skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The context I replied to implied that tracking a bomber by a warning they gave would be "punishing" a "good deed". That seems dubious.

Oh yeah, sorry, I missed the context. It's a good deed, but not good enough to outweigh, you know, bombing. The recording should be traced like any other part of the bomb.
I agree, the heist angle was something that came to my mind, it would work if they somehow knew that the blast would take out the generator back up and if they knew that that C.O. only had one entrance facility or some vulnerability like that, which would mean some inside knowledge. Often C.O.'s have dual entrance vaults which it would make sense for bank alarms to be redundant, but if they got the generator or something. They went out of their way to try not to hurt anyone which seems more like maybe an Oceans 11 type heist. I guess if come Monday morning a bunch of banks have been hit we will know, but I would think that the cops are standing guard at all he banks right now. Highly unlikely but who knows.
All I want for Christmas is an urban warfare capability set
I have a friend in Vietnam. They were effectively locking people in their homes. If a Covid case was found in an apartment, the entire floor was locked down. If you didn't stay in your home, you were brought to a facility where you didn't have a choice in the matter.

And they are controlling it now by effectively locking down the country to the rest of the world. Even if you're a Vietnamese citizen you can't get back into the country without permission. And the gov't is denying permission in all but the most extreme circumstances.
No bug bounty?
Indeed, the git protocol exchanges packs.
It's just a figure of speech
There is absolutely logic in it.

If you get falsely arrested (not even convicted), you can lose your job, get deported, spend thousands trying to clear your name, or even just get shot by the police.

AI tech will have false positives.

Technology that allows officers to screen many many people at scale will result in false positive arrests (or police violence) that would not have happened otherwise.

Therefore, this technology will ruin lives. This is clearly logical.

You might be ok with that cost, I'm not. But that's a different line of debate. I believe the idea that it is a net improvement is the idea that is unbelievable and unfounded given the current trends in AI. What gives you confidence?
I didn't read the article but I do something similar.

I like to cap how long I will probably spend on a project (ranging from minutes to months) and start right before (deadline - expected duration). I find there are no issues with discipline or motivation at that point.

There are some downsides to this, but it prevents me "working" on it for months and trying to perfect it. why spend 2 months on something that I could do in a week if I wanted to.
I hope all congressional representatives and local government officials are reviewing their safety plans

I know I likely don't have to tell this to the experts out there, but it might first be advisable to have your counter terrorism guys review "all congressional representatives and local government officials". No one minds fighting a war, at the same time, no one wants to charge out of a foxhole and be shot in the back.
China completely eliminated poverty inside China
I've seen the same, but with GitHub scrapers. One is called something like HappyGit, another is called GitMemory. And a lot of times Google thinks GitMemory is the original, so the _actual_ original source (GitHub) never even appears. So then I have to go to GitHub and try to find the original myself using snippets of text. Really makes my blood boil.
On the Good e-Reader Store, I presume: https://goodereader.com/blog/product-category/smartphones

Debating on whether I should go for the A7 (https://goodereader.com/blog/product/hisense-a7-5g-e-ink-sma...) or the Light Phone II (https://www.thelightphone.com/products) - both having e-ink displays, as far as I know - as an upgrade from my SE (2016). Although, both phones do have different use-cases of course.
I know Issaquah has 'Salmon Days'
Knowledge or expertise in one field does not always transfer to another one. C.f. Ben Carson, famed neurosurgeon, thought the Pyramid's were built to store grain.
This is an artificial intelligence application of the principles described in the paper.
> Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore are all doing fine without "locking people into their homes" and they're not islands.

Malaysia shut its border with Singapore in mid-March [1], and Singapore had what I'd consider a lockdown (most businesses closed, no social gatherings allowed) between 7 April to 19 June [2].

[1] https://www.todayonline.com/8days/eatanddrink/newsandopening...

[2] https://www.gov.sg/article/ending-circuit-breaker-phased-app...
I'm an avid boardgamer and have played my fair share of 18XX games over the years, most notably 1830, 1856 and 1870.

There's a lot to like here. Stock manipulation, cross-company collusion, dumping, obsolescence, griefing and so on.

Each 18XX has rule variations, perhaps for variety or perhaps trying to resolve some downside of earlier versions. Like some variants effectively forbid pump-and-dumping stocks.

Later games allowed you to build 2 yellow tiles in a single build turn. 1830 did not allow this and it's unfortunate because it effectively makes everything but New York, Boston and Baltimore irrelevant.

Some variants included Diesels. Diesels could make unlimited stops. Other trains were limited. This could lead to some truly enormous runs and was generally positive. Other variants (eg 1870) do not have Diesels (1870 tops out at 12 trains) and the last third of the game essentially devolves into an accounting exercise as there's no real difference between any of the companies and it largely comes down to who didn't have their stock dumped so they could build a good share price.

