skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can’t ban algorithms and ideas in practice. The output of an algorithm doesn’t prove that a particular algorithm has been used. Even then, anyone can modify and code algorithms.

You can force companies to put backdoors in their encryption products, but the governments already do that (even though using them may not be convenient for them). Further, this will push crypto in the hands of people, and to outside US, to outside cloud, push for decentralization, which the US government doesn’t like.

The security by and large lies in end points. Back-door in hardware, operating systems etc for access to key material seems to be the focus of the governments.

It’s a golden age for intelligence agencies; they probably want a handle on the cloud.
The manual for the c64 included examples of animating sprites in basic using poke.

It was not hard, though not very user friendly.
Someone forked GIMP only to change its name to something “more professional”
How about those fake "unsubscribe" links that actually record your email address in a database as a valid hit?
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Dizzy was one of my first favourites. "Immersive" would probably be an apt word for it. Amazing how much gameplay they could squeeze into available memory back then.

Think I played the first one on an Amstrad with the ol' green screen. They made a lot of decent games.
There is a complete TED 2014 talk from Hugh Herr, the head of the MIT Media Lab's Biomechatronics group. Highly recommended.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hugh_herr_the_new_bionics_that_let...
Alerting with Loki when your Log Ingestion Rate goes above the set threshold
In the UK, curiously, the seaside / holiday town of Bournemouth has become somewhat of a hotspot for the CGI industry, with the local university hosting the National Centre for Computer Animation.
Also a longtime Fastmail user, and I do tend to notice Way More spam and more serious phishing emails.
This is quite disheartening to read.

We do know that the OP did NOT apply the scientific method - just look at the estimated timeframes. Estimates are not science. Likewise, N=1 and sharing experience is not "science", particularly for public health issues.

I'm not going to waste my own time arguing why you're wrong, but a TDLR is you are and frankly it's a shame to read.

As an aside, you're correct in that reporting of research methods could be improved and there are issues of replication, but this is for many reasons. One of the less reported issues is money - that's not how research funding works.

You're claiming science is flawed, then link to wiki - is that a joke? Are you a researcher?
Totally agreed. I wonder what the ethical side of this is... Give someone a pill and they suddenly "unlocked" from locked-in syndrome. How can you not want to give these people these drugs all the time and let them have at least a partially normal existence.
You do not get to decide what impact social isolation has on other people. Months and years of social isolation aren't worth it to prolong the lives of maybe 0.5% of the population.
I like the German approach here (surprise, /me German...):

Non-negiotiable standard contracts that are applied to consumer contracts en masse are called "Allgemeine Geschaeftsbedingungen (AGB)" (roughly: common business conditions). A business may apply those, but if they do, they need to conform to a restrictive law (AGBG) regulating what is and isn't allowed in such conditions. E.g. no future changes without an exchange of equal value to the changes, no surprising clauses that are not "normal" for this kind of situation, no grossly unequal considerations to begin with.

Individuals and businesses still have freedom of contract however, if a contract is really negotiated freely, that is, in an equal exchange between both parties. If there was no negotiation or a very unequal one ("take it or leave it, we'll block any of your change requests but you need the ink now"), AGBG applies. In all situations mentioned above, the consumer had no opportunity to negotiate (a symbolic "negotiation phone number" in the smallprint doesn't count, etc), so all those fancyful clauses or the whole contract conditions would just be unenforcable, with the most consumer-friendly interpretation applied to the rest as a matter of law.
> ...is planning to bring to market a new protein powder, Solein, made out of CO₂, water and electricity

Huh... Literally from "thin air".
Sanctions. The US is doing it illegally today and no one does anything about it. Against a space supplier it would be easy.
Possibly something like EteSync would be good.

- https://www.etesync.com/

- https://github.com/etesync
> overnight trips are not normal behavior of teacher trying to help poor gifted student.

The forms have changed but only slightly. ~All G&T programs in the US run summer camps and weekend trips. Schools outside of major cities take overnight field trips to the nearest major city to access museums and galleries, often with additional costs for families. Extracurricular programs (not only sports but also forensics, mathematics olympiads, OM and FIRST, etc.) require family resources for students to participate outside their immediate city. For older students, teachers often organize overseas trips with enormous associated expenses.

The importance of this might be lost on people who grew up in countries more functional than the US. The lack of decent inter-city rail/bus networks means children from impoverished families may otherwise never get outside their city (maybe even neighborhood) until they can drive themselves.

(I am less familiar with the norms of early 20th century Austrian schooling but I wouldn't be surprised if it looks more like modern US schools than it does modern Austrian schools...)
Thanks for support. I am from Czech Republic. I will contact lawyer, but he won't really help me with hacking into someone's account. That's why I asked here.
I'm mostly guessing here, but I'd say it's because a lot of these companies were probably founded by a couple of mates back in the 8/16-bit Acorn/Commodore/Atari era and just stayed where they were.
Game devs are payed way less than regular devs, no way they'd live in a big city on a small "passion" wage.

