skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What helped me the most with sticking to SR and Anki over 6 months now was the tip by Michael Nielsen [0] to not use any plugins and to not personalize anything:

> I know many people who try Anki out, and then go down a rabbit hole learning as many features as possible so they can use it “efficiently”. Usually, they're chasing 1% improvements. Often, those people ultimately give up Anki as “too difficult”, which is often a synonym for “I got nervous I wasn't using it perfectly”. This is a pity. As discussed earlier, Anki offers something like a 20-fold improvement over (say) ordinary flashcards. And so they're giving up a 2,000% improvement because they were worried they were missing a few final 5%, 1% and (in many cases) 0.1% improvements. This kind of rabbit hole seems to be especially attractive to programmers.

[0] http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
I was so certain that Twitter handles his account with special attention and some bells and whistles like IP white-/blacklisting etc. It seems like neither Twitter cared about his account's safety nor the secret service. What ... the ... fuck.
It looks like it is just loading the pages in an iframe (through a proxy). It would be more useful if it at least set the user agent, should be easy enough to add.

I built a tool that does something similar, here is your site: https://app.pagewatch.dev/62189ac2393594d963561b5426c1215055...
I notice I'm getting downvoted for this post. Perhaps I was too verbose or inarticulate, so I'll try to be clearer:

* Are mask and shelter in place laws worthwhile to avoid two to three million additional deaths due to COVID?
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That would still require someone to tell the BBC. I doubt that the BBC routinely enumerates hidden services and then looks to enumerate all potential chat rooms and randomly stumbled upon a negotiation.
Back in the dim and distant days of offices, we used tea breaks for similar, albeit internal, breaks.
Public schools have been abandoned by everyone but the very poorest - the facilities are terrible even by 3rd world standards, and worse, the public schools push the eduction in the native languages, which is (very sadly) next to worthless economically in India.

The above disempowerment of India's natives, their culture and languages, is the direct result of the Indian state continuing colonial policies of very unfairly advantaging the Anglicized elites, educationally, socially, politically and thus economically.

Now that the state has completely failed in its duties, yet again, it has passed a new RTE act, in which it further burdens private schools, targeting esp. those run by Hindus. The Indian state in all its 'secular' glory, decided also to favor the Christian missionary schools, the very ones that were instrumental in destroying the country (and China), by sparing them of the same burdens.

https://swarajyamag.com/magazine/the-evidence-is-compelling-...

https://swarajyamag.com/politics/rte-benefits-minority-schoo...

The Indian political estd. and the state is disgusting. Quite frankly, the British for all their faults, atleast knew how to keep a public-schooling and university system running. The 'Brown Babus' are little more than self-conceited idiots wearing fancy suits.
Not to mention this formerly secret mass surveillance program has been making its way through the courts and the Ninth Circuit court of appeals found it to have been illegal, that the NSA has been lying about it for years, and that they were additionally lying when they said it helped convict several terrorist supporters.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nsa-spying/u-s-court-...

> Evidence that the NSA was secretly building a vast database of U.S. telephone records - the who, the how, the when, and the where of millions of mobile calls - was the first and arguably the most explosive of the Snowden revelations published by the Guardian newspaper in 2013.

> Up until that moment, top intelligence officials publicly insisted the NSA never knowingly collected information on Americans at all. After the program’s exposure, U.S. officials fell back on the argument that the spying had played a crucial role in fighting domestic extremism, citing in particular the case of four San Diego residents who were accused of providing aid to religious fanatics in Somalia.

> U.S. officials insisted that the four - Basaaly Saeed Moalin, Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud, Mohamed Mohamud, and Issa Doreh - were convicted in 2013 thanks to the NSA’s telephone record spying, but the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that those claims were “inconsistent with the contents of the classified record.”
Not everyone has this flexibility but if I had a job that made me feel like I needed to do this, I’d hand in my badge that day.
From taxation purposes robots are not anything special. Robots and all other automation are capital expenditures (CAPEX). The correct level of thinking is capital share and wage share of work.

