skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct, I didn't. But it's precisely because there's a really good record of misinformation by the UK government. Not that they are any different from other governments in that respect. So, pardon me if I am a nihilist. I just remember Powell with 'yellow cake from Iraq' in UN and how Bush/Blaire government didn't really have any objections from US/UK media who were all too happy to spread misinformation in order to justify whatever needed to be justified (starting a war, for example). It's not really any different now with Syria or the Skripals in my view. I might have read the report had it been titled 'The speared of unauthorized disinformation and truths we don't approve of'.
An Anthropologist Investigates How We Think About How We Think
Pokémon GO caused hundreds of deaths, increased crashes (2017)
I have read this article sooooo many times. It's an awesome resource. Without it, Hex Kit (https://coneofnegativeenergy.com/hexkit/) would have never existed.
Please don't do this on HN.[0]

>Of course, anyone who does have an issue with Lena would have equal issue with a male equivalent, if they're not a hypocrite.

Part of cedex12's point, I take it, is that there is no 'male equivalent'. Your 'of course' following by accusation of hypocrisy makes it seem you were looking for a fight, not a discussion, and mainly wanted to dump out the standard 'talking point' which followed. "Of course" is just bluff, begging the question, code for "I have no reason to give but I'm right, obviously". No, you're not "even".

(I do however disagree with cedex12's claim that accusations of human hypocrisy are rarely true.)

[0] I dislike like the sound of me saying that. I tried removing it, but I disliked the implied acceptance of the way you were speaking on here even less, so I put it back.
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It doesn't need to, but it would suffice in case your GPU doesn't manage.
This is why Bitcoin was invented. This problem is already solved.

If you want to accept payments with irrefutable proof that they arrived, simply accept bitcoin.
Assuming “lossless”, the main reason is you don’t want to “lose” information. For example, if someone wanted to actually use this picture to geo-reference (or would it be Lunar-reference =p) a particular reference a particular feature, you would want it to be accurate. Specific use case: you found some ice, and want to know exactly where it was, as well as composition. If you didn’t use a lossless format, you wouldn’t have confidence it wasn’t as artifact of the compression.

Edit: misstated Leo instead of lunar, Leo is low earth orbit
That isn’t saving money it’s spending less money as I see it. If you took the surplus amount you would have spent and put that in a long term investment or savings account then I think you could claim a savings. Almost no one does this with day to day spending though so it’s best to view it as spending less. When you spend money you aren’t saving money. You are spending it. You might be spending less in a given situation than you would have if the circumstances were different but it isn’t a savings.
It's too bad they haven't updated this to act like the modern version of Google Maps. It's like going back in time to the old HTML version.
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Some of this seems a little obvious to me but I may have been spoiled by Grid By Example[1] being my tutor. This article does not get into grid areas which, if used, should be the entities that are named rather than columns and rows. Whenever people complain about CSS and the lack of a reusable specification for GUIs I bring up CSS grid. Paired with CSS Reset[2], we have an intuitive, descriptive and easy-to-learn means of building layouts that just works.

1. https://gridbyexample.com/

2. https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
Given Jess used to work at Docker, much of which is written in Go, and has spoken at various Go conferences, she already knows.
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I've seen that argument before—if, indeed, you are saying that pedophilia will be treated like just another form of sexuality—but I don't think it holds any water.

The same communities that are most strongly in favour of normalizing all the facets of LGBTQ+ sexualities, gender identities, etc are also, generally speaking, almost fanatically devoted to the idea of consent.

Minors can't consent.

