skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a tight rope arguing who deserves what when a lot of business are built on this chain of platforms (like a supply chain). News agencies have many channels, probably some of the largest being FB and G (hence this post) and now they're looking to cut out the middle man because they believe it doesn't provide them value and apparently detracts from it. However, note that there's an inversion of power at some point when a platform becomes much bigger than its customers. News agencies will pretty much die out without G and FB (if they are indeed by far the largest channels) because someone will just post the news from their platform onto G and FB obfuscated enough to bypass copyright because people want news on G and FB.

It stopped being about "I want news, oh cool G and FB have it!" And started being about "I read news on G and FB. What is this WSJ you are talking about" a long time ago.

Platform inversion of power taken to its extreme, some might even say perhaps Google and Facebook should demand revenue share from ISPs and computer/mobile manufacturers for incentivizing people to buy plans and devices to get on the internet?
No. If my company, my employees, my offices, and my web server are in SLC, I can let you access it from anywhere in the world without worrying about the laws anywhere else. I didn't follow the EU directive? So? What are they going to do, send assassins? Sue me in EU court? What levers of power over me do they have that have any relevance whatsoever?
> However, if you rank them by "which is best for human well-being" there is a best answer even if we can't know it.

This assumes that “human well-being” has a single, objectively correct, ordinal measure, though maybe we don't know what that measure is.

That seems non-obvious, at best.
Use a multi-cellular modem. Starsky Robotics remote-drove a truck (in the US) that way.
I don’t understand why people complain instead of taking FOSS they like, packaging it as an app, distributing it on the App Store & publishing the source. Does Apple prohibit that?

I remember the days of very little Apple compatible software on the shelf at retailers, and no games. I was probably one of the first students to use a MacBook with OSX for CSCI 101 because many classes required Windows. That was lack of freedom. The App Store has more software than any other distribution channel at any point in my life.

Edit: I also love freedom from malware, which I understand is probably a temporary situation. But it’s been a good run so far.
I've lived in states with and without mandatory safety inspections. If I remember right, the statistical evidence shows that accidents involving mechanical issues are the same between states that require an inspection and those which don't. The vast majority of accidents are driver error. And in my opinion, most of those are because the driver's test is a joke.

"The stopping distance fetish is weird in any case, whatever benefit you got from stopping faster is obviated by the outsized inflation in vehicle weights."

I'm not sure what you mean by this. I have actually weighed vehicles in the past and the weight was very close to the specs. If we are talking about sports cars (where the majority of spec discussions occur), then I would gladly see people talking about stopping distance opposed/in addition to the horsepower "fetish" - you have to be able to stop those ponies.
No computers available in the years preceding the present were practical for you? I doubt that.
Thanks! I haven't had a chance to write Go, never learned it too. Maybe some day. Will remember the author's book.
I always seem to need between 12 and 15 hours sleep, which makes life difficult as I do not fit into the normal 9-5 schedule.

I do not understand how people can live off 7 hours of sleep each night. It seems a big advantage though - they have 5 hours more per day.
Bootcamp isn't available as Microsoft doesn't have a version of Windows compatible with the new platform. The parent comment even says that. And Gatekeeper has been around for 8+ years, always with ways to run whatever you want, but I'm sure the "locking down" is coming any day now.

It's just business: Apple won't intentionally remove features that makes their hardware more attractive. It's where they make most of their money.
My personal opinion on this technology isn’t included here, and I’ve made a point of withholding it each time, specifically to deny the opportunity to invoke the messenger’s feelings as relevant to the issue at hand. What I feel about this doesn’t matter, because this is already live in two marketplaces and headed rapidly to a third. I could be pro, I could be con, I could be both/mixed or uncertain/apathetic (hint: it’s not a purist view on either side of the fence). Discussing my viewpoint isn’t even possible, yet half of the words in your reply are dedicated to your speculation about it.

Focus your energy on the real issues at hand:

How are we going to adapt to the reality of secure attestation? How are we going to confront it with technology? How should we legislate to protect against abuse of it? How can we make use of it appropriately?

My goal is to raise awareness, and based on the other half of your reply, I’ve succeeded with one person. That’s progress, I suppose.
By the beginning of January, the termination of pandemic-related economic supports is expected to put 19 million Americans at risk of homelessness, and make 11% of the US population unable to afford to put food on the table.

The longer-term picture is that the millennials (born 1980 or later) will be the first generation in a very long time to have a lower standard of living than their parents did.

These are the kinds of problems civil unrest is made of.
Easier.

Step 1. Invent Bitcoin.
I don’t think this deserves the amount of downvotes it’s getting. It’s a genuine inquiry and one I share. They’re a fascinating subject of study that I feel needs to continue.

