skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Myanmar, Facebook has such a presence, that the word "facebook" was used in place of the internet. Mobile providers gave preferential(unmetered) access to facebook, so everyone uses it[0]. At the time of the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya, facebook had maybe one or two people who could speak the local language on staff..[1] Despite it being used by the whole country. The government used FB extensively to spread messages of ethnic hate, about the bad things Rohingya were doing.[2] I volunteered with some young Myanmar students in Japan at the time. They were completely adamant that Muslims were coming across the boarder and attacking Burmese people, and the government was just sending soldiers for security.
They also let politicians spread hate in The Philippines (look up Maria Ressa's years of work about this.[3])

We don't need Tech experts running platforms of social exchange, we need them to be run by society experts..

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/01/facebook-free-basics-endin...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-...

[2] https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/dangerous-speech-anti-muslim-v...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed7s4OL65IA
There’s no requirement to be a genius here. A cursory look at the app would tell you it’s a reader style app similar to reddit, Twitter, etc.

You don’t need to know anything about hacker news but the octal description clearly describes the functionality, and any App Store reviewer should definitely understand the concept of reader style apps as they are quite numerous. That’s a pretty low bar.
Possibly actually alien, but people need something to look at or at least sense. so yea subanthropomorphisable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24392814
So you believe in right for secrecy for governments but not for citizens?

Isn’t this the opposite of what it should be? How else can we hold government accountable?
Most people’s finances aren’t nearly as complex as yours.
It's been a long time since I saw Contact but I'm pretty sure I remember the shot you're talking about. It's the one with the mirror?
I can't really comment on the novelty of this work, but I don't think the connectivity structure makes much sense.

I mean, it does in the sense that local pixels are strongly correlated and a binary tree will captures this. In fact if you add weight-sharing to the K-tree model you can recover 1D convolution with a stride and kernel of 2.

But is this really the right operation for images? Why fixed kernel of 2? I think capsules or some other vector-based operation would make more sense. Perhaps with a learned or dynamic connectivity pattern.
If you don't understand micro-agressions, then you don't understand bullying. Because that's all micro-agressions are. Unintentional bullying.

Intentionality is not relevant with micro-agressions. Parse the nomenclature all you like, but people unintentionally cause harm all the time.

The issue is when as a society, those things are so commonplace that they repeat over and over in a constant loop.

For example, if someone accidentally bumps into you while passing you on the sidewalk, it's no big deal, they apologize and both people move on. Now imagine that everywhere you go, people keep bumping into you and apologizing all day long, multiple times a day.

You know no one means anything by it, but the aggregate of all that bumping is terribly frustrating and you can't even take it out on any individual person because you know they didn't mean it.

That's what many minorities deal with. And white people are completely clueless to what they are doing.

No one is talking about punishing the micro-agressors. Just educating them so we can minimize the distributed bullying campaign that we have been subjecting people to and give them some breathing room.
What problem is this trying to solve? Is there that much of a black market for data center CPUs?
The correct procedure is to email the mods if someone is suspected of being a shill.
We all walk around with our model of the world in our heads. When we see something that reinforces our model we get a dopamine hit. "I knew I was right!" Instead of Fox or MSNBC selecting stories for a target audience facebook uses machine learning to find the perfect selection of stories to keep you hooked.

Before Facebook had an algorithm you'd see peoples posts in chronological order. The moment they altered that was where they began to influence behavior.

I do think that facebook is in the position to do something about its negative influence. And taking no action or saying "it's too hard to fix" is basically being complicit. You don't get to profit off of this machine without being responsible for its negative externalities. At least from a moral standpoint.

The solution? Stop the manipulation of what users see based on machine learning. Users should see what their friends and groups post chronologically. What would be the downside of that? I'd spend less time on facebook (an upside if you ask me) and facebook would make less money.
I guess I'm not the only one who misses those keyboards, they go for around ~$300 on eBay[1]

[1] https://www.ebay.com/b/IBM-Model-F/175690/bn_55189929
Disagree. National journalism is nowadays politically charged entertainment, sensationalism and fake news. Local journalism is more likely to be real news.
Couldn't agree more with you. It's been pretty eye opening to me just how toxic the general dude-bro workaholic culture in Silicon Valley / tech is. There is just astounding levels of lack of empathy amongst so many commenters here.

So glad I never moved to the West coast when I had the chance. Instead I get to live in a nice spacious house with a half-acre lot, a fenced in yard to enjoy with my kids and dog, and work at a great small-business/startup in ML with great colleagues, excellent work-life balance, and the main company motto being - Don't hire assholes, and don't work for assholes. It's been working fantastic for several years now!
BIOS (UEFI) level rootkits
A paper 1040A would be faster than going through an online system for many. Just mail it in.
Having used both Multics and the Alto, I can add a few points:

Multics as implemented used a slightly different syntax, such as > for path separation.

