skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One problem is that the story gives zero information on princess except her blood being barbaric. And the story also have overall very odds treatment of justice and fairness. And characters are cartoons. And the only property of wife that matters is her look.

Which is why I did not cared about how it ends. The people in story are not real enough to reason about them. They don't have psychology beyond crude stereotypes.

Like, ok, she grew with psychopathic dad, which the story author basically praises. She had likely accumulated trauma and resentment towards dad and own never met emotional needs. Is she even capable of strong emotiomal commitment? People with dads like that struggle in that area.

Maybe whole relationship was just her way to get revenge on dad by being involved in humiliating relationship for him. We really don't know whether she will be jealous or not, given that she knew she wont marry this dude from day 1. Or she hinted nothing, or she had no idea and hinted only to unparalyze him.

But the story author does not consider such option, because she is not real character. She is just literary device. She is supposed to be motivated solely by dudes body beauty, but that is not real people think.
The closest comparison I can think of is keybase. It's pretty similar when you cut out all the esoteric crap. Basically a chatroom, and other things, based on a distributed identity.
Cars are truly transformative. Some of the smartest and nicest people I know are just the worst to drive with.

On top of that they are just not very good at it. I have been in 4 accidents, none of them my fault.
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately without any details on the experiment design it's hard for us to get anything out of it. What was the task, who were the participants, what was their familiarity with the software they were being tested on?

I can say that this talk of using the keyboard being so fascinating that it takes up significant mental resources to be not represent my experience using and seeing others use keyboard-centric interfaces. When I use magit, or when I was operating the minilab I mentioned above, I don't have to think about what key to press to do the thing I want. I am in fact "so disengaged [with the mechanics of manipulating the interface] that [I] have been able to continue thinking about the task they are trying to accomplish". Competitive StarCraft is another example that illustrates the same point without relying on personal anecdote.
I had the same feeling back then, although I was in high school. By the time I'd graduated high school it was clear that it was indeed mostly a pipe dream and how, as another comment says, the incentives are all misaligned. I grew fairly sceptical of the semantic web.

And what do you know... 15 years later and I'm working for TimBL himself, figuring out if we can make it work this time with personal data and changed (legislative) incentives. Who knows :)
so a funny story. I've said a few times.

My father was on the DARPA side of the AlohaNet development and eventually moved out of network engineeing into software engineering within DoD. I had a discussion with him (probably 15-20 years ago?) about switched ethernet (years after he moved out of the networking space, so was no longer an area he kept up with), and he was said something along the lines of "what do you mean there are no collisions? the whole point of ethernet is dealing with collisions! if we didn't have to deal with collisions, LANs would have been easy!".
It could be a decent compensation if you were assured that you will get the money, but you don't know and it is probably that you can't find anything in months.
ACR – Autoconf Replacement, AMR – Automake Replacement
I summarized nearly all components of most memory allocators.
Might finish it.

https://egbert.net/blog/articles/comparison-of-memory-alloca...
AMR - http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/amr.1.html
That's funny because there's a stack overflow for business and it was passed over for slack.

Another thing is -- the public stack overflow is really nice for reference, but in my experience I don't like the culture around it. It isn't inclusive. The thing that turned me off was when they would shut down a question because it would lead to extended discussion.

Now slack allows extended discussion - properly off in a thread - and through that fosters a corporate culture in a good way.
> No they don’t

Oh yes they do.

> Any time I see IP addresses passed around it’s a sign of broken infrastructure

Nope.

> It also means you aren’t using tls or you’re training people to accept cert errors

So, let me get this straight. You have a server that's behind CloudFlare, and you're claiming we should use DNS and TLS to SSH into it?
IodéOS = LineageOS 17.1 and MicroG and adblocker
I pop the cruise control on lots, especially on motorways. If I get too close To car in front I’ll touch the break, but even in the U.K. roads are rarely that variable - especially near the speed limit.

The cruise control has a switch to change to limiter, I rarely use that.
The reasoning I see is that objects moving at the same speed in the same direction tend not to collide.

I have seen advice to motorcyclists that they should be just a bit faster than most traffic. Slow enough to manage changes in traffic ahead, but fast enough that no one is approaching you from behind.
it looks like its manually operated, so I don't see why that would be any different than a normal cop speed gun and pulling the driver over.
There are very rare situations when speeding saves you. One example is someone going into your lane and driving into you for a head on collision. Assuming there is space to swerve you should also accelerate to escape faster.

