skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, “magic” and “cigar-smoking masterminds“, those two classic implements of state control. What’s actually of concern is the legal and regulatory environment and the way it is deployed/abused:

From 2020:

https://rankingdigitalrights.org/index2020/spotlights/china-...

And two years later:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62544950.amp

Remember, if you can be arbitrarily thrown in jail for pissing off the state then you can be damn sure that you’re going to going to find out what the state does and does not want you to do.
>In the last game, a main character (Trevor) was introduced by stomping an npcs brain into the ground before finding rests of it on his shoe.

I disagree, and I think this section from paul graham (http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html) captures the dynamic perfectly.

>Of course, we're not just looking for things we can't say. We're looking for things we can't say that are true, or at least have enough chance of being true that the question should remain open. But many of the things people get in trouble for saying probably do make it over this second, lower threshold. No one gets in trouble for saying that 2 + 2 is 5, or that people in Pittsburgh are ten feet tall. Such obviously false statements might be treated as jokes, or at worst as evidence of insanity, but they are not likely to make anyone mad. The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.

In the context of GTA, I think themes like drugs, violence, and sex is probably safe, but culture war topics like reproductive rights, race (eg. CRT or affirmative action), LGBT rights, or immigration are not.
+1 for a Chicago area IRL event. Would also love to be in the know.
I have a sneaking suspicion that university administration offices are run by a generation of people who don't know that young people do not use the telephone [1] (you did this too).

Give students an all-purpose email address to contact, or a number to text, and I think you will find they are much more willing to get the right help. The medium does matter.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/05/09/31...
That's the current state that the author considers untenable, right?
I don't have real insight but I have real hope that your sentiment comes true at least in part, and that Adnan is both exonerated and compensated appropriately. Listening to Serial from episode 1 you cannot ignore the fact that it wouldn't be compelling (or wouldn't have been researched or serialised) if the suspect's guilt was clear and unequivocal.
What does that mean "rust will go into linux 6.1"?

Why does Rust has to go into Linux? why C or C++ can't go into Linux?
Chromium team replied as of 10 minutes ago to that thread (thanks to HN exposure):

"I'm temporarily restricting comments to keep comments from turning into +1s while this is trending on Hacker News. If you have additional thoughts that you'd like to share with the Chromium team regarding this issue, please return in a few days to leave a comment (and apologies for the inconvenience)."

"As a Chromium contributor that shares information about our progress on extensions issues, I sincerely apologize to extensions developers affected by this issue and the broader community for not sharing an update until now. I'm currently working on a "known issues" document for Manifest V3 that touches on several outstanding issues (including this one), but given the attention on this issue now, I'll quickly share our current thinking on this issue."

"We have always intended to provide support for this functionality in Manifest V3 (for both user-installed and force-installed extensions), and have been iterating on different possible approaches. Our tentative plan (which is not yet finalized) is that the Manifest V3 version of this capability will require extensions to request a new permission scoped to intercepting authentication requests, but will otherwise allow extensions to handle these requests in a similar manner to how they do in Manifest V2."

"The permission string and end user facing warning string have not been finalized yet. Also, we have not yet finalized how this new permission will interact with other permission grants, but extensions that currently have the webRequest permission and broad host permissions will likely not require an additional grant for this permission."

"Finally, I want to note that before we can pursue this capability, we first need to resolve issue 1024211 (now formally marked as a blocker). We are actively working on 1024211 and aim to resolve both that issue and this one before January 2023."
Well ... no.

ARM has a ton of mutually-incompatible ISAs. You can't take assembly language or binary code between them AT ALL. Forget extensions -- just the basic instructions are incompatible.

ARM are still today selling cores that run the original 1980s A32 instruction set plus 16 bit Thumb. You can find them, for example, in the Raspberry Pi A, A+, B, B+, Zero, Zero W, and Compute Module 1.

Then there are cores that run only the 16 bit Thumb ISA plus a handful of extra instructions (because Thumb was not originally designed to be the only ISA on a CPU): Cortex-M0+ as in Pi Pico

Then there are cores that only run Thumb2: Cortex-M3/M4/M7

Then there are cores that only run A64: Cortex A34, A65, A510, A715, everything from Apple since the iPhone 8, Cavium, probably Nuvia.

RISC-V has only two variants: 32 bit and 64 bit. And actually almost all the instruction mnemonics and binary opcodes are the same between them. The only difference is the size of the registers. With a little care you can run 32 bit RISC-V code on a 64 bit CPU, not in a special mode but just sticking to the top and/or bottom 2 GB of address space. You can easily write assembly language code that runs on both 32 bit and 64 bit. It is easy to use the same compiler for both.
Yeah, during the Windows 3.1 days the browser (Netscape) had to bring this feature itself, Windows didn't have a certificate store.
If you're worried primarily about wrongful convictions, don't forget that we only solve 50% of murders in the US.

