skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish the author of Codec 2 would bit a bit more effort into >5000 b/s stuff: Opus goes down to 6 kb/s but Codec 2 doesn't quite get up that high.

It'd be nice to have some overlap so that unencumbered codecs could be used up and down the spectrum without any gaps.
>[...] so that some unsuspecting third party isn't suddenly subject to your emails

why not something like byfmupajzmvdaxef@{gmail.com,outlook.com,yahoo.com}? I doubt that large email providers are going to be inconvenienced by the spam. Your solution is likely to get rejected by overzealous form validation (for good reason!).
>physical media mostly doesn't exist anymore

It mostly does. Of course, that will certainly change over time.
Working with Rust
It's a game, open source and free. This is not some SaaS trying to maximize conversions.
>And even if you don't, what are they going to do to a TLS connection?

You misunderstand me. Tor Browser is based on Firefox ESR, which means it lags with security updates: https://medium.com/@thegrugq/tor-and-its-discontents-ef51648...

Tor itself is not what I was referring to, although it has its problems as well, mainly that it's extremely identifiable. Tor is not a good idea for most people to use full-time.

The rest of this doesn't really answer my question about Safari vs Firefox, and I'm pretty much uninterested in appeals to Tor Browser as something that should be universally adopted.
The problem is, much more of a STEM career involves people than you would expect. In my 20s, I didn't care. People got in the way; science and technology were what mattered! Now I know better. People really matter.

Humanities might help people get that. (Don't ask me whether they will, I CLEPed out of mine.) I don't know if an intro-to-anything humanities class can give STEM people what they need. I do know, however, that STEM people need something.
>while coal is 40% of emissions

So lets start with replacing those with nuclear and not nuclear plats being replaced with coal.

>People need to stop heating their homes otherwise you don’t think they believe in climate change?

Yup start wearing a sweater. I believe in pollution and keep my usage to a minimum.
Other way around for me. I'm going to home depot regularly for various home projects and the alarm goes off almost every time when I exit.

I have never gotten anything more than a bored looking sales associate casually waving at me to keep walking out.
PyInspect the Python package for lazy programmers
Just released "pyinspect", the #python package for lazy programmers.

Use pyinspect to:
- find functions by their name (without having to google it)
and
- print a functions code to terminal (without having to open its file)

check it out on github:
https://github.com/FedeClaudi/pyinspect
I knew someone with BPD.

She might have been the hardest-working person I've known. She also couldn't hold down a job to save her life.

She's the reason I can't ever see eye to eye with anyone who wants to cut our social safety nets or who sees welfare recipients as somehow subhuman.
That seems strange to me. Here the horse dung is valued, and the renters/owners of allotment gardens pay for having it delivered to them on flatbed trailers as excellent fertilizer. I sometimes grab an old empty can of paint (because it has a lid) and shovel some into it, to be dispersed onto the plant containers and flower boxes on my balconies.
Look at the Silk Road investigation. They collected circumstantial evidence by linking the originating IP address, where the suspect lived and when DPR was logged in.
Stamets himself is quite a successful entrepreneur, as one data point. He funds much of his research out of the proceeds from his business selling mushroom-based products.
This game is made by Tobias Springer, author of YORG.io and YORG.io 3 (and other contributors).
I'm 33 now. When I was in 7th grade, the same friend who taught me how to build PCs (also my age) one day brought over a burned CD of Mandrake Linux. Back then Mandrake was a major distro like SUSE, Red Hat, etc. IIRC, it was the heyday of Windows XP. I can't remember whether I did dual-booting or just wiped my whole drive with Mandrake but after I installed it there was little going back to Windows... at least not until I got into PC gaming for a brief stint in my early high school years. Damn EverQuest and Morrowind.

I had already taught myself basic programming with VB6 at the time, so learning more and more about PC power-user stuff was very exciting to me. I remember KDE back then was a treasure trove of great software that just came for free, making Windows XP actually feel inferior. At some point around that time I watched Revolution OS, the Linux documentary. I think I heard about it on ThinkGeek. I must have watched that documentary at least five times then. I was hooked on open-source software and I finally felt like I had some direction in my life: I wanted to help out with the open-source thing any way I could. Suffice it to say, when I started my high school "webmastering" and Computer Science classes, I was closer to the teachers in knowledge than my peers.

I've been a full time Mac user since '06 for desktop use, however recently I've gone back to giving Arch Linux a decent try for my main desktop environment. Gotta say, Linux on the Desktop, particularly with KDE Plasma, is finally what I had hoped it would become. There was a stretch of time in the last 20+ years I've used Linux that every time I tried using Linux seriously there were some major software disadvantages that kept me returning to Mac such as ridiculous issues with Broadcom or Nvidia drivers, no modern-feeling text editor, generally clunky UX, etc. These days pretty much all the software I use is cross-platform, making it very easy make the transition stick.

