skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's sample box could only hold 10 people, when it was full, it left...
Right, but this is an intentional mode that you put your speaker into for the purpose of recycling, I don't see how this relates.
No... forced expulsion isn't genocide. A few thousand people killed isn't a genocide.

Genocide literally means killing the gene pool. The Rohingyan "genocide" is only a genocide by the UN standard which is so incredibly weak that it includes hurt feelings.

Sorry, but the talking heads on the msm are lying to you.
How to Use Bash Parameter Substitution Like a Pro
Same here. Nomad is great, especially that you can run non-Docker workloads
> the modern day problem of “I must protect myself and others from malicious modifications”. Stallman hasn’t been of much use for this

Clearly we differ, because it looks to me like Stallman put forward the only plausible solution to someone taking control of my system without my knowledge or permission: open source. Granted, that wasn't what he was trying to do at the time, he was as you say perusing the "It is my right to modify" line. But that's how it's turned out.

You are apparently perfectly happy to have Apple / Google / Microsoft or whoever install whatever backdoors and spyware they please on your system. It's not like you have a choice, or will even know, so it's probably best you've made your peace with it; just as people have made their peace with Facebook, Google Chrome not deleting their own cookies, or Microsoft refusing to copy files because some virus checker had a copyright violation signature fire (that's actually happened to me).

Maybe I'd even be OK with trusting those companies, but I definitely draw the line with governments granting themselves the legal right to rummage through that same cookie jar, which is exactly what the Australian government did with it's Assistance and Access bill. [0] I'm sure all governments do the same thing of course, including the Chinese government. A good indicator of how seriously the governments themselves take this threat is how Huawei is being treated by Western Governments. I have no doubt the Russian and Chinese view western gear with the same level of suspicion. To me that is the only sane position to take.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying TPM's and the DRM they enable aren't useful, but the problem is the lack of visibility into what these black boxes you are carrying around with you and putting in your living room. If you know what those boxes are doing, locking them down so hard they can’t be compromised by someone who has physical access to them is a nice addition, although the threat scenario (someone who has physical access) is very limited so perhaps not a major addition. But what you seem to be applauding is locking them down so hard even you, who has physical access, can’t see what they are doing, and then you go on to pillar a person who proselytized making all software transparent, so everyone could see if there systems system are running software they approve of, and not malware or worse.

[0] Quick summary: the Assistance and Access bill gives the ozzie government the right to force any company to write spyware that won't be detected by their OS's (that's the "Assistance" but), and then install it via their auto patch systems onto to device they nominate (that's the "Access" bit).
> I wouldn't be surprised to hear they make more from iOS users.

So in that scenario, you think their response would be to kill alternate revenue streams they control, and become fully dependent to Apple?

Google can make money off iOS users precisely because other platforms exist and Apple needs to compete. Once that is over, Apple will charge monopoly rent on any application or service they allow near their userbase.
Hear hear. Adium was almost a vision of how things could have gone. Now I have five different dedicated desktop chat apps, four of which run in Electron-based abominations (driving up CPU and GPU utilization) plus Apple Messages. It's a disgrace. The days when I could have AIM, FB messenger and GChat all side-by-side in a native app are missed.
What tech? There is no source on their github and natural image matting has been an area of constant research for 20 years. You can search for bayesian matting, poisson matting and closed form matting for early influential papers.
As an avid runner, I've thought about the wear down on shoes as well. While not as large of a source of microplastics, I'm sure its not insignificant.
Few people complain about them because there are so many new-to-computers users who don't have enough experience to appreciate the value of default-visible, proportionally-sized scrollbar thumbs. We're in some kind of awful eternal-September of user interfaces world where experienced users get to suffer through new developers, eager to leave their mark by making "modern" user interfaces re-learn all the old lessons.
I wonder if pulling the brakes on what's being called the post-fact era, is futile. Maybe the internet is perfectly capable of maintaining N disjointed realities and there's nothing we can do to resolve them.

It may not be high-resolution virtual reality, but if the only way I interact with other people is through devices, it's virtual reality. We call them bubbles but they're so much more.

I think if we accept this as an invariant we might be able to find solutions by trudging forward. As a thought prompt it certainly gets my thinking cap going.
I think the opposite is more likely. Put a bomb in a remote controlled car - you're going to need one either way - drive close to your target, detonate. Done.

With a machine gun you have to drive close and then aim extremely accurately.

It sounds implausible - at least not without AI superpowers in the targeting system.

At the very least you'd expect lag to be a significant problem.
You learn to recognize it, especially if it happens more than once every few years. Then you can just take a breath and relax, knowing "it will end soon". Sometimes you can even break out of it.
What kinds of messages is it specifically for?
I honestly don't. I wish they'd spend less time developing increasingly bloated and buggy camera software features and more time on simple improvements ( like exposure bracketing using ISO instead of just shutter speed )
Easier said and done, commercial drones aren’t reliable and quite likely restricted goods in a country like Iran.

