skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see that as an unassailable problem, though. There is no reason someone shouldn't develop a solid desktop platform that is built on Linux, has a user-friendly UI, but instead of a typical Linux distro today where you just install everything from your distro's huge repo of FOSS, you install it directly (perhaps with some kind of handy UI to track what you have and facilitate updates) and/or get things from a potentially commercial "app store".

In fact, Google has already proved that this model can work, they just did it on mobile devices instead of traditional desktop/laptop PCs. Traditional Linux communities coexist quite happily with the Android ecosystem and largely independent of it, and I see no reason conflict would be necessary with a different style of Linux desktop either.
Eventually physicists are going to end up trying to explain signs of intelligent life as new Physics and calibrate their models according to it.

"Greetings from ___." "Oh, hello... uhh, so those signals were your house and not a trefoil of two black holes and a quasar?
I'm very introverted and I couldn't care less how many people are in a cinema, there is no (need for) social interaction so why would it matter?
How, would manufacturers make special edition phones or software especially for the wealthy and powerful? It can't be just a switch or people would either find a way to flip it to either close the backdoor on regular phones, or to open one on those "special" editions.

And what's stopping anyone from simply downloading or buying the "worldwide" version of software of devices which presumably have no known backdoors?
I'd hope covid might have scarred a couple of film execs into trying something new, but from experience they are a DINOSAUR industry.

Good luck convincing them to actually try to run with something before they understand it...

For most of them, Netflix is already a little too new and spangly for their liking
according to standard economics, and all economists from right to left agree on this: money is the measure of value to society.

(I changed the word "return" to "money" because return essentially means profit and when you make a selling or purchasing decision, you receive or pay the full price, not just the profit so your decision is a money decision, not a return decision.)

That doesn't mean the rest of the argument he's making (and you are believing) fails, it means you are getting confused by stuff that economists clarified a long long time ago.

There are many effects that distort people's decisions such that the wrong people benefit vs the wrong people who pay, but try to fix that and then just never never let it be said that we should not pursue returns, that's pure nonsense.
Graviton2 instances are available on AWS. They claim 40% better performance than their x86 peers - https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/m6/
I haven't seen the original paper (maybe that should've been linked instead?), but the MIT press release is dripping with "Not it's saying aliens..." innuendo.

It's kind of hypocritical to use nod-wink-aliens-clickbait to drum up media attention, then ridicule the first rube who asks if aliens could possibly be involved.
Wish there was more coverage of stories like this. Interesting (but more disheartening) to see just how far people will go.
That's a real oversimplification and self-serving...
It's true that this is a horrible idea, but for different reasons. Criminals first of all don't necessarily use encryption, because apparently even these days they get the drop on terrorists because they don't use proper encryption. But also if, as you say, ONLY criminals are using true encryption, that makes it a hell of a lot easier to identify and survail them. The NSA's biggest problem is that they have so much data that they can't find anything useful anymore, and its not getting any better. It would help them A LOT if they knew that people who have something to hide, break the law and use encryption.

On the flip side, this opens the door to mass hacking by criminals and foreign entities, which is why this is a fucking terrible idea. Not to mention that it basically destroys privacy and fosters mind censorship, because people will be afraid to search for what they are looking for.
Nonsense. People are not as stupid or illogical as you claim. The decisions the Trump-voting electorate made were not anti-intellectualism just because the end result (Trump being elected) wasn't a great option. From many people's PoV, he was the _least worst_.
Thanks! I'll take another look.

Which version of Firefox?

Ive tested using 78.0b9 (64-bit) Developer edition and 77.0.1 (64-bit) and not seeing the same.
So then why do they need weak encryption? Just do the same thing to capture the data at the endpoints, or use those methods to get the user's passphrase.
Have you tried Pop!_OS? I’m currently running it on my Thinkpad X1 Extreme gen 2 and it’s been delightful.

Edit: misspelled gen

Edit2: smooth Firefox scrolling provided by MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 ... turn off smooth scrolling in Firefox settings
> There is no Nobel prize in economics.

There is a prize in economics in memory of Alfred Nobel, which everyone refers to as the "Nobel prize in economics".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econom...
Revenue sharing venture capital for small valuations ~tens of millions.

TinySeed, Earnest Capital, etc.
Our representatives are theoretically responsible for balancing different social interests, including social welfare and money. I think that is better.

