skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it doesn't - isn't this a prototype? The article talks about 2027 for the actual aircraft.
> Well, can you sleep on the street in an American city? Can you solicit charity? Are you allowed to eat a piece of bread to avoid dying of hunger, even if you have no money?

In every major US city I’ve been to you can do this.
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Seems like you can just require a license or prescription that can be taken away
Ok, so I got it connected via SATA. I tried the following:

pv /dev/zero > /mnt/foo
umount /mnt # trying to get rid of any caching of foo.
mount /dev/sda4 /mnt
pv /mnt/foo > /dev/null
pv /dev/sda3 > /dev/null
pv /dev/zero > /dev/sda3

All pv invocations showed an average of ~126MiB/s each.

I don't have another HDD on hand to compare since I've upgraded everything to SSDs. Though I don't remember what's normal for HDDs, to be honest 126MiB/s doesn't seem that slow. I thought I remembered something lower.
The parent wasn’t advocating for the use of drugs, they were saying we shouldn’t lock people up for doing drugs. Do you think we should lock up drug addicts?
> there’s not much left for guys to wear that’s not athletic wear of some kind or another (and hell, sport coats kinda are anyway)

Sport coats are athletic wear? To me, a sport coat is the same thing as a suit jacket, with the only difference being that a sport coat isn't the same color as your pants. It will literally become a suit jacket if you put on matching pants.

For example, a sport coat, very much unlike athletic wear, will prevent you from raising your arms too high with its big squared shoulders.
>... combat sequences through procedurally generated towers and buildings, chained together by crafted plot events.

There's a fantastic game out right now called Hades from Supergiant Games (of Bastion fame, this one could comfortably be called "Bastion 2.0") which does this roguelite-action-rpg genre very well. Highly recommended, checkout the trailer from the recent update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNrt43epkG0
I never liked their DRM stance and personally not using Steam and buying games in DRM-free stores instead, but Valve gained a lot of goodwill by backing Linux gaming and important gaming related FOSS projects like Mesa, Wine, dxvk, vkd3d and advancing Vulkan and OpenXR in general.

They are still lacking effort in marketing of Linux gaming, but their technical backing is really great.
> Do you really want to take the position that the government cannot monitor any group until it commits a crime?

There is an ocean of options in between “do nothing” and “surveil and database every citizen who potentially maybe, might, could exercise their constitutional protections and protest.” A vast amount of options.
"Also, all these whiz-bang success stories suffer from enormous survivorship bias."

Well that's because in 2 years when you finally pull the plug on a failing business so you can pay your bills, you end up shutting down the blog you stopped posting to regularly 14 months ago and nobody can find it anyway because you put it on an 'indie' platform.
I agree with you. His actions paint a very dark picture and I also don't understand why people are defending him.

It's like you said, he's either smart enough to know what he's doing, in which case his actions should be scrutinized as such, or he has no clue what he's doing and he should be called a "moron" and left to his own devices. It can't be both at the same time. He can't be a moron and a genius that was forced to do something he didn't want to do.
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The main problem with Bulgaria is mobsters and corruption. Bulgarians tend to be hard working and there are a lot of successful Bulgarians abroad but inside of the country one always has to live in fear that too obvious success will attract the wrong attention and the mobsters which more or less control the courts will just take everything they want from him.

So a lot of the smarter and more ambitious people leave to try to make a living in the west, while the rest try to live and work while being careful not to piss off the wrong person.

On top of that you have the West screwing over the country the usual way the west screws over developing countries. By buying out infrastructure and then raising prices, etc. This they do glove in hand with the mobsters and the corrupt government.

So the result is that most major businesses are oligopolies of some type or another. Either because they have been taken over by the mob or a couple of western conglomerates have bought out all the options. Or combination of the both. Prices are high in comparison to salaries and most Bulgarians live in what one would consider poor conditions. Thus family formation is low.

