skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do end up having to roll your own stuff that the vendors like Synology provide. Depending on your ISP and router, for example, a reliable way to manage it remotely isn't always easy. The Synology setup figures out how to punch holes, make reverse tunnels to a Synology owned jump box, etc, in a way that you don't have to think about...it just works. Similar for the mobile apps to sync photos, integration with various 3rd party offsite backups, etc.

All possible to roll your own, of course, but time is money.
I like to call it the financialization of everything. The rent seeking model is better for everyone. Jesus and Buddha didn't own anything.
That’s not the issue.

The issue is that it’s legitimate to distrust medicine as a whole because there are numerous good examples of it being untrustworthy at every level from public health officials, drug manufacturers, down to individual physicians.

I don’t think it’s good sensemaking to be generically anti-vax, but I think the lack of trust in medicine is a systemic problem and not one that can so easily be blamed on the people who don’t trust it.
One thing that grinds my gears is that ebook font licensing is somehow separate from pdf font licensing and on a per title basis, despite them being /the same thing/.

Similarly, application embed licensing and webfont licensing are separate, which kinda makes sense, until you make a webapp. (In reality though, I believe the spirit of the distinction is whether the user of the app can enter any text and have it appear in that font, but they don't say that.)
> knowingly cause suffering or death of another human being

>if you spread covid

No one knows how Covid spreads or who it will kill. Your argument is weak from the very start.

But assuming we know exactly that if someone doesn't wear a mask they will kill some person who is vulnerable.

Whose responsibility is that?

The vulnerable person for leaving the house or the entire public for not accommodating that person?

No matter how much mental gymnastics you'd like to do...I'd argue most libertarian thinkers would take the 'individualist' stance vs the 'collectivist' stance.

As that's the basis of the entire libertarian philosophy.
I mostly agree with the overall tone of the article but I do have to point something out:

> It is baffling on many levels to me. First, I am not an application developer and never have been. I enjoy writing code, mostly scripting in Python, as a way to reliably solve problems in my own field. I have very little context on what your application may even do, as I deal with many application demands every week. I'm not in your retros or part of your sprint planning. I likely don't even know what "working" means in the context of your app.

The point about not being in retros or part of sprint planning... I take up arms against that. I've worked for companies that have gone from waterfall to hybrid agile because we cannot get buy in from Ops to actually... you know... come to our retros, sprint planning and scrums.

Some things in this article is just pointing out the obvious... mediocre developers who push their problems and/or lacks on other teams. However, that quote the Author needs to look in the mirror. They exist only because of the products offered by the Company need resources. They have a responsibility to be business partners in that. If they aren't the company needs to re-align some priorities and it could start with Ops. Ops doesn't get a pass in an agile organization. The whole point of agile is to destroy them ivory towers. And if they were in those planning sessions, the developer might have already gone over the type of destructive testing that would have emerged from that collaboration and their DevOps relationship would be even richer.
Mars rover apparently retrieves first rock sample for return to Earth
Maybe the relevant point is that it needed to be this big to get a P-value of less than .05, since they only got .04 even with 350,000 people. This is dramatically less effectiveness than I was expecting when I was pushing for mask mandates last year, and within a few months it was obvious that masks alone weren't having the large effect I had hoped for. Now we have quantitative estimates of how small the effect was (disappointingly small) and when it worked (cloth masks had almost no effect).
That's a good-looking cake!
You can get the awesome 3M Aura used in hospitals for $2.20. These are great: https://www.ebay.com/itm/224332977653?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DI...
Sometimes Mindlessness Is Better Than Mindfulness
As defined by the ministry of truth, I presume.
Developers have more responsibility than ops for knowing their apps, for the simple reason that each developer owns a small number of apps, but ops owns the infrastructure for all the apps.
Dark patterns make money. MS likes making money. If you don't want to be a pawn in their social experiment use something else.
I don't know a soul who is terrified of this virus anymore.

Seriously, nobody.

I'm sure they exist, I'm told they exist. Many were at first.

Today? nobody I know personally is scared of the virus.

Now I'm sure many on HN will mention somebody they know whose scared of the virus or perhaps they themselves are. I get this, I'm not downplaying anybody's personal experience.

But there is always the exception that proves the rule. Here in NYC, amongst my wide circle of friends and acquaintances, nobody cares about COVID-19 anymore. They are over it.
Mask mandates (public or private) means cops will forcibly remove you if, say, you're walking around in a mall without wearing one, so yes police violence and bodily harm is part of the threat. It also means that if your job or business requires you to work in places where a mask is required, but you don't want to wear a mask, you'll lose your job or business, causing financial harm.