I'd rather fix the thing where elected officials don't seem to do that job rather than just throwing up my hands and saying the market knows best... seems like a pretty extreme position to just say that money and pricing is the only tool in the toolbox.
Thanks! Here's another fun idea (sorry I'm not implementing this myself and submitting as a pull request; do feel free to ignore me): For the ones that have lipsum because they don't have text, you could use the top comment. Something like:

"COMMENT CONTENT," USERNAME said when prompted

USERNAME had this to comment: "COMMENT CONTENT"

We interviewed USERNAME, who said: "COMMENT CONTENT"

etc.
Lot of "why not metric" comments. Heres what I think is the main reason: it's just not worth the effort. The US isn't missing out on tangible benefits from not standardizing with the rest of the world. Where it matters in science, we already use metric. Day to day, who cares? Why go through all the trouble to switch? You need people to retrain with a new system, retool signs and equiptment, and so on. It's just not worth it to be able to divide units by 10 more easily, especially when the system we already have is full of powers of 2 or 12 which are frankly a bit easier to divide with day to day (1/3 of a foot is 4 inches, while 1/3 of a meter is 33.33333333.... centimeters). It's just not worth the hassle.
why conceive of it as a problem? heterogeneity of thought and view lends more engaging and interesting conversations, new learnings and perspectives, and a more resilient and innovative society to boot, even if it's more of a challenge. it's surely better that you have to work at a conversation than have some bland homogeneity of thought for faux-comfort bubbles.

comfort is entirely orthogonal to journalism anyway. it's purpose is to (mis-)inform, not to entertain and provide bonding fodder. you have plenty of other, better (media) avenues for that (movies, tv, etc).
Die shrink: How Intel scaled down the 8086 processor
AI Feynman 2.0: Pareto-optimal symbolic regression exploiting graph modularity
The other thing to realize is that android phones are tied to a kernel version and that is never updated except minor revisions. Apple products get regular kernel updates.
> Spending hours doing Leetcode is far from a reliable assessment of someone's programming skills.

That's what I mean tho. In high school, they start leetcode practice from day 1 of programming or CS classes. Soon, you will get many leetcoders in the market.

> How does implementing Fibonacci weed out people who can't program at all?

There are many people applying for jobs who can't program a buzz fizz. They exist. A fibonacci is enough to throw them off in an unfamiliar language.
US Chess Federation: website was hacked and used to foist malware on visitors
I wish other sites would treat my email with the same respect that my boat key is getting.
Actually looks like Shriharsh, one of the folks in the collaboration has already done it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc8FsImLUEU

I guess he probably didn't talk about this because of the press embargo though.
Checking divisibility by a known constant can be done in a better way than doing a division.

https://lemire.me/blog/2019/02/08/faster-remainders-when-the...
> in the US, at this point, advocating for metrification is associated with a sort of odd, fringe type of political figure.

Tucker Carlson of Fox News thinks that metric system is a form of tyranny:

> CARLSON: Almost every nation on Earth has fallen under the yoke of tyranny -- the metric system -- from Beijing to Buenos Aires from Lusaka to London, the people the world have been forced to measure their environment in millimeters and kilograms.

* https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/can-the-us-continue-to-st...

Nothing new, with things going back to 1977:

> Dean Krakel thinks metric is more about Marxism than measurement. As director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma, Krakel is waging a war against metric on political grounds. In this 1977 clip from As It Happens, he says it reflects "the philosophical way communists want one of everything" - one world, one monetary system, one educational system and, now, one measurement system. "We're Americans, we're different. We're individualistic, we're strong," he says with passion.

* https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/is-the-metric-system-a-com...
I'm probably being over negative or misunderstanding the intent, but this article is vague, blathery and its ideas offputting and likely counterproductive. It seems to be pushing the idea of interfaces too far with:

> but we don’t typically spend much, if any, time considering what kind of experience we want the system to have

Yes, as the following sentence says, that is weird.

> How does a system react to users? Is the system friendly? Is it witty? How well does the system know how to converse with humans, or more specifically, to you as an individual?

If you have an interface like that, you'd better be very precise about what it's interfacing to (a virtual PA, maybe, a spreadsheet, never).

> You might want to perform what’s called an escalation in order to make the user more excited about achieving their daily goals

Oh please no.

Overall I can't recommend reading it (YMMV though).
> Solo cup culture flour­ishes because college is simply a pay-to-play credentialing service.

If this were the case, why do many spend grueling over hundreds of LeetCode problems? If the credential was truly enough, we wouldn't have to be grilled in interview processes.

> The university has been in crisis for almost a century, and in 1948 Richard Weaver was already warning that universities had “turned into playgrounds for grown-up children or centers of vocationalism and professionalism.”

