skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ad hominem is not always a fallacy.

For example, suppose I claim to have found a fatal flaw deep in the most difficult part of Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

If someone says that I'm unlikely to be right because my mother was a hamster and my father smelled of elderberries that would be an ad hominem fallacy.

My mother's species and my father's smell have no bearing on my mathematical claim.

However, if someone says that I'm unlikely to be right because I have not studied any higher math beyond what was covered in classes for my bachelor's degree in math from Caltech and so it is quite unlikely that I have any clue as to what is going on even on the first page of the proof let alone anywhere near the most difficult part (or could even figure out what part is the most difficult part) that would be an ad hominem but not an ad hominem fallacy.

It's not a fallacy because it is questioning whether I have the knowledge to be able to even make a valid argument about details deep in Wiles' proof. That has bearing on the likelihood that my mathematical claims are correct.
When you run into someone doing these things in the wild, you mentor them. When you make a blog out of doing things like this call it "Code Smell of the Day" you deserve the mockery.
I'm in agreement, and certainly could have phrased the question differently to get nearer to my goal. Though I'm curious about the question I did ask nonetheless.
I considered it and decided on a Poco F3, it's a better phone on all respects at the same price and has insane ROM support.
Katz v. United States held the opposite: “The Government’s activities in electronically listening to and recording the petitioner’s words violated the privacy upon which he justifiably relied while using the telephone booth and thus constituted a ‘search and seizure’ within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.”

More recent decisions suggest that the third party doctrine, according to which there is no legitimate expectation of privacy in information voluntarily turned over to third parties, is unlikely to apply to private messages on Facebook:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Warshak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States
Censorship is contextually a good not an evil. No matter how divergent our positions there is almost certainly content that both us if asked to rate it would rate negatively. That is to say that the net value of the forum increases as we delete more of it.
At least, in his fucking up, Biden isn't calling the dead service members "suckers" and "losers" along with asking "what was in it for them?" per our previous Commander in Chief
I wish my competitors will spend more time (ideally all their time) fixing “code smells” in their code. It will make it even easier to beat them in the marketplace. I once fired a developer who didn’t understand how to prioritise his work. It improved the productivity of the team (him not wasting everybody’s time with low priority nonsense).
I almost feel like this is a place for a corporate onboarding/training process.

I'm mentoring a new developer at my firm. He's fresh out of college. His code works on a basic level. The things he's stubbed his toes on:

* Naming conventions. We have probably more rules about this than some, but things like branch and commit names matter because we tie them into our issue tracking process.

* Strictly reading specifications. We had a couple days rework because he used a different suggested name for something, and it ended up propagating into dozens of class names.

* Knowing when and what can be cleaned up. This I can forgive, as it normally waits towards the end of the project and he isn't quite there yet, but when we paired to work on it, there was a lot of leftover baggage.

* Bulletproofing/exhaustive coverage. I suspect there's a lot of university projects where "what if the remote server hands us HTTP 418" is answered by "the test service doesn't".

* Multiplayer and advanced Git. "The main branch is going to update without you, and eventually there's going to be merge conflicts" and you'll need to merge/rebase was a problem for him, as was dealing with a feature branch with multiple task sub-branches (keeping too many of them open at once is a huge risk for weird merge conflicts and hideous histories when they're finally resolved).
They probably should hire some Ham radio fox hunt enthusiasts... 6 months is wayyy to long.
There was a story here about the Irish tax authority classifying Subway bread as a sweet, not as bread, due to the high sugar content. I think that's an accurate description of a lot of american breads.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919189045/for-subway-a-ruling...

Usually when I buy bread in the bread isle i discard all that have added sugars. But it's been getting hard recently.
Why might a paid model open the door to accessing a person's qualifications?
Optimize a Scanned Pdf on Linux
I'm with Start.ca, they're similar to Teksavvy in that they lease Rogers' cable lines. They're not doing CGNAT and I believe the CEO, who's very active on DSLReports, has confirmed they have no plans to start doing it.
Short answer, probably still not.

