skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may be something much better, but in many places it's difficult to come up with a form of communication more efficient for the user than textual language. It could be a very tall order to do that in this area.
I was at MIT over 50 years ago. I used to give them money, not a huge amount, but enough to create what has become a permanent endowment under my name. However years ago, I had lunch with the then president of MIT and realized that MIT had changed. It was no longer the MIT I experienced. The student body was different, and clearly, they had tweaked the knobs and selected for a different profile of student.

It made me sad because I remember my fellow students, some rich, some poor, some from Philips Exeter, some like me from inner city Detroit schools, some from Asia some from Southern California. The thing was though, they weren't at all well rounded, the very trait that the president seemed so proud of in the current student body.

My classmates were eccentric, creative, nerdy, and most of all so intelligent. My math classes were full of genuses and savants. I still remember a fellow student in my second semester real analysis class (prerequisite chain was five semester long to get into the class: 1yr Calc -> 1 Semester DiffEq -> 1st semester real analysis -> 1 semester complex analysis); he was a Freshman and the best student in the class. Was he well rounded? I don't think so, but he was good at pinball and math.

Then the tragic Aaron Swartz affair.

They didn't sign the Chicago Letter [1].

I started meeting other MIT alumni that are disappointed with the direction MIT went as well.

Every year they still call me asking for more money.

Take back MIT. [2]

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/08/29/u-chicago-let...

[2] https://youtu.be/ZK5r9OZ73Xg
Very ironically/interestingly, this was case for the big anti-american posts from mainland China:

Infamously anti-west personality Sima Nan: "Being anti-American is work while visiting the U.S. is life"
https://youtu.be/Q0y84Oi3VW8

Short summary, his wife and child are U.S citizens, and he visits them often, but his entire career is made up of bashing the west, western values, and putting the ccp on a pedestal, and he's made a small fortune on this career... until his turn came.
There are indeed a few practical applications. Next to Berkely lights, there is e.g. the LabChip from PerkinElmer that separates DNA and proteins. I had hoped that there would be many more examples by now. Most presentations that I see about microfluids still go in a lot of detail on how difficult it is to make. This hasn't really changed over the last decade, which signals to me we still need quite some innovation to make this mainstream.

If you want to play around with digital microfluids at home, check out the OpenDrop from gaudi.ch (http://www.gaudi.ch/OpenDrop/). I haven't played around with it yet, as I haven't found a practical use of this.
This is what happens when game companies basically set their revenue targets based on preorders, and games as a product are non-refundable.

It's very easy to imagine a bean counter saying "we hit our preorder target, let's cut back our development budget now, release it, and we've already basically maximized our profits on this.

The state of the game industry at large is pretty gross as a result of a lot of the money incentives not lining up around building great games.
Couple of hours in already and it’s everything I’d hoped for!
Do you write this stuff anywhere else/have a blog? I like the way you laid out your viewpoint.
I think he left out a word

"I don't [speak] for the silent majority"

I am assuming because this is a standard turn of phrase
Rather than effectively forfeiting a game like this, Carlsen should not have played in the tournament if he was dissatisfied with the anti-cheating measures used. Carlsen is a great player who is dishonoring himself.
It really depends on the game. I agree with GP that those particular franchises are timeless. DOOM is also imminently replayable as-is. But there are plenty of games that aren't.
Depends on your adversary. To the normal user who plugs it in it will appear dead, and the average data-restore lab might desolder the flash chip, figure out that it's dead and give up.

But I'd expect this to just burn out the flash chip's control logic, the stored data itself should stay intact. Someone determined enough could decap the chip and surgically wire in replacements for any burned-out parts.

I think it's a good balance if you have a believable excuse why you're carrying a dead USB stick, and aren't on the list of public enemies. It's a lot simpler than trying to melt the flash with thermite or something like that. But I wonder if there would be a reasonable way to run an erase cycle first.
Weirdly, there are a few sites that don't work unless I disable javascript. Most specific one is the BBC news website - poking about the web, it's a not uncommon complaint that images there don't appear, and experimentally it seems disabling Javascript makes the images appear (fortunately stories on the BBC news website render pretty much flawlessy with JS disabled).

I suspect it's something to do with Chrome-specific features being inadvertently used (possibly someone here will know what's going on, google just gives a few pages of people complaining about the problem but no solutions).
>Life-safety? Seriously? It's gun control and law enforcement problem, not the one of easy salvaging. Y'know, it's hard to imagine that someone in Europe or most of the Asia would be robbing at gunpoint for the smartphone.

