skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my yard I can see about 6-10 bikes rotting away. Shop owners could make upcycling a business.

Anyway, I think it's getting really cold the next months, so demand will probably go down a bit.
How much value is created by the chat vs by the robots? How many more users does the chat have?
Everything pundits are getting wrong about this moment in content moderation
>but apparently there's still a way for Facebook to give FBI et. al. un-encrypted chats, no?

I’d love to see a source for this.
It's easy to attribute the interest in retrocomputing to nostalgia, and it's certainly a part of the appeal, but I believe that there's something else much more important for many of us(1): an escape from the overwhelming complexity and neverending change in modern tech.

With an old computer, you can invest your time fixing it, learning about it, and generally tinkering with it, while being sure it won't become obsolete over night rendering all your efforts null. It ALREADY is obsolete and you already set goals that are completely independent of that status.

I think it is something that's part of the appeal of anything historical: the immutability of the past. Every discovery you make can only be made obsolete by your own incomplete understanding of the subject, not by the subject itself becoming irrelevant under your feet.

(1) I don't personally own any item that could be considered retrocomputing, but I enjoy learning about it (I'm an avid consumer of RMC and 8bitguy videos, or Xboxahoy for the retrogaming bits, for example) for the history, mostly. I'd like to own a few old machines though, but I don't have the time to give them the love they'd deserve.
That’s why I said mostly
Less by 2.5 times, but it being 2.5 times more wouldn't make much difference. Power, and energy density would still be very, very bad.
I'm not generalizing a whole year. But we need to be ready for moments like this. Looking at the data in that website you can see that solar went down to almost 0% yesterday.
Yeah, the US prison system still uses them. They don't want prisoners to use mp3 because they were making them into cell phones.
No, I'm saying even in that case you know it was intended to be a copy. If you wanted that to be a reference then you'd either (a) just do the obvious thing which is to just use the original variable name instead of creating a new variable out of the blue for no reason, (b) leave a comment explaining why you're not doing the aforementioned obvious thing, or (c) use a self-explanatory variable name to provide the explanation instead of a comment.
> If society has decided that your political campaign is so toxic that no one wants to do business with you, should private entities be forced to deal with you if you are not a protected class?

I think this is the issue though, right. Elections represent what society wants. If 5 corporations get to decide you’re toxic and that prevents you from campaigning, what regulation will help insure this authority isn’t abused or misused?

I think it’s also worth noting the irony that many of the people complaining that bakers should be forced to bake a cake are supporting stripe being able to refuse service.
I'm not sure why this comment is relevant. No one in the US (or the West more generally) is doing that or planning on doing it.
I've installed from Google Play, and never seen any ads. It has contacts permission, but that's because sharing contacts with a QR code is something I use it for frequently (it can generate codes as well as scan them).
In theory, it’s because the marginal cost of software is close to zero, and margin is the biggest driver of value. In practice most of these companies’ margins are negative.
Libertarianism as I see it practiced by my rich friends and acquaintances is very much the corporate kind, and never the anarchic kind.

This forum has been a place for corporate Libertarianism to flourish, and I have been here for a few years even though I am not the kind of user who gets alot of karma.
I have never seen any very popular anarcho-libertarianism here, because it is not very profitable.
I wonder how this relates to Hyundai's partnership with Apple that was just announced and caused a massive rally of their stock price.
Your security is only as good as your unpopularity. Karma.
Raspberry Pi had a great image and great marketing. But it wasn't the only hobby device available at the time, and ARM was massively used in industry. I think talking about loss of knowledge there is a little weird.

(I also found a lot of the rhetoric around the RasPi at its launch quite weird, and very dismissive of all the other work that had taken place before it)
Playing with an Amiga or ZX81 may be fun and in that regard you may be right that emulation is often enough if you just want to consume content and get a bit of nostalgia.

However, there is something to be said about having to handle the hardware and fiddle with it, fail at it, troubleshoot it until you get enough of an intimate knowledge that you finally understand what makes everything tick.

Even better, building your own 6502 or Z80 small computer is very eye opening and will give anyone not just the joy of creating something concrete but also give a solid base on which to build an understanding of how all computers actually work.

Ben Eater's[1] (and many others) work is pretty important in that regard.

[1]:https://eater.net/
I'd argue that no-one having access to my messages should be the default case. The fact that a government could potentially get access to all unencrypted telegram messages sent by everyone is pretty off-putting. If they want my signal messages they would have to hack my phone, or MITM me and face potential discovery since verification status is unknown to the server. And that would only get them access to messages sent from thereon.

I understand your argument about the marketing and UI blurring the definitions, but I disagree on the fundamental issue. My messages should be readable only to me and whomever I sent them to.
You can also call it SITC (someone in the centre) attack if you will, but the point still stands - it impedes communication.
Perhaps I should have made it more clear, but this is only part of the hour long speech. He spent most of the speech claiming that we had an illegitimate election, that he won by a lot, that all the media is lying, and that Biden will destroy America and all that they believe in.

