skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll respectfully agree with both of you.

For the past decade or so I've struggled immensely with finding meaning outside of religion. I've made progress, and I do believe it's possible.

But it's still an open question for me. Even now, a decade or so since losing my faith, I've not found a replacement that satisfies me. I feel I have the luxury to keep looking, but if I had kids or a significant other, I might consider some degree of religiosity again.

Having experimented with all sorts of 'surrogates' to the experience of being in a deeply religious community, I can conclude none of them so far make it work. For various reasons.

I'm not sure where that leaves me now. All I'm saying is that I've not found anything non-religious that comes close to what my religious community offered me. And progressive experience has only made me more pessimistic about this. Perhaps there are other things to focus on, or perhaps I've just not looked in the right places.

But it can be somewhat lonely to talk to people who have not shared my experience, because they just don't know what they're missing.

EDIT: I'm not saying people can't find meaning without religion. Rather, I've not met a single person who had a good, religious background who has not been left somewhat empty by the alternatives. It's mostly been those who were never religious, or who were semi-religious, who seemed to be okay with whatever alternative they found.
Remote Code Exec/Remote DOS in All Linux Kernels Before 5.08
> Once again embedded device security is a joke.

Have you seen the state of salaries in the firmware dev industry?

That pretty much explains why firmware security is such a mess. You pay peanuts you get peanuts.
I appreciate the kind words. I am incredibly passionate about this topic!
It's been incredibly in your face if you aren't a privileged white person since basically the dawn of the country, with a small period of kind-of-not-really-thoufh improvement around WWII. Workers rights have always been shat on, being poor sucks and keeps getting worse with every year that m4a isn't a thing, and being a visible minority obviously also sucks what with the whole police murdering you thing or ICE gestapo knocking on your door etc.

Frankly I hope they ramp it up, because maybe it'll at least open up peoples eyes to all the other insane sorts of injustices that go on.
> It's not clear by this comment if you live in Japan, but if you do, it's quite common to have a hanko even for foreign names (custom made, of course, ~￥1000+).

Nah, I live in Texas. I'm just a weeb.
That makes sense.

I wasn't attempting to compare these technologies at all. I was suggesting that when I look at a new technology, I like to think of what's there currently and then ask what this new stack brings that I can't already do with the existing stacks. Phoenix/Elixir seems like it permits solutions that might be 10x better than the existing solutions in that space. Agree 100% that this space I'm referring to is NOT Android. I was just attempting to explain how I make a decision to spend the time to understand a new stack and why I do or don't.

Am I totally off base stating that Phoenix/Elixir is used in the same places React is?

thoughbot wrote a piece about that:

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/how-we-replaced-react-with-phoen...

But, I'm curious why you think this is weird? Care to elaborate?
On a related note I let my young kid watch Wheel of Fortune and then we get hit with “tune in to news at 11 to find out how this girl got horrifically abducted and abused 10 times.”

I’m so accustomed to Netflix and it’s child controls that I totally forgot what legacy tv is like.
Pandora's box was opened with the public disclosure of Spectre and Meltdown. Security researchers will continue to find new and better ways of attacking the security boundaries in processors, and there's unlikely to be an end to this any time soon. Exciting time to be in security, not such an exciting time to be a potential victim.
I have thought that. (I even thought that it was against the HN guidelines to use downvotes to express disapproval, but deng corrected me.)

But now I'm not so sure. I see people being a jerk to others more often than I want to stop and explain that you're really not supposed to be a jerk here. I see people who certainly seem to be shilling for a viewpoint more often than I want to take the time to call it out. I see bad logic (and even what sure looks like bad faith) more often than I want to take the time to correct.

Do I just let it go each time unless I'm willing to invest the time to explain? I am no longer sure that's going to improve the site. I fear it would instead lead to more bad behavior, lower quality posts, flames, and so on. I fear it could damage the site.
To be fair, my favorite show growing up was Transformers. So technically even the show itself was a commercial.
My former company had a couple billion dollars in revenue and offered 30-35 hour work week option, the pay was proportional to the 40 hour option. So if your 40 hour salary was $100,000/year then your 35 hour salary would be 87,500/year. The same benefits.

A lot of people took that option, especially parents.

(it was actually 30-39 hour/week option)
I can tell you it does not adequately replace any such thing.

But more importantly, let's suppose it did. Knowing that nature often chooses the path of least resistance, what do you think would come of such a discovery?

1. A larger quantity of half-assed pseudosocial forum interactions replacing what was previously face to face interactions, because we can squish more people into ever more meager lives, netting a greater wealth inequality than ever before imagined, if more people lock themselves in their rooms and live at the edge of sanity, barking garbage text messages at each other over the internet.

2. An ambient increase rich lives that experience meaningful face to face socialization with healthy peers who genuinely enjoy each other's company.

