skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thesis is that we read the book because it’s about performativity, and Americans have a different relationship with performativity than Europeans do. Every paragraph in the article from “so again” onwards is about performativity.

An example of performativity, from the book but not mentioned in the article—Gatsby’s house has bookshelves filled with books, presumably never read, only there for decoration. Gatsby is performing the part of being rich. Since Americans do not have nobility, we take our performance cues (how to act upper class) by imitating Europeans. It’s a hundred years later and we still imitate Europeans and ape European culture when we want to pretend to be rich and upper-class.
My mental imaging was always weak, and it always seemed that 'manipulating 3D scenes' was beyond me. Then I discovered otherwise ... but only after ingesting a certain substance forbidden to all but certain religions. Gotta speculate that many of us have the capacity but just need to get a handle on it.

There are many remarkable (probably widespread) mental phenomena that are completely overlooked/unvalued (at least by most materialist cultures). Partly because they don't have names that are ever mentioned. 'Qualia','synesthesia' (which I had when young and sadly ... lost? before I ever knew the idea). 'Audiation' ... the term's entirely new to me ( I began playing when I was 5) and (says WP) was not even coined until 1975. What else goes nameless, unseen, unheard?

How many kids have such abilities that are completely-overlooked, like the kid some writer (was it Huxley)? saw scratching an advanced math proof in the sand? How was it that Mozart could 'write entire works in his head'? Probably because as a prodigy he was taught the value of such skills. We can only speculate about all the horsepower going to waste - while young minds are stuffed with sugar and advertisements.
In that system, how do you care for folks who experience rare but serious difficulties. The tyranny of the majority gets real complex when dealing with massive populations.
Actually there's a way to check the code running on their servers. At least Signal claimed that:

Modern Intel chips support a feature called Software Guard Extensions (SGX). SGX allows applications to provision a “secure enclave” that is isolated from the host operating system and kernel, similar to technologies like ARM’s TrustZone. SGX enclaves also support a feature called remote attestation. Remote attestation provides a cryptographic guarantee of the code that is running in a remote enclave over a network.

https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

But of course you need published source code and reproducible build.
I’ll pretend this is an argument in good faith and point out the explicit intent in the messages to commit crimes is the point.

Organization of a protest that draws 100,000 where a small number commit crimes is much different than rallying 100,000 with the stated purpose of committing crimes.
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I doubt that would work. I would imagine there are trivial ways to let a watermark survive transcoding.

Sort of like the content recognition systems in use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_content_recognition

on the other hand, I found this interesting:

In January 2018, a YouTube uploader who created a white noise generator received copyright notices about a video he uploaded which was created using this tool and therefore contained only white noise.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_ID_(system)
QAnon has made it into the halls of congress, literally in the form of the now infamous 'Q Shaman' but also in the form of elected representatives[1], it's made it to Harvard educated now socially isolated loners who are part of groups that encompass hundreds of thousands[2], and it has even made it to my homecountry[3], where it is co-mingling with anti-vaxers and covid-deniers. It is not a joke at all. That's how far crazy ideas go if they can spread unopposed.

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-twitter/twit...

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/qanon-meme-que...

[3]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/world/europe/qanon-is-thr...
I prefer the Web over the Fediverse. Blogs +RSS/microformats/Webmention are decentralized, and with much better support and accessibility. ActivityPub seems to me an overcomplicated restrictive implementation of blogging.
That's a workaround for a terrible user experience. The fact that you need to suggest that at all is telling. Wait until they start blocking private session users like some news papers...
It kind of is, though.

https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
I love reading. I didn't read it until my early 30s, other than the last lines, there's nothing memorable at all about it, and honestly they're so out of character of the rest of the book, they feel like they were taken from something else. I kept waiting for it to get good. I'm still waiting.
But dev.to already is monetized? They are not a charity. They are open source a d make money with job postings, sponsorships and sponsored posts.
Keep in mind that “inflation” as defined by the fed doesn’t count food, energy and asset prices.

Yes, inflation does count all those things. At least if you regard housing as an asset (inflation of implied rent).

I mean the definition is public. Not like anyone is hiding anything.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/
So happy to hear your story and fight. I lost my dad in 2019 after 10 years of stage 4 Thyroid cancer. I was always on FDA site and on internet to look for new treatments. Your case made my day or month... :)
Beat Cancer.
> BLM/Qanon are equally screwed up.

Can you please elaborate how a movement against police brutality and racism is in any way comparable with a group that supports a conspiracy theory regarding a cabal of satanic-worshiping cannibals?
Better yet, post to your own blog and have it get automatically added to dev.to.
I recall reading some hobbyist experiments that show that not all drivers implement microstepping equally: some have very bad angular linearity.

I can now find this article, but I think the one I remember reading also tested the torque in microstepping vs full step mode: https://hackaday.com/2016/08/29/how-accurate-is-microsteppin...
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

James Madison, The Federalist Papers
Yes, but nobody cares about democracy and has power.

For politicians and corporations and pundits it's just fine.
Just make parts of the session randomly unintelligible and use the absence or presence in the transcript as an identifier.
Absolutely, but you need to be very deliberate and careful in doing that. It's hard to pull off in practice.

AWS, just like MS in the 90s, gives you access to a lot of amazing tools that make it very easy to "accidentally" lock yourself into their platform.
The book can’t possibly live up to its reputation. I still think it’s a good book.
Probably because English teachers have all read it and can teach it if they need to switch into teaching that class.

It’s a trash book but material to teach books takes a lot of time and effort to conjure up and honestly not worth it unless there’s a clearly better successor to replace the book with.
I followed these instructions to the letter, but was unable to connect any of my computers to the internet through it.
At the end of the day, everyone gets old and starts falling apart. That's when you need to be near specialists.
More than that we need to be flexible to adjust a plan. You’d be amazed at how many people who quote that aphorism aren’t actually flexible. At least with a building they are also motivated by not leaving a physical monument to their failure.
Appears to be the result of an Area120 incubated project: https://avera.area120.com/
oh_sigh suggested that we should replace the general duty of a citizen to know the law of the land, with a presumption that if you have a professional license, you are knowlegable of all relavent laws and regulations, and thus cannot clam ignorance to avoid prosecution.

My general claim is that that is essentially already the case. If you become a citizen you have to pass a test to demonstrate familarity with the local society (if you're born here, high school is mandatory). This is no different than how professional licensing works. You could argue that citizenship tests/H.S. barely covers the law, but professional licensing doesn't either. My claim is not that the current system is neccesarily perfect or good, just that the current system where you're expected to know the law is functionally equivalent to expecting professionally licensed people (other than lawyers) to know the law, except that you just have a new class of people who are exempt for roughly no reason. Thus it doesn't really make sense as a suggestion since it is basically what the status quo is.
> Nearly half of adult Canadians struggle with literacy — and that's bad for the economy

Sad that this be couched in monetary terms in order to seem "relevant." As with so many other things, there is a massive qualitative benefit to reading regardless of it's obvious utilitarian or financial advantages.
There have been thousands of BLM protests, with millions of people participating them across the entire year. The overwhelming majority of them have been peaceful. The overwhelming majority of the violence inflicted during them has been done by... Police forces. Most of it was done against people legally protesting, not against looters, trespassers or vandals.

Meanwhile, one 'stop the steal' capitol insurrection resulted in five deaths, the evacuation of congress, and the interruption of the peaceful transfer of power.

If every BLM protest killed five people, you might be able to draw some equivalence between the two. As is, the only equivalences you can draw are false ones.

And besides - this is an irrelevant tangent. The parler messages mentioned in the Amazon lawsuit were not something that would have been tolerated on Twitter, or YouTube, regardless of whether they had been posted by BLM protestors, or anyone else. People get banned from Twitter for posting things like that. People do not get banned from Parler for posting things like that. That's why Parler got booted off.
Facebook won’t explain why it’s ruining WhatsApp privacy
Nothing will happen as long as Parler isn't widely used in Russia. (I'm going on the assumption they're even actually hosted there.)

The Russian M.O. seems to be to maximize chaos. I don't think they care about the details very much, and I doubt Putin cares one bit what random net-dwellers outside Russia say about him. He cares about:

-Control in Russia

-Making life difficult for opposing states.
Funny coming from the intercept, given that recently two founding members have left due to their mistakes in protecting sources.
My Personal Information Workflow
> Nevertheless, I think in general de/centralization is orthogonal to censoring inflammatory actors.

It's really not. The most perfidious thing centralized platforms do is promote controversial content to increase engagement. This is a double fail of centralization because, first, that's their business model, and second, everything they screw up happens at scale.

Decentralizing things would create, let's call it, algorithm diversity. Not everybody is finding things the same way as everybody else, so esoteric garbage mistakenly promoted by somebody's bad code doesn't have as much reach.

And the business model could be different. Or at least there could be more than one.
Nice thought, but whose critical thinking skills? Unrealistic to think that more than a tiny minority of people would choose that over gut reaction. The latter is human instinct at work, and the former takes energy (see Kahnemann).
> You get faster when ...

To be pedantic, you get faster by running more volume. To do that, you have to make most of it easy. Even when I'm hammering out 50+ miles and 2+ quality runs in the weeks before a race, I'm only truly suffering for about 30 minutes each week. Even threshold work rarely crosses the line into real suffering.

I don't buy the narrative that ultra endurance running is some kind of noble self inflicted torture. Most of the experience is just plain fun. That's why I do it.
Mothers of children with autism have ‘significantly different’ metabolite levels
As discussed above, the ability of a court to change a venue because an impartial jury can't be obtained is well established. A judge would order a change of venue, the defendant would likely appeal, and the appeals court would find that changing the venue isn't an infringement of the defendant's rights.
Telegram censors BLM-affiliated channels [pdf]
So, basically anybody opposed to the TINA.
IKEA URL printing mistake on reusable bags
The `op.parse()` at line 7 was a little hard to understand for me at the beginning. Only a few seconds after, I understood it was `op.parse::<f64>()` with the type parameter inferred from the type of `stack`, but I think it's easier to understand with the explicit type annotation (the turbofish) than without it.
I don’t believe there has been a single conviction based upon evidence gathered by these vans. They’re like lie detector machines - useful only as a tool to get people to confess. Same with the inspectors, they’re private citizens with no legal authority to enter a property without permission. Their purpose is to cultivate fear of prosecution, not to recoup lost revenue.
Being the weakest is just stressful for me. I worry I’m slowing others down and ruining their experience. It’s the same but not quite as bad, when I’m the fastest; I worry I’m ruining the experience for others and making them feel bad. You wouldn’t believe the relief I get when I’m in second position...
No, it's just racism, sexism, and threats of violence. It's really not that hard. No one is getting shut down for proposing alternative social/economic strategies, unless those strategies are racist, sexist and/or violent.
This made me so happy. I get high rank for just drawing green on green background. And I always thought my drawing skills sucked :)

Joke aside, this is a cool idea! With some tweaking for not identifying pure colored images as high rank it would be more fun for the artists among us!
When thinking about religion, i think its important to keep in mind that way back in the day it was basically the state
Are you changing the topic because you can't defend your claim that Americans cherish the idea of free speech?

Why do and/or have so many people oppose free speech like advocating for socialism, burning a US flag in protest, or kneeling for the anthem?
One of my family members was murdered because we didn't institutionalize somebody. The mother of the murderer had wanted him institutionalized, but oh no that would violate his rights. He was a fully expected hazard. So now an innocent person is dead.
I run LinuxCNC on a Raspberry Pi 4, and it works wonders. LinuxCNC is installed with a realtime Linux kernel; it'll run just as realtime as DOS.
>How the right made the word “Orwellian” an empty cliché.

Oh, the irony. And from VOX of all places. And basically amounting to "It's not Orwellian thought-crime persecution if we do it to those who indeed have criminal thoughts".

Orwell himself had something opposite to say in 1944 no less:

"It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else".
Apparently we read it because of "forty-five" and capitalism as emotion. For certain definitions of "we," of "America."

This performance of an analysis strikes me as trying to be too meta-cute to take seriously. Maybe the author was practicing writing from the viewpoint of Holden Caulfield.
I’m aware. They make it easy to scrub metadata.
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Definitely, if your driver is bad there might be no improvement from microstepping, either.
> Keep in mind that “inflation” as defined by the fed

There is no such thing; the Fed doesn't define or measure inflation.

> doesn’t count food, energy and asset prices.

The primary inflation measures from the BLS (the various forms of the CPI) do include the first two things; they don't include asset prices.

> Who can live a day without eating food, using energy for driving or powering appliances and finally paying for a place to live.

The cost of having a place to live (rent, including imputed rent) is, like food and energy, included in CPI.
CloudKit Content-Management System
Steve Jobs Will Be Memorialized in the National Garden of American Heroes
Absolutely gorgeous (and information rich!) web pages!

Well done!

Favorited!
> For a user named ketamine_ are you really questioning the well known efficacy of few-shot therapies for treatment resistant depression and PTSD?

Maybe they want to convince their friends?
RedHat employees do a large amount of upstream work on core open source projects like the Linux kernel, the open source world would not be where it is if RedHat did not exist. So even if the world doesn't need RHEL, it needs RedHat, or some other way to get equivalent investment in open source.
Just because someone spends 30 years learning something does not mean they learned the right thing.
General question regarding robotics/motors:

Is there a classification of a system in terms of 'highly precise pre-defined/pre-programmed' movement vs 'feedback based movement'?