Source: worked in Paris for a medium Game Studio on a small wage before calling it quits
The micro-HDMI blows indeed.

Ugh, I didn’t know about the missing headphone jack. WTF.
A portable computer like this is probably more likely to be plugged in a TV, like at hotels.
I would be very hesitant about taking antipsychotics (of which Seroquel, quetiapine is one). There is research suggesting they may cause brain atrophy (reduction in brain volumes over time).

Now, if one is dealing with something really serious like psychosis or acute mania, maybe it is a preventing a short-term harm which outweighs the risk of this long-term harm. But if it is just trouble sleeping, considering this risk, I think one should explore other options first.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3476840/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09249...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30191724/

(I used to take Seroquel for insomnia and anxiety myself. I stopped when I discovered this research. It also contributed to our decision to get our son off risperidone.)
The supreme court of PA changed the law months before the elections to allow non-postmarked ballots without signature verification to be received after election day.
> It's called wither "Qt for Python" or PySide2. I dunno why it has two names

That brought back some funky history.

In the days of yore, when Qt 4.5 roamed the lands and 4.7 did not exist yet, there was a set of Python bindings called PyQt. They were ... a bit clunky, but they worked. Perhaps more importantly, they were also a subject of cross-company political wrangling.

Nokia bought Qt back in mid-noughties and wanted to make the toolkit more easily accessible for mixed commercial use. Authors of PyQt didn't want to relicense to include LPGL as an option.[0] So PySide was born.

When the development of Qt5 got under way, the developers realised they could finally break many of the internals and eliminate a lot of nasty legacy baggage. The public API remained mostly the same, but low-level bindings, and pretty much anything that poked under the hood, could expect APIs to change, headers to go through contortions and so on.

Considering that the bindings for Qt5 are called PySide2, I can make an educated guess that it was in the end easier to rebuild the new bindings from scratch for 5 and onwards, rather than try to shoehorn the use of possibly conflicting low-level APIs between the two major versions. The name "PySide" was already known in developer circles as "LGPL friendly Python bindings", so holding on to the base name makes perfect sense.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PySide
The problem seems to be that their body builds tolerance to it so that even if you give them this medication constantly it gradually stops being effective. However I do agree that these drugs should be available and it's up to the carers to work out a dose that maximizes the amount of time the person is "unlocked".
Game studios provide shitty salaries while at the same time having a dearth of talent available (because, game dev, dude...). By having offices in low cost of living places, they can maintain this equilibrium without raising wages.
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It's certainly been a pattern for a while. Rare (obviously long since part of MGS) were/are based near Twycross, and Sierra Online were based in MFN long before it was cool.

Many years ago I once had to visit Rare for work and was surprised by the security. I wonder if part of it is that they aren't going to be visited by a constant stream of fans if they're harder to reach/find. From outside the gates it was totally un-obvious that it was the HQ of one of the most influential game dev studios of the 80s and 90s.

That being said, plenty of companies are still based in reasonably sized towns: Jagex and Frontier are both in a science park on the edge of Cambridge, EA in Guildford certainly used to be and maybe still are in an otherwise normal business park.
Not everyone likes their hotel porn going through the speakers :)
According to Google maps, Southam is about 25 minutes drive to Coventry or 15 minutes to Leamington Spa. It's not in the "middle of nowhere" in any important sense.

And Leamington is quite attractive - not a bad place to live. Coventry is probably ok too. Personally I would much rather be in a town like Leamington Spa than Birmingham or Milton Keynes. In general, small and medium size towns in the UK are far nicer than the big cities.
So does the 2nd part's example snippet use transactions or what? Seems pretty dubious, even for an example. With Node.js I pass a function as a parameter to a transactional exec and any failure should rollback the whole thing. Don't know if that's the same with Go.
How is any of that relevant?

If anything strong encryption gives better support of outlawing it, from a governments perspective.

The fact that you can be a lawless individual and ignore it and obfuscate everything has no bearing on the legality of it. But it does mean that if they suspect you are doing anything illegal they don't have to figure out if you and what you are doing, since your obfuscation is enough to send you to jail.
> Get one email address for friends and family. Never ever post it online.

It works until someone sends an email with cat photos to your secret address and all their contact list, and forget to use bcc.
I don't think rigid totalitarianism is a stable solution at all, long term. A society that isn't somewhat elastic has no hopes of overcoming unprecedented challenges; it's bound to fall apart. And even though China's social credit system seems hopelessly Orwellian, I'm confident that its architects are aware that faulty design might inadvertently render China fragile.

