skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a short story I recall about aliens describing society on Earth and basically they describe a species that rolls on wheels and move on intricate highways. They make noises by honking, and all yield to flashing cars.

If aliens visited USA they would likely conclude that the dominant species were these metal rolling objects moving around on paved roads.
Change title to what the article actually is instead of fueling misinformation with a generic title:

Portpass app may have exposed hundreds of thousands of users' personal data
> fixed sized automatic allocations [...] can be checked statically

May I ask how you'd do this ? I need this for optimizing a C project.
Funny enough, Nethack[1] had this implemented too (w:spoilers). See also wmoonclock[2](wmaker) for a nice "moon-clock".

[1]https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Time

[2]https://www.dockapps.net/wmmoonclock
It would be interesting if the tap just sent over an ID number and then the receiver downloads the data including photo on file.
What's the alternative? A plastic card in the mail? people are replacing those with apps anyway.
Good question. I assume rainwater picks up minerals naturally as it filters through dirt and whatnot, but then why couldn't that be the case for fab wastewater? It also makes me think about the sheer amount of polluted filth that must wash out of a city after it gets rained on.
Adonai
Lead does have horrible effects but I have to wonder if poverty might be a confounding variable.
Nothing about RoHS is preventing you from poisoning yourself and your family in the privacy of your home. Leaded solder is still widely available.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/kester-solder/24-...

Here's half a kilo of lead in a solid metal bar, if you want to just poison a whole city or small country:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/kester-solder/44-...
Still i would consider working on such metadata. I have seen many interesting results based on this.
If you narrowly define robots as arms, wheels, or floating eyes, then yeah, you're going to have a tough time.

My kitchen is full of cheap, perfect robots. A microwave with cook sensor, a fridge that makes ice, a coffee pot with timer and brew settings, a pressure cooker that somehow cooks everything perfectly all the time.

In my garage I have a door opener, a clothes washer, a clothes dryer, some motion sensing lights.

In my backyard I have a sprinkler set that waters the lawn.

On and on ...

Those are the killer robotic apps, and we've been refining them for 100 years. When I teach classes, I honestly get a laugh when I say that the toaster is the most perfect robotic design of all time from a customer service perspective.
Fun project, I got most right (one I failed). What do you want to do with it?
i feel like more research is necessary into potential links between VR use and any optical complications before we can assume this to be true.
This is a false dichotomy. You can fix the small click targets without adding 100mb of react.
> Both TSMC and Intel are attracted to Arizona because it is seismically stable

There are a lot of places in the US that are at least as seismically stable and also have more abundant water. I suspect the choice of Arizona has more to do with tax incentives and the fact that fabs already exist there (and thus there is an experienced workforce).
Someone please make a Matrix client that looks like VSCode.

The editor of the current file is the current opened room, and tabs to switch between rooms. The explorer shows rooms as files and spaces as folders that can be expanded/collapsed. Also support for keyboard shortcuts like CMD+P to quickly open a room.
I'm really frustrated that:

a) Stuff like this gets released in the wild without being part of the spec making it effectively impossible for any non-element client to support at release time

b) Any room that gets added to a server that supports spaces is no longer accessible to anyone whose homeserver isn't running the non-spec-compliant protocol from an unreleased version of synapse, because the default room version is 9 and synapse's latest release doesn't know wtf that means

It's really annoying that something that is supposed to be the pinnacle of interoperability and federation breaks compatibility like this.
Anyone who manages to piss off the CIA that much has got to be doing something right.
I have never heard of this before do you have any sources or data points? From a quick google it seems to be a warning that Sony is at least putting on their VR offering.

This source says otherwise:
"ophthalmologists agree there is no reason to be concerned that VR headsets will damage eye development, health or function."
https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/are-virtual-r...

