skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mean the source code or the inspiration ?

The main part of the source code is the last `for(...)` loop that updates the sound buffer, and draws the text.

There was not much inspiration :p I needed something simple enough to be fairly compact and sound melodic.

So I used a chord of 4 notes, played them at different speed and octaves. The lead using a sinus oscillator to get nice pure tones, a deeper sound 4x slower with a pulse oscillator to get more edgy sound, the deepest sound 16x slower with a sawtooth to get a gritty bass. Layered with the perspective scaling of the dots to get something bleeps in synch with the visuals.

Hope that answers your question
Reminder that the lag on education affecting society is huge. People aged 65 received their education from 1960 onwards! There are still people alive and voting from before the 1944 education act! (although not many)

I would more blame the newspapers and other media for poor understanding of issues, which is mostly deliberate on the part of the Murdoch press.
I downloaded a 3gb file today that contains information about the human genome. But it was just an accessory file that lists a bunch of variations within the genome - not even the genome itself! Amazing to think how many books would fit into those same 3gb and yet we casually use it up with routine science now.
Monetizing Your Open Source Project
Regenerative farming: A natural way to help counteract drought
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So the good news here is we're working on "implementation guides" which are basically developer friendly documentation on how to do X rather than a raw technical spec. I don't recall if it's actually hosted anywhere just yet, but you can see the progress in https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/tree/master/impleme...
Let’s face it. Nobody profits from abandoned open source projects. I’ve compiled a list of a few ideas to monetize your open source project.

Anything I’m missing?
> But update or no, it's irresponsible to proffer these scenarios as relevant to the typical westerner, especially given the abysmal privacy of the popular alternatives.

Have you considered the (sadly) common case of an abusive partner who is likely to see your sudden usage of Signal as an indication that you are speaking to other people about their abuse, or at the least asking others for help?

I don't think these scenarios are nearly as rare as you think they are. These cases do definitely happen in English-speaking countries -- not that I understand your argument here in the first place (Signal is available world-wide and has been translated to many other languages, what does language have to do with anything?). Not to mention that Signal themselves don't warn you about this behaviour at all.

(Yes, you could argue that an abusive partner has many other avenues through which to discover that you're asking for help -- but that isn't a defense of providing more avenues for an abuser to discover you're asking for help. Again, Signal actively notifies all of your contacts that you've started using Signal -- which is above and beyond the transparent upgrade from SMS to Signal messages you mentioned.)
"Stable" do you mean seismically stable?
The thing is, the USSR had a huge Lend and Lease program with the US. I think they also got a ton of equipment and supplies as donations, basically.

So that puts a bit of a stain on their efforts. As much as their soldiers fought and died bravely, a modern war without modern equipment is hopeless. That's how they broke through at Stalingrad: they attacked the flanks occupied by Romanians, who also fought and died bravely, but without good equipment, especially anti tank equipment.

So in the end, it was still a joint effort.
there isn't a tweet you can send that will start a war unless the administration sending it is willing to confirm that is indeed a move they're making. you think diplomats are idiots.

that tweet threat isn't even an immediate threat.
> While HTTP/3 specification is still in the draft stage, the latest version of the Chrome browser already supports it by default

This is awful, because it means the spec review process does not have the impact that it can have, and Chrome gets to single-handedly define what they want the spec to be
> It also analyzes all other apps installed on the device, and reports their reputation and the presence of any malicious code.

There is no iOS API that allows them to do this. Apple removed it years ago: https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/06/24/apple-expanding-u...
You'll notice on that recent link that there's a caveat that wasn't included on the older link.

"This is a visual product only. The data has been downsampled from 12-bits to 8-bits, and the original values of the images have been modified for visualisation purposes."

If you zoom into the cities, buildings are nothing more than white blotches. Not really relevant supporting references.

As an aside, people should be able to make casual observations about patterns without the folks who don't see the patterns comparing them to the mentally ill.
Haha, I like the Winrar bit, I actually bought a license a few years ago for that but never thought of framing it. Thanks for the Pi bit ideas as well, I think that's a good direction to go in.
The Contest to Protect Almost Everything on the Internet
If you seriously consider enjoying "unlimited" social and health benefits of NZ, you may just retire immediately with $2M in bank and lead more luxurious life in most places in the world no matter if you are 60 or 20 years old.

IIRC $2M is enough to "buy" a Swiss citizenship too, so that kind of money really enables you to live basically anywhere in the world and you need a specific retirement plan only if you want to spend a lot of cash regularly for the rest of your life. Personally I would not even think about working to get paid anymore if I had even $1M, but ofc that's just me and my modest living standards.
Here's an example of what I would like: https://netzpolitik.org/2015/digital-attack-on-german-parlia...

