skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only VSCode had sane buffer control, and the idea of buffers.

I use VSCode with Emacs key bindings for certain development. The lack of uniformity inconveniences me a lot.

But indeed, VSCode is the closest thing to Emacs in its spirit.
I've been reassuring people for decades that computers are confusing, it's not just them. My go-to example is quite simple...

"You have two folders, with files in them, if you drag a file from one to the other, what will happen?
Depending on rules you can't be expected to remember, one of three things will happen. It might copy, move, or make a shortcut to the file.
If you right-click (the other mouse button) on a file, and drag it to the destination, you get to choose which thing you want done, every time."

This little instruction saves boatloads of time for Windows users. It's sad that there isn't a right button in the Apple world to help make things easier.
Dude, why are you eating Cheerios? I thought you were worried about Covid?
> Nick Calyx (worth a look his Wikipedia page)

For those struggling to do this: "Nicholas Merrill" is the name you'll need to look up on Wikipedia.
> it’s weird to me see a public park that’s meant to be used by everyone taken over

That's what a majority of urban poor in India live on - public/unclaimed land (i.e. informal housing). They're not counted as homeless as a result, unlike in LA.

That's how LA can appear to have a comparatively larger homeless population, even if it's a lot smaller in reality.

In India this type of housing is illegal and can be destroyed by the government, but that rarely happens because the situation can be leveraged for votes (there's a lot of poor people).

Yay democracy.
Likely. However, my question goes beyond whether torture is good or bad, but about whether people think some things should not be handled in a democratic, open way and should not be subject to serious oversight, and that it's ok to lie about them "for the greater good".

If I was a US citizen who agreed with the application of torture in some situations -- to be clear, I don't -- even I would be wary of the lying. Next time it will be applied to a policy I do not agree with, and I will be kept in the dark "for my own good".
Perhaps an overlooked aspect of Emacs that makes it so attractive is for those of us with some kind of RSI or other accessibility issue that makes customizability a must. I'll admit, I haven't used other editors all that much, but Emacs' keyboard-first approach makes it a much easier tool for me to use than other editors that require some kind of mouse interaction for certain aspects. I've been able to customize Emacs to have more ergonomic keybindings (e.g. I use evil-mode and evil-leader for a lot of common-use functions) and my RSI has never been better!

Granted, some of that RSI was due to how I had Emacs set up before. Not all of it, mind you, just some. I have repented of my non-ergonomic ways.
There is a tendency for humans to want to systematise everything. We organise our bookshelves, write precise cooking recipes, track exercise routines. It brings comfort in chaos because it feels like there’s a plan.

And the only thing less effective than an organisation with a plan is an organisation without a plan.

The problem with plans is when we become bound to them, following them slavishly, failing to review them and update them based on new knowledge.

That’s when tickets are awful. You’re doing a ticket because somebody you don’t know raised it for reasons you don’t know at some point in the past. Having “delivered” the ticket, you’ve no idea whether you’ve made any impact on anybody’s life, so everything feels like a waste of time.

When tickets are done well, they are related closely to the impact they’re supposed to deliver, and represent a conversation about everything we’ve learned about that expected impact.
That's part of your modelling. If you're interested in the neighborhood's income distribution, then use the neighborhood's data. If you're interested in the world's distribution, then use world data.

This depends on how you want to look at the issue, but it comes down to a number yes.
> Fortran has seen major changes over the 64 years it's been in use.

And yet most Fortran programmers reject/ignore those changes and stick to Fortran 77. When I was in academia, I couldn't find a single person writing Fortran code in anything newer than 77.
Covid Is over Biden States 350M Americans Have Been Vaccinated
What a fucking idiot. Must be as real as the 80M voters that voted him in.
Hugesnet has 3 Satellites not 30k like starlink has planned.
Of all FMV games, the only one that clicked for me was the Rebel Assault. Star Wars visuals were impressive, even if space combat was nowhere near as interesting as in Tie Fighter.
Yelp is filled with lefty losers.
Missed opportunity: Blackflix.
I am fairly ignorant if this space. Do any of the standard methods use multiple hash functions vs just one?
> Admittedly, I haven't tried modern distributions like spacemacs and DOOM Emacs, but it's a bit hard for me to imagine that you won't need to come face to face with "emacsism" at some time.

