skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously? Epub isn't even supported by Amazon devices, at least not my 2 year old e-ink Kindle. Is this a play to ensure their DRM gets put into as many ebooks as possible when Amazon converts the epub to a native format?
Most likely this is even an April fools and a good one (idea) because it hit all the big media ;)
I have a Remarkable 2 (and love it), but one downside is that it only takes DRM-free books for it's e-reader. I wish the company would partner with some publishers so that I could buy books to read on the device.

At least we have Standard Ebooks[1] in the meantime!

[1] https://standardebooks.org/
What makes you think it's a bot or paid shill, not a human that found it funny that someone is selling such bullshit and making fun of that fact?
Some Americans have pronounced it "Voltswagen", not sure why.

I wonder if it would be less confusing to Germans if we used "Fow Vay" to pronounce the abbreviation. Instead of "Vee Double-You." I'm not being sarcastic, but I don't think a change to the correct pronunciation is likely.
I'm not overly concerned about it. It's my job as a parent to modulate the information they receive with school, and I'm fine with that. The most challenging part about it is they are asked to do assignments whose responses contain a strong political element, meaning there is a "right" opinion the teacher wants to hear. Again, that doesn't overly bother me. That's life, and my kids need to learn to operate in politically charged environments.

Yes, my children know what I think, and we discuss everything openly.
What I've read is: very limited quantities for 2021. At least for us here in Canadia. I've seen this enough with VW to know that that means a few hundred almost all sent to Quebec (which has California-like EV quotas while other provinces don't).
Not sure exactly when you had the UDM, but the earlier firmware for both the UDM and UDMP was awful and filled with bugs. It has since gotten a lot better. I haven't had any issues with my UDMP since the newer firmware and my home internet experience is much smoother than with my consumer routers (which would randomly drop connections or refuse new connections until a reboot... full NAT table maybe?)
> My truck (24 years and change) will smoke a bit if I stand on it and the fuel flow outruns boost coming up, but it's also entirely emissions compliant and passes the tests cleanly - it's just something older diesels do under certain conditions

I always thought that banning old diesels from centers of European cities was just silly (they passed their emissions after all so they can't be billowing smoke, right?), thanks for changing my opinion
Privacy, Sustainability and the Importance of “and”
This was hard to read. The author puts MBAs on quite a high pedestal of honor and considers them "smart people".
Remote Work Is Leading to More Gender and Racial Harassment, Say Tech Workers
Heh. I have prior art (1966). I was four. My dad was working on a ground-support trailer for the Sergeant surface-to-surface missile. He went in on a Saturday for some testing, and took us along. And there was this big red button....

(It wasn't the launch button; it was the emergency shutdown button, which would have cost them an hour to restart everything. When they're there on a Saturday. I was exiled to the parking lot for the duration.)
Counting machines are fine as long as you can do a hand recount. The machines people are upset about in 2020 are actually pretty reasonable; unlike the machines people were upset about in 2000 which didn't create a paper trail.
Princetonians for Free Speech
CRT specifically may be largely junk (I think it is), but the parent comment is not correct.

Trump's "Zero Tolerance" immigration policy intentionally separated mothers and their children at the border with the intent being deterrence. Cruelty was the intended goal of that policy to dissuade people from coming to the border. Previously adults and children would only be separated if border patrol suspected abuse (child trafficking).

Some children have yet to be reunited with their parents (and may never be) because the Trump administration failed to keep records (and frankly didn't care).

The "remain in mexico" policy was intended to prevent those crossing the border to be able to exercise their legal right to claim asylum.

Immigration policy is complex, dealing with desperate people fleeing their country to enter the US is not easy. That doesn't make the Trump administration policy equivalent to the difficulties Biden is experiencing on the border. Intent and policy decisions matter.

This is one specific example, but there are many others.
I don't understand how you can characterize Go as silently failing half the time? Can you give an example of this "silent arbitrary failure"?
Spot on. It's too hamfisted to be believable - if there isn't a full team somewhere on red alert scrutinizing all outgoing media after the PR storm caused by the news tweets I'd be extremely surprised. It's too easy to get people to antagonize Amazon.
Archive link: https://archive.is/QYRIG
Sorry for responding to your comment, but I'm unable to respond to the parent comment.

Since when is it possible to delete a comment after someone has replied to it, or was this done by a moderator?
I guess that’s the thing - I do choose to run every day.

I love my wife, I generally enjoy my job. I literally run in the park everyday. I don’t sit around in a dark room despairing (at least not until I go to bed).

I do my absolute best to get the most out of life. But the feeling of dread stays with me no matter what I do. It taints every memory and every waking moment. I can’t run from my thoughts, try as I might.
Apologies, dang. That was certainly not my intention.
I'd venture a guess that anyone advocating REPL-based development in Python is pitching IPython/Jupyter. IPython's REPL supports multi-line editing, trims common leading whitespace from pasted input, among a whole host of other features. The standard REPL is definitely painful for all but the most basic tasks.
Arm Announces Armv9 Architecture with Performance, ML and Security Boosts
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> I've had an "off" kindle drain itself dry in a day from these.

