skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't have actual evidence of communist agents downvoting your comments, then you're breaking the rules by posting like this. Please review and follow https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

Overwhelmingly, this stuff is just internet-style cloak-and-dagger fantasy, and cheap rhetoric. How do I know that? Because when I look at who the actual users are who make these votes, and I see they were, for example, commenting on HN about Julia in 2015, the odds that they are a communist plant round to zero. This reality is so absolutely remote from what comments like yours are insinuating that it's hard for me to believe that people are willing to go there. Yet here we are, with spies in every closet and foreign agents under every bed. The only word for this is cartoonish.

The truth is that this is a very large, very international community, with millions of users having all sorts of backgrounds and views, and they disagree on divisive topics like China. That is the extremely mundane—albeit emotionally charged—reality of what is going on here. Accusing people who hold different views of being spies and foreign agents is the fastest way to poison the community, so we don't allow it, especially when there isn't a shred of anything resembling evidence to support it.

This entire dynamic is determined by tribal identifications on both sides. That leads people to hate and ultimately want to destroy each other. That's not compatible with the value of this site, which is curiosity. People can't be curious with each other and want to destroy each other at the same time—the nervous system doesn't work that way.

If anyone wants more explanation, there are arbitrary amounts of it at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
As a software engineer who has been woken up in the middle of the night while oncall because some random user wanted to run their own performance tests against our system, I can completely understand why companies want to prevent this from happening without their awareness.
Did they claim there was some grand conspiracy? Or that they were being opposed by an oil industry funded lobby?

Interest and advocacy groups exist and make no secret of their agendas. Do these pass for conspiracies now?
And in February I was getting a lot of flack for suggesting it would be prudent to wear a mask despite what WHO CDC and other authorities were saying.
Sorry, most of the article appeared to be about that UK isn't releasing daily choline requirements so I was a little confused. It also doesn't say whether or not there's actual evidence that choline deficiency due to a vegetarian diet exists, much less is linked to something?
I opened a few random URLs from `hall-of-fame.txt` and I got a spam site, a few 404s and an about page.
>Why haven’t we as an industry been able to achieve that goal, 20 years past that mark?

Because we, as a species, have yet to create AI.

I am fine with different tests that indicate what we have done. Having those tools may help progress.

I am not OK with redefining AI because we do not yet have AI.
I had many un-used domains I've purchased over the years (>40) and I wanted to make use of them without having to spend time, so I built Newsy - launched 9 months ago.

https://www.newsy.co

It turns your un-used domain into a Reddit-like content aggregator with all sorts of features - membership, voting, comments, newsletters and monetization. The best thing for me is that it is completely automated and all of my domains are hosted on the platform. :) Not Ramen-profitable yet, but pushing it to get there.
Go on ebay and purchase a Pebble Time. Color epaper display, fully hackable even after being discontinued thanks to the dev community who continues to update it with "Rebble" the open source version of the OS it ran on.
New York borders Rhode Island in the water.

Google maps shows a border.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Long+Island+Sound/@41.3418...
The sensor needs a lot more energy. This produces two types of IR cams: actively and passively cooled.
The passive cooling is easy to take around with you but only possible with a smaller sensor.

As for the price per pixel: I don't know from memory.
I only use Windows because of a couple of tools there is no equivalent version for Linux. Unfortunately companies think there would be not enough customers to warrant development for that OS so I am kind of stuck with maintaining dedicated Windows PC. I have mixed feelings about Microsoft appropriation of Linux. Whatever they touch turns to excrement with a few exceptions.
This topic and responses to it warms my heart. :) I've made it a habit for my current project to turn changelogs into blog-like material for the end-user. The kind of changelog I would like to see from other software, especially the kind I care about.

For example: https://learn.ragdolldynamics.com/releases/2020.12.01/
OSM always worked better for me. I suspect this is going to be very location dependent.
I guess in the US Google tries really hard to get good data or maybe it is easier to get good data.
I lived in various countries in Europe, always in smaller cities and rural areas. OSM data is always more reliable for whatever reason. I noticed and was rather surprised that even my small hometown of 5000 people had multiple OSM contributors.
That’s very much an exaggeration. Pixar/Google etc can’t run on a single desktop CPU and spends a lot of money on hardware. The best estimate I have seen is it’s scale dependent. At small budgets your generally spending most of that on people, but as the budget increase the ratio tends to shift to ever more hardware.
While I appreciate the feedback, the goal of the site is to "crowdsource" the snippets, i.e. they are all user submitted, and then the public votes on whether it is "bad" or "not so bad".
My housemate was just rolling back from python 3.8 to 3.7 yesterday due to a backwards incompatible change breaking a library... it's not just 2 -> 3 that makes python relatively unstable compared to rust.
> People are kept separate

Good point. And they "self segregate" themselves too? If there're two kids, and one is a lot brighter than the other, i think both of them will tend to get frustrated when playing together or deciding what to do -- so they'll find others to play with.

