skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Second teddit

Will mention though that I’ve had wholly uncontroversial HN accounts, with positive karma, deleted after suggesting teddit.net, only stating a link to the about page, in a thread.

I am mostly unbothered by it since the bar of entry for creating an account on HN is so low, and you can read it without one, but am still confused.

Perhaps there is auto moderation that deletes an account if it posts a comment with only a link?
Bitcoin Rocks – 21 Rocks as NFTs
I'm a control theorist with an engineering physics background and although I don't have a strong foundation in manifolds and Lie groups, it's a subject I've been interested in for other reasons. A book that looks to apply one to the other, in pursuit of a challenging yet practical controls problem, might be both a fascinating read in and of itself, and a useful introduction to the topic aimed at someone with my background. I'm considering buying the book and I upvoted in part because I'm curious to see what further discussion is fostered on this subject.
Not to be confused with John Walker Lindh[1].

[1]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-...
It's hard to talk too much about Charlie specifically, as in... he was a generally private person, and didn't do half the interviews the others did, but I remember a moderately 'techie' Stones connection from way back...

The Stones were a pretty early adopter of some tech, and were 'streaming' back in 1994.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbone

'A November 1994 Rolling Stones concert at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas with 50,000 fans was the "first major cyberspace multicast concert."'
If Native Americans displayed undesirable behavior such as not accepting his "fair price" for their land
George did have them "extirpated".
I know this is an unpopular take, but for sites (like Stackoverflow) that give me options (if they don't, some times I just skip), I will select "strict" and continue. This is probably an improvement from previous status-quo for me.
Or they could buy Disney and a couple of others
Coronaviruses are not an unknown and airborne spread should have been assumed unless ruled out.

That's the hindsight I'm talking about. The WHO declared that it was not airborne at the beginning of the pandemic, as did the CDC, and it took a long time for them to change their guidance. Even independent aerosol researchers didn't release their findings until April, but that was after the CDC had already asked people to wear cloth masks.

Treating people like dumb idiots that you need to lie to to get what you want results in those people mistrusting your future recommendations, e.g. to get vaccinated.

You have more faith in people than I do -- the truth is that many of the public are dumb idiots and if you say "We want you to wear cloth masks to protect either other, but please dont use N95 masks, we need those for first responders", the first thing that will happen is that there will be a run on N95 masks, leaving none for first responders. Which happened anyway, my older sister ended up sewing homemade masks that my younger sister used in her job in healthcare because they had to ration N95's.

But supply chain issues for PPE is a whole different problem, and I'm not sure we've solved it.
Seems like LG makes better appliance than Samsung in general... but I guess mileage varies between model and customer.
Dictionaries are lagging indicators of word meanings.
> Modernization is largely to blame

I'd replace "blame" with "thank": the simpler languages can become, and the fewer of them in daily use we can get to globally, the better for the entire species.

I'd love an expressive and terse baseline human language.

No problem if people still use other languages too, for cultural or historical reasons.
My parents had a 'if you hear this whistle, come here', which, depending on the sequence of tones, meant anything from '5 minute heads up before it is time to go' to 'literally drop what you are doing and run to this position'.

It wasn't disrespectful at all. It was a great way to communicate over wider distances than is possible with regular voice, and in retrospect it was impressive how little translation it took for all of us kids to understand which meaning was being conveyed.
Twitter doesn't seem to care much about established accounts, but every attempt I've made to make a new account under a new name gets suspended.
Sounds like a great move, Twitter is a premium real-time news source and it makes sense to require more engagement to access the content. Comparison behavior: Instagram.
Mastodon and diaspora* might fit this description, especially the "small in size" part.
I am not Ben.
Bootloader is also supposedly easy to unlock.
UK in Brexit climbdown as safety rule deadline extended
For as much as I like the grand dame of programming languages, I don't think it would be the best substitute for Emacs Lisp. CL is a fairly large language and takes considerably time to learn. An unnecessary burden for someone just wanting to customizes his/her editor. Further, an Emacs in CL obviously requires a CL interpreter/compiler. I'm afraid this limits portability as e.g. SBCL, arguably the best open source CL compiler, supports only a handful of environments. CLISP was pretty portable, but the project seems dead.

I'm sure, if today (or twenty years ago) GNU Emacs would be written, Guile might be chosen as implementation / extension language.
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If you want to see some fun dog training with whistles search for videos of sheep dogs or waterfowl retrievers.

My cousin trained a couple of black labs to be waterfowl retrievers. I saw him in training throw out a training "duck" and hold the labs at this side with just a look. Then he whistled and they took off. About 5 feet from the "duck" he whistled again and they stopped. The dogs wanted to get to the "duck" so bad they looked like they were vibrating. He kept them there for a good 30 seconds before whistling again to signal for them to retrieve it. It was pretty cool to watch.

