skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's literally no reason to believe that this is correct and anything else other than dogma.

There's quite a lot of psychological evidence suggesting that first impressions stick stronger than corrections (which everyone knows who has ever accidentally believed something just because they heard it quickly), that only people who are predisposed to corrections actually believe them, and that in others corrections even augment belief in the originally wrong claim ("see, the mainstream media feels threatened by this revelation!")

There's also a good book by Bartels and Achen[1] suggesting that prevalence of wrong beliefs can actually increase with education (climate change denial is more prominent among highly educated Republicans, highly engaged people on both sides of the political spectrum are more likely to make wrong assumptions about the demographics of the other), because they have more capacity to rationalise false priors.

So there's actually significant reason to believe that more speech, by increasing engagement increases partisanship, which in turn leads to ample adoption of misinformation. Which I think makes a little bit more sense when one looks at the state of discourse in the last few years.

[1]https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691169446/de...
Didn't they claim this before, when it was just fake end-to-end encryption? How do we know it's real this time?
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There are implementations of Arc4Random which introduce entropy during generation. So, it's not a design feature of the algorithm as much as it is an implementation detail.
Yes, they were. The PDFs with the emails were created long after the laptop was allegedly dropped off and abandoned, and the tech store owner claims they only copied the hard drive. This is on top of obvious formatting errors and the removal of the email headers.

None of the information was verified (even the easily verifiable bits) and the source, who was doxxed by the NYPost, is a Seth Rich conspiracist: https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-reportedly-gave-hunter...

In some hypothetical "whatabout the other party", the only way to test it is if it were to happen.
I'm not sure I see all that much difference between a phone that works with high-speed WiFi (most higher-end phones today) and 5g.

Be that as it may, though! My Steam client is configured with with a background download rate cap of 1 MB/sec, and just a few minutes ago I noticed it downloading something and looked at the disk write rate, which the client also reports. Much of the time it's around 2 MB/s, give or take, but it can jump up to 5x, sometimes almost 10x that.

So I think you're right, something like a network installer slurping down at 1 Gbps could write saturate an SSD, not necessarily even a particularly slowpoke one.
Linux vulnerabilities allow zero-click attacks via Bluetooth
No. :)

I’ll leave it up to you to guess, but I’d rather not advertise it publicly here.
The mobile platforms seemed to have settled on “services” for this kind of thing. Take content from one app, apply a transformation on, put it in another.
You're going to validate your results anyways, aren't you? Non-cryptographic random number generators are not guaranteed to introduce bias, a given implementation of a monte carlo simulation might introduce bias via a bug or a poorly chosen modeling. If you need to validate for bias anyways, so you might as well verify by checking against a cryptographic random number generator as well as whatever bias tests you may have at your disposal and then switch over for the speed.

A good non-cryptographic random number generator like xoshiro256 can generate at 4 times the speed of a chacha20 random number generator. Depending on how many models you need to compute and the desired precision of those models and how many random samples you need per model, this can easily be the difference between hours and days, or days and weeks.
It was me. I can't remember how I built it.

If I was doing it today I'd use some sort of balanced tree using the priority to navigate the nodes. Each node would have pointers to the head and tail of a singly linked list. Insert when the priority isn't in the tree is a simple tree insert with head and tail pointing to a new single-element linked list, insert when the priority is in there is adding it to the tail of the right node and moving the tail pointer, removing is finding the right-most node, taking the head and advancing the head pointer by one element. If the list is now empty then delete the node.

But none of it matters. I don't care if someone would build it the way I would. I would never expect that. I don't even want an optimal or semi-optimal answer. I'd have accepted a singly linked list with O(n) insertion time and O(1) pop time. Or a plain list where new items are added to the end and a pop is an O(n) seek through the list.

What I care about is whether the developer come up with any solution, describe the tradeoffs that they are making, why they are making them, and what research they would do if any to find a better solution. If i could have this conversation that we're having right here, right now with them then they'd probably pass my hiring bar.
Elementary OS is based on Ubuntu LTS.
Show HN: Hashnode, easy and hassle-free developer blogs on custom domains
The desktop as it is right now is, imo, just fine - as in it's barely there. On Mac (work), I use cmd+space (Spotlight) to open apps, ctrl+` to open up a terminal dropdown, and maybe some Finder here and there. On Windows (leisure) I just use the windows key (open start menu, focuses on the search key) to open up things, and usually it's one of the game launchers (e.g. Steam).

The OSes are not in my way right now. If anything, I want app builders to move away from web technologies. Steam should be a native app. I suspect the main reason that we don't see more native apps is that the native UI toolkits are limited in their design options / freedom.