The EU membership has been very beneficial in putting in infrastructure and the sort. However, EU membership has also brought in a lot of real estate appreciation without a commensurate raise in ability to pay rents.

I think things are improving. Mostly because of software and technology. In my experience Bulgarians seem to value education and hard work so there are a lot of programmers. Also, the mobsters who at this point own all the important real estate, have decided to more or less leave technology companies alone. They have figured out that this will maximize the value of their existing holdings.

Thus there seems to be an unwritten license to run a tech company in Bulgaria. The industry seems to be thriving with native Bulgarian startups and R&D offices being open by major western companies. Lately I have even noticed a trend of expats from western countries going to Bulgaria to do a start up where life is cheaper. Most Bulgarians in the big cities speak some English.

The tech industry also tends to give out decent salaries, so people in that industry do not quite live in poverty. In trendy bars and restaurants in Sofia and Varna you can usually see the mobster crowd and the tech crowd living side by side uneasily giving each other furtive glances.

Thus far the government seems to value and encourage tech business. For example, in contrast to the crumbling roads, Bulgaria seems to have some of the best internet in the world. But the government and their friendly mobsters run the show and they can do anything they want in the future. So my optimism is very measured.
Only 5 shops? Jeez.

What did you expect the police to do? Stop the mobs while the looting happens? With anti police sentiment so high here, it would be a thousand times higher on the street. I'm not sure stopping the looting there and then would be a good idea.
That's a misleading information, because ARM binaries are actually smaller than similar x86 binaries. Here's a tcpdump example:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/254418/difference-b...

MIPS 32 bits -> 502.4K

ARM 32 bits -> 718K

Intel 32 bits (i386) -> 983K

Intel 64 bits (x86_64) -> 1.1M
Frequently wear a baseball cap (that counts as a hat? Right?) on weekends thinning hair, pale skin and a subtropical climate pretty much mandate it - and the extra shade certainly improves the efficiency of my sunglasses!

A lot of people use umbrellas here for the same purpose, but with dense crowds, overhead obsticles and tying up a hand... I'd rather wear some form of hat while out and about!
Have a look at statistics on corruption in non-Western countries. Then compare those to that of Western countries. Bribes, cover-ups, corruption, and so on, is rife. At least in western countries most people have the shame to try and hide it. But in many cultures, what we would consider a bribe, is simply a part of doing business.
> The highest paid government employees in most states are football coaches for the state schools? Why? I thought schools job were to educate not cause brain injuries in their students? Why pay millions of tax payer dollars earmarked for education for someone to coach a game that injures the mental capacity of the students. Why not hire more professors with that money? why not pay teachers more or fix facilities buy material and equipment make teachers not have to spend their own money on basic supplies?

I used to feel this way too, but my understanding is that investing in sports programs tends to _bring in_ more money for universities, on net. I don't think it's accurate to consider it as trading off against academic investment.

At any rate, this is a bit tangential: American universities are the best in the world, so the conversation is more about high school and lower, where our educational outcomes lag by some metrics.
A common theme I heard from internal sources was that they had serious issues with software quality because nobody wanted to do the difficult work of fixing bugs, addressing security vulnerabilities, etc. As a result someone eventually had to be pressured into doing it, but now they weren't really doing what they were passionate about and they'd catch criticism for not being Passionate or doing Highly Impactful Work.

If nobody fixes the security holes in Steam's overlay sandbox and protocol handler, every single person with Steam installed gets a crypto-locker installed. The old Valve model didn't really have incentives to encourage people to do the hard work necessary to achieve those fixes, especially if that hard work was interfering with other people's fun.
The author of the tweet pointed out that lied, and subsequently attacked others while playing the victim - which are sociopathic tendencies. If what he says it true, he could reasonably claim to have compelling evidence to prove his point.

