skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't think the West understands the East still despite having all this time to do so.

What was his regular appearance schedule before? 1 month if that? I'd love to see some stats from those paid to report these matters. He was never the _shitpost on Twitter_ type billionaire.

Famous people saying something others don't like, being lynched-mobbed online, then subsequently laying low are doing the exact same thing as Ma all the time. It's basically a weekly occurrence in the West.

Honestly scary how many people believe any media speculation as the truth and how the media know they can get away with it.

When you read things like this it's always likely wrong. If Bloomberg or the NYT tells you that Kim Jong Un is dead, bet everything against it and wait until someone with integrity can verify that info. They've said it a half dozen times now and no one even notices.

OT: I can't help but see your posts in new all the time OP. Honestly intrigued why someone would post so much stuff to HN like this, any comment? Trying to earn points?
Is he losing his mind, or is it more along the lines of, if you find out just how fucking corrupt the interplay between business, media, and government is, you become so angry and jaded that it looks like you're losing your mind?

For all the shit you know, there's more out there that even's worse, and there's another load of shit that's classified that you'll never know.

When I was attached to a Naval special operations unit as their quartermaster and small boat coxswain, I had a top secret clearance and I had access to Intellipedia. I made the mistake of just sitting down after watch and reading. And reading. And reading more. I quickly came to the realization that its a good thing I don't have Superman's powers. The amount of people that not only deserve to be dead, but need to be dead is enormous.
3 raises a very interesting and somewhat concerning possibility. In the near future as AI develops more in the crime detection arena you may become a suspect for crimes occurring in your geographical area based on things you are not doing or based on some set of states your smart devices have that match a statistical model of a suspicious person. The idea of becoming a suspect because you didn’t touch your smartphone during a particular timeframe is chilling.
You're not wrong. Applications and libraries that want to be non-blocking should mlock their pages and avoid mmap for further data access. ntpd does this, for example.

After application startup, you can avoid additional mmap.
We joked that you could play a drinking game with the post-scienrlce era Horizon. Take a shot every time the narrator rhetorically asked "But why did it happen?"
Almost no civilian in the country has "automatic weapons" this is what people are saying when they mention theres a lot of hyperbole around this topic.
>Honestly, what did they think was going to happen?

They thought they would succeed. The Democrats would be marched en masse to the gallows and revealed to the world to be the satanic blood drinking pedophiles the faithful always knew they were. The world would see the insurrectionists as patriots and heroes for stopping the CCP in league with the Democratic Party from stealing the election and denying Donald Trump his rightful second term .

Many of these people literally believe they're involved in a holy war and that Trump was sent by God, so for them, victory was a metaphysical certainty. The rest were certain Trump would pardon them in any case. Why bother with OPSEC when the Lord will prepare a table for you in the presence of your enemies and your leader has infinite "get out of jail free" cards to hand out?
I've long suspected there are vast bot networks like this all over social media.

YouTube comment sections on videos related to covid are an absolute cess pit of covid deniers, misinformation spreading and conspiracy theory peddling.

I would like to think these are bots and not a very vocal but significant section of society but given recent world events I am not sure at all.
I already have a VPS for other reasons, so I'm glad if I could get a self-hosted solution.
This is totally an unintended consequence of the Github Oauth 2.0 setup. And I'm working on changing the authentication setup to avoid this. Since we really only need to read the username and email address.

There's an open issue for it, and I'll try to get to it in the next week.

https://github.com/rysolv/rysolv/issues/15
Twitter does have the affect on people to go crazy. I think your wrong about Glenn he is correct. Just look up the facts. Glenn gets more respect the more you study him.
The servers aren't part of the XBox Live infrastructure, but XBox Live provides infrastructure for friends lists, matchmaking, p2p text and voice communication, moderation (banning players), video recording and sharing, etc. They also provide a website, mobile apps, and of course the console experience to interface with these services.

$5/month isn't an unreasonable price tag for these features, and I would happily pay double if it meant that xbox would actually remove some of the hardcore stalkers and overt pedophiles. By which I mean the networks of grown men who coordinate to target certain minors (even though the minors appear offline and block the stalkers) by fanning out across game servers. Microsoft knows about these players because they've been reported so many times and by so many different players that they have the worst Reputation Scores. This isn't to speak of the "ordinary" sexual harassment, trolling, cheating, and "unsporting behavior".
OpenJDK is not a fork, but the baseline of all Java. There are many distributions, Oracle’s is only one of them.
They use kapton tape but close enough.
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don't want to answer the phone

That's me too, but conversely WFH over the last 10 months with zoom has made me more amenable to having meetings. Because when there is a need to talk synced, we can do it and have just a 15 minute meeting and that's all.

IRL, it seems like people are reluctant to schedule any block shorter than half an hour and typically go 10-15 minutes longer than scheduled, combined with working in a large area where I might have to walk 10 minutes back and forth to the meeting location.

