skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing like an imminent meeting with a ventilator to concentrate one's mind.

Obviously, also, there are breakthrough cases, though most which result in hospitalization are in immunocompromised people; not sure if they've trialed this for them or not. At any rate it would be better than nothing.
https://svelte-cubed.vercel.app/examples/trisolaris

"no camera set" too, FF 94 Linux. May be the linux part and the 3D/drivers mess/therefore lag of support for these things in linux that's to blame.

Also fails the same way with Chromium 91 Linux.
I think they meant a CS or related degree.
So Steve was saying that Amazon is responsible for not letting Ashley remain interim chair? I don't remember him saying that either.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Netlify?
Netlify has been great so far, but I think we're outgrowing it. We're getting several hundred users per day to our SPA and need more advanced features like logging so we can better identify issues arising on the frontend. Logging is only available on the enterprise plan, and we just don't see the value in spending that much just to add a feature like logging.

What are some good alternatives to Netlify? Our backend is hosted on GCP, and I wouldn't be apposed to moving it over there, but I do like the simplicity of Netlify + deploy previews on PRs.

Suggestions appreciated.
How convenient for them that they:

1) did not write what are needed parameters of the photo or quality of left fingerprint

2) it does not look like they used photo from an angle of the screen as in article but some other closeup

3) somehow unlock stuff with thumb where most people use index finger

4) then they use index finger to operate "thumb" print

5) who touches screen like that with thumb, who touches back of the phone like that

In the end with PIN I can look over someones shoulder and not even have to make a video.

I agree with the premise of what they say that people might think fingerprint is "super secure" while it is not...

But it is secure enough for most of the people and more secure that typing in PIN or short password or for people using 0000 or 1234 as PIN.
Another cool startup idea would be a search engine for websites, where you type in keywords or phrases and the search engine returns relevant sites. I really hope someone implements this.
I beg to differ. We are using it as a synonym for what it is: anonymous global shadowstate figures human traffics drug pushers etc. Everything shady and hidden from view hence crypto you have "encrypted" your evil intentions.
Not your English — it's definitely ambiguous.
It doesn't seem like facebook pumped the whole page, all other posts have extremely low engagement, literally < 10 likes. What's wrong with pumping individual "good" posts? If anything it can be seen as honorable/egalitarian giving folks a chance to make it even if they aren't some media behemoth.
> You can derive most of mathematics from a few simple axioms.

Yeah, nothing is stopping you from building towers of abstractions that are N degrees from any real experience or data. But those heavily-derived concepts are prohibitively difficult to teach and communicate, because each level in the abstraction hierarchy adds semantic noise. A major reason why classical, "pure" mathematics pedagogy is infamously ineffective.

Ultimately, every great mathematician learned to count with rocks or apples -- not by internalizing Peano's axioms.
> it creates an index; it does not "create" a "key"

I'm still not sure what you mean. By key, do you mean a unique key? With some quick searching, I'm not finding any difference in the Postgres docs.

> MySQL will permit this statement to execute

That was disabled by default in 5.7, 6 years ago. I totally agree that it should have been turned on by default earlier, but isn't a valid criticism of modern MySQL.

> Simple date math in SELECTS would result in idiocy

I've never tried that before, and it looks like that hasn't changed. No idea why that doesn't throw an error.

select
date('2021-11-01') - date('2021-10-01'),
datediff(date('2021-11-01'), date('2021-10-01'))

results in: 100, 31

> Schema changes escaped from transactions

Since 8.0 (April 2018), schema changes are transactional, but you can't include DML changes in the same transaction as a DDL. I haven't found that to be a dealbreaker, but would certainly be nice to have.
A step forward, but also potentially a step backwards compared to the “harder” workflow (the one without all answers on stack overflow).

Just a small example, I imagine there are a lot of JS developers who know that they need to create a new function using “=>” or “.bind(this)” if they need access to “this” within the function… and if they don’t, things break, without really knowing why (even though they know the solution).

TLDR: the best developers I’ve worked with go beyond “knowing the solution” to “knowing why the solution is the solution”. Understanding “why” something is the way it is becomes difficult when something like Copilot autocompletes the correct answer.
Will anybody really ever come by to pick up Perseverence's samples?
That has struck me as really implausible. If it could carry the sample containers to wherever it fills them, it could carry them to wherever it ends up, too, and whatever is supposed to fetch them could make a single stop. Sending another lander just to sweep up after it seems massively wasteful.

Clue?
Metal-cpp – Official C++ bindings for Metal
Because he would go down in the polls if he did that. That doesn't mean it's the "wrong thing to do".

And yes, Scotland will exist for longer than the UK will, in all likelihood. They are "more durable" as I said. Them leaving would lead the UK to cease to exist in its current form.
You can get a shingles vaccine.
> The iron ore reserves near Scranton began to be depleted by the end of the 19th century.