18XX is pretty tedious. It really does need a good computer version with a decent AI. Back in the 1990s, Avalon HIll released a DOS game that was actually pretty decent. It only implemented 1830 too (but also with random maps). I wish there was an iPad version of this updated to include more variants.

Train games are a popular genre for board games. Despite all the 18XX variants for me it's not the best of the genre. That honor belongs to Age of Steam (IMHO).

Age of Steam does not have a stock market element but it is a very deep game with a mix of tactics and strategy, the ability to effectively control areas of the map, the need for planning on future expansion, debt that can cripple you and a bonus action auction mechanic that can be brutal if you don't plan carefully for how much you're willing to spend and what you need. It also has many maps with rule variants.
The database group at CMU has some great talks.
You're right. I retract my comment; it was fundamentally mistaken.
The only 5g conspiracy I’ve heard of was that Huawei and ZTE work closely with the CCP and installing infrastructure from those manufacturers may give China a grip over a huge swath of domestic communications.
Better option to find emoji short-codes for MARKDOWN?
When I was looking for emoji short-codes (e.g. :smiley:) for GitHub markup, I found some emoji cheat sheets that were not searchable and easy to use. So I built this Open Source project www.emojis.ninja where you can Search and Copy any emoji short-code with just One CLICK. Bookmark it and feel free to contribute!
Too much speculation.

Interesting that the outage started hours after the explosion. The obvious speculation is that the CO lost power after the batteries ran down, but that's not definite yet.

Are they back up? If it's just power loss, they should be by now.
> What happens if the world gets into a situation where the virus mutates rapidly and we find the vaccines becoming less effective?

This is precisely the world we're in, and which we've been in since the dawn of infectious disease.

Some viruses (in fact, some entire realms of virus) exhibit this phenomenon; they're sharp as hell for things that aren't even a full-fledged organism. But we're sharper, and we make vaccines to account for subtle mutations. Often times, we get it right, which is incredible.
> Most importantly, because I can.

Are the Linux tests deterministic, and the tests for this change will not run unless something directly affects it? If not, then I’m not a huge fan of these commits, which seem more about vanity.
AT&T only. But unclear if that would be effected, that was a wireline C.O., not sure if they also had their wireless switching there, sometimes the wireless and wireline are in different buildings.
You're not allowed to say anything nice about Trump on HN unless it is also critical of H1Bs, but I also enjoyed that speech.
Actually they are:

https://news.sky.com/story/emergency-talks-to-prevent-christ...
I always thought Pinterest was Google's site and that's why it was coming up so often.
Or at least test on lower class machines.
They do, but many of the border closures apply to both.
For the amount of people hired you would assume they had the best people.

But their hiring process is broken. They randomly hire a % of people who pass an algorithm test. It's so random that 70% of their workforce wouldn't be hired again if they had to go through that process.

The brand is so strong that people think anyone who makes it into google must be the best of the best. It's more like a random person who has studied leetcode.
That was the first app I saw! On a friends phone while I still owned a razr
You probably saw the headlines about Cellebrite claiming to have "signal decryption" capabilities, which they did, provided they had the device in hand and unlocked

https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-and-clickbait/
"a single tape cartridge with this new areal density has the potential to store about 580 terabytes (TB) of data.

Just to put that in perspective, 580 TB is equivalent to 786,977 CDs stacked 944 meters high, which is taller than Burj Kalifa, the world’s tallest building"
I wonder what other crimes have stochastic forms... could violent video games be stochastic murder, if among the thousands of players there is one disturbed person who might be inspired by depictions of violence to act violently? Could songs glorifying violent lifestyles also be called stochastic crime? Folk songs glorifying cartels come to mind. If an unrealistic war movie inspires teenagers to join the army, might the producers of that movie have some share of the blame for the actions undertaken by that army?

Where is the line drawn between stochastic crimes and free speech?
super interesting find...(quite literally) elephants are beautiful creatures, and amazing, majestic ones too. Please stop killing them for ivory.
I am just part way through your story, but so far: Nice!

The maps are a really good idea, sets the mood and context for the story.
> listen to evidence beyond anecdotes from her own life

One of her previous articles has 150+ comments: https://tessa.substack.com/p/great-reset-dummies
Facebook.

Wow, four people guessed (or trolled) framebuffer. Interesting.
Can't help but wonder if this restriction applies to Sidney Tores' private, off-duty, but uniformed police force that runs rampant over the French Quarter, Marigny, lower Treme and parts of the CBD.

I'd expect not, but this city has trained it's citizens to keep an extra eye out for the corruption.
The company claiming to have broken Signal was simply pulling the database of messages off of an unlocked phone. It’s definitely not a hack and the blog post has since been heavily retracted.
Wild theory:

In the majority of European countries some form of partial/selective lockdown strategy was adopted. By in large kindergartens and primary schools have remained open.

