skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no particular need to imply conspiratorial intent for a US-based company, especially a US-based government surveillance contractor, when the US government believes non-citizens do not have any right to privacy or even standing to sue over privacy violations (and apparently so does the wider US public to some extent, given how the Snowden headlines there took care to mention “spying on US cizitens”). When a government explicitly and publicly gives itself the right to access foreigners’ data stored by foreign (subsidiary) companies[1], you don’t exactly have to take out your tinfoil hat before expecting it to access that data.

However, I would normally read the quoted line as a piece of evidence concerning Palantir’s general approach to ethics and/or the extent of their entanglement with the US executive, for those who haven’t heard of the company before, not as a sneaky allegation of conspiracy.

(Lest it sound like I’m dunking on the US, I don’t think the government of the UK really needs emergency powers to do whatever the hell it wants to, including secretly granting intelligence agents immunity from inconvenient parts of the law[2],—there isn’t really a separation of powers there except by tacit agreement, as far as I’ve been able to understand.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/05/mi5-policy-g...
Bassoon tracker is really well made and fits the bill (though not with WASM I believe): https://github.com/steffest/BassoonTracker
1. If you know someone from mainstream media, let them know this

2. If you know someone influential from country that Iran trades with, let them know. It is bit difficult as no country in Western world trades with Iran. And China doesn't give two shits about human rights abuse, same with India. South Korea and Turkey are the largest importer after those.

3. Upvote so that chances of someone who could help with first two could see this thread.
The second link in TFA for the neural network visualization leads to a heroku app 404 page. Is this a victim of Salesforce's recent policy changes taking away free-tier apps?

http://www.emergentmind.com/neural-network

I'm hopeful it's only a typo. The level of detail and thoroughnes in this article is remarkable.
Seems like I remember it being a short-lived trend in the 1980s?
This is very much the case. There are a ton of people in the Iranian government and power structure who don't believe in the mission, but go along because the money is great.

If the west cracked down on Iran's powerful grifters half as hard as it is going after Russian oligarchs, the regime would be under a lot of pressure. The oligarchs, in comparison, don't seem to mind - they are more afraid of Putin.
U.S. authorities seized Z Library domains
I don't know, I think we tried a few times and are simply yelling over each other at this point. You're refusing to understand my argument. I don't think it will benefit either of us to continue on. So this will be my last reply.

>I think Egyptians are capable of making decisions about their national belongings themselves and they have decided that they are better guardians than Brits. Inexplicably you seem to think they can not make this decision.

I'm not saying that they're incapable. I'm saying they're not entitled to those artifacts because they never dug them up in the first place. I didn't steal from you because I went through your trash you left on the side of the road. The fact that I found something precious that you want back is frankly your entitlement being met with the reality that you didn't know what you had was valuable. That's entirely a "you" problem. Not a "me" problem. Modern Egyptians were looting and smashing tombs far before the British arrived, and in fact kept the practice up during and after the British left.

>Ultimately you're view that British stole from 19th century Egyptians antiquities and now they belong to Britain is simply might is right thinking.

I'm not saying "might is right thinking". I'm saying one man's trash is another man's treasure. The Egyptians never excavated the artifacts that are under hot contention. It was the British that went digging and excavating. Before the British, Egyptians were smashing and looting tombs and selling the gold and jewelry[0]. The British even built the national museum in Cairo in which Egyptian artifacts are stored, among the things they took back.

>The idea that Brits are better caretakers of these items is not dissimilar original justification. Africans are too barbarous to look after their own assets.

The justification isn't that Africans are too barbarous. Egypt is still a very corrupt country, that still sells artifacts on the black market for profit. A population of Egyptians still go out of their way to destroy these artifacts because they consider them blasphemous against their religion. When it comes to the question of stability, yes: the British would be better safekeepers. This one among other reasons why the Egyptians aren't entitled to those artifacts. They didn't dig them up. They didn't keep what they found safe. Now they want what the British have because the British dug their artifacts up and kept their artifacts safe.

>The idea that Brits are better caretakers of these items is not dissimilar original justification. Africans are too barbarous to look after their own assets.

Again, my point is that they don't own those assets. They never found them. The British did. Once more: Just because I went through your trash and found something valuable does not make you entitled to that trash. You threw it away.

[0]https://nyupress.org/9781479820078/a-physician-on-the-nile/
Try horizon workroooms. To me, immersed is like Linux - tons of options, more features, but it’s a bit trickier to set up just right and things seem to not stay right, it takes constant adjustment.

Horizon workrooms was like using a Mac - it “just works” when I onboarded, less features but way less hassle. I much prefer it personally.
> You claimed to know such data.

Can you please give a link to the message where I claimed to know such data?
For many games, the grind IS the game. If you automate that away, there isn't much of a game left... examples are the bots for games like D3 (RoSbot) and MMOs. Or, if you for some reason love the game but hate the grind, it's easier to just use a trainer (for single player games) or buy currency (MMOs).

