skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good illustration of this is the linked TC regex[1], which can be implemented in Notepad++ or similar.

Just because you can hit "Replace all" a bunch of times to run the TC "regex code", transforming some input to some output, doesn't in itself mean you can make Notepad++ do something weird.

[1]: https://github.com/Tegmen/RegEx-Brainfuck-Interpreter
Is this spam? You created an account just to post this link? Did you read the article?

I looked through the features and this appears to be the same dime-a-dozen-me-too app which doesn't have the one feature everyone loves about Roam.

Cheers to the person who built this. I don't want to crap on anyone's work. But this isn't at all like Roam from what I can see.
Seems under a load, so here is archive URL just in case https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.scottaaronson.com/b...
Somewhat Less Lethargic JSON Support for iOS/macOS, Part 2: Analysis
Is there any information from Google on moving to a paid model for reCaptcha? I couldn't find anything. Is this only for large-volume customers like cloudflare, and thus not announced publically anywhere?
Agreed. I hate it. Luckily they is a way around it: https://github.com/dessant/buster
I'm paying $12/mo for YouTube Premium because I consider it an exceptionally valuable service, but they only offer automated support. Google can afford to give high quality customer support, as we've seen with Project Fi, they just don't care about their users.
Meh, libinput works fine for me. I suspect it's pretty hardware-dependent.

From reading around, most of the distros started deprecating synaptics because it wasn't actively being worked on, didn't work with Wayland, required root for a bunch of stuff unnecessarily etc.
Likewise. It hasn't been that long since I finished my undergrad (<5 years), and if I remember correctly, we didn't start using Eclipse until second year, and even then it was considered 'optional', i.e. as long as your code compiles and passes the test cases, it doesn't matter whether you use Eclipse, vim, Notepad, etc.

The upshot of this was that I didn't have a clue what Maven was until I started working, but you can learn tooling on the job.
Viruses increase entropy like all life. Their reproductive process destroys a much larger and more complex cell.

Plants convert light into chemical energy at low efficiency, the rest goes to waste heat. Animals do the same thing with chemical energy.
This was one of the best articles I've read lately, it's not filled with empty prose as is the style today, it's just filled with the history of a man who was one of several who founded the internet and no more.

I agree with him that we need to keep iterating the foundations of the internet and keep it open and protect against the corporate takeover. I'm not sure how best to do that so I guess all I can do is work on my small areas of influence at work and in my personal projects.
Or better yet, don’t use RAID and do backups instead. Software - including file systems - breaks too.
Funny thing it, the Benjamin Franklin quote in the context did not meant what you think it meant at all. It was said when a family was trying to one-time-payment their way out of taxation and was pro-goverment got to rule.
My understanding is that, in order to recognize information, you should at least compare it to the outputs of a source of entropy.

It is a common mistake to conflate information and entropy. A bad analogy to mechanics is that the outputs of an entropy source are the frame of reference, the signal is a body and information might be whatever property you wish to analyze, such as velocity or acceleration.
Probably don't need all the free AI training in that direction anymore. Just a guess.
How do you define the information-theoretic entropy of a physical object, like a virus?
I thought this was in lieu of payment...
Yeah. Feels like I'm being punished for daring to resist their surveillance capitalism.
When computers were bigger heavier and not the size of cell phones, you could say "door stopped".

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/18959/doorstop

But you can't keep a door opened with a broken cell phone, so they had to invent a new mobile-friendly term "bricked".

For a mainframe or minicomputer, you could say "monolithed" or "bouldered".
That’s not necessarily true though.

I was thought through Java but it was all command-line and jacvac.

I did once sort a much better programmers final year project for him though - years later that I worked with - cos he had a CLASSPATH issue. That did make me realise there are people thought the way you say that miss some of the basics.
Because computer science isn't about programming? That's exactly why a simple and elegant language should be chosen, one that allows to express the concepts that are taught. Java is such a horrible choice that it's laughable that it enjoyed this success at universities.
Agreed, the change is much less significant. Yet I was surprised that healthcare outcomes continued to improve during this time. Life expectancy has grown by almost 4 years since the 1990s, that's absolutely not insignificant. And there's good reason to believe that healthcare interventions have strongly improved, but that baseline health is much worse. Even stable healthcare outcomes would, if this is true, be evidence for interventions having improved. If you look at obesity levels for example (just google the charts), they're absolutely ridiculous and create a much larger burden (and cost) on healthcare interventions for the same outcome (e.g. life expectancy).

The corollary is of course also true, which is that healthcare has improved due to many interventions not typically financed through healthcare costs / insurance. e.g. public health campaigns to stop smoking.
"A Conversation with Alan Kay (2004)"
It will be interesting to see how Java developers who argued against functional programming will react to these features.
What I’d really want is not an apology but a post mortem: “here’s what caused this to happen and here’s what we are doing so it doesn’t happen again”
I think ultimately lower levels of home ownership (which implies higher levels of corporate home ownership) will be healthy for housing costs.