Something mentioned in the book "The Toaster Project" (where a guy tries to build an electric toaster from scratch) is that high-grade ore basically doesn't exist any more, and you now need to process a ton of ore to extract a few kilograms of metal.

(Just something to keep in mind if you ever find yourself in a position of having to rebuild civilization after being trapped in stone for 5,000 years.)
If its just for a fun personal project it might be interesting to try out Vala.
The cyberneticians aren’t happy how cyber means infosec these days!
...is it?
I get the same on Windows, FF 91.
It seems you are stating that fingerprints do not identify an account holder. You should justify the statement.
Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps
It also rewards gigantic undergrad focused schools by measuring the number of founders from the undergraduate classes.

For example, Waterloo is 36k undergrads vs CMU at 7,022. Yet they raised the same amount of capital and roughly have the same number of founders.
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I would like to register the security issue: "import os; os.system('cat /etc/shadow')" demonstrates that without a kernel to check permissions (and without a user ID to be checked against), all filesystem safety guarantees go out the window. </joke>
Don't they regenerate? I vaguely recall reading that criminals have tried lots of surgical ideas but none would last longer than a couple of months.
App Tracking Protection for Android
Worked fine on my desktop Firefox.
The main page works, but did you try the examples?
If it's that important to you, it's likely in a professional setting, isn't it? I'd say most CoCs are perfectly reasonable, and you usually have to go out of your way to cross them in a professional software development environment.
Chrome 96 works.
Looters strike high-end San Francisco-area stores for third day in a row
> The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson.

The Nobel prize should have gone to Francis Mojica. Of course, he does not have all the PR machine that Doudna has, the futuristic TED talks and all.
Agreed, it's a waste of resources and capital which could be invested in something that have real value, I.e you have a real stake in a company, property etc, not ownership of a URL which will rot.
Beating the Crap Out of the Stripe API (Respectfully)
Thanks, I learned a lot from that post!

One minor quibble (which I don't think diminishes your main point at all):

> We're no longer in a World War nor a Cold War...

I don't think that's 100% correct. My impression is that PRC is waging a cold war against the U.S., but the U.S. government hasn't accepted that yet.

I'm certainly no expert on the matter, though. I'd be very grateful for any correction.
Listen to your friends pushing crypto, go all-in. Work more.
It is hard to take seriously any language which didn't view "Windows support outside WSL2" as something to get sorted before 1.0
Good place to ask for alternatives, I suppose. Are there any?

Is NameSilo any better? I can't just go for OpenNIC domain because I have to have email accessible to other servers. :(
Asitop: Perf monitoring CLI tool for Apple Silicon
I've been doing a compare&contrast to SpaceX colonies on Mars vs 15th century colonies to the new world.

Travel time to "home" seems close enough in terms of months long voyages. Haven't decided which journey is the more treacherous option.

The 15th century colonists came to a place that was resource rich in whatever a colony could need: food, water, building material, etc. Martian colonists will not have that luxury.

New world colonists faced an indigenous poplulation that Martian colonists won't have. Probably a good thing, as the examples provided by the new world colonists on how to interact with indeginous people does not bode well (at least for those who continued to follow).

Communication time back to home is actually in the Martian colonist's favor. As is the fact the area will have been surveyed quite exetensively in advance of arrival, so preparations can be better made with that knowledge. Full detailed maps will be available as well. This will help finding more barren wasteland even easier than just wandering around looking for barren wasetland. Effeciency will be key with the constrained resources.
I am well aware that Django is a framework and yes it is quite strict about the way you set it up.

That is a reasonable price to pay for the batteries included approach.

What I am saying that I do not grok the big picture of Django flow.

For some reason I got up to speed with Laravel much faster and I do not write much PHP.

The books that I skimmed (like recommended Two Scoops of Django) just go into various things you can do but do not show the big picture.
Someone submitted it and other people upvoted it.
Come on now. They gave us the cool looking Lock icon, right /s
Yeah I agree wholeheartedly. What I was trying to get across was that simply s/processes/threads isn't going to make a massive difference to postgres if that was the only change you were to make.

Your analysis seems pretty on-point with what I expected, i.e snapshot scalability and other postgres specific arch being the major bottlenecks for higher connection counts.
>by making them download extra data that is useless to them unless they pay additional fees?

We were talking about game discs.

>In places where "unlimited" mobile data is not common, this raises costs for people to get the base product

But it decreases the price of enhancing the product.

>and then they still have to pay to unlock data that is now already on their device.