So far the official communication was that children/toddlers could not develop severe symptoms (We now know it's not quite true) could not be a meaningful transmission source (low viral load?).

What if the new strain evolved from the selective pressure of the opportunity of kids being a vector between locked-down households?
Where did you end up? And did you feel your quality of life improve?
wow this is super cool, will be considering doing this...
Is it ground hog day already?
Well playing a warning and picking a time and place to minimize casualties is some kind of redeeming. It would certainly be worse if they tried to kill people, picking a crowded place and time.
Gas lines don't typically go out due to outright outages for these types of situations, but I've experienced multiple outages in the past few years due to the grid not being able to accommodate the surge of demand during large power outages.

It's even worse/ more likely to happen for hurricanes, when natural gas wells and pipelines are shut-in in anticipation of the weather.
K&R rightly gets lots of attention, but the C64 Programmer's Reference Guide, David Lien's BASIC manual for the TRS-80 Model I, and the 1981 IBM PC Technical Manual are in the pantheon of great "How to program/design for your new computer" documentation that influenced uncounted thousands of eager hobbyists.
I've probably used 2 dozen IDEs over the entire time I've been writing code. But Dev-cpp will ALWAYS have a special place.
I have found myself concerned about this as well (and thinking about what decision-making for parents must have been like in late summer when this characteristic started to become evident).

Ask yourself: if you're that parent, do you wish that your kid had already been exposed and run a complete course of the virus prior to this mutation?

It seems obvious that the answer is 'yes', and, at least to my way of thinking, is an indictment of the purely horizontal approach to pandemic control so far displayed by states.
>“We have to tear down the dams”

Surely there must be another possible solution that more
Closely mimics the river before the dams were built ?
Acetaminophen (Tylenol; Panadol) Linked to Risk-Taking Behavior
Matrix.

I also think we'll see much more fun ARM based SBC going forward. The raspberry pi 4 was already powerful enough to be useful & it's only going to get better.
Just to point out, there do seem to be certain (niche) fields where Patents can be kept "secret". eg National Security, Nuclear, (etc) type of things:

https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-thousands-of-secret...
And I assumed the problem was either marketing or profit-driven corporations.
This feels very similar to the Metcalf attack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack

If I were to speculate, this feels like it could be a test of response before further action. If they wanted to kill people at AT&T, the HQ is only a few blocks away. This seems very... crafted for an attack.
looks nice. that's a lot of work. what was your motivation for this?
Of course:

https://www.history.org.uk/primary/resource/3865/anglo-saxon...
I'll settle this;

Salmon, butterflies and squirrels are all dumb as hell.

What they are is incredibly well adapted to reproduce and survive on this crazy planet!
Chop down 98% of american indigenous forests to make room for homes, drain all the wetlands in socal for gold miners. But all no we can't have clean power cus of some fishis that my tribe that originally owned that land didn't even care about.
https://www.history.org.uk/primary/resource/3865/anglo-saxon...
> I always thought that one of the big purposes of "sudo" is to prevent operator errors.

Good point.

> As for secure console, you can do this today! Make sure "k" is enabled in magic sysrq flags

Thanks. I thought I was SysRq-literate as I frequently use the key for OOM killer, emergency sync and reboot. But it appears I was too ignorant to know the SAK. Just learned something new today.
The linked article mentions anarchists opposed to the pipeline in British Columbia. I see nothing about Antifa.
Another detail:

The police force is 50+% black, fwiw. Not saying that there isn't systemic racism, but there's proper racial representation on the force.

(Gender equality us another story, but I expect that they have a lot of trouble recruiting women for the job)
You double click the icon. And then you start typing code. Visual Studio has never been quite that fast.

It may not have as comprehensive a feature set as VS. But it's an excellent hackable IDE for enthusiasts.
For one because you want a society that isn’t purely optimized for immediate earning potential as breakthroughs and advances that push society forward can come from multiple areas. And for another perhaps you want to be able to provide the opportunity to study a subject regardless of whether you can pay for it outright or not.
Does it even have legitimate users? It seems to be a spam farm.
My theory is just a suicide, where the person did not want to hurt or kill anybody else, but wanted the notoriety. Additionally my theory is current or ex military who did it. Terrorist attack does not make any sense.

For what's it's worth, I live in Nashville.
There has been debate on policy decisions in NY which sent recently discharged Covid patients into nursing homes:

https://fee.org/articles/how-states-turned-nursing-homes-int...
It's called "wood".

