skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's asymmetry between Chinese propaganda able to operate freely on western platforms, while western propaganda are filtered on Chinese platforms. This is a real foreign policy conundrum since both parties are following relevant local regulations. It's a asymmetry of values, and I was always curious if west would find solutions without adopting similar anti-values of Chinese censorship. But they're converging more and more every year.

Up till now, Twitter labels foreign missions / media as warning (though biasedly, i.e. CGTN is labelled state media where BBC is not). Regardless, wholesale deplatforming of a foreign mission is a line that even China has not crossed on weibo. Occasional posts will be removed or shadowbanned, but nothing on this scale. Let that sink in.

This is tantamount to private company influencing foreign policy, or further validation of Chinese censorship policy. Either way this reaffirms the Chinese model. I'm sure there's going to be much rationalization and wank over differences between private and government control and muh liberal values. But IMO it's perfunctory. When pro democracy activists and Merkel who grew up in east Germany commented recent deplatforms are going too far, maybe listen.
Why is Twitter being treated as a public entity by the news lately
Ok, I see. That makes sense.

It seems there are perhaps three(?) options that come up:

1) Constrain big tech via regulation (thereby in some sense transferring the power to regulators/government, with the hope that it would in turn be influenced by democratic processes)

2) Or, directly influence big tech behaviour through boycotts and other consumer action.

3) Or, break up big tech forcibly or again through consumer action to switch to alternatives, thereby diffusing this power.

And you prefer 3. I think I do too.
hmmm ... yes. anecdata.
By definition YMMV but the people you meet and the experience as a whole make it 100% worth it (maybe 30% for American prices depending on your social class)
As opposed to drinking cheap crappy beer from a firehose all day long, it’s a refreshing change.
In general: if an animal is observed to purposefully do something in the wild, and that thing isn’t known to be harmful to the animal, then most people will consider that thing to be a valid “enrichment” activity — i.e. something that would be good to offer as an activity for animals of that species, in captivity, to engage in when they seem bored/understimulated.

I don’t know about cats with catnip specifically, but many wild animals are observed to purposefully seek out and consume rotten (i.e. fermented, alcoholic) fruit to get drunk/high. (We know that alcohol is harmful to animals, so we don’t tend to offer e.g. captive apes rotten fruit; but we also don’t really stop them from hoarding fruit to make it become rotten, and then eating it. It’s a natural thing that they do. Cats gonna scratch each-other up play-fighting. Apes gonna drink.)

But why do we have such a different mindset toward this?

I think one big difference is that the human social norms on the acceptable recreational activities for humans are mostly defined/circumscribed by what doctors think is okay (i.e. we take the lead of the medical establishment — if doctors are chill about something, there isn’t usually a social norm against it, while if doctors get upset, other people also get upset.) And doctors don’t like recreational drugs very much, because they usually think in a “harm reduction” mindset rather than a QALY mindset: they’d rather decrease “risk of a loss of capability to experience a satisfying life”, than increase “the area-under-the-curve of satisfying-life-years.”

Meanwhile, the human social norms on the acceptable recreational activities for animals are mostly defined/circumscribed by what zoologists think is okay. Zoologists are the people with voices and platforms to talk about animals, since engaging in animal conservation and study tends to directly correlate with seeking funding for that conservation and study, which is usually implemented through educational outreach activities (i.e. building zoos/aquariums/nature parks, giving tours in conservation areas, etc.) And zoologists, traditionally(?), mostly care about what they observe happening in nature. The whole field of zoology is built on observing animals in nature to figure out “what they do.” So our norms on animal recreation lean much more toward “natural ⇒ good” (regardless of harm potential) than “potentially harmful ⇒ bad” (regardless of naturalness.)

If veterinarians had the voices and platforms instead, I assume you’d see much more of a harm-reduction mindset in our social norms toward animal recreation.
Most gaming chairs are absolutely terrible ergonomically as well as poor value for money, but I hope he got a good one, for his sake.
Coverage on Ars (mostly from Bloomberg report but with some context too): https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/report-apples-vr-head...
I agree, I think it is a "good enough" compromise that I would pay for it. However I think that clients are more important than bridges right now, I would love to get people natively on Matrix. I want both but it is a shame not to be funding an open client. I think I would just continue using Element as a client if they let me in to show what I prioritize.
> The bigger picture is just that the 60/40 split between college educations has flipped to favour women now, and was the opposite a decade ago, but the short term 7x is still crazy

The 60/40 split was the opposite in the 1960s, not a decade ago. This was a time where women were widely regarded to disenfranchised.
for python, why cant you use use virtualenv with pyenv?
https://wipac.wisc.edu/deco/app
Not sure why your reading of Mcluhan would lead you to that conclusion, he gave countless warnings about how electronic media would destroy the societal institutions founded on literacy and the printing press.

