skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This nonsense about "it's a defence not a right" discredits you.

It's a right because where it applies there is no tort. Like an allowed right of way over private property. Yes, if a you have someone abusing your rights by filling frivolous suits then "it's a defence", of course it is they're trying to assert a right they don't have.

Such needless couching of public rights in an authoritarian way is really offensive to the purposes of copyright, which is granted by the public - the demos - to private parties. It's not a natural right, and so yes, under Fair Use there is no right being infringed that a valid claim of tort can be made for; so one does have a right to do those things.
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It is definlty integrated for the users of those languages.
Hard to imagine what sort of exploit could come out that could cause havoc when the encrypted passwords are stored on your device.
High availability in cheap distributed key value storage
First of all, you are asking me to provide a better argument for another case altogether.

Authoritarianism is bad because it enables party cadre to outright steal businesses (expropriation) and protect incumbents.

The case you want me to argue authoritarianism is bad for business is where the state is buying goods or services and picks a winner by providing state patronage.

The short answer here is that when the state picks winners, they are screwing themselves because the incentive to innovate disappears in companies that managed to attain "regulatory capture".

There is also a significant incentive for big companies to merge or bid on government contracts as a joint-venture (e.g. Airbus, United Launch Alliance) because they can form a price cartel.

That the state does not break up these cartels and goes along with it is because politicians are generally not too savvy and most likely a good amount of corruption is involved.

Anti-trust laws are used to protect consumers and businesses, but ironically I haven't seen them used to protect the government as a customer.
This would have been a dealbreaker for me, but now that my company has permanent WFH, live traffic is much more of a would-be-nice.
Can you provide a link/name for this leaked conference call? I'm interested in listening to it.
The highly monopolistic practices are much less of an issue if you don't install any apps.
I've never heard of intuition so this must false. I'm sure I'd know about it otherwise.
Oddly enough, this includes death by Chili pepper.
Lol, I was about to say, I also object to the idea that Yglesias & Klein share a bucket with Greenwald and Taibbi; the former are so so characters I don't particularly care about, the latter are great journalists.

You hang out too much in lefty Twitter.
Don't the Russians have a guide wire back to the sub?
This video was so interesting !
It doesn't mean anything else in Austria, but do keep in mind
Austria as well as Germany is still sensitive about such topics
due to their past, which is also why denying the holocaust or
doing the Hitler salute is illegal.

Which doesn't mean there aren't some stupid, backwards laws that
have no place in today's society, like for example the blasphemy
law which weirdly still exists. There will always be room for
improvement and it's never wrong to question established rules.
Idea: disarm the police.

In practice, very few police interactions require a firearm, so why have that as the default? If a police officer is working in a dangerous neighborhood, then they can exercise their right to carry a personal firearm at their own expense. However, any decision to use the gun would be 100% the individual’s risk as they won’t be able to hide behind their departments policies and procedures as an excuse to shoot people. So a police officer deciding to shoot someone is no different from your neighbor deciding to shoot someone. It might also incentivize individuals to seek out real firearms training on their own.

EMS people might be trained in mental health, but police officers are better prepared to deal with aggressive people, defend themselves (with batons, pepper spray, tasers, etc), and make arrests.

For dangerous situations that require firearms, you can call in a completely separate organization dedicated to that, like SWAT or whatever.

Or is this too naive and/or stupid?
Always count on HN to provide plenty of arguments against empathy
I agree that hoarding tabs is a bad practice that is hindering your productivity by slowing down your computer and causing distractions.

However it's definitely not true that it's easy to find things again after closing them. Search engines are terrible solution for trying to find a specific thing with broad categorical terms. All you will get are referral and affiliate websites that most definitely don't contain the most accurate, trustworthy, or up-to-date information.

I think at the moment, best information is discovered through recommendations of other people via twitter, slack, whatsapp groups, etc. But resurfacing that info later on is hard, so you need to act immediately.

My point is, when people find obscure things that will/might come handy soon or later, they tend to keep them open in the browser as a way of temporary storing them. First, because native bookmarks are a terrible solution where you quickly run out of space and keeping them organised is too much work. Second, because keeping them open serves as a visual reminder to get back to it (once bookmarked they are out of sight, out of mind).

This is precisely the reason why we developed Tablerone. It's an Chrome extension that serves as a bookmarking system (saving and organising entire sessions) and as a tab manager (easier navigation).
https://tabler.one/

By having an easily accessible and private space to store information you are still processing or intend to return later liberates you of the need to keep them open. As a result you get a concise timeline overview of your browsing history, that makes it much easier to later search through with broad categorical terms.

