skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a great read, with some fascinating tidbits of both computing and chess history.

Unrelated, but this part caught my eye:

> The most interesting and perhaps least known report on the 1970 tournament came from a relatively unknown author. The article, “The Program Was a Fish,” appeared in 1972.

> A fish, you see, is a chess player. A bad chess player. The title is awarded by other players when one of their peers exhibits a singular skill in losing chess games. Popular synonyms are “patzer” and “meatcake.”

That the cited article was written by George R. R. Martin (of Game of Thrones fame) is interesting in and of itself, but I also thought maybe the "fish" slang had a connection somehow to the naming of the popular Stockfish chess engine; but apparently it does not.[0][1]

[0] - https://blog.stockfishchess.org/post/6123509798/stockfish-10

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish
Any recommendations for email providers that support wildcard addresses (e.g. I can just give someone foobarbaz@y2bd.email without having manually set it up beforehand and it works)? I currently use ProtonMail which does support this, but PM is still lacking in terms of usability. I looked at some of the other well-known mail providers and was surprised to see that this wasn’t as supported as I’d expect (or, at least, they don’t prominently advertise this in their docs).
That's the point. He gave up royalties for a lump sum, when the game seems to currently be the 23rd best-selling game of all time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...
For the author? Since he didnt believe in it, any slice would have been timny. His regret and words would likely be close to the same.
It seems to me that "transhumanist" implies changing oneself to fit the environment, more than the other way around.

I wouldn't call myself such, but I think if humans do colonize anywhere off of Earth, it will require modifying what a "human" is to where it is possible to live with much less technology in today's sense.
> The reality is that absent a treaty, these places can all choose respond to foreign warrants and often times do.

The question shouldn't be if they "can" the question should be if they "can be forced to and be legally required not to disclose it".

There is a reason American companies have tried to hack around the law with warrant canaries.
This did it for me: https://www.drop-dropbox.com/

But if it hadn't, then probably this: https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/sync-uploads/...

Dropbox was such a great and conceptually simple tool, having a kernel extension for smarter syncing feels like a step into Enterprise lala land.
The Computer was a Fish (George R. R. Martin, 1972)
While this is a possible interpretation the paragraph puts a lot of weight on the supreme court decision and doesn't seem to mention any legislative or executive decisions that were enabled by the court.
article is on page 62
It's still not that easy. Many citizenship-by-investment options are on a level of buying a very fancy house. Yes, those people are relatively rich, but not "surround yourself with English-speaking house-help" rich. If they want to move for the retirement, it may still be a hard social experience.
I feel bad for doing a "me too" comment, but you've nailed exactly my thoughts on the subject. I feel like Mozilla hasn't really tried something like this. Every time it gets suggested, it quickly gets shot down (by other internet commenters) as "can't be done" and "wouldn't generate nearly enough money".

Well... maybe not with that CEO salary.
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One thing that I would love to see eventually is a series of comparisons with the 8088.
Thanks, I have the exact same habits until this :)
I would definitely like to see other App Stores, so that the low-dollar, shifty shovelware apps get moved out of the Apple App Store. It would allow Apple to focus on the true nest-in-class apps that follow the design cues and security guidelines to make usable, truly secure apps on their platform.

They could market it as Trusted by Apple and if you’re not in the Apple App Store, you don’t get that mark. Heck, make it such that software not from the Apple store doesn’t get the digital signature that allows apps to start up with one touch. Require user consent before starting a non-approved app.
Look at Spain right now. Infection rate is huge again, even with masks being mandatory in public. Lockdown is useless and destroyed their economy, and masks are mostly useless. That's the hard reality.

Luckily, this virus is not making us zombies, or killing our children. It's killing our elders and people with a weakened immune system; it's sad but it's great. It could have been a lot worse.
I don’t think it’s fair to compare carriers based on a unique outage; however the US does have something going for them: national roaming.

Typically carriers have arrangements between them to use competitors’ networks in areas where their own ones are unavailable.

This is unheard of in Europe which is a shame; it would be a much more efficient use of the spectrum if any subscriber could connect to any available carrier.
2000 Year Old Analog Computer - Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism
Speaking of houses, I've heard from some local agents that the housing market in my part of Utah is currently dominated by cash offers. They didn't say where the cash was coming from.
I think you must have meant on making UF6 from yellow cake. Yellow cake and UF6 are not at all the same thing.
The word "incel" was coined by a woman named Alana, from Canada, back in the 1990s [1]. She originally intended the term as denoting help and support for the romantically unsuccessful of all genders and sexual orientations. It was only later, after she'd stepped away from the movement (her lack of romantic success turned out to be a passing phase in life, as is the experience of very many), that it morphed into a cesspool of toxic misogyny.

