skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s kind of a wacky argument. It’s like saying that they wouldn’t need money if only these people wouldn’t eat.

The fake meat story is a fraud - if you care about pollution, like every other industry yu can regulate how they handle waste products and other operational practices.

Fake meat is just a consolidation play, which happens to be the factor that made meat production a horror show in the first place. Instead of cutting down rain forests for pasture, we’ll cut them down for more protein sources to manufacture fake meat. Ditto with palm oil, which will drive some apes to extinction because there is a marketing problem with selling lard and a health problem associated with selling hydrogenated oils.
> They're the people who don't know what's happening in the news unless there is a major crisis that might actually effect them.

To that end its increasingly hard to stay informed and sift through the negativity, even in Journalism.

While I havent been on Facebook since 2008 or so, and never signed up for Twitter, i have been on reddit since basically launch and digg before that. I use them less and less becuase, as you point out, it directly correlates to my moods.

But moreover, my long term method of staying informed, a highly curated list of RSS feeds, is also hard to maintain and keep a good mood. I find this method preferable because I am less influenced by "popular" talking points and free to make my own assessment. But just the writing is now so biased and negative I find myself cynically reading multiple sources on a single issue and intrinsically distrusting what almost any of them say at their face unless its backed up or said in another source.

At the end of the day its time consuming. And I waver between just watching a nightly news that i KNOW is extremely biased or sifting through the trash to "find" what i feel is a more accurate depiction.

Of course, this waivers depending on what is occurring. During relative "quiet" times ill watch the news, when large events like the Floyd protests or Afghanistan withdrawal occurs, Ill key into RSS feeds to try and suss out a better picture.

That said....there almost always seems to be some major event these days.
Sounds like something that'd be interesting to try out, but not with a $200 price tag.
I guess you might find this interesting, https://twitter.com/headius/status/1261024699837890561
Remote working and decoration ideas for home office/house
With remote work growing by the day. What are some of your favorite decorations to spice up your home office or house in general? My choice is these steel signs from metalsignstudios.com. I need some more things though! Any ideas?
There isn't any regulation because the THREATS from the EU to impose it from above was enough for everyone but Apple to fall in line, and that's damn lucky because otherwise we might've not seen USB-C emerge in phones as well as it's done now. (Do we need a new standard in the future? Hopefully that can happen without clunky regulatory processes)

Personally I like my lighting cables and I do hope there'll be a grandfather clause but Apples behaviour(logical for them) has put us in an uncomfortable seat tbh.
I would be very happy if I could sell ios content and keep 88% (epic) vs. 70% (apple) of my own revenue.

That's a 25% boost in my revenue. That's huge.
The better solution to these kind of problems is having a backup concept with an implementation and regular testing of backups.

The encryption exposed a problem with your disks or system in general. Depending on what the problem was, the problem is still there but you are not seeing it. Now you have a possible problem and unencrypted files.
I see a lot of comments suggesting that Apple want to go fully wireless but it makes no practical sense to me. Their MagSafe charger not only charges far slower (as of now), but it's also huge. It's just not practical to ask someone to carry that around with them or take it when they go travelling.
Good job! and thanks for sharing. As a software developer I really like the textual music notation as I can version control them (Yes, musicXML exists but that is overcomplicated for me most of the time). But as a composer I can never work with these online textual editors. Mostly because my hands are accustomed to shortcuts that the big music editors offer (Sibelius and Finale for example). The thing is what these online music editors offer are really close to what composers like me want, but not there yet. I mean just adding shortcuts and translating them to ABC will turn this to a completely useful software for me as I really don't need other options of those software. Just as an example:
1.numbers change note length
2.abcdefg change notes
3.left right cursor to move like normal
4.up down cursor change note
...
there are not a lot of them but having them makes the difference for me.
http://www.sibelius.com/helpcenter/hintsandtips/G7Hints&Tips...
Ask HN: Is a file with both public and secret content a secret or not?
This question showed up while debating whether a configuration file with public application settings and secret values should be stored in Hashicorp's Vault as a secret.
Does anyone know why EuroDEM has no height information for Germany?

https://www.mapsforeurope.org/explore-map/euro-dem
The Blackbird used fuel as a heat sink. This sounds like something affected by scaling laws, such that a larger craft would have more mass available for heat absorption.
If Apple and Google tax app developers like Epic so much, then why don't Epic either individually or as part of a coalition with other companies create their own phone?

