skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like this elitist view inside tech that people are just dumb and unaware. No matter how hard I try to explain the implications to people they easily brush it off. People just don't care.
I certainly agree that "When will this madness end" is an opinion. I did not judge that it was not. I said that it "was not an opinion that can in any way be resolved constructively."

(I'm a little confused now in that this is the second comment of mine you've replied to where you've misinterpreted the words I used. Are you not a fluent English speaker? I'm certainly happy to phrase things in less complex ways if so.)
And Dinky is of course one of the islands in Monkey Island 2.
It wasn’t his to give.
I was referring to this question by the grandparent which I read as being about a suspect's (not a witness's) rights:

> Germany doesn't have protections against self-incrimination?
> Images of the devil have been a mainstay of Christian art for centuries

You're correct, but you don't see those arts in common churches and houses here. In the place that I live, demons are usually represented by a goat because they don't like the two horned guy at all.

> devil is also the mascot of two Brazilian football teams

That's interesting, maybe it's a newer team. The Brazilian classic mascots are usually either animals or humans.
"I can't figure out why your brain would "rewrite past memory" instead of simply persisting the old image either."

There isn't an image to persist. The "image" you see is an active construction of your brain working on incomplete and inaccurate sensory data. As a hypothesis, your visual system doesn't have the memory to "persist" the sensory data, the data during the saccade is not meaningful, and your brain, while constructing your own personal chronological sequence after the fact simply uses what it has on hand.
The Educational Standardization Trap
can someone ELI5 to me? i dont even know what opnBSD is but i know wireguard is a vpn protocol.
https://www.nohello.com/ is a good reply for those "Hi" messages.
Boot Camp does not work with Linux on Intel Macs, so the question in this case would be whether the low-level bootloader would allow unsigned/third-party code or whether it would be locked-down like on iOS devices.
They may have done well to source from "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" which provides more factual evidence to support the hypothesis.
Very good call from the OpenBSD project to include this in their kernel.
The head-scratcher for me is that people would rather battle this out with Apple so they can release compiled binary apps for projects that simply display text and images and buttons instead of just using the web for free.

It's only the extreme minority of apps in the app store that couldn't be perfectly usable experiences on the web. Even moreso if developer momentum moved there on mobile.
I've used both vtun and WireGuard for remote NFS. On a good day, I get 100MB/s to the NFS filesystem on my San Jose AWS instance (from Vegas) via WireGuard. Note: That was before CoVid-19. CenturyLink/Quest has since (stealthily) throttled my bandwidth down from 1Gbps to ~750Mbps.
I wonder what docker looks like on iARM. I assume some level of x86 emulation provided by OSX that VirtualBox will run on top
> If you're not seeing 4k and 5k monitors, you're not looking hard enough.

I didn't say I wasn't seeing them, though did I?

I'm saying I still see monitors with this ancient low FHD resolution. When you search for hard drives you don't see 2005-era capacities as your first result. Why do we still see 2005-era resolutions as our first result for LCDs? And some of them cost hundreds of dollars - the same price as in 2005.
Is that strictly a bad thing? Ok, we've got industry that makes non-educational games (I'm thinking the headshooting type, truly non-boring stuff). But there is small-ish money in that market, it's just retail after all! The same industry will happily jump onto a wagon containing some REAL part of the education budget.

Create some captivating productions, spend real money, because I don't get that assumption that education deserves only cheap boring educational "games" of today.

That's a political program - deep cut of the less effective part of 19-century structures. Kids generally like learning, parents know that, and they see how bad schools are now, so political gains are waiting right there.
I’d love to read a write-up of this.
Only a minority of colds are caused by Cornaviruses though. Something like 20%
I’m not sure I agree about it being bloated, but I guess that they want to avoid a go dependency for main. And it’s also not possible to write a kernel module in Go for the OpenBSD kernel :)
Trump’s data-hungry, invasive app
It'd be open source so you'd get plushies, figurines, videos etc after someone else made them because permissive licensing let them use the art and ideas to do whatever they want. There would be nothing preventing a plushie company or a person or a DIY project making them affordable.
People would just say "I don't think that would happen" to all of those things. They are not tangible enough. If anything, they would laugh at 3 like they would to any "funny" story.
Yes, but separating the software and hardware is not the answer. Instead the app store should be regulated or there should be alternative app stores.
AFAIK, MI5 is the domestic spy agency, and MI6 is the foreign spy agency.
You have to grow up a bit I guess.

Nothing is stopping you from doing what you need to do outside of work. I’m super interested in doing some 3D compositing stuff, so much so I day dream about it.

