skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because a reporter covering some fluffy science piece might things wrong does not mean a different reporter, in a different department, covering a completely different subject, got things wrong (to the same degree, or at all.) That "hypothesis" is a genetic fallacy.

It also doesn't distinguish between reporting ("Dr. Bob says wet streets cause rain"), analysis ("Dr Bob says wet streets cause rain; is this accurate?") and opinion ("In the opinion of the columnist/author, Dr. Bob is an idiot who thinks wet streets cause rain! This is just yet another example of the violence inherent in the system, decaying the moral fabric of our system."

It also doesn't account for the Dunning-Kruger effect, or on Joe Q Public's near total ignorance on the subject of observational biases and dependency on anecdotes and personal experience.)

That "hypothesis" leverages Joe thinking some reporter covering global warming is "fake news" when it's been a cold, snowy week...to get Joe to think that reporting about current events or politics is equally "fake."

A reminder that a reporter who writes "Dr. Bob says wet streets cause rain" is not publishing fake news. It's reporting the fact that there is someone who said/thinks that. That is different from presenting their statement as fact.
I did, and I still don't understand why it's a necessary abstraction. As I said, you shouldn't be thrust into a struggle session at work independent of when you entered the conversation or whether you entered into it at all. That's the whole point of liberal order-- equal justice under the law.

Nobody is trying to get responders to shut up. They're trying to stop responders from shutting up the initiators. The distinction between the two is that the latter is usually qualitatively escalatory.

Alice makes a joke on Twitter, but rather than respond on Twitter Bob calls her employer. Alice schedules a talk at a university, but rather than scheduling a rebuttal Bob calls the university demanding to cancel the talk. Alice writes an op-ed, Bob publishes her address.

Both are speech, but a cultural norm of escalation makes the culture a pretty awful place to live.
Why is a Jew giving neo Nazis money, and why are neo Nazis taking Jewish money? Do they not hate Jews as a central tenet now? Shouldn't be be afraid they'll just kill him?
MacOS is *nix so development things will work nice. The Mac hardware is nice, not only physically but the new professors are fast and energy efficient in ways that nobody else can compare to.

If you can afford it, just get a Mac and stop thinking about it. It's the Lexus/BMW of computers. You won't regret it and plenty of developers use Macs so there is plenty of support.
Your response is the perfect example why I no longer try to discuss this topic with any covid-response-enthusiasts. You're, obviously, entitled to your beliefs, and must consider them well-backed by your knowledge, life experiences and values. Just as six-days creationists are entitled to theirs. I do not judge either. But this response is so typical that I'll use it to point most problematic issues.

First, it contains a brisk, insulting, dismissive and unfalsifiable claim involving modern slur. This is in response to the GP post, where the author went to the pains of writing long-form in a very polite way.

Second, it professes the trust to mainstream media, which seems infallible to the poster. All while crapping en passe on "others" that they do not like. Sometimes it also contains accolades to bureaucrats and/or scientists. Cherry-picked ones, of course.

And concluded with another unfalsifiable claim that "70-80% of those deaths could have been prevented with vaccines, masking, and observing proper protocols.", again implying that all "measures" must have been followed precisely, and anyone disagreeing is nothing short of murderer. While all the available data increasingly pointing to the opposite, that all the "proper protocols" did bugger all and caused more harm then good. Heck, even the latest study from the beloved doom merchants of John Hopkins University declares that "lockdowns in Europe and the United States reduced only COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average." Note the order of magnitude. No, not completely ineffective, right?

It is sad, sad state of things, and the fallout will be felt for decades, I think. I absolutely agree with GP post, that when the real challenge comes the society mobilization will be impossible, because the trust is completely broken. I know mine is.
That article seems to say that residents of Roatan won't receive the same treatment as the residents with this spectre of potential civil liberties violations. That wouldn't be good, but what supports that case?

Wouldn't it be likely that the ZEDE would welcome local merchants? I dunno about anyone else but I prefer produce/meat/etc from "nearby" rather than by boat or plane. So we gotta be missing something here.
You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about.

If you understood economics, you would understand the absurdity of what you just said.

You’re rejecting the most fundamental basic of economics. It’s what you learn on day one. Changes to price will alter the equilibrium point and therefore quantity demanded.

For example: If I raise the price of milk, people will buy less milk. How much less they buy depends on elasticity of demand. But to say that increasing the price of milk will result in increased demand for milk is the equivalent of saying that water flows uphill.
I've been out of "the scene" for many years now, but back in the day, I had a Flash Cart[0][1] so that I could have all (literally all...) the Nintendo DS games at hand. I was a naughty naughty pirate.

The flash cart also added some really neat features that were missing, such as: the ability to take screenshots, ability to save and restore a game at any point, ability to load cheats like infinite ammo and such.

