skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In all seriousness, there is one stark difference between a song, skit or an article and a videogame - the latter has two+ orders of magnitude of experience time. I'm not sure if it matters in any way for fair use / being a parody, but a 3-minute song feels different than a videogame that takes 3 or 30 hours to complete.
> …Elon will do far worse things…

Non-sequitur. The story is about middle management doing evil things for almost no incentive except a small pat on the back for padding a short-term revenue number, while the actual owner-leader who benefits the most shuts it down.
Read the links
> Giving Hapless Patent Owners Just 5-10%

This seems to refer to the people who got recruited to serve as owners of the patents. They are not "hapless"; they are getting a slice of the patent trolling action.

> In short, it looks like both of these witnesses signed up to be the fall guys for the assertion of these patents

Unfortunately, the article doesn't hint at what that might mean. Obviously they are inconvenienced by having to appear in court as witnesses. Do they face forfeiture of the LLC income, and penalties? Jail?
Sounds very appealing to me. Can you elaborate please? Is this because you can upgrade pretty much every hardware component?
On top of that, even the "warm" color temperature LEDs put out a pretty good spike of blue light. I'm working on some analysis of this, and even the "warm glow" sort... yeah, there's a ton of blue. Right in the realm of spectrum that convinces our body it's day.

So I'm not sure that the whole color shifting makes a big difference if you don't get rid of the blue as well. White LEDs are generally blue LEDs with phosphor coatings, but they still leak the blue. It's quite annoying.

I've been going back to incandescents and they're properly nice in the evenings.
I suppose so long as whomever is control of the space superiority, and it's used only as a suppression system - similar to the Iron Dome providing a fairly effective wall to protest Israel, then it doesn't matter if someone gets annoyed that all of their missiles can be efficiently knocked down.

If that system is however deployed and its controller launches its own missiles in attack, while suppressing others', then that's a very big problem - and probably very close to a total global tyrannical control state.
I participated in some Freenet architecture discussions when they were still trying to take the prototype to a practical implementation. There was some talk even back then about how opaque hashes are to the human mind and that we might be better off using phrase mnemonics instead. Particularly useful I would think for transcription errors like this, malicious or accidental.

The problem is that the information density of replacing hex with words is quite low, on the order of 14 bits per word, but much longer than the four letters needed to represent 16 bits in hex, which is itself a lot less dense than base64. You’d need 12 words to uniquely identify a sha-1 hash and most modern algorithms are less dense than that. But it would be harder to trick someone.

Maybe there’s some sort of 5:4 coding system that’s easier for humans to scan, still to be discovered out there?
both GPS and radio time receivers are very expensive. LED bulbs are a commodity product and thus have little room for margin.

Our low power clock + super cap added $1.25 of BOM which translates to $2.50-$3 of cost to the user.

Led bulbs at Home Depot are $3-5 on the low end.
Or an actual registered agent.

Again, the registered agent does not have to be the address of any of the principals of the business. But it must be a place that is open during standard business hours and accept process notices or legal correspondence upon behalf of the business.

https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/what-is-a-registered-agen...
TFW you’re debating what to order at Panera bread while thinking about some bug you found. Meanwhile ppl be out here plotting and playing out world domination.
Do you plan to make a 15" 4K version? (I'm patiently waiting...)
I found async generators to be handy while porting a C Prolog interpreter to WASM/JS. A `for await` loop is a natural way to iterate over query results, and as a bonus you can use `finally` within the generator to automatically clean up resources (free memory). There are ways for determined users to leak (manually iterating and forgetting to call `.return()`) but I've found that setting a finalizer on a local variable inside of the generator seems to work :-). I can't say manual memory management is a common task in JS but it did the trick.

The generator in question, which is perhaps the gnarliest JS I've ever written: https://github.com/guregu/trealla-js/blob/887d200b8eecfca8ed...
I like types just fine. They are great for expressing static constraints.
> I think that the answer to this is "yes, multiple times, often multiple times on the same companies up and down every level of the stack".

