skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only person who actually doesn't really mind that flatpaks and snaps have less user-control over behavior and/or security implications?

I really enjoy them. Install it, forget about it, let it update automatically.

Theoretically could something unwanted happen, yeah probably, but I enjoy the convenience they provide and typically you're installing fairly well-known software (Microk8s, VS Code, and Chromium come to mind).

My one gripe with snaps is that AppArmor can occasionally cause headaches with Microk8s permissions.
I've wondered about this because I'm the typical college educated American who has taken a language in school but has lost most of it and never got any fluency.

The intro says no to Chinese(for reason related to writing it and the difficulty of getting basic verbal fluency, but one interesting one is people are losing their ability to write Chinese without computers helping), but French, or maybe Spanish. I'm quite surprised at French (which I took in HS and college). Spanish is what makes sense for western hemisphere people.

It doesn't come to a useful conclusion. I wanted it to be spanish.
Except that they don't follow the rules necessary for private pensions - they expect that there is always tax money to top it off when it can't get paid. We'll see if that happens.
> When they did the hardware transitions, they had a compatibility layer (Rosetta) that was supported for 5 years after the transition. But with the 32 bit change, the announced that it would no longer be supported in 2017, and dropped support in 2019, just 2 years later.

You are comparing the time a technology was supported with the time it was announced a technology would no longer be supported. 32-bit apps were supported in 64-bit Mac OS systems for at least 7 years.
Yes. Install uBlock Origin. Right click on ad / pop up -> Block Element ( a rule is automatically generated ) -> Create. Voila ! You might have to do it 2-3 times for the same element as it might have several layers. But then you're done and you haven't been forced into clicking. "ok"
Shortly after getting diagnosed ADHD at age 34 (same as you, no hyperactivity just motivation dysfunction) I tried out some ADHD coaches and found that it was a total waste of time and money because they weren’t physically present, telling me to my face the what/when/where of my day. What you’re describing sounds like exactly what I really needed, but I don’t currently have the income to support an expense like that unfortunately. Maybe in 5-10 years...
The texts Philosophical and Mathematical Logic and Mathematical Logic should probably fall under Mathematics and Statistics rather than Religion and Philosophy, but seems a nice resource otherwise!
Or it’d be a hit. Could probably frame it as a remake of As Good As It Gets: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Good_as_It_Gets
> How about decreasing the emotional trauma by actually helping people heal, so they can be calm and not have to fear police brutality or a police state etc, to implement accountability and integrity in our systems?

Sounds great, even better for sure! Let's do both! At your day job (if you're in the tech world), which do you have more control over?

> A subconscious association, if using reason, critical thinking,

This is now how subconscious/unconscious biases work, you're again skipping right into "but just logic out of it". People don't react to it with some emotional or anger emotion in the moment, they engrain the association subconsciously in their head, and you have to take massive effort to catch yourself with this. An effort that would be far more than changing the word, and one that tech companies are also trying to work on generally with implicit bias trainings recently.

This is focused on sexism but discusses implicit bias, the training, and its flaws in depth: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-...

Most implicit bias trainings at tech companies today are targeting the same things. While the effects of said trainings are muddy to say the least, the theory behind them is well agreed upon and studied.

I'll leave the generalized psych research to you, but here's an example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/
When I was in my later teens and early 20's (my poor student days), I mainly slept on the floor in much the same way. My first proper bed post-school and gainfully employed gave me incredible back pains until I eventually got used to it.

Maybe it's why I sleep so well when camping. I still don't really see myself returning to those days, even though I'm sure it wouldn't be all that much of an issue.
> it feels like that you are re-defining the meaning of the word
> [...]
> rape seems to imply violence or coercement

I think you're redefining the term, whether you intend to or not. Rape is sex without consent. Sex without consent is inherently coercive, but it doesn't have to imply a struggle or resistance, quite a lot of rape isn't physically forced sex. Consent obtained by fraud is not consent, and sex under those conditions is inherently nonconsensual.

> with one that is undermining what victims of rape went through by mixing it with less serious accusations

You may have missed this in another subthread, but I'm a victim of sexual assault. The majority of women in my personal life who I've spoken with about the subject are as well, and several of the men and nonbinary folks as well. Again, whether you intend to or not, I think it's you who is undermining what victims have gone through. Finding out that you've had sex in violation of the terms you agreed to can be extremely traumatizing.

> Are you saying that it is fine as long as you are not put in risk? Because the previous example that I posted ("you can have sex with me but only if you are single") does not have any safety implications (someone can be single yet they could also had sex with someone else the previous day).