Nintendo was/is at war with cart users and any update to a DS with a flash cart stood a good chance of either killing the flash cart or rendering it inoperable until a new firmware was released for the flash cart (which may never happen). There's a long and great history here. And if you want to know more, the GBATemp wiki[3] is a great starting point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_cartridge
[1] https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/3DS_Flashcart_Comparison
[3] https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/Category:Nintendo_DS
>Either way, they are the gatekeepers to please

Some markets that have started to oust those gatekeepers seem to be doing fairly well, lending weight behind arguments that the gatekeepers are the real problem. Music is booming despite massive piracy for decades, as are video games in general (particularly on PC, where piracy has been even bigger for even longer).

I don't doubt that some things that are working with the current gatekeeping ecosystem will cease to exist if gatekeepers get less powerful. ... but I'm not sure those are things we should be keeping anyway. Sucks in the transition, to be sure, but in the long run?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sI7E8J1sGvw

There’s good content out there for you to learn from. I agree that it can be hidden behind mainstream garbage shows.
My last Lisp project was using Racket, but when it was called PLT Scheme. It's been a long time since then :)
Not about a console, but sometimes manufacturers or developers change the UI of the system or valued apps.

Examples:

Sony removed Linux OtherOS from the Playstation 3 firmware because even though it didn't have a GPU driver, they were worried it could be leveraged to do whatever. There is no value in running Linux on a PS3 today, but there was once.

Apple notably between iOS 6 and 7 changed their design language from skeuomorphic to flat white "metro" style. If you don't like staring at a glaring white screen, too bad. But more importantly, when it comes to drivers, esp. graphics, they can introduce eyestrain if something isn't as good. Issues with sound, networking, etc. for all sorts of platforms. The Intel Management Engine which is inside your PC (AMD has a counterpart) is a another CPU and another OS that you're not allowed to shut off (or access). Sometimes firmware updates will come out preventing you from rolling back to a previous version that didn't have a bug with the hardware in this or that because of the precious Intel ME backdoor.
Using Google fonts is a violation now. It's a nightmare for web developers.
completely agree! I'm always shocked at just how bulky the root TXT can get
Really interesting that you played the soundtracks and liked them even without watching the movies. Did it change after watching the movies? Did you like it even more?
Since most of the laws are dismantled and the institutions that that serve them, who do residents go to if there are issues ?
Was hoping this was an article about a k8s cluster that become sentient then took control of its own power supply, like in that movie...
From the summary of the podcast:

> This is the story about the XBox hacking scene and how a group of guys pushed their luck a little too far.

Anthony (Clark) was one of said guys. Heavy spoilers ahead...

... He was convicted in 2016 for wire fraud related to EA FIFA coins. In 2017, he was found dead, awaiting sentencing.
With all the Russia talk these days, I rarely see this guy mentioned, no idea why. If you really want to understand Putin, read The Fourth Political Theory or his book on Eurasia, I forget what it’s called. This guy has laid the blueprint for a Russian (and Eurasian) nationalism that we’ll be seeing for a while.
Yes, this is the issue GOG continuously ran into in order to maintain their DRM-free philosophy. DRM is a move made to please publishers, not comsumers.
I'm old enough to remember telephone directories. Phone companies would publish listings of name, phone numbers and addresses of everyone who had a phone.

Fun fact: Elector rolls are public record. Your address is already out in the open.

> Giving this anecdote to illustrate many people genuinely don’t see TrueCaller’s spying as a big deal.

That's because it makes no material difference to them.
Arguing over what constitutes a "free market" is silly. It's a gradient, not a boolean. Every real-world financial market that exists has non-market forces that apply to it, even if they're just laws against fraud.
Maybe but your reputation proceeds you when others ask for a recommendation.
Accounts and online services have added a new dimension to hardware hacking, and it's been interesting to see automation similar to what you're mentioning be heavy handed with little recourse. For example automated anti-cheat systems sending out false-positives and banning people based on their hardware IDs, removing access to digital libraries potentially worth hundreds of dollars, yet support rarely has the tools to help. Guilty according to the code, and no-one to hear your counter-argument.

For now that's an issue for games and online services, but everything is getting digitized. Imagine getting banned from your EV's online services and losing authentication to start your car.
Disney bought the non-news parts of Fox back in 2019 so all the animated/scripted shows have been owned by Disney for some time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fo...
I though imageshack images had a 1:1 chance of showing an error that the image no longer exists.

Not like imgur/reddit are any better. Every day I scroll through my feed, click on something, and the image or video file has disappeared.

Seems to happen the most with video or images of someone caught doing something embarrassing. My guess is that a reputation management company spits out a bunch of fake faxed-in DMCA takedown notices.
If code is getting to the PR stage and doesn't compile, you have serious organizational problems.

