因常年风化、海水侵蚀，加上当天的风雨雷击，山东省青岛市著名地标“石老人”海蚀柱坍塌，官方称已采取临时性保护措施，修复方案正在论证。
Tech - Tools
VSCode
Users can now type
@lang:languageIdin the Settings editor search box to view and edit all settings that can be configured for the language with IDlanguageId. This way, users can view language-specific settings, also known as language overrides.Keyboard shortcuts:
ctrl + pgupandctrl + pgdnto navigate between opened tabsctrl + \go to pairing bracket (self-defined)- Enable switching between terminal and editor
1
2{ "key": "ctrl+`", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focus"},
{ "key": "ctrl+`", "command": "workbench.action.focusActiveEditorGroup", "when": "terminalFocus"}
To jump by function with
ctrl + uparrowandctrl + downarrow, install extension “Go to Next/Previous Member” and change its setting to1
2"gotoNextPreviousMember.symbolKinds":
["interface", "class", "function", "event", "method", "module", "object", "struct"]
Others
A powerful spell that manipulates file names in shell: we want to extract the task ids from html files, which have this format like
zz688732.html. Based on the task id, we construct filenames for output files, which have the formatzult_688732.out. Finally, we move all these output files to directoryresults.1
ls zz*.html | grep 688 | sed -E 's/zz([0-9]+)\.html/zult_\1.out/' | xargs -n 1 -I '{}' mv '{}' ./results/
Draw your Latex Symbol: draw the symbol you are looking for into the square area above and the program will find all corresponding LaTeX commands.
nbconvert: jupyter notebook built-in converter. It can convert
ipynbfile to html/markdown/LaTeX format and so on.1
jupyter nbconvert --to markdown lecture2.ipynb
Solve Firefox reports “Secure Connection Failed” when accessing YouTube: Kaspersky doing its job I guess
Tech - Knowledge
- 中文档案编写排雷指南: 讲解了引号，空格，全角半角符号等使用规范
- Browser in the Browser Phishing Attack: The author introduces how to simulate a pop-up login window to maliciously acquire user’s password.
- When use GitHub, use https to track remote branch. SSH works weird when you have multiple accounts on your local machine.
- Basic and extended regular expression: In short, ERE syntax is the regex that we are more familiar with, where where
+ ? ()have special meanings. - Hiding a photo inside another photo: by changing the least significant bit of every pixel point of the original photo to the photo we want to hide. When we reconstruct, simply extract all these least significant bits and put them back into a picture. This naive approach only works with square photos for now as it can’t store metadata. It also becomes incomprehensible if go through compression like jpeg.
Tech - Advances
- Microsoft Azure Text-to-Speech Engine: really amazing stuff, indistinguishable from real human voice
- The BRAIN Initiative: almost a whole brain simulation effort?
- Get Codex to Produce the Code You Want with Prompt Engineering: Software 3.0 is to design the prompt?
- FDA gives safety nod to ‘no kill’ meat, bringing it closer to sale in the U.S.: Scientists “grow” meat: they extract cells from an animal, place them in tanks, feed them the nutrients, let them divide and reproduce, and end up with meat. Ruanyifeng 259
Glorious To View 康奈尔天下第一
Glorious to View
- Where do Famous Cornell Alumni Live?
- Brain Collection Preserves Figures in History: Now on Uris 2nd floor. The most fascinating one is the Edward Rulloff’ brain - a notorious murderer but claimed to have the 2nd largest brain ever found in human history
- Some very familiar melodies: Alma Mater, The Evening Song
- Virtual Tour to Cornell Teaching Dairy Barn, found in this CALS page
- Alright, so where does “Cornell Note Taking” come from? Here’s a post from Cornell Learning Strategy Center on “Cornell Note Taking” - it was really a thing.
- Cosmos, Johnson Museum of Art: my favorite view on campus
- Cornell Sesquicentennial Grove: never realized these benches have a name
- 1865 Society Wallpaper, Cornell Logo Digital Downloads,
- Schedule at Tour at Cornell’s Particle Accelerator
- Haunted Stories at Cornell - A Halloween Video: talks about Morrill Hall dissection for Zoology, pumpkin mystery, sleeping founders at Sage Chapel, and other interesting ghost stories.