So you know, basic undermining of our entire democracy. Also, Trump almost always gets supporters to read between the lines. It’s the expectation he sets.
Servicing (except perhaps puncture repairs) is a very low margin business. This is why online retail has hurt the bike industry so hard: the servicing was subsidized by bike and component sales. Now, local bike shops are expected to service bikes purchased online.
It is not required for getting Rust into Linux.
Things the super rich do everyday to be successful
But the question is, _why?_ What's their incentive to apply more cruel population control on one ethnic group over others?

It's a culture- and religion-based form of oppression. The ethnic Uighur people are Muslims, for the most part. They form a distinct subculture within China. The Communist Party sees their nonconformity as a threat to social harmony. That's why, in addition to forced sterilization and forced birth control, the government has imposed forced re-education in concentration camps.

Their goal is to destroy the Uighur population's distinctiveness as a subculture in China. It is deliberate ethnocide (by forced internment) and genocide (by reproductive suppression).
Even DARPA’s hindsight isn’t 20/20.
Okta Terminates Parler Account
Similar phenomenon has happened with Nordic (cross-country) skiing and backcountry skiing gear this winter. Sudden spike in interest, stores out of stock of equipment. I suspect most of this is purely aspirational, both those activities require large amounts of training & skill and access to particular conditions/terrain that most people don't have. But it's still interesting to watch.
And too, the recommended "hemina" portion is apparently just over a half a US pint. Certainly not enough to replace potentially bad water in a diet.
Me too, but after Snowden I doubt we'd be able to even if it were true.
Non-E2E encrypted chats should not be called unencrypted because they had encryption in transit to the server.

The contradiction is right there in the sentence.
After winning a $5k payout I bet you can get a decent consultancy going. These payouts are foot-in-the-door or for hobbyists, like Kaggle is for ML.
This feels similar to the "MBA cofounder" profile of someone who has the mindset: if I just had an engineer to build my idea then this would be big.

Every engineer knows it doesn't work that way (but many who charge by the hour w/ consulting may be happy to take the job for a while).
Ask HN: Where did CIA content go?
It seems that the CIA website has been revamped and some sections moved elsewhere or removed. I'm trying to find this one here:

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/

Does anyone know how to find it? Thanks.
> Only about a third of the way through, but I've picked up some great insights in general. Nothing about JavaScript (yet).

The next book you might want to read looking for the same sort of insights ought to be "The Plausibility of Life", which explores the mechanisms of evolution's generativity.
Me too, though I urge everyone to avoid jumping from a gut feeling to judgements about what each “should” be worth without being explicit about the philosophy that determines your “should”.

There are lots of ways to determine value. I do not think that we are ever going to come to a consensus on the best one, but at least we can strive to understand and be understood.
Laziness or indifference.
Security researchers will disagree with you. This payout amount is considered exploitative for a bug that could cause major financial loss to clients, and reputational damage to Google.

Most companies are exploiting security researchers and pay them bounties that could be compared to the discounts found on Fiverr for different services.
KDE user here, so cannot comment on this case exactly, but in my experience the default "Windows" of Windows and Mac are also terrible.

Try to split a window pane on Windows, or right-click and create a file in Mac. In either, try to open an SFTP folder as if it is local, or integrate Git status icons into finder (all easy to do on KDE and Gnome). Good Luck.

The number of copy+paste bugs and QuickLook hanging issues on Mac is not even funny.

Just look at all the enhancers like Norton Commander and Path Finder, and you can see that even calling the OS Windows didn't make MS put too much effort into their windows.
I live in the South West of England. Many of our roads look as though they haven't changed since horse-drawn carriages were the norm.

https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/1a6d5e7bcd4f55f2ca79de5a...

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/satnav-stuck...
I have never heard of that rule. Do you have any sources on it? Court cases or such? Any sort of precedent as to what qualified as "obstruction"?
Actually, I think the intended usage in this situation is to click on the filename field, then press Save (or Enter/Return). Which is still terrible discoverability, but at least it's theoretically possible?
I remember reading an article about coding at nasa, like the code that ran the moon landing ship.

I can't remember the link but you can probably find something.
the way they code is very careful and deliberate. everyone has an office, none of this "rockstar" nonsense that you have at startups, they are all serious people, the deadlines are sensible, no one pulls all nighters, they come in at 9 and get out at 5. absolutely nothing gets written without documenting it. no line of gets changed without the reason for the change written in documentation. everything is carefully panned.
needless to say the code got the ship to the moon and back. this is how coding should be done
Yes, "value". This is why making free market dynamics an ideology/religion is insane.
Feels like we said this about previous buyers. All I'm seeing is another sucker to keep the money rolling for more of these sweet viral robot demos that never seem to materialize into much of anything.
I wonder if we overestimate the "value" of replacing soldiers with machines...
> to run for the few percent of the year which the renewables can't cover.

