skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no “inevitable fall” of Citizen Kane, neither in the article itself nor in film theory circles. The closest the article gets is this, which is not exactly convincing:

But one thing seems sure. The idea of a consensus pick, and for that matter the need for any kind of consensus, is a thing of the past. Citizen Kane, the ultimate canon title, has itself become proof that canons are there to be exploded.

The recently released Mank is the reason for a renewed interest in Kane, and in an ironic twist of fate, it’s a disaster of a film, probably Fincher’s worst, and it makes Welles’ cutting hand and firm direction seem like the actual genius behind the picture.

In any case, if you ever have a few free hours, I recommend listening to some interviews with Welles. He had to be one of the most entertaining and erudite conversationalists we’ve ever had. With all the names and situations referenced in his (probably embellished) stories, it’s like listening to a recording from a lost world.

https://youtu.be/oQYazeJA-Oo

https://youtu.be/1LnuQZ6VD_Y
How did you know it was that? I've had a quite sudden change in vision (I used to be able to read without glasses or function daily without glasses, and in a matter of weeks or months I suddenly needed glasses all day, I'm 37) and it seems my astigmatism progressed, but not that much since before.

I also had quite bad posture during the confinement and wonder if I could have pinched a nerve?
very promising! needs some reddit enhancement suite features and expanding comments probably needs to be dynamic instead of a page reload. but it looks great! will continue to use it
Section 230 does not provide FB or Twitter with any protection for the text they add. That is not user provided content and is outside the scope of 230.

When they add their own text to, say, a Trump tweet, section 230 only protects them from liability over the content of Trump's tweet itself.
I've installed the "upstream" client but I must say that I'm a bit confused. I imported a couple of git repositories that ended up on http://seedling.radicle.xyz/, so I thought I did it right, but then if I try to add projects from that very page it keeps searching and never finds anything (they're stuck in "keep looking" mode).

Also I don't see how you can create issues. Is it not implemented yet?

It's an interesting project but it feels like very early alpha-grade to me. The client gives very little feedback on what's happening and what you can do.
it would be super interesting to know how private would work
Google isn't the only player in the AI field. The paper is about the entire field in general, not just what Google is doing. And plenty of the other companies in the field have not made similar pledges.

The total amount of electricity being used so far for training models does not yet move the needle in a significant way, but the point of the paper is that it's currently growing in an unbounded exponential fashion. And you know how exponential functions work.
The existence of other problems does not make a particular problem go away and humanity can in fact focus on more than one thing at a time.
Regarding media: "playing the insecurities of people to sell them ads" is actually something that every marketer does. No exceptions. Fabricate demand. From news channels that are considered infotainment to product placement spots on movies, from teen magazines that promote utterly wrong role models and lead girls to bulimia, anorexia and all sorts of psychosis to any property from Arianna Huffington that mastered the exploitation of outrage culture to sell to Millennials. Rest assured that every single media outlet that depends on ads to make money has no interest in elevated public discourse and thrives on public anxiety.

And no matter how bad it is, it is still better than State-owned media, which bypasses the whole marketing mechanisms and just relies on the ruling power to keep the very same type of public control through fear and intimidation.

Regarding China and freedom: tell me if you prefer to be Black in the US or a Uighur in a concentration camp. Afterwards tell me which people gets to more or less manipulated by their media.
Likewise (s/Chromecast/Mac Pro/), but mine (LG) has no apparent means to disable Wi-Fi Direct, so it's still potentially vulnerable to local wireless exploits.
CVE-2020-26237 Highlight.js versions before 9.18.2 and 10.1.2 are vulnerable to
DIY Mechanical Watch
It be more correct to say what grishka said above: "that will mess up screenreaders though"

But if it's more accessible depends on the target user. If you're target are IE users or users with very old browser versions, for one reason or another, more accessible would be to use the CSS toggle trick. But if indeed your target user are users using screenreaders and using recent browsers, then details and summary elements would be more accessible.

A bit anal, but important to consider when talking about accessibility, it's very context sensitive.
Hi, could you give me more information about what NMN and NR are?
As someone with a degenerative eye disease (keratoconus) I almost universally hit ctrl++ about 5 times upon opening any article on hackernews. Heck, I view the HN itself at 300% size.
Tl;dr it will take a lot longer than most people expect to get back to ‘normal’.
Summer 2021 being normal is a maybe at best.
I think we’ve gotta start thinking about how to make people more comfortable with living freely post-vaccine. I’ve always been concerned about this as a downside of the “this is a super terrible disease” messaging - there’s a huge range of outcomes where the disease spread is merely mitigated rather than halted, and we’ve trained a lot of high-conscientiousness people to not accept that as a success. When I see experts talking about how they won’t ever go back to normal, I’m concerned about how much of the population will get stuck in that rut with them.
To make matters worse, the SmartTV sold someone in my family just had the SmartTV apps (netflix, etc) taken forcefully off the device because they no longer wished to keep it up to date.
> Eliminating 230 doesn’t eliminate free speech, it eliminates centralized socialization. This is a good thing for the future of the internet, and for the future of the United States.

