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metahost··on PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter
CCP is the acronym for Chinese Communist Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party

metahost··on Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents
I would like to plug the open source macOS PDF reading/annotations application Skim. It is the most proficient scientific document viewer I have ever used.

Here is a link to it, I have no affiliations to the application: https://skim-app.sourceforge.io/

metahost··on Roger Waters – Thoughts on Facebook Ad Offer [video]
This is the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGBcAZ55D4
metahost··on WiFi SSIDs in Apple iOS have a format string vulnerability
Correct me if I am wrong but this appears to be a format string bug because of the %n at the end?

If someone could look at the crash and explain what is happening, it would be great! :)

metahost··on Stanford CS Curriculum 2021
No class on distributed systems?
metahost··on Europe’s Super League scores an own goal
Non pay-walled link: https://archive.is/accYU
metahost··on WhatsApp Down in Some Regions
Down in Spain too.
metahost··on Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
Could not get it to work with private repos even after using an API token, is it supported?
metahost··on A visual guide to SSH tunnels
This[1] is probably the best, easiest and most (visually) effective way to learn about SSH tunnels.

[1] : https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/118650/289353

metahost··on I received my first donation on my open-source side project
Was looking forward to using it but, it says my IP is blacklisted. :(
metahost··on Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
You can probably use the docker container from the repo. Link: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop
metahost··on Google outage – resolved
Can confirm from India.
metahost··on CSS in GitHub Readmes
If anyone's interested, I've been doing something quite similar for some time now on GitHub's readme.md. See: github.com/say4n/
metahost··on Introducing the next generation of Mac
Older apps are _supposed to_ work as is (with Rosetta).
metahost··on Send Payments in India with WhatsApp
You can WhatsApp someone without saving their number. Just use the link https://wa.me/<phone number goes here>/

This is by WhatsApp, the company, itself.

metahost··on YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
You can use the download zip button instead of cloning.
metahost··on Whose Computer Is It?
> For example it boots from the GPU, not the CPU.

Could you kindly point out a reference to this, I would love to read up on it.

metahost··on GitHub Outage
Error 500 on all github.com pages. Github Pages however seem to be working fine.
metahost··on Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
You may give https://hackerweb.app a try! Aside: It is read only though.
metahost··on Ask HN: What are some interesting projects to reuse your old devices?
Run BOINC(Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), a distributed, high throughout computing initiative that runs with volunteer computing. It helps solve cutting edge research problems in science.

It is easy to set up (just screate an account with scienceunited.org) and great to contribute to. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows and Android!

Link: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

metahost··on Epic Tells Customers It Will Stop Google Cloud Integrations
Are you being sarcastic?
metahost··on MIT 6.004: Computation Structures
Do you have the course schedule or content? I can't seem to find any past content/editions of the course. The course sounds amazing!
metahost··on ML From Scratch, Part 1: Linear Regression
Looks like the equation in the article is missing enclosing parenthesis. Read the following paragraph.
metahost··on Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
OP replied in a thread above.

> Thanks a lot. Sure, first we create a list of all the individual sentences in the article. Then, we use the TextRank algorithm to rank each of the text sentences. Finally, we select the top 5 most representative sentences from the article.

metahost··on AI Portraits
Why are they doing that?
metahost··on Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
The latest course is available here: http://web.mit.edu/6.031/www/sp19/
metahost··on Think Twice Before Downgrading to a Free GitHub Account
Building from private repos did not work for me once I downgraded to the free tier.
metahost··on Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com
Turns out those r/TIFU stories were fake. A Googler from the GSuite support debunked the claim. [0]

[0]: https://amp.reddit.com/r/google/comments/8l231x/google_banne...

metahost··on Show HN: Bake – A modular build system and package manager for C/C++
No, they seem unrelated.
metahost··on PyTorch 1.0 is out
Curious, can SWIG[1] help automate the process?

[1]: http://www.swig.org/

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