skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yes, but these notebooks are little more, aren't they.
Thanks for sharing nbdime! Been looking for something like this for a while.
Yeah... to me this is like complaining that the printing press was a bad idea because it was once only used to publish scholarship and now it's mostly coffee table books and pulp fiction.
I wish it weren’t true but for right now I agree with the author, including what it might take to tip the balance: “1. Complete deterioration of trust such that avoiding the centralization of power becomes a necessity. 4. The decentralization community manages to create clearly superior applications as convenient and reliable as centralized providers.“

I was eager to use GNU Social, and after some use for a year, my host shut down. I just opened another Mastadon account but haven’t started using it yet. Also, the value of centralized services like Twitter is the really interesting people I follow. Social media is best when used as an advertising and directory service for content we put on our own blogs and web sites, but even that seems to be less common.

I really enjoyed the Decentralized Web Conference June 2016, but it also made me slightly sad that fighting back against centralized web, political, corporate, etc. centralization is an uphill fight.

Sometime network power laws suck.
I am surprised this did not remain on the front page long enough.
> Even stupider: first class personal mail in the US can not be opened without a warrant. So you can mail your iPhone to your destination before you go.

You can, but postal delivery (especially cross border) suffers from a much higher rate of "packet loss" than you keeping your phone with you, and phones can be incredibly useful during travel before you reach your final destination where the phone is supposedly waiting for you (for example, to call/hire transportation, coordinate with people, notify about delays or that you're ok, make alternative arrangements if there are issues, keep track of connections/flight status, not to mention being able to continue to work or use them for entertainment, etc).

Also keep in mind that stuff that crosses the border by mail can also be seized for a variety of reasons.

And of course, there is the issue of price: if you want to ship your phone across the border and not be without it for too long, with insurance & tracking, it's not going to be particularly cheap.
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Org-mode is strictly speaking the most powerful notebook programming environment out there.

I’m also much more excited by R Notebooks as implemented by RStudio than I am Jupyter. R Notebooks take the same basic approach as org-mode, implementing a smaller set of functionality built around a more mainstream-palatable Markdown format.

I don’t like R Notebooks as much as org-mode (why reinvent the wheel!?), but at least the general approach plays nicely with git.

On the other hand, the lisp-addled part of me starts to think that the juypyter format being json might actually be a step up from a poorly specified markup format that has to be parsed into data structures.

Maybe the real issue is that git is an insufficient revision control system, and that we need revision control systems that can revision data structures, rather than simple text diffing.
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Nope, we gave two eyes and the ability to change focus. This essentially means we are dealing with video with added depth perception. Recent motion really pops out because we are comparing what we see with what we just saw.

Self driving cars with liar are a much better representation of human vision than a single image. We also do well with photos, but that’s a significant step down.
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If you're interested in other oral histories and video game stories, I highly recommend Read Only Memory [1].

I've been diving deep into some of the articles there lately and am excited to see what else they come up with, given how so many of these stories are locked away within the mind of a few game devs.

[1] https://readonlymemory.vg/
I read most of the last article, and he indicates "harm" must be things like "murder", and since short sellers aren't killing they can't be doing anything that would be equated with causing harm. There's a little more gray area to "harm" than just "murder". Severe logical fallacy here.
> What emerged was a masterpiece that changed the industry and set many standards still seen in first-person shooters today.

Erm, what? Quake already existed at that point. I always thought Goldeneye was poor compared to Quake, which was really mind blowing at the time.
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Yeah, obviously human visual inputs are a finite set of data points from rods and cones which might be considered roughly akin to pixels. But by "seeing" I'm clearly referring to what takes place in the visual cortex which is incredibly efficient at converting those inputs to geometry and objects/creatures/expressions with qualitative associations in a lossy manner, making heavy use of hardwired priors which are evolved rather than learned through evaluation against past sensory input (whilst at the same time apparently being entirely incapable of processing or storing the original sensory input values in a sufficiently discrete manner to replicate the pixel by pixel evaluation a computer vision system can achieve).
Frankly, I don't think it will. The typical user will never hear about this, and those that do will forget about it in a week. They just want to play Fortnite, and they'll do whatever to get there.
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You know, a lot has been written about the effect of cryptocurrency mining on GPU prices.

If you were a gamer entering the market in 2018, you would've seen prices several hundred dollars in excess of what your counterpart from six months earlier paid. Games hadn't gotten, say, 50% better. Performance hadn't either. You and your peer are going to have roughly identical experiences. The cost of your gaming experience is going up due to reasons uncorrelated with the value delivered to you.

