skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything from kindergarten to 4th year physics at college can be discoursed via pre-recorded video. As remote education gets better, we will have smarter AI-like systems The people who produce these lectures need not even be professors or teachers - all they need the detailed script. Of course, some will be better than others - as actors are and as long as they are paid for their work product, that is fine. There would need to be a way to answer questions and this can be handled by people who are skilled in the field on a paid basis. Once answered, they will rest in a data base and this will lead to immediate responses to an ever growing number of questions. I assume the student will see the screen and also be alone.Columbia has this free online course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3NhPgOoX4
Once you reach the graduate level they can use post docs to compose and create ongoing works.
There is no reason that an AI will not soon have the ability to teach courses on a real time basis with questions answered on the fly.
That's pretty interesting. I will check it out. Thanks for sharing. :D
If you wanted to be more historically accurate it would be the reverse, with Islamic nations forcing Jews and other religious minorities to carry symbols identifying non-muslims (the yellow badge for Jews has a long history in islamic countries and predated its use by the Nazis).

I guess that wouldn't apply now since most Jews have been ethnically cleansed from the Islamic world, allowing you to focus on potential future crimes of Israel. lol
Project author here. In this video I discuss a crazy hack I discovered for the python exec function, where you can trick it into thinking you passed a dictionary as the 2nd parameter and then it will automatically trigger a series of callbacks when anything is changed.

Wanted to share this trick with HN because I think it's really cool, and also am not sure if anyone has ever done this before.
Might provide stability by making it less likely for key maintainers to walk away because they don't have time for both homebrew and their day job.
I completely disagree with this comment. Not to mention the comments to his Quora answer, suggesting he should try a TPM position... people are so out of touch.

The main problem is that he went through the standard interview process. To prevent bias you need to maintain a consistent interview process and bar. All interviewers in big tech have annual trainings about this. If someone underperforms it's considered bad judgment to be inclined based on who the person is or their past experience. This is to prevent cases like "he didn't do well but we should hire him anyway because he graduated from Stanford".

When you have someone who is an exception you shouldn't hire them via the standard interview process. Maybe Google didn't think he's an exception. But the reality is, the vast majority of Google engineers wouldn't be able to build something as successful from scratch like he did. It requires more skills than just being a good engineer. They could've found him a role that fits his skills. When FB hired Yann Lecun I'm sure they didn't ask him how SVMs work. (not saying they are on the same level, clearly not, just an extreme example)

Another possible option is that he came across too arrogant in more than one interview and the hiring committee was worried he wouldn't be a good fit culturally.
I've seen it correctly predicted a few times in investing subreddits.
No way Stripe will go public via SPAC.
The SNI is encapsulated in an outer layer of TLS, which is removed before forwarding traffic to Signal. That's what nginx-terminate is doing.
India’s government is censoring people before they comment
They could probably fairly easily add on a progression system, expanding on top of the achievements. Like an extended tutorial.
There's been quite a bit of chatter about a $2.4B contract with STM for 1 million terminals. Maybe that includes dev costs, I don't know.
AWS Cheat Sheets
I think laws like blasphemy laws and ones against hate speech are mostly there to serve as a last resort in cases that can't reasonably be defended by anyone. There's a lot of grey area that's hard to define very clearly in law. So the laws generic blankets in order to cover a lot of options, then it's left to the prosecution to only take action when the offense is really egregious.
>but there is a large number of people who choose to live this way.

Well, if they aren't mentally ill and thus able to act rationally and it's a mass phenomenon then doesn't that point towards an underlying cause that makes it rational for a large number of people to choose homelessness?
Author here. This is correct. There are other DDR PHY IP providers such as Cadence, which did not elect to require firmware blobs in their design. You could say that the Synopsys DDR4 PHY design is a little overengineered. I've confirmed the presence of these blobs in i.MX8M BSPs myself. See also Purism's blogpost discussing this very subject.
For simple 3d models, isn't the model size (in bytes) smaller than an image? I assume that a cube model would only have 8 verticies defined and a few other props, but an image will have 100k-1M RGB pixels.
> you could get in at the ground floor for incredible and almost immediate share price growth

Hence why you can't predict it. If you could, everyone else could, and there would be no appreciation of the shares when the news is released.

Only way to know in advance is good old insider information.
Most of the common business training courses have some section on handling objections, and appear to also be psychology based.

Dale Carnegie material, for example. Here's their "Overcoming Objections" slides: https://02f0a56ef46d93f03c90-22ac5f107621879d5667e0d7ed595bd...
The problem is that the way they do it breaks the UNIX model. /usr/local is common to all users, but Homebrew gives it the current user's permissions. This consequently creates weirdness if you actually use multiple user accounts.
So in other words you support totalitarianism, so long as the totalitarians agree with you.

