skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google removing apps with spam/malware is one thing, & not something people would actually complain about. That also doesn't apply to removing the fediverse apps. They don't contain malware, they're simply alternative social networks. If they're going to remove them for having content they consider inappropriate or whatever excuse they're using, they need to remove other social media apps like facebook & twitter, because they certainly both have plenty of that too. Otherwise it just looks like an attempt to remove competitors to facebook/twitter. I also don't see what this has to do with a business refusing to make a cake. Businesses do have a right to refuse service. In this case if you're going to remove apps claiming they violate a specific violation, but don't remove other apps which will also inevitably be in violation the same way, it's reasonable for people to question it.
The very point of section 230 was to protect companies even if they did moderate. What you are suggesting is that section 230 should be repealed, and let the courts sort it all out.
I've been using the Lenovo X1 Carbon with Debian and I couldn't be happier with it.
I interviewed Ryan Hoover for PM News (flywheels, retention, and leadership)
> Every software project I've been on, someone always comes in and says there's tons of technical debt

They say that because it's true. Every project has a lot of technical debt.

Good technical management should understand the problems caused by the debt and prioritize it accordingly.

Bad technical management will devote no time to technical debt, and it will grow exponentially.
Related theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion
I signed up for a shell account on a similar service, b.armory.com, in 2008. Since that time, the website is gone and activity is very low. It was a nice way to learn about Linux thanks to someone's generosity in sharing their server.
My experience:

External displays of variable DPI unusable without a paid app like switchresx.

Suspend always drains the battery if using any kind of usb or microscope drive. Endless hacks to finally get it to fully hibernate when closing the lid. Updates break it over time and a new way has to be figured out.

x86 support suddenly thrown away in new updates, decimating game libraries.

Out of date OpenGL and heavy push into proprietary Metal.

App notarization that was promised to just be used for security now being used for iOS related business punishments, bleeding into the desktop.

Windows with WSL gets all the advantages of the terminal in OS X and finally was enough for me to move. With the WSL 2 GPU integration gets rid of the remaining issues, especially as it moves into GPU display application support and not just GPU compute.
Computer pioneer Arnold Spielberg, Steven's dad, dies at 103
If your site has been overrun by ultra-far-right types for basically its entire existence and you do nothing to mitigate this then you're very clearly complicit.

But you're right, most of the "no moderation, anything goes" online communities tend to be overrun by extremists but it's easy to see why: you only need a minority of very dedicated trolls posting outrageous content 24/7 to ruin a community. It takes time and effort to post insightful content and analysis, meanwhile you can throw shit at the walls at a large scale very easily.

That's why it's pretty obvious to me that if you want to actually have interesting discussions online and a plurality of opinions you need moderation, otherwise the low effort bullies take over.
Several other plugins serve as telemetry even if not explicitly intended as such. Other extensions that have their own telemetry generally ignore the telemetry setting on the editor itself.

One such example:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/49161
YBC 7289
It's not well-documented, but non-FIPS can support 4096. FIPS goes up to 3072 for, well, FIPS reasons.
Yeah, it used to be (a year or two back) GotoMeeting and Webex were the 'big 2' and now, they hardly get mentioned.
Thanks! We're just tackling the problem from different angles, I'm a huge fan of what they're doing, and if you want to express your diagrams via code, ilograph, along with structurizr, I highly recommend.
Yes, the Cyberpunk RPG is one of the classics of the genre. Originally set in the then-future of 2013, by titling the videogame Cyberpunk 2077 they are playing with the fact that the RPG's editions continued to push the timeline in their titles (Cyberpunk 2020 was released in 1990, for instance), and makes something of a case for 64 years of "alternate future history" now from the original Cyberpunk 2013 setting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_(role-playing_game)
I agree, I've been thinking along these lines for a while too; thank you for phrasing it so clearly.

My current thinking led me to conclude that we don't have sufficiently good tools[0] for modelling O(n) problems with n > 2. Particularly when (what your simplification doesn't capture) there are feedback loops involved.

