skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you mean Russian accent when speaking English, then it comes mainly from difficulties pronouncing sounds that have no direct equivalent in Russian (e.g. the sounds represented by R, W, TH), or those that do but where it's pronounced noticeably different (e.g. I/И). These are mostly the same for all dialects of Russian.

However, Russian itself has plenty of dialects that can be quite different from the language standard, and there are certain characteristic variations that can readily pin one's geographic origin. For example, standard Russian tends to pronouce unstressed О as А (or rather as shwa biased towards A), but this is most pronounced in southern dialects, and is missing from most northern ones. Similarly, Г in standard Russian is pronounced same as hard G in English, but in southern dialects it tends to become something more like GKH.

As with other countries, dialectal variety has been significantly reduced through universal education (that tends to enforce the standard and frown upon dialects as "uneducated speech") and mass media. The historical tendency for authoritarian and highly centralized governance, both during the imperial period and later in the USSR, exacerbated this.
In general: no. In aviation you don't do "this should probably work so let's do it". You follow approved guidelines and procedures and only approved guidelines and procedures. When there are a hundred separate things that can go wrong and kill you, you don't stray outside the lines.

And the issue isn't only slightly less power.
> Signal is the best we have on mobile at the moment

Matrix is pretty good.
The radio is incomplete without the $400 leather bag.
To be fair, this goes for all Slavic languages.
Kgeist gives citations to the more general trend here, but in Modern Greek, terms for children of particular genders often also don't have matching grammatical genders. Thus, το παιδί and το τέκνο (child, nonspecific) are both neuter. But το κορίτσι (girl) and το αγόρι (boy) are also neuter.
Been diving deep into lawn care recently. There's a TON, literally hundreds, of products you can spread on your lawn. There's 250 days of the growing season to apply those hundreds of products on. And does it work? Well, this internet comment written by so and so says it does, and their lawn is beautiful, but which of the 15 things they're doing are most pivotal? Or is it multivariate and all the parameters matter and affect and interact with each other?

Unfortunately, I believe it's the latter complex case. pH matters a lot, that affects fertilization uptake, but so does soil bacteria and organic matter, lack of bugs and diseases, proper moisture, and the physical act of cutting the grass is an art and skill, not a mere chore.

Oof, plants need a lot of variables to be in the right ranges, and with soil and watering and weather, it's a lot of fluctuation on top of it all.
Ahhh makes sense…. Seems like an interesting project
You're still making the assumption that the thing competing with starvation is compliance with gender norms (or to be more general, social norms).

As a thought experiment, consider being trapped on a desert island where the only thing edible were termites. My starvation risk is high, so I will eat the termites. Eventually I get back to civilization and my starvation risk is much lower, and I no longer choose to eat termites. Is this because A) the social norms which dictate that I shouldn't eat termites are now more important to me, or B) I prefer other foods to termites?

It is perfectly reasonable that under differing circumstances the weights we will give different factors in decision making vary, but that does not on its own tell us what those factors actually are.
I can't help but think the fact the account creation date (and last connection date, although less so for that) are not censored for a reason.

The account creation date is basically equivalent to the phone number and would allow the owner of the account to know a subpoena was requested for them.
From the article

> “ We need to have some humility here,” he added. “We really don’t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent. But, I’m not going to say 90 percent.”

We don’t know, he doesn’t know, no one knows the exact number. Yeah he’s being a bit coy, but all the numbers he’s thrown out since the delta are in that range

Btw Fauci technically isn’t cdc. Just saying bc we’re being ultra strict on the herd immunity estimates but very lax on other facts when accusing the cdc. Seems inconsistent.
What they're saying is that those who get elected are forced to support government surveillance.
I have sympathy for your family members.

I (obviously) have no idea about the details of that situation, but since a violent crime can't be committed over the internet via a chat app, there ought to be physical evidence of that crime, no?

If there's some sort of conspiracy element to that, I can see how chat logs might be useful.

But attempting to require folks to provide information they don't have (as is the case here) is a fruitless endeavor.

What solution would you suggest? Get rid of encryption? Force providers to collect the contents of their users' computers and phones?

While, as I said, I sympathize with your family members (and you), such an outcome doesn't justify taking away everyone's privacy.

Especially since the vast majority of people are decent, law-abiding folks.

I get that your experiences and the pain they've caused won't allow you to see things differently, but privacy is important, and I for one, won't give mine up without a fight.
Well, not really. If you are using a cloud solution, you usually needs an engineer that knows this particular solution. Outside of the HN bubble, it's a rare breed and it cost a lot more than your traditional linux admin, that you probably already have anyway.

Then you need to design, maintain and debug the distributed cloud system, which is more complex.

So you'll have a dedicated person or team for that in both cases.