I don’t believe this story really it seems like more of a saving face coverup than anything else.

A car bomb/ied to stop the car and a few automatic weapons work just fine.

If you use local assets that may not even know the actual target or don’t care also gives you sufficient plausible deniability.
I guess I use the same method. For a year or so, I forced myself to drink an additional liter of water per day and I didn’t feel any difference from it, except that I had to go to the toilet all the time. The only problem that arises now is that I tend to forget that I’m a bit thirsty because of the ubiquitous distractions in our lives.
> Both Michael's Black Book and Zen of Assembly are on Github and maintained as PDF, Epub and other formats

Do you know of a source for Dr Dobbs too? I've found this so far [0] but no luck yet with more recent volumes.

[0]: https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal
For proper early 2000s nostalgia, I reckon the backend should actually be Apache mod_perl, with the ".cfm" extension script aliased to Perl CGI scripts because management tell everybody "it's running on Adobe!"...
Because some super high tech attack doesn’t look as bad as the little/big satan being able to put in half a dozen assets into play in your country and take out one of your highest value assets and get away with it.
I have to reject the premise of needing “great men” to drive innovation. The people you mentioned built on the work of those before them and those that followed built upon theirs. I think we should ask different questions such as how many great minds are not able to contribute to such endeavors simply for lack of opportunity? or what could we achieve if we didn’t spend such significant research brain power and money on war and conflict?
> True. Totally unrelated, the example you cite is now fifty years in the past, and occurred in a time when local news still existed.

It's related because it's a nice clear example of "bad press [eventually] forcing change in laws and companies," on an issue that's settled enough that one would be hard-pressed to argue the end result was wrong. The swipe at local news isn't exactly relevant, given this recent is a national one that did get coverage and the river fire spurred a federal, not local, legislative solution.
I don't think I'd do literally the whole process as that could get old and tiring quite quickly, but I am definitely considering doing streams when it makes sense and I'm in the mood, or maybe setting up a regular schedule, or something like that.
People need food to eat; that doesn't mean that food regulations are wrong. People need healthcare to remain healthy instead of not dead; that doesn't mean medical licensing is bad.

I have no idea whether these particular regulations for recruiters make sense or not, but just because something is fundamental to living doesn't mean regulating it is automatically a bad idea.
Yes, but they make macOS not Linux. The amount of HW sales generated by Apple putting people on writing code to support Linux on their HW will be less then the Apple sales teams collective bar tab.
I don't think that our ancestors were able to drink when they wanted to. You need to travel to some drinking spot which takes time and probably required group effort.

Though I don't think that we should just blindly recreate our ancient habits.
> Yes, but the fact that so few people actually complains ...

I'm curious where you're getting your numbers for that claim.

In Microsoft Word, f.e, there's a lot of questions around how to disable the auto-hiding, and I believe the only remedy is to disable auto-hiding of all scrollbars within Windows 10 itself (it's under the accessibility setting hierarchy, weirdly).

There's myriad native & web applications that choose to hide these, and they're an endless source of frustration for people that would like them present, but find they are not, and subsequently find there's no convenient way to disable the auto-hide, and then lose interest in filing yet another bug / feature request.
I think some would call the various vaporware concepts out there a ponzi scheme for tech people.
If you are interested in id Tech 3 you may also want to read this one: https://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/index.php
Because these things aren’t reliable enough.

Operations like this take years to plan and you often get only one shot.

This also means that this story is quite likely fiction.
Usually it's not really about speed, you usually want tmpfs on /tmp /var/tmp /var/run etc. to just specifically avoid persistence.
What friction? The "regenerative" part is from the motors being driven in reverse and returning power to the battery.
The law is probably a response to some sort of scam, to allow them to prosecute the scammers.
For anyone really bored, I gave a talk at Midwest.io covering various logical clock concepts.

https://youtu.be/b_swtL5bxJg
Most people don't know what Javascript is, and don't care.
I don’t understand the problem people have with GMO crops. All proteins are broken down to amino acids and so genetic changes in a plant cannot affect a person unless the genetic changes are literally creating poisonous substances. Am I missing something?
Perhaps.

In other countries -- the US for instance -- we have restrictions on connecting jobs to people. We prohibit, for example, job boards that are explicitly designed to favor (or be exclusive to) members of one race. Even if there are a lot of employers and employees who would appreciate such a service.

If you don't think THOSE rules are wrong, then are you REALLY sure you want to criticize how Japan chooses to organize their own approach to the topic? They have chosen to license the people who do the connecting rather than introduce legal liability for those who discriminate (and are sloppy enough about it to leave enough evidence to prevail in court).

