skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Indian government over the last 7 years have steadily weaponized social media to dehumanize opponents and carve away rights from a very large section of the dissidents.

Would love to see examples. Really curious. Eager to learn.

> This call for war against misinformation that you point to seems to be always targeted towards the government's opposition most times

In general, the media is very friendly to the current opposition, the Congress party. The opposition has lots of connections in established media and some of them are akin to the Fox channels in the US.

Here also, I would love to see specific examples.
But it'd make a helluva lot more sense.

I tried to skim the article, I started to read comments, and it's only now that I've gotten to yours that I have the slightest idea of what this article is even about.

If it wouldn't get as much attention with that title, then perhaps it isn't appropriate for HN in the first place.
Vaping is a pretty effective way to stop smoking. I smoked for decades, after one week vaping I quit smoking.
I guess I don't have the background to see how useful this can be, but something tells me it can be very useful. Would you mind doing an ELI5?
Most laptops do. Most PC's don't. No idea how that plays out for PC's. Not sure why this is specific to laptops unless the goal is to treat them like cell phones.
Debugging in Clojure
Many companies do not want to take that risk and will ensure they comply by the license.

And anyway, what does it matter if someone steals your code? The point of the GPL is not to prevent people stealing your code but to hope that it at least provides some value to others through good faith forks respecting their freedoms.
Not quite the way I'm reading it. It's a variation on "if everyone wants to be a leader, who's going to follow" line. If the entire population wants to be doctors, we already know that's not going to work. And if everyone finds out they can't be a doctor after 10 years of medical school, where the amount of time and money spent has now created a sense of entitlement to the life of a doctor, the people are going to be pretty pissed off when you ask them to be fruit pickers or sanitation workers instead. Same goes for lawyers, engineers or any other profession that has a supply-demand imbalance.
Shipment tracking, Stocks delivery and settlement, the government official gazette. These are three I'm thinking of. Sure, you can do it with a centralized server, but a decentralized alternative can offer some kind of "Open World API".

Now for a true defi, you can't depend on the physical world (some authority out-there). Only cryptocurrencies are possible in this case, and maybe, if the blockchain becomes advanced enough: Dynamic value derivatives denominated in crypto.

It might sound as limited but money (and the transfer of it) is kinda a huge thing. Crypto's downside is volatility. Being able to hold crypto as crypto while preserving stability (or better: value) will be a game changer. It'll also mean KYC and regulation will be harder to implement.

KYC/regulation/blacklisting are huge tools for governments. Government can have control over centralized entities (ie: an exchange, a bank, etc...) but they can't control everyone's wallet. They might be able to mess with a couple guys or figure out if a certain gang used such and such, but it'll be impossible to track everyone transactions that are happening in the blockchain (worse, the "whole world" is out there). And even worse: Current events have showed that governments are way behind when it comes to blockchain technologies. Some governments are not even aware of its existence or meaning.

In my opinion, this is huge. Most societies/civilizations collapsed when they failed to collect taxes. Peasants (your lovely citizens) are unlikely to pay when given the opportunity. Less taxes means less control, it's a slippery slope. Bad news for many governments around the world.
I don't quite understand the "censorship" argument. Of course governments and public health officials are going to push the most effective tools we have to save as many lives as possible.

What is censorship in this case? Not spreading debunked or poorly-supported claims?

True censorship would've been something like keeping hush the rare blood-clotting incidents with J&J. But there are so many studies across so many countries that are freely available to read and be informed by.

Even the claims of twitter/other social media censoring don't hold water for me. Extraordinary claims should require extraordinary proof imo
If thread 2 copies done into a register before thread 1 executes, it may keep using that register for the entire loop, never noticing that thread 1 later modifies done.

Alternative solution: Forget all the "atomic" semantics and simply avoid "optimization" of global variables. Access to any global variable should always occur direct from memory. Sure, this will be less than optimal in some cases but such is the price of using globals. Their use should be discouraged anyway.

In other words, make "atomic" the sensible and logical default with globals. Assignment is an "atomic" operation, just don't circumvent it by using a local copy as an "optimization".
Kill the Standard Privacy Notice
A good example of why philosophers are utterly useless mental masturbators who spend all their time arguing about definitions of words. Here he takes something obviously stupid and wrong and says it in such a way that you can feel smart by regurgitating it. Computers don't exist in the world? What? It must be some problem with their Thetans. Er, sorry, I mean "qualia".
still does not resolve the conflict of interest.

the defendant lawyer hired a firm which found evidence the defendant is not guilty.

The pro bono part raises more suspicions. One of the accused activist died of old age in a top tier hospital, not exactly a poor client requiring pro bono work.
Google hacks our brains all the time with the youtube algorithm. Until Win10 you could say that Microsoft, like Apple now, makes its money directly on their products, but with Win10 and all the telemetry there, plus the fact that it is a free upgrade that is no longer the case.

Plenty of choices has been defended on behalf of Microsoft (frequently because people realize that they had to make those choices based on the absolute requirement of backwards compatibility), and plenty of people have defended Googles choices.

But the only company that you mentioned who do not hack our brains today is Apple.
I concur. Sorry to Bother You was a really good movie. It is often missed how good this movie actually is. I feel like there needs to be a louder conversation on how brilliant this movie is in so many ways.
Conjugate gradient descent with a multigrid preconditioner also works quite well in my experience, especially for larger systems.
Wow, that has got to sting for Google Cloud and Oracle.
> ...sell tickets as NFTs on the blockchain

You need to host an app or a website that facilitates that. Same for the Airbnb scenario. You'll quickly find that how that transaction works is a relatively small part of operating the platform. You need search, customer support, reviews, recommendations, marketing, analytics. Paying Visa and friends 3% to process payments isn't where your costs or complexity are.
My webcam has a hinged lens cap (yay) but no way to disable the mike (boo).

So I still unplug it when not in use.
Another way of wording this is there's plenty of sequels that play to the long tail of fans of the original who will see anything relating to it

The consumer is in charge of what movies they see. To suppose otherwise assigns people no agency: it's easy to do when it's others, but, it's not a valid way of analyzing it.

I see this as a slippery slope argument that supposes any people who choose to see movies are drowned out by zombies who see only what ads tell them to see and think they're happy, but they're actually not
I'm still unsure where exactly Microsoft documented the requirement for OEMs to add a front-facing camera from 2023. Did they publish a system requirements doc or something?

IMO the author overindexed on making vague allusions to telescreens ("1984-style future [...] laptops, desktop PCs, TVs") and criticising Microsoft for its "Productivity Score" (a different discussion entirely).
Andy Jassy is Amazon's new CEO. Read the first email he sent to staff
If the variable is widely implemented, then that provides the nice, single point of control that the users need.

In the FOSS world, we typically have distros between the applications and the users. If the applications honor the variable, then that's all the control that is required. A distro can implement an opt-in model by defining the variable with a value of 1 in the base system, so that it's present right from boot.
I've written critiques on the "why are people surprised?" fallacy multiple times, so this time I'll just summarize: Outrage != surprise.
I think this "Connect wallet" or "sign in with Ethereum" feature is a killer use case. It's a solution for SSO with public/private cryptography without giving your identity away to Facebook or Google or Paypal. I love it and can't wait for more websites to start using that as an identity/auth solution.
“The Wretched of the Earth”
It seems like you're of the mind that every new novel virus that enters the biosphere requires several months worth of randomized control trials to determine best paths forward.

The precautionary principle would tell us that it's best to ensure your immune system is as strong and healthy as it can possibly be, which requires going outside, getting fresh air and sunshine, visiting with family and friends, and getting fit.

The way your reply is phrased, it makes it seem like every time a new variant or whatever is announced, we should all default to locking down, staying inside, and slowly killing our immune systems.

That doesn't seem to make sense. We know what makes humans healthy, and we should be constantly reminding people to do the daily things to build their natural immunity, which is an amazing and effective defense against covid and myriad other ailments.

Imagine if we'd spent the past 1.5 years collectively working to lower the BMI of the USA and getting everyone a little more tanned. We'd be far better off along basically every metric and the pandemic would've been far less impactful.

That our Public Health Professionals know all these things work and never ever talk about them and instead seem to always recommend staying inside and spiking cortisol levels, we shouldn't really pay them any mind whatsoever.
Those protections are done up-stream at the MTA level and completely passive for the end user.

The "security best practices" are a cargo cult exercise that just lulls organizations into believing they're protected against motivated actors, when instead they're just enforcing a group policy on a good day.
> maoists are bunch of thugs living in forests doing contract killings in their free time. They claim to fight for poor, but they oppose anything that bring out poor tribal people out of their poverty.

This is a familiar dynamic, seen also with the Shining Path violence in Peru. A very well-regarded book, "The Other Path" was written by a Peruvian economist to refute the common radical narratives and lay down a pathway for development that actually provides wider benefits for the population.
This is a very frustrating article because, and I'm making assumptions here, it seems like the author hasn't tried that much to go beyond canonical american cinema. If I'm wrong, then my mistake, but the only films mentioned here are hollywood productions and it seems like the movies they're dissapointed by browsing Amazon Prime are the latest big-budget Hollywood production that doesn't have much special going on

Also, the #5 footnote says a lot. I'm a huge David Lynch fan, so understand I'm speaking with bias here, but to fully dismiss movies that are loved by many as "objectively bad" speaks to a small imagination of what films can be. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean the director is "shooting from the hip and doesn't know anything"... and so what if Lynch is? He finds beauty in the subconscious and dreams and connects things together that don't have an immediately obvious connection. To dismiss Twin Peaks (something which is awe-inspiring in the way it displays the raw power of human imagination) as "a disaster" to me means that the author has not really pushed themselves to expand their horizons.

International cinema constantly amazes and inspires me. I've been logging 50+ movies a year for 7-8 years now and all the time am enjoying and finding more enrichment in it. That's not to say it's not valid for someone to not experience things the way I experience them, but this author speaks with an objectivity that really frustrates me.
It's not a matter of technical feasibility (i.e., you could do it, but is it the best. most stable way), it's what is the goal. All of those batteries require fossil fuels to be produced, as do the solar panels. Favoring the model where you have to produce more (meaning more fossil fuels) is the antithesis to the greater point.

The more efficient option—even if more expensive—should be preferred. You may end up getting similar results, but the overall impact of trying to make solar panels play catch-up is more destructive in the long run. And they don't even catch up. By your own math, even at 70% capacity a reactor is 3x as powerful.

And re: the water requirements, those would also be a factor in hydroelectric so it's a moot point (assuming you see hydroelectric as a supplemental form of power to solar).

I've yet to do research into inputs of manufacturing a plant vs solar/wind/etc. so can't give specifics but just in the abstract what you've described sounds more wasteful (and that's if it can be done—there is far less ambiguity with the nuclear option).
Samantha Bee is not a talking head being laundered by news outlets into something like reporting.

Who is pretending they can't tell the difference?
Not the original commenter, but it seems clear that they had symptoms of long covid for >1 year after first catching covid, and those symptoms stopped <9 weeks after getting the first dose of the vaccine.
My favorite story is the genetic evolution algorithm that was abusing analog noise on an FPGA to get the right answer with fewer gates than was theoretically possible.

The problem was discovered when they couldn’t get the same results on a different FPGA, or in the same one in different day (subtle variations of voltage from mains and the voltage regulators).

They had to redo the experiment using simulated FPGAs as a fitness filter.
TikTok parent ByteDance has begun selling the video app’s AI to other clients
>Ah, so it's really about making it harder for other players to improve their product?

No, it's about keeping those improvements open source.

>As for Audacity - the exact same thing would have happened with any other Open Source license; GPL doesn't make it any easier.

Yes, it does make it a lot easier since the Muse Group (assuming they don't own all copyright of Audacity, if they do the license doesn't indeed really matter) has to release all improvements as GPL and the fork can simply cherry-pick them. With a MIT/BSD style license they could just make it proprietary and then we would be stuck having to choose between an outdated Audacity and a non-free Audacity.
Let me narrow things up... Hollywood's global market is located in Red China. Tailoring for them is the reason why HW's products are so dull so they hardly can compete with high-class TV series.
Sure, those sort of procedural things will be sorted out.

Overall, I see GST as a good thing.

And, for many years, investors from other countries complained about complicated business environment in India and wanted to reduce red tape.

Amalgamating the myriad of tax setups across various states, into one uniform tax code, I consider, is a good thing.
Not surprised. Redoing this drops any ability to suspect Trump's tampering, and in the past three or four years, they likely have a wish list of adjustments anyways. Starting over allows them to address both.
opting out of checking for "updates" in homebrew would probably harm your homebrew use more than most users realize. You won't ever be getting new formulae etc.
The Linux developer pool will increase. C programmers are mostly old hands these days, and they're a dying breed. Rust opens the possibility of kernel development to younger or less experienced programmers, many of whom only have had experience with modern languages and frameworks.
Oooh, I'll have to try that. Thanks!
> Until they require face-ID.

That's the next logical step, for "security", of course.
Haha, I kind of had the opposite history (played Go first, got more into chess later and found it more interesting)

Still love the community and experience of both games though
It's tangential to not having the control over the built-in mic.
Yeah seriously. Try and find a Windows laptop with no front-facing camera nowadays; they don't exist. Maybe some OEM white-box bargain bin hardware. Even System76, the ultra-privacy respecting Linux laptop vendor, sells precisely zero laptops w/o front-facing cameras.

Even the argument for consistency is tenuous; its already consistent. Microsoft says that all laptops must have DDR memory, at least 4gb. Its the same thing; you don't need memory, technically, to run an OS. Its just better that its there, and operating systems can be more sophisticated knowing that you've got it.
Don't you just short-circuit as soon as any bit is different regardless of bit ordering?
I agree. India has a lot to improve on. It's far from perfect. And it's very hard. 1.4 billion people. 20+ languages. So many religions. So many castes. But it still continue to work. With its flaws. But it's one of the thing that I am the most happy about this country. That democracy is still alive. Some more alive in some states than the other. We have come a long way since the British Colonization and the times before that. I think the future would be more brighter for democracy than last 50 years.
We were a bunch of friends having a "web ring" (remember those?) and I did something similar using XHTML and xpath back in 2001. We stopped when RSS became commonplace in 2003and predicted a wonderful future. Almost 20 years later someone reinvented it, but having to rely om styling rather any semantic or clear structural indormation. It makes me a bit sad.

Not to piss on his/her parade, though: this is a great thing. I am going to tinker with it tonight.
Hmm.. No impact on the Microsoft stock price?
Being your own bank cuts out costly middle men. You can directly receive your salary from your employer rather than employer -> employer's bank -> your bank -> you, directly spend your money to a merchant instead of you -> your bank -> your credit card company -> their bank -> them, directly send to your landlord, etc etc. No banking layer is needed for any of the use cases you're talking about.
NMT is the analog 1G standard that's still in use in a few places like Siberia, where the ability to cover a lot of area with a few towers comes in handy.
How to use Ethnographic research in UX
Why sugar-coat it. This project has the same name as another fairly famous one. There's nothing positive in this comment either.
Raising the possibility of political timing constitutes conspiracy theory nonsense? That seems extreme given the long history of state-sponsored attacks.
We never had it. It was just not really useful to destroy someone else's toys.

The key to the current spree of ransomware is the massively improved ability to monetize digital hostage-taking. I don't really understand how financial watchdogs have let this go through, but cryptos have become a massive loophole in kyc and anti-laundering regulations. Recent moves in that sector seem to hint that this party is about to end and, hopefully, will create enough friction to reduce ransomware activity.
Pentagon cancels $10B Jedi contract awarded to Microsoft
What Is AWS InfiniDash?
Telemetry data is valuable. Vendors will get less of it, and so there will be less value in being a vendor.

Not sure why this is not obvious?

> would that be a bad thing?

Not saying it would be.
You can do all sorts of C things in Rust, and they're merely not idiomatic.

For example your Rust function that always returns 42 should probably be:

const fn fortytwo() -> i32 {
42
}

But C programmers might try:

const fn fortytwo() -> i32 {
return 42;
}

And that works fine, the compiler sees that you wanted to return 42 here, and, although the value at the tail of the function is an empty tuple and thus incompatible with your function signature you never reach that tail, so no problem.
Hmm I think if a vehicle is moving even 5 mph it would be easily picked up by radar, and its only truly stationary things that are a radar "blind spot".

I suspect its a vision or fusion problem--as the article points out, the lighting wasn't great.

Why doesn't the car use ultrasound for AEB? Perhaps risk of false positives coupled with the fact that its range is so short it would only have time for limited braking anyway?
>HN is a highly concentrated community of future-focused computing experts.

Cryptocurrency is a perfect example of how computing experts can also have little to no understanding of finance and economics :). HN has been bearish on cryptocurrency for years, meanwhile the industry is continuously expanding into the territory of trillions of dollars.
Agreed 100%, perhaps the most impressive thing about the movie is how economical it is with storytelling and worldbuilding. Think about the fact that it is largely just fantastic action set pieces and incredible visuals. The consider how much you understand the world and characters within it. A lesser movie would have a 10-minute exposition dialog scene early on, telling you in excrutiating detail exactly what Immortan Joe is doing and why he is bad. Fury Road is the absolute pinnacle of "Show, don't tell" for me.
Q&A: Neuralink’s Quest to Beat the Speed of Type
This seems rather fishy to me. First of all, they're currently running at only 18MW, and that lake has about 4 billion gallons of water in it. That's not enough energy use to produce a noticeable change in that much water.

Second problem - there are literally no lake water temperatures in the article, either now or historical. The entire premise of the article seems to be that locals feel that it's warmer.

I personally think this kind of power use for bitcoin mining is wasteful and should be heavily taxed, but c'mon man - how about the reporter does a little bit of journalism?
Missed or possibly don’t care.

The technical details aren’t interesting, but I do think it’s interesting just how disjointed life is vs what was promised.

In the US, this was aptly named a rat-race; and the white collar Chinese with a market-based economy are suffering the same.

Our markets and nations promise some combination of wealth or retirement and enjoyment of life, but it’s an ever-moving goal just out of reach for anyone but the lucky few.
See also from Keenan Crane and company (discrete differential geometry):

http://ddg.cs.columbia.edu/SGP2014/LaplaceBeltrami.pdf

“The Swiss Army knife of geometric operators.”

I always thought that was cool since I usually think of diffusion in the context of fluid flow.
> every single country
Is it structured to list only seeking single or multiple co-founders?

I see a technical question ask. May it be worthwhile to also ask specifically if someone's UX/UI designer or other design experience?
I am. The terminal is one of the few places I am not being tracked. It’s also a portal into my most private data and activity, so if there’s one place I don’t want to be tracked, it’s here.

I do not long for a future where the terminal ecosystem resembles the state of the greater internet with regards to privacy and tracking. We’ve collectively watched it happen to almost every other segment of technology in the past 20-odd years, so it’s not far fetched to believe it could happen here as well.