skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you can look at the calibre of the execs. Musk knows enough about his passion to actually embed into the teams and help innovate. Bezos just bought a ticket to space for a billion bucks, so that he could be cool like the other billionaires.
Nice video!
Yes. And here is one of the author's discussion of how he uses Anki (at least at one point in time): http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
If you're a fan of Diego Rivera you really should visit the Detroit Institute of Arts. He spent nine months there painting the Detroit industry murals which he considered his greatest work.

https://www.dia.org/riveracourt
The fact that you are good at writing or reviewing code doesn't mean you are a good judge or moderator.
LineageOS is another option
https://lineageos.org/
Perhaps the difference is that for programming you could internet search for "C# const" or "C# float" for example, and find the documentation or even easy to understand tutorials explaining what they mean.

Whereas for math it does not seem to be the same. There is no documentation, and no-one ever seems to explain those basics online. Eg. this book is a pretty obscure pdf.
With one or two exceptions, I only install Google software on my Android phone. Since I'm already on their platform, I don't guess that makes me any more open to their data gathering. And I don't trust any of the other apps.
I don't think you're being generous with the author's statement, especially since this is in the section within which he's describing chroma subsampling. The author is stating "We use 4 as a convention. why is that the convention? No one really knows". That seems accurate to me. Do you have a clearer answer? Your Wikipedia link doesn't provide any enlightment AFAICT, although maybe I missed explanation?
There's a few different approaches to this.

Here's one page about it, I'm sure there are plenty more.

https://fsfe.org/activities/android/liberate.en.html
sure, but they were going to be killed anyway. We just wont force / allow them to have kids and the problem will be resolved. Its a one time kill of animals that were going to be killed anyway. Cycle stops there.
recommendations: Veloren (voxel based Dwarf Fortress inspired), minetest (extensible MineCraft engine), Mindustry (Factorio-like factory builder)
A trip from Versailles to the main Paris airport is 60€ with Uber, and 130-200% of that with anything else.

So at least here Uber is very competitive.
I think you may have a confused definition of what it means to be a rational actor. Being rational means making the optimal decision given the information available
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5675

seems to be relevant
A soulless and mathematically applied principles is a good was to actually reduce the number of people suffering. Assuming that's what your goal was from the start. If you only look at "lived experience" and then make a random change you feel might help, but don't actually check if it does, you can make things worse (see the outcomes of all the aid to Africa for example).
It’s not a bad thing by to make something yourself even if it costs more. The joy of making it is valuable. As well as the knowledge that your are a little more self-reliant.
Tackling Online Hate Speech One Emoji at a Time
It's a good strategy. They feed the autodialer with a list of phones, and when it hears human voice, it transfers the call to an operator. If you didn't answer it will call you several more times. If you answered but didn't speak, it will (probably) not insist for that day.

My record is a call of around 14 hours. The autodialer called me after 10:00pm (supposedly illegal here), and there were no operators to take the call. I left my phone charging with the call active, and went to sleep, since the caller pays the call. Kept the call until I needed to go out, and I like to think that even if the call wasn't expensive because it was bulk price, maybe having a line busy helped slow down spam for others.

I don't do that anymore because spam calls have multiplied, it would mean answering more spam than I'd like.
The amount of controversy depends on how much the news media will cover something.

The things that Biden said a month ago, such as “The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.” and “There’s going to be no circumstance when you’re going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy” are statements another president would have been absolutely crucified for having said.

But, the media will mention it, cover it for a little bit, and hopefully move on to something else. I'm certain they won't try to rub salt in the wound and keep these statements in the public consciousness for very long.
the blue parenthesis are very hard to read in his screenshot

other than that, looks very nice, good job!
You have not explained why the first number is always 4. (In fact, it's not always 4, it just usually is.)
Sadly Android is becoming more user-hostile all the time. For example there are fewer and fewer devices that will give you root access. Imagine buying a PC and finding the manufacturer decided you can't have access to an administrator account.
Considering almost 1/3 illegal immigrants use stolen identity information and the Democrats aren't eager to fix the border, since children of illegal immigrants slant blue, this seems unlikely barring another situation where the Republicans control the House, Senate, and Presidency (and don't screw the time away arguing amongst themselves).
To back up at least the outline hypothesis of this point, this is in Apple's 10-K SEC filing:

> If developers reduce their use of the Company’s platforms, including in-app purchases, then the volume of sales, and the commission that the Company earns on those sales, would decrease. If the rate of the commission that the Company retains on such sales is reduced, or if it is otherwise narrowed in scope or eliminated, the Company’s financial condition and operating results could be materially adversely affected.

This does feel like the kind of situation that few would want to be at the helm of, if blame was to be passed around in the event of an adverse approach being taken.

