skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it because authenticity leads to a better artistic production value or is authenticity an end to itself?

I hope I'm not being insensitive or flippant. I'm just hoping these discussions leads to some sort of insight or solution. It's definitely super educational for me.

In other words, if 2 actors are playing this super emotional scene with equal artistic expression and actor A can do it well because he deeply connects with the characters experience and channels his own life's pains and struggles through the expression and actor B can't relate at all with the character but just trained super hard to be able to play any sort of role, is actor B a less desirable path for people wanting to become an actor?

I realize it's a bit of a wonky analogy because the painter in this case is both the actor and the screenwriter. Just trying to figure out if self conviction is a means to an end or an end to itself.
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Billy's mommy had ties with IBM CEO John Opel, this is often overlooked but it's the key to MS success. Don't overestimate the philantropist , he always had a rich family.
Interesting, we are definitely considering free trial now. I haven't seen anyone selling cars with an unconditional money back though :D You got yourself a nice deal I guess.
This was from 2015, and has since been reversed.
That was partially a reference to a popular programming joke (ex: https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/506010907021828096?l...), but I would think that asking for an example of a better title is the opposite of discouraging debate. Apologies if that seemed sarcastic; it was not meant that way.
Reading releases dopamine at a much slower pace than something that's visually stimulating. Facebook news feed is mostly images and videos now. If you ever catch someone using Facebook, watch them for a few minutes: it's just mindless scrolling of images. It's as if there's a line of breadcrumbs laid in front of them and they're picking it up one by one and following the trail.

Visually heavy content + infinite scroll = a human trap
I don't think he's exaggerating. Watch the segment that John Oliver did on Sinclair. The content of the "must run" pieces is definitely alarming.
For me, I browse the web differently on desktop, for example on desktop if I visit HN, I might open 5 different links and their comments at once before visiting them one by one. In the middle of that I might open email, and then open tabs from the email. I could easily end up with several windows with 6-7 tabs in each open.

That sort of thing I would never do on my phone or tablet, just because of the form factor I keep my footprint much smaller.
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Thanks for clarifying that. BTW, I love your new book. I bought the MEAP last month and I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the final version.
You'll have a hard time finding people who will say you are secure, but there are no known vulnerabilities allowing breaking out of a default-configuration docker container at this time.

JessFraz has been running https://contained.af/, which is a much more locked-down than the default container, for ages, and no one has broken out and captured the flag yet.

If you do some legwork, it's not too bad currently.
Got it! We are reworking on the onboarding flow now, thanks for the feedback!
Check out
https://github.com/zeit/next.js/
https://github.com/addyosmani/critical
They won't, because they've seen what happens when they do that. People are leaving cable TV because it is a selected menu of channels. No choice. ISPs who attempt to limit choice will find themselves without subscribers. If Comcast decided I can't access Netflix on my internet plan, I'm gone.
It'd be cool if they, you know, built something instead of theory crafting convoluted architectures.

Also it's kinda a reverse ad when you need to hack around limitations of your product when trying to sell it. Oh, app engine 'standard' vs 'flex' - or 'regular' vs 'cloud' APIs which is a distinction your customers shouldn't have to care about.
Great advice! And I absolutely agree with the idea that this list is highly personal -- for me, I can't spend more than a few minutes on FB per week w/o feeling like it's a complete waste of time (I only have the acct to receive various announcements related to things I do). But NYT & HN are big time sinks for me. Especially since I always learn something, so it doesn't feel like a waste of time, per se, but does get in the way of actually getting stuff done. (I think PG has an essay on this.)
Thanks for the feedback, I am definitely looking into them in detail, but I never thought someone would say 1 year of free trial :)
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Question: with latent virus code removed, does the cell use less energy to replicate or is able to replicate faster?
> Previously I spent hours per day on both, running a pretty large community group and supporting its members. I disappeared; no explanation.

I'm glad you're feeling better, but I'm not sure why you'd choose to leave people in the lurch rather than even a brief message.
That's right. The finding is that the runaway fission reaction produced an explosion of the fissile material directly instead of merely overheating the enclosing cooling system. It didn't remotely approach the yield of a warhead relative to the amount of material, but it was still a "nuclear explosion".
Francesc Campoy’s Just for Func series is much better https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=420s&v=mTd3hHUy9OU

Also by a Google engineer and using Google Cloud products, but it’s actually a lot of fun to watch.
Firstly most people here have been pulled by a puppet master. You too are pulled by those same strings, you just are taking the N' position to the position taken by the commenters here.

But a lot of the things people are saying here are the culmination of many other actions which have been repeated over the past many years and are finally coming to a head.

secondly - you continually make an error of generalization.

Yes, one single particular individual may be able to exercise free will. But Most dont even know that their will is being attacked.

Its not like these are telegraphed villains with evil laughs saying "I'm going to take your freedom".

This is candy crush, with its intentionally neutral and happy pictures. Its facebook, with its memmories and your friends.

WHY would anyone stop that?

Sure, someone in this thread, who is a techie and has read the past 2 months of tech news, may have an idea of what to defend.

In that very narrow, individual scenario - yes, he has a choice.

Yours is the craftsmans argument, in a world which has just seen the advent of the assembly line. Certain individuals may well craft their own will.

Those few are considered flaws in the system, and the system itself constantly focuses on those people they CAN get, and who are NOT aware, or have the wherewithal or lack the interest in stopping it.

Hell, people don't want to wear helmets when they ride motorcycles; we couldnt get people to waste less water when they shower, and instead there was an active movement to deny climate change.

Programs which never sleep, eat, and cost tiny amounts of money to execute. So even if you never log in, they just lie in wait.

The armies arrayed against an individual are far greater than what a normal person can hope to deal with - unless they drop everything and focus on beating it.

And why would a normal person do that? SO that he can keep free will? Most people would give up their free will if it would guarantee that their kids have a future, that they get food, and shelter.
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The question strikes me as a red herring in that it presumes an optimal solution to the obtuse problem of world war sustainment exists as some one-shot panacea.
>This is great. Unless Trump is doing this

I look forward to seven more years of this kind of thing.
The about:profiles UI is not very polished, but it does exist.
The problem is that the government has such arbitrary power to begin with.

They don't even have the decency to pre-approve deals before the companies in question go out on a limb and announce the plan.
I don't think we have any clue yet what the real use of quantum computers will be. They are so far out of what we can comprehend. Imagine Watson in the 1940's trying to predict the iPhone, i think this is where we are at with quantum computing.
There are a few things that might be worth checking out:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=code%20search
Ah yes John Oliver the bastion of unbiased journalism in current year.
> something is better than going hungry

Of course, but marketing it as "healthy" may not be the most accurate way to portray it.
Heaven forbid we don't protect our trillion dollar insurance racket.
Even in their advertising, the bezels are still incredibly obvious. There is something magical about the screen ending where the background begins. Even the iPhone X’s bezel is kind of disappointing (though still pretty cool).
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> The one place it really exceeds the desktop is answering calls and responding to text

So you're saying your cell phone makes a better cell phone than a desktop computer? That's about what I figured.
Right now there is nothing here which wasn't published already a decade ago.

I downvoted your initial comment, but because I thought it was unhelpful rather than because I thought it was untrue. By contrast, I upvoted your more recent comment that mentions your expertise and defends your view with a useful link to decade old software.

Still, I'd guess that for many people outside your field, "would have been news" is not the same as with "published already a decade ago". I'd guess the majority are interested in what's currently achievable using off-the-shelf hardware and ready-to-run software, and aren't bothered that it may be weak in theoretical advances. Alternatively phrased, people may consider the performance and availability newsworthy even if the theory isn't cutting edge.

That said, I'm familiar with neither the state of the art nor the state of the theory. Are you saying that you could strap the same consumer camera rig to your head, take an unplanned stroll through a forest or city, and achieve the same model quality by running the resulting video through Bundler? If so, you would have a strong case that the parent article is accepting the hype of the press release a little too easily.
I'm friends with the guy who wrote that sentence. He says that my interpretation is correct.
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I switched from self-signed to LE for all of my personal sites. I had gotten some other free SSL cert provider up and running for one site, but it was a lot of steps; I would probably have paid $5 per year or so over free for something as convenient as LE, were LE not free.
Yeah, "build out" is a trigger phrase for me so I could never watch this anyway.
The accident happened on April 26th, and was acknowledged 36 hours after when they began to evacuate Pripyat, a town in the immediate vicinity of Chernobyl. As I said, it took about a day for them to acknowledge it, and it was only acknowledged when it became clear that it could not be swept under the rug. Your video does not contradict that.
I think it's more interesting that people were so used to Soviet denials of any disaster they now remember this as one of them. They were slow to report the accident and slow to acknowledge its scope and severity. On the other hand, it was perfectly clear to Western observers that a serious accident had taken place, you can see that in the ABC report from April 28, 1986 linked in my other comment. I can't imagine any reasonable person thinking this was 'western misdirection'.