But it's not unusual. We have the same things for antisocial behaviors in general. If you like to take dumps in the middle of a mall, the police will forcibly remove you. If your job requires you not to take a dump on your desk but that's what you like to do, you will suffer job loss and financial harm from a no-pooping-on-the-desk mandates. The same can be said for seatbelt laws too. I don't think that's an issue with the mandate personally, that's what a mandate means.
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Is it possible to automate accounting?
Is AI or a programmed rule-engine best for automation of accounting?
Costco "non-duckbill" N95 are $1.50 currently. They have the duckbill/fold-flat N95-ish kind for $0.60.
It's unfortunate because jira can be quite good: the key is minimal restrictions, and building out super-flexible workflow that allows almost any state transitions. It took me a couple years of using it with admin access to figure that out, though. It also took using something significantly worse to realize what I missed - and prior to that I was not exactly a fan.

Jira's JQL is it's superpower, at least for finding and summarizing stuff, though it is better if issues are categorized well. The key to that is making sure it's not actively hostile to your users. Unfortunately the defaults and the way the admin tools enable BOFH-syndrome make this an uphill battle, which is why so many jira installs are bad.

Now that said, the speed, stupid markup syntax and some other things still would make me do a good look for others prior to starting something on jira again. But jira can be decent, and there is much, much worse.
These are good points, and maybe people don’t always consider them enough. But I guess on the positive side, with an internal move you usually have a clearer idea of what it will really be like to do the job, and that may be worth a lot.
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Presumably that is system stuff that can’t be deleted without causing problems.

I don’t see what is wrong with reporting that to you.
The web-based editor doesn't have a terminal, but the full-blown codespaces do have one, and they let you import your dotfiles (including running a bootstrapping script if necessary [1]).

From there, you can run whatever terminal-based editor you want, or so the blog post about github.com development having moved to Codespaces tells me [2].

But for the lighter-weight web-based editor, it doesn't look like it. If you're a CLI person, you could browse using the GitHub CLI and clone repos from there to start editing; not as convenient as punching a single key to get from viewing in a browser to editing, though.

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/customizing-your-codes...

[2]: https://github.blog/2021-08-11-githubs-engineering-team-move...
Finally an answer that's not just throwaway accounts flagging a submission!

These are all interesting problems where I could see an AI struggling. I guess the next step, once tumor identification becomes a solved problem, will be to train the AI on treatment data and follow-up, ie, this is an example where there was spread to lymph nodes.

Interesting times ahead!
Even the person ones aren't great. I actually thought that the baby was a hunchbacked old man. And the facepalm looks like someone covering up one eye to read an eye chart. I seriously wouldn't have gotten either of those without the caption telling me.
>It's the way it was marketed and prescribed.

Can you explain to me, a simple Brit, what you mean. Here doctors are very reluctant to prescribe anything addictive even for a short time. What are the forces behind this?
I have a Readynas (now owned by netgear) 'prosumer'-ish nas. 6 bays desktop form factor. It's great, i replaced an older readynas (pre-netgear) which i got about ~10 years out of. It's actually functional except for the power supply. I couldn't find a replacement fast enough for my needs so I upgraded, bodged a normal pc power supply to do a data transfer. It was so old I couldn't just put the old drives in the new chasis and preserve the data.
> That lead to a "we can add more features or we can make it fast" pick one and the business always picks more features.

Right - the question to ask is "what are businesses incentivized to do?" and the answer is "add features".

With some exceptions. Video games, for instance - gamers don't like it when their $60-$80 AAA game runs at 15 FPS on their $3500 rig, so video game developers are actually incentivized to optimize for performance.

If we can change the incentives, then we can influence the outcomes.

One way of changing the incentives is to get users to complain about slow products and use faster ones (although that might be difficult). Another, possibly more feasible way, might be to get federal and state governments to start requiring user-facing software products purchased/contracted to have maximum latencies on a given baseline spec. You can bet that that would cause certain companies to suddenly care about performance.
But enabled only for the US region initially. That is bad in itself, though, I think, insofar as it signals that the system can be switched on and off, and thus maybe configured, on a per-region basis, which does seem to open the door for government pressure and abuse.
Other countries will absolutely subject you to police intervention for failure to wear a mask.
Flu was almost eliminated in Sweden as well and we had almost no mask usage. Feels like social distancing was the more important factor.
Having a convenient backdoor already integrated definitely aided the attack, but a sophisticated attacker with the ability to silently modify your codebase is a pretty bad place to start from regardless.
Yes very true and thanks for taking a look! :)

The idea here is the "Roadmap" view you're seeing only shows tickets which are not completed. You might have Phase 1 -> Bugs (e.g. #803) opened 2 years ago and not closed if you choose to organise them that way but the Task #5509 comes, get completed then is removed from the view.

