skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so naive and unrealistic it's practically a counterfactual.

Investigative journalism is a small and relatively poorly supported subset of journalism as a whole. It does happen - see for example McCrum's takedown of Wirecard in the FT - but elsewhere in journalism basic fact-checking is considered an irrelevance at best.

All of the most popular newspapers in the UK are regularly sued for libel, and they regularly lose, because - to be blunt - they make shit up to promote a party line, and their only interest in the facts is where they can be used for political leverage.

Some of the former editors and high-level editorial staff literally spent time in jail for phone hacking and other forms of privacy abuse - not because they were interested in disinterestedly championing the truth, but because they wanted salacious gossip about celebrities, minor royals who needed to be kept in place, and politicians whose private lives might embarrass them in a politically useful way.

I know of one case where a journalist from one of those outlets was involved in handing out heroin to street-level contacts for similar information.

And then you only need to consider the woefully poor quality of most scientific and financial reporting to understand how low standards are.

So no - I would rather read and pay for the views of an independent blogger over those of a nominally credentialed paid propagandist and bottom feeder.

Don't confuse the few outlets that are willing to pay for investigative journalism with the profession as a whole.
they used to do that sort of thing on jerry springer. actually, now i think of it, oprah did it too. how the hell else can a conversation between those two go productively? ever? unless by discussion you mean ordering food or some necessary social intercourse, which does in fact still happen even to this very day.
One of the many issues with the big platforms (like Facebook) is that the founders and owners are incapable of thinking that the service is no longer a net good and should be shut down. There is never a big enough problem that cannot be tweaked insignificance.
Your first two paragraphs really show the strength of your filter bubble.

To you it has "brought to light the extent of racist police brutality". To others it has "brought to light the extent of black savagery".

Different bubbles are exposed to very different things, for the vast majority of people they haven't been exposed to all these wonderful things you go on about. (As a side note, you might want to double check that 66% figure)
Don't know about iPhones, but the only way my Nokia 7 plus will do 60 hours is without radios, reading music from internal storage, and piping sound do a powered speaker.
Apt-style package systems do have source for everything and rebuild everything.
Unemployment money discourages work because you lose it if you earn. UBI doesn’t discourage work because they stack.
Because the idea is so often advanced without evidence by known bad sources.

This article seems more level headed, and indeed acknowledges the problem.

Maybe its most frightening sentence is:

> US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is currently constructing a new and expanded national Bio and Agro-defense facility in Manhattan, Kansas. DHS has estimated that the 50-year risk (defined as having an economic impact of $9-50 billion) of a release from its lab at 70%.

That's .. not great odds.
That's not what "suggested" means.
Hope they don't run into any problems with the "honk" memes.
I mean, the perfect seams of the joints in various Peruvian ruins, the melted rock formations, the unexplained techniques for constructing massive stone structures .. I think there is definitely a case to be made for previous, advanced civilisations, which we haven't quite yet understood properly.

But then again I could just be a victim of the Gaia spam and Grahama Hancock interviews on JRE ..
What proportion of the recent ones have seen peer review? I saw a lot of *xivs
> This attitude leaves the victim paying millions in ransom.

Not if they still have backups that aren't cloud backups.

> Look, Microsoft and Amazon probably have a better handle on security than your IT dept which is two people who also have to fix any issues like the WiFi not working or software not updating.

And that's part of the problem, right? Your IT department isn't too bright, so they encrypt their cloud backups with a tool that does the encryption wrong, and the smarter engineers at the cloud provider know that it's vulnerable so now they can read your data when you thought they couldn't. Or you use a weak password for the cloud backup account and then some third party breaks in and gets them.

Not really a concern with a backup tape stored in a fire safe.
...do you write a blog I could subscribe to?
So for those wanting to know a bit more context (I'm genuinely bemused that someone can get downvoted on HN for provided factual context that's relevant for comparing the various police systems, but whatever...), Queensland is a primarily tropical/humid-subtropical/semi-arid state marginally bigger than Alaska and ~three times the size of Texas. Its held to be "relatively conservative" (the most conservative by some, holding some 7 of the 10 most right-wing electorates in the country at last election) by Australian standards, and is weird from a demographics point of view because its a state (possibly the only one?) in Australia where the majority of the population lives outside of the metro capital city area, and from a politics point of view its remarkable because its the only unicameral state parliamentary system in the Australian federation.

The state had 32 years of unbroken rule by the national party of Australia, which ended, not coincidentally to the end of the rule or this topic, after an inquiry into police corruption at the end of the 80's. It is also no coincidence that the state was the founding site of Australia's one nation party. As you move further north you begin to have more isolation and contact with indigenous communities, but its also a diverse and complex state, hosting both the brisbane/gold-coast and cairns areas, hubs of tourism that ferment more "liberal-eco" attitudes in contrast to some of the rural/farming/conservative bents. There is a significant military/mining presence in the north, as well as a significant retiree community/attraction because of the climate/weather.

