skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually don't think it's that hard to grasp, but people often don't explain it very clearly.

It's a from the ground up design for a serverless p2p 'overlay' operating system.

Overlay just means that you run an Urbit VM on top of a mac/linux OS and people can write applications for your Urbit VM. Your Urbit VM communicates with other Urbit VMs in such a way that the application design is p2p by default so the complexity of this is hidden from the user. This means in the future someone can start up their urbit node (which will just look like another application) and use the apps in it without needing any central servers.

Right now the main app in their release is chat, they also have a link aggregator app too.

The reason for the finite user IDs is because the founder believed that one reason for service centralization on the existing internet was the spam problem. When IDs are free people can make tons of them and spam others, complex algorithms via centralized services are required to fight this which leads to a client/server model and a handful of enormous corporations powering the services.

When you have a small cost on the ID you make it economically infeasible to spam people, you also make it easier to stop IDs from abusing the network (and other people). It’s also a way to incentivize people to run infrastructure nodes in the network.

The other interesting details are that it's written in its own functional language on top of its own functional like assembly. This has benefits around correctness that I don't totally understand - but the idea is if you were to redesign a modern computing system from first principles taking everything learned over the last 50 years how would you do it?

Regular users are never going to run their own linux servers to host their own applications on the modern internet, but regular users might use an application that is p2p by default and does the things they want. This leads to a better decentralized model at the application level that is not ad supported.

Ultimately it's out of the box private servers that you can run locally and easily share data between securely, without the need for a centralized company in the middle.

The project makes me think of Alan Kay when he talks about big ideas and 'having the chops' to implement them. It's crazy to throw away most of modern computing and build a functional OS from scratch in a radical kind of way, it's crazy for the product to have made progress since something like 2002 (picked up a lot when they got funding more recently) rather than fizzling out or being vaporware. I'm amazed that they have real software shipping that works, but they do. It's a project driven by a clear vision of how computing can be better than it is, which I think is an exciting thing.
This is inaccurate in several regards.

All bullets yaw and tumble when they hit a person, that is a matter of physics. The idea that they are somehow specially designed to do that is an urban myth. Bullet orientation is inherently unstable, spin-stabilization is an engineering tradeoff. Too little spin and the bullet starts tumbling before it hits the target. Too much spin and the bullet erodes the barrel and may disintegrate in flight.

Explosive fragmentation, an effect the US accidentally discovered in some early versions of the M16, occurs when a bullet that is near maximum stabilization undergoes sudden structural stress. That is literally the opposite of trying to make a bullet tumble. Explosive fragmentation actually does do significant additional damage but it wasn't a design objective; US weapon and cartridge re-designs have incidentally eliminated it in pursuit of other priorities.

The reasons militaries moved to high-velocity 5.56/5.45mm cartridges had nothing to do with lethality and everything to do with logistics and ergonomics. It dramatically reduces weight, volume, and cost of ammunition relative to the 7.62mm cartridges widely used prior. Soldiers can carry twice as much ammunition with minimal loss of performance for most purposes, which is useful in the age of automatic weapons. It greatly improves accuracy under automatic and rapid fire, and the much flatter trajectory makes it easier to aim at intermediate ranges.

In other words, the move to high-velocity small-caliber cartridges can be easily explained by its many clear and obvious advantages. They aren't any more or less cruel than the cartridges they replaced.
I suspect the monthly active user count buoys Facebook's share price.
Bayonets are for "shock and awe" to the protesters, great psychological warfare.
maybe the cpu in a sd card?
Funny cute cats wath it now and support cats
No, and no. Here are some sources:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gv0ru3/this_is_the... - Main reddit thread, with aerial footage of the incident, as well as lots of other sources in the comments

* https://www.facebook.com/omarisal/videos/10220021035848747/ - Livestream of 30+ minutes leading up to the incident. The interesting stuff starts at 26' in, but he gives a lot of good context on the protest leading up to then. The livestreamer was at the front line when they started pepper spraying, and in fact you can even see him in the aerial footage as he's next to a pink umbrella that makes a good landmark. It's very clear from ground eye view the violence was deliberately premeditated and coordinated by SPD and not in response to any immediate threat. No orders to disperse, or do anything else for that matter, are given prior to pepper spray, teargas, and flashbangs.

* https://mobile.twitter.com/izaacmellow/status/12676798206006... - Official SPD story claiming incident is a "riot" and was forced on them: " Crowd has thrown rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers and is attempting to breach barricades one block from the East Precinct."

I don't think you can watch these videos and come to the conclusion that at least in this instance, it's not the protesters rioting but rather the police. Then they're officially lying about it.