Taliban isn't executing hundreds of persons as of now.

You can read they're apparently targeting specific persons by now, more accurately, people with skills and motivations to keep working against them (not a reason to not go and save your allies and friends from a certain death).

The situation could degrade further into the take over, but for now it doesn't go too bad as it could be.
To me, JScript has always been and will always be nothing more than “that thing that tries and fails to execute when I double-click a JS file on a new system.”
You can get Google Camera to work on lots of other phones with a bit of effort: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/

I'm using it on my Poco F1 and the night sight works really well.
...and qualified immunity really needs to be gotten rid of, at least in its current form. there's no reason why a cop having a bad day should be able to ruin your life. also consider that as an citizen that's probably untrained in firearm use, you're liable for stray bullets that hit your neighbor when you shoot at a home intruder, while a cop is trained and on the clock, but has no such liability at all.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/16/fac...
IMO, the risk of a hardware backdoor is always there and perhaps less damaging if the country is across the world, depending on the threat model and damage model.

realistically you're right, and I probably would deeply consider my options before thinking about it. But we can go down the list of lower and lower firmware that we cant verify (hell, I just reread Reflections on Trusting Trust this morning). Every device has Chinese-made chips. I suppose it's more risky than an American company but to me it seems like rearranging chairs on a sinking ship, which is why I never keep anything sensitive on my phone.
I won't speak for them, but some jobs that might need both are internal IT or some kind of support engineer.
Israel Gelfand wrote a number of amazing books covering many areas of high school math.
I’m fairly positive 90% of any feature in emacs being unchanged in decades is directly attributable to backwards-compatibility than anything else. With how invasive emac scripts can be, it’s difficult to imagine anything to be changed without forcing the question: is it worth breaking userspace for this?

I don’t think the defaults are good — I suspect they’re stuck.
Sorry, I don’t understand. Why should we engage in intellectual masturbation over hypotheticals instead of analyzing the immediate problem we have in front of our very noses?

Both of these situations are largely fictional and over simplified characterizations of what’s going on.

Are engagement algorithms worrisome and a problem? Sure, I’ll stipulate to that. They’re largely responsible for the tightening of social and thought circles and then amplification of racism and scientific illiteracy. Are they preventing the circulation of information outside their boundaries? No. They don’t have that kind of power. And the channels that they don’t control remain numerous and varied.

There is a difference between being the default or the easiest mechanism by which information is disseminated, and being the only mechanism by which it is disseminated. This distinction matters.
So you're saying that all the papers on this made up their data?
NumWorks Calculator Changes Licensing (June 2021)
> Like for the same reason luxury goods cost so much even if they are not much better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
“Maybe this feature will save a few needless deaths from a dangerous yet highly preventable disease”

I mean, I don’t work there, but that’s what I’d think.
Same reason people do cryptomining via JavaScript malware on web pages: it is using someone else's resources.
And possibly a heads up to tech selection people about what’s coming soon. I think you can expect those people to have potentially taken EE 101.
The recently restarted development work is focused on Linux, but the game historically ran on all the major OSes including Mac and Windows.

You could either download an older release for those platforms or wait for someone to get it building again. Or try yourself ;-)

(Vega Strike, among other things, had been stuck with really old versions of the ffmpeg/libav API and Python 2.x, so the first goal has been getting the code working with modern libraries, cleaning some code cruft, and generally tidying up)
I think it depends. I've vouched for a comment and then seen subsequent comments not be dead. I suspect there's a bit more to the machanisn, but I think it can lead to being bit dead anymore, even if it just triggers a mod rereview of user comments to decide if they get a second chance.
Secretly blocking specific messages is very different from a shadowban, though.
A transistor it has in its composition a semiconductor material. That's the whole idea behind the transistor as a programmable switch, using a gate(drain) variable intensity to drive how much it gets opened. And if you increase the voltage that semiconductor becomes a conductor instead, hence the shortcut I was talking about - goo or no goo.
If you think a 70 year old dying is anywhere near as bad as a 10 year old dying, I don't know what to say to you.
See also:

https://jdan.github.io/98.css/

https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/
Thanks for that. I am with you all the way.
I always figured that there was an influence there. I love Glass and Richter.
As a person whose lived mostly in the UK and Australia, and now the US for six years, I still can’t eat many American versions of things I know. Ordinary things like Kit Kat’s or any chocolate, supermarket cakes and so on. They’re almost unpalatable to me. Cadbury’s chocolate, made under license here, is another example.
In a shop the other day and the lady at the checkout was discussing with the lady she was serving how some salt she had in store had sugar in its ingredients list. We were all bemused.
I love how your brought vim into this conversation. Smooth. Real smooth.
Is the main reason for substance abuse really lack of jobs and lack of hope?

I'm curious where you got your data from.
A quick google search of the product name (BG-E8 5G Signal Jammer) from the pictures in a linked article[0] indicate it costs a few hundred dollars and uses 30W, with a range of about 250m. Wonder how modified it can be, or how varied those specs may be.

[0] https://morganhilltimes.com/police-locate-signal-jamming-dev...
The real lesson here is: if you don't like the cops, you can jam their signals for months before getting caught.
/biz/ and r/cryptocurrency
As a Canadian, may I offer you a double double?

I love coffee. Not Timmie's -- good proper coffee. And I only ever add a dash of milk and about 1/4 tsp of sugar.

The rationale behind making a weak cup of coffee sweeter than the accompanying donut has never made sense to me. It's so hard to drink like that. I'm clearly outnumbered by people who are used to taking in that much sugar with every syrupy mouthful.
Also, older generations lived through some of the most prosperous times in American history. Those conditions no longer exist, where you could have a comfortable middle class existence on a single income.
Write a System Call (2016)
Isn't this a knapsack problem [1]? It looks like it can be represented as a linear program:

Maximize sum(x)

subject to constraint:

P•x = 43.94

where P is a vector of prices of each toy, and x is a vector of quantities purchased of each toy.

Then one can either plug this into an LP solver, or can solve it by hand using simplex or other algorithm.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem
I’m sorry but this is not the 7 GUI. These all look like straight linear gradients with no breakpoints in how harsh they appear in this library.

To the creator I’d suggest using photoshop or Figma to relocate the design elements, then translate the breakpoints to CSS to make the components more realistic.

Great start though!
This was more about jamming everyone's signals nearby (cell phone, WiFi, etc.) than about jamming the cops' signals.
Not much of a way to build a defense case when the device says "BG-E8 5G SIGNAL JAMMER" in big white letters on the front.
I once fasted for a week and when I started eating again I remember being amazed at how flavorful plain oatmeal was, without any additives. Never before had I been able to eat oatmeal without fruit or sweetener but after resetting my taste buds it was enough by itself.
Until police are subject to criminal perjury prosecution this won't stop. Until police can't say "we'll stop doing our job if any prosecutor prosecutes us" that won't change.
At my dentist growing up, they used to have little plastic bags stapled to the wall labelled with the product that that amount of sugar came from. A can of Coke has a pretty big bag of sugar in it, as does a glass of orange juice. It's amazing seeing it visualised like that.
Not all people have the strength to leave social media with risk of leaving as outcast or losing friends. Even if those friends might not be worth it, if you lose them because of the platform.

Dopamine addicition is also real.

People should realize how dangerous it can be, when the main goals of these companies are to get their users to spend as much as time possible on their platforms to watch ads. But many have other things to do, than think stuff like this.
I can't imagine this as anything else than a military intelligence operation to delay / complicate an otherwise probably faster dangerous approach to local supporters of US.

