skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Fifth Season, the entire planet is a mustache-twirling villain, sort of.

(Sure, it's revenging past wrongs... on humans, some of whom are far, far descendants of the original perpetrators, and none of whom have any idea what they're even been punished for.)
If I'm not mistaken, the RK3399 Chromebooks are all 3+ years old. Are there any recent models that are equally open? Giving Chromebooks to my nieces and nephew seems like it would be a good way to cover the mainstream content consumption use cases that they and their parents want, while giving them something more open than the Amazon Fire tablets that I'm embarrassed to admit I gave them a few years ago. But I'd like to buy a model that's near the beginning of its support lifecycle.
Big Oil warns of 'deep depression' under Biden energy plan
The illegal act here would be re-uploading the video. I'm asking how downloading the video by itself increases the amount of money I have.
Sorry, typo. 140 tons.
Punk music predates thatcher and was born in NYC (even if political punk did originate the year thatcher took over the Conservative party.) It was inherently a rejection of the artists of the British Invasion (in the case of the Ramones, the first true punk band) and how corporate music in America had become. Also proto-punk goes back to the 60s.
Pretty ironic characterization from a country whose national passtime is actually bombing/killing brown & yellow people by the millions.
Seems that more leverage and more debt is in fact the answer to everything. BRB, need to take a second mortgage to buy more equity index funds. I will then use the fund shares as a collateral for another loan, and you get the idea. I wonder why hasn't anyone thought of it yet! Time for a YC application!
> they've put a lot of pressure to change the default license for new projects from (A/L)GPL to ASL

How have they put pressure?

I've written some libraries personally and licensed them under the Apache or BSD license because I want it to be helpful for anyone who needs it. I'm really not concerned if they make money off it or not or if they contribute back.

If you're talking larger projects, a lot of the big, recent ones have come out of companies--projects like MongoDB, Cassandra, React, Kubernetes. Some like Hadoop were inspired by work at big companies.
Both are excellent, but in different ways.

I'd say that the barrier to entry for both is the same, though: Vinge's writing, while rich, is also quite hard for reading, in a sense that you have to go slow to parse things correctly. FOTD has a bit more action in it that speeds things up sometimes, so it's an easier read. But if you could read and enjoy it, you shouldn't have troubles with DITS.
https://archive.is/0bEcU
This is just bad medical care, assuming the description is correct. Even if they had been given the pain meds, you move the shoulder slightly to see how well the pain medicine is working, if it’s not working well enough (= patient shows evidence of significant pain), you give more pain medicine. But it’s hard to get to some level of analgesia that can control the peak of the pain that will happen during joint reduction, but also not cause respiratory depression. That’s why personally I give sedation to my patients instead of just pain medication, that’s what I’d want if I had to have the procedure done.

But if in fact it was the orthopedic team that did the reduction, they are not trained to give the same level of sedation as emergency specialists or anesthesiologists. So there is a temptation on their part to give some dose, not titrate to effect, and then just “get on with it” to save time. What they should do, and do in fact do in my institution, is have the emergency medicine doc give sedation, and then they can happily do their procedure without torturing the patient... Or the emergency docs do the sedation and reduction, which we tend to do for patients who don’t require other inpatient orthopedic care.

[Edit:
Also, Bellevue is a residency training site, so this was probably a first or second year resident (they are the ones that most need the experience of shoulder reductions)
https://med.nyu.edu/departments-institutes/orthopedic-surger.... But legally, the attending (supervising) physician is responsible for the care given by all the residents they are nominally supervising]
Steam will run it on Linux using Proton. Just enable it in settings.
Science fiction was born as a critique of social constructs. The sci-fi patina was less of a Branded Genre Thing and more of a wink-and-nod to make the critique acceptable in the public sphere.

Solarpunk, like all the other ___punks, is just another Thing that people like. This is why you sometimes hear authors dump on "genre fiction," because making aesthetics the guiding star of a story doesn't usually make for compelling fiction.

As far as social commentary, why do we have to name everything - what if instead of a "Solarpunk Future" it was just...the future? Branding something has an interesting effect: it turns it into a fandom. Branding draws borders. It turns ideas into a tribe, and makes in-groups and out-groups of us all. Now instead of discussing specific solutions for our very real, very big problems, we descend into discussions of what is or is not solarpunk, or cyberpunk, or the relative merits of each.

Let's stop branding everything and just talk about real problems and real solutions, not which literary or artistic aesthetic is the best "path forward."
"Can We Build Trustable Hardware?" https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5706
I'm not sure if I love or hate the prospect of future archaeologists finding this and trying to figure out what role it played in our society. "We're referring to it as the 'ball court', though it could also have had ceremonial or political significance. Notice the symmetry and the way it is aligned to true north."

