skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some questions...

1) I use Zoom on Linux, and usually there's no sound until I go to the Zoom sound settings, press the "test sound" button, and then Output sound gets enabled. I have to do it for every meeting. Have you tried that?

2) Are you using Pulseaudio?
You won't get to depend on it if it has few contributors.
What if there's no demand for such services, but their introduction would make the world a better place?
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To save someone the time: 'it can't be stupid if it sold <x million> units'
(2003) or (2006). First recorded on Wayback back in 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20140124074811/http://www.aholme...

HN's fascination with Lisp and Forth is perfectly understandable. Combined with DIY hardware, this sounds like a sweet spot for intellectual... cough... stimulation.
I think the only time I've seen substance in Elon's tweets is when he is going on about SpaceX. This is a good example, he appears to be rehashing what he read about Signal's problems and is just tweeting the summary at them.

Thanks for the words Elon, I guess?
Has that ever been different? I can't think of a time in history where power wasn't held by just a handful of people.
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Not when it comes to voting. You vote for someone to represent you on all issues (at least in the US). If you disagree with them on some issues, there is no way to indicate that with your vote.
I'd echo this.

I worked for a company that made a real-time auction system, based on Akka. It's been frustrating in the years since to program on less powerful foundations.

If I were building a system that combined interactive and autonomous processes, I would absolutely reach for Akka again. The one thing I'd love to see is if they could build something like https://temporal.io on top of Akka. I think it would be complementary to the state machine style model of typed actors and the pipeline model of Akka Streams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YInMn_Blue#Commercialization_a...

>AMD announced in July 2016 that the pigment would be used on new Radeon Pro WX and Pro SSG professional GPUs for the energy efficiency that stems from its near-infrared reflecting property
WhatsApp by default backs up your private key to the cloud. Even if you don't do this your contacts might, which means "end-to-end encryption" is only theoretical, and you have no idea whether it actually is.

Telegram's secret chat keys are never backed up. It's also faster and more reliable than Signal.

If E2EE is important to you, you can use secret chats.
Or maybe he's another Edison. I mean, he's likely the nominal inventor: other people do the research, but only his name appears on papers.
Is "censorship" what newspaper editors have done with letters to the op-ed pages for over a century? (Some made it, how many didn't? Most) How many TV News stations air viewer responses? Is that censorship? Those businesses were mostly one-way from choice.

In the same 'over a century' lots of people reacted by starting their own newspapers. Those papers too were 'echo chambers'. How are 'social media' more public? Is 'we guarantee to air everything' part of their TOS? Else, nothing new here.
I just downloaded it for my Android, it's on Google Play.
It's not a new thing :) https://images.computerhistory.org/revonline/images/50000439...
Robinhood for real estate. Similar to stock trading. Who’s using it?
Have you got accuracy scores? Speed ain't everything if misclassification is frequent enough to worry.
And for efficiency's sake they might even roll them into the same org, to remove red tape and logistical complications
You're describing pretty standard "mission creep." I.e. "if the problem this organization exists to address is fixed, fundraising efforts stop and staff must be fired. But we don't want to fire people, so we must perpetually move the goalposts to keep the momentum going." MADD is the classic example here.
> There's of course the legit downside of needing to use one language and one framework for all actors

That's not inherent in the actor model, it's a potential artifact of some implementations. Though I think one VM is more common. E.g., BEAM instead of just Erlang, or JVM for Akka.
I am 100% certain that we would have had another rebellion, with guns this time, if a certain megaphone was not removed and certain networks not disrupted. (yeah, they can reorg but it takes time)

I am not happy with this but what's the alternative? A personal censor?

OK:
"Dear supporters of mine. We love you! On January xxth something horrible will be done to our country, our country is being taken away from us. Let's show them that USA still has patriots ready to defend it. Let's march! Please do not brings your guns with, no violence but let's gather in Was DC on to show them the real America. Once again, no guns, bulletproof vests or extra rounds of ammo. We are not violent. Protesting is our legal right, use it. March! See you on January xxth, Washington DC!"

what would you do with message in today's climate?
Yes, it scales well. Also, Cyberpunk 2077 doesn't use UE4.
> A better example would be is there a safe compound with lead or arsenic or mercury (known toxic elements) you would want to take into your body?