I don't believe you.
Married to a teacher.

Logic has no part in most elementary classrooms.

I argue we need to go dumber.

Have a basic certification that you can teach vowel sounds.
Bring in plenty of cheap people to lower grades and have them work 1 on 1 with each student.

Seen way to much of teachers teaching to what the kids are supposed to be capable of, vs what they actually are.
https://old.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/kt6qcu/can_you_comp...

Fixed link.
Phone numbers, emails, and postal addresses all still route through multiple mediaries between source and dest, and neither end ever know what path it took. In other words, they are MITMed by design. And for these mediums of communication, you want it this way for everyone's safety and sanity.

The only way this works securely with internet packets would be tor.
AI Zombies Cannot Answer Questions About Consciousness
I don't believe the $10 mil figure for one second.

That'd mean a Raptor engine would cost less than $1 mil and that just can't be true - that'd be about half the price of a much smaller and less complex Merlin engine...
the VW ID4 is a great family car, imo its worth the wait.
It depends heavily on what you're calling "bad information."

There are certainly cases where there's a difference of opinion - different interpretations of some external reality.

But there is also "bad information" in the form of "literally made up, entirely, with no basis in reality." There exist clickfarms that do literally this - make up fictions for some "legitimate sounding news site" for nothing beyond the ad revenue of driving people to those sites on social media platforms.

"Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both secretly space aliens from a satellite orbiting Alpha Centauri and are here to supervise the farming of US citizens to be turned into cattle feed for alien cows" would be the sort of "totally fake" thing I'm referring to - nothing in that statement stands any real chance of being true (I hope... it's hard to outpace reality in absurdity some weeks), but plenty of similarly absurd articles exist on the internet. A lot of them get clicks, some of them get an awful lot of clicks.

Teaching student to be able to properly analyze an information source goes a long way. Though just having the browser warn you when your "news" site was registered last week would also help a lot...
Yep agree.

Raspberry Pi needs to do two things to become really useful.

1) ship chips with native-AES/hardware crypto

2) get rid of SD and have onboard NAND, like a phone

I’ve raised this on their forums but just get flamed for some reason by senior engineers suggesting that these ideas are ridiculous and it’s for education in Africa, I was even banned for suggesting they were shortsighted.

Maybe education’s where it started, I don’t see why they are blind to the reality that most current users are tinkerers and Linux hobbyists.
Build clients for it that mandate biometric access following already-existing government data security standards.
Bitcoin Price Bubble Could Last 100 Years, Says Yale Economist
> Size your fonts with `em` and `rem` units, and size your containers based on the number of characters you want to fit in each line.

AFAIK this is not a good solution in most situations. The number of characters that you can fit on a fixed container varies greatly depending on platform / font / settings. By consequence, you'd lose a whole lot of control over you layout if you were to scale the containers in this way.
OK. Well let's come up with a solution that takes into consideration these other systems. Instead of getting angry that someone was ignorant of other languages, help them understand a way their ideas could be adjusted to be more inclusive.
In the past, for me, this has caused needless friction and fostered an adversarial relationship between IT/security staff and everyone else.

We weighed our options and decided that it was a battle we would rather not waste our effort and risk staff animosity with. When a more serious security incident occurs, or when we decide to implement something else that may require staff effort, we believe that our staff will be more willing to work with us towards a solution.

Sometimes with security policy, a little give (proportional to risk analysis) can go a long way with non-technical staff. I'd rather work with staff to come up with processes that work for both the security staff and all other staff members than become so rigid in my security policy that I may inadvertently alienate the security staff - which has many risks itself.
What I don't get: WHY?

Why is it better for Amazon to pay $15/hour and work you like dogs, vs. paying a much lower base rate but a bonus that makes it work out to $15/hour if you work yourself like a dog, and less if you're less effective? Is overhead so high that having more, cheaper but less effective workers doesn't work out?
Microwave might be a good choice as well, depending on your opsec requirements -- it's a Faraday cage by design.
Back in the good 'ol days of the 1990s, if you left your computer unlocked you were liable to return to your desk and find somebody replaced your desktop wallpaper with something... pornographic and/or you sent an email to your boss (with the entire office on CC) professing your undying love for him.
What I'm not seeing is what is going on in the lives of these people that fosters such negative behavior. These studies almost never ask questions like "Are you being abused by your parents?" or "Have you been molested?"

There is this presumption that they engage in malicious behavior simply because they think they can get away with it, basically. It's an "idle hands are the devil's workshop" theory and generally lacks substance.

