skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Security is always an arms race. Making the person hiding the cameras make the extra effort is worth it because some will be too lazy. Also some wont know and be caught which increases precieved risk which may tip the risk-reward scale more towards risk for the person hiding the camera making it less likely they would decide to try.
Show HN: Wikireader – website reader with a built-in dictionary
Greetings HN!

Wikireader is inspired by two facts:

- I like learning foreign languages
- Some (most) days I will open certain news sites more times than I'd like to admit, "just to check if there's something interesting"

This app is an attempt to channel that energy in a more productive direction. Instead of opening XYZNews for the nth time I'll try reading wikipedia - but in a different language. That way I'll learn something new about the world AND practice that language. At least that's the idea. Sometimes it even works.

Although e.g. Chrome has a built in integration with wordreference, it still requires too many clicks. So I rolled my own. This has been sitting on a dusty shelf for a while. But it still builds in Android Studio, so I thought I'd share. Any feedback welcome!

Fun fact, some wikipedia versions have a "quote of the day". Those have become my favorites.

The list of websites is configurable, so one could use it for other websites too - by default each language has wikipedia and a news site. The built-in browser is sometimes buggy and gets dizzy if it follows too many redirects.
> The ability to provide additional value after the event. The ability to provide perks to recurring attendees. Means and reason to sell the ticket after the event.

This... This can already be done and is already being done now, without any blockchains. There's literally nothing difficult in doing this.
This sort of thing tend to be explained to much younger kids then 10. And I assure you, little girl visiting the castle will listen to exact same trivia with total interest too. I mean, common, castles feature both genders of kids, they all go through all rooms.

> pick out the ones interested in knights killing each other in a castle, you will find the selection heavily biased towards boys

Like really, kids of both genders when being in castle and looking at knight armor are going to listen to you talking about knights fighting. They will be way more biased when picking souvenir toys, there they will follow gender. But the whispered "this turns right because this or that" does not have that large bias of interest.

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If the author is wrong about this trivia being explained only to buys, then the author is making sexist assumption about dads. Which is possible actually.
> Singleword Xchange
> Doubleword Xchange

Thank you! I knew all the difference (the same as 8088 vs. 8086) but never knew why those names were used. I love these tidbits of history.
How to Hide Photo on iPhone and iPad
In German "Korn" means grain - e.g. "Vollkorn" meaning "whole grain".
Mojeek and Gigablast.
Both do not engage in tracking unlike all others.
https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-...
ispc is an open source high performance compiler by Intel and guess what happened?

https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/29/ispc-retrospective#th...
Or this could force phone companies to create alternative, more open forks of the supposedly Open Source Android.

It's not like we don't know how to do this stuff, we just don't invest enough in it.
Oh, are we doing this now? I mean, if we are, let's get rid of JS/TS and move to Rust or something, anything really.
Well, no, it's not obvious at all. It's a neat conjecture that may be true in some cases and false in others. I mean, for all we know there may be castles where staircases spiral a certain way because of some beliefs about the devil.

It's fine to say that we don't have enough information to say anything definite about the subject.
I was sort of just reducing the idea to absurdity. I only work in small teams - everything I do is by feel. It's easy to tell if things are behind or not. Easy to tell if someone is wasting time, or if they're stuck on a problem, and extrapolate a new ETA. Honestly, the idea of trying to feed that into software seems heartless and inevitably wrong, but if I were going to do it, I'd opt for the pessimistic analysis.
Netflix just raised their subscription fees a lot recently, on an unrelated note :-))
These things remind me of one of my first jobs as a bench engineer 'trying' to fix PCs

the vast majority of problems back then was the power supply and the vast majority of the issues with power supplies was burned out capacitors - easily fixable.

for some bizaar reason one memory that also sticks out was the painful compatibility issues of putting seagate hard disks together with conner hard disks (IDE cables) also SCSI was a pita with terminators not working (resistors at the end of the scsi cable).

