skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is old news. This is old blackhat from 2005. Get with the new evil programs, writer.
I'm up against what I can only describe as "company spam."
Software company creates multiple llc's to market the same software product with slightly different names or names similar to legit companies. It works like a charm to clog up Google results. And if one gets dinged by Google, just crank up another company with a "headquarters" in Nevada.
I'm sure this is where this is coming from, but if not, Sam Harris's latest podcast is about mental models. I know it's not a book, but I found it insightful.
True, but nowadays we can't afford geographically changing human-inhabitable areas driven by climate change.

If climate change causes the areas we currently inhabit to become unhospitable, we risk adding the danger of economic disasters and wars threatening our survival.

Human life was, amongst other things, possible because of one of the biggest climate disasters ever to occur on earth, the big oxygenation event [0], so we could even see climate change as something positive but clearly that doesn't buy us anything today.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
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Especially if it's a 'smaller' game with mechanics that are unique. I just wonder if there are any good resources for the basics that a game engine needs.
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Use of facial recognition tech 'dangerously irresponsible'
Yes.

Many Chinese developers are not fluent English users though. There's a "Chinese StackOverflow" called segmentfault.com, and I often see people asking fellow developers in WeChat groups.

Source: Am Chinese in China
No worries, just wanted to clear up the misconception. :)
Wouldn't increased production of bicarbonate in response to high CO2 offset and reverse any change in cognition?
Google's process goes nowhere and I can vouch having submitted dozens of links.

Classic example is that websites can set the rating and number of reviews themselves even if it is completely fraudulent e.g. "melbourne cheap movers". Does Google care ? Nope.
I think that there is room for improvement... Flutter is something very interesting, though yet another language (Dart). React Native is also interesting, but actually creating for cross-platform has some niggles. I would think a nice cross-platform UI toolkit for Rust, once async/await drop could be huge. WebAssembly + Canvas|WebGL|SVG as a generic runtime base could go a long way to also bridging a gap.

In the end, it really just depends. Right now electron is the closest we've had to a cross-platform application base with a UI that is easily styled and a single codebase for write once, run anywhere that we've had. Most of the cross-platform UI tooling that's come before has kind of sucked. Even getting build pipelines for multiple platforms (even just Linux, Windows and Mac) has been pretty painful. Electron bridges a lot of gaps at the expense of a more bloated baseline.

I think things will get interesting and we'll see some new/old paradigms show up.
What about a case when NSA was wiretapping phone calls of member of German governments, including Angela Merkel [1]? US got away with this without any consequences and Germany said nothing.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10...
> Obviously a top post on HN gets you more attention

Yeah, it seems this is what tech people do nowadays (the other day there was a HN post from a company who got banned from PayPal after 12 years...).

It's a bit like publicly tweeting a complaint and mentioning the offending company's Twitter handle, so it seems "social media shaming" has reached HN too.
Hence taxpayers should vote for sufficiently funded pro consumer organizations such as FTC, CFPB, FCC, FDA, EPA, etc. that hold those responsible for fraudulent claims.
More that I think (or hope) that it will continue to be widespread because of these things. It may be right, but I like to think it's not the case. That said, I do care much more about the culture of cooking than your average joe.
If there's evolutionary pressure on existing species to become smaller, and newly evolved species are smaller than those of preceding and following eras, it seems entirely reasonable to conclude it was somehow hostile for larger land mammals, no? That is not a statement that every single one was under 10kg or perfectly fit the identified trend.
Isn't the chatter associated with other disorders such as depersonalization / anxiety / racing thoughts ? Asking because I experienced it under some stress & anxiety lately.
This is just a spurious argument - and setting aside the Guccifer 2.0 sub-plot to the whole scam - Wikileaks has absolutely no requirement to be neutral. Their job is to publish things powerful people don't want published. That's it. Why should WL be on your side? Why shouldn't WL release info damaging to Clinton? It's hardly Assange's fault the US keeps committing war crimes and engaging in blatant corruption, is it?
I can only imagine the kind of boyfriend your daughter will bring home.
There are probably other ways but they lack the network effect of people already being there, and the fact that many major companies use Github to distribute and administer their open source projects.

In the West we have the choice to use the service that gives us all these benefits. Mmm, choices.
Sorry, should have made this clearer. I mean private healthcare leads to more diagnoses. In socialised healthcare the doctors have no financial incentive. Hence the original comment saying that diagnoses are less common in Europe.
At 1000 ppm of CO2 human cognition starts to decline. At 2000 ppm you're looking at severe cognitive decline, drowsiness, headaches. Letting it get that high is dangerous just on the basis of CO2 concentration alone.
If you think people would misunderstand “rape” in this way, I’d suggest you spend your effort educating people who don’t understand the word, rather than trying to “correct” people using the word to mean what it means.
It's not terribly difficult to ask people in drone-affected areas how they feel about drone strikes. The universal answer is "constant fear, and a deep hatred towards whichever bastards are pressing the button".

https://www.channel4.com/news/drone-attacks-traumatising-a-g...

