skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, unlike some other computer crimes, it is sufficient to prevent local companies from using the technique. While someone who's hacking or laundering money might simply use a proxy in the Bahamas without problems, a company local company won't risk fines for using it. Sure, companies from far away can still advertise to you via tracking, but the value of their advertisements will go down sharply if no business near you can buy them.
I, for one, don't run PulseAudio. Pipewire is fantastic! Such a nicely designed and implemented system.
I opened FB and it said my account was suspended for violating community guidelines, and was given the option to "Disagree".

I disagreed and was prompted to upload a photo of my ID, which I did.

That was all on Mon 13th Dec. Since then whenever I log into my FB account, it says:

"...you disagreed with the decision
ON 13 DECEMBER 2021
It usually takes us just over a day to review your information.
Your account is not visible to people on Facebook and you can't use it."

And whenever I log out of my FB account, it says:

"This account will be disabled in X days
Are you sure that you want to log out?
You only have X days left to request a review. After that, your account will be permanently disabled."

Even though I've already disagreed with the decision and asked for a review. There's no other option for me to choose another review.
your reasons wouldn't even be true 10 years ago but today this is just willful ignorance
So this does mean that you basically are not allowed to use big cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud and Azure as a company based in the EU. They are going to do so much economical damage with this decision.
That was a lot of words to tell us you use Arch :)
I use Arch, by the way. :)
Himalayan glaciers melting at 'exceptional rate'
> it seems like the shame around poverty is just as strong as it ever was

I had the same thought as I was reading. It was all "our struggles make us stronger", not "being poor isn't something to be ashamed about". I had the opposite reaction of most people here, I found it sad that she has to act like the fact that she grew up poor was some personal deficiency she needed to overcome, rather than a tragedy that largely happens randomly due to the circumstances of your birth.

People shouldn't have "to be supportive". It's like telling someone you have diabetes and being relieved when they don't make fun of you. No, not making fun of you should be the default.
Seems from this case in Norway (https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...) that Moderna is a tad bit better at preventing infection from Omicron, but when you see the overall number of cases among fully vaccinated people I'm not very optimistic that vaccine with do something at limiting the spread of infection, however I'm optimistic that they will still be efficient to prevent severe disease.
It forms a weaker interference pattern - imagine superimposing 50% of the interference pattern and 50% of the non-interfering look.

There's also the fun of the delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment, where if you measure (or not) which slit the photon went through after measuring the interference pattern (or not), you see (or don't see) the interference pattern.
> There's a reason why AWS oncalls are infamous whereas Google's are not.

Could market share be a significant factor here?
There are a countless rare transitions that we don't yet even recognize as important, each of them compounds the rarity of technologically advanced intelligent sapient sentient life.
>There have always been apps more heavily integrated with GNOME vs GTK apps.

From my experience GTK2 apps were not "GNOME" apps, like there were many apps that did not installed the entire GNOME dependencies to work, I don't know if this changed lately since I so far only had the need for qt or GTK2 apps.
A web version linked from the wiki page:

https://auri-microadventure.azurewebsites.net/
Blizzard's Battle.net does, or at least did at one point.

In 2020 my friend couldn't add a new credit card to his account because browsers updated their same-site cookie behavior.

They were setting their JSESSIONID cookie wrong when doing oauth behind-the-scenes which caused a nice 302 redirect loop.
For whatever reason the API calls required both *.battle.net and account.blizzard.com.
Can you modify a value in another part of your code through undefined?
Note that the model does not take into account any countermeasures.

If the model promises hell, the country goes into full lockdown and at the end we only see a mild hell-ish, was the model wrong?
The dirty secret of recycling is that a significant percentage of what the city of Toronto collects is not really recyclable; those black take out containers, pizza boxes, plastic bags, contaminated paper products, loose lids ....

The only truly recyclable products are aluminum cans, clean paper and clear glass. Aluminum cans and clean cardboard are the only thing that really pays to recycle. If for profit companies, or even thousands of individuals, are going around scooping all the aluminum and clean cardboard first, the system quickly collapses as it becomes a huge expense and blue bins become simply another garbage bin.

These scavengers were also exacerbating contamination in process -- our blue bins would regularly get dumped out on the street or sidewalk and the blue recycling bags ripped open so the "sorter" could find the cans faster.

To be clear, there are no "profits" in recycling ... it's a loss with some cost recovery.
Us sheep will put up with this one, if it’s the last one. Just this one last booster. Now if we tread into the 4th or 5th booster for the n-th variant, then that’s my breaking point and I will have to call out the shenanigans.

Moderna’s revenue since 2016:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1107794/revenue-and-net-...

