skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was excited and hopeful for Scopeware Vision back in the day.. or at least to have MacOS "application windows" or "mission control" UIs to be a bit more 3D layered/cascade with easier to navigate through them, kinda like Cover Flow or Time Machine's view.
Government says "these people shouldn't get bail as they are insurrectionists" and judges say "if they didn't commit any violence, then no, they aren't a threat and will be released on bail".

The gov't is losing a lot of their arguments in the courtroom trying to paint it as an insurrection versus a protest.
Glug, even talking about class is itself a class marker. Get new money and wait it out, or deal with it. Fortunes are made through malice
I would love the source for this. It seems too ridiculous to be true unless they're using a non-standard definition of 'influencer'.
> All fried chicken tastes basically the same

How many places have you had fried chicken in?
What do you mean 'if'? They're about as disposable as toilet paper. They are created to be disposable and nothing is moderating that impulse at all.

Hell, back in the times of Motown they made the child stars go to school. This is in some ways less organized than, but also less moral than, the music business and the film industry.

And that takes some DOING, to be worse than the music business and the film industry. I think it's the decentralization that does it: platforms that are very algorithmic, distributed, with nobody to claim responsibility for anything.

In the absence of oversight or obvious control we're supposed to see the true nature of what all this stuff becomes when it's free of top-down control.

We are, and it's Lord of the Flies, but for celebrity children. It's not far off child abuse, but with a nice little disconnect between what happens and how the situation's created.

These kids aren't the product, they're the Soylent Green. They're there to die for the algorithm.
> There are gang members in the U.S. who join the military to receive weapons training.

1) There are people everywhere who do all sorts of things. The nightly news is replete with one-off events presented as a worrying trend. Is it a thing to worry about? is the question.

2) What's worse than a gang member entering military service? A gang member not entering military service: a 4 year commitment to being told what to do by your betters, learning life skills like how to cooperate and follow instructions. Would a "gang member" go back to his old life after successfully navigating that? Depends on the gang I suppose, but not many I would imagine.

3) With compulsory service, everyone would have weapons training, criminals and non-criminals alike.
Yes, I use a Dexcom G6. If the rumors of the Series 7 having a glucose monitor and a blood pressure monitor on it are true, that would be incredible. They’re surely working on core body temperature monitoring too!
To quote someone on Reddit [0]:

"Van Riper famously used "motorcycle couriers" to get around the destruction of his C2 network. The problem was that this was handled as simple handwaving, with him saying that he would use motorcycle messengers to handle all the message traffic. Despite supposedly doing so, he continued to relay messages as if he doing so with a normal communications network. Essentially, his motorcycle messengers were treated as being just as efficient as an electronic communications network. Clearly, that wouldn't be possible, hence the folks joking about "light speed motorcycles"."

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/WarCollege/comments/la7elp/so_what_...
Exactly this. My personal hell recently has been the Audible app on iOS. I walk a lot and listen to audiobooks and often on my walks my cellular connection is not great, one bar or so. The Audible app had a redesign a year or two ago where it now instead of showing your library letting you play whatever you were listening to, it loads a home screen that tries to get you to buy more books, and you can’t do anything else until that finishes loading. But since it fails to load on a crappy connection, I usually end up killing the app, enabling airplane mode, and then re-opening the app. So stupid.

For reference, my audiobooks are stored locally, a network connection is not required to continue playing. Yet somehow they have hindered the main functionality of the app by what I can only assume is sloppy coding.
What president has ever not promoted the elite?

Was Jimmy Carter posh? Harry Truman?
I like the work they did together on the eGPUs.