The sick dynamic of governments trying to increase the cost of housing is largely because ownership is so widespread. As much as we like to talk about the political power of deep pocketed corporations, that pales in comparison to the political power of homeowners when they are more than 65% of the population. Bring that number down significantly and we might see a much more reasonable policy environment.
Also... it's not censorship-resistant. IPFS doesn't provide secrecy. The content can be censored by anyone offering you connection when they query your node if it stores specific information.
It is interesting and useful as a workaround for existing situation, ie running under untrusted OS. It’s not useful as a proper solution (as opposed to a hack/workaround). Except for DRM.
For me it was MSDN discs and a Charles Perzold book. Made a tree on MFC!
Go and nimble? Jesus christ, you can't be serious.
Given how abusive recaptcha is for anyone running a even a minimally tracking-hardenned browser, dumping it is not just a matter of cost savings - it's good business as far as conversion rates are concerned.
This is awesome. Thank you. Speaking of i3 I would love to use it but it doesn’t really work well on a 4K screen. Any thoughts on how to make it work?
Zoho is per user/inbox but a single user/inbox can receive emails for multiple domains and email ids. You can also set up individual sending identities. I am currently receiving email for 7 domains while paying for one.

There is an undocumented limit though. You can generally only have upto 30 aliases.
eBPF – Rethinking the Linux Kernel
I know right, everytime there's a website with reCaptcha on it it makes me fail two times to pass at the third. Tiles takes ages to load and fade to display new ones.

I like to do comparisons with Chromium based browsers on the exact same site, how much time it takes to pass the captcha. Obviously the chromium based one is way faster to solve.

I don't really know why Google makes it this way. If it's only because of my Firefox configuration that makes Google think I'm a bot. Or if Google can't retrieve enough data on my browsing habits to bother me and force me (in a way) to browse on a chromium based browser.

The thing is I never saw informations talking about it, so I'll pass on denouncing Google's behavior.

For those interested there's a good browser add-on to bypass reCaptchas : Buster [1]

[1] : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captch...
Nice to see that the alternative (hCaptcha) supports PrivacyPass.
Bored?! I'm sure that there are a gazillion more useful - and even fun - things to do
I really want to know what other languages large enterprises are using that have, or are on the track to getting, the kind of volume Java has. Especially languages that don't run on the JVM.
Advertiser demand may be part of it, but there's also discoverability.

Turning up around YouTube must be extremely valuable. If your content is only on Vimeo, your odds of being chosen by the mighty YouTube algorithm are 0%.

> microsoft or amazon isn't getting in the game

You're right really, and it's not really the same thing, but they do both offer free file-storage services capable of streaming video to the browser.
That would be a great idea for a captcha project! You might wanna post to open-source-ideas: https://github.com/open-source-ideas/open-source-ideas
I disagree with life increasing entropy; it does do that but it expels the entropy.
Nope, it's only slightly better than java. Lisps and MLs are objectively better when it comes to teaching Cs materials.
Yes, a true racket in Ponzi style, and in Ponzi style, the crash will be huge...
What was the lecture about? I don't suppose there were any recordings?
What I love about Ben Eater's videos is his incredible patience with these things. I started several projects with arduinos and raspberry pi's and parts are still laying around in a drawer. You spend hours or days physically building something and jumping from that to coding and back. That just annoyed me and eventually tossed all of the components back in the drawer.
There are already alternative CAPTCHA projects. The problem is that the most-visited websites on the internet never adopted them, instead content to use Google's solution.
Gradient boosting research papers from the last 25 years with implementations
I’m sorry to say this but this is pure garbage, you should first look into ReactJS before “inventing” new frameworks.
I'm not so hot on this stuff so this might be answered or clear on the site and I didn't get it - can the other sites tell who authenticated you? Can the authenticator add metadata?

I'm wondering about other use cases, using it to prove you've paid for something, or donated perhaps. Or passed a daily quiz/challenge. I feel like there's some fun ways of using this.
The article makes it sound like BlueDot is some kind of advanced AI capable of sifting through the tea-leaves of news and alerting the world of a possible pandemic well in advance of official, governmental organisations.

But at least in the case of COVID-19, the truth appears to be that BlueDot was not that much faster than a properly functioning bureaucratic machine.

BlueDot: the article says BlueDot sent an alert of unusual pneumonia on 30 Dec 2019.

