skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone has questions about the NREC, I've been working there for several years on perception.
I call it Last Jedi'ing. GOTCHA https://youtu.be/5ECwhB21Pnk?t=323
I'm sorry that you feel that way. I consider being able to help another person to be a huge privilege.

What you describe sounds like it's putting one person's progress over another. Sure a mentor may be disrupted but by unblocking someone else they're still increasing the overall productivity of the team and thus is a net gain.

> You're far better asking in chat and having someone you're not interrupting help.

This only works when your question is general enough that many people can help you
> Are you suggesting that just because they've made mistakes that they would be in any way inclined to let the Ruby thing go?

I didn't mean to suggest that! Sneaking a Ruby interpreter into a game without telling Nintendo was stupid, and Nintendo's response was entirely logical and acceptable.

However, if Nintendo had known about the Ruby interpreter and had reviewed it beforehand, but denied it anyway... well, I still wouldn't find that particularly scandalous, but I would say it's a bit of a dumb precaution on a device with a Javascript engine.

And if Nintendo is hiding the web browser on security grounds, that's dumb too! Who cares if the browser is hidden—as long as it's accessible, the people who'd use it to hack their consoles will jump through whatever hoops are necessary. Making the browser hard to open only hurts regular users.

I find it more likely that the browser is hidden because it's too buggy and unstable for widespread use. I've played with it, and it likes to crash. A lot.
Honestly, it doesn’t look all that intimidating. If you’ve ever rotated between rental cars, to catch a taste of a gigantic heavy SUV versus a high-end luxury car versus a compact economy car, and then gone back to a plain jane vanilla sedan, the knobs, wheels, gauges and dials are probably mostly idiot lights, and you fly the airframe according to the same principles as any other hunk of shit that’ll try to kill you.
The only value that is universal is power.

Most of history is dominated by such "might makes right" thinking, and much of human history is dark. It's universal inherent human rights which are the outlier, and which have contributed to the outlier of prosperity and individual human well being we have in the US today.

I'm not sure what this is meant to argue. It is merely a listing of the countries in a certain area with the highest levels of democracy.

I'm not arguing. Merely informing.

Further reflection of your condescending attitude.

?? I think you are projecting.

Who are you to say they are "behind"?

They have ideological/philosophical ideas which the West abandoned well over a dozen generations ago, and for good reason, because those ideas have untenable epistemological problems.

I believe in liberty, and would suppose you do as well, but what right have we to tell others what is right?

Given Freedom of Speech, I believe everyone should be able to express their opinion. Then, there is also freedom of association. It's better to convince than coerce. I think we both agree on that.

Democracy may or may not take hold, but it is not intrinsically good.

Individual human rights are intrinsically good. This tends to result in Democracy, but I would grant that the relationship ends there.

Democracy is not a universal value, and cannot be forced on others. That is moral imperialism.

Sure. Forcing people to be democratic isn't democratic. Nor is it respecting individual human rights. I think we should be doing our part to convince others, however.
I live in a very affluent and safe area in Central Indiana. Yet my Next Door and FB neighborhood group has lot of posts from people living in fear of “rising crime” due to the constant stream of crime reporting from various sources.

I’m fine with being “aware” of what’s happening but there needs to be sensible curation of the info.
as mentioned, not an expert - was the term 'socialist' used by any of the pre-internationale groups? would they identify as such? or as christian with a particular emphasis?

either way, in common discourse 'socialist' is not the same as 'socially oriented'; 99.9% of the time (and also i posit for this article) it is pretty safe to assume that the reference relates to one or another group claiming some ideological lineage to the paris commune / 1st internationale seeking the abolishment of capitalism, private property, and religious authority.

this is still true even for mainstream european socialist parties, etc, even if they don't promote strict adherence so much these days (and so are more 'social democratic')

also: many anarchists are socialists but not marxists, though they do agree with the class theory part..
systemd is such a colossal step in the right direction, this is nothing but FUD.

There's certainly a case to be made about running the project in a more community-friendly manner, but systemd is mature and pretty much everywhere now, so it's hard to argue what the benefits might've been.
It may be better to use the statistical value of a human life defined by safety/enivronmental organizations, which for the US is currently about $10 million per citizen.

Going by that the satellite was worth about 70 lives, which is a bit under the amount of people killed by venomous animals each year in the US.