It is a straight-forward report on what the malware found on the German parliament's computers. The researcher is clear about what is known for certain and what is speculation.

No editorializing, no committees, no VIPs testifying before Congress, no confusing arrays of links to other links to other links ending up at broken links.

Does such a thing exist regarding the DNC hack? If you cannot find it (as I cannot, after 4 years), consider that it does not exist. And if it does not exist, why not?
All true. And yet... No one monopolises D-Day. The US make a point to remark on the work of the Navajo code-speakers. Somehow, Battle of Britain is celebrated as a multi-national cooperation. But not Enigma-breaking, that was just plucky Brits in Bletchley Park.

I understand and respect national myth-building, equally I feel credit, in popular literature, is under-attributed.
A friend introduced me to Grepolis. I started playing and liked the game but I did not want to spend my time playing the game, so I wanted to write some code to play on my behalf and I would get human satisfaction from my code playing the game by proxy.

I started looking into the requests/responses, and I found something cool in the HTTP response headers that was something along the lines of "If you are reading this, please consider applying to work at our company".

One other instance of this is a company here that posted an opening for software developers. The page was blank, so naturally I opened the console to see what's wrong. There were comments in the page that said "Congratulations, you passed the first step. To get the link of the page, please decode this message in Morse and send us the code you used to do that". I didn't write any code because I was familiar with Morse code, so I got the link directly.

I was contacted by their CTO shortly after. I had already been hired in the meantime (by another CTO at another company and they knew each other apparently). I told him I found it pretty cool and interesting. He said that very few people found the link and applied.

These things can be fun.
The Russian empire was an absolute monarchy until 1905 that was definitely totalitarian by modern understanding. The subsequent semi-democratic government was ineffective.
It'd be trademark infringement. the circle K thing is a trademark that a private Kosher organization allows companies to put on certified foods after they're satisfied with the inspection (as far as I recall.)
We bought our first EPYC server last year. We'll buy many more.
I suspect that the only result of this article is to cause many users to smugly justify their use of Chrome.

This is incorrect. Firstly because, as stated in the article, Chrome is far worse than all the other alternatives. Secondly, because Chrome has a near monopoly (at least of mindshare - it is hard to guess real numbers because Chrome happily reports its use to Analytics, and FF does not, which means FF always is under-represented) and contributing to them supports that, and third because there are other tricks they have like hiding URL data (and sometimes not letting users know they are on an AMP page instead of the real one).

Ungoogled-chromium may solve some of these issues, but it adds new ones. Last I tried, it's update mechanism was non existent, which is the opposite of the other's auto-update. And it encourages Google's eco-system monopoly. And of course, it inherits Google's terrible (from a security perspective) app marketplace.

All the other browsers are missing features to the point of not being contenders.

So, I think that in real terms, the best we can encourage is fixing FF with the changes he states plus plugins, and evangelize that.
It's the same old story, dumbed down systems to accommodate the masses. As soon as you want to do something out of the ordinary you will be out of luck.
Yes, Red is another fine language. However, to be fair, I would say Red is practically like Rebol v3. Arturo's goal is not to become yet another Rebol, but combine its positive aspects (which are a lot) with other features of modern programming languages, mostly functional programming -oriented. Actually, Arturo's influences range from Rebol to Ruby, Haskell, Tcl and even Forth or Factor or... Swift.

In any case, I'm all ears for feedback/ideas/suggestions. Code contributions are more than welcome as well - it's been just a one-guy thing so far, and I can honestly not find time for everything :)
Absolutely, and is a relevant explanation for many of these instances around the world.

However there are plenty of instances near disputed areas where resolution is lost, images are outdated etc, and it starts to become a pattern separate from what you're describing.

I mean just as the most obvious example of manipulation, look at the lack of 3D imaging in parts of Washington D.C.

It's not indicative of ill-will, and is obviously in support of operational security, but it's still clearly a decision made with non-scientific reasons.
It seems like it's really written for potential implementers already in that field.

I love technical content that does not shy away from from going in depth
Thank you. The main gain I see in vim is being able to edit configs on any server through SSH. In an environment with IaC policy this gain basically falls away however. What's left is being able to do small edits where launching e.g. VS Code would take too long. That's where I still use it.
It is a complex, stateful (!!) protocol with non-trivial state-machine. A "console app" won't cut it. Even Wireshark might not cut it. Thanks to things like quick start, TLS session tickets and server push you won't understand what are you even looking on 90% of time.

When HTTP 1.1 fails, your browser shows you a proper error message. When HTTP 2/3 fails, it is always "a protocol format violation". What violation? Why? Who knows.