Speaking from the experience of someone who has repeatedly bounced off Emacs for going on two decades now, you absolutely will. :)

> When I want to sort a few lines in a region and immediately discover that I can just call "sort-lines", because of course I can, I know that I'm not going to bother waiting for some other editor to catch up in all those little things.

This sort of "little thing" is, perhaps ironically, why I keep going back to BBEdit, at least for my technical writing work: it has a whole lot of these little "multipurpose tool" commands for text manipulation -- and, because they're in old-school Mac menus, they're discoverable. Thinking about it, that's one of the main reasons I bounce off both Emacs and Vim: it's not that I can't figure out the basics or even the, er, intermediates; it's that so much of the advanced stuff is relatively opaque. I am sure that there is probably a command in both Emacs and Vim that equates to, for instance, "find all lines matching this regex that occur more than once in this document, delete them, and copy them to a new document" (a task which sounds like I am making it up, but I swear I have had to do on multiple occasions in my current role). But I am also sure that it is not as easy as selecting "Text > Process Duplicate Lines..." and checking "Delete duplicate lines", "Leaving one" and "Match using pattern".
Just curious, but how do you have so many friends in Hollywood? (Feel free to email me directly if wanted)
The NASA scientists went on and revolutionised the tech and manufacturing industry after the lunar landing. I'd hardly say this is a case of technological supremacy reverting, rather the opposite. The technical expertise developed thereof had massive benefit for US tech and industry sectors.

In terms of societal benefits, the lunar mission had an extremely high cost for little direct benefit. The moon landing was an effort in propaganda, and an effective at that, aimed to show the world that the US was not lagging behind the USSR in terms of technology. But it would have been foolish to go on and continue to spend such a massive amounts of money, and hogging the best scientists and engineers for decades more, with hardly benefits other than ideological ones.
Adversarial attacks is a super interesting field, but unfortunately I feel that a lot of papers are just incremental attack or defense improvements like a cat-and-mouse game. I originally did some research on 3D point cloud attacks, but later stopped because making super successful attacks (eg., attacks with higher success rates than all the previous techniques for some very specific task) don't really help us understand that much more about neural nets, its just optimizing a metric for publishing papers. This kind of research is quite common, even at top conferences.

Despite this, recently, we made a 1 minute explainer video introducing adversarial attacks on neural nets as a submission for the Veritasium contest: https://youtu.be/hNuhdf-fL_g Give it a watch!
The compatibility being important is something I was told and I live in Europe. The compatibility is talked about a lot on relationship forums too (for example on reddit) - including by Americans.

Literally only place where the importance of compatibility is considered odd is HN. Here, compatibility and matching is never mentioned in debated about relationships. Everywhere else, it is considered important.
The alternative could be vi/nvi.
Yeah we do use a print on demand service, and the main reason we use Shopify at all is because the printer (Printful) has a good Shopify app that handles all the product syncing and fulfillment automatically.
The French are busy erecting guillotines.

I suppose Macron really wants to die.
Why wouldn't the algo check that one image has a face while the other doesn't? That would remove this particular false positive, though I'm not sure what it might cause of new ones.
Come on, a law is not being enforced, therefore it is not possible to make a better law?

Legislation happens to be the simplest fix when government agencies are acting horribly wrong. We can do other things, too, but we should start with the tried and true.

The current laws happen to be really bad and are not stopping anyone. I think we can do better. Law doesn't have to be bad and ineffective.

Here's one example of something you can do with the law: declare the CIA dissolved, reallocate the budget.