Edit: formatting
That doesn’t matter if the password is known, guessable, or nonexistent.
First, this evidence there was 'no resistance' is not evidence at all, in fact, the claim by CNN is 'the lie'. There are many minutes of the interaction we don't have insight into, in particular the moments leading up to the 'kneeling'. That doesn't mean the police are not lying, but it definitely means the 'proof' offered by CNN is not 'proof'.

Also, city coroner made one claim, the coroner hired by the family made a different one, the claim that somehow the coroner hired by the family is 'correct' is just flat out inappropriate. Personally, I'm slightly more inclined to believe the city coroner, and that there were probably some complications. When the victim initially came out of his vehicle, it seems he fell to the ground in a manner that didn't seem to be due to a struggle, which would indicate something was wrong, physically, already at that time, obviously exacerbated by the police brutality.
Anybody else having issues downloading one these scanner apps from the Apple App Store? I seem to be encountering an error I’ve never seen before...
Facebook already censors. They already make editorial decisions regarding content. For example, content of a sexual nature is completely banned and gets you blocked on the platform.

Racism and inciting violence get a pass, but post a woman breast feeding? You're gone in a flash.

The free speech argument has no weight because Facebook already doesn't respect it.
Ok, here we go: https://feeds.talonvoice.com

Repo is here if you need to report (or just fix :D) bugs in the webapp: https://github.com/lunixbochs/feeds
Normally, in healthy police forces, the police is in contact with protest organisers to cooperate on weeding out the violent troublemakers to ensure the protest remains peaceful. This has always been very effective in many countries, including the US, before US police abandoned this approach and started training for escalation instead.
When Was Running Invented?
Turn your website into a list of BLM bail resources
Quitting Facebook: The Right Way
> I have to admit I have no clue how to do that, any pointers?

My code is poorly documented and badly written, but it works at least the ssh_copy_id one I use enough to keep updated[1] (that ssh logins with passwords to place the ssh keys).

That's my script, the brains of it is basically an ssh connector.

Paramiko is as simple as

s = SSHClient()
s.connect(hostname=h[1], username=h[0], password=pwd)
(_in, _out, _err) = s.exec_command( cmd, bufsize=4096)

Originally, I had awk scripts to process ^A separated, I'd read the out stream back and formulate my next script over the logs to drill-down in a loop.

[1] - https://github.com/t3rmin4t0r/batchman/blob/master/ssh_copy_...
I’m not sure I understand the question. Are you asking what a designer should consider more important than compromising accessibility for minimalism? Pretty much anything...
Code signing certificates could be issued to domain names, and that might provide a lower bar to clear while still offering a good way to establish a reputation.
I went through that process a year ago. It was a good amount of work. When I was done, I realized I wasn't getting anything out of Facebook and deleted.
That is only true in markets where there is an artificial supply scarcity. In markets with proper zoning reform, rents and housing prices will NOT increase over the long run.

But you're right that there exists markets (like SF) where this is simply not the case. What happens there? Take your thought one step further: if everyone received $x per month, and rent and housing prices increased by $x, then in that worst case scenario, the TAM doesn't actually change, I.e. if I was able to afford a house today, I would be able to afford a house tomorrow.

If I was unable to afford rent today, I would not be able to afford rent tomorrow however I would now have cash to be able to afford to move to a more affordable market. This seems like a strict win to me.
The good thing with Matrix is that it's room-based, and I haven't really seen rooms with over 10k users. Presumably most of these nodes would be offline most of the time.

I can easily see routing being delegated to more powerful homeservers. That said, you do not need perfect routing to be better than hub and spoke at using the network effectively, and it seems to be what most current mesh networks aim for.
I've always wanted to build a parallel awk.
And call it pawk.
And have an O'Reilly book about it.
With a chicken on the cover.
pawk, pawk, pawk!
This is a true story, sadly.
For most video cards and driver combinations, the fbdev interface is an emulated, legacy interface. DRI and X have the intended fast path to the device, and you have to jump through some hoops to get to an API and handle that behaves like mmap'd /dev/fbX.
Would that imply taxation (to fund such) on recent immigrants from Asia and Europe and Africa, whose ancestors were not involved in the horrors of slavery?
I still think replacing the document creation markdown handling with Obsidian, which also shows back-links and lets you easily follow links, is probably much more useful and efficient than to use a regular text editor and manually curate the folders and tagging.

You probably want versioning in all cases (your manual method or Obsidian), and it doesn't negate the benefit of a system that scans and builds a graph of your knowledge provides.
Yes, because it is not relevant. The website the user is browsing is what decided to put Google Analytics code on their page. It is their responsibility to tell their users that Google will get this data.
It's a hard problem. I'm prototyping this here [1]. Any user can tweak or vote on transcriptions, so my goal is to use the user annotations to help train models and make it better.