Citation needed. Honestly. A graph with power factor -> expected average number of days per year would add to the discussion.
Apache Arrow on the Apple M1
I mean, you don’t build the majority of your infrastructure for black swan events. You can still overbuild renewables, which are effective most of the time, and keep some fossil generators like gas peakers, biomas, and biogas for backup power.
> the scandal of Germany / fake CO2 calculations on german diesel cars.

The scandal was not about fake CO2 calculations.

It was about Volkswagen having its engine management systems detect if a car was being tested and alter how it ran so that it generated less NOx emissions at the expense of power output[1].

When the car was used outside the lab it would produce a higher power output at the expense of illegally high NOx emissions.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
Same with Audi. Funnily enough, we got an Audi A4 a while ago and decided to include Android Auto for obvious reason. The car supports Android Auto only (no CarPlay), but came with a USB to Lightning cable. We were never asked which cable we want, so I assume that's a standard
I would tweak that just a bit that bad developers just want to be told what to build.

The best engineers I've ever worked with and for were constantly asking "why" and would get incredibly frustrated in this "Product Owner runs the backlog" type of organization.
how about researchers making less than jr dev barely out of school?
It’s funny how that never gets answered...

I really am befuddled at the inability of people to avoid beng taken in by bad faith arguments like this.
In the case of Facebook and Google, their founders have voting majority shares and literally control the companies. It’s not a secret cabal of left-leaning owners, it is a publicly known set of left-leaning tech owners.

I’m not saying they act evilly, but Facebook is literally controlled by one person who cannot be outvoted by every other owner. And Google is controlled by two as well [0].

[0] https://fortune.com/2019/12/05/page-and-brin-google-control/
Ask HN: What is one feedback you'd want to give your peer but are unable to?
There were more or less similar attacks on some state capitols in the weeks before this, too. Besides, as you mention if your rhetoric is that "Democrats are stealing the election and want to destroy this country" then ... what do you expect people to do? Sit peacefully at home going "oh shucks, that's too bad, what else is on TV?" Never mind that rhetoric on various social media posting has quite literally been saying they will do something like this for years. I used to keep a list of these kind of things; but I got bored of it and I'm not sure if I still have it (but there are various reddit subs that are a good start).

Was I shocked? Yeah, but not because it was surprising. While the specific date and details of the incident are always hard to predict, even a casual observer could see that something like this was bound to happen from miles away. In some ways I'm relieved because I expected it to be far more deadly (which may still happen).

Can we prove that Trump knew what he was inciting this in a court? Probably not. I'm not sure if it really matters as such, depending on what happens with Trump in the coming weeks/months/years.
> A large water tank of 500m3 on a high tower at 50M above an underground storage tank yields approx 70 kWh at best.

Correct, so if you want 70 MWh you need 1000x more water. 500.000m3 is merely a 80x80x80m cube.

Or to put it in different perspective, to lift it by 50m you need 2x this volume (another container 50m higher), which is 1.000.000m3, or 1M m3. The volume of the Pyramid of Gyza [1] is 2.5M m3. So that wouldn't even be the biggest building on Earth.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza
The researcher suggests that finding private youtube video id's itself would be a bug...

Youtube video ID's were generated by taking an internal integer, and encrypting it with a fixed key. That key has been leaked in the early days of youtube (pre google buying it).

That means there are a bunch of early video id's that are predictable. That makes this bug much worse.
The main docs are behind a private beta wall, but these are good resources too:
http://gptprompts.wikidot.com/
https://gpttools.com/tutorial_searchQA
https://aidungeon.medium.com/world-creation-by-analogy-f26e3...
Beautiful Code Matters
Very cool!

So it looks like they built upon this project that tries to install Android on iPhones.
https://projectsandcastle.org/status

They mention:

" Apparently they struggled to get Android to run because A10 mandates 16k page sizes"

Is that swap space? I assumed these devices didn't use swap.
Parler User Data Exfiltrated
As a concrete example, there's a nice function in Haskell's standard library called `interact :: (String -> String) -> IO ()`:
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.14.1.0/docs/Prelu...

Its argument is a function of type `String -> String` and it returns an `IO ()`, i.e. an i/o action with a trivial result. That action will call the given function on contents of stdin, and writes its result to stdout. Or, equivalently, we can think of `interact f` as transforming a pure string-processing function `f` into a stdio CLI.