In previous jobs, I have "reviewed" code that has clearly never been run (syntax error in a script) and it makes me question my own sanity.
‘Emotional moment’: locked-in patient communicates with family via implant
They think its clever - I think most people would see through it and just be pissed. Not sure why companies think they can get away insulting the intelligence of their consumers (who, in this case, would have to be wealthy enough to afford their product and hence can be reasonably expected to be smart enough to spot it).
Off topic, but I just love that this is the second time in as many days I read "Oh my sweet summer child" on HN.
A microcosm of how employees will be treated in the Charter City/ZEDE model can be seen with the recent P & O sackings in the UK

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/03/po-and-the-t...

Indeed DP world, who owns P & O, is in the running to run a free ports in the UK.

I don't see how it what they have done is legal: sacking their employees then asking them to come back, to an agency they own for way less than the UK minimum wage, to a UK based company, but there is no appetite to enforce the law.
Remote attestation isn't inherently evil. Remote attestation can protect your privacy too. You can run code on a public cloud, with remote attestation proving that the cloud provider cannot read the memory of your VM, even if they use a malicious hypervisor.

(That's of course assuming in your threat model you trust the hardware maker but not the cloud provider. The sentiment in this thread is clearly don't trust the hardware maker.)
>How is that any less arbitrary than "whoever has the most money"?

Because when you're talking about a discretionary purchase like this, it's less "who has the most money" and "who is willing to sacrifice the greatest proportion of their disposable income".

I'm not saying the scalping isn't scummy, but it genuinely is a better way to distribute scarce resources than a lottery or first come first serve. On average, the person willing to pay a scalper to get their hands on something (which is not just expensive but degrading) needs it or wants it more than someone who isn't.

>One of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's goals is to get decently-powerful, hackable, educational computing into the hands of people who usually can't afford it.

If that is genuinely their main goal, then they're doing a woeful job as an organisation! For the price of a base model Pi 4, one can get a refurbished desktop with an i5 (!!!) processor, 500GB HDD and 4GB of RAM. Blows the Pi out of the water.

Maybe I'm a little bit biased here (I spent a decent chunk of my life designing a low-cost USB Oscilloscope, sold with free worldwide delivery, and almost all of my customers have been wealthy tech-enthusiasts from the Western world) but outside of IoT/Education, I don't really see the product being used as much more than a toy for rich people.
17x for me, US West Coast
And do you think Truecaller has anything to do with that?
Partially, I'd say. It's been a while since I've read about it, but martial law is a suspension of normal restrictions on police actions. I'm not sure if there are other pieces involved.

A roman dictator on the other hand was anointed by the Senate to "get shit done" until the scourge was over or 6 months, whichever comes first. Normally in Roman times, they tended to shy away from single authority. Even the military was divided between two consuls so that if one got any funny ideas, the other could effectively repel their attack. During a dictatorship though, the anointed would have supreme authority over all things Roman. They could wield armies and the state coffers at their disclosure. This rarely happened and the senate really tried to only anoint people that were worthy of it.

Cincinatti, the capital of Ohio, is actually named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus who famously saved Rome twice. He was farming when he was anointed dictator and was very reluctant to stay in politics unless needed. It's a fantastic story.
Ken's idea of "First Speaker Problem" is that you're giving Alice additional rights/consideration/privileges when you apply the abstraction of "initiator" and "responder", rather apply the "speaker" abstraction equally to everyone, and that that different is a Problem.

FSP isn't an abstraction, it's a named bug.

Everything else you're saying is just Ken's point about proportionate response.
Entertaining video, but I feel like a lot of cooking is pseudo-science and hear say. For example, everybody tells you to salt during cooking, when it's much better to salt, add paper, and olive oil, after cooking. Yet, everybody will argue with me like they can really tell a difference.

It's interesting that this was not asked during the video though.
If we are arguing “it’s a Turing Machine!” Then you could argue that WiFi light bulbs are

> implemented on a very specific set of hardware, restricted in its use by software whose only purpose is to maintain the illusion
PROMAL is probably the most under-rated language on this list. It's like C but with Python syntax. Includes a command shell, editor, compiler, etc. Can compile to run in the shell or as a stand-alone binary.

Sample code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROMAL

Download: http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/onrequest/PROMAL/
The macbooks are starting to become somewhat more repairable. The latest one has pull strip adhesive for the batteries which makes user replacement massively easier.
Thats what outsourcing is, thats old news.
The best choice is whichever is more consistent with the surrounding codebase. For an outsider to the codebase, you could argue for 'context' being better, But to someone familiar to the codebase, if contexts are always in a variable 'ctxt', then 'ctxt' will instantly parse correctly without a hitch since it'll be interpreted as a single symbol.
What do you have against bd-1/birdies ?
Outside of the lock clip that could be improved, it has very few compromises and can be maintained/upgraded without proprietary parts.
DC sues Grubhub, claiming its app is full of hidden fees and jacked-up prices
For math, when I was in school I tried memorizing all the formulae, and well, my life was miserable. I hated it.