On the other end, setuping a linux box for the common tasks (web server, cache, db, etc) never takes me more than a day.
Apple is not a solution, it's a stop gap. They will still want a copy of the messages after it, and all your other data.

And the reason for the huge backlack, is that this stop gap will actually make it easier for them to request more afterwards, because the infrastructure, the proof of concept, will already be there and running. And it will cross to other providers: "see Apple does it, so clearly it's Signal that's being protective of criminals, we should impose them to do the same thing Apple did with no issue".
High fives none the less.
That's a big fast 'citation needed' for the initial claim.

I'm not sure where this idea comes from, but it's wholly false, at least at the myriad of colleges I've worked with, and generally true in urban settings [0]. Housing is often a loss for the university (hence the explosion of PPP to try and recoup those losses). Instead, especially at places like UCSB, it's landlords in the area that are a large financial burden for students. At my last university, rental occupancy within a 5 mile radius was at 98%, which exerts a huge upwards pressure on rent. Students were BEGGING for more housing, because campus housing was on-par or lower than the area, and comes with many other benefits related to travel and campus resources. Furthermore, college housing often provides a 9 or 10 month lease option, which can save a lot of money over an annual lease.

Additionally, there is regular evidence [1][2] that living on campus helps with retention rates, which is critical to avoiding the 'spending money, never getting the credential' problem plaguing higher ed. In this light, even if campus housing were somewhat more expensive, the benefit in completion could easily outweigh those costs.

Munger looks terrible, but there's a HIGH demand and LOW supply for housing at UCSB, and at urban colleges in general. It's not a cash cow for many, if any, campuses. Certainly not public ones.

0: "'When you look at the metros that have exceptionally high cost of living expenses like New York, Boston and San Francisco, there has been research done that those areas can be significantly cheaper for a student to live on campus,' says Amy Glynn, vice president of financial aid and community initiatives at CampusLogic, a firm that advises higher education institutions."

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-co...

1: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236730093_The_Causa...

2: https://www.ucf.edu/news/students-living-on-campus-experienc...
This is just the "think of the children" argument.

Think of credit card fraud and the $25 billion lost to it every year(half a Madoff). Then countless start ups, engineers and customer service employees that all deal with the excess fat of correctly routing payments. All these resources to put guard rails on a flawed process, funded by the 3% skim off the top.

Blockchain for finance demands high user accountability, a refreshing change for anyone who's been on the other end of a reversed payment.
> due to the outrageous markups

Not only that, but traditional mattress shops still use some of the highest pressure sales tactics I've experienced. It only takes once to make you never want to set foot in one again.
I figured it was something like Facebook|Netflix > Google > Amazon > Microsoft. With them all being in an A- tier of compensation. (Most companies are C - B, A is extremely rare).
An Introduction to the FreeBSD Operating System
Being a fervent Tor Browser user, i just tried with it and of course the fingerprinting failed. Several copies of it give me the same fingerprints: e56952dba176a47af3c051b626b64ff3 (Safer mode) 632e305f8a939e5ba6afd24eced586f0 (Safest mode)

That's because the Tor Browser, contrary to urban legend, is not just a browser that routes trafic through the tor network, but a firefox reworked (most of which is being upstreamed) explicitly to combat fingerprinting (some kind of digital black block if you will).

Overall that's an amazing compilation of modern web fingerprinting vectors. I'm just a little disappointed they left screen size (and maybe other obvious avenues) out of the demo. That would be a really cool way to demonstrate how Tor Browser's window cutting (or whatever that's called) works [0].

I read somewhere (but i can't vet the claims) there's enough variance on TCP implementations across systems to be able to distinguish, and i'm curious how the Tor Browser deals (or doesn't) with that. Could be an idea for v2 demo.

Thanks for the cool demo! I definitely enjoyed the script-like UX of the page. I wish more sites did stuff like that instead of defaulting to JS for every little animation or dynamic content.

[0] Tor Browser enforces actual width and height of the web rendering part of the window to be multiples of certain numbers, so that websites can provide experience for smaller/larger screens while retaining limited fingerprinting (eg. your fingerprint will not be affected by a user-configured or desktop-dependent window border, scroll bar width, or anything such)
Electrons do not orbit.

For the simple case of an electron in a hydrogen atom, energy-stable wavefunctions are products of three separate functions: exponential function, a laguerre polynomial function and a spherical harmonic.
> Also in English we have gendered pronouns which has become a hot topic in the last couple of years. I wonder what people who speak languages without gendered pronouns think of the current kerfuffle.

Upper class wokelets are being silly as usual. In part they're seeking identity, to belong. In another, they're terminally online and live in a world of words where speech defines the world. If you can make a sentence and replace one word with another of the same class, you should just treat them as equal because you grammatically can. Whether the real-world things the words point at are remotely similar enough is irrelevant, since to the woke, the real world isn't primary.

