skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have Android, you have to have an excessive number of stars aligned just right for a successful OS replacement. On x86, the replacement involves toggling some firmware settings, rebooting, and using a point and click installer. On Android:

1. Have bootloader unlock available via official channels. If you are in the 1% with a supported phone variant, congratulations. Service box unlocks, while often possible unofficially, rarely result in a critical mass of developers that's needed for the next step.

2. Have a ROM ready to go. If lucky, it'll be Lineage OS. If less lucky, some unofficial build of Lineage OS with potentially some hardware not supported (but there's hope!). If you are really unlucky, the phone is so unpopular that a ROM developer hasn't taken enough interest in it to produce a usable ROM.

3. Flash the ROM, keeping all idiosyncrasies of the particular hardware in mind. Hope you got the right partition table/kernel/bootloader/ fragile fragment, because if you flash the one meant for GEX5546ab on a hardware that corresponds to GEX5546cb, you just killed your phone. Run through contingency procedures for unbricking the phone in case you need them.

4. Congratulations. You now have a firmware that works better than the factory OS, but they also happens to potentially not support small things like Bluetooth or the camera blobs. You may get support in 2-3 months, hopefully. Your secure enclave keys are also gone, so bank apps will be suspicious and Netflix will refuse to serve higher-quality content.
CPUC Proposal Aims to Modernize State’s Decarbonization Incentive Efforts
Control Theory for Fun and Profit
Places like these always make me wonder about why would I drive there to sit outside and look at someone else's car.
This is technically cool — as are other projects in the space I won't link here — but still misses the point of NFTs being way broader than art.

They're just crypto-assets. Full stop.
By your average person being dangerous. Put it this way, would you rather break into a Texas house or a California house?
Why should you purchase your wine online from Melograna?
Why should you purchase your wine online from Melograna? It’s simple really! You get to enjoy the best wine at the best prices by ordering directly from passionate winemakers who produce the highest quality organic and natural wines available anywhere on Earth. You also save yourself the trouble of having to sift through big box store selections and wait in line at the liquor store while you can simply have your favorite wine shipped straight to your door from your favorite winery. It’s never been easier than now to get access to some of the best wine available online!

> A wine selection made with passion!

Buying wine at retail stores gives you less control over what goes into your glass. Most of these wines have not been produced with passion and care, but rather mass-produced in bulk to appease their audience. The best wines often come from passionate winemakers who are more concerned about producing quality goods than pumping out tons of bottles. Melograna makes it easy for consumers to connect with these winemakers by providing a platform for them to sell their products directly.

> Directly from wineries.

By cutting out wholesalers and middlemen, we can offer customers worldwide our best organic and natural wines at discounted prices. This means more bang for your buck, guaranteed. If you’re going to buy good-quality wine anyway, why wouldn’t you go directly to a winery so that more of your money goes into their business and less into some corporate giant? Customers win. Wineries win. What’s not to love about that?

> Only organic and natural wines.
If you’re trying to lose weight, it’s a good idea to monitor your intake of sugar and refined carbs. To drop these extra pounds safely but quickly, switch to a sugar-free diet. You can find sugar in surprising places, so be sure to read food labels closely! For example, many commercial wines add sweeteners and flavorings during bottling, which are totally unnecessary (and also they give you a horrible headache the next day). If you’re trying to lose weight, it’s a good idea to monitor your intake of sugar and refined carbs. To drop these extra pounds safely but quickly, switch to a sugar-free diet. You can find sugar in surprising places, so be sure to read food labels closely! For example, many commercial wines add sweeteners and flavorings during bottling, which are totally unnecessary.

> NLow-sulfies no headaches.
If you’re looking for a good time but worried about suffering headaches after drinking, consider opting for organic or natural wines. Sulfites are used in winemaking to keep wines safe and stable, so those with sulfite allergies must look beyond conventional wines. Instead, opt for organic and natural wines that don’t contain added sulfites.

> Melograna support only sustainable farming.

Wine lovers are increasingly looking for sustainable products and businesses to support. Melograna work directly with winemakers to offer you a selection of only ethically and consciously sourced wines from around the world. Enjoy unique, premium organic, biodynamic and natural wines at low prices!
Our modern conception of IP, trademarks, and the like, only makes sense through the lens of gatekeepers maximizing monetary investment and not any sense of commons. The system is designed to be this way.
1. It is Meth-, not Met-amphetamines.