Segments were not file descriptors but were intended to be what might today be called blocks. The original idea was that the entire memory would essentially be a single address space, with segments being blocks of memory that might be in core, on disk, or on tape (called very slow storage if I remember correctly but it’s been decades). Security was at the segment level, so you could for example have (in posix parlance) an suid shared library that an ordinary program could, with appropriate authentication and permissions, call into in a controlled manner. Multics’ permission structure was more fine grained than the binary of suid. You can see how the backup system kind of falls out of this automatically. I trust some multician will step up and correct any memory-corruption-based thinkos in the above.

Of course reality didn’t quite match the dream and Multics was cancelled before some of that research could be completed. But if you look at the x86 segment registers they could implement something like that. I think this was also in the intel iapx-430 but fortunately even the name of that ancient dead processor is hazy in my mind.

As for the alto filesystem and its descendants: the labels don’t have to be next to the blocks they describe. After all Unix filesystems have multiple copies of their basic breadcrumbs at least. There’s certainly plenty of room for these in modern storage systems; every modern drive, whether spinning or ssd, does a small amount of this in block remapping and wear leveling.
The nuclear debate is interesting, with valid talking points on both sides. But even if nuclear were safer and cheaper than wind+solar+storage (which it isn't), it would take decades to build. We might not have that much time.

Climate change is urgent and we need all hands on deck to build as fast and as cheap as possible. May the best designs win asap in this fight!
George RR Martin notoriously uses a DOS box with WordStar 4.0 to write his novels.

I get it, my mother stuck with WordPerfect for her entire career as an academic publishing editor. The reason was the "reveal codes" feature: without the ability to "pop the hood" and directly edit the representation of the document, fixing various weird edge cases was an exercise in frustration.
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I remember one time seeing a job posting at one of the big tech companies everyone talks about that looked interesting to me. No way I'd be able to pass the interview today, but out of curiosity I decided to look into what they would be like. I found a copy of one of those popular "interview handbooks" that go into how to get into such a company and it went on to describe how they expect you to he incredibly enthusiastic about the company and its products in a way that seemed very artificial to me. Not sure I could manage to bullshit that well enough regardless of a technical interview.
Wow, Project Loon. It’s been a while since I’ve thought about it. It seems kind of pointless now, doesn’t it? StarLink will displace it in a couple of years.
I'm not saying you shouldn't. I'm just trying to get some clarification on the original statement. The source I was able to dig up is from 8 years ago, and was reporting on incidents stretching back 23 years ago. The op mentioned 1000 instances in the past 10 years. I just want more info on what they meant.
From the sellers side they're getting paid though with only some risk (and less risk than doing COD and about the same risk as a check or debit transaction).
Hesaid anecdata, but our company (that I recently joined) has been using AS/400 (now named IBM i, I believe) for 20 years and has had less than 6 hours of downtime.

As I understand it, one would definitely need training/study to interface with it.
>Hatred doesn't last long when you talk to people.

I talk to people almost every day in a completely uncensored environment who have nothing but the purest hatred and mockery for all liberal or leftist people and liberal or leftist ideologies. They unabashedly want to murder their enemies. They applaud the killing and beating and gassing of BLM protesters. Yes, "the left" has places where they mock the right unreasonably too, and they fire somebody sometimes for a stupid misunderstanding or for being too offensive, or they ban somebody from a web site for a not-good-enough reason - it's stupid and awful, but there is simply no comparison. Calling what the worst elements on the right are doing to society and discourse "stupid and awful" would be a comedic understatement. And yes, in the right-now, people in the protests are burning things and assaulting people, but they are responding to being murdered by police. If the state murders you in the street, it's hard to find a ceiling for responses past which I couldn't understand people going, even if the response ends up ultimately doing more harm than good, which I can't even predict. The thing they're responding to is one of the worst things that can happen in a civilization.

Edit: Somebody replied to me with the recent death of the Trump supporter, but got flagged (predictably so, considering the rest of their post). I just wanted to point out that it's a good example of cherry picking. Each time somebody dies, the people "on their side" will hold it up alone as evidence of how evil the enemy is. Of course, I'm speaking of the big picture, and I'm aware of the many smaller pieces, and I take pains to consider them.
The question isn't about common literacy, it's about literacy among the nobility, chieftains, clerics.

Much of that, among many other things like basic education, architecture, so many materials and methods, didn't happen until Latinization/Christianization of that part of Europe.
I feel like "gravity storage" should take advantage of natural landscapes better.