Sorry, I can't take anyone seriously who doesn't see a problem with that philosophy.
It is impossible to ensure the guy can't access it. If he has the 12 word recovery phrase, he can regenerate the private key without needing the wallet.
This is a good example of why walled gardens are so awful. Sometime they seem fine, but if all one can access is a walled garden, then all kinds of dystopian shit becomes trivial to implement.

Please never support walled gardens!
I'm actually doing a bit of that work in my spare time :). Over the years, I've been coming back to this one question: how to make procedurally generated content immersive?

You need procgen to create truly large game universes. But I haven't seen a single game where procedural generation would create an immersive world. Or even an interesting one[0]. In all the games I played, I've seen one or both of the following immersion-destroying things:

- The mechanics are plain obvious. You see a few examples of a generated thing, and it's trivial to guess the pattern and know what you can expect in the future[1].

- There's no story. Stuff is randomly generated, but doesn't make sense. Creatures drop loot they don't use, or shouldn't even have, lore-wise. Dungeons are arranged at random, with no sense of purpose for the layout. Quests are closed loop, with no meaningful impact on anything else in the world.

The closest I've seen to an immersive procgen game is Rimworld, where if you squint just hard enough, you can live the story of your colonists. But if you open your eyes just a bit, mechanics still stick out like a sore thumb.

As an interesting data point, one of the most immersive experiences I ever had with fiction was throwing story prompts at GPT2/GPT3 and going along with the AI narrative. I think it's partly because mechanics of GPT3 are too complex to guess, and purpose/story pieces itself together from correlations in the training dataset. But textual medium also helps - you have to imagine things, and there are no visual inconsistencies to spot.

Right now, I'm casually exploring if the two points above - mechanics and story - couldn't be improved if the models used to generate content were much more complicated in causal sense: instead of few dice rolls, one could build deeper causal graphs and work with probabilities conditional on particular game state. That, and making enough randomizable parameters to ensure the categories aren't obvious.

(If you know of any game, in any genre, that you feel does procgen right, I'd like to know the titles. I'm also on the lookout for related scientific literature.)

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[0] - Case in point: Kerbal Space Program. Planets and moons are big (1/10th the size of the real things). You can go anywhere and it "feels right". But there's hardly anything to do once you get there. You could, as I tend to, install mods for extended base building and resource mining, but there's only so much fun you can have with it, and the physics engine goes out of its way to make establishing large bases impossible. Celestial bodies in KSPs are very much like checkboxes. After you get there, and tick the "been to $body" checkbox, there's no reason to stay there.

[1] - Example: Starbound. There are random quests, but they follow the same obvious pattern. Find a non sequitur something or someone somewhere, bring it to quest giver, for a non sequitur reward. There are random critters and weapons, but you can quickly tell the categories that are being randomized, and there isn't much variety in those.
Right, it is not like most large orgs. So the excuse "most large orgs throw parties" is not a good one, imo.

Though tbh "other orgs do it" is never a good argument, but it is especially bad here.
I think this is a game changer. Well done!
And, it does in fact support universal binaries.
You make a good point I should have added. Outsource the community to an external platform and let someone else handle the comments, spam, moderation, etc.
An interview with Alexei Navalny, assassination survivor
The Elements of Computing Systems, Second Edition
You can always go completely crazy with stuff like this: https://gist.github.com/dom111/8967a1ab9737fd253977a324c58d9...
It's a new trend.

I didn't have "insider information" to make $300k on Gamestop. The evidence was in the open.

Right now I'm thinking that you might be able to connect the dots between SPAC owners / founders, their investment prospectus, and similar business they've dealt with.

I wonder if anyone's already done this research and found correlations.
Curious about your thought process to leave VSCode for vim? I've been a long time vim user, but I've seemingly just surrendered to the ease of installing high quality extension in VScode. Just seems to work as advertised without me toiling in some config setup (vimrc)

I use the Vim extension in VSCode for editing with my vim muscle memory, even though it has occasional snags/surprises
I'm really looking forward to this app. Looks like a nice combination of a calendar with a todo-list.
Related: the excellent 1981 documentary The Day After Trinity has interviews with many of these scientists.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm5fCxXnK7Y
Nice one! Like the gradient function
Thanks for your work! I will spin up whatever X Windows support for M1 silicon on my new MacBook and give it a try, again.