Part of life is figuring this out, that particular internal monologue you have has to be shut up mostly because it’s an articulation of an immature emotion (mostly teenage and post teenage 20s, all the way to the end of your 20s often).

Your pre teens and 30s is full of I do whatever the fuck I want. If you are beyond the melancholy years, fill us in, there might a be second cycle of coming down the line for all of us (40s, 50s). I pray not, I can’t handle the neuroticism of those years.
When was the last time you hired to grow a team in SV?
I agree, wireless Internet is pretty terrible.

However, I find that I prefer everything else wireless.

I wish there were more solutions for mechanical wireless keyboards, in fact.
For people running Blue Iris you can do something similar to this with blue iris, deepstack[0], and an exe[1] someone wrote that sends the images to deepstack.

Video guide: https://youtu.be/fwoonl5JKgo
(Links in the comments of video as well)

[0] https://deepstack.cc/

[1] https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/tool-tutorial-free-ai-person-d... https://github.com/gentlepumpkin/bi-aidetection
Central Pattern Generator
By the end of the cold war British intelligence were pretty good (PIMLICO was an absolute mockery of the KGB) but in the 60s and early they were so paralyzed by the Cambridge five that they didn't investigate a few people because it would be too embarrassing.

Then add in the allegations that Roger Hollis was a GRU asset and you've got a pretty grim picture.
Found John Searle!
Thank you for sharing that link. Extremely powerful and insightful debate. It’s a rare occasion to see two arguments of the race debate next to each other in such a concentrated form.
Apple effectively has its own proprietary ARM designs, best in the world, and production relationships with chip manufacturers to make them in huge volume. Dumping that for some clean sheet of paper design without real world customers, tool chains, and manufacturing to try to gain a tiny percent in performance and/or cost would be immensely foolish.

It’s been speculated Apple could even license the x86 instruction set to include a x86 coprocessor in every one of their designs.
Wires can also be neatly snipped by cats that take a fancy to doing so. Ironically the first thing he did this to was a wifi antenna!
Every developer, regardless of skill level, makes mistakes and typos. The beauty of type-safety in TypeScript is that the compiler catches it instantly, in a way that is simply humanly impossible.

If I misspell something, or provide the wrong argument type to a method, or have args in wrong order, etc, it's caught instantly.

With JS you can have a typo that causes user malfunctions for YEARS before being found by a developer and fixed. Any developer who's done many years of both TS and JS would never in a million years consider going back to JS. Absolutely out of the question.
I got into programming with LabView.
TIG is fun. I've been learning to weld aluminum recently, with no prior welding experience. Mostly from watching YouTube, but I've gotten a bit of advice from random people I know who know how to weld.
Well, the ones in West Virginia at least.
We'll fight you in the harbor

We'll battle you on land

When you meet singing pirates

They'll be more than you can stand.
The larger looming issue is we're seeing big tech selectively enforce their rules and guidelines. They've become arbiters of truth and virtue.
Much faster compiles times sounds like a good reason to me ;)
I think (invisible) watermarking media is fair, although I'm not sure how strong it is from a legal standpoint (blocking an account seems fair though). However flooding P2P networks with corrupted copies seems a bit iffy, not just because it is a heavy handed unilateral move, but also because it seems really close to a DDoS and 'they started it' is not much of a legal defence.
They would get the same audience if they were an average-looking woman and decided to do porn for free.

Nassim Haramein - British leftist newager who claims to have invented a new theory of physics implying all particles are actually black holes and who’s quite popular in North London hippie circles has 350K followers on Facebook.

I think these are good baselines of what it takes to get 62k followers.
With all the effort invested by politicians, i would say it will be a very long time before normality returns.

It feels like a Sunk Cost at this point, e.g. we have invested so much in making people safe that we cannot possibly return to normality just yet.

So yeah at least another year until we're back to the norm is my best guess. And science won't change anything, as there are so many variables plus politicians want to assert control above all.
I think you need a teacher to put the game in context.

Let's put aside for a moment the optics of a school teacher having their class play Poker (even though obviously they wouldn't be using money). I can imagine a lesson plan going something like:

1. Have kids play some individual games with each other.

2. Stop the games, and go over some of the actual math concepts behind Poker. At this point, the kids are engaged and will want to learn better strategies.

3. Run through a game as a group, with the teacher asking the class what they should do each turn. Ask students to explain why they think one move is better than another, get brief discussions going where applicable, and write probabilities on the board.

4. Let the students play another round of individual games to apply what they've learned.
Exactly. First of all, if you look at the history of those statues, you'll find that virtually all of them were put up not to remember history, but they were put up during the height of Jim Crow to glorify a history that never was, and as a reminder to "who was back in charge" after Reconstruction.

