skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are looking at this the wrong way: no civil society exists because there are no freedoms. The correct question to ask is: why participate in civil society if the president can just shut it all down after a bad breakfast?

Counterexample time! Lebanon and Tunisia. I’m from Tunisia, so I can talk about that a bit more if you like, but a strong civil society has rapidly formed since the 2011 revolution. Granted, we have had a relatively active civil society pre-2011, but it has flourished immensely post-2011.

I think you’re also a bit off with your point on why Islamic fundamentalism becomes attractive. Yes, in many Muslim countries, mosques become the only refuge for discourse, but Islamic fundamentalism typically comes to the forefront only when these freedoms are clamped down on. People who used to seek refuge from autocracy in the mosque now find that all doors have been shut in their faces, so they naturally look for alternatives. Unfortunately, some end up veering towards extremism...
It's not technically a podcast, but I enjoy listening to James Rolfe and friends (The Angry video Game Nerd) discuss old movies on his youtube channel (cinemassacre)
> including Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Kenya, the United Arab Emirates and Germany

Germany finds itself in great company... With a more sane migration politic this shouldn't have been necessary? Not so long ago there was a time where e.g. Christmas Fairs in Berlin didn't need a fortress built around.
That means instead of having a layer of journalists between the public and sources of information, we would have an open system whereby anyone can download the data and analyse it themselves.

They don't need to die. But if we stop subsidizing them, new systems would have the room to grow.

The media is far from a functional reputation system. The "Paper of Record", the New York Times, regularly publishes outright falsehoods or extremely biased reporting that paints truth in the worst possible light. There are all sorts of subtle manipulations that they use from word choices, ordering of information, image choices, etc. to manipulate people into believing one thing or another.
India got it on the first try? They seem more skilled...
Yes, and your old NES cartridge is infringing because obviously you have to repurchase it every generation. You can't keep enjoying these games without the rights holder getting paid, and don't even think about trying to sell it.

Owning a game? The very idea.
Samsung's Galaxy Fold Might Ship in June
At the top of this thread I was wondering "how many miliseconds is low latency", I hadn't realised it was usually worse than 30 seconds!
China to build moon station in 'about 10 years'
'Passengers are afraid of this airplane': How Boeing is handling 737 Max problem
If you take a step back, both major US parties represent a majority of people whom want the other side to abide by their tyranny.

Even to get progress on gay rights it ended up being pushed through as more of something about pride and "against-hate" than about liberty and freedom. At first this distinction may sound strange to people, but it is important. This has led us into such a strange time when gay men like Peter Thiel are criticized as hateful simply because they don't see why they should be proud to be gay... Granted we traded one form of tyranny for what many argue is a much lesser one, the point is to illustrate that people don't understand human liberty. It is much, mucher easier to get them to go along with justified tyrannies. And if that weren't the case, the US legacy of liberal, constitutional democracy wouldn't be such an outlier in history. I think this reality is scary, and hopefully more people take it more seriously.
1,000$ of batteries = 1kw of resistance heating for ~8 hours and that’s improving over time.

Now, I am not sure how much reserve heating you want, but it’s much closer than 10x cost wise.
Oh thank God we've found some 4K stuff, got tired of the 720p tombs...

(Edit: got a feeling this will be downvoted to oblivion but couldn't help myself)
> Players with a higher structure actually make better goalkeepers

Is that shown anywhere in this analysis? Or is it just conjecture?

(I'd love to see an actual breakdown of GK height/weight vs OPTA stats to see if there's a correlation between "quality" and the physical attributes.)
They can; Grigore was my advisor in college and I’ve seen him demo exactly that.
Drug Distributor and Former Execs Face First Criminal Charges in Opioid Crisis
Ah, so that's the setting we're talking about. Thanks for explaining that.
Michio Kaku AMA
> Political events in the US, the rise of social media, and the risks of virality unexpectedly unleashing mob chaos have made them a lot more wary.