I have a license for LispWorks Professional, but that does not include CLIM on macOS.
I'm afraid Firefox has gotten to a point where it is too niche to recover. The last time I checked, 80+% of https://webcompat.com's reports were sites that were broken in FF, not because it is less standards compliant than the competition, but just because there was no testing.

Mozilla had been courting devs with MDN, ever improving dev tools and sexy tech (Servo) for years, with some success, although they weren't there yet.

Now they've completely dropped that ball (and fired the respective people working on these techs). Without Web dev on board, I don't think they'll ever catch up.

Degooglified Chromium was already the way to go since the June firings IMO, it's great that Google makes it easier to get that experience.
Author here. It wouldn't particularly surprise me. If I had to guess why other NXP products didn't go with Synopsys, it might be related to the fact that the i.MX8M is intended to be suitable for mobile applications therefore support for LPDDR4 is more important. In fact Synopsys's DDR4 PHY can support both, I believe (IIRC) dynamically, with i.MX8M chips which can be used with either. There are other DDR PHY IP providers (e.g. Cadence) which don't require blobs. Plus these are probably separate business units.

I've confirmed the presence of these blobs in i.MX8M BSPs myself, as has Purism, see their blog post.
You can look at the SEC filings for the SPAC as it will provide indication but it will be thematic at best.
See my other comment. I gave it a cursory look and ignored it and I'm not sure what I feel about that. I agree with some others in the thread and try to look at the "art" separately from the "artist".
I wouldn't mind pollution having additional effects. I mean it could make solar panels less efficient. In addition to the existing effects of making everything look like shit, long term climate change might be an option.

Or weather, for that matter. Adding snow weather would be a big job (snowy variants for all sprites), but causing nuclear winter from using nukes, or ash snow from burning the forests, or everything going sooty from the coal or glowy from radiation would be a really nice addition. Not much in terms of game depth though, I guess.
> Apple will liberally use an already-known VR technique that involves using eye-tracking to render objects in the user's periphery at a lower fidelity than what the user is focusing on.

I would be shocked if this is anything but a gimmick, with all sorts of upscaling and rendering tricks.

I very highly doubt apple is all of a sudden the producer of the best gpu in the world, with a wide margin. Nvidia claims their 3090 ( a $1500 card ) is capable of 8k 60fps. In benchmarks, this is only possible in certain easy to render games.

The idea that apple can double that, and push a higher refresh rate for smooth vr (usually 90fps minimum) is wild.
2018: "In Europe, Speech Is an Alienable Right: [the European Court of Human Rights] upheld an Austrian woman’s conviction for disparaging the Prophet Muhammad."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr...
Hacker News is full of people who support this sort of thing.
Kotlin was developed by JetBrains, not Google, as a 'better Java'.
I'm not sure about unprivileged installs, but MacPorts is very good about sticking to /opt/local. It doesn't ever place anything (including config files) outside of /opt/local. So you get pretty good assurance that it won't trash your system too badly.
HackerNews is a pretty miserable place when it comes to social issues.
Thanks! We tried to represent different Tints on it :)
Perhaps they could create a separate version of the OS for educational use in schools.
If people were serious about this then it would be highly restricted for livestock.

Some years ago I suffering extreme chills for many days. I had to beg doctor for a round.
She was mortified that I would want them.
Next step was full ER visit while on a business trip out of state. So no insurance.

Was fine after a few days.

This happens every so often. Each time is a nightmare getting a prescription despite history.
The header will appear in plaintext between the user and the proxy (easy to detect/log/drop for their ISP/government), and still appear in plaintext between the proxy and Signal (which is less of a problem).

The SNI header is not dropped to upstream because it's used whether the reverse proxy is operated by the intended recipient (Signal) or not (the proxy). That's precisely the reason why people have been promoting Encrypted SNI for some time now.
On the first question, there is some scholarly debate, but as far as I can tell as an outsider the general consensus is that there are fewer deaths due to armed conflict than anytime in the last two millennia. Even something as terrible as the Syrian Civil War (~half a million dead over a decade) is the sort of civil unrest that was happening at multiple places across the world during the 17th century (see _Global Crisis_ by Geoffrey Parker for how horrible the 17th century was, all around the world). It's just the numbers are a lot less precise than we have for American deaths in military operations, so there is a lot more room for debate. This can be complicated even for something well documented and recent like World War Two: do you count the Bengal famine as part of the war dead? It killed ~2 million Indians, but not directly due to the war, it's just that the ships that in peacetime would have been carrying food to India to relieve the famine were instead carrying weapons (and food) from the US to Britain. Did they die due to the war? Or due to British colonialism and evil Winston Churchill? Well, a whole lot of the deaths in 17th century wars were due to war-related famine and disease, so if you don't count the Bengal Famine but do use the higher numbers for the 30 Years War it isn't a clean comparison, etc.