But this is irrelevant. Calling someone a sociopath regardless of whether or not you have evidence isn't harassment. You realize that harassment is a crime, right? It's honestly quite astounding that you believe restrictions on speech are this tight. Being offended or insulted does not make speech harassment. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that banning speech on the basis of offensiveness is not allowed [1]. Speech protections go even further than that - even burning a cross and calling for "revengeance" against minorities is protected [2]. No, Balaji's Tweets aren't harassment. They aren't even near it.

Harassment laws almost always revolve around non-consensual speech (e.g. someone following you or otherwise forcing you to be exposed to their speech), or a captive audience (a boss saying something to an employee. The employee is a captive audience, they can't avoid their boss without losing their job). Harassment is about keeping people from having to listen to speech that they do not consent to receiving. Harassment laws are not about preventing people from saying offensive things about other people. Taylor isn't a captive audience - if she does not consent to seeing Balaji's Tweets she can easily block him.

And on a side note: using your own expansive definition of harassment, aren't you now harassing Balaji by calling him a sociopath or saying he has "sociopathic tendencies"? If not why is it okay for your to call someone a sociopath, but harassment for him to call Taylor a sociopath?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snyder_v._Phelps

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
Ugh, this resonates with me so much. I recently tried to fix some kind of mundane network issue (had a Fedora machine configured for a static IP and wanted to use DHCP instead), and the absolute mess of tooling that is the Linux networking landscape baffled me. How could it get this bad? As far as I could tell, there were at least 4 competing ecosystems (NetworkManager, the 'ip' tool, /etc/network/interfaces, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts) all extant at the same time.

Does 'ip' tool update one of those files? How do I tell systemd to re-load the configuration? Is NetworkManager running or not? Does it matter? Does NM update these files, or do something magical to the interface? Are these even the right files? The best answer at which I could arrive is "who knows?"

Every time I attempted to change the network interface settings, it only stuck around until the machine rebooted. Something was resetting it back to a static IP, and I had no tools to tell me what.

Why did distro maintainers ever allow things to become this confusing? Why do we have so many tools and config files for the same thing?

In the end I reinstalled a fresh copy of Fedora on the machine and set the DHCP configuration in the setup wizard. It's that bad.

My experience tells me to anticipate a comment along the lines of "Hey, those programs and config files are all actually the same tool, and you must have just been configuring it wrong." If that's the case - it's an even stronger point that this chaos has reached a critical mass, where parts of the same networking configuration tool are so disjoint that they don't visibly interoperate at all.
Not relevant here but a tangent: In USB 2.0 times the efficiency was pretty terrible, you could get ~25 MB/s disk transfer throughput from the 480 Mbit/s signaling rate. It improved a little over the years... I wonder what are the actual speeds you can get from USB 3.0/3.2.
You can't feel guilt if you don't know about something. I'd say most people don't even know where half the things they own come from.
> I can gift one to my 5 year old and so long as it stays home, he's 100% legal.

Not everywhere; in some (many?) states, even cars intended to sit idle on private property must be registered (usually for a lower fee), and you can't put a 5 year old's name on the registration. Regardless, giving your 5 year old a car and saying he "owns" it is laughable.

Your analogy doesn't really make sense, either. You could give your 5 year old a gun to keep in his room, and while that's a terrible idea, it'd be difficult for you to get in trouble for it. Either way, your 5 year old isn't gonna be able to walk into a car dealership and buy a car any more than he could walk into a gun store and buy a gun.

> Likewise, carrying a gun is often regulated as you wish - and beyond reasonable levels in several states.

No state regulates guns as I wish. I won't elaborate much because I doubt we're going to find any form of agreement there. I will say that I support the repeal of 2A (not like that will ever happen), and at the very least I'd like the states to have the power to regulate firearms in whatever ways they see fit.

> This idea that we've only had gun rights since Heller is itself a modern invention.

