skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought one of these as well, it got me through university and was a terrific development machine for side projects as well. It survived having water and coffee spilled on it, which is incredible.

My brother just started college a year ago, and is now using it with no issues. If it lasts another 3-4 years I'll be seriously impressed, and it'll go to show how great those machines truly are.
It's one of the main reasons why having an authoritarian lead your country is a bad thing. Things can much more easily escalate to war just because their personal feelings were hurt and won't admit to their mistakes.
I collaborated with the designer of the notoriously complex, 23 pound box game Gloomhaven to do exactly this for the upcoming small-box, mass-market oriented Jaws of the Lion. We built a 5 scenario on-ramp tutorial I called Fischer-Price mode.

We included new, simpler, components in the game that are exclusively for this tutorial, have players add mechanics and components and systems one or two at a time. During playtesting we went from about 2+ hours to read and semi-understand the rules enough to play, to playing in about 10-15 minutes.

It can be done, but it can add significant cost (materials, development time) to the game.
There are so many countries around the world that do fine without the violence, brutality and military gear the US forces use. I could not imagine images like the ones I see now in the US in countries like Germany, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, … All use better tactics and seem to be able to handle even large crowds without shooting and explosives. They normally try to DE-escalate (unlike in the US).

But if I read the basic police training in the US is 6 month or less and even hair cutters need more training, this ship seems to have sailed until better training is in place. I am really shocked about what is going on in the US.
>Do you have a suggestion for a better way

>evil persons rioting and threatening to kill perfectly innocent children

This is a great and important question, and something that deserves way more R&D than it gets currently from the US's leviathan budget, but you should be aware that this lineup of statements is a bog standard bad-faith rhetorical tactic, and may be [mis]interpreted that way (i.e. this is often basically a paraphrase of "if you, Mr. Individual, do not have a solution right now, then you must be OK with the killing of innocent people").
Zuckerberg, of course.

What's hard to understand?

This is the Cambridge Analytica problem playing in repeat: if it affects business as usual then his go-to defense is to play dumb and pretend that there is no elephant in the room.
One more reason to go for a walk everyday outside for at least 60 minutes.
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The argument that is made in this article on behalf of IA that millions of books are locked up in libraries during the pandemic won’t hold. Almost all libraries during the pandemic have dramatically increased access to digital lending. Library usage has increased with many books fully checked out at libraries. Meaning these locked up copies are in use.

IA rocks, yet this new program hurts authors. Not just publishers.
It's frustrating to me how many people want platform companies to censor their customers/users. When and how did media censorship become popular?

I, for one, don't want any third party telling me what I am or am not allowed to read. If someone wants to put something on the internet, it's not the hosting platform's job to say that they shouldn't, provided that material is legal. If it's bad content, I won't read it. Maybe other people will; not my business, nor yours.

When did we go from "I don't want to read that" to "nobody should be able to read that"?

Would you tolerate arbitrary censorship of your own webpage by your web host?

Why are so many people demanding that Facebook play cop? Being wrong on the internet isn't illegal, nor should it be, and Facebook is correct for staying out of that, no matter how repugnant the stupid shit posted to Facebook becomes.

Ultimately, any platform used by billions is going to be filled with stupid, repugnant, wrong shit, or filled with censorship. I'd prefer the former, because the latter is unacceptable.
I do simmilar things :-)

I.e. have been playing Carcasone when my was 4y, we just didn't play with the 'farmer' or we played KingDomino, and she just didn't have to adhere to the rule that your kingdom needs to fit 5x5 grid.
How would you find a specific bullet, though? It doesn't usually get lodged.
> In fact, there are plenty of videos people have posted of protesters stopping looters in various places.

Watching livestreams from demonstrations in my city I saw a lot of this. Local people, mostly guys, were marching and sticking around until the later evening hours to stream live. They were basically patrolling and keeping an eye out for anyone who threw stuff, got out fireworks, or started a fight.

I saw them grab one kid who threw a bottle into a line of cops and chase him down as he ran away. Then when some others began yelling to "kick his ass!" the same guys held anyone back from starting a fight. It was community de-escalation and struck a stark contrast with the gassing and rubber bullets I've seen.

Any time you get a whole bunch of people crammed in together with emotions running high, there's a chance someone will decide to break stuff or punch someone. Seeing the crowd self-policing like this gave me the tiniest bit of hope.
I'm not interested in getting into a PC slap-fight: Old people are more likely to spread disinformation online and there's studies that prove it. Facts don't care about your feelings: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau4586#F1
I was actually watching multiple live streams before this happened and saw zero objects being thrown. I guess someone somewhere might have been throwing something?

