skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And therefore a rational opponent will perceive such a shield as a mortal danger

So let me explain how nuclear geopolitics actually works ...

Neither Moscow nor Washington believe in MAD, and never have. This became apparent during the talks between Reagan and Gorbachev (or whoever wasn't drunk at the time.) Both sides thought it was folly to not have an actual defensive capability besides game-theory wonks.

Thus Moscow has a shield - an ABM system in a ring around the city.

The US SDI "Star Wars" program was/is likely successful for space-based kinetic defense, but not the original laser stuff.

What Moscow doesn't like is changes to the status quo, like the early Shuttle doing sudden LEO maneuvers. Buran was developed basically to bomb Washington without notice, as retaliation for the Shuttle being able to do that to Moscow.

And Putin is a very different adversary than a bunch of old drunks distracted with an imploding empire.
Mypyc is like that
If some dystopian scifi author described in a book 30 years ago what is actually happening today regarding the points of consumer data collection they’d likely be laughed at.

The programmatic elimination of any expectation of consumer privacy.

Thank fluky we have heroes doing open source projects. Yet open source hardware alternatives remain quite limited or non existent.

Can anyone suggest meaningful ways to contribute?
Would you mind referring to some articles as examples of the fallacies you're describing?

Or is it the case that you simply don't like the content and therefore you dismiss it using whatever excuses you find convenient?
Here's a common sentiment amongst those with too much time on their hands:

"When I am on my deathbed, I don't want to look back on my life with regret."

The deathbed part of your life isn't even that long. Probably a week or something. And probably you'll spend much of it being distracted by morphine and excruciating pain, leaving no room for feeling sad about how shit your life was. Maybe you should just tell future-you to suck it up and let you play your xbox in peace.
I think when most people say hyperinflation they just mean unusually high inflation. That did exist at least once in the US (around Volker's time), but it's probably safest to bet on the status quo.
How to Design Highly Reliable Digital Electronics [video]
Arbitrary numbers. Delete all the messages and posts and free your mind. There is much much much more to life than what you can find behind a screen.

If your notifications are hitting more than helping your mental health it's time to take a break.

Seriously, go outside and don't look at your devices for a week or two. It's not as hard as some might expect.

Then when you return, don't feel obligated to read all the things, be precise and deliberate in your actions and consumption.

You got this. It's just pixels and bits, we are the dust in the wind that matter.
if you give them the benefit of the doubt, then it's possible that the desktop version on a mobile form-factor sucks and causes people to complain.
Highly recommend the unsubscribe binge, it's reversible and while time-consuming it's progress against future deluges. With regards to email, using search by source you can probably group and cull in batches, and actually, dismissing something short and trivial can take a lot less than 5 seconds so there is hope!
Just went down from 1000 tabs to 750. You are not alone.

But nowadays, I try to use money as a filter. If a link has a clear benefit for the job, read it. Otherwise discard.
I don’t disagree with you about maintaining large unwieldy code bases being perhaps better in static type land.

Large unwieldy code bases have already ossified anyway so the productivity gain of dynamism is lost and you’re simply swimming in complexity.

But my argument is that what got you the large unwieldy code base is a lack of skill set that no type system could protect you from.

With the right toolkit (which includes nominal static typing among many other tools) and expertise you are not being optimal by giving highest precedent to formal machine proof systems which is what strong static typing does.
On the insecure nature of turbine control systems in power generation [video]
I feel like the point I’m trying to make is being repeatedly ignored in favor of the thing you want to talk about. I have not been arguing that college benefits the economy as a whole. It doesn’t take benefitting the economy as a whole for the government to make back it’s money on student loans, specifically because the government gets the first cut of the income, even before the student does. Is it clear at this point that the current income premium and the wealth premium are separate things, and that the wealth premium is the only one currently disappearing?

Maybe the government part is confusing here. Imagine student loans coming strictly from for-profit banks. It is possible for the banks to make their money back, while students lose money, right? This happens to restaurant owners and poor families all the time. It doesn’t matter if the loans stimulate the economy, or if a percentage of loans default, the bank still makes it’s money.

Anyway, I’ll play along with the other arguments, just for fun. So by what metric are you declaring that productivity is not growing per employee? The US per-capita GDP has been growing steadily. How do you back up your claim that productivity hasn’t gone up?

Even if it were true, I don’t think it’s clear or true that you can declare the economy as not having benefitted from education in the past. The paper we’re commenting on has data that shows a net positive economic value in the past, even though the wealth premium is disappearing. And BTW do you really believe that - that the education system has done zero economically? Is that what you’re implying?