Like salting passwords.
https://cyberhoot.com/cybrary/password-salting/

Taliban has a lot of experience, and by now they are probably sure they got lots of disinformation in their hands, and they can't act on it without triple-checks, case-by-case.

This is a working example of 4th. gen warfare, and it looks like US+NATO folks there are running the ops flawlessly, bad guys can't go faster.
Considering the device says '5g jammer' on the front I wonder if this was just some garden variety conspiracy theories gone wrong
Well, we actually sort of know that something is different far away, since the rotation profile of galaxies do not match theoretical predictions. There are currently two different resolutions, either postulating new particles (dark matter and energy) or change of fundamental laws (MOND theories). Since we didn't manage to detect either in our solar system we know that something is different.
The people of Afghanistan didn't end the war in Afghanistan so I didn't take the question to be asking "Is this the worst possible scenario for the people of Afghanistan?"

They appear to be doing quite well.
> I don't need to make an argument that it isn't censorship

Yes you do. This is plain as day censorship. You're not allowed to say certain things to your friends. If you're going to claim that that isn't censorship you are absolutely making the affirmative claim.
Wikipedia gives a summary of the accident rate in the US [1], humans drive millions of miles without accidents. Filip Piekniewski has an ongoing series on self-driving car problems. [2] (I'd look up the earlier articles in the series if I had time). This article I googled [3] give some statistics: ") At the moment, self-driving cars have a higher rate of accidents compared to human-driven cars, but the injuries are less serious. On average, there are 9.1 self-driving car accidents per million miles driven, while the same rate is 4.1 crashes per million miles for regular vehicles." However, nearly all self-driving cars are driven in highly controlled conditions, the safest driving areas available and/or an operator ready to take over - yet they still have a higher rate of accidents than human drivers.

There's a reason self-driving cars aren't being deployed yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
[2] https://blog.piekniewski.info/2021/05/12/ai-mid-2021/
[3] https://carsurance.net/blog/self-driving-car-statistics/
I was wondering the same, and surprisingly, the answer is yes.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALbqZ9rQQ_E around 6:14.
Not to mention raspberry pi et al which are more bare bones but well under 100 dollars.
Windows ME had a very weak concept of being usable too. The thing crashed so much 98se was an upgrade...
It's ironic that the resident's attempt to hide by using jamming devices is exactly what led police to them.
Those were two different accounts you replied to.
So, I'm curious. Do you think a nation ceases to be sovereign when it's in civil war or if there is some conflict over the government. E.g. in the US, when Trump was claiming he was elected President, did the US become less sovereign?

(From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan) Afghanistan became something that looks like a modern sovereign state sometime in the 18th century and continued on from then. You seem to think that if there is some conflict over government it ceases to be sovereign, I'm pretty sure that is not how that works.

On a side note, I'm genuinely happy to be able to have a conversation with someone about it, it seems most people are more happy on here to downvote opinions they don't agree with and that challenge their world views.
It's called damaged goods price discrimination.
Georgia did abolish the police once. It worked, to a point.

"I Abolished and Rebuilt the Police. The United States Can Do the Same."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/11/abolish-police-georgia-...
I can't exactly meet your challenge, but I think it's obvious that they should have kept Bagram and used it to stage the final retreat.

I have yet to hear an argument of any kind to support abandoning it. Biden simply said it didn't add any value, but he didn't support that assertion in any way, and no one else has tried as far as I know.

There are undoubtedly a hundred other things that a competent leadership would have done differently, but I suspect Bagram will be recorded as the biggest blunder.

Tyler Rogoway expounds on this much better than I can:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42128/what-the-u-s-mil...
Aren’t piles that don’t extend to bedrock common in many cities? They are ubiquitous in Dubai, and are even used in the Burj Khalifa. There’s a way to do it right. One confounding factor with this SF tower is the later construction of the Transbay Center nearby, which I read may have destabilized soils nearby through dewatering. Apparently their process reduced the water table by 20 feet (https://sf.curbed.com/2016/9/20/12991602/millennium-tower-si...), which would change the bearing capacity of soils and affect friction piles.