You could go to forums about unscientific personality typologies and see the exact behaviors of the gender-nonconformists on display in a completely different medium, and before they escaped tumblr into the world at large. It's just people grabbing self-definitions to build an identity - a special one - in a way that's cheap and doesn't require the real work that living an actually interesting life or even reading widely.

Why do you think there's stuff like genderqueer etc.? It's low-cost, you don't have to change anything about yourself, just make the claim. And it's high status, unlike being normal and heterosexual. If high status things are cheap to do, people will do them.

> Of course in English we have a tiny bit of gendered nouns where we append "man" or "woman" to some job titles based on the gender of the person holding the title (policeman, congressman, etc). This has become problematic when we use the plural.

This is a 'problem' in my native language as well. Otherwise, we're civilized and just call everyone 'it'.
I would say that's probably something specific to your set up, and you may want to try some more apps, or ask those developers of your apps what their plans are. If you use Plasma, then you are using some Qt Quick software. Currently only the GNOME extensions panel is ported to GTK4, but more things are aimed for GNOME 42. In Firefox you need to enable webrender which is still beta but should be stabilized soon. I used VA-API as an example because that is another thing that only works locally and doesn't touch X. If you are using VA-API to output video to an X window then it explicitly won't send the original compressed video stream because the point of VA-API is to use hardware decompression. If you want to stream video then X and VA-API are both the wrong tool, you have to use something like gstreamer or phonon.

"Cairo is also backed by X rendering and this is the default."

This is incorrect, Cairo X rendering only happens if you use the Cairo Xlib surface, which GTK3 only uses in some circumstances.

Sure, maybe you're using a lot of applications don't use GL or Vulkan now. But if they are being actively developed, they are probably actively moving towards it. We can revise my original comment if you think it was wrong and want to make it more relevant to your situation: The "vast majority of cases" has moved to using GL or Vulkan or are taking steps to move towards it.
I was browsing some Time magazines from the 1960s and was surprised such a known magazine was using Russia instead of USSR in myriads of articles. I guess the same goes here.
It’s worth remembering that the M1s of last year aren’t a previous generation. They’re the same M1 chips with just fewer CPU and GPU cores. The external monitor limitation is the only thing holding me back from changing my final-gen Intel Air for an M1-based system.
Recently visited a local botanical garden and saw their mature Ficus lyrata (Fiddle lead fig) and was astounded to see mine at 6 feet tall was merely a juvenile branch on the entire tree.

The author has also a good point in that maturing plants is a lot of work and as they become more of themselves they become more than, imo, what people would consider aesthetically appropriate.

M.deiciosa is a hot plant right now and maybe in these 5+1 apartments someone will live in one long enough to let it really start branching up and out and taking up a valuable amount of living real estate. It also has these, to my fiancee, 'penile' roots that are to her unsightly.

They make me feel more alive seeing the plant thrive and do its thing.
It takes extra effort to design a system with this little amount of data. Note that we only have Signal's word for some of this; they could in fact log every single time that you login, which would make the amount of data sent to the FBI much larger (and could be of importance to the case, for example, if the defendant had a dedicated Signal account for the crime that they only logged into at certain times).

Then there's IPs. If you log IPs along with when someone connects, then an IP can often be tracked to a WiFi router, which then pins your location.

Most E2EE communication protocols will see (and thus potentially log) the time and destination of every message you send. If two people have been accused of conspiring to commit a crime, this could be material in forming the case. They may also store your contact list, but a sufficiently long list of messages sent will practically determine your contact list anyways.

Even just the time of messages could be important; if someone interviewed claimed to be in the shower at a certain time, but there were logs of a message being sent at that time, that's probably enough for an obstruction of justice charge to stick.
It's pretty crazy that people still think elections do anything and aren't just a sham while the rulers plug in the choices from above.
Also, after printing 1 to 9, you have a single pattern of 30 numbers that repeats exactly 3 times from 10 to 99, then 30 times from 100 to 999, then 300 times from 1000 to 9999, and so on. That lets you extract lots of code from the loop and run it roughly once every 10^n numbers.
Either that or residents of Wyoming:
https://sleepboutique.ca/alaskan-king-wyoming-king-beds-aka-...

Alaskans will not ""sleep"" in beds smaller than 9' x 9' it seems.
Fossil fuels doomed in New York as regulator blocks new gas power plants
This is a problem all over, from health advice to cooking to skincare, lawn care, etc. etc. etc.

A complex system with many variables and optimum points trying to be solved with anecdotes, magical cures, and "good for you" products.
But don’t you have some extensions that are not enabled for incognito mode? Perhaps they assume it works as long as the same extensions are installed in both modes?
> if I give you a special code that I create you can take an amount of money directly from my bank account, specified by the code. No need to use something like stripe.