Recently just for fun (I have a job that (perhaps unfortunately) does not require any advanced math), I started taking math MOOCs from top universities. I discovered that, when I looked into how the formulae is derived (starting from elementary math), I find it substantially easier to keep in mind the formulae. Or even if I don't remember the formulae, I know how to derive them.

I now feel like I've understood certain concepts much better, even though if there's a timed test I might end up being worse off than others who memorized. But then again, I'm learning for fun and is not preparing for any test :)

What I'm trying to say is, for math atleast understanding the underlying concepts work better for me, even if at a given point it's beyond your grade.

(Thank goodness MOOCs exist. I should probably donate.)
Indeed, RP 4 with 8 GB is a very powerful versatile product, needed for all kinds of industrial and commercial uses, where it would in turn build more value for the rest of society, generating wealth. Attempting to restrict this product to only some specific privileged group will not only be futile, but harmful to the whole society, including that privileged group, as the wealth that could be generated will not be.

The current big problem is that 2 years of Coronavirus pandemic and the active Russian beligerance have created unprecedented economic disruption, effectively ending the prosperous times following WWII. We are no longer living in the same world, and expecting things to be cheap and plentiful is no longer a practical frame of mind.

The best known way to allocate meager resources for best possible use is not to interfere with the free market. And anybody who disagrees and tries to do otherwise will learn this fundamental the hard way.

It is too bad that there is really no viable alternative to RP. The current competitors do not provide good ongoing support and are only compatible with specific versions of the Linux kernel, or modified versions of the Linux kernel. I suppose eventually a credible competitor will rise up maintaining good support, without any fair price manipulation BS, and with less weird hardware quirks, and everybody will just switch over to that platform.
"Light matter" is basically stars. Now, sometimes bodies reflect light (which is why we can see the Moon or Neptune).

Bu before the name "dark matter" existed, the practice of it was evident. How did they discover Neptune? Gravitationally, not by seeing it first via a telescope. Its existence was inferred by the orbits of other planets, namely a gravitational disturbance suggesting a big glob of matter we had not collected photons from.

But we did not discover Neptune by collecting its photons. We had to infer that some glob of matter was present by gravitation. Then we pointed telescopes in the vicinity of prediction until this was confirmed.

Going further, we use these collected to infer all kinds of things -- a consistent dimming of a star in a certain period might suggest a planet occluding the star in an orbit coplanar to ours, which is our current method of locating exoplanets, but that wouldn't count.

You might recall how the neutrino was originally simply a placeholder, and actual detection came later. Similarly, the coining of the phase dark matter was simply as a contrast and a placeholder: we know something is there, but it ain't stars (light matter). Historically, many suggestions were made, and quite a few of them weren't exotic: MACHOs (Massive Compact Halo Objects), intergalactic gas, and so on. WIMPs would classify as a candidate for dark matter that would be somewhat exotic, so would axions.

Frustratingly, as the article suggests, we can do a lot of things to rule out (or more typically, set a maximum contribution as a fraction from each candidate), but we have little ruled in. We don't even have detection of axions yet, and those have been in the running for decades.

This is the sort of stuff that lured me into getting a physics degree.
> I know what he’s talking about

Robots in disguise?
They seek redress with their government, not with the the economic zone.
If enough people screw over the local residents they'll have created their own economic blockade which ultimately won't help them.
Async-await uses non-blocking operations in the kernel. If blocking operations need to occur, then these can occur on a separate thread but this is rare. Most things have a non-blocking equivalent.
Confused how 2FA prevents bots from ordering.

What’s stopping someone from setting up a verified account and automating a 2FA order process? Unless there is an additional purchase limit?
The purpose of a fuse is to blow, and the purpose of these fuses is to be DRM to prevent downgrades. The fact that they "blow" has no relevance to a claim of "malicious destruction of property".

This is the device operating the way it was designed. It may be something that should be prevented by civil consumer protection law, but calling it criminal is just unfounded under the definition of what those words legally mean.
Maybe web devs should more carefully consider how much crap third party scripts and resources inject into their sites, rather than caring about a tiny bit of convenience.
Thank you. Designing it was a labour of love. It’s function over form in every detail. No gimmicks, cheap materials or manufacturing short cuts like using castings for example. The welded frame components are all cnc machined from titanium blocks and the frame is robotically TIG welded in an argon chamber in our Toronto factory. We literally spare no expense in making them.
Another commonly cited consequence of cancel culture is losing your job or ability to earn money.