However, that combined with the report from reporters saying it felt like tear gas, and that DC police admitted they knew about Trump's photo op ahead of time, I would say the evidence points towards this park police contact being either wrong about the actual situation on the ground or full of shit.
Sometimes the truth hurts, e.g. the downvotes on this.
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> In March, as the coronavirus pandemic was gaining steam, the Internet Archive announced it was dispensing with this waiting-list system. Under a program it called the National Emergency Library, IA began allowing an unlimited number of people to check out the same book at the same time—even if IA only owned one physical copy.

I don't understand why the IA people thought this change would go unchallenged. Seems like a pretty suicidal move to me, although I wish them luck.
Shit, seriously? We use a first-gen big pro on our (electric) piano at home and being able to run midi into the iPad while also using headphone-out on the iPad is key for our use. I guess at least the new ones use USB-C so there are more adapter options so maybe there's a USB + headphone jack adapter out there, but 1) it's entirely stupid that we'd need one, and 2) if it's not a first-party Apple adapter we'd be rolling the dice that it works at all, let alone that it'll still work in six months—which is a big part of the problem with this dumbassed dongle-verse they've created, that most of the dongles on the market are awful so you can't always count on finding a version of the thing you need that actually works with your hardware.

Or I guess they expect me to buy Bluetooth heaphones, but... why? We have like three sets of corded ones two of which are quite good, and about a dozen pairs of ear buds. We don't need new headphones. We need a headphone jack.
As much as many people hate the fact, he is still president.
This was an incredible read. I had no idea that light possessed momentum, especially angular momentum.

> A potentially extraordinarily useful property of vortex beams is that they do not interfere with each other if they all possess different twisting patterns. This means a theoretically infinite number of vortex beams can get overlaid on top of each other to carry an unlimited number of data streams at the same time.

...

> The researchers began with a microring laser consisting of a ring of indium gallium arsenide phosphide only 7 microns in diameter in which light could flow in a loop, via a channel 650 nanometers wide. By varying the light pumped into this circle from microscopic arms on either side of this ring, the researchers could alter the orbital angular momentum of the beam emitted from the laser. Instead of emitting a single orbital angular momentum mode, they showed it could emit five distinct modes.

> The scientists also developed a light detector based on tungsten ditelluride, which can act like a so-called Weyl semimetal, a material with properties lying between a conductive metal and a pure semiconductor. Their experiments found that different orbital angular momentum modes of light each generated unique patterns of electrical current within the photodetector, and they suggest this electronic method of detecting the orbital angular momentum of light could be scaled to work on microchips.

Amazing stuff.
Sets 1-6 of Cryptopals were a blog post that I wrote in 2010. At the time, I was enmeshed in a series of Twitter arguments with a security industry personality who shall remain nameless, and was concerned that if I simply published the blog post, I'd be arming that person with a large series of buzzwords that could be deployed in Twitter slapfights without any real comprehension of how this stuff worked.

So, instead, I chunked the post out into sets of 8 challenges which we delivered to all comers via email, on the condition that you had to complete the previous set and return your code to us before receiving the next set. Obviously, my (at the time) Twitter nemesis wasn't going to put the time in to write the code to break repeating-key XOR, let alone BB'98.

The challenges were successful far beyond what I could have predicted. Maciej Cegłowski wrote a blog post about them† that hit the front page here; we got flooded with requests, which we kept up with with a Twitter scoreboard, and made donations to charity when people made it through all 6 sets. There are working professional crypto engineers who got their start with the challenges --- not our intent at all, but I'll take it. I'm most proud of the fact that we've amassed what I believe to be the world's largest collection of Bleichenbacher padding oracle exploits, in every conceivable programming language, including several people made up just to do them.

All this is to say that getting people to whatever you think is "relevant" cryptography by today's standards was never the point. In fact: that's pretty close to the opposite of the point; I wrote the blog post as internal training for our team at Matasano, who needed to know how to break cryptography as it exists in the real world, not just the cryptography people think is the best, most relevant in use today. And, suffice it to say, no matter how distractable you might be, a very clear understanding of how the BB'98 attack actually defeats RSA is important for a working crypto engineer; probably more important than a lot of modern stuff. Bleichenbacher aside, though, really what you're seeing is a snapshot of au courant crypto attacks from 2010. Away from the libsodium world we live in now, CBC and unauthenticated encryption were quite common, and you still had to convince developers to fix them.

