skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using tools like this since visio and they're always helpful but never quite right. One of my dreams if I won a small lottery would be to make something like this but for VR. I think the spatial/3rd-dimesion factor would unlock a lot of possibility for visualizing these complex systems without being forced to collapse or slice it as much.
Doesn’t that incentivize every least developed country to create dirty industry?
Did PayPal ban you after the Discover charge-back?
It's no different than it's always been. All of the hard work, planning and preparation has been on the shoulders of teachers for as long as I can remember. They've never had much guidance from leadership, which is often nothing more than a target grade their students have to hit on a standardized test. Up until now the status quo has been fairly consistent, so teachers have been able to informally provide guidance and leadership to each other. Now that things are taking a massive left turn, what is supposed to be the actual leadership is being exposed for what it really is.
A few thoughts that I have about my hardware are:

- I wonder how many other people use Nvidia graphics cards on FreeBSD and on Linux.

- A few years ago I used to mine crypto on my graphics card. I made like $20 from it, so if the graphics card is physically in bad shape and this is what caused it then gg on my part for ruining a ~$390 graphics card in order to make about $20.

- The PSU is probably the oldest component in my computer. In fact I think the store I bought it from has been shut down for many years even; that's how old that PSU is. Could it be supplying my computer with bad quality power? Maybe.

- My RAM is of the non-ECC variant. Could cosmic rays be to blame for the crashes? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The BOFH would certainly have said that this was the reason, but even in the real world it could be maybe?
The misspelling of Voucher as Vocher on the big FB call to action (to connect your business FB account) was the biggest red flag to me.
It was a fun game. Really helped me open my mind.
A future Macbook will likely be too locked down for anyone but the most dedicated hacker to run anything but Darwin on.
TikTok: Oracle confirms being picked by ByteDance to be app's partner
Anybody long enough to remember Unix from the beginning or even just the last 25 years... which is a tiny percentage of this site... should know that a unifying Unix or Unix "tradition" as noted in a follow-up comment is a pretty much a myth. The tradition is whatever system you grew up on and tribal biases you subscribe to and the only true Unix traditions are mostly trivialities like core shell syntax and a handful of commands, and a woefully underpowered API for modern purposes. And long option names are definitely not part of any tradition.

Myths like "everything is a file" or file descriptor is complete bollocks, mostly retconned recently with Linuxisms. Other than pipes, IPC on Unix systems did not involve files or file descriptors. The socket api dates to the early 80s and even it couldn't follow along with its weird ioctls.
Why are things put in /usr/local anyway? Why is /usr even a thing? There's a history there, but these days I don't seem much of anything go into /usr/local on most Linux distributions.

It's also ironic to drag OS X into a discussion of Unix, because if there was one system to break with Unix tradition (for the best in some ways) -- no X11, launchd, a multifork FS, weird semantics to implement time machine, a completely non-POSIX low-level API, etc, that would be it.

All this shit has been reinvented multiple times, the user-mode API on Linux has had more churn than Windows -- which never subscribed to a tradition. There's no issue of lack of familiarity here, the original Unix system meant to run on a PDP-11 minicomputer only meets modern needs in an idealized fantasy-land. Meanwhile, worse is better has been chugging along for 50 years while people try to meet their needs.
I'm glad you find it useful.

1. Helm is not going to stop working anytime soon. I haven't even upgraded Helm in my configuration for a long time, and the version I have installed still works fine.

2. The latest version of Helm should continue working for even longer.

3. It shouldn't require much effort to make the occasional fix to Helm for compatibility with newer Emacs versions.

4. It's likely that Helm will continue to be maintained by someone, if not Thierry after some time away.

5. org-rifle already has a non-Helm interface built-in.

6. See also org-ql, which supersedes org-rifle to some extent.
sorry for your loss - but you are STILL using Facebook? Any future problems look and hard in a mirror.
The phone your holding has the same screen in the front, camera on the back, a home button, and the keyboard shows up on the bottom when you're typing. Maybe even the same front camera design.

All of that is just straight-up rip-off of.. everyone's phone?
Real pianos also have the thumping sound if you hit them hard, but you cannot put headphones ;)
The funny thing is, i always wondered how it would have been to live in the 30s. Mass media, populist movements and all of that. I kind of get it now. Social Media is the new mass media And as the last time something similar happened, smart populists used it to their advantage, industry supplied the tools and we all know how it happened. Not saying we are heading the same way just yet, but the possibility exists.

One could have propably made the same documentary about radio and TV like 80 to a 100 years ago. Just watching the film now, thanks for posting this question, I could have missed it otherwise.

EDIT: The guy having invented the LIKE-button is right up there with the guy having invented FCKW. Not that he had any bad intentions. Which worries me, that when a group of people with good intentions is doing good things can create easily exploited, dangerous things in the wrong peoples hands.
A lot of people don't seem to understand that this has always been the real nature of the threat. Climate change will cause severe cultural and economic stresses which will have political consequences which will eventually spill over into physical consequences.

