skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How the laptop was "obtained" is actually a separate story from the content of the laptop, if the content is real.

Given that the content HAS been verified as real, then bringing up the circumstances of how the laptop ended up in the NY Post's hands is simply an irrelevant diversion designed to muddy the waters.

> That word is doing a _lot_ of work there.

What work is it doing? If the content is real, what circumstances of the obtaining could possibly change opinions or analysis made *solely about* the content?

Nobody denies there were political machinations and obfuscations about the laptop's journey, involving political adversaries of Joe Biden, but that story is a separate one from analysis of the laptop's contents.
I may not have read that one.

I completely forgot about the main character of The Little Drummer Girl, Charlie. What a book! I cannot judge the realism of the main character because I myself don't understand women well enough to do that, haha. Presumably that's a book where the contribution of Le Carré's wife was crucial.
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Because law isn't code, although it might look like it. The law is interpreted by human beings, aka judges, who might decide that this is an attempt to deceive, even though the deception is hiding in plain sight.

But I'm not a lawyer, so I'd be interested on informed takes on that.
How do you differ from Skypher.co, which is another YC company? We're about to sign up with them.
In-person doesn't mean that paper forms are required. Self-service kiosks are a perfectly reasonable way to support in-person needs, and that way all the information will flow into the system the same way: digitally.

It's 2021. Why are we still talking about paper forms for government functions?
Only if you had read the article where it is addressed in detail. Your colored language notwithstanding ("uncharitable paraphrasing"), the statement is actually an accurate summary by a well respected researcher on Dalit issues, of what HAF is doing here.

https://thewire.in/caste/cisco-case-caste-discrimination-sil...

Here is another good article which says the same and the dubious role HAF is playing in order to advance Hindu Upper Caste's systemic oppression. Please note, HAF is run by all Hindu Upper Caste people, and they are invested in this case so as to not set a precedent.
Me neither.

If I would have kids, that is.
It's worth noting that platforms tend to have a gender(sex? sorry I'm bad with the terminology), bias that skews male/female. I seem to recall hearing that Youtube skews male (in viewership) and IG female. (if someone has links to stats, thanks in advance)

I wonder if this is at play with these two cases?
I am not familiar with crypto and barely understood half of the terms in the article, but shouldn't the buyer confirm again the trade if the price changes?

I understand it works like this:

V = victim/sandwich bot, S = Salmonella guy, X = asset (Salmonella token?).

S -- purchase intent -> X ($5)

V detects the intent, purchases X for $5, X price increases to $6

Now it was expected that S would still buy X at $6 (would have this normally be done automatically without confirming the increased price?). But S never pays money for X, so the ETH is now in the hands of the original Salmonella token owner (S) and the attacker is stuck with a worthless token?
I've always found the various solutions that use git for sharing
configuration files cumbersome. I set out to make my own simple
version control system, and a lightweight web application where I can
browse and edit them remotely. The main idea is that file paths are aliased
to short names, so from the shell I can use:

dotfile pull emacs

and it will install https://dotfilehub.com/knoebber/emacs to ~/.emacs.d/init.el

Dotfilehub is designed to be used with the Dotfile CLI, but it doesn't
require it. My goal is to make files always easily accessible. For
example, I can always retrieve my vim config with:

`curl https://dotfilehub.com/knoebber/vim > ~/.vimrc`

The web interface is built on simple HTML and is JavaScript free.
I've tested it with terminal based browsers, so users can browse
through files without a graphical environment.

Dotfilehub is easy to self host. See
https://github.com/knoebber/dotfile for source code.
Government FIAT and Amazombie
Math professor faults student for internet shutdown in Myanmar
"The next time you miss something, it's over"

I'm so disgusted by some people's entitlement, especially in academia. The student's ENTIRE country's internet is getting shut down and the best the professor can muster is "Last chance, bad sign".
>From my perspective, if you leave me alone to do my thing and don’t interrupt me with random shit all the time, I’ll grow naturally. But the manager doesn’t have to be involved in this beyond shielding me from the bullshit, so I guess people are talking about something different.

That's what _you_ want, but it's not what everyone wants. Some people want or need much more active participation in their growth, and it's a manager's job to find what's right for each person. A common failing new managers make (and one I made as well) was assuming everyone wants to be managed like I want to be managed. I was very much in that "leave me alone and let me do my thing" mindset, and that caused a lot of problems much later in life.
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Marvel Comics history: How the company came back from bankruptcy
> # Trackpad: map bottom right corner to right-click

This is the most monstrously non mac-like thing I’ve ever seen.
At the very least if the link is a threadapp, it's kinda fine. The issue is when the twitter UI stops showing half the thread and you have to keep clicking. I don't mind the bite sized sections personally.
I think Ecto is most commonly compared to ActiveRecord because it serves essentially the same role in the ecosystem. The scope is a little different, but for onboarding Ruby developers the ActiveRecord comparison is pretty good.
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All those NFTs, gone
Doesn't help for the "older question." That's just used as an intuitive example for how imprecision can arise from subtraction.

