skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know how poorly programming is represented in movies and tv series makes you realize how wrong they probably are about every other topic? Well, as a Swede I can tell you that this article is trying too hard about selling the idea that friluftsliv is something unique to the Nordic countries. just like when media tries to sell hygge (coziness) and fika (taking a break) as concepts that are unique, almost impossible to understand by reading alone, to the Nordic countries when in fact they are universal human concepts.

An appreciation of and desire to be in nature is part of almost every society on the planet. The difference is if we can afford to be in nature and if we have access to it. The part about allemansrätten, which is the right go access nature and lands which don't belong to you, is correct though and I don't think many countries grant their citizens those rights.
It often seems to me that I haven't learned much lately, and then I see something which makes me think "I would not have even have understood what this is about two years ago." What people need to do well and grow in their vocation and avocations is to understand the field, and understanding is not just a matter of knowing a collection of immediately-relevant facts. Learning (more than just knowing) this math and other concepts is the sort of thing that leads to understanding; for one thing, it provides an explanation and justification for the pragmatic facts and links them as a cohesive whole.
Following is just an anecdote, I am aware that I may not be a representative sample, so read accordingly.

My current desktop PC has been on Debian (mostly Stable, sometimes Testing) for about fifteen years now, and apart from some minor bug here and there, everything works. Including gaming (Steam, as well as some standalone games), work, software development, multimedia.

From where I'm standing, I find Linux desktop much less bothersome than Windows or Mac these days. Every other week, there is an outcry about some new Bad Thing that Apple or Microsoft has done to their OS and half the tech community is up in arms about how all of their workflows are broken.

Or random Twitch streamers often having to fight against Windows more often than I thought reasonable, in order to get their streaming setup back under control.

Or work colleagues annoyed every other month about some VPN app not playing nice with Windows TCP/IP stack and locking them out of company network until they reboot.

Meanwhile, I'm in my little Linux corner, quietly doing my thing and not really having to fix anything other than mistakes I make, and bugs I cause.
Actually it should be free, after all you can't put a price on privacy.
Their sole purpose is not saving the content, they provide functionality to do so, but they are mainly meant for emphemeral viewing, not downloading
Making a good general UI for E-ink is tough. Amazon would have been the ones to do it, but they put their attention to the Kindle Fire and left the regular Kindles as dedicated e-readers. Probably this was a good thing. Even so, I've noticed that tablet swipe gestures have made their way into the Kindle UI which just doesn't work with the slow refresh time of E-ink.
No, I really like the idea of e-Ink and little or no notifications. What I really want is a phone that I can control, not a device that asks for more attention than a toddler.
> Does it come a surprise to you that Hitler was actually an antisemite? Did you think he mearly killed 6+ million people as an excuse to come to power while not believing it (not to mention he was already in power when he put that in process).

Before the "final solution (gassing)" was implemented, it was 8 years of progressive discrimination, and repressions, which were used to erode the whatever remaining civic fabric of the state.

And when they saw no real need left for the punchbag nation, and saw no further use for millions of inmates (who still needed some minimal food, and shelter to prevent them going up in arms immediately,) and people who will eventually return Hitler a favour, they decided for a "relatively clean solution."

The few surviving accounts of HSDAP top leaders own stances on the matter all confirm this.
> Banks, jobs will use all information against you

In the EU and Finland there are laws regulating what private data banks or companies can use or collect.

For example, companies are forbidden from googling job applicant without their permission or looking at their social media. They also can't by data from data collectors like they do in the US.
How compares this with Duktape? I can post on some
JS needed sites with edbrowse just fine, even allowing
me to show some shortened long comments with JS.
That's true. When reading the Discussion of the article I quoted from, it struck me how much they talked about the aspect of enjoyment. But when you think of it, this aspect is huge, because it basically determines whether people will actually follow through or not. A few percent increase in VO₂max is useless if people will hate the regime and will simply not do it.
Neurochemistry can play a big role, too. I feel that psychedelics can have great benefit for those of us with ADHD, as an alternative to more traditional stimulant treatment.
Next level: https://hpjansson.org/chafa/ which finds unicode symbols that approximate the content best.
We shouldn't be upset at github/githlab/npm/dockerhub but our industry and ourselves - how did we let our projects/packages/tools/infrastructure to be hosted on such platforms in the first place? Hopefully this will trigger more activity on decentralised solutions; git is decentralised already, needs some ipfs/torrent/etc wrapper for issues/rest or maybe something based on fossil etc.
I always thought it was because Iran hates Israel and has openly stated their goal to destroy and dissolve it. That paired with efforts to develop nuclear weapons = sanctions. It's probably more nuanced than that, but that was my basic understanding.
What non-violent (yes, there is violence inherent in sanctions, but it is a rather different scale than war) alternative would you suggest for punishing a foreign country?