I built my first PC 386SX (I think it was only a 33MHz - complete with a TURBO button!! :o) ) with bits that other engineers had thrown away - literally, outside they had a skip(dumpster) with 386 motherboards and other stuff they deemed unfixable that I had to keep going through.

everyone was scared of opening monitors - using long screw drivers to ground the tube made them (mostly) safe. I also had to fix a b/w (or technically black/ orange) CGA monitor to go with it. i still managed to get windows running on it.
> Digital Property/Rights: Whether you want to accept it or not, there is an entire market where all kinds of property is being transferred through smart contracts.

Are any of those smart contracts for physical items recognized by, you know, actual laws, courts, governments, etc.?

> Sometimes the traditional digital item (say an NFT) has an associated real-world contract attached to it that

That is the only thing required for an actual contract for an actual physical object, and NFT is just some scam attached to it.
Etimology. Castle is Norman French for Chateau. A special kind of house, typically/historically for a nobleman, i.e. a landowner.

Remember much of English is actually Norman French. After the conquest and all.
Solar cells are inefficient, and we should just get power off batteries instead?

That's not an argument for anything, and doesn't have anything to do with the article.
> I'd rather have the oppressive government, which ostensibly creates rules to benefit the country as a whole,

Oh, you sweet summer child.
I agree with GP that human rights are made up but would love to hear why and how you think they aren't. That would be a far better read than this pointless post that doesn't contribute anything to discussion.
Would you be able to share your recipe? I've seen many variants on the net. Using ripe/full yellow fruits I did many soaks in water, boiled the fruits and even the boiling juice had to be discarded due to bitterness. After that process I added sugar and a couple oranges and ended up with an acceptable bitterness, but the flavor is still very sharp. One of the recipe on the net talked about harvesting fruits when they still have shades of green and are not fully ripe. Maybe that's a way to prevent too much bitterness? I also did not remove the skin and I hear it's where most of the bitterness is.
I remember reading Buffer took investment on their blog, and the team took money off the table as part of the deal.
> I'm confused why people are willing to develop hacks on top of hacks just to avoid using IPv6. It is really elegantly designed

As you can see, It's because not many people understand IPv6.

Also there are many devices that would stop working. There is no clear path for adoption, everything is "switch and let's see if it breaks". Many systems are legacy systems. Banks still run old IBM mainframes and you would need to think about it when migrating to IPv6.

ISP's are unwilling to implement it as there are not so many qualified workers that even understand IPv6, big companies like Google straight refuse to fully implement DHCPv6 and so on.

IPv6 is IT's esperanto.
That's why I said on track.
I think the bright light is intended as a countermeasure to the hidden camera, not as a countermeasure to finding the hidden camera.

Basically, to keep position X unobservable through the hidden camera, ensure that there is an overwhelming source of photons between position X and the hidden camera.

Since we don't know where the hidden camera is, the best we cam do is to assume that the immediate vicinity of the bright light will accomplish this.
It's already a known cure for worms, it's what it's usually prescribed for. And reducing parasite load helps the immune system.

What it isn't, is a drug that objectively protects against Covid. Yet we have American media claiming it as such, and people selling clothing to the British with the slogan "Ivermectin. Safe. Lo-cost[sic]. Beats Covid."

Many other things also help the immune system. Adequate sleep. Balanced diet. Less stress. But I don't see any news pundits obsessing about why doctors aren't prescribing celery.
Seems I was wrong. Sorry. This defies the imagination!
Wordpress as a no-code platform: a practical and technical feedback
Can you hit me up with your favorite examples? I'm just hearing about the guy now and the first article of his that I found was kind of a pseudosciencey wall-o-text that I won't be finishing.
The dynamic nature of JavaScript is lost when using TypeScript.

Although TypeScript can be added incrementally, in practice I've only seen it totally replace JavaScript.

