skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And same.

I believe there's also a theory that the neanderthals were smarter than our ancestors of the time. That would also fit the story. I can imagine the homo sapiens of the time interacting with the far stronger and smarter neanderthals and describing them as 'sons of god'. I wonder if that's also where the old Greek myths of Hercules (etc) came from.
most people have a phone that can leverage webauthn, so you don't even need to buy anything.
On top of that, webauthn can be configured to prevent phishing as well
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”

Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World, 1995.

I’ve had this quote in mind at many points this year. The refusal to wear masks, the inability to agree on basic facts, the wildfire spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories.

IMHO the only way out of this hole is by doubling down on critical thinking education. Education that focuses not just on skills for a labor market, but skills for thinking. Being able to separate fact from fiction, ‘feels from reals’.

An aside: I’ve often felt that writing longhand on paper produces a different result than typing. Something about the deliberate pace. Technology has given us awesome powers, and the ability to blast out our stream of consciousness at hyper speed. We would do well to slow down a little, reflect more, try to fully grasp issues and consider the sources and validity of things before we share them out.

But above all, we need to find our way back to truth through science - not just what feels good, but what we can sort out through the full power of our mental abilities.
Shuffle puck and strategic conquest.
This looks like a very cool service, but there are a few problems with DRM music I've been unable to solve, I would love to hear suggestions if anyone has this figured out. But for now I haven't used anything better than audible.

1. Syncing audio between devices. (i.e. switch from listening on my phone to computer, etc)

2. Automatically back up the files, so when I switch devices the books are still there

3. A good app that that at
minimum has the ability to listen to the audiobooks at double speed, but it would be nice if it could load the album art for free, and book description.

4. Also, it's really nice to say "Alexa, ready my audiobook", and it continues from where it left off.
Great, in-depth reporting. My initial understanding was that delays were COVID-related.

Feb at least will be a busy month for robotic exploration of Mars, with probes from US, UAE and China!

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/science/space-astronomy-l...
Not sure what this means but Tim must had not been on Twitter last year. There was a moment that went on for 4+ months of wild endless violence against federal agents.

We live in a conspiracy theory with neoliberal corporate racketeers proclaiming they’re saving us from the ill affects of their own corporate communication platforms for not the public but for woke leftists that vote for Democratic party establishment figures.

Not Bernie, that guy’s a socialist and a threat to my 401k.
Where to start, maybe no time to tell you my problems...
But how can you keep people like that away from technology short of draconian laws? The fact is, large web platforms and hoards of rage junkies have found a mutually beneficial arrangement. One gets advertising revenue, the other gets unlimited rage fuel. How do you get either side to agree to stop?
Instead of using reverse DNS to see where traffic is from (e.g. the optisan.com.tw fqdn) you might be better to do a whois lookup on the source IP addresses. Reverse DNS can point anywhere, but you can't make IP addresses in TCP connections.
Also, IIRC there was an interview where the CEO talked about how he was banning "left wing trolls"[1], not to mention they obviously don't allow pornographic images (which are not, in the large, illegal).

Parler is about free speech the same way Fox News is fair and balanced. They say that because that's what their target demographic wants to hear, not because there's any truth to the statement.

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/06/27/parlers-f...
Nano is the only currency that is capable of hundreds of transactions in a second without fees, and runs in a trustless and decentralized mode (https://nano.org)

For the time being, no one has found vulnerabilities in it.
One key insight about social relationships that took me a while to understand is that people respond mainly to whether you are life-affirming in your behavior or not. If you have things going on in your life and aren't afraid to exist as a person, they will naturally gravitate to you and give you a lot of leeway. Being a nice person or an asshole is orthogonal to the issue: they are just facets that may help or hinder this depending on the situation. In fact, they are defined entirely in relation to people's general impression of you so they have no real meaning on their own.

People then end up frustrated because they often confuse being weak and hollow as being nice and being assertive and self-directed with being an asshole.

In a way, we are Veblen goods: it's all about status and perceived scarcity in the end, whether it's conscious or not. That is not necessarily a negative or depressing thing as it also is the engine behind great things happening.
My ipad is my primary non-work computer.
For U2F specifically you don't need apps except support in the browser. The apps you listed are used for other types of functionality provided by the yubikey, like OTP and TOTP.
OnlyFans is a bigger threat to society than 10,000 Parlers.
Exactly my point. The Linux is all about choice argument means workforce distribution.