Wrongful convictions are tragic, but the 50% of murderers that are free is also tragic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/07/poli...
Bizarre. To me firefox looks like it's falling apart at the seams.

Here's a new profile, just default zoom set to 150% (ublock origin installed system-wide)

https://i.imgur.com/Z3MO8sr.png

https://i.imgur.com/hgscGrb.png

https://i.imgur.com/07QI1IU.png

https://i.imgur.com/owZm12J.png

What is even going on?
Instead of more calculators, all you really need is just better design. See above.
The 0.1fps time scale makes no difference to people living within this minecraft universe. From their perspective a second is a second and a day is a day. Funny.

See Greg Egan's PERMUTATION CITY for more on that.
This is basically the same reason I default to speedcrunch for my calculator app. It has a nice visible and interactive history of calculations.
Indeed, but it's still off topic here. The high-order bit is how repetitive something is. That's what we want to avoid:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

This follows from the organizing principle of the site:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

In fact, tediously and/or angrily repeating correct things (or things one feels to be correct—a distinction without a difference for internet purposes) is the thing commenters should most avoid on HN. It's the root evil, relative to the mandate of the site.
I assume (hope?) that this is tongue in cheek, but it’s worth pointing out that there are tons of insecure people who are also beautiful, intelligent, and popular with their peers.

One important thing to realize is that none of those things actually exist; beautiful and intelligent are entirely relative. They can also be sources of friction; people get bullied for being smart, there’s a strong stereotype that beautiful people are actually stupid but that people tell them they’re smart because they’re hot, etc. There’s also the Ivy League problem; when your self esteem is based on being smarter than everyone else and then you get surrounded by other smart people it can tank your self confidence.

Self esteem is about realizing that your value is not derived from other’s opinion of you. That’s why it’s called self esteem.
And in the '40s, it'll be "India's taking over everything". And in the '60s, "Nigeria's taking over everything".

Demographics is the least cloudy crystal ball.
Because cops are lazy and want to put it all in a report later? I would.
The design is:

1. Not skeuomorphic.

2. Indeed, flat.

3. Almost identical to the iPhone native calculator, except it uses round-edge rectangles instead of circles.
With all due respect, you really need to be able to explain the goals in a sentence or two, and then follow up with a link to the pdf. An elevator pitch, a vision statement, a clearly written user statement, all would go a long ways towards explaining why this is a worth while use of ones time and energy.

I don't know whether the goal is to find bad cops who have been fired and get hired one town over and try to prevent those hirings? Or if the idea is to find people who have been arrested and ruin their lives? Or if the goal is simply to make the data available and let people use it for whatever they wish, from deepfakes to erotic fan fiction.

Data wants to be free. The data is the end goal. Public data should be public, etc all sound great. But, I've seen the mug shot database ruin people's lives, and eventually its founders had mugshots of their own.

Scraping and publishing is one thing, but knowing the goals is even more important because it would let me know why we're scraping, what we need to scrape, how to make that available, etc.

What problem are you trying to solve? And Why?

Police data is not easily searchable? Okay, so what? What good is it to make this available? What uses could it have? Even if the goal is just to build it and see how people use it, it would be helpful to know that.

I strongly suggest you consider working backwards. It's been 3 years. What does 3 years from now look like? What is the press release? How do you know you were successful, what does that mean?

Availability is nice. It could lead to transparency. That may lead to accountability. Is that the goal? Right now this data is hard to access. If you succeed it will be easier to access. And so what? What changes in the world could come because of this? If you fail, what lost opportunity do we mourn? You gotta have some sort of easily conveyed reason for doing this. If the data accessibility alone is the end goal, that's fine, not enough for me, but at least make that clear and convince me that's worth the effort.
So the text at that point literally talks about ‘many-eyes seraphims’. The eyes symbol is a pure gag—seems to be spliced in place of the letter ‘о’ in the word ‘eye’ just a little down the line. (However, Old Slavonic is a tough read due to no spaces, so I'm not sure about that word. But at least it's not the Glagolitic script, which was just ridiculous and actually had multi-circle letters.)
Yeah, I made a mental shortcut when writing that - sorry :-)

Of course I wiped it beforehand - they told me that they will have to send it somewhere and it would get wiped regardless.
I do not use cases, and have dropped my naked iPhone 13 Pro Max many many times (with $29 screen replacements via AppleCare, I'm fine taking the risk). This phone has literally hit concrete and has yet to crack, a testament to the durability improvements.
They have an email.. and a phone number.. and office hours.
This is important. Locally, we had a sheriff who was being heavily, heavily criticized due to several deaths at the county facility. This was at the height of the protests a few years ago.