#1 Subreddit
Can somehow explain how meal plans aren’t an absolute scam? Cornell kids doing the math
:cloud_with_lightning: lightning strike on hill, context here
Daily Crime Log: try check this when you’re really bored
Dexter responded to a reddit post: both sides had a point
To Do the Greatest Good
- 3D-printing robot enables sustainable construction: Random story reminds me of von Neumann’s plan of using self-reproducing automata to colonize moon
- Smart thermostats inadvertently strain electric power grids
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The following are the books I requested Cornell to purchase.
Talks
一席 YiXi
李涵：少年的你 7:00：「问题少年」的社会工作
我认为降低刑事责任年龄表达了一种需要，这种需要是独立的少年司法体系的需要，而并不仅仅是真的降低就能解决的。我们把刑事责任年龄降低到10岁又怎么样呢？不会有9岁的未成年人实施违法犯罪行为吗？
胡立德（David Hu）：浪費科學家：类似原来订阅的小哥白尼杂志里面各种乱七八糟的研究，但实际上这可能才是真正的「生物学家」
现在大多数的生物学家都在研究细胞和基因，真正研究动物的人越来越少了
何袜皮：小區保安，恐懼和被恐懼的：中国的小区为什么需要保安，保安到底在干什么，以及他们是什么样的人
我们说起恐惧感，都会认为这是一个非常消极的、负面的、被动的情绪，大家都避之不及，但是从理论上讲它其实也可能是一种权利，它甚至有时候是有利于某些群体内部的团结的。
德国社会学家贝克就说，在一个对上帝、阶级、国家和进步的信任和信仰已基本消失的年代，共同恐惧已经被证明是人类仅剩的能通过矛盾来制造新联系的资源了。
大家都知道中产阶级形成的时间很短，他们之间共享的东西很少，恐惧感是少数他们能够共享的东西之一，甚至可以称之为文化资本。业主不太会说我想要更多保安是因为我想抬高房价，我想体现我的身份地位，业主只会说我想更多保安是因为我觉得不安全。
他们其实是把自己放在了一个脆弱的恐惧的担忧的角色当中，去合理化这样一种炫耀性消费的需求。但这种需求并不是真正源自于对小概率犯罪的一个恐惧，很大程度上它是源于在今天这样一个高速发展的时代，他对自身的经济状况和社会地位的没有安全感。
我如果跟业主坐下来聊恐惧的话，我们可以聊很长时间，他们会跟我讲，他们会很害怕空气污染、食品安全、社区犯罪、小孩拐卖、转基因等等。如果我去问一个保安，你害怕什么？我通常是得不到答案的。
保安们似乎从来没有准备好要被问这样一个问题，也就是默认了他们是没有资格恐惧的。但是每个人都有恐惧，恐惧是人性的一部分，如果你否认了一个人的恐惧，就相当于否认了这个人的人性。
声东击西
- 能影响一亿人的 1 秒又怎样？ 很有洞见的资深内容创作者谈话。虽然从技术自由角度我不喜欢他的大部分观点，但是有一点非常可取，就是他提出我们现在单纯的「流量」，即观看时长来衡量内容价值太片面；需要用立体的 观看量 $\times$ 观看时长 的计量单位取代
- 群众基础和通往夺冠之路 讲中国女足或者更广泛到足球以及整个大体育的问题。15:38 左右谈到我们现在的体育发展是一个恶性的内循环：训练很多体育生，但是最后能靠它吃饭的只有一小部分人，于是大多数人投入了人生的黄金时间无法进入国家队成为职业运动员，只能最终去做教练或者体育管理的相关职业，转型是很难的，最终再由这些人培养新的体育生。可见如果选择走体育，你的人生道路并不是越走越宽，而是越走越窄的。
- 我们习以为常的和平为何难以降临阿富汗？ 后发国家通过援助发展，首先都是外部世界（发达国家）拉动一个城市，但最终结果不尽相同：1.城市成功拉动乡村：如韩国城市人口占总人口一半，常发生在规模小的国家 2. 乡村拉平城市：如国土面积相比来说巨大的越南「西贡时刻」，城市更像是一块悬浮在落后乡村之上的先进飞地，没有力量拉动乡村，最后北越将南越拉了下来
- 伯内斯和操纵大众情绪的手
We are the World 明天会更好
“双层”卧铺动车组春运首秀: 太炫了 咱的铁路文化在资源允许的情况下要是能打日本就太好了
《咬文嚼字》历年十大流行语: 突然想起来「至于你信不信，我反正信了。」这句名言，查了一下后咬文嚼字原来也是权威且寓教于乐的一本小月刊，从历年十大流行语可以追忆下往昔。原链接已404。archive
Doomsday Clock 末日时钟
- 葡萄采摘和樱花盛开日期证明全球变暖
- African penguins endangered by shipping noise in Algoa Bay 中文版:因航运活动噪音 非洲企鹅濒临灭绝
- “Hunger Stone” Emerges With Grim Warning, last time a hunger stone emerges was just 4 years ago back in 2018
- Critics and Fans Have Never Disagreed More About Movies: especially in those featuring Black people and women as the main characters. Woops :hushed:
Cyberpunk 2077 太赛博了
Goodbye V, And Never Stop Fighting