Sure, for different hardware (RPi, Tablets, PC, Mobile etc) different distros/DEs make sense. But for a single similar hardware, (PC for example) I never understood why distros like Manjaro and KDE neon are separate. Wish those teams were together and built a kick-ass serious competitor.
Hmm... maia1100 is ranked ~1600. https://lichess.org/@/maia1
Actions are different from thoughts. We're judged/arrested when we do that. What people think, on the other hand, is immaterial to whether one should be happy or not.

If one is required to be concerned with not "being an asshole", how are risky ventures ever undertaken?
See also: https://github.com/dstat-real/dstat/issues/170
Joe Rogan is “the smart man’s Joe Rogan”. Friedman’s podcast is completely different, main difference is that it is rarely about entertaining
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"These people" intend to write that history, and ensure the pendulum never swings back against their favour.

Consider how few communist governments were destroyed by counter-revolutions. That (almost?) never happens. Instead once the hard left seizes control of a society, it stays in control unless the society completely collapses. We tend to think that sort of takeover couldn't happen to us in the Anglo-sphere, but why not? It has in plenty of other places.
I have a MacBook Air 2012 with an SD card reader.

It has a 256GB SSD drive, and a 1 TB SD Card inside that I use for storing photos, video, music, etc. essentially everything that does not need fast storage.

This laptop was only meant to be a 1 year temporary solution, so I’ve been waiting 9 years to upgrade.

I’ve yet to find a new reasonably priced MacBook with 1,256Gb of built in storage.

Carrying an external drive sucks.

Unless Apple makes 1-2 Tb SSDs lower in price to the 100$ mark, the lack of an SD card is a killer for me.

Paying 500$ for an extra 256GB SSD when I can get 1 Tb SD card for 100$ is just ridiculous.
Next stop for Apple: Block Twitter. You can find a violent threat against anybody and the place is just a cesspool of hate.
> A 20% decrease in cost is 20% more revenue now and forever.

Cost and revenue are not related like that. You're thinking of profit margin, but even then it's not that simple. Most expenses can be written off, but profits are taxed. Revenue can be increased by spending, by adding features that increase demand, or just by plain advertising. You can have high profit margins but low profits due to low revenue, all because you cut spending.

Moreover, for a new company, being profitable is far less important than (an expectation of) growth. A mostly unprofitable company like Tesla has incredibly high expectations of the future already priced in.
Yet - somehow - he keeps growing?

You make really harsh and bitter remarks, like, "clearly he sucks at what he does, and he is cringe to ask silly questions about life and simulations... he is just lucky about his guests!!"

Like selecting, inviting and convince guests isn't part of the whole thing? Do you think these guests go out there expose themselves without having any idea of who he is, who his audience his, and the work he does?

How do you make such assessment and don't realize that maybe, just maybe, you're not his audience or that you don't understand what he is doing or his appeal, accept that and move on? He clearly works really hard to prepare these 1+ hour long interviews - this is not easy, at all!

The ridiculous thing is that when I clicked this comment section, I was expecting to see such caustic comments because there's a lot of passionate people here about CS, AI, and many other sciences... that's one of the reasons I come to HN, even though I don't have a PhD.

But damn, give the man some credit! You must understand that his inadequacies, his awkward pauses or his behavior when he makes the - indeed cringe - romanticized questions, it's part of the appeal of the whole thing? You don't get such bare boned interviewers these days, he his what he is - a MIT guy interviewing and giving visibility to bright minds that, at least myself, would have never heard of!

Is he the best interviewer? Hell no! His he improving? Yeah, bit by bit, and he has a long way to go. Some guests roll their eyes about some question? Yes, but some also don't, and that's the fun part! His he and his guests entertaining? Hell yes!
2020: A year to forget, but also one full of gratitude
Recent data from New horisons mission is interesting, suggesting there are an order of magnitude fewer galaxies (hundreds of billions, rather than 2 trillion) which should be relevant update to Fermi/great filter reasoning.

The probe is near Pluto, and so able to sky 10 times darker than Hubble, but isn't observing the modelled galaxies extrapolated from Hubble observations.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/nasa-finds-fewer-galaxies-th...
Could you let me know where I can buy a well supported WebAuthn key for that price?

Looking at Amazon UK - https://amzn.to/3oWGYe4 - the cheapest appears to be about £30. Unless I want to risk my security to some no-name brand with zero customer support.

When I got my YubiKey, it told me I had to download an Android app to make it work. So, perhaps better documentation is needed?

I'm sorry you didn't like my post, I'll try to do better in future.
Is this useful for visually impaired people?
Same here. But I use onlyoffice. And its been serving me good till now. Plus I like the tabs thing. I installed it on my friend's laptop which is super old, it seems to work better than MS Office 2016 too
It's not an expensive jobs program for AL, TX, and FL... it's an expensive jobs program for the entire country.

