skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really bad at loosing track of time when I get on the computer. I find setting a 20 minute timer really helps with this. I do have a egg timer, but just asking my phone "ok google set timer for 20 minutes" works too.

Interesting that they mentioned body weight effects this, there was and article the other day on HN, showing how obesity contributes to brain activity decline.

Apparently overweight/obese people's brains don't work as well as they could, if they were skinnier.

Marcus Aurelius had a lot of insight on human perception of time actually.

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. "
Scandalizing someone's vices to discredit their message is millenniums old. It's kinda disturbing that people weren't immediately on to it as a smear job.
> anecdotally youtube seems to have aggressively increased the number of ads just in the last few weeks or so

Yes. I've noticed that almost every video I've watched I have to sit through two ads (first 15 seconds, second I can stop after 5ish) first. And if the video is long enough I get the ads at the bottom of the video and sometimes one or two more video ads.

I get it, it's free, but at some point it won't be worth the frustration.
Do you have concrete experience for that?

I have only 3 things I hit:

- NVIDIA driver updates (or kernel updates while using nvidia) - caused black screen... I dumped nvidia... these are due to crappy nvidia.

- Ubuntu deciding to remove old libraries/apps that are not maintained. That's fixed via docker or just keeping an old version.

- Major version upgrades (ubuntu 18 to 20) - here I just re-install and it's expected, I wouldn't upgrade windows 7 to 10 either...

Other then this I'm not sure what you are referring to?, systemd vs sysvinit? (you only get annoyed by those if you are a power user anyway)

Note: I set up automatic updates packages every day and have not hit issues.
It irks me to no end that stuff I watch on YouTube shows up in the articles/news in Google Assistant screen... The stuff I watch isn't necessarily the news I want to read.
How did you guys solve it?
do you really "enjoy outdoors" with a speedboat"? A simple sailing boat has a fraction of the foodprint and you probably can see a lot more of the outdoors. Will you spot wildlife at the coast riding this: probably not.
This just seems like capitalism to me. Epic is losing millions of dollars to Apple, they think that they can keep more of those millions of they win this lawsuit.

I don't think there's any reason to suspect a shadowy cabal of CCP interests when there's plenty of reason why Epic would want to do this out of self interest.
Sorry, poor choice of words I guess. I mean it's embedded within the filesystem. If you had root or serial access to the device, then you could probably very easily replace it, but at that point you could also just write the firmware anyway. The checks are only important for flashing via the Web UI.
Notes from a Flat Earth Conference
"the dominate", "incoming coming", and there are some other typos I'm not sure about.
My pet peeve is with all static analysis articles like this is they demonstrate how to solve a particular problem, but never talk about the universal abstraction that allows one to write any static analysis tool: interpreters. Really, all you need to do is write an interpreter.

A standard interpreters for a language (like Python) evaluates the language to produce some value. If you want to do static analysis, make the values the property you are analyzing. In this blog post's example the value is a boolean denoting whether a file is a test file or not. Thus an interpreter would be recursive on individual AST nodes, doing the decisions shown here in the sample and returning the expected value from the analysis. This forms the core of a rich literature in abstract interpretation, where the program analyzer instead of producing the concrete results of evaluating a program produces a the value of a property that you want to analyze.

Even compilers are interpreters. Instead of writing ad-hoc methods that do some operations, compilers can often be structured as something that evaluates the a program in source language and instead of producing a value, produces another program in a different language.

Interpreters are underrated!

Edit: typos
>> ultimately failing to achieve anything other than even more instability in the middle east

> Hate to break it to you but this was the exact desired outcome.

That's not actually true. It doesn't seem like it was deeply cynical and nefarious like that; it was more of an overly-simplistic moral crusade:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/books/review/to-start-a-w...:

> In “Plan of Attack,” Bob Woodward described Bush as being beset by doubt about the case for war, and suggested that Tenet’s affirmation had been “very important.” Draper disagrees. The issue wasn’t the evidence. It was the spin: “Tenet’s words were ‘important’ only because they helped remove any doubt as to whether the C.I.A. could mount a solid case.” Bush’s thinking was as clear as it was simplistic. Saddam was a monster. It would be a bad idea to leave him in power. According to Draper, Bush’s “increasingly bellicose rhetoric reflected a wartime president who was no longer tethered to anything other than his own convictions.”