I heard a saying during the Dubya years:

The good thing about democracy is that anyone can become President; the bad thing about democracy is that anyone can become President.
I have a feeling SoftBank in 10 years time will firmly be placed in the annals of history as being the very definition of dumb money.
Ah, the good old Western pundit view of the Egyptian revolution. I was waiting for this!

There had to be a coup? What happened to elections? And it is unfair to omit the fact that said coup involved a brutal massacre.

If you don’t deny that the elections were free and fair, then it is none of your business who the citizens of a sovereign state decide to elect. This is democracy 101.
I'm pretty sure where I live they already don't use chalk, but instead use cars/gocarts with license plate scanners, driven by parking enforcement officers, that drive up and down the streets, recording what cars were where when. The system will flag em to stop and ticket where required.

I think this is quite common now in the US?

Googling, I'm not sure if it's not quite common yet (yet!), or there just hasn't been a lot of attention to it?

https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/License-Plate-Scanning...

https://ops-com.com/parking-security-platform/license-plate-...

https://www.genetec.com/solutions/industries/parking-enforce...

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7186110-181/crimebeat-wha...
> they don't really care if 9k of the ads get appreciably dumber.

But maybe they should. The recipients of those 9,000 ads are being trained to ignore the recommendations because they’re so useless, and may continue to ignore its suggestions even after it improves. Likewise, a few clueless recommendations can “spoil” good ones shown at the same time.

None of this shows up in the test set, of course, but people tend to turn off their brains when ‘evaluating’ ML stuff.
Empirically, autocratic regimes can last longer than democracies -- but there have been many more tried, so it's not clear if we're just witnessing expected outliers.

But the Roman empire lasted fifteen hundred years, while the republic only lasted five hundred -- as a classic example.
World's First Malaria Vaccine Launches in Sub-Saharan Africa
It still seems pretty stressed. I only wanted to see some examples; I did not want to enter fresh sentences myself. If you could add a section to your website to show previous queries and results across all simulations, that might be good enough for most visitors.
> They break at much much lower rates, because they have many fewer parts.

I don't really believe this is true. This is Tesla marketing spin. At one point every vehicle produced was having the drive unit replaced. There have been issues with water ingress and seat problems. Scour the Tesla motors forums.

Also, since it's the car is an iPhone model there aren't any aftermarket repairs. Seems to me to worse in every way despite the original spin on maintenance.
it's possible, given their retarded investment in bitcoin.
County Jails Struggle with New Role as America's Prime Centers for Opioid Detox
Make Is (Probably) Fine
Thanks for the clarification. However I'm not sure that means they don't track. They specify some of the things that they do with the data, but the last sentence "To learn more about the information Google collects and how it is used and secured, see Google's Privacy Policy" means that they could also use any piece of data to improve their products.
I had it on Tuesday, I was surprised by the wording used by Microsoft once you click on the "Learn More" you're redirected to [1].

"Going forward, the best way for you to stay secure is on Windows 10. And the best way to experience Windows 10 is on a new PC. While it is possible to install Windows 10 on your older device, it is not recommended."

It's the first time I see Microsoft actively recommending to buy a new PC for a new OS and even helping you purchasing one !

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/windows7
The author needs to find better podcasts. He acknowledges this, but still remains dismissive of podcasts. The Knowledge Project and Exponent replaced every self-help babbler and tech blogger for me. My Brother, My Brother and Me and The Dollop are better entertainment than most of the best TV shows and movies.

It's interesting that this is the opposite of one of the more convincing podcast takes I've seen. I forget who it was, but they argued that podcasts and video were a return to the visual and verbal storytelling and information sharing that pervaded before the relatively limited--in some ways--written word took over. That might have been an Exponent episode...
Kind of like Sony. Instead of an extensive line of phones, Sony offers an extensive line of media formats.
Ford invests $500M in electric pickup Rivian, will make an EV together
I recommend cursive to start. Use the trial version for a month and see how it feels. It’ll spoil you though with how little setup is needed aside from choosing between parinfer and paredit for structural editing (I prefer the former).
Trying to run Linux and Windows guest on macOS host with hvf acceleration. Found that FreeBSD won’t boot perhaps due to lack of support of v86 mode IVT in hvf part.

