skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "simplicity of the Bomb" phrase reminded me of the story of the Demon Core:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

For me, it shows how hard it is to internalize dangers of a technology one is working with daily. How hard it is to trade convenience for security.
Are you willing to give up your privacy to corporates to be liberated online?
This sounds like ActivityPub?
I guess with that specific statement it would depend on context. In a civil discussion it would be fine, however if you posted it on a trans athletes forum it would be offensive. You have sought out someone who would likely be offended in order to make that statement. As part of a debate etc it is a perfectly fine statement to debate/discuss.
If you're collecting data, you generally want a) as much as you can get and b) be able to make use of it any way you want.

Yes users of a privacy centric analytics tool are opting into less information, though the inability to do more may be a large downside to counter (if it is the case that it has less data collection capabilities vs plausible at this time). You never know what data you will need later, better to collect however much you're able to in a fashion you can do anything you need to with it.
You're right, but that misses the point of the exodus from Youtube, people aren't leaving over DRM or video quality. They are leaving because the precarious relationship with a capricious overlord. Their livelyhoods are in somebody elses hands.
Well this is certainly very cool. It reacts well enough to my moves but I get the feeling that it does not know any of the established openings so each game starts a bit weird. Will keep going and try to beat it though.
Try Reader View in Firefox for reading the text uninterrupted.
HN is very diverse :) But we all argue in good faith and are willing to yield to reason
Yes. To me The Book of Why is sort of an approachable summary of his whole career culminating in his work on causal inference.
Car and Motorcycle Companies Are Now Making Electric Bikes
The original article being discussed in this thread is about a doctor who believed that a form of 'body-switching' should be possible for humans, albeit in a relatively crude surgically-mediated fashion.

With the benefit of current scientific knowledge, most people who think carefully about personhood identify the brain as the seat of consciousness, and will tend to assume that any procedure that leaves the brain intact will leave the person intact too. If a brain (or a head in this case) can receive a 'body transplant' though, some will find it natural to wonder whether other radical interventions in the nervous system are possible; for instance whether subdivisions of the brain can be successfully transplanted, and what the effects of that might be.

That kind of speculation in turn prompts questions about the consequences that physical changes in the brain might have for conceptions of personal identity. Thought experiments about teleportation — in which all the physical matter of a brain is replaced while preserving its structure and function — offer a template for thinking about these questions by allowing their scientific and ethical consequences to be examined in the most extreme cases. The most extreme cases may or may not be realisable, but legitimate conclusions can nevertheless be arrived at by thinking about them.

Many of the most influential thought experiments in science were never conceived with the belief that they could be carried out in reality; that is often why they were thought experiments rather than laboratory exercises. The purpose of thought experiments is typically to help extend the theoretical investigation of scientific and philosophical ideas into realms beyond the reach of current empirical methods. They are a tool for considering interesting questions where attempts to test them cannot be made; sometimes this helps to inform practical experimental work, and sometimes the thought experiment itself is sufficient to reach reliable conclusions, if the reasoning is rigorous, and the underlying theory is demonstrably valid in enough areas where verification is possible for its extension to be trusted.
The ideal platform for something like youtube would be to separate discovery from content.

You host the content, and you can pick from UIs/algorithms for the discovery.
Yeah, I made a trade and then noticed the mistake...
Documentary film regarding the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910–1913
Can you avoid having a compiler in the runtime?
What Happens Inside a 100-Hop IPv6 Wireless Mesh Network?
It deserves to be licensed as a desktop wallpaper in Ubuntu or another operating system.
I don’t expect universities to spontaneously do the right thing. I’m hoping the courts force them to at least stop exploiting the pro athletes that make them so much money.
> I don't care what society thinks...

Oh my... I suppose you're writing this from prison as if you don't care about what society thinks you certainly must disagree with many laws of that society...

This is a really childish argument and thinking there's an absolute truth is an obvious sign of your lack of understanding of what humanity even means.

There is no absolute truth. Nothing has inherent value, not even life. We only give value to life (and really different values depending on what type of life we're talking about) because we have an obvious interest in keeping our species alive, but this is not inherently good, or an absolute truth in any way.

You now come up with an argument that's drowning in your own culture and the very recent past of your own society and you don't even realize that, thinking there's some kind of absolute truth behind your position. There isn't. You're so deep into your society mindset you're compleetely incapable of thinking outside of that.

You seem to be trying to refer to Sam Harris' Moral Landscape without actually understanding at all what he means.
HTTP Calls in Python Without Requests or Other External Dependencies
It seems more reasonable to say you're iterating through a collection.

