skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did two semesters of heavy Prolog in a college AI course, decades ago.

I followed the early-2000s "Semantic Web" ideas. The actual data was all written as RDF, an application of XML, and it was very verbose and felt clumsy to me.

Prolog would have made some things easier there.

Consider how you might represent ideas about a human family tree.

Start simply, then build it up:

- Every human has a mother and a father, and might have siblings.

- Actually, a biological mother and father are required, but actual care may well be provided by a single mother, or a single father, or any other human, maybe...

- Try again: I am a human. I may or may not produce offspring. Humans are born, require care from other humans in childhood, may perhaps be able to produce children of their own after they have reached a certain age, but need exactly one other human to merge genetic material to produce such children...

... and it just spins up from there.

That sort of set of assertions regarding a conceptual domain is called an "ontology".

Try writing those assertions in Prolog.

Then try to ask questions about the assertions:

- Can a child be older than its mother?

- Try adding an assertion that defines a 'cousin'. Can a person's cousin be older than that person's mother?

Stuff like that.

In computer security, there are notions of 'roles', and 'users', and system objects that might be accessible only to certain users, or users with a particular role, or whatever.

A knowledge base that models a product's supply chain might be interesting. The 'product' is made of 'components'. Some components might be available from more than one 'supplier'. Joe is a supplier who usually ships on time, but his prices are ten percent higher than other supplier for that component... And stuff like that.

I'm sure there are better examples, but there's at least some things to think about. You could write Prolog assertions, or JSON or whatever.
Here's what I want for custom firmware: nothing. I don't mean "I don't want custom firmware". I want custom firmware THAT DOES NOTHING. Turn the TV into a dumb monitor. Do nothing else. Don't make me wait X seconds long for the TV Software to boot. Because I don't want it. I don't need it. I have external devices that do everything I want.
>At the very least you are screwing the owners of the mortgage who will have to write off lots of loans as Bobs everywhere walk away from the underwater mortgages

Yes, that's the point...

>But also it significantly limits Bob’s options in life. They can no longer refinance to repair the roof, they can’t move to a different city for a better job, etc.

Bob knew the risks.
Well, the British f-word is just that.
Imagine if all of the FAANG engineers took their resources to make the place a better world <snark>. All of that energy on delivering the better ad could be so much better spent on <insert cause of choice here> instead of delivering ads and building the better big brother.
>burns a lot of oil

Oil isn't emitted from cows
yup any repeated interruption is indistinguishable from noise, and after a while you are just used to neglecting it.
the lack of majuscules fuzzes the text recognition algorithms baked into your brain by decades of optimization, thus requiring somewhat more than ordinary cognitive effort to parse. also it's kinda "texty" and some people think it's pretentious i guess lol
Some brilliant investor-speak from Helion's FAQ:

"A handful of organizations have performed bulk fusion, where a large volume of particles reaches temperatures high enough for fusion to occur on a large scale. [...] none of the organizations that have managed to do bulk fusion have done it in a practical way that can be used to make electricity."
Seems like a lot of performance to forego for the last 9+ years since the technique has been commonplace since... computers.
> I also think America has a lot of room for adding back walkable mixed-use neighborhoods

Euclid v Ambler was the wellspring of bad urban planning and a watershed of horrific outcomes. We need to return to people owning the property they own, and developing (and redeveloping) it in any way that doesn't hurt or endanger other people.
You can't really compare ITER and SpaceX. SpaceX has worked on a breakthrough in engineering, one that had seen research in decades past as well (the DC-X rocket achieved vertical landing from a few kilometers in the 1990s before the project was shut down; they would have almost certainly reached orbit if they were allowed to continue a few more years).

On the other hand, ITER is breaking entirely new ground on the engineering side, and it even requires fundamental research. It is not even known if what ITER is setting out to do is fundamentally possible given realistic engineering constraints instead of idealized models.
> E-bikes could help me cover a bigger range but I don't think they're going to solve that problem.

Popularity is the solution to that though, and e-bikes help with that. As more people shift from cars to bikes we can and should narrow roads and lower speed limits, which will in turn help more people shift from cars to bikes, and so on.
If one of your displays is vertical, vertical videos are less annoying. And some are actually amazing.

"arandr" is good for setting up displays, so that the mouse moves on same horizontal level.
> permeable surfaces

To minimize the size of the driveway at my house, but provide overflow parking, I decided to try "grasscrete". Grasscrete is essentially concrete blocks with holes in them so the grass can grow through. The concrete will support cars so they don't sink into the muck. After a while, enough grass grows through it to hide the whole thing and it looks like more lawn instead of more concrete.

