skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's incorrect. Essentialism is more like the claim that there is a territory in the first place.
If the world suddenly turns into a Mad Max movie set, your debtors will still hunt you down. Don't just assume your debt will magically disappear.
MVT – forensic tool to look for infections on smartphones
I suppose enforcability? It's easier to tell when someone has created a completing application vs whether they were purposely doing bad work (or are just incompetent)
I think this is wrong, because it can happen that Aunt May believes "Spider-Man fights crime" (she's read lots of newspaper articles saying so) without there being any specific entity that she believes to be Spider-Man.

That is, these two things are different: EXISTS(X): BELIEVES(AUNT-MAY, FIGHTS-CRIME(X)) AND BELIEVES(AUNT-MAY, NAME-OF(X, "SPIDER-MAN")) and BELIEVES(AUNT-MAY, EXISTS(X): FIGHTS-CRIME(X) AND NAME-OF(X, "SPIDER-MAN")), and the second seems to me like a better translation of "Aunt May believes that Spider-Man fights crime", at least for some of the states of affairs you might summarize with that sentence.
I looked into this because I was intrigued, turns out convicted felons in the good ol' United States are not allowed to purchase/wear/own body armor [1] (barring explicit exceptions).

I wonder what the rationale behind this federal law is. Does wearing/purchasing armor indicate that you, convicted felon, are simply up to no good once again? Is it one of those "you don't need ~~privacy~~ armor if you don't have anything to hide" things?

[1] https://www.shotstop.net/resources-1/2020/9/8/is-it-legal-to...
the future is clear, setting off nukes in space is a way to disable unprotected , unhardened satellites.

there's two approaches,
harden the hardware itself,
or create a magnetic bubble around your sattelite using ionized gas and a magnetic field that is inflated by the gas to ensure no ions get to your equipment.

still, the radiation itself can do great damage, so it's important to have both.

radiation is often described vaguely, but it is a combination of high energy ions , high energy neutral particles, and pure energy electromagnetic waves.

the pure energy ONLY is experienced directly from the blast , so DiSTANCE is key, but ionized particles will be concentrated by rings of earths magnetic bubble ( van allen belts and other belts) ----and get re-exposed to this ionized high energy particle stream repeatedly over time. this includes free electrons, which can have extraodinary speed, such that they basically pass through any shielding you may be using to protect your sattelite.

ultimately, a complimentary approach is to build fault tolerant systems where the chips can take some damage and keep on operating without meaningful impairment.

fault tolerant sensors are another story.
the human brain is robust and plastic and can re-program its hardware to accommodate sensor impairment at a young age. but even at an old age in many cases.
that is a neat trick.
Outside of work provided computers, I've not been a Mac user for many years, but the M1 Macbook Air brought me back and it's been great. It's basically the laptop I've been waiting years for, silent with no moving parts and very little in the way of compromises(I don't personally have any need for super long running CPU intensive tasks). It's weird to see it compile code or encode video without fans ramping up, and even if does start to throttle toward the end of the longer tasks, it still beats my fairly recent i7 work MacBook Pro and my Ryzen 7 4700U Windows laptop most of the time.
I've been on a ThinkPad X1 Extreme for almost 2 years (gen 2 with the i9) and never had any noise or throttling issues. I sit next to my partner (also a dev) and their i9 macbook pro regularly spins up then throttles the cpu a ton. We've seen it regularly throttle down by 70-82% (measured with pmset -g thermlog)

Just saying, I definitely get the feeling Apple values form over function. His biggest issues happen when he's using Docker (the annoying Docker for Desktop version) but I also use Docker all day and dont have any issues...
Because there are sociopolitical actors who can extract direct benefit from OTHER people believing misinformation to their detriment. You are omitting this motivation, and it's a significant factor, worth spending money and energy on if your motivation is to harm a population that you see as your enemy.

