skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In ALL cases? Certainly not.

But this isn't a mathematical proof. Just because we cannot guarantee something in 100% of the time, doesn't mean it should not be attempted.

Truth is being degraded not about ethically controversial subjects with a clear scientific consensus, and not even controversial subjects with SOME scientific doubt.

We're talking about situations where leaders of hundreds of millions of people will deny statements they made, and everyone falls along, in an Orwellian fashion.

These are not good faith disagreements. There is a massive contingent out there in the world that are not arguing in good faith, they care not about the argument, but about the results.

And if you want to give them all the benefit of the doubt, and say that "there are fine people on both sides", then you are correct, there is no productive discussion to be had here.
> The privacy.com (private/disposable payment card numbers) app and website have tons of third party trackers and spyware embedded, too.

Well, the relevance all depends on your threat model. Personally, I care about protecting my banking info from strangers but not about protecting my info from privacy.com and its third parties.

I think "spyware" is a bit of an exaggeration considering that presumably many privacy.com users have a threat model similar to mine.
I've spent 16 years working for major niche publisher and am a bit addicted to eReaders. Every time threads like this appear here I see lots of people that have no idea that there is a whole world of devices outside Kindle and Amazon. Here are some of the more interesting devices current out there in the market:

Pocketbook Color: yes, a color e-ink device for about $200: https://pocketbook.ch/en-ch/catalog/color/color-ch
You can see the Pocketbook color reading comics here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkufktAQC_E&t=0s which beautifully demonstrates its colour capabilities.

Onyx Boox Note 2: 10'' e-ink screen, Android 9.0, touch and wacom digitizer: https://onyxboox.com/boox_note2
It can be used for school/uni/research. Its large screen and notetaking features pair well with annotating fixed-layout formats such as PDFs.

I have some strong opinions about Amazon and its eBook business. I really like their tech but their business practices are not aligned with what I want for myself as an author. I have moved to Kobo for my personal eReader and am using a Kobo Forma which is their answer to the Kindle Oasis. Even though the Oasis hardware with its metal usage feels much more premium than the Forma with its flexy plastic shell, the device is much more open than the Oasis and it is easier for me to use it both as a reader and as an author. I live in the UK and Kobo through its partner Overdrive -- which it owned up until not long ago but I am not sure they still do -- allows me to borrow books from local libraries. I have a couple library cards from different library consortiums and that gives me a lot of catalogs to search and borrow from. Synchronizing with Pocket is also a godsend, every time I see a nice article here on HN that I think deserves more attention and care, I just send it to Pocket and read it from the Kobo in a nice park.

Anyway, this is just some pointers to those here that never experienced ebooks and ereaders outside Amazon. Yes, Amazon brings a lot of value to the table, especially for the readers, books tend to be cheaper in Amazon but that is due to its monopolistic practices and thug tactics. Kindle is not where the innovation is happening, other devices have better hardware and better software, other companies have healthier ecosystems.
Nope. The press release from Kodak didn't contain any embargo information. Kodak told the press, but forgot to tell them not to report it.

Just rank incompetence from Kodak.
How do you know if the measurements you're taking at the end of the process are valid to interpret, if you don't know the inputs?

I'm not willing to trust the one (or act on it in a way that distorts what could be an otherwise fair/unbiased process) without knowing the other.

My problem with this approach is that people are too willing to stop halfway and claim that the outcome looks biased, without seeing what the inputs were. And cause (or seek to cause) massive change to people's lives based on that.
It works well with the Eero routers.
Is it really only 40 times slower? I thought it was millions of times slower. If it's only 40 times slower than a modern CPU, then this technology is a lot more interesting than I thought.

From a few minutes of Googling, I can't find any obvious benchmarks.
I'm sometimes thinking about an implant, but then I realize a ring or bracelet would work better.

A current concept I've been fiddling with is a personal assistant that's always on me.

Yes, a phone, but strapped to my back. Why? Because I can't leave it somewhere or change the volume or ignore it.

It's meant to nag me until I finish the task (verification/confirmation is difficult though).
"Don't believe the institutional no" "Just because someone else has failed does not mean it's not possible"

So here's the part where we ignore basically all legitimate advice and the experience of others? Then are we using judgement, or hubris? If there is some artefact of new technology that changes the nature of the opportunity, then that's not so much 'ignoring' advice, it's contextualising it i.e. 'well it failed before, but ink screens are now cheap'. Etc.
Yeah, everything is a conspiracy.
Don't see why you're downvoted for posting this. Certainly, satellites designed before the Space Shuttle would have to be very paranoidly designed to include a self-destruct mechanism, but it only takes a couple kilograms of explosives to strongly disincentivize kidnapping it.

