skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, but making statements like these will just open you up to attacks from sophisticated CCP operatives and their allies.

One very popular talking point is that mass incarceration in America has resulted in quadrupling of the prison population, putting millions of - mostly black - people behind bars. This is America's version of Uighur internment camps.

Let's not even get started on the hundreds of thousands of deaths America has been responsible for around the world.

It's hard to deny that - at least in the last 50 years (i.e. carefully avoiding Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution) - America has probably spread more misery and death around the world than China.

However. The thing that I think is important to push on, is that in America, and in other free countries, there is open dialog on these issues. Reporters report on war crimes, millions take to the streets to protest, people take their leaders to account, politicians are voted out.

Granted, history has shown that we have not been very successful at stopping these injustices, despite freedom of the press and democracy... But could they have been even worse without those freedoms? Yes. We know this because we can look at the awful record of authoritarian regimes in the 20th century.

So I think it's more effective to not take the bait and pretend that the west is nowhere near as bad... Instead focus on the accountability that democratically-elected governments in free societies have, as opposed to single-party states like the PRC.
Interesting. I remember playing some Linux clone of Spacewar as a kid, but back then I never understood how to work with gravity.

Right now, I've spent few minutes trying to play it as if I was playing Kerbal Space Program. Boost a bit to not fall directly into the star, then burn prograde at the highest point and retrograde at the lowest point to circularize a somewhat tight orbit, and then keep shooting at things.
Python is exceptionally bad at recursion. Binary search isn't the most egregious use case, as the call depth is logarithmic... but the call overhead is hefty and recursive algorithms are generally bad practice because of the low ceiling.
No, I expect you to read the paper before you accuse the researchers of bad faith.

Here, allow me to spoon feed you the results of a 1 second google search for the paper's title and authors: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337753937_Evaluatin...

Now: what evidence do you have of cherry picking on the part of the authors? You raised the issue, you questioned the integrity of the researchers, so it's your burden to show that there was cherry picking.

Actually, here, let me spoon feed you even more. Here are the first 2 paragraphs of the methods section:

> We conducted a literature search to identify papers published prior to the early‐1990s that include climate
model outputs containing both a time series of projected future GMST (with a minimum of two points in
time) and future forcings (including both a publication date and future projected atmospheric CO2 concentrations, at a minimum). Eleven papers with 14 distinct projections were identified that fit these criteria.
Starting in the mid‐1990s, climate modeling efforts were primarily undertaken in conjunction with the
IPCC process (and later, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Projects, CMIPs), and model projections were
taken from models featured in the IPCC FAR (1990), Second Assessment Report (SAR‐IPCC, 1996), Third
Assessment Report (TAR‐IPCC, 2001), and Fourth Assessment Report (AR4‐IPCC, 2007).

> The specific models projections evaluated were Manabe, 1970 (hereafter Ma70), Mitchell, 1970 (Mi70),
Benson, 1970 (B70), Rasool & Schneider, 1971 (RS71), Sawyer, 1972 (S72), Broecker, 1975 (B75), Nordhaus,
1977 (N77), Schneider & Thompson, 1981 (ST81), Hansen et al., 1981 (H81), Hansen et al., 1988 (H88), and
Manabe & Stouffer, 1993 (MS93). The energy balance model projections featured in the main text of the
FAR, SAR, and TAR were examined, while the CMIP3 multimodel mean (and spread) was examined for
the AR4 (multimodel means were not used as the primary IPCC projections featured in the main text prior
to the AR4). Details about how each individual model projection was digitized and analyzed as well as assessments of individual models included in the first three IPCC reports can be found in the supporting information

Do you still want to accuse these researchers of bad faith?
Not disagreeing, but want to add that while AT&T may not mark their exchanges, their exchanges aren't exactly hard to spot. There are several characteristics which identify them easily. Anyone who's had one or two pointed out to them could find similar exchange in thousands of other cities.
Additionally the serial killer (character) in "Hannibal" who integrates fungi in his murders is named Stamets.
Sadly, the dative is "ei" rather than "eo".
Bump. From wikipedia: In 2011, it was #8 on Apple's list of all-time most popular free iPhone apps, and by February 2013 it had been downloaded 125 million times

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_(application)
This is for an audio recorder by Zoomcorp which is different from the famous Zoom Video Communications company.
Author also wrote a book on Tiny Core Linux http://tinycorelinux.net/book.html, seems fitting.
One-cut upgrades do date back to that era. The change from an IBM 1130 with a 6 us cycle time to a 3 us cycle time was minimal. Indeed the machine had to run at 3 us to drive the printer; if you never cleared the printer interrupt you got a free upgrade.
Readers may also find this review of methods of building salmon-friendly dams interesting:

https://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/pdf-content/mf...
> E Ink is a great example of how the patent system stifles innovation.