I'm very eager to hear what you think about this.
Didn’t Canonical try to do something like this?
I mean, this year of all years traffic is less of an issue, but travel is still a thing in general and I wouldn't want to buy a smartphone just for that.
The best long term solution to overbearing copyright is to create more content with permissive licenses.

E.g. David Revoy creates art using open source software: https://www.davidrevoy.com/

Just as Microsoft and Apple would no doubt have even more locked down OSes if there wasn’t a fallback of Linux, so the more competition for people’s attention that is not controlled by large corporations, the less bargaining and coercive power they will have.
There are some very big businesses using them. RB (a $20 Billion conglomerate) uses Shopify.

And a large supermarket chain I know uses WooCommerce.

From BigCommerce's S-1 filing, plenty of large companies use them.

A company like Nvidia, while it has a $300 billion market cap, likely doesn't sell in massive volumes to consumers. More of their business is to OEMs.
Sorry, you're right. fsync will report failure nowadays so you're not getting silent corruption.

A different failure mode: the drive reorders writes and doesn't respect flush commands.

Edit: of course, you can't avoid the problem by changing the way you write the file. Files stored locally are inherently fragile.
I checked my phone to see if the same pattern is repeated. Under default settings, Youtube, Chrome, Google play store, and other services do send data to Google. You can disable it, there are options for disabling mobile data, wifi data, and background data.

It wasnt as much as alluded to in the complaint, but essentially many apps that you may not suspect, including messaging, send small amount of data to Google whether on Wifi or Mobile data. Power users can always disable it, but would not have known until you see the complaint like this.

One more thing: While the system apps do take up, even the apps which do not have permission to run in background use some amount of data. I have apps like amazon prime, Dominos, etc. which I have not opened in months (and restricted background activity) and yet they used some amount of data. If one good thing comes out of this, maybe they should restrict background activity until explicitly specified. (I do understand some of them would be for showing push notifications, but that can be handled differently)
Mind that the Windows side is using a very old version of Chocolate Doom, presumably because the versions using SDL 1.x at least had a fighting chance of running on Windows 95 (even though it was never actually supported)[0]. SDL 1.x has the other side effect of not running on Windows 10 very well, if at all.

Windows 95 compatibility might be neat, but it's probably better if it used the SDL2-based Chocolate Doom 3.0.1.

[0] https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Can_Chocol...
I consider feedback a gift, so appreciate it. As the podcast has grown into a non-profit, which we plan to spin off to its own site, I plan to simplify my personal site. I expect to resolve such issues in the simplification.
350MB is clearly excessive, and so is 175MB. Neither helps make a point about the other, though. It's about what's transferred, and about permission.

What I want now is an open source Android device where I have controls.

The #1 things I want to control is app permissions. I should be able to shut them down. If an app "needs" my location, it should get a random spot in the world. If it "needs" my contacts, it should get an empty list. If an app "needs" my network, it should see that it's offline.

The #2 thing I want to control is data going out.

#3 is having security updates forever, rather than sudden EOL with no notice.

I think someone should fork Android and do that. Ironically, I think several Chinese companies are well-positioned to do that, from a market perspective, but not from a cultural perspective.
this uses OIDC. it’s a non starter, for reasons unrelated to the part you are “solving” here.
> contrarianism

Translation: I can't criticize him on anything subtantive, so I'll just use this word cus it sounds bad or something.
I'm not an expert but I can make an educated guess. They put dimples on golf balls to create turbulence, which gives less drag than laminar flow over the ball. I assume that is the same thing happening in the sharkskin swimsuit. For the ship hull I have another guess (sorry). In fluids, you can't reduce "friction" by having a "slipperier" surface. The rule is (for laminar flow) the speed of water at the surface, relative to the surface, is 0. That determines the velocity field around the object, which in turn determines the drag. My guess is that when the air is between the ship and the water, the air has 0 velocity at the surface of the ship. The air also has a 0 velocity relative to the water at that boundary. But the air has a velocity gradient so the net effect is that the surface of the water if now in motion relative to the ship, meaning the ship can cause a smaller velocity profile of the water.
leave, or sign a contract that allows you to see it, and work with it.
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TikTok is a foreign company and the president has unrestricted power in foreign affairs.

I am happy to agree with you that the president should have also restricted power abroad in let's say something like an overarching trade agreement that puts checks and balances on individual states.
To add to that, before I had a comfortably sized, well delimited, search bar to click and start typing on Notes.

Now it's just a small flat gray icon:

https://www.andrewdenty.com/blog/assets/img/macos-new-ui/not...
Yeah I have definitely been keeping and eye on the pinephone and the various OSs. It doesnt look like it is quite there yet for me but I will be considering something like it in the next couple years.
It probably doesn't exist, or he really is that paranoid. Either way, this sounds like a toxic situation and you probably don't want to be there long-term.
How does this compare to Obsidian?
Nerf in a game context was metaphorical, based on Nerf guns. Nerf guns' damage capability was a significant downgrade compared to a real gun. A previously powerful item in a game that was "Nerfed" was therefore a significant downgrade in capability.
Shriram did an excellent job being a lively, energetic and engaging speaker who distilled some of the core concepts of the paper down without getting tangled in the formalisms.