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/09/ev...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-mcchrysta...
Who knows. If you are concerned you could always "disavow" thru Google. Or just go to Fiverr and for $5 spam your competitors with bad links to level the playing field. It's all such a freaking joke these days
And then this entity strikes a loved one who you know was innocent. It is suddenly much easier to pick sides out of a deep conviction...

An enemy that isn't showing its face and explaining itself well will likely create more adversity.
Not just "agencies".

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en-us&q=3d+engine

Top hit is a half-assed Unity clone called "Falco 3D Engine", produced by the same company (person?) that churns out mounds of banner- and malware-stuffed free "games" of similar quality. It would appear that they somehow leverage their massive installation base from these games to force Google into ranking pages of their choice higher than they would naturally.
It's because the established media got the message to assassinate his character (and unlike e.g. the 60s with the vibrant counter-culture and anti-establishment stances, today most people just follow what's mainstream).
This happened during WWII with the bombing of entire cities. The idea was the terror would make the enemy surrender. It had the opposite effect.
And the will to uphold democracy in the first place.
Is it? IDK, IANAL.
>Same way people found out before advertising existed: word-of-mouth, trade fairs, product catalogs

I didn't downvote your comment but here's a fyi about the pervasiveness of advertising if you didn't already know...

Trade fairs are actually a form of "advertising". For example, a trade show selling a 10ft-by-10ft booth is essentially selling a 100 sqft "ad slot". The "ad inventory" for sale is the whole trade show floor. When companies spend money for a trade show booth, they categorize it in their financial accounting as "marketing budget".[0]

Product catalogs are often partially funded by sponsors that are featured in the catalog.

As for "word of mouth", the 1st person that started the chain of recommendations was often exposed to advertising.

[0] https://www.thetradeshownetwork.com/trade-show-blog/the-8-ma...
A large part of that in the late 1970's IBM was under anti-trust investigation. They had to make some changes in behavior to prevent bad results. Much of the PC would have been different/closed if IBM wasn't afraid of what lawyers would do.
Her entire blog is a goldmine.

Consider: https://cate.blog/2019/05/08/where-do-you-start-when-a-team-...
This like a checklist of things that I do. I've been known to sit there looking like I've been listening to a conversation, and then when someone asks me a question have no idea what anybody was talking about, and that will be the first point at which I notice I wasn't listening to anything going on around me. Thankfully I've got colleagues who are understanding about it, but damn is it embarrassing having to answer with "I'm sorry, I wasn't listening at all".
Perhaps for some people ADHD is transitional, chronic - related to serious anxiety / pressure. I don't think everything is always 0 or 1
The facts are she went to the police station to report it. Why would she do that if she didn't want the police to do anything?

When the first prosecutor decided not to proceed with the case, her lawyer asked for this decision to be reviewed. Why would her lawyer do this if she didn't want the case resumed?
That's somewhat fair... GUI in JVM generally sucks all around, and while I appreciate XAML in .Net space, it comes with a lot bigger cost than the output of Delphi.

Though, iirc, Delphi is really expensive as a product.
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Long live Gopher:// space.
I’m not sure how much the installation and configuration process has changed in the last 6-8 months, but when I set it up as a call-to-home VPN, it was extremely easy to install (it’s in most package managers, although I recall I was trying to run it on Debian Jessie on ARM and I just couldn’t get the prerequisite kernel version installed for some reason I can’t recall - an upgrade to Stretch fixed this). It was a bit fiddly to set up though, mainly because a basic idea of how network admin works (subnets, default routes, ports, firewalls) is assumed. You don’t need to work with interfaces directly anymore though, since WireGuard now has the wg-quick tool. There are also fairly foolproof user guides and walkthroughs now, e.g. for how to set up a basic VPN and forward all traffic to the server to the Internet, which is a use case for users who want WireGuard to be their glorified web proxy (full disclosure: like me).
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Sorry, I found Neko for the first time and didn't see any mention of HL on the Neko website. HashLink does look very impressive so thanks for the details. I'm looking into it now.
This is likely the major reason why China has not yet blocked the major cloud providers. As soon as they allow ESNI/domain fronting, all bets are off as to what China will block.
> temperatures were 9C-14C higher

In such an environment, mankind might survive, but our current farming set-up won't. It might only kill 7 billion people our of 7.5, no big deal. (When looked at from a few million years in the future.)