From where I sit, the odds seem promising that there is only one thing coming our way.
Everything in the new Jurassic Park movies is mercedes. Even the weird sphere-car thing is made by mercedes.
There is also a prominently featured starbucks in the dinosaur park.

The movie is aware of how ridiculous is getting and a character says "Verizon Wireless presents The Indominus T-Rex!!!". I guess the writers took a jab at the producers and their deals.

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But the worst was in the recent Jim Jarmusch film, where Adam Driver says "You can order it and it will arrive with free 2 day shipping". In a Jim Jarmusch film, one of the most respected "underground" movie directors of our generation!!! But his movie was funded by amazon studios so.. no surprises there.

Someone should really make a "product placement in movies" hall of shame and get internet famous.
Office Air Quality. Why Is IT Important?
I have had the same experience.

Also, some relative gave us some kids' VHS tapes and I still had a player so I figured why not? Well, let me tell you why not: Nobody has time for rewinding to take place and the low-quality video and audio is quaint, but it's dead tech. The VCR and all the tapes got recycled shortly thereafter.
If somebody wants to work for me and really, honestly, cares if our tech stack is new and fancy (as opposed to practical/easy to maintain/easy to hire for), that is a HUGE red flag that they are going to leave after a few years or suggest major technology changes that are not in the best interest of the company.
There are 4 separate vulnerabilities in MDS, not just the one reported in the ZombieLoad paper. They each have CVEs.

Chrome Browser response here: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/mds
Sure. I've conceded that birth defects may have gone up. But I've shown that there's no evidence that it's related to radiation, which presumably was the point of your original reply. Birth defects going up because people drank more alcohol as the USSR failed (which is just as or more likely than because of Chernobyl) is irrelevant to this thread.
>diversity of scientific, not cultural views

Your cultural views can affect your scientific work. The imagination of children in America vs. China is different, people have different dreams and experiences, etc. I am constantly baffled by people like yourself who don't understand that cultural diversity IS diversity of ideas. Whether that culture comes from your location, race, upbringing, wealth, religion, or something else, any sort of diversity is good in business or other organization as it helps you think of new ways to innovate within your area of expertise.
Hyper-Threading has been a source of security concerns for a decade now, and vulnerabilities in existing HT implementations have been trickling out over the last few years. Unlike Management Engine or TrustZone, at least we can disable Hyper-Threading (for a 30% performance hit).
You stole my idea. :)

Anyway, maybe you should put interviews of people who made it successfully. Surely there are some people who work 20-30 hours per week in this world and make some good money.
Completely different datasets here. The research was self-reported data from surveys sent to Kickstarter "founders" across all categories. Y Combinator uses actual portfolio data for tech-based startups looking to create large-scale, $100M+ businesses. Success in the former is largely not going to predict success in the latter.
The Republicans came into power promising to push a tax break from the beginning of the campaign. It was a crucial part of the 2016 campaign and their promise to voters.

They aren’t going to sue AT&T over a non-legally binding statement in a speech nor would they have legal standing to do so even if they wanted.
Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place
The good news is that the fix appears to be one line of C, so backporting to older kernels should be as simple as these things ever are.
They are doing that at Sellafield in the UK. Which is in itself pretty ugly business.

EDIT: The business is ugly, not the fact that it is in the UK.
"Because one cat ain't enough and two is too low, it's me,
[U+1F63E POUTING CAT FACE][U+1F63E POUTING CAT FACE][U+1F63E POUTING CAT FACE]" [edited to replace contextually important emojis]

(Also, I don't think you can meaningfully claim it's properly called when both your HTML <title> and <h1> are both 'thangrycat', and the emoji themselves are relegated to the body text, as well as using the pronoun "this vulnerability" repeatedly to avoid having to put more kitties in your post)
I stopped opting out because I didn't see the point to continue. The opt-out moment is over. One could argue it contributed to getting rid of the more dangerous backscatter devices, but the millimeter waves remain. If it comes back for another reason I will rejoin for the duration. But I personally am not so shy that I care about a body scan. It seemed upon reflection that it was just vanity or resentment on my point to continue, and I was just inconveniencing myself.

If you have a counter-argument I'm all ears, but I just don't see the point for myself, here and now, to opt-out.
I think that would require at least an act of Congress, if not a constitutional amendment. It also would need a huge initial investment to succeed.
I've gotten freelance projects from small local businesses, but not for building the sites. After the sites are built, people need help solving the problems that come next.

As an example, almost every local doctor's office in my town wants online request forms that auto-populate their internal calendaring app. They all get emails coming in, and have manual processes to move the emailed data into another app. OK, I can help with that. Other times, they have functional web sites but want help with making them convert more business. So it gets into discussions about the design, the copy, calls to actions, etc. And sometimes, they simply don't understand what a web site can do for their business - they slap up a brochure and call it good, then wonder why it isn't helping their business.

