skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That's nonsense, but I welcome you to make a case for it with facts."

Ok then, how about the fact that the US has been funding Al-Qaeda affiliated organisations to promote act as opposition to both Iran and Saudi Arabia's ideological and political enemies.

What about what went down and continues to go down in Southern and Central America where entire villages are being murdered in cold blood to discourage workers from organising for their own best interests and against the interests of the US? There are dozens of military and paramilitary organisations in Columbia and Bolivia that use arms and training provided by the US and allies (Israel in particular) to brutally put down worker uprisings and efforts at unionisation. Some of this training from the IDF in particular involves intentional maiming of members to drive up fear through the population against the idea of going against the regional power. Violence for the sake of spreading terror among the populace is terrorism by definition and the IDF have been both inflicting this on the Palestinians and training other groups to do the same on their own people.

This training and arms that Israel provides to these far right groups are directly subsidised through the billions in dollars that the US transfers to Israel yearly. This is no charity. The US has direct economic and political interests in keeping Central and Southern America under a tight thumb for both the rare earth metals there and the oil. They use the IDF to perpetuate fascist regimes abroad instead of direct support because of how bad the PR got during the 80's and 90's.

What about the plundering and destabilisation of Afghanistan and Iraq and how it has radicalised the region and formed dozens of terrorist groups that are now conveniently targeting surrounding nations which have not the best relationships with US empire. The leaks exposed by Julian Assange conclusively show that the US intentionally struck civilian targets including medics so don't bs to me that the Drone strikes (which btw were also being used illegally across Pakistani borders and murdering civilians) was strictly above board.

I invite you to make the case for how Russia and especially North Korea are somehow worse than the US in terms of state sponsored terrorism or even more traditional crime such as drug trafficking (Colombia remains one of the largest cocaine producers in the world with almost half of all cocaine controlled by the paramilitaries there) but I think you fail hard.
Also, 1 and 2 might be valid for the film industry, but the advertising/tv industry are not bothered by that. There are so many languages in the EU, I can see how this could be a very useful tech.
ODL is a product that uses a DLT (the XRPL) and a digital asset (XRP) to facilitate cross bolder transaction.

Instead of finding a bank or payment provider that hold the foreign currency you want to deliver somewhere and exchange it for you currency, this system converts you local currency to XRP send the XRP to the destination and sells it there for the local currency.

If you send money to the Philippines or Mexico you may have used it without knowing.
Ha, when I was 9 or 10 I took some coal to a jeweler because I was convinced it was some exotic and valuable stone. I still have no idea what I was thinking.
> The statistical probability of a crop randomly mutating a gen that would express a new complex alkaloid from scratch is close to zero

That's true if most mutations produced through and then artificially selected for in modern mutagenesis based techniques, as well as most of the mutations irrelevant to the targeted trait that come along for the ride.

> We know it because hasn't happened often in the last 3000 years

3,000 years isn’t all that long and we don’t know that, what we do know is that no mutation that does that has occurred where it has been in net of cost to the organism useful enough to be selected for an retained, which is a very different thing.

> To blend all those different techniques under the same term would be useless and confusing to both science and consumers

So? The post you respond to acknowledges that they are different but notes “it is insane that mutagenesis (especially in its modern forms) is not treated as even a moderate concern by the same people who hold up transgenics as an existential threat.”

That it is comparatively easy to do a precise, targeted change where you know exactly what new thing will be expressed and change little else through transgenics isn’t in dispute, its the whole reason for that statement.
The source describes the difference between COVID and the research performed in a published paper.

I don’t know the ins and outs of the lab or publishing research but it seems possible that other unpublished research could have been conducted.

We’re a far cry from proving that the virus came from a lab leak, but I’ve read parts of this thread too and the author’s response to certain criticisms and while the author could be right I didn’t come away thinking that a lab leak was near 0% probable.
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One way to sidestep this: every few minutes, post the longest hash to some distributed medium that can't be edited, like Twitter. Then the threat model moves to "do we trust the person with the keys to this twitter account?"

However, this is also "zero trust," because you can write a program to verify every tweet as it's tweeted, and run that on a server somewhere.

But, now that I've written this, I suppose Vitalik's "Limits to Blockchain Scalability" addresses this: even if it's theoretically possible to validate the hashes on a supercomputer somewhere, you want your users to be the ones doing this validation, because otherwise it would be possible to compromise the "zero trust" model described above by compromising one twitter account and N verification servers. When N is small, this might be a realistic concern, especially if the verification servers are continuously pulling code changes from a central source code repo.
Nicely written up. It's not that complicated when you start to think about the different stages, and I think this walk-through breaks it up clearly.

