skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First Levers (How to start building Leverage)
Why can't the most valuable company in the world just engineer a solution? Dell was able to fit infrared facial unlock inside that tiny bezel too, so I don't really buy the "it's for faceID" argument (especially since they didn't include the hardware this time). It's a ridiculous decision by a company that deserves to be ridiculed for cutting corners on a professional device.
Blank page on firefox. About half the time it flashes a UI before going to blank white, and half the time it starts out blank white.
It's fine to jump versions
You'd think so. But for 20 years plus justices at all levels have been very happy signing off secret warrants, ultra wide warrants, back dates warrants and other bs. It seems the judiciary don't (want to) understand computers well enough. They just accept government claims of necessity.
Freedom is serious business and worth dying for. If our freedoms online are taken, make no mistake, it will be war.
I was critical of this at the time because it associated Ginsburg with a viewpoint that she may not have held, but there's nothing Orwellian about that. People smooth over the rough edges of their historical idols all the time. There's virtually nobody who quotes the US founders who is actually advocating for the precise same set of values and institutions those founders supported.
C'mon; aren't there any "Love of Chair" fans out there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMd0xWleJQ
I didn't say "a father or brother or whatever". I identified specific people.
I missed this -- but my comment elsewhere about the FW update for overheating definitely applies for a launch day Pi4!
t3.micro = $0.0104 x 750 = $7.80/mo without taking your bandwidth into consideration.

Lightsail costs $3.50/mo with 1tb transfer bundled or $5/mo with 2tb.

If your setup is scripted then it probably makes sense to switch over to save a bit of cash. Others following the same path could save some money by using Lightsail as opposed to EC2.
> Hunter Biden's laptop scandal.

Everyone heard about Hunter Biden's laptop, but no one cared, because it was obvious bullshit, and there was literally no hard proof at all.

"A guy claims that Biden flew across country, left the laptop there, never came back for it, and it was full of information, but is unwilling to actually show us any concrete proof." Why would any sane person care?

What sort of person is so pathologically uninterested in human life that they think this is more important than the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands Americans due to the bungled response to COVID?

I'm just horrified.
9 / 10 don't speak up. I'm sure a few like it though.
I use it, not the point though, should be built-in.
Someone told me they solved it quite simply and elegantly:

There's a law that says: "For a computer system to be purchased by the government it must work in French".

Implementation is then left to potential sellers.
It's a matter of interest. I don't have a Phd in physics, but have watched enough videos in Youtube about quantum physics[1] now to understand almost everything the article says. Some details escape me, but I believe Quantum physics does that also to Phds.

On the other hand, when they publish an economics article here, with the interests and the rates and the valuations of the options and whatnot, I understand almost nothing. I can't force myself to care about those things.

[1] I recommend kurzgesagt, Sabine Hossenfelder and PBS Space Time
THERE. IS. NO. EVIDENCE.
Article is a bit spoiler heavy, if you plan on reading the book (which you might wanna do, it was for me one of the best by Stephenson) please skip the article.
That's not what they mean. They are alluding to negative press about Facebook which has led some to believe that Facebook is broadly disliked.

In reality, it seems that people are completely fine with Facebook.
Is there a higher resolution image of this available anywhere? The 7000 x 1150 one is nice, but I couldn't find a link to anything larger. It says the original is 120,000 x 18,000 so it was a little disappointing to have the available version not even fill the vertical resolution of my monitor.
I spent several minutes trying to figure out how to add columns or rows, but it turns out you can't. It's a 'tiny sheet', after all.
To me "whistleblowing" is supposed to be about revealing criminal activity.

This stuff is just hard policy challenges without any easy answers. FB is generally open about that and what they're trying to do in order to reduce risk. The problem is mostly upstream.

I'm not an apologist and FB has made mistakes (Steven Levy's book Facebook: The Inside Story is a great look into a lot of the history and it's rare in that it's actually a fair account of things). Growth at all costs (Chamath's team) lead to a lot of problems in developing countries. Incentives around engagement and controversy, etc. FB has massive teams working on reducing the risks around this stuff, but it's impossible to eliminate because most of humanity believes insane contradictory things.

“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”

Put three billion tribal apes in one place and what do you expect? HN is the best case outcome and dang does a great job, but we're a pretty selected bunch, and even then it's difficult to pull off (and we're a smaller, focused community).

We're trapped in a local maximum largely because our computing stack sucks (imo) and everything has to be a SaaS due to the extreme complexity and cost to administer anything. I hope that Urbit succeeds and we get out of this, but I don't think this is something FB can really fix - it's not even a problem anyone should be responsible for fixing. The fact things are like this is an accident of history and hopefully an anachronism of our time.

