skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowadays is hard to buy a non-smart TV and that means consumers (almost) don't have a choice anymore. Once that happens, we're at the mercy of manufacturers and we know how much they respect user privacy.

Companies like Samsung are already pushing hard to monetize their TVs, selling ads and shoving them down users throats. Imagine what a Samsung TV + Mobile combo can do to profile users: age, sexual preferences, political views, etc would be very easy to know by the manufacturer.

Going on a rabbit hole around TV privacy, I've read some TVs could connect to a nearby wifi if it's open access, or use HDMI as others pointed out. They can also capture images and sound and send it home to "improve sevices".
I'm not sure how much of the above is real vs paranoid fears, but the prospect of this scenario being standard practice in the future is both possible and scary.

Call me paranoid but to avoid some folk on the other side of the world having a list of what I watch and pictures of my family I use the 'service mode' on my Samsung TV to switch off wifi capabilities and bluetooth. I also factory reset the device every few months. I'm not even sure that protects me 100% but at least I try. Because once your data is on the wild, got knows how secure it is, and what malicious actors can do with it...
Does "Look at me, I'm the captain now" count :D
if [ "$?" == 2 ]; then

why not $? -eq 2?

why nested ifs?
I'll email you to start with, I'm a little hesitant to post PII on public forums; it'll come from my username@bitsoflore.net. You've given me a lot to think about!

To keep this public dialogue going: are there any biotech conferences you'd specifically recommend? Or are there not any bad choices? I'd also love to get the name of that virology textbook!

Also, to anyone reading this with any interest in biology: I highly recommend that you read this commenter's blog. Here[1] is a link to my favorite post thus far, wherein an actionable plan for a low-cost distribution of material is speculated upon (to put it lightly).

[1] The Sporenet Protocol: https://blog.libredna.org/post/sporenet/
I don't think so - the strawberry effect is clearly chromatic adaptation at play and works because of cyan tint of the rest of the image (even the article you linked says so). Remember the black-blue/white-gold dress photo? That's the same thing - here the lightning is obvious, but in case of that dress the lightning conditions were ambiguous enough to make different people see different colors.
Code Is Just by Shahid Kamal Ahmad
I can't say anything specifically about this case, but generally, sometimes the whole architecture has to be changed in order to support concurrency (especially in the "millions of mutexes" kinds of problems). And such alternative architectures are often inherently inefficient in serial execution.
The Conservatives have been trying to criminalize all sorts of things since at least back to the 1994 criminal justice and public order act. Yet still people can glue themselves to motorways. Statutes and case law are only part of the picture.
It is somewhat a betrayal. Secret negotiation is a way for US and Australia of telling to France (after 30 years of collaboration in Pacific) "We don't want to work on strategic stuff with France anymore".
Geology Inspired Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’
What would be your final purpose with this? Slim the image down? Hoping to have a better CI/CD strategy if split it in multiple images?
Anyways, I have a hunch that this will be solved only by having an architectural revamp of the app, try to design it in such a way that it will work as multiple smaller services interacting together as a whole (micro-services).

Also, Docker Compose doesn't really help you with this. It only helps you with "syncing" the components of your app together, but since you don't have the components of it yet running as separate images / containers, it's pointless, at least at this time.
This is exactly the kind of take I'm talking about.

"I haven't seen the movies you're talking about, but I'm not gonna let that stop me from getting up on my high horse and telling you how it is."
While it's true invermectin is also approved for humans, some people do buy/take the veterinarian tablets that target the, uh, "horse market". So they are in fact using a horse drug.
Oh, I don't mean a personal personal shopper! As you rightly pointed out, that wouldn't be cost effective, which is why currently only the rich can afford this.

I mean what the parent-to-my-post suggested: a curated shopping site, where all products are guaranteed to be high quality, end of story. No fakes. No drop-shipping from untrustworthy suppliers. No bargain basement products.