I'm trying to describe it as objectively as I can. Its also stunningly beautiful and I grew up there :P I'd joke and say to my american readers, it would be like using florida/texas/alabama/bahamas/california as representative of the practices of US policing, but that is an honestly terrible analogy.
Carcasses of tyrannosaurs were small, biodegradeable and tasty though, so their preservation was the rare exception rather than the rule. It would be rather harder to miss evidence of industrial cities of tens of millions of people spread across entire continents, many of which have not been subsumed by plates.

Most of the skeletons of the ancient Egyptians aren't found, but their pyramids are very much in evidence, and this was a civilization far too small and unsophisticated to leave obvious traces in the form of global warming.

I don't think we can rule out the possibility that past species used tools and communicated in ways which resemble human language, but if they'd been numerous and advanced enough to disrupt the climate with their Industrial Revolution, one can reasonably assume remnants of some of its products more substantive than evidence of temperature fluctuations or nitrate residues would exist.

Easier to get excited by false positives by widening the search space though: the same geological forces capable of disappearing nations are surely capable of causing temperature anomalies.
Interesting article. I had no idea that we knew of things that can go faster than light. But aren't we asking the wrong question? With this amount of constant power, shouldn't we put more emphasis on capturing it for energy like we do with solar panels? Except these would work 24/7, both at night & on cloudy days.
Making those decisions should require either extensive training (judges) or some random selection (juries). Not the same people from the same subculture making all the decisions.
IIRC POWER can also do that.
.. and then people spend the next century slowly cleaning up toxic lead and leftover explosives, like the "iron harvest" of WW1 battlefields.
is the picture at the end bait?
It references a bunch of papers that are irrelevant to its central point in an attempt to appear scientific.
It may be helpful to you in terms of process, but it's not a "great outcome" when it's unreadable due to grammar and usage errors. Blog in your native language, perhaps?
Amazing! Any plans of adding reddit login / user home feed ?
Whilst standardisation is obviously important, the article references an anecdote where a building had to lose a storey due to the usage of the ‘wrong type of foot’.
This does not seem overly plausible given the error would be <2mm over the height of the Burj Khalifa.
> On two: pretty much all more then two sentences long explanations of virus origin I have seen months ago involved another animal in between.

There was an implication the animal crossover occurred in the wet market, and it probably didn't because "no bats there." That was not clear in Western media.

So work on your reading comprehension, amigo.
Porting from OSX to GNUStep would be far more useful.
Hence the part I wrote in parentheses. They're still learning, so I'd expect the FP3 to be much better than the FP2, just like the FP2 was an improvement over the FP1. I think it's unrealistic to expect a new company to immediately hit a home run, but I think their main contribution is that they're paving the way for other companies: they're making mistakes, but also openly documenting what they're doing and what challenges they're running into.
I develop kaldi-active-grammar [0]. The Kaldi engine itself is state of the art and open source, but is focused on research rather than usability. My project has a simple interface and comes with a pretty good open source speech model.

However, kaldi-active-grammar specializes in real time command and control, with advanced features that don't really apply to your use case. Vosk [1] is probably a simpler, better fit for you. It likewise uses Kaldi and can use my models, and offers some others of its own as well.

Neither are particularly focused on transcription per se, but they are open.

[0] https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar

[1] https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
I finished my automated micro-training generation tool, that I used a lot myself, but wanted to see if others find it useful https://Quizrecall.com/
I wish all the internet was more like hackernews.
They (MS etc) know the error alright, but users get scared and overwhelmed by technical language and error messages. So they put some picture of a sad cat and a message like "zoinks, that didn't work, try again". And anyway, if you're going to reload anyway, why would you care about the exact error? Hopefully it got logged in their systems so the engineers can come back to it.
Beyond nerd curiosity, why would a user need non-actionable detailed error messages?
Yup, go figure, it made everyone dumber and more paranoid, just like TV. Who would have guessed, ads, tracking, nazis, thought police.
Try this: When you see that updates are available, just install them instead of putting it off. It takes 10 minutes at most. Following that philosophy, I have never had an update interrupt me at a critical moment. Meanwhile my update-averse colleagues are constantly dodging the prompts and complaining about update interruptions.
No I wouldn't, that is how UNIX and C got widespread (those source code tapes on university campus), how nice productive RAD tooling is only available alongside Fortune 500 paychecks, and plenty of other examples.
I certainly never had that opinion. I would consider for example the people of ancient Greece to be an advanced civilization, despite the relative lack of what we consider to be modern technology. And you can go back much further than ancient Greece for that matter.
Ever since I got my first e-ink reader, I imagined the books being updated via revision control. Where a reader can encounter a typo or other error, and submit the correction right from the device for the author to review and accept or reject.