Do you have a link? It's always sort of discussed as if everyone knows exactly what's happening, but I'm specifically looking for links that break it down.
Ok but what does this have to do with COP and climate change?
> Any immunity deal entails revealing criminal behaviour.

You are mistaken.

Lets say "Alice" is the boss you're after, and Bob is a close associate of Alice, and Bob _MIGHT_ have committed a crime. Nobody knows if Bob is actually a criminal (and indeed, Bob is in that weird grey-zone of the law, skirting legal issues and just barely being legal). You give Bob immunity so that he's more comfortable in testifying in court. "Just in case" his actions constitute a crime. Especially if Bob knows something about Alice (just in case Alice is "The Boss")

Immunity doesn't "entail" criminal behavior. It just entails likely criminal associations (which is NOT a crime). Immunity protection ranges from everywhere from "Completely innocent but they wanted immunity, so might as well give it to them", to "Completely guilty, but getting their testimony will get bigger fish", and everything in between. Its a tool, like any other tool it has proper and improper uses.
Wasn't he forced to buy Twitter? I mean he wanted out of the deal because 40 billion acquisition will never pay itself back.
This is just one reason why I always prefer to use the website rather than an app.

If I use the website I'm browsing on my terms: adblocking enabled, no location data, a lot less surface area for tracking.

When you use the app then you're browsing on their terms: geolocation, tracking, ads, everything.
Microsoft Is Considering Energy Efficiency Features for Xbox Games
Reminds me a little of the story [1] about how in 2005 the execs at Google had a meeting to figure out what to call "Satellite View" in Google Maps. One faction did not like the name "Satellite View" because it was technically incorrect as many of the images had been taken from airplanes, not satellites. But the proposed alternatives like "Aerial photography" all sounded awkward. Right before the meeting ended Sergey Brin decided it would be called "Bird Mode."

Later on when the engineering team was actually implementing it they thought Bird Mode sounded dumb and just called it Satellite View. And so it has been ever since.

[1]: https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/1099370126678253569
I'm not sure how essentially being a referee to make the playing field fair fits under "influence and control politics" description.
Of course! I suspect it's a function of how densely populated the area is. I visited Ladakh, and that was obviously much cleaner and nicer. Delhi, Agra and Jaipur were much more polluted, and my experience was limited to that.

I hope one day I can visit again and see more of the country, and not asphyxiate in the process! :)
> Are you targeting only Windows PCs? Then go with Godot.

Godot supports Windows, Mac and Linux. For mobile, it supports Android and iOS. You can export to HTML5.
The important part of "bikeshedding" is the part about ignoring more important changes by focusing on trivial changes around the edges. If stories are more than trivial, I'd like to know how.

Personally, I think call quality and server reliability with respect to private messages are more important for a service that is explicitly (and, until this change, exclusively) about private messaging, especially considering recent outages.

If Signal changed the encryption protocol to an insecure one, or simply removed it, then they are fundamentally altering the promise of the app vis a vis its core technology, ie, the essence of the provided service. Obviously that is analogous to the foundation of a house, not to the shed in the backyard.
Maybe we should be able to parametrize over difficulty :P
I didn't claim any of those things my dude. I claimed that Putin has a preference for Trump, at least in 2016, as stated by Putin himself and as confirmed independently by the USIC after investigating Russia's influence campaigns.
No, it's not Chris Coyier.
Whatever happened to "wrong"? As in, "that's wrong". Ideally followed by some reasoning.

All of these fancier words like whataboutism or misinformation are just attempts to assert authority via the word. They don't convey additional meaning.
Doctors routinely need to present cases to each other. It often involves pictures of the patient and other identifying information that is essential to describe the case in detail. They need some way to do this.
Advertising is a virus that will filter through its hosts until the host is killed.
Part of a lost, ancient star catalog has now been found
The supposed bitterness doesn't actually make their criticism of McDonald's wrong.
RT is different than one of the cringe individual spokespeople on Twitter. RT are stoking the internal culture wars and there are a lot of people who watch RT in earnest.
The module’s connector needs to be the same connector shape and with the same electrical connectivity, but the form factor of the module body could just be longer, too.