Yeah, it seems to me that socialization just doesn't scale Internet-style. There's no intrinsic need for massive platforms like Twitter and Facebook. They're kind of just "skins" over the underlying inter-networked machines anyway, not fundamental elements of "the online experience". They just happened. Like an oil spill.

TFA pretty much admits that the problem is "impossible":

> Compare this with YouTube, whose users upload at least 400 hours of video [pdf] every minute, an impossible volume to meaningfully vet in advance of publishing online.

Maybe social stuff like this doesn't scale. I've said it before: if this were a hardware or software problem we (tech/engineer types) would have realized already that we're trying to do the impossible. We set up the Gordian NP Hard knot and then are stunned when it proves intractable.

> But an additional purpose of Section 230 was to eliminate any distinction between those who actively select, curate, and edit the speech before distributing it and those who are merely passive conduits for it.

I think that distinction is very important and should be recognized in law. At the very least, services should be required to label their content "We Vetted This" vs. "We're Just a Conduit for This".
This virus has only killed 20,000 people under the age of 55 in America. That's way less than car accidents and the flu, etc. This is not a pandemic if you're under the age of 55 this isn't even the flu.

So any epidemiologist under the age of 55 who is fearful... I wouldn't trust their math skills.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
An alternative view is that the parent commenter is being deliberate about which device(s) have access, and decided on Apple over whomever made the TV.
The draft there has a feature that the posted RFC does not. Associated types. Without the associated types you can't have the monadic style behavior which is why I was similarly confused by that wording there. Associated types elevates this from "Oh look a C enum" to actually useful ADT's like in Rust or the ML family of languages. I wonder if the draft you linked will make it into the official rfc or not.
I hope he will cover some other exotic ideas like program inversion which I find really interesting, in the same area there is also specialization, though that is maybe a bit too similar to term rewriting.
Interesting idea, but 'peer-to-peer'? Is water wet?
Are there PCI IDE+floppy+parallel(+serial+joystick+PS/2+etc) controllers out there that are bug-for-bug indiscernible from the controllers mounted on motherboards?
This is great. Thanks for sharing. I echo the author's sentiments and I think you ought to choose better colleagues.
Yes I'd also advocate for a browser version (spline results in the trailer video look stunning) ;)

Right now I am using the minimal three js web editor. Mostly for gltf export of hand drawn models.

https://threejs.org/editor/
It almost reads like ‘Ethics Philosophy applied to AI’
Sadly, some will look for other open wireless netorks and connect. In the future, I'm sure all will have a 5g connection.
The division of states is somewhat arbitrary. Why shouldn't California, New York, Texas or Florida split into North/South or East/West versions to gain more Senators. I understand the compromise that the House represents people and the Senate represents states so the small states don't get overrun by the will of more populous states. But, by the same token, small states should not have so much power that they always overrun the will of the larger states. There should be balance. The House remains relatively in balance due to regular apportionment with the census. The Senate has no mechanism to make sure their power remains balanced. This is a gap that needs to be addressed.
Out of curiosity, how do you handle situation where outbound tcp/udp port 53 is blocked? Do you fall back to dhcp supplied dns server?
The Benefits of Laziness
Why is it a 'good thing'?

Why do you feel others are more qualified than you?

Why do you feel others can be more qualified in a subject that (so far) has a purely subjective interpretation?
Thank you for sharing your work and great to see more attempts on the same problem. I am one of the maintainers of the Radicle project.

The main problem we encountered with similar systems that rely on blockchains / dht for storage is the problem of 'blockchain poisoning'.

This is when someone deliberately adds illegal content to an append-only source in hopes to make the sole act of replicating the project legally problematic, as correctly pointed out by Konstantin Ryabitsev of the Linux foundation with regards to a previous version of Radicle that was relying on IPFS. see https://radicle.community/t/the-radicle-social-model/317
> The epidemiologists have almost entirely avoided other parts of pre-pandemic life — including activities that many Americans are doing now. Almost none said they had attended a sporting event, play or concert; met up with someone they didn’t know well; or attended a wedding or funeral.

Sorry, where are these people living where it’s even possible to do these things?
What kind of blood thinners are you using?
That's interesting; I hadn't thought about the angle of losing access to "look-up" resources, which I too rely heavily on. I'd never have guessed stack or Wikipedia would be small enough to download locally.

I was actually thinking more in terms of the more passive items we rely on that would be knocked out by a solar flare similar to the Carrington Solar event of the 1850's (1).