Is that the best thing we could do? I genuinely can't say. But that would be a law that cannot be ignored.
That's my entire point. You need a (number, location) combo to many any reasonable deduction, not just a number.
I don’t want to be mean, but why would you entertain such a “deep belief” about a corporation? I’ve heard similar things from many Apple users. What leads people to have this kind of faith in particular corporations? It’s really alien to me.
I am not exactly buying the premise here, if you train a CNN on useful semantic categories then the representations they generate will be semantically meaningful (so the error shown in blog wouldn’t occur).

I dislike the general idea of iCloud having back doors but I don’t think the criticism in this blog is entirely valid.

Edit: it was pointed out apple doesn’t have semantically meaningful classifier so the blog post’s criticism is valid.
>if you want to really use it [org-mode] anywhere but inside emacs, good luck to you

I wonder if org could be ported to provide a language server via lsp, and in so doing become cross-platform?

Org really is a superior markup format.
Telling even the newer devices about your pubkey doesn't get the scare screen away. You see a Yellow Verified Boot warning meaning the OS is signed and verifies but with a custom set of keys.

When you lock the bootloader you block other keys, since fastboot is pretty much disabled when you do that, and the only way to install something would be via OTA updates which would have to be signed with your custom keys.

I guess maybe if you're able to get a root exploit and replace the boot image? Not exactly sure what would happen then, need to try.
> This is essential to science.

Okay, fine. Are you claiming that people who are calling to ban encryption are doing so on a scientific basis?

Come on, be serious here. People call to ban encryption because it scares them, not because they have a model of the world based on real data or real science that they're using to reinforce that belief.

If they did, we could argue with them. But we can't, because they don't.

> Can you find a place where this contradicts something I’ve said?

Yes, see below:

> such that when calls to weaken encryption or insert back doors are made as they always will be, we don’t have to

I'm open to some kind of clarification that makes this comment make sense. How are your "solutions" going to make people less afraid? On what basis are you going to argue with these people that your solution is better than banning encryption?

Pretend that I'm a concerned parent right now. I want to ban encryption. What can you tell me now to convince me that any other solution will be better?
Git lens
The corporation subsidizes the foundation, not the other way around. It's just a question of how much. Here's a toy example that illustrates Mozilla's situation. Let's say you have XYZ Corp and XYZ Foundation (501c3).

XYZ Corp revenue (search engine deal): $90

XYZ Foundation revenue (donations): $10

Total revenue: $100

XYZ Corp costs (browser dev): $50

XYZ Foundation costs (advocacy, etc): $50

Total costs: $100

You have to spend the 501c3 income on appropriate costs first, so the $10 from the foundation revenue gets put towards the foundation's advocacy costs. The remainder ($40) gets covered by revenue from the corporation.

Now let's say you cut $10 in advocacy costs from the foundation, realizing that it's more important to have a viable browser competitor to Chrome than sex doll privacy evaluations. Now the corporation reduces its transfer to $30, and has $10 left over to, say, avoid laying off devs when the search engine deal revenue drops. Fundamentally most of the money is fungible, and wasting money on unproductive initiatives takes money away from making Firefox a viable Chrome competitor.
Interesting setup.

Do you have any resources about how efficient TrackerControl is at preventing Google to collect data from the phone various system services?
very cool, I may just try that out for my website, thanks!
And if the effects of poor diet and exercise were contagious, maybe you'd have a point.
Diagnosing Earth: the science behind the IPCC’s upcoming climate report
I'm not sure what you mean? This is the entire and only topic that I have talked about, straight from your original comment:

> Before there was Climate Change, there was Global Warming.

> Why was there a name change, a rebranding if you will?

That quote contains factually incorrect information, as discussed above.
They work 24/7. 12 hour shifts "day" and "night" with 3 and 4 days off each other week. They also distribute the work properly in parallel and have the perfect visionary (Elon) and capable leadership / lead engineers, fixing on mistakes and iterating. Probably it's forbidden to work like that in a lot of other developed countries, which basically only allow for 8 hours of work Monday to Friday. And also lack the proper leadership.
>It's very convenient to have the light come on automatically in stairwells and lavatories.

