skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snap, Unity warn of impact from Apple iOS 14 IDFA privacy changes
Temporarily taken away for a few hours, on a small set of platforms. Wow, first world problems are the worst.
Only slightly paraphrased but gave up on it after that.
I still have some old music equipment (keyboards with sequencers, drum machines) that use floppies. I suspect this is one significant area of use, and industrial machines are another.
> We'll see how much longer the Linux floppy driver sticks around as it becomes increasingly difficult to imagine a relevant scenario where not only traditional floppy disks are used (outside of industrial equipment)

I know floppies are still used out there in the wild world, but I'd love to hear more about it. I just know about it from the classic/retro comupting niche
It’s all conspiracies, all the way down.
Those numbers are fascinating in their own right, but even more so when compared against the staggering 35,000+ deaths per month the US is suffering right now.

(467k over ~13 months of pandemic, obviously it's not evenly spread but the point is it's an order of magnitude greater than the worst ever war death rates.)
> contrary to the README above, the repository contains no source code

It does! It's not in the mainline source tree, but is tagged. The most recent version appears to be https://github.com/open-power/ocmb-explorer-fw/tree/ea3fae3c...
Asahi Linux submits a patch upstream
Libyan Desert Glass: New field and Fourier transform infrared data (2013)
Middle aged people in suburbia.
Ha.. thanks. going to try out on my outdoor+indoor hybrid cat to see if i can take it for a walk.
I want to know more! Do they run linux or do you read the data on other hardware?
You still need to worry whether an user_id-argument is int, str or maybe even uuid, though.
This is the reason I joined Lobsters but then I found elitism. No community is perfect.

Le sigh.
It’s also never clear where this appears, like a::<b>(c) or a::<b>::c()
In case of android, note that there is a Magnification[1] accessibility feature which enables a shortcut on the navigation bar that magnifies any portion of the screen.

[1]https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6006...
> There are more games on the iOS app store than exist on steam.

What's the figure when you compute the total engineering-hours into the games, though?
How would this program make that problem worse?

You're talking about a situation that is almost always going to be accompanied by jail time. Even under this program, the top 2-4% of sex offenders are going to go through the justice system and see jail time. Look at the stuff you're citing (emphasis mine):

> This type of law grants Minnesota courts the ability to deem someone an ongoing threat

> here are tens of thousands of serious sex offenders who, after serving their prison terms, are civilly committed

If anything, this seems to lend credence to the idea that having more police officers is not a deterrent for involuntary commitment. Literally all of these people were committed after being arrested and going through the justice system.

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Add to that the fact that you're talking about a relatively tiny proportion of a very specific crime. Doesn't mean that it's not a problem, but as a point of comparison, there are currently ~200,000 people in the US serving lifetime sentences in prison.

So I still don't see how I'm expected to treat those numbers like they're the same. Of course treatment facilities can be problematic, but I'm not seeing numbers that make me think they're a worse problem than our current incarceration system.

And I especially don't see how the current initiative is going to affect the numbers you're talking about. Is Denver planning to stop prosecuting sex offenders? Why does the first responder being a mental health professional or a police officer matter in that instance? I mean, on both sides here it's wild to be talking about the top 2-4% of sex offenders or prison life sentences in regards to a program that is bragging in press releases about how they handled a low-level trespassing case. You're looking at a different category of crime than this program is designed to address.
Picard was disappointing to me because it was boring. It had a few nice elements but fundamentally it felt like a four-episode story stretched out to fill 10 (or however many it was).
I gotta say, reading your post takes away some of my hope too.

jfc
> how does Apple “guarantees authenticity” of the opposite device, to ensure it doesn’t brick it or gets bricked by it?