As an outsider, mainly watching youtube demos/videos, I've noticed the old kind of robotics, from ABB, Fanuc, and what not, with massive robotic arms planted to a firm-foundation, is based on precision pre-programmed movement. (I believe) there is no feedback though sensors or cameras or anything.

But the new trend is based on feedback, whether traditional control-theory feedback, or neural network based reinforcement-learning feedback, which I guess eases the rigors of pre-program design and makes the system more flexible in new situations. But of course it's an open research topic, and involves every-increasing sophistication of sensors, high-def cameras, lidars, and what not.

Wondering how the choice of stepper/servo, or some other mechanisms like hydraulics/pneumatics relates to the above categorization.

Thanks in advance.
Ransomware: Anti-virus unable to detect it
Like another commenter mentioned, I doubt that the watermark here is super sophisticated, but the fact that it exists and is “unknown” creates a higher degree of risk for a would-be leaker. And that might be enough to stop some people from leaking.

That said, if you don’t work for a three letter government agency, in finance (especially at an investment bank) or at a corporation with tens of thousands of employees (and ideally, a tech company), there are plenty of non-technical reasons that leaking can be considered a relatively low-risk activity. The biggest reason is that the IT person tasked with finding a leaker, assuming it was from a meeting that many people attended, often isn’t paid enough and has a lot more valuable things to do than to try to play audio forensics. I know of several instances where companies have threatened to release the hounds, so to speak, to find a leaker, only for those hounds to be people who are either about to be laid odd or who have just lost a sizable portion of their team. Not a lot of motivation for those people to really care, so they just tell the angry executive they tried but couldn’t figure it out, the executive is placated by trying, and everyone moves on to another crisis.

And of course, many of these leaks only matter if the recording itself is widely shared or published. If something is recorded but given to a news organization who is instructed (or does their own due diligence and decides not to publish the audio/video/document) not to publish the recording but to use it as a source, well, good luck. In the US, shield laws typically prevent a news organization from turning over their sources.

It’s like with screeners for the Oscars. The screeners will be watermarked with your name and that’s usually enough to keep them off of torrent sites, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have a Dropbox or Plex account full of them that you share with your close friends and family. Like, sharing my WGA screeners with my mom is about as low-risk as it gets.
New electric car battery is cheap, charges quickly
Hmm, I record meetings with Camtasia instead of fumbling around with the built-in functionality (specially when it's a meeting you are not hosting). I wonder to what degree this that gets rid of these invisible watermarks.
Strongly disagree. Why of software engineering is to formalise business processes so they can be replicated and automated. The code is most definitely "how" we get there.
This reminds of Randall's xkcd colors[0], who did the reverse experiment: given a color, what would be the most appropriate name? The 954 names made it into Python's matplotlib.

[0] https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
Partial list:

David Dorn [0], Lorenzo Anderson [1], Antonio Mays Jr. [2], Barry Perkins [3], Chris Beaty [4], Marquis M. Tousant [5], Oscar Lee Stewart Jr. [6], Jessica Doty Whitaker [7], Italia Marie Kelly [8].

Regular shootings and killings also spiked this summer in cities with significant BLM activity [9][10][11]. In the midst of protests and looting in Chicago, that city saw 18 murders within a 24-hour period, its deadliest single day in six decades [12].

These figures exclude excess “deaths of despair” such as from suicide, alcoholism and drug overdose that may result from the $2 billion in economic damage done mostly to private businesses [13].

[0] https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/retired-police-captain-k...

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/teen-who-died-in-c...

[2] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/everybody-down-wha...

[3] https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/protester-run-over-k...

[4] https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/indianapolis/2020/...

[5] https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-court...

[6] https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2020/10/21/authorit...

[7] https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-woman-shot-killed-argumen...

[8] https://apnews.com/article/18e8ec5a9b8e7175a128254d55df41e3

[9] https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/07/portland-sees-spike...

[10] https://www.wsbtv.com/news/2-investigates/atlanta-police-act...

[11] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/minneapolis-police-s...

[12] https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/6/8/21281998/chicago...

[13] https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-se...
> ReiserFS, Hans Reiser killed his wife.

Read the wiki entry on him. This guy seemed a bit insane.
I had the same experience with it, around the same age.

I also read "On the road" far too late in life, and it just didn't work for me.
Sure! It's @m_ryabinin
Arg I HATE that angle ! It's like that sales calls.. "Do you like money ?".. if you say no thank you I"m busy... they like... oh so you don't like free money ?
https://youtu.be/teC_uksSPBU