Five years is more than enough time to establish a new more liberal ecosystem for app developers if Google and Apple won't play ball, so what is holding them back?
Covid-19 will just end up causing a cold, says vaccine creator Sarah Gilbert
A portless phone is not a good idea anyway.
Somehow this article avoided mentioning Smart Pipe ("Smartpipe, Inc., is a registered sex offender") the whole way through.
The real problem right now should be the weight, the trend is going in the wrong direction.
There are a limited number of spy satellites, and their orbits are fairly fixed. If you need to look at a site you have to wait until a satellite passes it (and the people at the site will be able to know quite far in advance when a satellite is coming). And there's no way to delay the pass until the cloud cover clears.
They aren't. But the trajectory means they can see it isn't aimed at Beijing.
I second this. I like Nyxt but the macOS install experience can be painful.
This always fails with Webextensions support. The simpler solutions just take an existing webengine-component from gtk or Qt and put a browser around it, but this fails with more complex features which are naturally not part of the webengine.

I'm curious why nobody takes directly chromium or firefox and just integrates trydactyl to get first-class-support. The major-problem with alternative keybindings is the context they run with. Extensions run inside the page-scope, and thus are only available after the page loaded. Integrating them at app-scope (which mozilla promised to deliver around 4 years ago already), would basically solve most problems instantly.
Or we can just stop doing social engineering and let people deal with natural order of things. These debates always make me upset on the hubris of people that think they know what is better for other people.
Lucy’s wild ride to Jupiter’s orbit but not to Jupiter
I haven't had a single USB-C socket fail, so I kinda think the same applies there.

Not even a single cable broke, so I am really confused when people like you seem to manage to destroy them left and right
The average consumer absolutely does not get a new phone every single year.
Is it possible this graph also reflects that his readers are more likely to employ Safari’s tracker-blocking?
Mistakes to avoid before a product launch
If this is true, what was the dietary source of B12 in pre-modern times?
I agree that this would be very nice but I also shudder thinking about being the person whos job it would be to do the centralization.
They probably won’t send in U-2 or MQ-9 to stick ninja swords through the roof of a luxury sedan past rings of S-300 SAM batteries few hundred miles from shores.
An option that wasn't at all considered in the article is to have the initrd and (optionally) the secret key used for decrypting the disk on a separate device (or devices), for example on an 1 GB USB drive. This way the big disk can have full, real FDE (not LUKS). To an attacker not in possesion of the USB drive the big disk just looks like random data. And the USB drive can be kept on one's own person and easily destroyed if necessary.

The main part is having the initrd on an external, small, device. The secret can be either a regular passphrase, or stored somewhere on the small device.

Works fine on my Archlinux. I mount the initrd file system to /boot when I need to update it.
I'm not believing a word of this until a news organization besides the Telegraph confirms it. If they didn't have such a strict paywall, maybe I'd be more convinced by their reporting.

It's not completely implausible that such a plan was proposed, but they present no proof that it was ever implemented or even taken very seriously. Also, why would a Chinese lab ask DARPA for money for what's basically a weapon considering the tense relations between the countries? Was it argued to be for the good of all mankind? I wasn't aware that was a priority of DARPA.
It is no longer a security theater when the user gets a malicious app installed, that takes over their bank management app.
That makes sense.

Why would you do business ever again with someone who intentionally breached a contract, publicly smeared you with a calculated negative PR campaign and then sued you?