Not quite as cool but we have a "shock" collar on our cat to keep him off the neighbor's porch furniture. Our neighbor is very, very allergic to cats. It is activated by a 10' diameter transmitter placed under their furniture and beeps like crazy for 10 seconds before it does anything - a couple of beeps sets my cat running.

For some reason (maybe after seeing my cousin do it?) I started doing a specific whistle pattern when the cat comes in the house with the collar on. That will now stop the cat dead in his tracks and he will wait for me to take it off. The reverse is true also - if he sneaks out of the house without it on I can do the same whistle and he will stop and wait for me to put it on him.
IMO, Stephen Burke on Gamers Nexus is one of the best sources for enthusiast computer hardware news and analysis on YouTube.
> Your second claim that combining characters can replace unique code points doesn't make sense at all.

There's no reason to have both ä and a followed by the umlaut as separate characters.

> That would be more complex than today

Explain about the case above.

> Hangul

I know nothing about Hangul. I don't see what that has to do with ä, or even the multiple 'a' encodings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symb...

> You may want to believe that there is the "right" way, but there isn't.

There being multiple encodings for the same effect is exactly my complaint.

> you were conflating this a lot, weren't you

Tell me about the Fraktur example. Two fonts in Unicode for the same letters, and that's only the beginning. Unicode has boldface and italic encodings, too, but only for some letters.

Without the snark, please.

> Are you sure that there is no space after the colon?

Yes, you're right that tabs and spaces can make two different files print identically. But people are familiar with that, after all, even diff programs have an option to ignore whitespace differences. Does any program have an option to ignore all the Unicode same-only-different differences? Why make it 100 times worse?

> you can do much of steganography without Unicode

Yes, you can. But why make it 100 times worse?

> You are making your own problem up.

Have fun writing a 100% correct program that can diff two Unicode files and not show embedded but invisible differences.
Any idea if this will mess up printing in iOS?
Not personally, no. How many degrees of freedom do they need?

http://cyberneticzoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/tele-man...
It reduced the criminals' ability to profit from their crimes.
Did you? Some of "us" never did.
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It could be really fun to have a desktop pc with a mainframe processor like that, though that is unlikely to happen. For now you can sign up at https://linuxone.cloud.marist.edu for access to a 2 vCPU LinuxONE vps running on one which is pretty cool
122 Years of Moore's Law and Tesla AI Update
I would argue that the learning curve for learning a programming language and a well-written purpose-built library versus a domain specific language is virtually the same. If the target is someone that has zero experience programming, their process will likely involve a lot of cookbook copy-paste at first, then tweaking the recipes, and then once they have some confidence of how the steps fit together and some inferences about the causal model behind it, they may start to piece together their own recipes.

A lot of complex domain specific libraries are practically languages all their own even though they are just sets of APIs inside a general purpose language (think OpenGL, CV libraries, ML and scientific Python libs, etc.). Knowing Python doesn't put you at too much of an advantage over someone who doesn't when it comes to applying PyTorch. The advantage of a library is that the learner can eventually expand beyond its capabilities and compound some of their investment and capability versus a DSL that puts you at the mercy of what the author is willing to add / implement.

DSLs seem to come from a mindset that someone won't have to learn much in order to be dangerous, which is almost never the case. The bigger leap seems to be between things like:

- GUIs that are fully guided / wizard type setups

- GUIs that are somewhat drag and drop (can have similar challenges to free-form text, but at least you know what tools are available to you)

- Text that is guided (e.g. a configuration file that is completely filled in, but has a lot of comments and can be tweaked

- Free-form text wherein you are starting from a blank canvas and need to have some ideas in your head about what is possible and what tools you have at your disposal (programming)
readable dark text as well.
But the crucial question is when was device stolen; "a priori" of someone using it or "a posteriori" of someone using it.

Samsung refers to TV being stolen "a priori" of consumer using it("A TV blocking system has been activated on Samsung television sets stolen from our warehouse") but if a TV is stolen posteriori of someone using it maybe blocking can come in handy in order to protect consumer's private information on the device. But when remotely disabling someone's TV you should be 100% sure you are doing it for the right reason and you should inform the consumer before you do it.