This assumes a global marketplace of information propagation. That's the new factor here: the actual motivation isn't all that new.
Likely you are reading it correctly. What you gain in possible availability (because now you have more nodes, which give some redundancy with regards to node failure) you have to pay the work necessary for constantly running the consistency protocol from your performance budget.

How much you have to sacrifice, and how linear the scaling is, of course are important quality metrics of distributed systems. In multi-writer optimistic-locking sync-at-commit systems (eg Galera) in case of no conflict, it's possible to have the multi-node throughput exceed the throughput of the single-node version.
AI will impact productivity but not replace humans. We have the needs and wants, AI lends our goals, it has none of its own. We'll expand our desires to match the increased abilities and remain as busy as always. We can't even begin to imagine the future applications, and that's where most of the work will be.

The ability to train huge models does not belong to a single entity and many of these models get shared with everyone. So you can right now type "import transformers" and have thousands of trained models at your fingertips. All these toys are ours (thanks to important work done for free by some of us) we just need imagination to use them.
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Cool tool!

Panda SQL is great for doing SQL on pandas dataframes.
https://pypi.org/project/pandasql/
Stallman[1] and others[2] have talked about this 15+ years ago.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html

[2] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Makes me want to replace my i7 MBP sooner than I was planning!
Yes but a legacy app with no need for kubernetes scale gains huge benefits from docker. When you have to compile your libs from source because they are so old no packages exist anymore, then docker greatly aids both development and deployment.
Well, this is fun.

Got the letter that ATT is shutting down their 3G network and that my phone will need to be upgraded and they will send a free replacement that will automatically be activated in 30 days if I don't activate it myself (thus rendering my current phone unusable on the cellular network).

My current phone is compatible with the ATT LTE network and I don't want whatever crappy free phone they send. So I called, waited over 20 minutes on hold, and right as I'm verifying the account information to the representative the call ends and they don't call me back.
Curious that there are two replies here calling it a three ring binder explicitly, while if I think about it I have only seen them with two or four rings.

According to the wiki article: "A few years later three-ring binders became the standard in the United States"
A more accurate title would be "save money by picking cheap hobbies".

I can vouch for this. I picked up hobbies like sketching, bird warching, gardening, cooking, programming and cycling that remained very cheap. Getting better at them does not require spending more.

Other hobbies, on the other hand, seem to accept as much money as I can funnel into them: motorcycling and camping are two big ones for me. There's always a piece of gear you want to upgrade. On the other hand they're cheaper than flying and sleeping in hotels.

Combined, these hobbies make it possible to have a lot of fun with very little money. This means I can work less and free up more time for those hobbies.
Probably a good place for reposting this: https://publicseminar.org/essays/why-we-should-outlaw-oppres...
"Users who are opted-in to tracking are subsidising those who aren't"

Which gives them leverage. If they were better organized, they could make demands based on that leverage.
See, some people think our current culture/civilization/capitalism will not survive climate change, but clearly there is no wasteland too blasted and dangerous for it to eventually become a money-making tourist attraction. Our culture will live on in its perversity. I fully expect people to be huffing recreational Covid in 30 years’ time.
> I find the idea of Zuckerberg as an arbiter of morality both absurd and dystopian

This is a very common characterization that I find frustratingly absurd. Zuckeberg is not "an arbiter of morality" in any respect, the contents of Facebook is a corporate business decision, not a reflection on morality.
On the server, we have firecracker and gvisor to provide and extra layer of defense by not allowing userspace to directly access the kernel.

Will that be the future on client devices as well given kernels are just too complex to secure perfectly?
Freezing the software is no assurance of security either. I'll take ongoing maintenance of the quality of sqlite every time personally.
You wouldn't be able to hear that when the fan on my MBP is blowing at its peak :-)
If Ivermectin is allowed as a treatment, then an existing option existed and the vaccines would not have been allowed under the FDA emergency authorization
Their vetting process probably goes like this:

Question: How would you solve the Trolley problem?