After all this you offer them to allow Fortnite back if they reverse what they've done that breached the contract. Instead, they:

- Reject the offer

- Carry on smearing you

- Lose the court case

- Sweeney says they wouldn’t release iOS version with the pricing still being the same

- Then they decide to do a PR stunt publicly sending a letter and ask to get back into App Store, while hinting they plan to toy with the courts ruling by attempting to put an in-app payment button that mimics Apple’s IAP

And now they play a victim that they're not allowed back in to the App Store because they have no other avenue and they lost the court case.

Tell me again why would _you_ do business with anyone like that?
It definitely is. The easiest way is to set up the token in challenge-response mode (supported by yubikey). The disk has a key which is sent to the token and the response is used to decrypt the disk.
Yes that's what I was referring to.

It seems we are catching up to some scifi fast. Let's hope it's not the Daniel Suarez version.
The “farmers need it” reasoning is a fallacy. A farmer is going to operate on when the sun comes up so they can see what they are doing. If sunrise is called 5am or 6am it is irrelevant to them performing their work.
EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iPhones
Fascinating write-up!

Reproducible builds are highly important indeed, though from security perspective we shouldn't assume we're secure because we can reproduce the build.

As Ken Thompson shows us in Reflections on Trusting Trust: backdoors can live in binary form only and the source code may not be telling the full story.

What we need to trust are the entities writing and distributing the packages, of everything. Sadly today there is no way to answer: what is the set of entities I'm trusting by using this package.
> actual differences between packaged source code and upstream source code are observed in the wild.

Patches?
We know the US is working on hypersonic weapons. It makes a lot of sense to put that same technology in a reusable UAS. This doesn't seem like such a stretch as to be instantly dismissed. I would take reports about it with a grain of salt, and the SR-72 designation is there to grab headlines, either from the news source or Lockheed Martin, but it's very feasible for them to be building the thing described in the article.
what a longwinded way to miss the point
'Gigs' burn, then flop.
Oh, this is neat. Using Spacemacs for a while has inadvertantly pre-sold me on the concept of arpeggiated input.
Found this interesting article from someone that seems to know cows: https://praisetheruminant.com/ruminations/is-it-true-that-co...
Pulling the Plug on E-Waste
My complaint about details is that the maximum zoom has an approximate resolution of 1cm/km, just try it out. Is that unreasonable to ask for something more precise in 2021?

If some public money had to be spent to fund an alternative to Google Maps / Maps.me / etc., this could have been rather used to help some open source projects such as OpenStreetMap
EU to impose universal phone charger, in blow to Apple
> Given satellite technology and ICBMs

I see an SR-72 being a hedge against losing both of the above, or having them rendered ineffective.

Putting a nuclear munition on this thing makes sense to kind of get ICBM like capability in a ditch, and ensures you have something against the enemy who can reliably intercept ICBMs.

Same for the case spy sats get taken down. The chance of the enemy having something that can intercept high speed aerodynamic targets, as well as satellites at the same time is minimal.
This is great. I particularly like the Bauhaus styles. Excellent work :)

Kudos for the SVG download option too!
It's accepted that the top speed of the SR-71 was likely around Mach 3.5. The Mach 3 records were just for show, and pilots have said that even at Mach 3 when they pushed the throttle forward, it just went.

This article also says that the SR-72 will use "a dual-mode engine that combines turbine and ramjet technologies." The SR-71 already did that.
According to the docs ([0], [1]) systemd-cryptenroll and crypttab support FIDO2 and PKCS#11, both should be supported by the yubikey as well.

So without having tested it: I think yes, it should generally be possible, at least for encryption.

[0]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/crypttab.ht...
[1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-cry...
The Chukudu is a cargo scooter built from wood
See my top-level comment. Just put the initrd and secret on the external device.
I remember hearing about these as a kid in the mid 00's.

Back then, the idea of a futuristic toilet that could automatically detect early signs of bowel cancer and other health risks seemed like a technology that, while not "cool", would improve hundreds of millions of peoples' lives.