There are certainly groups of people trying to push for the normalization of pedophilia (I've seen various places talk about "Minor Attracted Persons", or "MAP", mostly in the context of PSAs warning young people to beware of them), but they are, at least for the most part, entirely separate from the people trying to make every type of sexual activity imaginable between consenting adults normal and accepted.
For German, there's Neo 2: https://neo-layout.org/, which is optimised towards German, English, Programming, and Mathematics (in that order). Its third layer, accessed using the caps lock key on the left or the key above right shift, contains all the symbols used by (non-esoteric) programming languages. I've been using it for well over five years now and wouldn't go back to QWERT[YZ] for any reason.
Anyone have a mirror of the full-size lossless image? All the download links are dead atm.
Or you can get RSI in just a few years (right out of college) using QWERTY. I switched to an ergonomic keyboard and it has helped a lot, but it flares up on occasion....I've considered Dvorak on several occasions, but doubt I have the time to be that inefficient for a few weeks. I also use Vim when testing some of our software and would hate to have to relearn all the things I only know my muscle memory now.
Google Keep for notes, recipes, shopping lists on my Ubuntu desktop and my Android phone.
Nasa Selects SPHEREx Sky Survey Mission to Explore Origins of Universe
It is not a difficult problem, ban the bots from St. Petersburg, not the god damn NYT.
On the same topic, but not with dvorak. I'm using a custom version of bépo[0] (kind of french dvorak, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#B%C3%89PO) since ~2009/2010, and don't plan to switch to something else anytime soon, but I wouldn't recommend anyone else to do switch if not to satisfy their curiosity (learning to create custom layout for windows, macos, and linux can be quite interesting).

> Dvorak was different. It forced me to learn to type properly, and eventually I did.

That was for me the main benefits. When I started with bépo I couldn't look at my keyboard, and even if I thought at the time that I wasn't looking when typing, as soon as a tried a different layout I could see how often I was really doing it.

But bépo isn't great for english and programming, so I had to do some modifications to have a good way to access [], {}, (), <>, =, w, etc. And now I spent so much time using this layout that I don't see myself moving to anything else. It just feels natural, and very comfortable, and I only remember that I'm using something special when I try to use a coworker keyboard or play some games that require keyboard shortcuts (which isn't something I do that often).

Also, there is one really cool, fancy benefit: I have a very quick access to weird characters such as «» (french quotes), … ("..." character), — (long dash), ÷, ×, and a bunch of other weird accents, greek characters, symbols, etc :)

[0]: if you're curious, see https://gist.github.com/dgellow/5915994 to see an xkb version. Config commented in french.

PS: I also have macos and windows version of the layout if someone is interested.
Exploring PlaNet: A Reinforcement Learning Model for Long Term Planning
MySupermarket offers a unit price ordering. Its invaluable.
Which keyboard do you use? I use a cheap Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 which works great. I may be ready to step up though.
You're right that you may not get promoted. If your time is more valuable to you than money, why does it matter?
They can if the children of tomorrow are compared with children of yesteryear, and children’s education system has improved such that children of tomorrow excel at all the metrics measured.

For example, how much “smarter” are children today than children of 1000 b.c.?
http://web.archive.org/web/20140531073143/http://www.cfr.org...
Interesting that the whole upgrade friction happens to those of us who use certain software sparingly. Whether it is Skype or Windows or whatever, it perhaps makes you want to use them even less.
We need more definitions. I think it's helpful to distinguish between technical debt patients and technical debt doctors. As a developer (patient), you experience the symptoms of technical debt - slow changes, dev frustration, etc. As a scientist (doctor) you observe this as a naturally occurring phenomena - with a hypotheses, measurement system and literature review. A TD doctor might be your local architect, staff or principal engineer.

There's quite a bit of published literature on technical debt, which appeared quite recently (~5 or 6 years ago). One distinction is between normal technical debt (code level), and architecture technical debt a.k.a ATD (system level) [1]. So far, whether you like the term or not as a patient, it seems useful for scientists to think collectively about the phenomena in these terms.

Some commenters in previous thread say an ideal (reference frame) doesn't exist, from which to calculate the delta of TD currently. The symptoms do exist. That extra few hours it takes to onboard a new developer, fix a bug or whatever are observable. If there exists a possibility to reduce that observable, measurable effort, then that possible future timeline should be the reference frame.