中国网民规模超10亿 实际是2021年的新闻，第一次看到的时候想得不是增长得好快，而是还有4亿人不使用互联网，他们在这个去哪都要健康码的时候怎么生存呢？
GitHub suspends accounts of Russian devs at sanctioned companies, original blog post mentioned here
In parallel with our efforts to make sure GitHub is available to developers in all countries, we are continuing to ensure free open source services are available to all, including developers in Russia
悄悄拍摄行人，算法指挥员工：便利蜂的“系统”是否越界 Backup Archive
这是一场颇具科幻意味的试验，一家名为便利蜂的连锁经营便利店正在研发一套算法，从选址、订货、物流、陈列，甚至打扫卫生，都交给“系统”决策。
“系统”是便利蜂的大脑，通过一台电脑向店员们发号施令，每个任务都附有极为细致的标准操作规范。店里有摄像头全方位无死角覆盖，它们是系统的眼睛，实时监督着店员们。通过人工和AI自动识别店内的画面，一旦不符合要求，便会自动报警。
顾客们的一举一动也会被收集起来，成为系统的决策依据。让人不安的是，这样的摄像头从店内延伸到了店外。为了建立一套智能化的选址算法，便利蜂正在悄悄进行一场大规模的公共图像采集。
自2017年起，在长达五年的时间里，便利蜂招募大量信息采集员将摄像头悄悄地放在了多个城市的居民楼、写字楼，甚至国家机关的门口，完整捕捉下当天出入的每一个人。每一个便利蜂的目标店铺附近，都会遭到一轮录像。便利蜂后台至少累积了数十万条拍摄数据。
科技爱好者周刊（第 199 期）：俄罗斯的 HTTPS 证书问题
夫风者，天地之气，溥畅而至，不择贵贱高下而加焉。
它的意思是，天地间的风，无差别地吹拂，不会因为贵贱高下，而有所不同。
我一直认为，互联网是中立的技术基础设置，应该像风一样，无差别地吹拂到每个人，不应该区分穷人、富人、坏人、好人，人人都有权使用互联网。
一旦因为政治原因吊销 HTTPS 证书，或者让俄罗斯断网，互联网的中立性就荡然无存，不再是人人都可以使用的技术基础设施了。这等于把”互联网武器化”，只要你是我眼中的恶棍，我就不同意你使用互联网。
开了这种危险的先例，把互联网当作武器，互联网从此就变成了国防设施。国与国之间都搞自己的证书、自己的域名、自己的国际网关，严格区分网络国境线。互联网创立时的开放、自由、统一、造福人类的梦想，灰飞烟灭。
Why Vivaldi will never create ThinkCoin
When you strip away the hype, these virtual currencies have very real repercussions for people, society, and the environment. By creating our own cryptocurrency or supporting cryptocurrency-related features in the browser, we would be helping our users to participate in what is at best a gamble and at worst a scam. It would be unethical, plain and simple.
Noisy: Random DNS, HTTP/S traffic noise generator - Y Combinator
first he warned us: make sure you always use the -c flag if you’re pinging something on the internet. This is to specify the count of pings sent out. If you didn’t it would ping forever and generate too much traffic, and this useless noise would make you a “bad netizen”. He explained this and everything to us so kindly and with such sincerity it was like watching Fred Rodgers speak.
Now we have to randomly barf noise onto the network to maybe have a better chance at some privacy. How did we let the internet become this awful?
Musk Buying Twitter Is Not About Freedom of Speech
Yes, Twitter will wind up with different rules, results and outcomes—and it may be the better or worse for it. Along the way, some people will cheer, and others will jeer. But framing the discussion as a “free speech” issue is entirely disingenuous. This is simply a billionaire attempting to etch his world view into an algorithm—even if he brands himself a swashbuckling digital freedom fighter.