That being said it's so extremely rare there is no point debating those cases. If speeding was physically not possible it would be a better and safer world.
The "semantic web" in terms of how it's been applied to HTML is effectively DOA. The real power of semantic data (which hasn't been realized yet) is in letting computer intelligences communicate in an understandable fashion. Linking databases and data sources globally has been the wet dream of distributed systems advocates for decades, but we've had neither the power nor the use cases for such things. However, once big data AI gets hungry enough, you can bet that everyone will jump headlong into the new data mining frenzy that's coming once someone writes the first successful "data connector & broker" service (much like what Lycos and Altavista did for web search).
You should check out special effect https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/ it’s an organisation that focuses specifically on this issue
Ask HN: Why is HN such a toxic community that tolerates 0 dissent?
Disagree with someone and your comment immediately gets "flagged".
I don't see the problem. Why do you care about someone pirating someone else's software... specially when the software being pirated is ancient video game roms which you can download from anywhere?
Iodé: the new smartphone that blocks ads and trackers
Forking the kernel won't help. There needs to be a new security model... Genode is a step in that direction... I've been waiting for them to get something to the point where I can get it working well enough to be a daily driver.

It's possible someone could get the drivers going on a Raspberry Pi 4, which would be close enough. I think it'll happen next year some time.
Think of schema.org as the Yahoo of semantic authorities. Somewhat good, but doomed to be replaced in a few years when others do it much much better.

The point is, you need these pioneers to help get the technology off the ground.
As I said:

> Can you explain any evidence at all that would convince you?

And your response (TL;RD): "no".

You've drunk the cool aid, and it's a religion for you. I'm sorry for the state you have reached.
When is my usb hub a smart hub?

What is a usb smart hub?
What privacy implications? The government already knows who you are, they processed your vehicle registration and issued that license plate specifically to make your vehicle publicly identifiable.

Are you also terrified that just anyone can read your house numbers or the address on your mailbox?
I hire one when I need one, but living a ten minute walk from my city centre is more transformative to me than the car would be. :-)
Guns, Germs and Steel. A modern classic, since followed up with many other works. The author's perspective is notable both because of his academic credentials and his predisposition for anthropology in Papua New Guinea (a still surviving geography of many traditional tribes) where he was resident for many years.

The Sea Craft of Prehistory. Still an authoritative tome with respect to the overall nature of watercraft in global prehistory and their fantastic capacity to transport our ancestors vast distances. In some ways I would place more faith in the contents of this book than conventional prehistoric narratives.

Ancient Religions of the Austronesian World: From Australasia to Taiwan. A syncretic prehistoric prespective on one of the more interesting groups of prehistory.
THIS! Facebook is always being grilled by politicians and the "news" because Wallstreet doesn't control Facebook, while they control politicians and the "news".

Look at this story for example. Are there scammers in the ads? Yes, all ad platforms will have some scammers. It's always been the case and it will continue to happen because there's benefit to scamming. Does FB take down scammers? Yes, constantly.

So, what is the news story? There is no news story. It's just a negative hit piece to try to devalue the company so that Zuckerberg may be forced to sell more of his shares giving away his veto rights. When that happens, all of this will magically go away.
The death of plankton led to the life of cotton and explains voting maps
judging the effectiveness of an exercise or supplement program by comparing before and after images of a participant.
Mark Ferrari Interview (The Making of Monkey Island – Behind the Scenes)
Freelancing on the Internet Sucks
Parent comment is not talking about "rights", just public interest.
You realize that a former US general (Flynn) is one of the people calling for a military-supported coup, right?

While I don't think most of the military support him or anything, I think you should consider scenarios where the chain of command fractures.

We've seen this in non-defence agencies (look at the backflips in the Justice department), and it's odd to think the military is somehow immune.

Civil war isn't a good thing. I don't know how old you are, but I remember Yugoslavia.
The SQLite and Tcl Conference 2020 [video]
If you're refering to doorbells with a camera facing the outside then no, they're very uncommon.

There's very strict rules about how you're legally allowed to point a fixed installation camera in Sweden, you're not allowed to have a fixed installation that'll record anything that isn't your property. Not even the corner of the pavement. All in all, Swedes don't want cameras pointing all over, you have to put up signs if there are cameras and usually you should apply for a permit before installing cameras.

Inside your house you're free to record as you like though.

https://bit.ly/37dMVx2 <- Translated law regarding cameras.
Also, license plates in the UK must adhere to a standard font which presumably makes them easier to read in software: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Maybe. It's often easy to choose a model and squint to make it fit. You have to be very very careful when performing empirical method, it's extremely easy to taint data and end up fitting models that you shouldn't have. It's not enough to simply fit a power law and say "it works" - that's bad science.
Why pick on HN? That's the whole damn internet these days my friend.
this will never work. the problem is people will add whatever semantics get them more sales. If tagging a site about dogs as "cats" gets 5% more visitors, even if they're pissed off it will still translate into more sales.

Further, getting everyone to agree on semantics is impossible.