No, that is not what I was saying. My edit was to clarify that the answer I gave to your hypothetical wasn't just "is it rape or is it not" in some abstract sense, and to provide an explanation of the kind of harm that can be done by your hypothetical, to hopefully help you understand the severity of violating that consent. The example you posted does have those safety implications, which was what I was trying to explain. I encourage you to go back and re-read it with that in mind.
This will be a success if they can maintain their business model and stay true to it of being impartial. All most all the other “reviews” sites have paid biases and skewed incentive schemes making the results flawed.
The author has a conference talk talking about CRDT and the timestamp technique he uses. Really useful if anyone else wonders what's the problem with wall clock timestamps.

dotJS 2019 - James Long - CRDTs for Mortals (20:44):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEcwa68f-jY

EDIT: btw, out of all the comments on the timestamp here, seems like only yours is not complaining about the format, and even points out that the article did not go in depth yet to specify the actual timestamp that he uses.
I suspect a large portion of this latency will arise from the use of error correcting codes, time division multiplexing, and utilization tricks (i.e. compression) employed on the RF uplink and downlink.

And that’s ignoring the queuing delay that anyone who is within three hours/150 miles of a major city will experience. Users from the cities will choke the satellites.
Even with uBO, Twitter's ads still show up for me.
The fundamental problem is that no matter how much more efficient a component-driven model is for developers, users don’t want it. To a first approximation, nobody wants to assemble their own software, or even choose amongst assemblies made by a zoo of “integrators” who turn components into applications.

Developers want this, and indeed they benefit from a developer-focused OS like Unix that builds on the component model. But that’s the outer limit of the market for components.
The purple lines show the location of all the photos - maybe should be a layer of their own and an option to vary opacity? It looks purple because the HSL color selected for that mission is purple and they took an awful lot of photos.

Someone was kind enough to submit a patch that fixes the back button should be okay now.
And one was written by a mentor of mine who passed away shortly after completing the book. :(
> I don't think it makes sense to the same degree. Simple compositions of elementary functions, e.g. exp(x^2), do not have indefinite integrals.

While it's clear what you meant, it's mathematically important to note that functions like yours, and, indeed, all continuous functions, definitely do have indefinite integrals—that of `exp(x^2)` even has a name (https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Erfi.html); those integrals just aren't elementary, in the same technical sense in which you are using the word (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_function).
It really is isn't it.. I hope to see it one day in person but I think that option is rapidly diminishing for me at least - perhaps my daughter.
In my experience, it's pretty common for people to bring up the fact that something is legal to avoid the question of whether it's right.
I live in the US. I've used iPads in The doctor's office. I know how to input text on them and tap onscreen buttons; I haven't any idea how to get to the home screen to launch another app, much less do anything else. The most technical thing I've I've ever done with an iPad or iPhone is entering a URL in the address bar.
The raised-bed-but-not-mattress, which I think you're picturing, definitely exists in the form of bamboo beds/'mattresses', which are just raised platforms of woven bamboo with a little give. They work well in places where a mattress would be quickly destroyed by humidity, but where air conditioning is uncommon (I've seen them in southern China).
I would posit a theory that the source of the FCC's skepticism is a verizon board meeting.
Satellite will never beat local radio (ex: 5G, WiFi) and local radio will never beat fiber, for physical reasons.

The reason comes from the Shannon theorem: C=B*log2(1+S/N). C is capacity (what we want), B is bandwidth, S/N is the signal/noise ratio.

With modern technologies, we are very close to that limit. Both 5G and satellites are using among the highest radio frequencies the atmosphere can carry, the signal power is limited by electrical power requirements and emission power regulations and there is not much we can do about ambient noise. Fiber uses light which, in theory, can carry many orders of magnitude more information but the problematic is different.

But the thing is that this capacity is per channel, and the narrower the channel, the more we can pack in a given area, and that's where satellites are at a huge disadvantage. Satellites, even Starlink satellites, are really expensive, and they are 100s of km away at best. It means they can only project wide beams, even with they fancy beam forming antennas. Ground based antennas can cover a much smaller area and are much cheaper, as a result they have more channels and therefore more bandwidth. Satellites may prove effective in sparsely populated areas, but not in dense cities.

Fiber, and even copper wires are the extreme case. The channel is a single wire, you can pack hundreds in a cable you can hold in your hand. Compared to wireless transmission, bandwidth is essentially unlimited.
> After all, the law is but a contract between us and ourselves throught a governing body, nothing is fixed, and nothing is entirely objective.