There's now a number of international regulators all looking at Apple and the competition aspects of their App Store model, and legislators in the US seem to claim to have bi-partisan support as well on the point. If individuals feel they might be blamed, that might explain why nobody wants to step up and improve things.
Having worked in products using VoIP stuff, you’ll hit issues with 2FA requests from some apps. The big names have their own shortcodes, but many smaller apps use a generic VoIP number from Twilio or similar.
> It’s unfathomable to think of a company having 3-4 woodworking teams each with different shops, tools, jigs etc.

Not really, depending on the company. Building something complex, like a house, could require at least carpenters, joiners and cabinet makers, which are quite different jobs.
> so many people will use it as an excuse to pay little to no attention to the road

I guess that we have to look at the results here to judge whether too many people are not paying attention. Hopefully the investigation will reveal whether the autopilot incidents of collision with emergency vehicles is significantly more frequent or less frequent than from vehicles being driven in the traditional way.
"Cargo Cult Science" — Richard P. Feynman's 1974 Caltech commencement address:

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
How come Anki cant update it itself? Is SM-17 just a different set of exponential-decay functions from SM-2? Is that even copyrightable?

Also, if Anki is open-source, I'm surprised that there is no unofficial port that uses SM-17. But maybe I'm just ignorant of how much work that would involve.
I agree mostly. But staying at my parents’ grand house really brings home the difference in quality of life.. I like baking but barely have any worktop space in my tiny kitchen in London; they have a massive kitchen with a table in it etc etc
So given that T-Mobile authenticates me with SSN when I call them does this mean they can’t do this anymore or it opens me up to SIM hijacking?
An exciting update on diff and merge performance
As a taxpayer and voter (but not a military person), it felt like we could have kept a 10k personnel presence on the cheap. Soldiers weren't dying.

Now the women and children will be raped and unfree, ideologically and religiously different killed, and LGBT tortured.

We shouldn't have been there, but this is a horrible outcome far worse than staying.

I find the "but they won't defend themselves" argument abhorrent and totally unsympathetic. I can't imagine if I were in their shoes.
Author of the piece has a lot of criticisms but no suggestions as to what anyone could have done better. Not a serious person.
It was said in jest, but to your comment, no need to perish - just not be vocal about the negative feelings.
For something that old, those tubes probably needed it.

The problem is that for electronics of that vintage, everything probably needed to be swapped out.

Vacuum tube electrodes crystallize (like incandescent light bulbs). Capacitors leak. Switch contacts oxidize. Paper insulation breaks down. Heat cycles crack solder joints. etc.

Guitar amps are similar.

It's one of the reasons to laugh at someone with their "vintage" 1962 BigName(tm) Guitar Amp if they paid a lot for it. If the amp hasn't actually been modded to hell and back such that it barely resembles the original, practically everything in it has been replaced--likely multiple times.

Feel free to enjoy your amp, that's what they're for. Just realize that your 50+ year old amp is a living, breathing example of the "Ship of Theseus".
Just after he says: "4:2:0 is the most popular case. Four luma samples per one chroma" so he does understand and write what it means. That does not explain why the value is 4.

I assume it is because with 4 you have 3 different subsampling ratios (if you want to keep factors of two, which you typically want to keep algorithms simple)
I've made it a life rule to try to avoid conversations with people who use "correct" to respond to statements, unless they are in the role of a teacher.

Tell me, are you aware of the myriad of alternate words to express your agreement with somebody else aside from correct? You aren't here as judge of the right or wrong. Semantically, philosophically, you're expressing agreement not correctness.

Or .. am I incorrect...?
It looks like the language is really maturing. The changes are all fairly minor optimizations and improvements to the stdlib.
Impressed with the Go team’s discipline for simplicity and stability.
> Bait and Switch advertising is not legal and the FTC will go after those that do that kind of thing.

Yes, but electing not to sell a unique item at an advertised price when a concrete offer is received is not the same thing:

---quote---

How does the FTC define "bait and switch" advertising?

It's illegal to advertise a product when the company has no intention of selling that item, but instead plans to sell a consumer something else, usually at a higher price. For more information, ask the FTC for its Guides Against Bait Advertising.

---end quote---

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/adv...

---quote---

Bait advertising is an alluring but insincere offer to sell a product or service which the advertiser in truth does not intend or want to sell. Its purpose is to switch consumers from buying the advertised merchandise, in order to sell something else, usually at a higher price or on a basis more advantageous to the advertiser. The primary aim of a bait advertisement is to obtain leads as to persons interested in buying merchandise of the type so advertised.

---end quote---

16 USC § 238.0, https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=69e59fd0c1f4966cfd...
Not many demanded a CoC. In fact then the CoC was proposed it as merely as a "just in case" proposal that others agreed was not needed at that particular point in time because the community was "relatively calm".

