skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant more that even a new, small company would have no incentive to not want to become the next big thing/the next facebook. Good point though that we don't need companies/start-ups to feed us online communities, particularly since the users are almost always the ones bringing value to platform like a message board/forum sites.
Why, because it requires a MITM position?

Yes, pretty much.
The "logical" thing to do in most real world situations is to be extremely uncertain. I think just about only way that logic enters into real world considerations is through maintaining a set of not-logically-arrived assumptions and heuristic arrived at models and then using some logic and math to keep your behavior consistent.

A lot of what people call logic are things like "not expecting a different result from the same behavior" and "not follow an impulse with no relation to reality" but even those are heuristics. Usually good heuristics but not logic.
Wow so now every time that Apple gets ready to introduce a new connector they have to wait for the entire industry to agree to it?

But guess what? Only the end connecting to the wall is standard, the end connecting to devices in the house are far from standard. How is this different than iPhones?
Zuckerberg: Our new honesty-first approach is ‘going to piss off a lot of people
This sounds like the start of an Orson Scott Card or Isaac Asimov Novel.

It’s beyond bizarre to think that we all live in a time period in human history where it is feasible for mere mortals to potentially venture (with appropriate protection) into the vacuum.

Let’s hope our governments will keep it pleasant so that we may all have a chance to experience the great void.
They let you upload matrix data to the gpu, but all functions like glUniformMatrix4fv() really do is upload a 16-vector into gpu memory (and optionally reshuffle its layout). The shading languages also have matrix primitives, that's just sugar.
ICANN HQ is in Los Angeles, as a minimum
Yeah and both of those are less readable, and used everywhere add up to a really crap code base relative to the same code in plain JS.
Wall sockets are standard - but what about the other end?
You can't. The internet has grown in size irreversibly. There is more than eternal september. when you have billion-people "communities" you no longer have community, you have a large mob. In order for discussions to have depth, they need a certain shared framework of understanding and certain level of agreement on the definitions of words; in other words a baseline common culture. The more people are in a community the thinner this common culture gets as only the few common denominators survive. At this point, the discussion can no longer have depth because people will be arguing constantly about definitions and nothing productive will ever occur

The old story about the tower of Babel is true. It seems humanity has faced these moments before. The solution is to separate the bubbles in separate, more cohesive communities. Ideas need such sheltering in order to grow, even if this means they won't blend easily with other ideas.

> Do we ditch them and go back to a literal timeline?

probably doesn't help. look at youtube comments. you can set twitter to timeline it doesnt make a lot of difference
i'm a huge fan of erlang and i'm familiar w/ this philosophy and tend to have a hard time w/ applying it. when i develop software, i read man pages for the functions i call. i intently study their return values and do my best to address whatever conditions i can at that moment. if i'm unable to handle the fault, i generate a message with the intent to add context to the error and let it bubble up. that context is important. it's _very_ beneficial when a failure does occur because i can quickly ascertain the root cause due to my diligence in annotating the _BAD_ path with context--all the way to the top of the function stack.

i've noticed that when erlang programs crash, the error message and stack trace is a WTF moment. i hate that. so yes, there are all these benefits when focusing on the happy path, but there are down sides, can we explorer those? once software is written, it's how the _BAD_ path is presented to maintainers that matters. this philosophy, in my current understanding, throws those people under the bus.
When looking at specific claimed values, outside of a specific core, not so much.

When looking at general orientation, particularly in terms of concentration vs. extension of establishment power, there are trends peresistent across millennia.

This passage from the opening of A.H.M. Jones, Augustus, sticks with me:

It was the agrarian problem that sparked off the violence that was ultimately to destroy the Republic. Tiberius Gracchus' bill [Lex Sempronia Agraria, Ed], enacted in 133 B.C. for distributing the public land, after leaving a generous allowance to the occupiers, in small lots to poor citizens, excited such furious resistance among the senatorial landowners that a group of them lynched Gracchus. This was the first in a series of violent clashes between two groups who called themselves the optimates and the populares. The nucleus of the optimates was the small clique of nobles (men whose fathers, grandfathers, or more remote ancesters had been consuls) who more or less monopolized the highest offices and dominated the Senate, but they had wide support among the propertied class, even, as Cicero says, propserous freedman; otherwise they could not have maintained their unbroken hold on the higher magistracies. They were conservatives, who regarded the rights of property as sacred, and therefore resisted bitterly any attempts to redistribute land or cancel debt. They were upholders of the constitution and of religion, which could be used to block any revolutionary legislation. Though at times they had to yield to popular pressure, they always remained the government.

The populares were a much less well defined group. Their leaders were individual politicians or very small groups of politicians, who at intervals attempted to legislate in the interests of the people, by which they meant the common people....

