skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t understand the cult of personality around Aaron. It’s like a self insert for people that fantasize about sticking it to the man or something; the tragic hero, the genius boy who died not realizing his potential, the man who dared to defy the authorities. Yawn.

Fact is Aaron was an angsty teen with an axe to grind with the authorities . Reading Chomsky certainly didn’t help. Acting out childishly by spreading copy righted material, getting caught and whining about how all of this is so unfair…

Look, he was no genius. Genius does not invent reddit; it invents facebook and then proceeds to take over the world because actual, real, genius understands the rules of the game.

Aaron was smart enough to understand just how fucked things are but oh so very dumb to act out on his aggressive impulses. The very same impulses that later lead him to kill himself.

Ironically his suicide accomplished far more than his technical know how could ever hope to achieve.

p.s. aaron was no hero. You dont ever want to be him and you certainly dont want your children to be him. His ideals were pure and correct, but he could not accept we’re living in a world filled with trash humans. Should’ve played the game correctly imho.
This is exactly the attitude warned against in TFA.
ooooh, BBS :)

I kinda came in when modems were at the 2400 baud stage and I ran a 286 with a 20Mb HDD which was plenty fast enough. I went through a variety of BBS software and ended up with Wildcat which was a good, expandable commercial product. OS was IBM OS/2 Warp. We originally had a single landline which caused huge rows when I had to take the BBS down so that the family could actually call their relatives and friends. I negotiated a deal with my employers to get me a "fast" (9600 baud) modem that would cost $2100 today and a dedicated landline. The BBS community was very tight-knit and generally helpful, although FidoNet seemed to bring out the worst in people and was often nicknamed Fight-O-Net. By the time affordable 56000 baud modems came in, the BBS world was being threatened by the Internet, and the rest is history...
Er... you mean the UN resolution which produced this map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_... ? Well, today Israel opposes the current "two state solution" proposal which would give the Palestinians a much smaller territory than on that map, so I kind of understand why the proposal from 1948 is not on the table anymore...
Well it's handy to know if your phone is being held, in the car, on your desk.

You can 'track' if someone glanced at notifications, doing a spaced-repetition type delay between glances.

Or maybe you want notification when you're looking at your phone (certain angle and shakeyness). Or maybe when you're on the phone (different angle).
Can you please elaborate, what 'another way'?

I know only one: keeping the app running as a service, with all associated drawbacks. The app we develop (an XMPP client) does just that.

On iOS, it is not possible at all. To make an app receive messages and notify user about them, you must use APNS, and to do that you have to upload your keys to Telegram.
> They are definitely using it for something else.

Like 3D and 360 photos.
Damn, if you're familiar with the Radiohead track, this is so satisfying.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Acceleromet...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Gyroscope

To use this sensor, the user must grant permission to the 'gyroscope' device sensor through the Permissions API.
Do you mean the video game UI (e.g. Scaleform) or are you referring to the actual 3D rendering of video games but used for UI?
Do you think they imagine the end result at the beginning of the process or do they just play semi-randomly until they find something that has potential, and then refine it?
One of Aaron's contributions is not mentioned very frequently. He is also the co-founder of the site Demand Progress, created to fight for various progressive causes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Progress
Such a tool would be outdated very soon after it's published because these companies check their hacks against known antivirus and detection tools before they deploy them.
Hopefully, the next time will be due to a more positive story.
The answer to this question seems so self-evident that I’m not sure if you’re trolling or really just uninformed.

To be fair, aggregate debt and interest rates don’t really tell the whole story, because credit providers are a lot more creative as well. Anecdotally, I routinely get offers for promotional low- or no-interest balances on unsecured credit (i.e. credit cards) that overlap such that I can fairly easily maintain a condition of “negative working capital” in excess of my annual income for maybe 2% APR.
> PC games don’t need “cross play” FYI, you create a server and it is visible for anyone who purchased the game regardless of platform.

That is very much game specific. As an example, Deep Rock Galactic doesn't support playing between Steam and the MS store [0]

> I haven’t used in game voice for more than a decade now. discord, teamspeak, steam chat, Xbox live all work well and are used by quite a lot of people.

All of those options require you to coordinate your play outside of the game and the platform. If you are playing Sea of Thieves on Steam with friends using steam voice chat, and one person joins via the MS store, you need to figure out out how to get them into the correct place. If you're all on xbox, they just join your party.

> Can’t comment on that single issue, but it does look like there was barely any information provided to repro the issue.

So it's not just file a bug report, it's file a bug report and provide follow up information. As a programmer, that's fine, but what if my kids want to play minecraft with their friends?