Rarely would any meeting eat less than 1.5 hours of my time. Now, it can sing be 15 minutes.
I don't care, but FWIW, I often don't reply anything at all until the messenger doesn't elaborate on his greetings, even if I'm present and could answer otherwise. I mean, if he doesn't, he probably didn't need it that much anyway...
I don't think they meant literally lost his mind.

I'd be happy to see more reporting on other topics mixed in with the media contrarianism. It's an important point and I agree with it but he becomes the thing he criticizes at a certain point.
Absolutely. I've used swizzling myself to fix issues with audio plugin's GUIs (to limit how fast they are allowed to redraw themselves). It's very clever and sometimes very useful.

But the ability to do that comes with certain costs, and performance is one of them. The fact that these "methods" are dynamically dispatched sometimes matters, and you can't change that any more than you can swizzle in C++.
I write cursive, and I felt the same way. I had to slow down and force myself to write the way I was taught in school. You don't need to caricature the characters (charicature?!) but get back to very plain, school-style letters for a few weeks, and it seems to have reset my handwriting.
RemoteFX will enable both GPU acceleration in apps as well as GPU acceleration in the RDP session encode but...

RDP is still only limited to 30 FPS for whatever reason and so you may continue to be disappointed in it.

Also 1,300 Mbps sounds like a wireless network so your main problem on the network side is being half duplex and airtime delays (even from just beacons) not throughput. I'd pick a 100 Mbps hardwire to RDP on over any Wi-Fi setup as the video bandwidth isn't actually that helpful but jitter/latency are problems with trying to send inputs at the same time. Not much you can do about that though.
Another incredible blog post from Julia Evans.

Julia if you're reading, I'm a big fan. One request: could you add the date/time to the post, preferably near the title?

I do see a `<time>` tag in the HTML, but it doesn't render any human readable text. The datetime is also part of the URL which is "good enough," but it always takes me a minute to remember that and Ctrl+F won't find it.

I'm a little ADD about knowing when things were published, so far from an average person. If you like it the way it is, then don't worry about me. I just wanted to throw it out there.
Yeah your Pinboard account has to be connected in order to create a new bookmark. You can either use your Pinboard username/password combo or just the API token. Your password isn't stored on the device anyway — it's just used to retrieve the API token and save you a few clicks.
You joke but it doesn't take much to seal this type of leak. They could probably use scotch tape.
It would be interesting to see how this process works for someone whose account has been disabled. Clearly Facebook won't want manual requests.

Any European users could make 2 requests - one for access to their data, and one to exercise their right to data portability.

Most companies don't have a great process for the latter, many don't have anything for it.
What exactly is involved in converting them to root filesystems?
Swift can uses the Objective-C runtime for interoperability with Objective-C code, just like .NET uses COM on Windows.

They need to interoperate with the rest of the platform.
Asian here. Yeah, it feels a little rude to start asking questions without first going through the equivalent of a SYN+ACK handshake.

I usually compromise by sending two messages in quick succession. I write the actual question first, Ctrl+X it, send a "hi" first, Ctrl+V the question back into the textarea, and send it immediately afterward so that I don't waste the recipient's time.
I definitely agree with this. I've noticed that the more time I spend away from handwriting the worse my handwriting gets. The only way to improve is to write more. As a developer, this is sadly not something I get much opportunity to do throughout the day.
Totally agreed. And this is a really weird default behavior in the Github Oauth 2.0. There's an issue raised for it and I'll try to get a fix in this week.
https://github.com/rysolv/rysolv/issues/15
Attribute-based credentials refers to cryptographic systems where someone can produce a proof that they fulfill a certain attribute. Canonical examples are things like an employee ID card, where the ID card can produce a proof that they're an employee, have clearance level X or are part of group Y without the proof containing any information beyond that. Another example would be things like national ID cards, where you could make a check for "is older than 18 years" and the system only receives a cryptographically-verifiable answer to that question, without being able to infer anything else.
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"Pen preferences are very personal. I prefer thinner roller-ball lines" Me too.

"two of my favourites are Uni-ball Onyx micro and Pilot Hi-tecpoint V5"
I used uni-ball an others I found in Europe or China. Once I bought a pen called BE-α-DX5. Not sure where I bought it the first time, just bought it by chance but really liked it.
They are produced by a Japanese SME company: https://www.zebrapen.com/
No idea if they are famous or not.