It seems like there is just a lack of data regarding the impact of VR usage on eye development and as a result people are being rightful cautious.
That's not a broad definition of robotics, that's a redefinition of robotics as a synonym of mechanics.
Setting up a matrix server on an ec2 took a few evenings (lots of reading docs). Then, setting up discord was supposed to be more configuration…

Element has hosted instances for 10$/month and discord bridges for 20$/month?

Does anyone else run hosted matrix instances with bridges? I might pay 10$/month for that.

Or, are there AMI instances for that? I couldn’t find any.
For me Chrome's tab grouping is hands down one of the best implementations. Simple, deliberate and under control, and just feels good to use.
Ask HN: Procrastination, What's Up with That?
Why is it that I know exactly what to do, what it takes, what I should do… and yet… I don’t do it?

Is my Anxiety an alien creature that has taken over my decision-making process, Invasion of the Body Snatchers' style?

How do I do what I mean to do that is good for me, and avoid procrastination and doing things that are useless or detrimental?

P.S.: this is a follow-up to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28654043
Mark Cuban, Coinbase back Eternal, NFT marketplace for trading Twitch clips
Building Micro Front Ends with Lattice
Call me crazy, but another shoe's gotta drop i.e. Oculus will practically brick the device if it's rooted - disallowing some new must-have features due to "security concerns".
> What's the alternative? A plastic card in the mail?

Yes. A passport is orders of magnitude harder to forge than for some app written by a random government contractor to leak data.
A predecessor to Ford's Louisville Assembly Plant was one of the earliest Model T factories and Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant has nearly always been one of the largest truck plants in the company's portfolio.

I'm sure Michigan is still important to Ford as well, but these aren't entirely new territories for Ford plants either.
Yep, not surprised to see this added when Twitch account integration already existed. Much less typo-prone than copying your stream key in, along with all the convenience features you get.
Seeing those numbers, I wonder how much that affects the local microclimate, as that adds a lot of moisture and heat into the air. And if there are ways to add plant life in the surrounding areas that could benefit from it, and from which people can obtain a yield.

I'm not so sure about the hotter months, but during the colder months, it can potentially be used for greenhouses, or for when temperature dips during nighttimes. Lots of tropical plants want hotter, moist air and will die from frost.
Thanks, that's great to see.
It could have been prevented, just don't require a vaccine passport.

I'm hoping that more countries will follow the danish example, where the vaccine passport was dropped on September 10, 2021.

This amount of control doesn't make any sense in countries with high percentage of vaccination such as Canada.

Another country about to make this mistake is Scotland.
I have a couple of NLP side projects that I'm working on and I'll definitely try using this!
Wouldn't surprise me. I also think Seattle's sewer fees are probably relatively high because of the upgrades they've had to do to the whole system to avoid dumping so much untreated waste straight into the sound.
>We also show evidence of cognitive fatigue in the browsing sessions of users that are most likely to vote.

Interesting, so if it holds that cognitive fatigue shows up from interacting with content over long sessions, it means that sites that optimize for engagement could end up draining people and reducing the quality of their interactions.

If this holds true across all social media platforms, this explains a lot.
Are there any plans to allow blocking specific applications?
Lack of trust and integrity in most tech companies. I don't want my laundry folding robot to require access to the internet.
So I went into a big rabbithole of writing up a long email to my family warning them about specific plates and so on. Then I paused -- was any of this real?

I looked up on Snopes -- they didn't seem to be too convinced that she's legit[0]. Some more googling didn't seem to show any reputable site repeating her claims.

It's hard to tell if any of this is true or not. (Especially since there's a difference between a _cracked_ or chipped plate vs a normal one)

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vintage-pyrex-contains-uns...
Using Rclone for Cloud to Cloud Transfer
This userstyle[1] installed with Stylus on Clonimums+Firefox and Cascadea on Safari has served me well.