> CO2 levels were 1000-2000

Indoor CO2 levels are usually double the outdoor levels. H
Humans become dumb/sluggish at concentrations over 1500ppm, and nauseous at over 2000. Life will thrive, human life won't.
I don't understand why they need access to global variables. If you are writing a portable module using strict mode, you should't need access to "window" or "global". If you are writing non-portable code then you can access "window" or "global" by its name.

I mean, they intentionally closed access to global object through "this" in strict mode and now they want it back.
Frankly it may not be the point, or it may be exactly the point. I don't know as I've never lived in those situations, and I doubt you have.

I'm raising a possibility, not claiming a truth. You're denying that possibility apparently based on gut feel.

Both my point and yours are ultimately worth exactly nothing. What would be good is to have people there tell us how they feel. We need to hear their voices. They deserve to be heard but for some reason I don't recall ever hearing their opinion.

(Edit: jdietrich posted those opinions - reading now, thanks)

(Edit2: I'll leave this post rather than delete it, but consider it retracted; there's plenty in jdietrich's links to make me change my mind)
I suspect you will thoroughly enjoy this twitter account: https://twitter.com/cultureshipname?lang=en
> 1.) A .marketing tld is an odd choice for someone who claims to run an SEO (or any kind of ad) agency.

One of the biggest SEO myths is that Google penalizes for these unusual TLDs. What’s really going on is that a .com/.net/.org is likely to simply be older and more trusted than a .marketing, resulting in higher rankings.

All else equal there is no difference to Google when it comes to the TLD.
All things considered, particularly climate change, probably better to keep those old designs running rather than replacing them with fossil or bio fuels.

Once you have a 100% fossil/bio-free grid, you can replace those pesky nuclear plants with hamster wheel power for all I care.
For me personally, no.

But having had an intake of decent energy during the day, and a 30 min run in the evening allows my brain to brush the teeth and put three beasts to bed at night without collapsing into apathy.

I have to constantly interrupt what I’m doing during the day and “check the sensors” so to speak.

Hands up if you’ve been so consumed you missed lunch more than one instance this last month!

Keep doing that, and the deterioration is in progress.

If not of oneself perhaps relationships? And what is “self”?
Were you already born when Edward Snowden made his revelations?

Or how about the Evo Morales grounding incident? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
Because if you live in the first world, like most of these companies, you will feel the effects of climate change the least. Climate change is a bigger problem for developing nations with birth rates way too high and limited resources.
It is kind of telling that you are dismissing "not murdering people" out of hand.
It's not deeply flawed, just corrupted, but hey, anything can, there's no silver bullet against it.
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> Culture fans: These are not the knife missiles you were thinking about.

Though I'm not sure the US having access to those would make me feel any better :)
Are you claiming there's a vast global conspiracy hiding the real numbers? Please...
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I read the first few paragraphs and skimmed some more. There's nothing of value to be found here, just a long incoherent rant.
I never understood why Assange worried more about being extradited from Sweden than from the UK. However, I think it is a good point that now he’s fighting an extradition request in Britain, he would be happy to instead go to Sweden.
What about the thorium reactors and the enegry levels needed for large scale industry?

What pollution is created when a hurricane or tornado destroys a solar farm? (Think of all the nasty materials on the inside which leech into the ground water).

All solutions have drawbacks, that's why we call them tradeoffs.
I wonder what the consequences would be for the U.S. of completely stopping all foreign military operations. It's probably a given that other big powers would step in to fill the vacuum. But other than oil what kind of resources would the U.S. lose access to? And how would that manifest in the economy / supply chains?
> an army of lobbyists and media companies to push the hoax/not-our-problem-narrative

I've noticed on most of the climate change posts on HN that they 1. fall off the front page very quickly (due to systemic flagging?) and 2. every single comment that's pro-fighting-climate-change has a "skeptical" reply that hits all the denier FUD talking points. For example, your comment has a reply saying both sides exaggerate, thus muddying the point you're trying to make. Classic whataboutism talking point.

What I don't understand is if HN mods see this going on and can tell if the person is a shill or an actual climate denier. Statistically, replies in these threads should skew heavily towards pro-fighting-climate-change, but even in this post, it seems like every other reply is denier talking points. It is really starting to make me think that HN doesn't care about stopping shills.
It exists very clearly (but it does have limited scope..)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_deception
I read his comment exactly as you meant, i.e.: "I may seek a proper prescription for Adderall since it helped me that one time I got a dosage from someone".
We should remember that even during the adjacent times (the Paleocene and Middle Eocene) temperatures were about 8C higher than they are now, and large mammals (some of the largest ever) evolved during those times.

The decrease in size probably had more to do with the chaos wrought by whatever unknown event caused the thermal maximum than with the temperature itself.