These companies certainly don’t mind the state of things.
The Case Against Octopus Farming (2019)
Something that the article reminded me of: Is gagging a cultural phenomenon? I've only seen gagging mentioned in the US. I've never heard anyone in my country mention gagging, and we don't have a word for it. If there's a very strong putrid smell, we don't make gagging sounds, we just hold our breaths. I wasn't even aware that someone can puke from a strong smell until I saw it on TV, and it seems psychosomatic to me.
>Yes, it matters a lot.

No, not at all.

>These tools are supposed to be fast.

And they are. Just not faster than ls, which is already fast itself.

>I use them all the time, and if there is a tool that does the same but one takes 1 sec and the other one takes 30 seconds, then of course I am going to pick the faster one.

Only if it matters.

If it takes 200ms and the other 250ms nobody's going to care. Especially if the second tool does more, and especially if the use case is "listing of regular dirs where better human-readability matters" (not 20K+ file dirs).

The same way we also program Python or JS or Lisp and not just C and Rust, even though the latter are faster.
Just last Friday I had to google how to increase YouTube speed above 2x. Found quick and dirty solution: `document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = 3` in a browser console. Some people are just impossible to listen to due to their slow pace. In my case, it was possible to understand at 5x and quite comfortable at 3.5x.
If your company is considering involving foreign "cookie management providers" in the way it handles customer data, it is evidence of bad faith and intent to steal (and keep offshore, e.g. in the USA as described in the article) sensitive information.
Yes. Tether skeptics have already been right a few times: the Bitfinex connection (which was denied until it came out in the paradise papers), not being directly dollar-backed, being under-collatoralized for at least a period of time (per the NYAG investigation).

Do people suddenly believe they’ve gotten honest, even though nobody in the commercial paper market they are supposedly a big player in have heard of them?
The university is German, their website is therefore "German". They just use a "cookie consent tool" by a Danish company, which in turn processes data using Akamai's infrastructure.

I find it problematic that the university requires any cookie consent whatsoever in the first place. They are a public institution (Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts), not even a "company" but state-owned, and they run basically a static website and shouldn't have a need for cookies. Any "member" area (students and faculty) would require an account anyway, where you can and have to ask for all kinds of consent during signup anyway.

I get the Danish company doesn't want to run a CDN (with DDoS mitigations and all that) on their own, and it's a real problem that the EU economy snoozed when it came to creating competitors to Akamai, Cloudflare, AWS/GCP/Azure. There is a sliver of hope that court decisions like this will create a "demand" for such platforms within the EU, and that finally some companies with some "investment" money to spare (we still have plenty "rich" companies) will fund that. Or maybe at least the US providers will find way to create EU "subsidiaries" which are actually legally shielded from US (and other non-EU) law.
This concerns omicron, and omicron is a quick worker. The British measured its doubling time to 1.5 days in London, which means that it goes from one infectee to a million in just a month. What happens later is not really significant.
Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, a Free Service to Learn and Experiment with ML
It is great that it can be interpreted two ways.

As a way to show how terrible factory farming is and the status quo is the only reason we are accepting that.

As a critique of the "cancel culture" where we can't praise someone who saved 5 million lives because he did things that aren't socially acceptable today.
> These core values won't change.

The Abmahnwesen never dies.
that's the point of webbugs, https://webbug.eu/ no cookies needed - actually JS not needed but it sure is useful.
ADE?
It takes a huge level of maturity to know when you understand something. You have to take yourself away from how pleasant the interaction was, and ask yourself questions that are on the limit of what you think you can answer. That whole not-too-easy-or-hard balance is really difficult to nail down, especially if you have a grade depending on it. It's also hard when you have nothing but your own satisfaction depending on it, eg after you've graduated and are just reading for interest.

The entertainment aspect is hard to get away from. It's like when you watch a good documentary, you're in awe of whatever field it's about. But have you really learned much? Hard to say.
> On other hand, there's encryption regulation and absurd piracy strictness.

Could you give an example of an EU regulation which actually restricts encryption? There have certainly been discussions about adding backdoors to encryption (as is typical for any jurisdiction that doesn't have them), but my understanding is that these proposals have reached a dead end. Here's an update from last week:

> The lead committee for the internal market and consumer protection (IMCO) in the EU Parliament spoke out on Monday evening with a large majority with its current position on the planned Digital Services Act (DSA). ... It also includes the right to end-to-end encryption. “The member states must not prevent providers of switching services from offering end-to-end encrypted services,” demanded the representatives. This is essential for trust in the network and cybersecurity.

https://marketresearchtelecast.com/digital-basic-law-eu-mps-...
> When asked to grade the severity of symptoms on a scale from 1 (no symptoms) to 5 (significant symptoms), 42% (33/79) reported level 3 symptoms, whereas 11% (9/79) reported level 4 symptoms. None of the cases required hospitalisation up to 13 December 2021.