Tanner Greer at The Scholar's Stage has written about Xi Jinping's apparent belief in the "tides of history". It's a very Taoistic notion. History flows and develops and all we can do is try to swim along with its currents. The only other option is to get crushed. So there's not really much hope in trying to control it. At least that seems to be Jinping's philosophical position.

Deng Xioping started the trend with "pragmatic experiments" to test solutions on a small scale before implementing them wholesale. Stability is the goal. And if that means letting go of the reins, that's just what they're going to have to do. Robustness requires flexibility, and you don't get that with simple-minded rigidity.

I'm also a bit surprised the author of this essay chose to invent a new term--horizontal totalitarianism--to describe how social groups protect their worldviews. It's just ... a very mundane and obvious thing. The exact same phenomenon occurs at an individual level; cognitive dissonance results when our beliefs are in direct conflict. We tend to reject threats to our worldviews with the tenacity we defend ourselves against physical harm; it's more powerful at a group level, but it's the same thing.

When people spend time together, they become more similar. Is that "horizontal totalitarianism"? Or is that just a very obvious observation of human behavior?
Plumbers Are Rich
thanks - I'll look into this
No Coventry is not ok. You’re right about leamington though
Allow me to put some words in Barr's mouth for you:

"I work in law enforcement, and I am uncomfortable with the idea that the public might have effective tools to communicate privately. But I can't say that directly because then people who aren't paying attention will be upset. So instead I'll be a bit confused about what my point is and draw some distinctions that don't make sense"

There is a very compelling case that law enforcement should be denied some powers even at the risk of criminals escaping justice. That case is complicated and takes several pages to explain. It is rare that law enforcement officials will make that case, and rare that the public understands when law enforcement is too powerful.
Games take years to develop and come with a lot of risks I suspect overheads of London office space isn't very attractive.

Also I'd imagine game dev is quite insular, it's not B2B other than dealing with publishers, so no need to be in close proximity to any "tech hub"

The value proposition for employees is an interesting one, I guess the allure of working in games is enough
Chronic procrastination as a coping mechanism for guilt
What a mess.

In small tribes social control can be directly maintained as members have perfect knowledge of any individual’s reputation. This mechanism doesn’t scale beyond a few hundred individuals so institutions such as hierarchical organized religion were invented.

We have established words (oppression) and jargon (social control) for this already. The author has decorated an old concept with new jargon and is passes it off as original thinking. Notably, every instance of oppression mentioned (beyond the Aboriginal example) involve large and necessary institutional components.

Insanely, Rodriguez points to two computer-mediated social control as examples of “horizontal totalitarianism” apparently not noticing that Facebook and China’s Social Credit bureaucracy are each enormous and expensive institutions.

One wonders why Rodriguez is even bothering. Thankfully he answers this question for us near the end of his piece:

> This phenomenon can be observed in the actions of existing successful public silencing initiatives, which confront questions and divergent opinions with insults, as seen in the unfortunate social media lynchings perpetrated in recent years by fanaticised supporters of MeToo or Black Lives Matter, or by similar movements with equally extreme ideologies.

Ah. Rodriguez resents progressive movements that seek to upend the current social hierarchy (presumably because Rodriguez enjoys exerting social control far more than experiencing it) and has coined this new jargon to associate movements he dislikes with a reviled term (totalitarianism)

Rodriguez begins with an intellectual lie, then uses it to advance the idea that anti-racist and anti-misogynist movements are the actual oppressors. And not the misogynists and racists themselves.

What motivation might Rodriguez have for asserting such a thing?
Just use a fucking blog, man. I'm so sick of threads like this.

Edit: I'm sorry, this came off as way more aggressive than I intended. I get why people use twitter to share stuff like this, but it's much harder to archive, find or reference in the future, not to mention it being much less readable than a simple webpage.

To anyone reading this, please consider publishing your findings on a blog as well as on twitter.
By that token, there cannot be a "wellness industry". If you pay people to make you well, their incentive is to keep you sick.
And what have we learned? That capitalism works untill it destroy everything? Communist Mars?
Haha! That's so expensive. 10 quid a month for the sometimes minor convenience of not hitting the block button when an email has no unsubscribe at the bottom. Is this really the same value as comparably priced subscription services? How did they come up with this pricing model?

Absolutely outrageous.

Oh, but it's only the price of three latés /s
gmail also provides such unsubscribe button
To paraphrase myself¹:

C64 Basic does not have functions. This makes Basic programs tend to spaghetti and unreadable code, especially considering the constant memory constraints of those platforms. I grew up on these systems, and every time I think back on it I wish something like Forth would have taken its place - i.e. something with a clean and scalable pattern for abstraction. Basic, on the other hand, doesn't do abstractions. It barely has data types and what it calls “functions” are an even more limited form of Python's style of lambdas; every subset of code which can actually do something looks like “GOSUB 11600” when you call it. No naming, no abstractions, nothing.