Until you're drunk AF and trying to take a piss (or whatever it is you're doing) at 1am and then the "smart" light blinds you.

Here's my solution: https://www.ebay.com/itm/265164805260
I lived in downtown adjacent neighborhoods for years before moving downtown. This isn’t going to be my forever neighborhood but it’s really nice being able to walk to a _wide_ selection of restaurants nearby, be close to well-maintained parks and have multiple transit lines to take into work.
> an American making minimum wage can easily afford a mobile phone, particularly a cheap $25 phone

It's probably worth noting that "easily" probably doesn't belong in there for a lot of people.

This is a really good read, if you're interested
https://residentcontrarian.substack.com/p/on-the-experience-...
This assumes their goal is to get actual intel and not just politically actionable intel. Torture is a great way to make someone say whatever you want them to.
On CalyxOS you do get an option to disable microG when setting it up for the first time, see https://calyxos.org/features/microg/#1-microg-disabled

microG being disabled but present is still enough for some apps to work, which makes sense given that you can disable Google Play Services on the stock OS.
Probably easier to slip a "naughty" image that doesn't contain a minor into the image database. An image that resides in a target's iCloud storage. Or soon will.

Then it would take a super high level human reviewer to determine that original image, although sexual in nature, is not in fact illegal.

There are so many parties that can submit images to this database, it presumably wouldn't be too hard to subvert one of them with cash or laziness.
If it works for you, that's great. However, for me it's the analog of "I never configured my shell to have TAB autocompletion." in the old days. If you can live without it, great. But for many, turning it on makes it worth it.
There was a lot more grey area than you make it out to be. There were certainly plenty of kings/czars/emirs/sultans/khagans/emperors etc that ruled exclusively from the comforts of their estates.
He's talking about the motion detector things that are a drop in replacement for switches. You see them often in rooms in commercial buildings.

Something like this https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/nvAAAOSwEK5fmkrH/s-l1600.jpg
My experience with that convinced me that many academic Fortran users are cargo cult programmers to the extreme. They're "taught" by examining the code written by their advisor's advisor's advisor who may have properly learned F77 back in 1980, but no one else did.

Even then, FORTRAN 77 is a major change over FORTRAN (1957 and even the later FORTRAN 66). Specifically, that's the version that got structured programming elements added to the language. Having once inherited some pre-F77 code (well, it was F77 by the time I got it, but was started before then and that was obvious by its almost complete lack of structured programming), I can say that F77 is a substantially improved language over the prior versions.
Agreed. When looking at complex code, it can be helpful to expand the functions inline to be able to view all of it in a single screen flow. Switching between too many files and functions sometimes creates friction, making it more difficult.

However, when writing the code if a section of code is repeated more than 2 times, it should be considered to break it out into a separate function with a useful name.
You're taking about destabilising a global-spanning system with tremendous energies. No, there's no "change for the better"

I mean, the cold y'all had this winter was possibly climate change, so you have that to look forward to. Likely worse wildfires, too. East Texas will get higher humidity.

So... probably not too nice.
To add:

Aurora store does NOT let you download paid apps. If you have paid for a app, you can sign into that account in aurora store and download the app you bought. However, the paid app will most likely not work as most apps use a SDK provided by google for verifying purchases in a app. This SDK heavily relies on google play services. And secondly, using a 3rd party store like aurora does violate googles use agreement which means google could ban your account if you sign into it from aurora. I would highly advise to not use a google account you care about with aurora.
> Nearly every Republican I've actually known since at least the 90s has had positions that match Trump's more than they match the average R politician, even as the party itself ignored, downplayed, or gone directly against many of those positions—I think that's exactly why Trump took those positions and ignored the orthodox Republican platform where it didn't match...

