is so concerned about the 'evil' there, why not just build a big fence around it (electronic-military). Anyone crosses they get tased by a drone. Embargo them. Does anyone in the world object to this? Is it really a market that will benefit any industrialized country?
This is the fantasy of public education. It is the time of year where we experience the reality of public education. Many parents in the U.S. just spent thousands of dollars in "additional charges" to enroll their children in public schools.
"Apolitical" is not a thing when it comes to teaching history. Assuming that teaching systemic racism is political while leaving it out of a curriculum isn't political is simply false.

Courses such as "Women in Medieval Europe" and "18th century Native American History" are decried as political. A friend of mine had a student complain that there wasn't enough discussion of the presidents in their course on Native American History. The "apolitical" approach that many people want means the almost total exclusion of subaltern voices from the historical record, and that is obviously BS.
I would say from a legal/moral/political philosophy point of view the difference is that the other implementations do the scanning on their servers, apple wants to do the scanning on my phone. Even if the outcome is the same this feels like a step too far.

Even though in reality, I don't want them scanning my data regardless of where it lives. We have already been sliding down this slope, this is just one more step.
Well, they are trying. Problem is they can only fight the market so much. Especially when economics are so much in solar’s favour - the levelised cost (which includes the CAPEX of building) of battery backed solar will cost less than just the fuel for coal power per MWh in a couple of years (LCOE of solar and onshore wind by themselves already is less)!
I don't think anyone is saying that it won't benefit children (at least not initially), the point is that the cost of doing so is high and it could easily lead to further costs which don't benefit children at all, perhaps even harms children.

A good example is the argument for mass surveillance. Sure, if you know what everyone is up to at all times, you're probably going to be better at catching the baddies, but the loss in rights to everyone innocent is arguably unfair. To take it to its extremes, if you're goal is to simply put as many bad people in jail as possible, put everyone in jail.
I think this is great. Just something I always missed from Django templates and I think this implementation nails it. Great decisions such as not sharing parent context by default, all attributes being explicit, etc.

I think this and Unpoly or htmx, stimulus, etc
can make a perfect toolset for a modern frontend without getting into all the complexities of SPAs (which I think have their place but are heavily overused and it's drawbacks underestimated)
Hexagonal, equivalently, equilateral triangular tessellations indeed have many advantages over using squares. Your scheme reminded me of Delaunay triangulation and its dual, Voronoi tessellation.

I have a faint suspicion that your familiarity with finite element models had something to do with your choice of triangles.
Honestly for me it is:

- Follows the ecmascript standard and supports browser apis

- No npm, no Microsoft lock-in

- So far, no political bs like node has had
There is also the "Sunset Invasion", an expansion for Crusader Kings 2, that allows players to play out an Aztec invasion of Europe.
It's a trope from the days when you could still get vehicles with manual brakes with no power assist. As you can imagine enabling such a vehicle to go faster greatly increases the workout the operator is going to be getting to the point where if you want to drive aggressively in stop and go traffic the operator is the limiting factor.
Thanks for the feedback! How long did it take you to implement this and are you also encoding videos for adaptive streaming?
Of course that's racism, just like what Ms. Gilliam experienced was racism.
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Thought for the day: they bought it all on the 12th. Since then, increased viruses, and the collapse of Afghanistan.
Technology can change after few years, but strong foundations can be helpful for many years.
You shouldn't be rolling your own authentication. That's just asking for trouble.

I don't have experience with those frameworks, but the rails equivalent, devise, is very good. I assume it's the same for any mature framework.
Perhaps given that Palantir's business is spying we should assume a gold hedgeable black swan event is coming.
Can't say about France, Belgium, Italy, Greece or Luxembourg, but this has had political effect in Germany. A learning effect, and you notice the phrase "will learn no lessons" in the headline.

Germany was borderline already. I don't know how closely you've paid attention, but the Iraq war was a significant factor in a German election, and it was close then. My guess is that after this, the American are going to have to show at least one significant success before the German voters will back anything that resembles an offensive war with the Americans involved.
Meanwhile Visa buys a CryptoPunk

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2021/08/23/visa-...
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Though coronavirus is very different in many respects, it's worthwhile (especially if you are older like me) to remember the history of AIDS. We've learned to live with it and limit its spread very effectively in the western world.
I wish USB devices just came with read only storage that had the drivers
>Trump was a turd. He caused this.

Caused what? The problem started with Bush

- where by "problem" we mean an invasion, under false pretextes (doubly so as the 9/11 terrorists were all Saudi, and Obama was hidden in Pakistan, both "valuable allies" who got off scot-free) and an occupation, utterly failed and with trillion in expenses and lots of benefits to the military/industrial enterpises -

continued through 2 Obama terms, then through Trump, and now Biden, and "this" wasn't even carried out by Trump (who is gone for half a year by now).

If anything leaving Afghanistan was the correct decision (and the US should not have been there in the first place).