While I do believe more people prefer TypeScript over JavaScript, I think it's because those people never deep dived JavaScript or bothered to learn it enough to see how powerful it really is. There are also people that just prefer typed languages and will shun languages without static types.

This really is a religious war and boils down to one's opinion. I like JavaScript without typing.
Geothermal and Hydro are steady sources, not intermittent, so that’s why you don’t need a lot of storage. The hydro dam is the storage.
Geothermal also isn’t renewable unless used very very sparingly, most installations I know of will deplete the source in a few decades, perhaps a century.
They probably wont scale all the way to tower. That would be excessive scalling, since walls are smaller by a lot.
I see Elixir pulling in a lot of people in with Liveview, especially those in the node/react world who are getting tired of the churn and build complexities.
First Covid patient in Wuhan was at animal market, study finds
> Nobody likes the consequences of global warming but nobody likes to give up the convenience of hydrocarbons.

Nobody wants to give up the convenience of personal transportation using automobiles. And for the United States, a good chunk of which was designed around that this is a serious problem.
They have those historical explanations next to them. They used the word "castle" systematically. "The castle was build" or "the castle was destroyed" or "the castle was rebuild" ...
The benefit is that you basically have full control over the entire OS. If a modern software on linux wants to fix a bug caused by the windowing system, they cannot just go in and do a straightforward PR on it without learning that entire community and vast project. In Serenity, most of it can be understood by most programmers. I personally fixed a bug in the volume applet that required adding a new IPC message to the windowing system. This kind of full stack control is rarely seen in an open source context, and so it has a lot of potential.
> The level of expertise in the OP is way above “walking” when translated to EE terms

I know, I've looked into doing it and this is mind-blowing but they're relative terms and it depends on what you compare it to. This is "walking" compared to bringing up a Ryzen machine.

> with absolutely no extrinsic value

Why should it? And how do you know it doesn't and they just haven't documented that?
In Czech Republic we were much lower down the food chain when it came to masks, so there was no hope of getting them early on in the pandemic. So something novel happened - people were encouraged[0] to sew their own and wear them at all times. Over the course of a week or so we went from a country where mask-wearing was basically unheard of to everyone having their face covered when out in public. During that period (until ~September or so?) we frequently had the lowest number of daily cases-per-capita in Europe. Later the requirement for masks was removed altogether and all restrictions were relaxed ... then cases exploded to the point where we had the highest number in the world.

What I'm saying is - it looks like a bit of honesty and an encouragement for the general public to improvise face covering could have helped the USA and Canada despite the chronic lack of "real" PPE. The criminally negligent messaging around masks caused hesitation and doubt that was a gift to the covid deniers who to this day refer to that huge u-turn on masks.

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/czechs-get-to-...
> Compared with individuals screened but not enrolled, participants included in the study were on aircraft at significantly lower altitude (mean of 0.6 m for participants v mean of 9146 m for non-participants; P<0.001) and lower velocity (mean of 0 km/h v mean of 800 km/h; P<0.001).

> ... [T]he trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps.

Hah. Ah, yes. Always read carefully!
I feel very similarly with Ruby and especially Rails. After working in Rails for multiple years, I'm now doing a freelance gig where the tech stack is React, NodeJS with TypeScript on Firebase Cloud Functions, and it almost sucks out all of the joy of programming.

Making software in Rails feels creative, and the act of writing code in itself is very satisfactory.

A good opportunity to re-read the Rails Doctrine: https://rubyonrails.org/doctrine

Now, I know that this is very subjective and I can see how others might prefer other languages or frameworks, so I'm not adding this here to start a discussion. Just to share my feelings :-)
The UK is going to mix hydrogen and natural gas through the current infrastructure. They're currently building dozens of hydrogen plants and each one that comes online will increase the hydrogen until it's 100%.

Really brilliant as the UK will be way ahead in global production.