I think the Linux for the desktop has a very bright future. Remember folks, authoring cross-platform apps that support Linux is very important!
Yup, this is the psychology I’ve seen at work, and it’s weird because my own psychology is the opposite. When I’m coding by myself or on a team with code ownership, I naturally seek 100% understanding of the code I’m working on and worry about anything less. I am drawn to the thorny parts of a codebase (that nobody understands because ten different people have been playing bug whack-a-mole) so I can clean them up. Just as if one corner of a room had mold or bugs in it I would want to clean that up upon moving into a group house.
And then somebody emails you with a request to all of their data you have on them. Now you must respond to this email and you must figure out a way to find out whether they are who they say they are. Then you have to either refuse the request or extract the data and send it to them. Now repeat this x amount of times depending on how many people want to mess with you at the time.

What happens when spambots start using these requests?
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Detailed CV upon request.
Snowden didn’t just expose national wiretapping. He also exposed international spying capabilities that endangered our people and our allies. If he had not crossed that second line, he’d just be a legitimate whistleblower, but he decided to actively harm the U.S. intelligence community and they will never allow a pardon.

I’d lay odds if he ever steps foot in an unprotected setting, a slip on a banana peel and a fatal head injury wouldn’t shock me.

He’s a traitor. I’m as liberal as it gets and even I think he went too far.
I’d agree but then there will just be an annual law that blanket renews all the laws that would expire in the upcoming year.

How about laws without cute names and that began by describing the problem they intend to solve? I have been told they are written that way in russia though I have no way to verify.
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Recreational drugs are widely available
The big cineplexes also tend to charge a lot more than smaller chains or independent cinemas. Sometimes 5x more. The ideal outcome here is that the chain collapses, but the building itself passes into community ownership or is taken over and run by a small local company.
If I give you 100 bucks and you give me back 70 and tell me to use it to buy a new chair, who's paying for the chair?

I'm not talking about all funding obviously! I'm talking about funding in countries who are net contributors. Of course Poland Hungary and all are getting a great deal.
That's effectively how it works in the UK. Look up "Section 106 agreements" if you want details.
I code on two laptops, one with a 240Hz display and one with a 60Hz display (but touchscreen).

The 240Hz feels definitely a lot more smooth and comfortable. Just moving the mouse is nicer, so is scrolling text or a webpage. I would recommend.
Says a lot about our ruling institutions that the headline is this and not "The Sackler family's plan to ride out the next 30 years in federal prison."
Lambda school exists right now. If it is successful then it will gradually start eating into college market share. It seems like mostly the system has to just wait and see for now.

One thing that it could do, I suppose, is reshape the bureaucracy to accommodate a reality of a people educated at lambda schools. There are forms asking you about your education level. Important forms. Immigration for example. Not being able to check the college box could hurt you.

If someone has gone to lambda school, and self taught in their free time, could they work as a researcher? Or is that gated behind phd admission which is gated behind a bachelors? That might need a change too.
Failing with an extra comma also makes it harder than necessary to write JSON by machines.
From what I understand, you don't need a PhD to contribute to research and be impactful, depending on the subject. However, most people that do end up having one. I know a few people whose hobby is independent research and they don't have PhD's and yet their work is very interesting and could one day make an impact.

For example, there's Ben from Lunar Homestead (https://lunarhomestead.com/) who presented his work (SPORE) at the Moon Society's last conference. He's done quite a job at educating himself and you wouldn't know he wasn't certified unless he told you. He's proud of it though and tends to tell people that education and contribution to science is something you can achieve if you put your mind to it.

If you want to be in a research position alone, I don't know what to say. There's jobs around that let you work closely with researchers as an engineer. I've been seeing a lot of those around lately here in Iowa, especially concerning crops.

Otherwise, the alternative is to monetize your research but then you'll be doing a LOT more than research. Research would probably be 10% after all is said and done.
Fair enough. But did you have a read of the failed climate predictions over the past 50 years? It's hilarious.
No idea. I’ve never needed a collaborative whiteboard, and for non-collaborative use I haven’t found anything on the web anywhere near as good as the desktop options of Microsoft Whiteboard and Krita (though Krita has a definite learning curve), so on the odd occasions I want to share things with others I just do screen sharing of these. I started making one of my own a few years back and had the basic interactions down pat, but shelved that project before it ever got really good or could have supported collaboration. Mine was also bitmap-based rather than vector-based, which is a significant difference in approach in some regards, losing you some functionality but gaining you a lot of speed.
R3nhat/GRAT2
These are great Finder tips, but they all involve the mouse, which I find mildly infuriating.