I sincerely hope the trend that we’ve been seeing where compounds like DMT, MDMA, and Psilocybin are getting the proper scientific attention they severely lacked for over 50 years. I understand why that is, but it’s a shame that it happened at all. Imagine where we would be if we had had that time to study and put these and other substances to good use.
And you would only take that approach as a judge in the United States if you believed that the Constitution was a nearly flawless document worth preserving in its original form.

Why else? Point me at someone who believes the Constitution is deeply, deeply flawed and in serious need of major revisions yet takes an originalist approach in their jurisprudence.
FYI you can vouch for [dead] comments (click the direct link to that comment, then click "vouch" at the top). I just did so this one is no longer dead.
Eh, depends on how you defined ‘lost’ a lot of money —

Many of the calls that have hit recently only capped out people’s gains - so yes there was an opportunity cost to that lost, but people didn’t literally lose invested capital. Not as much money as you think has gone into the red this year - even on the way down.
This the finest special pleading, and exemplifies exactly what I'm talking about. It's fine for you to insist on this very narrow and technical view of the situation, but that's absolutely not how the case was presented in the media day and night for years, and I have no desire to engage you on these minute points.

I'm not going to argue with you about these specific facts, because the correctness of facts composing your take does not even matter for what I'm saying. You want to argue about the specific gastronomic precedents of a shit sandwich, whereas I'm telling you that the problem is that everyone was told for years that a gourmet hamburger was on its way. It doesn't seem like you have anything to say about this state of things, which is why you keep dragging the conversation down into how many kernels of corn did the sandwich contain, and of which variety.

The Russian conspiracy story did not materialize anything remotely living up to the fantastic sizzle -- a fact made all the more amazing by the staggering abandonment of journalistic principles undertaken en masse by establishment media in promulgating that story. Nobody can be taken seriously who thinks these same people are arbiters of fact.
finally found a 9900k cheap on amazon.
ok; so i bought the font. it's beautiful! wow. thanks.
I really miss that, back in the days, there was still innovation going on in the OS space. Sure we get some features every now and then, but back then computers like the Amiga tried to come up with ideas that where fundamentally different from other systems. Its sad that I still long for some of the solutions the Amiga and Be OS brought to the market, 20+ years later.

An Amiga1200 on a 14Mhz processor could boot to desktop in 1.5 seconds...
Fizeau apparatus for measuring the speed of light
> Wikipedia's NPOV policy is impressive and the community's efforts to apply it are impressive, but it's ultimately very difficult to find an objective NPOV account of things, and one that's satisfactory to everyone. One difficulty here is the Undue Weight policy (which, to be clear, is probably necessary to make NPOV workable). This says, in effect, that it's considered NPOV to mention something at greater length than its relevance to the topic at hand warrants, or in a context where it's not particularly important. Unfortunately judgments of relevance, salience, or importance are themselves quite POV and Wikipedia's solution is mostly to rely on "reliable sources" -- typically published journalistic and academic writing. But journalistic and academic writing itself contains all sorts of biases (many of which Wikipedians are extremely aware of and have discussed at some length), including the likelihood that nobody will have actually written a journalistic analysis of the Mormon/vegan/Russian government/left-anarchist/Hindu nationalist/Reformed Christian/Maoist/gender-critical/Extinction Rebellion take on specific person or topic X. Which could very likely, if it existed, place much more weight on some aspect or issue than would be considered "due" in most other published analyses.

> You can also read many Wikipedia articles and see that, to the extent they relied on sources, the sources all held the view that the subject of the article was good/legitimate/appropriate/normal, or was bad/illegitimate/sketchy/questionable, and it is in principle "NPOV" to not report on any other views (if they don't have reliable sources mentioning them). However there must be people who have substantive reasons to take another perspective but don't have the ability, resources, motivation, or desire to produce reliable sources reflecting that perspective. In the absence of that, those views can be described in their own article but can't be used to color any other article.

This is an excellent summary of the issue with wikipedia and how the rules that were set up to eliminate biases are unable to deal with certain types of biases.

I think its possible to improve on this situation (I'm not sure how but I think its possible) but to some extent the problem is unsolvable because there are no bare facts absent interpretation. Ultimately you're just going to repeat information you heard elsewhere and the decision about which information to include and which to exclude is inherently value-laden (i.e. biased).
Thank you for the reminder about Connections! Great show.
>I get the problems with email encryption, but what do people think of email signing? It's a shame it's so hard to do, but I always thought it'd be a good protection against phishing.

I think email signing is wonderful. In fact, my email client (Thunderbird) is configured to sign all messages sent by my primary identity.

For many years, I used Enigmail, until Thunderbird integrated the functionality a few months ago.

However, the value of signing is diluted significantly by the narrow adoption and ignorance of the greater populace.