Dental amalgam
I think calling it big O was a mistake. Saying worst case upper bound isn't too many words and conveys the correct meaning to people with incorrect concepts about what big O means.
> The only projects I see reliably escaping this trap are ones with commercial backing.

Gradle is backed by Gradle, Inc. [1] who provide commercial support and presumably a lot of development as well.

[1] https://gradle.com/
It's also significantly more expensive in 2000-dollars than a LEAF today. For cars in that weight class, it's a simple equation: $$ = range.
Under what threat model would you be threatened by a domestic spy agency having a backdoor? Ignoring the red herring that "backdoors don't stay hidden".
Looking at the launch video [0], this looks very professional done. Which company is behind this? I can't find any info on the site. Is this team related to Huawei?

0. https://youtu.be/3E0ADUIiFzA
I take offense to this. Sure, I like to eat cake.

But if I liked to eat cake as much as Google does, I'd have died of obesity (= have my life ruined by legal issues) a long time ago.
Pentagon Aims to Spread Artificial Intelligence Across Military Services
If we posit that the graviton does exist and suspend all disbelief, is the rest of the patent logically sound? If the theoretical basis of this device is correct, would it actually do what it claims to?
You wouldn't need to store the codes, but you would need to store the key that makes the codes.
I've said this in probably a dozen HN comments over the years, but my 2010 MBP is still my favorite computer
of all time. It has a matte screen and 4TB of upgradable onboard storage. It was frustrating watching MBPs move progressively farther away from the features I really loved on that machine. Eventually, I jumped ship for the PC world again, where I found the hardware much more inspired.

The Airs are already quite powerful machines. Let them carry forward the legacy of the direction of the past several years, and make a truly differentiated offering for folks who do most of their work docked.

Also, a hill I will die on is that the Touchbar should have been a new UI paradigm at the bottom of a touchscreen. I'd also dig a Touchbar accessory for my keyboard tray. Just saying. But for the love of god, keep it off my F-key row.
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I don't understand why designing bathrooms to drain isn't a universal practice.
What about it facilitates reliability?
Get your own Stellar vanity address
aka the "QAnon Shaman" from the Capitol Hill riots.
It will take some time yet to unravel what happened, and more importantly, who permitted it to happen that way. Their arms didn't enter into the equation, and frankly it is shocking that violent insurrectionists at the Capitol weren't met by a hail of rubber bullets or worse.
Weird. My 2016 12” MacBook is still almost my favourite machine. I say almost because the M1’s speed is _incredible_, but I do miss the smaller size and flatter keyboard.
The article is missing some very important points. How effective are these disinformation campaigns? Are they effective enough to, for example, significantly impact an election or sway enough people’s opinions about a vaccine to affect it’s adoption? Where is the evidence?

Also, how is a bot able to avoid detection? Seems like it would be easy to see that a single userbot “liked” more than is humanly possible ... even if the bot were written to mimic normal humans, then it would require more bots, all presumably coming from a similar cluster of ip addresses, making it more easy to detect.

Of course, what incentive do the social media platforms have to detect fake users (especially active ones like bots), since their metrics are largely driven by that metric?
> John didn't let you down, you had expectations about what he was going to do

This is where we disagree. John did let you down. It's OK to blame him. It's OK to be a normal person that reacts to other people's actions and not some kind of zen robot. And recognizing that someone else's behavior causes you to feel shitty doesn't make you powerless to change.
Elon is clueless and so are people who think that the use of java is the problem
Yes, Amazon reviews completely override the laws of physics. It is known.
I am really happy that my macbook uses usb c. I'm sad to hear that it is going away.

Today, my Mac interoperates with all my other devices, I can keep one charger running to the edge of the couch.