EDIT: I see this question has been asked in other threads, but not answered. Whether Iran should be punished is a separate question (one on which I am personally too ignorant to hold an opinion about) from how should one country punish another.
Most definitions point to the same direction. Just different wordings.

Some definition are considered better than others. Paxton's definition is one of them.
> It's a form of "achievement laundering".

For sure [1].

But it is actually pretty easy to distinguish these groups of people. Was the person on the Putnam team? Did the person take Math 55 (or Honors Analysis at Chicago)?

You could argue that these are noisy signals because people from unprivileged backgrounds have to do some catching up before they can crush a Math 55.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/david-e-shaw-college...
Your belief sounds rooted in fear. Can you actually cite cases where doxxing & abuse happened over a conversation with a stranger in a cafe? And even if such cases exist I would confidently guess you’re more likely to die in a car crash than get doxxed on twitter by a hate mob. And no one is avoiding ever using cars or being a pedestrian on a street with car traffic to save their lives.

Maybe knowing in 2020 one can experience rabid social media mobs, and the newness and degree of its terror is skewing our idea of how likely this kind of event actually is. But I see this view presented regularly as though every one of us lives in active risk of being a single slip of the tongue away from ruining our lives. And it’s so strange and not in line with the reality I live in.
Pretty much, given very little or almost rarely does it result since any outcomes. At best there might be some action on the discussing people’s part. But outcomes realized - zero. In a sad way I feel we deserve what we have coming.

I would highly highly recommend reading Jason Hickels book. If you don’t have time Listen to his talks.

Book: https://g.co/kgs/sy7sXx
Talks: Just YouTube it.
Everyone in this thread is talking about how this is just a user space on Linux without RTFA. It uses the FreeRTOS kernel, which isn’t Linux last time I checked.

Also, it specifies LTE in the specs. I think the GSM tethering is a mistype or mistranslation; I don’t see why they wouldn’t allow it to tether the LTE data.
> The whole point of HIT is that you get all of the cardiovascular benefits of endurance sports without the repetitive stress injuries.
And the current evidence is that your maximum exertion is what matters, not time spent exercising.

This cannot be true, it contradicts literally all the best training knowledge for distance runners. NCAA cross country coaches and professional distance coaches have their runners doing high mileage easy days and intervals on hard days, and as someone who has experienced this training first hand, you absolutely cannot do the hard days at a proper intensity if you haven’t built up your aerobic capacity through a LOT of easy to medium effort long runs. If they could get all the cardiovascular benefits from HIT, they would only be doing that. The teams that win college championships and the pro teams sending athletes to the Olympics are the ones with the fittest runners, the fittest runners are the ones with the best training. They are doing the majority of their mileage in long easy efforts.

Anecdotally, myself and many teammates I’ve known have seen our biggest jumps in performance come from increasing weekly mileage (more easy miles) and while keeping the volume of hard efforts the same. Time spent exercising matters very much.
Americans usually (I think) pay sales tax, unless they are in one of the very few places that doesn't have them. A VAT is just a version of a sales tax that is harder to evade.
Moodmap – ADHD and ASD Mood Journal
Hi everyone!

I built https://moodmap.app/ originally around the issues I had to work through when managing my ASD and ADHD. There's still a lot of work to do, I think it's pretty neat so far though.

In terms of how I want to manage privacy, which I think is ridiculous important in building a tool like this, I am trying to implement SOLID (https://inrupt.com/solid) as a way to make sure any data that is used is completely under the control of the people who need the tool. Fuck surveillance.

I am using a variety of different ML methods, and as the product evolves I expect those methods to evolve with it. I am hyper focused on solving the big problems that I, and those like me, have to deal with when testing medication and managing mental health with ADHD and ASD.

Love to answer any questions and appreciate any feedback~! !

Mike
I think what you're referring to is conscientiousness, the ability to stick to a task to completion regardless of how exciting it is.

So you can get people with higher intelligence and low conscientiousness being overtaken by less smart people high in conscientiousness who actually finish the task.

My understanding is that with a higher IQ you finish a task quicker . So smarter people tend to get to success quicker but doesn't mean that lower IQ folk are denied successes if both groups have similar levels of conscientiousness.

IQ is not the strongest predictor of success.
I'd love a solarpunk MUD installed under a solar powered rpi, but I am no
English native. On that MUD you would fight oil corporations and mafias
with solar technology such as solar powered graphene computers and weapons,
along with high-tech cannons converting solar radiation energy into a behemoth ray.
this doesn't appear to be a ransomware attack, just plain old blackmail. Insecure backups would actually make it worse...
Not even just at entry level. Gas lighting and bullying at this company are nuts, people constantly having breakdowns and having to go on stress leave, looking forward to more updates of and when this guy stops drinking the cool aid.
> The people who were in charge of securing the records and left the creds as root:root are not victims.