In fact, the SFP itself is long, but does the housing for it need to be?
same, my Wife who has 2-3 dozen apps is asking me why do you not use apps?(I have <10 apps on my phone) and I said I do not trust my data for one second with alot of these unscrupulous apps. I have a strong bias towards privacy - caveat emptor.
"A better comparison would be a 5 speed auto vs an 8 speed auto in the same car (not just similar but differing by year, you don't know what else they changed like maybe ECU mapping)."

Unfortunately I'm not aware of any car that this would be possible to test. I picked the Dodge Charger because it's the closest option we have, and very little changed between those two model years except the transmission.

I participated in forums back in the ~2015 era because I had a Dodge Challenger at that time. And it was quite clear that the 8 speed made a huge improvement in fuel economy in the 2015+ cars. That matches the official EPA tests.
> This is quite contrary to the ~~propaganda~~ trustworthy journalism take on the matter:

I would note that it's possible for both to be true: A) this was the most secure election in US history, B) there are still some meaningful security issues to iron out. For example between 2016 and 2020, DRE machines were being phased out (28.9 -> 11.4%), so in that regard we do seem to be more secure than in the past.

And I want to be clear -- I think the detailed content of that Guardian article is broadly fair, even if they do engage in some sloganeering.

> The officials who signed the statement said they had no evidence that any voting system had deleted or lost votes, had changed votes, or was in any way compromised.

> They said all the states with close results have paper records, which allows for the recounting of each ballot, if necessary, and for “the identification and correction of any mistakes or errors”.

I think this is an honest evaluation of the evidence RE: specific claims of voting fraud in 2020. (Though I'm always interested to hear folks' best evidence to the contrary.)

Importantly, absence of evidence _is_ evidence of absence (evidence != proof!). If there was vote tampering, it should have been detected by a recount somewhere. But we don't see that.
This needs [2002]
You're somewhat right. I either don't like the attitude of the whole article.
Indeed, it's not possible to seize "11.1160005300044" bitcoins as all bitcoin amounts (outside of the lightning network) are represented with a maximum of 8 decimals. Most likely, it's just a floating-point imprecision from the fed's calculations. For example a lot of software will calculate "20.1 - 20.0 = 0.10000000000000142"
Thanks for the link. You put it much better than I did :)
I've spent years admiring his work as a type designer. It's vexing work to create a serif that's versatile enough to compete with the simplicity and legibility of standard office-type fonts. I think he pulled the rabbit out of the hat with the Equity font. It's intended for lawyers, IANAL, but it's genuinely useful in a much bigger mixture of situations.
Circular reference does not leak memory if your using a proper GC
WhatsApp contact uplod mechanism continues here [1].

It means, that if the contact list contains numbers which have not accepted WhatsApp ToS, their content is stored only as hash.
When the user starts using WhatsApp, their number and hash is being mapped.

Vaguely described as

> Each cryptographic hash value is stored on WhatsApp’s servers, linked to the WhatsApp users who uploaded the corresponding phone numbers before they were hashed so that we can more efficiently connect you with these contacts when they join WhatsApp.

Which means that WhatsApp knows the numbers of the WhatsApp users, and how they interact together.

Signal does not know numbers or how these contatcs interact.

It is described here [2]. Number is only needed for creating the unique hash.
Server knows only the recipient, not the sender.

[1]: https://faq.whatsapp.com/423109552047857/?locale=en_US&refsr...

[2]: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
In this case you are usually paying more for the privilege of grocery shopping in a safer neighborhood around people with whom you feel more comfortable. That sort of pricing discrimination exists for a lot of other stuff, for example gasoline.