I'm not saying control of discrimination is the reason that Japan licenses job recruitment, but I DO think that it requires a more thoughtful and open-minded approach that asks more about the benefits gained before dismissing out of hand the approach of requiring a license.
I found the first part, on regular expressions really excellent (though the accelerated pace made it difficult to fully grasp all the proofs). He's a still-enthused expert.

However, he didn't seem as passionate on the second part, decision languages. It's also a lot harder, yet is squeezed into even less time.

To help you assess my observation: I scored in the highest segment (IIRC 95%)... After taking the course, I would say I understand the regular expressions material fully, but not decision languages. I'm still confused about showing what complexity class something is in. e.g. the complexity class of determinng two polynomials are equivalent (PIT), like x(1 + y) + y and x + (x + 1)y.
As a distinction between a communications service, and a "head hunting" service, I'm at least initially optimistic about regulation of professionals in this domain being a possibly good thing. Like how CPAs and Lawyers and Doctors are regulated. Though some of those regulations might go a bit too far towards monopoly power rather than quality and protection for consumers (and could thus use some market reforms).
Originally you made a comparison to Star Trek.
29 deaths or ventilators in the control group of 83, 14 in the test group of 83. So, 43 total in the combined 166 subjects. That suggests that if the drug has no effect, there is about a 26% chance that a subject will die or need a ventilator (which is not surprising given that all the subjects were elderly).

If the drug has no effect and the death/ventilator probability is 0.26, then the probability that the control group of 83 would have >= 29 deaths/ventilators is 0.044. The probability that the test group would have <= 14 deaths/ventilators is 0.034.

That seems good enough to warrant further research.
Regenerative brakes translate kinetic energy into stored potential energy, with marginal friction and resistive losses. Friction brakes translate 100% of the kinetic energy into waste heat, through abrasion.

While it's true that regenerative brakes are not frictionless, none that I'm aware of rely on friction. One could imagine using a clutch to controllably wind/unwind a spring, for example, but auto manufacturers aren't rinky-dink steampunkers and even so you'd still do everything you could to minimize clutch slippage.
Unemployment rate in Japan is is 2.3% and stable.

The entire nation of Japan (population 130m) has half the total number of homeless people as the city of San Francisco (population 1m).

Essentially all Japanese people have health insurance, while 30m Americans have none and many more barely have coverage.

Maybe they are on to something over there?
> Should I not talk to them any more until I verify those in person?

It depends on your threat model.

If you're a journalist talking to sources, then you should probably put down the phone and reach out through some other equally secure channel to confirm they're the ones who have changed their safety number (and even then, at this kind of level I'd have an "under duress" safe word.)

If you're like me and you're browsing Hacker News in your underwear shouting at people's posts because they're wrong about Go, you're probably OK to assume your mate just changed their phone.
A bunch of different parties have co-opted the term to mean "industrial crop farming".
So what ideas are actually new, introduced by Linux crowd, instead of copied from either older UNIXes or mainframes?
There’s some nuance and history to this—- https://www.tokyodev.com/2020/10/01/recruiting-in-japan/
Between unpredictable ("we've fucked the bees" or kudzu-style) changes to the ecosystem from "magician's apprentices" genetic engineers who understand 1/10000 of what they change, to "DRM" style control of GMO crops, a lot...
Doesn’t Nomad already support FC?
How are you going to get your video feed out of the country remotely, and get the control signals into the country?

It's not trivial at all. It's trivial-ish if you're operating over a custom data link from a nearby location.

The more remote the operator, the bigger the lag and the bigger the threat of signal loss.

And you can't rely on the Internet because of lag and potential packet loss or congestion.

It's hard enough to get everyone on the same screen in a Zoom meeting. Driving a car remotely and shooting at people over a patchy mobile data link is a whole other level of complexity.
There seems to be a lot of employee surveillance technologies that are being developed and pushed by Microsoft. I recall them advertising what they have in mind for AI in the whole Office ecosystem and they were both depressing to think about from an employee perspective and also unsound from a technical perspective. I think employees should demand more transparency at least and know how their everyday behavior is being monitored and analyzed, especially as it relates to emails and messaging.
A promising contender to "replace" GPG in which you might be interested is age: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

It's based on ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD and the author is well respected in the crypto community.
Be careful with the cookie notification close button on the bottom of page if on mobile. It gets swapped with a button to open an app.
Yes definitely, I was on mobile earlier otherwise I would have. The New York Post had a major story censored a few weeks ago. I have no love for the NYP (I think they sensationalize news), but they are not some scummy right wing conspiracy machine. I pretty much agree with Glenn Greenwald here: https://theintercept.com/2020/10/15/facebook-and-twitter-cro...