2. Your handle may fit the same pattern of appropriation you are complaining about… indigenous is spelled differently and unlike Meta/Alphabet, describes a set of people.
Board gaming is great for this. I played board games with people in college, and after college we just continued to meet up to do it. There are probably a lot of people in your area who want to play board games, someone has to create a space where you can play though, you just need a table etc.
Good to see that the newsletter works! Let me know if you have any improvement suggestions for the newsletter.
The next thing is Gift Affiliate Shower Funnel Marketing Cards - the server running on the java card itself in Rust of course

I didn't m to sound facetious but now I'm thinking about the ways of making a SaaS out of this : the incentive for the giver is easy enough ; the card maker gets a cut ; AWS should give you a great deal on hosting..
You will not be disappointed if you have no expectations.
I have made an experiment with my last paper: Write everything from scatch in Jupyter Notebook, including data preprocessing and generation of all figures (etc.) (10 Notebooks in total).
Start of the conceptualization was in 2017, we just submitted it 2 weeks ago (it got desk rejected for not fitting the journals topic).

I learned a lot and it was definitly worth it. The next paper will be easier with this knowledge. Nonetheless, there is an overhead and I feel that this overhead is not valued with the current makeup of journals, where you really need to dig deep to find any supplementary materials.
Smartest Man Ever Lived You Probably Haven't Heard Of
To create change one must face the facts. Facing the facts is not cynicism.
I have shared facts, not some form of "rationalization" or emotional interpretation of reality. I agree with the author over the problem of cynical way of thinking, but I have witnessed a lot of failures in personal or business form as a result of optimistic views. Stoicism is my personal choice of mindset towards balance.
I don't know about turning for the better -- since the very first response message in the entire ordeal was where I told tomaw freenode needs to be decentralized [1] -- but, yes, that's where we are headed!

That said, forget about me in this ordeal. freenode is going to the people where I always felt it belonged, and we're all in it together. :-)

[1] https://old.freenode.net/static/files/on-freenode.pdf
People generally underestimate how hard is to settle mars comparing to moon. Getting there is the easiest part. Entirely sustainable colony on its own have never been achiewed before. Projects like biosphere2 failed miserably. On current nasa budget even 2030's are even out of reach for a self sustaining colony. Hundreds of bilions are needed. It eon't happen without big push.
TL;DR: From Google.
I'm perfectly happy living next to people who disagree with me viciously. Problem is, they always try to force it on me.
The problem is that it's rarely "Oh, I see that your way works. But here's another way that I'm pretty sure is better, and here's why."

It's nearly always "WRONG. THIS IS THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE WAY TO DO IT."
And on top of that, the politics and policies of these so-called progressive utopia cities in California are frequently the subject of scorn and derision by actual progressives I know of. I don't know anyone who would genuinely call it a "progressive utopia." It's a laughable idea unless you're trying to sell headline clicks.
The parts that are necessary to make a screen run at full capacity very much shouldn't be optional. Like taking input at native resolution, native bit depth, max native framerate, no chroma subsampling.
Where I Live, No One Cares About Covid
Page 153 from the proposal:
"Step 4: No later than 120 days after the adoption of this decision, the Commission will implement a tariff sunset on NEM 2.0, after which time no additional customers will be permitted to take service under the NEM 2.0 tariff."

So 1/27 + 120 days = 5/27 is the earliest deadline for residential customers to lock in NEM 2.0.
I do not believe this would address the root issue, which is not "how to put pressure on Google to do less evil".

The challenge is to moderate a popular service where any user can upload content that many actors will try to abuse.

Even putting aside that YouTube is partly supported by ads, there is no known solution as far as I know, short of turning YouTube into an old fashioned TV channel with only a few vetted content creators allowed to upload.
I think it's very likely that commuting to white collar jobs is in the process of undergoing a very significant and lasting change. The magnitude of it remains to be seen, but even significant changes on the margin can drive structural shifts.
It’s not all altruism. Answering interesting questions is a fabulous way of improving your own knowledge of a particular topic. It’s not until you start to explain something to someone else that you realise all the gaps in your own understanding. Many times, I would see a Stack Exchange and think “that’s a quick and/or easy question to answer” – only to discover there are more subtleties and possible edge cases to consider once you really start thinking about it. Before you know it you’ve spent over an hour trying to answer the question as comprehensively as possible.

> Answering questions also can make you feel smart.

Not so much. Though, when I read answers that I wrote years ago, I think my past self was a lot smarter than my present self.

I’d also view Wikipedia and Stack Exchange with their GFDL and Creative Commons licenses as being the textual equivalents of the FOSS world. Both are projects that I’ve benefited a lot from so it’s nice to be able to give something back.
name of this project is very problematic, I suggest they change it to uBlocklist, they also havent unsurprisingly given the name adopted a code of conduct.

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/terminology-its-not-black-...
Sure a small backyard isn't great... But I live in a major city and instead we just walk to the enormous park, which is way bigger than any backyard.

It's a very different mindset that I thought I'd hate but now that I'm here I couldn't imagine it any other way.
I think, that to suggest that people should be held criminally responsible for the mistakes of others (assuming that these are mistakes), is a pretty extreme position. Over-criminalization of everything a much more problematic situation that had led to larger problems with mass incarceration that underlies many of the most significant problems that the US has.