I don't see how this is an obvious fact. I don't even see how this is a valid example.

> every comment in this thread is looking forward to finally seeing some innovation in this space "once the patents expire

It is telling, very telling that when asked, none of those comments are even able to describe which patent it is that is blocking "innovation in this space".

Here's the facts.

The physics of bistable displays is complex.
Many have tried with very different technologies. Electrowetting. Interferometric. Other types of electrophoretic. Electrochemical.

The investors in all of these realized it was too expensive to get it to the finish line. Even Amazon decided to trash Liquavista.

The truth is that investors would rather invest in some new consumer internet service, or AI/ML, which is a simpler problem that will give a quicker return on their money rather than try to create a bistable display solution.

If you go to SID, you'll see that there's tonnes of startups that try to solve the "fast" or "color" bistable display chalenge, and they all fail due to fundamental physics problems and burn out their funding. That's also probably why E Ink isn't able to get past their limitations.

I genuinely hope this helps people understand that this is not "patent system stifles innovation".
>The right always does; that's why it's a regressive, self-destructive faction

Thanks for the informed opinion
Good point! It's tough: what's good for the individual may not be best for society at large. Thanks to those who do endure and engage in a positive way with the genuine intent to make a difference. It's surely not easy in the environment we have today.
OCSP stapling always felt a little hacky to me. It feels like just having super short lived certificates but with extra steps. Why not just have super short lived certificates instesd?
I can’t decide which i like more: Figure 1, or the authors’ contact information (and pointed lack thereof in the case of one notable name).
He was a Thiel Fellow.

http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/why-a-20-year-old-toronto-drop-ou...
Yeah, it's on-par with LCDs from about 20 years ago.
Very interesting idea.

You might like the book Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. https://www.amazon.com/Design-Rules-Vol-Power-Modularity/dp/...

I'm going to ponder how to design the game artifacts.
Somebody can be part of the problem and also be right about something.

Call it "accidentally right" if you need to deprive them from the merit of being right. But let's not turn facts and logic into collateral damage of a fight that happens at a different level.
Killed after the team was aquihired by Google.

https://blog.bu.mp/post/71781606704/all-good-things
Deinit didn't work?

And that's the only issue you had with them?
When I did their process a few years ago, there was a fairly challenging online quiz that could obviously be gamed by (say) having a more knowledgeable friend looking over your shoulder and giving you answers. If your score was above X, you were invited for a live (in person or video) interview. That one would have been harder to game. If you didn't score high in enough areas, they told you what areas to brush up on and I think there was a 1 month wait before you could try again. So you had to be pretty strong to get through this phase (I got through).

It sounds to me like they must have since lowered the bar for getting through the process, so weaker candidates now get through; and at the same time, it sounds from other comments that they must have stopped having the interviews done by real engineers (which was expensive). So it sounds like they have become just another recruiting agency. That is disappointing. My initial experience with them was great. I do feel slimed by something that happened later but will see if I can talk to Ammon about that.

I agree that the public profile thing was outrageous. I put it off to the intoxicating effect that money has on business people, that makes them do idiotic things if they think that might get them more of it. We programmers get similarly intoxicated by (say) access to fast enough computers, so I didn't stay angry after the error was fixed.
> “I think the pilot crisis that the planet is facing is real,” Neumann said. “You know it’s a very global world and airplanes are critical, but there’s just not enough pilots…”

I’ve heard this for years. And yet I’ve also seen what new pilots get paid slogging it on regionals before they can make it into the majors. And it just doesn’t add up. There are clearly enough pilots to treat and pay them like dirt.
A fallacy can not identify when something is not the truth. A fallacious statement is not a necessary result of the argument that led to it, but it can still be completely true.

There’s even a fallacy about it! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
There use to be an easy way to configure your account to always block certain domains, but that's gone now, so you have to use -site per-query. Maybe there are browser plugins that help? I miss the old functionality. I only had to block about a dozen sites to get great search results. Maybe it'd be less viable now; I'd probably have to block hundreds or thousands of sites, and they'd keep breeding new ones.
Given what little we know, targeting the AT&T infrastructure could be a reasonable guest a motive.

The blast itself didn’t seem to take the hub offline; there was a broken water main followed by AT&T being refused access to the building by emergency response. It appears that things started cascading a few hours later, presumably once the generator fuel was exhausted.
There’s no way that’s true. I’d be surprised if even 1% of the Google users paid attention to the source site underneath the image.

And you’d think people with a Pinterest account would opt to search on their website/app rather than going through Google (thus making it even more unlikely that the Google user has a Pinterest account).
When 70 million people still vote for another 4 years however...
I agree, striving to find a single great Truth and convince everyone of it does sound like a losing battle. Luckily this is neither desirable or necessary.