At the end of the day, games purposely put challenges in front of you because they are games, not because they are trying to optimize for efficiency.

There are factory-style games where the game IS about making algorithms and dealing with bottlenecks and such (Factorio, Satisfactory, Dyson Sphere Project) and/or programming games like Leek Wars or Autonauts and/or idle-battlers (especially on mobile) that automate much of the fighting and looting and such (Necrosmith).

The selection "games that would be improved by end-user programming without being made trivial" is probably pretty small. Most games aren't really that hard, just grindy and/or twitchy.
SpaceX is on track to do 60 launches this year, and next year they'll probably hit 100 based on how much is already scheduled.

A full constellation would require about 180 launches per year.

Being stuck with Falcon 9 doesn't sound like doom to me.
Have experience with Quest 2, too low res and poor comfort. I assume Quest Pro will be vastly better and will probably work for work if you use it with the Immersed app.

It's going to depend 100% on the specific device. General experience is useless. Especially if it's not from a new model.

If you really just care about 2d monitor simulation then check out Nreal.
- Markdown vs LaTeX

- HTML vs LaTeX (ok maybe I'm being a bit silly)
> HTML cruft, like <span id="486uw3y3"> crept into the source, often from authors pasting HTML from another rich editing environment into the MDN WYSIWYG editor

That's a problem with a bad WYSIWYG editor, not HTML in general.

> authors were faced with the result of 15 years of people pasting rich content into the WYSIWYG editor, resulting in [a ton of garbled HTML markup]

... But you could have cleaned up the HTML.

> The beauty of Markdown, to you as a writer, is that it lets you concentrate on expressing concepts and hardly thinking about syntax at all.

I entirely disagree because there are few WYSIWYG editors for it and almost certainly not for "that one non-standard extension" everyone adds to their flavor.

I'll give them that HTML particularly sucks for code examples, which is a very good reason to switch, but the comparison in the article is not a very fair one - it's bungled HTML vs Markdown.
It's not quite as nice as a full desktop setup, but you can get portable 4K monitors in the 12 to 17 inch range.

Also you can build some small but high powered machines. I've got a mini ATX build with a 12900 ks, and a 3090. Fits in a carry-on, way faster than any laptop.

Also if you're spending that long in each location, it might be viable to just buy monitors at your location, especially if you think of it as the cost for enhanced productivity.

I'm in a similar situation so I've tried to build as capable of the travel setup as possible.

You can also throw desktop monitors in a checked bag, I'm usually only bringing one, but you can fit two to three.

It really depends on how frequently you travel, if you're going to the same locations, if you can store stuff there, and how much additional cost are you willing to pay for a better set up.

The luggage shipping services out there can be fairly reasonable, if you don't want to lug that much gear back and forth with you. Do you have a home base that you go back to, or are you jumping between locations? I used to be fully nomadic, I spent a lot of time optimizing.
Not sure if this might be related, but there is a project who proposes to use XMPP instead of ActivityPub for the ActivityStreams vocabulary: https://inqlab.net/2022-01-17-activitystreams-over-xmpp.html
> How is a vector good for inserting elements in the middle? That is O(N). Where is the O(lg n) cost coming from?

Both an array and a linked list are O(n) for adding in the middle. In an array, you finding the middle element is O(1), then moving the rest of the array is O(n) [you have to move n/2 elements]. In a linked list, finding the middle element is O(n) [you have to traverse n/2 elements], but adding it is O(1).

So, asymptotically there is no difference. In practice though, the linked list traversal will cause O(n) cache misses to reach the middle element (since we are traversing random memory), while the array move will only incur O(1) cache misses (since we are accessing memory in order) - so, the array will actually win in practice.

Edit: Note that I also don't know where the GP got the O(lg n).
I'm not saying that measuring programmer's productivity by lines of code written is good.

This story, however, is not a story of someone who deleted 2k lines of code.

It's story of someone who wrote, let's ballpark, 4k lines of code and then rewrote them, which resulted in 2k lines of code left. Not sure how to account for that but let's say it's 5k lines of new code written in total which ended up as 2k loc.

This story does not prove that you are a great programmer if you write little code. It actually shows that even the best of the best (like Bill Atkinson) write a lot of code and cannot arrive at the ideal code at the first try. Writing the first 4k loc was a necessary step to gain knowledge that enabled him to refactor the code down to 2k loc.
> Simula looks like it’s pre-order only, do you know if they have actually shipped units?

Not yet, you can follow their progress at their blog (https://simulavr.com/blog/).
Reminds me of TreeSheets [0].

[0] https://strlen.com/treesheets/
what's more likely to happen is that the instance will go offline for some reason and never come back. We had this happen with an adult material related instance. It became brigaded by another crew who flooded it with very illegal material. The users were helpless to do anything but report it, and soon the whole instance was gone.