You could do this for basically anything! As a random example, my building was constructed using the cheapest supplier for electrical outlets and switches. Fully half are broken in just a couple of years, and one of them shorted so badly it nearly set the apartment on fire. That's absurdly dangerous, yet they did it to save something like $2 per outlet.

I went online and tried to do some research to find a reputable vendor, but I got lost in the sea of options. There is no review that is trustworthy. There's no site I can judge to be reliable by myself.

Steve Jobs told his team that all of the Apple products should fit on a table. There shouldn't be fifty models with varying levels of quality. There should just be one of each, the best, end of story. Customers shouldn't have to do research, or figure out which one has flaws that they can tolerate at a preferred price point.

Sure, this flies in the face of economic theory, but Apple become the world's biggest company under Jobs' leadership, and their brand is basically magic. Maybe he has a point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resinous_glaze

Shellac is not particularly harmful.
Incorrect.

From article 4 of the Constitution: "The name of the State is Éire, or, in the English language, Ireland."
Florida Tesla crash which killed two will be investigated by federal board
so this would explain why whenever I just make some sausage with ketchup and curry it doesn't taste right.
I must concur, I have used mapy.cz for hiking across the Europe with great success. Even on Iceland.
If you know of a way to automate minting a DOI on WordPress - please let me know. I'd be keen to experiment.
The submarine Japan bidded in competition at the time has since collided with a freighter showing not very good human centered interface design for situational awareness when submarine is surfacing.
Elon Musk pledges $50M to Inspiration4 fundraiser for St. Jude
i think alot of tech companies working with crypto can say this.
Scientists Want to Bring the Woolly Mammoth Back from Extinction
People build things for free because it is fun, it is their hobby. If you want people to do unfun stuff you need to pay them.
What is your company? Or, alternately, what DDoS prevention company(s) would you most recommend?
I think it's the act of a great man. Congratulations to the spacex and the whole inspiration4 crew.
And authored impactful C++ books and ISO C++ papers such as?
I agree with your analogy.
I too would consider my personal opinions prudent and middle-of-the-road but unlike AllSides.com I do not run a website whose mission statement allegedly is to be transparent about media bias.
Meanwhile, women's labor participation rate hits a 33-year low... https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/08/womens-labor-force-participa...
How long before this study is peer reviewed ?
In the absence of anything else, the existence of RaTG13 seems like pretty reasonable circumstantial evidence of it being a lab leak. The lab had RaTG13 samples - so either the disease travelled a rather long way from Yunnan to Wuhan or someone in the lab was experimenting with the virus doing something interesting and novel.
There no irony here. It's just bad business for the ruling class if the proletariat that works for them and is the pillar of their wealth, dies off.

I guess that's why insulin rationing is a thing?
> w#st#ng their time

Education is to build the person. It is to build a society of more refined members, which means, to reduce the collective damages that come from ignorance. It is both personal elevation and social duty.

The cancer of ignorance is fought also so that people are able to do their own job, the cognitive structure of which does not just stand up on its own isolated supports. Only hours ago I had to find myself in front of somebody who could not do his job owing to underdevelopment.
There's now a £2.99 a month subscription, which can be cancelled at any time, that gets you all maps - and you can download chunks in advance too: https://shop.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/apps/os-maps/
Clinical trials are expensive so unless you're massively well funded (like Moderna and BioNTech are at the moment, and basically nobody else in that space) you have to prioritize for whichever is the most promising based on prelim data. This is a problem trivially solved with money, but for some reason all the promising biotech developers are massively underfunded compared to branches such as killing people or selling advertising.
What alcohol did you use? The instructions I find talk about denaturated alcohol which, at least here in Portugal, has a blue tint (smells like alcohol but is poisonous).
I don’t think that —drop is better than delay in case of tests. Quite contrary, one usually wants them to run after latest save not the first one.
I think Scafell Pike (highest mountain in England) might be the most ideal point to see the Republic of Ireland, as it's close to the West coast, and has a westward view not obstructed by mountainous Wales. From what I can see, you'd need to build an observation tower about 410m tall on Scafell Pike to see Irish land (specifically Slieve Foye): https://www.udeuschle.de/panoramas/panqueryfull.aspx?mode=ne...
Build a network of people whose expertise you trust on different topics. See what books, articles, information they recommend to you. Kind of like you’d do at work.