Answer: By using more trolleys.
You propose replacing public commons with something different, immediately showing you have gained no sense of what Metcalf's Law implies or what value social networks enable.

None of this sounds in any way realistic or like a viable replacement for what we are right now stuck with. Giving people broadcast, in public capabilities is different, it's easier. I wouldn't necessarily say it's better, but the ease & ambience of broadcast is a huge advantage, and leads to far more interesting mixing. Nothing you've proposed sounds in any way similar. Your words continue to amount to: withdraw from the public. I for one do not see that as a likely or desireable counter-conclusion for myself, for my friends and family, or for society.
> is not a claim of security.

It is a claim of relative security but it is a lie to say that Apple claimed their device is secure.

>The average reader would not interpret that statement as you did

I think most people can read the statement for what it is - a comparison to other devices on the market.
I've been feeling just the opposite - I've been using an IDE from the mid-2000s for a legacy project, and it's amazing how things have changed. The search function dings a bell if nothing is found, and it does it in real-time as you type... so it gets annoying really quick (no auto-complete, and not even ctrl-v to paste in to the search query)
Whataboutism.

Also, 1) you generally don't need end-to-end encryption with people you're afraid to share your phone number to, and 2) Signal is already working on usernames.
I wish there were a way for me to pay directly for original reporting like this without having to pay for editorials.
I expect many do. Recursive ones in particular, switch when things get relatively easy. For example glibc’s qsort switches to insertion sort for small sizes. https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=stdli...:

“Only quicksorts TOTAL_ELEMS / MAX_THRESH partitions, leaving insertion sort to order the MAX_THRESH items within each partition. This is a big win, since insertion sort is faster for small, mostly sorted array segments.”

The comment on the definition of MAX_THRESH is very funny/something worth crying about.

“This particular magic number was chosen to work best on a Sun 4/260.”

That was a 16.67MHz machine with 128 megabytes of RAM, tops. If that magic constant has been checked since 1990, maybe, it’s worth updating that comment.
A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet (2017)
You are exactly right. The natural language version is ambiguous. c.f.: "Aunt May believes that Santa Claus fights crime." Philosophers actually argue about things like this, not so much for Santa Claus fighting crime, but whether e.g. "Santa Claus has a beard" is true or false.
Having a white list of devices is pretty unusual in Europe, afaik.
I'm mostly buying games from GOG, not Steam. You can perfectly use Wine, Wine staging and Proton without Steam for them.
Here's a source from TC. TL;DR Non-targeted ads in channels, which are like RSS feeds or blogs, no ads anywhere else. Also considering "premium" animated stickers:

> The service, which topped 400 million active users in April this year, will introduce its own ad platform for public one-to-many channels — “one that is user-friendly, respects privacy and allows us to cover the costs of server and traffic,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.

> “If we monetize large public one-to-many channels via the Ad Platform, the owners of these channels will receive free traffic in proportion to their size,” he wrote. Another way Telegram could monetize its service is through premium stickers with “additional expressive features,” he wrote. “The artists who make stickers of this new type will also get a part of the profit. We want millions of Telegram-based creators and small businesses to thrive, enriching the experience of all our users.”
Thumbs up, I totally missed this. Didn’t encounter this approach in the suggestions either.

That’s actually one reason why I don’t think it’s current incarnation is a good fit for learning new apis, it’s been trained on a lot of code, not all of it good.

Seems like something a future version might be able to fix, perhaps by training a new layer using just demonstrably ‘good’ code?
I'm curious what you expected...all Tarkovski is like maximum artsy.
what's curious is how that nuclear explosion in space would have looked from the moon. and what effect it would have had on the moon.
the moon is a harsh mistress.
There’s a huge gap between ‘legal but morally unacceptable to some’ and ‘blatantly illegal’. Making an argument against the latter while ignoring that the discussion is largely about the former is the very definition of a straw man.
Do you have a source for that? Would love to understand this better.
No worries. I was pretty wordy the first time so it was good for me to summarise. :)
No, not all of them. Most people have the sense to never even take nude photos with a connected device.
Seems to be here: https://parl.ai/projects/blenderbot2/ (ParlAI quick start: https://www.parl.ai/docs/tutorial_quick.html)
> I don't like that you apparently can no longer boot into the setup tools and reset a Mac to factory new condition.