Samsung explains "a priori" blocking of Smart TV like this:

Samsung Television Block works as follows:

A TV blocking system has been activated on Samsung television sets stolen from our warehouse

The blocking will come into effect when the user of a stolen television connects to the internet, in order to operate the television

Once connected, the serial number of the television is identified on the Samsung server and the blocking system is implemented, disabling all the television functions

Should a customer’s TV be incorrectly blocked, the functionality can be reinstated once proof of purchase and a valid TV license is shared to serv.manager@samsung.com or click here for more information
did anyone in this thread really expect quality when buying a product from a company run by a convicted embezzler?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jae-yong_(businessman)#201...
Not really hn fodder really, but since this article has no substance, folks who thought they might want to read this would likely enjoy this instead: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/arts/bob-ross-paintings-m...
Lessons from Georgia [video]
If i just need a "dumb" TV go for prosumer or commercial solutions. Imaging the TVs you see in big corps or shops.
NEC E-Series is good if you're on a budget.
One thing worth nothing is that HN didn't launch publicly until 2007 February. There is some older content in the DB, but it looks mostly like very low volume manual testing. So the data set definitely shouldn't be extended that far back, and is affecting a few of the be graphs.
Apple employees organizing for 'systemic change' in workplace
Startups Now Spend More on Airbnb Than on Office Rent
I understand and agree, although some are somewhat preposterous and only ever made sense in context. I finally watched Easy Rider recently, and sure, the freedom, riding with no protection, sleeping wherever - but it's such a mediocre, badly-woven film. Same for quite a few Stones songs and a lot of other '60s/70s stuff - except Jimi Hendrix, that man was an alien.
Burning the buyer means they will be more careful who they buy from next time. This could be both good (reduces market for stolen goods), and bad (inhibits legitimate 2nd hand sales). In the long term I would expect some technology for proving provenance pops up but it might be a little painful until that happens.
The computer doesn't have to be perfect; it just has to be better than a human.
If your point is the age: most of these names are ancient and can be traced to earlier that the first millenium BC. This is long enough that names can actually start to die out. Also, family names carry great significance in East Asian cultures*. They can carry great prestige, but also infamy. People often changed family names to become less associated with disgraced people. Emperors awarded their surname to loyal and meritous commoners, and these in turn gave it to their followers. Sometimes, whole populations adopted them. This happened to the Li (李), Chen (陳) and Wang (王) surnames.

It's true though that there are actually not that many to begin with. It's just a quite restricted set of words, and because of the writing system there is no variety because of spelling differences. Most surnames are only one character long, and the really long ones are mostly transliteration of non-Han surnames. Also, many non-Han populations were assigned a common surname when they became sinicized.

*: Western family names are mostly rooted in patronymics, place names, professions or adjectives.
My mother thinks nothing of driving on deserted roads in significant unplowed snow. She gets nervous on a dry, Texas highway at rush hour.
> For the first one, I'm guessing you would just change the pickup location just as you tell the drive to meet you somewhere else.

To add on, maybe even Waymo tells/asks you if you'd like to change pickup locations to save X minutes off your trip.

Feels somewhat in line with how Google Maps will ask you if you want to save X minutes by taking a new route that was previously not as good as when you started using directions.
Bitcoin is generally considered a 'store of value' rather then a day to day 'currency'...

Sorta like a savings bond vs a credit card

And a few years back, before the transaction fees got so high - there were a few places that took it. NewEgg comes to mind.
It makes the theft of TVs less likely in the future. All those looters paid an opportunity cost by stealing those large TVs rather than other items. Next time they loot, they won't go for the TVs.
The ev1 was a pretty good car for it's time. It had a lot of fans. Battery tech got better. An electric car is theoretically much simpler than an ice car.
You just need to make an IRC channel that contains everyone in the world.
Proton mail requires a small fee which can be paid pseudo-anonymously via cryptocurrency.
> TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will not be disabled by default for both until early 2022.

Because this is when they're killing both of those products, not just changing the default on this setting: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/05/19/the-f...
I think advertising works slightly differently than what you think and what Forssell seems to be saying.

You see once a show (or a movie) advertised. It does not really register consciously with you (assuming you are used to this kind of advertisement, and largely ignore it). You might even see it a few times, but if someone asked which advertisements you saw, you may not recall it at all.

Now, a friend comes along and recommends you that same show / movie. You quite likely remember it, not consciously, but, eh, subconsciously(?). Your friend's comment is actually much more than a recommendation, it becomes reinforcement that you've encountered this show before, and it is likely popular and hence good (even if you consciously think popular things are not your thing).

Next time you come to the site, you might not be looking for your friend's recommendation, just something else. However, it might just so happen that this particular show is being advertised to you. Even if you were to click on it, you don't think the site was advertising it to you. Your friend did! It just happened to be there. Conveniently, you didn't even have to search for it.

Now, that single platform thing. I would love that, too. Better yet, if they would also be forced to keep historical movies and shows from 1900-2000 in their catalogue, kind of a public service. However, they would also own the incredibly powerful advertisement channel called "Shows you might like." Or your friend might like, but anyways.
Honda doesn't own the roads.
> I still think that true level 5 ... requires AGI.