[1] https://feeds.talonvoice.com

Repo is here if you need to report (or fix) bugs in the webapp: https://github.com/lunixbochs/feeds

If you want to help with development, reach out and I can onboard + give some test data.
Whoa this is awesome! Love the option to fix a transcription, should hopefully help with training if you get some traction.
This should, at least the last time I used it:

https://github.com/DSheirer/sdrtrunk

I wrote this parallel scanner. I had tried incorporating DSD, but couldn’t handle more than 2 streams. Though that was several years ago.

https://github.com/madengr/ham2mon
That's a bit of revisionist history. It wasn't the age of Twitter. Until the discovery of the camps, this was just a world war. The other side was seen as just a regular enemy (+/- usual war propaganda), not as genocidal maniacs.
This is something I exploit to do an early splashscreen to HDMI on the i.MX6. The kernel splashscreen is supported with LVDS but not HDMI on the kernel that ships for that SOC so as a workaround I take a bitmap representation in the color depth of the framebuffer and cat it into /dev/fb0 while in the initial ramdisk.
https://archive.is/JDNxE
idk, it's not required, gives someone a chance to show a side of themselves that might be hard for them to describe otherwise.
I can only give my own opinion.

De-criminalize recreational drug-use. Community arrests of recreational users with no victims causes a bad image and puts young people on a path to being full time criminals.

Increase training. If you fall back to instinct too quickly and you're equipped with guns, you're likely to commit large mistakes like murder.

No immunity. Police offers already defend each other. Immunity makes just gives them a license to kill. Over time, they'll learn they can get away with pushing people around and hurting them under umbrella immunity + team protection. Legal immunity must stop.

Full medical insurance, no co-pay (Do all officers have this already?). If an officer has to fear he'll get ruined from an injury then it creates unnecessary pressure for him to shoot first.
Here are some of my ideas:

"Who's got the loot?"

This app could be used to keep track of which stores have and haven't been looted yet. No one wants to loot a store that has already run out of stuff.

"Children Inside"

This app could help rioters decide whether to burn down a building, if there's kids inside they can pick another one.

"Bail Me"

This app would be just like gofundme or kickstarter, except it would be for posting bond.
He is complicit for wanting that he be not lynched by a mob?

If anything the virulent comments on this thread are enough reason for him to hire as many bodyguards as he may need.

Some people here have no sense of perspective.
Thanks! I did a lot of tests and no existing ASR I found could do it to 100%, so I'm using the best ASR I could find and hoping users will help with transcriptions if they want to see it succeed and scale.
Sense of taste is strongly influenced by sense of smell, and a stuffy nose significantly attenuates your sense of smell. As such, basically every cold ever will knock out both your sense of smell and consequently your sense of taste for the duration.

Hyposmia is also, in its own right, a symptom of the flu, of the common cold and of sinusitis. [1]

[1] https://www.raleighcapitolent.com/blog/lost-sense-of-smell?e...
How fast is it?
Cops are not soldiers. They are not fighting a war. Look to any other western nation. America may be a little more violent, a little less stable, but the cop-citizen relationship isn't fundamentally different than in any number of other nations. There is no need for US cops to take that attitude. There is no reason for them to be killing as many people as they do.

A thousand people a year are killed by US cops. Canada, with 10% of the population, sees maybe 25 in a bad year.
> and pretending otherwise is a juvenile see-no-evil defense.

And luckily I did not say that anywhere.
Well, it's 2020 right now. Some things that used to be considered acceptable for the wrong reasons are no longer acceptable today. I do think that the project should take a clear stance against this horrible violence and racism, and show that they actually care about their potential users-- and not just about "cool tech", whatever that might mean.
I would argue that "less lethal" tools are used more often, and in cases in which the lethal option would be completely unnecessary. This has the effect of increasing the lethality of these engagements. For example, using a taser during a traffic stop. Using tools like tasers lowers the bar to using the tool in the first place, rather than reducing risk to the receiving party. False logic at the end of the day.
If they’re open 24/7/365, that’s still six figures in savings. And if one of those employees is watching the self checkouts then losses might not even be that much higher. And that with 90s technology — very little/no CV. I think Cashier as a stand-alone job will probably die off in our lifetime. Maybe you still have a store manager who is up at the front of the store whenever they are not doing something else.

(I’ve been a cashier at a grocery store)
For another fun graphics project try getting Qt5 to compile using the EGL target on a basic Debian system without using X11 or Wayland/Weston.
Not at all. When Kaepernick protested in the most quiet, peaceful and respectful way possible, conservatives were screaming bloody murder. They also did that when MLK was leading protests.

Conservatives support protests by white people, but never by black people.
People are naïve when it comes to this: had a manager some years ago who used to watch porn usin company's phone in private mode.Got asked to attend a meeting in the head office just to be shown pages upon pages of browsing activities he had,while at work. Nearly got kicked out.
In my current job I did tell pretty much everyone ( to their surprise) that private mode won't stop me from asking network logs from our IT support company.
I think it looks pretty good printed.

https://imgur.com/a/mpJtv8o
You are being deceptive here. The original point is "How do you deal with programming languages' being so based on English?"