Note that laziness (specifically "lazy IO") causes stdin to be read 'on demand', giving us a streaming computation without any extra work. Here's an example implementation of 'wc':

module Main where
import System.IO

main :: IO ()
main = interact count

count :: String -> String
count input = show (length (unwords input))

Bonus: if we want to show off, we could implement 'count' using function composition like this:

count = show . length . unwords
Clubhouse Invite train crosses $2000 in 7 days
Samsung phones have qr reading in the camera app since a few years at least. Google also has Lens but that does not work offline (?)
Possibly; the post is a bit unclear on the specifics. Still, this would be a sizeable number of people and I don't think it'll end well.
Not it isn't. Not when that standard is not inciting violence and white supremacy.
Looks like the Koreans are gonna be the first to get a combate robot.
> As a KDE user I wouldn't care what the Gnome people do if their BS wouldn't affect me. But it does, and it's annoying!

KDE has own sins as well - they removed ability of running Dolphin as root giving some vague arguments about security and users protection, while other DE allows running their file managers with highest rights without any walkarounds nor weird acrobatics. I've seen some Plasma addons restoring this feature but it seems it doesn't work on my Manjaro at all.
Gabbr – Chat App
To extend this, a casino that has built a brand has a higher profit margin than a hospital.

If I had $10 million to make something new, I might well build a hospital. I don’t claim deep knowledge of either industry, but I suspect that survivorship bias colors the lucrative casino examples we are thinking of. In contrast, a few hours with Google maps could probably turn up a reasonably profitable site for a new hospital, just based on ballpark supply and demand
Exactly! Not "corporate" looking/feeling enough. A more formal kind of software would be more attractive for even serious events like Customer events or business meetings.
About a year ago I switched to an iPhone after being a longtime (~10 years) Android user. Last night I was at the grocery store and impulse-bought a Lightning charging cable to carry in my hiking backpack. No way I would ever have trusted a checkout-lane USB cable, but Apple's tighter controls give me a greater assurance that the cable will work well and not damage things.
> piloting the car and looking at the road is the absolute bare minimum of 'due care and attention' when driving

I agree! In this case it was novel to see how it worked (because the facility was there and new to us) but I'm more keen on using my eyes and mirrors. I could see how it could be useful in dense fog though, given many drivers don't bother with lights...
Sure, but multiplication tables are fundamental and are useful lifelong. Coins are still a very common feature of life and also useful for teaching addition, also very useful for life.

I appreciate we have to move with the times (I’m not pushing for reintroducing log tables) but it seems useful that kids come out with a solid grasp of fundamental reality around them —- reading an analogue clock, knowing the shape of the world in broad outline, being able to count change.

To use a programming analogy, it is better to teach someone JS and how to do DOM manipulation, so that they see it’s a pain, and then show them React and how it’s useful, than just jumping straight into the current state of the art.
Kind of depends on "eternal".
I propose 10 years is possible, and realistic.
5 years should not be rare.
20 years is probably a fantasy.
Number one american export is USD. They don't seem to be interested in doing much beyond that..
"Do it for the exposure" is a nasty thing to say to people, even if you couch it in disguising terms.
... and unless the robots start sharing internet memes, it'll stay that way.
Not sure why this ~is~ was downvoted. IMHO that's a quite realistic scenario on how IDs of private videos might "leak".
> I think it’s also worth noting the irony that many of the people complaining that bakers should be forced to bake a cake are supporting stripe being able to refuse service.

It's only ironic if you choose to ignore the fact that one of those cases involves discrimination against a protected class and the other does not. If you don't ignore that fact then the irony is only applicable from those who were espousing the "free market, free speech" position in the previous case.
> While it does feel reactionary (if that's the right word) that the services are only now revoking doing business with Parler, they are within their rights to stop the contract one-sidedly. I'm actually fairly sure that in the contract they don't even have to state a reason, but don't quote me on that.

Yeah most of these services are doing that to avoid being associated with Parler and these Trump movements. But it has an anti-democratic feel to it.
The domain is available.
I just think that rating the interpretation of what Trump meant, as equally valid to the literal truth of what Trump said, is veering right into the territory of "Alternative facts". How we felt about what Trump said has become just as important as what Trump actually said. His supporters can overlook that what he says is BS and can just focus on "What he meant", and his opponents can ignore that he didn't say something and condemn him for "what he meant".

It all feels very post-truth to me and seeing a fact checker endorse this sort of view is absolutely depressing in a way. These are institutions of which there is broad support for making the arbiters of truth on social media for whom truth is subject to subjective interpretation. In which case what's the point of fact checking at all?
It is a fundamental graph problem with many applications in different fields, such as network reliability, where assuming equal failure probability edges, the smallest edge cut in the network has the highest chance to disconnect the network; in VLSI design, where the minimum cut can be used to minimize the number of connections between microprocessor blocks; and as a subproblem in branch-and-cut algorithms for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) and other combinatorial problems.

(Copy paste from viecut github repo)
Use this if there isn't a Julia library available: https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl