skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FCC does nearly zero proactive enforcement of its rules (source: I've worked in the radio industry for nearly a decade). Violations are pretty common since there are a lot of rules to follow, though most people do operate properly or at least make a good faith effort to do so.
Indeed. The author's appreciation of Lisp is well known. If he really is convinced by this abstract argument, it would have been nice to know what other weird languages besides Lisp it has inspired him to learn. APL, Prolog, Smalltalk, R, Haskell - perhaps?

I don't mean to be too dismissive. I think this short piece was thought-provoking enough to be worth reading, and it was not a bad argument in favor of Lisp. Maybe I really should learn Lisp. But if the heuristic was generalized from just one example, it might overfit to just one particular kind of weirdness.
Same with salt [0].

After 6 weeks of abstinence, your salt sensation is recalibrated downwards.

[0]. https://www.amazon.com/Salt-Sugar-Fat-Giants-Hooked/dp/08129...
DNA provides first evidence for the origin of a mysterious lost Toalean Culture
To be very blunt, your English is not good and fighting the issue in public makes things harder for your attorneys because your public statements are reducing your legal leverage. That's why you should work with a PR person.

I guess you are paying a lot of money to your attorneys. Maybe you should ask them them to advise you about how to talk about this in public.
TBH that absolutist position feels untenable. Unmoderated platforms are quickly overrun by objectionable content, and easily usurped by moderated competitors. The only way to force this would be through legislation, and I just think there is no way that the majority of people can be convinced to support/vote for that position.
I suppose so, but this sort of problem has been pretty well documented as actually being a thing. I was also referring more to techie-type arenas, I don't know that I've seen much about this so specifically recently in major media outlets.

Even if it was... it seems pretty clear this is the exact type of problem you'd expect to see a Tesla have. If you're at the point where you're doubting it simply because other people might know it's a problem... eventually you kind of lose the ability to function here, as the mere knowledge of doubt makes you doubt the doubt, and when does that end?

Hell, we've all heard lots recently about the media being so bad...
There were attacks on both the NYT and Epoch. I don't remember which were yours.
Yes I was surprised when the Pixel launched it was so good in night mode. But I thought it is just software and everyone else would surely catch up within 2 years and the feature would becomes standard.

But nearly 4 years later nothing even come close. At least not the camera app by default.
Would it surprise me? Yes, it would surprise me substantially and force me to revise my beliefs around the security of my data at Apple.

Hacking isn't a magic wand, where bad guys cast spells and good guys just look foolish. I've worked in cybersecurity for ~10 years, and I know generally what the reputations are of various large tech companies. Apple has a good reputation for protecting properly secured data.

It is currently, based on the information we have available to us, paranoid to think your data isn't secure from hackers when it's stored properly in Apple's infrastructure. Your behavior is, by a gigantic margin, more likely to cause a compromise of your secure data than Apple is to cause a compromise of your secure data.
The chinese are well known to be extraordinarily dishonest. It is business as usual.
Hackernews also censors stuff that goes against the official covid narrative.
I'm not exactly an ACAB kinda guy, but this directed towards a guy who was clearly taking a passive stance:

> You ain't pushing up on me, boy? You ain't pushing up on me, you hear me? Fight! Fight with me! Fight! Fight! Look at me! Fight! Fight! It's just me and you, baby! It's just me and you! You move, that dog bites you.

Sure, maybe that cop was the lone psychopath in the group. But why did the other cops not step in and do something?
Every time I’ve encountered this opinion about Infinite Jest, I’ve tried to read it. I’m not falling for this again.
You need a lot of power to have any risk over more than a trivial distance - hundreds or thousands of watts.
A greedy CEO's American way of screwing his own partners, when painted with the China markers, suddenly becomes an insightful report that supports the so-called predatory behaviors orchestrated by CCP.

With a single word, China, self-interest is no longer a universal guiding principle. It was replaced by a CCP reality distortion field that the loyalty to the party becomes an instinct, the original sin of any Chinese. Once Chinese always CCP loyalist!

Racism? No, racism does not apply to Chinese!
It was never published and IIRC Lenat claims it was lost. Which is not incredible. A lot from that era is lost.
Also FYI the OP's comment: "She is pulling all the stops now with the baby "

Literally insinuating that 'the baby' is a part of a big ploy - that has to be the most patronizing and condescending possible remark of the situation.
Not just archiving of published documentation - they’re poor at archiving internally too.

If you’ve ever been to some old heritage industrial site like a textile mill or other Victorian-era factory, you’ll notice them displaying old records like lists of customers, the employee payroll, notes between managers discussing events, and other items of historical interest.

None of that will exist to future historians of our current industries. Privacy regulations, data lifecycle policies, absence of respect for corporate memory, and fear of legal discovery - these are all going to leave a black hole.