> In his 2005 Inaugural Address, Bush tried to turn neoconservative ideology into official doctrine: “It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.” It wasn’t until the shellacking that the Republicans endured in the 2006 midterm elections that Bush began to abandon his fantasies about spreading peace, love and understanding across the Middle East. He fired Rumsfeld and shunted Cheney to the side.
Udemy: Shelley Osborne on Why a College Degree Is No Longer Enough
There are some nice quality of life features; the "auto-save" being the one I use the most. So my changes don't get lost, and they get synced (for me via Syncthing) virtually immediately.

I find the browser integration extension(s) more robust/stable as well, but that could be environmental.
Wait, really? I just had to double-check my one JS project for bugs and either I used to know this gotcha or I got lucky. My sort()-ing needed to handle NaNs carefully so I was already using custom comparators.
Is your position that centralized services can out survive distributed ones? Because user IP's are less observable? The past 25 years of cyber/cypherpunk software and legal battles say otherwise. Decentralized solutions outlive centralized ones not because there is "no one to shut down" it's because there's too many people to shut down. Enforcement processes don't scale, especially when it comes to speech.

>Centralized and non-distributed video platforms have one critical advantage over distributed

A more compelling argument:

>>You will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography.
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>Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years.
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>Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own.

https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09...
Are you thinking of something like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostankino_Tower ?
Mulvad is one of the best, if you fill a captcha they give you an account number valid for 3 hours without any restrictions, their vpn client is open source and support wireguard
What really grinds my gears about the ad experience on mobile is how some ads will take over the comment section as well. Meaning that if you were reading a comment or a comment thread, the entire context is lost when an add pops up over it.

Once the ad is over you have to re-enter the comments, scroll back down to where you were, enter the chain, scroll down to where you were reading...

It's a torturous flow, but I suspect the "engagement" metrics look great on their dashboard. I can imagine a product manager somewhere is getting a raise after doubling user interaction with a single feature
It doesn’t matter because if the rules permit Epic then they will permit anybody else who wants to make an app store too. GitHub for instance.
Well, when I use youtube I am giving Google permission to use my data in a way described in their TOS. If they break those terms, I have recourse (e.g. lawsuit, legislation, bad PR, etc.)

> do something with it than my neighbor sniffing my IP address when I visit a singular Peertube Instance.

You're minimizing the risk of Peertube from _anyone in the world_ seeing my IP address to "a neighbor" in order to make your argument. Anyway, using Peertube, there is no TOS, no recourse, no privacy.
In your culture, at which point is it permitted (legally or not) to take someone like that out back and punch them a few times?

I only had to deal with one situation like this in my life, and the person responsible is now no longer welcome in my county, so we sorted it out.
I'd be interested in seeing citations for the known death valley. This is the second time I've heard this anecdote but have never seen the evidence.
Pay boat loads for auditors vs. paying pittances for getting pwned a few times. It's no wonder, really.
Researchers show children are silent spreaders of virus that causes Covid-19
Hi there! The footage in the KS video is just beginning of the kind of experience we're building with out game. Beyond that, we're definitely open to opening up our hardware to 3rd party applications and developers to enable a broader set of experiences with added resistance and exercise impact :D
That the exact purpose of all the FOSS tooling -- to make tools free, so more things can get created? Make all FOSS paid and enforce the licensing and you will bankrupt a lot of small commercial companies that rely on them too. Then really a few giants will remain.
I doubt that this pandemic will make the world take threats to humanity any more seriously than any of the other pandemics we’ve had. I can’t think of any reason why this one would be different.

If anything, we all lucked out with how mild it was, and people are going to be less cautious when a much deadlier virus makes the rounds next time.
This event should've put to bed any notion that Epic is controlled by Tencent: https://www.businessinsider.com/epic-unlike-blizzard-wont-ba...

In an incident where even fully US-based organizations were caving to maintain these Chinese market, Tim went full "I don't care what China thinks about what our players say on streams".

Pretty sure Tencent is just in it for the money, Epic's a pretty good investment.
Right, but under the definition of Unjust Enrichment as laid out in the article, it requires both a mistake + not being liable to pay.

So there's a difference between "whoops I paid money to the wrong person" and "whoops I prepaid my loan back in full", which is that the latter fails to satisfy one of the two criteria of unjust-ness.

Perhaps there's more nuance in the legal definition that this article missed, though.
The first fundamentally different thing should be the presence good testing and contact tracing. With high rates, I don't think that's a viable strategy, but if cases are few enough, it should work.