I recently did this on an M1 Mac mini (wiped boot drive + did a clean install of macOS via the internet), so unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean this is definitely possible.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201255
"major platforms’ amplification features have also caused or contributed to real damage in the world. At a societal level, they have spread misleading political material, to the detriment of democratic governance"

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/amplification-and-its-dis...
"In other posts he mentions the record breaking event would have taken place even without climate change, but that climate change contributed a few degrees to the peak temperatures."

The reason that we refer to this phenomenon as climate change now and not global warming is that average temperature doesn't accurately capture the ways that the climate will change as it warms. We will also experience more outlier events, more heat waves and bizarre cold snaps. This is an excellent example of the former; the shift of the Arctic air off of the polar regions south produces other anomalies. But the term "climate change" is intended to capture the increased frequencies of all these kinds of anomalous events, not just the steady increase in average temperature.
I actually think algorithms are more likely to promote things that either reinforce your existing beliefs or incite outrage.
Do you have a source? Would love to understand this better
Oh, yes. This has been an ongoing problem with "sleep mode", which users think means "off", but isn't really. Some Windows docs for hardware makers indicated that "sleep mode" should stop the fans, to maintain the illusion that the machine is "off". Some machines do that, and some stick to temperature-based fan control, so the fans continue to turn if the machine is warm. Some users then complain that sleep mode doesn't work because the fans are still turning.
Intersting article! I always like this kind of story though I'd never do it myself.
Your entire comment is an ad-hominem. And a nasty one at that. Frankly, it sounds like you're projecting all these negative things because you hate to see your assumptions challenged.
remember ping?

-a Audible. Include a bell (ASCII 0x07) character in the output
when any packet is received. This option is ignored if other
format options are present.
Your function does take implicit arguments. There's no way your Ruby function can return the current time ("now") without external dependencies that supply that time.

If you want to argue otherwise, you must provide this hypothetical implementation that complies with your specs. I'm telling you that your function effectively can't exist as you describe it. In order for your function to work it requires an implicit argument (the "world" if you want to be coarse, though in this case we know it's the time).

If you want to argue that

magical function is not magical function

that's fine, but also uninteresting. Magic is not bound by the constraints of the physical universe. We generally don't find arguing about leprechauns and unicorns for this reason (at least, not seriously).
You’re right that Uber and Lyft exist as solutions; I don’t accept cabs as an equally good solution since uber and Lyft’s user experience is way better.

Self driving takes Uber drivers out as the middle man and allows prices to go to 1/5th the current cost; so that is an even better solution, which IMO is a real difference from
Current Uber and Lyft.

Yeah, I don’t believe Tesla’s doing self-driving the right way, but I still think the industry itself has a worthy goal.
That’s not the reason why you don’t share your Internet connection, that’s the reason why you keep logs.
The Long Twentieth Century
I don't think all the evidence points to the brother in law.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v74v34/saudi-arabia-hacked-j...
A 0.0001% chance that a Facebook product has backdoors to spy on people? I see that you have a real hatred of Telegram but come on, this is such a biased take. You are willing to protect a closed-source app from Facebook just because you hate the alternative so much. You are not helping anyone with this.
My understanding was that Apple's marketing created the initial deviation from the original meaning which led to the current one, but yes seeing what other people are commenting now it's not that simple and I was wrong on my assumption
"Often at the root of these is a profit motive."