It would be much more interesting to me than the Beats acquisition.
Hasn’t that been happening for a long time already? We’ve had social media and reality tv for over a decade now and plenty of people have fallen from their pedestal. The truth is that the cycle keeps getting more vapid and depersonalized so these kids will be tossed aside and forgotten very quickly.
(at least in my cases) Ideally nothing ever gets updated, there's just a newer version of the row.
Do you have a link to the original Tagesschau clip featuring the Gwangju footage? I could only find one from a day or two before, featuring only footage from Seoul.
I know no one takes this seriously but you never know what will happen. Maybe someday we can replace PDFs with something open and more straightforward and practical.
The sad part is that Twitter wasn't always like that. I remember old versions of Twitter being pretty snappy.

Facebook too... the latest redesign is an abomination, and as much as I like having a dark mode, the new UI is so slow and so laggy that it makes me not want to use Facebook anymore. But I've been using Facebook since 2005 when it was just a LAMP system that served server-rendered HTML, and it was amazing. I remember my peers talking about how Facebook was so much better than MySpace because it was so clean and snappy.
It might be even worse, if I recall correctly, Hasselblad might be only responsible for the color science.
I think they might have older followers as well.
Good article but author is wrong about "Cotton attributed this to malice". That's not what his statement said. He simply stated that there is a level 4 super lab in Wuhan which works with similar viruses. That alone is not malice. The virus could have leaked from the lab by accident because of poor practices - that's not malice. Malice would be if it was intentionally leaked. The intention is what scientists and intelligence is supposed to do. One could also say that China banning on national flights and closing off areas while allowing international flights and not providing correct info/warnings to other countries is what real malice is.

> But Cotton did one thing that those other sources didn’t do — he speculated a little. At the end of that clip he says “we still don’t know where coronavirus originated. Could have been a market, a farm, a food processing company. I would note that Wuhan has China’s only biosafety level-four super laboratory that works with the world’s most deadly pathogens to include, yes, coronavirus.”

> Where Cotton differed from the consensus is that he attributed this to malice, which is not what the scientific articles said (but also isn’t a scientific question) and was not the NYT’s preferred interpretation of events.
I think many people fail to understand that during WW2 the Wehrmacht was often forced to rely on horse carts for transporting supplies to the front. They didn't have fuel for trucks.
Could do the exact same thing with... a bottle of water instead. I guess it's not cool enough though.
I've been working on a file organization system that incorporates tags, and I must say I agree with the GP. Tags improve display and search over hierarchies, but they require no less discipline on the part of the user. Without some way to automatically mass-assign meaningful tags to items, which is an insanely difficult problem in the general case, the user is forced to manually tag every single item they add to the system. AI could help do this, but not much. First, consider that mistagging an item can make it practically impossible to find again. Second, consider that semantic tagging can be almost arbitrarily abstract; imagine tagging a text document with "cyberpunk" or an image file with "parody".
I own a zeiss 55mm e-mount lens and it is absolutely incredible. Never fails to blow people’s minds with its sharpness and depth of field. No comparison with smartphone lenses and easily worth the money. I cherish many photos and moments with that lens. Also, a side note: one of the biggest advantages of a larger sensor like those used in full frame and medium format cameras is the ability to crop in post. Its really about treating photography as an artform - composition matters.
While doing that anyway would be an egregious breach of GDPR I wouldn’t put it past Facebook to do it. They could release the update that prompts users to accept the tracking with the threat of being denied service, maybe pay a fine for breaching the GDPR regulations, take some time to ‘fix’ the issue and push out a new update after enough people have accepted to make it worth their while. I know it’s much more complicated than that but considering how much trouble people apparently have trying to leverage the data retrieval or removal requests under the GDPR[0] it looks like they think they’re above the law and are willing to make an effort to avoid complying with it. I wonder how far they’re willing to push it.

[0] https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/
Just pick a random number at the beginning, and start incrementing IDs from there. Like personal checks starting at 1000 so they're always(ish) 4 digit. Of course, maybe pick another starting number that's less obvious.
This is an incredibly important comment.
Have you tried wifi SD cards?

https://thedroidguy.com/6-best-wifi-sd-cards-in-2019-1096952
They are all over Marin County, CA.

And I'm jealous. I wish I had a high end electric bike, but my patched together Zapp bike is kinda ok for now.

If I was younger, with money, and connections; I would be all over manufacturing electric bikes.

These high end bikes are basically motorcycles. They look fun, and practical.

Right now they are not regulated, and I hope it stays that way. They have given out of shape, or disabled, people a way to get out in nature.

I do see a lot on Craigslist though. I have a feeling, my wealthy neighbors buy them, but were never bicyclists to begin with.

The minute I see one at my price point ($500 used), I'm buying one.

Oh yea, cops in my county have become revenue collectors. They harass anyone out after 10 pm. They pull over people at random for no reason. I think they assume everyone drinks like they do? They seem to be leaving electric bicycles alone--for now?

My dad bought his first Zapp bike because he was tired of being pulled over in the Richmond District in San Francisco, by cops looking for an marginal DUI. The Zapp bike made his life less stressful.

The price point of the nicer bikes needs to come down though. Even if I had 5-15 grand that I could blow, theft is still a concern.
"You're supposed to be up cooking breakfast or somebody, so that's like an alarm clock!" —Bubb Rubb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUXow3d3-b0
that's a pretty confusing blog post... it seems to make a distinction of "schema on read" vs "schema on write", but supplies the following examples:

>>> The following are common examples of schema-on-read:

> Blob storage, (S3, Filesystem, Azure, etc)

> Message queues (SQS, Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc) [...]

>>> Common examples of schema-on-write are: [...]

> JSON Schema

> Structured serialization formats (Protocol Buffers, avro, thrift, etc)

But those are not opposites at all! You can put protobufs in S3 or in the message queue. And even with protobufs, you may end up with their "unknown shape" examples if the scheme is old and evolved over time.

Moreover, most of the issues described -- like "Producers may change field locations or data types without communicating to the consumer teams" -- are very real in pretty much any communication schemes, and are much more indicative of general company culture than of the serialization technology used. After all, nothing in the protobufs require one to warn other teams of the schema updates.
AMD Shows New 3D V-Cache Ryzen Chiplets, Up to 192MB of L3 Cache
They're children. Or possibly animals, like show ponies or show poodles. Theirs is not to ask why, or to have a free thought in their head.

If they were being raised to be slaughtered, you might have an easier time finding empathy, even when this raising is not doing great at giving them human qualities. Well, they ARE being raised to be slaughtered, in a slightly more abstract sense. I think empathy is completely reasonable.

The thing is you have to have empathy for what they MIGHT have been if they weren't yanked out of normal life, kept from growing up or seeing any reality, and trained to be incredibly vacant and damaged. You're seeing human beings getting ruined. Maybe they could have been a lot better if they didn't get sucked into this madness.
There is nothing wrong with using branding as a heuristic. Everyone does it when they prefer buying one brand over another. People do not have enough time or information to make fully informed decisions about each and every thing, including other people.
Heck no, you can get very reliable used cars for $5k. 15k gets you into a reasonably well used BMW (not that thats a sweet spot of value or anything.)
Clunky at best
Eh yeah. “I’m so over educated I can’t relate to normal people anymore”. I miss David Foster Wallace. At least he understood humans. https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazi...
> it's harder to justify a recurring revenue model for a fully local application.

Then don't. Software was plenty profitable when we were just selling licenses.
Your numbers are off. A typical carrier strike group contains one cruiser and two destroyers for escort, not six. There aren't enough destroyers to go around.
Stuff like this is why I still have a portable mp3 player. I just plug it in, put mp3s on it, and it works.
Can't take the time to dig further right now, but is this a riff off...