In case anyone else was wondering what AGI means, its Artificial General Intelligence. [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...
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One of the Arrow Datafusion committers here. Happy to help answer any question.
Sure. But let’s take the average computer user’s analogy from another comment [1].

A random, average smartphone can use their device every day, and accomplish a great number of things without knowing how it actually works at all.

For all they care, it could be powered by tiny fairies running in wheels like hamsters, and the Internet and cell networks could be irascible spirits connecting all smartphones together through a worldwide mycelium network.

Knowing how smartphones and computers is not necessary for them to accomplish what they set to.

The same way, if we actually needed to have a deeper understanding of our own inner workings to gain a noticeable survival edge, evolution would probably have taken care of that, the same way it has endowed nearly all of us with at least a basic survival instinct. By eliminating most individuals who don’t feel any need to eat food or drink water from the gene pool.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28292418
I expected more of a "I guess I misunderstood how C works" sort of reply.
Gnupg is easy to use. Incredibly easy. All common use cases that new tools have are extremely straight forward.

There is a lot of features that you can get deep into the weeds with. But the common use cases are dirt simple.

Put another way, it would be easier to teach a grandparent how to use gnupg than it would be to teach something like age.
can somebody please get a fucking class action lawsuit going against these cunts (someone please for free money fuck them up their stupid asses)
Worldwide SecurID RSA token outage on mac, thousands lost VPN access
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/there...

Be careful which apps you allow to use your phone's microphone.
Mixers will be considered illegal by the EU. It sort of makes sense. Mixers are primarily used to hide one's identity when doing shady/illegal things with cryptocurrency.
Yup. A technology which is mainly used for money laundering, dark-net markets, ransoms, and speculation will certainly attract the attention of government.
ok so if you punch Jagger, what do you do with Keith?
Previous discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897314
It lets them track you across sites that use their iframes.
Working as designed: streaming services love when you keep paying the same price while actually consuming as little of their content as possible.
This is awesome. And the data can be really valuable. I think feeding and litter box habits are some of the best indicators for a cat's health.
There’s plenty of bits about fighting the neighbouring lands, killing all the men and taking the women for “marriage” (which, let’s face it, is a fancy way of saying sexual slavery and rape).

The Old Testament is full of these battles of conquest...
Most drunk driving accidents/deaths happen in rural areas because there is really no other alternative for transportation. Because of low population density and long distances taxis are basically impossible to find. Self driving cars could definitely fill a niche there should they ever become cost effective.
> but who uses bitcoin for something different than transfering illegal funds and speculation?

A lot of people. You just have to NOT live in a country that uses a currency that could be considered a global reserve to find us.
I like https://wiby.me/ (searches pages like this) and the "surprise me" link is a nice way to fill time.
I've found the "vertical" Kensington to be a nice upgrade for my wrist over the Logitech 570: https://www.kensington.com/p/products/electronic-control-sol...
Does Waymo plan to chisel it's drivers like Uber and Lyft did with Prop22?
If they made The Day The World Stood Still today, the aliens wouldn't even mention nukes - they would ask us to get rid of Twitter.

Twitter has always been garbage. It makes right wingers think they have freedom of speech, while it destroys democracy, coherent thought, and lets left wingers think they are changing the world, while they make it a worse place to be.
To really test the idea of advertising your SaaS online you will probably spend $2000-5000 to either develop a profitable campaign or to have given it a fair try.

If you are willing to risk that much, go for it.
How do you show programmatic ads to people on IRC?
Probably helpful bias calibration for those unfamiliar with Zizek. Interesting that perceived sides and the not content of the message should carry such weight. A person with differing views and conclusions on some issue can still convey information, and I do not immediately see much relationship between uncertainty in the Bohr apocrypha and ulterior motives(? beliefs?) of the philosopher who relayed it.
This fractal gallery is absolutely gorgeous - and still being updated! http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/FRACTALS.HTM
The price keeps going up, though: if you bought it right now, it wouldn't be $5K, it'd be $10K. It's possible Tesla's driver assistance systems are better than anything else on the market in their current incarnation, but that's getting to be a pretty big ask.
Game theory. This is not an isolated interaction; actors who might repeat it hear these news and take notes.
"Cloud-based" shows up as a "Pro" compared to Metabase several times, but that's inaccurate, since Metabase has a hosted offering: <https://www.metabase.com/start/>
Was it a native version of Python?
Does anyone know what the cost of Waymo rides is?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-th...

Not exactly the TV manufacturer doing it, but there have been reports of advertisers using ultrasonic pitches to do cross-device tracking.
Source for them struggling? All the hardware upfitting is done by Magna, one of the biggest names in auto manufacturing, who are also a Waymo investor. There’s a reason they chose the Jaguar I-Pace which is also manufactured by Magna.