Take this O(2) problem: x causes more y, y causes more z, z causes less y but much more x. Or in a pictorial form:

(++)
X<-------\
| (-) |
| ------Z
\ / ^
(+) v | (+)
Y-------/

You can't just think your way through that problem, you have to model it - estimate coefficients (even if qualitatively), account for assumptions, and simulate the dynamic behavior.

I argue that we lack both mental and technological tools to cope with this.

Speaking of global warming, a year ago I presented this problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20480438 - "Will increase in coal exports of Poland increase Poland's CO₂ footprint?" Yes? No? How badly?

The question is at least this complicated:

Coal exports
^
| [provides Z coal to]
|
| [needs α*X = A kWh for coal]
Mining coal <---------------------\
| |
| [provides X coal to] |
v |
Coal power plants |
| | |
| | [γ*X = Y kWh burning coal] |
| v |
| Electricity --------------------/
|
| [burned coal into β*X = N kg of CO₂]
v
CO₂ emissions

(Presented this way it not only tells you that, ceteris paribus, it will, but roughly by how much and what are the parameters that can be tweaked to mitigate it.)

Why aren't we talking about climate change in these terms with general public? Why aren't feedback loops taught in school?

--

[0] - Or, if they exist, they aren't sufficiently well known outside some think tanks or some random academic papers.
Quantum computing, a threat to encryption: Robin Wilton from Internet Society
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/000119312520...

What Palantir's S-1 told me (along with knowledge of their business model) is that they have to sell government agencies pretty hard -- sales/marketing to the $ tune of 100% of the gross margin -- and then spend a lot of money to build the analytics and deliver the goods. (lots of hidden costs in "forward deployed engineers", which have to be assigned to every customer)

They are not a software company -- they're a services company that builds + uses software to deliver insights. That's a very different profit situation than purely software. If they even get out of the hole to begin with.
It's not the developers per se that are paying. It's their employer, i.e.: large companies who want things like

- professional support

- proprietary modules for Redis

- advice on integrating Redis into their legacy systems
Luckily, there's a lot of providers that offer this :)
I have an issue with this. I hear a lot of this argument, that we should "accept a certain risk of catching COVID". But that risk is not what keeps me from going out, I'm personally willing to catch it. What keeps me home is the risk that I might be unwittingly spreading the disease. It seems really irresponsible of me (and of other people) to go out just because I'm feeling bad and seeing friends will make feel less bad. I still do it, but I feel guilty about it and I feel really judgemental of other people doing it. And I don't like being judgy, so I bottle it up with people I'm not extremely close to, but that's not conducive to great conversations.
What Your Identity Solution Is Missing
Learn what your identity solution is missing and some potential attack surfaces that could come along with it.

#Identity #Auth0 #Solutions
> It would be very hard to tell that story in fantasy.

Perhaps Steampunk is closer to this, given that "steam" was part of the first industrial revolution.

However there are some interesting ideas floating around that you could use to tell a pure-Fantasy cyberpunk story; I'm sure someone's tried a novel, but I am only familiar with the tabletop RPG http://cryptorpg.com/, where magic enables cryptography and messaging. From there you can recapitulate pretty much all of the dystopian power/narrative structures that make Cyberpunk what it is.

Magic-as-technology is a surprisingly under-explored concept, with the right magic system I think you could easily tell a Cyberpunk story.
They would be the cops actually. Or the police's goons.
That farmers market is probably around 1000x lower risk than meeting your neighbours or friends, btw. (assuming indoor meetings)
Hopefully there can be a way to use ocaml/dune directly without importing "everything" into each per-component build tree. OE best practices employ per-recipe sysroots for building each component, where a minimal set of dependencies is present for the build environment. This helps with reproducible builds and generation of manifests for supply chain integrity.
The Ultratec Supercom TeleType / TDD Equipment Demo
Yep, setting times is easily 95% of my requests to Alexa. The other 5% is either asking about the weather, or joke questions like: "how many fathoms is it to proxima centauri"
I agree wholeheartedly. Let’s discuss this along with lifting collective sanctions imposed on Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela.
That is a form of collective punishments that starves civilians.
I’m very cynical about the outrage re: those “re-education” sites. Not because they’re benign but because nobody bats an eye when America commits similarly heinous acts. It seems like a convenient deflection tactic.
I will say, my Dell Precision 7710's trackpad works very, very well. I was really concerned when I migrated away from a Mac 3 years ago because I kept reading stuff like this but was very pleasantly surprised.

