skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cellphone hacking companies, like these in Israel are immoral, separate from them apparently being legal there.
Single-issue voting has been effective for gun rights activists. But the problem is that while there is a lot of concentrated commitment among firearm owners to resisting gun laws, fewer people are as motivated on the front of surveillance; if you ask people, they might say they're against it, but it's not a priority issue. Whereas for firearms, a majority of Americans actually are in favour of more restrictions, but for those who are against them, it's a much higher priority for them. It's a classic example of the behaviour of collective action in public choice theory.
Where I grew up, there were two-ring binders, three-ring binders, and four-ring binders.

Two-ring binders clamped at the top of the sheet.

Three-ring binders clamped at the left side of the sheet.

Four-ring binders were plastic instead of metal, and were a geared mechanical slider. One brand was the Trapper Keeper. ("Trappers" being the folders that matched them.)

At some point, the plastic four-ring binders switched to three rings to match the holes pre-punched in the loose leaf paper. But you could still get paper with 2+4 and 3+4 holes pre-punched in the left side that would fit multiple binder configurations.
> The police just need to be held accountable for their actions. Right now, that seems to be the biggest weakness in the system.

I worry that the lack of accountability might be fundamental to the current system, and the "just" in "just need to be held accountable" is not even remotely as trivial as it sounds.
> Is this grounded in a peer reviewed paper?

1) No, it's satire, as the author says it's a "flip-the-script" type piece.

2) But peer-reviewed papers in the subjective "humanities" don't prove anything, peer-reviewed or not.

I'm from the Detroit area, where the city council and mayors have been black for decades, so I'll refer to that experience.

This kind of satire and relativism doesn't help black children in failing schools, caused by black civic leadership and parental failure.

You can listen to interviews with Dr. Thomas Sowell, Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman about the importance of the nuclear family and education to black children. They talk about racism discussions today as a distraction from the above, and are quick to correct interviewers who bring that up as a cause in 2021.

Since almost 80% of black families don't have an adult male around, I'm not sure how the family structure can be fixed at this point.

Black leaders are warning whites that they are on the same path to family destruction as shown in statistics with single-parent households, and it's advice that should be listened to.

(Dr. Thomas Sowell's argument is that blacks had higher marriage rates than whites in the 1950s, and government involvement changed the incentives (welfare, SNAP, etc.) so that most black households are headed by single woman parents now.

Also, to directly address the "flip-the-script" narrative, Dr. Sowell is not a fan of ebonics, so the entire premise of the satire is simply nonsense. The author was flexing his cleverness, not contributing a solution to a serious problem.

Government interference via the family courts are doing the same thing to white families today, with 70+% of divorces initiated by women because of favorable alimony, child support and welfare available.)

If you've heard of any prescriptions for improving the outcomes for black children in situations like Detroit, I'd appreciate if you can provide any links. I haven't seen any yet, and I've had my eyes open for decades.

(Note that Detroit civic boosters face the problem that when they do lure outside companies into Detroit, the poor results of the education system don't get locals hired.)
> removing liability for speech entirely off of the proprietors

This is already the case. Operators of interactive computer services are not liable for user-generated content.
They also use Enet[1]. The fact that you didn't even know that before you went off on a rant about your engine being superior makes me think you are just mad that their engine is much more popular than yours.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/networking/...
Damn. That is pretty close isn't it!

I'd like it without a Corporation-In-The-Middle between me and the recipients but I will have to check this out.

Thanks!
I'm glad you posted and took the the time to check it, because intuitively I would agree with the headline, less money = more stress = less talking (probably not for everybody, but most people will talk less when under stress, especially over time).

At the limit, this is "my parents couldn't afford proper care for a debilitating diesease" vs they could. There is one group there that would talk more.

if you're poor, broke, alcholic, meth head, on heroin, you're probably not gonna be talking to your kids as much as someone who is not.

To see that idea with a self survey is kinda hilarious. kutgw to get this stuff right.
You can just use a handwritten parser in any memory-safe language.

However, I suspect parsers for big objects like images tend to have more vulnerabilities because developers try to avoid copying data, for performance reasons. Many memory-safe languages have their own performance issues, or make it hard to avoid copying bulk data, so those languages aren't a great fit.

This makes Rust a particularly good choice for writing parsers: Rust is pretty strong at supporting complex data sharing patterns while remaining memory-safe.
"Our analysis of 1.8m reviews suggests that writer’s block does afflict follow-up books"

More likely it's regression toward the mean[1]. The quality of a novel is partially based on random chance. Any selection of authors you make will be biased towards those who were initially lucky enough to get noticed by the study, and can be expected to have average luck for their subsequent works.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
Odd that DuckDB didn't work for you on Windows! I only use it on Windows and love it!
Welp. Add Texas to the list of US states I no longer give AF about.
Since neural networks are universal function approximators, they can learn any protocol.
Just to be clear for @bitwize, nil is an object like everything else in smalltalk. It's an instance of UndefinedObject. It isn't special in any way and executes any method it understands just like all other objects.