So you end up being more of a business consultant to understand what they are trying to accomplish, and then applying technology to make it happen.
Ublock origin, Netflix, Spotify, and ditching mobile apps for social media will cut out a huge percentage of adds for most people.

Admittedly I haven't found a way around billboards, adds playing on gas pumps (though I try to avoid those gas stations), playing in stores, or the occasional sponsored link on some sites I visit, but compared to old TV or radio these are fairly painless.
Thank you for this response, it's extremely illuminating and exactly what I was hoping for. I'm now going to spend some time playing with it; I feel the exact same way about the rough edges of Go but until now didn't have a way to put it into words.

Thanks for making this project.
Because they're (neuro)typically annoying. :P

Practically speaking any disorder that impairs executive functioning and uses Schedule II drugs in treatment is going to be over diagnosed because of malingering by people who want the drugs and under diagnosed in the population of individuals with the disorder because of impaired executive functioning and self awareness.
At the risk of being pedantic- did you by chance mean "unsubstantiated"? :-)

unsubstantiated (adj)- not supported or proven by evidence.

unsubstantial (adj)- lacking material substance
California has required a thumb print for a drivers license since 1982.
It's everywhere. Avengers Endgame made sure the Audi logo was filling a nice portion of the screen the two or three times Audis (the only cars in the whole movie) rolled up somewhere.
Roosevelt personally? No. America as a whole? Yes, comparisons can absolutely be made between America's and Hitler's genocidal philosophies, as the former influenced the latter[1].

1. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-r...
A hugely positive statistic. Next, calculate the savings to parents, in advertised toys that haven't been bought.
You are from Vietnam reading about Napalm used in Iraq. Looks like Napalm usage was even worse during the Vietnam war.

[1] 388,000 tons of napalm was dropped in Vietnam during 1963 -1973 period
Source - https://thevietnamwar.info/napalm-vietnam-war/

[2]..... use against civilian populations was banned by the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) in 1980........ Approximately 25 years after the General Assembly adopted it, the United States signed it on January 21, 2009, President Barack Obama's first full day in office. Its ratification, however, is subject to a reservation that says that the treaty can be ignored if it would save civilian lives.

Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm#International_law
I think the "crazy idea" also stems from the PRC regulating price increases. From a consumer viewpoint, it makes sense to regulate prices, but - again - from a consumer viewpoint, I'll agree that the USPS delivers a service for a VERY competitive price. And contrary to joering2's comment, they do an amazing job at it (considering the sheer volume).
I feel like that would work out poorly for Disney. I also think that, despite the importance of art, life would go on much the same. This isn't exactly a hill I want to die on, but I'm not terribly worried about any one entity buying up the worlds' movies (or other artwork) and restricting it from people any more than it's already restricted.

People would (and will) make new movies, new art. I have a hard time seeing the justification for an overarching central control (if there even is one) policing who can own what and how much.
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I also will expand on this.

Quantum field theory is very difficult and we can't solve many problems. We can solve one in particular, free particles that do not interact. (By the way, this is like solving a simple harmonic osciallator.) Feynman diagrams use the solution to free particles as a basis - these are the lines in the diagram, like particles moving in time. Then, we add the interactions between the particles as a pertabative exapansion. This is what the parent comment refers to as the power series expansion. It is expanding in the powers of the interaction terms.

As mentioned in the video, it is not quite as simple as this however. If you do this, you will get infinity as a result of the calculation. That is not a very good perterbation theory. However the real discovery of physcists from this time was renormalization. They found out you can sum many contributions from different terms in the exapansion, corresponding to different indiviaul feynmann diagrams, and you can make these infinities cancel out. What is magic is that when this process is done you can write an effective theory for the interactions that looks exactly like the original theory you started with, and only the values of the coeffiecients are changed a little.

The magic involved here could be explained more, but in summary what it means is that the perterbation calculation you do is valid even thought it looks like it should be infinite. It also lets you make the simple analogy that the lines in the diagram are real and virtual particles rather than just the non-interacting approximation you starter with.
What's your take on Ink [0]? It seems to be solving the same class of problems as your specific needs for Twine. Would it work better or worse for you?

[0] https://github.com/inkle/ink
That's a great idea, thanks! :)
As someone approaching middles ages with a family to take care of, this is something I really appreciate and have bookmarked. I hope it takes off and does well.
The blog post is buried a bit deep, but has the actual technical information on the topic

https://www.cyberus-technology.de/posts/2019-05-14-zombieloa...
Is each individual catalog not cheaper than some massive catalog subscription? Or do you think that it is somehow possible to offer all of their content for $10/mn?
> It is stuff that our grandchildren will be proud of.