It's far more of a threat to human culture and knowledge than to human DNA. The latter is likely to survive it in some form - albeit probably not a very interesting one. The former is already showing signs of stress and climate change has barely started.
You mean, like many (non-US) governments, (the US) healthcare requires the use of the PDF/A-1a? It's just a somewhat bizarre contraposition: "Like many animals, Helianthus annuus needs water to survive". Wait, but it's a plant, right? "Yes, and it needs water, just like animals".
Agreed with your first paragraph. I don't think your comment about covid makes much sense (200K+ dead in 6 months is pretty damn dire).
I'd guess it's a fake oauth screen as well. I coded one of the first (I think) Tinder auto likers for Android back in 2013, and the only way I could do it was get the real facebook username and password and log into Tinder on the phone in the background. I just put up a fake Oauth HTML page in a webview and saved the login, with a disclaimer of course, but nearly everybody ignored it. I was surprised how easy it all was.
even Venus life moved into the clouds
Perhaps the most interesting part is the final line of the document:

> Initiated a PayPal chargeback process - PayPal responded: "we’ve determined there was no unauthorized use"

While I get the impression that the user had authorized Facebook to charge via PayPal in the past, I find this conclusion rather silly. If I give my credit card number to Amazon, and someone hacks my Amazon account and starts making random purchases, chances are I'd have no trouble filing a chargeback.
You should write that post. It sounds like a good idea.
I would argue that Go's design as a whole is characterized by an attitude of ignoring established ideas for no other reason than that they think they know better.
the makefile in the repo shows that there's a "build_linux" command so you could just use "make build_linux" instead.
I wonder what would have happened if we gave a 2 week advanced notice for people to stock up, and then shut everything down 100% for 4 weeks straight. Would we have been out of this whole mess by now as opposed to this lingering?
And when that happens, the people who need to will likely switch to something else.
The psychology is very important. All the big players in this space employ people with experience designing actual Vegas slot machines, and the goal is to try to replicate it as much as possible. Everything from the line patterns, to the way words and icons pop, to the arpeggiated audio cues, is taken straight from tried-and-true Vegas templates. For someone who has spent time in real casinos, these games will feel very familiar, and trigger the same emotions.

The trick with online, free-to-play versions is to forcibly stop the player when they've run out of coins, and say "come back tomorrow to collect your small refill, or pay us $2.99 right now to keep the fun going". And then throw every pricy psychology trick in the book at them to try to get them to break the seal of that initial purchase (because then the rest come much easier).
> There is plenty of evidence indicating socio-economic status correlates with educational outcomes.

Of course, but not sure how that's relevant here.

> The article unfairly refers to a "nation of idiots".

Not sure that's unfair.

> What is the solution?

What if there is no solution? What if "Idiocracy" was accurate? Or "Planet of the Apes"? Science "fiction" is rife with stories about how humanity ended up destroying itself, especially via technology. It's not like we haven't seen this coming for a long time.
Which is bizarre because in English Dick also means dick.

What are the odds?

Almost as likely as the suggestion that just this once, swamp gas really is evidence of aliens.
At the end of March, Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted between 100,000 and 200,000 US residents would die of COVID-19 over the course of the pandemic[0]. Now, only at mid-September, we're closer to his upper limit. Not to mention flu season's coming, and we're seeing outbreaks as schools and universities reopen. So that prediction was probably too conservative.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
Hints of Life on Venus
The name makes it seem more like you are attempting a hostile takeover of the project branding. Definitely not a great way to go about this.
Almost everyone does extended time on bid now. Even places like Copart auto salvage auctions, the thing is for B2B sales yet looks like Vegas slot machine.
Permissions scoping is a really under-utilized tool.

I see this most often with extensions, which usually want to act on all domains when they should really need an allow list of just 1-2 domains. There are also many app integrations that use an API token that just straight bypasses login with NO security restrictions.

I would use a lot more app integrations if I knew I could trust the host platform to keep the apps honest.

I think we're missing a lot of innovation because we lack secure and reliable integration points between commodity services. Banking and Health are the most obvious issues. It should be trivial for me to authorize a third-party app to download transaction history from any bank without giving it the ability to change anything. I should be able to assemble my entire medical history by pulling from any medical office I interact with, and push that to any provider I choose to use.