In contrast, I don't understand the Thinkpad hype. Everyone that I've ever tried has just felt low quality to me. I don't understand why people like them so much.
I don't really know what to make of that article from cleantechnica. It says that renewables weren't the issue. But the head of the CA grid also said that "If the wind hadn’t run out, we would have been OK"[1]. Maybe this is wrong, but the way I interpret that is "When a fossil fuel plant conked out, it was the straw that broke the camel's back. But the reason that a single power plant failure led to blackouts is a heavy dependence on renewables without adequate storage or backups".

[1]: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/environment/article2451155...
And for good reason. It doesn't make sense to mandate equal time for mainstream and fringe positions, rational proposals and ones riddled with contradictions. Either some government censor is responsible for deciding which positions are "serious" enough to warrant equal time or the media eventually gets overwhelmed with nonsense and conspiracy theories. If you want to see where the "fairness doctrine" leads, just have a look at some of the less discriminating social media sites.
> Ultralight supports the console platforms

I don't understand that. The readme says "Ultralight is a lightweight, cross-platform, HTML rendering engine for desktop apps and games." How does this fit with your argument?

> which it cannot do with open source code (not allowed by the developer agreements.)

Why not?
I'd like to find out more about this, because I haven't heard of that at all. That I haven't heard is not surprising though as I last looked at Awesomium a very long time ago.
Not really. If it goes down I can use Hangouts or Slack, for starters.
hehehe, https://pantelis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/0/css3d/readme/b...

It's billboarding! (and the css lightsources are duplicated in the webgl world, so that the worm is properly shaded)
> I want the truth. That's something all US media is failing to give us right now.

What truth is this you are so deprived of? I presume you have some "real" source of truth that's more reliable than media that fact-checks itself and issues corrections?
It’s not fair to critique a film or video game based on its trailer. The phrase “don’t judge a book by its cover” comes to mind.

Let’s suspend judgment of Cyberpunk 2077 until it’s released in a couple months. They surprised everyone with how awesome Witcher 3 was, so let’s give CD Projekt the benefit of the doubt.
You can also use @googlemail.com domain name instead of @gmail.com to double the number of email addresses.
Not allowing a parties political ads would be clear favoritism in a political situation. You might not like Trump, but it's quite the jump to say republican ads are "hate speech." .. in fact that's quite literally weaponizing the word "hate speech" to censor political opinions you don't like.
In my opinion yes,

I wouldn't like it but it's their network, i would hope that that wouldn't be a good business decision and their competitors would not do that.
Even WebEx is still around and, ironically, works much better in a browser than Zoom.
Apple are cheating the 9ms lag measurement the way speculative execution and aggressive cache population are cheating performance benchmarks.

In general, this point makes me think of computational photography. If you have extra computing power, you can do things that are synthetic, but nevertheless real enough to deliver satisfaction, in real time.
>I'm just worried there is too much safety everywhere and no one takes risks any more

Oh I think they take plenty of risks. Look at the 787 Max.
iOS: Screenshot Cropping Mechanism
Some interesting research on aging reversing drugs.
>If your site has been overrun by ultra-far-right types for basically its entire existence and you do nothing to mitigate this then you're very clearly complicit.

How do you mitigate without running counter to the original idea of "free speeech"?
If you're targeting a browser based solution. Three JS and Babylon.js gives you the building blocks.

If you're looking more of a Constructive Solid Geometry based web solution jscad/CSG.js.