Yeah, my understanding is that the Republican politicians basically governed for the capital class but used popular conservative social positions to keep enough support to make that work.

> Actually, some Trumpist positions, including anti-neoliberalism, anti-interventionism, and free trade skepticism, are very popular on the left too, but, as with pre-Trump Republicans, not well-represented among their politicians—I think there's an opportunity there, should someone find the right angle to attack it.

Yeah, I hope so. Trump is the kind of person the damages everything he touches. Usually that was bad, but in some significant areas the things he damaged really deserved that treatment (particularly the free trade dogma).
I agree with you. Cargo cult is when physical goods are delivered by some high-tech society to a lower-tech one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult).

Buying stuff from Amazon is more like cargo cult than Clubhouse is.
The matched image’s decrypted security voucher includes a “visual derivative.” I’m sure in other words they can do some level of human comparison to verify that it is or is not a valid match.
I do not know as much about perceptual hashing as I would like, but have considered it for a little project of my own.

Still, I know it has been floating around in the wild. I recently came across it on Discord when I attempted to push an ancient image, from the 4chan of old, to a friend, which mysteriously wouldn't send. Saved it as a PNG, no dice. This got me interested. I stripped the EXIF data off of the original JPEG. I resized it slightly. I trimmed some edges. I adjusted colors. I did a one degree rotation. Only after a reasonably complete combination of those factors would the image make it through. How interesting!

I just don't know how well this little venture of Apple's will scale, and I wonder if it won't even up being easy enough to bypass in a variety of ways. I think the tradeoff will do very little, as stated, but is probably a glorious apportunity for black-suited goons of state agencies across the globe.

We're going to find out in a big big way soon.

* The image is of the back half of a Sphynx cat atop a CRT. From the angle of the dangle, the presumably cold, man-made feline is draping his unexpectedly large testicles across the similarly man-made device to warm them, suggesting that people create problems and also their solutions, or that, in the Gibsonian sense, the street finds its own uses for things. I assume that the image was blacklisted, although I will allow for the somewhat baffling concept of a highly-specialized scrotal matching neural-net that overreached a bit or a byte on species, genus, family, and order.
Context, Models and Reality
Apple would not be so naive as to roll out a solution to child abuse images that has a high false positive rate. They do test things prior to release…
They’re perfect for client generation of db ids. I was looking to do exactly this format, but decided not to do anything that was weirdly non-standard.

Uuid6 is the one I’ll be switching to now.
Well I believe the droughts and wildfires are not really occurring in Siberia, which is the area I think some are speculating will become a breadbasket.

Edit: I was wrong.
This happened alot during the early transition from 2D to 3D. Consider the unreleased Project Dream for the SNES/N64:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w72kj20YNA0

Specifically, compare how the top-of-the-line SNES isometric sprites looked:
https://youtu.be/w72kj20YNA0?t=76

versus the primitive 3D N64 model:
https://youtu.be/w72kj20YNA0?t=246

It's no comparison, IMO. But 3D was the new shiny thing, and so they went with it.

At least until the whole things collapsed and morphed into Banjo Kazooie, anyway.
Yeah, they've solved one issue with the UUID format by giving them k-sortability, but the other issues are still there. Ultimately, if you need some kind of UUID-compatible representation (eg for Vertica UUID columns), then these are good approaches. If you need to solve the same problems but don't have a reason to be locked into UUIDs, pick something else.
Who? Everyone knows Steve Jobs. And after small, portable music players (iPods) and smart phones (iPhones), cars and space are just the next big things ripe for disruption. Also the other things Elon does (Powerwall, Solar Roof) are just timed very well. He has a sense for such things. Just like Steve. He also informs and educates us (the public) just like Steve did, creating the famous distortion field. I am happy we have a new Steve Jobs.
Many people run their entire lives off of their phones. Being concerned about security is prudent, not depressing.
Did you write Emacs? Did I write Emacs?
I am sure he means the pace of the retreat.