If I was a military satellite designer, heaven forbid, I'd definitely include that in a world that included the possibility of stealing satellites. The capability, quietly communicated between the powers, would be enough to ensure that the satellite would never be stolen. And therefore, the billion-dollar kidnapping capability becoming useless.
Survivorship Bias... please take this tweetstorm with a grain of salt unless you have backing the size of Amazon’s income to play with
Nothing shows the ignorance of most mof the western world about modern Asia most than falling back to 27 year old articles at every time a place is mentioned. I guess we all need to reference Reagan's Star Wars program whenever we talk about the US to get an equivalent feel.

As someone living here (queue US coworkers 'why would you move to China?'), that article has not aged well.

Children are so so much better supported here than the US its not even funny. Public libraries, lavish playgrounds, sports activities, public transport (yes your 8 year old can take the metro to school, safely), science programs, free museums, ...
Be careful expressing opinions like this, it could get you fired these days.
Hah, it sounds more like Clippy wrote this PR puff piece!

I can just imagine PR Clippy...

"It looks like you're trying to write spin, can I help you with that?"
Clarke's first law:

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
The mobile app is horrible. It's a webview or something, and works like total crap on old devices. If you open a notification for a group discussion post, it tells you what the title of the discussion is--but not what group it's for.

As much as possible, I find myself interacting with Goodreads through calibre plugins; I've got a library with zero actual book files that contains an entry for every book in my library, and I mainly use that to browse my collection. Since syncing that list takes so long, my actual calibre libraries are also synced to Goodreads, as that's where I actually make my changes.

With Library thing's recent removal of library limits, I'm thinking more and more about abandoning Goodreads--except I don't know if there's a calibre plugin for PT, and I've spent so much time adding and updating book records for items in my goodreads library, which would have to be redone for LT.
It's not a user hostile practice if you have control over it.

Do you consider signing keys in apt packages to also be user hostile?
Note that the use of the word "panic" in Rust can be a bit misleading. It is not equivalent to a segfault in C/C++ but rather to a volontarily uncaught exception, killing the application.
There is no way of knowing. Certainly looking at outcomes is a bad way of measuring this, because it presupposes equal interests and desire.
Most people don't remember, but accelerometers used to be very expensive kit if you wanted to equip a drone or robot with one. Why did they get cheap? It wasn't phones, it was automotive airbags. If LIDAR can be made to work effectively then its price will be driven to the floor very quickly simply due to volume of production.
I would bet that male nurses do pretty well with dating.
It was less national security and more not obeying local law, particularly the law mandating censorship of certain stuff.

I don't like the Chinese approach to managing the public opinion by censoring valid information and opinions at all. But the opaque and uncontrollable pockets of power created by the US approach of misusing "national security" as an excuse for practically any action, most of them being more politically motivated than anything else, is equally disturbing and problematic. Both of these ways of governing lend themselves equally well to dictatorships, which I consider problematic, especially in modern democracies, which the US certainly claims to be (the Chinese government at least doesn't claim to be a democracy in the first place).
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I've never had a migraine but I've definitely had that feeling like the room was too big. I think it only happened once or twice as a kid from a fever or something.
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Fences, gates and lockable doors stop petty thieves, not ethnic cleansers
Scot here, I have this problem with telephone voice menus. Actually, I've also had this problem in the US as well, particularly while on the telephone. Putting on a fake US accent seems to work, but it's so damn embarrassing and I guess could be construed as offensive by some people (if they thought I was taking the piss).

I had the same issue recently with a BMW voice activation system I was playing with. Mimicking an English accent worked for that one!
> But from what I learned from underrepresented people during the years is that role models and identification plays a HUGE part in "making a free choice".

How about teaching kids to pick role models regardless of their gender or color?
This both is and isn't the case for me.

I read fiction on a Kindle oasis. Its fantastic. I can't think of a single improvement.

Its impossible for me to work with technical materials on the Kindle. Specs, tutorials, tech blogs, tech books. All are unusable because of resizing figures.
I use USB chargers/hubs for anything I build myself, and Sonoff plugs (even better if they're the kind you don't need to splice into wires) for anything that needs to control mains. This approach has worked excellently so far.

Hit me up if you need any advice!
> Truck drivers are 94% men, no one complains about that.

Used to work at Uber Freight. There were definitely conversations around safety for women drivers or a lack thereof. Just wanted to point out that this statement is a little presumptuous especially if the author is not involved in the industry. Just because you're not exposed to it doesn't mean there aren't complaints. There's a documentary called Big Rig and it showcases the lives of truck drivers, some of them are women. They go into depth about the dangers of being on the road as a women, go watch it, you'll quickly realize some people do care.
Good point. So whoever wrote that got it wrong, right?
Investing style and method must match the temperament of the investor.