If you want something more turnkey with a BREP kernel look at what the folks at https://www.autodrop3d.com/parametric-cad.html and https://buerli.io/ are building. Super interesting.

Not affiliated with the above companies, I just do dev on related software.
I hope antirez has equity in it
> it was the maker space par excellence long before the term came into being.

Just to provide an example: I made a keyer in the 70s. The way to make a PCB was to get a 3x4 copper-coated board from Radio Shack, use a sharpie to draw your desired traces, then etch the board in an HCl bath. After that, you used an old-fashioned soldering iron to attach your components to the board. You became excellent at soldering ICs, to avoid the additional cost of using a plug-in socket.

(Now get off my lawn.)
Yes that's what immediately came to mind - 40 year old's represent!
This is also covered in the book Pro Git, if you have the patience to read 400 pages about Git.
Seems over priced.. A small team can make something similar in a few weeks?
It's a walking simulator.
You should have taken pictures and made a blog post out of it.
I wish that were the case, it’s a pretty nice editor.
Apple not allowing Facebook to use Apple platform to spread disparaging remarks. They’re not even going draconian on it and banning Facebook if they make disparaging remarks on other platforms. This is max libertarianism. Apple built the highway and is in charge of setting the rules. You want to change the rules, change them for all competitors.
Small Japanese Town to Test First Autonomous Amphibious Bus
Tesla was target of a failed ransomware attack
No doubt if they went bankrupt some of their existing employees could make a case to investors to take over the company but run it in a way that doesn't destroy the company due to predictable quality issues.

Especially employees who have a documented history of discussing those exact issues with management, being whistleblowers, etc.
Relevant shameless art project plug. Nlp+voice clone model of Joe Biden. Streaming on hold until interactive chat is tested and complete.

Disclaimer: I'm not a fan of either of the two parties. Trump version to come.

https://twitch.tv/biden_unleashed
Has anybody used SimulDocs[0], which sells itself as a "version control for Microsoft Word documents"? I've been really curious if it's a decent solution in this space, but I tend to keep myself away from Word docs in my life recently.

[0]: https://www.simuldocs.com/features/version-control-for-micro...
A few days ago we got the "Milky-Way at night" circular puzzle from bewilderness. It was quite the experience.

Here's a short time-lapse of the building process

[0]: https://twitter.com/shimmmaz/status/1299393187304280066?s=20
Interesting! I guess it is preferable for countries stretching in the east-west direction, instead of north-south?
We interface with courts every day, they pretty much forgot about our direct connections using Polycom VC and went straight to Zoom
> as a user

As a user, are you buying ad placements on other people's news feeds? If so, I'd be very confused why you would continue to spend money on it (via your iPhone) if it doesn't change your experience as a user. I'd expect you to at least see some change, hopefully in the form of funds in your own paycheck.

Is there something special about users that buy ads that means Apple can't get a cut of their purchases, or that we don't consider them Facebook "users"?
I’m hoping beyond hope that Jetbrains one day implements a client-server architecture. The codebase at work is getting too big for our MacBooks to reasonably “git pull,” build, and index. The solution on offer is very powerful cloud instances. The only GUI editor option there is VSCode. It’s okay, but nowhere near Jetbrains level.
Well a bunch of people are running around now saying speech is violence...so in the not too distant future we might be saying someone was murdered by words.
Actually, this doesn't work. There's a specific court doctrine called the State Actors Rule. If a private entity is working on behalf of the government, then all of the constitutional protections applied to the government also apply to that private entity within the scope of them being a state actor. For example, this is why it is unconstitutional for Donald Trump to block you on Twitter, or for the Air Force's esports team to block you from their Twitch streams. This also extends to physical venues and company towns.
> for example there is no concept of a camera, the whole world moves around you instead to simulate the camera effect