And I didn't engage in tone policing myself. I'm perfectly fine with people disagreeing with each other using whatever tone they'd like.
Thank you! We'd be happy to show you around.
I heard e/OS is deGoogled Android. That might be a good starting point if you still want a lot of compatibility. Of course you have to be careful with the permissions you give any apps you install.
The "land-locked idea" sounds weird. There are other third-world-countries on the same level of Afghanistan that have direct access to the sea, and as you mentioned yourself, there are land-locked countries in Europe (that have been doing well even before the EU).

The primary hindrance is culture, not coast.
I want full control of data being collected on me, period. I don't care if someone patronizingly thinks it will "help" me. That is not their decision, it is mine.

If someone's making money off my back they better give me a cut, and a big one. 50c off a bag of grapes doesn't cut it.
More on the Afghan corruption, written in 2015, as an overview of a book on corruption: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/corruption-rev...

The book author Sarah Chayes argues that corruption leads to insurgencies or at least normal civilians turning a blind eye to them, why help the government/police when they've been grafting all over the place.

To me it's also clear why the Afghani army gave up, (if it even existed, it's probably like the ghost schools and students): a leader that was (or appeared) clean and inspirational might've been able to generate a sense of national pride, which the soldiers would've fought and died for. But the soldiers probably knew the elites were corrupt scumbags, who wants to die for that? (Unless the embezzled riches tricked down to them...).

Edit: reading your article makes me think of "reality must take precedence over public relations". It's disgusting to see how the US institutions deluded their way into reporting success, it's almost comparable to the legend that said Saddam Hussein probably thought he had a great WMD program, because all his subordinates were too afraid to bring him bad news..
And/or some routers offer 'AP Isolation' or 'Client Isolation' to prevent devices from communicating with each other (I am always glad to see public networks configured this way, but at home it'd be a pain to not be able to shell from one box into another etc.)
Look for Android models that have been confirmed to work with LineageOS or E-foundation OS. Both are de-Googled, I believe.
You're trying to explain current Japanese demographics with a weird rant about WW2 without mentioning the subsequent economic miracle and population growth? The population of Japan was not far off doubling from 1945 to 2010, and in case you somehow haven't noticed, they became a major first-world economy, eclipsing many many nations which were not nuked.

80 years is really quite a long time. Germany also bounced back rapidly in the second half of the twentieth century to become a major industrial power.
Is the government required here [0]? Could commercial operators not improve their own security through their own investment and taking it seriously? If ransomware hits them in the chequebook where stolen customer data didn't, then they might find that quite motivating?

[0] It obviously is for government departments.
I guess it only can freeze ETH. Why is the increase of price of BTC at the top?
There's another angle to the App Store scam: Family Sharing.

Most people don't know this but the "Parent" (read:credit card holder) of a family sharing account can't see, let alone cancel, any subscriptions a minor on the account has purchased.

Let that sink in for a second. Apple will happily charge the parents' credit card a weekly recurring fee but there is nowhere in their interface (on device nor on the web) where the parent can even see that subscription.[0]

Apple expects the child to go into their interface and cancel the recurring subscription. Something many (most?) adults find confusing. In my case, the child just deleted the App when the trial was over. Which is of course perfectly logical thinking. No bueno.

So if the child is away at school (as in my case), or the phone gets left at a friend's house, or worse... stolen. The only way to get it cancelled is to call them.

There's more to this story, including details on how the built in parental controls are intentionally crippled (IMHO) but I've got to run. In summary: The entire "Family Sharing" system is built to rip off people while still maintaining plausible deniability.

[0] A senior Apple rep told me this is for privacy reasons. But two things: the minor should have no expectation of privacy when spending their parents money (how is that a good thing?). And secondly, Apple does email a receipt for the subscription to the card holder... so the privacy excuse was pure bullshit. In my case I missed the email because I have more than 6 or 7 recurring Apple subscriptions. I do take partial blame because of that. But I've still not been given a good reason why a parent can't easily cancel a childs subscription.
The easiest way is to `return 0;`. We've got the character budget for it.
Any chance you've studied either Spanish or Russian and have decks to share? I've never fully gotten started with Anki, but would love to get back into it to use it to expand my vocab with full sentences.

I'll also be checking online now that you've spurred my curiosity, just curious if you have ones that you like too.
Can’t help but fear this is a classic embrace-extend-extinguish pattern for open social networking protocols.
> my brain no longer has to worry about those mundane things

I would be terrified to share the road with someone of this mindset. Your vehicle is a lethal weapon when you are driving it around (assisted or otherwise). At no point can someone claim that a tesla vehicle circa today is able to completely assume the duty of driving. You are still 100% responsible for everything that happens in and around that car. You had better have a plan for what happens if autopilot decides to shit the bed while a semi jackknifes in front of you.