It's not the end of the world to flip back to the magsafe, but it's definitely not ideal for me (and I suspect others.)
Thanks. Only after you mentioned did I lookup Perylene Red, looks great.
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This one has the benefit of not being owned/backed by a company that must be one of the biggest quitters of all time ;-)
What’s the point of blatantly ripping off a design if you can’t brag about it?
On the contrary. The reply is a clear explanation of why the ad hominem accusation makes no sense.

The initial comment was rightfully flagged because it either ignores the bad and unscientific nature of the attacks on the paper.
I struggle a bit with the analogy of Beethoven and accessibility. By his day European music had swung from Bach's contrapuntal intricacies towards lighter playful elegance of Mozart's time. To me, Beethoven represents the start of the long climb towards epic, architectural monumentalism in music - which I could accept someone wants to call "deaf aesthetic", although I think Beethoven's particular condition had little to do with.
Hey Leo,

Yeah we reported a few bugs over the years and many of them got fixed. We were using Mithril 0.x. We did get the product to a point where it was very stable, but there were patterns that we had to avoid (for example, at the time IIRC we had spooky bugs with children cycling between an element, a list of elements, or an empty array []).

In the end, the reason that we moved away from Mithril.js was that as a 300-person company, we just didn't have the resources to give it the attention that we felt we needed to give it (i.e. contribute) vs. the timeline that we needed for isolation and resolution.

Before we built our app in Mithril, I built a MVP prototype in Angular and the performance was so bad that the product was marked as "not plausible". Discovering Mithril.js was the only reason we decided to go through with the project. In some respects, the company owes its market-leading position to Mithril.js whilst its competitors are still crawling out of the dark ages of TTY and desktop thin clients
While that works, you won't get very far without having to switch over to a build system, then learn how to configure/use that.

Look at VueJS and React installation pages and it's easy to see the problem with modern frameworks.

https://v3.vuejs.org/guide/installation.html#release-notes
https://reactjs.org/docs/add-react-to-a-website.html
Failing to make progress under excess request load
For Linux users, we look for credible source for something as important as Operating Systems. Usually from known entity or open source community. It would be great if you can clarify.

Also since it is just getting started, you would be better off not using iPad, Apple kind of words. Instead use neutral terms like Linux OS optimized for Tablets, before it is too late.

Also heavy influence of Apple Marketing on your preview video, it would serve you well if you have the actual working copy of the OS on a tablet shown as demo as well. Hope you are making that video as well.
The idea is that the player fills in their response in their imagination. Though, I think it's a little fourth-wall-breaking when NPCs comment on the player's silence. No future-AI needed.
There's also an RFC for SOAP transport over SMTP.

Occasionally I threaten to implement it in order to upset somebody.
Cosigned, and writing this comment on my own faithful 2010 MBP. Still works like a charm, even if some sites don't load due to legacy browsers.

Having the correct USB plug-ins for my old-but-durable wacom tablet and an internal CD drive is still critical for my usage and I can't believe some of those parts were the first to go in the madness. Currently tempted to switch to the M1, but still worried about loosing the parts mentioned.
The word toxic and the derived toxicity are starting to grate.

> And the mismatch of our ever-changing world and our relatively static language forms is part of our problem

Hegel and his merry-band of psuedo-intellectuals like this clown (Johnson) are the reason philosophy isn't taken seriously as it used to.
To be clear, I was actively involved in a lot of this and would not describe myself or my beliefs as 'moderate' either.

I'm more of an [information freedom] absolutist / code is law / bits are not a big / etc.