It was a lot of work to find data on policing nationwide, because the question really was "Is the sheriff doing a bad job, or do bad things happen sometimes?"

After some hard work trying to identify other cities with similar socioeconomic circumstances and populations, it became clear that our local sheriff was actually better than average, and that much of the outrage was fabricated.

That's also when I learned that many people don't want to listen to statistics unless they agree with their own preconceptions.
Wow, this is probably the most actually useful and interesting comment in this whole discussion, thanks! For anyone interested, the most relevant quotes from the document are in particular:

"This document requests the addition of a number of Cyrillic characters to be added to the UCS. It also requests clarification in the Unicode Standard of four existing characters. This is a large proposal. While all of the characters are either Cyrillic characters (plus a couple which are used with the Cyrillic script), they are used by different communities. Some are used for non-Slavic minority languages and others are used for early Slavic philology and linguistics, while others are used in more recent ecclesiastical contexts. We considered the possibility of dividing the proposal into several proposals, but since this proposal involves changes to glyphs in the main Cyrillic block, adds a character to the main Cyrillic block, adds 16 characters to the Cyrillic Supplement block, adds 10 characters to the new Cyrillic Extended-A block currently under ballot, creates two entirely new Cyrillic blocks with 55 and 26 characters respectively, as well as adding two characters to the Supplementary Punctuation block, it seemed best for reviewers to keep everything together in one document.

(...)

MONOCULAR O Ꙩꙩ, BINOCULAR O Ꙫꙫ, DOUBLE MONOCULAR O Ꙭꙭ, and MULTIOCULAR O ꙮ are used in words which are based on the root for ‘eye’. The first is used when the wordform is singular, as ꙩкꙩ; the second and third are used in the root for ‘eye’ when the wordform is dual, as ꙫчи, ꙭчи; and the last in the epithet ‘many-eyed’ as in серафими многоꙮчитїй ‘many-eyed seraphim’. It has no upper-case form. See Figures 34, 41, 42, 55."
i don't think it's irrelevant if you are a US citizen and believe that you have some control over governance. If a non-US citizen, I can see why one might not care as much. Or a US citizen who believes that gave no political say.

However, for me, I believe I have much more control over US governance decisions than I do over Chinese governance decisions and therefore a little more control over what US companies can do versus Chinese companies.
Someone should do a startup to disrupt meetup.com.

Meet up is the experts exchange of social planning.
the thing is that from the individual’s point of view there’s nothing new about this. at one point Google/YouTube held this influence over me. later, FB did. now ByteDance does (if i was a TikToker). in all these cases i’m about equally passionate in reducing the amount of power that other party has over me. doesn’t matter if it’s local or foreign.

viewing this as a National Security issue has some truth to it, but how on earth do you sell that to the public without decapitating yourself? “oh, it’s dangerous when centralized players hold influence over the masses, of which i am a part? so we’re going to ban everyone engaged in wielding this type of influence over me, right? oh, we’re not? we’re only banning the foreign one? US policy makers must not care about me at all then! US policy makers must not have my best interests in mind.”

dunno how they wiggle out of this one.
Data gathering does have its dangers. But giving a not so friendly power the ability to directly influence your citizens is the real danger. There is no way to minimize that other than to have control over the whole enterprise.

Right now the EU is feeling the shock of giving Russia control over its fuel needs. Something that many people thought could happen but at least in that situation Russia does not have the ability to directly influence the EU's citizens. If it could influence minds directly, Russia could be confident that it would win the conflict. Tik Tok is that influencing machine that can be used against the US. We need to do something before it becomes a problem.
Anyone in the Bay Area interested in a HN Meetup?
Thanks! I contacted them and I've been reinstated.
Unless it's legitimately someone's native tongue, conlangs shouldn't be in unicode. If there are kids out there that are native Klingon speakers, then you can make the argument it should be included.
>Then can you explain what was biased about an admissions process that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, and other identity characteristics, if it wasn't the demographics of the student body? It's still vague how a race-agnostic admissions process would be biased.

There can still be implicit bias. Please read this publication from MIT on this exact subject: https://tll.mit.edu/teaching-resources/inclusive-classroom/i...

>An African American student in the 4th decile (as in, is scoring above 40% of students and below 60% of students) has the same chances at admission at an Asian student in the top decile.

Ok, but that still doesn't change the facts. The issue is not that there aren't enough qualified students or that unqualified students are being placed above qualified ones or that merit is being ignored. That just isn't what's happening at all. That graph is missing a lot of important context, like the actual court case it was talking about that is currently headed for the Supreme Court:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...

The whole thing about "we need more merit" is a misdirection. It's a bad, irrelevant take. This professor should be ashamed to have put his name on such dreck.

>If I have 500 qualified white applicants and 5,000 qualified Asian applicants and I admit 100 whites and 100 Asians have I not discriminated against Asians?