Taxing corporate income or value added tax taxes robots. If you want to support labour, add small UBI paid with from those taxes.
The OS level is purely so that multiple programs can talk to the same hardware at the same time. For example, your Firefox Browser may talk to the GPU to render something (H.264 video), or to send audio over the HDMI cable. But at the same time, you're playing some video game (Civ-6), and the OS needs to prioritize which gets access.

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When it comes to I/O, there are two strategies: memory mapped I/O, and I/O ports (the "in" and "out" assembly instructions). I'm pretty sure most modern hardware is memory-mapped type, where you just read to (or write from) certain "memory" locations.

Its not really memory (it doesn't go to RAM), but instead to some other component, like PCIe root complex for further processing.

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Something to note: the whole OSI level exists on the motherboard. You've got physical connections, you've got link-layer connections, and even a network similar to TCP/IP. In fact, there are multiple networks: SATA networks, PCIe networks, and USB Networks, that have their own addressing rules and physical protocols. Different USB Ports, different PCIe addresses, and more!

From the perspective of the CPU, I expect any "GPU Command" to simply be a link-level call to the PCIe root complex. You send data to the PCIe controller, which then forwards the data to the GPU. Or NVMe RAM, or your network card.

To fully make a GPU Command get to the GPU, you need to know the PCIe address, and route the message appropriately (there could be PCIe switches in between). Finally, there's a protocol, similar to application-level code (HTTP) where applications talk to the GPU.

Given the similarities between DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal, and CUDA/HIP, I expect that GPUs all have roughly the same "application" interface. Shaders are compiled into machine code. Machine code is loaded into GPU VRAM. Command Queues issue remote-function calls with an event-driven dependency graph that the GPU selects kernels from. Etc. etc.
From the link: "Focus on Vulkan graphics shaders first, then after Vulkan compute shaders"
This was definitely a bit weird for what seems like a question that was probably supposed to filter out malicious responses? I happen to still use the default binding but I could easily see myself forgetting if I happened to be an evil-mode person.
> If we compare average emission per mileage per car over the whole lifetime EVs are just as bad as any other car.

You had me up to this point. EVs are certainly responsible for some emissions.

But ICE cars share all the "Emissions" you mention (Tire rubber dust/oil/windshield wiper fluid etc.), plus the massive emissions of just burning gasoline increasingly inefficiently over the lifespan of the vehicle. Plus wasteful oil leaks and just oil burning over the life of the vehicle; the environmental cost of shipping oil and gasoline all over the planet; the environmental damage from massive oil spills and small gasoline spills from everyday fill-ups; transmission fluids, the list goes on and on.

EVs aren't perfect in terms of the environment, they aren't even great, but they are a metric ton better than ICE vehicles.
Bring his kids in. He'll talk. Downvotes for unpleasant reality.
What did its user count get to?
This article makes the point that law enforcement agencies take the stance that paying a ransom further encourages this behavior from hackers.

In the case of state or public institutions like this, would it be advisable for legislatures to make it illegal for state entities to pay ransoms, and then very publicly announce these laws? I.e. can/should we make credible, public commitments in advance to not pay ransom, or to remove that choice from the organization-level administrators? Would this make these organizations less appealing targets?

"Sorry, we are not authorized to pay you any ransom due to SB-XYZ. If you can get several hundred thousand signatures from CA residents to petition for a referendum to overturn this law, we may be able to pay you a ransom after ... well not the upcoming election but maybe the one after that."
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The president can't pre-pardon him though. He'd have to go to trial first.
> Both put lives at risk for what has apparently achieved zero gain.

So, future impact affects your assessment of the righteousness of an act of conscience? How does that work?
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At this point I'd be surprised if trump's twitter didn't have an implicit 2FA of calling someone on staff for suspicious logins.