ARES (rail energy storage) builds a rail-line uphill, for example. Rail cannot handle a very steep slope, but a gentle hill climb will build up potential energy fine.

In the case of vertical-based gravity storage, I'd imagine that lifting blocks to the top of a cliff (or down a valley) would be most efficient.

I mean, Pumped Hydro is gravity storage, and does just that. Pumping water up a mountain and generating energy by dropping it back down. But presumably, we don't want to use water in the Western states (where water is scarce). So Gravity-energy storage WITHOUT water is the goal.
Depends on how many hours you can work, though, and how many hours you're not getting paid for.
I don't think you get it. Where does this person explicitly say they are being paid or otherwise being compensated for their opinion? You don't just get to decide that someone is a shill because you dislike their opinion.
Emacs has something like that as well with the right plugins. Ctrl+h f then fuzzy type what you want to do. Or, like usual, alt+x then start typing to just execute that command instead of reading about it. You just need the plugin Helm, or Ivy. I use Doom Emacs, and this functionality is built in. I use it all the time. Same story with config variables, except it's ctrl+h v instead of f.
It is not exponentially better. Energy stored in a stacked mass scales as n^2 whereas horizontal stacks scales as n. That’s quadratic scaling, not exponential.
> This is greatly misinformed. Schools in the US are underfunded

K-12 in the USA is more funded than almost every country on this planet. What are you talking about?

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp
When I went to high school --in a third world country-- I studied logic, philosophy, read the Greeks, learned and practiced how to take apart and understand arguments and, generally speaking, learned about things that have escaped US-based educations for decades (I also attended elementary and high school in the US...it's a long complicated story of a family moving around too much). A simple example of this was that I could draw and name all of the capitals of every nation in the world on a blank map of the world (literally, the perimeters of each continent and nothing else on the map. The same for major mountain ranges, peaks and rivers.

The point isn't that finding Aconcagua and Everest on a blank map of the world prepares you for life. The point is to say that our 18 year old leave school without any real marketable skills, unable to think and analyze arguments, engage in real critical thinking and are utterly ignorant about almost everything outside their home town, not to mention the world.

It should come as no surprise that professional manipulators are able to do as they please with an audience steeped in ignorance and unable to exercise critical thinking. The simplest example I have of this is the unimaginable, unthinkable reality to anyone who has lived in any one of, say, two dozen countries, that you have US universities and US college students and graduates actually believing that Marxism, Socialism and Communism are good things. I mean, I can't think of anything more ignorant than that very, very real condition in US education.

It is laughable beyond description to anyone who has lived in almost any country south of the US border, a bunch of countries in Eastern Europe and a bunch of other countries in Africa and Asia.

And yet the young in the US are graduating from high school without skills in logic and critical thinking and then enter college to be pumped with precisely what millions of people who emigrate to the US or aspire to emigrate to the US are escaping.

If that's not the foundation for disastrous results I don't know what is. And it is all centered around a horrible derailment of our system of education.
FreeBSD does in-kernel TLS also. https://reviews.freebsd.org/rS351522
So specifically on vim as a word processor: I've tried using vim as a word-processor and it doesn't work that well even with wordwrap configs enabled up to the wazoo. (and I've been vim user since 1998)

I did use vim to write my dissertation but it was in LaTeX.
> Basically there is no way to make any of this sustainable.

It's not just child care, the response to COVID is unsustainable period. People will continue to act out and single out things like this topic, but all in all, the current solution won't get the United States through the next year without a massive economic collapse.

There is no easy solution here, no magic cure, and the "let's just let the 30% who can work remote do so" is already collapsing in almost every vertical.

To come around to an actual point here, I think we're going to see COVID responses become much more "practical" which are going to be bad news in the short term for parents, when a company can practically say "you are not as productive as a person without children and we can't afford you", which will be an absolute truth in many cases. Lawsuits will be attempted, and some might succeed, but most will fail.

As someone who raised a child alone, without her mother, or an extended family from birth, you have my utmost sympathy and I wish I could say more than this: If you're not planning around your children and thinking of ways to make them invisible to your employment, you're putting them and yourself at risk. Yes, society should care, yes, you should get a break and understanding in dealing with the stress and physical reality of dealing with it, but no, capitalism won't allow for that for very long.

COVID should have brought the country together but it's thus far brought us further apart. I see no sign of that fact changing.
Not perceived: actual, effective latency is higher. Today's hardware is capable of better latencies, but most software guys don't care about latency all the way from firmware to OS to apps to websites. It does matter to some degree in games and vehicles but it's hard to find an industry that values latency outside of toys or industrial applications. Practitioners say this is because "99% of users don't care" but that's only because 99% of users have either (1) never experienced fast latencies or (2) have forgotten them because latencies have gotten gradually slower over the last three decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...

