skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can individually decide what is right. We can try to convince each other of our positions too, as individuals. The people who each put their name on the petition are trying to get the people in charge of the project at NASA to change their decision. No need to drag spectrums or politics into it.

I know I'm the one who put the Republican document into this conversation but it was just an example of how widespread it is. When it comes to legislation, it makes sense to me to use it for certain large-scale kinds of systematic discrimination. Since the US government passed laws against gay people having certain positions, it's probably good to legislate against discrimination for a while. If it were just a matter of individual people's opinions, it would be less widespread issue.
oops, good catch.
I'm freeing up my garage for a robot that knits me a new set of clothes every day.
As one counter example the Christchurch murderer posted a manifesto in advance of his attack then livestreamed it, including before the first murder.
Battery is a big part of mobile devices of all kind, but it's not “mostly battery” for most of those.

For instance, in a iPhone 11, the battery occupies less than half of the surface of the phone[1]. On a Macbook pro, it's about the same.[2]
[1] see this ifixit video if you want to see it by yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feyqwf3cYtw&t=161s

[2] https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/noPvQ2CLs1jptX2p.hug... You can see that the motherboard is much, much bigger than a smartphone.
The government buys a shitload of stuff and everything has to be sourced* and made in America*.

*There are exceptions, but they are rare.
The point is fast (and hence cheap) training to bring existing technology to smaller companies, not doing anything new and advanced.
Tech discussion begins at 14:00.

At 21:00 [0] Snowden calls for [developers to build] smartphone tools to let users take control of their devices (wouldn't be for the first time). While a no-root, user-space firewall can only do so much (Daniel Micay will attest to that [1] :), that's what we are building with RethinkDNS (https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app) for Android phones, picking up where WhisperSystems left off [2]. This other complementary Android app (doesn't require root, but does require "developer mode" turned on) I use, gives a lot more control over installed apps and its components (no so much over the device's network itself): https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager

While Google continues to make significant improvements [3], security-focused Android distributions like CalyxOS and Graphene remain the best avenues to tackle privacy concerns today, but most of the 2B+ Android users don't really want to root devices let alone flash ROMs. Most Chinese OEMs (Vivo, Oppo, OnePlus, Realme, Xiaomi) do bundle in (pretty decent though limited) firewalls but they do not let one visualize or block individual network requests.

It'd be quite sometime before the Android/Fuchsia-iOS duopoly is displaced from its perch, but technology-wise, my longer-term hopes are pinned on Linux-based phones (PINE64, Librem) for now.

Of course, laws and regulations upholding digital privacy are the real end-game, and it remains to be seen how much headway is made on that front in the coming decade.

[0] https://youtu.be/e9yK1QndJSM?t=1261

[1] https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/389

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20110506050715/http://www.whispe...

[3] https://security.googleblog.com/search/label/android
Recipe for french toast:
Step 1: Learn the history of France
Step 2: learn the history of toast
Step 3: heat bread, eggs, milk in a pan
yes. it is becoming terrible. everything might be an offense right now to SOMEONE...
when have we become such chickens?
Show HN: Shipped Brain – Showcase and distribute machine learning models easily
I've heard accounts from some Google devs that Windows machines became quite scarce once Bing was caught scraping Google search. Not totally sure if that was true or not.
That is quite a creative hypothesis to level at the author of this essay and the significant fraction of the world's population who agree with its sentiment.
> I'm one of those students who didn't have stellar high school grades, but I excelled in subject exams

I'm in the same boat. If it weren't for my SAT scores, most colleges wouldn't take me seriously.
Saving Nasa $2B. It's going to be harder for politicians to keep SLS alive moving forward if it's competing against falcon heavy, which is proven now. Too long to build, problems caused by solid boosters, way too expensive, probable delays.
It doesn't seem like Alphabet thinks that? Their ad copy explicitly compares "training times".
I guess everyone has a price.
Oh my, reading your comment I couldn’t stop myself from laughing. I too tried the old VR headsets, played doom on one and got a massive headache. I thought VR was bad and stupid after that. Then I tried the HTC Vive and holy molly I almost cried after trying it. Now I own an Oculus Quest II and… it is the future. I’m sorry but this is it.
How close are you to running programs that have exponential speedups with quantum computing? Wouldn't it be trivial to verify that the algorithm ran on real quantum hardware in that case?
"In terms of cash, it was not worth it, if we count costs (without time) + taxes, then the “earnings” from those $632 will be lower than 0. I had lost the cash, the first month is mostly the “best” month of sales, so my next month’s sales will be worse and worse, maybe a few % of my first month. Someone might be curious why I’m still keeping early access, working on the game, to be honest, I don’t believe in some magic “boom” and millions of players, I’m just fixing bugs, adding new things because… People have paid for the game :-} I could drop it because Yerba Mate Tycoon generated cash loss (working more on it, generate bigger losses). But people paid for it, it got some players, so I will work on it :-} I know that some developers drop in that situations game, it’s a logical step from a business side, but it’s against my work ethic. I never promised huge things, but I have to finish what I started."
Makes me think of that Black Mirror episode...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2290780
By functioning, I mean markets where the local property owners haven't colluded to restrict supply via bullshit environmental assays, zoning, etc. Or at least they haven't sufficiently colluded to the level of straight up preventing new housing from being built.
you really make life way too hard for yourself?
why the heck would u care if random stranger is offended over a simple joke regarding a programming language?
waste of energy man
IMO a solution the higher-education issue both in terms of cost & acceptance is to force any public or publicly funded school (i.e all of them just like Title IX did) to:

1. Offer all undergrad classes online, without capacity limits , and at a lower price. [1]
2. Degrees are awarded on some tiered scale (instead of the college's name?).
3. All student outcomes are published including % that get a job within 6 months & average starting salary.
4. Most classes can be passed/skipped via an exam of some sort.
5. All amenity/building costs are optional or part of the in-person price.

Certainly lots of students prefer or say they prefer small, physical classes but if the online cost is 1/10 of the physical price then you can prioritize which classes you prefer in person vs online.

The cost breakdown would be like this:

* ~$200 to take the class online or ~$2000 to take it in-person.
* ~$50 to just take the exam.

If you take 8/10 classes online and take 1/10 as an exam and 1/10 in-person; then you save ~82% ($3,650 vs $20,000). This puts the cost easily within a summer job.

The tiered scale would probably just be putting the GPA on the degree. (It will never happen but I think it would be good if the degree lacked the school's name and school's would not disclose if the student attend that specific school.)

This would be a drastic change but the current system is extremely biased to the kind of student/person that schools like for their 'culture'. We essentially have an Instagram version of education that's pay-to-play and pay-to-win.

The counter argument is always that college is about network effects that can only be accessed in person. I think this is absurd since a good portion of students don't have the luxury/desire to build those connections. In undergrad, I bet it's less than 5% that benefit (but those 5% benefit a lot). In any case, schools shouldn't be using admission requirements to boost their schools reputation. e.g taking Calc 1 at a Ivy school isn't very impressive besides the fact you are at an Ivy league school.

There are certainly a lot of other issues to resolve. Schools would hate it because they couldn't be prestigious simply because they are very selective and wouldn't be able to spread costs around between colleges/classes. Professors would hate it because they would have to have an online class (which they seem to hate). Etc.

[1] Obviously lab classes cannot be 100% online but in this the student should be mostly free to take the class at any physical school. A titration lab is still just a titration whether it is at MIT or the local community college. Even STEM programs are made up of mostly lecture classes. And obviously there is an upper limit per class/semester but it's probably like 10x the current class size.
Citation, please?

And how does this point (if true) factor into the broader discussion being made?
With regard to your friend's approach, that's how I became a competent swimmer. I took 4 weeks of lessons a few years back (I could swim, but I wanted to be better). Each week we focused on a part of the form for the freestyle stroke. By the end I was able to swim decent distances (about 1/2 mile, later a shoulder issue ended my swimming for fitness goals) without totally exhausting myself before the end because of bad form forcing extra work.
Tonara can do those things, but I'm not sure how customizable the UI is. I don't recall them having a white-label option.

Have you considered having something bespoke built instead?
It seems like the gloves are coming off lately with the Michael Flynn prosecution, Giuliani losing his license to practice, and so on.
Clearly an attempt to lure you in when you're hungry and searching for some common queries like history of famous places.
Absolutely not. Any attributes like race and gender should play no consideration in a fair admissions process. It should not even be public information.
I remember a story a few years ago about a boy in some remote area in Mongolia who could follow remote courses from MIT and improve his chances at getting a job.

I think that cheap computers and internet changed the game in education. I can learn to code in python anywhere. When I was studying, PC were few and you had to be at a university to have a reasonable chance to touch one. There was practically no internet.
> It struck me as typical socialist disdain for personal initiative/agency.

In my view, you have to be trying pretty hard to get this from the article. The second sentence is:

> Tesla, Inc. makes innovative and genuinely impressive electric vehicles that can hold their own against the fastest performance cars in the world.

More importantly, the article's aim is right up front, too:

> Now that the president of the United States is no longer a climate change denier, and there may be some kind of broad national effort to electrify American transit, Musk may take on an even more important role in shaping our national vision for transit, power, and the human future in space. It is therefore vitally important to see through the myths around him, to understand the bleakness of his vision for the future, and to present something better. [Emphasis added.]

If this is broad or fundamental disdain for personal initiative, well, you've lost me. It's more accurate to say that the author is wary of what hagiography, myth making, cults of personality, and denial can do to both person who's been given vast amounts of power (Musk) and the society that gave him that power (us). I see this is as not much more than a call to criticality, to skepticism, in a country that's done few other things more fluently or consistently than generate frauds, hucksters, and showmen. From Barnum to Madoff to Trump to Elizabeth Holmes, we're really good at it. Whether Musk turns out to be a volatile but misunderstood and fundamentally benevolent genius or a contemptible huckster (or maybe both) is maybe undecided, but the article is right in asking us to tread very carefully with men like him.

Rhetorically, this isn't much different than what the WSJ editorial page publishes about Democrats every week.
One of the most fascinating YouTube channels, Clickspring, builds one of these from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4tw_UzqZE
The SAT is the single biggest determiner of intelligence I've come across (at least from people taking the test 10-20 years ago). It's the only number I've come across that people commonly have, and is ballpark correct. Throwing it away is insanity.
Yeah, when I interned there my org used Thinkpad as the first-class laptop but still had an option for you to get a Mac. I also knew a couple people who just ran Arch, lol.

What we _had_ to use was Teams, though... better than Skype for Business, lol. But definitely not Slack.
El Salvador Bitcoin Law Has Citizens Protesting
Reference: Olympic Factsheets from the IOC and Other Reference Resources
Keep going. The ingredient list is on page 12.

One time I inadvertently hit print on a recipe like this and the print dialog estimated 45 pages.
I absolutly love the art direction, such a nice break from Corporate Memphis.
Why don't we address the incompetence and and misconduct rife in the judicial branch? That will cut down on the threats.

One major issue is that everything is considered so secret that you can't subpoena past complaints even if they contain exculpatory evidence. That's right, they will protect the image of the judiciary even if it means letting an innocent person be found guilty. They reason that secrecy is the best way to preserve public trust in the judicial system. As anyone knows, that's just BS - transparency, or at least allowing subpoenas, would be the best way to ensure the proper actions are being taken.

You can probably tell, but I've had some bad experiences with a magistrate and judge recently. Magistrates in my state aren't even required to be lawyers nor pass the bar...
Agree. when we hear about 'promoting opportunity' , what they mean is is we need more of groups X and Y and less Z. Motte and bailey at its finest.
Most recipe blogposts these days have jump to recipe.
I've been using it as long as I can remember.

I'm a -wall kinda guy.
Mining crypto: Suarez plugs ‘MiamiCoin’ to support city services
Majority of any browser users are not tech people so making these workaround easier would confuse those users as most of the plugins are not written with mobile aspects into consideration (Even their mobile API is not complete yet).
Technically you’re supposed to register as a foreign agent under FARA. This law has gotten a lot of ex trump guys in trouble, including just last week his inauguration committee chairman.

So as the laws currently stand you can work for a foreign government lobbying the US government, you just need to be transparent about what you’re doing.
That’s my worry as well, that they’re not capable of capturing the market due to being a software company. But… they have hired like crazy and at this point I’m assuming most people working there have no link whatsoever with fb, so if they own all the experts there’s a good chance they’ll capture the market. As long as they keep iterating they’ll be fine.
> What is driving him?

Megalomania. His 2017 "manifesto" made that rather clear to me. In it, he came off as trying to sound like the president of the world.

I think that was also the year he spent time traveling the US states "to meet real folk".
My high-school's college admissions advisors told us, in no uncertain terms, if you are non-white or mixed race, make sure you declare that because it will help your chances.
> There will be no liverwurst!!!

Poppycock. Next you'll be saying that pineapple doesn't belong on pizza…
As the body ages, time spent active trumps the volume of work on many levels. Chasing bigger volumes, bigger weights, more time under tension etc is a great way to stroke your ego, but also a great way to get an injury. Keeping yourself healthy and able to stay active will do you well, regardless of age. Props to you for finding this out the right way (that is, without getting an injury).
Probably faster and easier to get offspring who can do it for you.
I don't know what kind of cell phone you have, but it's not an usual one: here is a picture of an open modern thinkpad https://gearopen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/internals-15...
Incredible idea. Can it be applied to compute heavy visual applications too? Like playing a game at 4k at 120hz, what if the game would stop rendering and the display would turn off for 100ms every time you blink but the game would proceed as normal?
I’ve assumed it was to create a longer page which can hold more ads.
Middle class blacks and Latinos, as well as women.
Yes. Thank you. Totally got that wrong.
The Importance of Taking Breaks from Coding
Yes, but that makes Dropbox and 4DOS dissimilar to writing things yourself, not akin to it.
Not to mention that you could just rent an apartment in that area to get an address and drive your kid to school.
It honestly seems like nobody can tell bribery from the normal order of operations anymore
ctrl + ] sends an escape sequence. Remap caps-lock to ctrl and you never have to leave home row again!
To be fair many, many people can also get everything done on their phone too. An ipad gives more screen space and better multitasking. A 2-in-1 (like a Surface Pro) gives even better multitasking and file management. It's all up to what you need.
I'm skeptical of how egalitarian the top 6% (for UT Austin) policy actually is. All this does is guarantee you admission to the university, not a specific major. So, while you can gain admission easily to a liberal arts major, you aren't guaranteed admission to a STEM major and will still have to be a competitive applicant to gain admission into a STEM major.
Project management is probably harder, classic OS design was well understood by that time.
A typical rural school attracts students based on proximity---if you're living in that district, you go to that school, no matter how much your parents make or whether they're lawyers or a convenience store clerk. (Additionally, the residents of the area are typically less interested in education, rather than getting a job or playing sports.)