A UN IAEA team visited the site on May 8th, unthinkable in pre-Gorbachev times. Gorbachev was elected Secretary General only a year before.
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I too believe that Latter Day Saints would be a good import for north Korea. But I am a big fan of Mormons
>I believe it's a platform provider's responsibility for the most part to secure data, and less so the responsibility of the developer or user

I would say that is going too far, or maybe I'd say it differently. If a certain problem becomes very frequent relative to it's severity, the problem is a design bug and not just user error. The provider isn't responsible for every mistake, but they are responsible for designing with mistakes in mind.
Yea basically this. Built a 'big data app' using Ember, which was all well and fine until some of the routes essentially became their own apps, that were more akin to apps like photoshop. MVC really broke down for us here, and it wasn't until we introduced react / redux and slowly refactored the application until things got more manageable and sane.
Nice references! Might be better to start with the cost paid by the customer to Uber rather than just the driver's cut of it?

"In San Francisco the fare is $2.20 plus $0.26 per minute plus $1.30 per mile. In New York City the fare is $3 plus $0.40 per minute plus $2.15 per mile."
Nope. That quote was lifted from Amazon.com meta tags.

If I were to guess at what companines might rival Amazon in having the biggest selection, my top 3 would be: eBay, Alibaba, Rakuten.
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Not all of us have a strong grasp of logic theory, although we probably would be much better off if we did. Mind dumbing it down for your audience?
This is nonsense.

The DOJ is asking for either DirecTV or Turner Broadcasting be excluded from the deal, because being under the same roof would be a huge boost to DirectTV over its competitors - cable companies and Dish Network.

Turner Broadcasting includes several channels. Both TNT and TBS are probably more important to the deal than CNN (the former has higher ratings than CNN across the board; the latter does in primetime); the idea that it's the sole focus for DOJ is highly questionable.

Furthermore, how does DOJ's actual demand hurt CNN? AT&T could spin out Time Warner and keep the Turner channels. Or even if Time Warner spun out the Turner channels, they wouldn't go away (they were independent of Time Warner in the 1990s).

I'm as anti-Trump as the next guy, but the idea that there's not a rational basis for DOJ's demand is simply mistaken.
I think this is a good point. People are social animals, and most of us need a community, but much of that community today is deeply tied into this modern distraction society. For instance, you mentioned quitting tobacco - I bet this is much, much harder to do in the places and times where smoking is/was an important social activity. It's not only that these distractions are everywhere, but that avoiding them can lead to some degree of isolation.

It would be nice to find some sort of community that's pushing back against these things. It's hard to do alone - for instance, when I tried going back to writing long e-mail to friends instead of merely liking Facebook posts, I got little response. People had moved on, and weren't interested in going back.
That would mean trying to understand and optimize for men's reproductive strategy. As far as I can tell, the western world seems mostly concerned with female reproductive strategy.
Thanks! Unfortunately the raid controller needed those blocks during boot time, or it couldn’t recover properly. I may have convinced the engineers to turn on “read after write” for those blocks.

After explaining this discovery to my manager, I also explained how Benford’s law could be used to detect fraud in his corporate travel expenses. He seemed more interested in that application.....
Right. It's a less engaged form of engaged, more passive. Not sleeping, but not thinking either. Human trap? Or more like a rat on a wheel?

Makes ya wonder what effect more characters will have on Twitter, and those who use it.
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So does this mean 5th gen and below ones are not vulnerable or Intel just couldn't be bothered to review the ME version on those? Unclear from the article.
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Apple seems to love UI changes because...nobody knows. Examples of horrible and/or unnecessary UI changes over the years: GarageBand, Xcode, and iTunes. Especially iTunes. What I hate about modern UI design is when you have a situation where you can't or are not allowed to do something, i.e., sync a song, backup, copy media, etc. Instead of having a disabled button or displaying an error message actually explaining anything, modern UIs simply remove said control, causing the end-user to aimlessly search like a fool for the non-existant menu item, link, or button. Apple sems so focused on UI that they sideline UX. An even worse offender is Windows 10's awful desktop/tablet identity crisis, which forces strange UI compromises all over the place because it must adapt to all kinds of devices from phone to movie theater. Windows 7 knew for sure that it was a desktop OS, and to this day is the most useful Windows version ever. As a dev myself with a fair amount of UI/UX experience I can tell you this cones not from the devs or even the UI designers but from Product Owners and management who make these kinds of decisions and override sound judgment and wisdom. Either that or they hire "full stack" devs who are supposed to be everything from architect to tester.
SQL Server would be part of Server & Azure. Not sure if Video Games are part of XBox or not.
I clicked 15 times until using inspect element and realized no link in it.
Yet another reason owner-controlled machines like the Talos™ II [0] are so important. Yes, it may cost a bit more up front, but what's the cost again of having your data stolen and then, especially with the older machines here, having to replace all of your hardware to boot?