Is there good information as to why the July 15 account takeover attack didn't include trump's twitter?
I reached 100% income replacement for myself in my late 20s. Then I got married and had kids. My spouse and I reached 100% income replacement in our mid-30s.

Glad to see a fellow practitioner. Best wishes on your journey!
Underwater hockey, played in most largish cities, is a decent way to practice breath holding without the boredom.
Is it still popular opinion that he seeked asylum in Russia?

I feel most people don’t realize that he was on transit to Ecuador when the Russians told him passport had apparently been expired. He never planned to stay there.
It does not play any significant role. That you can hold breath after exhaling is obvious and yogis probably talked about it. Doesn't change the fact though that Pranayama is all about holding breath after inhaling. That is basically the core goal.
It likely is.

I need to start doing more running. I do have ADD but the medications fuck with my heart, which means my life is difficult all the time. Sigh. The meds work so well... it really sucks being unable to use them (including the atypical ones)

I used to go for a run at lunch. Then my co-worker started complaining about how I was leaving my desk to get exercise. I'm still with that company but I hope for not much longer.

i'm so fucking depressed the last few days. i've applied for a lot of different jobs. I have a 'final' interview today with a job that I don't really want, but it's an avenue out of the toxic situation that I'm finding myself in and if I take it, I'll be able to do a couple weeks of vacation time between jobs that I badly need.

I've got so much going wrong right now I'm just feeling beat the fuck up.
Sounds reasonable to me. Embodied energy. One example, it takes a heck of a lot of energy to mine and process all that copper that goes into the motor windings. Another, it takes a heck of a lot of energy to mine and process all that lithium that goes in the batteries. Plus, where is the electricity comming from to charge them? Here in Montana, that generally means coal, burned hundreds of miles away and transported at great loss.
> I really wanted to like OAuth but implementing it is a nightmare!

Not only is the spec itself challenging, it leaves enough ambiguity and rough edges that most providers end up extending it some way that makes it hard to standardize. Most commonly: how to get refresh tokens (`offline_access` scope, `access_type=offline` parameter?), and how/when they expire (as soon as you get a new one? as soon as you've received 10 new ones? on a set schedule?)

And that's not to mention how OAuth gets extended to handle organization-wide access. Anyone that's dealt with GSuite/Workspace Service Accounts or Microsoft Graph Application permissions knows what a pain that is.

This is exactly why I built [Xkit](https://xkit.co), which abstracts away the complexity of dealing with all the different providers and gives you a single API to retrieve access tokens (or API keys) that are always valid. Not everyone should have to be an OAuth expert to build a 3rd party integration.
Funny you should mention this; I posted elsewhere on the thread about my experiences with the topic at hand, but my BMW E46 M3 project was the top viewed project on the mp3car forums for the better part of a decade. I don't have the car anymore, but I still have all the crazy parts in a box somewhere.

I implemented a small frontend in linux; I tried to implement a GUI directly from scratch in SDL+GL so it never really got far. I read yesterday about GM licensing unreal engine to build their in-car UI and thought back to this early work even though it didn't go anywhere at the time. I did have a relatively popular touchscreen-friendly windows app for tuning XM satellite radio using the XM-PCR and later the XM-Direct receivers. It supported AM/FM as well using the "RadioShark," a USB connected AM/FM radio. My software supported buffered playback so you could pause and rewind. On the non-public version, it could automatically encode, tag, and save the songs based on the metadata.
Maybe I've misunderstood, but regulation doesn't mean gov "controls" email or other accounts. Just means these services must be offered unbundled and non-subsidied (eg without gmail scanning your mails for ad targetting), and be portable among providers, etc.
This is a bit of an oversimplification, because I don't actually know the details, but it works roughly like this: GPUs are devices on the PCI Express bus, without an operating system getting in the way everything on the PCI Express bus is organised into something called ECAM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_configuration_space). Each device there specifies memory regions it supports. These memory regions map to a large number of configuration registers and on-device memory the GPU supports. Since GPUs are really complex most of its behaviour is actually not directly controlled but instead predetermined by its firmware (basically an operating system in its own right). Finally GPUs really execute multiple instruction streams with proprietary instruction formats and can independently load data from main memory with their build in DMA engines. These operations are typically kicked off by pointing various registers on the GPU to memory regions in main memory to tell it where to fetch instructions and data from. Everything else happens for the most part as consequences of instructions executing on the GPU.
(playing devil's advocate) you could make the argument that the suspicion that domestic surveillance was at that level was almost as high (if not higher).
Or a shortcut with `firefox --no-remote -ProfileManager` to always launch the profile dialog on bootup just like it is 90s Netscape all over again.
I don't know the order of their stories was or what was said when but the guardian at least did get a 'um nope' style quote up from Twitter.
That's completely false[0], no such condition exists in the Constitution and people (for the most famous, Nixon) have been pardoned without charges, much less trial.