As an example, I was exchanging emails with my financial advisor and giving them specific instructions on the disposition of certain funds.

Having a GPG signature is great for this, since they can confirm that the email hadn't been modified in transit.

But rather than being glad that I cryptographically signed my instructions, I received a phone call saying something along the lines of "there's all this junk at the end of your email. We're concerned it's been tampered with."

When I explained what the "junk" was, rather than asking how to confirm the signature in the future, I was met with confusion and the distinct impression that I was acting in an inappropriate way.

Their solution: All instructions from me must be verbally confirmed via telephone.

Not that such verification is a bad thing, but the complete ignorance, then rejection of a perfectly valid confirmation mechanism (without any interest in learning how to secure their communications) by folks who should care about such things left me flabbergasted.

As long as the above is the norm, email signing (and I still do it where it matters) will be much less valuable than it could be.

More's the pity.
There's plenty of evidence out there that refutes your assumption (happy to provide it if you're interested).

It's not that they wanted more crime -- they wanted criminalized behavior to wield as a weapon against people of color (and hippies, in Nixon's case).

If it was ever about reducing harm from drugs there's plenty of better ways to do that, don't you think?
Ah, that's so cool.

My dream is something like Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language, extended with the content and patterns from Bill Mollison's Permaculture Designers' Manual, and leavened with the arcology concept.

(What about John Todd's "Living Machines" work? You hip? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wojrOpH5O7M )
It’s such a simple thing to make. It’s easier than trying to figure out and customize someone else’s.
Spanish Woman Creates First In-Home Breast Cancer Testing Kit
No.

Between VMs and other cheaper hardware this feels very silly to put it lightly
We have the same issue in Canada as well. Toronto and Vancouver, our two most expensive cities, have salaries below many other cities while having some of the highest housing costs.
dan is awesome. nice guy too.
I share your pain, as someone who messes around with game engine dev as a hobby and has also read through that book. He sure made geometric algebra sound like it _should_ be useful, but man is it clear as mud to me.

Of course in general I'm not surprised; for instance I'm not surprised that this paper doesn't have many practical examples. It's higher level math, of course, and for people in that space, showing a small example where you use the geometric product to solve an abstract linear algebra problem is about as close to 'practical' as you are going to get.

But I found it much more aggravating in that book. It's specifically a practical book after all, meant to help lay foundations for renderer and physics engine dev -- but as you said, that section is completely devoid of any real examples of how you could integrate it to make Problem A or B easier, or how it simplifies your transform code, or literally anything. The complete lack of code examples or any such real-world applications make the chapter feel a bit out of place, maybe even tacked on or gratuitous. (Which is a shame because he kind of builds up to that chapter, dropping hints here and there about how it will fundamentally shift our understanding.)
A de jure right to vote often did not translate to actual access to the franchise. States often enacted barriers such as poll taxes and literacy tests, exempting anyone whose grandfather was registered to vote (i.e. not Black people, whose grandparents had been enslaved). Such discriminatory practices were not actually outlawed until the Voting Rights Act was passed a full century later.
The call to curl is missing a closing " pair. Besides, it seems some people submit a low-res image at the post, then post another link as the first reply, which is the case today:

https://preview.redd.it/b2ihaxu2i5261.jpg?width=640&crop=sma...

Care to adjust the jq a bit to look for both, then maybe somehow compare the resolution of the two and download the better one?
To be fair he didn't they are. He said they were, which might have been the case in March after the corona crash.
Cryptocurrency is the ponzi scheme for tech people.

Because the cryptocurrency ecosystem does not do investment -- likely in very large part because no one can buy anything legal with cryptocurrency -- returns for coiners who cash out must, by definition, come from later investments.

Paying earlier investors with the investments of those who follow is the definition of a ponzi scheme.
If you don't care about competing with others, you can always do previous puzzles any time. https://adventofcode.com/2020/events
I maintain mbpfan and have contributed to a few other Linux on Mac tools.

Linux on Mac is not worth the effort. I ran Ubuntu on a 2011 MacBook Air and now run Fedora on a 2014 MacBook Air. There were several papercuts even with these relatively open models where it took a while to get suspend, trackpad, fan, webcam, wifi, etc. working properly. You will need to use binary drivers for the latter two features and some strange EFI bootloader. It seems that newer MacBook compatibility is worse:

https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux

I use Debian on ThinkPad at work and plan to buy this or a Dell XPS for my next laptop.
From your description, you have not experienced [what I consider] a breakthrough with the cross product. In 3D there is a one-to-one mapping between vectors and oriented areas (feel free to think of it as a plane along with scalar denoting an area of the plane). When I learned about vector calculus, this one-to-one mapping was used liberally and implicitly, even though the vector a×b behaves differently from the vector a and the vector b.