I wonder if there's work being done to compile web apps into something that improves performance. WASM is one step I guess, but that's only the 'executable' part of it; we need something similar for the DOM + styling. Or Electron / Chrome should do more aggressive (and persisted) optimizations.
The benefit of a free exchange of ideas is that it allows people to originate and develop the ideas that we later recognize are correct in hindsight. The eventual move towards masks wasn't inevitable; there are some countries even today where masks aren't broadly recommended, so if Internet platforms had banned mask advocacy in March there probably would have been a lot more.

(I'm not sure this is on point to Youtube's policy here, though - they say they aren't banning all vaccine skepticism, just specific categories of silly disinformation like microchips.)
> It's only canceled too soon if the main plot arc isn't resolved, which does happen with some regularity.

When shows become popular, the arc suddenly becomes longer until it loses popularity and they cancel it. There are a ton of shows that have this pattern of having a really interesting premise followed by a pretty fast paced plot moving first season. Then they get renewed for 3 more season and the show slows to a crawl and gets cancelled after season 2.
Preventing entire classes of bugs in collision systems (2018) [video]
Evola's program (insofar as I, only 8 chapters in, have had any of it yet disclosed) reminds me somewhat of Dreher's. What did you take away as the more important positive parts of his program?

Would Toole's Ignatius J. Reilly count as one of his positive nihilists?

Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSr9BbhoJQ

Edit: in an attempt to steelman, how's this for a much shorter, much less political, Evola?

1. Know thyself
2. Act don't react
3. Ubuntu (a person is a person through other people)

or, in the Expanse's lang belta:

1. Sasa sif
2. Du fosh pash du efa
3. Nawit kapawu bera kuxaku
Last time I checked, the entire client codebase of Telegram was open source, and encryption happens on the client.

Of course, all the metadata are visible to Telegram servers, because they handle authorization and discovery. But not the communication content.

What am I missing?
entertaining isn't really the word I'd use…
The kickstarter page lacks any technical information around how the transport, discovery, and payment protocols would work and what underlying technologies they might use. The rewards are not actually rewards but rather donations, the “last for 1k years” part seems naive, and I’m not quite sure what “zero sum internet” means.

I’d me more than interested in backing a project such as this, but I’d need something more concrete around the design, implementation, and roadmap. Diaspora is a good example for such a kickstart page. Even though their results were horrible.
And there are Haskell bindings: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pcg-random

Nice!
This is exactly why I built NamePromo [1], which tracks product stock changes and sends you alerts across many channels (email, sms, mobile push (iOS/Android), our FB & Twitter profiles, and Discord).

We also take requests for any store listing URL and even if we don't support it right now such as Nike for example we will prioritize it and get it added to our queue to support tracking it.

The interesting thing about your point that Amazon and other merchants that have a "notify me" button is that they don't really work for users. However most of their methods are to process new inventory, their notification process is disconnected somehow and delayed for some reason. From the community I've been working to build as well, they all say the platform is much faster than the stores' versions.

[1]: https://namepromo.com
I think the only way to answer that question is to do more research, as opposed to squarely assuming that something is impossible simply because you didn't think of it.
Pretty pointless, IMO.
This stuff cracks me up. Do they think Hashem is up there looking down, thinking "Good one guys. You got me there. I thought I had all my bases covered. I'll save you some extra latkes when you get here."

Someone help me understand why some folks treat this stuff like a tax loophole.
Develop and run Desktop apps in the cloud (GitHub Codespaces)
> Currently CUPS is a rather poor user experience, (...)

Isn't CUPS an infrastructure service that exposes a bunch of APIs for downstream consumers, such as desktop environments, to build upon?
I've started to listen to hours long super dry economics podcasts every night and it works better than anything I've ever done to knock me out and as a side effect I've learned a ton. The problem is it usually also eventually wakes me back up but I usually am able to quickly fall back to sleep.
No sweat, didn’t mean to doxx you. Just had the lobster avatar pop into my head :)
Thanks for digging this up. I was curious about exactly this.
The U.S. Air Force Has Tested Kubernetes on a U-2 Dragon Lady Spyplane
Can you post the direct link or screenshot?
https://www.pcg-random.org/other-rngs.html#arc4random explains what they meant:

> The BSD implementations (which are the only widely used ones) have several additional issues

> • No facility for a user-provided seed, preventing programs from getting reproducible results

> • Periodically “stirs” the generator using kernel-provided entropy; this code must be removed if reproducible results desired (and is removed from the C++ adaptation I created for testing purposes)
I assume this concept is in the TV industry as well but there's a saying in the music industry about a band having their entire life to write their first album and then a year to write their second.
> nothing magic about even or odd, just forcing that final check-over to make sure everything adds up.

Ah; so a no brown M&M's rule.
Waiting for the shills to downvote you. This is exactly how every situation will go.
Welcome to 1984.
Not high risk high reward. Not funny. Not clever. Not successful.