No argument from me, though; Set 8 is the best of them. I had nothing to do with it; that was all Sean Devlin. He released them one at a time on Twitter as a fundraiser for the Great Slate back in the 2018 election cycle. Nobody's making you send your homework back to me to see Sean's modern crypto set; you can just skip to it and do those challenges; they're online already, just not on that site (we don't work at NCC anymore, haven't for years, and they own the website).

† https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/04/the_matasano_crypto_challen...
> "4. Nothing beats pencil-and-paper (with a lot of sketches)."

i bought the first ipad pro with pencil to replace paper for this use case, on the promise of search for handwritten notes. i thought it would be the killer app for ipad pro. instead, it's been disappointing. if only apple had improved the notes app, especially OCR/search, over time rather than regressing it.
@Mozilla:

Wake me up when you bring back text-reflow. It's only been 9 years...

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710298
A first hand account from a reputable reporter who worked as marine security doesn't count as evidence? Really?

Okay then, what would count as evidence in your world? Since apparently veterans actually being there doesn't count. They're either lying or they're sorely mistaken.
Not necessarily. Nothing raises engagement quite like a good rage flame war
Hehe. Less than 8 years ago I asked for help to add a column in a database at a company I helped. This was a few days after they met me for the first time.

The company solved this by giving me a root username and password that worked on every single important database in the company, at least every customer database.

I had to beg them to create a somewhat restricted account.

The same company was however deeply sceptical to all kinds of remote work. The security equivalent of penny wise pound foolish I guess :-]
I agree to some extent. Unless you can filter the feedback based on the level of the user (plan, MRR from account, user engagement), it can result in some lower importance features being built. Also, making the roadmap public reduces the product team's flexibility to an extent.
Mozilla makes 10s of millions off of the default search bar.
"threatening to kill perfectly innocent children"? See, even you feel the need to ratchet up the situation to justify it's use. What you're positing is way beyond anything that's happening in the current situation where it's being used.
Naming a variable? Definitely.
Writing a library? Very few people do it, even less do it for global market.
Shitposting on reddit? Maybe; you have fewer options with English, because anglosphere is very monopolized.
Speaking English in sound? Absolutely retarded.
It is not at all simple to "opt-out" (i.e. remove malicious software).

I checked the box "no telemetry" on install, yet I still had to disable dozes of spyware "options" manually later. One of them was a keylogger! Microsoft is in the black hat business.

> telemetry can benefit product teams

Pure marketing. If product teams what to know about issues, how about setting up decent bug-trackers like everyone else?

Reporting issues is a convoluted, humiliating and mostly futile process.
Good point, didn't that video lead to protests? Which gave an opportunity for looting. If the goal is peace at all costs, then the goal is ignorance.
I agree, and I feel like these guys might not realize the full consequences of what they're asking.

On the other hand, with no transparency, it's hard to know what kind of censorship and filtering already goes on. If Facebook removes content offensive to advertisers, why not remove content offensive to real people?
Defund the Police?
My SG API keys, for an account that we terminated still send out emails if I happen to use an old config for a service.

IP Rules are super helpful in this case, still need to rotate when exposed but can limit the exposure.
And yet your tactic was the same in effect - your wall of text utlimately tries to lead us to dismiss this post and any research at all. You want the reader to stop thought.
Unix pipes are great, but having to parse plain-text streams is inefficient and error-prone. Imagine how much more powerful it would be if commands returned data in structures that could be used by other applications without parsing an ad-hoc text format.

The filesystem can be used to approximate this, like it is in Plan 9, but I think that using text as the lowest common denominator leaves a lot of potential power on the table.
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less old but probably as fun to watch ride, Jay Leno steamers:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=jay+leno+steam+car&iax=vide...

Honestly, I'd love to own and drive one... something about how steam power rises softly and the effect of emitting water vapor.
We need strict liability for false DMCA notices plus automatic award of attorney fees in a successful 512(f) case. Would fix 95% of the abuse.
Good point you need to pass the correlation key, but the sidecar is the one talking to the tracing infra
>I think there are some things that are objectively censor worth (child pornography)

How about advocating violence or harm to others?
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We use "incluir" for something like #include <iostream.h> .
It seems to have been specifically designed for developers who enjoy a difficult UX because anything not up to that standard that is childish to them, which in my experience is the same thing Linux tools optimize for. I guess Windows has been very much trying to cater to that sector, so maybe now I can understand its appeal.
I start by creating a platform and just write about almost anything that crosses my path. I guess it is good to start with why you want to even start blogging. I started with the 3 reasons i want to post. Over time i found myself learning across different domains and thus type as a way to learn and share the knowledge (:

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-01-26-first-post-of-2...