The results are very good.
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Or art, or historical record, apparently.
I have read their paper several times, but can't find translation of their question to other languages. Wanted to find the exact question they asked koreans, in korean
I'm not saying "bah humbug", I am saying this country was founded on genocide and that our celebrations of early american life have too often ignored the truth about how we behaved. To celebrate only the positives during the holiday with the expectation that we will talk about atrocities later, we let ourselves off the hook to face the reality of what happened. Doing so only allows us to perpetuate the violence our nation has visited upon indigenous peoples since its founding. You need only look at the treatment of indigenous people protesting against Enbridge's Line 3 Oil Pipeline to see that violence continue. [1]

The cool robots mean nothing if we cannot find our humanity and understand our past behavior so we may stop repeating it.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/climate/line-3-pipeline-p...
This might do. Keep in mind that, although Emerson was religious, it is not at all a prerequisite for the reader of Emerson to believe as Emerson believed.

"There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfilment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer."

from https://emersoncentral.com/texts/essays-first-series/compens...
> This is when you find out the rsync job has been stuck for the last 80 days.

Fire drills are important, but I get a Telegram notification every day when my rsync jobs complete. The notification is muted, but I see it in the list every morning when I use Telegram to text my girlfriend. If it wasn't there, I'd immediately know something wasn't working.
This “dumb tv” trope comes up in every one of these discussions. We are the minority and most people want a tv with a Netflix all and not to have to buy a set top box. There isn’t a market here.
The headline "Teen Fingered by FBI Probe" is the missed opportunity, here.

Yes, I'm immature enough to happily take the karma hit on this.
You are correct. I was confused because since the “Messages for iCloud” was introduced, the backup itself won’t include plaintext message data if that feature is enabled (unlike before). However, this is where I stand corrected: it seems they store a copy of the Messages for iCloud encryption key in your iCloud Backup, if you have enabled iCloud Backup, which effectively defeats that encryption. The solution seems to be keep message sync on and backups off.

“For Messages in iCloud, if you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your messages. This ensures you can recover your messages if you lose access to your Keychain and your trusted devices. When you turn off iCloud Backup, a new key is generated on your device to protect future messages and isn't stored by Apple.”[1]

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
Science Brief: SARS-CoV-2 Infection-Induced and Vaccine-Induced Immunity
I remember years back I was into interactive fiction. I remember converting a random haiku generator in JavaScript to Inform 6. Good times.
Loopless Code (2006)
Didn't ITER offer a lot of research positions and resulted in many papers and books on fusion? Think about all the PhD students that studied there. Sounds like ITER is foundational both in knowledge and in talent for commercial fusion reactors. I know that the technical university I was in had mathematicians working on models useful for ITER.
A couple decades ago, I used to keep backups of my desktop computer on DAT tapes. I had several different tape cassettes that I rotated through to keep many separate backups of all my data, and I thought of them as different devices until the day when I ejected one of the DAT tapes from the drive and it came out trailing a couple meters of unwound tape, with a small (but apparently important) spring hanging off the end.

Lesson learned! I now still had several intact tape backups of my data, but no functional device that could read and restore from them.
Exactly! When it comes to home media I prefer the Linux model of small utilities connected by pipes.
Your dream has arrived! Redpanda [1] is a non-Java, ZooKeeper-free streaming platform. It's Kafka compatible, so you can use any Kafka client, of which there are many.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it is substantially faster than Kafka.

Disclosure: I work there.

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[1] https://github.com/vectorizedio/redpanda
Counterpoint: If this photo hadn't been taken or the photographer had felt shame at its content and not put it forward for print, nothing would be lost. There are thousands of photos taken the same day that could have become iconic instead. It's an artistically and emotionally good photo, but it holds no special significance outside the fame it gathered.

If it hadn't become famous you wouldn't miss this photo and instead maybe some 5 year old waving to her dad coming home, or a mother hugging her son would have become famous.
I'd love a feature that would allow alphabetical sorting of channels. It's kind of ridiculous that this isn't possible on a 'smart' TV today.
I’ve really enjoyed my Super 73. Good range, speed and really fun to ride. Recently I turned it on and the battery started smoking and from all appearances was about to explode. Thankfully it didn’t. And although it took awhile to get the line of communications straight, they are replacing the entire bike and shipping should only take a week or so.
As a Brit, got to say that I wish we used Europlugs here. Ours are so bulky (a pain for anything portable), and the US ones seem so flimsy.

