skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say you knowingly stash the drugs in your car doors and are then arrested, convicted, serve your sentence, and are released. Should you then have the rest of your life extrajudiciously ruined by a group of people who have dedicated their lives to harassing drug dealers because their own kids died of drug overdoses?

Because applying metered justice and preventing ongoing escalating feuds is the entire point of the justice system. We're in this clusterfuck because people don't feel it is working, and they are not wrong. Specifically here, we all expect Epstein's close associates to reliably quash deeper investigation - investigation into their guilt went cold with Epstein's body.

And I'm generally for grassroots direct action, but this frenzy doesn't seem directed towards making up for the failings of the system, but rather scoring points against easy targets for the thrill of it. RMS himself was nowhere near this island, rather he simply had the audacity to question the lynch mob's narrative! With a reaction like this, how can it be said that these pitchforks are in the service of justice?
Those all still boil down to yes or no. Have you seen it? Yes or no? More than 50% sure? yes or no? More than 90% sure? Yes or no?

The neuron either reaches a threshold to fire, or it does not. On or off.
Any idea if pro riders increasing their tire size is associated with them also transitioning to disk brakes? Disks solve at least half the problem - braking. (Narrow tires may still handle better in other ways though).
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This sound like Commodore computers before it went bankrupt. The president and some vice presidents were the highest paid people in the computer industry, and there was no money for R&D. It did not take long for their competitors to out perform them and take away their market share.
That's not what he said at all.
Using 256 color bitmap, select the 320200 resolution. 64k for one full screenbuffer. The 640480 is still useful for sprites and tiles, but I think it will mostly be used for text.

8 bit computers always have a lot of limitations. And these limitations have sparked a lot of creativity :)
Meanwhile, Bitcoin still hasn't returned their calls.
This could be something akin to breach of fiduciary duty or self-dealing [1]. And if you have any record of the agreement that you're to have the same salary, that could potentially carry some legal weight. Note that I have no experience in law - you should get advice from a professional. I'm sure an hour's chat to see if there's a chance at legal restitution, before going all in, would not be too expensive.

But you probably only want to use the law as a bargaining chip to get him to voluntarily reduce his salary - co-founders locked in a legal battle with each-other are sure to sink the startup.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-dealing
I'm not seeing how this works. Let's say R1 and R2 are 8 bits each, and the attacker chooses n=2. Let the parties by C (car), F (fob), and M (attacker).

So C starts sending R1, M starts receiving R1, and after relaying 6 bits of R1 M guesses the last 2. Let's say M gets lucky and guesses correctly. So now M has the 6 bits of R1 it received from C, plus the 2 it correctly guessed, and so it has R1, 20 ns earlier than it should.

But to get F to send R2, M still had to send those 2 guessed bits on to F. That's 20 ns, assuming a fixed bit rate on the physical layer, which is how I assume these kind of systems would be designed. That should prevent M from learning R2 early.

The hardware I was envisioning for this would have a shift register on F that gets loaded with R1 xor R2. As the range finding bitstream comes in, it would shift out the bits from that shift register, xor them with the incoming bits, and transmit the result.

Similar on C. Load a shift register with R2. As echo bits come in, shift bits out of the shift register, xor with the incoming bit, and shift the result into another shift register (or get fancy and do this all with one circular shift register). At the end of the echo message, if the output shift register is all zero, it got the right R2.

Note that with this implementation there is no aborting on F if it receives the wrong R1. The wrong R1 simply makes it send back the wrong R2.

(Note: this design assumes that C and F both can simultaneously transmit and receive).
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Ryanair exist because it bribes local politicians, dodges employment and compensation regulations, taxes local hospitality, receives massive, subsidies and is allowed to con its passagiers.
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What's the argument that 2019 people would make? Replace chroot with ______?
Or maybe the current message is - bring food, water, and fuel?
Do know where these slides were presented? I'd like to find a recording if possible.
I do not appreciate you passing off opposing arguments as "cognitive dissonance". The basic fact that subspecies X will outbreed subspecies Y is inarguable, no matter how much dirt you attempt to throw.

No-one is willing to have this conversation; I thought we might until you ruined it with this very disappointing behaviour. Stop it.
Database as a term and concept has a lot of historical baggage and whether something is considered a "database" or not has a large marketing component.

The traditional function of minimizing slow disk accesseses in the absence of reasonable sized caches is largely gone as an interesting research area today. You may want to look at ways of storing data in memory and/or distributed systems generally. For example, asset data storage and retrieval in games, succinct data structures, systems like etcd.

Another tangential advice: look at some of the recent published research. Eg ACM SIGMOD proceedings.