Sure, people do all kinds of stupid stuff when bored and when they have time on their hands, but why are these young adolescents online all the time? Does this mean they have a terrible home life and no one is paying attention to them?

I don't really like proxies like "Spends a lot of time online." I spend a lot of time online. I don't bully people.

For me, the internet is a means to have a life when that wouldn't otherwise be possible. I earn income online. I have hobbies online. Etc.

I really dislike the subtext that "spending time online is bad and more time spent online is worse." I would guess it is something more like "Spending time online to try to escape your shitty life in an abusive household means you take your baggage out on internet strangers because that seems safer and more do-able than resolving your thorny problems."
WIN+L is faster and can be done with just one (stretched) hand.
I was very productive in Clojure for some number of years and never once, not a single time, found benefit in REPL-driven development. I've used it here and there just to test little snippets, but never actually used it for real.

Frequently I found it unnecessary, anyway. Clojure just made it way to easy to get things right that I rarely had to dive in and figure out why something was wrong.

These days I prefer types over Lisps for that, but people change.
Floor insurance. Like a subset of house insurance, but specifically for my floors. I am so paranoid that they'll get scratched up and I'll have to redo them
How do you 'redeem the world' based on highly specific and biased theories about the mind-vs-computers? There are so many counter-narratives to the brain-as-computer narrative. Read further on this here: https://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/capsules/outil_bleu25.html
The main issue is that when the industry lobbies the politicians, in the USA, it tends to mean that they are writing them big fat checks as "political donations". This is corruption plain and simple, and a huge stain on the integrity of American politics. This kind of crap also does pass elsewhere, but at least when the industry lobbies politicians in other places it tends not to be so open and blatant.
It's much easier to just pick someone to frame everything for you than it is to develop critical thinking skills. I would wager the majority of people from any generation wind up choosing the former, even if it's not a conscious choice. I don't think it's something people 'grow out of' by default.
Is there a $1200 lottery ticket?
We Need to Talk about Sony Playstation PS3, Vita and PSP Store Closures
Until there is a financial penalty for fraudulent or "mistaken" DMCA claims there is no reason for companies to make even the most basic effort at due diligence.

The DMCA should be repealed, but won't be, so instead should be updated to make erroneous claims have a financial penalty. Nothing major at first, but ratcheting upwards for every false claim. Oh, and all legal expenses for the victim party of course.
Well, some time ago due to the packaging tool I use (Java's JPackage), Windows Defender quarantined the executable created by the JPackage. Some googling revealed that this was a pretty common false positive. This problem vanished, as JPackage was finally released in Java 16 (it was an incubating feature before it), which I'm using now. But I decided to mention it anyway...

I don't really have a "business model", like I say in the FAQ, this is more of an experimental project for my needs, than a professional one.
Well, it definitely means you have far more at stake every time you comment or participate, since you're putting your reputation on the line and creating a public record.

However, I ultimately don't think requiring IDs would be effective and it would probably expose at-risk and vulnerable groups to greater retaliatory action. It's arguably a bit classist as well, since only those who are sufficiently rich and powerful enough to protect themselves would be able to participate with impunity.
macOS already does this at the pixel step, by multiplying the entire pixel layout by a scaling term before actually drawing the widgets. So effectively, macOS does not use 72 points-per-inch, it uses 72 points-per-pixel, and then ensures 1 pixel is a particular physical measurement, for the same compatibility reasons that caused us to drop device pixels.

The reason why the author is having issues with text sizes on different size monitors is that macOS does not support fractional scaling; and it's high-DPI detection is fairly limited. A non-high-DPI monitor has no scaling options whatsoever, it's locked to 1x. High-DPI monitors are locked to 2x; with the additional option to change the desktop's layout size and scale the resulting image to achieve the effect of fractional scaling. (Apple is really paranoid about introducing rounding errors in pixel-aligned layouts, which is why they handle non-integer displays this way.)

BTW, if anyone happens to know how to manually flag a monitor as HiDPI in macOS Mojave (or if I can do it in Catalina/Big Sur), please let me know. I have a 1080p NexDock Touch that I have to run at 720p because macOS won't give me the fractional scaling options on an external monitor.
Can it not be removed by the original uploader, or anyone else to acquire their credentials?
I'm concerned about saying something political that triggers a flood of downvotes, so I'd rather be pretty vague here. One example is their primary US history textbook is kids version of Howard Zinn's People's History of the US.

I have no problem with Zinn's book in general, but I do think it's best read in the context of knowing the "official" version of history. I normally view his book as a useful critique and extension of a classic history text.

To modulate the Zinn book, I simply review with my kids the relevant Wikipedia entries to ensure they have more context. This works great in my family. My concern would be the outcome in a family without engaged parents or radicalized parents, as I mentioned above.
Interesting, so you've managed to create your own Internet bubble. Isn't this another example of confirmation bias?