I don't think anyone's claiming that we didn't have gun rights before 2008. But Heller (and other cases over the last 80? years or so) have narrowed the kinds of restrictions that are considered constitutional. Heller finally taking the position that 2A protects gun ownership regardless of participation in a militia was a big deal as well.
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> That's a very roundabout way of saying "people tried it, hate it, and told others: UNFAIR."

Hmm, I'm not a native English speaker so I might have not exactly conveyed my intentions. I'm definitely not trying to argue that other people are unfair, but more just that people should try it out a bit more.

> I'd love to ignore the Touch Bar, but since they stole the F key row for it, I cannot.

I'm genuinely curious about this F-keys every time I write about the Touch Bar - I've never encountered use for those keys that are really useful.

> Since there's no physical feedback

Yeah, that part I agree. If you're still suffering about it (regardless whether you use Touch Bar regularly or not), you might want the HapticKey app that I've mentioned it previously.

> The content is on the screen, if you can touch type you shouldn't ever be looking down

Well, because the Touch Bar's layout is pretty stable, I find that I can touch-type the Touch Bar without looking down the screen. It becomes muscle memory, just like a usual keyboard.
Yes, I know the feeling from the times I bought a ticket myself, against rationality.

I'm not an expert, but seems to me this feeling is also the main driver leading to gambling addiction, which ultimately leads to addicts saying things like "It's not about the money, but the game itself", after having lost a ton of money.

Wonder if Yotta can lead to the same addiction, and if so if it is then solely applied for positive objectives (i.e. saving money), or lowers the barrier to entry for other gambling schemes that are less beneficial.
No, that's not what I was saying, but it's not exactly false, either, now that you've brought it up. George Washington himself went on several forced disarming campaigns in the first few years of the US (notably, before 2A was ratified). It's a persistent myth that gun ownership was unfettered and unregulated before the 1900s.
> talented full time security researcher

If a single security researcher can de-obfuscate it in under a day, then a nation state with huge funding can too. Maybe not in a day, but eventually.
The Russian Duma could revoke the sale of Alaska to the United States and declare that they still own it. What stops them from doing so? The fact that the US military would stop them from trying to repossess the land.

The "promise" to the Creek isn't worth the paper it's written on because they don't have enough military might to enforce the terms of the agreement. The US operates with them as it does with every one else, on the principle of "might makes right."
Some places still wear hats.
https://vitamindwiki.com/%22No+hat,+no+play%22+in+Australia+...
https://blog.coolibar.com/school-hat-contest/
...I think the author has several strong arguments, but I'm really having trouble getting past the tone.

Business is business, but the people who work for you deserve to be treated with some degree of empathy and respect. If the author thinks how he writes, I would not want to work for him, ever, regardless of how I billed him.
Sometimes I wear a cowboy hat for fun, but they are terrible in any condition. Outside they blow away because of the wide brim. If you forget to take it off before getting in a car it will either catch on the door frame, or the headrest will knock it off your head. If you wear it inside the brim will knock into something and make you look like a doof.
I wonder if they will ever collectively admit that building a profit center out of gambling for children was not a great idea, despite the rewards it brought them.
The crypto pump and dump scams are still going on? Can't crypto currency just mature or go away now?
> I do get ridiculed for it now and then

I have similar experiences with dyeing my hair in bright colours as a guy; most people react neutrally or positively, others ... not so much.

There seems to be something of a cultural difference here too; in Ireland, New Zealand, and Indonesia I don't get too much grief from it, in the Netherlands ... meh. One guy (random stranger) even went so far as to shout "hey homo!" :-/ One of the aspects of my country I'm not especially impressed with.

Overall, it's not a bad people filter. If you're the kind of person who would ridicule someone over hair colour or wearing a hat then you're probably not the kind of person I want to interact with if I have the choice. I'd rather know sooner than later.
The point is neither you nor Stefan are even disagreeing with the point that the hoaxers are making: that these journals are not capable of rejecting even the most blatantly bad submissions.