There are lots of industry incentives to prevent this though. It's just like the Cable Card saga. You need strong, un-captured, technically-literate regulators to fix this stuff and unleash broader innovation.
I'm partially curious and partially skeptical. Is this "a step in the right direction" in the same way as recycling? (i.e. people thinking 100% of recyclables actually get recycled vs the reality being a lot of it end up in landfills or worse, and the parallel overproduction of plastics turned into a worldwide ecological disaster)
It is also the case that people aren't as good at writing as they think. I've seen people write pages and pages of text to say a few simple things, don't separate the important from the unimportant, etc, and then wonder why others don't take 15 minutes out of their busy day to read the incessant, flavorless text until they find the actual point.

A good way to write text where you're going to ask people for stuff is to write it in a top-down manner, where first of all you mention "I want X", then you quickly summarize what exactly you want and why, and then write a more detailed paragraph on the various nuances, always making sure to cut everything down to its absolute essentials.
I never consented to a credit scoring company to ever have my data. The first time I found out this was a thing as a teenager really made me think about the world and how it works. I couldn't believe something like this existed.
China literally did ban Facebook.
I read things like this and keep thinking about the "web of trust" from the 90s. There is no way to visit some random app store, or read an email or website, and trust that it's actually officially what it says it is. The author of this article relies on some heuristics; good spelling, reasonable-sounding developer email, reasonable Java package name, etc. but these things can go either way. It is possible for a scammer to be good at spelling, and it is possible for a big company to contract out some app they don't care about to the lowest bidder and be perfectly running their ads program through the "FooCorp Develop App; ru.definitelynotascam.dumbcodename". It has historically been an okay data point, but in the future scammers are going to be good at English -- it's only a matter of time.

Where I'm going with this is that there needs to be some sort of mandatory linkage between something you trust and this random app you see on the app store. You trust Google. You trust TikTok. So why doesn't Google generate some sort of code that TikTok can stick in their DNS (or website) to create a linkage? By default, an app on the store could say "not trusted by any company", but then TikTok could add that record on their website and it would say "Trusted by TikTok" or something.

There are some problems with this, of course. Anyone could claim any app, and then you'd see incorrect information. DNS and web servers can be hacked, TLS roots of trust aren't trustworthy, etc. But there has to be some way to create this linkage safely, so that people aren't misled again and again and again in the same way.
I think it’s plausible an AI could be able to wipe out humanity before it is able to secure its own indefinite existence. So there’s a scenario in which is wipes out all Earthly life/intelligence.
I disagree vehemently with the belief Chromebooks are anything but disposable trash PCs, but FWIW @sjvn is a fairly well known tech journalist, the site the article is posted on regardless.
What I really find sad it that most consumer electronic products now require some sort of account and/or internet service integration.

Before you could just buy some hardware and actually own it and use it directly however you like, nowadays you very often need some vendor website or external service just to get it running. Very annoying and complicated.
Agreed.

If nothing else, this makes for a great explainer video. Find somebody who needs to know it and show it to them. The key problem is that 99.9% of folks even when they understand the problem can't fix it.

Having said that, knowing beats not-knowing. There is good here.
PayPal fraud protection is mostly about making sure PayPal isn't the one holding the bag in the end. Any actual prevention of fraud is secondary at best.
I like the idea. I have tried a bunch but haven't found "the one" cloud architecture diagram that I truly love yet.

I would be more into it if the diagram could be exported / represented as code so I could keep an updateable source in my git repo.

I also think things like VPCs should be able to be represented as containers of other components vs just another icon.
Like all keybinds in Emacs, this is a matter of defaults and preferences.

(use-package helm
:bind* (:map helm-map
([tab] . helm-next-line)
([backtab] . helm-previous-line)
("C-S-SPC" . helm-next-source)))
Counterfeit probably isn't the best word for this. It was whatever brand adapter it said it was. The UL mark was fake.

After this happened I found that's pretty common. Not that it's okay, but there's tons of generic electronics on Amazon that come with adapters with a fake UL mark.
In the 1970s, people were dealing with things like Acid Rain and large hole in the ozone layer. Things probably were much more dire looking at that point.
The assumption is not just about being able to identify civilizations out there. It also assumes that someone should have come to us by now. (Any theory that thousands of other civilizations out there just wouldn't be interested in exploring / expanding / communicating / etc requires every single civilization out there to be that way.)
Modular synths seem to be in vogue lately, both in hardware and in software like VCV Rack.

Though I'm told that this started some years ago, possibly in the 2000s—maybe it's just that I finally figured out how it's supposed to work, with the Android daw Caustic. The app Hexen looks particularly impressive, but haven't tried it yet.
Nope, still use them for a handful of things (for convenience.) The charge-backs were of significant size too ($300-$500.) This was around 2012-2013 for one and around 2015 for the other.
Doesn't that conceptually apply to all Chinese apps? Also, all your TVs, phones, routers etc are all made in China. Isn't the real solution to the conceptual problem you're referring to to stop trading with China? That's the only way to be consistent logically.
With any reasonable passenger load, yes. It's fair for people to take that for granted and the burden of proof should be on someone trying to argue the opposite, that cars would be greener in this case.
I recently created a Facebook account with a made up name and a new Google Voice phone number to sell an old monitor and the account was disabled within 2 hours.
Thank you for the detailed answer! I check in on the status of the related projects from time to time and was often confused by the relationship between the components.
The paper was just now released in nature's astronomy.[1]

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4
Louis Rossmann gets angry at corporate propaganda
Wow, thank you so much for sharing. This is, ah, quite relevant!
Why are humans susceptible to complete self destruction but multiple AI would not be?

