skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the association with Butler came from somewhere else* . The Dworkin reference was a positive one in Aaronson's original post. If you're really interested in digging through all the details, the original post by Aaronson that sparked the whole thing was called "comment 171." You may come away from it with different ideas than I, but you'll definitely come away from it with different ideas than the New Yorker. ;)

* I admit that the "somewhere else" could have been my imagination.
Nice! A few days ago I dusted off some cheap panels I had lying around and started using them to charge my phone and other devices. I figured since I was WFH might as well put those panels to use. The added bonus is that now that I am charging my phone during the day, I am less likely to use it.

I was also planning on doing something similar to your setup which is why I had the panels in the first place. I have a backyard with decent sun exposure, so compared to your setup, it would almost be cheating.

Maybe a blogroll of solar powered blogs is in order!
Yeah but it's just as easy to put some black tape over most laptop cameras. Evidently apple decided to not consider that option
Right on. He/She/It has to be a deliberate troll. Noone (well, here I hope) is that obtuse.
I remember paying $60 (or $70?) for Ultima VII in 1992 which would be at least $110 today. But there's no chance I'd pay $70 for a digital download today. The market has changed a lot!
I second that. He deserves some beer money
Unlike a led light, a piece of tape prevents unauthorized webcam access.
As a greybeard, I think paying $70 for a video game is crazy.

Then I have to remember that in 1982 I paid $50 for a copy of Atari 2600 Pac-Man. That's $135 today.

So maybe I should shut the hell up.
Haskell, which uses a HM type system, has a type called Dynamic, which is described as follows:

>Finally, dynamically typed programming in Haskell made easy! Tired of making data types in your Haskell programs just to read and manipulate basic JSON/CSV files? Tired of writing imports? Use dynamic, dynamically typed programming for Haskell! [1]

If using an HM type system is really as easy and as fluid as you suggest, what purpose would be served by a type such as Haskell's Dynamic?

Nor is Dynamic a panacea: to use it requires a lot of extra typing (er, extra keypresses) IIRC, and

>A Dynamic may only represent a monomorphic value; an attempt to create a value of type Dynamic from a polymorphically-typed expression will result in an ambiguity error (see toDyn). [2]

1: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dynamic

2: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.14.0.0/docs/Data-...
I was a loyal Dropbox customer early on. At some point, they stopped caring about individuals and put all of their effort (especially marketing) into businesses. As a paid user, it was annoying to see upgrade nags in the app and on the website. I just wanted a damn folder that would sync properly.

That’s still all I really want, but being force fed features I didn’t need pushed me away. After their horrible rebranding, I got sick of looking at the ugly new icon on my iPhone. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

I now pay something like $10/mo for iCloud storage which works pretty good. Maybe Dropbox no longer needs (or wants) me as a customer, but it’s something I would’ve happily continued to pay for potentially decades to come.
My favourite quote about the Hagia Sophia, from Procopius’ De Aedificiis (557 AD):

”For it soars to a height to match the sky, and as if surging up from among the other buildings it stands on high and looks down upon the remainder of the city, adorning it, because it is a part of it, but glorying in its own beauty.”
It looks like Canada only. If they have anything from the US it must be somewhere other than the Northern Great Plains.
> It feels super nice on iPad

Because it's an iPad.

> on macOS

That's a desktop OS with an entirely different ... well, everything. Including precision positioning of the cursor.

I can only see it as an accessibility option (in this case it might work well).
With a PE ratio of 200. Oracles is less than 20.

So Oracle earns 10x more as I understand it....
They should amend this article to mention that because they haven't updated the camera in 7 years, customers should rest assured in knowing that even if compromised, nobody will be able to make anything out on the other end ;)
And The Hindenberg was "designed" to ferry passengers across the sky in luxury. They've chosen their words very carefully.
I wonder when and if there will ever be room again for objective reporting in the US.
In many European countries there is still something resembling that, albeit has gotten worse. I'm familiar with the German model and it comes at a high price. Every household pays a flat fee of around 20-30$ I think.

Even the "independent" news in the US are far from objective reporting.

What has become of the New York Times in recent years is sad to watch. The last couple of weeks just finished up a trend. The entire country is unlearning how to debate, and is descending into tribalism.
Over 2k people comment on “story” that links to 404 page
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23770718
> if I don't wear a mask during a pandemic, I accept the risks of catching the virus

No, your metaphor is rather flawed. Better one would be "if I don't see anyone during a pandemic, I do not need to wear a mask."

If anyone hacked my email account, I would certainly be harmed, with a very low probability. However, Google made sure that I was _certainly_ harmed by it: for quite some time I could not access a vitally important information, which caused me significant stress.

