skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(1) Real Mathematical Analysis, by Charles Pugh is a wonderful introduction to pure mathematics for a mathematically inclined engineer. The back cover starts like this

> Was plane geometry your favourite math course in high school? Did you like proving theorems? Are you sick of memorising integrals?

(2) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks. I think it's impossible to read this (or a number of other works of Sacks') and not be mesmerized by the workings of the human brain. Disclaimer: I wouldn't call neuroscience my "field of study" even though I did study it.
Act Now to Protect Against Potential Cyberattacks
The arguments that I like to use are:

- The Sun puts out vastly, and I mean vastly more radiation by every metric, much of which is the ionising, cancer-causing type. The same people frothing at the mouth about 5G will spend hours suntanning.

- Mobile phones are deadly, and cause a surprising number of hospitalisations annually... from car crashes due to texting-and-driving. If you care about mobile phone safety and your health, why aren't you focused on that?

- If you can't feel it burning you, then it's not putting out enough thermal power to burn you... by definition. Analogies with microwave ovens are irrelevant when the oven would give you a severe and immediately painful burn if you put your hand in there.

- The main difference between 4G and 5G is the protocol, not the type of radiation. People think 5G is some unique thing like "X-Rays but different" or something. It's literally a radio. A radio! People live near radio towers putting out hundreds of kilowatts and are fine.

- A key benefit of more efficient protocols is that they need lower power to send the same data. So any argument for going back to 3G or 4G to avoid 5G is an argument saying that more radio power is... better somehow?
You seem to be using a definition of "dunk" unfamiliar to the rest of us. Maybe you use a different word for the ball dropping through the basket without touching the rim or backboard?

(A recent crossword had a word "teardrop" whose clue suggested it might be that.)
- Notifications will continue to trigger for chat threads of meetings I’m no longer a part of, for teams I’m no longer in.

- I can’t create bullet points and numbered lists because breaklines will frequently send the message instead of continuing the list.

- You’ve already mentioned this, but the ability to change volume for individual speakers should be considerer core functionality. I’d rather use Discord for office work than Teams for this reason alone.

What’s weird to me is that Teams, for me at least, was a good product about 3 or 4 years ago. Definitely more stable back then; I had fewer complaints.
Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are slowly getting us there, even though Apple fights tooth and nail at every step of the way.

I attended an event that had mobile food ordering and they actually promoted "No need to download an app. Just order online at food.example" and you got a nice mobile optimized web site.
Yeah be safer for many kinds of materials, it should, but I’m not sure what the thresholds for those materials are specifically.
Hunt for Lapsus$ Hackers Leads to a British Teen
hm, strange. what link are you entering?
I second Lakatos, but more general introductions to philosophy that I always recommend are

Simon Blackburn: The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (not intended as an introduction but IMO it makes a really fun introduction)

Thomas Nagel: What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
Initially server apps. My overall goal is to lower the barrier of entry for self-hosting. The idea is you download an app like Nextcloud which would run inside an unprivileged QEMU VM, go through a quick OAuth flow to connect it to a tunneling service, and you have a secure, private, end-to-end encrypted private cloud without ever having to understand TLS, HTTPS, NAT, IP addresses, ports, CLI, etc.
One interesting thing I've noticed is that for my zip (central NC), originating and destinating first-class letters show different areas -- for example, for mail I send, none of it is scheduled for 2-day to Virginia even though I'm very close to the border (50 miles?), but for mail I receive, half of Virginia is in the 2-day zone.

I'm a huge fan of the USPS and really want them to succeed. For my personal stuff, it's really hard to beat Priority (typically I use the flat-rate packaging) for packages that need to cross the country in a reasonable time compared to the Big 2's "ground" services.
Great catch. Thanks for checking it out and the feedback. Will fix it. Yes I agree there is never a one size fits all.
Very few games have made my heart pound like wipEout did, as the camera panned down and towards the racetrack as that song started. Occasionally I actually played well enough to do the music proud ;-)
Rust: Easy Authentication Finally in Axum
Injectable electrodes could prevent deadly heart arrhythmias
>PG&E is privately owned

But very highly regulated.
> these are support agents and they need access to customer data to do their job.

In these cases, the support agents should not have the ability to open support tickets or modify the companies on them - and then you can give them superuser access to companies with currently open support tickets (preferably those they are assigned only).
Maybe not, but it stretches credulity that they have absolutely no idea, not even a guess, as to the cause. The ban letter says they previously received other notices. Where are they? And what steps, if any, did they take to resolve then? They don't even describe their app, which ordinarily would seen like the first thing to do to establish the injustice of the affair. "My app just makes generative cat photos. What's ban-worthy about that?"
Trello too simple.

JIRA too complex.