"My" pen is available at Amazon in packs of 10:
https://www.amazon.com/Zebra-Dx5-Liq-Ink-Rollerball/dp/B000T...
Walking around with a gun in DC is an automatic felony with potentially years in jail, especially if it's in connection with a violent act which this insurrection was. DC is not a gun-friendly place. These people were stupid, but not that stupid.
Glenn has been making reasoned arguments about the threat posed by centralized control of information, which isn't controversial. He uses examples to support his statements of principles he's defending, and makes predictions about what will happen next. That the takeaway from his opponents is that he's crazy, is very 1984-like, and a testament to how ad hominem argumentation dominates the discourse.
It is 100% NOT the liberal side of the cultural war. There really is no liberal side

The right side is theological authoritarian, the Left side is illiberal Identitarianism which is ironic because identitarianism started out as a "far right" ideology but in a real world example of the horseshoe theory of politics has become far-left authoritarian
I find the idea of Facebook being "necessary" for anyone quite spectacularly laughable. This isn't, air or water. You can live without it, and many people happily do. Facebook is about as essential as essential oils.
But what is the reason you think he is "loosing his mind"?
This is incredible, not to mention extensive, work!

I've never really had the need to microbenchmark Dart code, but I think with NNBD soon becoming a reality, we might see a lot more interest in writing pure Dart or server side Dart/Flutter. Though it is a bit strange to think of Flutter being used server side as it's known as a graphical toolkit, it provides a lot of useful infrastructure for Dart programming and you can basically just ignore the graphics part.

This is the kind of work we'll need to have done if we ever want something like Pythons timeit module available for Dart.

Also, really cool to see proof in the ARM assembly that when you enable NNBD, the compiler can take advantage of that extra information at such a low level to increase performance. For example, in the article numIterations is unboxed, because the compiler can't be sure it is not null.
Don't forget, Cargill is the worst company in the world:

https://stories.mightyearth.org/cargill-worst-company-in-the...
The linked page advocates against these on the same premise, which is my primary challenge with it. It ignores urgency.
Another possibility... everyone else is loosing their minds and ushering an authoritarian pseudo-communist state in the United States. Glenn sees it, and is trying desperately to warn us.

I happen to agree with Glenn on most things, in fact I think most people do. Probably <10% of the US is on Twitter regularly. Everyone off Twitter thinks the world has lost their minds.
> Glenn Greenwald has slowly been loosing his mind

what do you mean by that. From my perspective, Gleen Greenwald has remained consistent with his views, the news media just went entirely insane.
I bet it was actually C++ with extern "C", which was my point, specially given the MPW and PowerPlant frameworks.

I never knew anyone doing bare bones C on classic Mac.
In what context should billionaire media moguls be serving, colluding or collaborating with politicians of any kind, let alone a presidential candidate?
Read her other blog posts. She's super open source/libre software oriented. I find it a hard sell she would consider working for Apple.

My guess would be she bought the Mac specifically to tackle this project.
What investigative steps, taken by what body, would quell your concern about election fraud?
We all know Swiss products are full of holes.
All cells phones, at all times, are tracked everywhere. I'm sure there are 1000's of cameras that are also used to capture visual data (in DC area). Every person flying (domestic/international) is already tracked. MC/VISA/Bank/ATM records are tracked. Every txt, post, voice call, letter you send, package you receive, is tracked (OCR's). Your vehicle is tracked via programs like Onstar, etc, even if you don't sign up for the service.

People are waiting for the day when you have zero privacy and anonymity. It's already here. Everyone should assume they can or are being tracked all the time.
I get frustrated how long it takes to get my ideas onto paper, so I write really-really fast, mostly giving up quality for speed.

I find if I conscientiously try and write slower, it markedly improves.
Glad to know! The apps are free-to-try and you have access to pretty much every feature with some limitations. It's built for modern devices running iOS 14 and Big Sur so system integration is prioritized well: Spotlight support, Shortcuts integration, Widgets, etc.
So what happened to him?

I follow him on twitter too. I don't see what's wrong with him. Some people complain he isn't "balanced" i.e. 9/10 of his criticisms are aimed at comparatively "good guys" i.e. liberals, while he rarely talks about conservatives. But I think that's perfectly fine, his niche is feeling a void left by hyper-partisan mainstream media- not everybody have to be expert on everything.
"Deciding for yourself" doesn't mean jumping to conspiratorial conclusions based on an ambiguous, off-the-cuff remark from 1992, though. And just looking at the comments on that video you can see what sort of agenda these people are bringing to their judgments.
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The same people complaining about the Patriot Act and cheering on Snowden for publicizing NSA PRISM are the same people cheering on govt mass triangulating civilians.
>assault on the capitol; insurrection; attempted assassination

I just want to point out the two problems with the rhetoric that mass-media and you are using to describe this event:

1. These words confer explosions, gunfire, and mass loss of life. In using these words, you are conjuring extremely violent images within the minds of your listeners. When your listeners discover the truth of the event, that the images you've associated with the event do not match what actually happened, your listeners feel manipulated, they feel you're trying to deceive them, and you lose credibility.