The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry is a 1973 book by Harold Bloom.
That seems less powerful to me. Another user summed up why better than I could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27350024
The free version of Foxit PDF Reader allows you to upload a signature image and add the signature to PDF documents. There is a Linux version.
https://www.foxit.com/downloads/
Allow me to share the class divide even within a place like Harvard Business School, dubbed "Section X"

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/education/harvard-busines...
the mythologized bond of the older films worked much better in the cold war. Jason Bourne films are a natural product of the changing public perception of spies in the post 9/11 era. I think the grittier Craig reimagining was inevitable as 'good v evil' bond narratives had only become more outlandish and irrelevant as the 2000s rolled on.
Indeed. If I buy (as a first time homeowner), it’ll be for 2-3m. Our next door neighbors are first time homeowners and bought for $2m (not including the $200k+ in renovation costs).

I’m pretty sure the people buying townhouses aren’t just people trying to get into the market but also people who will not likely be able to afford more. The gap between a townhouse and a decent standalone house is still a large gap and it only gets wider as time goes on. Thus it becomes even harder to go from townhouse to sfh even if you already own a townhouse...
For a little while, Samsung was making an Android DSLR, which they called the Galaxy NX. It didn't make a big splash in the market, which I think is a shame.

I don't know how it holds up against newer DSLRs sensor-wise, but frankly I think those have long since surpassed my needs anyway. I might try to get my hands on one just to play with the software experience.
I think Harvard has students on the order of 20,000
> "I’m becoming convinced that naysayers are more and more afraid of having been wrong and missing the boat as time goes on."

"Bitcoin value has changed 200,000x in a decade and just halved in a few weeks."

"You're envious because you didn't get rich quick."

"I thought this wasn't a get rich quick scheme?"

"It isn't, how could you suggest such a thing? It's a currency used to buy groceries in Venezuela."

"Then why do you care about it - do you put your savings into the Mongolian Tugrik because it's a currency used to buy groceries? Do you go round singing its praises on the internet?"

"No, because they won't get me rich quick. It's still a currency, deal with it."

"Doesn't that rapid change in value make it a poor thing to use as currency?"

"It's unquestionably better than a hyperinflationary fiat currency in a collapsing state."

"Almost anything would be."

"You're just dissing it out of envy because you didn't get rich quick. Look at that - over $30,000/coin, nothing that valuable could be nonsense or scammy!"

"Tulips?"

"That's all you ever say, Tulips, Madoff, Ponzi, Pyramid."

"They were all things that had high valuations and were nonsense. At least tulips have some inherent value, unlike Bitcoin, you can't grow or eat Bitcoin."

"Ah! Ah! You can't eat gold!"

"Indeed you can't. If you like that kind of thing, do you hold any gold?"

"No, gold won't get me rich quick."

> "It’s been more than a decade. It’s here to stay."

I guess this is why you're religious - it's been here for a long time, many people believe in it, that's enough to convince you, yes?
> It's not like that company would put their brand on anything crap.

No, but that company no longer exists and the owners of the brand really have no problem selling the name for use on crap. You simply bought into that myth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasselblad#Fuji,_Shriro,_Imaco...
> It's always going to be unfair.

Can I ask you a question without I swear any implicit judgement.

Do you gravitate towards conservative politicians?

Because I'm finding that this is the main distinction between Progressive and Conservative-minded people in today's western society. You can account for religion (there are religious leftists and atheist rightists). You can account for racism (there are plenty of racist liberals)

But I am developing a mental model (I'm sure it's not original, but I don't know enough about philosophy or sociology to determine who I should read with similar mindset) that the biggest difference is exactly the quote above.

Progressive people believe that society is not fair but could be. Conservatives believe it is not possible, and it's silly to even try.

Of course the implicit advantage of conservatism is if that enough people don't try, then it doesn't work, society does not become more fair, and conservatives get to point and say "see?"

And, on the flipside, you can spend a generation striving to achieve "real communism" like the USSR did claiming that true socialism is just around the corner, and never actually make any progress because the goal posts keep moving.

> Instead of being consumed by envy of others, you can make your own life better.

And this is the key reason why I don't agree with you and why I will continue to fight for fairness and equality and equity improvements. I don't want to improve my own life at the expense of others. I think that is inherently selfish and defeatist. I'm a humanist, and I want my contributions go towards maximum optimizations across a multitude of humanity.
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Fellow non-smoker to another, but with a very different experience.