The landscape tends to have relatively shortlived fads that leave behind them a narrow tail of applications that are actual fits for the idea in question. (Industry examples: "big data analytics" -> Hadoop, "web scale online db" -> MongoDB, etc).
That link isn’t the CIA.
Do I understand correctly that the motivation for this is that the rear-view camera on the Chery Exeed LX runs Linux? Is it a good idea to ship a car with safety components running Linux?
I don't know, the Decawave DW1000[1] has been out for a couple of years now and the revolution hasn't happened. Perhaps there is another missing piece to the puzzle.

[1] https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/decawave-limited/D...
Black Rock and Area 51 are not comparable environments, Black Rock is much more forgiving for the unprepared traveller. I've gone off-roading in both regions extensively. Black Rock is a relatively temperate and populated area for Nevada, albeit rural, and Pershing County has decades of experience dealing with thousands of unprepared people. The region around Area 51 is essentially a bone-dry wasteland with a couple mining camps in the area and nothing else.

The carrying capacity for excess population around Area 51 is all but non-existent, and far smaller than in the region around Black Rock.
I've many Udemy courses and my observation is this:

Most course creators do absolutely no video editing. Sure they slap in an intro but that's it.

So you'll get a lot of umms, & silence, waiting for the creator to gather their thoughts.

There's also a lot of filler content. So a 2 hour course might have 1.5 hours of history, reasons for the course, setting things up and 30 minutes of useful stuff.

So I watch most videos at 1.5x speed or more. I also download Udemy videos for offline view - therefore, Udemy doesn't know which courses I've left untouched, started, abandoned halfway or completed.
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Interesting. I'm not sure I trust NCA enough to rely on air-cooling, but it's hard to deny they're very attractive on the price/performance side.
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I registered to a lot that were out of my league (say advanced physics). But also a few normal IT MOOCs, like relational DB, made me strenghten some new skills even though I didn't finish it. Mostly due to trivial time constraints making me miss deadlines.
Yep, exactly this. I'll also add that there are just a lot more signups. If I sign up for 20 courses and only really engage with 1...that's still one more course than I would have gotten to learn from otherwise. Certainly my eyes are bigger than my stomach when it comes to learning in many cases, but that doesn't mean that great value is not being had.
Sure but how is that an investment return? Usually when you hear "take a portion of the investment returns" you're thinking expense ratios, some small fraction of the returns that the user is getting.

If the user gets no additional returns, then it's just a fee, no?
I think the problem here is the framing of the headline.

Considering MOOC signups are completely free, a percentage alone tells you nothing. 4% of 100 signups would be appalling. 4% of 60,000 signups is still thousands of people successfully completing courses, and is actually a success story.
I think he's gonna hit the sweet spot. Great project. Fan here for sure.

Watching him grow his retro channel has been a lot of fun. Seems like a great guy, and he's got a sense of where retro hits home.
Thanks for the advice. I kind of did that in the prior meeting when I found out about the change, but got answers that didn't satisfy me. The company is doing well, so I think parting ways is a non-option for both of us and I'm trying to determine the best way forward without sitting in a permanently dysfunctional environment.
Just so you know, north of 95% of people are "outside of America". We have no idea, or desire to know, about your school basketball programs. Just FYI
I recommend SyncThing for this, it has been consistently fantastic.
HTTPS can't be trusted due to nation States both being abusive certificate authorities and the source of demand for dns censorship.
Herefore, DNS over HTTPS is a bad idea at best.
Please think about using dnscrypt or similar solutions instead.
Checking out all his videos is worth it.

The earliest videos are a bit rough but still very informative.
Well the only way to get court scrutiny is to gain standing and sue them.
Being inside an iPhone?
The issue is with how MOOCs is used and what the creators expect from it.

I have signed for many MOOCs but not completed even 1 till date. But I got the knowledge I needed and got the task done. To me MOOCs is an organized google search or detailed stackoverflow/wikipedia.

Plus my extreme aversion towards "exams", is also a reason. Never found an incentive to get a paper that tells I know something. Plus, despite having certificates from school & university, I don't remember the stuffs I learnt. I forgot most stuff after writing the exams. Sadly, some even before writing the exam.
It has a tile mode. That's going to be how many larger images are handled.

Given robust tiles and sprites, there really isn't a need to hold an entire screen in RAM, and given one does not exceed the sprite / line limits, nor is there a need to double buffer it.

Edit: For a smaller bitmaps, one could just make a buffer anyway. Dedicate X number of tiles to that bitmap, and another set for a buffer. Update one set, switch to display, update the other set. Collections of sprites can do this too. For use cases that involve part of the screen, I would imagine this working fairly well.