The same way they do it with webpages, Messages, and email. JailbreakMe.com used a TIFF exploit to jailbreak your phone 10 years ago--they patched it. iOS 14 added a thing called BlastDoor to protect Messages from malicious data. I don't see how documenting it changes anything.
Thank you, all your recommendations are well received. I actually program a lot, these days in python for data science and I can do pretty much anything with it. But I am drawn to lisp and started the SICP book. But other than really personal projects and self explorations (which I also did with haskell, julia, rust, coq) I struggle to find a way to use a form of lisp for something I can do in work every day other than configuring emacs (which is not as bad). I think I have to agree with your point that clojure is the most practical option and fit for practical day to day use, cause it is lisp with all lava libraries. In the end it is the libraries... I guess my question should have really been what lisp based frameworks are there for data science, maybe.
> Walmart/Meth if they're lucky

Taking a deep breath here. This is a teachable moment. Because what I really want to say is, fuck you. You apparently just made Walmart and meth equivalent. That is so deeply offensive I don’t even know where to begin.

I will try to assume that it is not malicious. So I will simply ask you to rethink what you said or perhaps explain a little better why you seem to have decided they are pretty much the same thing.
PaperWM [Scrollable Tiling of Windows]
I agree that you should get them good quality food and not the cheapest, but that doesn't mean "let them hunt and kill birds and mice." Not only does that lead to the decimation of bird populations (cats kill for sport) but your cat will have more health problems as they are much more likely to be exposed to worms, fleas, parasites, and fights. The life expectancy of an outdoor cat is significantly lower than that of an indoor cat.

And you are encouraged to take your cats on walks. My friend runs a line across his backyard and attaches the cat's harness to it. She gets to run around and the bell makes birds very aware of her presence. Telling people to keep them inside doesn't mean you don't play with them (I explicitly said the opposite). I should refine that you shouldn't let them roam outside. On a leash is fine.

People don't realize this, but you can in fact train cats. My cat does tricks.
Denmark to create world’s first energy island in the North Sea
Ehh. I've owned a VR headset for a long time now, and I think many people underestimate how fundamentally isolating being in VR is. Humans are social creatures and unless you live by yourself and want to escape into VR, you're a lot more likely to enjoy watching the big game with friends and family so you can shoot the shit, and share the experience.

Don't get me wrong... VR is and can be a lot of fun, but I just don't see it being this next big thing that people seem to hope it will be. On the other hand, I think when someone solves AR, I suspect that may very well produce a seismic change across society with widespread adoption.
I hate to say it, but FB is invaluable for those of us in rural areas. There is a local paper, but it's mostly an exercise in stenography. Small county of 8,000 people. Everyone knows everyone. And the paper is probably hanging by a thread, so they don't want to piss anyone off.

So I rely more on FB. Follow all the local government agencies. Every one of them has an FB page. That gives a rough idea of what's going on. Comments on those pages are usually uncensored. Most of the comments are in agreement or cranks, but sometimes you get a nugget of truth that goes against whatever the agency said. That's been especially valuable in the pandemic. My local health agency hasn't behaved well, and the critics with inside knowledge frequently comment.

There's also local groups for my zip code that help piece together what happened. Another good, though often overlooked source, are pages from members of the opposition party. In my area, that's unsurprisingly the Democrats. They'll frequently highlight what's going wrong locally.

All of this doesn't replace the value created by a local paper that's willing to at least occasionally be critical or investigative. But it's much better than either nothing, or relying solely on the in-person gossip from neighbors. Pity it has to be on Facebook, but there isn't an alternative. Nextdoor in my area is pretty much worthless.
I thought the article would talk about new features like optional types and asyncio and how beginners are having trouble understanding them (specially asyncio). But it is only about error messages. To be honest the only hint I nedded was the line number and the error became pretty obvious. Sure, new languages like Rust and Elm are doing exciting work in this space, and I am excited to see how other languages will adopt them. But, TBH, I had more problems with complex language constructs (like asyncio and the borrow checker) than with error messages.
> Some commentators say the main showrunners actually hate the previous classic Star Trek, and they are trying hard to revision it.