NASA prides itself on sourcing components from / having a presence in each of the 50 states.
Having robust moderation tools doesn't necessarily mean moderation there works well. You actually need enough people with the right policies using said tools.

According to articles, Parler had some huge backlog of reports that they were planning on using volunteer mods to get through.

I don't necessarily think using volunteer mods is always a bad idea. But you have to be aware of the biases of your demographic, and in this case that means users who are likely to be tolerant of calls for violence, as long as they're targeted at 'bad people' (read: people with different political views).
> Honestly don’t see how you can protect against even moderate level spearphishing reasonably.

WebAuthn. The article author dismisses it as basically too inconvenient (they apparently keep their Security Key somewhere out of reach and they struggle to remember the complicated user interaction of... pressing a button)

But WebAuthn is completely effective against phishing.

The closest to plausible attacks are: The bad guys take over the target servers (no reason to phish you); The bad guys persuade you to physically send them your authentication device (truly not everybody can be helped...); The bad guys persuade you to install software under their control on a general purpose PC (this won't work on a Phone) and then you follow their bad instructions to "use" your authenticator with their software to get them in.

Mutually authenticated TLS is in principle viable, and I have used it in machine-to-machine systems, but the UX is atrocious and it has grave privacy problems.
>>Unfortunately libertarianism today is more of a "live and let die"-type ideology, where those who cannot support themselves must fail, as they provide "no value". It is social darwinism writ large.

Altruism is completely orthogonal to libertarianism. The only consistent property of libertarian policies is that they protect and preserve the right to voluntary interaction.

How people choose to voluntarily associate is in no way a concern of what's defined as libertarianism.

In other words, one can believe and promote a society based on compassion, sharing and collectivism, or a society based on self-sufficiency and only profit-motivated interaction, and be equally libertarian.

>>the effects of gutting for instance the EPA has massive consequences, irreparable damage to the environment and to people's health. Or do you think the people in Flint, Michigan should just move somewhere else?

There are a multitude of types of regulations, and not all of them violate the non-aggression moral principle that libertarianism holds as inviolable. Environmental regulations generally do not violate the right to free association, and can indeed protect rights, so are generally consistent with libertarianism.

Moreover, regulations have a multitude of effects, and not all of them positive. To quantify their net effect on human welfare requires far more evidence than the single data point you've provided. It requires a comprehensive and methodological accounting of their entire impact.

>>Voluntarism doesn't work, for that exact reason. Hence why regulations and laws are needed.

Voluntarism does not imply a lack of laws. Voluntaryism can only be enforced with laws and a state to back it. There is a distinction between laws that protect people's right to their life, liberty and property, and laws that violate it.
Good thing they were shut down. Lots and lots of wrongthink being expressed on that network.

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
This probably breaks lichess cheat detection.
Turn Your Raspberry Pi 400 to a Chromebook with FydeOS
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Blue Origin hasn't actually delivered anything.
I use VSCode with a vim plugin. I’m mostly happy with it. As opposed to Vim, VSCode makes it easy to setup as a general purpose IDE. The downside is that it doesn’t feel as responsive (it’s not terrible, but noticeable) and has a larger memory footprint.
What's funny is I didn't even link to them, I just named the sub-reddits. I think Reddit has gone way downhill and far surpassed Eternal September (I refer to it as the new AOL), but that's largely the defaults and popular sub-reddits, I agree that niche sub-reddits are generally better and at least as likely to produce the same quality discussions you'd find here.
Older people
> Christofi, also a novelist, describes "Dostoevsky in Love" as less a biography than a “reconstructed memoir”. His method, he explains, has been to “cheerfully commit the academic fallacy” of eliding Dostoevsky’s “autobiographical fiction with his fantastical life.”

Although I have not read Christofi's book, I am willing to admit that this could be a potentially fruitful method of interpreting the writer and his work. But for those interested in authentic history, I would recommend Joseph Frank's magnificent study "Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time" (2010), a fascinating yet critical biography that examines Dostoevsky's life, letters and philosophy.
Don't give them any ideas. At some point people will notice that the same company that considers it reasonable to wipe out entire services because of the actions of a few of its users controls a global blacklist of websites that can't be worked around as well.

I'm waiting for the comments here on HN .... "Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge are private browsers, nothing stops you creating your own browser if you want to view conservative websites".
Here's a really interesting proposal... instead of paying in 25k, wasting 20k, then paying out 2k, why not just not have people pay so much tax up front?
This is really well written and researched but confuses me. Do most people not do this - make choices based on values (and constantly re-evaluate those choices in the face of new information)?

