skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title sounds hopeful, and nature's resilience is indeed amazing, but the article also explains how the plastic debris enables coastal dwellers to cross oceans and become invasive species at the other end of the earth, while also competing against existing open-ocean rafters.

Basically, plastic is bad news. It's amazing that things have gotten so far and there is still, as far as I know, no sign of the plastic pollution trend reversing.
Shipped major NReco.GraphQL update (.NET stack)
Glad to share good news related to our small but very useful component. is quite good if you have .net stack and use GraphQL in your project. Shipped v1.3 includes:

upgrade to the latest GraphQL.Net engine v4.6.1

added alternative filter based on json-format and allows to use of complex conditions with AND/OR operands

minor but important bugfixes like sorting by aggregated fied(s)

Just so you know, the component allows setting "virtual" aggregation fields, like count/sum/max based on defined schema fields
Well as said, you mostly will have to do the metadata assignments - and what is it good for, if DJ name + title are already in the filename? If you do exactly as you suggest, Apple Music i.e. would always show a single album for the same DJ, even if you have 50+ sets. Also way more important is the year of the set, often you want them ordered by date of recording.
I suspect that a compiler which produced code that will crash when you attempt to write to a file would be declared buggy and unusable.

And yet, that is one of the optimizations that helps get this one the speed crown.
A Scalable Netflix DBLog (A Change Data Capture) Implementation for PostgreSQL
You are probably right, I am also unable to find a credible source saying that.
.NET Orleans – Cross-platform framework to build distributed applications
I can only imagine how much better the outcome would've been if he used his locating skills to flag archeological sites without taking anything out of the ground. Now his legacy is a grave robber with an illicit, useless hoard of antiquities that have no documentation to place them in context. A complete waste of a life indeed.
I was about to say the exact same thing in a more verbose way !

yandex.com is seriously awesome for infosec related searches and I guess (it's been a few years since I had to pirate something) that it's equally great for pirated content.
the only thing 230 does is make it so “platforms” CAN moderate speech and exercise control, without having to take on the legal liability like a newspaper publisher.

Before 230, there was already effectively a distinction in that, if you ran a forum and did absolutely no moderation, you were never liable for the content - but then you also couldn’t remove any content that was vulgar, racist, hateful to other users, etc. which is why section 230 is part of the “Communications Decency Act”. Without it, social media just choose between not moderating anything, and vetting every post (and probably only allowing posts from a small group of verified people and businesses).

LegalEagle has a good rundown: https://youtu.be/eUWIi-Ppe5k?t=4m18s
Thisstory about ebay's attempted takeover of craigslist might interest you.

Even before Omidyar stepped down from Craigslist’s board, his appointed agent, Garrett Price, started bullying Craigslist’s owners. In an email to Buckmaster, Price wrote that Craiglist was “driving [eBay’s] execs (especially Meg) to distraction.” He told Buckmaster that eBay’s takeover was “inevitable” and that Craigslist needed to accept their fate, telling “Buckmaster that he and Newmark were mortal, but eBay was not, and eBay would acquire 100 percent of craigslist whether it took decades and, if necessary, over Newmark’s and Buckmaster’s dead bodies.”

Buckmaster replied by reminding Price that when they negotiated the sale of their stake, eBay had agreed to abide by a three-year “courtship period” during which time, if Craigslist felt their two cultures were incompatible, eBay had agreed it would sell back its shares.

Price’s response to Buckmaster:

“that was then, this is now.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20150623005252/https://pando.com...
That was my first thought too: "We used to call her Gaia".
Google Search itself is now a threat to the open web. Forget Chrome.
The patents on AAC-LC (which is all that really matters when encoding at medium to high bitrates, and that very much applies to the files sold by the iTunes store, too) should have expired by now, given that it dates from 1997, and indeed Fedora has been including an AAC-LC encoder since late 2017.
As many people have pointed out, the primary protection in this law is on publishing.

However, there are also penal codes preventing the mere taking of pictures where intimate privacy is affected, i.e. in intimate situations, in your own home, or when you are helpless (i.e. when injured in public).
Thank you. Any direct impression on how noisy they are?
It's not hypothetical. Far right trolls are already using this rule to shut down people opposing them: https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1465831941157052416
> but you most definitely can say there was no statistically significant benefit.

