skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! Thanks for the tip, I sorely miss my old RSS feeds, was an avid RSS user even before Google Reader was available, the web just changed and RSS didn't seem to be a thing anymore for a while...

Any recommendations on good readers?
What do you take a small cut of? You keep saying this but it doesn’t seem to make sense to anyone in this thread.
Russia, not Rus. Rus and Russia are two totally different things.
So it's similar to the Simpson's paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
On top of all that (with which I fully agree), it's not even effective, in any plausible sense of that word.

If this analysis[1] is to be believed, AML laws recover less than 1% of estimated laundered funds, at an explicit cost at least an order of magnitude higher than what is actually recovered.

That's not even including the implicit costs, e.g. when innocent people get caught up and lose their accounts or even their funds.

Travesty doesn't even begin to cover it.

[1] https://www.ledgerinsights.com/anti-money-laundering-has-les...
(tangent) kind of interesting how it resembles a small town in that way. Its a problem those of us in bigger suburbs or cities wouldn't recognize but, once you get stereotyped in some way -- any way -- it can become difficult or impossbile to escape. As the internet is even bigger than a large city -- its the whole world -- you'd naively think it would be even more proressive. In that sense these little fiefdom's provide a regression in addition to the features they provide.
I don't think I agree. The idea to have a networked control system with both direct ways to measure the behaviour of the real system as well as a model was quite novel to Cybersyn.

Directly as a result of it and the work Stafford Beer did on it, we got the whole field of system dynamics.

Also, Cybersyn was a pioneer in the idea of complex control systems with multiple humans in the loop.
Maybe you already know, but in case not or someone else needs this:
try with --no-install-recommends, it skips a lot of bs.

I don't recall exactly what it was, but I remember installing something like a tiny library and it wanted to also install mysql-server or something like that >_<
Surely if you do advertise a price that goes to what the fair price is. If I advertise it's $5000 and decide I don't like your business so I'm going to charge you $50,000 that's not fair or nondiscriminatory.
I think this is a cool idea for a game. A couple of things I noticed about the video:

The playing doesn't quite line up with the music at times. If the song plays regardless of whether the keys are pressed, it would be cool if the timbre changed as the player hit the keys to make it sound more lush or vibrant.

Maybe you have this already, but it also might be a good idea to allow a metronome to play as well, or some basic percussion in the background to help the player keep time.

It would also be cool to allow a free mode where the player can jam out however they please. Since you're working with MIDI, maybe even let these sessions be recorded as MIDI files (although that might get it further away from a game and closer to a tool)

Overall, cool project.
funny, I had a different theory: A concerned tech savvy parent, trying to save its children and spouse from the hazardous impact when using touch screens.

> So this thing’s main job is to help us stay off our phone, since touch screens are the hardest on the health of our hands.

So lets heal this small children hands with this small keyboard :-)
....while I'm on lunch: why are tldr's at the end of articles?!
Great post, with lots of interesting things to improve my workflow! My progression has been 1) rest client 2) org-mode with blocks 3) verb-mode. However, I think most of what is mentioned can be applied equally to verb-mode, which sort of a DSL built on top of org-mode.

[1] https://github.com/federicotdn/verb
Touched on this in my other reply as well, but my point was that our intuitions about mechanical waves describe the electrical system decently enough - the same effects (though with significantly different magnitudes) can be seen with a mechanical equivalent of this electric circuit.

This is to be expected, since the Poynting vector is ultimately a consequence of two very basic physical laws: conservation of energy, and special relativity. Any system which obeys these two laws will have some equivalent of Poynting's vector, though of course the exact formula will be different.

Veritasium's video is deliberately constructed to obscure these facts, and to make it seem like electricity is in fact more mysterious/counter-intuitive than it actually is.
The most optimistic take I can give is that even if you fixed all of the jerkiness and all-around mistakes in the driving situations the author points out, you're still left with the problem of being unable to reasonably guarantee what the car is going to do next. And so you either just trust the system implicitly, or... what?