Books as git repos instead of static seems obvious, even inevitable, eventually, to me.
> he reasons for replacing it ranges from the OS not being updated

They just released a beta of the upgrade to Android 9 for their five-year-old phone. Yes, that's just Android 9, but still way better than other phones that old, and they had to overcome major hurdles for it [2]. But yes, iPhones are much better than Androids at longevity.

[1] https://www.androidauthority.com/fairphone-2-android-9-11295...

[2] https://www.fairphone.com/en/2020/06/18/fairphone-2-gets-and...
Would this distinction would go largely away if OS would have method to share read only memory pages or larger regions of memory between all processes?

I suspect you would need to compute signatures for static libraries for binaries located /bin/, /lib, ... to make load times faster.
I think they wanted to be "the GitHub for authoring books". So there's one level of indirection, but it makes sense.
Life Mode needs to allow calls, but turn everything else off.

I suspect I'd buy one of these if I could play with it in person first.
It’s hardly a choice for its country’s people. Governments in developing countries are very big bullies.
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I’m not sure, but the source website seems to be quite biased: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/bioscience-reso...
> I think the answer is to filter police who may have tendency to violence and racism out of the police force.

If this solution ended up filtering out most black police, would racism be more or less of a problem than it is now?
It works better as a hotspot for the laptop when I need a bigger screen?
Indeed there is such a social context. However it's very subculture specific. Something a person from culture A says might be interpretted as an incitement by someone from culture B even though people from culture A wouldn't read it that way. And if the deciders are chosen by culture B are using rules written by culture B and are from culture B themselves...
> In the Anthropocene, fossil fuels have become central to the geological footprint humans will leave behind on Earth.

Perhaps previous civilization is so advance that they invest in creating high energy fuel. But then something happen - they wiped off the earth, and we reap all of their investment.

Their footprint are the oil.
> But for now, I choose buying used phones over fair new ones. And maybe that is actually better for the environment, too.

It is! And very much in line with the Fairphone philosophy. But yes, definitely still a long way to go in terms of repairability and longevity of Android phones. Fairphone's pushing the limits, but those limits are still disappointingly low.
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Ha, I was thinking, a victim of the ancient aliens series on TV. We do have a lot to think about in the past and it seems to be filtered through a very narrow modern view.
He got a new phone :) So instead of us both having to get a new phone, just one sufficed.
I thought that this app is interesting in part because while it does provide utility as background music, it is also a channel to help drive monetization of the composer's music.

The app is free but it requires an existing Apple Music or Spotify account.
You are correct. Thanks for the pickup. Fixed the post and repo.
GCC 11: Change the default dialect to C++17
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In practice, CPU's with weaker memory models tend to be newer - a single-threaded CPU being the strongest model of them all. There are some interesting exceptions, such as e.g. the Alpha architecture - which is so 'weak' it needs a memory barrier even on pointer/array indirections, if multiple threads might be involved! (I actually did some digging and explained the issue in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22282049 this old thread.)
Is this related to Palm Inc. (Palm Pilot PDAs) of the 90s and 2000s?

[edit: Looks like the answer is yes, TCL bought the Palm brand and is funding this]
"international foot"

Almost every other nation uses the meter.
"the 41 earliest cases, including the first, had no connection to the animal market"
Were they connected to the lab?
They don't justify any of this advice that goes against the prevailing wisdom of "just build something". Beyond some book recommendations this isn't very useful.
The elephant tells the ape “you big too.”
agreed, what is the self hosting storage you use?
A few tidbits not included in the article:

* Some emulator do exists. The earlier attempts were just API translation layers that work a bit like wine: translate the function calls to native system APIs on windows. As time went, tricks and workarounds were piling up, especially as some games used lower level HW functionality (writing in registers, etc), which provided difficult to emulate, and game executables had to be patched, thus making the emulators a collection of special cases. Such emulators include Xenia, Cxbx (and derivatives such as shogun's version, dxbx, etc).

* More recently, efforts turned to low-level emulation, with complete emulation of the Xbox GPU, using a codebase derived from QEMU: XQEMU, and more recently XEMU (mborgeson's fork, focused on trying less-proven tricks and workarounds to maximize compatibility). Both are being developed in the open (XQEMU's development process might be slightly more open), and reverse-engineering is ongoing.