(I know the dirt walls won't last a decade, don't ruin my fun.)
I have one of the Sonicare toothbrushes. They're pricey but quite good. My dentist even asked me what toothbrush I had because my teeth were so clean. You can charge it wirelessly through a shaver socket, or with USB in the case.

I can only get replacement heads on Amazon though, I've never seen them in any UK shop.
If curious see also

a large thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17855104
Flying cars are also an example of utopianism gone wrong; it turns out it's impractical for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to:

- energy; it's going to take a lot more energy to get something and keep it in the air, than it does to just fight rolling resistance

- safety; cars are dangerous enough, adding gravity as a potential additional vector in an accident sounds like even more of a disaster waiting to happen. transportation is already one of the biggest energy consuming sectors; in an age where we are trying to reduce fossil fuel use does throwing in more energy requirements make sense?

- noise and visual pollution; people are going to be upset when their nice upper story bedroom now gets inundated with traffic
Does that actually matter? To me dependency hell is when you have lots of conflicts where some software requires one version but some other software needs a different version. So you can't upgrade one version without breaking something else.

With pandoc and all the haskell dependencies, the only downside is the length of the list of packages when you upgrade. If it was all bundled up as haskell-all I doubt I'd even notice.
I have a bold vision for the future.

Using consensus algorithms, humans are able to build a bucket of knowledge verified by web-of-trust, free of interest corruption, and make society-wide decisions in matters of months and weeks rather than decades and years.

We can go from "scientists discover X" to "scientists I personally know and trust have reviewed the paper and I now accept it as truth" to trustworthy consensus on the matter to action items with just consensus algorithms and humans voting on blocks of text.
You can start by reading at least the wiki articles about the subjects in question instead of just US agitprop, for example what led to the crackdown. The Uighurs are seriously lucky this wasn't Murica they ran afoul of.

It really is hilarious how easy the ostensibly "educated" tech class is manipulate same as the fox news audience.
3 Ways to Implement the Singleton Pattern in TypeScript with Node.js
This is a crime where I really think that capital punishment is justified. In addition to preying on highly vulnerable people, stuff like this discourages people from getting help.
Mid-market insurance has a sort-of-a use case, but I've not quite been able to make it work (yet).

If you are a large-ish business, you will talk to your insurance broker to insure it. This will probably turn into a multi-thousand page document describing all the assets that you want protected, and what events you want them protected from.

The broker then does "marketing" which means nothing like what marketing means in any other context. It means that they are going out to the underwriters and asking them what parts of that whole package they are willing to underwrite, and at what costs.

The broker then cherrypicks whatever is best for their client by piecing together underwritings for different parts. ("Allianz is underwriting the buildings for the first $800m, Lloyds will do everything beyond that up to $3B, SwissRe had the best weather insurance...") The client wants to know that the broker genuinely did approach as many underwriters as they claim and validate that the underwriters did reply with the quotes that the broker claims were replied. (This is how the client makes sure that the broker and the underwriter aren't colluding.)

The end result is that across the industry there is a many-to-many broadcast and scatter and gather that needs to happen and be notarised. (The broker sending stuff out, the underwriters responding.)

At the moment, there is usually a third party hub through which these documents flow who essentially notarises the communications, but also has no incentive to allow collusion between parties. So everyone trusts that third party.

The only problem is, there is no incentive for the third party to be efficient, and so in every country / state / market where this kind of system operates, the third party inevitably takes a large cut of fees and provides quite remarkably terrible service. (Case in point: "of course it's secure, it's on port 443". "Umm, you are actually just making an HTTP connection on port 443, there's no SSL happening on this connection, as can be seen in this packet trace.")

The brokers hate how it has played out, the underwriters hate it even more. With a bit of handwaving, this is something that can be solved by a blockchain. Although the unencrypted documents themselves probably can't be on the blockchain, the checksums can be, and maybe there's a scheme where the encrypted versions of documents can be there too.

It's one of those situations that blockchains are good for: distributed system, no trust required, the users of the blockchain can afford the appropriate technical skills to keep the system running, can't be replaced by an independent 3rd party, etc. etc.

But it's not likely to happen.

The main problem is that there's no monetary incentive for any individual party to build the system. It's a tragedy of the commons problem: once it is in place, it will get used, but no-one wants to pay for it because if someone else can pay for it first then that's a better arrangement.

So yeah, five years of discussions and learning about the market, and everyone wants it to exist but no-one wants to pay.
I'll assure you I am trying to do my best on that front.

I spend a lot of time listening to people who are being screwed. Trying to move the needle on polarization and climate change. On one hand, those are important movements. On the other hand, this is fixing problems we've brought upon ourselves -- it's maintenance. Plugging leaks in a moving ship.