Object>>isNil
^false

UndefinedObject>>isNil
^true

It drops into the debugger if you pass it a message it doesn't understand.
There is, but that's not what I'm talking about. Regardless of how well researched and accurate their stories are, if they ignore half of the lies out there, they are carrying implicit strong opinion, and doing everyone a great disservice. The site rightly goes after people like Tim Pool and Andy Ngo, but I guarantee this site won't say a single word about the constant lies and misogyny of people like Cenk Uygur, because they are more interested in pushing an agenda rather than righting wrongs.
Came here just to recommend DuckDB! :-) Huge fan. It's unreasonably fast for how easy it is to use.
You seem to be missing a key point, people don't eat meat because they don't have vegetables. They eat it because they want to.

The same reason people drink soda or tea, when there is water available.

There is a market for a product, and people will pay for it.
>identified the individual as Ousmane Bah based on the examination of the temporary learner's permit he is said to have had on him

So essentially a kid stole another kids ID. Because the (thieving) kid had gotten in trouble with the same ID before it was also a match in the database.

It does seem like a true failure but the headline makes it sound like this was an AI falsely accusing someone based on pure randomness. Even without the tech, the police would have had the name of the wrongly accused person because the security guard only had the fake/wrong ID and the person's ability to match faces was not great.
But do you want Clippy in your brain?
I guess if you wanted the fastest creation you could make a custom backend format for sqlite and use that. Especially if query speed was not important.
They only mention the police in the article.

The words Court, Judge and Jury all appear zero times.
Why on earth are these studies even necessary? Pressure makes you talk less to people. Just putting two remotely related words together doesn't automatically make it insightful.
>only two screens

Honestly I feel like multi monitor setups are actually worse than single monitor. Having to bend your neck to use some of your windows left me with neck pain. Now I only use one large monitor and use the workspace switching shortcuts to move everything around so I only look forwards.

My productivity is identical and my neck feels better. I'd only say its worth it for when you really do need to see a huge amount at once like watching the feeds of 30 security cameras. Not for general work/programming.

Seems like multi monitor setups become more of a looks thing because they make people feel like they are sitting in the FBI command center rather than a generic office worker desk.
I agree. I often notice the strong correlation between a high level of writing skill and those who have considered a subject well and can express a point clearly, and the opposite, those who seem to have no idea what a comma or full stop is, or the difference between your and you're, and the way that - once I've finally unpacked what it is they're trying to convey - I find their reasoning is also of a comparable, very low quality.

I don't think that giving everyone the gift of good grammar would create a world of geniuses but it might do what every other useful tool in history has done, help "level up" those at the bottom to a better standard (of, in this case, reasoning) and free those at the upper levels to really create.
Give the user the driving wheel of the recommendation or open up the algorithms. It's not that complicated.
This could be an excellent tool for interrogation.
Zoom to Acquire Five9
> "We only support static builds, if you need shared -> fix it
yourself"

I think this is thecause and effect why below

> recently they removed builds support against Qt < 5.15.

Maintaining backward compatibility needs a lot of work, especially ".so dependency hell"
Not really. Many long-term / bigger projects have those. Maybe they're not common in your day to day environment?
Being "biologically immortal" basically means curing cancer.
Apologies if I mistyped this, Lua is not remotely a monstrosity. It's great! But I don't think it would be appropriate here, and I think more developers can grok JS in this day and age.
.. or the throughput of SQLite acting in pure fwrite(3) mode with a big buffer.
The Library of Congress already has it decided what they need to store, at a minimum... "The Library of Congress"
Brains are basically analog computers made of flesh
Yeah tesseract is more like the bit that would sit in the middle of an ocr solution than a complete solution. But it’s all we’ve got for free at the moment.

You pretty much need black text on white background at 300-600 dpi. (Not sure the exact size but I’ve had crappy scans do better by scaling the file.)

I’ve had reasonable success with photos of printed pages run through text cleaner.
Fantastic read. Thank you for sharing. At a consultancy with multiple products under ownership but no full-item ownership, we're often stuck only improving our psychological and communication processes. How this leads to the bottlenecks that keep many of our projects stuck in weekly-to-daily deployments is well explained in this book. Perhaps Sleuth can help. :)
Firefox Security and Privacy Newsletter 2021 Q1
Covid-19: “Freedom day” in UK could lead to big 3rd wave model predicts
I also failed at using this. I think it needs training data and the default set leaves a lot to be desired. There are also hundreds of options which makes it difficult to wrap your head around. I was reading from screenshots, black English text on white background with a TrueType font. Never worked.