Properly functioning bureaucratic machine: WHO received info about a possible new outbreak of some sort from the Chinese government on 31 Dec 2019. Taiwan, a non-WHO member (and which is politically and socially inclined not to trust China on anything), reacted immediately to the news and began monitoring passengers coming from Wuhan on that day [0]. In Singapore, the health authority sent out an advisory regarding this potential new outbreak on 2 Jan - essentially the first day everyone got back to work after the new year celebrations [1] - and announced traveller screening measures. Hong Kong stepped up border screening immediately, too [2].

I dunno... I feel like the knowledge would not have been disseminated usefully faster in this case.

If anything, the important takeaway is not that we should have been alerted faster, but rather how important it is that government institutions are funded, function, and are staffed by competent individuals.

[0] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0574_article
[1] https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/precautionary...
[2] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3044050/mys...
Most ISPs use NAT now. No home user is directly connected to the internet. Probably a good thing since consumer routers aren't exactly known for being secure.
Interesting question would love to read some insights about that too. From my really basic understanding Apple Secure Enclave is a co-processor so other rules should apply but I'm also a poor layman in hardware design.
Apple's Secure Enclave is a coprocessor designed specifically to reduce attack surface, and minimize the surface area of untrusted code.

It physically separates the ephemeral secret-storing (touch/face ID) and the hardcoded crypto keys (not even the SE firmware has access to the key material, it's just allowed to run the circuits).

Check out the iOS Security Guide whitepaper.
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The Doctor's Dilemma – George Bernard Shaw (1906)
Generally, speedrunning communities (for games and other things) already bar tricks and strats that require setup on an external file/system.

For instance, you can't carry hearts/stamina from one file to another in a Breath of the Wild speedrun, or use wrong warping to instantly go to a location saved on an alternate save file.

There are exceptions in certain scenes (in speedruns for Banjo-Kazooie, a glitch is used on another save file to fix the RNG for a quiz section later in the game), but generally, everything has to be done from an empty file/system with no external resources already setup.
How do you propose to solve the problem Captchas are designed to solve, if not through Captchas?
> Also trying with Google after duckduckgo is faster than the other way around.

And with the '!g'-bang you can still have privacy and use google.
Project Amber [0] isn't Java's first foray into functional concepts, Java 8 had its fair share of functional features via Project Lambda [0]. If you're looking for a reaction, you're late by 6 years?

[0] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/amber/

[1] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/lambda/
It predates smartphones by at least a decade, maybe several decades. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/488450/etymology...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube
But" Why We Sleep" is not intended for an academic context, right?

I mean, obviously it wouldn't pass a "peer-review" analysis, but that is exactly what happens every time in science pop readings. Either we eliminate every science reading that is not strictly papers, or we accept some misinformation here and there.
I want to be happy about this. I look forward to a future where I never have to see another fire hydrant, bus or stop light. At times I identify so many traffic landmarks I feel like I just went through a commute to get to the thing I wanted to see.

I don't think that's our future though. It appears the replacement is much the same. From the article.

> Intuition Machines usually makes money by renting access to hCaptcha to companies who want to run image classification experiments, and then pay website owners to implement its hCaptcha product.
Put in 01/01/1970 instead.

It's well safe for any age checks and limits, and it could just be there because of a *nix timestamp glitch.
> It is time for us to nationalize Facebook.

Note that even accepting your previous paragraphs, this doesn't follow. Most public utilities are already not nationalized afaik; I'm not american, but none of my electricity, gas, water, phone or internet are provided by government-owned or -operated companies, and I'd be surprised if it was much different over there. They're regulated, but not nationalized.
Yes.

Also accessible as a file, since everything is a file.

echo "foo" > /dev/tcp/host/port
I consider bricked to be anything you need specialized tools for. So JTAG-fiddly-stuff-required would be bricked, but if I can get the thing working by moving some jumpers or entering some advanced recovery mode while reading about it on the internet, that's not bricked. It's also bricked if you have to replace hardware, like if you have to replace a chip or a board.
Yeah they can get away with it because for 99.9% of people their services work fine and they don't need support. But it is pretty annoying when gmail starts randomly losing emails and all you can do is join a thread on their support forum with 100 other people saying "yeah this happens to me too, it's definitely a bug in their software and it's easily reproducible." with no response from Google.

https://support.google.com/mail/thread/6187016
University is a joke in Australia. Anything for Chinese dollars, Chinese students don’t need to know English, barely contribute to the forced group assignments. I completed degree and masters and ensured many Asians passed with minimal effort because no one cared, domestic students were told shut up or fail. My life goal is to never employ any international student from Asia. No problem with Aussie Asian students they worked and contributed, they were also pissed off at the internationals.

I learned more on udemy then in my IT masters. $15 programming python course
From what I understand, Forth might be a contender.
You can even use the actual data in the article. Leave only a chart with 2 bars:

- 5h sleep - 60% injury likelihood

- 6h sleep - 75% injury likelihood

Now maintain the conclusion that the graph supports the idea of the likelihood of injury being higher the fewer the hours slept per night. Of course such manipulation will not make your book a bestseller.