Also trying to setup gvt-g with dmabuf but corner cases still need fixes, e.g. video playback doesn’t work on overlay sprite of yuv encoding.
Ford to Invest $500M in Rivian, a Tesla Rival
Wow, the Slashdot thread on this was actually more informative. I think that's a first for me.

The issue is trademark: if they don't defend it, they could lose it. It's really that simple.
"I wish there was some way of balancing the news coming out of countries - without resorting to censorship."

Funniest pro-china comment I have ever read.
Just be careful not to use * , count does not always ignore NULLS, if you specify a column, it ignores NULLS, if you use * then it counts it (this is on SQL Server btw... might be different on other platforms)

create table foo(bar int)
insert foo values(1),(null),(2)

select count(*), count(bar) from foo

3 2
I used to do kendo, which has a big focus on mushin.

> BUT, to get to that point, you need to learn all the proper movements and formations and build muscle memory, which requires a ton of intentional thought and analysis.

This is exactly it. You need a lot of practice ("perfect practice makes perfect") to lay a foundation where everything you do can be done well and properly even when done unconsciously. My personal theory is that once you have your fundamentals embedded at an unconscious level, it becomes simpler to enter a flow state (mushin) because there are fewer extraneous thoughts bothering you while you consciously focus on a task -- all of the little pieces of the task are "unconscious" and you don't have to worry about doing them properly, so then you can progress to embedding the next level of fundamentals.
> Do we need to be super-precise down to minutiae?

No, but we also don’t need to make up ridiculous lies, especially ones that aren’t particularly funny.
It seems plausible that many people do derive value from journalism without paying for it. Among those are, for example, people profiting from others making more informed choices at the ballot box, or being freed from corrupt politicians uncovered by newspapers they don’t subscribe to, or, more directly, getting some information for free on TV even though they are just piggybacking on some other medium’s investigation.
There is a similar show in the Atlanta area where a professor from The University of Georgia answers gardening questions. I also find the callers on that show are a lot easier to listen to. I think you're right about them asking questions instead of just making comments.
I really appreciated how the little details of a place are so distinctive in Japan, be it the special local food, the local craft or just some strange old temple or shrine. I remember going into a temple in gifu somewhere that seemed to randomly have this giant wooden Buddha in the back. Back in my home country it is a creeping sense of every town becoming the same place, with the same chain stores on every corner.
The root of the problem is that corporations have fooled governments into mixing up 'consumers' with 'people'.
Governments should serve people, not consumers.
This is a big mistake because people spend most of their lives working; this means that the average person spends the vast majority of their time producing value instead of consuming it.
So the average person is not a consumer, they're a producer. The biggest consumers are rich people. Whenever you make laws to protect consumers, you're mostly protecting rich people.
As wealth becomes increasingly centralized, this statement becomes increasingly true and it becomes a vicious cycle.
Sounds like American idol for news.

Who would decide if an article is 'proven true'? Some kind of majority vote?

In the jim crow era lots of people would have 'proven' some very unsavory facts about a certain population of people.

Any substantive piece of journalism—beyond simple facts—can't be proven true, because it's trafficking in viewpoints that can't be proven true in a binary sense.

However from a reputable paper, that viewpoint is supported by at least two independent sources, and argued fairly and in good faith.
Don't forget to subtract cash in the EV formula. Otherwise you could take out a gigantic loan and magically get bigger, when really all you've done is shuffle some money from debt into cash.
Year 2100: Redrawing the world’s coasts
>spark plugs are some of the cheapest maintenance you can do on ICE cars.