There's a good YouTube video explainer, search "just have a think blue hydrogen"

Here's government link

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-government-launches-pl...
Cause (in case I’m smart enough at all) I have no courage to risk and implement a working thing by myself, while seeing others just do something much easier/simpler than any of my ideas and get their share. You don’t get anything by not trying, trust me on that.

Average IQ is 100, but nobody has an IQ of 1,000 or 10,000

Do iq tests even work this way? I think there is not enough points to add up to 1000 or at least 200.

Edit: And even then, this iq thing is irrelevant to your whole life, because our minds are mostly sleeping, being carried around by waves of automatic thoughts, whose iq is minimal.
Generally speaking, absolutely. But the original problem statement begins with "you are very rich", which changes the rules a bit.
Wow...
GP said that human rights are made up and not that he thinks that people shouldn't have any rights, made up or not.
You sound like you know what you're talking about, which makes me a bit confused because you appear to be misinformed here.

Your router will advertise new routes immediately when it's given a new WAN address, there's no downtime incurred explicitly from IPv6 in that scenario: local connections will still route until the timeout anyway.

SLAAC issues (and can issue) more than a single IP per device, leading to interesting bugs like the ones Sam Bowne talks about in windows.[0]

Changing a WAN interface _does_ incur downtime on ipv4 too, unless you're assigning virtual NICs and then failing over: which IPv6 would support in identical ways.

[0]: https://youtu.be/YOglp0m35D8?t=1362
Bank Trio Paying $50M over Claims They Rigged Gold ‘Fix’
This story reminded me of a case of a 25 tonne deep sea mining robot that got detached at a depth of 4km: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/mining-robot-st... . I can't imagine how stressful this must have been for everyone involved. Fortunately the robot was recovered shortly after this incident.
Is there a support group or discord for degooglers? I did it a month or so ago and am still dealing with the ramifications. Most recently I used App Warden to disable all the spyware libs (including Google's) shipped with WeChat. They detected this, and banned my 10 year old account with all my friends and relatives. Been struggling for two days trying to get it reactivated, cuz it will be extremely difficult to travel back to China without it. I am not blind to the irony of keeping Tencent on my phone as I remove Google.

What would be really helpful is a database of apps, similar to the WINE project, maintaining how well they work on a de-googled phone, with a table, columns being "no root", "rooted", "with microg", etc, and a WINE style rating of how well it works and what problems you'll run in to.

You would know which banking services, etc don't work well or at all and could choose your establishments with foresight.
But you aren't "spending time" with that person. You're spending time with that person's poorly rendered avatar. You can't even hear them properly. You can't see them at all. You can't touch them or read a lot of the nonverbal cues. And for the privilege of not being in their presence, you also need to pay several hundred (if not thousands, this being Apple) dollars, and both sides need to use Apple products. I very strongly suspect that all but the most ardent Apple fans will pass on this generous offer.
Very barebones, hand wavey article with little substance. Just dismissing the effects of the pandemic, and the money that was required to combat some of it is at best dishonest. You can't just pretend that didn't happen and all of the money is for nothing.

And FYI, yes, it's considered that small amounts of inflation are good. Claiming the inflation numbers are "rigged" is dishonest as well, their failings have been discussed at length.

Flagged.
This feels sadly like a raindrop in a thunderstorm. Extremism feeds on outrage. Social media is a machine to generate mass outrage. Old-school media has tried to keep up by adopting its own stances of outrage. All of it feeds into a general zeitgeist that inundates your whole day, and every conversation, where no one is sure who is outraged or if you should be, but everyone is sure they're outraged about something.

The fact that it's newsworthy that a traditional public broadcaster chose to take a nuanced tone with an extremist peddler of outrage is perhaps the saddest commentary I've seen yet on the standard of debate in the democratic world. If the center-left answer to the right-wing rage machine is to skip their preferred talking points (rather than engage and cleanse with sunlight) and doing so is worthy of a pat on the back from the Atlantic, we're all just whistling in the dark.
> That's a ridiculous take.