王局专访围棋国手柯洁: 偶然YouTube推送的视频，20分钟充满着绝望的感觉。阐述自己悲观的原因时他说机器学一个月可能敢上一个人学十年，其实这对于很多人在平常的学习工作中可能都有一样的感觉：天才学半年顶你四五年。柯洁在以前的学习中必然也遇到过这种情况，总发现有比自己聪明或者努力的，但自己再努力超过他们就行了，毕竟顶尖的人智力差别都不大。但这次更像孙悟空和如来佛一样，上面有一个被生物规律严格规定的不可超越的存在，一个筋斗十万八千里也翻不出如来的五指，就算你再怎么精进自己，即使到百万里千万里也不可能，这才是最绝望的事。
我们职业棋手是非常大的震撼的。因为那个下法从来没有出现过，过去觉得这是要被老师教训的。有的下法我们想都没敢去想过，是它自己创造的棋。这种感觉其实是对方是一个特别高大的巨人，哪怕你装再多的武器，蚂蚁哪能撼动大象，真的是动不了。我当时觉得，人类真是可悲啊，就这样被自己创造的东西击败了。怎么都赢不了这个东西的存在。
Is Social Media Training Us to Please a Machine? Though most of the article is cliche, this idea itself is very interesting. Content generators were used to please editors or reviewers, but now they have to please an algorithm. 中文版：社交媒体是否在训练我们取悦机器？
平台：现代社会的遥远巫术: 「平台」，算法黑箱，无形的大手。很有意思的一个小时谈话，与上文的取悦算法有些相关
论文工厂狂造假 800 多篇材料学论文: 剑桥晶体学数据中心 的结构数据库发现，近 1000 个晶体数据结构条目（涉及810篇文章）涉嫌来自中国的论文工厂。因为中国医院要求，医生只有发表论文才能评职称，结果就产生了这些不存在的小分子结构。
Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! Software Freedom Conservancy in response to GitHub announcing Copilot, which trained on FOSS software’s code, as a commercial for-profit product.
The ever-expanding job of preserving the internet’s backpages: Internet Archive is on the brink of surpassing 100 petabytes and it’s only getting harder to archive a webpage. Bypass paywall at archive.today
Chinese Company Pirated VSCode: a very interesting one to read
Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want RCS support in iMessage: 何不食肉糜？
The people making money from just surfing the internet: Browser extension that sells your data directly to retail brands instead of Google. It gives you money in return.
Northeastern University installed heat sensors under graduate student workers’ desks: Northeaster be really have some thought here
Generation Digital 混迹于互联网
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- Generate a Random Name - 随机身份生成
- Fake Address, Random Address Generator - 随机身份生成
- Behind the Name - Random Name Generator
- Easy Random Name Picker - Random Name Generator
- ElfQrin - Fake Identity ID Random Name Generator
- Random User Generator
- 在线身份证号码生成器
- 中国大陆内地姓名、身份证号、银行卡号生成器
- 在线身份证号码生成器
- airob0t/idcardgenerator 身份证图片生成工具
- gh0stkey/RGPerson - 随机身份生成脚本
- naozibuhao/idcard - 身份证生成器
- Just Delete Me - 假身份生成器(这个网站的图标,好像在哪里看过🤔)
- Fake Person/Name Generator | User Identity, Account and Profile Generator
- faker.js
- Fake Person/Name Generator
- Full Contact Information Generator
- My Fake Information Generator and Validator
- User Information Generator Articles
图片生成
国产流氓软件必须使用时的解决方案: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 7601（老毛子のlopatkin 改装的 Windows 7 SP1 企业版简体中文精简版） 实装 TIM+微信后消耗 1G 内存，分配 1.5G
替代 Typora: Typora于今年七月开始强制所有用户收费，虽然想到了禁止联网这种方法但是无效，后来才知道是它早前在注册表里安了一个日期，所以不管我删掉
Appdata\Roaming里的数据或者是禁网都没用。于是开始找替代的 markdown editor:- marktext: 几乎完美的替代品，但是对于 front matter 和一些其他语法的编辑很奇怪，无法做到所见即所得。开发者对于这个项目几乎是放养的状态，open issue上千，所以我觉得这问题永远也解决不了了，不过也是大 FOSS 软件的通病。还有一个小问题是这软件又是 electron 架构的，太恶心人了。
- abricotine: 更轻量的替代品，就是渲染风格比较简陋不太喜欢
- Zettlr: 比起编辑更侧重于笔记整理，最大好处是可以自定义新建文件的文件名保存格式。因为是笔记整理软件所以也更重一点，体积比 marktext 小，内存占用三个最大。
最终绕了一圈用的还是 Typora 的学习版，其实不想这样做的，主要是电脑上大部分 md 文件已经保存为 Typora 默认的
%date-%title.md的格式，再更改太麻烦。InControl: Easily manage Windows 10 and 11 out-of-control updating and upgrading
Privacy Redirect: A web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Google Maps, Reddit, Google Search & Google Translate requests to privacy friendly alternative frontends
Copy Files: use teracopy for stability, use fastcopy for speed. Also teracopy can directly replaces windows copy hotkeys & drag drop, so use teracopy in general.