Yeah, instead you’d be robbed at knifepoint. And if not at knifepoint, then by using any serious of improvised weapons.
MV3 sucks and all, but why do you need an extension to set up proxy settings? Is this in lieu of a whole-device VPN?
A lot of the crypto culture is IMO not counter-culture, but almost "hyper-culture". Crypto lives on hype. Most rhetoric used by the likes of Do Kwon is focused around building hype for their particular brand of crypto, hoping to entice other people to invest in it.

They may use some terminology that sounds similar to counter culture at face value (eg "stick it to the big banks!") but they aren't doing this in the counter culture mode of rejection, they are simply using it as a sales pitch towards moving more crypto.
I had my doubts too about the story esp the part where he claimed to have had sent 100 applications for open postdoc positions in a very niche area of research; namely "Plant Biology", which raised my suspicions, and that's why I was instead more interested in the conversation around the topic itself, and I must say that I was a bit disappointed with a few responses that I came across in that thread; where a few people argued that it was OK to discriminate against people of different cultural backgrounds, and they made grand assumptions about those people's religiosity based solely on their birth name, and cited potential conflicts in the workplace arising from that specific consideration, which needless to say is a very absurd notion altogether.

Even though most of these opinions weren't favorable with the general audience citing the downvotes, one in particular caught my attention where a denouncement of cultural favoritism in the hiring process where applicants from specific backgrounds were given priority while others esp of Muslim background were treated with suspicions and animosity, seemed to sit well with a given segment of the audience here, which is a testament to the pervasive nature of bias, discrimination, bigotry and intolerance that some people still hold in the workplace toward other minorities, and that we still have a lot of work to do in that area to ensure equality, inclusion, diversity and overall progress for all of us in our professional life.
> Once you have done that you need at least two failures (underlying issue + safety, hot+cold, or two interacting systems).

Ah, I missed the part where he said - except for distributed systems. The thing is, effectively all systems are distributed systems with two or more interacting subsystems.

And no, I'm not talking about immature systems or ones where failure is acceptable. Queuing issues, for example, are well known to cause to cascading effects, and are not trivial to identify or solve.

Even basic correctness issues can be very difficult to identify if you have a large permutation space and no model checking, and will also cascade.
It'd be a lot funnier if he randomized the pawns.
Okay, well, nowadays the word "storage", when used without any additional specificity, is understood to mean the non-volatile kind, and not the computer's main memory. I.e. the I/O device that's used to store files and/or the OS. Perhaps you didn't know this, but the person who first replied to you had no way of knowing that, they simply used a word in common usage in the sense it's usually given. If you were confused by this, you could have said something like

"Well, what do you mean? Volatile or non-volatile storage?"

and someone would have told you what I just told you. Instead you chose to reply as if that person was being a smartass by replying "it's 16 GB of either disk or RAM" (i.e. providing no new information whatsoever).

If you engage with people assuming that they're not being stupid or liars and that they have good reasons to say the things they do, you'll usually have fewer conflicts.
If someone wants to try to promote flat earth ideas let them. I think it's condescending to MIT students to think this is somehow harming them.
Same amount of food yes. But if a mathematician was just sitting on the sidelines before this new field, they may decide it is more productive to trade time they spent on preparing food for more time to spend on math.
> They didn't talk about it, they didn't allude to it. They did it.

Of course they talked about it, they did so for years before putting their genocidal aspirations into action.

> Is there a single US politician calling for this or anything even remotely aligned with it?

Sure: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-state-r...

This guy is popping on stage with Michael Flynn, who is doing a national tour combining 'Stop the Steal' election theft narratives with New Apostolic Revival theology.
This seems to be contradicted by agreements posted. Or is use of features introduced since 1995 especially limited?

I doubt many still use Swing, anyway.
yes, as said all Aws kind
That's a hilariously bold claim with zero evidence.
No, it's an important distinction. Right to repair is more about a company a) not being legally entitled to punish you for repairing yourself , and b) not making design or manufacturing choices specifically to make it harder (e.g. sealing a component against water ingress may make it harder to repair but is an acceptable trade off, sealing it just to make it hard to repair isn't).

The nature of the device itself may make for difficult repairs, but that's a different issue.
From my reading it doesn't appear to zero the data, just overdrive the controller and hope to burn it out, which may or may not have downstream effects on the memory chip itself.
https://images.app.goo.gl/kYh4i5pcJupVpacR8

Gold scams have been around for a significant number of decades. Bitcoin has been hyped to death for its entire existence, in spite of the "properties" it shares with gold.

Note: I own neither.
Mike Davidson is leaving crypto exchange Kraken
You can fact check it by going to the website of the people you are calling neonazis (Azov) and find a neonazi agenda.

It was never really about NATO [1] for the russians, but as Putin said in his initial speech at the beginning of the invasion to "find a final solution to the Ukrainian question).