Apologists such as you miss the point: I specifically foresaw the situation, and disabled 2FA to avoid it. And still, Google decided that it knows better. Well, that was before I decided that I know better and deGooglified my life. Chrome->Firefox, Google.com->DDG, you know the drill.
For me it's that I'm sitting here shirtless while I'm working, and I'm kinda fat
Maintaining growth while cutting costs is hard. Here’s how 1 founder is doing it
You assume they wouldn't just get a warrant to get their binary signed.
Say that again when mortgage insurance, utilities, and insurance companies all accept crypto.

Actually even then, it wouldn't make sense to hold your e-fund in a volatile asset.
then again.. if you have a US passport, today much the world is not opening its doors to it: https://medium.com/@indica/the-plague-states-of-america-53b2...
You want your equipment to be verifiably secure?

Boy, wait until you find about what's possible manipulating PCB or processor designs (the Bloomberg fiction piece "The big Hack" illustrates what would be possible with just PCB manipulation). Or firmware or anything else proprietary running with elevated rights (normal ones are already enough to cause a lot of damage on most systems).

All you can do is reduce attack surface.
Yes, would be cool.

Firefox is currently unusable on mobile :/
Keyboards with a trend towards excellent ergonomics
Yeah, different tribes did wage war on other tribes. The echoes of those conflicts are remembered today.
There’s a separate ambient light sensor.
On my work laptop, my employer could conceivably turn the camera on to monitor me in some way. I don't think they would, but still I put tape over the camera because I don't want them to be able to do that.
> My biggest worry is that, since the GNOME folks control GTK+, it will morph into something that non-GNOME projects (like Xfce) can't realistically use.

This is a valid concern:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/477178/avoid-double-titlebar...

They've since added support for client-side decorations, but it arguably wasn't by choice. It definitely feels like a cat and mouse game now.
TikTok specifically has ties to the Chinese state apparatus that are concerning, similarly to Huawei. This isn't a blanket statement about Chinese companies in general - just those companies in particular. Specifically, this means these companies' products are likely to be tools of PRC state intelligence and the PRC's foreign-policy directives. The same cannot be said about other Chinese companies and similarly positioned companies in other countries.

This wouldn't be as big an issue if the PRC was a NATO ally, or least had a reputation for government transparency and accountability - and wasn't asserting ridiculous territorial claims - and didn't have an egregious human-rights record - and wasn't actively suppressing freedom-of-expression - and so on. Take away a couple of these issues and TikTok's suspicious business conduct over the past few years would be about the same level as scummy American Freemium game makers. I stress that (and despite appearances) I'm trying not to make a Sinophobic argument.

At the same time, I recognize that companies in China need to integrate themselves with the CCP/PLA/etc in order to succeed in that market.
I'd like more details as well. I imagine the originators of an idea attracting a bunch of help, then when it got complicated and tough, they were willing to see it through but couldn't get support from the unconvinced. Rinse and repeat for 15 years.
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FWIW I read on Twitter today (can’t find the original tweet for it anymore, sorry) that they would be allowing entry to all visitors outside of prayer times, and that there would be no cost of entry. They also said that the Christian frescos would not be covered up, but dimmed with some kind of lighting apparatus during prayer times and otherwise be visible. This gives me hope that Hagia Sophia will remain accessible to visitors – would be a real shame otherwise, agreed.
The light might not make a difference.

Wasn't there an NSA tool leaked that would turn on the camera, grab a picture, and have it off again before it would be lit up?

It would be technically possible.
That's a separate sensor - see https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/347895/where-is-th...
Here’s a couple, but there’s more...

Android only:

https://github.com/h-mdm

Apple only:

https://github.com/cmdmnt/commandment

Both:

https://github.com/flyve-mdm
> That's demonstrably false, which is where Economics comes from. "Limited Resources and Unlimited Wants."

Money is not a limited resource.

> what's your question?

It's not really a question. We live in a country where huge amounts of money are spent on Wall Street and the military, and so-called fiscal conservatives have no problem with it. The talk of money as a limited resource ONLY occurs when the conversation is about helping people in need.

> Money is a commodity and a currency.

Money is not a commodity. You are literally using words that you don't know the meaning of. As to "money is a currency", I think I remember reading that on some pamphlets from the Department of Redundancy Department.

> guaranteed income is for people who don't have income of their own, or not enough to get by

My point is that means tests like this leave out people who are in need but don't necessarily qualify for the means test, and open the door to additional strawman arguments like "why would anybody work if they are getting UBI". Means testing requires infrastructure and process, both of which cost plenty of money.