Nobody is saying that C or C# is the english language. Of course C and C# are programming languages. You aren't saying anything of importance here. But it is based on the english language using english words to help english speakers write programs.

I already gave you the history of the development of computer programming languages.

"Assembly language was invented and created in english to make it easier for english speaking developers to program. Nobody wants to program machine code.

Then higher level languages were invented to make it easier for english speaking developers to program. Nobody wants to write assembly code."

If you disagree then go read the AT&T or Intel manuals and tell me what language the syntax was written in. Go read the C grammar/syntax or the standard library, what natural language are they written in?

Chinese? Russian? Swedish?
What's missing from current mathematics to make predictive models for biology?

I did a search for "neural network cell simulation" and got a few hits, e.g. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8805421.

So it seems that people are working on the problem of predictability (or at least augmenting the researcher's/experimenter's ability to do some analysis ahead of time based on simplified models).
I have to admit that the webcam on the MacBook aren't quite for years, don't understand they can't put a better one in.
A selective list of video clips does not prove anything about racial bias in the use of deadly force by the police - the whole motivation for the riots that are causing so much destruction throughout the country.

Copying lists of videos is not an attempt at meaningful discussion.
I deactivated my Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram accounts yesterday, and let me tell you, it's worth doing it just for the feeling of deleting these apps from your phone. So far I do not miss any of them at all. In a week or two I'll log back in and delete them forever. For now I'm trying to campaign some of my friends to get on Signal.
How should I respond to informal SaaS acquisition inquiries?
I own a SaaS business that is owned and operated by myself (started 1.5 years ago). I own 100% of the company and write all the code, do all sales, customer service, etc. It's a full time job and MRR is currently $50k and growing by 20-30% month over month. There are also a lot of operational expenses with various software vendors I rely on, advertising costs, etc and net profit on $50k MRR was most recently $27k for the month of May 2020.

I recently received an informal inquiry from someone potentially interested in purchasing the business. My guess is that this individual is not all that serious and/or would not have the capital required, but who knows - maybe I'm totally wrong.

However, what would be an appropriate response? Do I share MRR and profit margins with every random person who inquires?

Do I ask what budget they have available? I assume my valuation is roughly some multiple of net profit?

I'm not sure how to proceed in such discussions, since this doesn't happen very frequently.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks!
>Trying to stop the President from inciting violence isn't the responsibility of Facebook.

I didn't say it was, nor is that my read of the issue at hand. Facebook choosing not to host a message does not stop the message from being said. It would just be said elsewhere.

>People have a right to know what the President is saying and his hostile intentions.

I am not under the impression that Facebook is the exclusive source of information for presentenial statements. I understand they are also frequently run in other media.

> If the President says a bunch of racist and violent things in the State of the Union address, would you also blame ABC for airing it?

I haven't said anything about blaming anyone. Someone asked what message was controversial and I linked the message along with an explanation of the controversy. If you think I'm taking a position I'd appreciate you speaking directly instead of imputing intent.

I also don't really understand your question. I would "blame" ABC in that I would expect them to account for how they chose to cover it (whatever that form took).
Former Mueller deputy on Trump: 'Government is going to kill this guy' (2017)
Sergei is a machine. At JSC, played volleyball with him on weekends. He ran there. I’d leave after a couple of hours, shower, meet someone for lunch. Sergei would run by. We’d go to a movie, Sergei would run by as we left. Then a dinner date, pulling out from the lot, he would run by. Once almost hit him as he cut across a lot and he smiled and waved. Date asked who that was and was “yeah, sure, a Cosmonaut.” Then a couple hours at the bar, walking home, Sergei would run by again.

And this is all summer in Webster, TX. 95 degrees and 95% humidity.

He was just a ubiquitous mobile fixture of the area and supernice guy.
Also, there just weren't many Federal criminal laws until the late 19th century and especially early 20th century. What preceded and ushered in the so-called administrative state and expansive Commerce Clause powers was the emergence of Federal morality laws, such as the 1895 Federal Lottery Act[1] and the 1910 Mann Act.[2] Excepting brief periods during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Federal crimes only pertained to very specific areas under Federal jurisdiction, such as acts on federal property, violations of Federal tax laws (e.g. import/export), etc, none of which required an extensive, general purpose investigatory and enforcement apparatus. There were Federal agencies that performed investigations, of course, most famously the Federal Marshal Service and Secret Service. The power to investigate and enforce was always concomitant with the power to legislate, and naturally followed the enactment of such legislation.

[1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion_v._Ames

[2] Supreme Court precedents applying these two acts is what opened the door to predominantly intra-state activity being captured by Federal inter-state powers.