And one will need to write a little loader too. Fetch graphics assets, copy to video system, update registers, fetch more graphics, copy to video system, wash, rinse, repeat.

When the final program is running, that cache of graphics can get updates pretty much anytime those assets are not being used directly. (maybe directly too, depending...)

That said, yeah. I hear you. Part of the fun, in the retro scene, is racing the beam to draw more than one would expect. But, this seems well specified in my view.

While it's fun, having to do those tricks shuts out a lot of potential users. And it's those potential users we all, given interest in this sort of thing, want!

Quite some time back, a BASIC compiler for the Atari 2600, AKA VCS, was created. And it was super simple, offering up a basic COMBAT type kernel, with a score and a couple other little options.

Early in the development cycle, I knocked out a BREAKOUT type game, just as proof of concept. Took about an hour.

Once it released, tons of people started making goofy little games. A fair number of these were pretty good fun, and a few of those ended up "published" by some small time retro shops who make carts and media for old systems.

If David hits this just right, a similar thing can happen, and if it does, there will be a lot of fun to be had.

See Batari Basic for Atari 2600. A lot of games got written. It's impressive in that some of the people who wrote them really did not know much at the time. They just jumped in and made do with what few choices were available. That limited set of choices turned out to be very good at focusing people on gameplay. There was not too much else!

Now, as to why it's done the way it's done?

Simplicity. That's also why they didn't go with the 65816, which is a shame, but not a deal breaker. Too bad 65802 chips, which are pin compatible with this and many other computers, offer up the more powerful instructions without also offering up the multiplexed data / address bus. They are hoping to clock at 8Mhz, and that already weeded out AY sound chips.

They want a dev cycle that is sane and a part count that is also sane so they can hit a price people will pay. IMHO, totally fair call.

Putting the video on the main bus is an order more complex than the path they are taking right now. I'm pretty sure I saw an 8 bit parallel interface there too.

That means the same video system can be used on a number of older computers, not just this machine. Honestly, I doubt that will see too much use, but who knows? It could!
I'm American, born and raised. I've heard of March Madness (though I don't actually know what it means).

I had no idea what bubble team meant whatsoever. It was wholly unfamiliar to me.
We'll look into that right away! We keep track of which companies users click on so that we can focus data gathering on those. We use Google analytics so it's possible that's interfering.
Thanks for the thought. I'm not concerned with the efficiency of their business - I'm concerned with the efficiency of _my_ company. WeWork has removed a big headache for us.
Huh? Saudi Arabia intervened in the Yemeni civil war in 2015 and has been doing bombing sorties against the Houthis on a regular basis.

Without the Saudi intervention, the Houthis would most likely not have much of a relationship with Iran at all.
A rotating scheme that makes it impossible for the wrong actors to track you.

It would be better if I could verify the code running on the device. You have to trust that Apple won’t track you. And hey, I trust Apple more than some unfriendly government, but I still have to trust Apple. If a big profitable unfriendly government asked them to track someone, what would Apple do?
The method I've come up with is to install an IME (fcitx) that has a addon that can search the Unicode database for a character. So, I press a key combo, type "subscript four", and press enter.
I agree as far as unimaginably powerful. However, see: Iraq War, Afghan War, Am. Revolution, Guerilla warfare, etc. And it's not a fantasy.
I just has to solve three "traffic lights" and two "crosswalks" to login into HN. Why should I help Google train their ML algorithms for self-driving cars? Maybe I'll just stop logging in and voting on HN. No, I was not using a VPN.
It died on the alter that EA sacrificed C&C on.

they milked that cow and then cut it up for meat.
I play it via WINE on Linux, works well.
I expect that's probably the true capacity; i.e. you wouldn't want to use more than 80% of that or so if you want the battery to last a long time.
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People will make whatever size transactions they need to make by whatever mechanism they trust.

If Zelle cannot make the transaction happen, it is out of the running. Full stop.
No need to worry. Apple told us they won't track us.
It's the same thing happening in Politics. But it's also why I'd argue people are realizing how fake this whole charade is as our society falls further into the gutter.

And truly it is more fun to work together solving hard problems rather than screaming past each other. We've been so isolated, our whole lives, only now are we realizing what it means to be in the public. Vulnerable yet strong (I may be projecting here).
Thanks for this link. It's clear to me that several actions taken are a breach of fiduciary, but I had not read about self-dealing which does appear to be happening here based on some other details that I have not mentioned.
It’s still “trust” in both cases. One must trust the power of the government making the promise, or rather the global system of governance.
Let me take hougaard's reply first here...

> No, the half image problem showed in the video, is that the available low memory of the X16 is around 38K, only enough for half a vga image...