Right, and no party has the ability to change that contract unilaterally, crisis or otherwise. You can renegotiate the contract, but the contract as it exists does exist.

Yes, there's an argument that people are in particular need of books now that physical libraries are closed. It's a reasonable argument and well worth suspending the normal rules for, somehow.

But there's also an argument that people are in particular need of being paid for their work now that everything is closed. Any modification by a reasonably-representative governing body would take this into account too and try to avoid actions that put authors in an even more financially precarious position than usual.

Neither side has the moral (or legal) right to make things go entirely the way they want them go to. Publishers don't get the right to say that the doctrine of first sale doesn't apply during a crisis because they need to make money, either.

(One thing we could have done is passed an emergency compulsory/statutory licensing regime for e-books, analogous to the statutory licenses for music, saying that the Archive can give people e-books if they arrange for the rightsholder to be paid a certain small but non-zero royalty for each copy. They could sell the books, they could run a fundraiser, they could work with local libraries who are presumably no longer buying new books quite as much, etc. There's no real mechanical reason that couldn't have been implemented quickly, but it does require some competence from the government. If the underlying problem here is that we don't expect the government to be competent, well... that is a problem, but I'm not sure that saying people can disregard the law at their discretion is the answer.)
The GP's point was that in the US, you have up to a year of publishing before patenting it, even in 2020.

In the EU, you have to file the patent first before publishing.

I have to admit it sure sounds like it's the opposite of first-to-file in the US, at least for the first year, but those are the rules.
Please do post the great ones - I'm making a collection.
Every job in the US saves 15% of your income for retirement. It is called social security. The problem is the politicians control it instead of the individual so the money is not invested but spent. If people were allowed to have private retirement accounts with that Social Security money, everyone would be able to retire comfortably.
I use "I don't care about cookies" extension for Firefix, seems to work well.
Computationally, it's difficult, but I don't think it's intractable. Bear in mind this this is not an animation, but a real-time simulation:

https://youtu.be/m05abdGSOxY?t=428

I'm running Dijkstra across this mesh at 30fps in real-time on my laptop while also doing the 3d animation. My laptop fan does spin a bit, but it's not crazily optimized code, and for the video I was also recording to H.264 simultaneously. Doing routing for all customers simultaneously is certainly feasible if their groundstations do the computation, based on routing state supplied in real-time by the constellation. Other solutions are probably possible too, but this seems simplest to me, and scales linearly with customers.
Part of the reason SQLite is so prolific is because of the language used, not in spite of it. It’s enabled people to run SQLite on a broad range of hardware, device types and called from any language that supports native C calls (which is a massive array of languages). And let’s not forget the truly amazing performance you get from SQLite too.

Had SQLite been written in a language that would have made it easier to perform a proof of correctness then it wouldn’t be nearly as widely used and because of that language choice and then it likely wouldn’t have had the resources (financial nor community input) to complete a proof anyway. So would it have actually been any less buggy if it weren’t a C project?

Sometimes worse is better and moaning about “what if” is neither constructive nor even warranted when you consider just how well written SQLite already is and how abundant the tests are.
I agree with you. When you look at postcolonial arguments, they make it sound as if whatever sins we see in India is due to British colonialism. However, the same postcolonial scholars are silent on the Islamic colonialism.
OP here. Thank you for pointing this out.

I didn’t manually categorise it, just extracted the Springer categories. Will manually review this tomorrow.
People are going to complain that AI is lame right up until the point that it gets general enough to make them all irrelevant in terms of work productivity. Then rather than modifying society to distribute the gains, they will leave the outdated structures in place and try (too late) to suppress it.

At no point (until it's too late) will there be be effective legislation discouraging the creation of fully general and autonomous digital persons that compete with humans.
I was doing it manually every time like this ;

Right click on ad / pop up -> Block Element ( a rule is automatically generated ) -> Create. Voila ! You might have to do it 2-3 times for the same element as it might have several layers. But then you're done and you haven't been forced into clicking "ok"

( With uBlock Origin )
> What's a good way to ensure that authors continue to author books while not dying

Authors should be paid for the act of writing, not the sale of the resulting work.

> How do we implement that system?