They also suspended an account of a sitting state senator in Pennsylvania who was holding a hearing on alleged election fraud: https://www.ntd.com/twitter-suspends-account-of-state-senato...
it wasn't a design decision to link the WoT to a single forum -- I was just playing around and didn't want to go through the hoops of integrated with an external social network

Mine is here -- https://github.com/abe-winter/trustgator
TLDR - “positive correlation between sleep duration and the global cognition score”
As spiffy as Apple mobile devices are, I never found the locked down environment worth it. Nice hardware, too bad about the OS/App model...

This new hardware is awesome!

I could care less overall though.

Frankly, open computing can be done fast enough to not be a worry. I will stick with all that and see where this new path leads.

And my mind is open. Who knows? Maybe it all ends up in a good place.

I am quite happy to run FOSS on the many devices that will do that reasonably for the foreseeable future.
This is written by Mitch Daniels, a decidedly right wing politician in the US from Indiana, where many GMO products are developed.
Myspace was great. It was pseudonymous, spent precisely no time trying to hunt down and delete opinions or nudity, and didn't have much of an opinion about how you kept your page.

Social networks could ideally be usenet without an eternal September (which is the actual thing that killed it.) You grant trust to your friends, a little less trust to your friends' friends, and a lot less trust to their friends and strangers. Without a real name policy, you can maintain different identities as different pages and can have a different account to be friends with your aunt. With very little cultivation, you can make sure everything you read is stimulating, and very little is annoying. The problem with this model is that the business of the internet is to annoy you, and the first thing you would cut if you had the ability to cut would be the messages that the platform is paid to subject you to.
The title is inaccurate. It should be "'Leave shaming' employees needs to stop in India"
I think this is why we see so many "early access" games, and why so many of them never leave that stage
What a fantastic blog post. It's nice to occasionally see someone calling out all the bullshit.
I wonder at what point they got rid of the Intel RAID/RST controller that'll never be supported in upstream Linux - it's in the non-"developer" 9350.
All right. To establish the tribal difference: I see "Second Thought is creating Leftist Educational Videos", one of which is called "You're Probably Already a Socialist", and some comments on his Twitter seem to establish him as either a socialist or at least very sympathetic to socialism; as a libertarian who currently sees the left as more dangerous and authoritarian than the right, this makes me say "Oh dear, oh no."

And now: Assuming he is correct about what's happening, I say that Youtube is cowardly and they suck for suppressing his video, and for being cagey about it; and the DHS giving him a physical visit seems like clearly an intimidation tactic and one of the early stages of authoritarian evil.
> Regenerative brakes rely on friction just like any other.

I thought the resistance was provided by magnets in the motor? How do you think they capturing energy from friction?
As if being a doctor prequalifies him for anything but commenting on the state of affairs in this hospital or office he happens to work in. I went to school with mostly medical students and was not at all impressed with the types of people that gravitate toward that field. They often cut corners, are very uninterested in what they study and I am not at all surprised with the numbers of malpractice cases and misdiagnosis afoot in the medical industry.
This reminds me of a killer new startup I'm thinking of investing in. They sold me on it as soon as I heard their elevator pitch: International Stamp Arbitrage.
[1] describes a very basic proxy support indeed. However I can't imagine a use case for that. What is useful is a support for rotation of proxy list with every download request together with auto-updating such list.

As for modules - splitting each site's support by file is an absolute minimum for sanity. Keeping up all that support in one project quickly becomes quite a chore for a single project maintainer. The whole process fetching the while project and initiating a PR on a github is also rather awkward for developer too. Hence the existence of https://github.com/un-def/dl-plus project.
Some thoughts on Khan Academy retiring courses and why not to despair
> Yes, but the fact that so few people actually complains probably tells you a lot about the input devices that people use.

Or it tells we have given up.
The fear some folks have is that you’re introducing new DNA and therefore changing the fitness model for a crop. Crops aren’t grown in clean rooms and the crop getting out into the wild could cause untold harm to the environment. Either by the crop growing in the wild or cross-pollinating and eventually replacing wild types.

The other issue people have with specific implementations is that big ag uses either sterility of the crop (eliminating #1) or the license agreements to prevent seed saving, effectively creating DRM for our food crops. This changes crop seeds from assets you buy once to a subscription model you’re forced to pay over and over for each season.

Finally, the actual execution of many GM changes is simply to make the plants resistant to specific heribicides, fungicides and pesticides. This allows farmers to bathe their fields in these chemicals which of course go on and leach into the environment. Not to mention killing plants, animals and insects in greater and greater quantities, which of course may also harm the bees and other pollinators.

I think #1 can be managed and avoided and in general (potentially through sterility) I’m ok with GM as a technology. However what I’m not ok with is the specific approaches big ag have been using.