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Tails 5.1 arrives with a fix for a serious JavaScript security vulnerability
If work isn’t paying, what gives them the right to have email or chat in your personal phone?!
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I downvoted you too.

First of all, teaching someone git isn't necessarily job training. We don't have the broader context. Maybe the child initiated it because they were interested in what their parents are spending their time on.

Secondly, teaching a child how to use git doesn't mean the child isn't learning other things too.

Thirdly, I learned version control (SVN, before git existed) as a child too. Not as young as primary school, but I learned it on my own because I was interested in it. It wasn't done in the context of job training.

Fourthly, your comparison with a chain saw is just plain vacuous. Git won't kill or maim you. Holy hell buddy.

So at least in my case, your speculation about the reasons for downvotes is wrong. And also, stop whining about downvotes. :)
jq has >20k stars on GitHub.

I use it mostly for little cli utilities, so maybe it isn’t an exact refutation of your claim.

[0] https://github.com/stedolan/jq
The RNA thing is more about what was the first storage of genetic heritable information, I don't know anyone in academia who imagines some kind of RNA world where auto catalytic networks weren't established first or alongside... So yes? You're creating a weird straw man argument for yourself. No one doesn't agree with you. That doesn't take away from the idea of stored information being in RNA before say DNA as it is today. Some of the more fun theories I've seen also focus around the ribosome as the original primary replicator rather than cells. With cells being the evolutionary consequence of ribosomes improving their efficiency.
Common, this is not cheating!
there is nothing selfish about giving priority to your own health over health of stranger, it's just basic self preservation, and that's assuming these vaccines would slow the spread, which they clearly don't, same as they don't stop you from getting infected, same as they don't stop you from having symptoms, so they can be hardly called vaccines

even if they would slow down spread I'm not going to risk my own health with dangerous vaccine against something which ain't dangerous to me (not drinking, not smoking, exercising, having very healthy weight) to help irresponsible people living irresponsible lifestyle as if it wasn't enough my insurance money being wasted on them
A bump on the head now is worth the price of admission to avoid a visit to hospital later, when your offspring are adults..
Unless something has changed, you have to pay for YouTube premium to play audio while the screen is off.

YouTube is also a worse choice if you want offline access, such as on an airplane or when camping
The process of registering and maintaining a company in the UK is probably as simple and cheap as it gets.

London has also emerged as a major hub for tech startups and funding.

The snag these days is that the UK is no longer in the single market.
It's just anecdotal, but I found myself unintentionally saving money like crazy when I was WFH during lockdown due to not selling out every day for fuel, parking and buying lunch. But then again I'm someone who always pays the 'disorganisation tax'. I'm sure people with more optimised spending (e.g. catching the bus, bringing their lunch in from home etc.) didn't see as much of an effect.
> why not...

Have you ever heard about lulz? The internet hate machine? A true 4chan native will train a 4chan bot with /pol/ and probably with /pol/ only.
Hey, I've used this show to act as my own sound machine when trying to nap! Some nights are the kids are terrible sleepers, so my wife and I take turns napping during the day while the other watches the kids. As you might imagine, they're loud - the white noise helps block out the extra noise.
You could try setup just a git.sr.ht instance, I suppose. Dunno if it is what you're looking for, but it might be worth checking out.
could you please explain to me why a 5-12 year old child needs "a version control system to version whatever you might think needs versioning"?

like do you really think children are bothered with not being able to version-control files? is this an issue a lot of children are having?

> software engineering tools and skills are just valuable for work?

yes, work is still work, it doesn't matter if you're doing work as a fun hobby or as a job

> I will certainly build computer games with my kid some day which will involve git

yeah, why not also teach them law and performing a surgery? they'll have a great career potential, useful skills, much better than the other children!
Can't Amazon but 100 boxes, open then and look for the note, and close and bring back to the store and sell again?
Some sites do for podcasts.

But machine transcriptions are IMO useless for the purpose. (They're fine for interviews where they're just source material for something you're writing.) And they're especially useless for audio you're having trouble understanding anyway.

Human transcriptions aren't that expensive, about $1/minute, but they do cost money and you still need to spend some time cleaning them up and formatting them--and you still end up with words here and there you can't make out.
The article is really quite confusing. Early on it says F2P can't get the best gear, then later says they can. Then they say even for paid players it's random so I'm not even sure how they come up with 100k figure.

It's just hard for me to get upset about a game that's always been a pretty skin over a blatant Skinner box.
If there is actually substance here then they should hire a competent technical writer, the way this is written seems designed to irritate and/or obfuscate. ZK stuff is complicated enough without superfluous nonsense.
> That's the game of universal healthcare

You have only shown arguments to revise implementations of universal healthcare - not any reasonable stance to regulate behaviour (which by the way, is not a novel topic - see seatbelts etc. - and not a trivial one with easy answers).
> Even if rna is formed, what will read it?