You just described OpenBanking in the UK, SEPA in the EU and NPI in India.
Sounds like shingles, I see that can be one of the causes.
Languages often invent terms by combining existing words, though, and then some combinations become standard. Indeed, your own list has "red grapes" and "red currants"! For some other prominent examples, consider "pineapple" or "pomodoro" ("pomi d'oro").
Would you happen to be freelancing a bit?

I'd like to hire somebody for a day to teach me those things. Remote is ok.
Multi-player VR-enabled rollercoaster sim created in VRChat
Not really DuckDB-Wasm question but DuckDB:

I got a data sets probably not suitable for loading into a memory table (close to 1000M rows CSV).
I did split it into 20M rows chunks, read one by one into a DuckDB temporary table and exported as parquet.

SELECT using glob prefix.*.parquet where mycolumb=foobar does work but can be a bit faster. Apart from sorting the input to parquet CSVs, what can he done?
The CSV chunks were already sorted.
I still remember a time in which electronics manuals included a schematic. It's definitely nice.

I think I'm like many HNers for which the Raptor POWER systems are something I want, but priced at a level I can only justify for something I need.
One thing that isn't central at all, but it stood out to me.

"The amygdala appears to do something similar for emotional learning. For example infants are born with a simple versions of a fear response, with is later refined through reinforcement learning."

Positive and negative emotions can be seen as a reward/punishment mechanism - the goal of a reinforcement learning policy. Our brain is able to change this policy (what defines a positive or negative emotion) over time as our emotional intelligence matures. For example, when we are babies, we cry at anything that scares us. As we get older, we mature and change the emotional reaction automatically. In the example, we learn that not everything should scare us. I never realized that the brain (or ULM) can modify everything, including it's own policies, in response to external stimulus.
This is a lesson on policy and rhetoric. As a programmer I always assumed people thought like me. But they don't. Studying policy mid-career is one of the most eye opening things I have done. Like it or not, if you want to advance policy you have to set up an organized plan that evokes some emotion. This is opposed to applying only logic which would motivate me if I were the audience. Apply to reason alone and you will lose.

> Then our hero enters, and decides to coordinate and plan a persuasion campaign to get the rule changed. Here’s how I think this went down.
> this small subset of self-selecting people who are okay with their tablet requiring a login to work, are okay with their devices requiring a login to work

I'll go ahead and assume English isn't your first language. I was saying the vast majority of people who own ipads are fine with needing to login to an account to get the most out of it. Doesn't seem like a particularly controversial statement.

Now go ahead and find some way in which the above sentence is technically incorrect, but you're starting to look silly.
You can prefer it but it will never happen. Most home ISPs have some kind of restrictions on incoming connections and the majority of home routers have buggy or incomplete firmware which make hosting at home difficult.

The benefit of the VPN option is that it requires cooperation from no one and rips right through all the obstructions the ISP and routers put in the way. People hosting at home are an extreme minority so there is basically no chance we will go back to when every single computer was directly connectable.
I agree with the architect's criticism and I don't think I'd want to live in a room without windows without some compensating factor.

It is interesting, though, from the point of view of exploring ways for people to live. One of the main objections to human habitation on Mars is that people will have to live in radiation-hardened bunkers, probably underground. A lot of people consider lack of windows to be an absolute show-stopper. I don't think that's the case, but I do think that in order to go without windows you at least need to pay a lot of careful attention to creating natural light conditions and simulating wide-open spaces. Maybe you'd have to have more floor-space per person than you would otherwise, and maybe you'd need to have a few very large rooms with walls and ceiling painted a flat color that's hard to focus directly on and looks like sky.

It doesn't seem like the designer of this dorm is doing much of that; it seems more like they're just running the "let's take away windows and see what happens" experiment. People are adaptable and some of them won't mind, but still I don't think it's going to be very successful on average.
> You can’t make a stock trade, lose money, and then sue the counter party because your intent was to make money.

That's too macro. Multiple steps.

The intent of a stock trade is to exchange currency for share(s). That intent was fulfilled.

Your _desire_ was to make money, but that's not an inherent function of the stock trade.
The ACLU is not what it once was. I will not donate to them. Even the EFF is growing questionable. I would definitely be curious what recommendations people have.
10 Year old blog post about switching from Linux to Windows
You might enjoy this Guardian article on the ever-increasing efforts spent on improving grass pitches used for football: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jun/15/silicon-val....
There is a third option: https://twitter.com/marcedwards/status/1450798991633833992
I don't think this is intended to provide an actual fingerprinting solution like EFF's Cover Your Tracks, but rather a demo of non-obvious noscript-proof data points.

If these techniques were combined with more well-known such as screen size or DPI, uniqueness would be more relevant.
In my experience lawn care is mostly getting the amount of water/sun right and not beating it up too much.