The only things that will get preserved are the “important” things like board papers and financial statements. But those are not the things that give insight into corporate life.
It looks like there is more gameplay in getting the thing installed than the actual game.
This seems like an investment scam.
I held out on "upgrading" to 10 until support was dropped last year.

7 was a huge step forward, with better performance than Vista and all kinds of QOL improvements (Windows Search, DX11 being some big ones).

10 also has some amazing improvements (automatic driver installs via Windows Update being the first thing that springs to mind[1]), but they've unfortunately let ads and anti-features (Bing, Cortana, App "Suggestions", News & Weather Bar) infiltrate and drag everything down. I cringe every time there's a major feature update, because I know I'll have to either change settings or download a tool to remove all of the bullshit they've just added.

[1]Yes, I know about FTDIgate. That was the exception, not the rule.
> I, for some strange/personal reasons struggle to write what's in my head. My thoughts are very disorganized and always feel what's on the paper doesn't reflect the original idea. If you have felt in a similar way, I am very interested in hearing stories on how you overcame this.

I logged into HN after a year to respond to this prompt. I've dealt with this too, and some things did help quite a lot.

1. Orwell wrote this about choosing words, which I found in a similarly excellent LessWrong article[1]: "What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them. When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualising you probably hunt about until you find the exact words that seem to fit it. When you think of something abstract you are more inclined to use words from the start, and unless you make a conscious effort to prevent it, the existing dialect will come rushing in and do the job for you, at the expense of blurring or even changing your meaning. Probably it is better to put off using words as long as possible and get one’s meaning as clear as one can through pictures and sensations."

2. It also gave me great relief to find that Edsger Dijkstra, one of the greats of Computer Science, wrote slowly in order to write elegantly and correctly: Whether written using a fountain pen or typewriter,
Dijkstra’s technical reports were composed at a speed of
around three words per minute(!!). “The rest of the time,” he remarked, “is taken up by thinking.”

3. Try ditching full sentences. Write phrases. Make some words in the sentences BIG FOR EMPHASIS. Do whatever styling or structuring that corresponds to the feeling in your mind. Your notes are for you, they only need to make sense for you.

4. Even if what's on the paper doesn't reflect the original idea, write it down regardless. Even if it doesn't do your original thought justice, the written version will persist into the future while the thought in your head will fade, losing much or all of its clarity. That written version will continue to be useful. The more you practice this habit of writing, the better you will get at representing your own thoughts. In time, you will be able to consistently write notes that are passably good. Keep at it. This is the most important thing.

5. The last and yes the least, I'd suggest experimenting with tools. Google Keep is garbage as a platform for creating and organizing your notes. I switched to Notion earlier this year, and it was a paradigm shift. Through Notion, I found this nice site called Excalidraw where you can draw things online. When it comes to writing on phone, I found that I only like to see my current sentence when I'm writing. So I made a solo group on Whatsapp, and write my notes there. It really makes a difference.

[1] https://www.readthesequences.com/Rationality-And-The-English...
Related read is Reliability, constant work, and a good cup of coffee - https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/reliability-and-cons...
Michael Moss conducted a remarkable research effort into the food industry during which he gained access to food scientists and executives from the largest food corporations.

He presents what he learned in his 2013 book Salt Sugar Fat.

Sugar is not just in candy, cake, and soda. It's in virtually all processed food. Anything sold in a supermarket in a box, bottle, can, jar, or packet, is likely to have sugar added up the the "bliss point". That's an empirically derived level at which the cravability and addictability of the product is maximised.

SuperSummary

https://www.supersummary.com/salt-sugar-fat/summary/

Navigating the Supermarket Aisles With Michael Pollan and Michael Moss | The New York Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATAZrRfebiw
don't forget J++
No I’m saying “censorship” as a rallying cry around moderation of a platform is effectively demanding permission for those. If you say a private company can’t moderate private messages it hosts, you’re saying it must allow private exchange of child porn. And harassing people with pictures of patterns of holes they find unnerving. And basically any harmful behavior you can imagine.

If Facebook wants to provide private messaging that’s actually so private they can’t know its content, that’s another story. But if they’re hosting messaging they know about, they’re entirely within their rights to decide what content is appropriate on their own resources.
You hit the nail on its head with how widespread the issue is. When people say policing needs to be reformed, I think they're referring to the system as a whole. But also, policing is the source of a lot of these issues so if you fix the issues with the source then you can cut off the downstream supply.
Good points. All this could be solved if the system was reproducible. Given that Cyc is meant to be the successor to Eurisko, I'm surprised they never tried a public, reproducible demo with OpenCyc designing a winning fleet, or playing a game after being taught the rules of it.