That's the interesting part of RNA. You don't need a reader!

RNA can act like an enzyme. They can fold and form strange shapes and have some "sticky" parts, so they can replace the activity of enzymes. Enzymes made of proteins are more efficient, so now most(all?) enzymes are made of proteins. But in the initial form of life perhaps enzymes were just a short RNA strip.

RNA can be copied. They can be in a single strain, and they can collect the parts [1] and make an inverse copy, and then separate. DNA is better with a lot of helper enzymes is much better, but in the initial form of life perhaps RNA is good enough.

None of these steps need a reader, so perhaps they can form an initial and very inefficient life(almost-life) form.

[1] the parts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleoside_triphosphate
> The album was pulled by Spotify on April 26, 2014, citing violations of the service's content policies.

Regulation by companies is so refreshing compared to being regulated by the government!
Digit Preference in Office Blood Pressure Measurements: ~40% End with Zero
A HN recently complained about GitHub closing their account. The GitHub activity was similar: PR pointing to their product. Also 90% of HN comments were basically "interesting submission, also checkout <my url>". So the user was either dense or didn't understand that it is a kind of SPAM. Maybe too much beginner advise for solo startup founders is 'hussle' as in: place your URL anywhere you can.
Yes but then nothing? Maybe I am too impatient, but the (pretty overwhelmingly positive) summary of the findings in the webinar was published to YouTube Feb 2, 2021. Are they looking for funding for "95 turbines spaced 100m apart in two rows ... producing 90 megawatts"? This is extremely exciting and personal to me. I was born in Wellington (on Cook Strait). New Zealand is a country known for self-reliance, blessed by sustainable energy options (especially hydroelectric and geothermal) and with limited indigenous oil and gas (Maui gas field notwithstanding). This could be a moonshot for Aotearoa.
If Spotify does not create their own white noise channels then I certainly would not be happy being a Spotify investor.
im trying to remember one. I used it and I think you will like it. but it's been a while and i am forgetful!

it was something short, the url too. it was sh or st something.

can anyone get which one I mean?

edit: YES! it's sr.ht. thanks, commenter below this :)
I think that the fact that Alice's resell is covered under the first sale doctrine does not affect Bob's right to request from Alice the source code of the binary that he had just received. Besides, it's reasonable to expect that Alice is able to provide such a copy, so it can't be seen as a restriction on Alice's right to resell.
Back in the day I found Privateer's in-game rotations jarring and hideous. Modern games and remasters should at least use higher resolution frame buffers, even if they downscale back to OG--ideally using high color and alpha channels. And I think higher resolution rendering is fine too.
RNA does all of those functions, thats why people think it was prevalent before DNA. There are very few DNA enzymes compared to RNA. RNA provides structure in complex with other molecules which is indirectly catalytic to their activity, as well as being catalytic directly from its own folded structure, then you also have coded information representing its own structure but later those of proteins with the establishment of the genetic code. But you have to remember ribosomes have to exist for the genetic code to mean anything, or at least whatever ribosomes looked like at the start, which is very likely just RNA and a couple of peptides.
Perhaps Amazon's high turnover is impacting their ability to keep an increasingly large and aging codebase stable. The turnover in their warehouses gets most of the attention but it's pretty bad across the board.
That's not the only context. I would likely appreciate git at 12yo. I definitely enjoyed programming already and I believe that was the time I learned more about maths to code some music visualiser plugins and was sending fun examples back and forth with a friend. Git would've been useful.
> if doing the same exact rift over and over for weeks in order to unfreeze your game progress is something you find enjoyable then yes. but realistically I don't think there exist that much people who would enjoy this.

It's been awhile since I played D3, but hasn't this been the model for years?
Why not? I got my first programming manual (for C64 Basic, of course) when I was 7, read Stroustrup at 14, and wrote x86 assembly as 16. I started working with CVS only at university, and wished that I'd known about it years before.

But thank you for gratuitously denigrating my childhood.
If I don't hear something - due to traffic or children or dogs barking, for example - automatic transcription still lets me pick up on some things even if it is wrong 25% of the time. In general, it usually isn't wrong enough that I can't get the context but instead, a word or two.

And if I'm already wrong, I know because of context and would hopefully pick it up.

In other words, it is still a benefit.
I kinda find it surprising to assume a company like Mihoyo consistently makes record profits from just a few whales addicted to gambling. It litteraly makes no sense.