If you continue further on to the motherboard, the CPU has a multiphase SMPS (sometimes exceeding 20 phases!) that drops the voltage further to core and IO voltages (usally ~1.8V or less for the former) but still has to generate lots of Watts (think about a Xeon or Ryzen at 3+ GHz).

What's really neat IMHO is how Apple changed the <5W adapter market by moving to dense SMP in such a brilliant form factor. It can take 120/240 because it is a buck converter and doesn't care about the input voltage.

I've wondered, if the SMPS circuit in the 5W apple adapters be scaled up to 600~800W would they be enormous and/or less efficient? Because it seems like the circuits in this board are either designed for higher power so big honkin' coils & caps are necessary, or are they that big (and inefficient) in order to save money?
Monads are not strictly necessary in any language, and don't have to cover I/O at all. They are instead the same interface to a useful abstraction. They may as such be used together with all helper-functions and types, for many situations where one needs to wrap and unwrap data/types into more complex representations, and back again. They remain pure, since the actual side effects happen lazily outside of expression evaluations (by magic!).

They can also assist in decoupling code from side-effects, while keeping code simpler and coherent. Like with Go, just more subtly, it seems Haskell directs the programmer towards better code design, by giving helpful errors from the type system. This is because the types ensures that you avoid mixing what should not be mixed. If there's alot of errors and progress is slow, this is to be expected at startup, as you will be directed to find the better code structure to build your shell on. Once the shell is more complete, it will be easier to incorporate the functional core in that, or vica versa. So in that area also, it is helpful and useful, once one groks the hints of linter and compiler errors (use an IDE for this).
Apple also tried to delete all of Epic's Apple ID users, with no way for Epic to contact them, affecting users on non-Apple platforms who just happened to sign up with Apple ID. They ended up backing down to avoid judicial scrutiny, but now everyone knows the threat. If Apple comes out of the antitrust stuff on top, they can push ahead with this later to see how far they can take it.
There's nothing wrong with having a hobby for the sake of it just being fun.

But if you insist on thinking about everything in terms of money, realize how many well-paid programmers started out as hobbyists. Learning to create now can translate to big bucks later.

For me, I build software for a living, but a lot of my hobby projects are completely useless to anybody but me. I build them in languages and tools that require me to think differently, and the new way of thinking influences the code I write at work. This has paid off in terms of career trajectory, for sure. There is a bonus, in that me being a better programmer means I can spend less of my time figuring out how to write it, which means more time with my family.
Competitive card games like MTG or Hearthstone teach you to "play to your outs". What this means is to identify the ways in which you can maximize your chances of winning when you are in a losing position. This was helpful for me overcoming a tendency in life to just quit when it looked like I was at a disadvantage.
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Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak disclosed
I think that's the problem with 99% of articles about decentralized/federated/etc systems. Nobody can agree on what properties they want and everyone ends up talking past each other.
Someone from africa or russia can buy tokenized american stocks (like aapl/goog) that they wouldn't have access to easily in their national stock exchanges. I'm really excited to use tokenized stock projects like mirror that are popping up.
"As someone who worked in an Intel Validation group for SOCs until mid-2014 or so I can tell you, yes, you will see more CPU bugs from Intel than you have in the past from the post-FDIV-bug era until recently."

A most prescient remark in 2014.

Here's where they are more recently:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-fixed-236-bugs-in-2019-a...

https://www.techradar.com/news/latest-intel-cpus-have-imposs...
Yes. NVIDIA Denver/Denver2/Carmel.

Those have microcode that is more extensive than traditional CPUs though.
I think it's fine for Apple to demand more as long as the end users know that they are paying more everywhere because of it.
OP here, thanks for reaching. It's definitely something I'm not using religiously. It's a lot of fun, but not exactly practical. It depends on the code and on the development stage as well. Much more convenient when popping in and out of insert, but kind of uncomfortable when writing long swathes of content.
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That's not true for bt-corn or golden rice.
If bittorent is used by hundreds of millions of people, if thsts not mainstream then nothing is.

How it's being used is a different problem, but it's certainly effective and popular.
> Apple's stance here is a little like if AWS tried to force people who use any AWS service to use their overpriced egress bandwidth for everything, and sued customers found to be using Cloudflare to reduce their costs.

Is that a good example? I think that's how it works. Egress out to cloudflare is billed at the full rate last I checked. GCP gives you a discount, but not AWS.
> That shouldn't be Apple problem, we have governments for that.

Given the fast pace that technology moves at, and the comparatively-slow pace at which government / legislation works, this may not be the best move in terms of keeping progress going. Especially since governments are notoriously bad at understanding tech.
That would be equally true of a programming model where every program is a pure function from a list of input lines to a list of output lines. Everyone would agree that such a model is pure (if limiting), even though the function itself is just a function, and the language runtime takes care of the ugly low-level details of actually making the system calls that read lines from STDIN and write lines to STDOUT.

Purity doesn’t mean that effects don’t happen. It means that effects don’t happen as a side effect of mere expression evaluation.
> Ok then, how about the fact that the US has been funding Al-Qaeda affiliated organisations to promote act as opposition to both Iran and Saudi Arabia's ideological and political enemies.

if you count Israel among US’s friends, you can also count Israel spending decades covertly supporting violent Islamist groups in Palestine as a counterweight to the relatively secular PLO, which is how we ended up with Hamas.
I haven't tried Bottery, but the related Tracery tool is wonderful if you happen to need generated text of a certain level of complexity. It's basically next tier Mad Libs. Throw enough options at it and it makes surprisingly convincing stuff. It does a great job of filling the niche where you need randomness that's a bit too complex for just coding it yourself and not complex enough to start looking into ML.
> You cannot imprison other people

There is an estimated 40.3 million slaves on Earth today. Just throwing that out there.
I for one, submitter of this thread, really appreciate your transparency and candidness.
Not really taking sides here, but sandboxing is not a panacea, unfortunately. There's also fingerprinting, abusing bugs in the system, faking system password fields, forcing the user to disable restrictions to the app so it works. There isn't much of a purely technological solution.
OP. Oh man! That looks absolutely wicked. Will include an update with a link as soon as I get a free minute. Thanks a lot for reading and sharing.
ergonomic vertical mouse - tried a few and liked Workstream by Monoprice https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=38963
Notes longstanding problems, but isn't aware of calendar feature that has been around for a decade?

Thunderbird had some big hi changes over that time, you might like it.
The disagreement is over whether your point changes anything at all about the right to repair movement.

Okay, let's say Rossman is fighting for his own ability to do repair. So? That's what we want. Every consumer benefits if there's a competitive repair industry. In particular the people who can't do their own repairs at home benefit from a competitive 3rd-party repair industry.

Giving Apple a monopoly over its repair process is bad for consumers. It's bad overall no matter what Apple devices look like, but it's particularly bad if the devices are difficult or impossible to repair at home. The fact that consumer devices are getting harder to repair is exactly why third-party repair shops are so important, and exactly why Rossman's goals align with those of the average consumer. Because as devices get harder to repair, it becomes more important that consumers have access to a wide range of professionals that can do those repairs.

I think you're getting pushback because you keep refusing to engage with the arguments that people are making, repeating "the age of generic parts is over", and then acting like that changes something about the current situation. It doesn't. You seem to be missing the connecting logic between your own point and the surrounding debate about right to repair.
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That is a very different discussion altogether.
I like that you had it working in another application as well. I was thinking it might be cool to figure out some kind of web interface for configuring or swapping controls for different applications.
The NYT’s account has a post-surgery, pained, Bob Garfield having a disagreement with co-host and executive editor Brooke Gladstone, after which he was summarily fired.

My interpreation of bullying includes a number of factors, a key one of which is a power disparity between the bully and the bullied. By the Times’s telling, what actually occured was a disagreement between at the very least peers, if not of a less senior (Garfield) and more senior (Gladstone) team member. It sounds less as if Garfield was guilty of bullying and more that he was fired in retaliation for what might be uncharitably considered insubordination rather than a professional disagreement.

This bears poorly on WNYC, On the Media, and Gladstone.

And yes, given WNYC’s stated goal of becoming New York City’s news source “of record”, the Times itself has a horse in this race. Though its own position is and long has been as the national paper of record.
All of the mentioned things work just fine.

In life, nothing is perfect. For example, I can't use a CPU based on an open ISA as my daily driver. Does that mean that CPUs "don't work"? Of course not.

The fact that something is used for illegal purposes means that it doesn't work? Does LSD "not work"?

The fact that something is hard to set up or maintain mean that it doesn't work? Does Linux not work? Do airplanes not work?

Does the fact that something is an environmental disaster mean that it doesn't work? Do cars not work? Do highways not work?
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Sure hit me up on discord, hesdeadjim oh-eight-six-four.
> The plane in question had enough fuel to make it across the Atlantic

Maybe to Canada or USA, but their presence over Austria was already inoptimal for that. I suspect they were planning on a european tech stop anyway.