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6i2h0e/ahm_jon...
Animals Need Digital Privacy, Too
The saddest thing about this is that my bank no longer requires notification for international travel, but still does for travel within the US. I've had my card shut off for fraud a few times while traveling in the US. Once when I had almost no gas and was outside of cell service, thanks for that.

This is presumably due to all transactions outside of the US requiring chip, but those in the US only requiring swipe.
I agree. His situation is certainly atypical and his end goal will be easier to reach than it would be for pretty much anyone else.
Still respectable in my opinion. Perhaps the parents use of the word “playing” came off as overly dismissive to me. Thanks for the chat!
This coronavirus is close to some found in bats and 80% similar to SARS which came from bats through civets. Wouldn’t expect exact strain to be found in wild cause have to mutate to jump to humans. The question is how got to humans from bats since don’t think was direct connection. One paper suggested snakes but others don’t think that is likely.

https://www.wired.com/story/wuhan-coronavirus-snake-flu-theo...
That's fine and all except we should at least recognize when we've decided by gut and when by logic. Unfortunately this doesn't happen in most cases which means that when weighing alternatives we give equal credit to gut and logic based decisions because we don't even know which is which.

Saying "I don't know" is one of the most honest and correct things a human can say about most problems. Then starting from that they may attempt to gather some (partial) information and build a logic to support some solution. But if instead we're starting with "let's do this" then we already lost.
It's not the precision. It's the divisibility. 10 can only be divided in half. It can't be divided into thirds, quarters, sixths or twelfths evenly and that ability is invaluable.

This is the same reason why, in the old days of grid layouts, grids were 12 columns wide and not 10.
Mike Godwin make several claims that the only way for the .org tld to survive is that it requires capital to improve. Another point that is repeated is that PIR (current owner of .org) is constantly making a surplus of money. The reasoning for this disparity is that a non-profit cannot use money it generates to improve itself. Is this a valid point, and if so why?
Congress Must Stop the Graham-Blumenthal Anti-Security Bill
A great feat of engineering... but uh what is the actual use case for Spot?
Why on earth do you think the Outer Space Treaty bans weapons in space space, and that space isn't already weaponized? Yes, it bans nukes in space - but that's all.

It doesn't ban communications satellites, a huge strategic military asset. Same for spy satellites. There's a reason the US government has historically put so much into space, and it's not NASA research. (USAF or NRO research, instead)
Executive order aimed at preventing sales of counterfeit goods from overseas
Accurate, but fundamentally it is a type of laziness.

Changing your worldview takes a serious amount of effort. Most people don't use their new years resolution one year gym memberships after the second week of January -- and rewiring your beliefs in the face of evidence and reason makes gymming look like sitting on your couch in your undies.

This is why it's fundamentally an education issue. People's false beliefs and weak work ethics are usually baked in back at school.

If school was improved, this problem would be diminished.
how is that measured? what are the tests that measure for it? tia
If they made $4 a connector, how pray tell can I get a 5 pack of lightning cords from Amazon for $10?

https://www.amazon.com/Charger-AYNGWRNB-Certified-Lightning-...
Very likely. It's probably no coincidence that Adam Savage is among the first to get access to one.
Quantum chip solves 'travelling salesman' problem for 22 cities
Thermoradiative Photovoltaic Cells Work at Night
I have one with 64GB and 1TB SSD. Running multiple linux VMs in WMWare Fusion right now and it's silent. The fans only really get loud when I'm compiling.
Casting may hide errors and is unnecessary in this case: `as const` will work just as well.
I am just a non-industry fanboy, so I meant presences like r/spacex[0], Tim Dodd[1], TMRO[2], NSF[3], etc...

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/

[1] https://everydayastronaut.com/about/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQYemGBA3zkt2WY5dpRxsw

[3] https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/

Maybe I missed some places where space geeks were not so happy about Space Force. If so, please share.
Not based on user behaviours, excepting whether or not users have opted in to "showdead".

Posting new or low-rated stories will appear on some but not all front-page views, effectively by random assignment was tried in the past, it fared poorly. The idea was that those that pick up votes are rated more highly. The result was that readers reacted viscerally and negatively to junk.

Discussion:

Apparently tried, but reverted (from 5 years ago):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9333178

And from a month ago:

When we tested a variant of this idea, we found that it didn't work for what I guess you could call psychological reasons: readers reacted negatively, even violently, to seeing junk on HN's front page. By "junk" I mean stories that were placed there randomly and that weren't of high-enough quality to otherwise be credible candidates for the front page. Basically, it was an "ow my eyes", "get that shit away from me" effect. (I don't mean to demean the submissions people posted that got randomly placed in this way; it's just that words like junk and shit reflect how users reacted to the random placement thing.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21868365

Apparently my theory on front-page submissions and karma accumulation is officially validated:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10228866
If that is their intention, they certainly haven't made it clear.
Agreed. Also let's remember that Apple makes a pretty penny off of all those cables and chargers.
I was utterly unaware that it was real. I was in fact trying to make a joke. Thanks for the enlightening.
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History of LSD in Czechoslovakia
Speedtest-CLI the official one is unreliable because too old and Python
Yeah, I went through a remodel and dealt with the same thing, trying to get drywall to line up on old (1970) and new walls. There's more to it than that, but it's the quick version.