That's exactly what it feels like to me: Either they know nothing about the Star Trek universe or they actively hate it and want to kill it.
First you come up with a target. Then you find a propaganda theme to motivate the masses. Don’t say you are merely trying to get rich, tell them it’s a crusade against the 1%, or Wall Street itself, and build a story of evil men twirling mustaches as they throw ladders at poor apes merely trying to climb to the top.

Then when the entire trade implodes (making many of the villains even richer) you still have a hard core of indoctrinated soldiers riding their positions into dust while you get out.
> And especially Apple who knows how to release hardware that works

All the "serious" HMDs on the market today work just fine - Valve have put some serious engineering into their tracking technology, for example.
Hong Kong unveils national security guidelines for children aged six and above
Pretty much everywhere I lived people would have their cats outside and do fine. They only got caught by the coyotes when young, old, or unlucky. So in the mean time they're killing birds. Either way, keep them inside anyways.
For programming, there's a font "Ubunto Mono" that's similar in spirit:

https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/ubuntu-mono#fonts-section
> If you send a mental health professional to all sorts of situations, their solutions will be mental health related

Can you even say that with a straight face? Do you really think if these guys got sent to a robbery, they'd be all "the thief obviously needs Xanax!" instead of saying "This ain't one of ours, send a cop here please".

Cops have, for whatever reason, ended top being sent not just to criminal justice related incidents, but everything else as well, including mental health related incidents which they're manifestly untrained for and incapable of dealing with. But they "deal" in those situations anyway, in ways we're all tired of seeing from body cam footage and in the live crosses of news stories about police violence protests.

> One of these has a long history of strong checks and balances and improving itself over time

And yet "Some of those who work forces, are the same who burn crosses" is just as heavily quoted and relevant to 2021/01/06 as it was when it was written over 20 years ago... I do not agree with your claims about the relative track records of the two groups involved here.
Very little truth to what you wrote here. You can get into great universities with solid A’s. And you can certainly graduate from a state school with minimal to no debt.
Yes exactly. These blog posts have nice little guides on using it:

http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2020/01/10/hugging-face-gp...

http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2020/01/18/parens-for-pypl...

http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2020/01/24/clojure-interop...

And you can try it out in nextjournal online notebooks like here: https://nextjournal.com/kommen/gigasquids-libpython-clj-exam...
Are you saying it was a replacement for a two year old language?

Perl - December 1987

Python - December 1989
Doesn't the original AirPlay have a constant 2 second lag? Like pressing Pause will take 2 seconds to take effect. I remember hearing it was something addressed in AirPlay2.
I see that Signal no longer depends on Google Play Services specifically. However it's still the case that it depends on proprietary Google code (it just includes that code in its own APK now) and still can't practically be installed without auto-update (again, it just includes that in its APK).
> If you send a mental health professional to all sorts of situations, their solutions will be mental health related (medication, treatment, commitment, etc...).

> If you send a cop, their solutions will involve the criminal justice system (citation, fines, arrest, jail time, etc...).

The fact you list both of these out then say policing is the one with a "long history of strong checks and balances" (what does this even mean?) is appalling. It reads like authoritarian propaganda.

You're taking the classist and racist position, that force employed by agents of the state should be deployed against the poor & otherwise marginalized to prevent them from being a "burden to society." Also that employing people who are tasked with _helping_ instead of _enforcing laws_ should NOT be allowed to do that.

To be clear, you're not really making any falsifiable claims. It's just an endless appeal to emotion. "a long history of strong checks and balances and improving itself over time" is a bold claim about municipal agencies with their own regulations, city, and state laws to adhere to. Not to mention different missions, run by different organizations with different lines of reporting. Totally different cultures, etc. It's so vague but that's the beauty of it: you can make it mean whatever you want under scrutiny.
What did Republicans even try to do, besides tax cuts for the rich, during trump? Democrats at least had the flawed aca during Obama.
My new home comes with a Ring I haven’t bothered to replace yet. Apparently Ring has some sort of Next Door like thing built into it now. The moment I saw someone accusing a UPS delivery man of being a porch pirate is the moment I realized these people were nuts and not worth my time.
performance of javascript cannot match c++.