[0] On further reflection, that's probably overstated. While there is no such express condition in the Constitution, and pardons have been issued in such circumstances (including the famous Nixon pardon), none of them have been challenged (such as by a later attempt to prosecute despite the pardon) in a way which caused a court to rule on their effect, and there are cases where the question of the Constitutionality of pre-conviction pardons has been raised, though those cases were resolved on other grounds. So it should probably be acknowledged that the claim that a pardon requires trial and conviction is an active legal theory, though one without positive support in case law, and one which the actual practical use of pardons in the US has not been consistent with to this point.
Probably should've been directed at the mangers/department head (not devs), but not having backups is most definitely not professional.

EDIT: The CIO or whatever the title is makes $460K per year so they should for sure know to have and be responsible for proper backup/restore functionality.
I'd be curious if people here also mentioned HOW their app/SaaS/online tool stays passive.

I've been analyzing successful founder interviews for over 2 years now [1] and noticed for 'passive income' projects, usually they either:

a) Stay on top of Google for a few keywords

b) For mobile apps, they get a good ranking on AppStores

c) Are mentioned in some high-authority website as a resource, and that high-authority page ranks for some main keywords on Google

Word of mouth is rarely mentioned and that confirms various research studies [2] that the WOM effect is negligible if you're small.

[1] https://www.firstpayingusers.com

[2] https://business.linkedin.com/marketing-solutions/b2b-instit...
It's been repriced to be free: https://twitter.com/iSH_app/status/1319315478611853313. It might take a little while before it rolls out.
Note that all of those items are about making it easier to start using FreeBSD.
DOD and United Airlines had a study out last week that backs this up. There was also a report from iata with studies from Airbus, Boeing and Embraer. Flying is almost certainly not as dangerous and people perceive it to be.
By using your conversation metadata, to sell you better ads or sell the data to other advertisers.

>b-b-but it's encrypted!

Doesn't matter. They know who you are, because your account is linked to your FB account (either directly or just by matching your phone number). Then you send them your full contact list when you install the app (have you tried using WhatsApp without the Contacts permission?). Then they can see metadata about who you talk to and how often.

Pulling up those advertising profiles, they can add to your profile: for example, if a good portion of the contacts you talk to daily have "interested in cars"/"republican"/"male 25-29" in their profile, there's a good chance you fall into those categories too.
One factor used to be that constant folding can be problematic. The target platform may have different-precision doubles, or have a different way to represent them (fairly unlikely, nowadays, but back in the time, if you wanted to cross-compile to x87, you needed the ability to compute with its 80-bit doubles.

Another that the compiler may use platform tools (assembler, linker) to build binaries, and those tools they may need a library (say one for writing ELF binaries) that isn’t available. All of them can be ported, but that can be a lot of work for a limited number of users.

Moreover, those users typically have (access to) the target hardware, as they have to be able to test the end result. So, a ‘normal’ compiler may not be optimal, but still be good enough for them.