It also seems more reasonable to just leave it as a programming technique rather then give it artificial weight and call it some bloated unnecessary academic term "design pattern"
> This book dwells on the history of statistics a lot, and statisticians, as the authors would have you believe, are zealots who have conspired to keep causal thinking out of their field right from the start. That is, until Pearl instigated the "Causal Revolution", as he dubs it, the latest and greatest gift to modern science. I have no dog in this fight, but Pearl (whom I assume is the source of most of these opinions put to paper by Mackenzie) often comes across as wildly biased and grandiose. For what it's worth, I doubt that statisticians as a whole are anywhere as malicious or ignorant as they're portrayed in this book.

This is correct AFAICT (I'm not a statistician even though I read a lot of the statistics literature). The strange thing is that I've never seen any obvious benefits to his comments of this nature. In the most generous possible reading, they are a distraction, with a less generous reading being that you can't trust his interpretation of anything.
It's just incredibly hard to compete with Youtube. In a way that's Google's greatest achievement: they convinced everybody that they're entitled to host and stream 4K videos forever not only for free, but the creators get a share of the ad revenue despite fronting none of the hosting costs. It's an incredibly good deal. The amount of infrastructure and human resources required to merely keep a system like Youtube running is mind boggling.

That makes people reasonably annoyed when Youtube decides to semi-arbitrarily pull the plug on a channel, but it also means that competition is very hard. If a competitor decides to start charging for hosting or streaming, they're doomed to be niche.
>I could not understand why this film was allowed, since the camp is an obvious metaphor of the USSR.

It fits the US pretty good too.
Jailbreak seems to imply DRM or something, it's just Mac video used a different connector to VGA. It's still just analogue video, with some differences in the monitor type ID pins. Apple clearly should have realised when designing the Macintosh II that the IBM PS/2 range, release -1 months before it had set the standard for analogue video connectors for years to come. :-)
Bil Herd claims he took the Z80 used in the prototype C128 from one of the ZX81 doorstops.
The credit union I borrowed from says their first time [1] home buyer program will do 95% LTV to $1.5M. Depending on where you are in california, that's likely enough (97% LTV to $850,000, but that doesn't get you much in the Bay Area).

Of course, if you just bought your house, I don't think you'd be able to cash out refi down to 5%, and certainly not under a first time homebuyers program. Cash out refis may not be non-recourse in California either; I'm not sure.

[1] I can't see the requirements, but usually it doesn't actually mean first-time, just that you haven't been a homeowner recently.
Some were around for years, but I haven't seen one in a while. I suppose they were removed as part of normal street-light maintenance. There may be some nodes, somewhere, still trying to connect.
Windows Reserved File Names
If anyone’s interested in the guts of this, you can get Oscar Toledo’s annotated source of the C version of Nanochess at:

https://nanochess.org/chess3.html
Wow that's extremely fucked up. He's right, nobody should have that power. If they do have that power, we should take it away from them.
Plausible, with the slight exception it was on purpose, and breaking peoples balls on their mystical folk understandings of why they think they're good is very much a competitive strategy. See sports psychology for examples. The way to bullshit a bullshitter is to seize the initiative and give them an out where they save face. Nothing brilliant, but it's funny, and standard in sales. A bit of charisma goes a long way.

I've absolutely been the mark in other situations, but that one, I thought it was intentional enough to share.:)
Agreed on the IIci, and not only in specs for its time. Apple mostly made great cases, and the IIcx/ci stands out as the best, in my opinion.

> The names were not very helpful (is a Quadra better than a Performa? What about the LC? Gahhh)

Ironically, the name "Centris" was actually the most helpful since it successfully evoked images of middle-of-the-road performance. "Performa" always seemed like a joke at the time.
Regardless of the particular trade-offs the various languages under discussion are choosing to make, it’s exciting to me that more and more languages are adapting, exposing and using “compile time” systems
I'm a novice player but I reached a stalemate in my first game. I am not a big fan of the graphics, they're really really cool but I made at least two big mistakes because I misread the pieces - and now I have a headache :D
Even 1/4 watt is not something you want shined in your eye.
Wow it took me 40 or so attempts to beat it. I’m a chess novice but you’d think a human novice should be able to beat a small chunk of JavaScript.

This code must be pretty compact even if expanded to readable form? Is there a repo anywhere with this type of chess engine explained and expanded to human readable commented code?
At least it's generally relevant to the audience. They also get more than exposure, they get feedback. Good deal for them I'd say!
Also important: donate regularly.

Ad-hoc donations make it difficult for a nonprofit to plan their budget. It forces them to spend a lot of that money to solicit more donations.

My friend made a tool to donate anonymously and regularly to non-profits: https://sublimefund.org/

Less spam, better for the non-profits. It's a good combination.
An alternative solution would be to genetically engineer bigger mosquitoes.

This is why I should not be in charge of anything.
If it keeps winning, maybe the established openings aren’t that useful :P

But that’s the problem with solved games: You compete on the familiarity with and memorization of established patterns.
Thanks for the numbers, thats indeed quite a difference.
I saw those videos. The problem is the maintenance, adding yeast and cleaning the trap. Imagine scaling to multiple traps in a house or the garden.