Most big grocery stores chains would have socioeconomically modeled and geographically analyzed their customer bases, and are aware of how much people are willing to pay for this sort of convenience.
This is a great great read thanks, and the follow up HN comment regarding "weak sectors" is amazing.
Were you planning to write production software on your 486? I don't see why it should hurt you at all.

If there's a joke here I missed it, sorry.
It's not an accident they sunk it :(
Products like Nexus Firewall[0] have settings to block suspicious packages.

[0] https://blog.sonatype.com/sonatype-releases-new-nexus-firewa...
Not going to let facts get in the way of a good story. :)
Here’s the thing: it can be a bridge too far for you! It’s certainly a bridge too far for me. But neither of us matter, because it’s not our money on the line. It’s his money, a lot of his money, and the longer it hangs the more systemic risk it poses to his other ventures.

When I say it was an “unwise purchase,” what I mean is this: the stock market did not think Twitter was worth that much. Even when Elon was legally committed to purchasing Twitter, the deal seemed so manifestly absurd to the market that the price did not rise to meet his offer (which is as close as you can get to free money in the market). Is that the peanut gallery? Sure, but in no larger a sense than that our entire economy and value drive is controlled by the same system.
I have had a hard time even finishing season 1 as I don't find myself rooting for any of the characters. Now that it is canceled I guess I can move on to a new show that actually makes me want to watch the next show.
Being a consultant at a firm with a wide variety of clients does provide some stability, yes, more so if you are a generalist, even more so if you are willing to travel.

(Lots of firms need good engineers willing to work on (not always, but often) less sexy tech that are willing to travel. This is hard to find (see also: every thread about WFH) but pays well. Not bull-market-FAANG well, but well.)
Link is to a Nitter instance. Even though I prefer to use it as well, it should probably be pointed to the original Twitter instead? For deduplication purposes if nothing else.
I mean, he was “forced” to buy Twitter after he signed a binding agreement to buy Twitter. So if he didn’t want it, the time to figure that out was before signing on the dotted line.
It seems like they are trying to do otherwise but I see this article as perpetuating the basic problem with "technical debt" which is the analogy with debt. But what do you expect from an article on Medium?

If you take on debt the bank is going to question if you can pay it. You're going to have to go through a formal process and bring in expensive experts such as accountants to justify that taking on debt is worthwhile.

Most "technical debt" is blundered into out of ignorance. Nobody sits down and thinks "we can save two hours now at the cost of three hours later" because it would probably take four hours to do the calculation. Sometimes it really is like that but frequently it is like "we can save two hours now at the cost of of two months later", such as when people make an incorrect database design that involves cleaning up corrupt data later on. Cases like that dominate the cost of "technical debt" to the point where the 2 hours now, 3 hours later cases just don't matter.
There are too many great open-source engines out there to even consider Unity, before or after this.

There are great options for different games, teams and markets. Godot. Urho3D. O3DE. Harfang. Stride. Flax.
I’m sure the information in this article is close to canon, as the usual suspects of fonts get mentioned and from the start they seem to be hitting the basics…

However, for a self prophesied typography article on the web when viewed on a mobile device this is humorously unbearable to look at.
Twitter and (old)reddit are better as mobile websites in every way.

We have 30 years of browser UX development, culminating in tabs and multitasking tools that allow you to open things to read later, wait while they load on a slow connection or form a queue of things to read.

Mobile apps for every social media site loose all of that. They are worse than useless. There is this internal fear at social media companies, they want to prevent their users leaving their little walled garden. That or the religious drive for managers to reach target metrics creates a net negative feedback loop for user satisfaction.

Social media apps have no multitasking features (at least last time I used them). It's absurd.

I've only used the twitter mobile website for the last three years. Will never install the app again.

(Aside: my (ridiculous) conspiracy theory is that React Native is an attempt to distract developers from the advantages of a WebView based app development process that would eventually lead to the success of PWAs, locking devs into the app stores as a distribution channel)
Not only do people change, but societal expectations and taboos change. Something that is benign and harmless today could be horrible and taboo years from now. What things are you posting today that will get you shunned/criticized for in 50 years? I don't know--do you?
Crossbeam channels are better in just about every way than std::sync::mpsc. They're faster, have more features (including supporting multiple consumers), and have a better API.