Ascertaining the small-t truth of individual beliefs is useful insofar as it enables you to better achieve things you want to do with tangible results in the real world. There is no need to convince anyone of anything in this endeavor, because they can observe the results for themselves.
machine-learning powered linux ports?
It was IRIX, not Linux, but UNIX GUI’s were memory hungry (more than their windows counterparts).

The SGI Indy which could be had with an R4000 CPU came with 16MB base
Into the Spider-Verse is leaving Netflix, it plays into 2020’s streaming problem
This is right up there with `The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of "writer's block"` [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311997/?page=1
I definitely think the computing / information security mindset is relevant and applicable to computational biology. There are sadly structural reasons why the crossover is very hard. I spent 18 months at a university doing this kind of research but it is not a natural fit. Also, I do have to tell you, I spent 10 years studying this stuff before I became useful to the field. So you don't just jump in there :-)
Show HN: Android ViewBinding Helper for Activity, Fragment and ViewHolder
I think I gave arguments for all of the "No"s except for the founder effect, which I'd just discussed in another message of this thread so it seemed redundant to do that again.

Just how much detail were you hoping for?
I’m sure I’ll just be told how stupid and wrong I am... but I like colors for coding. I think it’s important to quickly see keywords vs variables vs functions vs comments vs preprocessor.
Is the FirstNet network only run by AT&T or by other providers as well?
What an incredible interview, a captivating speaker; I always enjoyed and looked forward to his performances, part show-off, part intellectual, occasionally petulant, always erudite; but this is the first time I've really warmed to his humanity as well as his intellect.

Beautiful, thanks for submitting it.
Thanks for this link, a lot of valuable insight in those 17 tweets!

I share your opinion.
Very cool, very well done.

I purchased the shure mv88 for iPhone. Great mic, but the patterns / settings can only be modified with the official motive app. Making it pretty limited.

It’s 2020 and you’re selling hardware. Why not open source the software / interface ffs!
Exhausting but satisfying. Design and engineering have overlapping process and goals. Performance, problem solving, structure, creativity, experimentation... Unfortunately I've seen many who want to be both but are a master of none.
Ah, makes sense. Thanks a lot for clarifying.
I chuckled a bit when I clicked on your link and got a browser warning that crl cannot be downloaded securely over http.
I think you can very slowly peek and poke those hidden bits through the RDRAM test registers. Half the MMIO seems to be intended for board test via the CPU's A/D bus being twiddled via it's boundary scan.
Sensible call on the generator fuel. Thanks for thinking of it.
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. - John von Neumann

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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gametheory.asp

[..] Game theory is a theoretical framework for conceiving social situations among competing players. In some respects, game theory is the science of strategy, or at least the optimal decision-making of independent and competing actors in a strategic setting. The key pioneers of game theory were mathematician John von Neumann and economist Oskar Morgenstern in the 1940s. Mathematician John Nash is regarded by many as providing the first significant extension of the von Neumann and Morgenstern work.[..]
It isn't the only thing that matters.
What I’ve seen discussed is that closing borders only works if it’s done totally and immediately. Otherwise, it just slows response and causes super spreader events like we saw early this year in the US.
I think it was the first time I really went through an "epic" story and digged every emotion about it. Almost like a coming of age.
No, there are not disparagement clauses in the US tech industry, and if any company has them then they deserve to be utterly roasted from now until the end of time. Please make HN posts about each company with a disparagement clause so everyone here knows which companies to avoid. It'll be the easiest Internet points you'll ever make, and you'll be doing a public service.
The title requires context - although given recent events we can infer that it is referring to the specific mutation seen in the UK. This particular mutation is of note since it has postulated as being more transmissible than other variants.
Nobody can predict the future value of pretty much anything, yet trading happens all the time.

To improve the predictive capability of the USPTO, they could host a bidding process in which other companies can participate.
Sigh, this old canard again.
Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore are all doing fine without "locking people into their homes" and they're not islands.

(Ok, Singapore technically is an island but it's connected to Malaysia by the world's busiest border crossing; and Thailand's grappling with a new outbreak now but it seems to be improving.)
Assimilated: A LaunchBar 6 theme that looks like Big Sur
Shame on everyone for not sticking with their Apple 2s.
> Linking directly to the image file (and in fact a cached version of the full image) is one of the best reasons to use DDG.