Dumb. Sad. Deeply cruel.

The generally casual way it is discussed here is not surprising.
Misinformation is also a slippery slope though; you have to say "enough is enough" at one point because else you reach a point of no return.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance (iirc that was linked to on here a while ago, I may misremember)
These are so crappy in comparison that i wouldn't even call them VR. The Quest is several generations ahead.

Its like comparing a pre-model-T car with a car from 1950. You might argue that for some purposes both are equivalent but that doesn't capture the qualitative improvement that has happened almost everywhere. Everything is improved and some areas feel perfected in comparison.
yea, killed a lot of time in hangman. wumpus somehow I didn't bond with. Sail, if you fought at least one battle (midway?) it had a typhoon in-game. oops. half your fleet gone!

Trek was fun, I'd worked on analogous games on CP/M hosts.

mostly, for me, it was the idea of having games which kept it fun. Even the manual pages had jokes. make love; cat 'tin of catfood' &c &c
Pertinent to this article, if there were antitrust regulations with teeth, you wouldn't have monopolies and their associated profit levels. This would both limit spending and limit the incentive for spending since they wouldn't have an incentive to create barriers to entry for competition through regulation.
> How did they suggest using an XML document to act as a priority queue? I actually would have found that highly amusing!

I tried. It got tiring. Sometimes people would loop through all possible priorities plugging them into an XPath query and pop the first element of the highest priority that matched. Some would do two XPath queries, one across all nodes to get the max priority and a second to query the first element (ignoring the lack of a need to run the query a second time at all). Some would insist that XPath has some function that would let you select a node with an attribute that has the maximum numeric value.

I'd have been fine with your solution.
> I'd do exactly what Joe Biden does and ignore them rather than giving them oxygen.

Joe Biden ignored the reports? The article says Joe Biden responded, saying the meeting didn't take place:

> In a Thursday afternoon statement, the Biden campaign said the paper “never asked . . . about the critical elements of this story,” and that a review of “Joe Biden’s official schedules from the time” show that “no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.” The Biden campaign did not dispute the veracity of the emails, though no other media outlet has confirmed the Post’s story so far.
? Connect printer, print? That's been my general experience, and we've also been printing through Linux at work for decades now - and with CUPS about since it arrived. The number of printers we've been through I have lost count of, but they work. We print all kind of documents, at sometimes an industrial scale. And of course it doesn't matter what the document is, pure text or not.
At the home front the HP printers "just work", the only slightly tricky one was a Ricoh laser printer I was given - it doesn't use PS or PCL but instead its own system. That needed a 3rd party driver.
> Maybe a community fork can thrive?

Are you willing to drive that project and work on patches? Because wishing upon "maybe a community fork" is just wishing that someone else should do what you expect to be done.
My company's firewall blocks lowlvl.org as a malicious site!
Go figure!

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm sure they've learned their lesson, and next time it won't be a ban, but a difficult-to-prove reduction in visibility.
Easiest way to protest is to not implement ad blockers for manifest V3. Users would switch to FF yesterday.

I think it disqualifies Edge and Chrome for enterprise use in my opinion.
Every example of the "divide and conquer" strategy you mention has the US at least assisting the "top ladder." Mexican drug cartels only exist because of America's "War on Drugs," and beyond that you run into people like Pablo Escobar deliberations propped up by the US to further their interests.

>And, mind you, China is completely unaffected by the processes tearing the U.S. apart

Isn't this the exact same " divide and conquer " strategy you just mentions? If we don't continue supporting our tribe, ignoring it's many faults, that other tribe will make things much worse.
Neat idea. But I would make it clear on the shop page that the product isn't ready.
Not to be a downer or anything but this post just exemplifies how much I would hate starting a company, especially funded by VCs. When they say Silicon Valley is not for everyone, I believe them. Kudos to people that actually propel through this and get what they want.
Nature supports Joe Biden for US president
He got raided / investigated by a government body as well at some point (it's in one of his videos) where they went looking for nuclear materials. He had some, but it was traces and stored securely (he made his own lead/concrete container).

Anyway, Youtube - and by extension, the US government - are a bit cagey about instructions on how to make explosives (and thermite). If amateurs try to emulate it, they can injure themselves badly. I mean you only have to look at some of the "fail" compilations on youtube to see how stupid some people are.
The factuality is what we should be debating. When Twitter bans its dissemination that becomes as big a story and - like it or not - makes folks believe there’s more truth to the story than they perhaps would have in absence of such blatant, double-standard censorship.
lbry is a great site, i still don't quite understand where the videos are hosted and served from though...
I personally think compressed air tools are underrated. I worked at a shop that used a lot of compressed air powered 'things'. We had a bunch of air powered hand tools that out performed electric equivalents by a fair bit. Most of the larger machines, though mostly electrically driven, had major components that were air powered and required a compressor.