(This is in some ways even worse than assembler, which usually has labeled goto’s.)

Reportedly, BBC Basic on the BBC Micro has proper named functions! I believe that basing this project on that Basic would have been vastly more productive and taught people the usefulness of abstracting things as you go, building ever higher abstractions, etc. But I suspect that the C64 (and its recognizable blue color scheme, which the whole page uses) brings more nostalgia-fueled clicks and shares.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19245814
This is way better. I think the "sciencedirect" article is based on this. Re-link? @dang
A downside of "200 for everything, error in the body" is that it locks you out from using off the shelf API monitoring tools. Now you need some custom monitoring tool that can read & understand your custom error bodies.
Damn I wish we could simply buy a single socket AMD EPYC instead of a dual socket Intel Xeon. When compared at last gen Rome, scientific workloads compiled with Intel compiler that relied on AVX-512 a lot performed piss poor on AMD while other regular stuff flew ..

It is too hard to buy these awesome chips and have them NOT run the serious stuff that our group wants to. I wish AMD would come up with a solution that makes it magically work with code compiled for AVX-512 :-(
Which you would never do.

You are basically the perfect target market and have no use for it at 10$/mo.
> You will need to read more of other peoples code than you will need to write your own code,

Any examples of good go web projects to look at? All of the ones I've found have fallen into either "directory dump" or "I'm an mvc but not really".
If you didn’t subscribe, don’t unsubscribe. Set up a filter that auto-reports as spam. That way you don’t have to see it ever again, but you still give spam filters a fighting chance at stopping other people from seeing it too. The more you hurt their deliverability, the less effective spamming will become.
> That case is complicated and takes several pages to explain

Then we've reached a crisis point in our moral development, because that statement had been axiomatic since the founding of this country.

"That the individual shall have full protection in person and in property is a principle as old as the common law." [1]

[1] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~shmat/courses/cs5436/warren-bran...
There are benefits to centralisation, one of which is Google's access to all Gmail spam reports

I still prefer to keep my stuff away from Google's grubby hands though. Fastmail's spam filter does get better the longer you train it
> There's nothing publicly known that would cause this.

I cannot tell if [1] meets the requirements for being a reasonable cause in your (or anybody else's) opinion. Decide for yourself.

[1] https://www.palantir.com/pt_media/palantir-is-providing-coro...

Edit: [1] just contains a link to Forbes, so you can go directly to:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/03/31/palan...
Microsoft turned this around in 2009-2010 with one decision: Give everyone in engineering a 10-15% raise to keep up with competition. Intel’s fallen far behind on pay, so they have a brain drain problem and a morale problem. They won’t fix it until they pay people more. I think Intel’s more than 15% behind - they may need to bump by 25% or more.
What is practicality worth?
EA for a long time were in an office building five minutes walk from Guildford High Street.
Did a double take at first reading the post as if from a 3rd party but on the ArcType blog - then saw the original link at the bottom!

While the ArcType screenshot looks cool the main website is absolutely unusable - I counted 7+mb of JavaScript before simply rendering "ERROR".
Close but not right. The true name of the bear is karhu.
Clearly, millions of middle-class Japanese people get by perfectly without a car.

Eastern Europe and Russia is not as rich, of course, but too could be example of huge territory with millions of people living whole their lives without car ownership.
Pretty cool Time killer.
Ah, ok. I haven't been to Coventry since I was a kid. I should probably have looked up some information or something before posting.
And before Twycross, Ashby-de-la-Zouch!
> This person is applying the scientific method personally, and cautiously.

How is she "applying the scientific method"?

> science only pays lip service to the scientific method. Its only there to make money.

This is a gross insult to the vast majority of scientists.

> the only information that has a possibility of being true, IMO, is anecdotal evidence.

Whatever problems scientists have with reproducibility, there can be zero expectation of reproducibility with anecdotes.
It has always been this way. High cost, high risk, need lots of staff, so have really low overheads.

Only in the last... 8? Years (aside from Sony) we've seen big places in london, due to massive mobile profits.

Not sure even manchester has gotten many big places since psygnosis.
looks like the prep work for it (porting to GEGL and gtk3) will finally be done in this version though, so you know, the slow bird probably also eventually catches the worm
Yeah, this seems far safer than driving yourself!
“Seattle police regularly flaunt the law”

No. They FLOUT the law. FLOUT.
Ha, first time I’ve ever seen Coventry mentioned on HN and it’s getting bad press! I live here, it’s nice (if you stay in Earlsdon).
> The standard library is very low level. Want sessions? DIY. Want user auth? DIY. Want CSRF protection? DIY. The list goes on.

That's not the sentiment expressed here. To implement these things from scratch is not the only alternative to using a framework.