skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's about having everything available either in front of you (tiled in the current workspace) or in a single keystroke (to move to the desired workspace). I like it a lot, especially in comparison to what I see my coworkers doing: move their windows around in order to uncover other windows or alt tab constantly until you either find your desired window or you pass it accidentally.
No takers, unfortunately. After sitting there for two years it eventually ended up scrapped which I'm still quite sick about.
In a similar vein, I literally had a shirt up on amazon called "shrug emoji" that was just a `¯\_(ツ)_/¯` on a plain shirt, and it was taken down recently (after being up since 2017 without issue), because apparently a company owns the trademark to the word "emoji" now.

(Unfortunately amazon merch's contestation process requires you to submit documentation that you have license for the offending trademark, with no ability to claim misidentification or nonapplicability)
The less gadgets you bring across the border the better. In New Zealand for instance a customs official can now force you to unlock a device on your person for "suspicions" no matter how vague. The only way around it is to refuse to play and leave everything at home.
Well, if you observe two black holes moving towards each other, you might conclude that they "will" collide, But at the time when you made this observation these black holes have already collided, you just have not observed that. It's like using future tense. "I will go to work tomorrow", event though you don't know for sure if you will go to work tomorrow.
You know what I hate? Titles that say specific words that are never repeated in the article.

A title that has so little to do with the contents of article, that it might as well be a random reference to some throw-away line in some comment somebody uttered sometime, which might as well be left alone so a proper title could be selected.
It's amazing it does much better job matching actual native style than WPF and Swing ever did.
AFAIK any user can flag a post/comment, and above a certain flag threshold the item will displayed as [dead]. A user with high point/karma (above 500 i think) can [vouch] for a [dead] item, but the item can be flagged to [dead] again, in which case it can't be vouched for.
> 10 studies were eligible for our systematic review. The weighted average risk reduction against reinfection was 90.4% with a standard deviation of 7.7%. Protection against SARS-CoV-2 reinfection was observed for up to 10 months.

Before people dismiss these results for the typical reasons (eg it's a pre-print, etc):

1) Basically every peer-reviewed, large scale, and long-term serological study has demonstrated that immunity acquired through natural infection has been at least as effective as vaccination in preventing reinfection (eg take a look at the citations in OP). Mysteriously, it appears that none of the CDC's publications acknowledge, cite, or discuss discrepancies with any of this reputable literature.

2) The absolute risks of vaccination causing hospitalization and death are extremely low. For a vast majority of the population, the absolute risks of SARS-CoV-2 infection causing hospitalization and death are also extremely low. Folks here love to do armchair calculations of risks - or cite odds ratios from one study - to defend their view. But if you aren't stratifying by age and health then you will misrepresenting the true absolute risks for the majority of the population.

3) After infection your antibody levels will eventually drop below detectable levels, but thanks to long-lived bone marrow plasma cells and memory B cells and T cells, you are likely to retain effective protection against severe outcomes.

4) Variants of concern like delta will continue to accumulate mutations that confer a certain degree of immune escape, which will undermine protection in both vaccinated and naturally immune individuals. Comparing the effectiveness between both types of immunity (and blends of the two) is an ongoing area of research. Preliminary data from Israel suggests that natural infection may confer a more robust immune response that offers better protection when challenged by such variants (see Gazit et al., 2021, as cited in OP).
> lazy contemporary anti-left generalizations and tired tropes.

As soon as I hit "woke progressives" in the subtitle I knew I was unlikely to find anything worth my time, on top of the doubts I already had just based on the source.

I skimmed the rest, but I think I've had enough of The Pull Request to just ignore it from now on.