I've risked an appeal to authority in order to transfer better understanding as a random stranger on the Internet. Technical debt seems a topic too fuzzy to fully understand, and that's why I'm pointing out the way scientists are thinking about it. I don't see any other clear path we're going to get industry wide consensus or understanding, if not for the scientific method and institutional support.

That being said, the article did a good job of communicating at least 5 different ways of thinking about TD.

Disclaimer: I'm building an architectural technical debt research tool called RefactorKit.com

1.https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Terese_Besker/publicati...
"Maybe we should have something like a ministry of information to decide what's true."

I am hoping that this was meant in jest.

But if you look at some of the other comments in the article -- science should be funded through the government, industries that would otherwise contribute to scientific research should instead be taxed -- I'm not so sure how un-Big Brotherish these authors are.

(Yes, obviously, the government already funds a good deal of science, but it sounds as if they're arguing that science funding should all be funneled through the government.)
The "big or disruptive changes" have to go in sometime, and crash bugs are often documented before they are fixed...

> If you are planning big or disruptive change, check the timeline to see if it's still realistic to finish them before the transition freeze.

This might have been a better link to post. The freeze happens in stages "transition freeze / soft freeze / full freeze"

https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html

Anyway I phrased that all wrong. I meant to say, that if it doesn't crash as much for you, you can expect that to stay the same throughout the stable release. The changes are universally where the new bugs are coming from. So it follows that you should expect less new bugs, because there are so few changes allowed in the stable distro.

Security fixes and Updates are delivered separately. I don't know this process inside and out but I've been exposed to it for 20 years, here are some more good current links:

https://wiki.debian.org/StableUpdates

https://wiki.debian.org/StableProposedUpdates

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases/PointReleases

> Even stable is updated once in a while. Those updates are called "Point Releases". They usually incorporate the security fixes released until the time of the update and fixes for grave bugs in the current release.
Yup. I think about 3 years ago I setup automatic signing of all my commits. I've been too lazy to disable it and I dislike not being verified in any manner, so I upload my public GPG key everywhere.
Young Entrepreneurs Can Use To-Do List to Get Things Done
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No, I flipped burgers all summer to save up $1,895 and then faked my way into the Apple Developer Program to get the 50% hardware discount. I took the Mac to college with me that fall and used it for almost everything while earning my CS degree.

I was still getting WWDC invites for a decade after that.
I love how these folks are invariably artists or musicians and have this huge sense of entitlement about it. Hey, I love music, too, but I never had any illusions about making a living doing it!

The problem I have with all this is obvious: At some point in your life you need to settle your mind a bit and realize that being an adult has a lot of unpleasant consequences to it. It is what it is. But those who fail to realize it often end up suicidal.

Oh, and all the "tiny home" this and "minimalist" that is just poor people trying to make themselves look hip.
There are also https://meet.jit.si and https://jami.net/.
Saw an interesting documentary on the topic lately. They also had an interrogator who got someone to confess to a crime they didnt commit. And not just confess but actually believe it with the brain making up details of something that never happened.

https://youtu.be/FxOy6z0yq5w?t=1462

He was lucky that it turned out he wasnt in the country at the time of the murder and they found the alleged real killer instead.

Cant repeat it often enough, just never talk to cops. No smalltalk no nothing. If it comes to it talk to your attorney and then the judge. The police isnt looking for the truth but for a solid case for a conviction. Finding the truth is the job of a judge or a jury.
I usually look at the body element and start removing classes there. That often works. But I suppose a plugin should be able to figure out automatically why something isn't scrolling.
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thanks for this! It is probably a smarter way to share the pic given the number o dead links...
what do you think guys
Google's Waymo risks repeating mistakes of Xerox 40 years ago
Researchers Blame YouTube for the Rise in Flat Earthers
China wants to put a solar farm in space by 2025
If you have an nvidia card in your Mac, they make drivers available which work well.
> everyone else thought the "verified" badge for the commit on github looked cool

Hahaha, that's also why I started using it :)
Interesting how these kind of small badges work as incentives.
This article of course totally ignored the scenario where the buyer is aware of the going rate for a given item, and either stocks up when a sale happens or waits until the price point they want to pay. The article basically is suggesting "deals are bad" instead of what it should be saying, which is "don't fall for bad deals".
If it's a shape preserving projection, the usual ones, the opposite happens.