The force and energy available through natural physical processes is under rated some times...

Well...I guess all our power and energy is based on natural processes.

Hmmm...I guess...there's some natural physical processes that tend to get largely overlooked that provide more energy than one might think is I guess what I mean.
But Biden did respond to it. He said the meeting didn't take place.
That makes sense. Maybe that could be on the link (I did not see it) or promoted here.
I had the same problem. Created new fb account, linked to Oculus, bought couple of things, got banned. Asked for review, solved within 2 working days. Not even my real name.

Good thing, it's a "soft" ban. They do not allow to log in, but if you are logged in, it's fine. So i could use my bought items even though I could not log in in browser. But if I would have logged out from Oculus, I wouldn't be able to use them.
Pops up 403 forbidden
How to Monitor Coronavirus Spikes via Google Maps
The memory-footprint and performance improvements basically boil down to a departure from pre-rendering and caching all the graphics to redrawing them just in time. We were delighted to find out that rerendering complex graphical shapes in modern browsers can be done faster and with less memory penalty than pre-rendering and caching.

Here's part of a presentation I drew up earlier this year with a few slides outlining the architectural changes:

https://forum.snap.berkeley.edu/uploads/short-url/a5eBP71x50...
unishark's comment was about people with minority viewpoints, not people who are part of a visible minority. For example, a woman might be the only female in a programming team, and therefore a visible minority, but her views on what gender equality means might be shared by most of the rest of the team, meaning tha she does not have a minority viewpoint.
I like the way the article has been written; knowledgeable without being dry
But then again you run into the problem of determining what is misinformation, vs e.g. counterpoints / arguments / critical thinking / devil's advocate videos.

I for one am glad I'm not responsible for setting policies like that.
Man there’s a lot of mansplaining going on in this thread. Good work! This is really cool!
I made this iOS shortcut which lets you call up the price comparison straight from the share sheet in the Amazon app: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/bad9a103673a47d78c9aea57897...

Edit: to see it, you’ll likely first have to go to and enable Settings > Shortcuts > Allow untrusted shortcuts.
No problem, we've all done that.
Server support was spotty for a long time. Browser support was also slow to appear.
Check red language it offers native GUI app development, ada+gtk also provide cross platform app development support. There might be others but I am not sure.V language also offers n
ative GUI apps
I've had this too, but nowadays I go to sleep fine. I've made and seen a few adjustments:

- Use a sleep mask and earplugs, or do the poor man's version like I do (pillow on the top of your head).

- Get into a situation where you can't feel stressed. I'm in that situation right now. I feel too underpaid to be stressed. In that sense, being underpaid is much more of a good thing than a bad thing, since my performance is good enough.

- Get into a situation where you don't feel mildly depressed.
Then you are left as I am, a house with no paintings, posters, wall decorations of any kind! All such things are clutter to me, and in fact, I even reject re-painting the walls.

I fear that I will notice the room is smaller, after that coating of paint.

I'm worried that now I'm signalling, that I'm not signalling, which is signalling now. Maybe.

So I support you, fellow non-signalling, and non-non-signalling kin! Yes, you can have paintings, just because you like them.

(Please don't tell me that I'm signalling by non-non-signalling!)
The issues of fake news and misinformation have come about because the freedom of speech at scale that the internet and sites like Youtube enables.

What we're experiencing is the limit of freedom of speech.

It used to be that at scale things were controlled by the media and governments because they had the monopoly on the infrastructure required, which was costly.

You can say that this enabled a level of censorship, but that also enabled to filter a lot of noise.
> ...and outside the workplace...

You appear to be moving the goalpost here. Or perhaps I was my fault for not being clear. My policy was referring specifically to discussing politics within the workplace.

As for your question, everyone is of course allowed to ask for more pay. This is not what I'd call politics, but simply salary negotiation. If you're suggesting something different. Then yes, you generally aren't going to help yourself within an organization by calling your boss a sexist who needs to promise to stop being a sexist. Or whatever it is you're specifically proposing.
Thank you for the link. It had been a while since I had read the specifics of section 230, and the Overton Window certainly has shifted since then, when it comes to this topic.

The key part that stands out to me and after refreshing my memory of the particulars, should be interpreting where "good faith" ends with respect to censoring topics and people, and what the bounds of "objectionable content" is.

Deciding that some news articles cannont be shared or talked about (even privately via the platform) while allowing others in similar circumstances to be distributed, is surely far from ideal.
Don't jump to conclusions, please. Because you seem to assume the WHO didn't change their minds based in research but on public opinion. And that they would "censor" any other information. No proof for either.

Also, only governments can censor. Youtube is a private entity, so whatever they do cannot be censorship yo begin with.