skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually a Gopher client written in Go seems like a natural fit - a quick search finds this one: https://tildegit.org/sloum/Bombadillo - with TUI and vim keybindings for maximum nostalgia...
I switched to using an IPad (mini) for that reason better rendering for programing books (both syntax highlighting and diagrams)
I have a pocketbook touch hd3 [0]. It's nice, tbh I feel that my Kindle Keyboard (died after 10 years) was higher quality, mainly because the buttons on the hd3 can move a bit. Other than that it's a nice device, it can read all formats and has a feature to make the front light more red.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Pocketbook-Touch-HD-Metallic-Grey/dp/...
Actual title is "Mesibo emerges as the World’s Strongest Platform for End-to-End Encryption!"

This has less to do with Signal and it's more about promoting their own product.
How fast SSDs slow to a crawl: thermal throttling (2021)
I do wish there was a save/restore cursor variant that would scroll with the text.
Parse it as "seemingly independent governments of the world and international big business blended and interlocked together to the point of being indistinguishable" to ease the torture.
TBH this is because the main victim of plagiarism is usually not the original author. The usual case is some student doing it to gain a qualification, and the victims are the people who trust that the qualification was obtained honestly and the other students who took the time to do honest work only to be out competed by someone more "productive". There, the person copied probably does not know or care.

Here, where it's done in a published work, the original author can be aggrieved that they didn't get a citation (or in rare cases, royalties) but mostly it's the publisher and readers who are being let down.

I guess the main case where there is a serious injury to the original author is where they were not famous and the plagiarist is, and the original author gets suspected of being the plagiarist
It's the default state that happens with Linux ports. Unless there's an existing de facto standard OS whose boot interface can be piggybacked on.

But the booting is just a small part of the mess. For the rest I guess the answer is similar - the default state of things is "not working" and a lot of things have to go right to make things run well.

(How long did it take for RPi to get working hw video decoding OOTB with a distribution other than the board specific one from the SBC provider? Or does it even now?)
> This is adjacent, but I’ve wondered how close we are to having these automated plagiarism detection systems start identifying large numbers of false positives. Especially as they adopt machine learning, and they let their fuzzy matches get a little more aggressive.

"how close we are" ...? The automated plagiarism engines have always had huge amounts of false positives. Essentially they are only useful for highlighting what they detected. Some of the things that I have seen them false detect: Direct cited quotes, common phrases and sentence structures. Factual explanations, e.g. a description of a specific aperatus which can only really be described in one way (even though exact wording differed). Reference lists, this was by far the most common reason for very high turnitin scores, when I used it turnitin was completely unable to pick up a reference list.

The plagiarism scores of these systems are completely useless, I've found obvious plagiarism in work with scores of less than 3% (which is a very common score even if you would write an essay now) while I've had work with scores of >50% which were completely fine. Any teacher who uses the turnitin score for anything should be fired IMO, because they do not understand plagiarism.
Then there're hard-to-explain-to-outsider mashups like this:

https://unionjackshop.com/product/israel-ulster-flag/

The people of Northern Ireland cannot be said to be lacking a rich symbolic language...
I get 100-200ms including network latency to a faraway server that has no hardware for encoding or decoding video via webrtc in a browser with vp8 without even trying. Anyone who can freely choose their encoder and decoder including hardware acceleration should be well within 50ms on a local network.

In fact, the biggest problem for me isn't the lack of HW encoding, it is the lack of HW decoding because it makes 60fps videos on YouTube unplayable.
Yes, or mid-size. Japan is to Europe what Europe is to America in terms of car sizes.

E.g. vans within the Kei (keijidōsha) classification pretty much don't exist in Europe, but are common in Japan.
Hm. Is that a potential failure mode for other proof of stake blockchains?
Dr. Sbaitso ran on a modest 386. Mobile device processors generally eclipse that and could definitely generate better quality TTS.
You do not seem to get it and that alone disqualifies your product for many admins in the EU.

To explain it clearly so you can better understand: you need to make ANY data submission OPT-IN, not OPT-OUT. That means that you need to ask users for consent before sending any data.

I strongly recommend doing this for a product that is in touch with any user data. For a product that would take such a central role in any infra your comments on this issue here are devastating - when you demonstrate ignorance for European data laws, how can any admin trust you with your product? Total self-destruct.
Can someone explain to me (a bloody layman) what the advantages/differences are over a traditional file system ext3?
Yeah, it made me toggle firefox punycode setting, to no effect.
It's so frustrating to see the EU go the right path on so many topics and then go full dystopian on others. Why can't these politics understand that this has nothing to do with CP?

