skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing a Game Boy emulator has been the most fulfilling and interesting programming project in my life.

I love, most of all, how modular the project is. I can do an hour here or there and make meaningful progress.

I'm really eager to discover other very large programming projects that break down into sensible bites so well.
Observability, Getting Started – Free Access and Open-Source Solutions
I completely agree. Writing apps for the app store is the perfect example. I started out coding well coded apps that didn't make money, and as time has progressed my apps have lower code quality but I make more money. I focus less on code quality now and think more about marketing and appeal.
I agree with the gp that your idea sounds awesome and I look forward to seeing it.
Well, you need no one to support you in the first place :)

I like not having apps pester me for updates or pollute my notifications, when all I care about is email, websites and phonecalls (oh and offline maps, I almost forgot)

I guess I am a very boring person!
The website is hosted on a solar powered Raspberry Pi (IIRC). So the background is colored such to show the current battery level of the server. While a clever idea, there's much better ways it could be done that would make the site more readable. If I were being uncharitable I'd say it's more about virtue signaling than actual utility.
The Growing Threat of Network-Based Steganography (2014)
Giant tracebacks that no one could help with. I'll try again soon with 2.0.
It seems like a lot of the complexity may also come in when you have important circuits to emulate other than the CPU. In that case you'd have more to worry about in terms of timing, dataflow, and synchronization. And some platforms might conceivably have analog circuits that play an important role too, although I guess you might be able to abstract that out by trying to create a rough digital functional equivalent even if it isn't completely faithful to the behavior of the analog part.
I remember UK microcomputers like the BBC Micro, Sinclair Spectrum and Acorn micros were mentioned often in UK conputer magazines and even in books back in the day.
I wonder if any of the GTA games are large enough to do the same.
Israeli courts rejected the case to revoke NSOs export license which would then implicate the state itself.

IANAL but I think the case can be made that the export of NSOs software is against US law and a violation of the Wassenaar Arrangement. See: 5D002.C.1

So in theory if Israel is allowing one of its companies to break US law then it would make sense to use that as a basis to stop aid to Israel which may be what OP is alluding to.
Dishwasher detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy
I've been using Kivy for internal business programs for 2 years. There are some quirks and limitations, but IMO no more than you get with any other mobile stack. The big differences are that it bundles python packages with it, meaning you have access to hundreds of thousands of libraries via pip, and the design and iteration time are ridiculously low.

The downsides of Kivy are also the downsides of python; there is almost no design enforcement, no typing; if you want to do something stupid and dangerous, you're free to do so with no warnings, and you may not know it's stupid and dangerous. These are usually made up for by the large amount of time you'll have for testing, since you won't spend all the time you normally would fighting the IDE, toolchain, compiler, etc.

The part I like most about Kivy is that it's cross platform, android, ios, windows, Linux, mac, with almost no changes other than OS semantics like paths. I've built 5 large projects this year with it, mostly for custom CNC and motion control applications.
It's a solar powered Raspberry Pi!

<sub>Behind CloudFlare which is not solar powered and does most of the work sending stuff to clients.</sub>
I'm glad you had the confidence to tell your coworker that ultimately your time working on the AC unit will make you a more well rounded (and more productive) worker in the long run.

Enjoyed your story. Reminds me to keep working on things outside my comfort zone.
The fact of the matter is that any media platform where the cost of production is minimal is going to have shit power laws.

Why? Isn't that a function of "the algorithm" which can be changed?
Progress is no Facebook/Google/Microsoft, but it's good that there's someone actively working on the framework. Shame they haven't tried to market NativeScript as an alternative to React Native.

At least it's better known that other random enterprise cross-platform solutions that seem to exist only on SEO-optimized listicles of cross-platform solutions such as Codename One, RhoMobile, Kony, Framework7, - e.g. https://www.way2smile.ae/blog/cross-platform-mobile-app-deve... (Again, what companies are actually building apps with these things?)
Search through https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-fully-rem... for NSKeyedUnarchiver.

This seems to be functionally much like Python’s pickle, Boost.Serialization, Java’s object serialization, etc. These techniques seem clever, and they are genuinely useful for prototyping and for certain applications that inherently have no security concerns, but they are not at all suitable for network use. Fundamentally, for network use, one should define a data format, an API, etc and implement it. Using object serialization is backwards — it’s writing the code and then asking a framework to magically network it, and the result is that it networks it too much.

(There are a few systems for writing code and a network protocol simultaneously that treat security as a first-class consideration. The E language comes to mind. I still wouldn’t use E objects to represent data for interoperability reasons if nothing else. But ObjC is not E, and Apple’s design is inexcusable in 2020.)
A lot of the teams inside Apple who create first-party apps like iMessage are understaffed compared to their competitors.

