skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only way democracy can work is if voters are making decisions based on real world information.

Let’s review the history of the oldest democracy on the planet. And then the history of the second, the third, etc. Who gets to decide what information is real? CDC? WHO? NYT? Fox? Who’s the final authority if not each of us? Your statement implies incredibly low expectations for the people and inflated expectations for “authorities”. It is ultimately an _authoritarian_ view, quite the opposite of democracy.
The first version, BYOB, was an extension of the Scratch 1.4 source code, but since then we have moved in different directions. But we are still inspired by how careful they were in designing visual metaphors for computer science ideas and have tried to extend that care to things like lambda and object inheritance.
Nature doesn't deal with getting rid of foot fungi either. You're thinking of New England Journal of Medicine.

(FWIW, I think it would be amusing if Biden reached out to https://www.heavenmagazine.nl in order to get a Confucian mandate of heaven.)
The iphone was a bigger jump in the US than elsewhere. AFAIK a big part of this was that data was expensive and slow in the US.

I assume there exist lots of good solutions and technologies for many problems, they just aren't mainstream. Many times the barriers for adoption are not technological.
All energy storage is some kind of bomb. We just go on with our life because they dont usually go off. Just search the news for LPG explosions and see how devastating it is. Even our cars run on explosions.
Some people (like me) prefer the 8 bit Sonic games. Sonic 2 for Master System was a completely original game, and it is a 2D platforming gem.
The issue is not that they got it wrong the first time(or lied on purpose to defend the economy, or to prevent panic and hoarding).

The issue is that people were marked as conspiracy theorist nutjobs for holding some views that were the official recommendation a week ago (or became the recommendation a week later). If officials can get it wrong, why would you censor your "drunk uncle" from getting it wrong?
Was delayed ACKs the problem? Disabling delayed ACKs seems like a better bet than using TCP_NODELAY which turns off Nagle's algorithm.
Jens wants to do that in Snap! as the next big feature.
I don't want to take away from your fine comment, but although I like the image of a website forcefully spitting out pills, I feel compelled to note pedantically that you probably meant "hawk" rather than "hock": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hawk (Verb 3) vs https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hock.
> YouTube is almost certainly going to be banning literal doctors with actual PHDs from expressing scientific opinions which later turn out to be substantiated.

To be fair, Youtube shouldn't be the platform where doctors express their scientific opinion or try to win over support.
The point is that youtube is not an absolute authority and truth reference. So when they decide what is misinformation they position themselves above public scrutiny.

It's not that the masses are dumb or smart. The few deciders from Youtube are not truth dispensers that we should all trust above all else.
Users in the lpadmin group can log in with their own passwords. At least on Debian.
"Astrology for nerds" is one way of describing it that I always liked even though I don't know who is the original author of the expression (if there even is one).
It just works. Please don't fix it.
It is a nice touch of doublethink for Youtube to be able to ban different mutually exclusive "misinformation" depending on region.
Using Python to download your entire last.fm scrobble history
Or since?
That's really sad to see. I also found the included songs pretty boring, and without custom beatmaps and scoresaber it's not really very good. I wonder what FB's strategy is here - why cut out the enthusiasts?
Especially so. Don't drop down to their level.
I don't see how your Double Jeopardy example demonstrates 'ranking' of rights. There's no right to punishment of criminals. The US Bill of Rights is a list of negative rights.

I would say that (2) and (3) go further than one. You could say that they are subsets of (1).
> has been systematically eroding the latter with his "fake news" campaigns and reporter biases.

As much as I disagree with Trump, the news orgs have done that to themselves. And I'm not talking about crap like Fox News
Playing with the bangle.js espruino watch has been great fun. Nice hardware (much nicer than the esp32 based lilygo), and there's a coolness factor in programming your own watch to work exactly as you please.
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I am betting that all of the recent censorship by Google, Facebook, and Twitter is a thin attempt to ward off the anti-trust actions that the US wants to impose on the big tech companies. There is false information out there - that is nothing new - but we're in the territory where we are censoring opinions, viewpoints, and non-predominant theory. Is light a particle or wave? Ban everyone who believes X, they are fools and they shouldn't be allowed to infect others with their heresy.
Because of all the fucked up things the CIA did this isn't even in the top 1e5.
That’s so fucked up it’d make a dilbert cartoon.
Just to be clear, in E2E it's not available to Zoom.
publishing this stuff is how you get great APIs refactored out of existence ..:(
ok, here's your allotment of clothes: pants, shirt, size medium, shoes size 9

I actually think some game user interface ideas should make it to the desktop. Game interfaces are always customizable up-front.
On my when-things-slow-down list is to write a version of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs using Snap! as the language, aimed at high school kids, so replacing the examples that require calculus, for example. I (no doubt naively and arrogantly) can't help feeling that a transition from Snap! to any language that isn't Scheme would be a step downward.
Wouldn’t microcontrollers better run with efficient and low-level languages?
Compressed air storage really begins to make sense when the tank is deep underground, or deep underwater, so you don't need an overbuilt pressure vessel.

