skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which have nothing to do with the problem he posed.

The problem is that he touches the details while avoiding the big problem: capitalism.

Or, possibly more appropriately, capitalism that marches toward absolutely, positively maximum profit with no regard to any other concept.

This is the paperclip maximizer problem but on a smaller scale.

And this affects everything, not just food. It's why we had such a disaster about medical equipment--manufacture it where we can extract the last penny vs. manufacturing locally to increase resiliency.

The discussion needs to be "How do we inject some inefficiency into capitalism in order to get some other benefits?"--resiliency, local employment, consumer responsiveness, etc. are all things to consider.

Up until Covid-19, nobody cared even the slightest iota about anything other than pure, unadulterated profit.
Unaffiliated plug: The Great Suspender is really handy for automatically suspending unused tabs after X minutes for us taboholics.
Seriously, Lambda does not make sense for their use case.
That's quite clearly not what he said unless you believe protestors to be lawbreakers.

He took significant pains to separate out protestors from those who were rioting and looting and includes a defense of protesting as a right in the article.
If you truly believe this, buy Facebook stock
> Anyone know why we’re treating Julian Assange like the worst criminal that ever existed?

Because the CIA had an explicit goal of destroying his reputation in the media, and getting the most damaging headlines possible run about him in an effort to destroy any meaningful support he may have garnered by exposing war crimes.

For example: he was never once charged with any sexcrime in any country, but you'd never know that from the headlines which almost universally referred to "charges" when there were none.

It's a real shame what the US military intelligence community will do when threatened. Snowden himself explicitly specified, at least twice, that they would have summarily executed Barton Gellman if they thought that he was the single point of failure for the release of the Snowden documents, for example. They operate entirely beyond the reach of oversight or the law.

None of this is an accident. They couldn't lay hands on him for a while, so plan B was a character assassination in the media.
There was a lot of debate back in the Gentoo days about whether to compile with -O3, -O2, or -Os

-Os meant faster launch times, which for desktop Linux made sense, but in classic Gentoo fashion a big group used -O3 and then did a bunch of hacks to make sure binaries would be loaded at startup and never be evicted from memory (even if the application itself wasn't running).

Gentoo was delightfully silly about this stuff, and mostly self aware that it was excessive.
I think your confusion is warranted. Context is important. I wanted to cite more from Cottons op ed but was afraid it would be too much words. This is the beginning of his essay:

> This week, rioters have plunged many American cities into anarchy, recalling the widespread violence of the 1960s.

> New York City suffered the worst of the riots Monday night, as Mayor Bill de Blasio stood by while Midtown Manhattan descended into lawlessness. Bands of looters roved the streets, smashing and emptying hundreds of businesses. Some even drove exotic cars; the riots were carnivals for the thrill-seeking rich as well as other criminal elements.

It’s immediately clear that it’s not a nuanced argument he seeks to make, in his view protestors and rioters are one and the same. If his desire was to use the military on only the rioters he could have mentioned that distinction. However, that would reduce the thrust of the argument: why deploy overwhelming military forces when the rioters are a minority? If they’re a minority can they not be controlled with existing law enforcement ? Instead of weakening the case he chooses to ignore the distinction, which is deliberate and insincere.

Cottons op ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protes...
Really nice! Props for Svelte.

A one minute doodle: https://music-grid.surge.sh/#41-512-320-2597-840-64-512-1189...

Would be nice if it did `history.replace` instead of push, it currently nukes your back button. There is also something off, maybe a 4-note limit per row? I couldn't quite put my finger on it but some high notes seem to not come out.
I like the simplicity and note sounds, very cool!

Check out my happy song: https://music-grid.surge.sh/#521-80-0-2121-512-552-0-2114-0-...
This JS snippet brute forces everything to have a white background and black text. Should be able to paste it into your browser's dev console.

var el = document.querySelectorAll('*');
for(var i=0;i<el.length;i++){
el[i].style.backgroundColor = '#FFF';
el[i].style.color = '#000';
}

If you don't mind sharing, why does it make you physically ill? I've heard of people not liking it, but this is the first I've heard of an actual medical issue and I'd like to be aware of it when designing things.
Question to the author: is this only implementation of GPU rasterizer? What about anything like WARP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Advanced_Rasterization...) - fallback rendering when GPU is not available ?
Train an AI and then you have SRaaS (Steve Reich as a service)
Maybe the spell checker wanted you to capitalize it? Discord's spell check constantly tells me I've spelled "chicago", "wednesday", and "february" wrong. They're spelled right, but because they're proper nouns, they MUST be capitalized at any cost. It drives me mad.
What do their prices look like for 100 pb?
He did not take significant pains to separate them, that is the whole point. Please cite sections of his essay that support your hypothesis.
That's a legitimate way to install Linux, and allows you to do your stuff on the machine in the meantime. One caveat is that the proper hardware won't be seen by Linux, however the kernel itself is generic anyway—only the userland setup will need to be adjusted.

