skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To what degree does technology play a part in these changes?

Pretty big; a lot more people are connected now, which allows for social media propaganda companies like Cambridge Analytica (which is now a fall guy; there are much more) to do campaigns to influence democracy. Examples are:

- Pushing the 'us vs them' mentality; you see this in many different areas, from left vs right, TERFS vs the rest, racial divides, but also things like flat earthers and anti-vaxxers (the pseudoscience division). This makes people fight among themselves while the higher ups take more power and money for themselves.

- Voter manipulation. There have been campaigns - mainly aimed at PoC - that told them their vote is wasted whatever they vote on, that they should vote for the 3rd candidate (nothing wrong with that, if only they had a chance in the broken US voting system), or even giving them misinformation about the date they should go vote or how to (incorrectly) vote by mail. This is pushed by the republicans, because PoC represent less than 10% of their voter base; it's better for the RNC to have people not vote than vote for the democrats.

Tor and co are great initiatives in theory, unfortunately they have been ruined by criminals on the one hand, and law enforcement honeypots on the other; there are plenty of instances by now of e.g. 'secure' phone networks getting taken over by law enforcement, causing for example the discovery of organized crime torture rooms: https://nos-nl.translate.goog/artikel/2339849-politie-geeft-... (video doesn't seem to work on google translate: direct link https://nos.nl/artikel/2339849-politie-geeft-meer-details-ov... )
Indeed, you have very well summarized my thoughts on this. 100% that.
A pioneer in computer music.
What happens when the best interest of the shareholders actively harm the public or the community? I used PG&E as an example but telecom companies have accepted government grants to improve their infrastructure but they end up not doing any of it. Our government doesn’t seem to care about these things either, as PG&E continues to not face any consequences and I can’t take my business elsewhere as there are no other energy companies. I rent so I don’t have the option of going off the grid either.

My parent comment got downvoted but I don’t know why - just because you disagree with me doesn’t mean it’s grounds for downvoting, as I’m only trying to facilitate a discussion.

I think some regulations and enforcement is sorely lacking in these areas.
>Belarus is on par with North Korea since 2020

Why? What changed? Realize that Kim Jong-un is worshipped like a living God in the DPRK; Lukashenko is powerful and corrupt, but he's not worshipped. It is very difficult to get into and out of the DPRK; it is (relatively) easy to get in and out of Belarus. Kim Jong-un is really in a class of his own, and it would be remarkable for any other country on Earth to become like the DPRK.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/794729/pdf
The Eames chair is not post-modern. You are mixing things together.
I'd buy beef from Lithuania if u give me a link. I'm in Germany
Divert a puff of dust? Why not divert the deluge that is fossil fuel subsidies or defense budget?
No? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing

From there on to B61 Mod 12. Tactical enough?
Apparently I'm not alone in this interpretation:

Jerry Lettwin, one of Conway and Siegelman’s informants, suggests that Margaret’s accusation was a lie. Nevertheless, Wiener reacted strongly and immediately, cutting all ties with McCulloch and his group. His actions were, as the authors argue, the death knell for cybernetics as a unified field of study. McCulloch and his team were devastated by Wiener’s rejection, and they turned away from further exploration and elaboration of his ideas.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.221696...
IMO if you can get a 1U for those prices, it's silly not to take it. Where I'm at I can't though and that's where a dedicated Linode box may make more sense.
The only people here (UK) and the people buying houses. You have no idea what it means, then you really care what it means all of a sudden :D
I find this kind of genetic analysis fascinating. Does anyone have a tree of the other side of the gap? I'm interested in reading about the trees of Chinese and South-East Asian peoples.
>a model that is customizable

That's what parametric modeling do: you have a history of what you did, and traveling back in time to change something like a diameter is trivial.
Cpuworker – A Customized Goroutine Scheduler over Golang Runtime
Aha, maybe I misunderstood the example initially. In this case it could be a rate limiting feature that would ensure your browser is not making an excessive amount of http requests.
That said, some parallelization should happen so it could go faster. So it does sound like there was no attempt to make it good for users.
My 1st question would be looking for ADA-related jobs.