On the other side, burning methane generates CO2: CH4 + 2 O2 → CO2 + 2 H2O. Methane is distributed nearly everywhere in my country for cooking and heating. That at least solves the problem of refilling.

I guess we should burn a very small amount of methane to lure mosquitoes into those traps. But how about climate change etc.?
You're reading it the other way around. Copyright is an abridgement of the first amendment right to publish anything you want, and it is only permitted as long as it exists to further science and the useful arts. Thus, it could be argued that copyright itself should not extend to the right of completely banning a work from being published, as it is hard to claim that promotes the progress of science.

So in essence, you could aim the current copyright law is inconsistent with the constitution.

I am not a legal scholar so I have no idea how naive this argument might be from a constitutional law perspective. I have a feeling it would be pretty naive, to be honest.
CGP Grey is strange, so to say. He effectively abandoned Hello Internet. They once mentioned that they have 900K subs. Grey fully controlled HI, and it was way more popular than Cortex. If he wants to diversify so much abandoning project like this just doesn’t make sense.

Also he has no basic decency to announce cancelation and left Tims hanging, for many of whom it was the podcast.
That content protocol is called HTTP and the service discovery protocol is called DNS. I know that it's a bit cliche to say that these days, but acquiring a domain name (either directly from a TLD registrar or indirectly through e.g. a DynDNS provider) and pointing it at a webhost is what allows content publishers to "mint" their very own globally unique URLs. Any consumers that are equipped with a suitable user agent can then plug that URL into their browser and view that publisher's content.

Now let's be serious, there are numerous barriers that stand in the way of "normal" users that want to escape the evil platforms. Why not direct our ire at the real problem: Why Johnny Still Can't Host a Website!

And if we fix that, perhaps we can move on to Why Johnny Can't Get Any Visitors (Because Google Won't Index It) and Why Johnny's Visitors Don't Receive His Updates (Because Google and Mozilla Killed RSS).
Out of curiosity, do you believe in anything publicly considered a "conspiracy theory"? (For example, "9/11 was an inside job", "Holocaust wasn't real/deaths were unintentional due to disease", "Sandy Hook shooting wasn't real", " COVID-19 isn't real/isn't nearly as dangerous as reported", "US politicians rape and murder children in Satanic rituals".)
I can see I have been unclear.

Detroit's problem was that automotive production was and is a single sector. This is not true of "tech", as shown by a random sampling of companies being in wildly different economic sectors.

I hope this is better! Thank you for the chance to improve my communications skills. Have a nice day.
> The towns and cities on the Peninsula are probably laughing at SF. All the homeless are drawn to SF and have disappeared from their sidewalks.

Haha absolutely wrong. While not as bad as SF, homeless issues everywhere else in the Bay have also gotten much worse. Mountain View, San Jose, Fremont, Oakland, everywhere.
Sure, but we aren’t required to listen to them, or even offer them a platform from which to speak. That last bit is on them.
> And I don't want to hear anything about any startup 'disrupting' decentralized tech like the web, RSS (and by extension Podcasts), or email.

My take is this: whenever I see a startup being described as "disrupting" some market, I interpret it in the other sense of the word: disruption, as in the effect of a disruptor, a fictional energy weapon used predominantly by the main villains of Star Trek franchise, Klingons and Romulans.
Ignore the headline spin; read the details.

They cherry-picked the 125 most likely to succeed, and yet full-time employment only improved by 12 percentage points in a strong economy.

There was no real accounting of the money spent. "Less than 1% of the money went to tobacco and alcohol" is a flat lie; there is no way to distinguish items purchased from a debit card swipe. The best they could claim is that users claimed that on a survey, which is meaningless.

The truth is, only one in six (12/72) went from non full time employment to full time employment.

This is not a success story.
I can't distinguish the pieces well enough to play a good game. Anyone have this plugged into lichess?
DIS is a better short form anyway, matches VOY and ENT.
> The idea of checking that a pin is "only used in one place" doesn't really jive with how I think about microcontroller programming.

I'm with you, but ...

I find that most SDKs invariably grow a C macro system for "Configure this pin/register/whatever and yell if somebody tries to reconfigure it".

The fact that Rust is baking this in up front is not unwarranted.
> Rust is popular in some circles but the programming world is extremely big.

And HN only represents a tiny viewpoint of the programming world.
LoRaWAN's use case isn't that of cellular data or wifi. It is what will be the backbone comm network of billions of edge ML devices by mid-decade.
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Youtube will restrict your IP if you do this enough. I can't say I lost too much value when it happened, but it's been obnoxious having to go to the main site on my mobile to answer a battery of captchas every time I want to watch a video.
"The Qubes people" have a product to develop and maintain. They aren't the single highest authority on secure desktop setups.