People with advanced degrees do invent more, in part because people with advanced degrees are more likely to be in jobs where invention and patents are encouraged, yes. Also because people who are prone to inventing are more likely to choose to do a PhD. How does this demonstrate that people would be inventing more if they chose not to go to college? People can already choose not to go to college, and choose to invent, and by and large that is not happening - what’s really stopping all the non-degree holders from inventing right now? You’re saying it’s just jobs keeping inventors out? There’s no education requirement on submitting a patent, so if college does nothing, why aren’t high school graduates already the majority of applications?
There's a controlled way of doing that.
Prototype in python, as soon as it's clear what/how things need to be done, implement in C++, add python bindings for manual testing, unit-tests to solidify things.

The bindings will end up being throw-away code, with https://pybind11.readthedocs.io that's not too bad in terms of time spent.
> Possibly because vue does not have any builtin http capability

I mean, it does run in a web browser.
Practical Cache Attacks from the Network and Bad Cat Puns [video]
Show HN: Dating Site Without Pictures
And pretty much every other point in this article is that any users who find the program insufficient are stupid, unpleasable assholes who should fix it themselves if they care so damn much.
Agree that this very wise to do. We are fooled into thinking everything is important and that we are always “behind”. Being overwhelmed is generally not that you have too much to do, but it is that you don’t know where to start. Following on from your process of dealing with email, I have a bunch or aggressive filters that mark emails as “not important” and “probably not important” and then I have a google script that runs constantly and auto archives old mails with those labels, because if I haven’t dealt with them yet it’s not the end of the world and they don’t need to stick around - “OBE”!
"Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?"

--Sister Miriam Godwinson, "But for the Grace of God"

They're all listed out here: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri
> not sure why anyone would want to though.

What do you mean by that?

GameplayKit has its limitations, but I've been building an entire engine around it, and I like it so far, especially for the ability to stick with pure Swift and native APIs:

https://github.com/InvadingOctopus/octopuskit
Does musicbrainz support the 'Disc ID' tags that FreeDB uses?

Also, ISTM that it should be quite feasible for musicbrainz to track artists and "acts", in a pinch by cross-referencing wikidata.org which acts as a sort of shared focus for the whole Linked-Open-Data metaverse.
Something you almost never hear as University, especially if you don't go around conquering your rivals on, say, a massive planet. Science victory, ftw. Definitely get that Hunter-Seeker Algorithm, tho. It's very worth it :3
Uncover, Understand, Own – Regaining Control over Your AMD CPU [video]
Ask HN: Scariest startup hype you believed but learned not to be true?
Don’t bookmark things or save a reading list.

After that, your backlog should start shrinking.
It's also funny, I can recite that quote in its original cadence. Quite memorable!
> maybe the NYT should have done some research

Wow, never heard that one before.
1988 would put this squarely in the 'Apple trying to convince Motorola to develop the 88k' era, most likely this was a backup plan in case they failed (they did, but by the time the 88k was killed off, they'd managed to get AIM founded and the 601 was 'in the pipeline')
Also the social engineering and faction traits replacing govts from previous civ games. All these traits give you various bonuses or punishments for different attributes like morale, green, economic, and population growth. It’s also cool how it dictates how you relate to everything else in the game: from the planet to other factions ideologies.

I can play a “green Morgan” for example that mixed capitalism and environmentalism. Or throw in police stare to make it a kind of Fascist capitalist state...

It all makes me feel like I truly am playing a character like in an RPG. Which involves me in the story in a way other strategy games don’t.
I'm past giving them the benefit of the doubt. Also, such issue can be resolved by saying in a clear and unambiguous way that "the site is not supported on mobile, proceed at your own risk", but not actually blocking it.
It makes me wonder how one would research Youtube algorithms from the outside.

Perhaps freshly imaged computers in random geographical locations periodically running selenium or other browser automation software, recording which recommendations are made for various viewing preferences?

The problem is A) the study could be invalidated by basic bot prevention (from identifying Selenium, identifying fresh accounts, etc) and B) Youtube actively preventing such research with "new" accounts and C) lack of sufficient scale could skew the results.

Ideally Youtube would partner with a transparent auditor and have internal teams work with the auditors, but there's no way Google agrees to that because it could potentially unearth some very bad practices by the Youtube team (if they do exist...).
This one pairs well with the one about Nietsche I mentioned in my post. Such a brilliant game!
There are recent updates from LineageOS for the S5 (multiple variants).

https://download.lineageos.org/
The Great Escape of ESXi [video]
In defense of self-help books; you latch to the one that finds you.

The 4-hour workweek provided me a useful foil to Gladwell’s “10,000” hours. It might take 10k to master, but you sure as hell can move fast if you get to 80% in 10 hours.
To those in this thread denouncing these dystopian times my question to you is, how do we as technologists create a meaningful and successful career changing this?