What's wrong with that? There is plenty of software like that already. Take Microsoft Windows. The whole operating system is already there, you just need to enter a license to unlock everything. This applies to a lot of other software that has some sort of trial.
> You can't diagnose and find a remedy for a problem that you can't even see

The problem seems clear to me when I read the Github pull request, they can't enforce their moderation over the Core team. The remedy they suggest is for the community to decide how the moderation team should enforce moderation on the Core team (or if they should at all).

What would talking about the issue give more? It will just polarize people and push toward a specific solution for that specific issue, while the actual issue is over being able to moderate.
NASA Plans to Put a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon Within a Decade
Actually blueflow deleted comment referenced the following interesting link (PDF, page 3) which shows that the acronym came very shortly after the name, seems that the project was named wine very early without concrete meaning, and the self-referential acronym followed soon. As far as I can tell it was never Windows Emulator.

https://wiki.winehq.org/images/5/5c/Wineconf-2018.pdf

Before wine, there was wabi for Solaris, and wine was implementation of the same idea for Linux. wabi is indeed more correct name, since it is an ABI layer (despite Solaris claim to the contrary, the motives for might be legal reasons).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi_(software)
We don't need any more banners on every website, thanks.
Running 93.0 (64-bit)on windows 10
A nice advantage of SPI is that it can not lock up the master.

This is not true of I2C, where the slave could stretch the clock forever.

This is also not true of UART, where the slave just might not respond. But in fact both SPI and I2C can be simpler than UART since they are strictly master/slave. With a UART, the slave could send you unrequested data, which means your software has to handle asynchronous events. Even if it doesn't you probably have to implement timeouts and input flushing.

SPI is simpler than I2C in that it is a single-master bus, so accesses are atomic (at least at the bus level, within your RTOS is another story...).

You can use simple logic gates as SPI peripherals: for example, 74HC595 works as a SPI accessible 8-bit output port. This is important because such chips are the cheapest available (vs. I2C output port or UART to parallel..)

Despite all this simplicity, SPI is very fast.

Where UART has the advantage is software: picocom on Linux or Teraterm on Windows. Basically you don't have to develop any host-side software if you use a UART. I like to use the old ymodem protocol for embedded system firmware updates.. since again no host-side software has to be developed.
While arson is dangerous and stupid, we really shouldn't let our environment reach a point where 1 fire destroys 1000 structures etc.
Sure and plenty of them live in the city as well. Many of my friends' parents moved back to cities a decade or so ago when my cohort was going to college. I'm merely saying that having kids may increase demand for suburban housing by folks who otherwise would be interested in urban housing, but that doesn't permanently shift demand toward suburban housing.
Yeah.

Well - at least if I ever run a conference, you can be confident that you will be welcome to it anyways. :)
Until the value of the battery is a tiny fraction of the vehicle, battery swapping will always be a risky proposition.

I as the battery swap station will try to keep the good batteries and swap into someone else's vehicle the terrible batteries. Even if most stations are good actors, it won't take many to destroy the ecosystem by pushing marginal (or worse) batteries into customer vehicles.

Nobody's going to blindly trust a swapping system where the swapped commodity is anywhere between very valuable and toxic waste.
Yup. Scam in plain sight.
Oh man Safari (15.1, macOS 12.0.1, MacBookPro15,1) is _unhappy_ with this page.
Retail investors are pouring millions into equity crowdfunding
- List for the lazy -

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins.

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson.

Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell.

Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir.
Very interested to try this. I love react and I love Three.js but react-three-fiber feels like somehow battling against the tide.

Maybe this will feel like a more natural fit.
I recently read Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, by Jack Bogle, the founder of Vanguard. Written during the 2008 recession, it's so much more than a business book. It highlights in detail how the financial industry at large leeches so much wealth for itself while creating so little, and offers insights from someone truly introspective of life, business, finance, and the future of the country. Highly recommend a read/listen.

https://amazon.com/John-C-Bogle/e/B001H6NWEM
Sure I'm not saying they're _new_. I was too young for the BBS era, but I visited plenty of private or semi-private forums in the 90s. I just mean that, in hindsight, I think most of us will view the Facebook-style concept of the "global village" as an unstable aberration of the 2000s rather than the primary way to socialize as many tech folks optimistically believed back then.
Agreed. As a manager, I’m acutely aware that you are working here because we pay you. So am I. We can talk about non-financial benefits and how we’re making customers’ lives better, but at the end of the day, if I stop paying you, you’ll quickly stop working.

Why there’s so much taboo/avoidance of talking about money I have no idea, but if you need some information to contemplate a career change in our company, I’ll do my best to get it for you.
>showing off the last 70 years of inflation

Be careful with this point. Inflation is the value relationship between money and non-money.

Part of the reason companies raise more now is because they are bigger and more profitable, not just because dollars are worth less relative to goods.