Wait until you learn what a camera is :)
CMU Researchers Train Autonomous Drones Using Cross-Modal Simulated Data
These article have been decried as being staged by the chinese government. Here are other articles, from the BCC, about Uighurs:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53657604
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszl3q
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172x2ys9gxqv4g
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08lf6zk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-50166713
Unfortunately phones with SD cards are hard to come by these days. I think that was intentional to help prop up streaming because both each of the duopoly has heavy investments in streaming media.
I didn't try Spacemacs. When I decided to make the switch I looked at both of them, the big thing that won me over was that Doom Emacs advertised being lighter weight and quicker to startup which kind of sold me. I might be interested in trying Spacemacs in the future but right now I am still trying to navigate the Emacs world itself.
I have been asked to implement this in Google, Amazon and Facebook interviews and used the same method. :)
Amazon Fresh opens with ‘smart’ shopping carts and Alexa guides
No, just in the first level. I'm running on Firefox on Linux.

By coincidence I read up on WebRender on Firefox today and decided to force it turned on - suddenly the game looks nice (only glitch when looking down below the candle one of the wall segments still vanishes).

But it runs a lot better with WebRender (which uses the Graphics card to composite) than without on my machine.
> for example there is no concept of a camera, the whole world moves around you instead to simulate the camera effect

In reality, this is how the concept of the transform stack works in most game engines, too.
I am in the same boat, except my daily laptop is a ThinkPad X1 Carbon instead of a T480, coming from a specced out Macbook Air 11. My feelings are remarkably close to this. For anyone who spends a lot of time in emacs, browser, the terminal, with media editing as a secondary concern, I think it's a great setup. The ThinkPad hardware is stellar.

I would underline what he points out about the battery being a relative shortcoming though. Which is important for anyone who likes being away from a power outlet for a good while.

I think linux has historically really lagged on controlling battery use, Apple has exploited its tight hardware/software integration for years in this regard, and I only see this spread widening frankly. The ARM Macbooks will likely be absolute marathon runners in comparison to any linux laptop, at least for a good while. I'd love to be wrong.
> The navy did a decent job with sqlight and TOR.

Tell us more?
it's a terrible precedent, and borderline corrupt. mayor garcetti has proven to be a weak orator and leader, and weak leaders resort to force rather than reason and persuasion. he's solely focused on winning political points with wealthy backers here and nationally, because of his ambitions (and ranking behind gov. newsom), the people and precedent be damned.

he's ineffective with the power he has, can't get the homeless off the streets, can't build housing or make it affordable, can't improve educational outcomes, can't reduce unemployment and underemployment, has no real empathy for regular people (despite his emotion-laden language, and spanish!), and yet he wants to reach into our private lives and coerce behavior at the margin (saying this despite wholly agreeing that house parties are a terrible idea right now, but let's persuade, not force, and have a dialogue).

the irony is that angelenos have been an exceedingly compliant group to his orders, adhering to both lockdown and _outdoor_ mask mandates at upwards of 95%. even if some of that is social signaling, that's startlingly high, making any a dictator proud. and yet he wants more.
"Shopping Malls can have Sex Shops."

Why do people find a corner-case of an analogy, and somehow think it negates the analogy?

It's just an analogy.

Of course 'some malls have sex shops' - but obviously, most of them don't.

The vast majority of corps don't want their brands anywhere near porn, sex, guns, politics, hate/contentious speech etc..

Most decent malls are actually selective of who they want in there, and the 'other residents' of the mall have a say as well.

There are an infinite number of places porn/guns/politics can be sold, so that's not a problem, it's just not going to be in a system wherein the other players are wary of it.

It's actually good reason why we need a lot of alternative points of distribution.

I wonder if there should even be some legislation around that, in terms of the kinds of app stores that are preloaded must be more 'open' and that alternative options must be provided very easily.
So what? It takes a lot of money and coordination to run a war effort too, or to go to the moon in the 1960s.

It's not an easy industry if you're private without subsidies. But if the government sponsors it and it is a necessity, it's much easier.
If you are considering something like this for games, try:

https://github.com/mikke89/RmlUi/

or for apps:

https://sciter.com/