That’s possible thanks to Microsoft’s Bing API. I’m surprised Getty (who’s afaik responsible for Google removing direct image links) only went after Google and not Microsoft.
This comment reminds me of a tweet I saw years ago, that roughly said "programmers read posts like a compiler: stopping immediately & printing an error when they see something they disagree with"

Read the very next couple of sentences in my original comment.
You think the search team runs an experiment once per 3 months to test how their algorithm ideas impact earnings?
They can if they have supporting Salmon Cannons![1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3ZyGlqUkA
News about the bombing for those who hadn’t heard yet https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/25/downto...
Most probably the devs know how to do it but specs written by someone else told them to obfuscate useful functionality.
If that's the idea, isn't it easier to just show random junk? Why pinterest?
I regard all distributed systems not written in a BEAM language with suspicion. Just seems a bit weird not to use a tech stack designed specifically for your problem. It's not everything, of course, but it's definitely a strike against a project
I never thought about it but one day AI will port itself to another device. That’s a crazy thought.
What is a good rpi alternative with good software / distro support that supports on board mSATA or M.2 boards vs. SD cards?
That's more than plenty.

(It won't be running Gtk4 or Qt6 of course.)
One of the best reads I had in months. Please do more like these.
Netflix should just buy Sony's film/tv division. Sony's been looking to sell and Netflix is looking to invest.
It would be interesting economics to revisit this now with much lower interest rates, higher labour costs and very different plant costs due to changes in technology and lower cost manufacturing of some of the components.
Costs Matter: Some Examples
Where you went wrong is by wanting a way to quickly and easily disqualify your opponents objections, so you took out this concept of bulverism instead of looking at whether there may be some thruth to it.
> So does anyone who's ever used Mercurial, for that matter.

So I've used mercurial and git in production. The one thing that turned me off on mercurial was that branching information was stored as part of the commit. This led sometimes to weird conflicts where the branch list needed to be merged. Granted that's been several years ago, so it might be different now, I don't know, and with git I have no need to.

I definitely appreciate branching data being meta data outside of the branch.

Also Darcs had severe issues maybe a decade ago where merging would appear to cause infinite locking. It wasn't a coding bug, it was due to their originally flawed theory of patches. So while it may be awesome, the world has definitely moved on.

It's worth reading this from pijul:

> Did you solve the “exponential merge problem” darcs has?

> Yes, we solved the exponential merge problem. The only caveat is that Pijul does not (yet) have an equivalent of darcs replace. In other words, Pijul works in polynomial time for all patches that systems other than darcs know of. We’ve not yet thought all the theory of this through, but it might be added in the future.

So good, but polynomial time can still be large beasts computationally.
Ask HN: Account security best practices for 2021?
I have some questions about security of my various accounts:

1. What are your online accounts security best practices guidelines?

2. How often do you update your password?

3. Are all your accounts have the same password or different or differential?

4. Do you let your browser retain / save your passwords?

5. How long should a password be? Are 8-character passwords still OK?

6. Do you write your passwords on paper? If so, how do you secure that paper?

7. Is 2-factor / multi-factor authentication an absolute must or can I skip that option for accounts that allow me to skip?
No idea who those are, but assuming humans move both ways around the galaxy we are unlikely to recognize ourselves when we meet on the other side.
Psst, if you like the investigative aspect of Outer Wilds, do check out Return of Obra Dinn.

And Disco Elysium, though that is a bit more RPG-y. (no combat though, but it has stats and "character progression")
Linux has debuggers and such and people (like me) are way more familiar with its stack than whatever they had back in the day. Software development would be way easier with all of that a support infrastructure.
With such a remote target, there will be at least two generations of party leadership in mainland China (assuming the system doesn't change), with different goals and priorities. If they had announced something for within 10-15 years, I would have been more hopeful it's more than a PR attempt
It's probably not the path to greatness. I'd say it's more a way to have a basic foundation for thinking.

The thing about fallacies is that they can be persuasive. But if you recognize them for what they are, you can defend against the error.

To extend your metaphor, very few people will be masters of the violin. But it's pretty cool to play it it anyway.
Thats kinda the point I was making. Hints of large sample libraries which omnisphere is a sort of hybrid sample library and synth. It’s also a large library but it’s not the same as huge multi sample libraries that the article mentions.
Screw doom64. Time to port chocolate doom.
I came to post this. I was very impressed after seeing the recording.
This isn't me saying how people should pick their beliefs. This is me saying how people do pick their beliefs. It's an exhortation to know thyself, and to let go of the delusion that you're different. If you're stuck in the illusion that your beliefs all follow logically from some carefully-chosen first principles, you have a muddier view of the world (and yourself) than someone who hasn't put the least thought whatsoever into choosing their beliefs.
If I understand well the comment, I have the same feeling that the math of the article are wrong.

For exemple, it says that you spare money by doing the things and that this money will buy you time later.

But if you still work, and do not pay someone to do your chores, you will have to do them in week end and free time. So you lose free time now for potential free time later.

Also, it does not make any sense to compare fixed personal costs like groceries and co with the difference in costs between what you earn with your work compared to paying someone half of your salary.