skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The demo was a blender-like environment, with opaque white human models. You could shoot arrows at them, bullets, switch between poses and animations or set up obstacles to watch them react realistically and tumble around.

This was sometime before 2010.
None of what you lament has been lost. OTR still exists and is used by some folks. There are still OTR supporting clients that also support the current proprietary messaging systems like Facebook. The only thing that was lost is that most people moved away from using Free Software for communication and most new people were born into and grew up within proprietary communication ecosystems.

Please note that OTRv3 uses significantly outdated encryption. There is OTRv4 but it isn't finished yet.

https://bugs.otr.im/otrv4/otrv4 https://github.com/otrv4/otrv4/
XBB is a variant of omicron and has already shown to be immune evasive
Such a waste of money. This should be under the purview of the military and no one else, other than private citizens who want to blow money on it.
I’m not that guy, but wow this is getting me all amped to learn how to code. Thanks for this! I think I’m going to take a crack at it tomorrow.
I actually looked it up a while back and there are several words... some seemingly invented recently (there is probably one true german one [1]) but couldn't find a definitive answer. I get the same feeling from the "vaporwave" [2] genre of music or any popular song but paired with the words "slowed and reverb" [3] on youtube.

[1] - https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/50144/is-there-a...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQkPcPqTq4M

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzCFU_kw3KU
From my probably faulty memory: “Smartphone” was the first iphone that rendered the “normal” internet.

I remember it being huge that you could do that and pinch and zoom rather than use a d pad to walk around a bad render of a webpage.
Async disk I/O is primarily useful for implementing read-ahead / write-behind scheduling behaviors. While databases tend to be the obvious use case, the OS is often so poor at this that there are large performance improvements even for much simpler use cases that are otherwise disk I/O intensive.
Having an ADAM means you were probably far closer to 50 than 40 in 2020. That seems like a weird point to base a repo on.
> When the 801 shipped, almost no system had hard coded microcode.

1990? No system without soft microcode? That's a very restricted definition of system for the field of computing in 1990.
For me, the most important thing by far is to not have to extend my pinkies to another column. A good thumb cluster and mod-tap implementation dwarf any of what you listed for my needs.
that is just one isolated instance, more if you will?
But don't you like reading things that you think are true? How do you put one before the other fully?
A related project that is also necessary for this, Bootstrappable Builds:

https://bootstrappable.org/

Otherwise somewhere in the chain you are relying on binaries of unknown provenance.
PureData is an interesting tool, but it is very low-level. You have to reimplement from scratch things that are present in most DAWs or synths, for example: there is no GUI-controlled equaliser, no reverb. No oscilloscopes and FFT displays.

If I am not mistaken, there is even no primitive for modulating frequency of one oscillator with another.

The filters are very primitive and limited. The user is expected to learn the theory themselves. As far as I remember, there is no filter that can be modulated with audio frequency (without artifacts) and it is difficult to find information how to create one. Does anybody know how to do it, by chance?
> news from organizations like the AP

AP is just as biased as the rest. Even if you remove ads the people with agenda are still everywhere.

> PBS are a left public good.

Fixed that for you, because it's so obvious how it has changed.
It’s not un-Apple of them, people just make up the idea that Macs are going to be locked down next year and have continually made it up for the last 10 years (or more).
YouTube doesn't create the content. They host content created by others. It's the creator's responsibility to comply with accessibility laws.

I don't know how it works in Israel, but in the US, the ADA requires educational institutions to provide equal access to deaf users. They can meet that requirement in several ways, including sign-language interpreters or closed captions. But automatically generated captions do not meet the requirement.

This applies whether the institution hosts the content themselves, on YouTube, or on any other service. For example, a few years ago, UC Berkeley had to take down over 20,000 of its videos from YouTube and iTunes because they only had automatic captions:

https://news.berkeley.edu/2017/03/01/course-capture/
That makes me so happy, thank you :) Stick with it, you'll do fine. It can be tough at times, but persistence is key! I believe in you!
Definitely go see a doctor. You’re describing aspects of general anxiety disorder, ADHD, and major depressive disorder. You need to talk to someone trained to diagnose what could be going on so that you can receive an evidence-based treatment that might just work.
There's a level where these dynamics operate throughout the economy, outside of the organization. Venkatesh Rao wrote another classic essay [1] where he describes a dynamic where "the 1% and the 90% collaborat[e] to prey on the 9% in the middle — the Jeffersonian middle class."

Scott in this model is a Clueless - he is part of the 9% naive enough (and yet proficient enough in their trade) to believe that they can survive on their own merits and exist in an objective reality of pure reason, outside of social reality and its fickle emotional currents. And sure enough, it ended in a member of the cultural 1% (a journalist) collaborating with the 90% (Internet mobs) to prey on the 9% (a psychologist-blogger), dox him for pageviews, and force him from his job and his blog.