I would like to suggest that the atheism-as-religion idea isn't completely off-base. If you haven't read When Atheism Becomes Religion by Chris Hedges, I recommend taking a look at it. It's not a polemic against atheism from a conservative evangelical perspective, it's about how the prominent atheists and the communities that gather around them have cult-like aspects.
This is interesting and important, but seems off-topic and has already devolved into a fruitless culture war in the comments. Going to go ahead and flag it...
Ask HN: Why no 'No' button when Google asks me “did you mean ____”?
Do they just not want my feedback when they get something wrong? It's free training data..
It is a bit of a brutal watch. FWIW it says the rider survived, and it does clearly demonstrate how countersteering can be non obvious in some situations. (In the video the rider is already in a corner and needs to tighten his line (sharpen the corner). Instead of counter-steering, he tries to simply turn the bars into the corner more, which has the opposite effect, and causes him to hit the truck.)
Welcome. I've been involved in this position before (came in as a PM/Tech in a startup which outsourced the development). It went well, but would be easier if the vendor were to stick with those requirements to ease maintenance/feature development down the road.
> Apple will, it says, use “on-device machine learning to analyze image attachments and determine if a photo is sexually explicit.” All photos sent or received by an Apple account held by someone under 18 will be scanned, and parental notifications will be sent if this account is linked to a designated parent account.

That's a very steep, very slippery slope. What's next? Will they start detecting drugs, alcohol, smoking, hanging out with the wrong crowd?

> When we are overzealous in declaring behavior “bad” or “dangerous”—even the sharing of swimsuit photos between teens—we blur young people’s ability to detect when something actually harmful is happening to them.

I think everyone in tech should understand the consequences of warning fatigue enough to know the author is making a pretty good point here. Is Apple's "AI" (aka pattern matching with a fancy name) going to be able to interpret context or intent? Definitely not IMO.

I can't imagine being a teenager these days. I'm thankful I grew up in the 90s when massive privacy violations by big tech weren't a thing.

Why is it Apple's business what pictures kids are taking on their phones and sending to each other? Does Apple have some kind of massive child predator problem on their platforms that they aren't telling us about that would warrant these types of gargantuan privacy violations? If so, tell us about it. If not, fuck off IMO.
Oh yeah, I remember that the battery was an odd size and expensive. I think it was 4.5V(?). We had a battery holder for some AAs hanging out the side.

I feel like our 16k bee had more than one ROM in it. I think you could boot into word bee by doing <reset>W and basic with <reset>M

I dont have the 16k bee to check. I kinda wish I did. The disk ones were more serious computers at the time, but I'm strangely more nostalgic for the tape ones. I think there's less magic associated with the tapes.
Why the f*ck would I care? how is this news?
SPF is relatively easy (as long as you've got a static IP). DKIM isn't terrible, but it is frustrating. IIRC, you need to setup a milter in postfix and give that a key that you also need to put into DNS. After that, test it a bunch.

Then be sure to set a DMARC DNS record that advises recipients to require DKIM. Downside is your mail will bounce when you mess up DKIM, upside is you'll get somewhat clear feedback.
One Love!
For me it was Numega's SoftICE, which was an amazing debugger. Using it to defeat it's own protection always struck me as ironic, but I guess also to be expected.

I hacked software for many years, for my personal amusement rather than profit, as it always reminded me of being a teenager hacking games for infinite lives, etc.

Now and again I take a stab at commercial linux software, but there isn't so much out there with the standard "Enter License Key" kinda protection.
That ain't a silver lining, at best it's polished aluminum.

We only have one water cycle.
'The smartest person in any room anywhere': in defence of Elon Musk
If he were teaching chemistry and the girl refused to wear gloves, he could have thrown her out. He should have thrown her out anyway. As it was, what she was doing was personally putting him in danger. Of course he has every right to demand whatever he wants in his classroom.
For the record, I’m not talking about HN, I’m referring to Facebook and Reddit particularly. HN handles this issue better than many platforms. Apologies if that wasn’t clear.

So users are okay with being deceived and ultimately don’t care? Let me know if I’ve misunderstood your argument.

That may be true. And knowing human nature you may be right. I disagree that it’s a morally acceptable way to moderate a community or forum, though.