You can already see this in action on soundcloud. Search for any music category and you won't be 5 songs in until you find a song that doesn't fit the category. Whether that's because the creator legitimately thought the tag belonged or if they just thought it would get them more listens it doesn't really matter. What matters is the tags become useless

I see this on many sites.

Stack Overflow uses tags to add semantics. It only kind of works because of a vast army of volunteers fixing the tags.
I'm guessing here, but it may allow all logic to sit on the front-end. Useful for some situations.
That might be the definition in the US, but doesn't necessarily apply in the rest of the world
That's the reason we need to enforce speed limit. People are terrible at assessing what's safe. Even if they can somehow manage to assess their personal safety they have terrible judgement when it comes to other road users. You may feel very safe going over speed limit in a residential area but pedestrians, cyclists etc. won't.
I’ve always built the riskiest parts of a project first. It’s self evidently the way to build software isn’t it?
What's a great christmas present for someone with a PhD in Mathematics?
Covid, Agile, ChatOps
Most self-help advice about interacting with people is pointing out ways that get some desired interaction effect. They may be true in that they are pointing out those real characteristics which lead to those effects, the result of putting them in a book and studying them makes the reader a student of manipulation. Depending on the student and the target of the trained interaction, it may work as intended or it may label the student as a manipulator to the target.

In less abstract terms, it is not hard to learn the “tricks” and notice when people are using them on you, and it becomes incredibly irritating being around people who interact with you on that level.

Basically, if you’re interacting with people because you were told to do it that way, it’s probably manipulation. Teaching people to be empathetic and interested isn’t very easy and the more popular methods of faking it are pretty transparent.
As far as I can tell from this (this is the first I've heard of Urbit and Yarvin), Urbit essentially is a form of social network that that tries to create a self-governing, "ideal state" in cyberspace. The author of the article credibly argues that the project is governed by a political theory ("neocameralism"), explained as "right-libertarianism taken to its logical conclusion". The network is described as based on a set of principles that considerably differs from common democratic principles ("one person one vote") and instead posits a hierarchical structure much reminiscent of a feudal system with tiered voting rights and privileges based on (in-system) virtual property. The anti-modern gist is underlined by Yarvin quoting lead Nazi theorists (at least once) in his writings.

I'm sure I've missed something (but, I deliberately skipped the technology as that just seems like an outgrowth of the ideology), it is what I've gleaned from a quick readthrough, but my main point here is not so much what Urbit is and wants to accomplish in detail (which seems "a bit" over the top tbh) as highlighting the category of systems that Urbit belongs to: by the users self-governed cyber-networks with internal assets that need to be distributed and ruled over in some way.

I expect this to be an increasing area of study moving forwards - at least I think it should be. What are other examples of this? (not counting corporate owned systems)
Depending on your needs, the Windows port of Busybox might do the trick.

Personally, I don't like the shell that much. As others pointed out, it is a consistency-lacking set of programs that often do only trivial tasks (by design).

A proper cross-platform scripting language such as Perl, Python or Newlisp. The latter is very much like Busybox : it packs a lot in a small single executable (plus it is a Lisp-like language so the syntax is simple and the documentation is good).
Violence is the act, and is not defined by what or whom it is committed against.
A lot of people always complain about how hard it is to figure out what Urbit is, but I'm pretty sure the obfuscation is part of the plan.

I've been following Urbit for a while now (maybe 6-7 years?), and over that time, it has gotten clearer about its goals and motives, I believe because initially they wanted to speak to a very small group of weirdos who saw what was on it and were intrigued to learn more. Starting from a small clique of like-minded people.

Now it's possible to understand what the idea is (some sort of VM running an esoteric set of languages to build an operating system that, among other things serves as a 'digital identity' of sorts). This is the point in time when they want people such as HN readers to understand it, so they make it so it can be understood (more or less). I also think the esotericism of the programming languages is also to prevent anyone from having a go, and to limit people who can program in these languages to just those who are heavily invested in them.

But as others have pointed out (including the author of the post), the idea is deeply terrible, and implements a sort of feudal network with kings, lords and peasants (galaxies, stars, planets), because Yarvin is a neo-reactionary who believes life was better when we had monarchies in charge of everything.

He does this at the same time as wanting a clean-slate programming environment, because computers these days are very complicated and buggy or something.

All of this speaks to a desire for things to be simple. Simple politics, simple computers. Democracy and computing these days are not simple, but that's because _humans_ are not simple, and if you want humans to have an equal voice and standing, then that's probably going to result in not-simple systems, in politics as in computing.

We should resist it, for the same reason we should resist anyone trying to agitate for feudal revolution.
For the curious, if you want to avoid numpy's memory overhead[1] here's how you'd do it in C with no dependencies:
https://github.com/stb-tester/stb-tester/blob/v32/_stbt/sqdi...