[0] https://www.deeprockgalactic.com/crossplay-info
> (this was clear from the Darknet Diaries episode)

think that episode also mentioned it iirc ... that the plausible deniability goes out the window the minute they host their own infrastructure.

also NSO Group goes through great length to obscure who they're selling to using shell and shelf companies. actually indistinguishable from how narco terrorists and organized crime operates:
https://forensicnews.net/the-covert-reach-of-nso-group/

Unit81, and Unit8200 FTW :(
> Windows 10 with a custom ui. They won't drop out off the console race without trying this.

If Valve effectively releases a Valve "console" (a fully fledged desktop PC with the Steam Deck experience + powerful GPU)... who are we kidding? Who will buy a walled garden after that? Seems to me like Microsoft will at best be just competing...

If you follow the discussions on reddit about Steamdeck people are SUPER excited, and some gamers are alreadsy asking questions about linux and whether their next PC could be linux ; since Valve's endoresement of Proton on the Steam deck and the "Steam Deck verified" experience is making them confident that Linux will replace Windows.

Tons of gamers nowadays really only need a PC for gaming and general entertainment... meaning Windows is completely optional.

NihongoGamer has really good commentary on related topic:

About the "Steam Deck verified"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL0NIhJpHg0

I don't know , I'm 47 and honestly Steam Deck + their rumored console that comes after it; is the most exciting news I've heard in gaming for a LONG time...

I'm a casual as you might expect at 47... I still want to play A game like NMS occasionally, but I don't want to spend all day updating Windows and tweaking GPU drivers and all the bullshit that is "pc building" today.

Last AAA game I bought was Assassin Creed Oddyssey. I paid 50 EUR during a Steam sale. Still pricey but it was pretty new. ... I played the game for few hours and realized I didn't like it all that much. This is the reason why I never bought into PS and Nintendo for the past fifteen years.. pretty much since the Dreamcast: is is hugely expensive. if you pay 70 EUR for a game you have to be really committed not just to like it, but to get your money's worth. I can"t afford to buy a 70 EUR game when I get bored of most games after a few hours.

Having a console like experience with the Steam store is hugely exciting for me... so many silly / smaller games, that you pay pennies and still can have fun for a few hours.. it opens up a whole new genre of games that consoles aren't well suited for, or that are just not easy to consume on the console. I mean, just browsing steam is fun in and of itself.
Third world countries usually have very heavy import and sales taxes as the corrupt elites prefer to tax consumption than income, wealth or inheritance.
In Brazil, for example, all tech costs for the consumer in dollars at least twice what it costs for the American consumer due to 60% import tax plus some variable 18 to 30% sales tax (similar but not the same as a VAT). Factor in freight and the fact those items are in practice luxury goods with the importer expecting high margins and the scenario is complete for absurd price increases
You cant have an article criticizing Zion without you shills showing up. Be gone
I've been thinking about this a lot in the past and also think that tags would indeed make the most sense, at least for a new type of "desktop UI" which is created around the idea to quickly listing and finding files by typing tag names instead of an actual "desktop metapher".

I guess the idea didn't get much traction because coders are often using the cmdline (where the hierarchical organization works reasonably well), while creative professionals often use the file organization methods offered in specific applications and probably don't spend all that much time in Finder/Explorer (except maybe for bulk-copying files around).
Yes, that map which the Arabs never accepted.

Please also keep in mind that Israel have occupied far more land - and promptly given it back as soon as a lasting peace agreement with the country in question was signed (more or less the entire Sinai. And the country who signed a lasting peace treaty and never had trouble with Israel again is Egypt).

Also, please keep in mind that significant more Jews has been chased out of surrounding Arab countries than Arabs from Israel so anyone asking if UN really divided it in a fair way should also have a good case if they weren't up against almost the entire western world, especially academia and journalists who by now have a deep and vested interest in keeping such facts of the table.

Edit: my point in the second paragraph is that I don't think it is fair to demand that Israel retreat from hard-to-attack positions that gives enemies significant advantages (especially Golan) without a lasting peace agreement.

Edit 2: as for Judea and Samaria which constitute a large part of the remaining "occupied territories" they were first captured by Jordan (which was supposed to be the Arab part of the British mandate from the start and which got 70% of the land before the UN resolution which cut the remaining 30% into a Jewish and an Arab part.)

Israel then took it from Jordan in the 1967 war and has been administering it since then.
In the days of yore, phone calls were free (after monthly service fees) within only your own area code or even one of the many Local Area and Transport Area (LATA) within your area code if covering a very large geographical expanse of your area code. This is how Bell carriers make their money: long distance (inter-area-code) and LATA (intra-area-code) calls for larger metro areas.

And often times, phone calls were free to your neighbors who are just immediately across your LATA/area-code boundary.

BBS folks who borders within their LATA often take advantage of free calling to their neighbor LATA running BBS and set up FIDOnet to relay their users’ BBS messages across the area code for free thereby connecting two entire area codes together using these “LATA pair of BBS” as a bridge.