Maybe this a bit applies to emotional intelligence too.

One's whole life, one a bit chooses people with similar "capabilities", without thinking about it?

And then, from time to time, one sees in the newspapers what the vastly different people do, and get surprised: can there really be such people, where are all those people
I think it's a combination of physics (wavelength is 20x larger than visual light, making optics and sensors trickier) and export control, as you could (literally) weaponize a high-res thermal camera to make an autonomous drone/missile targetting hot exhaust etc.
You have to consider that healthcare is a wealth transfer from older people to younger people because young workers are taking care of the old. It's entirely possible that what you propose is a net loss economically.
Close Tools [1] is run by one person and they're currently at $40k MRR.

[1] https://jdnoc.com/open/
That might be a good time to share my anecdote. Back in 2017 I was driving in Mexico using maps.me in offline mode (saving on ex-orbitant data roaming fees). At one point, the highway did a wide turn, and some village was tucked away in this turn.

Maps.me decided it would be a good idea to cut through the village as its main street connected two points on the bending highway like a chord. Yes, in terms of distance it was shorter, if you do not account for the allowed speed limit and conditions. I spent 10 minutes slowly crawling through the village trying not to kill any chickens. I was also low on gas and had barely enough to get to the next gas station, so I was not amused.

Since then I always triple-check maps.me routes, looking at the whole route and checking it against google maps if I have a chance.

To be fair, it has probably more to do with maps.me routing algorithm than OSM data, but it is hard to know.
Ask HN: Thoughts about Blackmail Attempt
I recently got this blackmail via email. Anyone else is getting similar emails? If yes, what did you do? Did you report it somewhere?

I know (hidden) is one of your password on day of hack..
Lets get directly to the point.

Not one person has paid me to check about you.
You do not know me and you're probably thinking why you are getting this email?
in fact, i actually placed a malware on the adult vids (adult porn) website and you know what, you visited this site to experience fun (you know what i mean).

When you were viewing videos, your browser started out operating as a RDP having a key logger which provided me with accessibility to your display and web cam.

immediately after that, my malware obtained every one of your contacts from your Messenger, FB, as well as email account.

after that i created a double-screen video. 1st part shows the video you were viewing (you have a nice taste omg), and 2nd part displays the recording of your cam, and its you.

Best solution would be to pay me $4359.

We are going to refer to it as a donation. in this situation, i most certainly will without delay remove your video.

My -BTC -address: 19UpGJxLLKV5mww2fPf7gjrgmDTv7y941J

[case SeNSiTiVe, copy & paste it]
You could go on your life like this never happened and you will not ever hear back again from me.
You'll make the payment via Bitcoin (if you do not know this, search 'how to buy bitcoin' in Google).
if you are planning on going to the law, surely, this e-mail can not be traced back to me, because it's hacked too.
I have taken care of my actions. i am not looking to ask you for a lot, i simply want to be paid.
if i do not receive the bitcoin;, i definitely will send out your video recording to all of your contacts including friends and family, co-workers, and so on.
Thank you. All I saw was a post with zero context, followed by a reply, followed by another reply using a different reply delineator (a horizontal break instead of a vertical line??), followed by nothing. It just ends. It's hard to believe this is real and intended.
My brother who is east asian and is vegetarian follows anything that goes along with buddhist eating styles (except he also declines fish).
Perhaps no hypothesis has ever been proven to be definitively true, but it is possible to proof that at hypothesis is false, e.g. the moon is not made of cheese, the earth is not flat. Also you can estimate the likelihood that a hypothesis is true or false, e.g. hypothesis that Covid-19 is caused by a virus is extremely likely to be true, that is is caused by 5G signals extremely likely to be false.
Not saying it's true, but I assume this is all parallizable so 24 cores would complete that 1 second in 1 day, and 3600*24 cores would complete the first hour of the film in a day, etc. And each frame might have parallizable processes to get them under 1 day wall time, but still cost 1 "day" of core-hours
I am a macOS user myself (daily driver since circa 2016, Arch/Ubuntu 2013-2016 and Win 7 before that) and I can tell you that the honeymoon is surely over. On top of that, I have my 2 old laptops running as Win10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS home servers and I can say they have not given me any grief. I feel that Windows and Ubuntu LTS are getting more and more stable while macOS is going towards "move fast and break things" with every release (both still require some group policy fu and command line fu respectively but that's not a big deal). Back in the days, you'd snapshot your Windows XP with Acronis or something similar every time you'd install something major and these days I am contemplating downgrading to Mojave from Catalina. Big Sur is out of the question with things like firewall bypass and many others.