But I think that change in definition has been harmful to those covered by the original definition, who are now denied the possibility of a positive identity and supportive community that Alana's original vision offered them. Indeed, any attempts today to found such an identity or community, especially one which is inclusive of heterosexual men, are going to be very quickly tarred by association with the new definition of "incel".

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-45284455 but also I remember some of this: I was never actively involved in Alana's website, but I can definitely remember stumbling across it in the 1990s
I have done this kinda thing to great effect using Doxygen, although this solution adds a bit of dynamism that is really appreciated. Having the call graphs, especially for a new/unfamiliar code base is a great way to gain understanding. Kuddos on the launch, i think a lot of engineers will find this pretty useful once you expand on it a bit.
Well, I really hate eye contact and never look people in the eyes, so this wouldn't be something interesting for me. I wonder if I am alone or if this is common.
But it's not. In X-Plane 11.50, I get 100fps+. 30 in MSFS.
Both Codelite and Code::Blocks are written using wxWidgets.
Better analogy would be getting inheritance and using it up at a growing pace while congratulating yourself for doing good job by getting the growing under control a little bit while the inheritance is still drying up very quickly.

Our children and grandchildren won't have the luxury of inheritance and are going to pay for our carelessness.
Yes! I’ve been searching for a way to have multiple bootable images from a single flash drive. This would suffice my need!
If you read one thing from me, please be this
Good time to shelter in place in a tax haven now that your working remotely.

New Hampshire can be quiet lovely.
Can you clarify how this will change from the current situation ? Even now drivers in suburbs know they won’t get rides and often are there because they are starting the day, or they dropped off someone
My hand and the wall are both made of matter that consists almost entirely of empty space, and yet when I punch the wall, it hurts, because of the electric fields involved.
You misunderstand the situation. Chinese users, in China, connect to iCloud servers in China.

They are not used for anyone outside China.
Ok, so it seems that taxi service in US sucks.

In Europe traditional taxi companies caught up pretty quickly, you can now order taxi ride via app that has UX similar or even nicer than Uber, and you get licensed taxi driver, car with taxi signs, so that you no longer need to stare weirdly at all black Priuses approaching you, and the driver can speak your language, and knows his way around the city. To recap: traditional taxi service is of much better quality than Uber, and only slightly more expensive, therefore much preferred.

The only time I used Uber was in the US, once I came back I don't miss it at all. I don't know what exactly is wrong with US taxi market, but Uber and Lyft aren't the only solution.
Yeah it took me a while to accept this. There are 50 different ways you could be a multi millionaire in a month if you were willing to place big bets but the reality is this a pretty insane way to act for most people on most circumstances.

I guess in some cases it feels more tangible like if you specificly had the chance to invest but it really isn't much different than all those other things you could have done.
Another thing is half of the planet are "gamers."
If you target gamers only your max addressable market is pretty good.
Another factor could be that women are generally pickier than men. IIRC some OKCupid research indicated that men seek the top 50% of women (by attractiveness) while women seek the top 20% of men. With the Internet making the dating pool larger this may hit men harder if potential partners feel less pressure to 'settle'.
I wouldn't say it's that bad, I flew a drone controlled via bluetooth with my phone, for instance.

Buffering audio is actually a great answer to disconnections. Plus, it's less energy-intensive to fill the buffers at once than to stream it as needed. And since it's pre-recorded anyway, you already have the whole buffer. Yes, initial transfer can take a while, though.

But in theory, the play/pause operations shouldn't have latency, and the bluetooth device could clearly communicate its state. I'm not sure how audio is actually implemented in the bluetooth stack, though, I've only ever done serial communication with it.
In the last 10 years (well... even the last year) I have passed up many multi million dollar ideas. All that means is there will be another.
Searx instances
No, you're not fucked either way. In fact, if you're white, middle class, etc. you're probably better off than most and will be given the most leeway.

If your data on google/facebook/microsoft/amazon servers is kept to the bare minimum (& kept innocuous), if you self host and if you keep your data on smaller services your chances of getting caught up in a dragnet operation are minimized. Your chances of having an elevated "risk" score because of some stray data point (e.g. some people you emailed once, or some guy's house you visited) is minimized.

They're not going to keep track of everybody personally, but they will be running machine learning models all up and down every data point you left to pick out anything suspicious.
This is just silly. Candy Crush is a videogame, therefore its players are gamers. Hijack a different word to describe casual vs "serious" gamers.
Are companies allowed to have openly written the "Apple fee" in the description? App price: 10$, Apple Fee:3$: Total: 13$
Sounds like an extension of buses.
I think it was more of a novelty thing for when you gifted someone else stock but yes, they did.
The best that I'm aware of is Kelly's Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers. It's a direct attack on this particular myth with lots of examples, literature surveys, and everything else you'd expect. However it's targeted at archaeologists and other social-science types and may be difficult reading without that background. I don't know of any lay-person accessible materials on this.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139176132
> And yet today in the United States, it’s basically a given that you will have a fast and reliable 4G connection available throughout the entire country, as long as you’re not in literal wilderness.