Your fried may not have the temperament that is suitable for managing investment decisions, even passively Bogglehead style. He may get better return by just paying 1.5% and staying completely ignorant and intentionally avoiding any knowledge. Paying 1.5% fee for the luxury of staying ignorant is still better than putting all money into inflation protected treasury bonds. Never try to push investment advice to your friends.

Burton Malkiel (author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street) has a great story:
https://youtu.be/wnCxlIQjT-s?t=3949
> there are experiments which show that the brain calculates the answers and "presents" the answers later on to the consciousness.

This made me think of an async process
How does synfig relate / compare to opentoonz?

https://opentoonz.github.io/e/
https://www.academia.edu/16634456/Unraveling_the_effects_of_...

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.101...
I'm sorry, but what's this? Am Open Hardware RF initiative? Is it just antennas? I'm sorry but the info is all over the place and I'm a bit confused. I'm not native english speaker but I work on the ISP space. It would be easier to compare it to standard ISP stack.
I have a 2nd-generation Paperwhite that I haven’t used in a couple of years because it keeps slowing down a few weeks after booting. It also slows down immediately if I sideload more than a handful of e-book files. I switched to an iPad Mini and never looked back.
The problem is that the outcome is an aggregation of a lifelong process, not just the recruiting process. Trying to control the outcome is impossible, because for example there may be cultural reasons (parenting, marketing and advertising, etc...) that may result in only a fraction of a gender being interested in a field. But still we can still aim to offer equal opportunities in a bottom up manner to any candidate.
> It would require a vast and secret conspiracy.

This conspiracy theory has been given a name, which is widely use in feminist circles: the Patriarchy.
Unfortunately I guess they're the only solution when it comes to portable AC units. Not everyone is living in a house they own: otherwise I agree
The 10" one seems to cost $380 or so.
I don't know the veracity of the claims but it's pretty crystal clear.

safe becomes unsafe really quickly
The DPT-RP1 linked to is now discontinued, and has unfortunate reviews that seem to indicate the potential went to waste:

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/sony-digital-paper-dpt-rp1
Authors Condemn Saudi Arabia's Bid to Host World Science Fiction Convention
It looks like problem! I'm going to create «Rumba for dog poo» startup!
It wasn't fair to begin with. Countries by default have tariffs (EU, Japan). Crying unfair is just playing to the capitalists that want access to a disadvantaged market with little to no developed competition. If you've been to China you know how developmentally challenged they were, and with over a billion people developing a strong local economy will inevitably play into the "unfair" trade policy accusations.

The US chooses to open its markets up to foreign players, and generally does not demand reciprocal market access for it unless there's a political motive, which, in this case with China there is (the US wants to curb the rise of a competing world power).
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As an example of a hardware issue on the XPS 13, the trackpad is hinged from the top near the spacebar.

That means that it either requires more force to click the higher up that pad you go or you have to click more precisely at the bottom of that pad.

That's been a non-issue even before they moved to the artificial click mechanism.
Interestingly, I have had the polar opposite experience. When using apps written in scripting languages like Python, I almost expect them to crash at some point because I've seen it happen so often. On the other hand, Rust applications, much like Go, Haskell or C++ applications, in my experience, generally do what they are told without any hiccups.

Care to name some of the "9 out of 10" programs that crashed for you?
In this particular case, it's not about white people's representation, it's Asian. Asian people are highly represented in tech, and they are not in journalism. That's the qualifying issue. So understanding why that disparity exists is the key, it has little to do with 'diversity policies' or anything like that.
Once it's up in space it doesn't seem impossible to move the Starlink HQ outside the USA.
I have a $150 bike for commuting, and it's fantastic. I don't worry about getting it stolen, and riding it is hard because it's heavy/has shitty components, which is exactly what I want from a bike.

Since my commuting distance is fixed, I want the ride to be as hard as possible, otherwise I don't train effectively enough. I should probably trade it for an even shittier one , to up the difficulty level.
I think my issue is that a nobleish idea that supported the freedom of everyone to be a creator has morphed into something (an ideology, a secular religion) that demands that creators not be able to make a living off their creation even if (or especially if) they are providing tooling for corporations that give nothing, or at least very little proportionally, back.
the bit about 100k books at launch at 9.99 could have been dumping no? He makes no mention of the publishers coming to an agreement on such a low price. Usually e-books like that are 19.99 iirc.
For me, finding time to keep doing it, despite life throwing curve balls, is what keeps me from getting stuck in the nostalgia of it. So just beware that your nostalgia isn't keeping you from picking it up again. Because it wont be the same when you can't risk breaking an arm because of responsibilities, but it's still fun, just different.
To give an answer a bit more technical than the others, theoretically a encryption scheme is considered fully homomorphic if it can support an arbitrary number of additions and multiplications on its inputs (bits or integers). In a lot of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes bits are represented through big matrices that are in part random and part deterministic. You can add and multiply these matrices and it will naturally add and multiply the encrypted bit inside as well, but you need the secret key to decrypt the matrix and learn if it contains a one or a zero.