P.S. You simply cannot make this stuff up: as I was typing this comment in Safari, my input field text became blurred just like that in an instant https://imgur.com/a/2Ae0QpZ
Opposite anecdata - I got a gaming PC and i migrated all my development to it and WSL(2) has been a godsend. VS Code has a "WSL Remote" mode that works really well (where a vscode server runs in Linux and the windows GUI access it "remotely"). I even use the Windows Github app for the occasional GUI-assisted commit, and apart from being slow its fine.

I've had only two problems with this set up:

- Occasionally VS Code Typescript features slow down, but it fixes itself a few days later (maybe after a restart). I presume this is due to the WSL Remote, but not certain.

- The occasional line endings snafu, but this is more of a tooling issue.
a) That's not the reason.

b) Rate limiting is practically mandatory in an era of multi-gigabit client network connections on even mobile phones.

Remember: It's not a DDoS attack if it's one user.
Absolutely true; the only problem is that, quite literally, every road surface is different, so that perfect point changes from second to second, sometimes very subtly, and sometimes in much larger ways.
Is that really so much different than those same companies pushing their timetable feeds directly to Google for display in GMaps?

Where does OSM provide value here and how can it beat GMaps in mindshare and keep suriving?
>it would be a trivial matter to have google forward the relevant information.

oof... Glad Google doesn't have that info about me.
I like the picture of the 100+ SPARCstation render farm for the first Toy Story

https://mobile.twitter.com/benedictevans/status/766822192197...
Yes they did.

We discussed this here before: I am reasonably certain -- without having any insider info -- it was various ptrace types which broke the camel's back besides the abhorrent file system performance. Both PTRACE_SEIZE and PTRACE_TRACEME was closed as fixed-in-wsl2 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2028 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/3031
They almost certainly render two frames at a time. Thus bringing the render time down to only 100+ years per film.
I live in a city where 48 people were killed by cars last year. I am not fine with that.
This VoLTE situation is a serious problem, it appears. Is the open source Android community basically screwed as soon as 3G is turned off? There are a lot of 4G phones that seem to support VoLTE only when flashed with their OEM firmware.
... so why the heck did they not un-remove it after that
(That building is the U.S. Capitol rather than the White House.)
After reading what others have said and feedback on PineTime and what a good hackable watch should have, it seems like Pebble should resurrect from the grave as a hackable watch. I mean the pebble time had 128kb ram (this only has 64k ram), an color epaper display, 150mAh battery (over a week battery life), heart rate sensors, etc. Heck its even being supported by the open source community AFTER it was discontinued.

Maybe Fitbit can be petitioned to make the Pebble's hardware fully open source too.
I can appreciate the amount of talent that went into making Hamilton, but I found the pace too manic to fully enjoy it. The thing never lets up.
Well, the problems with an aging society is that there are less children than parents which means that fewer people are inheriting money. You would expect that a lot of the money goes to the first child and probably only child of a billionaire or millionaire.
The Pandemic Disproved Urban Progressives’ Theory About Gentrification
That's the Capitol building though, not the White House?
I'll leave this here for posterity. It's coming to the end of the line for Q predictions. In the next month we should see mass arrests of elite, take down of corrupt world politicians, judges and so on. Otherwise all this was just a grand lie.
> "Building nuclear propulsion for our next aircraft carrier is crucial for France to maintain the unique skills of its nuclear industry."

Meaning that's a pork project for their nuclear industry.

Also, I fail to see what they hope to accomplish with just one carrier.
It's a valid point that when something real is uncovered, nothing is really done about it. I think that's really the same kind of powerlessness that the article gives as a motivation for "conspiratorial thinking".

btw, at the risk of sounding exceedingly cranky, here's some little kernels of truth I can see if I squint at the ridiculousness we started with:

- CIA is keenly interested in mind control

- Globalist ideals harmed the response to COVID (e.g. by insisting on continued air traffic)

- Weather modification is real (e.g. cloud seeding)

- The possibility of high-energy physics experiments doing some fundamental damage to our little corner of the milky way should at least not be completely dismissed out of hand. Which nuclear bomb was it, where they calculated beforehand whether it would not set the whole atmosphere on fire?

- Political influence is absolutely being exerted through universities

- Don't know about sandy hook but false flags have happened and oppressive regimes have taken people's guns away before oppressing them a bit more

- Can you really read the wikipedia article on "deep state" and say none of that is happening in the US?

I don't think Krapp was really arguing against any of these things, but it just annoys me to no end that all you hear is "bill gates 5g vaccine nanobots" when there are legitimate issues to be discussed.
You are using the wrong analogy. Computing isn't like building tools - it's about thinking better. Literacy is a better analogy - almost everyone is taught to read/write at an early age, and in fact not being able to do so is a significant hindrance to surviving in modern society.
I honestly don't understand your point.

Other than the usual boring "all socialists are equal, also Bakunin" that brings me back to when I was in school 30 years ago (I wore patches of Gaetano Bresci back then)

Engels, Bakunin, Marx, were alle right on something and completely wrong on other things.