Edit: More random morbid facts - Annual automobile deaths amount to only 6% of Wyoming's population, but do economic damage equal 10x Wyoming's GDP.
I suppose more awful thing could be an accidental XSS or other vulnerability.
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I think it's extremely unlikely; when has any of these companies ever released the source to their products?

Also, from my experience, Anki was really good with the security behind Vector. He's so locked down that they'd have to officially release a firmware just to provide the functionality to load alternative firmwares or access other services. And with SSL you can't MTTM any of his connections.

I just don't see them having the resources to do anything more useful at this point.
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Unfortunately I have a MacBook and Apple won't even let me uninstall the chess program bundled with macOS.
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IE6 was insanely bad. Later browsers worked somewhat.
The one solution that I really want isn't even on the list (because, AFAIK, it STILL isn't in actual production for public use)...

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What Ghosn is experiencing is identical to what the US justice system inflicts on non-wealthy people.

Poor people and even "middle class" cannot afford to be accused of a crime. It is incredibly, impossibly expensive to afford justice.

In the US, it is far cheaper to accept a plea deal for a crime - even if innocent. Look at the US numbers for accused that actually "get their day in court".

Nolo estimates over 90% of cases never go to trial (https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-criminal-cases-a... ) This sounds remarkably close to the Japanese numbers.
The fact that SOME galaxies are inconsistent with the theory of Dark Matter actually strengthens that theory.

If the difference in rotation curves, the usual signature of dark matter at the galaxy level, from what GR predicts based on the mass of luminous objects was due to a modification in the way gravity works, then that should apply to ALL galaxies. Modified Newtowian Dynamics (MOND) (or the relativistic TeVeS models) should work the same for all galaxies, at least all of roughly same mass and same depth of the gravitational potential.

The fact that we can find similar sized and aged galaxies that behave like they have different amounts of dark matter is therefore NOT caused by the way gravity works. The next best explanation is that most galaxies contain dark matter, but some loose it through their evolution history, e.g. due to interaction with other galaxies.
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Every smartphone has a gyroscope and accelerometer. Surely Teslas have them too, feeding into the model with the other sensors.
Thanks for your feedback! We don't host any of the images, we link people directly to the source. Flickr does have orders of magnitude more images than other providers. We will add making the source more prominent to our list of issues to fix.
> Hearing Beethoven's Ninth is really different from studying the frequencies with an oscilloscope.

I'm not sure that's a good analogy. When you hear Beethoven's Ninth, you're not understanding it any more than someone who drives a car is understanding the car. You can enjoy it. Which is to say, you have an appreciation for its acoustic beauty but that doesn't really have anything to do with understanding it.

Perhaps there is some intelligence that set up the cosmos and they get some aesthetic pleasure from it. And perhaps our experience is too foreign from those being's to get the same pleasure from it but that does not mean that minus that experience we can't understand entirely how it works.
It's almost as if human experiences don't fit into the carefully curated categories we have in modern society where individual aspects are considered in isolation and not handled in a holistic way.

It's as if: the need for meaning, relationships, sleep, body, teeth, eating, professional development, daily routine, sitting, walking, how we walk, our individual body constructs, personality archetypes, mental health, etc... were more than the sum of their parts and being overly dissecting such things leads to a lessening, not increase in understanding of the whole.

A great book on psychology like thinking fast and slow will do a great job at dissecting reality from that narrow point of view, just as other books will do the same in other fields. But I don't really know of any field that is respected that combines many elements to study how to maximize human potential/study the human experience as a whole.

I offer no solutions, just an observation in terms of how we deal with the human experience in modernity.
Sadly. It disappoints me so much that linux hasn't been able to crack Windows dominance on desktop/laptop. I was sure that as more people became computer "literate", they'd shift to linux or bsd in droves. Boy was I wrong.
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That feed makes it clear it if you already purchased it on steam that it will be supported there for forever. Not sure if that also applies to linux though.
...Private Cargo Registry [service] -- that's the interesting bit IMO. Not that someone spawned their own but that someone now enables you to have your own.