Soon, we were able to send messages across the nation … for free.

That was only significant when making a call across area code boundary was considered a very expensive long distance call.

https://www.att.com/support/smallbusiness/article/smb-local-...
> It's still the modern norm to use zero lawyers for small-scale transactions.

It's great when that happens — and to make it work, there are a couple of conditions that need to be satisfied.

1. All parties to a transaction need to know "the protocol," or "the drill," that is, how to conduct themselves as the transaction proceeds. (Imagine a complicated, multi-person dance where people could crash into each other if they didn't know the steps — or knew the steps but chose not to follow them.)

Competent lawyers can provide the necessary knowledge, but they don't necessarily have to be the sole source of such knowledge: Various industries have developed standardized protocols for different categories of transaction. Examples: the Incoterms [0] and the ISDA Master Agreement [1], to name just two that come immediately to mind.

2. There's another reason parties use lawyers, and contracts, in their transactions: At bottom, companies are just people [2], and people can be perfidious; at some point The Other Side might choose to behave opportunistically. Contracts can help dissuade such behavior. For better or worse, lawyers are one of the principal groups who (might) know how to draft contracts to that end; good lawyers know how to do so without unduly getting in the way of the parties' business.

Consider Alice and Bob, who agree to a contract on behalf of their employers Alpha Corp. and Bravo LLC. Each might be a fine, trustworthy, cooperative individual. But they're human; at some point they might be tempted — or pressured by colleagues — to cheat, or to seek unfair advantage, especially if circumstances were to change. Moreover, one or both of their successors Allen and Betty might be less trustworthy. This means that Alpha and Bravo's contract must guard against opportunistic behavior by one or both of them. Lawyers (can) help to negotiate contracts with appropriate roadblock language.

Again lawyers aren't necessarily the sole source of the necessary knowledge; it just happens to have worked out that they're one of the main sources of it.

Also, lawyers can be useful targets of finger-pointing by business people if a transaction doesn't work out as desired. That can be another, usually-unstated reason why people hire lawyers: To offload at least some of the risk of failure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incoterms

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/isda-master-agreement.a...

[2] In the 2012 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney was pilloried for saying "corporations are people," but in one sense the criticism was unfair: If Romney had said "corporations are just people," his statement would have been far more defensible.

(Disclosure: I'm a lawyer.)
It's nonsense because if you sell your potatoes for gold, why would you be able to get those potatoes back 30 years later?

The sad answer is population growth. The optimistic answer is that the person ate the potatoes which gave him the strength to harvest potatoes in 30 years. The realistic answer is that you should have no expectation that you ever get any potatoes back as the potatoes have spoiled and nobody is exerting additional energy to counteract the loss.
> I just wish there was a Tcl that was redesigned from a modern perspective. Give me first-class lambdas. Give me unnamed objects that get destroyed automatically (with a callback) when out of scope[1] so I don’t have to use a weird namespace hack to make the object and rely on the caller to invoke the destroy method.

If you take a look at jimtcl (minimalistic reimplementation of tcl, started by antirez - he of redis fame), it did take some steps towards the above.

- unified arrays with dicts

- proper lambdas

- (sort of) closures

In many ways, I personally feel its a shame that jimtcl has felt the need to tie itself down to tcl-compatibility as much as it has. A few more warts could have been fixed along the way.

Anyway, check it out. It's manpage is quite comprehensive
I really want to answer some other question than the one you asked. But the answer to your question is Go.
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Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: R, git, NLP, machine learning, data science, computational social science

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so? the power light isnt measuring your cpu either, it's correlated via the switch.
This is a good point. Its easy to forget how much more ephemeral the pre-internet world was.

However, at the time, playboy had a circulation of over 7 million, was known for publishing literature of note, etc. Maybe the computer graphics aspect was out of left field, but the magazine itself was notable enough that being an object of academic study wasn't exactly that surprising, and similarly reproducing it in the form of an anthology was probably likely.
Agree completely. By all accounts he was a bright guy, bu he did something very foolish. He did a crime and rather than play ball he martyred himself. Yes there probably was prosecutorial overreach and yes our criminal justice system could use reform. But this guy was no saint in the matter and could have easily got off with a minor sentence.
I think it would have been impossible otherwise. It's still annoying with the multiplexed address and data pins in the DIP-40: you have to demultiplex them with latches and transcievers. And don't forget the 8088 (used in the PC) couldn't do data in one clock due to the 8-bit data bus (386SX was similar in the next step up.) Pretty cool for us that the 8086/8 are breadboardable though.
It's really too bad you can't win wars with printed money.
Thats not true at all
Someone who pays $800 will probably buy fewer games with the console than someone who pays MSRP, so it would take longer to make back their loss.
Any technological question has a car analogy, in this case a PS5 is kind of like a mid range sports car while a PC is… well, a custom car, so pretty much anything.