Don’t worry so much about day-to-day news. It’s more useful for conversation than it is actionable.
Yes, you certainly have to have much more thought about where you are and what's been going on.
I am sure the Google Docs developers would find your observation incredibly valuable.
France accuses Australia and US of ‘lying’ over cancelled submarine contract
Voxility has some very aggressive cold-sales department. They've approached me many times to sell their product.

I've ignored the first few mails. Still they kept coming.

I've told them curtly but politely we weren't interested. They tried to engage a sales conversation from that. Ignored them. Still they kept coming. Future outreach mails not even acknowledging the earlier conversation.

I told them they needed to learn when to let go and, literally, to "FUCK OFF". Still they kept coming.

I stopped their spamning with a custom SpamAssassin rule. That's what it took to get rid of them.

Don't support those spammy sales techniques. Don't do business with them.
My opinion as someone who grew up without internet. We always knew certain rules for how to behave, like first finish homework before playing. I wasn’t locked into a cell to prevent me from accessing my toys in my room and my parents didn’t have to be constantly monitoring that. I think with the addictive nature of some internet sites this might be more difficult but in some ways it’s similar to the olden days. Maybe the following strategy could work for some: install a DNS logger (like pihole) and at the end of the week go over the logs of your kids computer with them. Every time they went to YouTube to watch non educational content during school hours they’ll be penalized.
Can you recommend some good clothing manufacturers with ethical supply chains?
My kids' school use Google Classroom. I do block access to YouTube at `/etc/hosts` redirecting www.youtube.com to 127.0.0.1, and it does work. But some assignments include videos and so it's cumbersome (although it can be scripted).

Anyway, what I decided to do is, while keeping the technical option (and using it when necessary) is keep hammering into the kids the need to work on self control, to recognize what behavior helps them to be productive and what doesn't. Do your job, then enjoy and also important, most of the joy is offscreen.

I try to use the same message on me because I can also use it A LOT OF TIMES
Am sure there is a startup idea in there somewhere.
I've been a CGI head for a while, and IMO, Iron Man was the first movie to be reaching organic/transparent realistic fantasy level of details (geometric, texture, animation). It had weight and yet the superpower quality to moves and actions that people drew in comics or animations before.

Prior this, Transformers had a shot but it was overblown and used for extreme wow (apt for a monster-blockbuster movie).

Compare this to Star Wars prequels, which were a massive leap in tech (full blown CGI everything, planets, nature, armies) but was clearly still just a tad too cartoonish.
the breakdown is not complete, for example I needed to pull in a new library to get the localized first day of the week with Luxon (this differs based on locale)

Also I really don't recommend dayJS, its documentation is crap (for example this is the documentation of its timezone plugin: https://day.js.org/docs/en/plugin/timezone ) and is full of serious bugs that its developer does not respond to: https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs/issues

Also the code style is really concerning too: https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs/issues/1598
When you think about using the library from languages which don't link against libc by default (Go for example), then this is a significant difference.
reminds me of Se7en, IIRC there's one gun shot in the movie, it's so surprising that it shocks way more than constant gun fights in other movies
Practical tip for parents here struggling with the problem of 'distractions during school hours': use a DNS filtering service.

I use the Family package from SafeDNS and I'm generally happy. It is also cheap at $20/year. I like SafeDNS because they provide a Desktop client that prevents tampering.

You can configure different profiles such as 'Education', 'Creative' and 'Default' for different modes you want to put your child's computer on - remotely. So during schooling hours I configure their computers to be on 'Education' mode, but if they want to just do Scratch or some other brain-stimulating activity, I put it on 'Creative' mode. For free time I'll put it on Default which I've configure to allow YouTube.