The very good idea of floating solar panels on a reservoir (cool panels are more efficient, and keeping them clean is cheap!) raises the question of what to do with excess power generated in the daytime. One alternative would be to pump water up out of another reservoir downstream, but there might not be one. So, just put a big air bladder on the bottom of the reservoir and pump air in.

Same applies for offshore wind power.

About half the energy you put into a pressure vessel becomes heat that you would not get back, under water. (But rock is an excellent insulator.) With enough spare water, you can draw almost the same amount of heat back in on discharge. Or, you might have a use for cold air.
Carbon based life is unlikely in the universe and yet here we are. Watching tiktok. Just can't rule anything out.
This being the time period that it was they were on LSD.

That is not a joke, CIA agents would dose each other as pranks.
I would disagree. At least the gnome printer settings did not only change (for some time you had both in parallel on Fedora), they are not complicated at all?
I did some calculations on how much more renewable the UK would need based on demand over a given year, and how much storage.

With 20 times the current renewable, 1GWh of charged storage, and a perfect grid, starting on Sep 18th 2018, we'd be fine until September 30th at 18:15.

With 10 million EVs acting as a battery store, all topping at 50KWh and going as low down as say 25KWh, that would be 250GWh of storage, we'd last until September 30th at 19:30.

That doesn't count the extra demand of the EVs in actually driving.

If we had 50 times current renewable and that 250GW of storage we'd be OK.
That is often the case, yes, but every now and then one finds a gem that is still worth playing. I have an entire emulator setup solely for playing Sub Trade: Return to Irata. :D
> ...what YouTube is doing here is a slippery slope and it's scary...

BTW, "slippery slope" was intended to be an example of fallacious thinking. Before it became a popular term, it was intended as a criticism of arguments of the form, "A will lead to B will lead to C, so A is bad."

I'm not bringing this up (just) to be pedantic; the overwhelming evidence to date is that it is extraordinarily difficult to get any of these modern media giants to make any kind of move on any subject at all. You can say very nearly anything you want on YouTube's network, or Twitter's, or Facebook's, and in all cases, the most common forms of censorship are from the DMCA, not politics.
Assuming !/s the reason it worked so well on you is because odds of 16-1 are not odds of infinity to 1. The same reason you bump into an old friend in a foreign airport, or someone calls you at some point in your decades of living at the moment you thought of them. Etc.
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A significant use of our printer is to print documents to sign, so we can scan the signed copy and email it to a solicitor or bank. Crazy.
What does it matter if the Chinese can always hack into servers?
OpEds != Articles.

(even true of news, where unlike scientific journals, the difference between editorial and article isn't as blatant. This editorial has neither Abstract up front nor References in closing.)
As in range being better or even worse? I haven't tried it out yet.
Same here, though "field" rather than town. ! I couldn't believe just how _loud_ the dawn chorus can be. The borage and calendula hum with bees as well. It's helped my anxiety about the planet to at least have this little oasis.
Printers are one of those corners of linux that still resemble the winmodem days: if it works right away it just works, but if it doesn't, you're probably out of luck. That's because drivers are key and manufacturers have little incentive to keep updated drivers in CUPS - particularly for cheaper models and cheaper brands. Industrial-grade models and brands are more likely to have had a driver done for some reason or another (big contract in civil service etc).
Network effects are huge. People are on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/etc. because other people are on them. The control over the network is of paramount importance to those companies, and they do not want to give it up. They don't want an open chat protocol. They want their branded experience with their specific font and their specific shade of blue (and it's always blue - Facebook, Twitter, Skype, it doesn't matter, it's always blue).

Microsoft tried to build People-centric experiences with the short-lived MyPeople experience: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3216489/windows-10s-my-peopl...

In the end, while the UX mocks were grand and there was the potential for some interesting flows, it was impossible to get the platforms interested. They don't WANT your contact list to sync to your device and integrate in your OS surfaces, they want to own that data.
> Even if they were to store encrypted versions of all of these individual audio/video streams, how would they ultimately present that back to the user on request? There is no practical or easy way to do this.