At one point in college, I held 3 jobs with the impossible task of trying to stay out of debt (I didn't) by working jobs that paid no more than $10/hour on a $30,000 tuition bill. Is the fault of the university that they became corporatized? There would be no crisis if folks had the time to study.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/kazakhstan-government-is-now-i...
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It's not actually rare, as evidenced by the number of people in rural China who are seropositive for novel coronaviruses. This is the third new coronavirus that has caused a major outbreak in the last 18 years. Many more coronaviruses have likely jumped into humans, and have either petered out quickly or spread unnoticed (i.e., they cause nothing more than a cold).
> A karma system

Upvoting and downvoting can and have been gamed by users and groups of users. It's a fine distraction to drive engagement in a social media space, but you cannot delegate moderation to the crowd without it turning into hot mess.

> and/or paid accounts.

At some point this might have been a good idea, but it doesn't stop bad actors from joining or returning through credit card fraud.

- - -

Have you looked at tildes? It's a reddit/HN-style site, but with stronger moderation and no downvote button. But the most interesting feature is that you have to be invited to the site by somebody, and the chain of invites is tracked, so if there are a bunch of troublemakers that all seem to have a root at one individual, the moderators can get rid of the whole tree if need-be.
This illustrates the problem with calling out virtue-signalling. I see two references related to ethics. It seems the only way to avoid accusations of virtue-signalling would be to have 0 references to AI fairness.

In practice, comments like this encourage self-censorship, even if that is not their intention.
The Zune 30 was released November 2006 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune_30). The iPhone was announced January 2007.

It didn’t matter if they were “competitive”. The market had already spoken. People preferred the flash based smaller players to the larger players. MS went after the smallest part of the market.
"Terrestrial radio isn’t paying based on the number of listeners."
I know this. However, you are acting like a terrestrial broadcast to n listeners is equivalent to a Spotify non-broadcast to one listener. If n > 265 you are making more money with Spotify per person listening to the song. If 10,000 people are listening to it on a radio broadcast, you are getting $0.12. If 10,000 people listen on Spotify, you are getting $31.80. Even Spotify pays better than radio, in most scenarios. $0.12 per stream is not a viable model for music.

The better argument you make is that Spotify shouldn't be compared to radio, because it is "on demand". It is more like a CD purchase. There is some truth to this, and it should probably fall in the middle pricewise (and it does) it's just a matter of which direction it should move. It shouldn't cost as much as CD, because you have to keep paying every month for access and have no resale option. You don't own it, you're just renting for 4 minutes. I did a lot of CD trading- spent way too much time and money in used CD stores which paid the artists nothing, but meant you could a least capture some residual value from a CD you purchased.

Having streaming access has really changed my music listening patterns. I hardly ever listen to an album on repeat. There's so much more to listen to, but I listen to each thing less. Patterns of consumption may have changed for others as well.

I don't know how to best try to get more money. You still have some artists selling directly, not putting all material on Spotify, only putting it on the higher paying places, putting it on well after release, treating it as a sample shop.
Pure speculation, isn't the most interesting time period in the signal the transition from signal to no-signal (and back again)? How high is the resolution of the sensors? Is it possible that some frequencies are blocked fractionally earlier than others? At a fine enough temporal resolution, there might be more clues regarding the source.
Or the Church Rock incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Rock_uranium_mill_spill...
Money is a measure of value, but the standard for assigning value is mostly emotional. Buy anything at retail, then try to sell it. You'll always take a bath, because the retail (whether a store or Amazon) experience adds value.

The same thing happens in business.
How are they actually doing in the market?
Hanging or crashing without feedback is pretty much "not handling errors".
Good micro lending options do exist, Kiva has a great track record[1].

My perspective, the exploitive micro lending options exist due to lack of financial education in our K-12 primary schools globally.

Teaching the average student the fundamentals of accounting and finance would be much more practical than trigonometry or pre-calculus. For base IRR, NPV, DPP, etc. algebra 1 is plenty of a mathematics foundation to complete.

[1] https://www.kiva.org/about/impact
> Facebook is frequently the target of the traditional media because these outlets have been largely shut out in favor of conservative sites. Take a look at the most popular news posts for 6/19 and 6/24:

> https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1275852495215042562

> https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1274014164487294976

> It seems like Facebook’s most active user base is conservative leaning.

Reading more about the methodology, it is hard for me to extrapolate your conclusion. For example, interactions are all interactions. It could be that many people comment negatively on the subject of the post, which by this methodology would be construed as support for that topic.
I agree. They could set up a public queue for moderation of edits suggested from untrustworthy IPs by users with trustworthy IPs and accounts.

Community-based fully open spam moderation is a beast hard to contend with for even large entities.
The Facebook ad boycotts have entered the big leagues. Now what?
You don’t have to make special edition phones. You just side load encryption apps, unless they’re going to lockdown all on-device testing of software.