I hacked something together with "Capture2Text". Basically taking the screenshot, saving to jpg, shelling to the exe and getting the text back. Works pretty good.
The specified work is the authoring of a program, how would you automate measuring that authorship?
which requires effort, and requires proximity to the store, requires time, etc.

Why can't I, as an owner, choose to unlock the mac myself without having an external authority to "let" me?
"Rewrite everything in rust" is not useful advice, and many of the decoders in ImageIO are open source libraries, that presumably have the same flaws (so you get "why isn't project X using rust" as well)
> But with any advances in technology in this domain we won't get closer to understanding the "logic between input and output"

We gain a pathway for investigation backwards. What neural substrate is active in generating the speech data? Work backwards from there.
NIL: "New Implementation of LISP"

http://www.ai.sri.com/~delacaze/alu-site/alu/table/Lisp-Hist...

>The Macsyma group at MIT began a project during the late 1970's called the New Implementation of Lisp (NIL) for the VAX, which was headed by White. One of the stated goals of the NIL project was to fix many of the historic, but annoying, problems with Lisp while retaining significant compatibility with MacLisp. At about the same time, a research group at Stanford University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory headed by Richard P. Gabriel began the design of a Lisp to run on the S-1 Mark IIA supercomputer. S-1 Lisp, never completely functional, was the test bed for adapting advanced compiler techniques to Lisp implementation. Eventually the S-1 and NIL groups collaborated. For further information about the NIL project, see ``NIL---A Perspective.''

http://www.ai.sri.com/~delacaze/alu-site/alu/table/older.htm...

>``NIL---A Perspective,'' JonL White, Macsyma User's Conference, 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIL_(programming_language)

>New Implementation of LISP (NIL) is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the 1970s, and intended to be the successor to the language Maclisp.[1] It is a 32-bit implementation,[2] and was in part a response to Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) VAX computer. The project was headed by Jon L White,[3] with a stated goal of maintaining compatibility with MacLisp while fixing many of its problems.
> Apple doesn't admit wrong doing.

On the business end, sure.

But https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222#:~:text=the%20previ...
Sure, it doesn't happen overnight. My point was to point out to parent that Apple is not explicitly trying to block other OS's from booting, and alternatives will become available as the systems mature.
Fair enough. A (probably weighted average) prior on his pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor puts the 5 year survival rate at 54% instead of 9%. [1] It appears there are more pancreatic NET cases in the least favorable, "distant" SEER classification.

Nevertheless, there can be more factors at play than distrust of the medical community. Some people may want to live out the rest of their lives free from the harsh side effects of chemotherapy, for example. I wouldn't use his cancer treatment decisions to argue that tech elites make bad choices in the face of information, to bring us back to the broader discussion.

[1] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/pancreatic-neuroendocrine-tumo...
Who is being murdered on a daily basis because of holocaust deniers?
editorialization of this question on HN is bugging me:

"If I solve integer factorization, will I get killed for breaking cryptography?" reads as "If I solve integer factorization and start actively breaking cryptography (snoop and steal), will I get killed?" - the answer is yes, most likely.

Where the original question in quora is completely different: "If I solve integer factorization, will I get killed because I would have broken cryptography?" - the answer is no (no with "but again, it depends").
It's theoretically possible to structure a debt offering where the investor is paid out over time by the donations of other future donors. This is morally suspect though: since a non-profit doesn't generate positive financial returns, they're really robbing themselves in exchange for larger impact now.

A better model might be the "for-profit charity" which seeks to generate a return but not an excessive one. This might attract investors who are seeking a reasonable (but smaller) market return along with social impact.
It cannot be understated how much damage this company done, not only to the quest for freedom for untold amounts of ordinary people but also to its own clients.
I tried it a couple of years ago on some Japanese receipts and it couldn't handle the mix of Japanese and English words/characters. Perhaps it was the way I set things up but the result was that of failure.
I think it's normal, having kids, work, life, aging, diet, sleep, etc, it all adds up. Just have to try harder not to get distracted, make everything you need to do a mission, at least that's how I deal with it.
Yep we share the same unpopular opinion. I really like the Touch Bar.
>but here we are in 2021 where people are saying 16gb max ram is good.

No amount of memory will be good. The problem is not memory but inefficient programming. Desktop apps consume as much memory as possible. The only way to have a good experience is to have more memory than the average user. But then the average user catches up and you need even more memory.

Right now I have ms teams running in the background purely to receive notifications and it is using over 1GB of memory and 8% of my cpu to show me a notification window when I get a message. MS teams on my 3gb ram iphone does exactly the same job and uses no memory and no power because it doesn't even have to run to show me notifications.