Tokio vs crossbeam/std::sync is a bit of a different question. Using the tokio implementations let you await (i.e., asynchronously block) on a channel, whereas the others will block the thread. So within async code, use tokio for use cases where you may have a blocking operation (writing to a bounded queue or waiting for a message). Otherwise, use crossbeam.
Good! Now can you add room to have M2 22110 drives?

There is no reason to stay limited to M2 2280.

It just takes an extra half-inch and a screw.
So when US politicians say TikTok needs to be banned because it's effectively spyware, why are they silent when the same happens from US companies
I love Andreas Kling's "Browser hacking" series on YouTube where he fixes various issues Ladybird has with specific websites. E.g:

Fixing a CSS layout bug found by chessboard.js - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMpLiEgKC_w

Let's make "Cookie Clicker" playable in Ladybird! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4SxKWwFhA0

He's very good at articulating his thought progress and it's always really interesting to see how he reduces the bug down into a minimal reproducible example.
And I also had a copy of SoftPC with it to run my DOS based compilers for college.

Ironically enough my next computer two years later was a PPC 6100/60 with a DOS Compatibility card. That should also be at my parents house somewhere.
> At times Usenet ate most of a T1 (that's a 1.5Mb/s pipe).

How much of that was due to alt.binaries.*?
I believe your information is outdated. "Castle doctrine" laws have been enacted in nearly every state. [1]
In states with these laws, there is no "duty to retreat" from your home or any place where you can legally be. It is unlikely that a prosecutor would even bring charges under most conditions. The conditions are detailed on the Wikipedia page.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine#State-by-state...
I just want to thank whoever tipped off the judge about these shenanigans. To the mole that I suspect exists within MAVEXAR, you have my thanks. I request that the mole copy all the hard drives that he/she has access to, so that the mole has leverage if caught. It would make a fine letter to your senator.

Stay safe out there.
One thing to be aware of is high density floppies are unlikely to work. You've got to make sure you get double density (aka low density, but I guess there was some abandoned standard that was lower than double). I've got a bunch pulled from that one time my dad broke our Tandy 1000 TL/2's floppy port and the 3.5" ds/dd drive stopped working, but we still had the 5.25" ds/dd drive running, and a lucky find at WeirdStuff. But I've got the problem that even though the disks are double sided, I can't use the backsides because I don't have a notcher and I'm not using scissors. :( Also, something happened to my monitor recently, and now it only blows fuses and doesn't display things anymore :((

If you're in the Seattle area, email me (on profile) and I can give you some disks, but I'm not gonna mail them.
the critical, negative-spun feedback breaking out already is overpowering. there is an incredibly willful act of disbelieving, in believing the only possibility is this thing doesn't/can't/won't/willn't be.
It’s a platform for groups of people that are in constant conflict to engage in battle. The idea that changes could make one or more groups happy seems to be anathema to the intended purpose.
To rebuild to its previous apparent capability or to its actual capabilities?

If Russia is given the means, it may take only a few years to rebuild to its actual capabilities of 2021. Which is bad enough to cause trouble.
> Musk’s decree is clearly a break from previous policy.

The policy's wording gives leeway for Twitter to enforce it in different ways. I wouldn't say that this case is a break from previous policy. He's may be changing the way it was being enforced previously while still remaining in policy.

That's all to say he hasn't changed previous policy, he has changed enforcement of it.

If people think that's a jerk move, fine. I don't think so. Breaking the rules is breaking the rules whether enforced or not.

If he actually changed previous policy (i.e. changed wording/meaning/essence) or went outside the policy to punish Kathy, then I would agree that would be a jerk move.
Phones are faking it. Test the fps of a phone thats using computation. How many fps can you get at full resolution?
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