skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
are there any actions we can take to make use of this new information?
The war against police brutality, of course.

Kneeling didn't work, soooo...

Expected respondes: pass a law. Protest peacefully. Stand in front of city hall with assault rifles. Vote for (some centrist).

Just because you may not like how someone is dealing with the fact that they could be killed with no recourse by cops because of the color of their skin, doesn't mean their methods are invalid or even irrational.

The classic star wars question - is Luke Skywalker a rebel hero, or a terrorist threat to order? Before the Empire blew up an entire planet to make a point, it was a fairly valid question.
Dragnet is good, but I much prefer Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
The article itself is interesting but I couldn't stop snickering after the author cited a Twitter poll as their research.
Could be a reference to the replicator source code from stargate which was the html and js from a bank if I recall correctly.
Paper in this context is a form of cold storage, you could get very similar results encoding the information on magnetic tape or on a hard drive stored in a safe. Cold storage turns the information security problem into a physical security problem. The catch comes when you need to use this information regularly, say to issue bank cards. Now you need protocols for regularly circumventing that physical security and correctly using/distributing the information, making it in essence an information security problem again.
I yawned.

[0] https://postimg.cc/XGbP8Vpt
1-2 years lol
Aside from the altruistic aspect, I had extra motivation to give blood from an unfounded pet theory that the body isn't capable of removing all bad products that ends up in the bloodstream. Giving blood seemed like a safer way to purge some of these products than diy at-home phlebotomy. It's nice to finally have some research supporting this guess.
It would be interesting to be able to see the historical weight for each sector.
What's wrong with all of the simulators that already exist? There are books upon books written about this subject. (I'm not saying that there's nothing wrong with them, just asking what's missing between what already exists and what you want to see.)
I'm glad about the feedback, I don't intend to make or sell any more finalkeys so I'll definitely redo the frontpage to reflect that, and remove the buy option entirely :)
I do understand the attraction of parts of SF, Marin, the Santa Cruz mountains, etc. But not so much the Valley. And of course the places I just named are eye-wateringly expensive relative to other very attractive/relatively expensive places in the country that are also very attractive in terms of outdoor recreational activities and other such benefits.
Agree. Also the code snippets are mess sometimes too.
Some millenials are very impulsive, & don't think before they act.
I think popular press of animal studies is mostly clickbait, especially aging studies.

The lifetimes of mice are so small compared to humans that you have to apply large scaling factors. An old mouse would be a very young human. How valid the scaling factors are is a different story.
I understand your frustration and I wouldn’t want to be in your place right now.

Still in my place I want a button to make the madness stop.

So the two of us are fighting over that button. Something went wrong somewhere.

Perhaps we need a better way of spreading the word - still possible to reach people, but hard to spam so as not to poison the stream (once again).
My guess is that it being a police car dramatically increases the sentence and chance of being caught.
In America right now there are ongoing protests and riots over the conduct of domestic police departments, specifically their proclivity toward extrajudicial execution and battery of black people in the streets. Damaging police property including their cars and precincts is a powerful (if legally risky) expression of that anger.
> 1. No matter what operating system you're on, you'll eventually run into an application that doesn't render in high dpi mode

You lost me right here on line 1.

If there are apps on MacOS that can't handle high dpi mode, I haven't run into them as a developer (or doing photo editing, video editing, plus whatever other hobbies I do). Also, I don't have any trouble with plugging my highDPI MacBook into a crappy 1080p display at work.

> 3. Configuring my preferred linux environment to work with 4k is either impossible or just super time consuming.

Things like this are exactly why I left Linux for MacOS. I absolutely get why you might want to stick with Linux, but this is a Linux + HighDPI issue (maybe a Windows + highDPI issue also), not a general case.

> I genuinely think 4k provides no real benefit to me as a developer unless the screen is 27" or higher, because increased pixel density just isn't required.

You could say the same for any arbitrary DPI; 96dpi isn't "Required", we got by fine with 72dpi. It's all about ergonomics as far as I'm concerned.
I meant 16MB, of course. Duh.

Argument still stands.
Yes many companies have rules about which countries their employees are allowed to work in. Some countries are deemed High Risk (hard to extradite for one example).
Harry Foundalis – Research on the Bongard Problems
No, but they _are_ shooting LEOs https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-17/far-righ...
The authors make many valid points, but nonetheless, for me, this essay comes across as... ideological. Consider: The essay offers only criticism, making zero practical suggestions. The focus is exclusive on the Humanities; there is zero mention of Math and the Hard Sciences -- you know, fields in which persevering on homework exercises and interacting with others who are much more knowledgeable is actually necessary or useful for true learning. The examples in the essay are cherry-picked; there are numerous people who have benefited from attending college in the US; the essay mentions zero. I'd give the essay a C+, maybe a B-.
Like with a lot of entertainment, there is no distinction between actual engineering or police work, and magic.
Surprised there's no mention of bitmap fonts. Solves all the problems for free :)
I wish I knew what any of those commands mean (except diff).
I've worked on a range of setups from dual screens, 120hz to little CRTs and laptop displays, and even a bit of graphing calculator and smartphone coding. My conclusion is that the difference depends mostly on the workflow, and what the workflow changes is mostly how much information you're scanning.