You'll also notice this dynamic in a lot of populist movements, eg. Trump (1%) collaborates with his MAGA fans (90%) to own the urban libs (9%).

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/03/the-locust-economy/
> They just said that it’s not (in their opinion) fair to build up a user base that becomes dependent, then use that dependency as leverage.

And saying this doesn't make any sense. Because being opensource means lack of vendor lock-in. There's no "dependency". As soon as a new license is adopted, the users of the previous version can still use that previous version because it is still opensource, and create a fork out of it.
> I think it's impossible to live without the top tier papers of records

That is a US-centric viewpoint. I'm in the US now and I don't find any need for those. Maybe because I'm too busy outside doing fun stuff most days and living. I don't know of a good reason to give those publications more than a glance once per year.
If you are to insist that you are an actual leftist and that these organizations are not even vaguely left-leaning, I'd like to know how you define the term "leftist" and "left," as they clearly deviate from what many people intuit.

My best guess is you think anything but pure anti-capitalism must be right-wing, but if you view the left-right ideology spectrum as a reflection one's views on economic policies, it's quite clear that would not be the case.
Yeah, I urge people to just listen to 20+ year old American media, doesn't matter, left/right, it was so much more civil, courteous and intellectual. Read NewYorker magazine from 1980's. Spectacular writing, and genuine insight that people from all political spectrums can be engaged with.

It makes me sad. Sometimes, I listen to old archives from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/npr-all-things-considered

and stuff like Car Talk on NPR. It was a beautiful world.

I have no trust left for NYT, WaPo or whatever right wing media is around blasting stuff on TV today. It is toxic.
People have been using this to amuse themselves by putting in selfies and seeing the AI comments, which are often quite rude (or else calls them "popular on reddit" or "a discord mod").

It's unusable for me though, haven't been able to get in the queue once in the last few days.

You might have better luck with Colab: https://github.com/pharmapsychotic/clip-interrogator
> Also, are the wells well curved/deep

The keyboard is flat, but the caps are sculpted
The fine article is about a journalist who wrote and published a profile piece and encountered red flags which they did not mention in the published work.
Spam is largely solved because they all integrate with Akismet. I have a WP site that gets 500k monthly pageviews and Akismet catches all our spam
How Do Humans Sketch Objects? (2012) [pdf]
This wasn’t supposed to be a problem because to get airwaves from the FCC broadcasters had to agree to broadcast a certain amount of public interest programming, which they do with news.

The problem is basically everyone seems to be trying to see how far they can push the line on “good enough” without ending up getting fined.

And the FCC knows how dangerous it is to try to rein that in.

And media consolidation means you can produce crappy news and not fail because you only compete with yourself or one other corporation that also happens to try to send as little possible on news.

All incentives to do a good job (as a corporation) are gone. And as long as the slide wasn’t too fast they wouldn’t get called on it.

So here we are.

Edit: and oh yeah, not airing a prime time presidential address to the nation because your ratings would go down. I’m sure the public interest rule was designed to protect your ratings above all else.
I’ll offer a different approach than current sibling response, as a self taught programmer. This is how I learned. Take any endeavor you’d like to share with the world, and think of how you’d want to present it. Learn enough HTML (or whatever platform you’d prefer where you’re writing some amount of code) to present it. Get annoyed at how tedious routine things are distracting from your project and its presentation, and find some ways to start automating those tedious bits. Congratulations, you wrote a software! You’re probably already finding inspiration at this point to hone what you’ve learned so far. And you have a wealth of starting points to learn how to write better software. Follow whichever feels interesting. Before you know it, you might find others taking your programming efforts seriously. You might feel like you haven’t earned that. Don’t give into impostor syndrome here, you’ve come this far! Every experience is a chance to learn where you had gaps, and everyone who filled those gaps with useful knowledge before you walked the same path or walked the path of someone who did.
> No, just the facts.

Facts are meaningless without proper context. You can take the same facts and present them under a different light and get completely different stories. Check "selective editing" if you are not aware of the term.
Did you just watch the movie version of The Mist by Stephen King?
Don't try to write tons and tons of code at once without ever running or testing it, it's not like being a great programmer is about being so smart that you don't need to run code to see if it works. Focus on streamlining your workflow so that you can do what you're already doing more efficiently.

I frequently create small experimental scripts to iterate on one aspect of a larger program, and then file that example away. I'll likely come back to it to copy code for months or years. Unit tests are your friend as well.