For intance, a lot of people have gone completely digital. TV/local news is through the internet (no analog antenna), phones are cellular (no analog phone), banking is digital (no cash, checks, or now plastic cards) and so forth. And society is starting to meld around the assumption that the internet is ALWAYS up and running, so we feel safer working remotely, living further from hospitals, access to prescription drugs, or brick and mortar banks. There are a number of these weird little reliances that have emerged, not to mention things we rely on that we're not directly involved with as individuals (e.g. smart power grid management, complex logistics systems that govern land/sea/air global trade, banking, systems that manage hospitals/medical records).

I'm not even sure it's possible for the internet to shut down for an hour, let alone a day without wreaking havoc of societal stability.

Shouldn't we be practicing for such an event - just in case? Maybe 1 day a year?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
Agree completely. Unfortunately expressing any doubts about "Science" these days gets you lumped in with the deniers and anti-vaxxers. Trying to explain "no, I'm totally with the Scientific Method, it's just I don't think Academia does a good job of following it" doesn't seem to cut through that.
No, for taking a position on another companies board of directors, because her employment contract prohibited that without a higher ups (ceo's) approval, and he only let a handful of his direct reports do that. Its not uncommon for high level executives to sit on boards of other companies in addition to their job.

There are laws meant to prevent conflicts of interest (but as one of my bosses once pointed out, most people in those positions know how to skirt the boundaries without breaking the laws/regulations).

For example at my company, a member of our board is the CEO of another software company.

We were evaluating their product in addition to others for corp wide adoption. As the sales rep from his company mentioned they were "very interested" in them getting the contract.They were beat out (but made it into the top 2 in testing, it was a great product) and we ended up going with a competitors product.

Obviously that CEO was able to ensure his people knew a potential contact with us was "of interest" but he couldn't go so far as to actually use his influence on our board to convince my company to choose his product even though it didn't fit our needs as well as the other.

Its pretty complex, some of these laws and how they are supposed to prevent conflicts of interest (and how they may or may not work).
Agreed. But that is another expense and essentially you are telling millions of people to buy a second device when the first one is capable of doing just that. Only the ISP has locked shit down. The idea should be to force ISPs to keep stuff open, unless the devices are junk and you definitely need a replacement.
That is not the case here. Their router is pretty capable, they just want to control people. Thats bad
Oral drug blocks SARS-CoV-2 transmission in ferrets
I'm reminded of the library of babel: an "infinite" library of every combination of characters. To write a book, all you have you do is "write" a book is find the correct one, already sitting on the shelf.

If you consider that basically any opinion on a subject is recorded somewhere on YouTube, then YouTube doesn't have to "write" a thing. If they wanted to make a statement, all they have to do is sort the right thing to the top.

I personally agree with section 230, but there's a fine line between curation and moderation, and it's difficult to square with the scale of the internet. There are approximately 500 hours of video uploaded every minute on YouTube. That's 30,000 every hour, or 720,000 hours every day. No matter how infinite YouTube's resources might be, there is simply no way to human moderate all of it.

Do I think YouTube is toe-ing the line between moderation and curation effectively? Honestly, no. For myself, maybe, but not for the internet as a whole. But I don't think removing section 230 is the way to fix it.
Reminds me of John McCarthy's lament at the W3C's choice of SGML as the basis for HTML : « An environment where the markup, styling and scripting is all s-expression based would be nice. »

Could this project be the beginning of an answer : http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdaspeech/

Alain Marty
Thanks for the link to ExplainShell; it'll help me a lot as a newbie.
Hi Tara, congratulations on the launch!

Will Stripe Treasury support Factoring use cases? If you're not familiar with factoring, let's say you get a large order that you can't actually afford to fulfill due to a lack of cash-on-hand to buy materials, rent equipment, etc. Rather than requiring the customer to pay up front or getting a loan (possibly using the invoice as collateral), you can just sell the Net-30 (or 60, or 90) invoice outright for something like 95¢ on the $ to get the money you need to fulfill the order. This is particular popular in industries like fashion that have long lead times for both manufacturing and for billing.

Anyway, could Treasury be used like this?
Add a minimum user number. Say 100k or an arbitrary threshold of substantive complaints. Either you'll be able to afford the traumatized drones in chairs, need to fundraise or get outside help. Fine solution in my book.
Family income bracket, natural talent, and pressures of high school are also factors.
So you'll only start working on the problem when IPv6-aware devices start failing?

Why wait?
What's Your Repetition Compulsion?
Repetition is actually one of the principles Nature works through. But when you have negatively oriented repetitive cycles your life lies complicated with higher Entropy. Repetition compulsion is nothing but the psychological block you have, which prevents you from achieving your true self.