I am extremely optimistic.
>Helper scripts using ls can involve lots of items and recursion, so the slowness can go exponential.

It can't go exponential. Recursion or not, you did N passes with ls, and you'll do N passes with exa.

Unless exa is exponentially (not by a linear factor) slower than ls, the slowness can't go exponential.
They're inconsistent in that they think it's wrong to kill fetuses - whom they consider children - but they think it's fine to beat and sexually abuse children who are already born. If there's any consistency in their logic, it's cruelty towards females.

So yeah. I meant to say somewhere else that consistency isn't the only thing.

edit. just in bouncing my eyes between my response and yours I know that we both understand some of the underlying basic honor system of the thing you're describing as a set of ethics. And in protecting their family they ain't wrong, just that that's not what they're really doing, is it.
Thanks ranger, I had completely forgotten about ControlMyMonitor.exe. That's how the program originally switched inputs, but was since replaced by win32 calls in MonitorController.cs.

I've removed that external dependency and published a new release.

Yes Windows only; I'll add mac & linux when I get a bit more time.

Cheers,
Fidel
Baggy mask isn't going to cut it against Omicron, epidemiologist warns
> require a bunch of external systems to work

- unit tests should always complete locally
- integration could also complete locally but are allowed more complex scenarios
- in any case, we require developers to pull all their deps through a caching proxy (external system) to keep a lid on what they use, keep a lid on licenses used in our software, and keep open a door to centralized vuln tracking & management.

Though if you can't fully test a software locally by getting all units and integration components to spin up, this is mostly a consequence of bad system design, for example, if the one application depends on another one which can't be run locally, reasons for which are (a) no bootstrappable dev environment (b) no test data management/generation (c) no license (d) too complex for the originating team to provide or (e) proprietary applience no one but the operating team understands.
(a) through (e) all encountered at $currentjob and not happy about it, but what can you do? beg the other team to fix their shit and wait or just bite the apple and deploy to "dev stage" to get the testing done.
> In a sence it's also a move towards limiting user's freedom to chose where to store data, isn't it?

It's not, users can of course consent to data being stored elsewhere. The article explicitely points this out:

> Instead, the court took the approach that data could only be lawfully transferred to the U.S. via a mutual legal assistance treaty (Article 48 GDPR), or under Article 49 GDPR’s derogations, such as consent. It confined its lawfulness analysis to those grounds alone.
Nah, there is still the blockchain underneath, the only difference is that changes are synced later.
Thanks for writing what you have. These all sound like reasonable approaches. Just to add some extra options/thoughts because I’ve been thinking about this lately, for cases where CASE doesn’t work well on order by, you can use dynamic queries to construct the final query in SQL. Another option might be to include a splash of templating to your .sql files, and parse them at run time, or use them to generate the final .sql files beforehand so that they can be tested directly via something like pgtap (repeat yourself via templates instead of by hand). The main reason I like the sound of including the queries in separate .sql files is precisely so that they can be easily and directly included in tests. The downside is the query isn’t included next to the code that uses it, so a little hunting needs to be done to find it (always tradeoffs!).
There should be "where's waldo?" option to find 1 pixel that's off.
Kind of a super power of mine is that I am very good at knowing whether or not I actually know or understand something.

This made university pretty stressful: it was always on my mind how little I had yet retained and understood from my current courses; i'd only be happy when grinding material through my brain on my own (i.e. actually learning).
Why? We get a flu booster every year, and that’s fine. I’m happy to get a shot every so often if it means I can go about my life like normal.
> you grow into someone with more experience who stops making them.

or at least fewer, and sometimes more complicated mistakes.
That is a sign of a person who is really good at what they do! In my career I have met few people who are really good professionally, and one common thread between all of them was that they all are really good human beings and humble. Also, all of them are very experienced. This happens because when people have experience and have seen the world, they know that there is lot to learn yet and they don't know everything.
3x speed mistakes form for substance and wastes time besides, because podcasts are much more for fun than self-improvement.

Let's be honest with ourselves here: no one listening to a podcast is ever just listening to a podcast. You're running or driving or doing the laundry or working out or working or walking the dog, so in terms of learning it's more than anything like hypnopaedia [1], which doesn't work. You're not really engaging with the material, which in any case can only go so deep because it's a radio show and you're using it for what we've used radio shows for since radio shows were invented.

That's not to say podcasts can't also be useful in the instrumental way that 3x-ers seem to seek. If you've got a good memory or are in a position to take notes, they can provide fruitful directions for further investigation. But that's not the kind of raw data upload that 3x pretends to optimize. That's just finding places where it might be worth putting in real work, of the sort that listening to podcasts isn't.