It's probably more important/responsible to plug leaks than to day-dream about Mars, but part of me is wondering at what point we'll ever be done plugging leaks and have the time for big, groundbreaking innovations. Certainly the last few years have felt more like we've been running in neutral (both in terms of society/tech) than anything else.
So is this the heir "buying the dip"? Staging the death at the moment in which the inheritance is likely to have the lowest market value?
You're actually in a better position than you think.

Check out the history of Brown Moses, and Bellingcat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Higgins

"Higgins' analyses of Syrian weapons, which began as a hobby out of his home in his spare time, are frequently cited by the press and human rights groups and have led to parliamentary discussion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellingcat

"Bellingcat (stylized as bell¿ngcat) is an investigative journalism website that specializes in fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT). It was founded by British journalist and former blogger Eliot Higgins in July 2014. Bellingcat publishes the findings of both professional and citizen journalist investigations into war zones, human rights abuses, and the criminal underworld. The site's contributors also publish guides to their techniques, as well as case studies."

Check out some of the work being done peering into North Korea as well for ideas e.g.:
"North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Center: Flood Damage Repairs Underway"
https://www.38north.org/2020/10/yongbyon201022/

There is probably a lot to be learned from constructing various elements of an open-source intelligence pipeline that uses software to aggregate information from dissidents, analyze satellite imagery to identify concentration camps, provide encryption, translation, etc.
Much more detailed article. Thanks!
It's only stupid if it doesn't work!
There is absolutely no problem with liquidating a $7B slice of equity in a matter of weeks (probably even days). People don't appreciate just how enormous the capital markets are.
Another board with interesting features that never caught up was the WiFiMCU, based on the EMW3165 SOC module by Mxchip.

http://www.wifimcu.com/
(Lua programmable just as the NodeMCU)

https://en.mxchip.com/modulelist
Yes it is incredibly important to qualify what exactly moderation is. Which is why these studies are rather important.
You're totally right, I basically just said put a CA on a blockchain. There is a lot of handwaving in my short HN comment as I wasn't planning on writing out my full RFC here :). Here is some general thoughts I had on the matter -

Placing things on a blockchain is a paradigm shift. Yes you can 'just' do it on a blockchain, but you're likely not taking full advantage of the capabilities you receive. Looking at the TLS signing example - why do we actually need to sign the TLS cert?

The purpose of a CA signing a cert today is so that the CA can say a cert is what the CA saw and has not been modified. Well if we put it on a blockchain we know it cant be modified (as this is an inherent property of a blockchain). Instead of asking 'can I verify this cert with the CA pub key' I ask 'can I find this cert on the blockchain'.
Does anybody really care about what happens to "Big Oil"?
I think that its a matter of degree. All sources are biased but not to nearly the same degree.
Great thing about Pandoc - it has a clear, descriptive and yet unique name that aptly describes what it does.

That aside, I find the markdown + additional features (e.g. latex math, inline code eval), mainly as implemented in Rstudio and Rmarkdown, to be the sweet spot of power and convenience of typing and legibility in plain text form. Thanks pandoc!
The idea that who a scientist is and what they stand for has any bearing on their work is a an affront to science itself. Let the papers speak for themselves; the authors need not even be mentioned.
> I spend much time thinking about solutions to existing problems – the incentive mismatch in mass media that is causing accelerating polarization, how to remedy the effects of climate change, and so on. But these are all fixes, reactions. It feels like I’m in the belly of the ship, frenetically plugging leaky holes, never even having the space of mind to think where the ship should go. Ostensibly, those decisions are made on the bridge of the ship, which, in October 2020, seems to be populated by well-intentioned individuals, but hamstrung in their ability to make good collective decisions.

Here's a bold vision for a better world: maybe the ship should set as its target the goal of feeding, sheltering, and clothing the significant numbers of human beings on the planet that aren't doing so well in those categories.

> Recent years have shown me how difficult it is to make any meaningful public decision. Every debate is endlessly contentious, every subject has meaningful nuance, and every decision has exceedingly hard-to-predict second-order-effects. The world is much more complex than it was even twenty years ago, and the effects are paralyzing. This is clearly felt among policymakers, but I feel it even as a technologist: I understand that virtually all tools can be used – and more often than not, will be used – for both good and evil, and how hard the results are to predict over years in our dynamic world. I learned that technology can rarely solve fundamental social problems, and I’ve seen the public perception rollercoaster of “this technology/person/policy is good” to “this is evil” more times than I can count.

Maybe the issue isn't so much the difficulty of the physical problem itself, but the tool we use to make decisions: representative democracy.

The following quote is often attributed to Winston Churchill:

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."