What I'm really not sure about is how to install a bootloader in this approach. Dunno if Virtualbox can access the entire drive and specifically the boot sector. (IIRC I'd fire up a USB stick anyway for this finishing touch, though not having to fiddle with the Grub install almost makes it worthwhile to just use the full live installer in the first place.)
> Note that the encoders are slower largely because it's not hardware-accelerated yet.

This is a very misleading statement.

AV1 encoders are slow because they're slow, not because they're not hardware accelerated.

x264 and x265 are not hardware accelerated, either.
I used to dual boot Windows 7 and some Linux disro, and while in Windows 7 I could also run the same Linux distro in VirtualBox using the raw disk VMDK.
He has been in limbo for so many years.... I wish that I knew what to do to get this resolved.
Ah yes, takes me back. Page zero is kind of like a large bank of registers with the fast access instructions.

The one that I remember puzzling with back in the day was 'SEI' - I mean, why have an interrupt disable bit? Wouldn't it be more sensible to set and clear interrupts, not set and clear disabling interrupts.
Say all three of those words out loud. Do you really think they "don't even remotely sound like" each other? That they can't possibly have come from a common ancestor word that's been morphed over thousands of years?

They sure sound similar and quite possibly related to me.
CoreGraphics is pure CPU rasterizer, similar to GDI+.

Sciter (https://sciter.com) on MacOS uses Skia/OpenGL by default with fallback to CoreGraphics.

It is possible to configure Sciter to use CoreGraphics on MacOS to compare these two on the same UI by using

SciterSetOption(NULL, SCITER_SET_GFX_LAYER, GFX_LAYER_CG);

I think it is safe to say that Skia/OpenGL is 5-10 times more performant than CG on typical UI tasks.
The right is calling the press “enemies of the people”, and threatening legal action against media companies for publishing poll results they don’t like, as well as physically attacking journalists doing their job. I don’t know how you read “defending freedom of speech” into any of that.
Just to be clear, the Dragonfly speech recognition command and control framework has multiple "backends" (speech recognition engines), including my Kaldi one. Probably the most used one currently is the Dragon Naturally Speaking backend.

The Kaldi engine, being developed primarily for research in speech recognition, can support a huge variety of "models". I think the consensus general best for most use cases (particularly for real time, low latency, streaming use) currently would be considered to be the "nnet3 chain" models, which are what my kaldi-active-grammar uses/supports.
Red Guards, MRB and "Defend our Hoodz" in my area alone.
I disagree with the easy dismissals of "they're doing a poor job of purging history".

I don't think they're tyring to purge history, I think they (or more specifically, staff) are making a plausibly deniable political statement that can be dismissed as a bug.
I thought this was one of the most engaging presentations I’ve seen in a while. I was in the edge of my seat and could feel my heart racing when they were about to reveal the PS5 console. I love the new industrial and futuristic design. It’ll blow the competition out of the water.
Useful Ableton thing: you can paint out a scale in notes, move those notes to -1 (left arrow key), then fold the scale on them. I like to lower the velocity on the top and bottom of each octave so I always know where they start and stop.
Not erase, just add it to the already long list of suppressed and filtered content. Have you tried what I suggested, have you googled the names of few PMs? The page with search results for Churchill lacks the code to display photo in the bio at the right side. The layout and code is different, it's not just failing to load, cache problem or whatever.

The most likely explanation is that a google employee added the photo on a block list in support of BLM.
Illustrated Notes for “Building a Second Brain”
> I live in New York City.

Vaguely related. I'm a truck driver. I recently drove a 53 foot trailer full of Campbell's tomato soup from Findlay OH to a grocery distributor in Brooklyn.

You're welcome. :)
Every single other unit comes after the quantity, including many other currencies, so I prefer seeing it after too.
Damn. I once spoke with a friend who helped a museum in Rio de Janeiro to migrate its backups using AWS Snowball, but thats a whole new level.

https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/
Thanks! If you're interested I wrote an article listing all 7 FOSS apps I created this year on LinkedIn [1], I also have a site for my main library [2].

I'll eventually convert part of one of these into a B2B app to keep what I do sustainable but I want to keep as much free and open source.

[1]
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/seven-water-modelling-apps-on...

[2] https://epanetjs.com
And meanwhile, the difference between "hmm" and "huh" is pretty much whether or not your mouth is open when you make the sound. Seems plausible that even these might be related.
Or the models and projections were wrong.
How can a Turing machine simulate concurrency?
I absolutely have data visualization in mind for this, as I think it can benefit greatly from the scale. But the pipeline I've built is very agile, it will easily handle a diverse mix of items. It's not like OpenGL etc where there's a certain amount of overhead for a draw call so there are significant gains to be had from instancing and batching.