Still playing with how to scale projects across multiple departments and show only the tasks your team cares about though, which would make that view even smaller. Right now I'm thinking either by being able to filter on any single Task or just use the existing Labels. Thinking about how to do this without bloating the language with Teams or Squads etc. though is interesting.
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There are also KN95 masks with headband straps instead of earloop straps. E.g., a web search for "Powecom KN95 Respirator Headband Style".
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Most of the steps can be skipped with some added risk. Most critical is clean samples and the initial substrate.

I have a friend with 20x5gal buckets of Oysters he keeps in rotation in a greenhouse. He preps the first growth in his kitchen using sterile substrate in jars. He discards bad samples before transfer to the 5 gallon buckets. For the 5 gallon buckets, he uses nonsterile bulk from a woodchipper.

Mold is the big competitor for soggy wood, and come in at any part of the process.

Here is a much easier build:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45b2t7fqhjA
At many companies there is no one to help developers.
We already got bit by this and they circulated a pretty thorough write up. It's only affecting certain versions of the self-hosted version. They listed safe upgrade paths and a a mitigation patch.
thread reader app is missing the addendum.

Quote: "Addendum: the White House Press Secretary was asked about this story, and their answer is “please stop asking about this story.” h/t " - https://youtu.be/Hfa6bih_gVc?t=1740

That's f*ing hilarious
Serious joke question: do exist commercial firewalls without backdoors? Please put evidence in answer, thanks!
That's exactly how my project https://linklonk.com works.

When you upvote an item, you connect to other people who upvoted that item. When you downvote - you disconnect from those who upvoted it. So those who upvote useful content for you, get more weight in your recommendations.

Coincidentally, I'm doing a show HN post for it today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28405643, so will be happy to answer any questions there (instead of hijacking this post).

OP, does EvalRSS list content in reverse-chronological order? Any plans to prioritize content? What I do with LinkLonk is: the more items for a feed you upvote - the more other items from that feed are prioritized. Also, RSS readers have a notion of read/unread status. What are your thoughts on that? Is reverse-chronological ordering supposed to help the users distinguish unread content from read content?

Consider adding the number of comments each item in the list has. I added a test comment on https://www.evalrss.com/comments/9dcbaacb-96b7-4eec-8959-ba6... and there is no indication of that comment in the list.
Is Australia on the Way to Being a Penal Colony Again?
> A more charitable take

No, no, GP clearly has direct insight into the values, ulterior motives, and decision process of Tim Cook and other top brass at Apple.
That article is ... confused. Donald Davis, the main source for most of the article, suggests that a lack of selection towards nutritious crops as the cause of lower nutrition, while the article itself claims that the cause is poorer soil quality. Noticeably, neither of these points support the argument that engineered crops are any worse for the soil than past crops.

Also, the article suggests that the studies themselves are comparing current data to data generated 20-50 years earlier. Comparing two modern day experiments to each other can be quite difficult, as even small differences can have huge ramifications in the results, even if the protocols are supposedly the same (I personally saw this play a few times in grad school). For example, quality differences in the filter paper used can result in a much higher retention of mass in one experiment compared to another. Without a body of research measuring the comparability of the compared results (please link if you find it), the comparisons cited in the article are not very convincing.

Actually, if you can find the original studies cited in the article, I'd love to see them. The ideal way of measuring this would be to take a heritage strain, and grow it along side a modern strain the the same soil. That would at least help figure out if modern crops really have selected against nutrition.
There's a distinction to be made between counting on one's fingers and communicating a number with one's fingers.

You can easily communicate numbers 1 through 10 to just about anyone around the globe by holding up the corresponding number of fingers. But when it comes to 11 and up, you're generally not going to be able to communicate those numbers in a universally recognizable way. (Although "flashing" one's hands to represent intervals of ten is somewhat well understood.)

On the other hand, it's possible to use your fingers to count to numbers higher than 10, using whatever system appeals to you, regardless of whether others can understand it. The article talks about using the segments between each knuckle.