* There is also an ongoing effort to port ReactOS to both the Xbox and XQEMU (probably using the official nvidia NV2A driver): https://reactos.org/wiki/Install_ReactOS_on_Xbox

* Big names (among others) on the emulation scene: mborgeson, JayfoxRox, Espes, Shogun

* Bunnie Huang’s Hacking The Xbox was mentioned by another commenter, but 17 Mistakes Microsoft Made in the Xbox Security System is also an interesting read about working around the Xbox security mechanisms: https://xboxdevwiki.net/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xb...

* I cannot stress enough how https://xboxdevwiki.net/ is a great resource for information. Other links: https://xqemu.com/ https://github.com/xqemu/xqemu/ https://xemu.app/ https://github.com/mborgerson/xemu/wiki#content-top https://shogun3d-cxbx.blogspot.com/

* There is a big discord community, some rooms are bridged with IRC on freenode, I also bridged #xqemu on Matrix: https://xboxdevwiki.net/Main_Page/Header
I think using top comments to fill this up instead of using Loren ipsum would greatly improve it.
Epayments is not working since around February 2020
Not much, since the ocean floor tends to be quite young on geological terms. For example, the oldest parts of the floor of the northern Atlantic ocean only started to form after Laurasia broke apart 50 million years ago, and the floor of the Pacific ocean is regularly recycled in the subduction zones of the pacific ring of fire.
Or you could solve this problem by switching to metric...
Flutter State Management with Bloc for PineTime Companion App
Thanks for the suggestion! The way it could be done is that the config should have secret key param and I could use that to encrypt/decrypt. I will open an issue over at github.
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The article is bullshit.

1. The question is answered by Occam's razor

2. Regarding sustainable energy
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/

So pure intellectual mastrubation
So, did he or did he not stop or slow down to wash his face and mouth from pelican's excrement?
It's called HN pedantry. In chess, we use the term "woodpusher."

HN pedants think a post is a mathematical proof, and they won by discovering a loop hole to falsify it - "Aha!"

They're keyboard warriors who don't have any experience in the real world - they're really Luddites, but they just don't know it.

Usually it doesn't matter (because they don't matter), but the corona pandemic shows what happens when woodpushers take over the world. "Imma make a fake, unapproved ventilator, herp derp. U 2?" - multiple HN threads.

The US has fallen and it can't get back up. IT people actually have valuable skills in being able to merge different disciplines at both the technical and policy levels, and could have made a difference. But for pedants like, "I don't want my nephew to die, even if we have to shutdown a $22 trillion economy, so shut up." - again, multiple HN threads.

Not the finest moment for either the US or HN.
The game theory would not permit this since the miners are rotated every 10 minutes.
The water people drink is negligible percentage of overall water usage. Compare a single shower vs a weeks drinking water.
> The Earth was scheduled to return to another ice age in about 500 years— with ice two miles thick over Boston, Chicago, Paris, and many other places.

Can that really be true? 500 years seems awfully short for such a change.
Is US's consistent refusal to adopt something more common like the metric system the ultimate display of "Not invented here" syndrome? (I know imperial was invented by the British, but it's largely just the US left using it) Feels like everyone would be better off if the switch just happened already, as it'll happen one day or another. But they keep on fighting it off, for some reason.

Or does the imperial system have some advantage over metric (not including the fact that everything in the US is already using imperial) that makes it infeasible to change?
The recommendation of "Crafting Interpreters" is pretty weird. I would argue that more important than the specifics about compilers is a high-level understanding of various ideas in programming language design, and be able to understand the building blocks of different languages and compare the trade-offs of using one language compared with another. Dan Grossman from the University of Washington has an excellent course Programming Languages on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages/, which I think would be far more relevant to modern programmers than studying compilers specifically.
Very good piece but the wording of the below needs to change as it exonerates African people and African
countries of their massive hand in slavery & the African slave trade (which existed before Europeans & Arabs touched African soil & became involved with African slaves)

> Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force;

The reality is their ancestors were already enslaved by their fellow Africans and were bought at markets. As to whether the Atlantic slave trade drove demand to a much higher extent - I've read different views on the extent to which this contributed. Slavery was already massive in West Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa

Feel free to recommend other resources, as long as it's not just propaganda.
CPG brands are not core to FB's revenue growth. In general, FB make most of their money from direct response advertising, rather than brand advertising.

Additionally, the CPG model of ad buying doesn't make a lot of sense for eithe Google or Facebook, I'm not sure that this boycott makes much difference from a revenue perspective.

However, because Unilever are so huge, it probably does make a difference from a PR perspective, which is why we see lots of articles about this.
Sure, good luck using dollars without any banking services. The dollars are so safe under your pillow. Especially since the country is so stable and nice and criminals are so nonexistent. Very good plan.
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Google probably consumes more electricity than the entire bitcoin network. Do you hate them too?
How to get the best out of your Yubikey with GPG
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