This C code isn't doing exactly the same thing; here it's calculating a global similarity measure by calculating sum-of-squared-differences and comparing the end sum against the specified threshold, instead of comparing each pixel-wise diff against the threshold.

It is straightforward C code but it's vectorised by the compiler: https://godbolt.org/z/-3uO1z

Excluding the overhead of reading & decoding the PNGs, it takes 80ms for the same 8400x4725 images as my parent comment.

Benchmark:

$ git clone git@github.com:stb-tester/stb-tester.git
$ cd stb-tester
$ make
$ ipython
>>> import _stbt.sqdiff, cv2, timeit
>>> f1 = cv2.imread("water-4k.png")
>>> f2 = cv2.imread("water-4k-2.png")
>>> timeit.timeit(lambda: _stbt.sqdiff._sqdiff_c(f1, f2), number=1)
0.081

[1] The Python code in my parent comment will allocate memory (the size of the entire image) for each intermediate calculation like the colourspace conversion, the absolute differences, etc.
The thing that is missing here would seem to be a sort of zero-knowledge proof.
In the U.K. excess speed is the 10th most common cause of accidents, way below “driver didn’t look properly”, which was 9 times as common.

As far as deaths go, the most common contributory causes are loss of control and failure to look properly. Exceeding speed limit was a cause in just 16% of deaths.

https://www.regtransfers.co.uk/content/common-causes-for-roa...

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1951835/53196928-0...

It's like over the time I discover that smart ppl are fully aware/conscious what they do. :)
What could be better than a Klein Bottle?
well, on Reddit, for example, which is similar, random users can't flag to hide your comments on threads. You can get downvoted, which is fair, but not have just a few people arbitrarily hide content.
The README.md in the repo answers this question and offers a list of known compatible devices.
It's terrible but similar number of people die every year in car accidents yet there is no moral panic. We can't even agree on finally enforcing speed limits but with the virus we closed the whole world. I mean pollution in major cities is a bigger health problem objectively than the virus and yet we still allow old diesels to drive in most of them.

What I am saying is not that we shouldn't treat the virus seriously but that we really need a lot not urgency when dealing with topics like speeding and pollution.
Why is this downvoted? I think this is a reasonable way to think about it. Asset price inflation seems to be a real thing
That is approximately one for every 200km of road. Hardly seems like a lot.
https://urbit.org/blog/a-founders-farewell/

> I do regret making 0 true and 1 false.

For the love of God, why would anyone do that ?!?
The changes started in the late 1990s. Some blame this exclusively on Carly Fiorina, but I want to hear from more people knowledgeable about the situation at HP during this time, since I heard from somewhere that the board was interested in moving away from the HP Way, and they hired Fiorina precisely to change HP.

From the 1970s until the late 1990s, HP's calculators were renowned for their build quality, similar to how IBM ThinkPads were renowned for their quality. However, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, some high-quality calculators such as the HP-32SII and HP-48GX were replaced by calculators like the HP-33S and HP-49G, respectively, that did not have the same build quality. This led to HP's older calculators being sold on eBay and other secondhand markets at high prices. (Thankfully HP's calculator quality would improve in the late 2000s with the HP-35S and HP-50g.)

I've heard similar things about HP's printers and personal computers; there is a discernible difference in quality between those built before the late 1990s and those built afterwards.
qed: not a single attempt to articulate a rebuttal by the downvote sock puppets.
> Dog-whistles have been identified in some of his writing about Urbit and its design, including his leaning on Nazi philosopher Carl Schmitt for questions around Urbit’s governance.

Hmm, I might be mistaken, but Carl Schmitt seems to have made a valid critique of liberalism (just as Marx made a valid critique of capitalism). I've heard that he's being used as one of the essential thinkers in the legal teaching ? (Also, the most anti-liberal "SJWs" seem to apply his theories in practice...)

https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/04/terrifying-rehabilitati...
In that made up case you’d get a police escort to the helicopter.
Ask yourself why you want to be a better listener when you don’t have any actual interest in what they have to say.
> We might ask then, is Gab a platform for free speech, or is it a platform for hate speech? Who’s speech does Gab prioritize? It quickly becomes clear that the concept of “free speech” that Gab deploys is not quite the same as what others see it to mean.

Gab's example seems to undermine the author's previous arguments, as Gab is now running on Mastodon, whose founders profess values fundamentally opposed to Gab.

> Obviously, exit in a digital context is logistically simpler than in a physical one, but it is still not easy. People critical of Twitter’s policies still use Twitter, not because they are hypocritical but because it’s a lot of effort to migrate to a new platform and re-establish connections from the former.

The migration part is because Twitter is a centralized network, which has been ever more draconian with its APIs. Federated and decentralized networks shouldn't have logistic issues with exiting. Again, see Mastodon.