skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like your assumung that pundits and bots already dominate the dialogue to such an extent that normal people can't communicate and voice their political grivances. I don't belive that's the case.

We're learning to deal with new forms of propaganda the same way we dealt with the old ones. I remember when people were talking about the information overload of the early days of the internet as driving people insane. Or people who complained about TV advertising being a form of mind control.

People that can't cope will either succumb to the will of others or retreat but that doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't keep using these tools to our advantage.

> Yes. Politicians. They also do actual political work.

Isn't it clear that renaming post-offices a few months before they're defunded qualifies as actual political work or filling stadiums of people to give them a rock concert version of the political experience or hosting twitch streams of a co-op video game to an audience of 500k people? You might consider grilling social media companies for not doing enough to promote for their party's interests "political work" but when it's done in a chamber dedicated to governing through legislation and comes of as whining or yet another attempt at pandering it misses any loftier goals you're implying might exist.
mitmproxy will generate a certificate for you to install on the client.
> I think I get about 3 days on complete standby (with no sim card)

I'm more interested in "realistic usage." Like you I haven't really tested it with a SIM card. Though just from a minute or two with the keyboard I found it impractical for carrying on a conversation over SMS so I don't think I could do a real test of the battery life anyway.

The on-screen keyboard is not actually the main problem, the main problem is just that the thing is very laggy compared to my flagship. I hit the wrong button and then the entire UI locks up and it can take a minute just to get back to the screen I wanted to be on. vs. on my flagship I can jump to the browser, do a search, jump back to messenger, send a message, jump to maps, look at something, and everything happens with typical subsecond responsiveness.
> The profit motive would ensure adequate towing capabilities are allocated for the bridge.

You need to spell out exactly how you think that would work. Because the only "profit motive" I'm seeing is that the bridge operator would want to avoid losing money on refunding tolls, and would be incentivized to provide towing services. But isn't that bridge operator exactly the same government transportation authority that you are proposing doesn't need to be involved in providing towing services? Or are you proposing that the day to day maintenance and operations of a piece of critical infrastructure should be privatized, and then subject to provisions that ensure it's a risky/bad investment?
It just needs periodic "Messenger Service" popups to be 100% authentic.
I've been waiting on Librem 5 for years, and had hope for Pinephone too. Broken MMS is a big deal, because it is widespread in the U.S., and I can't communicate with family without it. It looks like MMS is still a long way out, and is not really being developed. I finally gave up and ordered my first iPhone last week.
This was pretty heavily discussed on /r/programming a few days ago https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jjtobp/fast_pr...
I think you could probably achieve that with v4l2loopback and ffmpeg. I've done something similar in the past and it works.
And dangerous.

There are things that are formally illegal that we can argue merits of. But red light on the front is just a no go from any sensible perspective :-(

Note - I have a heavily nodded Soobie that's a lot of fun - I'm not at all claiming we shouldn't enjoy tinkering with our toys. But I also made myself familiar with Ontario highway act to ensure anything I do is safe and legal.
It amazes me, really, that for as popular as this use case seems to be there isn't a simple, well-packaged way to stream a camera off a pi.

I've been trying to get this working lately and nothing works "well". Motion is popular, but is limited to mjpeg rather than h.264. uv4l is closed source and not up to date with current OS versions. None of the various cvlc incantations to do better actually seem to work on my pi zero w, etc.
You can view TCP contents in the mitmproxy UI since a few months (thanks to some excellent community contributions). Minimal example:

mitmproxy --mode reverse:http://example.com --tcp-hosts example.com
curl http://localhost:8080/

There's still quite a bit we want to improve on (e.g., our protocol detection currently fails for protocols that start with a server-side greeting), but the basic TCP viewing functionality is there. :)
I poked around, and it seems nobody managed to implement the spreadsheet task.

I guess this says a lot, not sure though if about the implementors or the frameworks.
Do You Close Bathroom Door Even When You’re the Only One Home
This is an intriguing psychological question.
Both Netflix and Youtube (premium) can be used completely offline. I would guess that the iOS and Android apps have a pretty encompassing local data model to keep track of everything from watched status to settings changed in the preferences. Not to say that it isn't synced with the server, but the server isn't the only representation.
Depends on state. In my state red is legal on the front if it never flashes, same with green.
I remember reading the Song of Roland in high school. It's a fairly famous, old Christian epic poem from the 11th century.

In it, I remember it depicted a Christian knight and an Islamic paladin with diametically and fundamentally opposed views (this was written in the middle of the Crusades) sitting down and sharing a civilized meal together and having a conversation. This is what a civilized dispute looks like. Later they might have fought each other to the death for their religion, but they were still capable of reason and civility.

Note that both Christian and Islamic sides were accusing each other at the time of cruel atrocities - and yet the Christian ideal of tolerance includes the possibility of civility with everyone, regardless of what the sides think of each other.
How about a full-fledged rich text editor, with collaborative editing (not uncommon nowadays)?
The mistake is to think it's never going to happen. It will get you eventually, could be 5 years, 10 years...but it will come.
The blockchain that is immutable and can't ever be retroactively changed (until a big fish loses money, see Ethereum DAO fork).

I think hosting the development repository in a country that doesn't respect the DMCA is a simpler solution. Git is a blockchain too, after all.
The US Civil War is a better example than either WW1 or WW2 with respect to the balkanization of America, and the nuclear threat never went away. ;)
Crime patterns using location data
I don’t need to do anything. You’re welcome not to take my advice. :-)

If you doubt that dynamic languages are using overflow checking in the way that I describe then it’s not because of lack of papers on the subject.
Thoughts on a front end code generator for headless ecommerce?
> having to fuse super complex (5 instruction or more) sequences

Can you give an example of someone advocating for 5 instruction fusion? Normally it's limited to three.
> Increased government spending now means greater national debt. Governments get money by printing it. They get revenue by taxation. They can borrow by issuing debt instruments.

That's just a path for hyper inflation when no increased production is included. Money is a placeholder for value. If you don't create value and print money, the money doesn't magically create the stuff that gives it value.

It might not ruin a country, but I very much dislike this "whatever, the state can pay" hand-waving that just assumes the products magically appear if you just increase the money supply. There's no perpetual money machine, you can't just spend a billion as a state and generate 1.2bn in taxes, rinse & repeat.
There was a technical reason that WP was used by law firms. When submitting briefs to a court, total word count in a brief is extremely important. WordPerfect counts words in footnotes as part of the document, MSWord did not. This led to one case where the lawyers were being considered for sanctions by submitting a document over the word count limit due to using Microsoft Word.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-7th-circuit/1147966.html
Thought so i played around with this and my phone, self hacking ;)

It's also very nice to intercept app traffic.
Some use cert pinning, so the custom certificate won't work.
I know multiple French families that eat cheese everyday multiple times a day and do drink cup of wine nearly every day (adults).

They are not fat if anyone wonders nor are some super great exception as far as I know.
Same as what happened to mp3s RIAA is the best marketer of pirate methods, and the dumbest
I've used motion and it's fine as the DVR part with MJPEG cameras. Something else is needed for modern h264/h265/av1 stuff. I've started coding on it a few times but have never gotten it functional. But my point is about the software that runs in the cameras themselves.
Some mixed results for older versions (0.4 and 0.4.3) can be found here: http://schnaader.info/precomp_results.php

But both ratio and time heavily depend on if there is data in the file that can processed by Precomp. Since deflate/zlib/zip/gzip is used for other filetypes and containers (.docx/.apk/.jar/...) and stuff like game resource files, so results can be surprisingly well, especially when comparing to traditional compressors that can't handle the compressed data at all. On the other hand, newer compression methods like .xz/.7z/.rar/brotli) aren't supported (yet), so Precomp can't do much about them.

Not being backward compatible is more of a protection in alpha phase and to avoid confusion, the error Precomp gives when trying to process files created with older versions could be changed to a warning. In most cases, the version check could be patched out and the data of older .pcf files would be restored correctly with newer versions.
There is no winner in any argument with people like you. You're fundamentally broken.
I do "versioning" of pieces sometimes when I'm concerned about that. I get to a particular point, decide I like some of what I've said "but it could be better" and copy and paste the entire thing into a new document and edit that, leaving the old version intact just in case I ultimately decide "God, what shite! What on earth was I even thinking???"
Perhaps the least relevant, but I really enjoyed the moral outrage portion of the renewed study.
Why isn’t anything of value actually made in Haskell if it is so much better?
I should have said “written”, then. (GRRM is an infamously slow writer.)
Thanks for the ideas. I had a free AWS instance doing uplink tshark capture during pip install and generated a page with links to all the dependencies (upgrade to a tar of all those later, when discovered the cache option for pip). But I let the instance go when it wasn't free anymore. Yes I'm cheap.
You can make 1pm to 5pm as mandatory, so both the 9-5 folks and 1pm to 9pm folks have some overlap for synchronization, meetings and such.

As for people exploiting it, you should measure relative performance and not but time

One of my first startups I worked had a noon-4pm core hours. You had to be in by noon, and should stay until 4pm, the rest was flexible. I thought it worked really well for both early risers and late owls.
What does the JS in JSON stand for?
Pakistan Zindabad
Hello
Based on... What exactly? :-)

Tons enough people with both safe and reasonable, and Crazt and illegal mods out there :-/
To use anything based in China will only cause more oppresion.
Motion is great, but most (all?) consumer IP cameras and DVRs/NVRs are Swiss cheese security wise, they routinely phone home or make connections with servers in China, some even contain hardcoded passwords etc. so that the only way to use them reliably would involve a firewall only accepting connections from trusted sources while preventing the cameras subnet to send anything to the outside world.