People lose trust when they find they’ve been shadowbanned, or discover that the practice is used. They rightfully understand that the discourse is being manipulated in an underhanded, opaque way.
This wouldn’t be so bad
Eh. You can still engage with their point. Exaggerating a bit isn’t the end of the world.
Why doesn't he simply tell the SEC to fxxx off?

I guess it's because he wouldn't be able to get new business from the US in the future. But considering how the tide is shifting against the SEC, I would tell them to fxxx off and work only with non-US based startups.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/893954/number-fintech-st...
Yeah, most likely the only "open source" stuff that's got legal issues there would be GPL stuff - a large set to be sure, but not the full umbrella of "open source".
Neutral discussion in class?

Yeah maybe in an ideal school, in countries that allow it to begin with, yes because US is only the first one getting on device surveillance.
just found this on HN - crying shame it didn't get picked up more! I hope this gets a second chance @dang - it's a truly beneficial project that's already helped a diverse set of people break into tech.
Why Intelligent Minds Like Jeff Bezos Embrace the 'Rule of Writing'
Short Answer: Much less than it used to be.

Private news sources being bullied, major news syndications toeing government lines, online censorship of critical articles, paid bots on several discussion forums throwing slurs/abuses/sowing doubts, cult of personality worship among hardline followers who take offense at the drop of hat.

This isn't the India I knew a decade ago.
> Is having perfect privacy worth turning a blind eye to the organized mass rape of children?

No, but I'd like some concrete data before giving up my privacy. If Apple said "we think X thousand kids per day are exploited via iMessage and that's why we're putting these mitigations in place", I'd be willing to make some concessions that are congruent with the scope of the problem. Until then I'm going to be skeptical of any surveillance system being put in place to "protect the children."
The "screeching voice of the minority" is that which Apple is catering to in it's image scanning, and since the image scanning is what the article is about, then I don't have a problem with it.

Normally I would agree, but I'm fine with the subtle(?) implication of this one.
>I advise companies to guard their product and not go open-source, or to limit their vulnerability if they already open-sourced, as Confluent did by changing their licensing when AWS pulled the same maneuver with Kafka, the open-source software from Confluent.

Isn't this the exact purpose of the AGPL license?
That's probably the best once can do other than reverse engineering the protocol used by Google Photos Android app - as that app seems to be able to download files with full exif, unlike official API.

Unfortunately, as mentioned, multiple users report that Takeout does not work once you get past certain size (I have 350GB and it fails every time). It's been failing for years, probably always. Of course Google doesn't care.

I guess if someone was in EU they could try to ask Google for their data under GDPR data portability, face inevitable non-answer and then go to court if they are determined enough.
Because they're already showing you the results for your query. If you start selecting results instead of using their suggestion link, that signals to them that your search was deliberate
I have anxiety about being on camera, it’s like a public speaking skill set. There’s also environmental concerns (can they see the underwear on the floor?) that can creep in to distract away from what is important (not my face!).
Video of my face is exhausting. I’m not a paid actor, and I’m not a YouTube star with a studio.
Over time, I have found ways to feel better about being on camera, and that’s bern the acquisition of streamer-grade equipment where I can control to zoom and focus and contrast etc and punch the colors and film grain up to distracting levels.
I want my video to distract you! Not me, so yeah I will tune it up so I’ve turned my face into purple chunky vasoline and now it’s your problem to think through, and not so much mine.
Hope that helps! (Leave me alone with the camera FFS)
Biggest waste on my career were a couple of multi-site projects, with several years duration, trying to reboot the world, as expected they all failed due to politics and trying to fix the wrong things.

At least we all got better CVs as part of it.
They should but they do not need to. But we are talking here about some individuals being declared xenophobic because they did not want to speak English inside of Germany despite having English language capability.