I configure each profile to block preconfigured vendor-supplied site archetypes such as Videos, Gaming, Advertising, Shopping, Chat etc. I have full control over each profile type. I can also whitelist a domain if they get in a snag.

I'm sure there are other good DNS filtering service providers, but this one is the one that worked best for me.
We live in interesting times, where "conspiracy theories" become true after about 6 months.

The reality of the situation is that people who actually pay attention, not the ones who constantly watch the TV news narrative, have been able to not only understand the true origin of covid, but also predict the entire chain of events that has occurred as a consequence.

When will the general public stop seeing conspiracy theories as imaginary tales? They have been 100% accurate so far with covid.

People who follow conspiracy theories are not stupid - that's why they are looking for what actually happened.
Believe it or not. But Objective-C continuous to evolve. It is not a dead language.
Future movie spoilers alert! And it’s actually true isn’t it! :-) Apple won’t let bad guys use their hardware; https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/26/apple-wont-let-bad-guys-use-...
Unlike Java applications, apps written in Go and Rust do not need a runtime installed on your computer. The same is true for C, C++ and a lot of other languages. You are most probably less constrained than you think.
I turned on Terminator Dark Fate today, and was totally bored with it. It was nothing more than hitting things, shooting things, blowing up things, and crashing things, without respite.

Should take away the graphics cards from the film crew.
Why Lo-Fi Music Draws Listeners In
I guess technology sucked the human budget, people couldn't write movies for the visual thrill only so they had to be creative on the scenario. In the last decade there were so many reboots and even reboots of reboots it was odd.
One side or the other has to eventually establish air superiority for a war to ever end.
It's all the D instead of Rust. This needed a Rust expert, clearly.
One comment I liked in this compelling tale about the transformative power of computing and video games can be phrased as

Only computing get cheaper.

which in a way is Moore’s law but in a broader economic context.
Specifically a WORM. Like Plan 9 had with Fossil and Venti or as in Foundation https://swtch.com/~rsc/papers/fndn/
A tidbit: English bureaucratic system was in part copied from pre-1905 China, through East India Company.
It's so interesting to me that people can't even imagine that covid could be intentionally created and let out. Not a leak, not an accident.

Is it because people don't understand that actual evil exists outside of movies? That there are extreamly powerful people in the world that will throw babies into fires because they believe in occult entities? This is not imaginary.

We live in a world where very evil people exist in high places, but also a world where many more good people exist, but usually not in as powerful positions.
Two off the top of my head: direct calls and constant literals.
> When will the general public stop seeing conspiracy theories as imaginary tales?

Covid leaked from a lab is viable. Bill Gates injecting microchips into everyone in order to invoke a new global cabal I would argue is firmly in the imaginary tale bracket.
As I see it, Google is doing exactly that with Flutter. It's a completely new layout and styling system for different devices, platforms and screen sizes.
I know many of you hate twitter threads, but this is the best thread, ever.
You're right, of course. It only goes to show that their attempts to offload their support requirements to sorts of "Community Support" don't solve the problem, and can sometimes (like here) only make it worse.
Cage transform in 2.10

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/5267

I made a separate install of 2.8 for an image where I really needed it. Not the most common tool and not the end of the world, but I think it qualifies as a rough edge.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28575875
I really prefer using the <details> element for showing/hiding various content. It works amazingly well, and you can also hide the small triangle with some css. Much better than all those checkbox solutions that you see recommended all the time. But for some reason, nobody ever uses it.
> to lockup information that was once in the public domain by artifice and subterfuge.