The long range Dassault version with the extra winglet option can do 8800km. Moscow to La Paz is 12500. A stop in Lisbon would just barely let them make it direct to Bolivia. Otherwise they'd have to stop in Gander or NYC. Definitely not Miami.

edit: No winglets, so 8300km range (https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9436252)

What was their flight plan? I can guess why it was necessary to interrupt them while over landlocked Europe if they really wanted to search the plane. If you let them get to Portugal or Spain and then denied them landing/passage, they could always exit to Africa.

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=dme-lpb&DU=km

>it certainly had enough to make it back to Russia.

We can never really know if they legally could because we don't know if they would receive transit approval back over Austria's neighbours or just remain trapped in an obviously coordinated program to deny passage.
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> We can bootstrap an entire customer's setup by doing some simple JSON copypasta now.

This read badly. Why is JSON in the picture?
I use Cockpit once, and I give up since it messes up my firewall config. It does not recognize iptables and only recognize firewalld on my Centos 7.
For the 3rd one, you are probably thinking about "Elevated", which is 4k http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=52938
There are others but it is the most famous and it was revolutionary when it came out.

I think what GP means is that even a "compofiller", a demo that is not expected to win any prize requires some technical skill.
A lot depends on the rate of change of brightness as the star espands and then contracts. An advanced civilisation could gradually change their orbital diameter to maintain constant insolation. They may also be able to change their rotational speed to maintain the same day/night duration.
All this would need one of those vaunted class 2 or 3 civilisations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale).
Passives would be baked and then frozen...
Insufficient for what?
All the comments got moved to the existing post.
> You cannot imprison other people

People who aren’t the government do, in fact, do that.

With a strong and effective government, there is a high probability that they eventually face significant adverse consequences for doing so, which may deter those who are deterrable, but even then it still happens.
Too many crisis actors on T.V with this covid scamdemic

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The reason it is causally related is that if you were to not push the pedal at any of those instances, the car would move slower than if you were to push it faster.

There's also a causal effect from biking to showering, although there are a few other things in the causal path such as getting sweaty. If you walked home instead of biking, you might avoid the shower. So biking does cause you take a shower.
They're mostly extracted from broken screen phones that are otherwise perfectly working.

They're not stolen. But carry on pushing apples narrative that they own everything even after its sold.
Peer discovery and secure cookie is what got me. Not really decentralized if you rely on DNS or DHTs. Secure cookie makes it stateful without access to javascript. It makes more business sense not to innovate. Just do the job right with proven solutions. Not like there's a surplus of knowledge.
You mean the Motorola Razr? and arguably the StarTAC.
For me real-time is useful in 3 applications;

1) Error monitoring like site down.

2) System checking, like checking analytics is working directly after setup.

3) Amusing/impressing non-tech types that they can see who is on their website at that moment when I try to explain the value of analytics.
The internet? (In the sense you can start/listen to a tcp/ip connection pretty arbitraily. Routing is very distributed).

The world wide web (the author complains DNS is too hard...well you dont technically need a domain name)

Usenet (was mainstream back in the day)

IRC is semi-federated, kind of obscure now, but was a bigger deal back in the day.

The author dismisses email, but that seems like an obvious answer.

DNS (hierarchical distribution. Depends how you define distributed i suppose) - what's more mainstream than that?
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> Proprietary centralised services like Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, etc. dominate, most likely because they have the marketing budget for it.

They dominate because they're better for end users who don't mind giving up compatibility/freedom to implement their own client, which the vast majority of people don't want to do. Slack/Discord/WhatsApp are far better instant messaging/voice or video conferencing software than IRC.
If the frustration came mostly from bloated CMSs like Wordpress I would suggest taking a look at newer (and specially) headless platforms like Sanity.io
well it depends, my company offloads md5 and uploading files inside a web worker. producing an md5 within the browser for a file is a task that would block the ui, but within a webworker it is really simple, we also upload the file than inside the worker.

it's really simple and offloads lots of stuff from the ui which can than have a nice looking upload spinner. (but we reduce what we transfer to the worker, btw. you can easily send a file handle)
Yes, people use vocational school to refer to schooling that requires less time, cost, and generally has lower barriers to entry. This results in a higher supply relative to demand, resulting in lower prices for the labor, and that is the causative factor for lower “status”.

You can change the name from vocational school to Nobel school or whatever, but as long as people are not earning high wages, it is not going to change any perceptions of “status”.