I would think it would be better to just scroll past the content you are not interested in engaging in. It certainly will be better to know of something happening, even if in brief terms, than to be completely in the dark of it.
Library Genesis will free you from that prison. It has most books and papers I've ever needed and it's less immoral than Amazon.

http://libgen.gs/
Are you referring to country code prefixes?

Their point is that you can always give your number to anyone and they can directly use it to contact you. It's never unclear what number to give someone so they can reach you. Yeah calls have to be routed, but routes are implicit, not something you have to worry about as src or dest.
Everything is politics, including Supreme Court rulings. Gay marriage wasn't a constitutional right until politics demanded it.

In China it's the Politburo rather than a Supreme Court but the leader must also engage with politics and get buy-in for changes.
> If you write your code the correct way,

Then you don't need a REPL. This is a very weak argument, overall: there are programming techniques to compensate for any deficiency in the environment. The fact that you need to use them is already worse than not having to worry about it at all.

> Sadly, most people would rather just try something and jump onto conclusions immediately.

Just a gentle reminder, you're not talking to "most people" here. Nevermind me, we [EDIT: cut out the irrelevant details] I just want to say that assuming good faith and informed criticism are the better defaults for this forum.
I think nil/null is a symptom of the real issue: the language permits partially constructed data types, so it has to assign something.

That's a consequence of the "always mutable" model whereby the responsibility of initialization can be shared by the object constructor and the caller.

But there are many cases where it's very intuitive for the caller to set up an object, especially in the objects as actors model.

I think to make that work, you'd want to track the evolution of the object's state, especially noting when all fields have defined values.
No one actually thinks that. Mad Libs Press Releases just has that wording baked in.
Maybe the cat was his child?
Well, guess I won't be about to drop a few thousand on Ubiquiti gear anymore until we get some more details. Hopefully this account isn't fully truthful, otherwise Ubiquiti has really screwed up.
TL;DR -- Possibly it has to do with the style that I use, but those things doesn't actually happen to me very often, and when they do it's not a big deal. For me, the benefits of REPL-driven-development far outweigh occasionally having to deal with these issues.

Two things. First, I've been bitten by this myself, but it's pretty much always been something like "Oops, I renamed a function and forgot to update a reference to it, but the code still worked because the old definition was still there... until I reloaded the REPL." It's always been a trivial fix for me, since when I try to re-evaluate the buffer containing the outdated function reference it throws a "cannot find function definition" error. I currently consider the advantages of REPL-driven development to outweigh that occasionally happening.

Second thing: maybe others do it differently, but I don't think I generally make manual changes to the state while things are running. If the state doesn't look the way it should, I either start iteratively tweaking functions (by modifying my .clj file and eval-ing them) and re-running with fresh state to understand and resolve the problem, or I work with a separate, similarly-shaped piece of state and run it through functions in a sort of "manual unit testing" to tweak and fix whatever's wrong, and then I re-run everything from scratch to make sure it worked. I don't adjust the state, evaluate a code path, and then continue on if it works (because yeah, I can totally see how that would lead to the sort of situation you describe, which sounds unpleasant)
I find it fascinating how much further that society went toward looking like a corporation. It's almost as if everyone born was an employee by default, and the referenced "freemen" were the exception, being non-employees. And this document could be an acquisition contract where the acquired CEO tried to keep his company intact under the new owner (hence the words about not allowing the new owner to reassign people to different jobs).
Far-Right Misinformation Drives Facebook Engagement
While I'm inclined to agree with you and my inner-engineer wants to mock MBAs, they _are_ people who have spent their lives studying business. Their opinion on currency is surely -somewhat- insightful. Certainly not a bellwether, but... insightful at least.
The concept of changing "line height" seems completely broken for monospace fonts. Changing the line height of a monospace font makes line-drawing characters (lines, boxes, etc) fail to line up, either by overlapping or by having gaps between them.

This gist shows an example of the problem; GitHub's CSS breaks this property of monospace fonts: https://gist.github.com/joshtriplett/dc2446716999c54cc9a5c48...
But the routers have a nice user interface!
> Why not use box-shadow or border? Those properties are super expensive to animate.

The web is the main obstacle to having nice things on the web.
With dig:

$ dig +short @resolver1.opendns.com myip.opendns.com
Suddenly a lot more interested in this study since my city of Chicago seems to now be taking it as a policy recommendation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/3/28/22355204/foxx-s...

Has anyone read through enough to determine how they control for certain cities being more lenient than others?
If a criminal is more likely to get their first misdemeanor conviction in San Antonio than in Seattle, wouldn't it follow that the perp is more likely to 're-offend' since San Antonio (presumably) arrests more offenders in general than Seattle.
SaaS Software Add on Agreement
Does anyone have a template SAAS software add on agreement we can recycle?

Thanks!
Nirat