I do not have an academic background in theoretical computer science and was nevertheless able to follow along his talk perfectly well.

For anyone interested in reading it, the paper by Matthias Felleisen that this talk is based on can be found on the author's website: https://felleisen.org/matthias/papers.html
The map you shared doesn't give me this sense. It appears to be straight-forward in the US. From the map, I can't see why you would need to go to Canada first, to get to the rest of the US.
Of course not. I’m saying that complex situations yield inconsistent results, and that way we solve one problem may not be exactly the same way we solve a different problem, even though they may look superficially similar.
Fastmail’s specific response: https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/21/advocating-for-privacy-aabi...

That in short, the A&A bill is about breaking end-to-end encryption, which Fastmail has never had anything to do with. It’s scary-sounding legislation, and I reckon it’s misguided at best, but it honestly doesn’t affect all that many businesses [note I’m saying businesses rather than people; many affected businesses will be among the largest ones, serving consumers], because end-to-end encryption of communications is uncommon, because it’s so frightfully inconvenient for all parties involved, because now the server is necessarily dumb and the client has to do a lot more work, and things like searching are typically just altogether broken because you’ll need the full index on the client to do a search.

(And specifically of the domain of email, I wouldn’t trust first-party encryption; if you care about governments accessing your data, first-party encryption such as ProtonMail offers is almost equivalent to no encryption if you can’t verify the code that is running, since that party may be compelled to backdoor the code to steal your password. This is one of the many reasons that Fastmail has never implemented PGP, ⅌ https://fastmail.blog/2016/12/10/why-we-dont-offer-pgp/.)
Seems like a nice idea but it's very expensive for the feature set, Pro is on the same price level as OmniFocus but can do far less... It also misses outlining support, which logseq has.

(Tried it out on iOS out of interest anyway and it failed to even clone my repo, as it's on a local network, iOS asked for local network access permissions and then it got confused saying "Exception: fatal: remote "origin" already exists")
Surprised to see Oliver Stone's documentary (Untold History) mentioned. It's very approachable, generally accurate stuff. Far better fare than most History Channel stuff. There is a companion text with comprehensive footnotes, with an audiobook narrated by Stone.
Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist
Not sure if others have the same problem, but where I live (Spain), sci-hub.se is unavailable. sci-hub.st still works though, so mirror is here: https://sci-hub.st/https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science...
That is what gave me the final push to move my PCs to linux. I kept disabling Cortana and telemetry and every update it would be back.
I use Three because apart from Canada their international roaming deals are way better for my purposes (as in: free all-I-can-eat data in almost all the countries I visit). The problem is the holes in the network of bilateral roaming agreements between carriers, which are deliberately opaque to customers.
A lot of the work was already done by the "Raspberry Pi" crowd of early adopters.
What's the real reason Apple can design a higher performance device? Better fab process? ARM ISA is fundamentally faster?

Graph conveniently omits AMD who now beat Intel using the same ISA but different process.
Does this include consuming music from the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
Targeting a library for both PHP and .NET
Finally some good news...
PL-Lefty, a Slightly More Ergonomic Polish Keyboard
I’m curious to see if Apple will bring anything similarly disruptive to the server market. So far servers haven’t been their strong suit, but a chip this attractive could change things.
I guess their sharp focus on phones and tablets led them to think... Hey, this is so powerful we might... And they indeed could.
I live in London U.K. and have done 400 miles this year. Decided I’m going to get rid of the car in the new year. That solves the problem :)
If you empathize with normal users, you realize they don't care the least about any of this. They want to use a convenient service to do things. To post pictures of themselves, to see what their friends and frenemies are up to, what's the new cool thing etc etc. Login should just work, nobody cares what is displayed where, and which site knows what. Normal people (outside the HN) bubble don't care about these things, like privacy and what data they share. It doesn't get them closer to the things they want to do online, that is post things and consume content.
The point of a business is to pool resources and make profit (add more value then taken away) and return money to the shareholders (make wealth)

Power can be a side-effect because you make A LOT of money and people are generally happy to do things for money, but generally businesses are not political and are dependent on their political environment.