Studies [0] show that the likelihood of your science being bunk increases with your desire to turn them into bestsellers and make more money from them.

[0] Too lazy to manipulate a bar chart to show whatever I want it to show because I don't actually aim to turn this comment into a bestseller.
It's just an experiment, not a framework :)
Or have some drinks with EEs and get them to value software development ease of use: things like using top of the line, or at least midrange MCU with enough flash for debug builds, populating debug connectors on EVT builds etc
This is an underrated post at the moment.

Something like this is great to centralize management
Something similar is installing an unsupported OS or fresh OS via SSH.
Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform
BTW, thanks. Purity is hard to achieve!
The unreasonable effectiveness of deep learning in artificial intelligence
I have this issue.

Computer went to sleep after the update. This was on Friday. Haven't been able to do any kind of thing on it. Trackpad 'clicks' but no screen, not touchbar, nothing (2018 Macbook Pro).

Called apple, they tld me it had to go a store, unfortunately where I live, due to quarantine there are no shops available to pick it, and we aren't allowed to drive outside our district.

Will try the apple configurator idea someone posted below and will report back. Just need to find a cable that supports both power and data that is USB a to USB c.
Microsoft's spam filter is awfully strict (the one for outlook.com at least but I don't think the one for its employees is that different)
That "nothing" means that MacBooks (when running OS X) are the only laptops that are really usable without a mouse. Even in some games.
That doesn't seem like a way around the problem of how to identify bots without pissing off humans. If anything it will make it worse!
I've always had the impression that the difference between bricked and non-bricked is if it requires you to "fix" the hardware, it's considered bricked while if you can somehow fix it with just software, it's not bricked (yet?)

So flashing new firmware to fix the problem, not bricked.

Requiring soldering stuff and replacing hardware, it's bricked.
Manual memory management, no real type system to speak of, extremely easy to shoot off your foot for no good reason,...
Sergei Korolev
The article seemed to me to be a mix of two things, railing against the costs (blamed on the rise of administrators), and railing against the existence of diversity administrators.

I'm a professor employed at my present institution, a small liberal arts school, since 1990. I am not an administrator of any kind, don't read the Chronicle, and don't understand where all the money goes. I will say though, that when I started we had very few students who were not white. Very few, particularly if you omitted athletes. But today a good chunk, 40% maybe, of the student body is, to my eye, nonwhite. I don't know how much of that can be ascribed to the diversity officer but it is IMHO a very good thing.
We're talking about computer science and not about enterprise programming. Object oriented programming is not the focus here.
Tech is gonna get hit hard just like every sector, so you better learn how to say that phrase too, buddy.
I'm not sure this is an issue specific to this update.
The very same description in the Apple forums matches what happened on my work Macbook Pro (a 2018 one if I'm not mistaken) while installing a different update a few months ago.

I won't say this is not an issue specific to this supplemental update, but I'm not buying it is _yet_.

It looks like one of the usual consequences of a system update going wrong. See that the user reports that after fixing this through Recovery Mode, they were asked to install the very same update again, as if nothing had happened. This looks like a rollback.

I wish MacOS was more transparent about what actually happens on those cases. If you had to roll back, let me know. If you could not install because of any reason, let me know.
The problem with this 'it is relative' line of logic is that everything can be relative. We need terms that describe stuff regardless of how people perceive it.

Otherwise, as you said, 'bricked' can mean almost anything. So what's the point of using a word without any particular meaning?
If I could edit the parent comment, I would replace “our brains” by “an observer”, which is common physics parlance.

As far as I know, all uses of information-theorical approaches outside of its original scope also involve a scenario where an observer is originally unable to formulate a model that allow them to draw conclusions from alleged discrepancies. This paper is just one more example of that.

This somehow reminded me of the following quote by Bertrand Russell. “Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.”
What is far more scary than the old stuff our government is running in COBOL, is the new stuff running in Excel.
Excel became a de facto Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL), accessibly to anybody. Old COBOL programs were still developed with some software engineering discipline. Current Excel spreadsheets have none of that.
And, this doesn't apply to the government only - private enterprise runs bazillions(?) untested, unverified spreadsheets.
Wish I could share what I've seen.
It shouldn't have any problems with 4K?

Make sure that you are setting the DPI setting correctly (either when you start X, or I think i3 will use .Xresources).

E.g for my screen I run at 192 DPI, I can't remember where I got that number from.
Is it good when minorities are over-represented? meaning some white students are being discriminated against?
Commies runs higher education... What did you expect?
> Expect a lot more attacks like this to come out in the future!

Hopefully SGX will be so utterly broken they'll never make anything like it ever again.
Only the HN community cans tart a discussion over the term brick while the issue is a non functioning mac book after a update.
They can secure their email as well?