skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the results as compared to the actual handwritten text, things that come to mind as missing:

- Direction of the text (we don't write exactly left to right, we strive for that but end up going slightly up or down, usually correcting the tilt of one word in the next as we notice the deviation).

- irregular spacing

- Some letters invade the others' space (the g's for example end up going a bit under the previous letter).

The combination of those three is, I think, what gives the artificial text the feeling of being a row of invisible boxes each filled with a character. Still, the result is extremely cool!
Is it? Oh man, must've been a long time since I enabled it. They should make it the default.
This happened to me with Google's search suggestions the other day and I didn't even say anything out loud. Should I consider that as evidence that Google has developed mind reading technology, or is it more likely that I just ignore search suggestions unless they're eerily relevant?
> we should all learn to be a little more empathetic and how best to work with our co-workers

This has been my experience. I've received phrasing similar to "After we learned to work together, we've got a pretty good canter going".

> usually these are better bottom-up then top-down

... which is what I suspect is a source of objection around the comments here. I have never received or been pointed to a document akin to a "manual for this person". It's all been direct person-to-person, hearsay, and a combination of both ["I heard Jimmy is always $This_Particular_Way, I took note but reserved judgement, and after I interacted with Jimmy enough times I figured that I personally find Jimmy to be $XYZ"].

Actually receiving a "Manual For Jimmy", especially from Jimmy directly, is an indicator of something other or more than simply "how to interact with Jimmy".
How is this carrying water for the CCP? What is in the article that you disagree with?
All true, but the QAnon folks are bullying people, doxing people, and have actually killed people. It's no longer just a cute conspiracy theory. It's a movement with real actors attempting to destabilize democratic processes.

It's not the conspiracy itself. It's the people holding it up and actively opposing anyone that disagrees with them in harmful ways.
The example is clearly 9 lines long and included fire.hpp has 703 lines of source code excluding comments.
Haha, good old times :)
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Totally agree. Margin call is a gem, perfect movie IMO
Dang, I wish my grandma was a AOSP contributor.

But most phones in the United States sold within the last decade had the bootloaders locked so you can’t install another rom even if you knew how to do it.
To take the religion analogy further, I think people use information, not just to support views they want to hold, but to organize. Q anon is a community. The accuracy of the information is much less relevant than the membership and the mission.
Much has changed in the nature of the beast but you're right, the terms do state the obvious. Still feels sinister. Reading those old comments and privacy policy brought so much flooding back to me.

The value proposition has changed but not in the way that was feared at the time. We're certainly inundated with ads to a greater degree than it was at the time. They never turned around and charged for it but they certainly require a lot more personal information to have an account these days.

There was so much hate for Microsoft but it was wishful thinking that Google would turn out differently.
That's simply not true. AOSP is open source and you can run a Android phone without google services.

You are generalizing the problem of some phone manufactures which deliver phones with software which spies on you but the OS isn't a surveillance platform - instead it's more open than iOS - you can't look at the source code of iOS as simple as you can look at the Android source code.
I’m guessing it’s more about criticism.

Getting eveyone to acknowledge China as undisputed rulers of whatever territory China decides is China.

Strong effort these to have “fact checkers” on anything potentially political. At some this will be the job of one government or another.

Russia had the Joke department. Gotta make sure all jokes are correct thinking.
> If it's true why does it require censorship to defend?

It's not Fort Knox to need defending.

What really happens is - it turns out a significant portion of human beings are vulnerable to what, for lack of a better term, could be called bullshit. It's part just plain ignorance, part honest mistake, part willful deception. As long as only a few fall prey to it, as long as times are not too trying, as long as the bullshit doesn't make them do crazy and/or destructive things, then it's more or less okay - I mean, that's basically the default state of humanity since forever.

But when those conditions are not true anymore, some feedback loops need to be activated.
> This counts on the bootstrapped company tapping outside capital once they hit their stride.

Isn't tapping into outside capital only at this point what makes the most sense, because you are in a much better negotiation position having already validated the product and making money?