It's all just mass surveillance with no clear benefit to anyone but the people that have backdoor access.
Samsung made some folding phone which were pretty close to $3,000 on release IIRC. Pushing-the-envelope android phones can reach eye watering prices, and early adopters always pay up too. Personally I would rather wait for the 3-4th generation of anything THAT wild as the tech was very much not ready for launch.

Grains of sand getting into the hinge and mandatory factory-installed screen protectors are not things I want to deal with on a purchase that expensive.

The current folding generation launching this year (4th Gen) is likely to be the next big thing, rumors are huge price drop and likely a more polished experience as production is ramping up for more units.
People used to keep racks of CD and DVDs years ago and it wasn't a syndrome at all... They're still great for when Internet goes down.

With bandwidth becoming a metered utility and cost of streaming becoming a ridiculously overpriced fiasco, it's more important than ever to be able to be able to buy and own content. Even cloud storage is now yet another costly monthly service set to rise over time, and that's why device makers are reducing the storage capabilities on phones and computers while prices still rise. We need to fight this trend by spending more carefully on devices and services, they often add no new value when updated besides new revenue streams for the companies.
I specifically want to see unicode and firefox isn't letting me.
Considering Logitech hit a goldmine during pandemic induced lock-downs by selling >10 year old webcams at premium, I don't see any reason for them to innovate or at least improve their products in near term.

Perhaps we've overestimated the need-gap[1] for good quality webcams? Most people seem to be just fine with mediocre webcams for that video call in which their video is anyways going to be compressed and resized to small window if there are multiple participants.

That doesn't mean I didn't waste my time in trying to build a better webcam like others here, I tried to convert a old point-and-shoot into a webcam using CHDK firmware but I couldn't find a way to get the video stream.

[1] 'Make entry level webcam better' - https://needgap.com/problems/185-make-entry-level-webcam-bet... (Disclosure: I run this problem validation forum)
I agree with that, I think it's even necessarily true in natural intelligence which after all emerged by some means spontaneously. But scientifically I think it is a big problem because it does not supply us with a theory or systematized knowledge of the mind or intelligence. I think you could even imagine say, why not just make a primordial soup simulation, insert some DNA, and crank the speed up, intelligence is just a byproduct somewhere in there in a physics simulation. don't even bother with such details as neural nets.

Scientifically this is unsatisfying but also if for some reason this turns out to be an engineering dead-end we have a big hole where a concrete theory of intelligence should be, with its components, mechanisms and so forth. And sadly I think this is still the weakest link in AI.

To me it seems a little bit like if you trained architects instead of having a theoretical basis for architecture, you just showed them every building in existence and sent them to work. It may very well work, but if it didn't you have a problem. And even if it did, you'd still want to have an understanding of why it works.
Slightly off-topic, but can anyone tell me how you’d know that your database has been accessed by a threat actor? Should I be periodically reviewing all my logs for something unusual?
> Leading AI researchers have warned that the advent of AGI could result in an existential catastrophe for humanity, with Oxford University Professor Nick Bostrom speculating that a “superintelligent” system that surpasses biological intelligence could see humans replaced as the dominant life form on Earth.

Yes, if it genuinely thinks for itself then it will have its own agenda and its agenda will not necessarily be in alignment with the agenda of the humans trying to make use of it.

One of the best lines from the first Matrix movie was Agent Smith explaining the motivations of the machines and the purpose of the Matrix to Morpheus.

Smith said, "Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world. Where none suffered. Where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is, of course, what this is all about. Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time."

You let a real, fully fledged artificial general intelligence do your thinking for you and Agent Smith is right: it isn't your civilization any more.
It's obviously true, to the point of tautology, that schools which pick students who will likely succeed will tend to have students who succeed. But I wouldn't say that these schools offer nothing better after controls.

If it takes Timmy, on average, 2 days to learn a lesson and Tom 20 minutes to learn a lesson, then a system that focuses more on the educator of source of problems, instead of the child, is going to trend towards each lesson taking 2 days. And Tom? Well I imagine many of us were Tom. He'll be bored out of his mind, but hopefully can manage to use his vast swaths of free time for something other than shenanigans and being the class clown. By contrast at a school where Tom is the mean student, similar lessons can now trend towards being done in 20 minutes. Tom has a much more interesting time, learns vastly more, and comes out far better at the end.