The other thing is, read more code. Read some legendary projects in your preferred language. Read the source of your favorite framework. You don't have to read the entire codebase if you don't want, but try to understand enough of it to see where the most critical parts of the design are, and then understand how that was put together.

If there are specific aspects to your programming you'd like to improve upon, and it's an area I'm knowledgeable in, I'd be happy to recommend specific resources.
A much better starting point than trying to zap mosquitos in flight. Cover small 2d areas rather than large 3d volumes, and bigger targets. Rats would be easir still, but you would need a serious laser for them, so get it right on the cockroaches first. This could be very useful for guarding entries to commercial kitchens and other food manufacturing facilities.
Omission of critical aspects seems more insidious than straight up lies. At least with the latter, you can dispute it. The former, hides behind the facade of integrity while doing more covert damage.
People, in general, want what's good for people, in general. Defense contractors want what's good for defense contractors. The two in many, if not the majority, of cases are not aligned. "Defense" contractors benefit from war while society, in the vast majority of cases, loses. Of course that's where the media comes into play.

Invading Iraq on nonexistent evidence was actually 'saving the world from the imminent threat of an unhinged dictator actively developing WMD with the intent of using them, alongside endless irrefutable evidence.' The Iraq War, and especially the following two articles, played a major role in developing my worldview. I still return to read them on occasion. This is why you don't want media backed by the war machine:

Washington Post - "Irrefutable" : https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2003/02/06/i...

NYTimes - "Irrefutable and Undeniable" : https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/opinion/irrefutable-and-u...
The terminology is intentionally punchy as a way to get pageviews - if it were dryly academic, would we be talking about this article 13 years later? I think there was a FAQ somewhere on the original series that was like Q: "Is this just satire?" and A: "Nothing is just satire." It was supposed to be humorous in its over-directness because Venkatesh actually engages with his audience on an emotional level, at the cost of some precision.
How about, ban ads on news networks. At least anywhere near the news. The money's the root of the evil here.
Interestingly I also started with basic, having to manually write line numbers, but I’m in my early 30s. I’m wondering if I was exposed to some legacy stuff when young, or if basic lasted a long time. Btw it was on a very big and awkward calculator.
50% yearly income for a car? That seems very high to me. Where does this come from?
> skipjack is barely even a tuna.

In what regard? Culinary, or?
The Coleco Adam was a kinda cool machine at the time, compared to low-end home computers. It had tape drives instead of audio cassette recorder/cable, detached keyboard, daisy wheel printer instead of 9-pin dot matrix. IIRC, Forrest Mims had one.
I have actually been receiving much spam from gmail addresses lately and have considered banning the domain altogether.

> I was surprised to find out that my friend Peter Eckersley — a very privacy conscious person who is Technology Projects Director at the EFF — used Gmail

I find that the EFF does this more often than not, like how they also criticize Amazon for giving police warrant-less access to Ring cameras... and then stream their online gatherings live on Twitch. I find their messaging sometimes does not tie well with their actions.
China and Russia are part of BRICS[1]. That's not isolation. That's half the world's people. And that's the coalition that will soon be the world economy.

> Cold War 2.0 is coming

I don't think the US can "win" that Cold War, so maybe it shouldn't pick the fight this time.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/brics.asp
China and Russia are yesterdays growth stories (China is still at 5%). Look for growth in other places like Brazil which is poised to grow in the next 20 years.
I remember when I was horrified that apps would ask for (or not…) all my contacts.

But then I realized most people on my contacts probably wouldn’t say no so someone could easily use that information to guesstimate my contacts by using everyone else’s contacts.
The only way to do that is for you to vet them. And the best way to vet is to read all sides of the issue.

Or put your trust in some external organization, which is what you're doing if you accept reported news as fact.
Citizens Assemblies Are Upgrading Democracy: Fair Algorithms Are Part of Program
Wow. This would be an interesting derivative/ hedge fund driver.
That seems like politics rather than science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_bluefin_tuna#Conserva...
I knew a guy who hunted moose up in Canada.

To give you a sense of their size, if you field prep one (remove the innards, cut off the limbs), each quarter of the animal weighs over 200 lbs. You either hunt with 3 other people who can haul out a 200 lb quarter or you bring an ATV with a trailer.

They are massive animals.
Differential mosquito attraction to humans is associated with skin acid levels
Premature burial wouldn’t even be that bad… wouldn’t you be dead in a like a minute due to lack of oxygen?

I’m firmly in the camp of being vastly more terrified of being stuck or trapped somewhere for an indefinite amount of time.
no, what's that
.net foundation membership gives you a little extra exposure at the risk of Microsoft having additional visibility that your project is worth copying.
FYI:

What We Know About All the New Covid Variants : https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-to-know-new-cov...