At least if your a start up with exponential growth in mind. It can still be a very sustainable product and company without and the copycats can actually act as free advertisements for the "real" thing.
This is something that everyone who has ever built a Pi has thought about but haven't stoned enough and motivated enough at the same time in order to write a web page about it.
It has never been hard to create your own space.
Yes, this is bananas!
Excellent description. Love it. I couldn't understand the website description of this technique.
I think they stopped making their own CPU cores for their SOCs, but they still develop the Exynos SOC.
Any rich person who buy more houses than he can live will create this problem. And there is no incentive for the government to do anything, because the real estate price is their tax, at least for the local government.
So that is one random example and I am sure you’ve had a lot more experiences that were chance interactions that weren’t facilitated by Facebook. Also note that Facebook provides a huge negative impact on our society because of stuff like the Qanon group mentioned in TFA. Do you really think your specific experience of a chance encounter with your friend makes up for all the negative things it facilitates? And how many meaningful real life experiences have you missed out on because you and other people spend so much time on FB? I am not going to argue that social media is evil and how the new generation just wants to stick their noses into their screens. Look at the father blocking out his family with a newspaper every morning for a proof that this isn’t a new phenomenon by any means. But I will argue that as far as social networks go, Facebook is a shitty one and better ones already exist.
My twitter feed has some remote Elixir jobs popping up from time to time. I just saw this 10min ago: https://www.sketch.com/jobs/backend-developer/. I don't think it's more difficult to get an Elixir job than, lets say Rust one.
What if you have an excellent idea but don't have any money with which to 'secure' it? Or is that more something a patent is meant to handle.
Yes. The technology that made up o2 powers p2 now.
What’s funny is that I’m certain that the vast majority of Linux users who were paying for this were trying really hard to watch these shows legitimately, and almost all of them will be antagonised by this and just download torrents or similar.
If you replace wildly drunk with insomnia, then I have to say that that sounds all too familiar :) Thanks for the recommendation!
> A Facebook spokeswoman said the group was removed for "repeatedly posting content that violated our policies".

At this point Facebook, Google, and all other operators of similar platforms should be viewing their hoard of user data, not as a gold mine, but as a superfund site.

The demise of these companies starts with demands to purge the platforms of "content violating policies." The only problem is that these polices can never quite be pinned down. So the takedowns will be all over the map, guided only by the prevailing wind.

These calls inevitably will lead to even more urgent calls to track the users of the objectionable content. After all, if the group was dangerous, so must be its users.

The problem is that there are infinite ways for humans to be offended. Each takedown ensures that the next round of calls will be that much louder and more insistent.

If you wanted to engineer the boringest platform possible, this is how you'd do it. Ad revenues will follow the departure of users for greener pastures.
> "In the end, the infrastructure costs to run the attack were $6,000 to $7,000 instead of the roughly $100,000 they had originally estimated, Foster says. The Guy paid about a quarter of the original price tag. "He got a smoking deal," Foster says.”

Wow... Exactly why you leave hacking to the hackers and allow sales people to market the product!
Yes I love vinigar on chips and fried haggis but it's an acquired taste / Stockholm syndrome :)
The US food IS the best though (avacados). Maybe also simultaneously the worst (corn syrup) but I just feel UK has nothing to add to the disucussion and its too close to the lazy US stereotype Europeans throw around about Americans.
Ouch, good point.
Alternatively, press Cmd + Down to open the currently selected file.
Par for the course here. Glad your question was answered, I was curious as well.
> but this pattern is as old as civilization itself

Maybe on a small scale, village level. Now the village is global, and that's what makes the whole thing extremely dangerous.

> It’s hard to see the path out of this dark forest.

Agreed.
I did this for a bathymetric map, but I it was hard to get the resolution I wanted, I used a laser cutter that was too small, so someone just exported the model and showed me it in AR which actually was a better experience. So this works well for small projects, but it gets insanely work intensive to do for larger projects.
Conventional truth is tedious, not just boring.

Who has time to peruse dozens of papers of technical jargon on COVID? Who's got the time to read a book by Chomsky, compare and contrast with a conservative writer on the same topic, a historian, while looking at the experts' interpretation of these things?

Out best understanding of things is just as fragmented as the wild conspiracy theories, with the difference that the experts debate minutiae that requires deep knowledge and patience.

We cannot deeply research more than a couple of things at a time, at best. We crave easy answers and grand narratives.
Not in regard to just that but to people in general. People are telling you the world as they perceive it. I don't live in the anti-mask-pro-HQwhatever world either, but I have found it much more effective to let people have their truths than to get in a never-ending fractal of battles that just make people dig their heels in and hate each other.
I am no SQL expert, but I always found it a bit weird that selecting the relationships is a relatively hard thing to do for a relational database.

What I mean is that relationships are at the core of the database, so they should--IMHO--be easy. Instead, JOINS feel like some advanced feature that I always see novices struggle with.
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Not the first time Apple has taken action against a company using a pear!

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series#Clones :

> Another European Apple II clone was the Pearcom Pear II, which was larger as the original as it sported not eight but fourteen expansion slots. It also had a numerical keypad. Pearcom initially used a pear shaped rainbow logo, but stopped after Apple threatened to take legal action.