The closer to the focus of the map, the better it's area representation.
A gopher menu does not have to be a directory listing.
Seem to be up now, I just downloaded
Years ago someone was telling me about the GCHQ facility at Martlesham Heath that was reverse-engineering all the incoming kit for use by BT. I think that pre-dated the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre in Banbury. HCSEC is a bit odd, it seems to be a joint venture between the fox and hens to guard the henhouse.
Oh, if disabling Gatekeeper is all it takes, then cool. I was worried there was some new system...
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Liquidation preferences can dramatically change the math on how big an acquisition needs to be to be profitable for the founders.

Say you've got 3 founders who each want to make at least $2M for a startup they've been toiling away at for 5 years which has built something kinda-sorta useful but not a huge hit (that's roughly equalling what they would've made at Google/Facebook). If they took a $5M Series A at $15M post with 1x participating preferred, they need to sell for ~$17M to hit their target (the VC gets their $5M back, then $4M of the remaining $12M for their for their 33%, then 20% goes to the employees from the option pool, then the founders split the remaining $6M). If they took no funding, they need to sell for $6M. If they took just angel/seed funding for 25% of the company, $8M.

It's generally a lot easier to get acquihired for $1-2M/head than for $5M/head.
I tried, just last week, to install Gatsby, as I'm currently (and recurrently) deep in a twisty little maze of static website generators, trying to find the one that fits best with what I'm trying to do.

It broke. `npm install gatsby-cli` broke for utterly mysterious reasons[1] and, as I am not versed in the node ecosystem, the whole thing is just an indecipherable mess to me and I haven't the cycles to learn enough to debug it. So into the bin it went (and that's not /bin or even /usr/local/bin!)

How sad. It looked nice on the outside of the box, but the arrogant, insider-centricity of the node ecosystem made it unviable for any outsider. Far, far from the first time I've had that happen to me, and probably not the last.

[1] ...despite my node/npm installation being at the latest release, so that's not it...
I love Colemak and have used it for years. Typing with it feels absolutely great compared to QWERTY (mostly with less finger travel to reach common keys) but I agree that it's not worth the switch for most people. It took me about 2-3 weeks to be able to type functionally, and then about 6 months before I was as fluent as I was with QWERTY. Hardest part was remembering that the S key was moved right by one key - I kept mistyping S for almost a year.

I did try Dvorak before Colemak and really hated it. Not only was Ctrl+XCVZ a pain, I found that my left pinky got very strained because of the position of the L key which is a very common letter in the English language.

After learning Colemak, I tried practicing QWERTY occasionally to be "bi-keyboard" but I just could not do it. The more I practiced QWERTY, the worse I got with Colemak. So eventually I had to drop QWERTY. Now, whenever I use someone else's computer (usually just to do a small task), I have to hunt-and-peck and it makes me sad.
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U.K. Lawmakers accuse Facebook's CEO of leadership failure
Rust uses glibc by default; you can use MUSL but you have to opt in.
No, it refers to verbatim mode, which ensures every word in the search is on (almost) every page found. (You would think google works like this by default, but in practise, very far from it) Using quotes around the search terms ensure they appear in the quoted order.