On the other hand, if you find a smaller mill, usually the ones specializing in hardwood, you can still get "full size" cuts, usually without even asking.
I really doubt that people have overall become more contentious and disrespectful. It's just that, with social media and the Internet generally, it's so much more visible. People ranting about this and that were always there, but you had to go out of your way to hear them.

Back in the day, many Usenet groups were OK during summer, when only professionals were online, and suddenly became toxic in the fall, as students went online. And then, with the first public ISPs, they became toxic all year. That is, Eternal September.

So we can choose where to hang out. If we want interesting discussions, we can frequent highly moderated sites, such as HN and professional subreddits. If we want toxicity, we can frequent the chans or whatever.

Edit: I ought to have said that some "toxic" sites may be useful for finding stuff that's suppressed elsewhere. If for no other reason, to know what's happening.
Fuck yer burn!
That's not the least bit inconsistent. You claimed that FAANGs do not run anything with the complexity of Docker or Kubernetes. The best thing I can say about that claim is that your information is clearly outdated. Some might call it a lie. Facebook and Google, at least, do use something with equivalent complexity, and the very thing that makes them awful is also the thing that refutes your claim. Don't claim to speak for all companies when you clearly don't know anything about more than one.
If you can’t write well functioning monoliths, then you most definitely will fail implementing the same system using micro-services. Micro-services have all the complexity of the monolith plus the complexity of a distributed system added on top.
James Joyce’s grandson and the death of the stubborn literary executor
This finding has been debunked in the meanwhile though. The suspicious inserts are fairly short and NOT unique to HIV.

See these threads:

https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1223337991168380928

https://twitter.com/bblarsen1/status/1223343688400527360

Seems the entire publish and peer-review cycle occurs on the scale of hours or days now, lol.
USA 245 is gathering data on targets from about 300km to 1000km away - it'd be pretty hard to see individual structures from geosync.

Here's the orbit info: https://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=39232
Convention: every malloc() may result in NULL and programs should check for it

Result: many programs forgot

Convention: every non-NULL pointer returned by malloc() should be passed to free() at most once

Result: programs free()'d these pointers twice

Convention: programs should only write to memory addresses [p, p+s) if p is a non-NULL pointer returned by malloc(s), and before calling free(p)

Result: many programs wrote beyond p+s, or wrote to the memory after calling free()

Remind me again, what's a convention?
Seeing that the entire submission is about government regulation....
"cancel" doesn't really mean anything here.

I don't think Joe Rogan or Ben Shapiro should get fired from the average workplace (I'm not familiar with Jeanine Cummins) unless they insist on trying to impose their views. I don't think they should be banned from presumably neutral platforms (reddit, Facebook, Twitter).

On the other hand, I don't think they should be given a column in other media publications and they're more than fair game for ridicule and criticism. I don't think they have a moral right to publish in any subgroup within ostensibly neutral platforms (Facebook group, subreddit).
Damn. Thanks for the heads up. I erased windows without ever booting it, but hopefully this can be done without it.
Mmm? I covered that, it's about legitimacy.

The monarch plainly has no legitimacy whatsoever, there's no merit, nobody elected them, they were born into the job.

In contrast an elected President can use the ceremonial position to seize actual power. This isn't even just theoretical, it's an actual problem - or I guess if you've just used it to seize power, a brilliant feature...

Anyway, we don't want that, so the monarch is better.
Elon Musk – Don't Doubt Ur Vibe
Thank you. I appreciate the summary.
> With USB-C there's no real reason to have other standards for charging a cell phone.

I'll take lightning over usb-c anyday. I currently have a pixel 3 and it does not connect half the time and yes, I clean out the stupid port with a toothpick even though I never had to do that with an iphone.

Android auto is especially annoying as a slight bump can cause it to disconnect and then it takes like 20 seconds to get it back running with the map on the dashboard.

The stupid headphone jack connector also sucks because the only way I can work out with it is if I use 2 rubber bands to pull the usb-c to headphone jack connector tight constantly or else the slightest movement in my pocket will disconnect it.
> And a lot of the compilers and tooling seems to be weirdly Windows-oriented

When I read this book I had an hard time running and compiling the source code included.
If you want to read the book and try out the example compiler (oberon0), you can follow the instructions here: https://github.com/lboasso/oberon0. You just need a JVM >= 8 and the oberonc compiler: https://github.com/lboasso/oberonc
Depending on wavelength, if you've got a ~meter aperture for taking pictures and you're 200km away, you should be able to see ~10cm details.