Also, there ought to be a museum of hotel electrics. Weird light switch behaviour, dumb (pre phone charger) socket placement, heating/cooling controls, etc
I was wondering the same with the COPYRIGHT note at the top of all files in a code repo.
Clearly someone that have the code can easily remove the COPYRIGHT header but then it will demostrate they had actively red it and decided to remove it.
Plus if you add the copyright header in many places it might be forgotten in some.
While there is definitely some latency, we’ve found it to be bearable. Last week we just performed a jam session of 10 people live on the PyCon APAC online conference using Jamulus, and here’s the video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvb_n1fwH4E and one more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inGQdo1nrt0

Most new people who try out Jamulus and join our servers would complain about the latency (especially professional musicians), to which I give the same advice: 1) Use a fiber-optic internet service. 2) Use a LAN cable. 3) Use wired headphone (no bluetooth/wireless headphone/AirPods). 4) Use an audio interface with ASIO device or use a Mac. Finally, and most important: 5) Just play 100 songs on Jamulus, and you’ll eventually get used to it.

Most friends are jamming with latency of around 20ms. I have found that for vocals and drums, maximum latency tolerance is around 30ms. For me I play the keyboard and most of the time I’m jamming over a 4G mobile network, I have increased my latency tolerance to about 100ms now.
You can do it in C++ as well [0][1], but type driven development doesn't go well with the C subculture of micro-optimizations.

So if you do it on a C++ project, you will get strange looks from the team, so one just shrugs and codes the same way as always.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaHirnQrL14
[1] - https://dannypsnl.github.io/blog/2017/12/23/cs/type-driven-d...
> didn't develop ground-breaking firsts

- First full flow staged combustion engine that actually flies

- horizontal flight, vertical landing (belly flop)

- booster reuse on an orbital class rocket
once stir/shaken is in place, won't the underlying problem go away?
xchg %ax,%ax is the nop instruction. I would have expected to see <nop> written instead but the opcode (0x90) is shared by both.

It's also possible that xchg %ax,%ax is has been decoded from a multi-byte nop (to align memory) before the function call.
Barnes and Noble Nook Glowlight 4 is coming out in December
I mostly agree, but recently I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Apple TV app became available on my 2017 50" LG. I was able to remove my Gen 3 Apple TV box. The only app I use that is still not available is HBO Max. For that I bring my daughter's PS4 into the room, but who knows maybe that will also become available.
There is a real gap between the development and techniques on how to use them practically and where to use them(use cases). Thanks for filling in the gap
> No, "Repair" isn't a right in and of itself, but by the time you've lost the ability to, you've lost all of your other rights.

If you don't mind, I'll be stealing this the next time someone doesn't understand why I care so much about r2r.
So? They wrote a 500k mortgage on a 200k house and they knew that. Bob had no real choice, but they chose to profit off that 300k error. That is not "screwing" it is "correcting".
The NDK has improved in the meantime, but it remains quite bad when compared with similar SDKs, including the recently released AGDK.
Other FOSS product that tries to solve the same problem and which worked a little better for us. (We tried both)

https://www.sonobus.net/
This sounds quite ironic to me, since "Super-GAU" in German stands for a disaster beyond all expectations (usually meltdown of a nuclear reactor).

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-GAU

Another unfortunate name: "Gauleiter" was a regional leader of the Nazi Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauleiter
It's not really worth it for them to make dumb TVs either, I assume, since that implies they can't shove ads and telemetry into them.
If you're too lazy to do this manually, Restic will handle it for you!
Thank you for the no-nonsense writeup. Simply reading through it helped me solved many ambiguities and puzzles. Could you please provide some further readings, esp. high quality materials that have had helped you in the compilation of these observations?
What do you mean by "scooter"? One of the ones in the article is the Segway c80, is that what you're after?
The IV (or the nonce, in an AEAD) is usually public, but authenticated; often just appended to the message; with CBC mode, you'd normally prefix the message with the IV, and include the IV in your HMAC.
We recently learned our friend's 9-month-old was diagnosed with leukemia.
I have a two year old daughter, and cant even imagine the pain they are going through.

This year, I am thankful for being healthy as a family, and i am praying for the kid.

That's all.
I must say that the Type K 107-2-D1 from Denmark looks like quite the happy little plug. The Type I from Australia looks a bit surprised while the Type F from Germany looks quit robotic. For some reason, the Type A/B from N.America seems to be standing on its head.
I know people who regularly used this for rehearsals during the pandemic (maybe they still do). I told them about it when it was previously featured here. They were thrilled. These were people that used to meet locally, so presumably the latency was relatively good.