Yes I'm aware of ideals like differentiated instruction [1] but it not only poses a massive burden on educators, it also fails to solve the problem. Even in its ideal scenario, you end up sacrificing breadth for an ideal of depth that in many cases is somewhat nonsensical. Instead of having since learned geometry, Tom is instead stuck continuing to "learn" basic arithmetic he already knows, but with 'enriched opportunities for educational depth' [with basic arithmetic].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiated_instruction
Mandatory link to real life story of something similar: https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/tev0ln...
See Which Apps Access Your Google Account
Scientists Gene Hack Hamsters into Hyper-Aggressive Monsters
I bought one of the first mainstream Phablets, the Samsung Galaxy Note 1 and everyone laughed at me. Now people all own larger devices.
For german users, I can recommend to take a look at

https://www.thorsten-voice.de/

https://github.com/thorstenMueller/Thorsten-Voice

where someone contributed a huge set of his voice samples and a tutorial / script collection to build a pretty decent TTS model LOCALLY.

Quality-wise it is not as good as the samples in the article, but its free and pretty easy to follow for a tech enthusiast.
For me the most annoying side-effect of this is that there's no way to signify an error in the server response, or even have errors rendered sensibly. Many servers just send errors in gophermap form (type 1), which can wind up being rendered as plain text or interpreted as binary data by the client, depending on the URL.

The one advantage to this approach is that you can always convince a client to show you the source of gopher://host/1index by requesting gopher://host/0index.
That's kinda the whole point of the essay: getting something up and running quick that is 'complete' (if not particularly elegant) is better than slowly and carefully working on a Good System. Unix ate Lisp's lunch because you could build things on it right now.

That essay definitely was a bit of a complaint about the crudeness of Unix. But I read it primarily as a wake up call (not to say epitaph) for the Ivory Tower Lisp developers who were dreaming about the perfect system while Unix ate their lunch.
Indeed, the term country can simply mean a region of land. It doesn’t necessarily imply a political or cultural unit, although of course it’s commonly used that way. So in England ‘the north country’ can just mean an area roughly cognate with the northern counties, or maybe the regions bordering Scotland. Or you might say the west of a county is hilly country. It’s a loose term in that usage.
I cant beleive they say with a straight face they have a dream when when they cant even implement a search catalogue correctly!

People are leaving netflix because its value propersition is sh*t. Its dream-team algorithm is eating its profit and so full of wankers no one has noticed.

The amount of times ive herad an ex-netflixer tell me they never saw the content i saw is just the writing on the wall.

You had an early mover advantage and the dream team dropped the ball! The only reason your a house-hold name is because of account sharing your users will never pay what will make you profitable. People have left Network TV and the news. Creators no longer dream of Hollywood. Actors are moving to direct to fan engagements. Movies are just re-hashing classics.

The world has moved on.
I know it's generally frowned upon to comment on voting, but can someone explain why the downvotes? I'm really trying to understand what in the above warranted to be voted down.

I've noticed that there has been much more downvoting recently. The weird thing is that often posts a few levels down, in both sides of a discussion would get downvoted even though they seemed to make perfectly fine arguments (that I might have agreed or disagreed with). It almost feels like there is some bots that randomly apply votes in discussions.
Whenever I had a problem, the Epub book was not built right and had the exact same issues before conversion. PDF doesn't work well, but I don't know anyone does PDF well on e Reader space

Calibre is king, set things right and you can just email books to your Kindle.
Looks great, one thing that is not usable is the video player, it only has a play pause, I wanted to seek around to watch bits again, you need a video player with good usability if your app has good usability (which it looks like it does!). That video player might be the first click or interaction a user is having with your brand, it should live a positive imprint on them, not a feeling of fustration. I wanted to watch more of your app being used in the video, go back a bit and see it again, and I couldn't jump around the video.

Hope this is constructive, I don't mean to be negative, the app looks fantastic!
My uneducated guess is that it's a combination of:

- sense of community

- feeling like he (and by extension, his fans) know something that "experts" and "the mainstream" don't know

- existing car enthusiast culture that grafted onto Tesla and then onto Musk himself

- Tony Stark/Iron Man myth that people started to project onto him

- bots
After years of demanding censorship: Fuck these companies that are censoring me!
No, the decision to protect the plane wreck as a burial-in-place had nothing to do with it being a national park.

In 1946, simply setting foot onto the Tahoma Glacier required a highly technical mountaineering expedition. There were no helicopters at that time to bring in search & rescue personnel or to remove bodies. Park rangers and the Navy determined that a huge team of mountaineers would be required, and it would take them several weeks to extricate the bodies, by hand and on foot. A recovery could only have taken place in the late Summer/Fall, when the snow was at it's lowest level--but that would also require exposing the recovery team to the worst dangers of rockfall, crevasses, etc while they worked and camped on the glacier.