I also don’t see these companies disclose their revenue per user statistics, could you share some of what you read positing current gatcha games are sustained by whales ?
Free speech must be guarded with absolute passion: Subramanian
>automatically generated captions in YouTube

Youtube's AI-powered auto gen captions are often inaccurate for uncommon words and proper nouns (names, etc).

Here's an example to a deep link : https://youtu.be/z9IXfYHhKYI?t=20m33s

The instructor actually says "UIs" (user interfaces) but the auto gen transcript is "you eyes".

Therefore, accurate transcripts require humans to manually correct the errors and most content creators of podcasts don't have the time-or-money budget for that.

If your question is actually asking why the iPhone/Android software apps don't dynamically generate and display "close captions" while the podcast/audiobook is playing similar to Youtube or Chrome, it's because the devices don't include an onboard trained neural network that's big & comprehensive enough to translate general audio of uncommon terminology. Today's smartphones only have RAM of ~4GB to 8GB. (I read that iOS API has max RAM allocation of 5GB per app.)

I found a Google paper talking about reducing a 2GB voice recognition model to 450MB with alternative techniques but the neural net is probably not good enough for accurately transcribing uncommon words: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-sp...

So current state-of-technology means accurate close captions on smartphones would require a separate "subtitle track" (authored by humans) akin to *.srt files in mkv video containers -- instead of attempting dynamic speech recognition of the audio. Maybe not enough consumer demand to have mp3 or m4b files formats with transcripts embedded.
> keep in mind false negatives have almost no downside

Can it be said that refusing to hire women, for example, has almost no downside? In my opinion, this is a kind of ethical issue, because the "false negatives" are not just random. Audition-style coding quiz interviews tend to systematically discriminate against people who don't interview often, who haven't recently studied CS in college, who don't have time to "train" for interviews, or who tend to have situational anxiety in job interviews (which is fairly common, and not an indicator of on-the-job anxiety). A study sponsored by Microsoft itself showed that these interviews test for anxiety rather than skill. https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/

Remember that the author said, "A few weeks later I’m about to go in for my interview and I’m so nervous I can barely think straight." These screening tests were all-or-nothing, so if he flubbed the question, he was eliminated. You might respond, "Well, he made it through the onsite interviews." Yes, that's precisely why using coding tests as screening is so pernicious, because a short screening test is not a good indicator of what someone can do given more time and under better working conditions.
I wonder if they ever get copyright strikes.
Add to that lotteries, or pretty much anything that has random outcomes. Even if you don't gamble with cash, but something like Pokemon cards or digital items, there will always be secondary markets that let you cash out. If you want to ban these things, you'd have to ban all randomness.
You don’t use git when you’re working on hobby programming projects?
It's an interesting question. Obviously creators will favor podcasts since it allows them to shove ads back in, even for Spotify paid subscribers. But why people chose that over playlists is a mystery.
>A search for "Amazing Project" is now showing 21,177 issues.

I was worried for a minute there, but everything looks ok on my end

https://github.com/bryanrasmussen/AmazingProject/issues
This is what happened at my Oxford interviews. They asked me stuff that I knew the answer to, thinking it would be one of those see-how-he-thinks things.

Biggest problem was acting like I didn't know and getting it really fast.

Total lottery, they could have asked any number of things that I didn't understand.
Further confusion, the contributing page says

> By contributing your code, you agree to license your contribution under the GPL license. According to the goals, only code that is well designed, documented, clear and readable will be accepted.

Not sure what to make of it either.
Ethereum Transactions Receipts, Logs and Transaction Details
Show HN: A new way to fight manipulation in news
To be fair, there are millions of farmers around the world and only a handful of white noise producers. Moreover, each white noise producer seems to be serving hundreds of thousands of people. Economy of scale is a thing.
I'm not a white noise podcast listener, so it's just a guess:

Discovering new white noises? Washing machine, hair dryer, forest, see, bar, wind, workplace noises?

For work, I could see that I would like to experiment with different variations of white noise sounds, and see which one helps me the most to concentrate. I'll try out this podcast on Monday.
There’s plenty of white noise on radio bands between stations, FM or AM, it’s got plenty of flavors. Any old radio would do.
Hi everyone, I’m Steve, one of the team working on The Daily Edit.

We’ve built a news aggregator which shows you every detail that has been reported on a story regardless of which article, or which publisher, you choose to visit. Readers can choose whichever angle they like and they’ll still see everything that’s been reported, from all sides. They don’t have to visit several articles to do this, it all happens in one place.

We’ve put some examples of what it all does on Twitter: @dailyeditapp. If you find more great examples please share them with us!

How did we get here?

Myself, Craig and Mich work(ed) as pilots for an airline out of Hong Kong. Over our careers we’ve seen that all of the current issues with the news happen everywhere around the world and, like everyone, we’re tired of it. During COVID our flying rosters were reduced significantly so we had a bit more free time than usual. We used this time to have a go at building something that can help fix this mess.