Here's one of their ads:

https://www.apple2history.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/pea...

In that case, the situation was much clearer, though. The product was a clone of an Apple computer, so no question they are in the same market. Also, Pearcom's pear logo had a rainbow color scheme like the Apple logo did.
It depends whether or not they are sued in a state where SLAPP suits are legal. If Apple isn't forced to provide compelling evidence that they have an actual case up front, they can tie up their opposition in expensive legal battles long enough that it won't matter whether or not they win the case. Their opposition may be victorious legally, but made bankrupt in the process.

Of all the things the U.S. legal system got wrong, I think not following the English rule of attorneys' fees was one of the biggest mistakes. If plaintiffs had to pay for the defendant's legal fees, and vice versa, should the opposing party win their case, large corporations might think twice about making spurious legal claims.
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I'm all for the pear company succeeding. But what do you mean by bullying? And why does it deserve 10-100x penalty? I hazard to guess you're maybe applying emotional baggage about personal bullying to the corporate world.

This is just a trademark dispute, asserted by one, refuted by another. It happens all the time. It could be the smaller company suing the larger one even. This isn't like a patent troll leech on society case.

I'm kind of fascinated to understand what must be in your mind or experience that you think such penalties for normal legal actions are warranted.

*edited to correct as trademark dispute
I made a webapp with a button on it. When first visiting the site the user was prompted with "What's your name". The second prompt was "Who are you thinking of". Next, a link appeared that the user would share with the person they were thinking of. When cliking the button, nothing would happen unless the other party also clicked within a certain timeframe. The idea was to see wether if A thought about B, would B also be thinking about A. I built it in the beginning of my relationship with a very special girl, and we have used it a lot since then. We also used to the watch Netflix shows at the same time, clicking the button to mark the moment when to press play. Later I also enabled realtime drawing on the webapp, with each person having a different color. It all worked with a simple jquery frontend and a nodejs websocket server.
Thanks for responding.

In syntax, the two languages are quite unalike, so I think the relative "easiness" will come down to whether or not the learner was already a programmer.

As for "better:" better at what? better for whom? and why?
Facebook, Google and Twitter must be stripped of section 230 protections yesterday! How this is allowed to continue is beyond me.
All your fruit are belong to Apple.
Thank you daddy
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Interesting, I’m unfamiliar with Cassegrain reflectors.
Facebook is not a 'communications infrastructure', is not a 'public square' and they have no obligation to do anything other than act lawfully, and then, to act roughly consistent with their own guidelines, which is what they are doing.

The comparison to 'Ma Bell' is irrelevant.

'Verizon or AT&T' - the actual modern incarnations of 'Ma Bell' are not intervening here, nor will they.

If you want to make up stories about people raping children in basements, then yo can do that on your own website.

" for how long will people tolerate an increasingly unreliable communications infrastructure?"

This question is upside down.

The real question is 'How long will most people tolerate a social network full of stupidity, make up stuff, fake news, and other garbage'?

QAnon is not the reason people use FB, it's the reason they leave.
I'd love a good library to handle an interactive prompt and state machine. You know press 1/2/3 for x/y/z etc. Java especially
Definitely agree that there's a feedback loop and strong long-term effect of initial level of natural attractiveness when you're young.

One of the advantages of not starting out on the "is attractive -> gets self-esteem from attractiveness -> tries to be more attractive" cycle is that as you get older you don't feel like you're losing anything. It's no fun when you're young, but that's a small minority of most people's lives.
Yes - my main reaction was just that it was something of a surprise to see Qualcomm not using any of the common countermeasures for a class of attack which is not new and for which they’ve had problems in the past.
S3 buckets are accessible everywhere generally.
No. That was the ARPANET.

The most recognizable feature of today's internet is the web, which wasn't part of ARPANET.

You could say the internet is a descendant of ARPANET, but it's not the same thing.
This is wrong.

It is hard to fight a legal case against an opponent with infinite money.

Perhaps courts should impose spending caps similarly to some sports leagues.
Because it's a distraction and just a really, really bad take on reality.
> I have to say, this sounds awful to me. Living in a tiny bubble world surrounded by only things I like honestly sounds horrible.

This sounds like the anti-rock and roll argument wearing a different cloak.

> How can you appreciate the things you like if you never have to experience things you don't like?

I doubt this would remove all displeasure and pain from life. We're a long way away from dopamine drips and AI overloads.

> Life isn't supposed to be a constant pursuit of cutting out any unwanted or negative things.

Life isn't supposed to be about anything. We're apes on a mote of dust in an infinite void.

> It's about experiencing things in general.