> I don't agree that this particular concern is large enough to slow adoption

Sure thing. Kerberos is still alive and kicking. SMB 1 is built into every appliance. SOAP is the protocol of choice for corporations...

Complexity never slows down adoption of <insert name of utter turd technology>, because such technology is generally being pushed down people's throats by someone else. If Google does not push HTTP 3 slower, it's adoption won't slow down. The quality of tech plays no role in that.
Quite an interesting article about the false reason / emotions dichotomy: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2014/09...

> It’s true, as I wrote about last week, that emotions can bias our thinking. What’s not true is that the best thinking comes from a lack of emotion. “Emotion helps us screen, organize and prioritize the information that bombards us,”

As well as http://mitp.nautil.us/article/157/feelings-what-are-they-and...

> This realization turns the scientific language of emotion on its head. What are commonly called emotion functions in humans and animals are not emotional functions at all. They do not exist to make feelings. They are survival functions essential for the continued life of the individual or the species.
I don’t like this argument because it’s not like the extra milliseconds are going to make peoples lives more productive/happy/meaningful, even in aggregate. But if you are going to make this argument, one could also argue that it’s better to spend that time looking at loading spinners than looking at Facebook ads.
I don't know enough about Moxie Marlinspike or Signal to really have an opinion, and was hoping to maybe learn something by reading this but I'm afraid this is more hagiography than profile.
You've obviously looked into the history of the system to a deeper degree than I have. I not only appreciate the effort, but I respect your opinion as to my point.

Do you figure I'm making a good point, or do you disagree? If I'm wrong, what is the point of school? Why does every country do it?

Again, curious to hear your thoughts.
American liberals runs the social networks almost everyone uses so whenever they decide to cancel stuff the whole world gets affected. Therefore it makes sense that many people all over the world learns to hate them and their cancel culture.
Tasmania is a shit-hole, stay away!

(I hope this works ;) )
Isn't this an unfortunate aspect of trademark law? As the owner if it is shown that you do not make an effort to go after unauthorized use than a more unscrupulous trademark thief could then steal your trademark and win in court?
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Maybe you are emotionally invested in appearing, or believing yourself to be objective? Perhaps that's why posting a terse, pithy comment felt so satisfying. ;)
Exactly. Back then it seemed like a word that people not much into the computer scene or non-specialist magazines would use, while to geeks the word was a joke.
Awesome idea, but I am not in the US and it's hard to tell what time or time zone your games are in.
They could and should provide a community trademark that people can use. Like the logo with a [Community] badge across it.

Imagine how different this letter would look like.

"Here is the community logo you can use and here is the license that allows you to use it. Only rule is: don't try to act like you are us. Thanks for increasing the value of the product by providing content."
> But you can totally set up a “download encrypted blob from external data storage” script if you want.

Remember where this conversation started? You said "Amnesiac is a level above FDE. You can’t be compelled to decrypt that which does not exist." Well, if the USB stick that contains the amnesiac OS also contains a script for downloading an encrypted blob from cloud storage, then obviously we are back at the "being compelled to decrypt" issue that we started from. If we're going to have an encrypted $TOP_SECRET document, we might as well encrypt the whole disk. And at this point the amnesiac property of the OS doesn't really provide a lot of benefit.
That is _exactly_ what you are supposed to do if you care enough to get a trademark in the first place. Nothing to see here.
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Agree. What people say and what really motivates their opinion in the topic at hand are not necessarily the same, I find people not being truthful to themselves nor to the conversation, which is really why I find this arguing endevour a waste of time in many subjects
Although you could argue that Russia was only able to remain in the war due to intelligence: Moscow didn't fall in Oct and Nov 1941 because of the arrival of reinforcements from the east, and that was possible because British intelligence indicated that the Japanese weren't planning a land invasion of Siberia as everyone expected (given they were already in Manchuria) but for some reason were planning on opening up a new front against America.
Wow, are internet speeds in the UK actually that slow? Why are they so far behind the EU?
Share of Americans interested in getting Covid-19 vaccine dropping
Trademark law needs to be reformed to allow "fair use"... sigh. At least they didn't involve lawyers in this first round.
> from knowing they had won the Battle of Britain

I mean they would have learned this eventually when the German stopped trying. They knew that they were winning anyways.

> single decoded message that determined the outcome of the D-day landings

What message?
An example of Silicon Valley technology assumption.

Many apps assume 100% internet connectivity at all times. i.e. not even minimally functional when offline.

They assume a certain speed, latency and packet loss (zero).