"Instead of tending towards a vast Alexandrian library the world has become a computer, an electronic brain, exactly as an infantile piece of science fiction. And as our senses have gone outside us, Big Brother goes inside. So, unless aware of this dynamic, we shall at once move into a phase of panic terrors, exactly befitting a small world of tribal drums, total interdependence, and superimposed co-existence."

–Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy, 1962
Most of the fragmentation in the XMPP ecosystem is just incomplete implementations.

> We can't control what randoms on the internet say though :|

You could acknowledge Matrix's shortcomings instead of denying or minimizing almost every criticism. And not say things like "It's fine to dislike Matrix and pine for XMPP, but please don't spread FUD."
You give life and computers some special place in the universe for being to able "ask computations which can't be reduced". I don't think that's warranted. In the end, it's all fundamental particles and forces and interactions. I don't see why life would be special in that regard. A small part of material in the core of a star "asks" many more questions each second than a piece of brain tissue or a silicon chip.
180 comments and not a single one that mentions proper diet and calories intake balance along with needed amount of proteins to build these muscles ... that does not promise good results not matter how many hours you will spend making these exercises ...

Also 7-8 hours of good quality sleep is needed every day for regeneration.

Of course if you currently do nothing at all and will start doing these then you will grow 'some' muscles but forget about looking like the ones on Men's Health cover ...

It would be great if this MuscleWiki will also include a calculator/generator for current age/weight a diet that will help build and sustain these muscles :)
VR inhabited by GPT? I don’t want it, but I feel it coming.
One thing that worries me if you look at history.

Given that someone is willing to leave their entire
family and life to embark on a long quest to an unknown
land, while many do it for love to get help
or knowledge or resources to bring back home to their people, others are doing it because they are looking for a place where they can get away with hate.

Even if an alien civilization were 99% peaceful and good, what is the probability that the members of that civilization who would want to venture out, leave their families behind, and come meet us are the good ones or the ones in the other 1%?
Most of my travel by air is pleasure. And most of that is international (US->Europe).

I'd say the most anxiety-inducing part of every flight is check-in and security. I started my career (and had budget for travel) at roughly the same time as 9/11, so for many years, security delays were a real problem in the US... 3+ hour lines at IAD were common. The thought of missing a flight because I'm caught in some sort of airport security limbo is awful for me. And because most flights from DC->Europe leave in the evening, there won't be another until tomorrow (or worse, two days out, on some discount airlines).

The flight itself is pretty low down the list of things that bother me. I don't check baggage (at least outbound, sometimes I have to check coming home if I buy too many gifts), so lost luggage isn't a concern. Mechanicals happen, but so far, they've never been bad enough to cancel/reschedule the flight. And once I'm in Europe, I usually have a car or take a train, so connections not an issue. For flights that do have a connection, they're usually frequent enough to not be a problem (ie, Heathrow to Glasgow on BA).
Remote development from different machines/thin client machine
I am certain there are many more planets inhabited by carbon based intelligence similar to ours. In fact, I believe they look very similar to homo sapiens and that they too are in search of extraterrestrials. Based on rough math we are nowhere near making contacts but I get goosebumps just thinking about the very first contact.
They’re both ok with me. Twitter started as a global water cooler, but became possibly the world’s largest propaganda machine. Something had to be done.
The programmable IO peripherals on this part are awesome. They are 8 state machines that can toggle IO at "light speed" - the system clock rate - based on a small assembly program, with lots of hardware accelerated FIFOs and shifting.

The datasheet for the accelerators is pretty rich and well written with a ton of examples (an oddity for typically poorly-documented state machines - looking at you, i.MX DMA).

Someone had fun with it (and it also pretty clearly makes the point that these are not general purpose coprocessor accelerators):

> Although not designed for computation, PIO is quite likely Turing-complete, and it is conjectured that it could run DOOM,
given a sufficiently high clock speed. [...] A full 32-bit addition takes only around one minute at 125 MHz.

> // Pop quiz: how many additions does the processor do when calling this function [to set up the PIO addition program]

Lol.
> People smoke weed all the time

> and it decreases violence

https://i.imgur.com/61JXtJ7.png
A Modern Prometheus
> Has big tech supplanted the media?