The point is that pure market forces are volatile and unpredictable, in the extreme.
It's up to you if you want to make the case that housing, being a commodity essential to the proper functioning of a society (unlike gaming), doesn't require at least some protection from pure demand forces. IMO most people would find it obvious that this would be undesirable.
Have you heard of http://www.mrmoneymustache.com ? If you still have student loans after 12 years in the industry, you might want to re-examine your spending/saving patterns
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I don't think living like that is a conscious decision though. It's probably more likely for someone like the closet-guy that he's an outsider anyway and at some point along the way just thought to himself "fuck it, I might just make the most out of it now" and hope for better times in the future.

When it comes to living life I'd rather go with 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.' And I say this as someone who's worked hard in their 20s to let go of nerdy and awkward behaviour to be able to more fully enjoy my life NOW.
I had a very mean line-by-line response, but then I deleted it because it wasn't in keeping with HN guidelines. I apologize for having written it even though you'll never read it. Instead I'll just say that literally nothing you've mentioned has anything to do with whether you choose to use Linux. Yes your serial lines will be noisy. Yes you have to write software. Yes you need specific domain knowledge to do it well. Nobody has ever said otherwise. None of that, none, has anything to do with the operating system.

An operating system, real time or otherwise, handles activating processes, IO, and interprocess messaging. That's it. You don't get magical serial line noise clearing pixies with it, and it doesn't make your actuators less drunk.

And...

> Manually threading together all these different kinds of cycles and asynchronous events without a RTOS scheduler is hard and becomes error prone.

You just said "getting input and sending output is way too hard for software on a Linux kernel." That's a crazy person statement. It turns out that Linux is, and has been for a loooong time, very good at doing operating system things like activating processes and interprocess messaging.

> The result is likely less resilient

Saying "likely" here suggests that you don't know what the result actually is. So what are you arguing? What was my statement?

Whatever assumption you're making that says "This. This right here is the reason why we definitely need an RTOS." Just don't make that assumption. That assumption is wrong.
I think Levine has been pretty hit-or-miss on this saga. His line of thinking on short-seller narratives misses the point entirely:

> Elon Musk has been banging on for ages about how short sellers are trying to sabotage his company, Tesla Inc. [... examples and citations....] This does seem to be mostly nonsense. If you build lots of good cars and sell them for more money than it costs you to build them, then you will make a lot of money and no amount of desperate pushing of narrative will result in your destruction.

This is only relevant if you evaluate Tesla as a mature company that operates on fundamentals. Nobody sees it this way yet. The entire point of a short seller pushing a narrative is to influence the capital markets, ideally to prevent Tesla from getting funding or more realistically to worsen the terms it gets, to prevent it from reaching a state where it can operate on fundamentals.

It's perfectly fair to question the extent to which short sellers are working to influence things (or how successful they've been), but it's certainly not unprecedented[1], and just yesterday on the front page of HN was an ex-employee (who was highly critical of Musk), who felt Musk "isn't totally paranoid" because they had caught "bad actors" and found "advanced persistent threats in [their] network"[2].

Has Musk overreacted? Perhaps. Has he been wrong in his assumptions in some of the examples he's cited? Almost certainly. But that doesn't contradict the logic of the concern or make it "mostly nonsense."

[1]https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/elon-musk-vs-short-s...

[2]https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032944615475695616
Those are attendees, but the org that puts the event together absolutely has employees both temp and permanent.
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> will be the game’s 21st birthday, allowing Bond to finally taste one of his revered cocktails

Legal drinking age is 18 in the UK, I'm amazed it's as high as 21 in the US.
I thought this would have been done 5 years ago.
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No, but it's available in a few European countries. I'm living in Russia now and am tempted to buy one. The funny thing is, "new-rich" Russians try their hardest to make an impression and opt for less capable Mercedes and BMWs which the roads just eat alive.
> As put by a 2006 academic paper from Ian Towers, a researcher from SRH Hochschule in Berlin, mobile technology “increases expectations: managers and colleagues alike expect staff to be almost always available to do work”.

A little surprised to see this line. In Germany, there is a law (cannot recall the name), that effectively states that you cannot be fired if you don't reply to a work email or phone call between 6pm and 9am. If you want to, you can, but it cannot be held against you.
IANAL, but I work on the Red Hat kernel. I don't need the patches of the Red Hat kernel in order to make modifications to it. I need the patches from the upstream kernel in order to copy them to the Red Hat kernel, but I often use "--depth=1" clones of git trees, in other words clones without the "patches", and make modifications to them.