The solution to everything isn't "lock 'em up and throw away the key". We have functional civil courts, and they are more than capable of remediating wrongs.
I agree. It's critical to have a crystal-clear view of the world than wrap yourself with sweet dream. Failing to do so will easily make the one look away from root problems deep in the ground, and concentrate on the surface issues. Cynics, on the other hand, hates the world, thus have no problem with overturning the entire stack built on top of the anyway-broken foundation.

Also, it's wrong to assume that cynicism leads to negative and passive attitudes. Cynics often bring bigger improvements faster than what people with positive attitude ever can, because, guess what, things suck. Being a cynic only means the one is negative about the current state and direction, and one can still be positive about the ideal state that the one believes in. Once that ideal is set, cynics can be the most fierce fighter for their own ideals.

Yet, for cynics to make progresses, it's important to get out of their own sweet spot and start moving. Ones who only love talking deserves all the criticism.
It's funny because during everyday life the company Apple doesn't interfere with my use of the word apple at all?
I've lived in countries where families living in 2 bedroom apartments is the norm, and sure, they don't hate their lives. But they live in them because they can't afford more. The families I knew all aspired to a more suburban home.
What if there Was a Computer Virus?
> the author omitted the part where those people would prefer to also keep the compensation they receive currently.

well yes, that's what happens when the means of production are privately owned: workers have to sell their labor.
I thought the movie implied this as well?

I include Arrival alongside Children of Men as an example of a case where the movie is better than the book (and I'm a big Ted Chiang fan) - changing the daughter's death from a climbing accident to a disease was much better imo.
I find Rust's array style more confusing than prefix, since prefix matches the order you index into the arrays (arr: [5][2]i32 can be validly indexed as arr[<5][<2]), and Rust's style is written backwards from how you index the array. Can you clarify how you find Rust unambiguous?
The "find my" network is set up so apple can't, unless you mean sneaky apple employees hunting you under the cover of dark? :D
Good for you - will you please speak up for those of us being routinely persecuted by the fascist nazis of California and New York?
I'm not an academic, but a physicist working in R&D at a company. So my "papers" are only for internal consumption, and not earth shattering anyway. My colleagues and I are using Jupyter extensively.

My observation, from seeing papers that have been written in Jupyter, and observing how people work, is that Jupyter will first gain traction in disciplines that are already computation-heavy, and where open software is closer to the front end of the data pipeline.

For instance in my case, I develop measurement instruments, so everything I make is computerized, by me or my colleagues. While "raw data" may be in the form of things like voltages, they are almost immediately turned into a Python friendly data format by code that I wrote myself. So I'm up to my armpits in data and code just to get my experiments even barely working in the first place. I have a computer with coding tools literally at every bench in the lab. Jupyter is my lab notebook, and often my "report" is just the same notebook, dressed up with some readable commentary.

Now, contrast that with somebody like a synthetic bench chemist. The data that they get may be in computer readable form, but they rarely do any coding during the course of a project. For analysis, they're satisfied with the computations rolled into their instrument software, or Excel. And a fair amount of their analysis is in the form of explaining their way through an argument that connects data from disparate measurement techniques, using pictures and graphs. They don't program. The ones who can program have gone into software development. The ones who are using Jupyter are motivated to use it, as an end unto itself. Bringing that stuff together in Jupyter wouldn't help much. Many of their journals do require submission of raw data.

This is similar to questions about why so many people use Excel. I think you have to actually immerse yourself in the specific work environment an observe or even experience what people are experiencing, what they're actually studying, how they think, and so forth. There's a certain Chesterton's Fence aspect to discussions that start with the premise that some widespread activity is hopelessly broken beyond repair and must be immediately abolished.
Facebook is metastasizing (spreading out because you have exhausted the local energy supply and need to spread out to stay alive.
It does for me: Apple gets automatically capitalized by my phone when swyping. That's about it though.
That is not much in the grand scheme of top tech salaries and as a contractor you get no benefits so this seems believable.
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but my reply to your comment had nothing to do with the storm nor such storms' severity; I was highlighting how your comment comes off as insensitive, dismissive, and altogether unnecessary.
How do you design the appeal process to ensure it's not going to be spammed?
Distraction Free YouTube – Chrome Extension
This gets repeated so often I've come to believe it's not the right call. We need to think both bigger and smaller, and put the innovation first. We should also be looking at mitigations and adaptations, not just prevention. Is anyone researching ultra-rapid construction techniques to repair infrastructure damaged by flooding? Rapid assembly temporary bridges to evacuate people over swollen rivers? New techniques to raise entire cities like Portland was ages ago? Personal inflatable rafts with built-in emergency kits for navigation in flooded cities? Better and faster sea walls? Directing rising sea levels into below-sea-level basins through canals (Salton Sea beachfront property!)?
You can still set up Windows 11 home without a Microsoft account, I just did it today on a new PC setup.
You get connected at first, get the updates, then when the computer wants you to put in your account info you unplug Ethernet, or put the computer in Airplane mode. I put it in airplane mode, hit the back button and got to where you put in a local account. Better do it soon before Microsoft closes the loophole.
https://pureinfotech.com/install-windows-11-home-without-mic...
Yeah. When people notice that something is suspicious, they become complainers. And the complainer is always wrong.
CORRECTION: apparently latest Java is also vulnerable: https://twitter.com/_MG_/status/1470452714203086851
Tangentially, it seems as good of a time as any to wonder what ever happened with that other Meta company that popped up on HN a while back[1]. Their website said to expect an announcement "in the coming weeks" (it's been 42 days).