No, 38K isn't half of a VGA image. 38K is only an eighth of a VGA screen at 640x480 pixels, 1 byte (256 colors) per pixel. So 38K is only 60 lines tall.

Bartreadm the first part of your reply is essentially the same as the one above. But I like this second part a bit more:

> He even mentioned in the video the need to build a custom loader to load the image into low-RAM a piece at a time, with each piece being copied to video RAM after it's been loaded. Their demo doesn't do this yet, hence only half the image displays.

Can I be honest? I don't think that makes sense either. Here's why:

Every pixel of video data needs to be streamed to the video co-processor one byte at a time. (That's a known hardware limitation of their design.) Even a 6502-based GIF decoder works no more than a handful of lines at a time when decoding a static image.

In this architecture (and with any reasonable image decoder), there just isn't a need for the entire image to be decoded into main memory before streaming it into video memory. In fact, back in the day, it was possible to print full-color images to a printer (Okidata Okimate 10 or 20) that far exceeded what you could do on the screen in terms of color and resolution, and for essentially the same reasons.

Their technical specification clearly attributes the VERA module as only having 128K of video memory. 128K is just enough to display 42.5% of a 640x480 image. That's almost exactly what you see happening on his screen. Almost half.

So this goes back to what you said.

In order to display more, they'll need some more complicated tricks. They'll need to load the image, and while the video co-processor is in the middle of outputting the image and just as or before it exhausts the first half of the screen, it needs to overwrite what's currently in video memory with the rest of the image. And that'll need to be repeated for every video frame, or 60 times per second in the US.

So yes, he'll have to load the image into low-RAM a piece at a time. But it is because their video co-processor can't hold the entire image in memory so they're using main system memory and raw CPU power to work around it. They can work around it with more clever code, but it is a hardware restriction.

This does do a good job of demonstrating the kinds of games we had to play in the 80s to get the most out of our early consumer PCs.
Thanks, I'll read up on this.
No but there is a 500mb ephemeral storage limit. Reading files from s3 is also very inefficient since they aren't cached at the worker level.
What's the upper limit though? Wouldn't a half dozen devices placed at known coordinates around the house be enough to do indoor GPS?
So if a host supports SNI you send it 400+mil requests? C'mon, dish.
EU internal ones are likely an exception. Not an expert myself, it just consolidated in my mind as a fact from all the books and articles over the years.
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They might be free, but all the MOOCs I've participated in have required a weekly time commitment to complete them, which is a sort of hidden cost completely separate from money. I've started the Stanford ML course on Coursera three times now, and each time some real-life thing has come up and taken me out of action for a couple of weeks.
> We had agreed to take the same salary ...

Would it satisfy the agreement if you also took 3X?
What I took exception with was:

1. Not enough video memory to contain a full Mode 7 image on the VERA co-processor.
2. All co-processor access (including video memory) has to go through eight registers starting at $9F20.

No problem here with bank switching. I think that's great!
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> If a big profitable unfriendly government asked them to track someone, what would Apple do?

Presumably the exact same thing they'd have done if they hadn't rolled out this Find My feature. They designed it so Apple can't tell where your device is, which means if anyone wants to demand this info from Apple, then Apple has to implement that tracking separately, which they could do regardless of the Find My feature's existence.

If Apple had access to the device data themselves, then that's a huge problem because governments can reasonably start issuing warrants for that info. The fact that Apple doesn't have it means nothing has changed on the governmental front.
The replacement of truth with truthiness and platitudes and dialogue with attacks and tribes and dehumanization is not the way to build a stable society.

Fortunately this has not yet hit education here from what I can see.
Burning Man doesn't provide any of those things for attendees.
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Face recognition is something I absolutely need. I can't remember people's names for the life of me. If I could train a set of AR glasses to recognize people I've met before and pull up their contact info on the fly, that would be immensely helpful.
To be fair, Fargate today is a lot cheaper than Fargate at release. The work on Firecracker had a significant impact I believe.

Still, I'm with you. I use Fargate for my open source project but I fully expect teams using it to eventually move to EC2 and manage the cluster directly in order to save money. It is easily, by far, the most expensive part of my pipeline.
Immeasurable. I don't do any social media, or networking. HN lets me know what's hot, and I can filter whether or not I need it myself. HN brought me Golang, and I wouldn't have found it so early otherwise.
For domestic bank-to-bank payments, China has CNAPS https://www.bis.org/cpmi/publ/d105_cn.pdf [PDF] - the paper (2012) could be updated especially in regard to foreign currency.

tl;dr CNAPS is a bank-to-bank system, but in effect means domestic CNY transfers between major banks should settle within 30 minutes.

WeChat Pay / AliPay are a bit different, more like PayPal (though not completely like PayPal).
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