[1]: https://userstyles.org/styles/113994/hacker-news-dark
> I don't know where you are getting your "correct" answer

They're right in the article, check the appendix.
This is "mobile broadband" only. Not wired broadband, the thing everyone is really interested in.
Yes, and also enabling not-physical validation (e.g. you could open a bank account or w/e similarly strict thing online, with your identity being verified automatically). It's convenient and saves time.
"They found 37% of patients had at least one long Covid symptom diagnosed three to six months after infection. The most common symptoms were breathing problems, abdominal symptoms, fatigue, pain and anxiety or depression."

What is the proportion of those in the general population? Anxiety & Depression is the highest accounting for 15%, but the baseline number is pretty high as well... This seems to assume the pre-covid population had 0 symptoms and was 100% healthy.

tldr: Seems like fear clickbait.
I have to wonder if not reading the PDF was a confounding variable in your reply.
"Just" as in August 6th.
Those would be running for a while now then
You can take a look at Workers Sites instead. Similar to their Pages solution, but with a lot more flexibility.
Legally Taiwan and Mainland are in a civil war for the legitimate government of the one China.

One China is the "policy" of US China and Taiwan. Of course, Taiwan want to get rid of that. China will risk a nuclear war to prevent that, and US is OK with either, preferably let China bleed the most with minimal cost. These are as obvious as the sun hanging over the sky.

China had no ambition for territorial expansion other than defending herself. That's the pattern for 2 thousands years.

China indeed has historical claim over Taiwan and South China Sea. How strong that translate to modern legal system, that's up to debate.

But extending China's territorial ambition beyond historical claims is not only disgenious, it's propaganda.

Hi, propagandist?
Show HN: Accessibility Statement Wizard
I agree. And posit the other direction: Robotics has over-hyped and over-focused the field of mechanics on "Things with mobility and too much software" much to its determent.

Simplicity (at least simplicity of functionality and presentation) is best if you want ubiquitious markets, I think.
Spending for the sake of spending. What could go right?
Discussions on similar submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23804469 Refined Hacker News (July 11, 2020 — 93 points, 40 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20173974 Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience (June 13, 2019 — 259 points, 122 comments)

(FD: Admittedly I got this from the Refined Hacker News add-on, which shows this info at the bottom of each post)
The Mach-E has great reviews and anecdotally my friend with one loves it. The F-150 Lightning has great early reviews though it is still very early before most consumers can get their hands on one.
>I'll wait.

Same here.
Such a shame that this toxic company is stifling VR adoption by wrapping their tentacles around such a prime product.
Yeah, turns out their capturing proxy just creates inaccurate pcaps. Who woulda thunk.
I agree, but it'd have to be fast (as fast as walking probably) and float to not kill my pets or children. That's tough.
Ah, that's really cool. The clarification about it targeting the lowest level really helps explain the motivation, thanks, and all the best!
Also a predecessor to the Louisville Assembly Plant was one of the earliest big Model T factories, so Ford has a lot of history in Kentucky.
i'd guess the mechanisms for ad clicks and search engine refinement are largely separate (with maybe some overlap for sponsored results? does google do that?).

the asynchronous ping attribute is new[1]. i'm pretty sure it was the mid-00s when i first noticed that search result links bounced through a redirect via google. (and i'm guessing it was added to reduce confusion when hovering and ameliorate copy/paste issues for search result links, but i don't know for sure)

[1] https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/pull/9470 (april 2021)
HN looks similar to how reddit did before the UI redesign, and reddit made many things significantly worse when redesigning.

UI redesigns as a concept are in my opinion horrible.

The approach linked to here is much better. Making incremental changes to the existing and well known UI. No need for a full redesign all at once.
Utilizing zero-knowledge proofs and cryptography so things can be proven without sharing of the underlying data needed for traditional validation.

There has been a lot of progress both in fundamentals and implementations on this front over recent years but even decades old schemes using attestations would have been a huge improvement over “dump and read data through trusted server”.