One oddity is that the city’s inspectors and departments approved all of this - their surveys, geological analyses, foundation design, building design, and so on. That work spanned many contractors. SF is a city with many controls to prevent this kind of situations, so it is unclear as yet where all the faults lies.
>And innocent people get hurt.

You're saying that everyone lies except for "innocent people"? Where are these innocent people you speaketh of? There's no such thing as "innocent people." Everyone lies their asses off, everyone. There is no such thing as innocent.
Quantum computers could soon fit in phones
these are US measures. Metric 5ml is a teaspoon, 20ml a tablespoon. In case anyone else was confused like me.
Based on the photo in an article linked to from the original article, the device appears to be this:

https://www.xiaomitoday.com/product/texin-bg-e8/

Quoting from the ad: "The BG-E8 signal jammer weighs only 2.3 kg. The Texin jammer consumes 60W of power and has a single channel 3-4W transmitting power." And costs $119.99.
tbh I'm not sure anything has really changed in Canada since cannabis was legalized. A collective shrug from the populace.
>5G SIGNAL JAMMER

Wouldn't surprise me if this was some nutjob trying to avoid cancer from 5g frequencies... by emitting a whole lot of them with their jammer.
The last S3 security document that we’ll ever need, and how to use it
R.I.P JScript.
San Francisco has an Inner/Outer Richmond district. It’s the area north of Golden Gate Park. Inner/outer Sunset is south of Golden Gate Park. How can you be such an authority on SF and not know this? Yes there’s a Richmond city but it’s not what’s being referred to here…
The charges they filed against them though relate to impeding the police, not fcc violations or something.
I want you to imagine for a second a conversation between two people, one that goes something like this:

Person A: "I really don't think weed should be illegal."

Person B: "Oh yeah, so what about raping rural villagers to death? I guess you think that should be legal too huh?"

This is how ridiculous you sound.
I have no reason to believe that the picture in their tweet was the item seized in this instance. They could be using a stock photo. But hey, why worry about tainting the jury pool, right? Guilty!
A natural outcome of police being above the law.

YouTube is full of videos of police caught planting evidence.

You’d think it would destroy all police credibility everywhere but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Check out this example:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_RSsGqhhXMU
Great comment. Can you expand on the impacts of using a tier two fab? How does a product change when using not-tsmc?
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Crypto Prices App
Occasionally if you try the internet archive you can get the files.
I wonder now two things created to solve same problem
1 - $5 total revenue
2 - $4000/month
? What was the marketing difference???
It's a shame the glass effect isn't able to properly blur the background like native Windows glass does, the legibility is very bad without the blur to eliminate high-frequency detail in the background.
The idiots mixing in the Fent might actually use a scale if simply having one isn't another charge upgrade etc
I just found a blog where the author explains that its actually a myth and mostly coincidental. The reason the skyscrapers are in midtown and downtown was due to historical and economic reasons. Those were the dense wealthy business areas where people wanted and needed to build taller buildings and it turned out they also had the shallowest bedrock.

They also said the shallow bedrock didn't force them to stay there. It isn't much of a problem to drill deeper and a number of early skyscrapers were built elsewhere... It's just that people wanted their skyscrapers to be in midtown and downtown.

https://buildingtheskyline.org/bedrock-and-midtown-i/
Unofficial support: you may get locked out at any time, even within that product's lifecycle.

Official support: if you get locked out within this product's lifecycle, they will have to compensate you.
But why don't they exist anymore? Everything I read indicates that our productivity increase is the same since 1950. Surely, there must be some explanation...
Since it's probably just an SDR internally, I'm sure someone with a bit of RF know-how could put a transmit amp between the antenna and the device.