To make this all more relevant: I'm not saying that climate change won't be disruptive. It will. I'm just saying we can adapt and endure. And I think we should plan for that, because we clearly aren't going to stop it.
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Well, I dont agree with OP but i think you miss the mark. it's not deigning to provide an explanation that would be insulting, but the (apparent) promise of it being an accessible and intuitive explanation, and quite obviously not being one that OP considered insulting.
> We live in a global world where while laws haven't caught up, you can use your head and judge whether something is right or wrong.

The problem with that is that not everyone comes up with the same answer. Maybe most do in a majority of cases, but many times the answers diverge. Which is why we have to codify the expectations so even if you believe that action XYZ is OK, you are on notice that society has agreed and published that it's not (or vice versa).
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What is the difference between a disorder and a 'disorder' in that case? When is a disorder really a 'disorder'?

I tend to see classification and diagnosis as a pragmatic means to an end. The important part of defining a personality disorder or a mental disorder in general is to nail down a set of characteristics to effectively diagnose people that suffer from similar conditions and give them access to treatment and advice that may help them relieve the impairment and distress it's causing.

Classification on this level should be largely unconcerned with whether the disorder represents some sort of fundamental deficiency of the brain or some rare personality trait that only becomes a problem due to a failure of society and social expectations. Not because social change to accommodate atypical personalities isn't desirable, but because it doesn't immediately help the diagnosed cope with the conditions they have to deal with in the present.

Because of this, the disorder-'disorder' dichotomy seems wholly useless to me, at least without a clear definitional basis.
No, they're negative players manifesting in these ways. The good-player version of both are incredibly simple. Producing good content that uses easy-to-find terminology. Putting yourself on directories (e.g. yellow pages), working conferences, handing out business cards, working with trade press, etc.
You use "global_env" only inside luaopen_js(). Why don't you just add it as an argument, for example:

function luaopen_js(L, global) { ... }

instead of writing this ugly hack?
> does that take into account that the designs for nuclear reactors are optimised not for economic production of electricity, but for plutonium output for nuclear weapons programs?

I'm sure it doesn't, because it's patently false.
The case has been linked elsewhere in this thread. Ctrl F for BAILII to find it.
Evidence is in mathematics. Central control is always more efficient, because control overhead is constant everywhere but the central node, where it grows linearly, whereas in fully distributed system overhead grows exponentially at each node. That's why anywhere you have more than a dozen of humans or even computer systems talking together, a hierarchy develops. Note that even companies fiercely competing on the market are internally run top down. And "vertical integration", so hot a topic in business nowadays, is essentially a code word for "centrally planned economy".

Distributed systems have many interesting properties, like resilience / fault-tolerance and flexibility. But efficiency is not one of those properties, as evidenced by ridiculous amount of waste generated by the process of competition.

Note that I'm not arguing the soviets were right and the world should be run from Moscow. I do however believe that spectacular failure modes of centrally planned economies were caused mostly by slow, incomplete and unreliable feedback loops, and not because the idea is inherently bad (it works for businesses pretty well). Moreover, I hate this clueless criticizing I frequently see that "centralized = bad", "distributed = good". Truth is, "distributed = wasteful", "centralized = efficient", but sometimes it's worth to be inefficient to get the benefits distribution brings.
You are right but no need for a memory card. Hundreds of millions of Chinese tourists go aboard[1] every year. Most of them travel within Asia so most HN readers don't feel it. Let alone VPN that most educated people can use if they really want to.

[1]https://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/nielsenglobal/cn/docs/Ou...
>And don't give me the whole, "shouldn't be bombing in the first place" red herring.

Why is that a red herring? There's a perfectly reasonable argument to be made that America's activities on the Af-Pak border have been wholly counter-productive. A drone strike might kill a terrorist, but the collateral damage creates an immense amount of hatred towards the US. If drone strikes are creating more terrorists than they're killing (an entirely plausible hypothesis) then the answer is probably to stop drone strikes and try something else.

This isn't some wishy-washy liberal argument from a clueless civilian - Gen. McChrystal makes pretty much the same case against drone strikes.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-mcchrysta...
The problem is that "liveness" is one thing but "viability" is a statement about the future. The case that ultimately tipped Ireland over the edge was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar , in which the hospital deemed themselves unable to treat her septic miscarriage because the fetal heartbeat was still present - despite it being impossible for a viable delivery or c-section to be carried out. This resulted in the death of mother as well as the fetus.
Here (in the UK) food is generally zero-rated for VAT if you're cooking it yourself, but not if you're eating it at a restaurant or getting (hot) takeout.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-of-vat-on-different-goods-...
Last time I went at 11 on a weekday and the line was quite long. It moved quickly though.