CDC - SARS-CoV-2 Variant Classifications and Definitions : https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/variant-c...
Bad information is often worse than no information which is why it's better to save your energy/time/resources to deal with circumstances as they unfold instead of trying to prepare for the unknown.
Post Collapse Computing Part 3: Building Resilience
It's apparently a very new word but "Anemoia" means "nostalgia" for something you haven't experienced. Nostalgia in quotes because by definition you can't be nostalgic for something you never experienced.
I agree it seems worth doing, especially if you have the belief that at some point technology will advance sufficiently to allow interaction with other people again.
Jokester by Isaac Asimov
Since you suggest that route, a semantic differentiator between inter-word, inter-element (e.g., "Dr. Gupta", "Sr. Director"), inter-sentence, and inter-paragraph whitespace could be argued for.

We already have spaces, tabs, and non-breaking spaces ("&nbsp;" in HTML), for example.

ASCII already has a number of field-specific terminators: STX, ETX, EOF, LF, FF, FS, GS, RS, US, etc. Though those tend to be little used.

In terms of ease of use, existing standards, and ready interpretation, a doubled space as an inter-sentence indicator has numerous benefits.
the previous paragraph says "scores of members of the 30,000-strong AIAA — drawn from aerospace contractors, government agencies, think tanks and startups" - so I'd assume the nontraditional members from the tech community are members from the AIAA.
The Pink Floyd album "Animals" terms them "Dogs", "Sheep", and "Pigs", which is just as cynical (probably moreso) but also has the catchiness which Sociopath/Loser/Clueless exhibits but Opportunists/Pragmatists/Idealists does not.
Technological advancement still means growth, even if it looks different from the growth of the last 30 or so years.

Also, wouldn't be a bad time for defence-related startups...
IMO, they are trying to sell a complete end to end experience for your entire company with the aim of replacing a lot of software in your stack with a single integrated system.

IMO they need to do a better job of communicating that for the price to make sense.
I agree. Mounting a "dist" directory and spinning up nginx is a one-liner command for Docker.

Using a static site generator would be a single for loop.

The rest is a small amount of CSS.

Bonus points if you write the selector necessary to "display: none" all iframes except one at a time. Solves the excessive memory problem. :p
What is the 'mission' of a news organization? There are facts, e.g. a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden was discovered with lots of unfavorable emails, an unruly group of people broke into the US Capitol on Jan 6 and wreaked all sorts of havoc, George Floyd died while in police custody, Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine, etc, etc. But quickly after reporting these 'facts' nuance enters the discussion, why, what does it mean, what is the impact, who cause it, etc, etc. Why should we expect reporters to not view and report the nuance through their own personal filters? A reporter also lives in the country and/or community in which he/she is reporting and has their own biases and beliefs and, yes, political leanings. Why should they then report a nuance that might reflect poorly on the things they personally believe to be correct or their personal world view?

It's silly to compare money to mission of a news organization (or any other entity for that matter). It's like asking what influences a human being more, food to air? You need both. For a news organization to have impact it needs money. Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't even NPR solicit money on a regular basis - don't they have to cater to the supplier of that money to some extent to continue their service? I hear their fund raising and they often read comments from contributors which all more or less say "you give me what I want". So their money comes from those with whom their style and nuance of reporting resonates and it's reasonable to assume that NPR reporting then continues in that direction.
That last point doesn't sound very hypocritical to me. There is a difference between a feed that is meant to be public and one that is not.
Thank you for this warning!
Pocket Casts goes open source
That experience ... has nothing to do with two-space sentence termination.
Putin, Xi, Modi, Biden/Trump are getting older. Generational shift is coming and it is a phase transition. Where it settles, in which attractor basin is the Quintilian dollar question. :) I vote for the ECO revolution.
>police warrant-less access to Ring cameras... and then stream their online gatherings live on Twitch

Streaming a public event on twitch vs on-demand warrentless police access to on-prem cameras? Am I missing something or are these two things not just not in the neighborhood, they are on different planets.
But to who or what are you talking?

Are you talking to the conscious or subconscious?
And 0.5 for indices!!!
No. First you must produce compelling evidence that globalization is ending before you can should ask how to deal with such. I don't see the evidence, to many countries have on going interconnected relationships.

Before we address something like this, you would need to show evidence that it is happening, such as:
Imports and exports are halting for a majority of the countries.
Termination of diplomacy and communication between countries.

To assist in this, you might consult some definitions of globalism.
Maybe I'm reading it wrong but doesn't your story confirm that doctors aren't good at diagnoses? It took the cream of the crop top tier specialist to correctly diagnose your condition.
Why not build a cheap 4 core ryzen setup and not deal with all the pain... I know socket am4 is on the way out... But you could do it and have a system that works......