I have 32GB on my laptop and I am only just above the average now but in a few years electron will have ballooned so far that 64 is the new minimum. While my 3gb iphone and 8gb ipad feel more than enough.
This is absolutely incorrect, he had islet cell neuroendocrine cancer, which is a much less common form of pancreatic cancer. "Highly curable pancreatic cancer" is a totally ludicrous statement.

The prognosis of these type of tumor is highly variable and he lived a pretty long time with it regardless.

He did not 'disregard "the medical elite" and went on an all-fruit diet', he had the tumor removed[0] nearly 20 years ago, and only after years of the most advanced medical treatments in private did he finally die. Steve Jobs lived for seven years after the tumor was removed, meaning he exceeded the 5-year survival rate.

Sadly, if somebody had stage 4 pancreatic cancer in the year 2011, the only cure for the disorder that will follow their untimely passing would be to soberly arrange ones affairs and express their humanity to everyone they have ever cared about.

[0] - https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Apple-s-Jobs-has-cancero...
> The most abhorrent idea of all to me is that there are stupid, weak people that are worse than "us" that we need to shield from bad ideas because they are not smart enough (like we are) to handle them. Lots of support for this view in downstream comments (we're just intelligent apes etc).

What you just described is called a representative democracy and was essentially created because a direct democracy didn't work, for exactly those reasons you mention (many people can't actually think for themselves - at the political level).

> All this to say, we can be adults and let everyone get the same information and make their own choice

You're completely ignoring the crux here - it's about both access to information and algorithms that present signals vs noise. Pretending that my 95 year old grandma can reliably decide that a fox news segment isn't sensationalized drivel after being primed for 30+ years that its "news" and not entertainment, is just as silly as you thinking this whole suggestion is ridiculous.
I'm sure the affected people are glad to know other people won't have their secrets divulged.
It is the same as "how you ended up playing"

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/wind-up-or-end-up.14...
I hate it because it’s too easy to accidentally press a “key” and trigger some potentially large scale event.
So finally all browsers use ANGLE? I wonder is it good or bad.
I used Macbook Airs for 10 years. Had a week with a loaner machine which happened to be an MBP with TouchBar and I found it neat, and so ended up getting an M1 with TouchBar. I like it. I so rarely use the F keys that it's kind of nice to have sliders, emojis, mute button, et cetera up there. I almost certainly could live without it, but I used to hate on it and now at least opted for it.
As someone who ran miners like these, I'll just say that the PCI-E rails on these PSUs don't last - especially when they've been run in hot conditions that places like Malaysia are known for.
>One of the major changes in iOS 14 is the introduction of a new, tightly sandboxed “BlastDoor” service which is now responsible for almost all parsing of untrusted data in iMessages (for example, NSKeyedArchiver payloads). Furthermore, this service is written in Swift, a (mostly) memory safe language which makes it significantly harder to introduce classic memory corruption vulnerabilities into the code base.

...This blog post discussed three improvements in iOS 14 affecting iMessage security: the BlastDoor service, resliding of the shared cache, and exponential throttling. Overall, these changes are probably very close to the best that could’ve been done given the need for backwards compatibility, and they should have a significant impact on the security of iMessage and the platform as a whole.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-look-at-ime...
Too hot and plants can't properly regulate water loss, shrivel, and die. Too cold, even well above freezing, and they can have problems moving their liquids due to increased viscosity. In both extremes you can have temps too far from optimal that inhibit enzyme reactions, killing the plants.
And laptop heatsinks have less thermal mass
What is your definition of PC? There are about 20 definitions in regular usage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Jersey_City_shooting

Every day? No. But when it's 2021 and you gotta worry about getting gunned down for being a Jew?

Putin loves to use anti-Semitic rhetoric when convenient. Which is the big part of this...the stand pat and do nothing approach doesn't work when the resources of nation states can (logically) and have been behind harnessing disinformation.

The Jewish issue isn't the only issue, better examples might be the Christchurch shooting where the gunman was livestreaming on and because of 4chan.

If you get a chance check out HBO's doc about Jim Watkins and Q.
Democrats today are beating Jews in the street in New York. Democrats spent last year smashing up Jewish businesses.

I am a practicing Jew. I do not fear a few stupid, powerless neo-nazis.

I fear Democrats, who have all the power, that say things like “the Holocaust wasn’t a big deal compared to my experience as a black woman in America”.

That’s something that was actually said to me in San Francisco, so that I could better understand my “white privilege”
But those still might or might not be persistent. If you need to once again obtain physical access to use your exploit every time the user reboots, it isn't persistent even if the involved exploits are are unpatchable.
Well, a colleague of mine got a job offer from Google a few years ago. I was with them when they replied the recruitment email with literally nothing else than "no" :D
I think I might've described how Objective-C works. It's been a while since I worked in depth with Smalltalk.