If you're scanning tons of text, all the time, across multiple windows, you need a lot of real estate, and in times of yore you would turn to printouts and spread them over your desk. A lot of modern dev goes in this direction because you're constantly looking up docs and the syntax is shaped towards "vertical with occasional wide lines and nesting" - an inefficient use of the screen area. Or you have multiple terminals running and want to see a lot of output from each. Or you have a mix of a graphical app, text views and docs. A second monitor absolutely does boost productivity for all these scenarios since it gives you more spatial spread and reduces access to a small headturn or a glance.

If you're writing dense code, with few external dependencies, you can have a single screen up and see pretty much everything you need to see. Embedded dev, short scripts and algorithms are more along these lines. Coding with only TTS(e.g. total blindness) reduces the amount you can scan to the rate of speech, and I believe that consideration should be favored in the interest of an inclusive coding environment. But I'm digressing a bit.

For a more objective ranking of concerns: pixel density ranks lower than refresh rates, brightness and color reproduction in my book. If the screen is lowish res with a decent pixel font that presents cleanly at a scale comfortable to the eye, and there's no "jank" in the interaction, it's lower stress overall than having smooth characters rendered in a choppy way with TN panel inverted colors, CRT flicker, or inappropriate scaling.

Book quality typography is mostly interesting for generating a complete aesthetic, while when doing computing tasks you are mostly concerned about the symbolic clarity, which for English text is reasonably achieved at the 9x14 monospace of CP437, and comfortably so if you double that. There's a reason why developers have voted en-masse to avoid proportional fonts, and it's not because we are nostalgic for typewriters.

And yet for some reason we have ended up with tools that blithely ignore the use-case and apply a generic text rendering method that supports all kinds of styling, which of course makes it slow.
Or the IT security guys that expertly hand-picked all your available packages for minimum attack surface removed it (but let imagemagick... after some time you stop asking some questions :-)
I feel compelled to point out that Luther had a college degree.

This may feel like snark (and I've certainly condensed it for pithiness), but it's at the heart of my issue with this piece. It tries to argue that education is broken, that it is useless, and that no standards should apply for sake of individual liberty.

Those don't go together. If it's useless, you don't have to care that it's broken. If no standards apply, it can't be broken.

My personal opinion is that the author would've been better off to focus on the "broken" part and omitted the other two - both because they muddy the argument, and because, from my POV, the latter two are detrimental to a working education system.
Is that restating what I wrote?
Parler: Free Speech Social Network
When do you ever see a monochrome CRT these days?

I had one mumble years ago as my second screen. It was really nice.
Lovely anecdote:

A relative of mine has seasonal headaches that they experience, and they have told me that the way they relieve them is to go and donate blood.

Works every time, without a hitch.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is at least one study out there (or maybe even a wikipedia page) that attests to this phenomenon.
Anybody that trusts zoom with anything even slightly sensitive these days is completely nuts.

Yes, we know its easy to use.
It's not a matter of address lines; registers are 16-bit (can addresss only 64 kilobytes), so you need segmentation regardless of whether your segements are mapped into 1MB, 16MB, or 4GB. (For Abus = Areg + Sreg << 4, 8, or 16 respectively.)
PG&E, twice.
Unsure if you are familiar with the project, but Folding@home [0] might be an approximate blueprint for this. Large scale physical simulations of protein structure dynamics, distributed all over.

[0] https://foldingathome.org/

Edit: Link to project
Aren't most books single column layout though? If I have to read a paper I can use a tool such as k2pdfopt[1] and read it on my Kindle.

[1] https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/
The demo videos have people reasonably close to the robot.[1][2]

It may be difficult to eliminate pinch points, but they need to protect them somehow in the next version. Pinch detectors, bellows, etc. Shear points, where there's a scissors action, should be eliminated.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/howthingsworkgif/videos/30875769913...

[2] https://youtu.be/VRm7oRCTkjE
> Geeky entrepreneur
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bert-hubert-b05452/
GitHub stars are called out by name in my company’s promotion criteria for evaluating the impact and influence of an engineer’s open source releases.

There’s a certain kind of manager that loves anything they can measure, however silly it is.
For those like me that didn't know what ngrok is, "ngrok exposes local servers behind NATs and firewalls to the public internet over secure tunnels"[1]. So it allows you to easily expose internal services publicly, letting you (for example) show someone outside your network a website in your local development environment, without having to deploy it externally into some sort of live environment.