Yes, but this study also doesn't point too conclusively that they don't have any effect. If the CI was something like 1% increase in infections - 1% decrease, you could say with a lot of confidence that it doesn't seem that masks did anything at all. But -23% to 46% is a gigantic range to say anything at all about effectiveness. So while this study is, as you say, not supporting the hypothesis that masks are effective, it doesn't support either the hypothesis that masks are not effective.
>is a non-US-oriented app

what does that mean?
I don't understand how these mixer services work with regards to law enforcement. Wouldn't the any outputs of such laundering services be considered dirty to begin with, regardless of whether or not the supposed inputs were clean originally?

If anything, I'd expect the output of such a service to be even worse than most inputs, as the money will be mixed with all the inputs, some of which would be associated with horrible crime beyond just fraud or theft.
Years ago, freshly out of school, I ended up in a job at a french small shop that required me to learn a lot of things.

They had a brillant sysadmin, that I bothered to explain them to me. Sometimes, he'll come to my desk, looking at my screen, typing the solution while explaining the problem to me with simple words.

Standing up, typing with one hand, and working on what was supposed to be my specialty, he was doing a better job than I was, despite me interrupting his workflow.

I left the job, and levelled up. One day, I read an article about docker, and the name of the dev caught my eyes: it was the friendly former sysadmin colleague, Jérôme Petazzoni, who went on becomming docker's biggest evangelist.

Thank you Jérôme, for making sure I started my carrer by not being the smartest guy in the room. I kept it as a habit.

Or I'm just dumb :)
>Countries

Populated with real, physical resources, and real, physical people, who will take real, physical action to secure themselves, their resources, and their ideas.

Who is defending my unique set of bits? How are they defended? What is gained from defending them? What is lost if they're not defended?
This so much. Seeing cloud spend in companies always make me laugh.

I could do all that for a fraction of the cost with dedicated servers outside of EC2.

I don't know where this guy worked but I've seen at least 10 cloud migrations in my career, across different clients.
It's not that uncommon and not too expensive unless you're relying on weird services on top of your cloud.
Signal’s gone blockchain crazy. Now Square’s gone the same way. It makes me a little less confident in Square. Hopefully this won’t affect their core products.

Did Jack jump from Twitter onto the end of the Blockchain train? So more money and employees are sacrificed onto the altar of blockchain hype.

Else they’re successfully trying to gain attention by pretending to move into blockchain.
A Market-Driven Solution to the Student-Loan Debt Spiral
That sentence seems silly. ARM assembly and x86-64 assembly are two different beasts. Running the x86-64 code using Rosetta 2 emulation seems counter-intuitive as well if you want to get the fastest possible result on that machine.
In fairness, there are gradations of response.

I'd like for search engines to be highly and independently responsive to CP, spam, SEO gaming, fraud, malware, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, revenge pr0n,and similar threats. Relying on court orders would simply be too slow.

I'd also like for search engines to be responsive to propaganda and disinformation. This calls for a much more nuanced response than the first category, and is inherently political rather than merely criminal.

In the case of general copyright claims, specific targeted removals if executed reasonably and fairly, which quite arguably YouTube's ContentID is not, as an example, should be possible with a fairly minimal degree of legal mechanism (e.g., DMCA 512 takedowns under US law). Though that process should be amended to reduce abusive exploitation of such measures.

Delisting entire domains for copyright infringement absent a specific legal action ... moves into much stickier waters. Ultimately, torrent sites will likely have to provide their own well-known search alternative which is resistant to such threats. I'd like to see that possibility further developed.

(I'm aware that many such sites already claim the legal shield of serving as directories to content, not as hosters of that content themselves, which would inlcude The Pirate Bay itself.)

Widespread global civil disobedience in the face of overwhelmingly asymmetric and self-serving copyright legislation and case law is among the very few avenues the average citizenry have of voicing opposition to such laws. And that fact alone should carry great weight.

I'd like for search engines to be strongly resistant to removals based on overly-broad copyright claims,
I did a minimal data QA and the numbers do not look good.

Where does the data come from ?

Pfizer’s safety database contains cases of AEs reported spontaneously to Pfizer, cases
reported by the health authorities, cases published in the medical literature, cases from
Pfizer-sponsored marketing programs, non-interventional studies, and cases of serious AEs
reported from clinical studies regardless of causality assessment.