I’ve been against this for a very long time and can’t see any easy way to contribute (and also provide $ for my family) short of being in government policy making or law making which would require substantial career changes and further education and then some luck.
Have you owned a truck? How often are you throwing things into the bed from the side? What are these things?
Reading with intent gets me more of what I want than any of the speed reading techniques I've tried or practiced.
Business non-fiction books in particular tend to do a good summary in the first chapter, and spend the rest of the book expanding on the main concepts. I'll read the first chapter and call it good if I've got it, or listen on audible at 1.8x if I want more reinforcement.
Thanks for this comment, it puts into words some ideas I've been considering in a very concise manner. Also, the replies are quite interesting.
If this were true, my World of Tanks client would take much longer to update.
I've watched the show (only once, for now) and I love it but didn't understand the reference :|
déformation professionnelle https://wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9formation_professionnelle
Maybe instead of down voting my comment people should look up income data. It's not like I'm making shit up:

"The average Millennial annual salary is $35,592. Pew Research found that more millennial households are in poverty than any other generation and that millennials accounted for most of the nation’s renters."

https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-average-millennial-in...
This is a framework for thinking about resilience https://www.theresiliencedoughnut.com.au/.

In a nutshell if you build all your esteem from work, you only get 1/2 of the 7 factors i.e. Skill, Money. But you need at least 3 and ideally more to whether life's shocks. If you lose your job/career you might be left with zero. But if you also invest in say friends and community, losing your job is less of a blow.
Half the companies you listed are the same company.
Climate Modelling: The Science Behind Climate Reports [video]
Neuropath by R Scott Bakker (if you liked Peter Watts)
The Large Hadron Collider Infrastructure Talk [video]
If you only make enough to help yourself then you have nothing left over to help others.

Making a good amount of money and then giving it away to causes that can meaningful help others is a highly underrated pursuit.

Aimlessly traveling is not happiness. I predict you’ll learn that lesson soon.
For some reason I thought that Snowden went to a UK publisher because the US outlets were not interested. Once the Guardian agreed, were the outlets here expected to ignore it?
How to Break PDFs [video]
Show HN: PlotDash – Board to plan stories or presentations
Maybe some folks are experimenting with it, but I would be shocked if SPARK achieves market share of 1%. Or 0.1%.
> Our study thus suggests that YouTubes recommendation algorithm fails to promote inflammatory or radicalized content

Asserting that "mainstream media and cable news content" is neither inflammatory nor radicalized. I'm not sure how accurate this statement is today.
I lost all my bookmarks, which I had collected through the years. Realized it didn't affect me at all.

Some tips in general:

1.- Just realize you'll never have enough time for ALL the movies, books, bookmarks. Internet content is infinite.

2.- You need to be selective.

3.- More important: narrow down your interests.

4.- btw there's some apps to help with focusing, Focus is one of them, another is SelfControl (FOSS), Freedom, Cold Turkey, etc

5.- Do a cleanup of clutter every six months.
Reminds me of: https://www.xkcd.com/1103/
I helped contribute to YouTube algorithm research for BuzzFeed News in January: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/down-y...
PDF: https://sci-hub.se/10.1038/s41564-019-0620-5
D Is Dead (2018)
Gimp has most of the "magic" tools Photoshop has, but their algorithms perform inferiorly. For example, "automatically snap this selection to the outline of this thing in the image" (magnetic lasso tool).
Clogging the System: The Feud over Flushable Wipes
Sapper is very useful and has quite some nice properties:

- automatic SSR (Server Side Rendering)

- possibility to export to server-less plain HTML/CSS/JS

- option to resource preload/fetching on mouseover/touchstart (a headstart of 300+ms)

- serviceworker cache: PWA, offline support, etc.

- session stores

Sure there is room for improvement (e.g. i18n), but it very useful and powerful already today.
I am a huge Mortimer Adler fan, do you have any other recommendations in the same vein?

You might also like the books by https://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~zbyszek/
Which TV's?
State of Postgres
I think my reading efficacy can be improved significantly by not spending time reading junk and spending more time reading good stuff.

That is, I have a prioritization problem not a throughput problem. Most people I know are like this.
For others reading this, this was for security reasons (UWP sandbox restrictions). Turns out having memory that is both writable and executable isn’t great for sandboxes.
For such a wonderful game SMAC is, it's a real pity it doesn't come with a proper scripting engine or a mod SDK. Yes, you can edit the .txt files, but that mostly limits you to constants and names (e.g. you cannot create a new type of secret project, or a completely new special ability).