2. If enough people keep parroting these particular words to describe this event, the meanings of these words become diluted. For example, prior to this event at the capitol, if you said "terrorist attack", my mind would imagine men wearing balaclavas, wielding AK's, beheading people on video, gassing villages filled with innocent families, scattering them as refugees across the globe. But now, if we accept this event at the capitol as a "terrorist attack", now I don't know if you're talking about a guy smiling and waving as he holds a podium, or if you mean a Wahabbi extremist raping a Yazidi woman after putting a bullet in her son's head.

Imagine this woman recounting her rape and the murder of her family, "I experienced a horrific terrorist attack." And then there's you, in referring to some guy taking a selfie at a politician's desk, "I witnessed a horrific terrorist attack."

Please, choose more precise, more honest words.
I got through graduate school and over a decade of research with my inexpensive but very smooth Uni-ball cylinders (or classic roller) micro, 0.5mm pens. They were light, with a minimal and elegant design, inexpensive, and wrote great. Then, about a decade ago, something happened to them. I now go between a Jetstream (a ballpoint) and the Uni-ball Eye (which feels identical to the Vision to me).
ungated: https://archive.is/yfsvL
OpenJDK is nearly the exact same code base as the Oracle VM, so this is highly unlikely.

There are ISVs using Java that only certify the Oracle one for support reasons, but this is generally not for technical reasons.
I'm familiar with the concepts.

http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/

Instant runoff is listed as Hare, and it has some very... interesting results. I don't think it fixes any of the issues people have with first-to-the-post voting, and sometimes makes those issues even worse.
Back in 2018 I had a client with Java 1.4 in production, some never migrate, even if there aren't hurdles.
Glenn Greenwald has slowly been loosing his mind.

Is this something he said in the interview or on Twitter? Do you have a particular quote?
Right. Contaminants like ethanol are no bueno. Ethanol absorbs water from the air, and an ethanol-water mixture corrodes fuel lines, gaskets, and other parts. And thanks to the EPA and the corn lobby, it’s getting harder and harder to find uncontaminated gasoline.

I’m all for the transition to 100UL. I don’t want to breathe lead either. But they need to either come up with a replacement that won’t destroy airplane engines, or they must fund the replacement of everyone’s engine with ones that will work with (and can be certified for) the new fuel.
He has absolutely always been like this.
AT&T is still installing Carrier IQ on almost all Androids. That application is collecting info like GPS and barometric readings to estimate floor location in a highrise, etc.
I find the rioting and looting and violence in American cities all summer much more disturbing than the half-assed attempt at the capitol. Especially when the violence continues in the nearby residential areas.
You have to see this through 90's lens: back then the media wasn't nearly as polarized, and the public had much greater trust in news networks, especially in CNN. "Fake news" was mostly relegated to the domain of conspiracy theories, and blatant promotions of political agendas as neutral news wouldn't fly back then (although, of course, the networks did have an agenda and did promote it, but they were... much more subtle and civil about the whole thing).
It doesn't serve the exact same intention openID does. Authentication is part of the spec, but its real power lies in the privacy properties IRMA provides.

You can find a better global overview of the protocol and why it was created on this page: https://privacybydesign.foundation/irma-explanation/
Today I learnt about Intellipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellipedia Thanks!
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I just ran my own Twitter account through the so called 'Botometer' used to form the conclusion of the article. Apparently I'm 4.7/5 bot.

Needless to say I didn't finish reading the article.
The issue isn't one of trust in the general sense. Blockchain would "solve" the issue of transparency about when and who signed for what shipment where and when. The problem that can't be solved is that you have to completely trust that the blockchain reflects actually physical reality. A blockchain signature doesn't mean it is actually where it says it is. Even if you have some digital "fob" device, how do you know that it is on the right pallet of good. A digital signature can't prove anything in the real world. Blockchain is only useful in the pyramid scheme world of coins.
Just uninstall Twitter. Easy.
It's not some nefarious plot, it's just regular economics, the same kind that is motivating a trend away from on-premise software and toward SaaS. The justification was never 'server costs' but rather the costs of the services that xbox provides (text and voice chat, moderation, player profiles, friends lists, matchmaking, video capture and sharing, software update channels, etc).
Journalists love Twitter, and I don't think it's possible to spend any significant amount of time on there without losing your mind. Is it just a Glenn Greenwald issue, or something with all journalists? I wish there was a way to get decent quality news from people who stay away from its influence. I've never met a person in real life who acts like the people on blue checkmark Twitter do.
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Worth noting that the linked site advocates against this:

> × "Hello, are you around?"

> × "hi sophie - quick question."

> × "You got a sec?"

I agree with you around scheduling synchronous communications, but the thread itself seems to have devolved into a puristic argument against all sync comms regardless of urgency, ephemerality, confidentiality, etc.