Pumped Hydro energy storage is the #1 energy storage in America, and probably the world. A single plant provides 24GW-hrs of energy storage, dozens of more energy storage than all American utility scale Li-Ion batteries combined.

Bath County is the biggest pumped-hydro battery in the USA (and probably the world), but there are dozens of pumped-hydro plants across the country.

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Turns out that all the water in a lake can hold a huge amount of potential energy through gravity: just pump it up a mountain.
FYI those letters are, afaik at least, typically grossly overestimated. The number is meant to scare you into calling a CPA to straighten it out, essentially. So for anyone else with the same kind of letter, don't just pay unless you know that it's correct ahead of time.
I have a coworker who doesn't smoke but will call it his smoke break and take the 10 minutes and just go for a walk around the building.
> Wouldn't that be a good thing, economically speaking?

Yes, because it means people can live in places they couldn't before, or could get to jobs they couldn't before. Of course, people who already used the road won't perceive these benefits; they are in the same situation as before.
I can see why you'd suspect that. But it turns out that the oil and gas industry has 100 years of precedent demonstrating how to build such shafts into bedrock. Flooding and earthquakes are all real concerns, but we have well-proven solutions.
Totally agree that "US internal issues" bring nothing valuable to this discussion. Also agree that truth matters. I don't think that can be said enough these days. My comment about the discussion of slavery/prison inmates was referencing the root post of this thread, and some of the other responses.
Do we need to just create a dummy proof OS for people that are oblivious and click yes to everything? Otherwise, why not give people choice? I mean you could create a pop up asking people for their passwords today on any browser, so how is adding a feature that requires permission any different?
I am having flashbacks to late 90s Linux. One of the distros back then was Caldera OpenLinux. It had a Linux port of WordPerfect. It got a lot of criticism at the time for being nonfree.
I'm not sure exactly how, but I think it's trolling.
Google routinely allows third parties to run egregious malicious fingerprinting scripts without consequence, most notably on StackOverflow. [1]

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/331960/why-is-stack...
> It would've worked too

I'm not fully following -- how would it have worked? The scammers sent you something, and then issued a FedEx label to pick it back up.

It wasn't your credit card anyway, so ultimately it didn't involve you other than that someone misused your name.

That someone else would have to create a case with their credit card company (and probably win), and you wouldn't be at risk of losing any money either way.

In any case though, if you received something out of the blue, you could probably just be silent, hold onto the item, not answer any e-mails or calls, and even in that case, hang up and call back the law enforcement to make sure you actually are talking to law enforcement.

(I block unscheduled calls anyway, and throw away all unsolicited mail unopened, so they wouldn't reach me anyway.)

That way, either the scammers themselves lose $ (you win and get to keep the item) or the scammers have to call law enforcement (in which case you're innocent and maybe just have to return the item, but the scammers have now exposed themselves to the law).
Never really had issues with Bridge and have been a professional subscriber for about 8 months. I got the subscription mainly to use my ProtonMail email address with Thunderbird instead of mail client on MacOS. I don’t agree with the “LAZY” way around getting a basic app install on Mac and p.c. Either way, I’m still a satisfied customer and haven’t had any issues with my emails and transfers.
It's slowed down, definitely, but if you tweak what you're looking for you'll still find it, just spread out more.

Being older, I don't have as much time as I used to to play games, so I'll generally look at the various trophy guides for how to go through games that I'll likely only be able to play through once, and get the most out of them.

It reminds me a lot of what I used to see on GameFAQs back in the 90s/00s.
> We can go buy slaves today in the US

No, slaves you can buy as an individual is what you have with chattel slavery.

Slaves whose labor you can rent, or the product of whose labor you can buy, from the state who holds them as convicts (or that the state uses directly for it's own purposes under the same conditions) is what you have with penal slavery.

> However, passing the 13th amendment and then fighting a civil war to enforce it

That...didn't happen. In fact, the Republicans, despite being an ideologically abolitionist party, didn't pursue abolition as a policy, merely limiting (not even stopping) the geographic expansion of slavery, specifically to avoid splitting the union and provoking a civil war.
I'd bet big money that even DiAngelo would not find that lecture offensive in any way.

Nor does she advocate for retribution when unintentional slights happen. In her online lectures, she tells a story of how she offended some Black colleagues by making a silly joke. She apologized and they came to an understanding that the colleague would help keep her in-check when it happens again and they carried on.
Latin in the Voynich Manuscript
I even felt that way with TaxAct recently.
Those Russian/Soviet clips were all wonderful, thanks. Also just plain good pop songs.