I wish the present copyright holders would consider publishing the source code for the game under a license that still requires purchasing the original. I don't think it would drop the sales by much (the pirated download link is #2 result in Google, so I would assume they don't care), but that would give a massive boost to the modder community, and likely more PR/sales.

Realistically though, it probably relies on a bunch of 3rd-party components and reviewing their licenses for each of them would be a massive headache...
What about a nylon brush?
The crypto currency crash of 2018 was a big one. While I bought in early I was deep into the Green. Swapped over to an alt-coin that was promising to make a Visa backed Crypto debit card for the whole world.

Took them too long, so I sold a lot then the crash happened and I sold more, never to return :)

Checked back on the project today and it seems it has not moved much since I last looked at it. No cards in other than one country! Seems like something easy to do: 'print plastic cards' that have a crypto backend, but apparently it is not.
Wow very impressive. Did you write all of these?

I clicked "Send Email" and scrolled down the page, curious what might help out my recent PHP rage.

And what to my wondering eyes should appear? A concise PHP example using several undocumented features!

Thanks!
If you cant upgrade to patched version create userjs script with

window.openDatabase = undefined;

this will globally disable websql. Of course Google took care of this 'user permission to install own code' leak and ... removed User script directory support in 2011! :| Nowadays you need to either install Tampermonkey (and enable advanced mode/instant injection which is a hack in itself because Chrome has several year old not fixed extension execution bugs) or write your very own custom `run_at` `document_start` extension injecting that one liner to achieve something as basic as ability to turn of a browser feature.
What resources did you use to root and install open source software on your Roborock?
You don't know what you're talking about, Mongo is as durable as PG.
A Slice Through the History of Programming Languages – Gilad Bracha
My scar tissue from building consumer products tells me big shifts rarely happen without micro trends.

For instance, macro trends could be bad pr, mishandling of user data and privacy. But when you really ask those teens who've shifted away from Facebook, you realize the case is different.

- Feed based networks require more friction than messaging and story-based networks

- Ability to share w close friends increases sharing

- Synchronous communication over IRC feels better than async posts and comments

What do you think could be a strong micro-trend reason to shift to siloed social networks instead of a global social network?
Except for a TV, and I wanted a great plasma, I just do not buy new appliances.

Tons of used ones, many easy to service, parts available online for a song.

Have saved serious money over the years. Have no plans to change.

I hate all the extra, useless features. Just do not need any of this garbage.

For the TV, it never goes online. Whatever it does, stays home.
> iPhones are lovely, but they are pretty small in the grand scheme of what is needed for physical comfort.

I disagree. The ability to securely communicate with anyone around the world instantaneously, take pictures and video, and access almost all information online is pretty valuable.
> What are they doing with this data? Or is this simply the “they are bad people who hate user privacy” hypothesis?

Please don't strawman my opinion when a simple Google search can sufficiently answer your question.

User data is valuable, both internally to the organization, and to the market on which it can be packaged and sold.
Properly used, static typing actually enhances modularity and reduces unwanted coupling among software components. This means that a larger code base is far less likely to become practically "unwieldly" if static types have been consistently used in development. Even in exploratory programming where dynamic types may actually have some limited value, using them effectively requires a lot more "skill".
I picked up Call to Power recently, and despite playing hundreds of hours of Civ 2, I just couldn't get into it. Probably in an earlier era, where I'd buy a game or get it as a Christmas present and spend the time until I could actually get home to install and play it reading the manual cover to cover, I'd have handled it. But I just don't have the tolerance for the opaque complexity and clunky UI anymore.
The smartphone tracking industry has been rumbled. When will we act?
Nothing. You are supposed to just go home and lick the pages.
Didn't care for Sapiens. Very pop-science with the author's opinion littered throughout alongside wild predictions on AI, automation.

The only other book I read this year was Evicted by Matthew Desmond. It was an excellent account of poverty cycles as it relates to housing.
Best business books:

-Secrets of Sandhill Road

-Hackers and Painters

-The Great CEO within

-Venture Deals

-Predictable Revenue

-Zero to One

-The Hard Thing About Hard Things

-Lean customer development

-Lost and founder

-Lean B2B

-From Impossible to Inevitable

-Traction

Best computer science books:

-Competitive programming 3

-Structure and interpretation of computer programs

Best for fun (non-fiction):

-Meditations

-Sapiens

-How to win friends and influence people

-A brief history of time

-Self-reliance

-Frente a la estrella polar
> It's possible to redirect DNS requests to a server of your own choosing in order to get around this.

I've dug into this, and this is true for certain models and firmware versions, but not for others.
Is there much of a community for installing alternate ROMs on IoT devices?