They should really hire more security folks. A lot of Apple's product security work seems to be outsourced to Google Project Zero.
That's because '<' needs to be followed by [!/?a-zA-Z] to be recognised as a tag start. Otherwise it is a literal '<'.

The full details are in here somewhere: https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110113/tokenization.ht...
There has only been 1 day this year that I think falls into this category (and only one or two last year as well).

They are almost all algorithm based rather than math based.
> Most other non-garbage-collected languages would do the trick, like Rust or C++

Only as long as you avoid any fancy libraries that do a lot of the work for you.

Granted you can use fancy libraries in C too...
I'd hardly say it relies _heavily_ on obscure math tricks. Typically there's one or two days which require, perhaps, an undergraduate level of math which people would likely get in an intro class during a CS degree.

Most of the problems are around searching a space for some solution or just simulating some state changes. Recent problems involved implementing a higher dimensional version of Conway's game of life[0], a simple arithmetic expression evaluator [1], or a simulator for a simple number game[2] e.g.

The most recent one[3] involves solving a jigsaw puzzle by using a simple backtracking search (or any number of other methods). It's a bit complex, but not reliant on a particular math trick.

The vast majority of the problems in advent of code shouldn't require any math tricks, though they're often complex and involved, particularly as the month goes on.

[0] https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/17

[1] https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/18

[2] https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/15

[3] https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/20
plenty of people think fried chicken is healthy

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%83%98%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B7%...
Pick only one: freedom or censorship. If you don’t prioritize optimizing for freedom, why bother with something like this? Just use Reddit. It’s a lot easier to implement and (I imagine) to use.

Probably the ideal end state for services like this is to aggressively filter your own feed, not to censor the service itself.
For some biological neural nets, one would imagine the loss function just being nearly completely genetic. That is, both the weights are ultimately stored in the genetic code the same way any other cell differentiation information is stored, and were converged on in the first place by random mutations being more or less fit for their ecological niche. Particularly this could explain the relatively fixed function components like our V1 and V2 regions, our motor region, and probably the entire nervous system of simpler animals.

Basically in a lot of cases evolution takes the place of back proposition, and large structures are what we'd call inference only without learning. Doesn't make them any less of neural nets.
There's nothing "drastically different" about capsules networks.
The Global Meteor Network wiki page was extremely helpful as well: https://globalmeteornetwork.org/wiki
agreed - but what's the equivalent of this boiler plate? One that traps errors, and sets up basics with no dependencies?
> single human brain can often do in ~15Watts

There were similar arguments when AlphaGo showed up and beat master Go player Lee Sedol, but is power(in Watt) the right measurement? I always feel like it should be the total energy(in J or Cal) required to transform a computing device like biological brain or electrical computer from knowing nothing to being capable of a skill like Go game. In such sense, deep learning is still more energy efficient than human.
"The Perfect Spy" - both in book form and UK mini series, are both exceptional and Le Carre's most autobiographical work. His father was a real con man, grifting people for a a living, as was the main character's father in the book. It really is an amazing read, I read it twice just to fully understand it, and the TV version makes things a little more understandable.

Think about it - who could possibly be a more perfect double agent than the son of a con man?
Fellow physicist? No, more engineering but the username was inspired from distant memories of having to get my head around the mathematics of David H's famous space! And I've always been a fan of Douglas Adams and the similarly-inspired Red Dwarf (right, that's a category and now I'm classified). ;-)
The same article is available on a fossil fuel powered server too, no annoying backdrops:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stoppe...
Econet!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econet
Covert Action is on GoG. While you’re there I also recommend Spycraft the Great Game, also a great “spy adventure” game.
Firefox 85 will improve privacy with network partitioning feature
> All Android phones are Google phones.

Convention dictates that "Google phones" specifically means e.g., Nexus/Pixel devices.

Fortunately, if you're unwilling to distinguish between hardware and software, there's already a very convenient and unambiguous term for mobile devices that run Google's OS. In fact, you just used it in the same sentence!
I often think the people who talk loudly and overly-much about the US’s endemic racism have never travelled abroad much to witness what the rest of the world is really like (looking at you, Japan). It’s a product of an education curriculum that is hyper-focused on the misdeeds of the US. While the misdeeds need attention the view completely lacks an honest accounting of how amazing the state of this 325m culturally heterogenous society is compared to.. throw a dart at the world map.
Interesting - I felt this way about Project Euler, which within the first few problems was exactly as you described - heavy mathematical literacy. I haven't gotten far into an Advent of Code since 2015 (~18 days), but have done the first 5 days of 2020; no mathematical literacy needed.