It also doesn't help that our politicians (across the political spectrum) mostly just aren't very smart: https://www.piratewires.com/p/jack-be-nimble-jack-be-quick
It is definitely an attempt to fill out the corners of the old design in order to make room for all the new stuff. It looks way thicker then the previous model.

I do like the keyboard and the rounded screen, but the overall shape is not particularly elegant.
Just for the density of jargon, this is quite an amusing post. I just hope your project is actually working out, though I can't tell from what you wrote.
Very well written piece. Makes me wonder if we will soon see a similar piece published but s/heroin/videogames.
"All voting in Congress is a matter of public record. However, not all floor votes are roll call votes. There are voice votes (“aye” or “no”) and division or standing votes (where the presiding officer counts Members), and these types of votes do not indicate by name how a member voted." (https://www.senate.gov/legislative/HowTo/how_to_votes.htm)

I am having a difficult time finding data on the number of roll-call votes vs. others; general descriptions go between "very often" and "the majority".

"Very often, when a vote is called for passage of a particular bill, a voice vote is the usual procedure. Equally often, a bill is often declared "passed" even when the voices of a measure's supporters are not obviously louder. Also, a voice vote does not allow a member's constituents to know how he or she voted on a particular bill. If a clear-cut winner of a voice vote is not recognized, then a request for a recorded vote is made." (https://www.legion.org/legislative/thomas/17797/part-11-roll...)
How are secret features better than the now-discoverable option of simply shutting it off and turning it back on? It's an all-time computing classic and now it's using the UI classic toggle language. This seems superb to me.
Specifically, vaccinated people don’t seem to be producing antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein, the shell of the virus. This means vaccinated people will be far more vulnerable to mutations in the spike protein even after they have been infected and recovered.

It also means the virus is likely to select for mutations that go in exactly that direction, because those will essentially give it an enormous vulnerable population to infect.
You mean copying and pasting files that already contain metadeta? That was difficult? Because I'm pretty sure everyone universally hated the formats and auto-renamed files that iTunes forced.
Does Your Software Process Still Make Sense?
I love this.

A bit cumbersome to add equations. Consider a few quick-populated options with common ones?
It works flawlessly here on Firefox.

In general, I recommend anyone that reports something is broken on their brower to at least try it in a guest profile (i.e. with all extensions disabled, all settings being default) first. The author can't really catch the issue if it's caused by certain extensions/block rules/non-default settings.
The church I belong to says its mission, or our duty as mem bers, is to:
1) live the gospel
2) care for those in need (which we very actively work at, locally and worldwide)
3) invite others to come to Christ (love, share, invite)
4) unite families for eternity

My own notes/additions to the above include:

1) Live the gospel meaning to keep commandments (like the 10), do what one knows is right, be humble and faithful, etc in order to have the promised ~ "...peace in this life, and eternal life in the world to come." I have seen the results in stable multigenerational family organizations, and ability to work through very hard times. And to know life and hard things have a good purpose and is worth it. And so much more.

2-4) so very much could be said. example-- https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2021-10-25/nation... ... which resonates with my neighborhood experiences, including with those not of our faith.

And the extensive humanitarian work (where 100% of those specific donations go to those in need, none to admin overhead) and high voluntarism.
I agree it is a little pricey for something that doesn't come complete with the SOC. I would rather use something like the ODROID-HC4[1]. It isn't as fancy as this or have as broad of support as the RPi, but it is $80.

1: https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-hc4
KDE Connect arrives on iOS breaking the ice between iOS and Linux/Windows
System sniffs out hardware trojans in electromagnetic emissions
They’re state employees on the clock, given a gun and legal immunity by the state. They can have their anonymity back when they’re not performing their official duties, not during.
14-Inch MacBook Pro
Kind of a tangent but this really makes me think about this problem I see with thinking in Silicon Valley. It seems to be a common belief that if someone is solving a problem they have with some product or service, they are helping everyone in the world. But the rest of the world is very unlike Silicon Valley. Someone making an app to help them book a masseuse is not going to be solving problems for people who cannot afford to transport their tomatoes in refrigerated trucks.

I strongly believe that the best way to help people in other places very different from our own is to open source the best of what we know. Everything we rely on. For example instead of buying refrigerated trucks from an expensive European suppler (let's suppose) they could clone the designs and manufacture refrigeration more cheaply. Such an effort would take time but if we shared the plans for everything we rely on, someone could make it cheaper and offer it to those with less income. A free market of manufacturers would compete based on who can manufacture goods the cheapest, rather than who can both design them and manufacture them.

Maybe refrigeration is already generic enough that this particular item would not get cheaper, but in general if everything was open source then people in places like this would be more able to manufacture what they really need even if they lack certain technical skills required to design the things. And with trade normalization required by the WTO, many of these companies cannot clone certain useful goods due to patent restrictions.