It was a very unfortunate and frightening view into what can quickly happen with the fediverse.
> A couple of servers that people commonly encounter first are having growth issues. But those servers aren't Mastodon any more than Gmail is email.

And that's what a lot of tech people don't get, to normies actually Gmail does equal Email and such. You're not going to get the bulk of everyday people on these platforms until you think in their shoes and provide features (and don't have downtime on your main servers) that fit their experiences.
understood, and there are others who do want it constrained this way, and their right to not be a victim of copyright infringement outweighs a desire to reap the gains of such infringement
Second the poster above, really enjoyed the reasoning around how and why you picked parts and the intent of various circuits..

Do you have any books you recommend on electronics? I feel I understand the basics, like what various components do in isolation, but would love to level up and understand circuit design like how you are approaching it here
> They also posted memes from Avengers. Comparing the layoffs to the Infinity War installment of the franchise, in which the super villain Thanos wipes out half of all life by snapping his fingers, employees began posting memes from the movie across Slack.

And this is exactly why they're getting the boot. They're supposed to be professionals, not children.
Why do people have to decide if they want to use Freedom Open Source Software based on political bs? Like bruh, it's a fucking tool
Still can't use it on NixOS :(
They don't really need them, it's just that many people can't tell the difference between "prefer" or "need". It may be advantageous but not necessary.
$3B. Twitter operational costs are $3B or 60%.
Understood. I took it also as a statement, people seem to be up in arms about free speech and Twitter but from what I seen Mastodon will gladly announce their silencing of opinions which seem to be anything not democrat adjacent. As a squarely middle of the road voter why would I want to use something like Mastodon?

Edit: fuck it maybe I'll setup an instance for people similar to me and see what happens. I don't buy fully in to either side and it's hard to find social groups that feel similarly.
Thanks a ton! Another great answer which I will use as a roadmap! Back to buying GPU question - why not renting it on some cloud provider? I have mac - not sure how external gpu fits in the picture here.
yes, you can most certainly do that.
It is why a small box of baking soda has a pull-off side revealing a permeable membrane. You put it in the refrigerator to absorb odors, aka volatile organic compounds. Baking soda is alkaline, so it neutralizes acids. As most volatile organic compounds form acids in water, they are essentially absorbed by the baking soda in a moist environment.

https://www.armandhammer.com/for-everything-soda/air-freshen...
"I will have had run" and "I would have had been running" are not sensible. Perfect tenses indicate completion. If you try to "stack" two copies the auxiliary verb "have" to make some kind of double-perfect tense, it doesn't make any sense--it makes no more sense than saying "I wented to the store" or "I ated the food." There are reasons you can have utterances like "had had" in English, but it typically involves the other meaning of the word "have" (the non-auxiliary meaning), like "I had had steak, and James had had lasagna, but we both were still hungry."

Subjunctive may be interesting to analyze, but it's not an additional form of the word.

By my count, English has 12 tenses. You cannot just invent new ones, because people won't be able to understand you. They are fairly regular: present, past, and future, which can be modified by making them perfect, continuous, or both.
Just pointing out that price comparison between two product or service needs to be done with similar yardsticks. A product or service being costlier doesn't automatically mean that it costs you more as it can save your business money elsewhere.
They have the same perspective as me: that Lisp is dead. I just wished they didn't go around these threads putting salt on the wound.
Yes (apart from the instances which operate on a whitelist basis for federation)
Meta (FB): Corporate Governance
If you're allocating the entire linked list at once, that may well happen in practice. Otherwise, there is no good way it can happen automatically; but, compacting GCs will usually do this for you (assuming that the list elements are only reachable from the previous element).
Experience: I make prosthetic arms with Lego
Contrary viewpoint: Integrated Tests Are A Scam (J.B. Rainsberger):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhFa4tkFUFw
(1) I think many people who felt shut out of the social life in high school in the U.S. are into anime.

(2) School life is such a big theme in anime that it’s best looked at from an inverted viewpoint, e.g., why aren’t there anime that aren’t set in a high school? Even anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion have a school life simulated in an extreme situation. I’m wondering if there is some secret about adult life in Japan that the ‘anime machine’ can’t incorporate.
That's not their problem. Their problem is an oppressive government and people who can't get organized enough to make a difference, very similar to the US.

No one outside of Iran can solve their problems for them, just like no one outside of the US can solve US problems.
Iran's totalitarian regime brutally represses the Iranian people and keeps exporting terror and instability to the Middle East, and now Ukraine too, so let's not play the blame game here.
No one is moving from Twitter to Mastodon because the latter is more accessible to people with disabilities. It's not, definitely not the main Mastodon UI (vs. 3rd party UIs).