But I think the broader point is that even if it could self modify, Eurisko was incapable of learning. Like every other GOFAI program, it exists in its own carefully programmed universe of logic. And it's usefulness as a stepping stone to AGI is limited.

GOFAI research continues today under the label "cognitive architecture".
> The nice thing about reducing sugar is ...

... that your endless cycles of great hunger, binging, then hunger again an hour later end. Instead, when you eat fresh food, you have constant energy and a feeling of satiety that lasts. It frees your mind to concentrate on work or pleasure without distraction.
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well that was only possible in IE, because IE used the Active Scripting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Scripting tech, which meant that any scripting languages that implemented the Active Scripting interfaces could be used in IE, and also WScript (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Script_Host).

In the implementations part of the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Scripting#Implementatio... you can see there were a number of available scripting languages for use on IE. For some reason it doesn't mention the ones from ActiveState - the current ActiveState python doesn't seem to be Active Scripting enabled but back when this technology was useful it was - maybe it just provided the python version mentioned on the wikipedia page with some extras though.

on edit: added missing word.
Ha! Best part of these fake updates is when they go beyond 100%! Still remember my colleagues face at 105% asking me "ehhh, what do I do now?"
Use a custom Google Sheets function to generate Razorpay Payment Links in Google Sheets

Demo: https://twitter.com/labnol/status/1431252710691459075
> Hard evidence that supports a neural transduction theory is lacking at the moment, but...

This article is pure wishful thinking.
> The nice thing about reducing sugar is...

... that you soon start dropping lots of weight. If you keep off the sugar, the pounds stay off.
That is... absurd. What an absolute waste of time, setting arbitrary patterns in interesting math questions- do we seriously want students, upon seeing a tough problem, to "just start adding"?

What rationale could anyone possibly have to teach this mindless nonsense to children, unless it was to prepare them for other standardized tests later in life, which are unanimously the product of mathematically impotent failed bureaucrats?
The original MAME license is the first one that comes to mind, regarding non-commercial restrictions.

As for no-derivative restrictions, I'm not sure.
> BTW you don't know if a fat person is in bad or good health based on her/his overall shape

If you are obese or overweight you are, by definition, not healthy.
There’s also the japanese takamakura (?), it’s not usually considered very comfortable though the padding would help a bit.

Do note that in modern terms takamakuras at least are neck braces, they don’t support the head itself.

This is coherent with the complex and tight hairstyles of the time which would be impossible to do on your own, and difficult to redo every day even for nobility. So keeping hairdos protected would be important, something a soft western pillow would not achieve easily.
What you're talking about is an issue but I'd suggest deleting this or updating it to a more accurate example.

This case was debunked a while back. The cops removed an item from their car and put it back after realizing that it was nothing. The victims of the search weren't charged with anything to begin with (why would the cops plant evidence that they weren't going to "find" later to charge them with).

I actually have to give props to this department for how quickly and how well they responded to this situation and how the cops didn't escalate things when the driver started shouting about the bag to the cop. It's kind of the bare minimum but I guess that's what we've come to expect. I also hope the department will be as quick with responding in cases where the cops actually did make a mistake but I don't have high hopes.
Miui Optimizations is strict on bg tasks. You can disable optimizations in dev options [1] which returns you closer to stock android. But now heavy or poorly made apps like adguard (who were kicked off the app market and now have no oversight) are extremely difficult to shutdown background processes for and battery life suffers.

[1] https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/191228/what-is-m...
That's been a perennial topic on HN. My suggest as to the expense of archiving it was that a student could be hired at minimum wage to photograph them, page by page, with a phone camera.

This suggestion was usually followed by a deluge of angry responses that archiving should be done properly by a trained archivist. Of course, that's expensive, and now the only thing archived is ashes.

I've personally archived a lot of family letters using this technique, and it's fast (several pages a minute) and plenty accurate. Just do it on the kitchen table in the sunlight.
So? Don’t install the bot if you don’t like the idea of them doing that.
Things I Have Done:

Rewrite sections of the code base from scratch. Like the famous wooden sailing ships of old, one day you look up and realize no line of original code exists.

One of my favorite co-workers: "When someone hands me someone else's code to maintain, first thing I do, throw it out, rewrite it."

I tend to do that as well — although not all of a sudden. :-)
No. The complaint is about different rules being applied to cops or prosecutors. Not just enforcement.

There is no qualified immunity for civilians. The cops and prosecutors can lie, civilians can't. A cop can shoot merely when he feels afraid, that excuse don't apply to civilians. Stuff like that.

Then you have judges who should be impartial, but do in fact treat accused cops and prosecutors differently.
The problem is high level radioactive waste that is going to be there for millenia, and is actually the problem. and it is 11 grams per year of that.