So much of training in dealing automation (achieved in a far different way) in airplanes, for instance, is about knowing you can reason effectively about what the automation is doing and why it is doing it, and knowing how to recover in case something happens that you don't like. Further, the use of those technologies hinges on this very important concept of making sure that at all times you can stay ahead of the automation, and when you can't, it simply isn't a scenario where it is to be trusted.

That's been the case for many, many decades in aviation and overall the results are very, very good. Yes, from the automation side the problem it is tackling is much simpler, but I think the easiest part of it is that the need to have the system take split-second decisions is REALLY, REALLY small. That's just not a thing that happens when you are flying. You can trust the automation, and have it be an ally, because the possibility that at any given time it'll decide to cause a plane-crashing maneuver is simply not a possibility.

I don't see how that's so easy to avoid in the car scenario. The multiple drivers in the intersections, pedestrians, etc., cause you to CONSTANTLY deviate from your planned course of action in a moment's notice. Anyone who has driven for any stretch of time has had their ability to quickly change course called upon very, very frequently. We seem to be focused on how we can get cars to do the same, but I sincerely wonder if whether or not that would be sufficient. Even if your car could drive brilliantly, but you knew that at any given time it could not, could you really relax and trust it? One could say its not different than being driven BY SOMEONE else, which is a fair point, but in that case I can very effectively reason about the driver making those decisions for me (i.e. I have folks I think are unsafe drivers so don't get in their car, etc.). But what about for machines? I do think that communicating to drivers the safety of what the car is doing will prove to be the ultimate challenge, beyond navigating tricky road conditions.
I think the above poster's point is that "some MBA guy" can make a decision that looks good based on numbers but is still a bad decision.
There was an option of a medical exemption (subject to independent review), were exempt players not quarantined?
TruffleString has landed, Primitive String type on GraalVM
And yet YouTube has no problem monetizing channels that call the Holocaust a hoax.
Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
I used to be a 100% C++ programmer in the olden days but over the years C# and Python have pushed my C++ percentage down to maybe 10% super time critical code and some embedded.

RAII is the one thing I really really miss from my C++ days. From what little I know about Rust it seems to promise a more "baked-in" version of RAII so I'm all for it. Haven't found the time to experiment but looking forward to eventually dipping my feet in.
Exactly. You can make a robot that transcribes audio to produce a transcript better than a human does ("superhuman") but it will garble 1 word in 20, thus massacre every other sentence, and leave customers feeling 0% understood.

Speech understanding requires sometimes stopping the other person and asking questions to clarify.
I'd rather email and wait several days, even if I need the answer NOW, compared to "talk" toa chatbot. Maybe even mail a letter.
I heard a story of an English speaker being confused when a Brazilian asked them if they liked “hedge hotch”, the endearing way Brazilian fans refer to the band red hot chilli peppers.
What benefit would you receive if you publish your code? Will that give you some privilege or earn you more money and/or more reputation?

If the answer to the above is no, and it will mostly cost you time and effort. Then don't publish.

If the answer to the above is yes, then consider the return on investment for publishing your code. If you earn more reputation/money/whatever if you publish than what you expenditure on doing the work of publishing, then publish, if not, then don't.
Original announcement: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-rtx-laptop...

As far as I can tell, the benchmarks are done with software packages^ that support a GPU rendering path for NVIDIA chips via CUDA / OptiX, but not yet with M1 via Metal (or are even CPU-emulated on M1 via Rosetta). So it's "fair" in the sense that this is what the market currently offers for users, but it's not an apples-to-apples comparison on the hardware.