Don’t have a dog in this, but just wanted to say this is not at all true. There are so many places nowhere near wilderness where you would struggle to find a useable 4g connection.

(I’ve lived near some places like this in the northeast - I have to guess that the avalys has not traveled around that much in the US)
Mozilla can model itself after Microsoft somewhat.

Provide a development stack (they're experts at Web and Rust). Make themselves the go-to shop for developers in that realm.

Sell them on an OS and editor with support. Partner with Ubuntu. Hell, I would even reach out to Nadella and see if they'd be willing to work with Mozilla on hedging against Google. Mac is becoming locked down and kind of unpleasant to develop on/for. Mozilla could win this.

Block all the advertising and tracking. Build a Spotify-like news aggregation service you can access from your Mozilla subscription.

Build an email service like Hey and a file backup service like Dropbox. It's too bad Zoom bought Keybase, but perhaps Chris Coyne wants a new gig?

We should team up to beat FAAMG. Most of the FAAMG actors are actually quite damaging to open source despite benefiting from it greatly.
New Approach Takes Quantum Key Distribution Further
> But why do they go to this fringe science instead of proven solutions like plastic surgery?

Other way round: the problem itself is fringe pseudo science. The solution needs to be marketed, so people must be convinced that there is something wrong with them.

People love pseudo science these days.
Yeah, that's likely, thanks.

I stumbled upon another article which confirmed VPNs (like Psiphon and Lantern) effectively bypass Chinese and Iranian censorship, whilst Telegram (as a standalone app) can't [0]. So, by extension, other apps like WhatsApp should have worked too with VPNs unless of course WhatsApp (and others) disallow VPN traffic.

Among other things, it looks like telegram, on its own (without VPNs) was able to evade the Russian censorship apparatus owing to sheer number of Russian volunteers running proxy servers to relay telegram traffic [1].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/22/telegram-anti-censorship-c...

[1] https://t.me/durov/77
CLI interfaces have none of the inherent benefits you describe.

* They are not inherently completely discovered

* They do not inherently offer more control

* They are not inherently more flexible

In fact, I would argue on all points a GUI interface is inherently FAR superior to a CLI interface in each of these measures. GUIs clearly offer more control and clarity. Ever try to specify a partial list of US states via a CLI?

HOWEVER:

CLIs crush GUIs in my opinion on two CRITICAL dimensions

CLI are scriptable

and more importantly

CLI work over SSH (a rather low threshold to cross)

The ability to productively work in a terminal over SSH is (in my opinion) at the core of the resurgence in popularity of CLIs and other terminal based apps like vim and emacs as well. Yes, chording is productive and even well supported by most gui editors, yet these terminal editors remain super popular I believe in large part thanks to their ubiquity and ability to work over SSH.

Just my two cents and is not an attempt to start a flame war.
Sorry about the issue. It seems to be struggling with memory while rendering the graph. Are you rendering a large graph? Could you try a smaller scope by restricting the number of files and folders?
I've seen working demos of this in early stage stealth format. I'm a pretty strong believer that it will happen. It requires some cultural shifts and won't be a big market instantly. We'll probably see a few players try and fail at first
Or an API gateway. I have something similar (though very bespoke for me) that has a simple API Gateway web page as it's front-end. It also opens up a firewall entry for my IP so I can connect to the machine.

Depending on my mood I either use the web page or some simple curl aliases to start and stop an instance.
Yeah I'd love to hear some stories too!
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tbf to the AI, I quite like the sheer surrealism of its continuation. Though I'd have drawn on my corpus of real world experience with dodgy behaviour around dodgy drinks and gone for 'because I needed to add tequila first'...

But the point isn't the AI can't come up with sensible continuations where sensible continuations aren't obvious, it's the AI will just as readily splice a few strings together in response to silly prompts, they'll just look a bit less impressive than where it's got lots of source material congruent with your expectations to draw upon
For the people having apprehension around Java’s performance, let me tell you that my 12-inch MacBook with a mobile CPU managed to run IntelliJ IDEA just fine (a heavy Java-based IDE) but significantly struggles with Microsoft Teams (Electron-based chat client).
To add a searx instance to your browser's search engines, visit the instance and follow the instructions on https://searx.xyz/about ("How to set as the default search engine?").

For example, to add the instance searx.xyz to Firefox, visit https://searx.xyz/ , click on the "..." icon to the right of the URL bar, and click "Add Search Engine." You can then choose searx while typing a query or can make it your default search engine (see about:preferences#search).
X-Plane's flight model is unquestionably better.
STEP is in two parts. There is the exchange format itself and the definitions of the models that are behind any exchange file.