could you give examples, I'd love to read more about that
Bamada City
You're entirely right, and in your other comment as well. I just recognized this was about Monty Hall and didn't even bother reading the details. I also assumed other people would do the same: mentally invoke the entire paradox. It is indeed true that someone discovering the paradox with this comic wouldn't have nearly enough info to understand it, and would be correct to say it's wrong.
The AT power supply connector pair was a notable exception, where you had to take care of lining them up correctly so that the ground wires go towards the middle. And even though it is keyed, stronger people had no problems plugging in the 5¼" drive Molex connectors upside down.
I'm completely open to being wrong or corrected, I will watch the video now. It's likely poor understanding on my part. However, I would reinforce my claim by adding that there is good psychological evidence for verbal vs spacial interest and competency, which is no doubt related.
Yea i share your sentiment (dont like the spying part but hey :D). It is the most crucial skill today to be able to deal with the constant distraciton. Supplying a sheltered environment cant be the solution.
Well France is all about France first and f everybody else so it's a bit rich they're acting so pissy. I guess their war industry owns their government too.
So far, I agree. Nothing has been able to show microchips in the vaccines. If its there, it's using technology that is so far ahead of what's in the general domain that it's undetectable. It doesn't seem plausible at all.
ISSNs identify the publisher (edit: the publication). DOIs identify items of content.
I don’t have yet this problem, but I am wondering if blocking YT makes the kids a disservice instead of teaching them how to manage and handle constant (online) distraction.
> Easy jokes came counterbalancing heavy moment of gravitas

Another writer who uses similar techniques? Shakespeare.
Fascinating story but a fairly unsatisfying article. It would be nice to have a lot more colour on what happened, what the experience was like, and how they bought it down in one piece.

The Youtube video linked earlier however is heart stopping! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywaMkMTwWk
You're right, thanks for explaining
Did he replaced good for great by mistake?
I remember that story and found it really unfortunate. On the one hand you had apparently professionals that were very interested in using a fork of GIMP that provided a specific feature they needed.
The GIMP devs said something along the lines of "we plan to implement this in a different way, at some point, we can't tell when this is gonna happen" - and eventually Filmgimp/Cinepaint became a full fork and the chance of getting the support of those movie studios to improve GIMP itself vanished.

Wonder what could have been if GIMP would've been smarter on this.
Kodi. And you can run a mythtv or tvheadend or nextpvr server to record shows from a tuner and automatically detect and skip commercials.
If you are not thinking about memory, or memory layout, you are not programming. Anyway, not programming well.

And "tradeoffs" is a misleading term to apply to a process that does not involve giving up anything in exchange for the benefit of pause-free, fully predictable operation.
It's amazing how they couldn't control the aircraft accurately enough to set a course for the ocean - something that covers most of the Earth's surface and was available 50 miles to the southwest, west or northwest - but then recovered enough to line up with a 50-metre wide strip of tarmac. That's an improvement of three orders of magnitude!
Basically performance tuning, extended ARC use cases, and better Swift interoperability.

"What's New in LLVM"

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/409/

"Advancements in the Objective-C runtime"

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10163/
If it were evil, they'd have tried harder. Which is also the argument against it being a bioweapon - most pathetic bioweapon ever if it was.
The team is also looking for donations to obtain 55W MXM-A cards. It would be nice to have a proper GPU, but is there a reason why it can't be a random SXGA-compatible framebuffer or some FPGA IPs? Is this laptop being designed for some specific task?
I hear ya but I agree with the comment above. I was a comic book kid, and love a lot of these characters. But I find these movies where the climax is just a bunch of cg puppets punching each other boring and formulaic.

If I had to pick a "uses superpowers action scene" from any of these movies over the years, it's probably still Magneto escaping the plastic prison. I like that scene because it shows the character isn't just powerful in a brute force way, but can do amazing things given even the slightest opportunity. Obviously they had an incredible actor in Ian MacKellen to sell it, but they also didn't need to turn him into some cg puppet to make a big impact scene. I feel like that more creative and subtle conception is missing from most of the more recent movies.
To your downvoters, Metal is actually implemented in a mix of Objective-C and C++, even though most examples use Swift.