Also, as has been repeated many times, "There are no statues of Hitler or Nazi generals in Germany. There are memorials to the victims of their ideology of racial supremacy."
Years ago I came across a video of Glassman helping a young woman with her deadlift[0], where he touches her legs in what I would consider to be an unnecessary way. It left enough of an impression on me that I still remember it, many years later. It's actually the only reason I even know the guy's name at all.

The reason I think it stuck with me is because I'd also read an article about politeness[1] around the same time, maybe even on the same day, which stood in direct contrast. From the article:

> One way to be polite is by not touching people unless they specifically invite it. You’d be amazed at how often people screw this up; just search the Internet for “touch black woman hair” and marvel at the number of articles, posts, and guides. Here’s the New York Times journalist Jenna Wortham, in an interview at The Awl, on hair-touching:
"I realize that it might sound like an overstatement to some people, but having someone touch me without my permission just fucks with my day and sense of privacy and personal space and sends me into a k-hole spiral of wondering what unconscious signal I may have given to indicate that it would be OK, even though I know there isn’t one."

[0]: https://youtu.be/RvlZrkssHxA?t=47

[1]: https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-be-polite-9bf1e69e888c
The key enabling technology is to tie all the separate grids together with High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) power lines. This technology is flying under the radar but it's getting cheaper very quickly and it allows for continent size electric grids.

To give a sense of how cheap it's getting consider that there's a proposal to send solar energy from North Australia to Singapore using this tech. That's about 4000km distance total with about 3000km of that under the ocean. 4000km is very close to the distance from Seattle to Miami. If Singapore can afford this then for sure the US can dig around in the couch and come up with enough spare change to build this out.
I'm not sure how educational it is. They clearly are selling to the schools first as we wouldn't have found it without our teacher assigning some activities for home schooling. I thought about paying for it, but I want my kids to spend more time outside instead of in the house... They act better for more time outside.
I suppose now that Edge is cross platform there's less need to spin up a windows VM to test in IE/Old Edge.

I do worry about software that is highly tuned with hand-rolled assembly (looking at you various video/photo/audio processing apps) and if this is going to be another transition that is mostly seamless, but with enough edge cases to leave people slightly bloodied.
Yup. MI6 is officially known as SIS these days.

You can see the difference in attitude in their careers websites - MI5 could just be another government agency almost whereas the SIS website (note the conspicuous gap in their history section!) are clearly recruiting spies and "experienced business(etc) leaders" (to manage high level assets presumably)
Well some people think Robert E. Lee handled the defeat of the war in a noble way. While I’ve heard many perspectives, I’m not sure of the origins of the war or the implications. President Lincoln was a legitimate racist, so his opinion compared to a slave owner’s mind are both horrific representations of humanity. If it was solely for slavery, and there was no other way to end it, then it was worth 600,000 Americans lives.

I am, however, for keeping all statues. They aren’t the reason for wealth inequality or racism. It’s a diversion than only helps the powerful.
> not worth the small benefits which static typing brings.

pshh
"Turned into" implies there was a time when software interviews weren't a series of sideshow feats. I realize it's a tough sword to swallow, but have no evidence that's the case.
Gas Station in Germany (1958)
Ugh that sure were early times! Nevertheless Wikipedia says: "By 1995, The Oregon Trail comprised about one-third of MECC's $30 million in annual revenue."

And it doesn't matter how much of it was sold to institutions. What matters is how many users benefited from this game and similar ones (Railroad Tycoon, Civilization, etc. come to mind).
Does computing make the world better?
The real title of the article is “Trump’s data-hungry, invasive app is a voter surveillance tool of extraordinary power”.
I feel I'm missing something when people ask what algorithm this is using. I'm imagining it as a bunch of Math.random and If statements. In fact, I don't think I've ever googled for a specific algorithm or implemented one. Am I doing programming wrong?
Probably, it's been a long time since.

The best i've found is recoll: https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

But search quality isn't good.
Bodycam video leads to dropped charges for local men accused of resisting arrest
That seems overly simplistic. You are part of the society that America's founders engineered. You don't have to feel "guilty" for being born where you were, but you do have responsibility to help change the status quo if you believe the current status quo is the result of immoral policies of the past.
Performance per watt is the biggest advantage, Apple will get fast laptops with extremely long battery life. Cost per performance is a very close second, ARM CPUs are a fraction of the cost of Intel CPUs.