Kotlin, Dart? Mobile apps.
Java, Go? backend
Python, Ruby? scripting, task automation, backend

At least finding jobs requiring them is pretty easy. ADA, on the other side to me looks very niche. I think writing missile controlling code sounds fun. CRUD is boring :)
I want to believe a dictatorship by a good guy could work, but that's probably not realistic. I mean what even is a good guy? It's a philosophical question, I'm not very good / learned in that.
this was an interesting read. Never seen a doc like this before.
You mean like the National Bridge Inventory (https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi.cfm)?
It's so bad that I'm almost expecting them to do it on purpose. "This web page is so slow and buggy, it would probably work perfectly on a new phone"
The funny thing is Apple doesn’t have to care because their moat is so enormous. They can pull shit like this with effectively no consequences.
Would a king air have TCAS though? I thought that was only an airliner thing. Though a king air is a pretty big GA aircraft..
SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare Tunnel
> I think turnover rate is definitely better question

They lied about that too.
> Most of these distributions have a very paternalistic implementation where the "de-blobbed" linux-libre kernel is the only option, thus limiting users' agency.

This is such a weird way to put it. You know going into it that a libre distro is not going to have all the functionality of non-fully-libre distros because they don't use proprietary code.

They're not limiting your agency. You can still choose to run a different distro. Obviously there will be things that you can't do on full libre systems because non-proprietary code doesn't exist for some functionality.

Like another commenter in the thread pointed out, it's like choosing to ride a bicycle and then complaining that it removes your agency to sit in a seat and be powered by an internal combustion engine?

It's like the author is trying to come up with a hot take, but it's something that everyone who uses a libre system knows, understands and is okay with?

Also, this article conflates 'open-source' and 'libre'.
It's not a dichotomy, and just because someone else has it worse doesn't mean one shouldn't strive for better.
Billion-year-old black diamond sold for £3.16M
I've got to say, I have fond memories of writing software in Ada - I was involved in writing an air traffic control system in the mid 90s in Ada.

The language didn't get in the way for that sort of application - we had proper specs, and proper designs, so by the coding stage we had a very good idea what we were attempting to solve, and what components would be required.

I'd be interested to know how it would work in a more modern Agile working practice. I've a feeling it would require a fair bit more work to maintain with simple changes having quite a large spread through the codebase due to the strong typing, but saying that, maybe the language has evolved since I last used it and it works well.
Filling the hole in a way that nobody can find where the hole was without the original is easy.

But that is likely to mislead people into thinking that what filled the hole is what was really there at the time.

Even small errors can radically change an image, as this (super-resolution rather than content-aware-fill) example shows: https://www.theverge.com/21298762/face-depixelizer-ai-machin...
I found buying my Fairphone 3+ and installing /e/ OS (a de-Googled Android clone) anything but boring. Without over egging the pudding I found it somewhat liberating.
You can find the idea of the individual being subsumed to the kin group to be disconcerting or strange (I do), without categorizing it as a "fundamentally evil" way of thinking. Honor killings are an extreme end of the spectrum of behaviors exhibited by people with this belief system; but there are equivalently extremes in the behaviors of people with Western, liberal-individualistic belief systems. Both belief systems are just survival strategies evolved by different groups of humans exposed to different historical and environmental contingencies. Both can be perverted to justify extreme evil acts, just as both can fairly point to the extremes, in themselves and the other, and declare them as evil. And note, this isn't cultural relativism: one can respect the sovereignty of the Islamic value system without excusing honor killings, just as one needn't cast Western liberal individualism as "fundamentally evil" because taken to it's extreme people have used it to justify mass shootings of strangers.
It's more like setting up a little reading library. Have you seen those? People build little dollhouses and fill them with books with the idea that anyone can grab one and donate back when they can. It's mostly to encourage children to read.