So, I went to the cases reported by Spanish health authorities [1]:

1. Data reported through Feb 28, 2021

2. For my country (Spain), Pfizer is reporting 756 cases.

3. However, the official data reported for Comirnaty (Pfizer) through Feb 21, 2021 is 5736

So, this report is only considering 756 out of 5736 (about 13%) cases.

[1] https://www.aemps.gob.es/laAEMPS/docs/informe-farmacovigilan...
>>Shocked to learn a half century later that I was speaking with the greatest archeological thief of all time.

Worse. Desecrating hundreds of graves to take remains is the one thing that cannot be explained or forgiven.

I see Roman coins or Roman era stuff for sale on some FB groups. Frankly, buying them, even if illegal (some countries have laws making anything historical found state property), is not the end of the world provided you don't destroy them.
But in those times we all conversed differently and in those ways of communicating there was not as much censorship: print media, television, etc.
Why the Woke are the new Victorians
> i just watch those Kenosha videos and see that only those militia gun fetishists are having guns

No, this isn’t a matter for debate — it’s an established fact of the case, agreed to by all parties, that Gaige Grosskreutz was carrying a pistol. He also admitted under oath that Rittenhouse only shot him after he pointed the pistol at him.
Is Jeffrey Epstein a public figure? Or only the people that used his services?
Plastic pollution draws federal and global attention
That technically just moves the problem one step further. How are users supposed to learn what is the right smart contract to begin with?
Almost unrelated question... Did you used the maps at the conference? Did you liked them? (I work for the company that made the maps and I am wondering how people that are not us, and not the executives that chose us, think about us)
Sure, but why? For something that's on the application layer, why should network byte order dictate things?
You're printing the number too so, no, it does not heave a period of 15.
You think hiring AWS engineers is cheaper than hiring some old style sysadmin that can manage any servers?

Most likely you'll end up spending less in ops.
The only problem may be finding talent, as everyone goes the AWS way so they can charge more.
> It seems more a commentary on the narrative (not promulgated by you, but it is out there) that vaccines+distancing will somehow be able to eliminate the novel coronavirus entirely.

To be honest, the only times I've seen this narrative is when people say it's out there and argue against it. I've never seen it seriously supported.
The Hard Truth of Knowing When to Wind Down Your Startup
Perceiving polarization with the naked eye: characterization of sensitivity
I'll give you some technobabble: traffic shaping, ack-priorization, quality of service, traffic class.

All things which your home gateway should have in one form, or another, where you designate torrenting a priority which doesn't interfere with the rest of your activities. And adapting dynamically. No need to think about how to slice available bandwith into pieces beforehand.
$200K is not a lot if you live in a high cost location like SF on NYC, are senior in your IT career, and have a family. In IT it's below average, and the commenter here is saying he'd be taking a pay cut to do this.

He's an expensive grant, but he's probably got more potential to solve a problem than the average PhD student.
HTML & CSS?

If you don't want to pay for it, why would somebody else?
It depends on interpretation and I think conclusions are unclear from that graph.

Try this: shift the blue curve about 15 days to the left. We may then interpret masks acted in lowering the infection peak, since masks were introduced at an earlier infection stage. In other words, if St Louis reinstated masks at the same infection count as Missouri it might have seen a higher infection peak.
Startpage is a Google proxy. The Pirate Bay is filtered out there as well.
Feels like NFTs applied to forests and coral reefs and stuff. What I don't get is how this requires people to actually protect those things in the real world. Sell your woodland hash and log the real trees; nothing stops the "double spend".
I'm using a local html file as a start page in Safari right now, and used the same file on Windows (Firefox) just a few months ago.
history erasure of the orwellian variety
Windows can force Chrome to use software rendering for "stability" reasons.
If you have regulations you'll realize that they're mostly sufficient to secure transactions as well, at which point the blockchain becomes unnecessary as well.
guess where I found the streams for all portlandia episodes which I happen to watch just now.
Asking someone with a mature career to formally return to academia seems like a non-starter.

In such a case he'd need to pay more money and spend even more time - when all he wants to do is work on this one particular problem.
I wonder what would be a legitimate, non-suspicious reason to interact with such a service at all?
No, its actually absolutely irrelevant to the argument.
I wouldn't say I had bad experience myself, but then again I haven't lived there as long as I did in the UK. As I said, things are usually subtle and underneath the surface,so not everyone can/want to see.
A great video demonstrating the strangeness of representing colours is this video on the colour brown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU

Colour theory can get pretty complicated, the video is however very understandable as well as interesting :)
Here is a sample I just tried -- https://imgur.com/a/2T2Bw0X

Very amusing that the explanation goes into great lengths to explain some nuance that doesn't exist ...and gets it completely wrong?