Here’s a trivial one that anyone could implement without using anything new from the past decade: Whoever stands as “trusted party” could have signing certificates distributed to the verifier-side of the app. They sign hashes of the relevant info. All data sharing needed is once per issuance of “vaccination certificate”. No persistence of PII necessary. If you don’t want to have to disclose PII as part of validation, that’s where the fancier schemes come in.

If you can’t or won’t spend resources to do it properly then yes, physical card is preferred.
They own the plane. They choose the engine. They choose to fly. They choose to lobby against engine upgrades.

They choose to poison us.
If you've got an old phone and $10, a 5 year old could have some fun looking around with Google Cardboard. The product was unfortunately victim to another Google product sunset in March of this year [1] but still works, and it would give you an opportunity to see if they actually like it and check how vulnerable they are to motion sickness. The lag and accuracy are pretty poor (depending on the phone's processor and accellerometer/gyro) but there's no sense spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on a 5-year-old's whims.

Unless, of course, they're actually your whims and you're using "my 5 year old wants it" as a perfectly valid excuse...

My 5-year-old has fun playing Mario on my 20-year-old Game Boy Color, but has no idea that VR or VR gaming is even a thing. Maybe I'll get him a Game Boy Advance SP or a Gamecube in a couple years...there was a Penny Arcade or XKCD or similar webcomic a few years back about someone who had artificially restricted themselves to games and systems released 5 years before the present so they could savor the improvements in game design without dealing with the availability issues. It was presented in jest but is actually a reasonable system, and saves a lot of money in the process!

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/googles-vr-dreams-ar...
> None of the arguments about battery life, security, or privacy were contradicted in this article.

Regarding battery life, and to quote your own remark, one line below this:

"There's no evidence that that is true, nor has there ever been." - because no other browser was ever benchmarked / tested because there is no other browser.

Regarding security: Having one single attack surface for every single iOS user is not "good security". If Safari/WebKit has a problem, every iOS user has a problem and they can't (temp) switch to an alternative. To fix it, Apple needs to roll out an entire OS update, 15 minutes downtime, reboots and all. And users tend to postpone OS updates because of it.

Regarding privacy: You're saying Safari is better at privacy than Firefox, Brave, etc? We don't really know, do we?

Actually, Safari on iOS has privacy / security features that Chrome, Firefox and others on iOS do not because they can't access the necessary APIs. Apple is actually undermining user privacy and security here.
So then the moderation market must be a big one.

With AI companies leading the pack.

Instead of a now [sufficiently abused] abuse reporting system.

What's going on? Tptb should fund these moderation companies asap, it could be a more centralized and hidden censorship tool. A SaaS that all companies at sufficient scale require for [lawful] moderation.
I was also hoping the title was more accurate. In the lines of the famous story of not being able to send an email 500 miles.

https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
Hey! Thanks for the explanation, but I don’t fully understand the two projects. Is this built with code-server, or do the server parts of Gitpod come from Microsoft? Where should I submit PRs?
>I suppose in the sense that Gabby Pettito was moderated off the internet, Ross Ulbricht was moderated off of the internet and into a cage permanently for the heinous crime of facilitating voluntarily peaceful trade.

Oh hello, strawman.

>Tor marketplaces were definitely not gone for years, the same content just moved under new banners. You can literally find the same content and more on WHM today as you did under Ulbricht's banner before he was kidnapped by government thugs.

And the only reason that happens is by virtue of Tor making it difficult to track the source of those sites and their operators. That doesn't mean that "moderators" (governments, etc.) aren't putting forth their best efforts to track them down and shut them down. It is nearly inevitable that WHM will see a similar fate to Silk Road, AlphaBay, DarkMarket, etc.. They're being shut down as quickly as they can be.
You didn't even post about the most significant PII loss in USG history - OPM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
If you create a platform with absolutely zero censorship, you become a repository for child porn. I participated in Freenet many years ago because I liked its ideas (And thought it would have been a nice way to pirate games without my ISP being able to know), but it got a reputation for being used for CP, and I promptly deleted it, because I want no part in that.