Plus, purchasing machines like that one not only sends a clear signal that we want backdoor-free computing, but also allows the further development of more libre computing options. Wouldn't you rather have Linux and BSD as first-class citizens on new hardware, instead of always needing to play catch-up from behind?

[0] https://raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
I agree with your main point that the main issue here is personal responsibility and personal power, and that any group memberships are only relevant insofar as they affect that.

> I've noticed a trend towards nationalism in China

Sure. That sort of thing is not incompatible with perceiving other countries as "systematically better". In fact, one common form nationalism has taken (not just in China) is "those other people are currently ahead of us, but we will overtake them and then we will be ahead".

> Unless there's inherent racism in China

Oh, boy, is there. https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/beyond-the-pale-chinas-c... has some discussion in article form, and in general searching for "racism in china" in your favorite search engine will find lots of discussion about the issue.

As far as I can tell, racism is just not something the ruling party cares about much, and they spend all their thought-and-speech-policing efforts on the things they _do_ care about (like their own survival). For similar reasons, racism was rampant in the Soviet Union and is rampant in Russia now.

Add to that that most Chinese have no personal experience with someone who looks "black", so all they have to go on are stereotypes, and it would be pretty surprising to _not_ have racism be prevalent in the culture.
You want ACMESharp:

https://pkisharp.github.io/ACMESharp-docs/
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Sure there is. It all depends on what we, as society, value. So long as the market exists and is supported by enough people it continues. If society decides it no longer collectively finds a given market acceptable (not in the legal sense necessarily, as drug markets show, but as in willingness to pay and participate in), then the market collapses.

For the art scam, if people decide that generic keepsakes from tourist destination are no longer valuable, or send the wrong kind of social signal, that market will collapse.

Social change is possible, but I’d argue we have MUCH higher priorities in social change department over the fake art.
ICO implies an initial offering

Bitcoin had no ICO. There was no initial offering.
We play around with the title to see what gets picked up.
We're a small company, but have a Chromecast on every TV/projector in the office if it makes you feel any better :)
Since this username is misleading and we've gotten complaints about it, I've banned the account. I assume that's why users were flagging the post as well.
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> I'd like to simply have the same view of data on all my devices, with probably my phone acting as a central source of truth in terms of identity and carrying around a hot cache of important data.

have you been reading my ssb log[0][1]? or lurking in our matrix room[2]? that's kind of exactly what the libre software project i contribute to is trying to build. we're a small team rn, but i think the direction we're going is pretty cool.

[0] https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%256GAD8%2F8qQC26qFTgYvQZ3q97qY...

[1] https://git.heropunch.io/%251BtG8h6Oh6uI7kjnZkvK20wqLrCZlbbF...

[2] #heropunch:matrix.org
You wrote "Initially there was a flat out denial that anything happened at all, but once the scale of the catastrophe became clear (within about a day)". That's not what happened, you can look it up in any of the numerous timelines and accounts of the accident and the reporting and Soviet disclosures. The evacuation of Pripyat started before the first public Soviet announcement as described here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Evacuation

And the section immediately following regarding the announcement.
It’s all personal values - I think people from a given place experience and see that place different from me when I visit. Therefore, being able to “see” that place or people in that place through their eyes is valuable to me. Unfortunately, I find it exceedingly difficult to cut through the clutter of the fake local art.

Not to mention that it is a sham, which is a morally objectionable thing to me.
patio11 covered this in his career advice article.[0] I read that article around the time it was first published. The tidbit about cost centers and profit centers has stuck with me since. I have, for the most part, been able to avoid being attached to a cost center. Primarily by working at "tech" companies rather than more conventional companies which put software engineers in "IT" departments.

[0] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...
Sorry, how does your comment relate to mine? Was this meant for somebody else?
Comparison to the EU shows that this is not an incongruous combination of decisions, as OP implies.
Looks like they have some great painters in Daifen, and I am reminded of the oil portraits that the Mojang development team had commissioned several years ago for themselves [1].

1. https://twitter.com/notch/status/292254246756294656?lang=en
I think it will actually reverse in the coming years ( 2-3 decades ) as the education programs that mold programers over compensate for supply and people in medical fields decrease to where they are valued again.
Oh my god, I'm worried about India's population starting to decrease now ....

More seriously, is there a way to look before 1960? I want to look from 1930 or so, I think India's population really exploded post-Independence.
Not only setting up, but monitoring.
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