^ e.g. Blender 3.1, currently in alpha, adds a Metal GPU backend to Cycles, which in early reports gives about a 3x - 4x improvement in render times vs the CPU path on M1 machines (https://devtalk.blender.org/t/cycles-apple-metal-device-feed...).
They touch on that in the article:

> Notably, the particles weren’t in a gravitational field–free zone. Instead, the experiment was designed so that the researchers could filter out the effects of gravitational forces, laying bare the eerie Aharonov-Bohm influence.

I'm no physicist, but I think they calculated the expected influence and compared that with a measurement.
Simple things like the color of icons on your phone launcher. Websites themselves that compete with each other. That CNN video you watch on your phone, etc.

But my point isn't scientifically backed.

Would disagree about the HN audience comment. Just the red and green SMS bubbles are SO strident on iOS on Macbook versus black and white on iPhone.

But just my personal opinion.
this. its stupid how gaming companies cite the minscule 1-2% of linux market share as "not worth it" when these are the people who DEFINITELY want to play their games but because of either dev incompetence or some other issue, are not able to but they still try it. Plus, these 1-2% band together and do the work of the gaming companies by fixing bugs themselves instead of waiting and expecting them to fix it. yet developers are scared of "bug reports" as if that is some scary monster that can only be killed if they adopt inbox zero approach and having inbox zero in terms of bug reports and errors is good for managerial execs.
>>149 classic and luxury cars seized by the FBI

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/tech-design/article/303...

Samesame right?
> GPD P2 Max

Save for the processor being better than any VAIO's, I disagree. I find all of these to be absurdly unreliable (crappy firmware) and very cheap hardware for the price, not comparable at all to the typing experience on the P-Series. And the "trackpoint substitute" is a disaster, resembling a "tiny touchpad" more than a trackpoint.
The implication from the committee is that these companies should have monitored and suppressed/censored their users harder? Is the committee looking for a scapegoat or something?
Yes, of course, that's the better approach. But you can quickly get bogged down in a ton of extra parameters/environment vars/config scripts/whatever depending on how granular you want that control to be.

My laziness often precludes me from taking that approach until it's clear that it's warranted (but hopefully before I nuke anything critical).
“Besides, many scientists look at code as a competitive advantage so in this case publishing the code will be removing the competitive advantage.”

While I appreciate this is true, it’s also quite sad. Science shouldn’t be a competitive sport to increase a couple metrics like publications and citations such that useful parts of replicating and extending studies aren’t shared. :(
In the docs I see Go SDKs for Base and Drive, but doesn't look like deta-cli supports Go for Micros. Can we write services in Go?
Doom and gloom has been selling for decades. Don't buy it.
I agree with you, but there's a lot going on here:

- Customer support is expensive. If keeping customers happy and lowering churn is important, you spend a lot of money on it.

- If you can't afford enough staff, the next best option is to put up a few barriers to slow down the incoming requests. Maybe automated means can solve a large percentage of problems.

- Not everyone knows how to search or navigate a tree. Think about the non-tech folks. You have to offer them something different. It's hard to strike a balance.

- Chat bots are being hyped and sold by new tech companies trying to build larger scale solutions. They want to build more, but they need to sell, grow cash flow, etc.

Etc.
I'll never understand the stupidity of studios/streaming platforms (DRM/Widevine). DRM only hurts legit customers, period. Any TV Show or Movie you want to watch is going to be on Torrents/Usenet within hours at most of release, their DRM has completely and utterly failed to stop piracy, instead it punishes paying users.

I still remember a good decade ago getting a DVD from Redbox and trying to watch it with some friends. Tons of unskippable ads, FBI warnings, etc. Partway through the hell of enforced watching I started a torrent, before we got to the title screen it was done and we watched the downloaded version instead.

Furthermore, look at the state of TV today with all the streaming platforms. I'm excluding "live" TV because I can't imagine why anyone would subject themselves to that cesspool. Having to jump between streaming services/UIs/UX/etc is terrible. "What platform was that show on?", "Wait, weren't we watching this on service X? That's why it lost our place in the season", "Oh, did they remove Y show?", and the list goes on.