It very well might be so, but now you're coming back around to the same thing about implicit bias again, the very thing that the original article was dismissing as not an issue. The plaintiff even argued in court that Harvard was doing this...
> I think the reason people aren't terribly aware of Animate, and why there isn't a competitor product—whether open source or commercial—with a big name is that we don't need/want it.

I disagree. I think the reasons Animate didn't take off are three-fold:

1) Developer Attrition from 2010-2015: HTML5/CSS3 features did not match 1:1 with what was possible in Flash alone. There was also far more fragmentation in mobile browser support than there was on desktop, making mobile compatibility a risk. Which leads us to:

2) Push to develop for native mobile platforms: Flash was a major game dev platform. If you wanted to sell games on iOS, you had to use their platform and nothing else.

3) Creators focused on video, not web: the 2000s were a great time for interactive content because the desktop web was the one medium through which everybody accessed information online. If you made a great Flash project, it'd find its way around the world. The 2010s changed that by putting Youtube and a cameraphone in everyone's hand. People were able to monetize videos in ways they never could with Flash, so that was another nail in its coffin.
My observation is that children afraid to ask for help grow into adults afraid to ask for help that have learned to mask their cowardice. Primary masking behaviors include: avoidance, blame shifting, excuses, stonewalling, logical fallacies, and so forth. I would say cowardice is a common bed fellow to deception.
And the very limited lip service paid to hosting/keeping US data in the US was basically a nice massive government-mediated sale for Oracle
CrazyBump: Space age normal maps from the future
Looks a lot like Numi (https://github.com/nikolaeu/numi), which I've used for years and found to be extremely useful. (In fact, they're so similar, I wonder if one is a riff off the other.)

For non-Mac, there's an open-source web app called that's similar and looks nice too (haven't used it much): https://github.com/sharkdp/insect
Why does the USA imprison 639 per 100k but China is only 91.6 per 100k? It would seem that the USA is much more authoritarian in absolute terms.
> makes me think the community has been infiltrated by Chinese agents or other special interest groups astroturfing.

Astroturfing accusations are intellectually lazy and against the community guidelines of this site.
Anyone in Florida?
Every screenshot on the homepage shows an empty window
One of the hosts of Undisclosed is Rabia Chaudry, who was a childhood friend of Adnan Syed. So really what you are asking here, is whether Ms Chaudry would still have created a podcast without the success of Serial - which is an unanswerable question (but I'd guess yes).
Didn't Gorhill create uBlock, sell it, create uBlock Origin, and now there's uBlock Origin Lite? What's next uBlock Origin Lite Pro Max?
"Because it's hard to impossible to get alternate services for roads, water and electricity, i.e common carriers."

You are omitting telephone service, which is also a common carrier despite being arguably more competitive than the Big 3 cloud providers.

That's where I personally would come down. This decision is ridiculous; social media companies are highly competitive. But I am much, much less comfortable with AWS kicking off Parler.
I'd love to get a deeper analysis of the history.

Java EE might have been one of the most colossal time wastes foisted onto well meaning developers in all history.

I think that played played a huge part in the rejection of these heavy frameworks we saw in the early to mid 00's, and some of early Agile's (XP) resistance to complexity and speculative development. And also why Spring became a thing. Now we view Spring as the heavy and complex beast!
>There are lots of people angry that GTA is copying Watch Dogs, because Watch Dogs has a game mechanic that looks similar to how these debug elements look.

source? I looked at the footage and there's nothing there that could be attributed to be watch dogs, aside from basic stylistic elements like lines/wireframes that watch dogs uses as visual effects.
The biggest risk is chinas potential future influence over the content being pushed on TikTok. This is also where the law is least prepared for regulation.

On the privacy side, If lawmakers really cared about TikTok data ending up in China, I’m sure congress could pass a powerful privacy law modeled off the CCPA or GDPR. This hasn’t happened so I’m assuming it isn’t considered a very serious national security threat.

On the content side, I don’t think the world has a very good model for regulating algorithmic content streams. The biggest risk is also the hardest problem to tackle
There is an income bracket.... and almost every possible interest subsegement

look up google ad affinity groups
That is essentially a meaningless statement. If there was a Chinese law that stated foreign companies had to turn over 90% ownership to the government, your statement would still hold true.
Very nearly the first piece of legislation passed after the ratification of the constitution was a tariff.
What you’re talking about is confidence that others will like you, not a sense that you matter. The latter is self esteem, the former is compensating (or perhaps ingroup).

If you have a deep sense that you matter and that your value to society comes from who you are, then people being shitty to you because you’re short and the wrong shade won’t prevent you from showing up and taking up space.

It’s called _self_ esteem.
I don't understand you're objection to the word collapse? It's also consistent with your description...