From these operations (add and mul) you can create a NAND gate using the formula 1 - A * B (assuming A and B are matrices containing encrypted bits) and create any arbitrary boolean circuit from there. These circuits works on the encrypted data without the need to decrypt it.

(there is an additional step called bootstrapping that most schemes require in order to allow circuits of unlimited depth but I won’t get into that in such a short answer)
Good question, and since I am not a sociologist, I can only guess. One thing in advance, and as a reaction to the received downvotes: my usage of the word "identification" has nothing to do with "identity politics" that are raging in the US and elsewhere. In German, saying "to identify with someone" is more meant as "seeing myself becoming the person that I can identify with" or "I could see myself in this persons position". Like a 1:1 connection.

> How did other industries that were once historically male dominated overcome [...] in terms of gender if not race?

Based on what I wrote above, I have shortened the quote. And my guess would be the advancement of female integration into higher education, participation and choice of profession. Keep in mind that women were not allowed to vote until some time in the 20th century. With a lot of steps, women and daughters gained more empowerment. All in all, men and women have more aligned chances in today's workforce (details debatable), but the changes need to be done first. And they were not gently handed over by people (men) who were in advanced positions before.

> And why haven't we seen the same pattern in tech?

The tech industry is pretty young compared to the other fields of study you mentioned. I guess social changes will also ingest the tech industry, because they follow a progressive cycle that repeats every x years. Of course there might be more to it, if you take into account how many aspects of human life are affected by technology today (and how fast these changes arrived..).

What would your opinion be on that matter, answering your own questions?
Sony Digital Paper costs around $700 for 13.3"; Kindle Oasis $270 for 7". Considering Amazon's scale they can easily bring 'Sony's type' of reader price down considerably if they choose to make such device.

https://gizmodo.com/sonys-beautiful-e-ink-tablet-made-me-fee...
That’s always been the case for technical content. The form factor and the document structures are fairly unsuited to pocket devices. I use mine for fiction only.

I crank out the desktop for technical content almost universally. iPad doesn’t cut it either.

But at the same time I have actual physical books for very technical stuff. They are still easier to use.
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Which is the best for programming/math reading and for sketching notes while reading them?
Who was astroturfing for what purpose?
A Survey of Advertising in the Digital Economy
For anyone wanting to tip tap into this world without spending hundreds of modules up front, VCVRack is highly recommended. it is a software Eurorack simulator that offers hundreds of popular Modules in software, most of them for free.

Granted, it lacks the fun of physically manipulating the cables and knobs, but it is the best way to figure out whether the modular world is for you.

With audio interfaces that also handle CV it is possible to connect the sim world with real physical modules. A great way to test gear ideas before buying.
threadirqs cmdline option might also make a difference:

threadirqs Force threading of all interrupt handlers except those marked explicitly IRQF_NO_THREAD.

It helped with my bluetooth issues and it's recommend for low-latency audio setups but unfortunatly I lack the knowledge about the tradeoffs. You also probably need to assign a higher priority to threads: https://alsa.opensrc.org/Rtirq - not sure if it's applicable besides audio.
The Rise of the Rest: Decentralization of Education and Investment
It’s not about laws, it’s geopolitics.
Lenses – Squinting harder never cured my ADHD
The straight forward oldschool page layout is one of the things I really love about Bandcamp. It's clear and concise and fast.
Yep, that's another reason I wont read news today. Recently there where a ton of articles inciting outrage about a single sentence uttered by Trump on FB. It took me about 30 minutes of searching to find the actual words. Outrageous indeed.
This is a cool article in the sense that it gives an idea of tuning that can be done on one extreme. While most applications won't need this level of tuning and some of them might be hurting if one isn't CPU bound, it is great to know which options exists.

Does anyone have further articles exploring the topic of os tuning for various types of applications? Maybe also for other OS, BSD/Win?
> How about teaching kids to pick role models regardless of their gender or color?

How would you do that? What is a role model in your opinion? Can you teach children to ignore their sex and color? Can you teach children to ignore external influences like media and advertisements?
And what about parents? Can they be taught to shield their children from their own biases?
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