Initially we made a tool that highlights questionable pieces of text like logical fallacies and such. We tried this out with some friends and kept getting the same feedback. Nobody really cared that much about the text, they all said the real manipulation happens through omission.

For a while we discussed how to do this without falling into the fact-checker trap. Fact-checkers are great but every time they show an error a new group emerges from the mist to spend the rest of their lives arguing against it.

Eventually we realised that if we could aggregate deeper than just the articles, go right into the text itself and pull out details, then we could make this work. We got a small proof-of-concept up and running, put together a team and got to work building the real thing.

We hope you like it! It’s early and there will be bugs, but we’ll squash those! We have a lot more stuff coming over the next few months including a web app and browser extension. If there are particular things you think would be awesome to have, we’d love to hear it!.

If you have any feedback at all feel free to email us at feedback !at! dailyedit.com
I Built a Ruby Parser
Show HN: To prevent dry eyes and back pain, I created a macOS app
In 2019, I experienced eye soreness and back pain for a while because I was constantly working long hours in front of my 16 inch Macbook without any rest.

I decided to do something to change that. I’m not a fan of Apple Watch or smartbands. So the first thing I did was looking for some reminder software to remind me to take a break in the App Store, but none of them were smart enough for my needs. I wish the software could automatically tell if I was working, rather than requiring me to manually set an alarm. At the same time, when I go to the bathroom or drink coffee, it can automatically increase the time I can continue to work afterward.

So I created Eye Monitor. Eye Monitor is an automatic reminder tool. It judges whether you are using the computer through the use of the mouse and keyboard. (which means when a user is watching Youtube videos, Eye Monitor will consider it as not using computer. I haven't found a solution yet.) Whenever you use it continuously, your fatigue value will increase, and after a period of rest, your fatigue value will decrease automatically. When your fatigue value reaches the threshold you set, it will trigger a reminder (including the dock icon, status bar, notification, full-screen pop-up window, etc.).

After a year of iteration, Eye monitor now has a chart to show your usage of the day. And users now can customize the fatigue threshold, rest duration, reminder interval, reminder style, etc., and even customize the text of the notification (My customized notification text is “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”) or upload your favorite picture as the wallpaper of the full-screen pop-up window.(Not so useful, but I like it.)

I like to set the reminder interval very small, like 1 minute, so that when I turn off the reminder, 1 minute later the reminder will reappear again and I will decide to take a break.

This software is like a bit of a nagging mom, taking the trouble to remind you to rest. I hope you will like it. Here is the App Store URL: [https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/eye-monitor/id1527031341?l=en&...
Currents are relatively unrelated to tides, and are fairly consistent over time (with some seasonal variation due to differences in hemispheric temperatures).

From [1], "the large scale prevailing winds drive major persistent ocean currents..." Keyword is persistent.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_current
> I would never buy any food or medicine from Amazon.

Wholefoods is owned by Amazon.
When I asked well-known questions like this in an interview, I usually ask the candidate if they have seen the question before. Almost everyone says "no."

But if you then go on to solve the question without thinking about any alternatives, red flags go up. Even worse, some people would try to pretend that they didn't know the answer. Their line of thought to the solution would be a LOT more linear and less branchy than someone who truly didn't know. I would never fail someone who found the answer to the question, but I did note the possibilities: either they lied about knowing the answer, or are very smart and lucky to get straight to the answer.

Now, I was happy if the candidate said "yes" and gave me the solution. Then we could move on to something else (usually an easier question), and I noted your preparation and honesty for the hiring committee.

Almost everyone who said "yes" got an offer at that company. Almost everyone who lied about their "no" didn't get hired.

By the way, this particular question has an easy way to weed out the mathematicians from people who are well-prepared: add another repeated number. It's possible to solve for both that are repeated.
Self-regulation lasts for half a generation, at most. Then people take over who wonder why they are doing the regulating in the first place and/or see how to game it for profit. I think it does work, just not for long enough to matter.
Right but the vast majority of folks won’t pay more to live in a similarly sized apartment as a house in suburbia to experience that. They will spend less money on a nice house in suburbia unless they had no other choice.

If the big apartment were a fraction of the price of the house in suburbia, maybe. But it costs way too much to build tall buildings for that to ever be feasible.

Asian and European cities work because everyone expects a smaller amount of living space. And the large houses in suburbia are simply priced out of reach for 95%+ of the population.
China launches a mission to complete the assembly of the space station
wow. Does ADA lawyer thing work with whiteboard interviews?
I'm only half-sarcastic, I hate my handwriting and this makes whiteboard interviews double hard for me.