For 2015, and 2020 so far - its mostly text parsing, data structure building and basic iteration/permutations.
Before the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
I guess evolved instinctive or subconscious behaviour - (INB4 someone says "mirror neurons" and then someone else replies "mirror neurons do not work that way!") but you know how watching youtube videos of people getting hurt in hilarious fashion causes us to wince? Like that.
I don't think it's a fantasy.

The N9 had a very good reception, and with Nokia's prestige and loyal customer base it would have been possible to compete against the iPhone. The N9 built on top of the N700 series, which was launched ahead of the iPhone. It was essentially Debian running in your pocket. It already had a huge "app store", all Linux repositories. Polishing this was not that hard, given that they also controlled Qt. Qt also meant a simple migration path for Symbian applications.

People don't realize how mature the N9 was. Read some reviews. Their maps application had incredibly good offline coverage and offline routing in 2011. So good, I've been using it for that purpose till 2020 as nothing compares. Mind that Google Maps still licenses lots of mapping data from Navteq, which was Nokia's mapping spinoff.

Aside from this, even if they wanted to go with Windows Mobile, it sounds like a really bad strategic move not to have a backup. Especially because going with Windows Mobile was a bigger gamble, which ended up failing spectacularly. Going ahead with the N9 didn't use many resources. Windows Mobile devices by Nokia would eventually reuse the same hardware. Why not selling both.
+ I'm wary of these things being pop culture memes, and having weird expectations of people. 'Rain Man' all over again.

+ I wonder if people with these 'differences' really at the end of the day just have 'different viewpoints'.

If 'everyone' were autistic a person that we might consider to be 'normal' ... would literally be an 'empath' - someone with uncanny magical powers to read emotions. That person would probably seem 'innovative' for having such a worldview.
Superconducting, for instance: https://phys.org/news/2020-02-superconductivity-graphene.htm...

I do agree that the submitted link is light on proposed applications for this phenomena
When I submit recent duplicates I'm usually redirected to the original discussion. It didn't happen this time so I assumed I was the first user to bring it up.
Thank you.

Can you comment on how reliable it is?

It seems to have a limit of 24 users, and says it might not work on mobile past 10 users.
The Japanese blow my mind sometimes. Their attention to detail, their uncompromising attitude to everything they do.
What are your thoughts on the Pinephone?

What would a reasonable goal for success look like? How can it be achieved? What would cause it to fail?
A Microsoft executive accidentally exposed one of the ugly truths of tech
It's still around as RISC OS Open:

https://www.riscosopen.org/content/
did it work at the end? I want to make a crypto trading bot seems simpler than stock one
I wonder what percentage of kids age 8-12 want to become a professional athlete. I bet it's at least 100-1000x than the amount of job opening at the "can make a full time income" level.

In that case it's mostly the parents that subsidize the lifestyle up until college level.
SISEA: The end of free expression on the web
Project Euler is very specifically a website that requires both math knowledge and programming ability. It's designed to expose people to difficult math concepts, while advent of code is mostly explicitly for programmers.
Israel is not a signatory of the Wassenaar Arrangement, and I'm not sure how that would work under the law mentioned. Either way, it would be rather targeted enforcement considering what the Hacking Team apparently did with Italy signing the agreement.
500W? That's an absurd amount of heat. I suppose they don't make 75W GPUs anymore (I'll replace my 1050Ti when they do), but still...
6 times many things will probably have people react to things they have zero reaction at normal amounts. 6 times the alcohol, 6 times the salt, 6 times the capsicum yet they all consume it just fine at 1x, same as MSG.
Even if there were illegal content, couldn’t it be distributed and encrypted on the host machines in such a way that there would be no liability for hosters? Imagine the hosts only possess encrypted file fragments, rather than unencrypted whole files, that get served in a peer to peer fashion on demand.
Not for my purposes I am afraid. SIC codes tell you very little about what a modern company does. Oracle for instance has SIC Code 7371 - Computer Programming Services.
Thank you very much for taking the time to go through my problem and even offer help!

Actually training under real/mocked interview settings is something I haven't done before, I will prioritise that from now on because it does sound like something that would take that stress off.

I really appreciate that you are taking the time to help and won't be a bother via e-mail. Will keep it saved and let you know when I do finally succeed. :)
The question, why does not streaming sites for music and video have the problem where someone use a stolen credit cards, download all the premium content, and redistribute on your own site?

I would even assume that this is actually happening pretty regularly with different piracy scenes. If you want to rip content with as minimum amount of traceability, identity theft (cc fraud under a different name) would be high on the list. Afterward people can just copy the copies.