Even if you take the magnitude of a×b to get a scalar |a×b|, that scalar does not behave the same as e.g. the scalar a ⋅ b. The SI system cannot distinguish between a scalar torque Newton-meters and scalar work Newton-meters, though they are different.

Geometric Algebra makes the difference explicit. For me, it's not about giving a meaning to a×b after the fact, but rather to ensure it has meaning by construction.

I think it's valid to assume the operation a×b and then figure out what it means (or doesn't mean, or call it a weird tool). But Geometric Algebra gives one way to think about it more clearly. It's not about fundamental beauty for me. It's about having a consistent and clear system to operate within.
The decoherence is in some sense inevitable but the proliferation of viewpoints will make it to some extent self-correcting and prevent any particular viewpoint from gaining hegemony without being grounded in pragmatic utility (which is not to say that it will be ground in truth).
Any manufacturer that’s even remotely serious wouldn’t need to test their own product to find out how it works. Each component in the chain, from trigger button to storage I/O, had presumably been tested and its tolerances documented. Responding to such a query could (should?) be as easy as checking the specs. “In theory this camera can support up to N triggers per second, which is the limit for part X, but you will need your storage to sustain writes at speed S or the buffer will fill up, and by the way this wasn’t tested end-to-end and will void your warranty.”

It’s more likely they just wouldn’t tell for whatever reason. A mass manufacturer probably doesn’t want to give an impression that they encourage a way of using the units not explicitly mentioned in the manual to avoid any complaints/lawsuits. Also, some companies require tech support staff to respond to a certain minimum number of tickets per hour (effectively penalizing personnel for doing anything beyond provided checklists, which consulting part specs definitely would be).
Show HN: Coco – estimate and communicate progress by available workdays
>Criticism of the company's product seems pretty tangential to the blog post.

I disagree when his whole point is about 'giving a shit' about product.
I would use this if it was open source and self-hosted.
The most distinctive feature of the popular Japanese mahjong variants (as opposed to other mahjong gambling games) is probably the own-discard furiten rule: players can't win off others' discards if any tile they previous discard during that hand would complete their hand. (This is distinct from and in addition to more common "sacred discard" restriction against winning off a discard after letting another winning tile pass during the same round.) To facilitate keeping track of this, in Japanese mahjong separate discard piles are kept for each player through the entire hand.

(The other distinct feature is the riichi yaku, which essentially lets a player (discretionarily) raise their stake and declare that the won't change their wait to increase the potential score of the hand on completion. This is pretty distortionary since it's by far the most common yaku at about twice as frequent as tanyao.

It is the reason "riichi mahjong" is a common name for the most popular family of Japanese mahjong variants. It's pretty distinctive. I rate it as less distinctive mainly because, when everyone at the table knows what they're doing, it mostly only affects gameplay around the edges, whereas the own-discard furiten rule has wide-reaching implications for "defensive" play.)

Aside from that, there's the usual mess typical of regional scoring variation.
This.

The complexity in most SSGs comes from them being generic solutions.

If you have a fairly simple site and know what you need, you probably get it build with a few lines of JS and a GH action.
Substack is certainly immediately better than Medium.
Nothing post modern about it. From the financial system to the rules governing corporate ownership and taxes, they are all political. These these absolutely dominate your day to day life. Even the fact that there is an internet was a political decision (see ARPA then DARPA).
That perennial reddit thread on this is priceless, it should be an official meme now!

Also pretend or real J.P Aumasson handle?
I agree, but I'd rather use something that actually has working economics, than a Medium-like model that forces everyone to pay for stuff they might not read.
AoC is a lot of fun and is a great way to scratch that puzzle itch.
Have nothing to add on the writeup. But I had to drop a note about how awesome the comic / cartoon (about the "evolution of DevOps") at the end of the writeup is in case anyone misses it by not reading till the end.
I'm glad they continue to try. It is hard to get things accepted upstream.
Going public is a huge bureaucratic nightmare. Staying public brings on extra costs, efforts, and regulatory requirements... not to mention the public now will judge every decision you make and your company's valuation is as dependent on the whims of the stockholders as any actual business drivers.

While going public does grant benefits, it comes at a price that is not always worth it.
I expected an article about Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency but I was disappointed in that regard.

Cool article though.
It's super dense though, even with a math background I struggled to make headway.
That is impressive. Suggestions for the eye balm?
> It’s “anti-American” to say that the people ostensibly enforcing our laws should not commit violence against us.

No. Everybody knows that, everybody agrees with that, and you can say it. But it's "anti-American" to point out that the people ostensibly enforcing our laws do commit unreasonably unnecessary violence against us.
If helpful, we open sourced our static site at Ockam.io

https://github.com/ockam-network/website
The needed concentration.