Also, not sure why so many people seem to take "... written in PHP" as a gauntlet slap to their own face, instead of some additional technical information.

If you have nothing to add to the conversation other than witty snark about PHP, maybe your time would be better spent writing a competing open source product in a language of your choice, giving it away for free, and then letting users compare their pros and cons?

1. https://ngrok.com/product
Do we have any hope for garbage collecting CPUs 40 years later or are they a doomed venture?

> In 1975, Intel's next big plan was the 8800 processor designed to be Intel's chief architecture for the 1980s. This processor was called a "micromainframe" because of its planned high performance. It had an entirely new instruction set designed for high-level languages such as Ada, and supported object-oriented programming and garbage collection at the hardware level.
This is not a complete answer, but they could still have a proprietary backend, yet give people a lot more trust by having open-source client applications. The idea being that forking would still require someone to build their own backend, making it only interesting for people that are willing to do a lot more in-depth engineering than just running an application.
I'm still in love with the default sized bitmap font used by xterm, I'd never want to look at any other font if I had a choice (which I do for terminal programs)
I actually got a rent drop, I never expected that to happen in NYC.
> It does imply avoiding a "middleman"

No, it only implies avoiding a central server (and not even for every aspect of the service), you still run through routers, ISPs, NSA etc.

If you are certain that there's no middleman, you don't need encryption.

N.B. Maybe someone defines it in another way today, but when the term became popular, with Napster, it really meant simply not having a central server for certain functions, or even more banally not downloading your mp3s from a web site or ftp server; it did have some significance also because the legal aspect of it was more uncertain; when people started getting 100k dollars fines, peer-to-peer stopped meaning much, sometimes it's better to send packets directly to each other, other times through a server, but you almost always encrypt and almost always ought to encrypt end-to-end
I have no idea why verification, or other technical details, would affect the ethical calculus of having our conversations spied upon.
> Else you can be left holding hundreds of thousands of dollars of people's money that will never return, forever, which really complicates your finances.

An entire legal framework already exists for just this scenario, and it doesn't involve pocketing the money.

Money and other assets are supposed to be relinquished to the state so that owner or intended recipient can collect it.
I ran a Tor exit relay from home for a few years, eventually had to stop because I kept getting blocked from sites due to having my IP address listed on the Tor exit node list.
Or maybe they use these 5 to experiment and iterate on the program, and then fund another 15-20 in 6 months from now, and by then they'll have a nice batch of 20-25 companies, hoping that one of these will become a decacorn or more.
Are eBPF and bpfilter the same thing? eBPF has been around longer than bpfilter right? 3.15 vs 4.18?
ReactPHP and similar solutions have existed for a while, but after many years of existence, how many people are using it? Not many.

Was async I/O promoted to a core language feature? It hasn't. You can do it, but you have to install a 3rd party dependency, and you will have to still interoperate with code that does not use async I/O. Contrast that to the reality in other languages.

Then, the rest of your arguments are not new, and are the usual last-resort losing arguments:

- "write everything in assembler if you care about performance": zero/low cost abstraction are different than no abstractions at all. Different in terms of productivity, maintainability, portability, etc. And you know this, I wonder why you mention it.

- "everything is relative and the choice of language doesn't really matter because they're all the same": they are not the same and the choice does matter. Languages are the product of different design and implementation processes, as well as different levels of investment, and results can differ a lot.

- Ad-hominem: I don't care. To me, your ad-hominem is the same as admitting your argument is inferior.

Anyways, PHP jumped the shark long ago and today it's just another legacy code language.
Possibly nothing like anything we would recognise except at the most basic level I think.

It’s possible to imagine their equivalent to a GUI is entirely unlike ours, flat screens work for us because of our visual cortex and narrow field of view/depth perception framework essentially been tricked.

A UI for a something intelligent with a compound eye or ten eyes or whatnot could be very different.

Not to mention if we give said aliens hundreds of years of computers, they would likely arrive at something akin to a neural interface, I mean a computer as a direct expansion of your cognitive ability has to be the end point in user interfaces, you don’t even have to think about how to translate what’s in your head into something the computer can understand parse, you manipulate it as easily as thinking of a pink elephant in a tutu, it is just there.

It would also likely be heavily influenced by their psychology.

What would be fun is trying to create a router between our systems and theirs down the line.

We’ve had electric computers for a blink in time compared to the wheel, lot of places to go between a Ryzen 3950X and computronium.
Found the Brit.
It's one thing to write a web service in a different language for performance; it's a much bigger question to move logic from your client to your server for the sake of performance. Both from a user experience standpoint and from an architectural complexity standpoint.
It's this hypothetical person's own fault for not diversifying.
Why would they invest, when they can just sell us their own oil at exorbitant prices, now that big part of competition is gone?
Oh I simply tweeted it ... at the moment it's a rather tongue-in-cheek position, but traditionally here one would place an ad in the "Public Notices" section of the local newspaper.