So if I were to "pass judgement" I would say Aaron was a freedom fighter who tragically fell on his sword when the going got (quite) tough. I don't have a single negative thing to say about him or his beliefs.
I have a small SaaS. I have a couple large customers (large in size, not in sales) and a bunch of smaller ones. A potential customer has asked for SOC reports and my gut instinct is to simply say no deal. The ROI is not even close to making sense. This looks like a huge PITA besides being expensive and requiring yearly investment.
It links to a forum FAQ which does:
https://forum.jingos.com/t/faq-about-jingos/243
Wow, that looks like a great (& concise!) resource
I'm also add to editor but after that I run the app on that file and it computes
I wonder if you could build yourself a VPN to the nearest AWS/google region, and then uses that cloud's private fiber network to accelerate your internet speed to worldwide regions?
There are other uses, too. AMD makes low profile (?) radeon pro cards like the WX2100 which are smaller and have lower power requirements than their consumer offerings.

I got a used one off eBay for my tower, mostly because I wanted something AMD for linux usage with as low heat emission as possible, but honestly I really like the look of that blue too :)

Even if I have a black boxy case with no fancy windows or anything else... Interesting to learn it's this neat pigment.
The article's criticism of the 12-inch MacBook are preposterous. The 2 lb Macbook is the best laptop I've ever owned, by far. Maybe I'm too sensitive about weight, but I feel an incredible difference between 3 lb and 2 lb laptops, especially if its sitting on your lap for extended periods of time. The keyboard and charger have never once been a hindrance to my workflow, as the article makes it out be. I really wish Apple would come out with 2 lb laptops again. Latest line of Macbooks (the "Air") weigh in at 2.8 lb minimum.
> Soil Ag and robotics is my area..not indoor Ag.

Same. Former Biodynamic farmer (horticulture) and did a stint at the MDRS, I was asked by the director to come back as an Executive Officer under her for another mission with more focus on the Green Hab.

If you can find that PP and repost I'd definitely check it out.

Are you working on anything right now in robotics with automating Ag? One of the things that I think we've seen during COVID is the mass acceleration of automated processes in many fields, but I haven't seen as many in Ag then prior to this--mainly in harvesting, weeding but as you know maintenance, pest control and irrigation play a much bigger part in day to day operations and was wondering what has been done in that regard.

I wonder if there is anything for those of us with backgrounds in Ag and tech to do something at places like Biosphere 2 or at the Eden Project.

I've had to go back to Supply Chain since COVID derailed my plans to go to SpaceX and then hopefully come back and work at a more mature Squared Roots if it had a focus on Mars food production, but I definitely like to see something like that happen and maybe even get involved if I'm still useful.
Something similar I've just read in zero to one (by Blake Masters and Peter Thiel). Peter argues that computers can't replace humans - it'd be foolish to expect that at least for coming decades – strong AI replacing human is the problem of 22nd century. He proposes Complementarity and provides a successful implementation of this idea in PayPal fraud detection system way back in 2002 when purely automated detection algorithms were quickly overcome by determined fraudsters. He went on founding Palantir based on the same idea.

>>> In mid-2000, we had survived the dot-com crash and we were growing fast, but we faced one huge problem: we were losing upwards of $10 million to credit card fraud every month. Since we were processing hundreds or even thousands of transactions per minute, we couldn’t possibly review each one—no human quality control team could work that fast.
So we did what any group of engineers would do: we tried to automate a solution. First, Max Levchin assembled an elite team of mathematicians to study the fraudulent transfers in detail. Then we took what we learned and wrote software to automatically identify and cancel bogus transactions in real time. But it quickly became clear that this approach wouldn’t work either: after an hour or two, the thieves would catch on and change their tactics. We were dealing with an adaptive enemy, and our software couldn’t adapt in response.
The fraudsters’ adaptive evasions fooled our automatic detection algorithms, but we found that they didn’t fool our human analysts as easily. So Max and his engineers rewrote the software to take a hybrid approach: the computer would flag the most suspicious transactions on a well-designed user interface, and human operators would make the final judgment as to their legitimacy. Thanks to this hybrid system—we named it “Igor,” after the Russian fraudster who bragged that we’d never be able to stop him—we turned our first quarterly profit in the first quarter of 2002 (as opposed to a quarterly loss of $29.3 million one year before). The FBI asked us if we’d let them use Igor to help detect financial crime. And Max was able to boast, grandiosely but truthfully, that he was “the Sherlock Holmes of the Internet Underground.”
This kind of man-machine symbiosis enabled PayPal to stay in business, which in turn enabled hundreds of thousands of small businesses to accept the payments they needed to thrive on the internet. None of it would have been possible without the man-machine solution—even though most people would never see it or even hear about it.
It is a huge pain in the ass and I would not do it at your scale. Beyond the money, which is substantial --- even if you're smart about it, you're still going to sink tens of thousands into the stupid report --- it's going to eat months of your brain just to get the process going.
I found when using Firefox, it did take me to the proper page. When using Google chrome, was redirected to the landing page I was referring to. Which browser did you use?