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How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, from Douglas Adams, also collected in The Salmon of Doubt
- everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal
- anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it
- anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
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For us there is no ignorabimus.
Wir müssen wissen, Wir werden wissen.
Are you optimistic about the free software movement? - Richard Stallman
I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I’m not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win.
Remarks by President Biden Before Meeting with the White House Competition Council - Joe Biden, 46th President of the United States
No, it’s a great asset. More inflation. What a stupid son of a bitch.
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“There are two ways of doing calculations in theoretical physics”, he said. “One way, and this is the way I prefer, is to have a clear physical picture of the process that you are calculating. The other way is to have a precise and self-consistent mathematical formalism. You have neither.”
In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, “How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?” I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, “Four.” He said, “I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.”
Your Map is Wrong, Mark Zuckerberg on Web 2.0 Summit (2010/11)
Your map is wrong. The biggest part of the map has to be uncharted territory. This map makes it seem like it’s zero-sum, but it’s not. We’re building value, not just taking it away from someone else.
A friend who had just finished his PhD
Don’t squander your ignorance. Once you learn something, you end up taking it for granted and it becomes so much harder to overcome your tacit knowledge and ask simple, but important, questions.
Why Craigslist Still Looks the Same After 25+ Years: Solidot
Because that serves people better. I’ve learned that people want stuff that is simple and fast and gets the job done. People don’t need fancy stuff. Sometimes you just want to get through the day.
For me as an engineer, simple is beautiful. Functional is beautiful.
Prospect 观天下
Emergent City Flyby with Colossus: just some arbitrary dots when see in still, but it becomes cities when see in motion.
Ascent, world’s tallest timber building
嘟嘟宝贝 陈怡馨 Archive: 我各种 Archive 也看过一些，但是这么完整精美的真是头一次见。最难能可贵的是本网站的关于页和 GitHub 中 Readme 写得特别详细，作者一定也是个非常心细善良的人。（在写下上面一段文字后我手贱去看了一下，作者是个普林的高能物理博士，斯坦福的本科…行吧，果然是这种人……我该说惊讶呢还是毫不惊讶呢）
Others 杂七杂八
《塞尔达传说时之笛》PC 移植版准备下个月发布: 完整的时之笛反编译
The rise of performative work - the Economist, more like College Classroom 101(Bypass paywall at http://archive.today/RJQQX)
Satya Nadella, the boss of Microsoft, says that comments in chat help him to meet colleagues he would not otherwise hear from. Maybe so, but that is an irresistible incentive to pose questions that do not need answering and offer observations that are not worth making.
为语言多样性现象点灯之作——《〈役割語〉小辞典》读后感：从文字层面保护语音语调层面的「役割語」，或者说方言
以上海为主题的视频创作者G僧东在不少视频里提倡要认识上海方言里的正字，即那些普通话中不常听、不常见但频频出现在方言口头表述中的词所对应的汉字。我觉得这是一个有益的提议，找出了方言里的正字，便有助于探索其传播和演变的过程，及其所象征的人群形象。而这些考察就如同本书《〈役割語〉小辞典》所提到的那样，会反过来被运用到更多作品的创作中，形成一个个固定的角色形象用词，为语言的丰富和多样性注入活力。
胡萝卜周因一氧化碳中毒而意外身亡 一路走好
End of Life of Captura: 偶然找到的实用录屏软件，但是由于可耻的将开源软件套壳收费行为，作者选择了停止更新
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