So why buy a mid range sports car if you can buy an SUV for the same price that you can also go grocery shopping with, or a pickup that you can also haul stuff with?

In the end it always comes down to the use case of the thing, and the people buying consoles are not just interested in playing games, they’re also not interested in the stuff a PC offers.

As soon as you introduce choices, you introduce complexity. People buy consoles because they want to play games with the least amount of complexity involved, and they’re willing to sacrifice those choices because often they don’t even want them in the first place.

Also, consoles often have some games that only come out for that console, so if you’re really interested in a game, sometimes buying the console is your only choice.
They showed us that they have no qualms about murdering us when we speak up for what we belive is right.

If there is anywhere that we can go from here, it is not to be done as a united civilization.
I wonder is it an enourmous talent and sound engineering skills, or simply drugs? Or being popular peformer people queue with ideas and it's enough to pick the interesting ones?
We use Quaderno with Stripe, mostly for their tax handling. They support paypal, too, but we currently don't integrate that https://www.quaderno.io/integrations
> On a modern system you buy in the next electronic store that is ready to use the mental load is the same as using any Sony OS.

It's really really not. Ever had the scenario where anticheat for a game has failed to install because of a pending windows update?

> I use a console 3 times a month when friends come around to play. I often have to wait for a fairly long update of OS and games.

Both xbox and playstation have supported background updates for the last couple of years, both for the OS and for games.
I wonder if there is a market for a smart phone with a hardware disconnect switch for all of its sensors? Mic, accelerometers, camera, ambient light, etc?

I'd love to be able to flick a switch and just disable everything. I'm paranoid about my devices listening to me without my permission. The only issue is that for such a feature to be useful it probably couldn't disconnect everything, wifi and mobile data would probably need to remain software switches for example.
Every single business in every single industry is based around developing products that make as much money as possible. They even have meetings about it.
>This is in addition to the opportunity costs you incur of not buying a PC or having a lower powered PC as a PC can be used for other things (ie, office work, taxes, other productivity tasks).

Work related stuf I do on my work-provided MacBook Pro, that costs me €0. For browsing the web, e-mail and taxes I just use my iPad.
I’ve worked at some large companies and would say this is wrong. I can’t talk about most of my best examples because they’re still roadmap items.
>>they influence you to want things

This is a frequent topic of stress in my life. It's almost every other week, my cousin and his family show up at our home and make it a point to rub their latest purchase in our faces.

Some times my wife and mom even fall for it.

My typical approach is to let a week to a month pass between such an incident and for most purchases you realise you don't need it. Eventually you do come across a few things which they buy, and could improve your life and it make sense buying them. But giving a wait period generally helps to see if that is the case.

I also feel bad for my cousin that his happiness depends on staying in debt forever buying things just to show off.
Singapore has about 1650 isolation beds and 200 ICU places. 25000 people older than 60 (1 in 4 figure from the article) can easily overwhelm this capacity.
Wages up as Americans are encouraged back to work and into the office
You don't "need to" but reducing the prop wash is a nicety.

It's the kind of thing the pilot does in commercial operations (to improve the customer experience) when there's textbook perfect VFR conditions and 10k of margin below you if you run out of power/lift and have to dive out of a stall. It suffices to say marines jumping out of the back of C17s and C130s are not getting that kind of polite treatment. Even if you've got a bunch of well practiced skydivers, having them all get out of the plane quickly and close together is going to make for a much better experience for them.

Everyone is gonna pearl clutch about it being "dangerous" but prop washing the crap out of your skydivers also carries some danger. As the video indicates a stall at 10kft isn't really a big deal for a halfway competent pilot. I wouldn't call it a daily occurrence but elevator pilots (skydive pilots) recover from a stall far more than most because they're constantly climbing as fast as possible (because that's the most economic way to run a skydive operation). Considering the kind of pilots who wind up doing skydive operations I think a lot of them would have been tempted to just take their hands off the controls and see if the plane recovers itself (it should) and then intervene if it doesn't.

There is no real "answer" here because the activities involved have some baseline danger to them and at best you can just shift it around between parties.

Imagine the fallout if someone bumps the horizontal stabilizer on the way out the door and does even the slightest damage to it or gets a minor fracture or something. It's a big f-ing mess. A stall and a bunch of hand wringing is clearly the better outcome for all parties.
Maybe not a genius, but definitely a hero.

Following your logic, then the real heroes are actually the cowards?
While not impossible, this seems like a huge amount of work for an independent developer. I don’t think any old controller is plug and play as soon as you remove one if clause disabling them, there’s probably a significant amount of work involved in getting them to work.