Testing it again in Firefox took me to the landing page. Maybe it doesn't redirect every single time.
I was casually browsing and got interested. Do you offer VISA for the Full-stack / Frontend Javascript roles in Sydney during COVID? I'm currently working in Japan
I don't think limits is a good way to understand it because of the reasons here: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3222489/124772
I wonder if this is going to be the OS of choice for flea-market iPad counterfeits/knockoffs... the Files screen even says "On my Pad" in the shown screenshot. Everything looks close enough to be able to possibly fool an untrained eye.
Well sulfates in general tend to be highly insoluble in water, and therefore biologically inert, so I think this is still kind of a cherry-picked example
"For years, they said no, because they were worried about the liability of accidentally blocking something that wasn't a phishing site."

Can anyone explain how a web browser author could be liable for using a blacklist. Once past the disclaimer in uppercase that precedes every software install, past the Public Suffix (White)List that browsers include, how do you successfully sue the author of a software program, a web browser, for having a dommainname blacklist. Spamhaus was once ordered to pay $11 million for blacklisting some spammers, but that did not involve a contractual relationship, e.g., a software license, between the spammers and Spamhaus.
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We need a Goldwater Rule for diagnosing infrastructure and code you’ve never seen.
There's a safe compound with sodium and chlorine that I eat every day.
i love how you put it. all of this micro organization and "filing" for ease actually makes it harder to follow. Give me a 2 hour youtube videos with stamps and i'll find what im looking for
I truly don't understand the Cyberpunk2077 complainers. Has any of you/them actually played the game? I've played it on Google Stadia and loved it, the main story and major side stories were exciting (Konpeki Plaza really had me on edge), combat is complex, characters are well written, graphics are amazing. As far as bugs are concerned I had to reload an earlier save maybe 3-5 times over the span of 40 hours of gameplay, which is not good but honestly I didn't care. It does look like the console versions were worse off, though, but I didn't play these myself.
Who’s to say you couldn’t have both? HN cynics aside, given that Apple is invested in USB-C/Thunderbolt, I would imagine that you could charge with either MagSafe or USB-C
I got sick of having to open a new tab, navigate to google images, type in my search just to find a quick one off image. Having to do that dozens of times was really taking me out of my workflow.

I wrote a windows app that lets you quickly search google images and copy the original image to your clipboard for ease of use when chatting or if you need to paste a quick image into a document you are working on. It's GPL-3 in GitHub:

https://github.com/scpedicini/truman-show
I don't know if there's any shared code, but it looks like it's related to this Chinese project:

https://fydeos.com/
So does that mean they somehow detect the mac address has come from a new device and roll the ip address to prevent people from doing server kinds of things?
I can't upvote this enough. Everytime I pull out the MacBook 12 I just feel joy using it
It is the nature of trust that it is easily lost and difficult to regain. Basically trust is based on experience over the long term. If there are good experiences for a long time trust grows. Any breach of trust resets the trust clock to zero (or even to a negative value).
I think it was covered by this quote:

For every technology we use today, there was a time it was laughably inadequate as a replacement for what came before. For decades, chess engines were a mere curiosity, but now a smart phone can beat any grandmaster. The same is now true of voting technology.
There's some rumors that it'll have Magsafe and USB-C.