Different countries have done different things, but my understanding is that South Korea avoided a lock down for the most part by implementing this before cases were widespread. They occasionally add some temporary restrictions, but I think "sometimes we have to add some restrictions until there's a vaccine" is a livable long-term situation. What we're seeing in the US is that for a lot of people, our current situation isn't.
I would say some of the most promising work right now is in quasi-direct-drive actuators, basically low-gear-ratio brushless motors. Standalone electric motors are basically linear in terms of electrical power->torque, and even with a gearbox, provided the gear ratio is low enough, you can assume near-linear behavior. Brushless motors tend to be easier to design around specific size and shape constraints, and often run slower than brushed.

The "secret" to a lot of this actuator work is that outside of highly repetitive industrial tasks, actuators are rarely running at full power so you don't need to design them (and their cooling) for continuous max power operation. Somewhat like human muscles, you can pick smaller motors and/or lower gear ratios that cover the normal cases, and still be OK with rare overloads so long as the overload isn't long enough to cause overheating.
Thanks! I added it in this PR: https://github.com/azihassan/hashtrack-client/pull/11
This. And to expand on it:

for Gmail, you have to log in. It has to know it is you. It has to know that everything it is serving you is only for you. It has to retain copies of documents that -- as far as it knows -- are unique to you or whomever you share with. It has to do all this while keeping that information safe from other people who might want to take a look at it.

And that's just the items I can think of in real time while typing.
If only that were true, and your money would go to the content creators, instead of Google... (who abuses our privacy in the process)
It's important to keep in mind that teleoperation is always paired with an (initially quite immature) autonomy system. Just as blakesterz called out in the sibling comment, the strategy here is to start with high volume of teleoperation and then scale up autonomy over time, essentially increasing the productive output of one teleoperator.

We see companies all across the board, from 1:1 (or even multiple people always watching at once) to over 1:100 in operator / robot ratio.

In practical terms, this usually takes the form of operators being notified of situations that they have to resolve, and switching between systems frequently.

Once you're above a certain level of productivity, the cost of the teleoperator is negligible... so it doesn't really matter where you locate the labor as long as you have a reasonable path to reaching a high ratio using autonomy.

Fortunately, getting robots out in the world lets you gather the data needed to improve your autonomy system, and so it's worth it to get out there early as long as it's safe.
So supporting an entrenched system of racism is not racism then? If so I can see why not much progress is being made.
In the movie Thank You For Smoking a tobacco industry spokesman calls it the 'Yuppie Nuremberg Defense.' Instead of "I had orders" it's "I had a mortgage."
That doesn't really help. "Max" to enforce a "lower bound" is briefly halting.
The timing of the Google Deal and the Layoffs has me very concerned.

Adding to that concern is the fact they seemed to have laid off all the teams that were working on Advanced Browser Technologies that could lead to taking away from Chrome's market share, and signaled a shift of Mozilla OUT of the browser development market...

Leads me to wonder what the terms of the Google Deal really was...
I still dream about it. And it's 20 years ago. That guy and his buddies caused us so much misery it isn't funny.

Another Bauer story; prior to the investment: he had fear of flying, and was an asshole to the people that he perceived as lower on the social ladder than himself. So when he was nasty to the stewardess on a very small airplane (10 seater, twin prop) flying from Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo and the pilots caught on to his fear they got their revenge on him by doing all kinds of borderline legal aerobatics with the plane.

Bauer and I were the only passengers, I had a great time but made sure to sit where it was safe. He was as white as a sheet when we landed, and made a great point of being polite to the stewardess on the way back.

One asshole deflated, props to those pilots (pun intended) for standing up for their colleague.
No idea if 1Password does it, but KeePassXC has really good SSH support where it integrates with your SSH agent for storing private keys (and/or the relevant passphrase).
Not surprising they would nominate Assange given their essentially overt ties to the Kremlin.
> "Does California have enough entrepreneurs and programmers whom the shutdown would inconvenience enough to make solving it worth their while?"

Reminds me of a [1] quote from a professor:

"if it takes 6 men 7 days to build a wall. How long will it take 10,000 men to build the same wall? .... the answer is less than 1 second"

[1] https://youtu.be/2qLuerYx2IA
Right, but that's because I'm not owed 10x my monthly salary.
If your concern is for supporting content creators, and if you have any reservations about the intrusiveness of adtrackers -- and also maybe you'd like to conserve your system resources when you browse the web -- wouldn't it make much more sense to support the content creators you enjoy directly through Patreon and use an adblocker instead?
I am assuming a lot, very possibly super early but I do want to point out that it's terraform/pulumi, and separately ansible (unless you're talking about ansible for provisioning/cloud modules[0] which no one ever seems to know about).