For example, Ford went public in 1956 on a market cap of $3bn (one of the largest in the world at that time) on net income of c. $200mn, for a c. 15x P/E ratio.

Today, Ford is worth c. $80bn and its net income is c. $4bn, for a P/E of c. 20x.

The only inflation there is the move from 15x to 20x.

EDIT: and to make this point more clearly, new cars have only inflated 3x since 1956, even thought Ford is 25x larger.
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It seems you are stating that biometrics should not be used to restrict account access according to specific individuals ("John can only access john.harrey and finance.12")
Would it be viable to mine the remnants of civilization? Would a garbage dump or the ruins of a 20th century skyscraper be a viable source of iron?
This kind of drama is already a defining feature of the Rust community. They can’t go 6 months without some kind of incident like this. It would be a positive if they could have a BDFL or corporate sponsorship to structure the community going forward because it doesn’t seem like the current community approach really works in practice. I realize that’s probably not possible at this point though.. unless maybe Microsoft steps in.

Disclosure: I am an outside observer, and I find Rust to be excessively syntax dense. Take my opinion with a grain of salt.
On modern FaceID phones you need to hold the power and down volume key to bring up the Reset/PowerOff and cancel. Just clicking multiple times will bring up wallet, siri, or do nothing.
I think macintux is referring to something like this:

get_exactly_n_or_crash(N) ->
{N, Data} = get_data(N).

Suppose get_data will get N or less pieces (if N pieces of data aren't available) of data and return, as a tuple, both the amount of data obtained and the data. The above assignment is actually part of Erlang's pattern matching, the second use of N (on the LHS of the =) is not actually an assignment, it's a check. If get_data returned less than N pieces of data, the program would crash (which you can catch and respond to) at that point.
The actually usable category would probably start at a bootloader unlocked android, and arguably the best “distro” on them is graphene os, which pays a ton of attention to security and privacy (while “gnu/linux” derivatives mostly couldn’t care less about security unfortunately, but privacy without that is meaningless)
They may have sold it as if you had a choice of which batch to get. You did not. Evergreen is the only batch sent to customers
I clicked because I'm a fan of Dürer and wanted to see the drawing. Couldn't care less about the story.
While I love the PinePhone, I think "still a ways from being a daily driver" is a more accurate representation than "fine as a daily driver" for most people's experiences. Some people are definitely able to daily drive the PinePhone, but e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/comments/qm1aut/pine...

> Firefox: 8 seconds to open; ... and loads my start page in 21 seconds.

It's constantly improving, and the PinePhone Pro seems similarly promising, but I'd be downright shocked if there triple digits of people daily driving it and enjoying the experience (outside the satisfaction of living on the bleeding edge).
I don't understand this thing about encrypting stored email if the other person receives it or saves a copy in the clear. Most of the time, the other person is on gmail, so there is a plaintext copy of your email on a google server, and everything that implies.

The two big hassles of self-hosting email are incoming spam on the receiving side, and deliverability issues on the sending due to very aggressive antispam measures at the big email providers. Hosted email services' product is basically continuous maintenance of spam filtering on the receiving side, and e.g. building IP reputation and retrying failed deliveries through a clean IP pool on the sending side. Merely running an IMAP or SMTP server without these efforts is comparatively easy.

So it seems to me sufficient to use a privacy-conscious hosted provider for filtering and SMTP but not for storage, and handle storage yourself. I'm currently not doing that due to laziness but it seems like a proper and feasible thing to do. There isn't much point going overboard when the traffic is general purpose email, where the weakest link will usually be at the other person's end (and out of your control) rather than at your end.
Words or Phrases You Wouldn’t Expect to Be Published in Academic Journals
He said in a fairly recent AMA:

> My code no longer goes into shipping products so I am rusty. I do like to try the new tools to understand how they help. I just did a review of the low-code tools where there is a lot of great innovation.

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/m8n4vt/im_bill_gates_...
I was in Scranton for a wedding earlier this year and along with visiting the Iron Furnaces, we also stopped by the Anthracite Heritage Museum [0] because we were looking for something else to do on a lazy Friday. It was interesting to learn a bunch about historic coal mining practices and people but the real surprise was about halfway through the museum the topic changed to textiles -- including some massive Jacquard looms and reels of punch cards. [1] I don't have my own photos handy, but this photo a loom from the museum with the "tape" of punch cards hiding behind the threads in the top right of the photo.

[0] http://www.anthracitemuseum.org/explore/anthracite-museum/

[1] https://uncoveringpa.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Anthraci...
The code doesn't cease to exist. If one person is doing all the heavy lifting and decides to stop, it isn't their fault for not creating a social hierarchy.
I don't know what you mean. Are you saying there is not enough room for that next to the stacking tower?

I don't think people are talking about changing Super Heavy.
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