This increases diversity of experience. It's something new. People aren't going to stop making music because it got easier. That strikes me as a Luddite argument.

> A world like you describe sounds pretty bland and lifeless to me.

The world gets better every year. These arguments are, frankly, a nostalgia for youth.

Times change.
Same for me. Changing safari search engines unfortunately doesn't help. Still a very cool shortcut.
The vast majority of security vulnerabilities and bugs that end users experience are fixed within the first few years of the device's shelf life. Security vulnerabilities tend to go unnoticed by most end users, and therefore don't really play a role in forcing users to upgrade.

Wouldn't it be nice though if users could choose to patch security vulnerabilities without installing updates that deliberately slow down the phone?
If an unborn child is a "cells amalgamate" then maybe you are too. Anyway, the fact that you're happy to have that "freedom of choice" seems like a classic case of survivorship bias.
I did this as part of my wedding proposal.

I wrote up a simple web app that accepted two different secrets to "login" (one for each person). Once logged in, you were presented with a photo and asked for a comment (first thing that comes to mind or a reaction).

If only one comment was submitted, it would tell you to remind your partner to leave a comment. Once both parties submitted a comment, the photo displayed with both comments and a countdown to the next photo. The countdown varied from 12-48 hours randomly - to give me time to figure out when to actually propose. This ran for several weeks total.

It was fun to see our comments - sometimes they would nearly match. Or reveal something we didn't remember about a historical date/event we shared.

I eventually used the site to pop the question, and then made the whole thing into a photo book, including a word cloud built from each of our comments. Was really fun to see each of our most common words.

It was an incredibly simple, fun project using flask/sqlite on an ec2 instance.
this is not a issue with Chinese buyers, this is a issue with existing land owner, who would do everything to imcrease sell price. Don't say somehow it's the buyers fault. Foreign buyers don't vote in election. it's the vote and money of property owners that allowed those purchase of land with no real purpose other than investment.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871051
It’s strange. I can definitely give you a list of books that made me see the world differently, but I find it much harder to come up with a list of films, even though I tend to enjoy the medium more. Broadly speaking, I keep reflecting on scenes from Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, and Miyazaki films more than any others, even though they’re not necessarily my favorite films. I would recommend Stalker, Dreams, and Mononoke.

There’s also Man on Wire, for both the sheer joy of impossible achievement that it evokes, as well as the beautiful minimalist soundtrack. On reflection, maybe that’s one of the few films I’ve seen that had a different person leaving the theater. The mood of that film is imprinted in my personality.
Oh but the things you discover! I didn’t learn BASIC by searching for it. I learned it because someone stuck a manual in the young adult section at my library by accident and I was curious...
I agree they are dissatisfied with something missing in their lives.
I have workmate who is antivaxxer, thinks mainstream media lies and that most diseases could be cured with just good nights sleep and healthy food.
Yet he had all mandatory vaccinations and admitted that he would go to doctor if he ever got sick.
He is 30, healthy, no kids, not very highly educated, but makes good money.

Everything he is against doesn't affect his life one bit, its like hobby to him and it gets good reaction from others.
His conspiracy theory articles can be debunked in few minutes and then he throws in even bigger article and he hasnt even read those, so if you keep pushing he has nothing to say.
Apple employees must be so proud.
Oh my god this is so useful! I've known about the 'drag into your terminal' thing for ages but not needing to use the mouse and just doing command-option-c is so much nicer!
Facebook is most likely pandering to their highly political employees or advertisers, and doesn't sincerely have any value or principles.
Game engines are basically eating the world
Less than $1000 processed. Around here, a 22lb sack of flour costs around $10. Looking at around $500 worth of flour there, assuming 100% of the wheat gets turned into flour (I think there is some waste during processing)
I’m not sure what your point was: that’s the same article Ars linked, with the same message and no additional information because, as the Ars writer noted, they’re withholding details until the vendors fix it.
Large companies win without a fight because the legal costs are easily assumed by them, but are devastating to smaller businesses. Wealth usually wins by default because smaller companies can’t afford the fight. Surely that’s easy to understand?

If you think this is all “working as intended”... well... that’s unfortunate and I think the vast majority of people would disagree.
I'm curious: Would it be worthwhile porting the entire stack required for http(s) (tcp/ip, ssl, etc) to an fpga? Would it be faster than running it on a CPU?
I don't quite follow. Are you suggesting Apple is not pursuing legal action against this company?

Or that they are using the fact that they are being sued to raise their own profile? The second is clear, but it's probably their best play - when life gives you lemons and all that. I don't see what that has to do with threatening emails though.
All the people here support Apples evil ways, disgusting
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