What Repetition compulsion is: It's the state of mind you have as a result of some subliminal programming you became exposed to. It's the result of your traumatized past. Repetition compulsion shows that human life can be programed. Repetition compulsion makes sure that you repeat your own or someone else's past mistakes. It's your tendency to let yourself have the repetitive patterns of victimhood or victimization. It also forces you to inflict the victimization you were subject to, on to someone else. In other words it's the way you have chosen to perpetuate your sad or bad life situations without your actual knowledge throughout your life and you start to enjoy it. https://bit.ly/2IdRo95
I like the idea, and the technical implementation. I frequently need something simple and free to create slides. I think the typography in the rendered slides could be improved a bit, with some more careful attention to margins and sizes.
The constexpr version looks like it can't guarantee at compile time that all the variants are handled. At least to me, statically ensuring full coverage seems like an absolutely crucial part of effectively using sum types.

Is there some kind of deeper magic going on in the "constexpr if" version than it looks like?
Since 2009. I learned stuff about Linux and AI as well as human interest stuff. I like it because our moderator (dang) keeps things civil. The users are fairly adult in their discussions.
A third of responders think zero is neither even nor odd
What £ of tax would the working class family contribute towards university education (assuming you accept this paradigm of tax and spend)? Back of envelope calculation suggests income tax collected from a median family would be £50 per year.

Meanwhile, I know plenty of working class/blue-collar families who believe that debt is an unmanageable risk that they should reject if at all possible.

Their children take that to mean that they absolutely shouldn't go to university, no matter how capable they are.
It would be interesting to gather a list. uBlock Origin can disable Web Fonts

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...

so it should be possible to log. And given a list it is not hard to download.
Aaaand that's why X11 has an x86 (v86) emulator in it, so Suns (circa late 90s/early 2000s) could use PC-focused graphics cards with BIOSes containg x86 initialization code.

._.
And I use a 55" 4K TV as my "monitor", because sub-$1,000 >>30" monitors with internal 3D LUT-based color calibration aren't a thing.

And, while I don't use the speakers, the TV's S/PDIF output is nevertheless handy for routing the audio output of whichever of the four HDMI inputs is active to the single S/PDIF input on my audio interface.

Finally, the TV has an RS-232 port that allows control of essentially all of the basic "TV" functionality, which was handy for setting up keyboard shortcuts for input switching, power, and brightness control; IME, monitor controls for such things that don't involve diddling with buttons on the side of the device itself are few and far between.
I can’t imagine people trying to bring back a “golden age” of white supremacy are ignorant of the past.

I think there is a solid point made by the GP about what literacy is needed for. To me the end game is not to have a randomly erudite population, but well adjusted people. Literacy is only a small part of that.
The article said “many years”. Summer 2021 is a pipe dream. Early 2022 is a very optimistic possibility.
Suppose your girlfriend announced she was working on an end date, how would you feel?
If you do that (at least with the approaches I've seen) and follow "standard" quantum mechanics rules for the observer as well as the observed the you end up deriving many worlds / Everettian quantum mechanics.
It's a valid concern, but the app is open-source, so you can download it and run it yourself locally if you want.

Looking at the README I bet it would take about 5 minutes to create Dockerfile for this.
Many places use bricks and cement.
“junk business self help books.”

Indeed many a bookshelf is littered with such babble, but to group Nobel laureate, Danny Khaneman[1] into that group would be a gross overestimation.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Kahneman
I have written a simple tool [1] that lets me have my own personal man-like pages.

Whenever I learn something new about a command, I write it in its mann page:

mann -e <command> # Opens editor

And then when I want to view my notes, I just run:

mann <command>

[1] http://github.com/soheilpro/mann
Gold Hyperinflation in Egypt: 1325 CE
Looks like sysmon
Excellent point, I wonder if there are published experiments about this kind of reverse wardriving against consumer IoT devices.
I think the term you're looking for is constraint propagation.

That's a nice programming paradigm, unfortunately a bit obscure now.
I'm searching for an intro to miniKanren that's also an intro to logic programming. Ive never used datalog, clojure, or others. The main miniKanren website assumes preexisting Scheme / logic programming knowledge

Any suggestion of where to start?
Sure, till they start adding cellphone-tower enabled connectivity. Your move, consumer.
Playing the devil's advocate here, I'm with you that half of AI ethics is obvious and the other half is wrong, but is't it the goal of the field to try and give meaning to things that aren't obviously well defined?

To make an example that's en vogue right now, AI explainability. Nobody even has a definition of what it means for a model to be explainable (is a linear regression "more explainable" than ML? isn't Google search far less explainable than any model of anything ever?), but a reasonable framework for that concept could certainly be interesting.

Obviously, serious frameworks are done with definitions and math, not with words and storytelling, but all the air around those things seems to me more the fault of politicians, crap journalists and freaking idiots on social media (the current term is 'influencer', I reckon) rather than an issue with the field itself.