Particularly amusing is that the founder showed up in the comments after most of the discussion was over, said he welcomed questions, and then refused to answer questions about what his company even does.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29074406
After they got a permit to drive without a safety driver? I don't think so. The permit should be for when the technology is mature enough to never do these kinds of mistakes.
Agree. Higher punishment will. In Bulgaria they have "A lack of punishment".
> In such situations, it would make sense to allow programmers to indicate the desired strategy to the compiler.

If the function truly has no side effects then why would the programmer care which strategy was used other than cost? This is just an optimization that can be mechanistically applied. And if it does have side effects then the two constructs are not equivalent - one would just put the function call inside the conditional.
> Mathematicians informally speak of functions not being defined everywhere in their domain even though it would be more accurate to say that the domain excludes certain points. This kind of talk is fine among friends where there’s an implicit understanding of what detail is being left out and the trust that the details will be made more explicit when necessary. In a more hostile environment, like Twitter, pedants will gleefully pounce on such lapses in rigor.

While not intended as humor, it seems to me that Mr. Cook transformed the topic of his post from the software to the social setting.

Isn't "implicit understanding" the heart of the matter?
I may still have a mortgage in 'retirement' (~10-15 years off, depending on multiple factors), and... depending on provable income, may not be able to get another one. While it's definitely a 'monthly debt' to pay off, it will likely not even be close to the cost of health insurance. Current lowest cost plan we got last year was $900/month for two people - that was $150 more than our mortgage. Mortgage/taxes/insurance were coming out around $1000. Even if I paid off the mortgage, property taxes and insurance would be ~$300/month. Health insurance is (for us) 3x that right now. Yes, it's insane.
This reminded me that I've been using an extension to block w3schools.com from my Google search results for many years.
I translated what you said in the context of mathematics:

“But the proof is secondary to theorem. The theorem and the discussion around how it was arrived at and what it means is the key thing. The proof is just there to show it’s true. You could write a proof for the same theorem ten different ways.”

Which is all true. But man it wastes so much time having to re-prove everything. Also some lemmas/theorems are so hard to prove. It’s much easier when you see some incredible statement and can’t believe it’s true to look at the proof and see where the mistake / contentious part is.
The parent might be referring to the dispute between The Beatles (Apple Corp) and Apple Computer (which later became Apple Inc.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
Non-interactive distributed key generation and key resharing
Yes maybe my definition is wrong, I consider myself slightly cynical (I lived to see the excitement of cyberspace turn into Facebook after all), but perhaps I mean skeptical, although to me what you're talking about is more nihilism.

There are some things that really don't change, and I guess that can be a source of cynicism. The poor will always be among you, lying politicians, the greedy rich, etc. But I'd argue that isn't cause for inaction, quite the opposite, though I can see nihilists just retreating to their beds in despair.
I get your point, but... nobody is going to call it Meta, much like nobody calls it Alphabet. They pick names like that for that reason, I think... they're generic and bland and make it really hard to get riled up about. "Meta is evil" doesn't have the same ring to it, ya know?

(Not to add fuel to the fire, but Block is another recent example of this.)
My spouse works at a major hospital in Minnesota.

One thing they've said that I haven't seen get much coverage is that when someone is unvaccinated, they not only might be hospitalized for longer, and take longer to recover, but it's more difficult to discharge them to a follow-up facility because those settings won't accept them because of their vaccination status and history. As a result, they stay in the hospital even longer, taking up hospital space because of difficulties in finding places for them to go.
The OpenStep specification is from October 1994. For perspective, the first version of Netscape navigator was in December of 1994 (and the first version of Internet Explorer was in August 1995). Now picture yourself in 2022, building a modern web page, testing with Firefox 100 and expecting it to work with Netscape 1.0
Why don't you try Neil's code: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim a.k.a - worlds shittiest fucking code ever written.
I have seen multiple comments debunking it as a domain squatter.