Shortcut shits right in the sweet spot. Try it. It works well with small 2 man teams, and large 65 man teams.
> They will have to respond to this

Why? If they think they have the right to terminate your account, and you have no standing, why would you expect them not to ignore your lawyer in the very same way they ignore you?

Taking this to court might get their attention, but you also have to show grounds for why you get to override their decision. IANAL, but I don't see why Google isn't allowed to just say "nope, you're outta here" to anyone it damned well wants. Sucks, but it's their reputation to ruin.
This looks bloody amazing. As someone who has worked in positive
influence and wants to learn as much as possible in the fight against
advertising, fake news, and the ever increasing abuse of technology to
dominate and manipulate society I'll take a close look. It may be a
few weeks before I find anything to say as it looks daunting.
Poverty usually comes along with many personality traits. Deflecting blame, not reducing habits, self-victimization etc. I feel like the whole picture has not been painted in this story.
Obey the new Gods.
Thanks for checking it out and the feedback. Yes, pagination is confusing will pass on the feedback to my son.
Clubhouse was popular because influential people were on it, behind a wall. This meant if you were an early adopter, you had social capital.

The moment Clubhouse opened its doors to the gen pop, it was doomed.
I realize that courts are looking at the spirit of the law and don't look kindly on loopholes, but this seems like it would be considered a reasonable option by a reasonable person, assuming you go through the diligence of ensuring the software remains available.

Generally the paper retention laws I've worked with have more required that documents be produceable on demand on paper (and associated fined for failure).
>37% of jobs in US can be remote

Every reference to that headline should be followed up with a follow up comment from that thread:

> The coding used by this survey is a joke. If 40% of an occupation says they work outdoors that's below 50% so it's bucketed into the work from home category on that criterion. I think if even 20% of a job is saying they work outdoors that's pretty strong evidence you're missing some information about what the other 80% are doing in their job that prevents it from being a work from home job. The net result of their setup is obviously a vast overestimate so take the 37% number with a grain of salt.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30803038
I agree that Quora is still around.
If every pro could do it, the amount of practice wouldn't be excessive, it would be expected.
Likewise, although I own a Seamaster. To most people it's just a piece of jewelry and might as well be from Fossil. Those who know, know. Other than the occasional fascinating conversation about what's in their collection, I don't know why it should matter they know (a partial truth given I once lived in Hong Kong where to a certain class it did matter, but generally speaking it does not). This collaboration won't change that.
I like the big picture aspect of this. “Have a fair and competitive marketplace” could be a standard daily greeting to people we wish well.
The United States reserves the right to react to cyber attacks with force [0]. Instead of asking people to be nice on the internet you should hold those accountable that are in a position to manufacture a narrative. The linked report in the sibling comment here has no valid proof of North Korean involvement but the headline is chosen in a way to paint a picture of an impoverished nation as an aggressor. If you just accept that Google can make up facts to pave the way for physical warfare you are complicit in the eventual deaths of thousands of innocent people.

To be precise. After the CIA made up reports of WMDs in Irak people should ask for receipts earlier.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-defense-cybersecurity...
Except conversations don’t have to be audio only. Take our exchange right here.
One interesting thing is that First Class Parcels have noticeably faster delivery times than First Class Letters (as long as you both start and end in the continental US).
Most of the names though are unknown. Unless it is a really famous person, so it is virtually the same thing as wikipedia which actually has proper information compared to Quora.
I'm curious, how is firearm safety education celebrating gun culture? And how is that linked to school shootings?

It wasn't a major part of any curriculum, but that's similar to D.A.R.E. It was usually (in my experience) a lesson or two on what to do if you came across a gun (and the opposite of celebrating it - don't touch it and leave to tell an adult; although some places let older kids take hunter safety education). But also, many schools (including colleges) used to have marksmanship teams. Many of those have been shutdown over the years. PSU used to have a team. They were regulated out of existence with nonsensical ever increasing demands (like everyone on the team needs to be a certified instructor or range safety officer, when in reality you only need one or two present).

How does carrying firearms fit into this? That generally has nothing to do with firearm safety education in schools. Perhaps this, and the language used, is an indication that this is a highly politicized issue.
Do you know any more about that video? I feel pretty certain FSOL didn't make it, it looks nothing like any of their others that I'm familiar with and the track wasn't released as a single (it was written for the game).
Crazy thing about a bill is that if it passes, then it will happen, just like the parent is suggesting should happen.
For me, it is about CONSENT.

Changes which the user did not ask for and did not want are NON-CONSENSUAL.

Non-consensual changes foisted on the user are par for the course in proprietary software, but they should absolutely not be a thing in FOSS.

If the developer can repeatedly force non-consensual changes on users without any recourse, that means the project is not healthy and needs to be forked.

If it cannot be forked, then the idea of it being a FOSS project can be safely interred and a tombstone placed above it.