I think the article mentioned the dismissal of Twitter's whole accessibility team as a sign that Musk has no respect or understanding of what the fired people did or why it was important. Ditto for other dismissed teams, like those researching machine learning ethics.

> An application can and should have good accessibility by default without a dedicated team

I used to think that, I used to think that understanding accessibility was a part of doing a good job on front-end so people who care about doing a good job will address it. Now I think formal and informal education about is so bad about not including accessibility concerns as a part of creating interfaces that there's too much for people to unlearn. Everyone has some responsibility for the accessibility of the final product but few will give it enough time or consideration.

Additionally, if an application is big enough to have a team working on it, that means there are some specialists in a variety of areas. With sufficient team size, that should include accessibility specialists who know what the right thing to do is or conduct research to make a decision about what the right thing to do is.
Show HN: New Website for Graphul ( Rust)
Graphul is built with Rust. that means Graphul gets memory safety, reliability, concurrency, and performance for free. helping to save money and energy on infrastructure.
Don’t be surprised if Elon sets a precedent that is soon followed by the other tech companies that are struggling to generate profit.
I’m getting there, but I stil need to share a actual screen in my workflow, and keep a screen private. I want to pass windows around without registering them and the laptop screen is too small.

But really I get the sentiment. A well organized high resolution single screen can be sufficient
Why can't every race be like this? NASCAR, Tour de France, the Olympics... the sports world just generally needs more fire-breathing mechs.
Sure, prepending or adding at the end(assuming you're keeping a tail pointer, which is easy and common) are basically the only cases where a linked list can beat an array.
You say “prefix 20” but there was this weird trend in the early-mid 2000’s where Ruby evangelists really believed that TDD is just as good as static types - even better because you’re forced to test actual business logic! And they even managed to convince masses of programmers that this is true!

Glad that’s over.
I would vote for any elected official that ran on a platform of “internalizing externalities”. Almost all the problems we face today are the result of someone’s actions benefiting only as a result negative externalities and so they scale up that action. It’s madness.
I agree with your point that strong "mutual aide"/kin institutions often (but not necessarily) lead to low economic growth.

And clearly surplus extraction + capital accumulation (leading to productive investment) strongly enhance economic growth.

However, capitalism in its current form of all-consuming consumerism, a system that must eat everything including itself, I'm not so sold on.

Just finished reading the Laundry Files (Atrocity Archives/Charles Stross) thanks to a recommendation on HN. One of the terrible beasts mentioned in the book is a creature that eats all the information in its universe, rushing the universe to entropy death.

The analogy to bottomless consumerism is too obvious in my mind for me not to draw it.
Here in Ontario it seems that the standards for new divided highways now include wildlife over or underpasses, at least in the north.
Save your sympathy? Sympathy isn't a coin purse from which you judiciously spend and save. It's just a perspective on how you choose to view the world. You get to choose -- are you going to view the world from the perspective of people first, or from some other more grotesque perspective like their value as employees or contribution to the GDP.

It's the easiest thing in the world to both think "my heart goes out to these people who have been suddenly disconnected form their income" and also to have a focus on those more in need.
The 4% of us with Aphantasia can't do that at all. I need all the relevant windows open and readable for me to work.

I tried VR but found the resolution lacking.
Depends on the headset or glasses. Quest Pro designed for glasses. Quest 2 can work but you need spacers if you use it a lot otherwise they get scratched.

Anyway I would consider Quest Pro or Pico 4 or something new rather than Quest 2.
In 2019 I emailed a professor at UW working on a similar project asking for a cutting of their genetically engineered pothos but they said they couldn't send me one because they were still looking for partners for regulatory approval and commercialization. Glad to see someone did it!
Test order should be random, so that the ability to run them in parallel and distribute them across multiple hosts is not lost by missing enforcement of test isolation.
This must be strictly an old school Valley problem. Up in the city, IDEs are standard. How would you even write Scala at Twitter without an IDE?
It's a projector, I assume he means his girlfriend is using the huge screen so he uses the quest as the backup "huge" screen.
Does that mean it's hard to use any headset, or hard to use that one? Have you tried Quest Pro or Vive Flow?
Kind of a perpendicular discussion but it amazes me that with this language server thing hipsters turned what was a very mature and proven pattern (a plugin architecture) into a distributed software problem. My god talk about doing shit the hard way...
Delete social media, get outside more, exercise, eat OK, invest in relationships. The rest just kinda figures itself out.
>Media buyers did ask those questions. Twitter had zero answers or assurances, the presentation imploded and ended shockingly early.

I'm very curious what sort of questions these were.
I like this one almost as much as "And then he discovered loops!" https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...

I use the loops one more often in discussing development.
Sure, that's why I finished my post with "And then add plants as you wish to make you happy."
That's better UX for some people, or "SUX."

https://twitter.com/thebillygregory/status/55246601271378329...