Over a decade ago, I tried chewing tobacco. Definitely a stimulant, but of the relaxing variety. It’s like a shot of adrenaline but only on your brain and with no negative feeling side-effects. Or like eating an especially delicious gourmet hamburger that is both interesting in its complexity and relaxing at the same time.

The noticeably pleasant mental stimulation only lasted maybe 5 to 10 minutes but the impression was made. For the first year I would experience definite cravings for “trying it” again. I occasionally still do, despite never repeating the experiment.

The craving is almost entirely decoupled from the actual experience, even though I’m sure the direct experience caused the craving response to be etched on my brain.

I suspect the only reason I’m not a chainsmoker today is because tobacco is so distant from my routine, because no one in my circle of family and friends consumes it, and because it’s longterm negative effects are so well known. If any one of those conditions were not true, I’m relatively sure I’d battling that addiction today.

I deeply understand pursuing curiosity for curiosity’s sake...but especially in your case (given your environment), I think Pandora’s Box is best left shut. Count yourself lucky that such a passing and only mildly interesting high has never tickled your brain the right way, and stop your experiments.
Actually attempts to fix it work fine, and the Nordics prove that they are genuinely better places to live economically speaking.

Capitalism is in fact a violently anti-freedom system, so much so that it will violently attack you to deprive you of food and shelter (shoplifting law, trespass law) if you don't obtain credits by obeying a boss.

Most people aren't consumed by envy of others, they simply want fairness. Whereas you seem consumed by the need to apologize for and pander to the interests of rich people.
Just here to point out that a misdemeanor can carry a 12 month prison sentence in CA. And before someone replies that you're unlikely to serve time for a misdemeanor, that's because our prisons are already too full - a situation that wouldn't be changed by making more crimes into felonies.
I like the idea of Gemini, thanks.

In my opinion it has many shortcomings compared to "Web 1.1"
China to Build More Bio Labs Amidst Question over Wuhan Lab Role in Covid Origin
I've used a small block cipher like Skip32 or Speck to obfuscate database sequences, either on INSERT or as part of the encoding scheme.

This works well against the German Tank Problem when there's no oracle allowing an attacker to guess lots of IDs quickly (such as when there are reasonable rate limits). It does not provide enough entropy when such an oracle exists (especially an offline one).

For something like a password reset token, it still needs to be paired with suitably random bytes.
They are expensive for rational reasons. What is irrational is thinking that an expensive bike makes you fast. My old self on a $11k bike has no chance of keeping up with my current self on a low-cost bike. If I were to occasionally race (too dangerous), an expensive bike wouldn't compensate for my lack of tactics and strategy.
Ahh I based this off the 2019 deployment of the Ford Carrier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_Strike_Group_12#2019_d...

It's possible that this was an atypical deployment.
> wouldn't murdering 50 people to make a sufficient point

This has been tried. Many, many times. With decidedly mixed results. Convince me you'll do better.
Octane, ProRender, and soon I believe Redshift on macOS use the Metal API for GPU based ray tracing. They are generally faster than CPU based ray tracing (well maybe not ProRender, it’s basically abandoned by Maxxon in favor of Redshift). So while the M1 GPU and most AMD GPUs supported by macOS don’t have hardware specific for accelerating ray tracing, they can still be used to accelerate it over using the CPU.

Edit: The article does compare the ray tracing capabilities of the M1 GPU to a RTX 2070. The RTX 2070 obviously crushes it, as the author points out the obviously unfair comparison. The RTX card uses way more power, is much largerx and has hardware acceleration for ray tracing.

I am interested in seeing if Apple adds hardware acceleration for RT to future chips (or if they will support external AMD GPUs).
Fun fact, the Three Gorges Dam generates about 112 TWh per year of electricity, which is almost exactly the power consumption of Bitcoin.