Now imagine Amazon comes by and lists the books in the reading library on it's website for sale. You offered them for free after all. Further they are knocking on your door obnoxiously asking you when you are going to get a particular book in stock, since they have a customer who wants it.
I've kept my Note 8 around despite having a new iPhone just for the S-Pen. It is really nice to write on the qwerty keyboard with the stylus, using the swipe functionality. My finger gets tired on the iPhone after a few minutes of usage.

The second reason is probably one of the (my opinion) greatest features that any phone has had: The translation feature of the S-Pen. If you interact with foreign languages (on your phone) which you aren't familiar with - the translate feature of the S-Pen is fantastic.

How it works is you hover the stylus over the foreign word, a little bubble appears on the screen with the original text and translated text. This feature is application independent and the text can be formatted in almost any way - for example exist within a photograph.

On iOS you would need to highlight and copy the next, switch to a translation application, paste it in, then go back to the original application. And this is assuming you can even copy the text, if you can't you need to take a screenshot of the picture, then use the new iOS OCR features - it's a real pain if you want to translate more then once screen.

I am happy to see the S-Pen back and I will consider the Samsung Galaxy again in the future.
Netherlands still have proper, independent courts. Poland doesn’t.
> Legally mandating the expensive gadget-based way of doing things seems horribly shortsighted.

Your perspective is biased. If the backup camera had been invented before you were born and the automobile after you had been born than you would consider it only logical and familiar to see backup cameras on the wagons and horse drawn carts that you were used to but you would consider automobiles to be 'the expensive gadget-based way of doing things [that] seems horribly shortsighted.'
> why do you need to clone it?

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rudolph/Teaching/Lectures/Securi... gives 2 use cases.

I can think of a supply chain attack prevention use case as well.

I'm sure there are others. I also like the summary https://www.intrinsic-id.com/physical-unclonable-function/ , with low cost for IoT being the most important aspect.
Something which Noam Chomsky is speaking about, almost exclusively right now, along with warnings about the environmental crisis.
Wikipedia[1]:

> Female (symbol: ) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction.

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I mean, just because these clauses exist don't mean they are put into practice. That said, I think all countries could do with a revision of their constitution - the US first and foremost; while it was one of the first countries with a progressive constitution at the time, it hasn't aged well to the point where the US is now considered a backtracking democracy.
Yeah it's history repeating. I've said it before on here and I'll say it again I don't think running on AWS will ever be cheaper than DIY. It's kind of a fallacy and a sales tactic by AWS to tell you how the elasticity of their offering allows you to "save money during the quite hours". I don't think I've ever seen a system that actually does that.
The argument is that this is rent-seeking. A mechanism like this allows the company to capture 99% of the value they add compared to their competitors, which is obviously not fair.
Desktop Safari browsers flickers a lot while browsing the page. Not a smooth experience at all. Very hard to read. I hope the phone is much better.
No. If only because you can get motorized bicycles, with an ICE and a seat.

If you want an analogy, it's like saying a product with a NEMA 5-15 grounded power plug (the one with 3 prongs) removes your agency to use a NEMA 1-15 ungrounded (2-prong) outlet.

Even if the product doesn't require a ground, and will work with a cheater plug.
GitHub is broken because of optional chaining (?.)
>Now, a big portion of the descendants of native Europeans who arrived in the last 400 years are wanting to build a wall in the middle of Americas.

As they should. Ask Native Americans how well "illegal" immigration worked out for them.

I wonder if there were leftist Native Americans back in the day repeating the same lines we hear today:

"Diversity is strength! Bringing in more White men will only make us stronger!"

"Look at all those doctors and lawyers!"