You would play it similar to how you attend a Zoom meeting. They could probably reuse most of the client code for this feature. But yes, I agree this is likely not the user experience that most users want.
Not finding anyone they can indict is not the same as “no scandal”. You and I knew when they were trying to blame the fiasco on a YouTube video and trotted the poor director out in a hooded perp walk on tv that it was complete. utter. BS., and then we watched Rice run around talking about it on talk shows trying to shamelessly prop up this narrative. That itself is a scandal. When you start asking more critical questions about why a government does crap like that you’ll find it’s scandals all the way down. The best you can say from the Benghazi debacle is that we had/have a bunch of nincompoops running the show. _That’s_ a scandal. It only gets worse when you attempt to defend their qualifications. Don’t get me started on Libya as a whole - it’s executors only years earlier still criticizing the lack of an exit plan for Iraq.
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IDK. Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Be kind.

Please don't sneer

Please don't post shallow dismissals

But downvotes are sometimes used unkindly, dismissively and as a way to supress a different view (which may or may not be justified). You nuke me and say why, I'm happy - we can talk! I can learn something new! Downvoting factual posts silently is... frustrating. And ill mannered.
Look up Derren Brown and horse racing.
No one here is advocating strong censorship though, and there is a massive chasm between banning specific topics during a pandemic and having generally strong censorship.

This slippery slope is fallacious.
This is my understanding as well. In a classic MC problem, global illumination with path tracing, low discrepancy-based sampling converges about twice as fast as random numbers. The Cycles renderer in Blender doesn't even give you the option to use random numbers, just a choice of low discrepancy sequnces [1].

[1] "Pattern" section here: http://builder.openhmd.net/blender-hmd-viewport-temp/render/...
You're now arguing that you also have a right to be heard? That's quite a right!

I am not sure how you would define your 'undue influence' test, as it seems internally inconsistent:

>"For example by asking his followers to reject the views of outsiders (a common tactic in many religions, cults and conspiracy groups) a terrorist could be argued to have taken the freedom to hear other viewpoints away from his followers."

Do you see the inconsistency here? You are looking to forcibly silence one group, so they can listen to 'outsiders'. From the other side, it would look like you're the one advocating in favor of an even more extreme 'undue influence'.
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ha, no I meant that it's sort of a direct physical intervention.

for example, I think a lot of the benefits of exercise might be to just jostling your body.
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Analysis of 600 SaaS pricing pages
I wonder if there are any printers with open source firmware?
Will add advertisements.
> How the receiving party can be sure the key was not switched by the all-mighty middle man who can control everything?

From the article:

> Participants will also see the meeting leader’s security code that they can use to verify the secure connection. The host can read this code out loud, and all participants can check that their clients display the same code.

Obviously the vast majority of people won't do this, so the vast majority of people won't be fully protected against active MITMs. But the potential of meeting participants doing this will discourage attackers in many cases.
The thinking behind their stance is well laid out in a previous editorial:

> The principle that the state will respect scholarly independence is one of the foundations underpinning modern research, and its erosion carries grave risks for standards of quality and integrity in research and policymaking. When politicians break that covenant, they endanger the health of people, the environment and societies.

This is why Nature’s news correspondents will redouble their efforts to watch and report on what is happening in politics and research worldwide. It is why authors of our expert commentaries will continue to assess and critique developments; and why the journal is looking to publish more primary research in political science.
Wow, thanks! My own opinion is far less extreme. :~) But I definitely appreciate hearing yours.
A permissive but GPL-incompatible license unfortunately. Also, everyone was already free to develop it further as they wanted before the license change.
The problem with that vision is that people break/lose phones a lot more often than laptops. We tend to carry your phone all the time with us, that leads to it being potentially exposed to way more dangers than our laptops. What happens to all your stuff when your phone is stolen in a pub? or when it fall into that subway gap?

If the answer to this is: it is all backed up automatically into the cloud and your new device will become a clone of your lost device, then you don't need the device in the first place, all you need is a terminal.

If the answer is: you're screwed, then maybe storing all your stuff on a device small enough to be easily stolen/broken was a bad idea.
My last printer was from 2 decades ago and was only used to print documents.

I kind of miss reading source code written by others on dot-matrix long sheets, you can reason around existing code in a different way than navigating through a text editor or IDE. Still not indispensable, though.
I agree with you on the harms that you have identified (overwhelming bullshit).

I think it’s worth thinking about this problem by comparing and contrasting social media to traditional public spaces (like a soapbox in a town square).

By comparing these two kinds of public spaces (ignoring for now the fact that social media is privately owned), one can start to identify the mechanisms in social media platforms that are enabling overwhelming bullshit and work to mitigate, modify, or eliminate those mechanisms.

For what it’s worth, my opinion is that the amplification and discovery mechanisms in any media platform (from print to TV/radio to social media) play a key role in the spreading of bullshit. For that reason, I like twitter’s moves to introduce friction into retweeting. Additionally I support efforts of the social media companies to defeat bot farms.
I've always thought this might be a great approach in limited situations (using encryption over unencrypted public "channels"). Kudos to you for the project, even if it didn't get much traction.
I think the main stumbling block for me is the perception of time scales. It is impossible for me to say, with certainty, any information regarding time scales of a billion years and the randomness which permeates the evolutionary process. What we see and know are the winners of the race, not the mountains of failures.
And the few people on the editorial boards of selected news papers or wherever are?