But one got as close as 20km (in which case, 1cm details...): https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1223420130576818176
Not just those - IIRC Hubble's mirror diameter was changed to 2.4m at least partly so that they could use NRO tooling.
The art of artificial insemination (2013)
> Claiming you’re being tortured because you’re going to have to face trial

No one claims this. Please read the article.

If you believe the claims of the UN Special Rapporteur are without merit, please provide your evidence and/or reasoning.
I wrote a tool that may be useful here; it generates a TypeScript definition file and runtime type checking logic given examples of the objects you want to accept.

https://jvilk.com/MakeTypes/
Even the CTH podcasters themselves quite famously hate the CTH subreddit.
I am for non-violence and against the militarization of space, but I'm at a loss as to how to convince others of this.

Most non-violent movements are religious at their core, and if people don't already believe in non-violence and don't believe in a religion which tells them not to be violent, they are not likely to be convinced to change their ways and adopt non-violence.

It's possible, though currently unlikley, that leaders of religions who interpret their scriptures as calling for non-violence as a core value become more influential in society. Unfortunately, the world seems to be heading in the opposite direction right now, and as we saw with the assassinations of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, such leaders are vulnerable to being eliminated by people who have no problems with violence.

To ultimately be successful there has to be a grassroots, widespread, decentralized change in consciousness among the masses, and we are very far from that.

The one distant ray of hope that I see is more widespread use of psychedelics, which have the potential to increase empathy and a feeling of connection to and unity with the world and others. This is a pretty long-term hope, however, and it still has the potential to be squashed if there's another backlash from the powers that be.
eSNI still gives away the public key for the encrypted host name. You only get a privacy advantage there if you're going through a large aggregator (Cloudflare, maybe Google and AWS load balancers), in which case, you have maybe reduced the number of governments that can identify your users. That's useful if you're trying to evade the GFW and you can find a service provider they won't block, but that's assuming GFW doesn't just block DoH and the ESNI txt records over plaintext DNS. And it adds a reliance on a small list of providers that have a scary monitoring capability themselves.
Yes, there are a lot of malicious actors that actually sell data (apps, browser extensions, phone carriers, potentially ISPs, finance companies, etc.). Many of these actors even sell un-anonymized data. The big tech companies are very low on the totem pole of badness and will continue to stay that way for a long time because the incentives don't align for them to actually sell data.
Everyone other than apple seemed to get the message.
You don’t have to knowingly break the law to be criminally charged. If you’re in a position where a law might apply, you should do your due diligence or get legal counsel sign off. Selling private location data should easily cause a competent executive to think twice and confirm it’s okay.
How are you going to handle CDNs? Are you going to whitelist all the [random letters].cloudfront.net? What about public websites? You can conceivably establish a communications channel over any popular social media site.
Banks store private keys for their ATMs in hardware security modules (HSM) and there are lots of crypto exchanges that started doing that. One of the features is private keys self destruct when tampering is detected. If you have a backup you’ll be able to recover the private key. While I agree that Trezor wasn’t designed with this in mind, I think it’s a good idea to include this feature. Not sure about the size requirements for that though, it might make the device significantly bigger.
Doesn't the iPhone claim to be able to protect from physical access?
Safety Meeting
And they must be worse for repeat offenses.
A great way to stifle innovation.

Apple has been trying out cables and transfer types over the years (thunderbolt, CD-ROM, USB, wireless) and they do it on the backs of the luxury users, not too far off from what the luxury car makers in testing what to propagate downstream.

Apple has set a standard to use their cable format, which works. If you go through the litany of USB-B there were power issues, transfer rates, and a whole host of other items that, while it met the standard, did not work. An example is my Barnes & Noble Nook needing a special cable to work with the PC; it was USB-B, but not using the right transfer and power source rendered cables useless for interface.

If anyone can say the roll out of USB-C has been better, even with the “standard” then there have been a number of articles on here that have pointed to fake cables, horrible QC and other items.

So, a government agency has taken the draconian step of forcing a standard, one which will be helpful for the European companies that produce phones and people wonder why there is so much money in politics.
For 99% of the population email is extremely centralized.
Cached copy by Google:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lIMDg7...
Would be an interesting read if there is an English version of the book available.
I don't understand what's surprising about this? The satellite they are spying on is itself a spy satellite!
> USB 4 Gen 3

Are they going to do that thing again where they rebrand the existing standards from USB 3 Gen X to USB 4 Gen X?