Let me introduce you to the transverse mounted V6...

>You should however be changing your brake fluid every 2 years regardless of whether or not you have regenerative braking. Brake fluid degrades over time as water gets absorbed.

Yeah you should replace it every now and then but two years is BS though. In many states the fluid never gets touched until the brake lines rust out which can be a decade or more. Brake fluid is one of those things that people really harp on (cynically I think this is because harping on anything that's safety related tends to earn internet points) but unless you're driving on a track or riding the brake down a mountain you would probably never notice if your brake fluid was 1/3rd water.
its not true that libvirt adds nothing of value, it adds easy networking support, easy snapshots, a nice gui interface, a very nice remote protocol and clients (that seamlessly support both graphical and serial output, aswell as on the fly reconfiguration of VMs without restarting them), template VMs (including one time initial provision setup), easy support for storage pools including remote ones, an easy way to manipulate RAM usage on live VMs, easy PCI and USB passthrough, live migration to other hosts, etc etc.

Sure its possible to do all this without libvirt, but it comes as one integrated, easy to manage package instead of hundreds of disparate parts.

You might not need (all) these features, but to claim libvirt is useless is extremely parochial.

Its also untrue that it needs root, you can virt-manager for instance without a root libvirtd instance at all, and it will run VMs without any permissions needed.
Efficient front-end development setup through code-splitting using React
> The safest countries in the world are democracies last I checked.

More importantly, they are rather wealthy countries with a long history of highly functioning societies and political continuity where power was gradually transferred from royalty to citizenry (typically by force), usually somewhat collectivist (the US being the exception, but they're also not the safest), widespread higher education, without a strong emphasis on tribal kinship. You need a strong foundation to build a fragile house like a liberal democracy, it's not like Western Countries transcended from tribal societies in a constant state of war to modern democracies in a generation or two.
Heating is relatively significant, it can take 10-20% off the range in theory. EV’s can solve this problem in a variety of ways:

i) Preheating the cabin from mains electicity, either predictively or through user command.

ii) Using heat pumps to scavenge and move heat around different parts of the car. If you’re early in a road trip you would have enough power in the battery to heat the car for a day or more. If you’re later in the trip there will be a lot of heat in the batteries and motors which can be shifted into the cabin. Similarly heat pumps can be used in reverse to scavenge heat from the cabin and frame to keep the batteries warm if the car is left outside for a long time without being plugged in. Batteries don’t like dropping beneath a certain temperature range.

iii) Simply increasing heat insulation. It’s not difficult to insulate better, it’s just it hasn’t been needed, because there’s so much wasted heat energy in internal combustion vehicles. A human is a 100W space heater, I’d imagine you could quite easily design a cabin for a small car to hold temperature even in the absence of any other heat source.
These keys don't have anything to do with copyright protection circumvention though.
It's exactly unlike a monadic option type. It's much more like null is in Java, C# etc. Every type gets a NULL value here, where in ML/Haskell/etc use of Option/Maybe/etc is explicit.
Name one outright falsehood in the NYT that isn’t old enough to have graduated high school.

You also failed to elaborate how any system of trust would work in the absence of the reputational system that is mediated by such branding as those you list. Instead, you’re just offering the tired and cynic the-media-is-terrible conspiratorial drivel.
Doing a few simple searches online, most gasoline cars do not have anything close to that kind of range, unless you're "hyper-miling" or something. What the hell do you drive?
I have a project idea and I've been trying to find the best way to implement ncurses user interface/experience for mobile screens. If anybody is interested or can offer help/advice them please get in touch.
https://gitlab.com/swipe2e
Instagram Luxury Counterfeits Problem
Agreed. I wonder why package managers can't follow Go's lead in re-using DNS system for packages and then offering a service that just indexes what is available.