"It'll be great! French food wagons on every corner!"
Sony Xperia models have that.
The thing is the US is trying to make first strike a feasible reality by ringing their enemies with missile defense systems, which are understood to be an offensive weapon, because they could plausibly be used to deny a counter strike from an enemy after a first strike, this giving the US impunity to attack.
Does TCAS work on the ground? At least the alerts wouldn't I guess as most of them ask the pilot to ascend or descend
Yeah, ironically I thought the same as I tried to read it - on my S22 Ultra 512/16. I can't stand the website.

(Polestar's website is the same - overly complicated with folding animations and really busy elements that load belatedly, it really put me off the car.)

The phone is interesting, but I'm struggling to see the value proposition for myself. The S21U is a solid unit, so I'll hang on to it for another year at least.
The issue isn’t so much about arguing about commonness of 2 years old. Of course it was common.

The giant leap is to conclude that it was human sacrifice. You need some credentials or provide more information to arrive to this conclusion. That’s what the argument was about.
What’s the connection?
Yes, you're right. Don't use it then.

People will go on using open source OSs and libraries, SW, but not those under the GNU moniker. And while desktop linux is a niche it is important to have choices and that it works well with existing hardware.

Practicality outlives idealism and I'm glad the kernel developers see this (while worrying about its open source and free nature).

Did you know GNU had a machine learning library? Free from big companies. It also went nowhere https://www.gnu.org/software/gneuralnetwork/

I prefer my microcode to be at the latest version.
His work is often read as an archaic, pre-verbal poetics of the classical world:
https://www.bastian-gallery.com/ausstellungen/cy-twombly-a-m... The scribblings draw from the walls of Pompeii, soft whites and blood reds evoke a certain Greco-Roman pallette etc. Scribbles but more than scribbles.

He was actually criticized for not adhering to postmodernist scripture:
https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/10...

See also: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691170725/re...
Web hacking techniques of 2021
Brexit is a good example of how democratic processes need improvement. Regardless of the outcome it's embarrassing that such a poorly regulated process with ill-defined outcomes, misinformation, and fraud, has led to a dramatic change in direction.

Also worth noting that the mainstream parties having a position does not somehow make it more democratic. Cameron's government was facing a lot of criticism at the time and there's a strong argument that some of the pro-Brexit votes were in protest against the government.
Everyone copied Apple's scrolly presentation, unfortunately. Except Samsung didn't get the hint that putting a cookie notice and an uncanny valley chat head avatar on the page just makes the page even worse than it already is…
It's probably a matter of time before the IoT space and the model train space converge. Can those high-end controllers be made into software and the required signals be output from a raspberry pi or esp32?
I was under the impression that this has been a thing for a long while, but I checked and it's actually been available in mainstream browser versions only since January 2021 (September for Safari, and just nine days ago for Chrome on Android). Combined global usage for supported platforms is around 84%.

https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_aspect-ratio
if that's Your thing, the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar has been recently renovated (opened about 2y ago). Not sure how it compares to the one in Berlin, but I found it to be quite well done (specially the last floor, where they allow themselves to experiment a bit). It stands in contrast to the monstrous nazi gathering space that's just across the street. Also, the campus at Dessau is constantly being renovated as well (though not sure how COVID impacted this one, since it's kinda spread around several smaller buildings).
This is a useless game to play only if you lack the critical thinking skills necessary to notice that the account in question does nothing but parrot CCP talking points. There is a difference between casual disagreement and simple propaganda accounts, but it does not surprise me that some people are unable to distinguish between the two.
There's a lot of other stuff surrounding it, but Satisfactory does have trains much like Factorio, and is 3D like Minecraft. A caveat though is that it's still "less" of a game than Factorio, but fun in its own right, haven't played the latest patches though, so they might've implemented more stuff.
Something to remember is that not very long ago, many words didn't have an accepted spelling, they were spelled phonetically. Although Curb would sound correct since it might be to curb things on the road from hitting the pavement/sidewalk, spelling it as kerb would have been OK.