Low level waste can be just stored until radioactive levels decrease enough, and dealt with as any other waste.
I want to start a Truth in Packaging campaign.

Mint Sauce? Nah. That mint flavoured sugar water.

Cheese is a Good Source of Protein? Nah. Bollocks, it's clearly a better source of fat.

I could go on for ages.

I'm truly glad I don't live in America... The amount of sugar in NZ food is frightening and I have to spend ages label reading to avoid the worst of it....

....but the amount of HFCS in American food is just plain stark crazy.
Neither of your links really present any kind of counter point. Not sure what the argument you’re trying to make is.
I don't believe there's an easy list anywhere - mostly because which APIs require interaction, and which don't, is not standardised.

It changes radically between browsers, and browser versions, even before you get to user settings in those browsers that can change it further.
There are a whole slew of federal laws that federal officials could use to charge local corrupt police officers. They just choose not to, because the FBI are cops too.
The sugar aisle smells like a gas station to me now.
The padding would just be laid on top of the pillow, or tied to it with a string (hence the holes I expect).
Have to draw the line somewhere. You can spend your life living, or in a sisyphean quest to archive everything.
Ah yes, because size was the big issue with practical quantum computing /s
well sometimes people want to selectively run code in a dev instead of a prod environment. I wouldn't say it's a bad idea, it is a possibility we sometimes need that it would be preferable that we did not need and we should try to get away from needing quickly if we find ourselves in that situation.
Absolutely. The fraternity of police says police officers should ask their superior officers in a certain wording if answering the questions is required as a part of their job duty.

Even the police will not talk to the police.
Start by only considering the Yo Yo, that is easy to fill out. Now consider both the Yo Yo and Doll, that is also easy to fill out given the current array. Then continue.
I assume that they are talking about easing gradients, which is interpolating the gradient’s color stops using a cubic bézier easing function [1]. It gets rid of the sharp edge you sometimes see in linear gradients. Think of CSS animations and their easing-functions.

There are various Sketch and Figma plugins which let you modify the easing function and generate the CSS for it.

[1] https://css-tricks.com/easing-linear-gradients/
police during riots.
Yes, weird depends. PG's point is, again, about finding new pockets of programming, not necessarily finding the best tool -- meta or not -- for a task at hand. Fine, everything is binary code in the end; it doesn't mean there aren't different abstractions that can be made on top of it, obviously. You are probably right that PG is biased towards "hacking" rather than team software engineering by him implying that the 99.5% of "glue programming" is boring. There is potential for a lot of mastery on the glue front, but this point about weirdness is about the remaining 0.5% and how to access it via the language route. Personally I'd be interested to hear what PG says about the weirdness of OOP...
Yeah it's remarkable how all business records of old timey businesses have survived the years and not a shred of contemporary business records will exist in the future. In the future people will definitely have a better understanding of historical corporate life better than our contemporary corporate life because they will have much less data about us compared to people that came centuries before us. PS are you totally daft LOL
Totally, let's focus on each of them - I don't think there's a gestalt overall approach that will solve this problem, but chipping away at each of these many problem areas might make some progress.
If you're patient, lots of it eventually comes around on TCM. Unfortunately, the Comcast dvr doesn't let you just type in the names of movies to auto record, like Tivo could. It has to be on the current schedule, which only goes out 2 weeks.
> The issue is that what Apple is doing is not E2E encryption

They are providing E2EE with iMessage. E2EE only provides security for data in transit. It ensures that only the endpoints can decrypt the communication. That is it. There's absolutely no promises of encryption at rest on those endpoints.

Not only is Apple actually doing E2EE but the tech press (and apparently HN posters) seem to think E2EE means something that it does not.
hey true, good call.
That was important, thanks.
He is incomveniencing himself primary. He takes longer to get in as a result. Their shift is as long as always.
This reads like a DMT trip report, living a lifetime in minutes.
'Formaldehyde' fearmongering addressed at (sorry) https://youtu.be/92r1oOul0kM?t=69
I’d prefer a more detailed analysis than two screenshots from a random conversation.
It's pretty gross IMO too. Especially in carbonated waters or seltzers.
> Big car manufacturers, which are expected to be some of the first quantum computing customers, are also clustered in the region.

What do big car manufacturers want quantum computers for?

Also, supposedly they were going to deliver one of their systems to the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Australia in June, but neither Pawsey nor Quantum Brilliance have any new articles saying it's actually happened. Quantum Brilliance are just talking about having raised money [0], and Pawsey doesn't mention it again [1].

Seems like hype, for something that maybe doesn't exist?

[0] https://quantumbrilliance.com/news-media
[1] https://pawsey.org.au/news-and-events/news/
Nonsense, grift, bullshit sandwich.
That does not seem to be true based on what people who were in jails/prisons for non-violent offenders say.