(Still using Firefox 3.x on occasion and ensuring my sites work with it.)
Thanks for this context. I was disinclined to believe the story because it sounded so unusual (especially with the context being "silicon valley company"), which seems like a reasonably good filter for predicting that a news story will turn out to be fake. But from this it seems plausible that there's just a very different culture going on on production floors. This is pretty awful.
I mean why would you even discuss this openly outside of a scathing criticism that TikTok must be corrupting the young minds of children if the algorithm is starting to pollute your (or your wife’s) feed with young kids emulating highly sexualized dance routines, without you ever training it to do that..
Wait time could be explained by some data requiring manual work. Maybe there is an offline hard disc out there that is labeled "Users A-D - 2003 April"
It's these kinds of stories that remind me that governments are not the only bodies of control that laboring people must contend with -- corporations have just as much, if not more in some cases, power.
You have a neat way with words. I enjoyed reading this.
The Secrets Hiding in the Simplest Animal Brains
Makes you think, maybe Pluto lost the battle but won the war in the hearts and minds.
My unconventional take: The early death of Home Server before the concept could really take hold is the most disappointing loss here. I often think modern computing could be superior today had more consumers become comfortable with home servers rather than relying on public clouds.
Precisely. We should not try things which, blatantly obviously, do not work, because it distracts and takes precious resources from things that actually do work. That applies to BLM in the same way as it applied to covid, as well as climate change and million other things. Virtue-signalling theater is distracting at best and harmful at worst.
Many enthusiasts are using a tiny voltage probe antenna for VLF.

https://www.on8im.be/en/active-antenna-pa0rdt.html
Requiem for the Super Commuter
My water is provided by the city, providing the bare minimum effort that is legal. I don't want my house to be the bare minimum, too. I want a beautiful house that has room for my family to grow. I want a park near by, good restaurants, and good schools. My house costs more than other houses within 50 miles because I want a nice house - I don't want a government sponsored house
Are you suggesting this bike can follow a wildebeest? Even in the pictures it's on paths paved with gravel.
Yeah, still waiting for something to substantiate the headline. This report isn't it. A lot of hand-waving about other people's hand-waving.
Well, Google is trying to get you to pay for it by putting you at risk of account suspension via poor policies.

If Google wants to neutralize spammers that's their business. The law doesn't have to stop them. But causing severe financial harm to your business partners with no recourse is something the law should care about and stop.
Right... like that time Flint, Michigan got water with lead in it. I'll pass, thanks.
> 2. Bad actors out number good actors with honest accidents at over 1 million to one and obviously disclosing gives unequal advantage to the bad actors and harms the one accident good actor.

I don't even care if this is hyperbole, an outrageous claim like this needs a source. You're telling me that over 99.9999% of these issues are caused by bad actors?
Look. Calling people idiots or stupid is just a shitty thing to do. Shaming people for not having the same information, recall, thought process as you is never going to help them better meet your expectations of their mental faculties. It might even have the opposite impact to some degree, depending on how they react to the insult.

It doesn’t matter one bit whether you think someone should think it through the way you would. People routinely disappoint on that front, and it’s almost always because people have expectations that are closer to their own experience and thought process than they realize.

Personal anecdote, for your judgy amusement: a couple weeks ago I fell hard on the pavement of a very busy arterial road. I was running behind schedule, hurriedly looking for a chance to beat the crosswalk signals if there was a safe gap in traffic. I was paying attention to the height of the curb as I went, because it’s unusually high off the road at one intersection then gradually gets closer to a normal height in the course of a block. Trouble is, I wasn’t paying close enough attention, and I misjudged the height by about a foot.

I stepped into the road in a gap in traffic, but there wasn’t anything under my foot when I stepped down. Before I know it, I was sprawled out on the street, gratefully with a busted up hand not a busted up head. And more gratefully, with an audience sitting at the next red light, not still traveling towards where I fell.

I was, indeed, embarrassed by all of this. And any one of the people who saw it happen surely could have called me stupid. Maybe they even did, but I’m happy they kept it to themselves at the time. I realized my error as soon as it happened. What good would have come of insulting me on top of that?
I'm not sure what there is to not understand? But yes, Swatch should not have released a cheaper facsimile if they wanted to maximize Omega's brand value.
They must have been thinking of that yes, but the EU version of the first game did have a few other artists on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout_(video_game)#Music
Streamers were offered contracts to exclusively stream on Mixer, and they all moved back to Twitch (or YouTube Gaming) after the contracts were up. I assume Mixer didn't have enough critical mass to keep people on the platform and MS shut it down.
Is there any truth to the Amazon comment that says that the code in the book is outdated?
You can install proprietary drivers for loads of shit. There just needs to be a driver. People do literally all the time for Nvidia cards, WiFi cards and the occasional printer or other thing. Most distros don't force Libre down you're throat.