The question then is why would it be different for porn?
Someone once posted a website they made in the HN comments that filtered Craigslist/Ebay for the exact old style laptops to reuse... does anyone remember what that was, or what it was called? Was a very nice way to keep on top of the offerings in a region without having to keep track of all the keywords.
Hugh Laurie as the super villain? Hell yes. It was fantastic, and JLC has a cameo in it as well.
Ah yes the modern version of original sin.
would love to hear more if you'd be willing.
Cyberpunk Apology Generator
That raspberry pi 400[1] seems to partially fit the bill for me. Hook up a USB monitor if you want to have the laptop aspect since those sometimes have an internal battery. Some sort of trackpad etc.

I'm sure, with enough enthusiasm, someone could have a workable laptop for basic tasks like writing or video. For those with less enthusiasm, don't underestimate the power of duct tape.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400/
> This was absolutely a central principle of the revolution. The objections to taxation by Parliament rested on the colonists' lack of representation in that body.

Right, but the replacement didn't functionally address the broad issue of consent of the governed. It replaced a government of wealthy white gentry with a wealthy white gentry in a different location. Your average American citizen didn't actually gain much, if anything, in terms of representation. Only the upper class did (which is, in many ways, the class we're arguing about).

> Perhaps at the founding of the US that was true, but Pennsylvania passed a radically democratic state constitution in 1776 that was highly innovative and unusual in many ways

And it was practically unique in that regard. The NJ constitution had a wealth requirement and, despite originally granting women and free black people the right to vote, it later rescinded those rights!

Not to mention a Constitution like South Carolinas, which required slave ownership to hold public office.

But more importantly, while the US was busy regressing from the founding principles it only halfheartedly upheld, other nations were busy drafting and creating new constitutions that better uphold those ideals. And tot he point I keep returning to: our deification of the original constitution prevents many necessary improvements in that regard.

> But it did deliver much more economic development than the old slaveocracy.

I don't think I've said otherwise. You seem to think the argument I'm making somehow relies on slavery being a lynchpin of the American economy. It doesn't. It only requires that it have been present.
I'd like to know what the dosages were before telling people that it's "all in their heads," then labeling them as racists.
I worked on a game boy emulator a while ago to learn C. I did pretty well and was able to run most games I came across just fine, but never got audio working...I just couldn't understand any of the stuff online about how it worked, and was unable to find any good resources that walked through how audio emulation in general worked, much less game boy's version.
I think apple has this reputation because even if they keep a port for 10 years, that means 20% of the people get their first apple product within 2 years of the port disappearing
Presence online is overrated.
Maybe film some display on the keyboard that changes visually with a button press? That could work for synchronizing.
not sure why you are downvoted. playing is literally an exploration strategy
I think I've seen one VP ever take the fall instead of firing an employee, and that was a principal engineer who was the VP's friend. Moral victory- but both the VP and the engineer were fired in the end.

That said, I believe this is an isolated and extremely rare incident.
So? make your own newspaper.

A newspaper (especially a privately owned one) not agreeing with you hardly amounts to suppression.
Friend of mine sent me this a few days ago.

https://www.ariehkovler.com/2020/12/a-little-vaccine-goes-a-...

> With just the 51,000 over-90s vaccinated, which is around 0.5% of Israel’s population, the total risk of fatalities from Covid-19 drops a huge 19%.

> Expanding vaccination to all over-80s would only require 273k people to be vaccinated, but would more than half the fatality risk of the virus.

> By the time we’ve vaccinated all over-70s, we’ll be up to 76% lower fatality risk with just 735,000 people vaccinated.

> For those people who are into 80-20 principles, the graph suggests that when Israel has vaccinated the most vulnerable 20% of people, the fatality risk will be reduced by 80%.
If only I could up vote this 100 times.
> There’s no way you’re going to revive an old laptop if you stick to Microsoft Windows or Apple OS because the machine would freeze instantly.

Not tech people writing about tech is so cute.
Graphene continues to impress condensed matter physics researchers. Just by taking this material made out of carbon atoms you can get superconducting states, correlated insulating states, ferromagnetism, and some others. By using field-effect-transistor-style device geometries, you can tune between these states by changing a voltage on a gate. This is a big deal, because it's much easier to change a gate voltage than it is to grow an entirely new material with a different doping level, which is usually what you need to do with other systems. The paper that this article is about is a nice measurement of the topological nature of the moire bands. It's cool stuff and could potentially be important for quantum computing, but don't forget that these devices are still extremely difficult to make.

Regardless of whether graphene has left the lab and made it into consumer electronics or not, it's still super interesting for academics.

Source: I work on this stuff.
cvs, not svn.
You provide facts while you're applying for the court to take the case.

Not having standing means you haven't argued that there is a case, since you haven't been wronged. These are transparent already - there are documents where the crackpots have shown themselves to be crackpots already. Just because you don't want to read, doesn't mean it has to be presented on your format of choice

They could also take this case to Russian courts or Canadian ones, but what exactly are you expecting them to do? Courts have a limited scope of what they rule on
A great compilation:
https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x