Do I need to mention the "kicking babies out of incubators", or the "Iraq has chemical weapons" bits?

Do you honestly prefer to give the manufacture of consent machinery to the exact same people that had it before hand? The very reason why people don't trust the media is because the old "guardians of the news" thoroughly failed at their supposed mission
Couldn't agree more. One-size-fits-all approach to education, backed by "do as I say or else..." mentality, is outdated. We personalize everything, from cars to ads, we should be making the same effort to create options for kids to maximize their ability to get the most out of the education system.
Any thoughts on the development experience of this versus the Elixir based Nerves project, putting aside obvious platform differences (i.e. the BEAM being concurrent and resilient by design vs JS having a ton of libraries, etc.)?
It's 2020 and printer manufacturers still haven't settled on a standard printer interface.

I remember once buying a mouse and having to install a driver for it. Then one day, the mouse manufacturers all agreed to use a single interface. Now I can plug in any mouse and it just works without even having to download a driver.

Why can't I buy a printer, plug it in and the OS sees a device with a standard print-a-page interface?
On Archlinux only root can login by default last time I installed it. Heavily distro dependent and just weird that it requires a webinterface to configure.
Improving security in s2n, Amazon's TLS implementation
I get why you think so.

but I think you're wrong.

Silence is admirable for a while, but the extremity of anti-science policy's from the Trump administration requires defense of science.

Like a theory needs to be criticized and reviewed and attempted to be proven false or incorrect, so must Policy. Who better than to argue this than the experts in the given field.
What does binning mean in this context?
> This is not an argument to allow any fearmongering

So let's ban information that claims corona isn't that bad then, because it's DANGEROUS and you should BE SCARED and PEOPLE ARE DYING and if you don't wear the mask YOU COULD KILL PEOPLE.
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a book on authoritarian followers, which (at least when I'd read it pre-2016[1]) had some surprising-to-me suggestions for deradicalisation:
https://theauthoritarians.org (pp. 240-245, by numbering, not by pdf page)

Bonus fable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frogs_Who_Desired_a_King

[1] in its current incarnation, it, like much of the world, may have become obssessed with a particular authoritarian leader. I hope not. Pages 240-245 seem to be as I remembered. See https://theauthoritarians.org if you wish to see how it's currently positioned.
The industrial academic complex is at it again.
Stop generating noise and get back to doing Science, or at least pretending you do.

Why do we see no comments about China sending out videos of people falling down with simulated convulsions in January and February?

Is China's money from Thousand Talents Plan so hard to live without?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Plan
Looks like nice code. I have always liked ARM assembler for its cleanliness. But who does a lot of assembler programming? Those who do might as well be horrified by the cycles needed. So I am not sure that nice code is paramount for the success of the instruction set.
When exploring 'disclosures' of this kind, what proof is there for the existence of such work?

Take the common attitude to somewhat more contemporary conspiracy theories... They seem far more believable than a scheme like this. Yet the government appears to ratify this story.

Might it not just be a more sophisticated layer of misinformation?
Haven't you heard? Silence is violence now. Not explicitly supporting certain candidates and causes can get you into trouble also.
I can second that. The code of Snap! itself is virtually all Jens. My main contribution was teaching him about lambda.
I wouldn't buy them. I like paper and the feel of holding a sheet in my hand.
Paper isn't replaceable by e-Ink.
If you're worried about price fluctuations, sell Bitcoin futures against your holdings dated for when you need the USD?

You have the exact same problem with gold, which has increased 30% over the last few months.
You are right. Hardware hardly changed. However, one can argue, that software that we install into the new copies of hardware changed quite a bit. I think education and developing critical thinking skills should be the key to fixing those problems. Alas, the current trend is to try a way to get an education with as little effort as possible, which is destined to fail.
Do you have any plans to support non-US suppliers?
hu hum...digs out "Managing UUCP and Usenet" by Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino, revised 1994.

p293 "
! Should only be used when sending via UUCP. This should be the only special character in the address (called a path). The path indicates each site through which mail will be routed, starting at the left and going towards the right. Mixing ! with @ is not considered good. That is, use:

uunet!ucbvax.berkeley.edu.edu!smith

not:

uunet!smith@ucbvax.berkeley.edu.edu"

In other words because UUCP was dialup and long distance expensive, email was routed through specific known hosts, which is why sometimes people ended up with long bangpathed addresses.
Not sure why betfair would ban you for having a system. They are not making the market themselves (unless they do that now?) so they’d love to have someone like you playing. Probably banned for some other reason.