Disregard this if you mean “0 or 1 AI makes it out of here”
Air purifier that kills 99.9% of the coronavirus sees surge in global demand
It would be nice to see some numbers on energy used to power this versus a regular set of servers.

Also nice if they discussed the energy/cost involved with deploying and retrieving these capsules and how well that would amortize if this became a commercial solution.
There are already many RSS readers with this name:

https://github.com/channikhabra/yarr

https://fossdroid.com/a/yarr.html

etc. The name sounded familiar (I think I used one in the past) so I googled and I haven't found it, but I did find many others.
On the Shapes of ROC Plots
I wouldn't blame PayPal as much, this is on Facebook in my opinion. Recurring payments are a good thing, we don't want constant re-authorization when the relationship has been established.

Facebook on the other hand should have handled it differently. I don't know how their permission screen for app authorization looks, but I guess it should have a huge red warning sign if it includes a permission to allow the app to spend your money.
Facebook don't allow dummy/fake accounts and haven't for quite some time[0].

So tying expensive game licenses to an account Facebook may close at any time is a non-starter.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/misrepresentatio...
I used to be a regular user of jq, but I was never parsing very large JSON. I now do what I used to do with jq in my browser's developer tools console. Map and filter are far more familiar than jq's syntax where I found myself referring to the documentation most of the time.

I'm sure other people have use cases where the browser wouldn't meet their needs, but for me, I find jq unnecessary.
Not really. Not sustainably so.

The only authoritarian regime that tried to do so was Romania under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. He banned abortion and contraception overnight.

There was a massive spike in birth rate that year, but people soon found ways around the ban and birth rate started falling sharply again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770
Phosphine Gas in the Cloud Decks of Venus [pdf]
Tiny cheap mirrors are also readily available (potentially more available since lots of young teachers legitimately may not have any CDs; they're a dated technology). They're a buck at dollar stores.

And you're overstating how much harder it would be to prop up a tiny cheap mirror. I bet you could do it with two pencils taped together at an angle, with one taped to the back of the laptop and the other taped to the back of the mirror.
>> “Often people say, ‘Open source, it’s free.’ But it’s not free,” says Dominic Rizzo...

It's Free as in freedom, not price. Think of it as unencumbered. Risc-v is not open source like software, there are some open sorce implementations though.
I applaud the inventive of being able to solve a problem with the tools and knowledge at hand but I must say it hit me like a blow to see that one key component to a low tech hack was a MacBook, one of the most expensive laptops out there.

My teachers all have laptops with cameras that don't reach even half of that kind of crispness of image sadly.
Most high end models do, albeit I guess in a limited way. Again, this is only a matter of CPU power so this will definitely improve.
It seems an additional hurdle is anti-fouling. Those barnacles and algae act as an insulator, making the cold-water cooling advantage less and less of an advantage.
Wouldn’t bandersnatch be on a tape and not a floppy?
I used a chromebook professionally for 4.5 years. Acer C720 with an i3, external monitor and keyboard. Did everything I needed, reliable and never had an issue. Chrome remote desktop stepped in when I needed something it couldn't handle. Google decided to quit issuing updates for it and I continued to use it.

Eventually, the battery began to swell, so it was time to move on. Looked around and there was nothing in the middle tier for chromebooks anymore that would match the C720s performance. It was either lower end or high upper end $s. Disappointing.

Using Windows 10 on a refurbed E6430 now. Still miss the chromebook lol
> Hindsight is 20/20.

Especially when predicting failure was inevitable after somebody has clearly failed.

Citing a list of challenges (and renewable energy and imagination) is not a proof that failure couldn't have been avoided, it's a version of the "it's all so complicated, we can't say anything because we weren't there" trick. But the fact is that plenty of people understood the challenges, which were not at all new (what was new was the scale), and plenty of people were there (including the person you replied to) and are telling you about the failures that they saw.
On a similar spirit, the Kawai VPC1 although you need a PC to generate the sounds. Most people tend to use Modartts' Pianoteq.
It's possible that the attack didn't happen through the regular oauth credential request flow — if the OP logged in to Facebook inside of an app-controlled webview, the app could have just exfiltrated the user's login cookie and performed the change using "first-party" Facebook APIs.
Peaker plants are far dirties than base load plants.