It's incredibly sad the the best TV experience is some combo of Plex/Jellyfin+*arr-type software. Music piracy is practically non-existent in my friend groups (the same could not be said 10+ years ago), Spotify and friends did that. Not any laws, not any enforcement, not any crackdowns, etc, no a /paid/ service beat music piracy. Why? Because it was better, it was easier, and it had everything. As long as we only have a choice of disjointed services and platforms TV/Movies will never be better than piracy.

Things like Amazon Channels and Apple TV (yes the app, not the device, not the service, come on Apple...) are somewhat of a step in a better direction but Plex is still bar none. No ads, instant playback, no BS.
I'm not sure I follow you here. Are you saying that we should either ban racist speech outright (let's assume for argument that the speech in question is unquestionably, disgustingly racist), or else permit it in all spaces? Clearly there should be spaces where racism shouldn't be tolerated, but banning it outright seems like a bridge too far, and could make martyrs of those who defy such rules.
They don't want you to own anything. The industry has collectively decided we should move to an "AAS" model for everything and everyone is just playing the long game now. I hate it...
I don't think they're actually intended to answer questions as much as be a cost effective attempt to instill some sense of agency and audience for the user. TL;DR they fail at this too.
Maybe OP is suggesting Putin wants to restore the medieval glory of Kievan Rus',
Glad you enjoy your life at 800 MHz! I appreciated your article although the plural form to address a single person (not the editorial "we") makes me uneasy for political considerations.

So many more things could be easily enjoyable on such hardware if the software ecosystem allowed it. I'm also curious what hardware modularity like Framework is doing could have achieved two decades ago: if you could easily plug in a chip to decode/encode video quickly, this computer could probably play any kind of video.

> We have no idea what crates.io thinks it makes sense to require javascript to look up packages but here we are.

I've had a similar experience with crates.io:

curl https://crates.io/
{"errors":[{"detail":"Not Found"}]}

Apparently, without a specific Accept header, crates.io thinks i want a JSON response for a crate lookup, not the homepage. Now i don't even remember why i was requesting this URL to start with (not in a script) but i don't understand the logic of that and the maintainers in the chatrooms seemed to consider it's not a bug.

I'm also very curious about antiX "proudly anti-fascist" distro but that they're two debian releases late (still on stretch) does not exactly attract me.
seems like low level folks, the real hackers are sitting in moscow city towers
Yup.

CS scientific journals should make the bar much higher in that regard: no code? no publish. unless really good excuse.
Their next blog post talks about being banned from Twitter because they put in a birthdate that made them under 13, so I'm guessing at some point they decided that they were reborn as some sort of collective (Twitter profile says "hardware witches | server maids"). Thus, "we" instead of "I".

It's Hacker News. This kind of stuff is pretty normal here.
macOS is Hot Garbage: misleading, awkward, or just plain broken
> Someone has to pay for the high level of consumer protection that people who pay with credit cards receive.

I, the consumer, does, every step of the way. If I understand their fee structure, Paypal takes about 3.5% of any transaction I make with them. (They show this to the merchant, but any merchant is going to have to consider this part of their costs. Some just directly pass it back to the customer. The point is: they make money from the good transactions, and should plan appropriately to deal with the bad ones. And there is CC & interchange fees, too, at those levels…)
Right. Humble wasn't originally about maximizing profit, it was about getting games from creators to people without any bullshit, and giving money to charity.
I can agree with that, but as far as we see in the text it is a command - she's never told she has another option and we as the readers aren't given any indication that she thinks there is. I get that there's a charitable interpretation here if you look for it but I'm trying to just go based on what it says in the book
The US made an agreement under George HW Bush that they would not extend the boundaries of the NATO area beyond West(!) Germany. They now have troops in places bordering Russia, like Poland. It's not really surprising the Russians have tooled-up. And it's worth noting that the Russian troops are all still in Russia (apart from the troops in Crimea, and the surrogates in eastern Ukraine).