It’s also speculated that with active cooling ARM will enable high performance Macs at a lower price point. It’s very unclear how well they will be able to match AMD and Intel at the highest performance levels.
The subtitle is “Both presidential campaigns use apps to capture data—but Trump's scoops up your identity, your location, and even your phone's Bluetooth functions.”
Is there a reason we can ONLY use JavaScript in the browser? The world would immediately become better if we added a different language compiler on in instead.
>Starting in 2021, Kuo says that all new Mac models will be equipped with Apple processors, and that it will take 12 to 18 months for Apple to transition to an all-Arm lineup.

So there's not going to be a Xeon Mac Pro in 2023? Are they just going to drop the Mac Pro or do they actually have a rivaling ARM processor?
That's still 200M in the US alone.
> "The difference is that any power you give the government is automatically amplified."

that's not immediately obvious. power is divided in government, and ultimately rests collectively in the people. you'd expect the power expressed is exactly the accumulation of the tiny amounts each of us delegate to government. it's not perfect, but all the little divisions and mechanisms of check and balance are there specifically to prevent undue amplification.

certainly the government has coercive power and we must be vigilant, but make no mistake, corporations are power structures that collaborate with and coerce the government into offense against the less powerful (minorities, women, etc.). who but the moneyed owners do you think try to distort and amplify their voice through government? it's not the average person that citizen's united benefits.

the indirection of the corporate form is designed specifically to make it difficult to parse out their influence (and mistakenly place trust in them). they're designed specifically to insulate owners, to the benefit of no one else (governments be damned where they can get away with it).

that there are assholes everywhere, including every corporation, who would discriminate against trivial shit is exactly why you want dispersed power across any structure or institution.
Quelklef/JINEdb: For When JSON Is Not Enough
Yeah, and Google was sued and settled by agreeing to pay a fee to the news wire:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-afp/afp-google-new...
Even if it was, it's not the future of learning.

But, yeah, I could see China using video games in re-education camps, sure.
Anatomy of a Chicken Egg
Thanks for posting this! As a fan of adventures, cyberpunk and pixel art, I somehow missed this. It looks just like my cup of tea.

I don't know if this will repay your helpful post, but be sure to check out Gemini Rue, also an old-fashioned point-and-click scifi game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/80310/Gemini_Rue/
>> Teachers don't buy that,

We do. See the success of teacherspayteachers.com or tes.com. As a teacher I have spent hundreds of dollars of my own money to buy resources. Simply because I don't have the time for the admin to claim the expense.

The problem is that most resources are bad, if not terrible. The ones that are good are not adapted to what you need, not customisable, etc. You may have come up with a great resource but it has to tick a lot of boxes. Not because the teachers don't love real learning ... but because our hands are tied.

We have this huge volume of content to cover in a limited amount of time and standardised tests await. If your resource doesn't use the same notation, terminology, depth ... some students may be more confused than helped (of course the very smart ones will make deep connections ... but you have to teach for everybody). It's not an easy problem to solve but more time / money for good teachers is the obvious place to start.
> It is currently too hard to make video games. Making it easier to create video games will massively increase the supply of good video games and cause a gradual revolution in education.

I don't think it is that hard to make a video game considering the many tools that exist to simplify video game creation. What is hard is making a video game that is also fun to play.

Some of the tools which let you write a video game without coding experience.

1. Scratch - https://scratch.mit.edu/

2. GameMaker - https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker

3. Dreams - http://dreams.mediamolecule.com/
JRR Tolkien: On Fairy Stories [pdf]
I don't know prolog at all. Does anybody have a TLDR to what its pros & cons are and why it isn't mainstream?
When I see Eastern European Jews like Kushner, Miller, Idelson, Mnuchin and way-too-many others surrounding Trump, enabling him or writing racist and xenophobic policies, I ask myself the same questions. When I read about Epstein, Weinstein or Polanski, I immediately make the connection to Zvi Migdal. This is not Judaism and these people are not Jewish, culturally (or ethnically).
Apple has target margin levels, they may increase slightly but most of the savings will go to customers. Apple understands that most customers can’t justify the higher cost of Macs despite the additional value, they will for sure attempt to use ARM CPUs to grow Mac market share.
I work on a project which helps you produce RSS feeds from web pages that don't offer their own using the page URL as input and simple selectors to identify the web page elements to be used in the feed.

Here's what it can produce for the Reuters World News mobile page:

https://createfeed.fivefilters.org/index.php?url=https%3A%2F...

Here's what it can do for the main site:

http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/index.php?url=https%3A%2F%...

The downside is that certain changes to the HTML structure (e.g site renaming/removing class attribute values used as selectors) could cause the feeds to break.
Some time ago there was a foreign language education project in which localization files for Grim Fandango and The Sims were gradually mixed between English and the target language. That still strikes me as a great idea, avoiding the frustration of plunging completely into the other language (as anyone who has changed their phone's language for all of 30 seconds can attest).