The adage should be: plan for the worst, then adjust for reality.
You can do it for even less in most of EU countries. You just need to get a job or create a company to get a work visa, and then stay for 5 or 6 years, learn some basic language and that's it.
Well we certainly have an opportunity to fix education but I doubt we will make the right changes because the public education system in the United States suffers the same problems the police system does.

Public Employee Unions. Whose first task is not to serve the people whom their members are supposed to work for. Just look at the demands some of these unions put up as required before going back to the classrooms! Some wanted changes to minimum wage, taxation, and more! Nothing related to education because they themselves have nothing to do with education other that there are teachers as their members.

It is well documented how teachers in good standing with the union can get out of schools they don't want to be in meaning if they don't like the neighborhood its too damn bad for the kids there. They can also avoid disciplinary actions and have their records protected from public view and in many districts have their records expunged within only a few years.

There are many great teachers out there but they are stuck in a system government by a political class masquerading as their union. A union which serves local politicians first and parents and students are so far down the list as to not be considered. Hence when it comes to bettering education their first response isn't how to do so but instead how to benefit their financial position
I spend my time working with printers and I don't see much distinction between macOS and Windows anymore. Where the big difference comes is different printer manufacturers. The worst of them produce bug ridden, bloated and privacy invading software.
I would argue that the American people evolve in a less that ideal environment for constructive argumentation due to the biparty politics. It nearly seems by construction that if an issue is endorsed by a party, then the other must be against it. For the untrained partisan of party A, every partisans of party B disagrees on every issue by default. I can see why it becomes difficult to stay rational.

Obviously, some people are willing to meet and discuss constructively, but that requires additional efforts to think outside this biparty mold.
Forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks
> I for one would really like a say 3 GiB version of English Wikipedia without Pokemon and Porn, or a 33GiB version with useful images.

There are several offline snapshots of different sizes of Wikipedia that do exactly this. Some of them are more thoroughly curated, others are a snapshot of the most popular articles, etc.

What I could not find easily was a full English Wikipedia with images and all available in an easily accessible format (like the Kiwix snapshots). I'd put a whole hard disk for this purpose, because the size is in the gigabyte-terabyte range.
>"The moment you create a chat bot is the moment you allow customers to have a conversation with your brand. Not with yourself, not with your friend, but with an uber entity—a symbol—that represents everything you and your team stand for. That’s not a step to be taken lightly."

As opposed to a call center in an impoverished country staffed with subsistence wage workers with an average tenure in the job of something like 6 months or less?

Companies talk a lot about CX and CRM until it's time to spend money on the front line workers who actually interact with the customers.
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So, you are emotionally invested in harvesting ideas. Fine.
I mean, this seems perfectly reasonable? The letter is polite and explains exactly why they have reached out.

You could make a reasonable case that someone may be confused and think this fan is officially related to the Raspberry Pi company.
Studying Soviet history, the amount of names the same essential group had is mind blowing.
This should push Boris and UK GOV to subsidise fiber development. It’s insane if 40% of the population just has <=8 Mbit/s in 2020!
IETF protocols being YOLO is exactly what makes them so attractive. The web never would have been a thing if it needed to be built on something highly correct and ordered like Signalling System No. 7.
Not really: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...

In general, companies can just enforce it as they see fit, but nothing forces them to do so.

Quotes from the article:

> That matters because Canonical’s actions reflect a much bigger problem: a pervasive and unfounded belief that if you don’t police every unauthorized use of a trademark you are in danger of losing it.

> The circumstances under which a company could actually lose a trademark—such as abandonment and genericide—are quite limited.

It could be argued that "Raspberry Pi" might be more at risk of a genericide than "Ubuntu", but we are still far from it, and I am not even sure enforcing their copyright would help in that case.
Isn’t that what they did with the letter posted in the tweet?

I suppose they could’ve done it with a little less ‘ultimatum’, but it looks like they _did_ reach out before unleashing anything else.
22.37Mbps
The annual 2019 world speeds report from research firm M-Lab and Cable.co.uk has revealed that for 2019 the United Kingdom delivered an average (mean) broadband ISP download speed of just 22.37Mbps (up from 18.57Mbps in 2018 and 16.51Mbps in 2017), ranking us 34th fastest in the world (up from 35th last year).
The annual 2019 world speeds report from research firm M-Lab and Cable.co.uk has revealed that for 2019 the United Kingdom delivered an average (mean) broadband ISP download speed of just 22.37Mbps (up from 18.57Mbps in 2018 and 16.51Mbps in 2017), ranking us 34th fastest in the world (up from 35th last year).
"Like all software updates lately, the switch happened and there’s nothing you can do about it."
Could they not license the use of the name, under a contract that imposes certain conditions to avoid confusion, for a small price (say 1p), and not have to worry about losing either the trademark or valued members of the community?