Trees are 90-95% air. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen. Here's Feynman explaining this.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/ITpDrdtGAmo
Survival rates are high going downstream, can the salmon get back upstream or are there no fish ladders past some point?
NIH is working on it, but it’s taking a backseat to covid
I am really looking forward to this product and the subsequent evolution of the tech: https://lookingglassfactory.com/

I would love a large screen version of it with an array of cameras that would allow people to communicate in some sort of futuristic FaceTime experience.
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It is pretty nuts that a single physical location can bring down a state's worth of 911, and cellular.

It is either institutional incompetence, or malice, or laziness.
>be so ready to fight for whats clearly an indefensible position

I really fail to see this as a reasonable expectation of dialogue and exchange of ideas if you're so cemented in your views.
There are mask studies with different conclusions:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/do-masks-stop-the-spread...

https://rationalground.com/post-thanksgiving-mask-charts-sti...
Super cool, even though it’s showing 33:40 at the moment :-)
Zuck could potentially swing an election.

Xi can simply dictate the results.
If you hold one finger in place and rotate the other around, it works. It’s a bit more subtle than the default iOS rotate gesture. If both fingers move during the rotation it gets confused with the zoom. I found the best way is to hold my middle finger static and rotate with my thumb. The opposite (holding thumb static) was much harder.
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I have benefited from reading your article.
Thank you very much.
https://piceditorreview.com/how-much-does-lightroom-cost/
You and I have different opinions about how humans will interact with complex computer systems.

I believe humans will go, "well, the computer says you are so and so, and it's almost always right, so I'm going to need to take you in."

I've called customer service call centers and been told, "well the computer says...". If you think that the police would operate any differently, I don't know what to say.

Communities like police are poorly trained, minimally invested, and operate without oversight. They are typically overworked and just trying to close as many cases as they can.

Heck, even well educated people fall victim to this. We just had a front page story about administrators failure to deploy covid vaccines to frontline medical staff because "the algorithm made a bad choice".
Show HN: EndBASIC 0.4 – A web BASIC interpreter written in Rust
Hello everyone!

For a few years, I have been thinking about how to teach coding to my young kids and I have routinely reminisced my own experience of 30+ years ago. For me, it all stared with the "simple" Amstrad CPC 6128 computer and its interactive BASIC language, and I think such a limited environment was pretty good in teaching me the fundamentals.

Based on that, I set up a Raspberry Pi with DOSBox and QuickBASIC 4.5 for them, and they were actually quite interested in what they could achieve. But it felt a bit clunky for this day and age, especially because this did not work on a tablet so they had to be tied to a desk they are not used to.

Back in March, when the COVID quarantine started in NYC, the thought crossed my mind: "how hard can it be to build my own BASIC interpreter?". As it turns out: not a lot but also not so little! Since then, I have been churning some code in my very limited spare time and have come up with a BASIC interpreter in Rust that is somewhat usable.

The interpreter runs on pretty much any system (tested on Linux, macOS, and Windows), and, thanks to Rust's WASM target, also runs on the web. This latter part is really the most exciting part as is what allows the interpreter to be drive-tested by anyone with ease and makes it run on the iPad the kids use.

Just today, I published the 0.4 release so I thought of posting this announcement. It's still pretty incomplete, but it now has a few built-in demos included. If you try it out, there is code "right there" that you can edit and play with to get a sense of what this thing can do.

Without further ado:

* Release announcement: https://jmmv.dev/2020/12/endbasic-0.4.html

* Live interpreter: https://endbasic.jmmv.dev/

* Project page: https://github.com/jmmv/endbasic/

Enjoy and merry Xmas if that's your thing!
Disaster Radio work & goals are impressive, I've seen it previously here on HN.

As I've mentioned in my previous comment, I'm exploring the possibility of connecting remote areas without any connectivity through a LoRA mesh-network to the closest Internet center.

Would the Disaster Radio setup work for exchanging small text messages? What has been your experience with it.
> Given what little we know, targeting the AT&T infrastructure could be a reasonable guest a motive.

This is all I meant. Not meaning to spread conspiracies or misinformation. One article (have to find the source) stated that one of the main buildings hit was owned by AT&T and of course the HQ is there. Maybe it's related, maybe not. Just trying to make sense of the situation with limited information.
Similar. I ate xmass dinner at a gas staion because the restarants, even the drive throughs, were closed.
> Low code. There's two types: Writing less code, and cutting the lines of code in the code stack. The latter involves writing more code, and is a response to the low code trends so far.

This is huge, watch this space.
Voat Has Shut Down
Sound like you need a marketing co-founder :-)
you'll be ok
I’m still bullish on AR once Apple launch Glass in early ‘22.

Having a real-life videogame HUD with a blue marker showing my next destination sounds fantastic.
I guess. I'm just sad I lived to see a second legit terrorist attack on American soil. I remember being in 8th grade when sept11 happened.
This new fangled technology is incredible. I visited one of these "tree stores" and I do admit the smell of the tree section was quite pleasing.