> If you eat books, your argument is more cogent,

"Hurr durr. If I am deliberately obtuse, it'll feel like I won the argument." Translated that for you.
+1 for Ordoro if you’re on Shopify
> It was just that for the past months every time someone forwarded me a stupid video I was supposed to like, it had a TikTok logo on it. So in my view this became the source of "stupid videos people bother me with". Not exactly a charming quality.

This quote comes to mind:

> I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0wTtiJygY
Anything but micro transactions and subscriptions. Can we stop dumbing down games too?
Once it starts being skill based it changes from pure gambling to skill based betting.

Loot boxes are purely "luck" based gambling, where your "luck" is dynamically altered based on how much the operators are get you addicted. Including occasional "free" rewards to encourage you to buy more with actual money.
The `icrowdnewswire.com` link says it is written by "Kyle Orland"

> Kyle Orland is the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica, writing primarily about the business, tech, and culture behind video games.

I couldn't find the IGN mirror of the article, but I did find this article which points in the other direction:

https://www.ign.com/articles/why-70-ps5-and-xbox-series-x-ga...

I think this is more a result of NBA2k's decision to charge $10 more for PS5 Xbox Series X titles.
It's a neat project, we added solar based watering to our greenhouse and having grafana as a dashboard was super handy.

Renogy's Rover MMPT chargers speak modbus over rs232 so you can interface it directly with a PLC or other industrial automation tools. The whole thing is self sufficient and was a real blast to put together.
My mbp cam light started to be always on about a year ago, so I have a sticker over it. They cannot fix trivial things so it cannot be trusted.

I checked for malware; nothing; if it is malware, the scanner did not find it.
The all-new Mercedes S-Class: 'My MBUX' tech explained
A person I with used to work for the UK’s Atomic Weapons Establishment. Apparently their former employer’s preferred method of disabling the camera on a MacBook was to break the lens using a nail and hammer...
Given how general the message is, My first guess would be it’s an “industry association” of some sort.
Does unattended-upgades also work on Debian to install security updates aromatically?
Amazon Says It Didn’t Mean to Ban Employees from Using TikTok
A shell is a kind of REPL, specifically built around accessing OS level commands and features. Language REPLs offer that same kind of access but for your language and language runtime.
Thank you. Please pull through on your project, to start a movement :)

Just reuse an old car battery from craigslist or something to power the setup during the night.
Very true. It seems closely related to the problem with qualia, which I've always thought of similarly.

Instinctively it seems impossible to describe the color green to someone who has never seen it. Seeing it seems to add "something" that is impossible to acquire in any other way. But this is because of our physical limitations, rather than the existence of some ephemeral quality. If we would have total knowledge and full ability of introspection, I don't see why we wouldn't be able to accurately predict the subjective experience of any input, including colors.
"rapid feedback is no substitute for software design and methodic problem-solving." -- clojure.org

they also mean TDD
In my area, there are several bands of Chumash -- Ventureño, Obispeño, etc -- all of which are the same nation, but different bands. Both are shown on this map, the set and its subsets.

But, of course, some people would have a territory, then another people would come in and claim it as their own territory because the other people weren't "using" it. This started well before 1492 -- and based on nature, probably began long before the Homo genus ever appeared on Earth.
Venice test brings up floodgates for first time
I don't think an artificial intelligence has to resemble anything we would recognize as human intelligence, while still being "intelligent". The motivations of humans and the motivations of computers are very different. If we can give a computer motivation, as well as a way to act and react within an environment, and a framework for learning (neural networks?) then what it "thinks" will be determined by the experience of its own existence. I'm not sure we're there yet.
Mine waste of the correct kind will indeed absorb CO2. The rightn type can be found as small particles and even nearly dust.
However, some mine dust contains toxic metals, Chrome, Arsenic, lead, copper in acidic form as acid mine drainage.
So what you spread on your crops or pasture or even waste land must be chosen with care.
That said, there is a lot of the right rock to make a difference at only the cost of haulage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_mine_drainage
It is so easy to get bogged down in the mathematics of RNNs that new learners lose perspective of the dynamics. I love that you have flipped that around.

I favor the approach of understanding the dynamics of machine learning. The mathematics are then easily distilled from the nature of the process.

This is a very clear description of that process. Thank you for it!
I'm not saying that you're wrong, but what Microsoft was doing is closer to science than what HN does every time an article somewhat related to the Ribbon is posted.

I'd bet on Microsoft's approach over these rants, every day of the week.
> this doesn't take into account the effect of measurement error.