It is likely that CPU-side encoding can be made more efficient, though, by just filling in quantities to a template, rather than encoding from scratch.
The Jewish deli shooting, the Dallas cop shooter... the list goes on.
I totally agree with you. I will say though, Tailwind with React hooks and Zustand is my go to lately. Feels quite trivial and flexible to build the functionality you mentioned. I've been quite happy with the output.

Chakra UI looks fantastic, however. I am just personally feeling Styled Component fatigue after a few years of using it. I like being able to create consistent presentation with just CSS classes and leveraging hooks for anything more complicated.
Outside of international law and ethics, technically it's not legal for the US to go to war without approval from Congress. So legally speaking, either the war was not a war, or an illegal one. You can look into all the undeclared wars (or police actions) by the US on Wikipedia.
If you need sharding and replication, just use a different database. SQLite is not intended to solve those problems.

As for high-availability, isn't a single file on your disk the most available thing there is? :)
As Patrick indicated, there's a lot of cross-fertilization of ideas, and one of the best outcomes of this work would be for high performance compute rendering to ship in Pathfinder.
>I wonder what caused them to turn.

He wanted Trump to win the 2016 election.
There can be non "political" motives, like self-defense from outside aggressors, but I can't think of much besides that (and even that doesn't really cover civilian deaths)
I was curious and read that linked wikipedia article on the monkey selfie, which actually makes it clear that US law pretty much does have an answer to the question whether an animal can be a copyright owner.

The actually interesting part is the fact that these photos/selfie situation were set up specifically by a photographer with their equipment.

That is actually the relevant (to AI) portion in all this. If someone sets up all the right pieces but then has a subject or generally "something" else cause the actually creation of the artwork the lines get really blurry. Hypothetically if you set up an elaborate set of machinery guiding an animal/machine/human to paint a picture it wouldn't otherwise be painting, e.g. think elephant with brushes/paint on trunk walks through a guided maze of a huge canvas, the coordinator would not have copyright (by the logic of the monkey case).

P.S. While I sympathize with the photographer, the level of butthurt and entitlement is just rich:

> Slater was unable to travel to the July 2017 court hearing in the United States for lack of funds and said he was considering alternative careers as a dog walker or tennis coach.[52] "This would be a new venture for me. It would pay peanuts, but at least it would be more than photography. I am just not motivated to go out and take photos any more. I've had outlays of several thousand pounds for lawyers, it is losing me income and getting me so depressed. When I think about the whole situation I really don't think it's worth it."[52] Slater added, "Everything I did to try and highlight the plight of the monkeys has backfired on my private life. I've had my life ruined."[52]

They made an initial investment, made good on it, then decided to sue Wikimedia without the necessary funds. This is a very special case and not at all related to the viability of the wildlife photographer profession. Nothing about this means the photographer has to abandon their career and start walking dogs instead.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway" - A. Tanenbaum of MINIX (amongst other things) fame
pretty fun https://music-grid.surge.sh/#2066-1032-516-258-640-1093-2080...

I wish the grid didn't clear when you changed the size, but I understand why that might have been the choice.
It's something I'd like to explore at some point, also Swiftshader, which might be easier to explore, as it's already Vulkan. I expect performance to be pretty good, but there are already really advanced CPU renderers such as Blend2D. Doing serious performance evaluation is hard work, so I actually hope it's something others take up, as I have pretty limited time for it myself.
He doesn’t even mention protests or protestors in those quotes, so why do you believe he’s equating rioters and protestors?

It seems like you’re reading the words “riots” and “rioters” and assuming that they must be Cotton’s terms for “protests” and “protestors”, but why make that assumption?
> Here's "the most trusted man in America" calling ror the U.S. to get out of Vietnam

That was an op-ed piece. It's fine for media to do op-ed if it's identified as not news; the most trusted papers have done it forever. Real journalists (tm) can absolutely do neutral, fact-checked, 5-W, reporting on one story and then express an opinion in a different column:

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
For slide 12 the correct answer[0] threw an error the first time but couldn't reproduce it.

[0] https://pastebin.com/raw/AivpKE3u
Techcrunch deleting comments on Tibet article-is it doing China govt's bidding?
Many had commented on this article in Techcrunch protesting the lack of fact about Tibet and TC's interest in publishing it. Now those very valid comments are gone in the name of policy violation. Article is clearly a China govt propaganda piece - no mention of China's invasion of Tibet, Tibetan refugees all over Asia and the west, harsh treatment of Tibetan locals at the hand of China govt and running concentration camps. Are Techcrunch & its owner also falling for China govt's ploy to split capitalism from democracy?
https://music-grid.surge.sh/#64-544-264-16-1152-4-64-528-66-...
Look man, it’s easy to take risks when you got nothing to lose.