I've considered doping that just to publicly raise the issue - really we should all having public discussions about these issues before they are deployed, not after
If I duct tape you to a car seat it will work just like a seat belt.

Just because something works doesn't mean it is a suitable implementation or a sensible decision.
Wow, that's ... niche
Honestly, if you live and work and pay taxes in the US, you kind of have an obligation to keep an eye on your government. It's just basic citizenship. The events you see on the news cannot be divorced from politics. Not even the sports or weather segments.

If politicians are doing things that stress you out or make you angry, would you really be better off staying uninformed? I'm not saying that Facebook is a good way to accomplish that, just that it's worth considering before you ask for technology to seal yourself off from political news altogether.
> The public sector won't do it because people complain about the public debt.

This isn't true, though. The US consistently elects republican administrations that jack up deficits to cover tax cuts for billionaires and nobody bats an eye. The military can blow 700bn a year with barely a peep of outrage. And unlike with infrastructure investment that money is effectively a 700bn jobs program for 3 million people that produce nothing of value.

Complaining about debt is usually a cover for bigotry. People don't want social equity or fairness because leveling the playing field is deconstructing hierarchies people were born into and base their personality on. Its why attacking institutional racism in the police is taken as an attack on the culture, personhood, and lifestyles of cops and white suburbia.
This is the question I want answered. I feel that in the human brain, many words evoke imagery. For instance, when I hear the word bleak, I think of a grey setting
Why do you think "jobs" are more important than the unfolding global climate catastrophe? A world wrecked by climate change isn't going to have any jobs.
Me too.

I made a typo (`git show` not `show show`) and the last one is from https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
27" x 1440p has been my go-to for a while now. Works well without scaling between win/mac/linux, does not dominate the desk completely, high quality monitors are readily available in this resolution etc etc.
There trying to make end to end encryption illegal
I make yogurt pretty much following same steps. Unfortunately I only have access to store bought yogurt as starter. It’s fine for a few times after that it gets stringy. I have to find a good alternative.
Our Best Look yet at the Shadowy Hellfire Missile with Pop-Out Sword Blades
Is 8086 microcode reverse engineered or released today for studying?
So? Some people consider police bad, either at specific instances (some policemen/departments at some times doing bad things) or inherently (the police as an institution in general), and have been fighting against them for centuries...

Some people think police should pay for the abuses that they regularly and without punishment do.

Some others think police should stop existing in general, or exist only in a very limited capacity, or be replaced by citizen patrols, and several other varieties...

So, that morality and cause... Doesn't have to agree with yours to be a morality, and even less so to be a cause...
The revenue from advertisers is supporting both controversial and non-controversial content.

If advertisers completely pull their ads off a website even though only 1% (say) of the content they were sponsoring is actually controversial, then the blowback has cost the platform 100x more than what they were paying to host the controversial content.

I think hosting costs can be significant overall, yes. But I think the marginal hosting cost of allowing controversial content is not significant.

It's only a significant cost when it impacts the revenue stream for the bulk of what the website is publishing.
What I miss the most when reading a PDF file is the ability to use dark mode. Acrobat Reader's tablet version supports this, and it works fine on my iPad, but the desktop app only allows me to change the colors manually, and the fonts start to look bad.
I appreciate your favour. I am probably an exception, but i like to code on just a single 15 inch MacBook. I switch screens by pressing key combinations. I believe faster, but also more convenient than moving your head around constantly.
for me everything must be accessible by various key combos. once I have that working I hardly need to use the trackpad mouse anymore.
the truth is that most people in my team's work with dual or triple screens.
and safe OS, computer, room...
I won't forget having a pentester nmap a local network - it hard locked every single phone handset corporation wide. People had to walk around pulling the power out and putting it back in every single desk in multiple buildings.
This assumes each bet has a binary goal state [Success, Not Success] when probing endeavours often are more about manifold mapping rather than optimal sub-topology mining.
Downtown of our small 130k town is a mile walk.

We can walk to many things. We are still considered suburban.

Further out and walking to shops is less plausible. But then you have lots of nature to wak around
I enjoyed the article, good suggestions.

Slightly off topic but I have the 16" Macbook Pro with maxed out graphics, and as soon as I connect my monitor, the fans start getting ready for lift-off (~5.6k RPM). It's a Samsung 4k 32" (DP 1.4 to usb-c).

I know this is a common issue but anyone else able to resolve this yet? It drives me crazy that this powerful machine starts sounding like jet just from connecting 1 monitor (Apple says it can support four 4k monitors).

The CPU and GPU don't look to be under any stress as such.