Example indexing service: https://godoc.org/

Example package: https://godoc.org/go.uber.org/zap
Bringing Architecture of Operating Systems to XXI Century
True. what They are doing with PHP 7 and 8 is pretty impressive.
What You Can Do with the WebAssembly Package Manager
> things aren't actually all that different in the West

Really. I feel there's a massive difference between agencies background lurking looking for signs of extremism to focus limited physical surveillance resources and a 'social credit score' where you ability to work a job, attend a school or catch a plane etc is based on a computer generated score on how the govt feels you should act from their surveillance.
That’s what I’m thinking. I lightly listened to podcasts before becoming a remote worker, but now that I’m remote I never remember to start one up.
Look at the dates of the papers I linked. The quote:

Approaches based on cheaper monocular or stereo imagery data have, until now, resulted in drastically lower accuracies --- a gap that is commonly attributed to poor image-based depth estimation. However, in this paper we argue that data representation (rather than its quality) accounts for the majority of the difference.

Is from December 2018. Your knowledge of what smart people think is currently outdated, because the new results are so recent.

I also agree that Musk was making claims about no need for LIDAR based on his intuition. He could have been terribly wrong, because it was just his intuition. But he is not wrong.

BTW - Smart people were wrong about AI many times. They were wrong about ANN being dead end in eighties, they were wrong about symbolic AI. They were also wrong about necessity of LIDAR. In a year of two they will update their believes as more evidence will be piling up.
You can probably only hide them if you get researcher access yourself.
Done!

I'd fund it through VC investment. It's a market/mind share play aka hosting a community.
Home Decorations Market Size, Statistics, Demographics
Good to know that this method scales well ;).
Feds File Criminal Charges Against Opioid Distributor,First-of-Its-Kind Case
I'm in love with vscode
But it makes sense the west tried to reframe it. Otherwise Londoners would have been highly skeptical of the mass installation of CCTV and nationwide disarmament.
In other news: SoftBank Founder Masayoshi Son Lost $130 Million on Bitcoin
Of course they can. PMCs are already a thing and some companies (and individuals) are wealthier than entire countries.

Private military forces are going to become a lot more common.
That’s not a moral hazard. The word doesn’t even appear in the paper. It’s just an example of somewhat efficiently choosing a different point on the risk/reward continuum when the payoffs change.

A moral hazard is choosing a selfish course of action with negative external effects.
"Criminals" as in "a thief in a modern society": certainly. "Criminals" as in "an aggressive group/tribe that will enslave or murder you if giving the chance": probably not.
Why would giving the the video footage, and not the ID information they had on file, have been better?

Consider it from the perspective of not having the information that the ID was false. Why would you give the police less than all the information you had? Why would you want the police to have to do all the work to figure out who that face on the video is, when you have their ID?

Furthermore, even if you knew the ID was false (or even suspect), giving the ID information to the police, along with your assessment of its validity, would still be better. They would have an extra data point to use to try and trace the real thief.

And, again, the facial recognition program did not perform the identification of the thief. It merely linked his presence in multiple stores at the times of theft. The identification information came solely from the stolen ID the thief gave when he purchased something legitimately in one of the stores.
It's a Java/.NET/JS-style VM target. So you can distribute your app with a single binary download, instead of different ones for different Operating Systems.
I don't like podcasts. The reason I don't like podcasts, though, is the same reason I don't like talk radio or television. If I want to listen to people, I will talk to people myself.

This is not an indictment of podcasts. Rather, it is a personal opinion. And I think the author of this article is confusing his opinion for a general truth.
> ... but Islamic fundamentalism typically comes to the forefront only when these freedoms are clamped down on.

That probably describes Tunisia and Lebanon - I find it very unlikely that it's an accurate description of the average Middle-Eastern country, even of Egypt. Never mind elections, even freedoms can be almost irrelevant when, by and large, people have never even come close to knowing a free society and what the basic values of one look like. A truly free people doesn't elect the frickin' Muslim Brotherhood to run their country!