Rearranging helps when you can only store intermediate results with finite precision, but you can compute them to arbitrary precision.
Fake NFT sales
> Well there's usually an icon that looks like this, and sometimes it will bring up the android share menu, but sometimes it opens up something that only shows you contact in that app, and having someone on facebook is not the same as on whatsapp.

Back in my day, Apple had something called the Human Interface Guidelines and they adhered to them religiously, and IMHO it made computing a lot more approachable for a neophyte, compared to the mess we have today with "hamburger menus" vs. "triple-dot menus" (REALLY??), no general way to access the settings of any app, no general way to do anything really save for typing in text (and sometimes not even then!)

Instagram and Snapchat (the worst offender here, you literally won't learn some inputs unless someone tells you about them!) have not made anything better.
It’s a democracy. If you can convince enough people that it makes sense then you can implement a change.

The ETC fork occurred because ETH was in its infancy and it was deemed by that majority that there was a legitimate bug that wasn’t in the interest of anyone to allow to go unfixed.

Anyone is free to disagree. The value in the blockchain is in its democracy. As soon as you fork, if you have enough people you still maintain value in both forks, so it’s no loss to anyone.
Maybe not that helpful of an addition, but the most surprising thing I found was that Shopify has an option for an "app proxy", in which you can have some separate, custom web server that gets proxied through your Shopify store.

I've used this to some success in building a more robust product customization app (with functionality very specific to our business), more so than what I could find on their store. The biggest con for using the app proxy is around authentication. You can't do much special stuff with auth, basically the simplest option is to just wrap your proxied pages in a liquid check for customer.id. (Although, I can see this as a pro rather than a con, as it forces you to keep the proxy app simple.)

My biggest worry is one day Shopify just decides to discontinue app proxies. It doesn't seem like an option they try to point developers toward, so I don't trust it and am thinking about building on top of their API to avoid this.
Proxalutamide reduces Covid-19 mortality risk by 92 percent
Don't know where you're getting the rules for legitimate revolutions. The revolution led to a fair democratic election. Winners of democratic elections are considered legitimate, not just if a 6% minority disagrees, but even if 49% disagree with the result.
That abstract appears to be referring to the superpolynomial slowdown in simulating one, which I already pointed out.

(If there is more than the abstract there, the scrolling isn’t working on my phone.)

There is no function that a QTM can compute that a TM cannot. But a QTM can compute some functions much faster.

Or, as phrased in the abstract “these do not include the computation of any non-recursive function”.

Edit: of course, there are things that can can be done with QM that can’t be with a TM (such as the entangled multi-party prover/verifier setup), but none of them are “compute this function (with no limit on how long it takes)” or “simulate this situation (with no limit on how long it takes)”
Monitoring public spaces is.
> Socialism as defined by socialists is social ownership of production

That's communism, a specific flavor of socialism.
Thanks for the insight about email addresses, I hadn't considered that. I know from personal experience that I usually get new addresses but rarely abandon old ones.

I wonder if providing the option to use a phone number OR an email address to receive the code be a good fail safe?
It works really well actually.

Personally I refuse to do this and my channel on youtube still grows but it is probably growing a lot slower than if I had been begging.

Since I do it for fun and not profit I couldn't give a damn though.
It is spotify pushing an agenda. These aren't algorithmic pseudo randomness, because they're clearly labeled in manually described groups. Much of the black content was for black history month, and labeled as such, which isn't too different from google putting up a black history search page, imo. I would rate it as mildly annoying. I'm 100% for black lives matter, but I don't have much of an interest in mainstream black music channels that they were trying to promote.
you can throw an alias in your .bashrc or .zshrc and have it even easier...

alias caffeine="caffeinate -d -t 999999"
> We all hate that the Saudis are free to be horrible, but what is the alternative? A new Iraq?

That's a false dichotomy. I think that many people who oppose the war in Yemen would settle for an end to military support and arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and possibly other economic sanctions.

Whether that would lead to a positive outcome for Yemen, though, is another question, and highlights your point about the problems of abstaining.
That’s ignoring how much control and influence the platform itself has. It’s not a free market, the platform decides who trends and what matters or not.
I think that flash palette stuff was just a case of building that is easier for developers at the expense of users. They still do it today but with HTML, you can feel it booting up browsers just to display a few buttons out of laziness.
Interested in a dialogue now they helped put their guy in office. The power of this company is chilling.
A Biosecurity and Biorisk Reading List
If Chrome made denied cookies by default and required an explicit opt-in caused by a user action (basically deter un-prompted cookie prompts like we managed to deter popups) then that would change very quickly. I wonder why they don't?
The actual exploited bugs were mostly found in the OS but this is really about browsers. A contemporary browser pretty much exposes your entire OS to remote attacks. You want to exploit font interpretation? No problem, the browser will happily download your malicious font.