Specifically the "return money to the shareholders" part can be affected by weak rule of law and weak property laws
'nix doesn't actually think everything is a file. At most that's a user/programmer interface thing. Imagine how bad it would be if some insane zealot demanded that everything inside the kernel had to be a file!
Thank goodness. They haven't innovated in decades and x86 is a mess. I can't wait until RISC-V does the same to ARM. It's super frustrating to see America, which used to be innovative become the complacent corrupt incumbent.
BadLogs – indexing failed SSH logins
As also mentioned by others, I'm connecting my devices via Wireguard to my home network. This is not always flawless.
Canada is one huge hole in Three's roaming. As I learned the hard way, visiting Canada on Three is like taking an involuntary time trip 20 years back in time, cellphone-wise. Source: am a happy long-term Three customer (other than that one visit to Canada in 2018).
We have some level of training at my level (EMT), and the paramedics I work with have more. But the stuff we're expected to cover is really broad - anything from a sexual assault victim and preserving evidence to your garden variety suicidal ideation. So given our role it's mainly geared towards identifying potential medical causes for their behavior. The best thing we can do for a patient is keep an open mind to why they're acting strangely. It could be an infection, stroke, overdose, withdrawal syndrome, postictal state after a seizure, tons of stuff.

My point is that even the best training probably won't make the tradeoff of not having law enforcement on scene worth it. Patients with the kinds of issues I listed above - they tend not to respond to being talked down. No amount of babying is going to make the person who's been high on meth and awake for 4 days straight stop seeing the shadow people.
Is there an android app for it?
It's just so dangerous to cast aspersions on people for marrying people from other countries, for travelling to other countries. It destroys everything that binds us together as humans.
All the unemployed historians now feel oppressed, thanks.
Ask HN: State of the art on using RNNs or Transformers to assist with fiction?
This is strictly for fun.

I am sure many of you have seen Karpathy train an RNN to predict the next character (sometimes word) of the Shakespeare corpus.

If you feed it a few input lines, it gives lots of very Shakespearen looking and sounding text.

Similar tricks can be done to train an RNN to reproduce things that look like Simpson scripts and so on.

The other interesting thing is that with GPT3, we see that there is some kind of higher order memory too and the paragraph can be on the same topic.

I am technical enough to experiment with these texts, download and run them and so on (except when there is a dependency collision in which case obviously no one can do anything).

But what is the state of the art in computer assisted fiction? I am thinking specifically of:

1. You outline a story, and then write out the first line of each one, and let it expand the paragraph.

2. You actually use it generate character dialog so that each character sounds different. You could have very authentic Homer Simpson talks to William Shakespeare dialog

3. Perhaps even have the computer generate a half dozen outlines based on feeding it 100s of outlines.

Any tools to make it easier to experiment? Right now I can try to run Karpathy's minGPT on Jane Austen, or just run a transformer example from the pytorch examples on that text but if anyone has already done some work, has resources, paper citations, or just thought through it, I am all ears.
As an Indian, especially from southern India, this is great news for me. Mainly because this has been the wisdom of my grandparents repeated again and again. Not that Chili reduces death rate, but that chili is very very good for health.

In southern India cuisine, green chilis, red chilis, dried red chilis and dried red chili powder is a staple of daily food.

We have pickles that are exclusively made from red chilis, one of the most famous ones.

https://cookingfromheart.com/pandu-mirapakaya-pachadi-andhra...
You might be interested in this :)
https://twitter.com/logseq/status/1324629634382589954
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He’s joined America’s rich, and America’s rich will live like the global rich.

This column doesn’t answer the basic fear that open borders means America’s middle and lower classes will tend toward the global middle and lower classes.

Rich in China is awesome. Middle class in China looks like Appalachia. That’s the global middle class, not American suburbs.
Could it run on Windows 3.11 (using win32s/winG) too?
Real Estate Investors Expand Models for Climate Risks
Thank you Steve for showing up for him.
Your description makes bamboo sound like some kind of fascinating alien technology/ organism, I love it.
It doesn't look good for Intel but this isn't the first time, so we'll see.

But AMD is dominating them now on one front, and now a major customer of theirs makes their own chips which on the surface seem to be better.
matrix.org still accepts new members.
There was the case when they remotely deleted the novel 1984 from a bunch of devices.
Apple has a greater incentive to optimize their chips for power performance because of their smaller devices (not just the phone, but the watch too).
Slack has this I think. You just sign in with a special link sent via email.
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I would reach a different conclusion than you based on the flaws you identified, namely that argumentation and language is a flexible instrument in the first place. If I was reading a (peer reviewed) history text and the author suggested something like the Great Depression had one cause, frankly I would put the book down.
Might as well install cameras in the toilets, you know, for protection of both parties in case something of value disappears from the office. It could have been misplaced by an employee, of course, but better watch people in the toilet to make sure they are no hiding it in their coats and pants. God, it must be tough being this suspicious about others. It’s how they say, you always assume others will behave like you do.
Something looking good is a benefit, lol.