When I decide to use software, move to a new location, purchase cereal at the grocery store, buy music, and a variety of other daily activities, these are choices I make based on my values. Many times I end up picking something that I find slightly less convenient or usable because it aligns with my values better, and I'm unwilling to compromise my ethical stance for a little bit of convenience.

It seems unrealistic to me that people would choose otherwise, given enough information.
You have peaked my curiosity please explain? I have not used either app.
An interesting take but I am not sure it holds up in the post-truth world of “firehose of falsehood” tactics.

Speaking truth to power assumes that truth can be recognized as such and that it will be comprehended rationally. What we saw with the email leaks was that the fact that a leak occurred was used as a “hook” to spin a massive network of falsehoods. To this day nobody remembers anything about that leak except “pizzagate.” Was there anything of legitimate truth-to-power interest in there? Maybe, but it was instantly drowned in the ocean of bullshit that is social media.

Other far more damaging leaks have occurred but nobody remembers them. They are messages in a bottle bobbing somewhere out there in that vast ocean of shit.

You see... you can lie with the truth. Just twist it and tack on falsehood. The small amount of truth there makes the lie more powerful.

Maybe that was the establishment’s response: “flood the zone.” If so it worked.

If Assange isn’t a fascist in the bag for fascists, he is naive. Personally I still lean toward him being in the bag for the fascists. He strikes me as someone too smart not to see what I outlined above and how the current tactics of his organization play right into it.

Wikileaks tactics cannot work unless we can drain the real swamp, namely social media, and get people talking like facts and reality matter. In the present climate leaks are ineffective or worse actually enable more deception.
No thanks. There is no reason to have apache, mplayer and mpv as a dependency for a screensaver “designed for security”.
All kinds of reasons - my biggest one being why MagSafe was invented in the first place; I know my power cord is run across the living room due to a lack of power outlets in my 70-year-old apartment, and gets tripped over regularly. Not to mention a proprietary charger can free up a USB port for additional peripherals.
I love the idea of standard ports everywhere, I just wish it was apple or some other good multidisciplinary design team that had designed the standard. Lightning and MagSafe are the best out there. They feel satisfying to use; the lightning click is the phone equivalent of the German car door clunk, likewise with MagSafe, I also like that the connector tells me if its charging or not with the green/orange light on the connector. They are resistant to dust and electrically reliable. They fail safe; The lightning connector in the cable breaks, unlike mini/micro USB which knackers the port in your device if you bend it by accident. If you trip over the MagSafe cable it just pops off. The standardised ports seem to have mechanical and experiential design as an afterthought. In terms of the physical connector (not the capabilities of the port), USB-C feels like a step backwards from lightning.
if your insane idea is to censor calls for domestic terrorism then all democrats need censored
maxine watters for calling on people to harass families trying to eat scaring the fuck out of their little children
pelosi for calling the same peaceful protests that trump called for only pelosi's protests included murdering shop owners for trying to protect their business cops looting burning some democrats committing treason by calling for the president to be shot and blown up
but its what i expect to hear from a deranged retarded liberal
the wise man is known for what he thinks, the fool is known for what they say
>How does skill help you get connected to the internet, if nobody is willing to connect you?

It would be trivial for a group of competent engineers to set up their own physical infrastructure across multiple redundant internationally based ISPs if they had such people willing to work on this. There was a recent article about the Pirate Bay's founder chiding them for an inability to stay online [0]. If you want to fight the system, you're either gonna need to know how to do it or you're out of luck.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an7pn/pirate-bay-founder-th...
why do you care about what other people think about other people. youre the asshole.
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It's been an exciting year or so for nuclear in the US. (1) the democratic party switched stances to support nuclear energy (2) the US allowed several small nuclear reactor designs to move forward (3) fusion research got extra funding (4) pushing some work from government to private sector (5) encouraging NASA and the DOD to cooperate on small reactor work.

It's reasonably likely that in 10 years we have nuclear energy that is near the cost of other energy sources, which has always been it's blocker.
Transparency with the public can only happen after transparency exists within the organization. They probably don't yet know what happened. They might have ideas, some people might be confident, but at this point the organization as a whole doesn't know much. There is no point in them communicating theories or ad hoc explanations. We will all have to wait for the internal review of the data.
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The downpour app does all of this. Of course it only works for downpour books, but if you get another good app you can download the MP3s and use them in there also.
I think you are thinking of this one use it all the time at work.
https://4sysops.com/archives/reset-a-windows-10-password/
> What more do you want?

E.g. listen for an hour and then decide if I want to buy it.
Why should you have side projects?
block terrorist sites like wikileaks
"so the impact is very limited"