The free tier has 2GB which might not be bad -- if it's source tarballs I guess. Now I'm kinda curious about whether rustup/cargo can/does use bsdiff/courgette delta compression.
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I remember when it was accepted scientific consensus that plate tectonics was a crock of shit. Didn't make it any less true. If the data shows that the Arctic is doing fine, then I don't care how many climate alarmists say it's melting if it isn't. Tony Heller destroys the fundamental deception of global warming here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RwjYkYCXnU
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It's a good analogy, although I feel compelled to point out that Beethoven never heard Beethoven's Ninth either, since he was profoundly deaf when he wrote it.
Most critics of journalists, and many journalists themselves, would agree with you that profit-motive is a main factor in deciding (consciously and unconsciously) what gets covered as news. And stories about crime have long been clickbait before "clicks" were a thing, e.g. the aphorism, "if it bleeds, it leads".

Here's one interesting writeup about the "Murder of the Century" in 1897, which is said to have sparked a new era of tabloid reporting: https://archives.cjr.org/review/headless_body_in_newspaper_w...
How many folks am I exposing to Google Analytics that weren't before, if I added GA to my blog? I would be shocked if it was anything other than 0.
> This is a slanted, conspiratorial rant full of personal attacks.

Par for the course as regards reportage on systemd, in other words.

It's weird: People are so het up on hating systemd it's like they forgot to give any truly coherent reasons why we should hate systemd. They just assume everyone does, and launch into the rant on that basis. It reminds me of people thinking disco is terrible and so much worse than any other kind of dance music, or that Nickleback is utterly inexcusable as opposed to being a somewhat mediocre rock band, or the endless stream of hatred for Modern architecture and Modern art. Once you remove the constant blaring hatred, there's just nothing there.
I am highly skeptical of this article given the lack of any comparison of both natural and artificial sugar consumption as a proportion of those carbohydrates, the foods listed tend to be quite low in sugars and it seems like an obvious factor to investigate and is given... absolutely no consideration. Ditto with their sodium consumption and the fish they're eating are probably isolated enough to not be a dangerous source of heavy metals like the fish we have access to.

I definitely don't think that fat is the best thing ever for you, but butter/lard (and other dairy fat) heavy diets have been around for a long time.

I am really concerned about what we as residents in democratic countries are permitting regulators to hand-wave into our food, there is something really bad that we're all eating or drinking and we're going to need to figure out what it is pretty quickly.
So should they also be required to support the IRA?
Database Exposes Medical Info, PII Data of 137k People in U.S.
Or the US where only the wealthy can afford a defense.
Maybe you haven’t been to a bar that has kicked you out for not buying something, but you have certainly been to a bar that wishes you weren’t there not buying stuff. If you think you haven’t, well...
To be clear, they're not inconsistent with the theory of dark matter, they're inconsistent with those galaxies specifically having dark matter. The author was wording that in a confusing way.
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Man, that screenshot made me miss the times when the number next to a browser's name actually had some kind of meaning and jumping two integer version numbers actually meant significant differences.
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Yes, that can be a problem. But if developers who need it would invest money in Mumble instead of all these blob middlewares, it could progress faster.
I see, thank you, I'll change them then.
Yeah, the drug prohibition isn't exactly working out.
Have... have you actually read https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd/ ?

There are solid reasons for disliking systemd.
Useful note, I get this thought sometimes, too. And you write, “We can gather data via all these different frequencies and modes. And yet I wonder how much we're not getting, not because we don't have the data, but because we don't have the right... something.”

Do you mean some type of “receptor” that we might be unaware of? For instance, data is flowing by but we can’t recognize/capture it?
Not the only way. I used to use ddctool [0] to change brightness on monitors and it worked even with some cheap old Benq displays. Unfortunately Linux doesn't support DDC over DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport, but you won't need to worry about that. All you need is some Windows alternative to ddctool. This was the first search hit: https://www.clickmonitorddc.bplaced.net/

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Well that's awful.

Do they have retrospectives?

That is when I would have my teams go over what went poorly (and well) and how to improve the system - including things like how meetings are run.
It's more like a brand vs an idea. The word "Agile" was used (like that, capitalized) mostly as a way to designate adherence to a procedural cult (e.g. the Scrum cult) and usage of specific words looking like newspeak (Sprint, Stories, Epics).

The concept of agility, with the word taken as in its common word meaning, does not actually need all that bullshit. Well, neither does the general concept of being agile in the first place, but it is harder to distinguish from the now tainted one "Agile".
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