If the bet on himself fails do you think he’s finished? Lol no, he’s got savings and will just go crawling back to a FAANG.

The guy who is taking real risk is the poor entrepreneur from south side Chicago betting his entire life savings and going into some debt for one last startup idea. If he fails he has no future.
A (cache or whatever) problem that leads to the property not being set would produce exactly that result.

It also seems clear that there isn't one global list of these people and their portraits Google uses to feed these boxes: When I compare the screenshot someone posted below with what I see, many of the leaders have different portraits.
New to React. What are other similar libraries are worth looking at?
I used to be a specialized keyboard fanatic. Ultimately, what cured me of this "need" was learning how to type in braille code, which uses 8 keys plus a spacebar. Thanks to accessibility advancements, and especially on mobile devices, I can carry around a mini braille display and efficiently control everything I could ever imagine to need, without specialized keys. But, it requires learning a certain combination of keys (as in commands) to do what you want. I can also efficiently take notes in very advanced math using a braille display plus a Raspberry Pi (see: http://liblouis.org/), that none of my friends can do efficiently, digitally. There is a really cool braille notetaker that is integrated with Android, that allows for taking notes in various braille codes (such as for math), but it is obscenely expensive, and is not as well supported as the liblouis package. See: https://store.humanware.com/hus/blindness-braillenote-touch-...

For the sighted (I am sighted, although I have a functional visual impairment which affects my ability to read standard text), probably the way to go is to use a BraillePen: http://braillepen.com/braillepens/

You do need an actual refreshable braille display to do this without audio feedback (via headphones in public).

Usually you have to make a compromise between the amount of braille cells and portability. My usual go to device is the HIMS Braille Edge 40. On the go, I use a Handy Tech Actilino, which has 16 cells and is ergonomic and has an auto-scroll reading feature.
> i think browsers could be doing much more than just tabs and bookmarks to help people organize, because right now it seems like the equivalent of a desk with lots of papers strewn around where someone grabs yet another blank peice to start writing on...

Absolutely. Zettelkasten is the hotness right now. I'd love to see something like a cross between Zettelkasten and Zotero.

Personally I want something in between bookmarks (which I actually infrequently revisit) and history, which is everything and too much noise, and also not permanent in case of history wipe. Strangely I bookmark a lot but don't revisit often, but when I _don't_ bookmark something and need to find some memory thread, it's awful.

I've been scheming about something which I could hit a hotkey, grab the text and metadata, index it, and save the index, set of words/ngrams, or maybe just zipped html content, it's light enough. Then some personal search interface.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22160572
> An artist can make an image with a collage of bits of other artists' works, in much the same way that a generative network can make an image out of image elements derived from other artists' works.

That's not a good analogy because a human is involved. The entire point here is whether living entities other than persons can have copyright, and the answer (in the US) is no.
I always wondered who would actually use this. Apparently a company called DigitalGlobe[0], which has a large collection of satellite images.

[0]: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3154898/this-company-is...
> If discussing the gender of the crab is politics, then surely assuming the crab is one gender or another is also politics.

A) sane and professional communities just don’t talk about irrelevances like this at all, which is my point

B) if some fringe political belief rejects some standard bread-and-butter assumption, it’s not really useful to describe running with the default assumption as “political”

“If abolishing private property is politics, then surely locking your door is politics.”
I think this is partly a byproduct of the non-chronological feed: the algo rewards quality (via visibility/engagement boosts), but it doesn't punish quantity, which incentivizes high-volume posting with no regard for your average signal:noise ratio.

The resulting noise keeps users reliant on the algo for a coherent experience.

When everyone sees a chrono feed by default, their own conduct is informed by the behavior they like/dislike in others. For example, I remember ~10 years ago when posting a picture of your lunch every day was widely understood to be poor form, precisely because it diluted everyone else's experience. It's a bit ironic that it's become a legitimate use case for instagram.
https://music-grid.surge.sh/#8-16-32-168-4-16-64-340-32-64-3...
How can we make serious news less expensive (to produce)?

Reducing the cost could be one way to compete with "non-serious news".
Julian took an action that has consequences. The US is (in)famous for its 'soft power'. While the US wont outright kill him they will leverage their soft power to neutralize his ability to harm future operations.

He played the espionage game without an explicit state sponsor, jail time was the best outcome he could hope for. Sadly because he doesn't have a state sponsor the likelihood of an exchange is.... low.
It's not so much that CLI needs relearning as that it simply doesn't map. "cp", "ls", "rm", and worse, movement keys such as hjkl or WASD are highly or entirely layout dependent. There are some possible exceptions -- "cd" isn't great on QWERTY, though I forget its Dvorak equivalent.

As I live in shell and vi, this was a complete deal-breaker.