Another group was interested, but the setup was too complicated for them (wired ethernet, messing around with asio). But if you can get beyond that, it's apparently pretty great. There might be a product idea there, a plug and play solution that avoids the manual setup.
It is Christian in origin, albeit a minor local Christian tradition (developed in the US) rather than a major near-universal one. Like many Christian traditions, it has been secularised, just as Christmas has been. I think the big difference between Thanksgiving and Christmas, is the Christian origins of the later are much harder to forget. That’s why relatively few Jews (for example) are willing to celebrate Christmas even in a wholly secularised form, whereas the majority of American Jews have no problem with celebrating Thanksgiving-Christmas is still identified with its Christian origins in a way in which Thanksgiving is not.

That said, not all American Jews do view Thanksgiving as acceptable. Among ultra-Orthodox Jews, the belief is widespread that celebrating Thanksgiving violates Jewish religious law against observing non-Jewish festivals. Likewise, some conservative Muslims (Salafis in particular) view Thanksgiving as haram for parallel reasons. You might say these Jewish and Muslim objectors are paying more attention to the festival’s Christian origins than most Americans do.

Thanksgiving isn’t the only example of a minor American Christian tradition being secularised - the same is true of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Unlike Thanksgiving, which is rarely observed outside of North America, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day have spread to most of the rest of the English-speaking world, even if not always on the same date. Many cultures have indigenous traditions of festivals to celebrate motherhood and/or fatherhood, going back centuries or more; but in Anglophone countries, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are generally American in origin, and only date to the 20th century, not due to one of those older traditions.
Even if true (and I don't think it is), that is irrelevant to an attempt to reverse engineer an existing smart TV and create custom "dumb" firmware for it. All that needs is people with the desire for it and the technical skills to pull it off.
To all those saying it's a strictly American affair I would point out that Japan also has it's own version on the same week.

Happy Labor Thanksgiving Day everyone!
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> Canada, Taiwan, Poland, Brazil, Spain

One of these is not like the others
"What do you do for living?" "I'm in the shit business."

Funny for some, disgusting for others but I can't see why excrement can't become something valuable. I've seen a documentary about a water treatment plant that transformed sewage into two products: clean drinking water and agricultural fertilizers.
Not true. It works. After some brain adaption. Then it’s fun. And what is jamming about? Fun! Not recording the next chart breaker.
That makes it pretty much perfect for an open source project, then. Suitably motivated individuals with some technical skills can build and use it if they want to and the majority can remain blissfully ignorant of its existence.
Except they aren't "writing code faster" but started 8 years later and the industry now has these things like source control, GPUs and cloud computing and a new project is moving far faster with the new tools than the competing, existing project stuck in development hell that is still running in a server down the hall entirely composed Itanium 2 processors of and written in PHP 4.

One project started in 2007 planning activation in 2025 and planning reactions in 2035. The other started in 2015, activated 2017 and steady state reactions have been delayed from the original Sept 2021 plan to 2022. It's not even close the results so far.
To those downvoting, if your attention span is long enough for a long read, here's an explanation of why the United States will 100% guaranteed lose if it chooses to engage: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2021/11/03/america-agains...
After the data center fire in France last year, where a lot of people lost their cloud data, including a friend of mine, I also make sure that I've got multiple cloud backups in distributed geographical locations. I recommend looking into Storj DCS.
Mumble can get it very low. I don't know the actual stats, but audio packets can go to 10ms and use UDP
This is very true, and de-duplication can be a great answer for this.

Here's the read out from my last Borg backup which says that I'm storing 2.5Tb worth of data in 59Gb

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Original size Compressed size Deduplicated size
This archive: 220.28 GB 66.75 GB 591.11 MB
All archives: 2.55 TB 777.85 GB 59.44 GB

Unique chunks Total chunks
Chunk index: 234389 4706300
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Our (now-7-year-old) LG TV was pretty good for the first 3-4 years. Now it's just a big monitor for a Raspberry Pi and very occasionally an old Bluray player.
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This site is poison. Very pretentious, Silicon Valley try-hards. Please downvote me you delicate geniuses!
Ironically, it feels like Walmart's tactics are used here: I do think it's market manipulation if Jio cannot prove that it's still selling above wholesale prices, which if true they should be able to prove to the detriment of the distributors. Even if it is above the wholesale price, I get giddy in general when the reason for lower prices is due to low-paid gig workers.
OP doesn't imply he has ADHD because of not being interested in errands. Quite the opposite.