Command-Option-C: copy the full path of the selected file or folder as plaintext, with space characters not escaped with backslashes.

Command-C, then Command-V into a terminal prompt: paste the full path of the copied file or folder, with space characters backslash-escaped. Tested in Terminal and iTerm2.
Iguanas are at the mercy of evolution. We aren't.

Evolution is cruel beyond our comprehension and so it does not have mercy. Today they sit in the sun, their grandchildren can be cannibals eating each other. We have a say, for now.
It's really hard to criminally break the tax code; usually you have to break it willingly.

If you just make a mistake you'll owe a penalty, but it won't be a crime.

Other laws are much easier to break.
The Missing Guide to Font Formats (Use WOFF)
That first point could be a case for a code of ethics, not against one.

Right now decision makers tell you to build the thing, and you speak up saying that seems sketchy, but you both don’t know what the people who don’t speak up think. You are told to conform or leave.

With a code of ethics, they tell you to build the thing and you say it’s against your industry’s code of ethics, and you both know that applies to everyone. They can’t tell you to change your profession’s code of ethics, so you have a stronger position.
I'm surprised no one (including the IEEE and NPSE, linked in another comment) has mentioned that software engineers should be responsible for disclosing knowledge of any data breaches (and probably security vulnerabilities) that they know about. This would be at the top of my list.
Nah. He's a hero.
> The problem with psychedelics is they only make you "more" of what you are

And when you're ready to surrender your ego for a while, and realize that 'what you are' is star stuff, the experience is amazing. I agree with your sentiment, and set and setting are very important. I know people who prepare for months before they trip, making sure nobody's going to be calling their phone, curating the right music to listen to, maybe attending some art exhibitions beforehand, etc
Basically, use WOFF (more compressed, additional metadata, etc.) until WOFF2 is more widely supported.
Not sure if that explains potholes all over chicago.
Restoring Democracy – A Thought Experiment
Don't forget to throw in the stink of popcorn, sweet sticky carpets, 30 minutes of advertising and distracting bright phones in the auditorium.
It was around 1986 and my Mom purchased a secondhand Tandy Color Computer that had been upgraded from 16K to 64K. She gave it to my brother and I along with several books. When you turned the computer on, it said, "OK" and waited for instructions in basic.

My brother and I spent hundreds of hours in front of that machine copying games, fixing typos, and being amazed by our creations. I was hooked.

I'm 44 now and I still write code everyday. I also created a book called Splash of Code and published it on Amazon. It teaches JavaScript programming in a similar fashion.
Well, the universe is unfair and doesnt give a damn about the concept of humanity. It feels like we are systematically forgetting about this fact. Dont get me wrong, I am happy that humans have amanged to establish at least a few rules of conduct which make it relatively nice to be amongst humans in certain countries. However, as said, we seem to forget that this is not the norm in the universe.
Obvious reasons:

Key apps have zero incentive to try to get people to switch to Android. Even if there was, there is a prisoners dilemma - it would only work if many of them switched at once.

This is absolutely nothing like the situation with multiple app stores, where not all apps have to switch at once.

Most users do not refuse to use Facebook. New people take up smoking daily. The idea that users would ‘refuse’ to buy apps from a store run by Facebook (or worse) is an idealistic fantasy.

As for why apps would switch to other stores? Paid exclusives, just as with every other media type - TV, Movies, Books, Podcasts.

People who have hits get paid a huge premium for exclusives, because it forces customers to use the new store or platform.

Epic is already buying exclusives. Amazon and Facebook, and TenCent et all would obviously do so too.

The only choice for users would be to install all of the stores.

The only choice for developers will be to deal with all of the stores.

Apps will be the new TV. Costs will rise. Almost everything will be funded by the store networks.

The long tail of small developers will be absolutely decimated.

Users won’t care and will barely remember the difference. The ten years of Apple’s store will be a quaint memory from the early days.
For anyone wondering what a 50MV source looks like, one was actually built out in the desert near Joshua Tree in '54. Strangely, it was built for longevity research. Well, that and UFOs and anti-gravity, because of course:

"The Multiple Wave Oscillator is a combination of a high voltage Tesla coil and a split-ring resonator that generates ultra wideband electromagnetic frequencies."

The ionization of the air in the main room was quite intense, with plasma freely forming coronas.

Once the pandemic is over, you can drive out to get a 'sound bath' in the room, if you are so inclined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integratron
That's an interesting starting point, though I do see some potential issues, especially in the human rights provision. Namely, who defines human rights? The UN has its own definition that has received some attention (and indeed, it appears this is the definition used), but it defines things such as social security, paid time off, food, clothing, housing, and a whole laundry list of other things; I along with some others scorn the UN's concept of rights because I don't believe one can possess a positive right.