To switch on Verbatim, I click "Verbatim" on the left side of the google page, it appears just under the alternative, "All results". I think for other systems it can be well hidden in menus. I use it almost every time I google anything. Otherwise you get a load of irrelevant crap.
What really annoys me though is Tesco displays the price per/unit using different units, so you're constantly having to figure it out in your head - one loaf of bread might display the price per 100g, another the price per 1kg etc.
Without a server of some type available nothing can be entirely reliable on the severely broken internet we have to deal with today. Open source projects only provide the software. There has to be someone out there to provide money for the bandwidth/server.

The current SIP clients try pretty hard to do things right in spite of the brokenness. You could try:

* https://www.linphone.org/

Mumble works well with very cheap and available servers but audio only.

If you want something really minimal and capable:

* http://www.creytiv.com/baresip.html
No. The only system I've ever encountered that required source-code-signing is Debian, who've done it for years.

(Note that merely signing the code with some key is not enough! You have to verify that that's the key of the person you think it is. Doing this properly is hard work.)
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Yes. A lot of people miss #2 and that's my point. Like I said, my first answer was I can start a company for ten bucks. Great. I've started a company. To truly stand it up and make it last, whether it's technology or gardening, takes time and money, all of it equivalent to about $250K. Whether that comes from investment, sweat, or out of pocket is what I'm elaborating on. Thanks.
It's a shame all the supplement brands use heavy weight bodybuilders as their mascots, because if there were any discipline where supplements alone just won't cut it, it's for anyone aspiring to be Mr Olympia.

The vast majority of people could get away with real food and regular training to reach their actual fitness goals; not many people want to be as big as Ronnie Coleman. But if you do want to be a competitive bodybuilder in America, you're going to need more than supplements.

The fitness industry also did a great job of convincing people that supplements are the cause of, not an aid, to muscle growth. I was in the ER once for a broken finger, and the poor kid next to me had been to the ER twice that month for stomach pains, and it turned out he had been sitting at his computer slamming down 10 protein shakes a day and doing nothing else. Just one of many similar anecdotes from when I worked in the industry.
A quick word of caution. For anyone who might be interested in astrophotography I really wouldn't recommend any of the tutorials on the clark-vision site. This is what the co-author of an astronomical image processing program had to say about them: http://forum.startools.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=912

"The "articles" exhibit a litany of errors, nonsense and misunderstandings of how some basic algorithms and mathematical concepts work in image processing, including (but sadly not limited to) light pollution removal, deconvolution, the commutative property in mathematics, stacking, linearity vs non-linearity of data, basic physics and color theory.

After politely inquiring why he thought any of this was good practice or scientifically accurate and getting nowhere, even after demonstrating the mathematics and writing code to disprove some of his more fanciful claims and pointing out errors and untruths. The fact that I'm having to put this warning up, gives you an indication that that didn't go very well."
I like how their definition of physicalism uses the word physical.

> Physicalism is true at a possible world w iff any world which is a physical duplicate of w is a duplicate of w simpliciter.
Branding and perceived high quality due to high price works ridiculously well too. My wife will always want to buy the higher price item because “it’s probably better”. I’ve looked at pricing and anchoring extensively and know better but at this point I gave up trying to convince her. Now marketers take our money and I won’t blink an eye, just cry inside.
What makes it a national issue?
"Free shipping" is a funny one. For smaller businesses, it's basically subsidizing far away customers with nearby customer money.

I offer it not because I want to deceive people, but because we sell more that way. People like predictable upfront prices without having to tell anyone their location.

It is, of course, not "free". We just calculate the average shipping cost and pad the price.
Who did you get to sign your keys? Are you using keybase or some other PKI/WOT system?

(Same questions apply for everyone in this thread saying "yes")
As someone that manages a large distributed team all over the world I really like these kind of features. I don't feel the need to totally disconnect from work every night. But I've also been known to leave my phone while on vacations for real disconnects a few times a year.
They seem to have made refunds even easier recently too - you don't even need to print a label, just drop off the box at a post office!

The easy returns process is something I really value with Amazon.