Germany is very welcome to tourists, but we are 80 million country where tourism is a tiny fraction of our GDP. We are not Mallorca, Ibiza or the Bahamas. There cannot be an expectation that as a tourist you have an easy way there.
Thanks for that. Disabling copy-on-select is really in my mind, priority #1 along with not having multiple clipboards I have to pass things between. It's insane that it's still broken. It's Xorg's equivalent to Firefox's crazy 20 year long ctrl-q drama.

What could they do instead? There's so many trivial solutions. A clipboard named pipe for instance, or at least something that operates like one. Read is paste, write is copy. That's a very 1970 style fix that could have been done 35 years ago. Then anything that can read and write from a file can interface the clipboard, opening up a whole new array of applications without setting aside "highlighting text" as having some special magical power.

Also having multiple clipboards is trivial, just have more of these special files. You can even set one aside if say some crazy old Xt application someone is still running only works with copy-on-select for some reason

A clipboard history is super trivial as well, just set up a pipe...

There's so many more unixy ways this could have been done. It's so dumb how it works. Heck dbus would be a less insane fix
We've had a couple people prove at work that you can prerecord your presentation, force-mute everyone using the mod tools, and then play it back and they'll never realize it was a recording unless you're showing your background on it.

(I'm not very dependent on human social anything, so I don't really know how to speak to the rest of it, sorry.)
Yes you do, when you turn on use of their servers.

Think of it as a pat down in the hallway before you can enter the building.

No difference.

Only done when you use their service
Based on the obvious principle that forcing someone to take what they consider too many precautions is radically different from forcing them to take not enough precautions. The former leads to annoyance and the latter leads to death. I'm so exhausted with the trolls who pretend they can't fathom the difference. At least learn how to make an argument that makes some kind of logical sense. Why am I even responding to this.
Have you considered I disagree with the articles assertions?

Outright fabrications and misstatements aren’t my problem. The article has them in spades.
I quite enjoyed this polemic, but just can't reconcile the bit at the end:

"Oh, sure, I recognize this snarky grouchiness as what it is... part of today's viciously treasonous phenomenon called "culture war." It all fits into a tsunami of know-nothing rage expressed by the Murdochians, their anti-science, anti-progress rejection of all possibility of human improvability."

I'm assuming he means Rupert Murdoch! I'm not sure of the US context, but in Australia his son's publications are for many people their only recourse for freedom of speech, repudiating socialist 'culture wars' and an escape from the domestic mainstream media echo chamber.

For goodness sake, The majority of the Australian MSM and the $1.2 billion a year taxpayer funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation, want to establish a 'press council' to outlaw News Limited publications and any other publication that challenges the prevailing socialist false narrative.

But perhaps I'm one of the few that still believes free speech includes that which you don't agree with.
You can get your game on the PlayStation Store (http://www.lonewolftechnology.com/- I believe it's by one of the founders of Godot), or the Switch, although the company doesn't port to Oculus.
It is one hour to be used as break and vent on all things that went wrong and will hardly change due to reasons.
HN didn't disappear this story...

But this one: https://news.antiwar.com/2021/08/29/us-drone-strike-in-kabul...

Disappeared right before my eyes.

I'd say I'm shocked, but I'd be lying.
To copy the entire scrollback buffer from Alacritty: <C-S-Space>gVGy<C-S-Space>. Ctrl+Shift+Space: enter Vi mode; g: move the cursor to the top of the scrollback buffer (like gg in Vi/Vim); V: start linewise selection; G: move the cursor to the bottom of the scrollback buffer; y: copy to clipboard and clear selection (like "+y in Vim); Ctrl+Shift+Space: exit Vi mode.

Learn what’s possible in Vi mode from the key_bindings section of the alacritty.yml config, largely the ones with `mode: Vi` and similar. You’ve got the usual things like hjkl navigation, Ctrl+B and Ctrl+F to go Backwards and Forwards a page, / to search, all that sort of stuff. (Though I will note that ? to search backwards doesn’t work, because Alacritty is using winit’s currently utterly insufficient keyboard API for its bindings, see <https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/5251>.) Also in alacritty.yml, scrolling.history defines how many lines are kept in the buffer (defaults to 10,000).
> which we can learn from and improve upon.