I'm not for a moment trying to defend Russian bellicosity in Georgia, Ukraine and Crimea. I'm just noting that it's understandable, given repeated Western violations of promises and treaties. Treaties signed by the USA, in particular, might as well be used toilet-paper (ask Iran).
A combination of both. This work targets multicore, but execution on the GPU is definitely possible. It's just a different line of research. I'd highly recommend taking a look at Futhark (https://futhark-lang.org/), which has a similar programming model (purely functional and parallel), but targets GPU. The compilation strategy is quite a bit different!
I'm now considering removing all the videos uploaded, some of them more than 10 years old. Not worth the risk of an account ban.
Sounds more like a demonstration of an ability to detect the influence of gravitational fields at scales previously unavailable. Specifically, in testing something called the "Aharonov-Bohm influence/[effect]" previously demonstrated within EM fields and now for gravity.

Quote: """

The study not only reveals a famed physics effect in a new context, but also showcases the potential to study subtle effects in gravitational systems. For example, researchers aim to use this type of technique to better measure Newton’s gravitational constant, G, which reveals the strength of gravity, and is currently known less precisely than other fundamental constants of nature (SN: 8/29/18).

"""
Do you know what streaming platform demonstrated since long ago? When you give an easier access to people to consume media legally, people do it that way. This is the complete opposite.
> It's the right thing to do for open and reproducible research.

Everybody here talks about how publishing code helps (or even makes possible) reproducibility, but this is not true, on the contrary, it hinders it. Reproducing the results does not mean running the same code as the author and plotting the same figures as in the paper. This is trivial and good for nothing. Reproduction is other researchers independently reimplementing the code using only the published theory, and getting the same results. If the author publishes the code, no one will bother with this, and this is bad for science.
Thanks for your research. That makes a lot more sense.
Check with your admins if you are actually allowed to publish it.
cooperation

> “As a result FSB and Min of Internal Affairs effotts, REvil ceased to exist, their infrastructure was neutralized,” per RIA

> An “informed source” told Interfax that Russia won’t extradite detained members of REvil with Russian passports to the US. Source didn’t specify whether all the detained hackers are Russians.

Mary Ilyushina · @maryilyushina · 6:57 AM · Jan 14, 2022

https://twitter.com/maryilyushina/status/1481973752292417543
I was thinking of that too. It’s gotta be quite profitable for them.

It’s probably one of those things which is never explicitly written down. Like, the CEO says ‘we have to double down on our “fraud” account seizures’ and they smile when they say “fraud”.

Or simply those that understand and play along get promoted and those that start asking questions are pushed out due to “restructuring”.
Being downvoted for having a neutral view....
Aren't these shitty interview processes just gates and proxies for commitment and a dark pattern per se? If someone is willing to do the work and endure the shitty process to get the job then they must be committed to get the job and will likely be committed to keep the job.

That commitment can be exploited.

It's like Nigerian Prince scams, those willing to jump through the hoops are more easily to convince and get jumping through future hoops.

It's also likely they will rationalize that their job is great because they had to do all this shit to get it. The employer could think "if we can get their foot in the door and convince them to fully enter the room even though we make it difficult to fully open the door, they're less likely to leave and more likely to fight to stay in the room." It keeps uncommitted folks out, but doesn't necessarily filter for competent people, just committed people.

Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.
This is great and many thanks!

One question: would it be possible to make the font bigger on mobile (maybe it's possible to do it from user's end)?
What ever happened to the smarterchild bot? I remember being amazed as a kid that it was a robot on AIM that would reply just like a person. I don't remember it being dumb like modern "AI" chatbots, but it would play coy if it didn't know the answer in a reasonable way. I feel like we've regressed from there.

RIP old buddy. I hope you didn't save our chat logs from that era because man that would be cringey to look at now