So we reach the age-old question of, "Who decides?"

Another potential problem is the mention of promoting "equitable relationships". While this may be confusion due to translation, "equitable" has recently been taken to mean equal in outcome, which I will never actively encourage.
You might like https://rambly.app - it’s voice only and spatial; so it’s optimized for natural (concurrent) conversations. The only downside is that it pretty much requires headphones.
This kind of reminds me of a favorite sub-reddit: r/natureismetal

Be prepared to lose 15 minutes of time to the reddit scroll vortex though :-D
That sounds like a fantastic ideal to strive for, even if it's not realistic in all scenarios.
It's still useful for all sorts of things. Knowing when connected/disconnected, so you can check surveillance cams for people going in and out of the cafe, or nearby on the sidewalk, around those times. Checking if the same spoofed MAC address reconnected at other times, or in other nearby cafes. Maybe you can figure out what VPN they connected to. And so on.

It's just a tool that can sometimes be useful in a multitude of ways, even if the MAC address is spoofed.
Blind support of new urbanism used to be a pledge of allegiance on this site; support seems to be shifting to something else, although I don't know what.
Monet's Kitchen and Dining Room
Sure, but if they screw up it’s some poor investors money, not my tax money.
Advertising doesn't have to be manipulative. If advertising went missing overnight, we would have quickly noticed that it also serves another function: informative.

I find it sad that advertising implies manipulation outright.
It's so sad that we have had so little ability to put people behind bars for how they have profiteered off of addicting and killing people.
It was initially based on a true story described in the book "Black Edge". It just kept getting more and more outlandish once they ran out of source material.
Meanwhile, I know of a practicing therapist in my community who stops just short of encouraging patients to experiment with hallucinogenics. (She's also fairly vocally anti-vaccine.)

The range of attitudes within the profession just astounds me.
This seems like a just world hypothesis rationalization of the civil rights abuse that's going on. It's basically saying "they must be guilty, otherwise they wouldn't have been arrested!". Maybe this time they really are The Bad Guys, but the problem is that if this behavior is tolerated, it's very possible for the police to do the same for dissidents, activists, or someone who pissed off the mayor.
I think a lot of people learn mindfulness/meditation as just a sitting there process, but there's a lot more to it than that.

For some, it's dealing with repressed feelings - you're still angry at an ex, jealous of someone, traumatized by an event, fearful of your survival, and so on, and that feeling DDoSes your mind. Mindfulness clears it up, though too much can be hazardous in this situation.

For some, it's willpower training. Sitting there for 10 minutes trying to think of nothing is like a form of torture. It strengthens the 'muscle' of your 'do not' willpower as well as the 'do' willpower. Most will 'fail' at it, but like a good workout, failure means progression.

The next stage is concentration training. You develop a habit where, when you're idle, you intensify concentration rather than become apathetic and drowsy. Full lotus position is a cliché, but it's designed as the best posture to sit and focus intently for hours. A lot of other monk clichés - asceticism, segregation from other sexes, and so on are designed to get you into this stage as fast as possible.

Once you clear those stages, the higher level is sensitivity training. You meditate on a thing. It can be a breath or mantra. It can be a flame or your reflection in a pond. It can be a sore spot on your back, or a meal. Then you go into it in incredible detail. Feel the air going in and out of your lungs. Feel your chest moving, the air on your skin, the gravity, your own thoughts tugging at your mind, and so on.

Past all this is enlightenment. You become so sensitive to the world, and so aware of your own body, and the little internal forces, that it all starts to come together.

After enough stages, you should be able to command your attention perfectly at where you want it to be.
Yes! I have a fine TV setup at home but I want to get out of the house too. Post pandemic the last thing I want to do is stay in.
Where's the incompatibility? Sounds exactly on the money to me.
Can someone enlighten me on the psychological wiring of people like these? Do you even think a moment about anything else than you very own well-being, no matter the (societal) costs? Is your relation to the world a purely instrumental one? Where does this destructive energy comes from?
basically any kind of distribution, trucking(food, medicine, everything else), electrical, water, sewer. manufacturing, agriculture, everything that lets you write your ____ question.
I completely agree - 99% of the time, I play (and test) the game on Firefox. It looks like it runs there even better than on Chromium. I've tried to tell the main developer that it 100% works, but the badge is still there; you can ignore it.
I started learning R on my own in 2010 after a 12 year long stint away from the workforce. I wanted to get my statistics skills brushed up before applying to grad school for Economics. I was hooked from the first time I typed in a command and then did formal education with community college classes and later an MS in SW Engr.
I still remember the title of this article before it was edited. It felt more honest before the edit.
I wonder how it does with Csmith.