Wasm helps. you also need state of the art decoders. And really, full GPU compute access.

streaming will be a problem for awhile to come. youll want to download in advance, something that the web is not yet set up for.

It’s doable, certainly. But the web will make most things harder. When smartphones came about h264 was already quite far along in adoption (released in 2003). VR video is not at that state.

Maybe Apple has an answer for all this. But I don’t think so. VR video is still under development.

By the time VR video is reasonable to do though, i expect things to progress on the web quickly, maybe lagging 6months-year.
I've tried linux as my primary desktop for 21 years now. It never took. The pain was never worth the benefit

But, after using PaperWM for a month, I'm now 100% linux. Not for everyone, but a game changer for me. Tiling WM but for the real world. No more spending hours trying to get my tiling wm to work right. This works out of the box great.

I love having a tiling window managager but also Gnome for all the nice little things. GUI to setup WiFI, VPN, displays etc etc
> intensive studies of all possibilities by Hans Bethe and others

One thing that fascinates me is that there must be quasi-journals for classified papers hidden away in places like this
>Aging sucks dude. I don't want to get old.

Why? Every single one of your ancestors got old and died. It is simply natural. Nature has a way of recycling and death is part of that as much as birth is. It would be a disaster of civilization if we start messing with immortality.

I have to admit that I'm not fond of aging and gently pushing the boundaries of what we can do about it doesn't bother me in the least. Even curbing the process of aging but still have a hard limited lifespan would work. But immortality is the most narcissistic idea one can have.
https://outline.com/Ay8vGx
You are exactly right.

My mother is 87. She's still pretty sharp, but anything other than a simple flip phone is very frustrating for her. Things just move too fast, too many things "pop up" (like notifications, etc) and she doesn't know the different types of gestures needed to control it well.
>That's my point, they may not choose to be in that situation. However, forcefully detaining them for "mental illness" for not wanting "assistance" is a different discussion.

Who suggested that anyone was doing that?
The former does not implicate the latter. Total non sequitur.
You’re very much right and I addressed that by acknowledging the fact that a solved problem isn’t available to people who deserve to have it.
I find specifying type on the left side of assignment operator much easier to interpret.

> let x: Vec<u8> = Vec::new();
or its zsh native port https://github.com/agkozak/zsh-z
And lest we forget: She's Spock's sister. Who was never mentioned once in the entire previous Star Trek canon. And now every episode is about her. Riiiiight.
phonon you are absolutely right. It's not possible to use A/B tests for admitted insurance use cases in the US, and we don't let our clients do so. This tool was designed with non-admitted use cases or non-insurance products, such as waivers, in mind.

Also, the names on the screenshot are illustrative as the client could vary other factors that are not price in the A/B test, like user verification workflows, deductibles offered, etc. The goal is to find the optimal solution that creates value for the company while matching the risk preferences of the users.
Bank of America handed over customer data to feds following Capitol riot
Why don't we "just" synthesize hydrocarbons similar to what are present in gasoline/diesel/etc? We already have all the infrastructure for using, handling and distributing it.
No, we don’t need satellite data to align with true north.

Yes, we need satellite data to get that level of precision.

When we’re talking about 1200 ton single block of granite on soft sand, we just don’t move it. Ok. We don’t take it over mountain and over river.

There was huge project in California when they transported 340 ton rock. They needed satellite data to find a route that was flat enough as their specially built transporter wasn’t able to take it up hill at all.

The reality is: you cannot fit enough slaves under such rock to lift it. How ancients were able to transport these rocks in your opinion?
> Sodium is very easy to handle.