What we need is some alternative firmware just like OpenWRT, but aimed at IP cameras. That would be a real challenge, therefore it is probably better to build the IP camera from ground up with security and trust in mind. The PineCube from Pine64 seems a really good step in this direction. Just like their PinePhone, being so hard to liberate an existing phone, it's actually easier to design and produce from scratch one that is really free and open and therefore trustworthy.

Some interesting options also from Friendlyarm to make small Linux driven embedded boards with cameras.
https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&...
Doesn't that also depend on how and why you play them? Back in the day, I couldn't finish any Sierra (or LucasArts) adventures without a walkthrough. I did finish them with a walkthrough, because for me the fun was in seeing how the story would go. They were interactive stories.

If being able to finish the games would be all that important, I would personally have to consider pretty much any arcade game badly designed. I've never been able to finish Super Mario Bros, DOOM, Quake, any of the Ultimas. But I think all of those games are well-designed and, more importantly: fun to play.

And ultimately, I had lots of fun playing Sierra's and LucasArts' adventures. They may not be the pinnacle of game design, but that enjoyment alone makes then good games in my book.
I love how a small community is keeping a piece of software alive which is probably forgotten by most people. Adding the euro symbol or the ability to create PDF files.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quillette

I did not intend to be vague, nor to smear anyone, I’m just trying to stay on-topic and not derail this comment thread into where it appears your reply has gone.

I encourage you to reach your own conclusions based on the facts; I am not interested in pushing any particular political alignment. The ongoing (and supremely noisy) American culture war is extremely disinteresting to me, I just want people to have the information to make their own decisions and reach their own conclusions.

Perhaps you like the alt-right and learning that information would make you more eager to use Substack, perhaps not. Either way, it’s better that people have more information than less.
Thanks for your work. It was a treat working in those UIs for some contract DCOS gov work.
It’s just a clickbait headline, don’t read into it too much.

Financial incentives for these media companies necessitates the need to make outlandish clickbait claims to drive eyeballs.
I mean, France deploys its military internally all the time, lately 4000 to protect churches.

And they’ve had in-Schengen passport checks on “temporary for 1-year” bases for several years now without the EU doing too much about it.
Not obvious enough for you to understand it seems
It’s just for drafts, so you write \cite{somepaper} and fill in the actual keyword later. For those who use it for academic writing such devices remove another distraction from deep fluent writing.

Optionally, markdown also has syntax for references.
Console #25: Chaos, Dendrons, and Helixes
When you look at the studies about nutrition you find a lot of contradictory conclusions except when it's about sugar.

Saturated fats may be bad, yes, but sugar is undoubtedly bad.

When I'm asked about nutrition tips removing sugar is the first thing I suggest. Not matter if we're talking about losing weight, gaining weight, building muscle or simply eating healthy.
Gerald Weinberg keeps popping up in a lot of recommended reading lists. Currently reading "Are your lights on?" and "Secrets of Consulting". He seems to be a prolific author, and seemingly unknown. By cover art on his books, I assume he self-publishes his books.
Isn't marketing something illegal, also illegal? I wonder if some cheeky case could be made here, hah.
> "This is about our society’s ability and justification to categorize beliefs into respectable or not."

Yes, and that ability does not include harassment, doxxing, threats, and attempting to induce employers and customers to end their relationships with them. That _is_ just as bad as the other side.
Well, the "kickback from an unscrupulous auto body shop, which then submits wildly inflated repair fees to an insurance company" part definitely makes sense.

I do autobody and have painted my own cars in the past. Total cost for basic materials for an entire car is less than $600, depending on type of paint, color and finish.

But earlier this year my truck tapped, quite literally TAPPED the back of an SUV when it rolled three feet forward from its parked position. The SUV owner and I had to look several times, and wipe off dirt and dust to see a 2 inch crack in the paint in the hatch.

Total repair bill? $1800 for that damn 2" crack! It's robbery and there's no way it should cost that, but that was a 'discount' rate. I could've painted his entire SUV three times for that price!