It's no different on Mac or Windows. You can't slap a 3090 into a Mac Pro and expect macOS to do anything with it because there's no drivers nor can you do anything with an Asterisk PBX card on Windows.
You are the only person I know about who would choose quora over anything but yahoo answers.
> > They will have to respond to this

> Why?

They don't have to respond to the demand letter, but they do have to respond if a lawsuit if one is filed. If they don't, it's a default judgement for the plaintiff. (This is one of the things that is broken in the American legal system. You can force someone to spend a lot of money by suing them even if your complaint has no merit.)

So while they don't have to respond to a credible threat of a lawsuit, it would be prudent for them to do so because otherwise there is a real risk for them of having it cost a lot more.
The beginning reminded me of Petzold's Code. Was that the inspiration for this book?
> Maybe not, but it stretches credulity that they have absolutely no idea, not even a guess, as to the cause.

It doesn't, actually. Everything I've read about Google indicates they're extremely opaque and will ban for bizarre reasons.

Google itself might not even know. After all, machine learning isn't known for being able to explain itself.

> The ban letter says they previously received other notices. Where are they?

IIRC, I understand that someones those notices come all at once at the same time as the ban, if they come at all. It's also quite possible that the ban message from Google is in fact inaccurate.

> And what steps, if any, did they take to resolve then?

What steps could they take? My understanding is that Google offers no recourse to a human, and their automated appeals process might as well be a "reject all" rule (if it isn't literally that).

You seem to be operating under the assumption that Google has implemented a fair and reasonable process, so the onus is on the person who runs afoul of it. However, everything I've read has led me to believe Google doesn't have a fair and reasonable process, because they rely too-heavily on algorithms and automation.
> So what are you using now? Is Chrome on your side?

The question for Firefox users is whether Firefox is on their side. If neither vendor is on your side, why not use Chrome? Has the UI on Chrome ever changed significantly?

> IMHO, the _moment_ we get rid of Firefox, the _moment_ we lost the free web.

I'd date this to the moment that the company that owns Chrome became the source of the vast majority of Firefox revenue, and probably all of its profits.
> how appropriate the topic is

I don't think this is a big deal, as IME kids don't find age inappropriate titles interesting enough to read. My wife is an elementary librarian and kids in grade 4 or less just don't like YA aimed at the 12+ crowd.
Your kindness to your friend was noble. I apologise for my frank diagnosis. Being talented as a cog of the economy is sadly very classically attractive, doubly so because you again do it because you wish to impact other people. I wish you the best.
That's like saying selling prints of an artwork devalues the original artwork.

Unless you're saying the entire watch collectors market is a scam driven by companies and not collectors.
I think Kinect's technology of projecting infrared dots to figure out depth has been surpassed by better stereoscopic vision and lidar. I think. For example I know that Intel has a $400 desktop stereo camera and a $600 lidar puck which would definitely be the way I'd go nowadays for any projects. Kinect also had the body skeleton stuff built in, but you literally can get a JavaScript Open CV script to do that now.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec...
> reporting what has been understood still influences meaning. Choice of inclusion moderates spread; definitions are inherently lossy and cannot capture the whole range of nuance; the compiler's understanding can be inaccurate.

I agree and actually had a sentence in the GP that said it, but removed it because it was getting too long. An important point. Also, the Oxford English Dictionary intends to be descriptive and says so, but many readers won't understand that and take it as prescriptive.

> OED no less "represents the understandings of a few editors of unknown knowledge" than Wikipedia does.

The knowledge of OED editors is not unknown but well known and exceptional - the world's leading lexicographers, with the best training and decades of experience. The resources are exceptional: top-notch professional lexicographers, domain experts, databases, teams of volunteers reading and contributing, etc. The definitions are not based on the contemporary understanding of a few people but on over a century of accumulated research, back to the beginning of English, and the understandings of those people, plus it depends on the input of domain experts, editors, etc.

I'm not knocking Wikipedia, which has its value, and the OED is, like every human institution, limited. But beyond that general statement, the quoted sentence doesn't describe the OED at all.
Dr Steve Peters: How to Overcome Anxiety and Build Confidence
Show HN: A work-in-progress simulator for the Facit C1-13 mechanical calculator
In the US there are actually legal requirements now for certain types of communication software (including video games!) to offer text-to-speech/speech-to-text or equivalent accessibility technology to address this sort of problem if they include voice chat.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/video-game-communication-no...
Does it though...
Read "Masters of Doom"

To solve a new problem space, Carmack would buy a bunch of college text books, then check into a rando motel for a few weeks, and just dissect all the topics and books, until he'd come up with the design of, for instances a new ray tracing engine.

Crazy smart, focuses, and talended.
The "a" Pixels are pretty much in the same space as Nexus was.