The modelling is currently done in a language called EXPRESS but this is changing to use SysML tools and then transforming a SysML model to an XML schema using XSLT.

Maybe have a look at some of the Open Source CAD systems with full STEP capabilities like BRL-CAD [1] or Open Cascade Technology [2]. They contain C++ class definitions for each of the classes in supported STEP models as well as code to read and write exchange files, basically serializing and deserializing object instances.

The STEP C++ classes in a system like the two mentioned are typically machine generated from the standardized model, the tool that is used in BRL-CAD to do this is stepcode [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cascade_Technology
[3] https://github.com/stepcode/stepcode
> I still have to give Epic a cut. Why can’t I accept credit cards on the Epic platform and bypass Epic’s “walled garden”?

Count to 10 and ask yourself the same question in front of a mirror

I'm sure you'll find the right answer

(Epic is not complaining that Apple takes a cut, but that the only way to ask for money to users is go through Apple store, which doesn't make Epic software, if Apple asked it only for Apple software, that would be much less of a problem)
Python—it reads almost like English. It's also general-purpose so good for many things.
Well... I started with an Apple II and 8-bit BASIC. In today's terms, it's not a high-level language, but it's easy to learn.

Depending on how you sell it, you can bundle the charm of vintage computing with it.

I hear people have good experiences with Python and PyGame.

I'd avoid distractions such as an IDE for the start, not to confuse the learner with what is the language and what is the surrounding environment.
It's interesting to see how Google turned from a respected company everyone wanted to work at to a "persona non grata" within just a few years. I wonder what were the main reasons for this change?
For Jews at least it is not about health or any other advantages, it is just a religious command which suppose to be a covenant between a Jew and its maker, a bit like when people used to cut their finger and mix the blood to symbolise a covenant between people.

Ironically, unlike other religion laws which non practicing Jews are not following, circumcision is almost universally practiced. I think the reason is that it is a bit of an identity thing, like Maori tattoos or something like that.
I'm not sure what you would expect as a response.

As far as I know, the reference was to a test for dementia in which some words were given at the beginning of the test and asked to be repeated at the end.

Perhaps you could provide context. Maybe there were five words, so you could say "Donald Trump was asked to recall five words to test his memory. Four of them were "person, woman, man, camera". What word did he forget?"
Detonation footage begins just after 22:40 for those (like me) looking for the big boom.
Alternatives to Mice Like Trackpads Are Slower
>> And the authors do have personal interests at stake.

Can you say what those are?
Probably call it 'singles club'...
This is not just about loss aversion. What if you give your family and friends now such an opportunity. Some of them will win some of them lose.

It's quite hard emotionally I guess. To see some of them who just by pure chance got rich and others who are poor. You can't give it afterwards. Money at times is just a gift from the devil in disguise.
At least in the restaurants I've worked in, serving a smaller portion of a common item like a dish of pasta would probably just result in the same waste, just in the kitchen. The portions are generally prepared during the morning's mise en pas setup, and there's little motivation for changing that pattern. Not to mention no waiter wanting to try and figure out what a discount should look like.

That said, I'm surprised taking leftovers home isn't an option. Around me, at least, the expectation is that you do take leftovers home.
Love the cheerful music.
But this is not the only way you can deploy machine learning techniques. You could deploy unsupervised learning to first learn what visual features are common in such images, and then successively refine until you end up with a set of images containing very rare phenomena. That could give human evaluators then a considerable head start.

In fact, this idea seems so obvious that it must have been tried already…
Sounds like how I start projects. Try and figure out every last detail, get hung up on doing all this preparation, learning, etc and eventually give up because I’m tired of the process or things aren’t turning out as perfect as I’d like them.
Recently I’ve been trying to follow the ‘move fast and break things’ mentality, albeit more of a ‘just try moving a bit and things breaking is ok’ mentality.
quite funny that you are downvoted. you are totally right
tesla is a forward looking company that will continue to surprise while walmarts whole business will suffer due to the implications of the corona crisis.
No, TPB doesn't do that. Normally you would have a .torrent file which is a small file containing metadata (name, files in torrent) and a list of trackers which are servers that keep track of the peers. You acquire a .torrent, open it with a torrent client, and it connects to the trackers to get a list of peers and start p2p sharing. Peers can also directly exchange more peer information when connected.

Instead of a .torrent file you can instead use a magnet link which is a magnet://... that contains the same information. TBP hosts a lot of magnet links. Basically like if you made a webpage with a list of a bunch of hyperlinks to websites like google.com, and allowed people to submit more hyperlinks. You're not distributing the google.com page content, just links to the location of the information. Except instead of links that tell you where to find http webpages it's links that tell you where to find a torrent.