We have to stop designing systems where if one administrative task is mistakenly skipped, the result is catastrophic. Imagine if when you tried to start your car that if you didn't have the brake fully pressed that your car blew up. Would you say "Oh, wow, how irresponsible it is to not fully press the brake"? No, you'd blame the manufacturer for building an exploding car.

Systems should not start if strong admin credentials are not the first thing that are set up.
youtube-dl 'just works' on almost every video streaming site I've tested it on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terro...
...and don’t forget making it web-accessible!
The author's argument under the heading, "IQ selection vs random selection" could use some more work. Presently, it supports Taleb's argument presented under the heading, "Correlation only for low IQ."

The example shows that an employer gains a significant improvement (450%) in avoiding candidates two sigma below the mean, with only a minor improvement (16%) in obtaining candidates above the mean. A better example (if it exists) would show a very strong improvement in finding candidates at least one sigma above the mean.
> 1. Blocking Iranian IPs, as opposed to accounts, is almost certainly over-compliance. Note that the vast majority of websites do not do this. Even big ones, such as Gmail, do not do this.

I can tell you for certain that at least AWS and Atlassian do that.

I learned that while surfing from an IP address which was mistakenly associated with being located in Iran. I only discovered that, because said websites weren't available. As I got that fixed quite fast afterwards I haven't done more browsing, that's why I can only name these two companies, but I'm pretty sure there are much more big companies doing such blocking based on IP address geolocation.
I routinely use modern X applications running on a remote (25 miles) machine, all day long as part of my job.

It works flawlessly if you have a reasonable amount of bandwidth and reasonable latency.

Sure, it doesn’t work over dial-up.
And now you can run QuickJS in JSLinux. Yo dawg...
in the northeast usa (boston, nyc, ohio), staying a couple hours is fine in most coffee shops. and lots of people are interested in open ended discussions. but we're also wary of getting drawn into something toxic, so you need to be delicate when you say hello - conveying openness without forcing the conversation

there was a brief golden age before laptop batteries hit the 10-hour mark when power outlets forced people to collaborate a bit and those conversations "just happened" - it just felt polite to ask people what they were working on

it's harder today, but if you're respectful and warm, they still happen. i had positive experiences in paris (and a french coffee shop in mexico) as well
I ordered ODroidGO about a year ago. Back then the worst part of the handheld was the screen. It was a cheap TFT screen with very poor viewing angles. The console is also not very comfortable, my (adult) hands start to hurt after about 1h of playing. In the end, as too many gadgets before, ODroidGo is gathering dust in one of the forgotten boxes in my home...

The most difficult part, during the assembly process, was connecting the "ribbon" from the main board to the screen. Be careful as it is way too easy to lock the ribbon than to unlock it from the socket.

Not all games are working, but I managed to run both Mario and Wario (GBC) on it. Some games are not working, some you can play but the save feature is not working. The battery life is impressive, comparing to my smartphone.
You discussed a lot but brought nothing to discuss, not even what you mean by attitude. That's a clear lack of attitude, or "proactivity". But not always been proactive is good, because you can do a lot of things the wrong way. So it definitely is a great asset combined with competence.
I'd not heard of those -- thanks!
I don’t quite understand your summary. You say “GitLab should grow a pair”, but also that any infrastructure using Google Cloud will block Iranian IPs, so many companies will end up unusable from Iranian IPs regardless of their own opinions?
Just started Walkaway a few days ago.

Agreed, would love to hear about a bookclub if someone were to do it.
not sure I would leave the keys in my unlocked car, but when I lived in a city with a lot more petty crime many people left their doors unlocked and some spare change in the cup holder. Everyday it was gone but no other damage vs. smashed windows for no gain. It pissed me off but others saw it as equivalent to pay for parking
That's what distros do. That's what they are - a collection of vetted software packages tweaked to work together.
I actually don't think they should rename. The only party who can reasonably have a problem with the name is YouTube, who have been well aware of it for a very long time.

The name is good, there's a lot of really legal use cases -- downloading properly licensed videos for offline usage, archiving your own creations, etc.

The fundamental problem was that in the README and elsewhere, there were examples of ripping copyrighted content.

It would've been better to use examples of libre/public domain content, but I'm not sure how they can un-sail that ship.

The real solution is that we use the decentralized version control system as intended, and make this impossible to DMCA-away.
It could indeed be a security issue. A few options:

- Make a PR to a project that changes e.g. one of the dependencies to typosquatted alternatives. Disguise the commit message as something trivial. Post it to HN with a GH link to the upstream project's repo at your commit.