Bill Bryson talks about this in one of his books (long time ago, I can't remember which) and it explains weird things like why the US pronounce Derby as it sounds but the Brits call it so it sounds like Darby.
HolyC has everything we wish for.
The problem seems to be that wanting free userspace is always assumed to also entail wanting free kernel and, in particular, firmware.

"No firmware blobs" especially is a weird stance to take, since it is not free to begin with and the upgrades fix real security issues.
Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have surface (well, cloud level) gravity nearly equal to Earth's. But try launching anything to orbit from any of them!

(Strangely, with hydrogen and helium the majority of all three atmospheres, they have water and ammonia clouds. What holds them up?)
The irony of a site called "observablehq" and the chart is not observable on a mobile!
That's a wildly innacurate interpretation.

The Australian Govenor-General is an Australian citizen chosen by the Australian Australian prime minister, and acts only on the advice if the prime minister or other ministers, the monarchs role is purely ceremonial.
here is a kanji dictionary app I started making when I was in college, I was learning flutter myself and also taking Japanese classes so I figured this could be a good way to practice both my Flutter and Japanese skill, as well as having some project to be put on my resume, the code is a total mess but overall I’m pretty satisfied where this has taken me.

https://github.com/Livinglist/Manji
implicitcad uses SDFs for modeling. It's weird but it works.
They gave a couple of ideas: breaking up the media and increasing the number of viable political parties. Reforming the voting system would greatly aid the latter
It's got 12GB of memory; my own S21 Ultra has 16. It's powerful enough to perform as an laptop of kinds with DeX, in a much tighter form factor, with far better cameras - also a high resolution display, so it's not a completely unfair pricing.
You don't actually need such a vehicle though. In EU you don't see trucks or many heavy vehicles like that at all.
It seems like you're still enjoying the "mm thickness saved" unless the prices of older phones were so low that damaging them was of no real consequence to you, making cases worthless. Those devices were often thicker but still required cases to prevent scuffs, scratches, and cracks. If anything, their displays were far softer and easily scuffed.
Probably 98% had (some) cash. So cash is favoured over. crypto.
That was rough. I have similar vibes from the investor call a week after Cyberpunk 2077 released but even that was much more generous.

It all seems like well-earned criticism. As someone with no stake I am happy to see the consumer-hostile behavior of the treadmill murder machine incident be given its own slide.
Others have linked some studies, but I wasn't aware that there's disagreement about this. I'll have to look into it more.
Articles like that always make me smile, because I imagine like 20 years ago someone would write a lenghty blog post about GtkAspectFrame or GtkHBox and its “expand” and “fill” child properties. Or about GtkSizeGroup (which css still can’t figure out). Gtk is awesome, so amazing!
Becoming a Director – Stories from Epic Games
A lot, I don't list them in my resume or attach a title (founder, etc.), I just did it for the fun of it or to teach my son.

active & hiatus projects (published in Google Play & Apple App Store)

https://ABCDutch.app - Various Dutch learning apps I made for my son

https://ChronoBook.app - Muji Chronotebook for iPad

https://CloudArchitect.app (see wayback) - AWS/Kubernetes/Google/Azure Cloud Whiteboard Magnets for iPad

https://SketchDesigner.app - UI/UX design tool for iPad

PencilPuzzle - Over 25k+ puzzles, pictionaries, sudoku for iPad

sunsetted projects

https://PrintableFaceMask.com (see wayback) - last option printable origami Facemask to fight COVID-19

Various auto-generative NFTs (anon. around ~6k ERC-721 NFTs minted)

Too many. https://jjuliano.github.io/jjuliano/stuff-i-did.html
“In school, you are given the lesson, and then the test.

In life, you are given the test, and then the lesson.”
In Belarus, citizens are put in jail literally for a smiley, let alone private chat messages. Before they are jailed, they are beaten up and are forced to present public excuses on camera. These public excuses are then aired on state TV, Telegram channels and published on Youtube as advertising.

Some things are better in Belarus than in North Korea, some are worse, but politically, the regimes are similarily totalitarian.