In an urban area, residential areas are typically segregated by wealth, and wealthier parents want their kids to go to good schools. Further, they are capable of moving within the area so that their children go to good schools. As a result, the competition among students for the top N% more fierce due to the pre-selection of students.
Libra became Diem*

Novi is the team at facebook that works on Diem and the novi wallet.
> Plus there's a panic button which puts you in a "personal safe zone", where you're in a bubble until Security gets there to rescue you from whomever is annoying you. While it's still running, Facebook doesn't mention Horizon any more.

> [2] https://youtu.be/Uf_9J_EdzZw

That video is kind of amazing. It's all people of color, until one white guy shows up and immediately gets blocked.

Also, all their safety team can do is make a recording and submit a report for further review? That seems stupid and pointless.
Inverted t missing
Libra and Portal are still things. Not sure I hard about the others.
"...but its also not unreasonable to interpret it that way."

In the absence of other evidence, I would say that it is unreasonable to interpret it as a threat. I mean, what's next, arresting people for murdering a video game character on the assumption they would do that in real life?
This seems like it would cause a lot of those "I just wish the damn machine did what I told it to: situations.
If you only hash/check the first N bytes of the video stream, the remainder of the video could be anything.
it doesn't, https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/racket/
according to arch its ~500MB. The installer is ~200 but unpacked is all the documentation and etc. The switch to Chez Scheme backend has upped the size because it no longer outputs bytecode but machinecode directly
People who died playing chess (2016)
If you can't program it by directly showing it what to do, throw it in the bin. They probably intend for it to be SaaS too, effectively having you pay a workers wage for a truly terrible worker. You're competing with general intelligence robots that cost $12 - $15/hr. That's 10 years of full time labor for $300,000. No shot.

This looks like something designed to attract ignorant investors/talent who think small time manufacturing looks like a Ford plant but with less robots and more humans. In reality it looks something closer to Grandma's kitchen on Thanksgiving. How are you gonna stick a robot in there and have Uncle Fred program it?

I can't see this as anything other than a flashy high school engineering project. Much wow! little application.

Source: Work in domestic manufacturing. <$50 million company. Mostly do government/military electronics building.
Well, I like Full Throttle better than he does, despite the demolition derby, but I completely agree with him on The Dig. I don't think you can chalk his attitude up solely to that handful of bad puzzles.

It seems to me like a lot of the people who liked it the best also had read the novelization, which makes sense -- my biggest problem with the game, and I think Jimmy's as well, is that the characters are mostly ciphers. I'm sure the supplementary material helped fill that in.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Will Rogers
If you ever find a case of a wealthy family moving to a rural area to improve their children's chances of getting into a state school, please let us know.
>Only idiots think they know more than experts do.

So when experts disagree with other experts, who is the idiot?
The Autodesk system ran on what, a pair of RS/6000? I got to chat with some of their guys showing that off at a trade show in off moments over a few days; they were great at running the demo but were umm... unenthused about the prospects of anyone keeping the system running for any time without high grade help.
Though I haven't been a customer of AT&T since the 1990s, I can see they run a large physical infrastructure operation that delivers communications services. I understand where their revenue comes from and what they mostly spend it on (ie I understand that as well as I do FB's business despite having no contact with AT&T).

Also, AT&T isn't constantly spamming me with disinformation and bad memes, nor do I have the impression that they're tracking my every move across the internet.

While knowing nothing about AT&T's CEO, I'm pretty sure that s/he doesn't sit atop a weird corporate governance structure where the CEO holds a majority of the voting shares and is thus a dictator-for-life.
With people come amazing opportunities to get things done. Yes, pollution comes along with the rise. But it is fascinating to me to think what could be done if we could find a way to live that didn't increase green house gasses etc.
Quite a coincidence... Robert Noyce invented the first monolithic integrated circuit chip at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1959.
Doesn’t have to be a billionaire, but we need somebody to take the lead on vehicle electrification.

Today big carmakers and governments are taking the lead but that wouldn’t have happened if Musk hadn’t forced the issue.