Turn off the speed boost and give up on the idea that you can "level up" without doing the work - hell, even in the video games from which that metaphor is drawn, you have to grind for XP or at least progress the story. So get to work! Progress your own story. And listen to podcasts, if you want to, for the fun of it. Believe it or not, that's allowed too.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep-learning
I always thought lectures aren't for teaching, they are basically just some more detail on the syllabus. Basically it's the prof saying "you need to know this proof, I'll skim over it fast and you can figure it out in your own time".
> Current vaccines do not stop the spread of covid

No, not to the extent we first hoped.

But it does help you survive covid, which was our goal all along.
the mouse pointer is still there... So not completely black :-)
10 year old survey, but it seems the data disagrees with your perception. I'd imagine since then awareness has risen massively, so if anything people would likely be more concerned today.

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/201...

See page 55 for per country chart.
What’s Another Year? The Lengthening Training and Career Paths of Scientists [pdf]
Not beside the point at all. Nobody said use the job listings. All value of LinkedIn is in having people contact you, not in the job listing - these are useless as you say, but LI is invaluable as "show my availability to the buyers and let them approach me" tool - that's where the real deals hide.
>So: what does it mean to "live with covid" ?

Live exactly as we lived before March 2019, with the small exceptions of using mask in gatherings or closed spaces, voluntary vaccination, specially to people with comorbidities.

Other than that, just not being bombarded with covid stats every single minute would be a huge improvement for the mental well-being of the population.
I’ve been on the other side of these types of press releases and you’re exactly right. Always report the most “impressive” numbers even if you know they don’t actually translate to a difference in outcome (usually because you don’t have that data yet).
You don’t lose your job for not getting the flu vaccine. Again, it’s an unprecedented situation and I’ll accept the mandate for the three shots, but this has to have an end at some point.
It's "why would a frontend developer build inside a docker image". You wouldn't believe the absurd problems in npm dependency chains when you try to build natively on macos and windows and linux. Especially "native code" in npm deps is not always the best quality and tested on all platforms it is declared to support. Better to build in Linux and run in Linux all the time (via containers or VMs).
It's small wonder <2yo children born into this atmosphere would have underdeveloped receptive and expressive language skills.

I doubt this will prove an accurate measurement of their general cognitive development over time. Once the children are exposed to unmasked people with the frequency that used to be considered normal, their skills in that area will probably catch up...assuming what was previously considered "normal" ever does return.
Show HN: I made an mobile app based on Atomic Habits by James Clear
that seems pretty appropriate for a static analysis tool
Fuite: A tool for finding memory leaks in web apps
Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick says "my gorge rises at it"
If the country goes into full lockdown, you got the hell that the model predicted.
in terms of covid hospitalisations overwhelming our hospitals: i‘m optimistic as well that this might not happen at scale.

but in terms of a large part of society getting sick (level 3 still makes you stick in bed) at the same time - this will lead to worker shortage - i’m kind of neutral-pessimistic.

in terms of longterm long covid effect on our demographic - i’m fearful.

in terms of society getting their act together to avert anything of this: absolutely pessimistic.
10 years ago I used Arch on Macbook Air, when it still had all of the drivers working. Everyone asked what that UI was. People practically pulled the "I use Archlinux" answer out of me. Get ready for some m1 fame. :D
https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/studio-lab/
> There is an additional postulate, namely that the state vector is the real world we inhabit. This may seem obvious to you and not amount to postulating much or anything with any substance, but that's a philosophical claim that isn't suggested by the physics.

Any interpretation has to postulate that something "is" the real world, in that sense. Postulating that there's an additional entity dependent on the wavefunction that "is" the real world (as e.g. pilot-wave theories do) is violating Occam's Razor.

> There are also the problems of deriving the Born rule from the existing postulates of MWI.

There are, but again, all interpretations have that problem, and adding more postulates just makes it worse. E.g. if you take a Copenhagen interpretation you have to derive the probability rule and a rule for what constitutes a "measurement" that triggers when the rule should be applied.
My guess would be a 'display over other apps' app which swapped from black to transparent and back might be more responsive than trying to use the backlight. Just a guess though.
Very cool. Chapeau!

https://www.fileformat.info/info/emoji/crown/index.htm

If this is 30 years too late then so am I – Belated thanks. Your work is certainly appreciated.

Indeed I came to check if someone had mentioned this already – and if not, post exactly that video of the properly crunchy Amiga-sounding recording. I love the kind of “etched” sound of that time. Spectral treasure.

Earlier in the 21st century us kids were using Propellerheads’ Reason a bit. Then I felt increasingly dissatisfied with the sound. There seemed to be this particular sou d to Reason’s virtual instruments. Plasticky? Since then I’ve come across mentions of aliasing; I wonder if that’s… part of the reason? (heeeh :sweat_smile:)
I mean, it's true that dolphins evolved from land mammals.
Night trains were on hiatus in 2020. Daytime trains have ran daily.