Also, they already make “special phones” for people in government:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectéra_Secure_Module
After watching a documentary on Enron, and the collapse of Arthur Anderson, I thought we were past this. But I am now wondering what the future looks like for auditors, and particularly the auditors involved at Wirecard. I’m looking forward to watching a documentary on this too, in 5-10 years but I feel bad for the honest employees there
Does the download and extract happen on the client side?
Apple's Intel Breakup Will Reshape Macs–and Beyond
Clicked App, and then the back button icon which does not work as expected. Keeps trying to load https://gitdocs.page/login. Home button works. 77.0.1 (64-bit)

All I see is some screenshots and that's about it. Where is the info, the content that tells me more? I'm I missing something?
This interview resonantes with something I have been thinking for a while.

Essentially the whole VC fueled hypescaling in a race to become the next unicorn especially in the "sharing economy" seems like a giant pyramid scheme. Like it's all about scaling so the value increases so that in the next round the VC of that previous round can cash in on the next VCs who hope to do the same thing in the next and so on, with the end goal of finding gullible regular investors once it comes to the IPO. All that without a sustainable business model, look at all the bike hire companies a couple of years ago, the scooter companies now etc.. Even Uber might never be profitable.

All that is done on the back of society leaving burned soil in the wake. And yes it's an instrument for the wealthy, because they have the means to be among the early investors.
That's interesting. So they don't actually provide any meaningful support at all over a vendor that doesn't officially support Linux. It's just pr bullshit. Here's your laptop with Linux pre-installed, but if you have problems, though shit. Fuck that.
I think the market for people who want books hosted and the market for people with enough dev skills to do it themself is separate. So they should be able to make their revenue from people who want easy hosting.

That being said, it seems like a doomed SaaS because the value add is pretty minimal. Maybe a one time charge would make sense, but I can’t find much value in monthly fees for something I can host on github.io for free.

The software is nice, but there are others.

In general, I don’t like “artificial” SaaS where the the fee is rent-seeking for something software runs for near zero marginal costs.
When my LHON was realy bad, this is how colors looked to me
Used to work with cryengine some time ago. That is by far the worst c++ codebase i've ever seen.
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Sorry, but would like to advice the other way. I started out on ubuntu, but tried mint the last year. Now I’m going back to ubuntu with some gnome extensions, here’s why. Desktop linux in general has many quirks and bugs, and mint, being less mainstream, even more so. I’ve experienced many subtle errors with drag & drop, multiscreen support, windows remaining in the taskbar after being closed, etc. In my experience ubuntu has less of these, and with ‘dash to panel’ and ‘arc menu’ installed you’ve basicly got 90% of the mint experience anyway.

No disrespect to any of the hardworking mint people intended, their work clearly fills a need.
The 970 was such a pain because of this, Virtual PC needed it to emulate the x86. I remember a massive delay.
A warrant allows law enforcement to bypass laws against trespass and theft in order to get information. I has never allowed them to bypass the laws of physics.

If you say something to someone before they get a warrant, the warrant can't give it to them because you didn't write it down. If you write it down but then destroy it before the warrant is executed, the warrant can't give it to them because it no longer exists. If you write it down but keep it somewhere they don't know where it is, the warrant can't give it to them because they can't find it. If you write it down but it's encrypted, a warrant can't give it to them because they can't decrypt it. These are not different scenarios.

People like to make out as if encryption has changed things to make it harder, because now more things will be encrypted! But the things that are now being encrypted were historically never written down to begin with. If you made a phone call in 1970, your ordinary phone didn't automatically record it in case the government wanted to execute a warrant later. If you send a text message today and your phone records it but the record is encrypted, that isn't any worse for them than if it didn't keep a record -- it's better for them, because if they can get your passphrase then they can get access to it. Historically they had nothing.

Now they want even more, even if it it allows criminals and corrupt officials to ravage everybody and sets a profoundly dangerous precedent for totalitarian regimes, with the corresponding technical changes to popular infrastructure.
Depends what the total cost was for this...

The 1.14M is just the ransom, doesn't account for how much money was wasted on other aspects of recovery and total downtime...
I used to do this in London when I traveled there for lectures as a PhD student; our lab wasn't in the city. So as not to waste two hours of traveling for an hour of class, I'd go and see movies afterwards. It was great - you could get the best cinemas to yourself and I liked trying out the different venues around Leicester Square. My favourite was the underground one near Piccadilly Circus (now Vue I think) - always empty midweek just after lunch and comfortable seats. I'm not a fan of the enormous screens because they tend to echo quite a lot unless the acoustics are good. Perhaps the sound gets damped when the room is full?
Does it? I’m not sure I see a material difference, but maybe it’s because I know the context of US government snooping.
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Is there any relation to the old Palm, e.g. Palm Pilot/etc?