Crowdfunding and patronage seem to be gaining traction these days.
From what I could find, the first announcement of dropping support for 32 bit apps was in 2017, and the support dropped in 2019. Why would an app maker update their old apps before an announcement was made that they would be deprecated?
Every worker in The US is already saving 15% year for retirement. It is called social security. If that system was managed correctly it would be all we need. But instead the money is lumped in with general funds and spent.
Huh interesting, I'd guess they're basing that on the series the book is published in, which can often be misleading.
I am the same. During the quarantine I’ve moved back to going to sleep at 3-4am. However, I have a kids and when the school year is in session I have to get up at 5am to start getting them ready. So that gets me up and going so that I can make it into work at a decent time. So, I guess my misc advice is to find some sort of responsibility that forces you to get up early.
Serious (and likely ignorant) question - what does linearity have to do with anything here? linear over what and why does non-linearity make something 'unpredictable'?
Let’s pretend for a moment that we renamed aaaaall the code in the world to be main and replica or whatever combinations you can think of.

What have we gained?

Is this not just the same as, or worse than saying ‘f-word’ .oO( oh he mean f* )

Now every time you read the word replica, then you are reminded... ohhh SLAVE.

This idea that policing words is supposed to solve anything is myopic.
ADHD is terribly misnamed, and doesn't usually manifest as physical hyperactivity in adults. It's an executive function disorder. This means things like time blindness – difficulty conceptualizing and persisting tasks into the future, and difficulty keeping short term goals in mind.

I think about it like packet loss, but for intent. With healthy executive function, one's goals and intents are persistent streams that can be held on to like a train track. (This is based on other people's description of how their mind works – I would consider that ability a superpower). With ADHD, the tracks will just fall out like a trapdoor every so often – sometimes every few seconds. You have to reinitiate the connection, but because the thing that failed is the same thing that remembers what to connect to, I have to reestablish what I want to do in the first place, and it's usually not the thing I was doing before. So I end up shooting around in semi-productive bursts, unable to see things to completion.

The other counterintuitive thing is hyperfocus – people with ADHD periodically experience the inverse. I spent nearly every waking moment in the last 3 days working intently on a software project I'm interested in. Short bouts of intense concentration (especially if you don't feel in control of their application) do not mean you don't have ADHD. They could mean the opposite.

Here's the best explanation I've ever seen of the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCAGc-rkIfo
It's way easier to give someone a fake DNS reply than to get a valid SSL certificate, so maybe it's just a matter of risk. Bad DNS exposes where you're going. Bad SSL exposes everything you're doing there.

It really doesn't matter though. You can just use DoH and trust Google / Cloudflare for everything. /s
Nice! I've been meaning to check out "Linear algebra done right" for a while
Of course FB doesn't pick stuff at random; that's the problem! At complete random would be almost as good as chronological. I certainly wouldn't complain.

Saying if everyone posted only agreeable stuff it would be fine is an impossible scenario. Nobody has friends that all post exactly the same thing all the time, and nobody is going to eliminate all their friends that aren't exactly identical. And you know, if you got nothing but saccharine positive thoughts and "law of attraction" style BS, that would be unbearable too.

The well known saying is that "the poison is in the dose". Facebook can concentrate virtually anything into a toxic dose.
I dunno, I think that json is likely one of the best things that could have happened to data formats in general.

A machine readable and writeable format, without embedded type info or external schemas, and supported by all major programming languages? That’s exactly what is needed to allow third-party apps to access that data.
25 billion is still only 10% of their revenue. And they won't lose it all by making it a shitty transition. Heck, they won't lose most of it. But if they lose 20% of their revenue because of a bad transition, that's still only 2% of the total company revenue. Why would the spend money on protecting that 2%?
Before I discovered this ( through an HN comment as it happens ) I was just ignoring them and scrolling with the screen half-covered. Does anyone know if by just refusing to click anything you're basically ~ not opting in ? Some sites won't let you do that at all though. ( See my other comment for manual uBlock Origin method )
It’s doing exactly as it’s trained. Nudge the useds to buy more trinkets.

Now just imagine how good it could be if it was being trained to actually give good search results instead of selling.
That's not really true, since there appears to be a threshold that must be passed to reach [flagged] on a post. In the meantime, the submission is pushed down the rankings anyway. The result is a post that never is [flagged] but was flagged enough to keep it from being discussed.

Furthermore, posters (like me) who do make China submissions are demoted over time such that we can only make one comment or post every hour or more. The effect is you might post one article, but you won't be allowed to discuss your submission. Dang will say you are conducting nationalistic flame wars simply for submitting the articles.

Eventually, you're shadowbanned, where you can post, but all of your comments are immediately [dead]. Only people who show dead can read them and no one can discuss it. At some point, you become banned such that all your submissions are treated this way too.

Basically, if you're here, you're being indoctrinated. If you won't accept the indoctrination, you are silenced.