Yes. Traditional media is struggling greatly because of tech in general and big tech in particular. The profitability has been squeezed out and what remains of media is less trustworthy because of that.
So, you can extend your bio-break waiting for your build to finish as Docker furiously crunches those files, raises your laptop temperature and makes those fans spin mightily.
Agreed, try running webpack in debug mode with watch it's basically not-usable, as is git and install npm packages.
it's the same logic that stops you from from taking an entire bottle of aspirin when you have a headache.
Perhaps they noticed the laissez-faire approach doesn't work.
Australian lungfish has largest genome of any animal sequenced so far
There's a great episode from the Cosmos series where Carl Sagan talks about how the range of whale communication was inhibited by the development of steam engine ships: https://youtu.be/UwzukFBWxu4?t=765
A Tour of Go 1.16's io/fs package
Great news, thanks for the effort :)
Incorrect. A lot of Chinese people will see this.

Chinese people know Twitter is blocked but largely don't care because Weibo is more fun. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing is left as an exercise to the readers.
> you don't have to use the parts you don't want.

I don't want to use systemd-logind or the gnome search services. Right now not using either of those requires a whole lot of work. It's actually pretty hard to use GTK apps with only the GTK toolkit and not a bunch of other software daemons. Hell, in a perfect would I'd even get rid of dconf and gnome's weird registry, but I recognize that as pretty integral to the toolkit.
While I agree you with you in principle, for once they really seem to have gone all out on being fully open, unlike in the past. Kudos.

From the linked blog post:

We hope to make RP2040 broadly available in the second quarter of 2021.

Schematics for a demo board/etc and a very detailed datasheet:

https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/rp2040/hardware_design_wi...

https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/rp2040/rp2040_datasheet.p...
Extra/complimentary suggestion to that: when the mouse cursor hovers over a muscle group further to the 'red patch', have a pop-up small text box with name and brief description of the specific red-ed part. It would be fun/educating for the regular folk (like me, who doesn't know each muscle group and/or their names) to just 'browse' the human body and see the name of that muscle group and what it does.
Edit: on the parts that are not a muscle group (e.g. face, "love-handles", feer/hands, 'throat', etc.) maybe paint them grey so they are visibly distinguishable from the 'muscle groups'. I was veri curious to see if the 'love-handles' region has any use apart storing fat.
visit: https://linkish.io
The US government has over 70k BTC. Why are they hiding their holdings?
If they really wanted to fight for freedoms instead of searching a viable way to have profits in China, they wouldn't secretly start Dragonfly, which was only halted after its employees demanded it. So, they really really did want to operate in China, no matter the human rights situation there, they just did not think it through to concede enough things back then. They were ready later, hence Dragonfly happened.
How can I take this seriously when it doesn't mention ebay anywhere?
That’s a dismissive attitude. There’s plenty of people who are poor through flaws in the system and no fault of their own, and there’s also plenty who are stuck in patterns of addiction where free money will exacerbate that.
Cats become sedated when ingesting catnip, rolling or around/smelling it causes them to get "high"
Twitter is banned in China. Why should Twitter let the CCP use their platform for propaganda campaigns? Do you think Twitter banning them is as bad as CCP concentration camps in Xinjiang?
The way I use reddit and HN is more like a forum than what consider true social media, like Facebook and Twitter.
>Any kind of governance requires some consent from people

Well no, the whole point of totalitarianism is that the people aren't even allowed a choice in the first place. A lot of people did speak out in Tiananmen Square and it didn't work out so well for them.
Even the Alcubierre drive may not actually work:

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/11/warp-drive-news-se...

> As I explained earlier, the relevant question is then, what does the wall of the passenger area have to be made of? Is this a physically possible distribution of mass and energy? Bobrick and Martire explain that if you want superluminal motion, you need negative energy densities. If you want acceleration, you need to feed energy and momentum into the system. And the only reason the Alcubierre Drive moves faster than the speed of light is that one simply assumed it does. Suddenly it all makes sense!
The author doesn’t explicitly call out the classic reliability engineer’s concept of a bathtub failure model. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve

Thermal abuse (running at a high temp for many hours), duty cycle, iop rate (high head acceleration versus head dwell) all impact the lifetime.

Early life media issues are predictive of failure and can be detected through stress testing with various seek ranges. It’s not as simple as a SMART metric, but did appear to have predictive value. The one experiment I ran discovered a set of drives which ultimately the manufacturer admitted to a since corrected process problem.

The above factors are different on each drive family and can’t normally be generalized.
because setting and configuring virtualenv is also chore and loads of things that can go wrong. Its different in windows to mac to linux.

With docker its a single command run after installing docker.
Slightly off-topic, it really irks me when people take about reproducible builds/environments while using docker, while having something along the lines of apt-get update/pip install in their dockerfile.