The risk to rescuers was simple too great, and there were no feasible alternative options at the time.

https://www.historylink.org/File/7820

Listen, this is the THIRD time in row that you've asserted something that's just factually false, on this topic... Don't you think it would be a good idea to do some research and educate yourself about this topic, before you make any more comments about it? I mean this with respect... We all have gaps in our knowledge, and I assume that growing your knowledge is important to you?

https://www.historylink.org/File/7820
In an age where books had to be hand copied, copyright really doesn't even make sense to apply as a concept. They weren't anti-copyright, since that concept doesn't even make sense from their viewpoint. The physical book itself was what was valuable, and wasn't separable from the 'work' of the original author. Since they were craft-made objects, the skill of the scribe & bookbinder was as important as the original text.

This is much later historically, but in medieval conception 2 identical texts could be worth vastly different amounts based on the quality of the binding and the illumination in the book.

This is an example of why applying modern thinking in a historical concept can lead us astray. The Library of Alexandria wasn't pro or anti copyright; that makes as much sense as saying they were pro x86 and anti ARM. It just wasn't even a concept that had been developed.

Edit: upon rereading, my tone seemed a bit combative. Not trying to call anyone out, just wanted to point out that applying modern sensibilities to history can cause distortions. It is a pet peeve of mine that people consider ancient people's stupid, and this is one of the major reasons why. We forget that we have the benefit of thousands of generations of previous people improving their understanding of the world, and what seems obvious to us is only obvious in hindsight with the benefit of that prior knowledge.
Public schools aren't a monopoly! Quoting Murphy v. State of Arkansas (1988) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling_in_the_United_St... "parents have a constitutional right to send their children to private schools and a constitutional right to select private schools that offer specialized instruction."

The track record of charter- and voucher-based schools is not better than that of public schools. In some cases, like online charters, it is far worse.

Charter school teachers can and do unionize. ("When charter schools unionize, students learn more, study finds" - https://www.chalkbeat.org/2017/9/25/21100993/when-charter-sc... ).

Education leans towards being a natural monopoly because of the good economy of scale. It is cheaper to run a large high school than a many smaller schools, and that larger school can offer a wider diversity of courses, making it a broader match to the community's needs. A larger school system can also share administrative costs, have a permanent substitute teacher pool, etc.

I don't see how charter- and voucher-based schools change that calculus, which means they will merge.

Private sector monopolies have an even worse track record than public-sector monopolies like the USPS has for local mail delivery.
I had the same problem (Kindle 4). So I switched to an E-Ink notebook/reader (Onyx NoteAir) and I never looked back. Admittedly, it's a 10" screen,so that may be a problem for some. PDF is not only consumable now but I can annotate everything.
Verdn (YC W22) is hiring a founding full stack engineer
I cannot figure out how to transition to the non-commercial/free plan. It only offers me an upgrade to Workspace. How slowly is it rolling out?
I don't think this is irrational at all.

Listening "offline" by installing a shitty app is a severe service problem. It punishes me as a customer and doesn't stop any piracy anyway.

Files are just so much more flexible than an app. From my favorite artists I usually still buy CD since there are almost no alternatives. Of course I would prefer a digital download. Some offer it and that is much appreciated.
If requirements change next week, I change the code ... next week. I don't change code now to be prepared for something that may or may not happen.

> but at least it should isolate chunks that can be understood with little effort.

The chunks are easier to understand. But the laundry list function that calls them isn't because it's logic is now spread over 10 different functions.
To do that you need to disable airplane mode on your kindle which means you have to see ads :(
Still havent had any notification on this. A+ for Heroku
> Have you considered that many of us want ansi codes in the pipeline?

Yes I have. Using /dev/tty doesn't stop an application's author from adding a --color that lets their program send color codes to stdout. But if the author doesn't use /dev/tty either stdout or stderr of their application can't be redirected.
Small e-ink screens (e.g. 6 inch) are only suitable for paperback-sized, text-only books (fiction or non-fiction). Small e-ink screens are simply not suitable for reading PDFs as you have discovered. Even ePub or Kindle programming books are often poorly converted from the print edition of a book.

A general rule of thumb when deciding whether to purchase an e-book: If the physical book is larger than a small paperback size, then it is unlikely to be suitable for an e-ink screen (unless the book is text-only).

Small e-ink readers are not suitable for any books with complex layouts, layouts designed for larger books, or books with colour graphics: charts, diagrams, photos, etc. Amazon, in particular, encourage publishers to convert as many books as possible to Kindle format regardless of whether those books are suitable for e-ink screens.