Security isn't a black or white issue. There are levels of security. Many tech people want something better than the (very insecure) standard setup on Linux/Windows, but they don't want the Qubes straight-jacket. This means they search or develop alternatives and that is overall a good thing.
Haha, I've had this idea rattling about my brain for some time too (though mine went a bit further in scope instead - all sorts of crop pest control for small-scale farming situations, such as greenfly, caterpillars, etc, with training to avoid positive visitors such a bees)

Early on, I dismissed ultrasound - unless some kind of funky triangulation went on, I think the resolution would be far too low and risk of false positives too high - but I'd be interested to hear any thoughts you had on how that might work. That said, recognising the flight noises of certain bugs would make sense to me - only as a way to trigger a stop-and-sweep cycle though.

But as much as the idea excites me, "real" exploration of the space will only happen when I get lots of time and a fair bit of money - and maybe some land! Alas, I'm nowhere near that point yet.
In any sizable nonprofit, the vast majority of the board is not involved in actually carrying out the work of the organization. They are there for oversight and political capital.
Non–line-of-sight imaging over 1.43 km
It was great to play against the AI this weekend, rekindled some of the love I have for chess. I know the rules but I'm a very novice player. Took me 6 tries to checkmate. I cheered loudly. The style is very neat as well!
Yeah - though I think this was meant to be an 'intro to Kind' article rather then a 'debugging' article.

I really like KIND - it's bit disappointing he didn't go into more detail.
Having an App Featured in the Mac App Store
Most of us who lived in the soviet union, watched a couple of those at least a few times:
- Кавказская пленница https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping,_Caucasian_Style
- Операция „Ы“ и другие приключения Шурика https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Y_and_Shurik%27s_Oth...
- Джентльмены удачи https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen_of_Fortune
- Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irony_of_Fate

Last one is something you'd see every new years eve. (spoiler here) It uncovers a stupidity of cities in the USSR, when those were identical up to a street name.

My mom and dad would probably come up with a slightly different list of their favorites, nonetheless they would agree these can be called "true" classics.

The important bit to remember here is that all of that production was going through "checks" to make sure there are no anti-communist ideas in the movies. Creators had to either be very careful to disguise some of the sentiment or not to have it.

At the end of the day people were not idiots and understood the role of the government. We all had someone close who was a survivor from gulag or a returning labor camp prisoner or a displaced individual with no right to get back to his village. So our lives were kind of similar to everybody elses in the west, provided you eliminate those awful bits. And maybe because those terrible parts were absent in these movies, we were able to have a good laugh.

Honestly watch those and have a laugh. If it seems not funny then try learning some russian and watch them again :D I know it is a terrible dad joke.
No more recipes from cookbooks. Those are "design patterns" from a book on "nutritional design patterns."

I take it back, everything is a design pattern now. I see the light.
Chess isn't a solved game and the established openings are good enough that playing without prior analysis is extremely difficult for even the best human players
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Pointing out that freedom comes at a cost doesn't necessarily mean they want freedom to be reduced. The principle is that the benefits almost always outweigh the costs.
These are thorny issues, and for the record I do want everyone to live a happy and productive life as free from injustice as possible. But from my perspective the accusations of racism, transphobia, and sexism are thrown around way too loosely today, without the attention to context that you recommend. Even when the context is inappropriate and the language is inflammatory, it may just be socially inept rather than hate filled malice.
> Really? That's offensive?

Yes, intentionally misgendering a trans person is offensive and transphobic???

> The reason they have higher testosterone is because they are men.

This is needlessyly pedantic. My comment doesn't include the detail of _why_ they have increased testortorone because it is obvious.

Really, what I meant to express was something like "because their biological sex is male" but writing that is awkward and the most obvious/common interpretation of "because they are men" is transphobic.
I've personally stood on the Michigan side of lake michigan and seen only the tops of the skyscrapers in Chicago while everything else was hidden behind the horizon. My dad showed me on a trip to Michigan when I was less than 10 and even then I understood the effect. You can even see it yourself on a clear day of you get a window seat on your next flight.

That's not even mentioning experiments you can do yourself right here on the surface measuring shadows to estimate the circumference.

Likewise, there are countless images of the Earth from space, and even the moon. Some outdoor will say they're all dates, but at that point if every single image of the Earth is faked, then how can you trust anything? That would require a conspiracy so vast that your own parents are probably in on it and you should trust no one.
It is terminology from Critical Race Theory, which is an ideology whose basic premise is that all white people, irrespective of their actual behavior or beliefs, perpetrate racism against everyone else.

"Self-aware" refers to white people who realize they are racist.

Edit: Removed my own opinion from this to try to make it purely factual.