But what I'm trying to get at is that the kubernetes interface basically is the terraform/pulumi interface, just with a different configuration language (and less built-in templating macros, which is a GOOD thing, see CloudFormation), but better, because it's continuous. You write a configuration (no matter how dynamic you make things, there's one version that's sent out to AWS/GCP/whatever) with terraform/pulumi, and terraform/pulumi make it true once. You write a relatively similar configuration with k8s and it is made to be true once, but also continuously.

As far as popularity goes, kubernetes is insanely popular -- kubernetes was adopted by just about every cloud provider with a speed I've never seen before. Terraform/Pulumi basically took on the work of adapting to cloud provider APIs, not the other way around.

[0]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_clou...
The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
Very good idea :) Let's go!
Ask HN: How do companies create a trusted brand?
In some cases, it can be desirable to have single vendor so that there is '1 throat to choke'. (i.e., can't pass the buck).
While I agree that the behaviour of the UK and the USA is suspect, and also that the incredibly low prosecution rate for sexual assault[0] suggests that a guilty-but-not-infamous person otherwise identical to Assange would probably not have been charged, one of his accusers was trying to reopen the case and get him extradited to Sweden as soon as they found out he was no longer in the embassy, and this failed because the judge decided too much time has passed for a fair trial[1].

[0] assuming UK rates are similar to Swedish rates, given a quick google didn’t give me their stats

[1] https://www.thelocal.se/20191119/swedish-prosecutor-holds-pr...
I’m getting a paywall on NYT article. But my first thought is, I bet this correlates strongly to property values/density. I don’t know how to build that viz but if anyone is bored with the know how please post it.
double boot and windows looking customized desktop ?
This is really interesting, thanks for sharing it! Is this how American offices actually work?
Kubernetes Security Is Not a Patchwork
My point was to stay together and do work to stop the fighting. Staying together and fighting all the time wouldn't be "bending over backwards".
Natural resources, endless war is good for defense contractors, and it's a way to have proxy wars with other large states (Russia / China).

These incentives hold almost everywhere and not just the Middle East. That's why destabilization in Central/South America and Africa is also compelling and has been ongoing for ages.

But, the Middle East has particularly compelling geographic, social, and technological circumstances for a candidate location for endless war.

Specifically:
1. It's far from the US and closer to competition ("best defense is a strong offense")
2. Until recently the ethnic and religious make up of Middle Eastern peoples was hyper localized, making them outgroups who were easy to demonize
3. Also until recently it was not likely for media to make its way out of the Middle East where people could see just how terrible war is and how similar the people there are to people everywhere else
I'm currently living in Ecuador and skipping out of the country with millions and heading to Europe is the preferred route for many politicians here. They get safe haven there with their families and are not extradited, even when the government tries to get them back for trial. So, this is actually perfectly cool with the EU coming from another western country, not just Russia/China. Money seems to make those EU principles of the rule of law very negotiable. Guess they have the inverse problem as well when someone runs off with their money.
Frankly I think neither "side" in most of these arguments is clearly and consistently racist (though obviously racism is a huge problem in society regardless of these arguments), and both "sides" tend to jump to accusations of racism too quickly. I'm not putting forward a "both sides are just as bad" argument - far from it - but I'm not making that distinction right now. What I am saying is that, in cases where I do see one or both sides of one of these arguments behaving irrationally, it is almost always a too-quick jump to accusations of racism, rather than the inverse problem: Actually being racist. However, despite this being a "both sides" problem, what I think happens is that when somebody on the "anti-racism side" (or "pro-diversity side" or whatever) ends up doing something apparently racist (usually against whites), it's much more dramatic because of the opportunity to point at hypocrisy, and therefore "counts" more against them than if the other side of that argument had committed some equivalent racism against a non-white.
I also took a roadtrip across the northeast a month ago so I saw a lot of how careful people were being. Ocean City, NJ was packed and almost no one was wearing masks. The upper east side was packed in NYC. I got a chicken sandwich at an indoor take out place where the guy serving me had one glove on and gave me the sandwich with the hand without the glove. Central park was full of people not wearing masks. Fireworks and protests all night. The argument that people are taking this seriously is just not true in NY and NJ. I can't imagine Florida is better than that.
>Not sure how reasonable that really was, a good majority of my Steam library went unusable in one upgrade. There should have been some virtualization option available

Apple had been transitioning to 64-bit for over a decade when they finally dropped 32-bit support. That transition period is more than reasonable.
> What are you gaining out of having the TV be smart?

Very little if anything. Mostly I just wanted a big, nice and relatively inexpensive screen, which it definitely is.