If you merely censor illegal content, you will become a home for disinformation and ultra right-wing conspiracies. See Parler.

In either case, and especially the first, you're likely to get kicked off your hosting platform and get a lot of attention from the government.

I don't think it's possible create a "we don't censor" platform without hosting it in some foreign country that doesn't care about US laws and also hiding that you're the one that runs it.
WTF is this? I was at university and I assure you we were connected to the internet. I got a login and an email address from the physics department in `91 because I was working on a project on their network. I used Elm for email, which had been out since the 80s. I was happy to upgrade to Pine (Pine is not elm) in 1992 and actually kept using Pine until like 1999. By `92 pretty much everyone else at my university was using the internet. I could dial up from home via modem, and check my email. NCSA Mosaic came out in `93.
Actually yes! We are working on iterating on Focus Sessions and blocking (especially communications apps) right now.
The amount of new products and/or features from Cloudflare over the last few weeks has been crazy.
This type of cynicism about countries like Canada and the U.S. is unwarranted when looking at the full sweep of history. Progress was made in the past. All is not lost.
Edge's browser session ID is hardware-based and their sync doesn't offer end-to-end encryption for all categories, only a few. The browser itself is probably the best modern browser at least on desktop, but it's sadly not ideal for privacy, to say the least.

Brave and Vivaldi would be the Chromium forks of choice. Both implement a zero knowledge sync system of their own, for example, default to privacy friendly search engines etc.
The great plains does have issues. The rest of the midwest doesn't.
Sadly also a really damn good product otherwise.
Where are you from? I've taken college classes at several different institutions after starting my career and never had to provide any medical information at all.
Type-Safe Elixir Alternative
I share your sentiments. A simple (hah!) robot that can carry ~20-50lb loads while traversing suburban/urban terrains and navigate stairs between two pre-set points. Would make a huge difference for those that are elderly and/or have some limited mobility. Hell, I would buy it just to have one less thing to worry about when I'm with the kids.
It seems robotics suffer from the same problem as AI: every-time it advances and come into contact with the public, it becomes something else.

I explain: we already have an incredible successful robot. It’s the roomba (and it’s imitators). It’s a robot, but suddenly it’s not the robot we’ve all been waiting for.

Just as Siri and Alexa and Google Assistant suddenly are not widely seen as AÍ because, even when they can talk, recognize your speak, search for content and do some tasks, they are not the artificial intelligence we have been waiting for.

It seems we’ll always raise the bar, no matter what.

200 years from now, taking, walking, autonomous smiling android: not a robot.
something that always amazes me about OBS is how it is seamlessly cross-platform... and yet I assume the low-level ability to capture display output must be highly platform-dependent?

Does OBS need to maintain totally distinct logic for capturing display output from different OSs? Or is there already an abstraction layer for this, maybe at the driver level? Or, third possibility - does it depend on a separate project/library for that?

(I'm ready for the replies saying "read the source and find out" but I'm hoping for someone smarter than I to make sense of it for me :D)
That belief is irrational, though, since there is no evidence that such a being exists.
I agree. It's the one site I can browse on a very limited mobile connection, and I'm very glad about it.
Work with boston dynamics to make the Spot robot arm into a self-leveling gimbal table, and let the robot run around your house, and I think you're golden. Make it respond to voice commands, and you'll be even shinier.
Is this referring to Alexa, or some other product? Have there been any major notable reports about spying happening with Echos?

With regards to data collection for ads, personalized recommendations and such, are there any major concerns that don't also extend to ex:- visiting a website with a tracking cookie on?

(Don't get me wrong, I'm very wary of this product after Sidewalk [0] which I don't trust from a security perspective wherein as a bug could allow _third parties_ to snoop on me, but I'm just missing what people are talking about w.r.t. surveillance by Amazon itself)

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/understanding-amazon-s...