For example Bakunin was against private property and for equal mandatory work for everyone.

He theorised the abolition of money and collectivisation of the means of production.

Exactly like Marx, so why they disagreed?

Because Bakunin didn't believe in the democratic process and the universal suffrage.

He thought that "the State, any State, even the most democratic one governed by the most leftist idealists in the World, can ever give the people what they need" because he didn't believe in the institute of representation (that includes liberal democracies)

He obviously did not believe in "no taxation without representation"

Today he would put every western State in the same "totalitarian oppression of the people" ballpark.

But was this the point of my post?

No, it wasn't.

Orwell himself wrote in letters and other books (for example "Why I write") what story he wanted to tell in Animal Farm and it's not "how is life in Marxism-communism"

The book became a metaphor for every modern political system, where corruption and the betrayal of early ideals of a revolting community are the way to get the power.

Today Animal Farm describes USA or Italy as well as it did 80 years ago about Stalin and the UK politicians that first admired Mussolini in Italy and then Stalin in USSR, because the way they ruled their empire wasn't dissimilar.

So a better description of the video would be "Animal Farm - a contemporary political satire"
He didn't specify, but from the speech:

> Monday morning I was in the library. The moment of truth. By afternoon it was clear. For whatever reasons, there was nothing in the abstracted literature about succeeding or failing to amplify DNA by the repeated reciprocal extension of two primers hybridized to the separate strands of a particular DNA sequence. By the end of the week I had talked to enough molecular biologists to know that I wasn’t missing anything really obvious. No one could recall such a process ever being tried.

> However, shocking to me, not one of my friends or colleagues would get excited over the potential for such a process. True. I was always having wild ideas, and this one maybe looked no different than last week’s. But it WAS different. There was not a single unknown in the scheme. Every step involved had been done already. Everyone agreed that you could extend a primer on a DNA template, everyone knew you could melt double stranded DNA. Everyone agreed that what you could do once, you could do again.
I think it implies surface area.
In reality it’s never as simple as a single soundbite. If you are a startup with $1k/mo AWS bills, throwing more hardware at the problem can be orders of magnitude cheaper. If you are running resource-intensive workloads then at some point efficiency work becomes ROI-positive.

The reason the rule of thumb is to throw more hardware at the problem is that most (good) engineers bias towards wanting to make things performant, in my experience often beyond the point where it’s ROI positive. But of course you should not take that rule of thumb as a universal law, rather it’s another reminder of a cognitive bias to keep an eye on.
I do not. It is just my passion since I learnt to read.

Around the age of 35 I realized that there was a lot of interesting and weird stories to share with others and I started narrating them in an online magazine published by my friend. For example, life and death of Hernando de Soto, the unsuccessful conquistador. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto).

People liked the format and actually started to send micropayments. It still took several years before I actually tried to put together a book. I started a crowd-sourcing attempt which, to my (pleasant) surprise gathered over 300 per cent of the target sum.

Now I am hooked to the lifestyle :-)
Coincidentally, yesterday my father handed me his old Moto X 2014 with a shattered screen, asking me if I wanted to do anything with it before he trashed it. I wiped it and installed lineageOS, which is what I'm using to write this comment; its definitely a less fluid experience than my full-dystopia-mode pixel 4A, but its a refreshing experience nonetheless and I could imagine it's great for people who want to treat their phone as a tool and not a perpetual distraction device (I would guess that even with further tinkering I would be hard pressed to get all my apps integrated sufficiently seamlessly so as to enable such levels of distraction).

I watched a teardown video for the phone on YouTube and it appears the battery is replaceable, just not easily, whereas its given an "x" on this list (is this true of all phones?). Fortunately I don't seem to be suffering any battery-related problems at the moment, but I will be attempting to replace the screen, which does not seem to be easy on this dwvice.
Open source software is often comparable or even superior to the proprietary sort in feature set, the kind of thing you can list in bullet points. But it tends to fall down when it comes to user experience.

I remember attempting to use OSM on my phone before, and I remember being similarly confused about "which app should I use?" and the ones I tried just being fairly clunky. But I'll give maps.me a try, I can't remember if that was one of them.
It's worth giving the podcast I linked a listen. In fact, I just listened to it a 2nd time yesterday after posting this. And it's 4 years old already!

It sounds like the primary reason you need(ed) high pressure, in addition to assumptions about rolling resistance, was to increase air volume to protect the rim. As the tire gets wider, the air volume goes up, so the required pressure to protect the rim goes down. Which is why a narrow road tire can have a rim impact at 40psi where a mountain bike tire would not have a rim impact on the same obstacle at 40psi. So, the wider tire ALLOWS you to run lower pressure and not damage the rim with impacts -- completely leaving rolling resistance aside.