We are so wealthy in the USA and yet we do not often consider sharing our wealth in this way with every other person sharing this time with us.
I suspect that it's not really the case that Another World set out to emulate PoP given that the development of Another World started before PoP's Apple II release(which, if you have read Mechner's writings, was not a huge success until ports came out the next year with a little marketing push).

The games that Another World is drawing on are actually the European action-adventures of the later 80's - the run of games Psygnosis had with Brataccas, Shadow of the Beast and Barbarian were very influential and suggested various ways of thinking about side-view platforming that would influence a "cinematic" approach - Barbarian, for example, really pushes on the idea of having every screen be a self-contained puzzle with major scripted elements. The concept was never entirely new, so much as it was elaborated on from classic arcade game "stages" and transposed from text adventures into graphical ones, at first in a crude sense with lock-and-key puzzles and then gradually with more emphasis on bespoke interactions, animations and environments as the platforms and game engines became more capable. Another World simply took the time to give everything some direction and continuity instead of accepting the status quo on the Amiga of "screenshot games" that looked good on the box but used janky control schemes and filler content.

Mechner, in contrast, was going off the influence of games from his immediate peers like Lode Runner and flirted with the idea of making it more of a construction-kit experience several times through development, before finally settling on a series of set-piece levels. This really shows up in the extremely modular nature of the level design: there are only a few one-off scripted elements, the bulk of the experience is rearrangements of platforms, gate-and-switch puzzles, traps and guards. While his implementation still pushed the limits of the Apple II, this was mostly because it attempted large sprites with detailed animation and minimal pausing for disk loads. A version of PoP with Lode Runner spritework is both easy to imagine and to make fit comfortably on 8-but hardware.
Work, Leisure, and Family: From the Silent Generation to Millennials
I have a doggie door and both my dogs (Red Heeler and Border-collie/rottie mix) just waltz outside whenever they need to relieve themselves. Not sure where the necessary intervention is other than putting the door in… and it’s certainly far more sanitary than a box of urine and feces sitting inside my house.
It's charming and deserves consideration but I will never buy a 16:9 device.
It appears to be stored in the url. As you update the cells there's an encoded # variable that, when removed, wipes the table.
Tesla? Jury is still out on that one although it seems more and more likely that Elon has gotten away with his misdeeds and won the war. Definitely in the case of SpaceX.

I heavily followed the Tesla Skeptics community in 2017 because engineers, supply chain folks and other experienced industry people were calling out so many established practices that Tesla was skipping. They managed to power through despite all conventional wisdom showing that their cars would end up being more expensive to own long term (due to quality, fit and finish, expensive to repair etc.). We wondered what other gremlins were lurking if the stuff we could see was bad. Turns out no one cared. It is hard to defeat a product that everyone enjoys and thinks is cool.

Also I absolutely despise the a-hole nature of the Tesla fanbase/investor community. Just a terrible group of people who have had enough luck/privilege in their lives to act the way that they do.

In the end a-holes sometimes don't get their comeuppance and repeating tons of industry mistakes does not end up killing you. In addition to that, Tesla does have some legit engineering talent so its not just all run by inexperienced software boneheads despite it looking that way in 2017/2018.

But yeah it would be interesting to see what other companies are out there that are emerging and are being dismissed. I'm thinking anything made by the Paypal mafia is something you have to take seriously. This whole group of psychopaths are going to consume the entire planet by the time they are done. So maybe Palantir should be taken more seriously(are they dismissed?). What else is this group doing now? They have so much money/power/influence in between them that whatever mistakes they make will not hurt them.
Probably because a startup's primary audience for information is investors, not customers.
I disagree. I lost vision to my eye due to chip flying when cutting wood with an axe (carelessly...)

If you are looking strictly at accidents in unit of time, than maybe powered tools are more dangerous.

But what you should do is look at accidents per amount of work done. Like how many accidents it took to process 1000 tonnes of wood. I am sure the statistics would be different then.

But I agree with "especially amateurs". Being amateurs around powered tools is like being amateurs around guns. Every person should be trained at least a little before being given access to powered tools.
SMT is a good way to extract parallelism when your ISA makes it more difficult to do (with speculative execution/register renaming). ARM, it seems, makes it easier to the point I don't think any ARM CPU has been using multiple threads per core.

I would expect POWER to be more amenable to it, but x86 borrows heavily from the 8085 ISA and was designed at a time the best IPC you could hope to get was 1.
Maybe you can find a couple of fiber optic gyros lying around. The really precise ones can have a couple km of fiber optics in them. Bonus, the good ones will also have some temperature control.
"I’m not entirely sure the migraines even existed. On a few occasions, Jack admitted to me that he faked being sick to get out of school. It’s plausible that Jack made them up to get out of school or socializing, and his well-meaning but enabling parents let him do it."