If you want to see the origin of russian ethno-fascism, try to find an early 2000s russian action film called "Brother 2" (Брат 2). It was immensely popular in russia at the time and is the most racist thing I've ever seen.

1 - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/exclusive-war-beg...
Rooting even those easily fixable Android, with unlocked bootloader and coming with Android One still voids the warranty and might break cameras. Unlocking more potential of a software, breaks hardware.

Apple is preparing to legislative changes in EU that hardware must be repairable. This law is already a reality in France https://www.ecr-community.org/implementing-the-reparability-...
Cut them to 6 to 8 inches long then sew them together as a scarf ?
You’re arguing for equality over equity. The reason our societies have moved towards encouraging equitable outcomes is because the equality approach like you suggest doesn’t work. It doesn’t work because it ignores inherent systemic biases and racism built into many of our systems. The point is to try to help people who are otherwise marginalized because of their skin colour, disability, etc. This is basic stuff.
>The real goal

Rather bold of you to assume that you understand the motivations behind any of the decisions within the Apple organization.
Stable Diffusion is wild - the space has been quickly developing and watching the pace of development makes me reconsider what I consider "staggering". I've been blown away. The accessibility of this technology is even more incredible - there's even a fork that is working on M1 Macs (https://github.com/lstein/stable-diffusion)

We are in for some interesting times. Whatever the next iteration of Textual Inversion is will be extremely disruptive, especially if the concepts continue to be developed collectively.
AI Ching (Rejected by Apple)
I've used Ventoy all year at my IT monkey job, I haven't had a single issue. It is so convenient having a big usb dong with every recovery image I need.
I mean, Windows on ARM (first 32bit and later 64) has been a thing for years now. I don't the issue is the architecture per se. What made the M1 Macbooks so good wasn't just because they were ARM based but specifically Apple's custom M1 chip.
> This shows me that a polity with just STEM graduates and tradespeople is a polity that can't function properly.

The word “properly” does a lot of work here. In context of the previous sentences, it most straightforwardly means “it cannot function according to the left-wing likings”. And I very much agree with this: if humanities department (as they currently exists) were actually calling the shots, the society would indeed “function properly”, i.e. it would be left wing in all its policies. However, nobody then should be surprised that the right wingers most certainly do not consider funding humanities departments to be public goods: they believe that what these departments promote is in fact the opposite of good.

The rest of your comment is some sort of weird attempt to convince me that the society ran only by STEM grads would actually not be good, which is not the view I ever espoused: note how I added “say, STEM graduates”, which clearly implies that they are just an example. I hope that you do not actually have a humanities degree, otherwise you should ask them for you money back!

> I understand that fascists and nationalists and right-wingers are against humanities education because it provides an antidote to their toxic ideology.

I guess it’s easy to assume that your opponents are just wrong and “toxic” in everything they say, but if you make them understand that a reasoned discussion with you is impossible, given how you dismiss it all a priori, they might come to a conclusion that the only way to achieve their goals is, as Clausewitz said, politics by other means. This is an extremely dangerous way to proceed, and I think you should not be so convinced about your side’s invincibility. The society is negotiated peace, and you’d better work to make future negotiations possible.
The vast majority of Madoff's victims were middle class pensioners who had their entire lives upended because their fund managers trusted the wrong person. In this case it's hard to feel any sympathy for crypto speculators.
That does not contradict with what he said. If you average 8 km per day I think most men and quite many women would be able to run a 45 minute 10k. You just need to be willing to put in that much hard work and not be obese.
> interchanging parts on two brand new iphone's and it disabled a lot of things including auto-brightness.

I think one problem is not being discussed enough is iPhones being stolen for parts (since in most cases they can't be reactivated). I strongly suspect inability to simply switch parts without remote authorisation is Apple's way to address the problem.
That is presumably talking about differences in metabolic and mechanical efficiency, but assuming those are held equal, energy output still scales linearly with work performed, which is directly proportional to body mass, and energy loss from atmospheric and wind drag is going to operate similarly. Simply being smaller and having a slimmer profile will result in less energy needed per unit of distance compared to an average person.

That said, Aleksandr is smaller than an average 40 year-old man, but actually pretty large for a distance runner, 20 kg heavier than the current world record holder in the marathon.
Now that's how you do a promotion page!

> "What did you sell?"

> "Nothing! Nothing fungible, anyway…"

Well, they obviously lost nothing in the humor department xD
> Why isn't corporate taxation being used to control the money supply?

That's exactly what the "Inflation Reduction Act" is doing. It's a significant increase in corporate income tax.
You could use a scheme kind of like how port-knocking works. For example, plugging in directly causes self-destruct, but plug and unplugging twice in 5 seconds will be the "okay it's me" signal.