It only blows up when it touches water.
These machines don't run Linux, but it's handy to be able to make and read their floppies.
The parent poster wrote:

>And the precision used to be regulated, not by expense, but to give the military the superior tool.

Which was, as I said, referring to Selective Availability, and has nothing to do with the arbitrary limits which are still imposed on US made receivers.
To anyone interested in early space flight and the Apollo missions, I strongly recommend reading Michael Collins's memoir Carrying the Fire. It is quite amazing all the training that the astronauts had to go through so they could manually perform various tasks and measurements, since the computing capacity was extremely limited.
Anecdotally (to add to EForEndeavour's post) I can disagree with this.

I've had plain oats with non-sugar additives (eg pure cocoa powder, seeds) and it definitely causes a spike, and my heart rate goes through the roof. Incidentally this happened more when I forgot to add cinnamon, which explains [1]. This was even with the fancier (read: double price half volume) steel cut or rolled varieties.

Oats are good, but as with most things not necessarily for everyone.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6425402/
Yeah I always go to the site regardless. I always use list view so all I get is a title and an excerpt.
It’s the same point as - if a person needs to be committed they should be. We are in this position because cops have not been shown to be fully trustworthy in a lot of these situations. It is infinitely better to not have the cops involved at all unless they are absolutely needed at which point the medical care workers can send for them. This new way is a win-win for everyone involved.
Oh, that's a good soviet practice.

Underlying energy of why it works - people are actually afraid of psych facility even more than police department and think if they get there they would have even less chance to get out.

Also medical personnel is trained for everyday kind of violence, they can just beat the shit out of you where police would maybe wait until one more step of escalation.

That free hands give them authority that police doesn't have.

Just give police permission to beat people on a whim and you would instantly see the same effect with nobody risking to mess with police again and so no need for arrest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DoJOwTqCxU

Ask them how would they transport 1200 ton block on soft sand over a mountain :)
That last line doesn't make much sense to my eye at least.
They asked an eli5 question, I gave an eli5 answer. Which is totally okay! Not all of us hackers spent/wasted our college years in the geosciences.

I left out lots of stuff, like chemical weathering, thermohaline circulation, glacial damming, and Milankovich cycles which probably explain a lot more... but I’m a climatologist not a geologist so there’s a whole lot more about the chemistry I don’t understand.
The Rust documentation assumes you know what "snake case" and "camel case" mean. The compiler has opinions about what should be written in each form.

Then there's the problem of where to put the lifetime parameters.
That relates to the retro compute scene. Hardware like yours used in a commercial setting, or do you just have some old hardware only used by hobbyist?
Do you allow for a feeds list format? In other words, can I just see a list of feeds and folders, and when I click on the feed, it will display a list of articles from that feed? Or is it like Twitter, where everything is squished together.
BagelRail was dual use before the fiasco
And then an asteroid impacts, or a volcano farts loudly, and all these discussions are moot. At least for a while.

Because all of this happened before, and it will happen again.

https://www.biblestudytools.com/gnt/ecclesiastes/passage/?q=...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/468991-all-of-this-has-happ...

https://cityoftongues.com/non-fiction/all-of-this-has-happen...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EternalRecurrenc...
Man I feel bad for the signal devs. Keep fighting the good fight, and thank you!
Where is he getting money to patent this ???
This comment expressing support & encouragement for state-sanctioned violence against its citizens is authoritarian propaganda employing classist and racist tropes.
Browse the web using Firefox from this website
We do. Tiles, not carpeted. Keeps smells away from living room etc.
Specifically it's the ::<u8> part. It's only used when writing type parameters in an expression.

let x: Vec<u8> = vec![]; // spelled Vec<u8> in "type context"
let x = Vec::<u8>::new(); // spelled Vec::<u8> in "expression context"
>For people of "a certain age".

For people even older there was this, which is likely where the person who adapted it got the idea from:

http://web.mit.edu/~yandros/poetry/deteriorata