Oh come on man, occam's razor. Debilitatingly painful and difficult to treat medical condition in childhood results in social isolation and an opioid addiction. A kid faking being ill once doesn't discount an entire life ruining disability.
The story of Palmer / Oculus / etc is full of massive RIFTS between partners and parties

I hadn't even heard about the TFT chapter but the more broadly reported one was the saga with Carmack / Palmer / Zenimax eg ->

- Zenimax bought ID software for >$100m(1) on June 24, 2009.

- Carmack signed up with Zenimax for an earn-out / golden-handcuffs agreement that ended in June of 2013.

- Carmack was enthralled with VR.

- Carmack found Palmer via an internet forum, reached out to get a rift to try.

- Carmack tinkered with the Rift, adding sensors, building calibration, etc. while on the clock / using hardware from zenimax.

- Carmack brought a prototype of the Rift working on Doom 3 to E3 with him providing Oculus with their early press.

- Zenimax realized the extent to which Carmack was enabling Oculus and worked to negotiate equity with Brendan Iribe.

- Oculus sent Zenimax a proposal to discuss a partnership Sept 21, 2012 but never followed up / followed through.

- Carmack quit Zenimax the day his contract was up in June 2013, joined Oculus as CTO a few months later and took his 5 best guys with him.

- FB bought Oculus March 2014, Zenmix got pissed and sued.

From my memory of the early rift I am positive that outside of Palmer it was Carmack's genius that made this viable and Carmack's video lent credibility to the campaign.

No major comment here just a wild history, not unusual for breakthrough & derivative technology!

(1) https://www.scribd.com/document/274211118/Judge-denies-Faceb...

(2) http://www.gamespot.com/articles/zenimax-raised-105-million-...
So you want to limit free speech then? Who gets to have free speech in your opinion?

It is sad I have to repeat myself so you can understand that private companies can do as they please.
If you only promote the standard formula winners, you risk failing to find the losers that can be eventually better when given the chance.

In other words, if the formula isn't perfect, it isn't good to apply it strictly. Some randomization of the low end threshold / lottery for the losers seems to be a good idea.
It's for insecure assholes to feel a sense of superiority over anyone dumber than them. They think that if they've "learned" some new word, it means they're smarter than people who don't know this word, which means they're better. It's the obverse of the "might makes right" coin, but brains over brawn.

One asshole typed up you can look this up in a dictionary. He actually thinks everyone who has a problem with this method of communication must be too dumb to have figured out the meaning of the word on their own.

And that's the same kind of asshole who uses the word "utilize" anywhere and everywhere he can because it has two more syllables than "use." Completely insecure about his own intelligence and place in the world, his only recourse is to try to cut down other people by playing the "look at my vocabulary" game. These people never grew up. They still live in the old high school nerds vs. jocks tropes.
...are you sure? When bluetooth was broken as all hell in the Monterey betas I believe that the reset trick was the go-to for people to get it to reconnect to devices properly.

Unless they removed it entirely in a later beta and I'm simply unaware.
I understand it as a part of "crappy CGI" aesthetic.
Yes we use techniques from RL as one of our technologies - its my personal research background
Heh, the 8 TB drives was more for show than anything else—I actually have them in mind for a separate project but it's more fun saying 16 TB SSD than 4 TB... plus one of my 2 TB Crucial SSDs seems to have burned itself out this week so I guess it's two good things!

I hope they make the 3.5" model too, though—it would be more cost effective (and fit the Pi's performance better) to use 3.5" HDDs that are a lot cheaper per GB, and could still easily saturate the 1 Gbps network jack.
How does it fare in price/performance? I'd wager that's what will matter more than performance/watt to 90% of customers.
Wasn't there a history of political violence and rabble rousing in Rome for a century or two before Rome? I thought the Imperium cleaned up a lot of the problems that Rome had for a while, at the cost of the democracy (which was really a plutocracy, until populism become more effective).

I could be wrong, since it's been some years.
Correct. Or they become Netflix viewers, or are used to doodle in Procreate or something. I am yet to meet a person who uses the OS (as opposed to specific apps) for something complicated. Apple loves to show how easy it is to drag an image from Email in to Pages. But nobody uses an iPad for Pages. And even that simple interaction is still somehow easier on a Mac.

The latest MacBook gives me hope that post-Ive Apple is serious about giving their customers what they want. I would love to see an iPadOS for people who do actual work one day.

Note: I'm trying to make a distinction between iPadOS and the apps on an iPad. Plenty of apps are useful for actual work. However the OS itself is very much a hinderance.
But... why?

Is there anyone who opens a classic spreadsheet software (from excel to google sheets) and says "I need something limited with less cells!"?
If the problem is that billionaires are taking out loans against their unrealized gains, at least with a VAT you are taxing them on everything they are buying with the loan.