Is this because it was trained on some similar but different code that had this type of nuances explained in comments?
an accessibility nightmare of their own making
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I'm from Europe and I've never seen one either.
Improving GAN Equilibrium by Raising Spatial Awareness
These right wing trolls may be the only thing that might convince Twitter to cancel the new policy.
Well since they can lie to you and say anything they like bordering on blackmail, you need to know that. You have to be smart enough to guess what they know and have the fortitude to refuse to answer and ask for a lawyer continuously, sometimes possibly for hours. Always be respectful but resolute on getting that lawyer, no reason to piss them off any more than you are by refusing to answer their question. Police can be quite violent and volatile just like any human perhaps more so since they have almost all the power and guns in a given situation.
Technobabble.
Oh noes! I'm going to have a hard time remembering thepiratebay10.org
Ask HN: How to Encourage Consensus-Finding?
I'm at a point where I realize that our meetings are too little about finding good solutions where every team member helps, and too much of "two sides and finally a winner".

I strongly despise empty "we need to find a consensus" rhetoric, but I'm wondering: there must be tried and true mechanisms and techniques to encourage people to give up entrenched positions.

We recently had pol.is on the front page which made me think of it again. But I'm mostly not searching for a tool.

What are key words I could search for? The moderation and coaching literature is really vast, and I don't have a good sense of what is practical and valuable, and what is just a fad.

(I don't have a team lead role or any disciplinary power, so bonus points if those techniques can be used bottom-up)
I can think of other terms that Google should de-list that are far more harmful to society than a hooky copy of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull.

Google is a private company can do what they want, but this is still a pretty poor decision.
Can you really not tell the difference between a fun challenge and a real world scenario?
But such information can also serve as an advice for potential victims. For example, many people don't think about the fact that if they credit card info gets stolen, it not only may lead to losing money (which may be not much if a card has access to little funds), but may also allow someone to use it in a criminal context. Demonstrating a scenario where it can be used in a serious crime can increase awareness.
There are entirely legal, legitimate things one might do while still wanting to have some privacy about it. Buying porn, for example, might be something you're fine with but not really want tied to your known address.
> So don't read them, as easy as that.

Hate speech and radicalizing speech isn't meant for those that aren't reading or listening to that speech, but rather to motivate those who do listen to act out the things that the speakers are saying.

The speakers hide behind "I didn't do anything, I just said something" and count on those who take their words into their heart and convert them into action. This is the danger of hate speech. It's not enough for good people to just ignore. It requires more effort to prevent the talking from being doing. If the term "hate speech" doesn't sit well, I prefer to use the term "rhetorical violence". Basically, rhetorical violence is speech using the imagery and terminology of violence intended to inspire violent thoughts in others.

The video posted below by another commenter shows how radicalizing speech is used to motivate others to commit acts that the speaker themselves would not commit or would claim not to support. In essence, the speakers are claiming the rights to rhetorical violence while being disconnected from actual violence that the speech might incite, inspire, or support.
Prose Is Bad
> That's shocking.

Not really. This is a hyper optimised microbenchmark. The actual work being done is so trivial that any "overhead" is really significant and you can get order of magnitude speedups by doing arcane things with caches, eliminating tiny inefficiencies and so on.
Long, long ago; I put together a database and code to take an address/Zip code and map it to Congressional District. My table of "split Zips" was large, and i only had the vaguest nod towards using address data to refine that; so most of the time we could give you "its in one of these 2 districts" at worst. As i recall tho there was one set that could return any or all of 6 answers for "which District is this?" ... Puerto Rico and New York's mingled Zip codes, I think it was.

I was competing with a subscription service for the idea; and utterly missed my market. People wanting that service didn't care for "lower cost", they were charging expenses plus anyway; and they certainly didn't want to have to think about "databases and updates", they were quite happy with an online service they could have a secretary use and retype answers into their spreadsheets.

Also: Zip codes aren't static: they update them often and publish those updates on some schedule I dunno anymore. Used to be getting the new books out of USPS was a full time job itself.