Patches are useful, of course. They are useful to understand the evolution of the software, to support it, etc. But they are not necessary in order to make modifications to the software. Ten-fifteen years ago it was actually the norm that open source software had private source control repositories and only made periodic releases as tarballs.
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It doesn't do any good to secure the voting machines if there is no verification of identity of voters, or effective controls on people voting multiple times. We have so little verification in this regard, and so little transparency, that there's actually a debate as to whether this even occurs or not and is a problem. Not really enough data to know.

It would also help if they made ballots non-ambiguous. There should always be a "none of the above" choice so that a machine could validate correctness. Currently, if a choice is left blank, you don't know if the person meant "none of the above" or forgot to mark it, or tried to mark it but the marking failed.

Adding a "none of the above" choice makes that problem go away, and makes it so that the ballot cannot be submitted until it is correct.

Incidentally, if "none of the above" wins, then the election really should be run again, with new candidates.
Quake had a very basic gameplay compared to golden eye, espacially regarding level design and the diversity in weaponery.
I don't think genre literacy counts as a workaround: I think it's really the definition of what is or is not 6/8. The 6/8 time wheel gives a heavy bass drum on the four count. I don't notice such a thing in the waltz every other measure.

I'm more familiar with 4/4 time due to the genres I know well, but it's a similar thing there. I used to think that the 1 and the 2 beats were indistinguishable - you can start off by one and it still repeats with period 4. But now I can reliably pick up the difference, generally by listening to where the bass drum lands versus the high hat. However I'm not as good at telling the 1 and 3 counts apart or the first measure in a phrase from the second. These are just more subtle conventions on longer scale.

6/8 and all time signatures are just notations, just ways to encode information about the song. There's a correct answer but yes, it depends upon conventions. You can call it 1/1 time if you want, but it's not going to help you play your part or dance along if the conductor tells you that.
Unlike Quake, Goldeneye focus was objectives-based, where you had to do more than reach the end of the level, and based its difficulty system upon it instead of simply making enemies stronger.

I must admit that GoldenEye is a bit slow-paced compared to Quake, but I partly blame the N64 controller for that. They still managed to make a great-looking for its time with the hardware resources they had.
The article explains that courts have concluded these Acts in particular don't give the government carte blanche, it doesn't get to destroy your business to achieve its goals under the Acts, and obviously allowing wiretapping in Signal's app that exists specifically so that they nobody can wiretap you would destroy Open Whisper Systems' business.

So Facebook's Messenger is made more vulnerable by the fact that "Also the government can't wiretap this" isn't a prominently advertised feature. In fact, prior to this article if you'd asked if they can do so I'd have guessed "Yes" and recommended Signal instead.

Why not set up your own infrastructure? Well that does come with a significant downside. "Don't Stand Out" is one of the principles we've learned is important for real world communications security. Once you set up your own secure systems, while everybody else keeps using Messenger, you are marked out, your communications label themselves as especially interesting. So _once you do that_ you have to be sure that two things are true:

1. Your technical systems are 100% secure. No adversary has a backdoor to your GPU firmware, a laser microphone listening to your keypresses, a black bag team who can break in and silently copy your data when you're out shopping, a zero day exploit for your browser, or whatever. If your adversary is "Bob from next door" this seems plausible. But if it's the government of your country you are probably in deep shit immediately.

2. Your society has both norms and strongly enforced laws that will ensure it's not just easier and cheaper to bypass all this technology and get what they want from you anyway.

But so long as you Don't Stand Out all this fades into the background. If we make _everybody's_ communications secure, yours won't Stand Out and a powerful adversary (such as the US Government) can't target you.
The common thread is your boss, not your customer. A good boss is worth everything.

A good boss would push back on unreasonable customer demands and spend time figuring out what went wrong. A good boss will help prevent it from going wrong the next time. A good boss will help you figure out what needs to be done right now and what can be scheduled so it’s not just a constant “P1 emergency”
Clearly the downhill spiral started with ocher. http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/artist-paints/prehistoric-co...
The counter argument to your basement geneticist terrorist is that you shouldn't suppress that technology, you should in fact distribute it as widely and freely as possible and as early as possible. This allows good intentioned actors to understand and learn about the capabilities and develop defenses such that it gets harder and harder to create the wipe-out-90% of people weapon because you have higher barriers to overcome for it to be effective.
What about centralized but libre servers and clients, and run by the EFF and FSF? If they one day start behaving badly, we all migrate away to a new benevolent dictator. Or maybe EFF and FSF somehow legally bind themselves to not be able to behave badly, if that's possible. Maybe the domain name is owned by an impartial committee of some kind.
> Unlike Quake, Goldeneye focus was objectives-based

Which also wasn't groundbreaking. Plenty of games were objective based, going back to the 8 bit era. A game like Exile [1] on the BBC Micro was easily as complex as Goldeneye, if not more so.