The French can be proud today, consuming electricity with 1/6 of the carbon footprint per kWh, compared to electricity in Germany. And paying half the price, too, compared to what electricity costs in Germany.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136192091...
The border wall obsession on one side and Trump investigation obsession on the other have replaced any possibility of focusing on infrastructure.
This is in no way an endorsement of doing without thinking, which will catch up with you and result in you being forced to skip options.
At least I hope it isn't.

There's a clear spectrum between recklessness on one end, indecision and inaction on the other and doing right things right in the middle, spontaneously or in a planned way.

Relevancy is key, nobody remembers things that are irrelevant by definition as a regret... Cost is a kind of relevancy.

Going back to the article, you almost completely lost contact with the original problem once you're past third or rarely fourth order thinking because you will lack enough particular data to decide on any measure of success, with exception of particularly structured recursive problems.
Welcome to decision variant of Goedel's second. Decisions and axioms (data points) are countable.
And I would say that those of us who are equally well informed and still opposed (ie: Arnie Gunderson) also have more work to do to get the truth out there. It's good to live in a place where we have that option.

The fact is that the nuclear industry is dying out all over the world. It's not a fact they want to admit, but still a fact, regardless.

Accidents of the Fukushima level are only ok if they don't affect where you live. Fear of such an event is not irrational, with most of today's plants approaching or exceeding their design lifespans.
YES. Oh man it was terrible.
It's interesting to me that you would stay up until 1 am as a grade schooler. That is quite late
Note that 460 Wh/kg is the density of the electrode, not the cell as a whole which given the aqueous electrolyte would be less but still higher than existing technologies.

However, the key point is not just the density, but the density combined with the materials used, and (perhaps most importantly) safety.

I think it's worth comparing to LiFePO4 as a baseline. It has the lowest density of common li-ion batteries (110Wh/kg), but it is very safe as it does not have the likelihood of thermal runaway. Other battery types have higher densities, like li-poly and other li-ions, but they can have thermal runaway if damaged or overcharged requiring battery management systems to prevent fire. (With LiFePO4, you also need a BMS, but mainly to prevent permanent damage to the battery to protect your investment, rather than fire.)

From my understanding, if this can be commercially viable (as it should be with the lower material cost), this will achieve high density, low cost, and thermal safety, which puts it in a league of its own.
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> You're casting an over-broad definition of Memetics.

I am, or the author of the wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics) where I quoted that definition from?

> Long before Dawkins, we had things like "archetypes" in Jungian psychology, "gestalts" in gestalt psychology, "signs" in semiotics.

>> Archetypes were a concept introduced by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, who believed that archetypes were models of people, behaviors, or personalities. Archetypes, he suggested, were inborn tendencies that play a role in influencing human behavior.

>> Gestalt psychology is an attempt to understand the laws behind the ability to acquire and maintain meaningful perceptions in an apparently chaotic world. The central principle of gestalt psychology is that the mind forms a global whole with self-organizing tendencies through the law of prägnanz. This principle maintains that when the human mind (perceptual system) forms a percept or "gestalt", the whole has a reality of its own, independent of the parts.

>> In semiotics, a sign is anything that communicates a meaning that is not the sign itself to the interpreter of the sign. The meaning can be intentional such as a word uttered with a specific meaning, or unintentional, such as a symptom being a sign of a particular medical condition. Signs can communicate through any of the senses, visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or taste.

Regardless, refer to this phenomenon using whatever words you'd like. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

> They've had about as much genuine scholarly impact as Deepak Chopra!

I don't disagree with your assertion that ~"multiple people have recognized and described this phenomenon within human psychology and assigned it a variety of labels", or that there has so far been little noteworthy impact. My interest is about the potential of this knowledge.

I initially wrote:

"I believe memetics is one of the most impactful but underappreciated ideas out there today, and plausibly explains the bizarre polarization of opinions on a wide variety of hot button current topics. Everyone perceives that their opinion/knowledge is based on facts, but very few are even slightly aware that their knowledge is actually based on a hodge podge of memes, each with varying levels of truthiness."

If I had more accurately described my beliefs like so:

"I believe memetics is one of the most important but underappreciated ideas out there today, and plausibly explains the bizarre polarization of opinions on a wide variety of hot button current topics. Everyone perceives that their opinion/knowledge is based on facts, but very few are even slightly aware that their knowledge is actually based on a hodge podge of memes, each with varying levels of truthiness. If we could somehow manage to get a significant portion of the population to truly realize that much of what they believe, what they consider to be fact, their mental model of reality, is largely made up of meaningfully incorrect approximations, the impact on the world could be substantial."

....would you still disagree?

If so, could you note which specific parts of my words you disagree with?