- Make a PR to a project that adds malicious code, suggest a change to a distro package's source repo to use your commit. Unless the maintainers know about this GitHub behavior, that'll look much more trivial than it actually is.
The poster doesn't mention this but there is an insistence at shopify from c level that there is no politics at shopify. But then this guy gets told by his gm that the key to the company is politics, which is definitely true there. Weird place.
Coronaviruses cause the common cold, which is more common when it's cold.
I don't think we'll ever get into that situation. Mir is gone now and Arcan is a pretty niche solution, so I think that Wayland will continue replacing X.org unabated now.
So can we revive any of these also abandoned alternatives?

* Tiny X (Still Xorg just barebones and faster) - https://github.com/tinycorelinux/tinyx

* Xynth - https://github.com/alperakcan/xynth

* Nano-X / MicroWindows - http://microwindows.org/ (Seems still active? Just needs some modern GUI ports.)

* DirectFB (Needs modern driver support) - https://web.archive.org/web/20120118003245/http://www.direct...

* SVGALib (Needs modern driver support) - https://github.com/akosela/svgalib

* FBUI (Needs porting to modern kernels) - https://github.com/8l/fbui
It would be more accurate to say "Performance on an IQ test" as opposed to "IQ". That's the main criticism I have of IQ.

So if you do well on tests, then you probably would do well on the IQ test as well as tests in school, which means you are more likely to have attained a higher level of educations, which is associated with a higher income.

To actually prove to me that IQ is a thing, you would have to show me that what you call IQ is innate. Meaning that you can't do better on an IQ test if you study, which I don't believe is true. All written tests I have ever taken have tricks or patterns that you can exploit after some practice. And then you'd have to show me that IQ is a better predictor than some other rote test to tease out general test taking ability or ability to sit still.

A lot of people just work off the basis that IQ is a thing that we can measure, which I don't believe to be true, hence the pseudoscientific swindle
IBAN numbers are not secret and are on payment cards and websites already. If that causes problems the system or vulnerability should be fixed, not try to twist in turns to keep those numbers secret.
Wouldn't it be better to simply invest that money in better security to begin with? An insurance scheme looks to me like a great incentive to hack insured servers, in order to cause insurance payouts on top of blackmail.

Anyway, just want to say that there's a special place in Hell reserved for people who do that kind of thing, and to minors, even...
While the Poor Get Sick, Bill Gates Just Gets Richer
again you're making the mistake that nobody would even try to break these laws as these are very hard to enforce.

they probably have loopholes the size of trucks where they could hire outside sources to do such things but hide their sources.
No insurance company is going to take that deal because infosec audits are not perfect and they can not audit every possible software release.

So your plan means governments will have to provide this insurance (there is precendent for governments providing insurance; eg Medicare in the US)

That means taxpayers will fund the payouts.

This is not a good solution. I don’t have an alternative, but I dont like this one.
no! ha, I meant the old /etc/shadow trick of adding * lock * or * LCK * helps.
Yes. Managers want "no code" because devs are expensive and make lots of mistakes. They believe some software will fix that, not realizing that all software is devs, all the way down.
You might want to delete the "and the citizenry did nothing wrong" ending to your otherwise reasonable post. I don't think you meant it the way it sounds.
is bibliotik db bigger than libgen? any tips how to get invited?
It should start with a reasonable default and then give the user the choice of different scaling factors like macOS does: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/380570311227342859/...
I don't think it would be feasible to start at 6 figures--I think we would have to start lower and raise over time. If you start at 6 figures, a single breach can land a company well into the billions, and insurance premiums would be way too high for corporations to stay in business. I know there are a lot of "well good, fuck the corporations" sentiments out there, but these are corporations which can be economically viable and securely protect consumer data if they are given some time to improve their security. We absolutely should walk the price up over time, but let's give people some time to develop and implement a security competency within their organization (not to mention growing a security auditing competency sufficient to handle the scale of all businesses) before imposing ruinous insurance premiums.
Yeah, filters are great. Writing filters is easy: Pandoc basically converts the input document into a universal AST (json), and a filter is just any program that takes this json as an input and outputs a modified json AST.

I wrote a filter that automatically converts URL citstions in markdown to "real" citations in any style you want - very useful for writing papers without fighting with bibtex and managing bibliographies manually: https://github.com/phiresky/pandoc-url2cite
Yet whether the authors walk freely is entirely a legal issue, not a moral one.
Yes, good. Change your systems or get rid of it. Make it uninsurable and replace it with something of actual value.
I work on architectural design teams around the US and wanted to let everyone know that the ADA Act compels us to think deeply and equitably about accessibility in our buildings, practically as much as fire design. Often renovations are deemed too costly or scaled back in scope when considering what is required for accessibility.

A newer requirement for ADA is in live music venues where patrons are expected to be standing during the performance. Accommodations are to be made for wheel chairs to be elevated and able to see the performance in amongst the crowd, not relegated to a corner of the room.