This could be implemented by writing a timestamp file on wakeup.
Sounds good to me. Bring on the debate.
Europe has plenty of energy. They sit on huge gas reserves, for instance, but have decided to effectively ban using them by banning fracking while still being extremely dependent on gas. And not only that but most of gas imports came from a geostrategic adversary...

This is all self-inflicted. You can't prevent people and countries from shooting themselves in the foot.
This is a bad take. Current chess lines rely on the exact position of pieces. When you shuffle the starting position, all theory that relies on exact position falls apart. Only high-level ideas carry over when a position isn't exactly the same as the one you studied.

You're implying that 3 moves (12 minus 9) corresponds to ~960 less lines to memorize. Sure, that might be applicable when tacking moves on to the end of a line you already have memorized (though I would certainly argue 3 moves would result in far less than 960 new lines, maybe 20 lines max). But when you're moving these 3 new moves to the beginning instead of the end, as you must in Fischer Random, then you do see true combinatorial explosion. You'd have to study far far more to have theory developed for every starting position.
If you do 8 miles every day my hat is off to you, I find I'm happiest only running 4 days a week.
permies.com is a great community. I do a lot of gardening and have mostly learn from trial and error as well as permaculture blogs and books. Every zone is different so you probably wanna focus on your specific climate and the species that grow there unless you wanna learn general botany just for fun.
> The 80's was a decade when "fear of Japan taking over everything" was very common.

What an outdated, parochial view of the world.

Everyone knows China's taking over everything.
So at which percentage of the population should you start to respect the culture of minorities?

I'll make it even easier. Go to any LOCAL government website in Russia where there is a concentration of these ethnic minorities and find me a version in their language.

Good examples of treatment of minorities are Finland with their treatment of the Swedish minorities there.
The fact that downvotes require you to be on HN and get some upvotes first certainly helps.
The productive part is realizing you've been flim-flammed. There's no other explanation for the government narrative to completely avoid the truth. Every fiat money government does this - it's not a conspiracy, it's just that it's in their best interests to blame inflation on speculators rather than their own profligate printing of money.

I've presented many facts to support this. Economists know it, too. Study it and you'll see for yourself.

Another part of the flim-flam is the government is always trying to promote the idea that inflation is good for the economy. Read their explanations. It's all nonsense.
For similar reasons that people in the US no longer speak German, Dutch or various British Isle dialects (and the reason after a couple generations, Spanish speaking immigrants are more fluent in English than Spanish).
Yes, to a game where you can no longer memorize openings. Which fixed that thing (memorizing openings).
Wrt baudrillard. It always strikes me how well the modern condition was understood by the 70s. It's equally baffling how little has changed. Perhaps more specifically, the internet is not nearly as much of a transformational technology than say the industrial processes that enabled commoditization or the telecommunication and image reproduction technologies that enabled instant broadcasting.
I've read that book. My professor suggested using it as toilet paper after we were done, and I agreed with him.

The Great Depression bank runs were not caused by people trying to swap their cash for gold. Because you couldn't...after 1913 banks generally did not maintain their reserves in gold, and they certainly did not maintain local reserves in gold. At best you could get a promissory note for a representative amount of gold. The fiction that you could actually swap out cash for gold is one of the more bizarre historical conspiracies.

The bank runs stopped because the FDIC was created in 1934 to guarantee depositors' savings accounts. Until then, depositors risked losing their savings when a bank collapsed, which is why bank runs were a thing.
> why can't phone makers make phones with a mid frame that allow both sides to be easily swapped out,

Midframe based based construction was standard for most premium smartphones 2010-2015, after that two piece construction, and "bathtub" took over for economic reasons, and because of MBA people wanting to parrot Apple's engineering in everything.
Startups in Brazil – Arrivals and Departures
As players in the startups ecosystem aim to adjust their strategies to ride through the current macroeconomic instability, the last couple of weeks have seen some interesting moves in that regard. Companies are sharpening their focus on what actually matters, and getting rid of any side business that distracts them from the core.
Curious if playing any/all of the earlier releases is worthwhile before diving into this.
I mean.. they could just show a pop-up after required passcode unlock: ‘your iPhone recently had its FaceID/brightness/battery/whatever swapped - do you wish to fully enable the replacement part for this iPhone?’
Oh absolutely and it's not that hard. But that's an overly crude filter, because following is a one-way operation on Twitter so you might well follow people you actively dislike in order to keep tabs on what they're saying. Twitter Lists allow for much finer segmentation but because users get a notification about this many of them block people who add them to lists, and the List infrastructure is kinda mediocre.