Stefan is just saying that the same point the hoaxers are making can also be made towards other fields. That may be the case, but it doesn't make the hoaxer's statements any less true.

"This journal accepts blatantly bad submissions"

"But other journals also accept blatantly bad submissions"

The second sentence does not do anything to disprove the first.
Correct. If you could be forced to admit guilt in a Grand Jury, that admission could be used in the actual criminal proceedings.
> CEOs are paid what they're paid due to prevailing financial incentive structures and scarcity of talent

Nope, they're usually friends with existing board members. It's a club.
> He referred to himself as Caesar as did all his men, and later Romans.

Not just him. Every Roman emperor was called Caesar, which is why Caesar is the word for emperor in other nearby languages. (Compare Russian czar; German kaiser.)
This is devastating, not just for computer geeks in Seattle, but all over the world. The LCM was one of a kind.

I organize an annual developer conference [1], and one of the highlights of my life was renting this place out and inviting ~400 fellow devs to spend the night playing with mainframes & vintage PCs [2] and signing karaoke.

[1] https://2020.cascadiajs.com

[2] https://twitter.com/ermap/status/1063697148514983936?s=21
> Why does the Standard Model only allow for three neutrinos?

The short answer is, it doesn't. The Standard Model, AFAIK, does not rule out the existence of more neutrinos (or more generally, more "generations" of leptons and quarks than the three we know); there is no hard and fast limit in the math of the Standard Model on the number of generations. So I think the article's statement is, if taken literally, false. (Unfortunately, this kind of thing is common in pop science articles, even in magazines like Scientific American that used to be better at avoiding such things.)

I think a better way of stating our best current knowledge would be that we have only observed three generations, and if a fourth generation does exist, all of the particles in it would have to be very massive--massive enough to have not been detected in any of our current experiments up to and including the LHC. Most physicists appear to think it's unlikely that a fourth generation exists given those limits, but I'm not aware of any theoretical argument that definitely rules it out.
Large parts of Tacoma Washington are tribal land owned by non-tribe members and it functions. I would assume a similar arrangement would work in Tulsa.
This is strange, doesn't that leave a big gap to be filled?
There is no certificate pinning anymore, it's deprecated. Your whole argument is based on the state actually playing nicely and assume a meaningful oversight of intelligence, both are hopelessly naive.
Now we have a use for Elon Musk.
You need to have federal drug laws because the one thing the federal government is supposed to do is manage the borders and relationships with other countries. If you don't have federal drug laws then bringing drugs across the border stops being a crime and we could end up with the fiasco of drug lords that Mexico has where journalists get beheaded for even reporting on it.
It reclassifies email afterwards, you just have to move it the same way you would for the original classification.

It also moves all email from that sender that has been classified previously as well ; although it will not move the mail in folders for which you use a "screening folder" (i.e. if you use an intermediary folder used only to tell Screenr where to classify email) by design. The reason is that I wanted to be able to allow a behavior where mail gets classified as a best guess, but you can move email manually if need be. The best example is the "papertrail" folder I'm using: it receives all the order confirmation, invoices and such automatically, but sometimes I'm also putting similar emails my wife is forwarding me ; but I don't want screenr to classify her as papertrail - so I use a "Classify in papertrail" folder which is only used for me to tell the tool where it should land.
ctrl-[ can also be used as escape (I think escape sends that control sequence in the terminal).

With caps-lock mapped to ctrl, typing it is not too far off from the home-row.
It would involve adding a new keyword to the language though. I imagine there was some desire to avoid that.
Apple doesn't directly compete with CUDA, they just want total control of their platforms. Metal does have great performance and tooling. In practice nobody does HPC on macs so there's no demand for linear algebra or graph libraries, which are a big selling point for Nvidia over AMD.

The fact that Apple is trying to kill OpenGL and OpenCL and block Vulkan definitely sucks though for anyone trying to do indie games, or open source ML/HPC.