Not OP, but on my past two teams and my present team, this part has never happened. It was/is just a box ticking exercise.
I liked the clarity of response. Public models, not user data seems a clear answer to your question?
Sadly, my experience with FLEXlm has been far from fascinating. Matlab uses it, and Matlab has some weird license types (that we use) that don't map well to FLEXlm, so they approximate it in odd ways.

I build (internal only) Debian packages for Matlab and FLEXlm, and admin the license server. I've seen far more of FLEXlm than I care to.

Mathworks made the mistake once of asking for my feedback about their product, from a sysadmin's perspective. They received about three earfuls from me, about half of which was dedicated to my disdain for FLEXlm.

FLEXlm seems simple on the surface, but has poor and outdated documentation (even once you find and read through the 300-400 page tome that's floating around) and is a pain to debug when under fire.

We have it running well enough now, but the road to get there should frankly embarrass those who ship (and/or rely on) the software today. Frustratingly, Mathworks' response to my feedback largely boiled down to "it's 3rd party software, so we can't do anything about it." As if FLEXlm were a force of nature, and there were no viable alternate models for physics. Not a good look.
Simple Code: Naming Things
I see OTF and TTF mentioned specifically. Does this mean bitmap fonts are not supported?
Not the op, on most projects the improve upon part is mostly out of scope for the team, so it ends up being only about venting frustrations.
You’re talking about the benefits of tiling window managers compared to floating window managers. The question was instead “You say Darktile is ‘designed for tiling window managers’; what does that actually mean? How is it different from other terminal emulators?”
I think that the extreme word was intended to tip the reader that the OP's analysis was whimsical as well as practical. And not completely formal.

I apologize that the above paragraph does not actually convey the humor it was written to explain.

Unfortunately, no one can be told what humor is. You have to feel it for yourself.
Next:

Adverse effects of the ferroliquid contamination of water ( used to remove microplastics ).
Yes, I don't see much potential or a "de-appled" iPhone experience. With Apples tight control over hardware and software it would just be an endless cat and mouse game.

I would rather see efforts focussed on making open source Android and mobile Linux flavours better.

After the CSAM news there is a noticable uptick in HN discussion about calyx/lineage/pine/librem/etc. 2022 will be the year of the Linux Phone.
Changes in BMI Among Children and Adolescents During COVID-19 Pandemic
>is easily defeated by just changing your MAC ID to match.

HA I may or may not have cracked something similar back in the day. It was using GetIfTable() which meant that you'd need to have a NIC with the exact same name and mac address.

Of course just dumping the output from a licensed machine and injecting it into the memory when needed did the trick.
Democracy is broken because half of the people don’t want it anymore. So they will never be satisfied in that process.
So? I've had professors ask for things I thought were ridiculous, walked out of the class and changed to a different one. Tough titty.
Are stop doing actions that get you rejected by people under the guise of individualism.

This is real advice. Stop shielding your ego and blistering when people reject you. You’re not fooling anyone.
Interesting but prices is high!

Guys if you need to hide sensitive information while screen sharing or video recording, check this https://blurdata.net/
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It is an interesting counter-point to Apple's previously selling itself as the only company to respect your privacy.

This kinda flies in the face of that except for the fact it's wrapped in, as you said, "common good" goals.

I've never been Apple, but I'm currently attempting to migrate to a LineageOS daily-driver mobile, although I still require some amount (nano) of Google to get by. Ironically, I needed a Windows machine to do this, whilst I'm already almost exclusively Linux (Ubuntu and Pop!_OS).
Developing a North Star product experience (2020)
I think ’users’ should be ’used’ here:

> Therefore the products can be users as loss leaders
CandidateZip and Zoho Recruit Integration