There has to be a better way. This isn't working...
This reminds me of the I Ching (of Man In The High Castle fame, plus y'know, 3000 years of history) approach to decisions, where you ask a question and then receive a random hexagram with a collection of general wisdom. It stimulates thinking around the subject, surprisingly effectively.

Both that and the card deck have a lack of causal connection that works in favour of creativity.

Brian Eno's Visual Music, which I think shows the problem solving card deck, amongst many other artistic experiments, is also supposed to be good.
True. However, they seem to be working hard – and with some success, I believe – at transferring ownership and responsibility to their partners in Ghana.
If you were in your 50s in the 90s I could understand avoiding technology. I have some sympathy for those in their 90s who had retired before the 1990s, but in the late 1990s Terry Wogan (b 1938) and his producer Paul Walters (b1947), with a breakfast radio show reaching 20% of the UK and aimed at fairly old people, showing that it wasn't too late for people their age to learn computing and send emails, watch webcams, etc.

If you're a boomer, you were in your 40s when windows 95 came out, and internet was common in average households in your 50s - no excuse.

For prisoners who were incarcerated, surely the rehabilitation and release process educates on basic information age technology like going to a library and using a computer to access public services
> What can we do to accelerate micropayment tech and patronage communities for creators?

Make them nonprofit foundations democratically run rather than middlemen biding their time until they can increase their margins or sell to a megacorp.
How's the Dark Rewrite Going?
White House staffers ousted due to marijuana policy
I’m not even sure there is a single “white” culture within the US. I mainly see the idea promoted by people who want to absorb some credit for the accomplishments of others. See some of the other comments here, about computers being invented by “my people”.
I make ANSI art for my source code! https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jart/cosmopolitan/master/a... Also shout out to http://blocktronics.org/
This is how spreadsheets that lose billions of dollars are created - I guess at least it's not medical residents.
I assume all the instagram biker chicks are no turning off their filters and removing makeup, right?
Then run for political leadership.
HAF is saying exactly that. The case wants to make sure caste discrimination gets explicitly mentioned, but HAF is bringing in Hinduism angle and saying don't define Hinduism for us. You see the obfuscation here, they are doing? They are trying to defend casteism in a round about way. HAF is founded by Upper Caste Hindus hence they are invested in this matter to make sure the case does not set a precedent for them.
No, I'm making it obvious that collecting fees does not constitute forcing someone to do something.
Flutter and Ubuntu So Far
Ken Silverman started working on the Build engine in 1993...seems like forever ago.

http://advsys.net/ken/build.htm
Why aren't we (humanity) bundling those up as NFTs and selling them for millions of dollars, rather than tweets and sports videos?
> Yes, but what do you tell a straight, white writer?

“Do what thou wilt”

I'm not really into telling artists how to art, and the problem is not one that straight white artists are particularly poised to meaningfully contribute to solving through their art in any case.

> Or should they try to learn from people around them

I think this is a good thing for people to do as people, and if they happen to be artists it will inevitably have some effect on their art, but the solution to the problem of the world of any particular art being insufficiently inclusive of marginalized viewpoints isn't for artists from nonmarginalized communities to get to know marginalized communities so that the nonmarginalized artists art can speak for the marginalized communities.
> The goddamn power of marketing! Even tech writers seem to assume that "RDNA" is some kind of revolutionary from-scratch change. It's still the same ISA!! Look at the drivers and compilers. It's simply the regular evolution, just with a rebrand.

GCN 1.2 changed the opcodes from GCN 1.0. If the machine code doesn't line up anymore, is it really fare to call it the same ISA?

In the case of RDNA: its all 32-wide SIMD instead of 64-wide SIMD. That dramatic difference completely destroys the bpermute / permute / DPP assembly instructions (https://gpuopen.com/learn/amd-gcn-assembly-cross-lane-operat...), which have gone from 64-way permutes (in GCN) into 32-way permutes (in RDNA).

GCN 1.2 was already looking pretty different from GCN 1.0, I'd say RDNA absolutely deserves the name "new ISA".

After all, GCN 1.2 is about as similar to GCN 1.0 as 8080 was to 8086 (same assembly language and registers, but new opcodes). I think most people are willing to call 8080 and 8086 different ISAs.

RDNA is extremely different at a base level because of that 32x SIMD vs 64x SIMD.
They need those exciting leaders if their sole goal is to maximize their profits. If they also want to have a world to spend their profits in, it's worth considering that some tactics may be different.