There's even a further distinction to be made here, though, between using your fingers to count and using your fingers to maintain state. You might, for instance, be able to easily use knuckle segments to count. But to maintain state, you need to make some movement with your fingers (e.g. bending a knuckle) with each transition period and then hold that new position for some period of time. And that can be hard to do with many finger positions.
They're not hashes in the way md5sum or sha256 is a hash. They are _neural_ hashes. Which is not trying to fingerprint a specific image, but tag any image that is deemed sufficiently similar to the reference image. Hashes are unique, neural hashes aren't.

To add, there are natural neural hash collisions in ImageNet (a famous ML dataset). Images that look nothing alike to us humans.
Not only this, but google and amazon both already scan the stuff you upload to their clouds for the same thing, they just do it on their server.

The theory I've heard for Apple doing it on device instead of the server is that its cheaper for them and in theory could be more private.
Not really, the only reason why UNIX got widespread was because originally AT&T wasn't allowed to charge for it, and its source code was available for a symbolic price alongside the source code, which eventually lead to the UNIX V6 annotated book.

Had AT&T been allowed to sell UNIX from the get go, Stallman would have had to base his endevours on something else.

Then again, it doesn't matter given the amount of GPL-hate nowadays that everyone goes with business friendly licenses.
Turns out they have another req to fill anyway, with hardly any notice too.
Difficulty: It would take maybe, shall we say, ten thousand of your "firearms stopping shoplifting" cases to offset even ONE "innocent person getting shot" case.
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Off-chain, of course.
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Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded
Hmm, are you suggesting that those public policies might have had an impact on covid transmission that wasn't mediated through mask-wearing? For example, having the imams discuss the importance of mask-wearing might discourage people from going to Friday prayers? That seems unlikely but conceivable.
I've been wanting to learn FPGA to build hardware accelerated compression for external storage[1], Would these HW be a good start?

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/102-external-storage-with-hardw... (Disclaimer: My validation platform).
Isn't the flu generally transmitted through touch? i.e. hand to mouth. I was under the impression the reduced flu rates were due to hand washing, hand sanitizer, and potentially from masks preventing people from touching their face. But not the filtration masks provide.
If you know how to use awk, sed and grep are redundant by a large margin.
It not even a drawing API, even. It's a 3D triangle rendering API. Things like lines, bezier curves, gradients are all do-it-yourself. None of it super-hard, I've done them all, but before you write your UI you have to write all your drawing routines, which probably wasn't what you wanted to be doing. And you get all the fun texture management issues for any gradients and images you want to display. And you probably won't have optimized it like the platform rendering will have.

And then there's text... You've got to load a texture for every glyph of every point size used in the app for every font used in the app. Mind you, the OS already has a cache for this, but you don't have access to it, so that's more memory wasted. Which would be sizeable if every app on your system was using Japanese, or worse, Chinese, and making a copy of all this stuff.
Of course. I'm not going to spend all that time updating my resume and going through all the interview hurdles not to get better paycheck. I'm going to keep applying until I've accomplished getting that better job I'm ready for.
The cybersecurity industry is burning – but VCs don’t care
also check out the neural hash demo here to test it out on your own images https://huggingface.co/spaces/aliabd/generate-neural-hash-co...
But that was GP's point: They listen to feedback and improve things, but typically quietly, rather than admitting a mistake. Exceptions do prove the rule.
I only read the abstract, but why do they conflate "product-market imitation" with software piracy?

Doesn't imitation mean creating new software with similar functionality? That would be relevant for patents, but not copyright.
Ah, now to see if we have to decide between:

- Software patents are not a sign of innovation

- Software piracy is good for innovation

I have this here in meme form https://i.imgflip.com/5lspw4.jpg
Does no one know how to proceed properly or are existing management just not willing to listen to the rank and file?

I'm watching this happen right now as a third party. The C-suite have brought in a bunch of expensive contractors who run perennially late and have done nothing but regurgitate generic flavour of the month blog posts rather than engaging with the people involved in the process that have actual experience of what's going wrong.

At my own place there are no outside contractors but again the people who actually do the work know exactly what could be done to improve the company's processes, getting anyone in management to listen is like pulling teeth.
That's true about a lot of things.

There are less than twenty people who have ever seen the surface of the moon. We believe their testimony on the topic.
No it's definitely not a typo lol, it's people who are reading it wrong in their head. The sheer amount of time that specific mistake is made very strongly leads me to believe it's most definitely not a typo.

Watch, now that I pointed it out you will see it everywhere.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%22loose+m...

This is only one combination of words for example, but you get the idea

While super rough/anecdotal... "loose my" has 38,000 results and "lose my" has 900,000 results. Literally 1 out of 25 times the word is used it's used wrong (if google is including roughly the same amount of items in its index)
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