On the second question it's even harder to say. Would probably be a masters degree level of work to compute. There are all sorts of confounding factors: during World War Two, for the US Army, infantry made up about 20% of the personnel (half were in logistics, various other combat arms like artillery, tankers, engineers etc. made up the balance) but did the vast majority of the dying: something like 80% of US Army deaths came from that 20% of the force. So is the combatant count just infantry (and the small number of other combat arms who were forward of the gun line)? Similarly, about half the total US deaths during WW2 came during the Northwest Europe campaign (D-Day to V-E Day, France-Low Countries-Germany). The other half of the deaths came from the entire Battle of the Atlantic, the Bomber Offensive, Mediterranean and Pacific combined. So those 11 months were much deadlier than the rest.

This is the advantage of the straightforward monthly average, it can be computed in five minutes from Wikipedia. Trying to get more detail quickly becomes a whole bunch of tricky choices that reasonable people can disagree on, but which leave you with wildly different numbers.
Thanks for supporting this!

How would you recommend getting started with this on a modern Ubuntu or similar Linux system? I'm not a stranger to Common Lisp, but it's been about 8 years since I last did anything with it. Back then I used GNU Emacs and SLIME.
That is fiction. I recall my psychology 101 professor hating it because it makes it harder to use electro-shock treatment even though it works...

I'm not able to evaluate either side of it, but one side has a phd in the area.
My understanding is that the whole reason for running the outer commands as sudo is so that the inner build/install commands can be run in a far more restricted environment. Because brew runs as your own user, every build has access to your entire home directory, the whole homebrew folder, etc. It's nice in principle to not have to "trust" any of homebrew with sudo, but in reality, the trust surface area is far larger. With MacPorts, you only have to trust the tooling, not the individual package definitions (though obviously the calculus does change slightly when bottles are in the picture, since then the build/install is happening elsewhere).

Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1200/
Here's some additional FZF Git love posted by junegunn a while back.
https://junegunn.kr/2016/07/fzf-git/
Linux distributions too, they all seem to offer three Java packages: one for Java 8, one for Java 11, and one for Java "latest". The default is either the Java 8 one or the Java 11 one.
The BBC had never been allowed to broadcast freely or investigate freely or accessible from the Chinese side of the "internet" anyway, so who cares.
There are a few issues with your statements. The first being that the staff of this program have no incentive to "commit you against your will". Why would they do that? I work in healthcare and have met people that work in these types of programs. By and large they do it because they care, the stress and risk you get from working with these populations isn't worth the money.

I work in Canada, so perhaps it's different in your country, but to be commited to a mental health facility here, a trained physician needs to "form" you, basically sign forms stating that you are a danger to society if not treated. There are strict laws surrounding this, it's not just some random decision.

Lastly, you say this will lead to some "medical authoritarianism". Programs like these, as well as the ability to commit people to mental health facilities has been around forever, yet I see no evidence of this medical authoritarianism you speak of.
I read the title three times to decide it was saying it's emulating a Flash Player. Seems I was wrong, it is a Flash player, or you could say it's a Flash interpreter.

It doesn't take a specific Flash Player and run it in emulation. That seemed viable to me, the OS support needed wouldn't require any specific knowledge of Flash/ActionScript which is horizontally portable from/to non-flash things.
Yeah, the constant underlying theme in Factorio of ruining a virgin planet with all this automation and pollution just didn’t sit well with me. I finally tried it when it hit 1.0 and it was some interesting stuff but the “turn a planet into a mess, kill anything that gets in your way” aspect was a real turnoff.
You can turn it off when not in use.

Whatever, your present PC, Monitor, printer, Router, and Internet wireless will already be using more than 100W.
Maybe trying to maintain a free beer web browser is not the best path forward (given all the requirements for a web browser in 2021). Perhaps the best solution is a paid application with an either free or proprietary source model. Free beer programs seem best suited for problem domains where they can age like wine and not worry about maintaining some service level agreement.
Apple is winning hearts and minds because these are framed as "privacy changes."

The changes DO improve privacy, but that's more of a nice side effect to the actual change of tightening their grip on the mobile ecosystem and extracting a larger platform tax.

This has been positioned in the media as Apple vs Facebook. It's really Apple vs all iOS developers. Facebook can afford to speak up, and in fact will be one of the least affected companies as they have a massive first-party audience and aren't fully dependent on third-party data.
If anything it just simply seems like a dumb idea to do so. Virtualenv is simple and works really nicely. Why anyone would want to add unnecessary complexity is beyond me