No, it isn't. It's genuine humor; an ironic absurdity derived from a kernel of truth. Best comment of the thread actually; a welcome exception to all of the whataboutery, hair splitting and reading comprehension mishaps.
I think that the secret passages are more often a way for the servants to do daily maintenance without disturbing the owner and guests. In rare occasions they were used so that the lord/lady can visit a lover without bringing unnecessary attention.
How does this compare to the arduino compatible integrated spectrometer like

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14351

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-as7341-10-channel-light-...

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15050 ?
I think this gives an interesting perspective on the recent discussions that I read here about eBikes and the fact that in The Netherlands we don't wear bike helmets.
The argument I saw online[1] was exactly the pitfall the article describes: "everybody will behave safer because cyclists are so obviously fragile".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpVncWxyMJw
A modern occurrence of the spiral staircase defense came when a mentally unwell fan broke into the home of Richard Garriott (Lord British) and was held off by Garriott but using an Uzi instead of a sword. Apparently castles aren't build like they used to be as news articles mention that the Uzi "blew a hole through the house".
Yea reminded me of the geocities days where everyone had a page that was under construction (with blinking text and construction worker clip art).
There's no reason it has to be worse. It's good development practice to design your system to loosely couple with dependencies you have no control over. Worst case you could have two versions, and the one that supports google services works better for whatever imagined reason.
Also IPv6 was officially ratified 2 years after all IPv4s were exhausted. IPv6 was designed in 1998 when total number of internet connected devices is estimated to be equal roughly our daily increase of internet connected devices.
Again, I think you are being completely absurd.

If you sell me a phone, and then deny me the right to use it as phone, then you are breaking the law. At least where I live. I would be able to demand a refund, and the Company could be penalized for lying about what they sell.

You are being absurd.

Also, private businesses should always be able to enforce their rules on their platform/property, as long as they don't discriminate against protected classes like ethnicities, genders, sexualities, etc.

Otherwise you could just shit on the floor of a restaurant, and they could do nothing about it.

Again, you are being absurd.
Tulips and Nazi's?
The quality of not only the product, but the accompanying explanations is outstanding. I think it's a work of art, because not only is it visually impactful (especially at 1Hz, as in the demu), it also uses the medium to convey an idea that would be difficult to convey in any other way.

I'm interested in making (stochastic) algorithms fast, which always seems to eventually lead back to looking at code in compiler explorer. The extent of my knowledge there is basically "short assembly good, long assembly bad". But I've always lacked some "tactile" feeling (for lack of a better phrase) for what a register like "eax" or "rax" is. I hope that learning more about the megaprocessor might help get a glimpse of this.
Launching Fig
In English, it used to mean a grain of anything, not just a cereal grain.

This usage surives in "corned beef", which refers to granular salt used for preserving the meat, nothing to do with cereal grains.

"Corn" still refers to multiple cereals in British English; what Americans call "corn" is "maize". Or so it used to be; perhaps it is changing?

"Corn" also refers to a lump of hardened skin; but that has a different origin, related to "horn", going back to Greek. It shares with "cornucopia" and "cornet" and "keratin".

"acorn" is also not derived from "corn", interestingly; it has its own etymology. It is not a portmanteau of "aiken corn" (oak tree's corn) or anything like that as might be wrongly guessed.

"kernel" is related to "corn" though, not to horns or keratin. OS kernels are named because they are the central part, like a seed, not because kernel programmers have thick skins or devil horns.
Isn't the "chrome" value for "headless" parameter ignored? Maybe he simply meant the --headless switch (since Chrome 59) https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-c...

EDIT: --headless is under kHeadless https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+repo:chromiu...
Another article without paywall: https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/money/103803...
LBJ's home office in Texas was preserved, and is still on display as-is to this day. On the couch is a pillow embroidered "This is my ranch, and I do as I damn please!"