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-30-6-things-michae...
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As someone who has inadvertently stolen from Walmart on more than one occasion, I cant attest that their anti-shoplifting AI does not work.
Extremely well said, and basically what I have tried to relay in my attempts to describe proper accountability and enforcement.
Could you stop the MSFT advertisements?

- All of these are possible without telemetry.

- There is a deceptive button on install that does not work.

- Make it opt-in for submissive persons who want to please MSFT.
Can she disable the touchbar?
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Agricola is also a good example of simplification, as the "family" game is built in (although it's still in the medium-high range even with those rules). Actually I've always thought the base rules are too much, the family game would have been an excellent shipping game and the occupations and minor improvements could have been relegated to an expansion.
If you use the AWS Encryption SDK, you can cache your data keys and reduce your calls to KMS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/encryption-sdk/latest/developer-...
> we absolutely do not want Mark Zuckerberg or his employees to make decisions on what is or isn’t newsworthy.

The problem is that they already ARE making decisions on what is newsworthy. It is not possible for them to be neutral.

Today the FB News Feed algorithm optimizes for user engagement. That is an editorial decision! It just so happens that it results in having the entire population get their news through a skinner box that reinforces and worsens their most harmful biases.

Like it or not, demagogues around the world (not just the US) are exploiting this mechanic to gain power in ways that are harmful to society. Should Facebook be the arbiter of truth? That's the wrong question. They already are. At this point all we can hope is that they choose to arbitrate the truth in a less damaging way.
"Having a preference is not the same as would never date/bone this race, regardless of any other facts about them."

It might be. I know many African Americans that will not date someone that is not African american.

It's a personal preference. Sure, you can just pick out the people you don't like, but I see this as the same as a dating company only have hetero couples.
For sure, I totally realize those are huge topics, and many people have full time jobs just focusing one one aspect of that. I guess what I'm really looking for is a good overview of standard operating procedures and rules of thumb for purchasing parts and inventory management.

I've seen a lot of really cool hobby projects turned small run commercial products in the music/synthesizer world and I guess I'm curious how you would go about sourcing parts for something like that in way that's close to how it's done professionally.

Also, more specifically what sort of tools do people typically use for managing inventory? How about comparing prices/vendors? I imagine something more sophisticated than a simple spreadsheet would be in order and I have to figure it's different from company to company, but are their any widely accepted industry standard tool?
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers
Their job is to make money. Censoring world leaders from your platform is a sure fire way to lose a lot of users and money
I was under the impression that google results are also used. I guess I was wrong about it. Does anyone know why google results are not aggregated as well? Technical or legal reason?
FB already is making newsworthiness decisions all the time with their recommendation engine.

Being scored low by the algorithm is effectively the same as being censored.
It's not a worthless measure, as the recommendation from the top comment, and a widespread belief is that a daily multivitamin is useful for everyone. The important takeaway from this study is not the potential harm - which very well may just be noise - but that there is no obvious benefit.
Yep: https://asecure.cloud/a/scp_kms_delete_keys/
The US is now worse than belarus or russia, you are going to need a lot more tools than radio scanners to regain freedom from your government! Not long until the army will shoot at you as they did at civilians in pretty every country they went to.

Press reporters abducted by the police live? Innocent people gassed? Police ramming protesters? Entire races oppressed? Not thats not the soviet union, it’s The United States of America folks.
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Admittedly it's been a couple of years since I've used Windows 10, but at that time there was no way to disable the automatic updates. Even the registry hacks didn't work for me.
I'm not convinced he is that detached from reality. I do believe that the status quo is to his liking and thus he plays his hand to ensure it stays that way, but still plays it safe by pulling the plausible deniability card.
I record via interface (Focusrite Scarlett 2nd gen) and also have pop issues with it; when I used it with my old laptop it worked much, much better (on the same settings).
Uhh. Bloomberg is falling apart in terms of reporting. Semi random person asks Zuckerberg to make changes and he politely dismisses them.. how is that even news? It is agitation for a desired outcome.

It is getting annoying and I am slowly starting to think that FB is on the right side of this issue.

Twitter can do what they want in terms of their platform. So can FB. Why do people find it so offensive?
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I've offered to help, but she doesn't want to mess with configuration. I've posted in other threads how she "fixed" it.

She actually bought one of those keyboard covers, cut off the touchbar part, and fixed it with tape.

She literally has a crappy piece of plastic on top of her keyboard that physically prevents here from accidentally touching the touchbar. A 10 dollar hack on a 2k$ machine.

I don't think she will buy an expensive Apple product, ever.
As I understand it is gravity's inverse square law that makes the effect strongest closet to the glacier and tapering off over a couple thousand kilometers.