It's so sad that we've reached the stage now that our first reaction is not how many lives this could save, but how big tech are going to use it to fuck over the rest of society.

What the hell happened in the last 20 years?
I wonder if there's a difference in harm caused between human-generated particulates vs particulates from, say, a forest. I assume at some point as air quality improves, natural pollen, bacteria, etc, would become a significant factor in simplified PM-based AQI, and my question is, is that still a problem?
> Do you do it for professional reasons, or to keep up?

I tend to do it to keep up. But broadly politics has a massive impact on everything in our lives. I invest and typically do very well and my trick has been seeing the difference between these groups and moving prior to all the groups catching on.... so basically tracking “populist news & podcasters” and investing when they start mentioning. Then selling when the “corporate news” starts commenting.
-I shared an office while in uni with a -in his own words- selectively devout muslim.

He moved way up north after graduation, and I, being an inquisitive fellow, asked him how he coped with Ramadan when it occurred during the summer months (when midnight sun was a thing).

The reply was reassuringly pragmatic. -'Oh, I just follow the fast in Mecca, much simpler than for my brethren south of the Arctic Circle.'
Maybe some Gerrit commits will help,

https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/fuchsia

Also in case you missed, Android apps now run on ChromeOS.
Changing the root of trust doesn't mean applications can suddenly take over other applications. It also requires granting the malicious app sufficiently elevated permissions for that takeover. The user made several choices along the way. If your argument is that there's the possibility that they could make the wrong choice then this is in my opinion security theater because it posits that a thing can only be secured by taking away choice and no other way.
> Many places outside of the US do indeed grass/free graze feed. There is absolutely no environmental cost here.

In Brazil huge tracts of the Amazon are converted into grassland every year for cattle grazing. This is not environmentally free. This has turned the Amazon from a carbon sink to a carbon source. And the density of ruminants on grasslands is vastly different if those ruminants are raised for meat instead of fending for themselves. And, of course, ruminants emit methane. Just burning the grass every year would be better for the environment than feeding it to cattle.
"First hit for free, kids!"

In Oracle's world this is probably the epitome of generosity and neighborly loving kindness.

I'm surprised they're not working harder to make Federal rules about how every citizen has to pay Oracle something every year for any reason or none... probably too limited; governments only subvert one country at a time, and they want the whole world to owe them rent.
Reinforcement learning used in Covid-19 border testing – new Nature paper
Global warming was different from pollution. IIRC in Civ 1 global warming turned some coastal tiles into swamp.

Don't remember if there was nuclear winter as well.
Steganography is about hiding information within other information, but I don't really see what's the point you are trying to make here. Could you elaborate?
If have nearly 50 extensions in Firefox. Nyxt will never implement them all. That's why APIs exist, to allow people doing it for themselves.
Fine-tuning GPT-J: key takeaways
Hello all,

We've spent quite some time benchmarking the best fine-tuning techniques for GPT-J at NLP Cloud (https://nlpcloud.io). Finding the best solution was not straightforward and we had to look at things like speed, server costs, ease of development, accuracy of the fine-tuned model... It took time but we ended up with a nice setup (and we are now officially proposing GPT-J fine-tuning + automatic deployment on our platform).

Here are our key takeaways:

- The best methodology seems to be the one from the Mesh Transformer Jax team: https://github.com/kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax/blob/master/howto_finetune.md
- Fine-tuning on GPU is not ideal. Even several GPUs used in parallel with Deepspeed can be very slow. We used 4 GPUs Tesla T4 in parallel, and it took 1h30 to only compute our first checkpoint (+ 80GB of RAM used...), for a training dataset made up of 20k examples. Maybe a GPU A100 would be worth a try.
- Fine-tuning on TPU is very efficient but it takes a TPU v3 because TPUs v2 are running out of memory. It takes around 15mns, for a training dataset made up of 20k examples, which is really awesome.
- The overall process is not straightforward as it takes several kind of conversions (converting the datasets to the right format, making a slim version of the model, converting the weights to Transformers...)