But it seems what he really said was:

"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

As far as I can tell, the only people who are significantly happy with the results of the ones we have now are those who are within the system, and the top <x>%. Maybe it's about time we should try a new form, one that hasn't been tried before. Is it not possible to come up with something new, something that might show the potential to actually deliver an increase in aggregate global happiness?
50% Inheritance tax would do wonders in the US. Honestly if you want the best people at the top then no one should start with a billion dollar advantage.
It’s likely because he’s been assumed dead for years and most major publications have covered his story expecting him to die any day now (if he wasn’t already) over the last couple years.
Very thoughtful analysis. But, perhaps the purpose was not to solve, perhaps it was to self-distinguish.
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Keep in mind you live in country whose national passtime is bombing/killing brown & yellow people by the millions, then comically grandstanding about human rights.

Or maybe by your choice of words those people don't matter because they're technically not citizens.
So here's an example on Wikipedia [1]

https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/6c66...

Does the sum include both terms or only the first? I happen to know what Covariance is, but if I didn't I wouldn't be clear. I'd probably guess right, but scroll down a bit to this:

https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/e634...

Is the +2 a multiplier on the second term or additive within the first sum? I try and read it from the spacing but I honestly can't tell.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariance
The Force Engine
I've kinda been wanting to post this as a general Ask HN for a while but it would probably (understandably) be received as absolutely douchey...

So I'll pretentiously ask it here:

Has the entirety of the Facebook Oculus shit changed anybody's view of Carmack? Without saying much more... it definitely has mine.
Ok Sony, this is your chance to save us
I would love to hear the opinion (anonymously if needed) from some Oculus people about their opinion on this. It feels like Oculus is poised to make VR have its breakout moment, only to have some unrelated Facebook group come in and sabotage everything.
Having tried both, I can say GitLab pages is far superior to GitHub pages. For example:

1. GitLab lets you have pages generated from private repo(free) and have fine-grained control over who can view them.

2. The CNAME file is a mess. Every time you generate your site with Hugo etc., you need to copy-paste it and GitLab has a much nice interface to manage domains and subdomains with a lot more control and options.

3. You can have a single repo for your actual site and pages are published from the CI pipeline and let you use any method to generate HTML. On GitHub, you need to maintain two repos if you are using static site generators. It's just not clean.
Binwalk Pro @ $10/month when I used it was very reasonable price wise. Their new product is much more expensive though ($1000/scan for hobbyists)
It's all fun and games until a creeper blows up production
You've engaged in rhetoric, but you know nothing.

Mao started war against the US around 40 years ago - "Hide our strength, bide our time."

Just like Hitler, Xi will not stop until he is stopped.

Since you don't know anything, I'll provide some clues:

- the embargo on chips to Huawei is fatal for both Huawei and many of the CCP's efforts.

- if Trump is re-elected, he will delist Chinese companies from US exchanges, destroying China financially as a superpower. Nobody wants yuan from a crippled regime.

- if Trump is re-elected, he will bill China $6 million to $10 million per corona death. That's $1 trillion to $2 trillion to date.

In case you don't understand the genocide against religious minorities in China, the goal is to wear them down over one to two generations. Birth rates are aleady down 90% in some communities, so it's working as planned.

Women have a short reproductive window, so shuffling them in and out of prisons for a few years or forcing IUDs on them is all it takes to destroy the nuclear family.
I saw Cory Doctorow speak at Clemson Uni in South Carolina of all places sometime around 2008. The room was only partially filled. I was already into computer security, but I was really impressed by him and have followed and read his work ever since. He had a big influence on me. I went on to see him at security conferences on the west coast many years later.
And a great fiddle player!
Solid state doesn’t mean “tiny”, nor “packaged in silicon”. A thing with moving parts, no matter how small or hidden, is not solid state.
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> How can stuff like this be happening in 2020?

Yeah, it's pretty shocking that americans are actively bombing brown people by the millions, while simultaneously pretending to be the good guys grandstanding about "human rights" or whatever.
I’ll also add to my previous comment and say that the reason you’re taught slow, diaphragmatic breathing is because your lungs impact your buoyancy in the water.

Breath in, you begin to ascend. Breath out, you will sink.

Your goal is to find a breathing pattern that allows you to stay neutrally buoyant so you’re not fighting the rise and fall by swimming against it.

Part of the instructor exam, at least when I took it, was a pool session where they tested your ability to achieve and maintain neutral buoyancy.

You would sit cross legged holding your fins for balance like a meditator half way between the bottom and the surface and you could not rise or fall more than a foot.

It’s something a lot of divers also practice when doing safety stops. Even if there’s an ascent line, many will simply stop at 15 feet, and watch their dive computer trying to maintain exactly at 15 feet using only their breathing.

The reason for that is often there will be no ascent line or you may have to do decompression stops in open water with no physical point of reference.