The autobody industry is out of control and insurance claims are often ridiculously inflated.
This is sadly 'just' homekit, but I was pretty impressed with the polish of the solution:

https://hochgatterer.me/hkcam/

I agree on the comment for rtsp though. Most solutions have multiple seconds of latency which is a bit suboptional.
Depends on the state. Here in Texas, many construction vehicles will have yellow and blue lights.
Disney’s new skinless robot can blink like a human because why not
To add to other answers, often a business or non-profit will put out a request for proposals (RFP). You read a document or have a meeting to understand what they are trying to accomplish. You then write up a proposal with a budget. They read all the proposals and choose a dev firm to work with.
Cross platform solutions all share several issues that result in poor experiences:

Reimplementing platform UI

Poor reimplementaions of platform UI, such as navigation, that almost always looks subtley wrong or doesn't "feel" right in terms of interactivity. This also often lead to shipping a single platform's UI convention on every platform, for example Material on iOS or iOS patterns and conventions on Android.

Poor UX

An app's UI is more than just how it looks, just as important is how it feels, and if it fits in and feels at home as an app on the platform. Often cross platform solutions generate apps that have slightly "off" UX, such as sluggish interactivity(RN has this this issue), missing gestures(such as backswipe). In general many small cuts that deterioriate the user experience

Focus only on the visual

The visual representation of an app is only one part of the UI as mentioned above, an obvious other example is accessibility which is often lacking with cross platform tech, especially on iOS. I wrote a whole blog post about how Flutter Web fails[0] in this regard yesterday.

Binary size

By necessity cross platform solutions reinvent a lot of what the platform already provides which leads to larger binaries(performance is a feature).

Performance

Ionic for example, runs in a non-JIT(on iOS) enabled webview so can never match the performance of native. React Native runs a JS enging(again no JIT on iOS) which demands more from the device and uses more battery than native in my experience(performance is a feature).

In general, cross platform UI works by targetting a lowest common denominator of the platforms which naturally results in a worse experience.

0: https://hugotunius.se/2020/10/31/flutter-web-a-fractal-of-ba...
The first time I bumped into Public Storage and their insurance I got out of it by asking for a waiver. Since then I've had success telling them that I have home owners or renters insurance, both of which normally cover household items in storage.

Your explanation of the state law they referenced was interesting, they way it was brought up to imply that you were mandated to pay this fee, and that the law did not say anything of the sort, and they were not following what was in the law!

I'd be happy never having to deal with Public Storage again.
How do you know what's possible?

How do you know it's not going to be 2 hours? Or 1 hour?

The evidence you presented requires a straight connection between the two cities. That's not going to happen, for reasons I presented and for which you yourself agreed.

If it happens it will be via regional hubs, say via Chicago and Denver. Even non-stop (with no additional acceleration and deceleration) that non-GC route will add more time. Plus there's the 10 minutes or so for acceleration/deceleration to 600mpn.

If you pigeonhole me as a naysayer then may I pigeonhole you as one of those Project Plowshare advocates who wanted to use nukes to make harbors and canals, and fracture the ground for oil production? Or as a modern Lyle Lanley?

I'm asking you to use realistic numbers which make you seem well-informed, not numbers that are easily dismissed as overly optimistic, if not ridiculous.

Just like in Marge vs. the Monorail, US infrastructure is horribly under-maintained. https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/ for example. That sort of Federal involvement in local projects is more in line with FDR's Great Depression actions than Eisenhower's interstate system.
This may be a silly question, but how do you intend to battle disinformation with yt-dl?
For an example of even stickier prices, see skateboard decks:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a34ede/why-have-skateboards-...
Paizo uses JS to trigger map layers (for RPG products)
You can still get it much cheaper if you are ok waiting a few months.
I'm a developer and always on the lookout for tools that could help my workflow. Genuinely curious, what kind of stuff do people usually use mitmproxy for?
Ytdl is always breaking. That's kinda the reason why it needs to exist. It isn't any more sudden than any other time.
I think they buried the lede, which is that it has implications for the evolution of brains

“This paper nicely settles a debate between those [researchers] willing to accept that non-neuronal organisms are also capable of processing information and acting on that information, and those that stick to the idea that only neuronal organisms are capable of complex decision making,” Madeleine Beekman, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Sydney who was not involved in the study, writes in an email to The Scientist. “Clearly there is a fundamental difference between brained and brainless organisms,” she continues, “[b]ut the point is that a brain did not come out of nothing. The brain is the result of selection pressure placed on organisms with the most basic form of information processing. Gunawardena and colleagues show that this basic ground work is already present in unicellular organisms.”
12-3 is what I prefer for mandatory hours. I'm still going to see you if you are a 6am early bird.
Control bits as in ARM and x86 force serialization of arithmetic due to the RW dependency in every instruction on that bit. There are some tricks but it still needs tracking. For higher order superscalar or out of order processors this gets annoying.
Gotta hand it to Apple. As complicated as it may seem from the diagrams, they’ve done a good job at making the file system simple for everyday users.
Why would I consider using this over Charles Proxy?

But it does look like a cool project.
> Otherwise this will initiate the potential collapse of their service

I think you are overestimating the amount of repositories that are affected by DMCA takedown threats (erroneous or legit).