The exceptions are what will kill you - and others - every single time. It's not the boring daily drives where 50 car pileups and random battery explosions occur. Maybe your risk tolerance is higher. Mine is not. Please consider this next time you are on the road.
I have two follow up questions: what are the prerequisites for understanding this post and is it a good path to learn about homotopy type theory
I've been in a retailer within the last two years that still used paper and and imprint machine to process credit cards.
Quick... Someone make BEES on BSC.
> It genuinely could threaten the ability of banks to continue operating retail banking services if it continues to almost exponentially grow.

Preventing this kind of fraud is a solved problem. The reason it still happens is that banks are forced, through competition, to minimise "identity proving" burden for consumers, in a "get credit now with instant approval!" kind of way.

At the moment we're stuck in a "marketing armageddon" of banks competing with each other by not properly verifying identity before granting credit or transferring away money. This seems to me like a Tragedy of the Commons.

If, across the board, people were required to prove their identity properly before banks rely on them, then the problem would go away overnight. It'd be a bit more tedious for consumers, but I don't see how that would cause banks to fail. The cost would merely move from fraud to identity verification.

Perhaps some people wouldn't be sold credit that they can't afford, but I don't buy that such people are keeping the banks afloat. Before banks stop operating retail banking services, I'm sure they'll just start actually verifying identity properly to keep that market.
How to recruit talent using a hackathon
But how many users would prefer to get all their apps from the MAS instead of elsewhere?
The SuperMemo scheduling algorithm is a lot easier for me to deal with than Anki: if I miss a couple days, it doesn't overwhelm me with a punishing review schedule. With that, I really wish Woz would open source the SM18 algorithm, dealing with the SM UI is really painful. I don't love the Anki UI either, but it's streets ahead of SM in that dimension.

Also, tangentially related: I really love Woz's wiki, which is filled with interesting insights on learning: https://supermemo.guru
This is a side-effect of politicians as celebrities and influencers, not as serious people.

I won't win any friends by saying this, but it didn’t start with Trump, who obviously fits the bill as a celebrity parlaying his popular image into a presidency.

Obama was also more of a celebrity than a president - lapping up the fawning adoration of their “closest friends” at his 50th - who somehow didn’t include all the people that made him president, but instead Jay Z and Beyoncé.

Even regular congresspeople now seem more worried about what’s happening on Twitter and hobnobbing at fancy parties than the job of lawmaking. Someone should tell them the vast majority of their supporters are not on Twitter at all.
Different parts of government. Legislators, specially, need to care about digital identity. They don’t care enough (see below copy pasta, rest of the FCW piece talks about how identity legislation has been punted to fall Congressional sessions) yet.

Maybe banks have to bleed more (Reg E mostly protects consumers from this fraud exposure) before they’ll come willing to regulators asking for it. If that’s the path to success, it’s a shame but not surprising.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8215...

https://fcw.com/articles/2021/08/12/infrastructure-digital-i...

“A draft version of the Senate infrastructure bill, which was obtained by FCW, included $500 million for the Department of Labor to institute a grant fund to supply states with digital identity proofing tools that are compliant with National Institute of Standards and Technology to combat fraud in unemployment insurance benefits.

In addition to the program administered by the Labor Department, the draft legislative language called for the Office of Management and Budget to develop a plan for federal digital identity verification, including an inventory of current efforts and a study of the feasibility of establishing a governmentwide system that provides equitable access to users of government services and protects privacy. There was talk in the administration and in the Senate of adding $3 billion in funding for governmentwide identity solutions as part of the infrastructure bill.

Instead, the entire section on program integrity covering the digital identity grants program and the OMB policy push was removed from the bill before it came up for a vote and was not offered in any of the amendments that came up as the bill was debated on the Senate floor.

The White House and various Senate press offices by and large did not respond to emailed questions from FCW about what happened with the digital identity section of the bill.”
This is brilliant. I don't know what a pissed off spammer with who knows how many of your info could do, though. The last time I made one angry for wasting her time, I received even more calls from other spammers.
"you can just take some ‘me time’ and not tune into the disturbing images", seems very true.
Don't get me wrong, this is an observation and I do not endorse it. I see the same happening with climate change topics that people just avoid as if that would help - we've got the phrase "Vogel-Strauß-Prinzip" for that in German (it literally translates to "ostrich-principle", meaning to hide the head in the sand, so that you cannot see). Let me see what a proper translation might be.

Edit: "(ostrich) head-in-the-sand behavior", so literally the same

Edit 2: the irony... submission is flagged now. I bet that'll make the problem go away