Big Tech is DOA if the web is not open for commercial use, i.e., advertising. But the web is definitely not DOA if all advertising ceased. Look at the enormous growth of the internet, the vast number of users with internet subscriptions today, billions of them using the network on a daily basis for a variety of non-commerial uses, hundreds of millions uploading content for others to consume. (Big Tech middlemen pervert this recreational usage for their own commercial uses.)

The internet was not created for the purposes of advertising. (There was none in the beginning.) That is only one use. Look what happens when we allow ads without any rules. Yikes.

Even if advertising were regulated, the web could still be used for commerce, e.g., processing commercial transactions.
Indeeed. Last time I looked these chips were $1300 each in quantities of 1000. Too expensive for even a luxury car.

I think the answer here is an internal USB modem or something. Easy to upgrade. Just up to the car manufacturer to commit to writing new drivers. (I assume that they don't want to do this, so are probably happy when technology changes out from under them. Everyone has to buy a new car!)
Netflix is in London too and expanding

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-07/netflix-t...
Yes, that makes perfect sense.

With ANSI/OEM encoding you will have problems eventually.

Also thanks for the link, some good tips in there too.
Also old programs had to hyoeroptimize because it either is that or it's too slow.

Today the speed of the computer makes it incredibly forgiving.
what's classified is the fact that tanks will all be totally obsolete , a relic of the past, in 30-40 years. starting with anti-tank drones NOW. and they are super secret classified now.

you build a 200 pound steroid like quadcopter capable of autonomously being deployed out of c130. they have anti-tank stinger missiles on them, 2 per drone.
It also prevents those machines from magically "appearing" in a new mining op.
You asked a question. I answered the question. The answer was neither a lie nor in error.

If you want to remark that the answer was disingeuous without acknowleding the same about your own, then you are in no position to be talking about jackasses and growing up.
People are turned off by appeals to authority logical fallacies.

Trying to make them the only acceptable source of information is never going to sell.
> Better ideas, better models of truth and reality don't win out. People have not shown themselves interested in intellectual debate or argument.

This is plausible, so people believe it. Fortunately, it is false. Compare the state of the world regarding germ theory, human rights, smoking, racism, education, the belief in violence to solve problems, or the delusion that is theism to the world 100 years ago.

It used to be way, way worse. The better ideas are winning.

Things are improving tremendously. It just takes time.
I'm also trying to figure out a solution for remote access/file sync. I've been using resilio sync to sync my files between my laptop and desktop. It works great, but it destroys battery life on my laptop, so I've been looking for solutions.

Syncthing is next on my to try list, but its very similar to resilio sync so I don't have high hopes. iCloud drive/dropbox/etc have issues with syncing git repos, so not sure about that either.
> The police department does, so they should be liable for those decisions.

Does it? Perhaps if they are using a bespoke solution, but they could just as easily be using a standard system procured at the county or state level.

> the entire department should have been informed to not trust the results until the underlying issue was found and fixed.

This doesn’t seem like a real world solution. Without knowing the frequency and nature of the problem this could be a massive overreaction.
I’ll wait for the Pro… But honestly - the last Airs and Pros are a joke especially while using a second Monitor. The Pro has a known bug and can get pretty slow. The Air - unresponsive as hell if a second monitor is used and u are in a virtual conference with screencast and cam on. We must always look at the price value tag and at that point Apple really disappointed recently. Don’t get me wrong… I am a Dev and i appreciate the same things as you do. But I am not hyped by the M1… I just think at that price point apple should get things sorted out finally and if the M1 works out… Well, than thanks Apple and thanks for let me buying all this expensive crap upfront ;)
User redis_mlc has been shadowbanned for eight months which is an abhorrent practice. He is a prolific contributor, but most readers will never see his comments. Occasionally, a reader with showdead:yes in the options and sufficient karma will "vouch" a post back into general visibility.

Note that the verdict by HN moderator dang talks of a regular ban: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25011268
Nice idea. You can also have a CPU usage monitor in your app bar.