So then how are you otherwise interpreting the paragraph discussing robustness to measurement error? If I understand it correctly, it is one of the major benefits of the proposed method.
If an iPhone is displaying the current camera contents on the screen, the software already has access to the camera, and is already "taking photos" in real-time.
House of Cards was an adaptation of a widely acclaimed British TV show, directed by one of the best Hollywood directors, starring an A-list actor. Plus it probably didn't cost 1.8 billion.
Cats + Keyboards + Autocorrect strikes again!
"I'm sorry, honey, but those games cost up to and including $70." —Marge Simpson, 1995
I would like to see Applied Science (Ben Krasnow) to power his website/blog with nuclear power.

I am serious.
There's another angle, which is that even if the wiring works and forms an iron clad promise the camera is not working, not having camera covers trains the population to be okay with having cameras pointed at them all the time, even in their most personal and private spaces.
Sure but eSNI only works for this on the theory that large CDNs are too big to block. It’s domain fronting as a service.

The problem is that if you’re too big to block you’re big enough that governments can drag you into court.
That's a great book, worth a read!
Even their first original show Oz (1997) [1] was good. It was clearly experimental and low budget (it's set almost entirely inside a prison so needs very few sets, props, costumes, etc.), but designed around that limitation to focus on the writing and characters. Netflix tried a similar strategy with one of their first original series, Orange Is The New Black.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(TV_series)
This is so interesting because the meme is that functional languages with algebraic types (Haskell, OCaml, SML, F#, Scala etc.) are the absolute best for building compilers, but the author makes a pretty convincing case for Clojure being also very up to task.

The author also doesn't stand for one or the other, but presents the trade offs of working on compilers on each language and explains why Clojure is actually a pretty reasonable choice for this task.
Ah I didn’t realize that.
In forensic linguistics you typically measure a lot of metrics, not just word frequencies, use of punctuation and whitespace, sentence lengths and structures etc. Attribution also isn't the only use of forensic linguistics. You can also look at influences, deas, people, publications etc. For instance in order to infer something about the reader, analyze influence networks etc.

I got interested in forensic linguistics many years ago when an article in a somewhat shady publication mentioned me. I got curious and started reading anything I could find on the topic. I was eventually able to identify the author, but mostly by tricking him to admit it after I had a ranked list of candidates. He was second on a list of about 4-5 people (out of a candidate set of perhaps 300). Not half bad for the rather crude methods I used. I was rather pleased with myself.

I've used similar techniques later to look at influence networks in companies.
He isn't a close friend. I'm asking for enough cash to make sure he is serious. In the same vein, I would like to have an agreement that, should he get an investment, would top me up to close to my usual rate.

The idea of a UCC lien is a very interesting idea, however, in this case, there is a very limited amount of work to do before a zero-stage investor is pitched. If that does not fly, I would of course lose all the non-cash compensation, and the limited amount of code existing would not be saleable or otherwise useful without a lot more work. No patents are involved yet, and even if they were, there would be the time and effort to go from a provisional to a full application involved.

If one were in a situation where compensation, over a longer time, is mostly in founder's shares and there is an asset sale at the end of an unsuccessful run, I can see such a lien being a really good idea.

To clarify and narrow my question: Is taking a SAFE fair? I'm pretty sure it can be fair to me. But is it fair to the founder? Fair to an investor who finds there is a founder-ish person in his same stock class?

Thanks for the very thoughtful response!
It takes one external party checking the wiring to make sure and it can't be patched by an update.
I find Firefox Preview (with ublock origin enabled) to be the most usable of all the mobile browsers i've tried.

Chrome has a few nice things going for it, but i'd rather have ublock.
As an alternative to a camera cover, use the camera indicator light to determine if your camera is active

I've been thinking about privacy all wrong. I thought it was about preventing access to my data... but Apple has cleared up my misunderstanding and now I know that it's just about being notified when my data is stolen.

Everyone feel free to post your credit card numbers... your privacy is secure, since your bank will let you know in the form of a bill when it's accessed without your permission.

Thanks Apple!
I suspect there is a common use case where someone’s phone gets stolen so they lose the 2nd factor and have to disable it or add a new device because they don’t have the backup codes either.

As with all things security, there are trade offs.
Lately I tried fedora and surprised they have many up to date packages including exa (ls alternative) and other new shiny rust tools. I've switched to using it for one of my personal server and quite happy.
A single pi4 has an impressive amount of processing power...

In my day job I'm a .net and react guy and I made a proof of concept for a next version of a possible product (tech preview, to show the people that their estimates were just insane - on the high side) on a pi 4, running in .net core on manjaro on my pi4.. this is a fairly intensive thing, using signalR with lots of messaging going on and cpu usage is ~10% at peak...

So.. my next task will be to run that on solar too :D