In the end this is worth the effort, because combining fine-tuning and few-shot learning makes GPT-J very impressive and suited for all sorts of use cases.

If you guys have different feedbacks about GPT-J fine-tuning, please don't hesitate to comment, I would love to have your opinion.

Hope you found the above useful!
Company Towns Are Back Now They're “Innovation Zones”
BigTech did actually what we suspect them to continue to do in the future. That, and a lot of the promises from 20 years ago either led nowhere or just ended up pushing more ads.
You can trust community as the whole, because uses it own product. Community will protect itself, so you, as regular user, can benefit from that for free. No community - no protection, because the owner of a package is not a user of the product.
>vote with your wallet and don't complain how "most devices" don't give you feature you're not ready to pay for

This isn't always possible or realistic. The cheapest Pixel phone is worth 2+ median monthly salaries in my location.
> Many places outside of the US do indeed grass/free graze feed. There is absolutely no environmental cost here. If those cattle didn't exist, then wildlife would grow abundant, and feed instead.

That replacement does sound like something that could reasonably described as a cost. To the environment.
This might be true except for the fact that news outlets follow a script to push a narrative (and CNN is not exempted from this):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI
Johnson and Johnson says additional dose boosts Covid vaccine efficacy
I come to think of it, this is a client problem (specifically the client used to write the pages): gemini is natively utf8, bold and italic are present in unicode!

In general, on gemini, all "problems" are with the client and not with the protocol ;)
Strictly speaking that depends on the definition of meat, which for some is limited to mammalian meat. Others prefer to call vegetarianism plus fish pescetarianism, vegaquarianism, or pesco-vegetarianism.
Show HN: Live Event- Static Analysis Using MobSF by Edem Gold at 7pm IST, 23 Sep
You are correct. Hypersonic, autonomous aircraft and weapons? Yes. Will it be the SR-72? No.
Bond Director Cary Fukunaga on Filming Daniel Craig’s ‘No Time to Die’
Show HN: Torrent search engine but the database is fetched locally from IPFS
Signal is partly funded by the US government:

https://www.opentech.fund/results/supported-projects/open-wh...
> I know what I should expect if I am paying a cable $5 vs $40.

Actually you know you shouldn't expect much from the $5 one. But the $40 is a lottery.
> one of the best examples of predatory proprietary software.

Your conclusion is completely wrong. From what I see, LispWorks is making just barely the minimum to make their operation work. I wouldn't classify this as predatory. They're just trying to make enough money to survive on an environment where very few people are willing to pay for software. From what I see, most people using Lisp are hobbyists, and they already use open source products. To survive, LispWorks had to search for companies that wanted/need to pay for a supported version of Lisp.

Now, Microsoft using proprietary software to lock customers, that is predatory.
Mumbai is the financial capital of India. It drives a significant portion of India’s GDP.
Regarding 2. that is false, I build everything on a CentOS 7 docker and my appimage just works on every distro from that era onwards (~2015). Hy do you say that it's pretty nasty ? It's the same packaging mechanism than on Mac and Windows, the app ships everything except libc.

There's a linuxdeployqt tool for appimaged - I've never used it but saw a fair amount of apps using it I guess it works ?
Homeostasis – Sarah Polansky [CBD and Adaptogens]
Homeostasis, from the Greek words for "same" and "steady," refers to any process that living things use to actively maintain fairly stable conditions necessary for survival.
Montel talks with Sarah Polansky on this epsiode of Let’s Be Blunt, who suffered from chronic health issues ranging from Lyme’s disease to severe digestive issues. After experiencing the benefits of cannabinoids and adaptogens separately, she found that their combined effects are not only synergistic, but excellent whole body support.
On this kind of devices the security chain of trust needs to take into consideration the same kind of users that fill their Internet Explorer with random toolbars from website popups.

Not the user with a CS degree that knows what they are doing.