Like that completely destroys the reproducibility of your container!
>>> Finding an initial product that’s reimbursable and then taking the shortest path to get there

This is really inspiring. Contrast with the typical story like Sana Bio which burns tons of R&D cash. My question is: how do you systematically search the potential solution space which may not be your initial area of expertise? How did the solution to focus on easily billable pre-natal diagnostics present itself to a team with oncology expertise?
FunkWhale: Decentralized Music Server
I would wager a good number of people who crow on about "1984 is here - dystopia is upon us!" either didn't read it, or took away a different meaning than the author actually intended.
chinese firm tracks you isn't exactly shocking
It's possible they can simulate many trillions of species realistically, so they wouldn't need to examine us individually. Many of the other trillion would have interesting music or interesting pog slammers. Their machine learning might pick up on it and surface it for them to review.

It's possible we are one of those trillion species being simulated, and our pogs are currently being scrutinized.
I'm skeptical that Twitter cares about consistency. The company is run by Bay Area progressives and I doubt the Democrats in congress want to do anything to stop Twitter from going after right wing accounts. Sure, the conservative people will try to leave for an alternative but I think the majority of average people will just stay on twitter and the net effect will be that the platform will lurch even farther to the left.
What exactly is diffucult to understand about the value proposition? Seems pretty obvious to me...

If you mean why use dev environments in containers:

1) reproducibility,

2) re-use of container creation scripts for different environments,

3) isolation from your actual OS,

4) ability to run the same OS/libs/etc as the final deployment,

5) tons of base images with different environments already configured - from LAMP to data science,

6) easy sharing with others, team

7) ability to work with 1-2-5 or 100 different environments, with different OSes, versions, libs, python versions, whatever.

As for why have your IDE/editor work from inside a container (as described in the article).

Well, because you get all the benefits of containers (as above) PLUS get to use the editor as if you were programming directly on the target machine (including having visibility of installed libraries for autocomplete, running code directly there, and so on).

It's the same thing people have been doing with running Emacs in "server" mode inside another host, and programming with Emacs client on their machines as if they were locally at the machine.
Show HN: Duffel (S18) – The best API to sell flights online
Hey HN,

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We built Duffel after running head first into the problem of accessing airline inventory for a side-project that we had. All the providers out there (ever heard of a GDS? Amadeus? Sabre?) felt antiquated, expensive and quite frankly didn't even want to work with us. To top it up, once we started digging the only things we could hear were "PNR", "IATA", "ARC", "RBD" and other wonderful acronyms.

It’s difficult to innovate in travel today. The process is intimidating, time-consuming, and often cost-prohibitive for new startups. The antiquated tech stacks and expensive accreditation processes are enough to keep great travel sellers locked out of the industry.

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The Duffel platform is built for the modern developer, offering simple, composable APIs, comprehensive documentation, and a robust testing environment. Check this video to see it in action:

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Since our founding, we have grown to an international team of 40+ spread across the UK and US. We're on a mission to make travel effortless by rebuilding the software backbone of the travel industry layer by layer.

We would love any feedback you have on the product and are always keen to discuss with people with deep knowledge of the industry. Looking forward to reading you in the thread below!

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>Chinese people know Twitter is blocked but largely don't care because Weibo is more fun.

Ah yes. The grapes are sour anyway.
Hands-On with Anthos on Bare Metal
> in the latter; life happened once in space

AIUI most panspermia theories don't posit either of those - definitely not that life originated in space, and not necessarily that it only originated once. The most common variants seem to be that life originates in gravity wells, is ejected by major impact events, drifts through space and eventually re-enters other gravity wells. Simulations suggest that bacteria can potentially survive all of these.
I would add "The Codeless Code"[1] to this list; very entertaining stories/koans told as if programmers were monks in a monastery.

[1] http://thecodelesscode.com
You wouldn't happen to have an example Dockerfile you could share at all would you? The examples I have come across online so far did't look super straightforward.
If I open a box and find a bag of apples inside, how did the universe in the past "know" that the bag of apples needed to somehow end up in that box?
But wait - McLuhan was also warning us of this specific potential future and providing a solution. We need to “cool” the media e.g. make the news interactive, discoverable and participatory instead of what we currently have which is the death rattle of cable news attempting to maintain its strangle hold on our attention.
There’s a new internet [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/Q3QbXMFjro0
No - I answered the direct question about noise cancellation.

As to other feature comparisons - those really are well documented in public reviews.
Where's the "End Simulation" or "Shutdown" button?
How does Threema deal with the keyboard leak that Naomi Wu has pointed out multiple times about Signal (and basically all other messenger apps)?

I'm talking about the fact that virtual keyboards don't necessarily respect the incognito mode requested by the app.
If a post author is promoting violence, lay the blame with the post author, not the social network. As I understand it the legal basis and protections for the network using this simple valid logic already exists. They’ve been operating with this protection for years now. What has changed is the increased appetite for authoritarianism from many of a particular political persuasion.