Because of that, you tend to see more cross-compilers the slower the target hardware.
Thanks for the support! I haven’t thought about mailing lists so far. However, I am posting artworks regularly on social media (@ai_art_supreme on Instagram). Do you think mailing lists would make sense as I am mostly sharing the artworks and not so much the news content?
Given the extent of military intelligence docs stolen, and given that the domestic programs deployed were lawful at the time, whistleblower is a disingenuious title for Mr. Snowden.

Putting aside domestic disclosures, it is difficult to see how the scope of stolen materials merits praise or euphemistic titles. Snowden is a fugitive. As it pertains to the majority of what was stolen, he is not a whistleblower, but a thief.
What's weird about the above comment is that this course specifically talks about spaced repetition and active recall as the only ways to learn effectively. I took this course and it revolutionised my life - but mostly because I started using Anki afterwards.
The big question is what Russia has to gain from this. Is it just to troll the US?
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Is this surprising? For Combustion Engines, my HD pickup weighs 8000lbs, and also gets much worse mileage than a typical Sedan.

The difference is, I'm guessing the Sedan can't pull my 9,000lb trailer very well.
Another fun hack is to splash your face with cold water.

It activates the "dive reflex" in humans which reduces psychological arousal. (Or something like that -- it is a non medicinal chill pill.)
I think his point is that it would be more helpful to everyone if people remained agnostic to things that they haven't properly investigated instead of actively denying them simply because the research hasn't been done yet. This kind of attitude keeps a lot of people from researching fringe subjects some of which may have something there. But people are discouraged from looking and ridiculed for their interest because there's no evidence to support it (yet). It's a self-reinforcing cycle and not very productive.
I profit from arbitrage by buying things for people on Amazon via purse.io. I buy discounted gift cards, and order for others they pay me in bitcoin. Net margin is around avg. 10%. I have fulfilled around $8k, netting me $800 easily.
However, there are some risks such as amazon taking away your gift card or locking the account. It isn't for everyone, but can be a good side income occasionally
Proctorio's support is also fucking absurd! It reflects their CEO's attitude in that article.

I had an issue where their plugin, which only worked on chrome at the time IDK if that has changed, stopped working. And I had about 1 hour before my final exam.

They went through the normal expected steps, then started recommending crazy shit! For example, they recommended that I delete all my bookmarks from my browser and "see if that works". And if it didn't, to re-install the operating system. Their other recommendation was to go buy another laptop -- in an hour!

Then, they basically just said ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I understand that there is only so much a phone tech can do in that situation, but these exams are very, very important. I am not sure I would have been able to get a waiver to take it at another time and could have ruined my GPA and been out thousands of dollars. Luckily I got it working on another computer that I had, so everything worked out in the end.

I am not a fan!
I few years back I co-founded Memorang[0] to do exactly this. While I'm no longer affiliated with the company, it technically is a free solution, albeit geared mainly towards medical students.

[0] https://www.memorangapp.com/flashcards/108640/Star+Wars+Spac...
i've been using space p f in doom. space f d is find directory not file. space f f is find file

no clue what the default is.
Steelcase Leap: absolutely love it.

Steelcase Series 1: absolutely not worth the money. Either your back is way too up or way too down.

Amazon random $40 chair: comparable to Steelcase Series 1.
I'm going to guess that it's a subset of Rust.
Assume Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and the Sun are all roughly in a line.

Let's call the amount of transmit energy needed to get a signal from Earth to Mars with it having a specified strength at the receiver 1 unit of energy.

Earth to Jupiter would require about 64 units of energy, so from the sender's point of view relaying through Mars saves them a lot of transmit energy.

The transmitter on Mars would need about 49 units of energy to get the signal to Jupiter, bringing the total to about 50 units to get from Earth to Mars.

Whether or not spending 1 unit on Earth and 49 on Mars to relay is actually cheaper than spending 64 units on Earth to go directly will depend on the cost of energy on Mars and Earth.