This is unusual territory, since it's not all that common for one company to be so closely involved with what could literally have been violent insurrection, even leading to outright war. It didn't, but it came far closer than the leadership of Twitter liked. They want to be ubiquitous, but not so pervasive as to be existential.
Decoding Django Sessions in Postgres
How would you go about programmatically determining if a PDF is a form or not?
Yep, that's what I cover using in the video linked above too. VcXsrv is so good. Nowadays I mainly use it to share my clipboard between WSL and Windows so I can use native Linux tools that copy to the clipboard without resorting to any hacks.
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Social media being in everyone's pocket certainly fueled the fire.
AFAICT Le Guin was criticized by feminists of her day for her decisions to be a home maker and - until later in her career - telling mostly stories of young men doing heroic things. She was "tolerated," lauded even, by the greater SciFi and Fantasy community _because_ she told stories that matched the tastes of young men back in the 60s and 70s.

It was only later that she reconciled with feminism and began writing from the feminine perspective, and received a lot of criticism from her life long fans for it!

There are valid criticisms of Left Hand of Darkness from an LGBTQ perspective, but it's also viewed as revolutionary for its time. Today, she's viewed as a complex person who contributed greatly to feminist literature - despite not being perfect - based on her merits, not because of some mistaken identity.
Exactly, 20 dollars would lead to an entire day of adventures.
> Like most would agree that Ray-Tracing is the "real deal" relative to shadow mapping, but with how far shadow mapping has come can it really be considered a "hack" still?

Even ray tracing isn't the real deal and isn't trying to closely simulate reality. You need to use hacks in ray tracing for soft vs sharp shadows, for light patterns on glass objects like wine glasses (caustics), to get illuminated surfaces to spread their colour to other objects (colour bleeding) and more.

Phonton mapping gets closer but is even more expensive:

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

Phonton mapping is trying to model the path of all photons being emitted from light sources back to the camera vs ray tracing that works backwards by tracing rays out of the camera back to the light sources i.e. ray tracing is an optimisation.
Interesting company-specific visible-source license, lots of restrictions:

https://retype.com/license/
President Biden stumbles multiple times while boarding Air Force One
> 50 year old uncle

Also, 50 year old people tend to have ideas which are frowned upon in the Valley. Especially if they're not from the US.

So when enough people start following them, they get removed.
Even running 100% on renewables, Bitcoin would still be a disaster
The Sorry State of Closed Captioning (2014)
> I've spent a lot of time perusing various open-source code bases, specifically OS kernels (FreeBSD and Linux, mostly), and I have been pretty dismayed to find far too much raw egotism/intentional obscurity, frankly lazy hacks, and poor documentation. Delving into user-land libraries can be down-right terrifying. It's not a problem of ineptitude, it's a combination of over-confidence, and the weakness of mainstream languages to properly abstract systems, and contain side-effects. When I was younger, I use to think I just wasn't "advanced enough" to understand what I was looking at. After becoming experienced, what I really found was that poor practices, both in design and implementation, are endemic in mainstream software.

> The result was 99% Ada (Ada 2012-FSF GNAT-FreeBSD). I mean 99% as in I didn't use any external libraries. The only non-Ada components were some last-mile system-calls bindings written in C, to take advantage of the system headers. All JSON parsing/generation, HTTP, and TCP/IP was implemented in Ada.

I think implementing your own software from end to end (including things like HTTP and TCP/IP) in Ada (a relatively obscure language) is "far too much raw egotism/intentional obscurity". The author seems to think he has solved the problem of collaboration by working alone on some software on its own terms.
High School Dropout Security Guard Finds Mentor and Becomes a Software Developer
> I have no idea why people like watching other people begging impersonally for attention.

I am aware two things:

1.) If they earn money from youtube, they need likes and subscriptions so that youtube algoritm shows them to more people.

2.) I as a programmer earn more money with less effort then them. I also very likely have to deal with less bs (like harassments and jerks trying to insult you or take you down for lolz).

A combination makes me accept that these people are doing entertainment as work, I consume that entertainment for free and thus am absolutely fine with them trying to succeed.

There is also absolutely nothing wrong with entertainers wanting attention. That is what pays their bills, without attention they cant be successful. Attention is not dirty word to me.
Or mind your own business and let other people write whatever they well please. It's fiction not science. Don't let the intellectual midgets bully you about what you can or can't write about.
> Imageon, the handheld graphics division of ATI, was sold to Qualcomm in a paltry $65 million deal. That division is now named Adreno, an anagram of "Radeon" and an integral component of the Snapdragon SoC (!).

It would be hard to come up with a corporate story that didn't have such missteps. Now, Samsung has licensed Radeons to be in their mobile SoCs.