The control aspect alone of Goldeneye was awful. As a game it always felt forced and 'clunky' to me, compared to the smoothness and elegance of Quake.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLndV_f_vo
> The argument (at the time) was that Windows C++ tools were better than anything on GNU/Linux of the time.

That's still true today and it will probably always be true unless Microsoft ports Visual Studio one day. It's not a super great reason to choose it as an operating platform though. :\
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Compared to AWS, the title would be true of Azure too :-)
Probably the employer won’t cite that as a reason...
If I understood the article properly, this is about Messenger voice calls, which are not E2E encrypted:

> However, end-to-end encryption is not an option for Messenger voice calls.

Hence, the FB infra is in a position where they can actually retain the key, which Signal is not:

> This differs in a major way from other secure messaging applications like Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage. All of those apps use protocols that encrypt that initial session key—the key to the voice data—in a way that renders it unreadable by anyone other than the intended participants in the conversation.

However, Signal could of course modify the client applications to siphon off the keys and send them wherever. Especially since it's hard/impossible to verify the source code running in the binary on your phone, this is somewhat scary and forces me to trust Signal.

But if I understand everything correctly, Signal could not be coerced into revealing keys from the backend side. (Please correct me if I'm wrong)
It seems "Suppose there were a technology X which was going to be invented eventually" is not a very powerful constraint because on a long enough time span, every possible technology is invented. So, this argument explains everything, so it explains nothing.
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This is mind blowing
Goldeneye wasn’t ground breaking, but it was the first real playable, good, FPS on console.

And it was a blast to play.

It also did things right. Had a decent story, had good level design, great gameplay for console.

Without it, FPS on console might not have happened. Though some would argue that would be a good thing.
I have used https://github.com/bitly/oauth2_proxy with success, and it supports a variety of providers.
IANAL, but I’d be careful. I’m not a Harry Potter fan, but even that was my first thought.

Even if it’s based on Roman word, the prevalence of Harry Potter and Accio as a summoning (aka search and retrieval) spell may be enough to get Warner Bros involved.
This is a real problem for future historians. Prior ages kept records of what they deemed important, but failed to document the mundane, which makes it hard to reconstruct today how people lived back then. The same problem is posed by wikipedia. Some of the content being filtered out as irrelevant may prove important to understanding the flow of history in 500 years. We can’t know today what will be important and what won’t be.

That’s why archive.org may be a far more useful compendium of human knowledge than wikipedia.
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That link is not a source for declining Model 3 demand. Source?
My info shows that

• In July, over 60,000 test drive requests in the US alone

• 5000 Model 3 new net orders in one week in mid-July

• Total deposits greater than total refunds in the twelve months ending April 2018

• Reports of Cancellations Outpacing Orders proved to be False wording

Meaningless negative indicators include Goldman Sachs analyst David Tamberrino saying Model 3 social media activity had lessened and frequent critic Latrilife said Tesla’s Burbank Airport lot is under 24/7 surveillance

Sources include:

• Seekingalpha.com/article/4189303-tesla-short-thesis-model-3-demand-wrong

• Seekingalpha.com/article/4179986-tesla-model-3-reservations-tip-iceberg
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Are you a US Citizen? That might be the reason. I visited US multiple times in the last few years, mostly on the east coast or Chicago, and the CBP agents were okay. The last time I landed at SEA, the agent there was unbelievably rude, all because I forgot to sign some document. All he kept saying was the document was invalid without explaining why, and then asking if I can read English. Asshole. I was tempted to make a complaint later, but I was running late.
How about equitable enforcement of the rules?
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I wasn't arguing about the cost, but the benefit. Your suggestion was that we need to do a cost-benefit analysis, and to decide if "ending the class divide is something we should be aiming to achieve" at all.

I don't think you can do a cost-benefit analysis of "freedom" for example, what would that even mean? Sure, try to get it cheaply, but the "benefit" should be clear, and invaluable.

Is it "beneficial" to reduce class-inequality, as in, simply being born into a particular class gives you a huge advantage/disadvantage? Of course it depends who you ask, and what you are measuring, but I would say it is worthwhile in and of itself, and in the same category as "freedom", "justice" and so on, and that's why I asked "define benefit".

Whether the proposed solution would work, or is fair, or is the best/cheapest solution etc, is an entirely different question.
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