skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watch them mostly for self-indulgent reasons, so I don't think a non-gamer would enjoy many. The main reasons are to preview a new game before buying, to relive a childhood game, see the end of games I remember not completing, or to watch someone go through a game I've finished and see how they react to various situations. Depending on the game and streamer this can be entertaining for different reasons, such as their personality or skill level.

On the last point a recent one I enjoyed was Joseph Anderson's Undertale blind playthrough. The game is notorious for throwing unexpected meta-narrative about games, gamers, and even stream viewers, and seeing a critic encounter that where he didn't expect it was entertaining. It also has a very difficult boss as "punishment" for certain choices you make on a typical third playthrough, and he definitely proved himself as a competent gamer when it only took him a few hours to beat that encounter. I could hear the change in tone as he got quiet and entered the zone and knew it wouldn't be long.

Like all Let's Plays though it is long and probably best viewed while you are doing something else.
People who want a predictable and monotonic time scale
Basically, everyone who has a clue about time standards uses TAI for internal representation in non-relativisitic applications.

In other news: most software is brain-dead and most software engineers lack basic education in pretty much everything other than composing tons of terminally boring code out of a few LEGO shapes provided by programming languages.
In general you can turn off every notification option companies give you, without fear, because they are more or less required by law to send you the "transactional" (useful confirmations and notifications) emails.

At least that's my understanding.
Comparing snapshots of organisms isn't that useful. C. Elegans is never going to turn into a conscious human being.
Wave+By+Casper+Memorial+Day+Savings
> That site is the reason I no longer maintain a regular profile, or attempt to garner karma.

https://twitter.com/AustinGWalters/status/104189476543920128...

Even posting has its risks
So you think it uses even fewer cycles then?
I had worked for a big bank doing financial modelling, reporting, random ad-hoc stuff for about 3.5 years before getting fairly bored. I quit and went to work for a small AI/ML* consulting firm whose biggest client turned out to be the same bank I used to work for.

Before I left, I gave my boss an opportunity to beat the new salary that was offered to me. He said he couldn't.

My annual pay was ~170k at the bank, but now they pay $2500 a DAY for me to be there, and, as a consultant, I work FAR less hard and far fewer hours (albeit in a completely different division). I've been here for 10 months now and it seems like it will continue indefinitely...

This article has strongly reminded me to start doing my own thing and charge even more.

*In reality, all I do is data engineering/munging because their data models and systems are so poor.
The best approximation of security in this space should be an open-implementation of an open-source protocol that can be easily audited.

As far as I know, the only app that fits this requirement with a minimum viable community such that it can be used day to day is Signal.
> A majority of playgrounds are “post and deck” systems with standard swings, slides, and monkey bars in one piece of equipment."

This is not true where I currently live. It's a recently new suburban area (less than 15 years old) in an Australian city with a great number of parks scattered through it. Nearly every park has a playground and they are all different and all very high quality. Indeed, I'm quite amazed at how much money has been spent installing playgrounds. There is a great variety of what is on offer - some have latticed rope climbing nets, some have climbing walls, some have flying foxes, plus many other very imaginative features. They all have soft surfaces under them to cushion falls and most have a shade cloth over them. I am frankly envious of what is on offer to children these days - it is vastly superior and more exciting than what I had as a child.

Trees and other outdoor features still exist that are 'undesigned' and can provide significant risk and thrill to the more adventurous child who climbs up and on them. But I applaud the increased safety built into the modern playground. To me it appears to have spurred innovation and imaginative design, not hampered it.
"Are you going to examine those? Most of those are the most free, most protective countries."

I could I suppose go over more of them. The point though, that I was making when I mentioned in exempting fictitious future governments, is that it can be used NOW by real governments. Sure there will be nations that don't abuse it indefinitely, but you can't ensure a governments intent 5 years from now let alone 50. There are plenty of cases I could see in some of those nations where it could be used against the people that may be less black and white, like organization efforts for the yellow vest protests being censored and removed or any peaceful protest that could get out of hand for that matter. Or maybe even Google and Facebook making anti-tech protests less visible because black bloc may show up.

"There have always been incredibly ignorant beliefs like flat Earth, anti-vaccine, etc. Usually it is isolated and the community -- the village -- keeps it in check and provides a pressure valve."

Well for one the idea of a "non geocentric universe" literally had a man burned at the stake for blasphemy, people were burned as witches, religious wars were all over the planet, so the problem isn't technology, it's humans. And I'd argue the only thing that has made us more tolerant is the freedom of information, the freedom of speech, and the exposure to ideas. Debate changes minds, telling them to stay hermits doesn't. Not only does it not change minds though, as others have pointed out, in this age, the intolerant will spread their message somehow some way.

I would also argue, that the bubble you are talking about doesn't have much to do with the ability to connect and instead has more to do with the way social media has designed their platforms. They are just like casinos. Just look at twitter. There is no down thumb, only likes and views. So you don't get the "oh you lose" social cue, you only get the flashy bling of increasing likes and views. In normal society you get a disgusted look or ridiculing laughs to tell you if you are saying something unacceptable in public. But that's not how "social" media works. And I think that specific point is what needs to be worked on. So I think we might have a common agreement in that at least. But I still think censoring is the wrong way to go. Just let the world see the true social acceptance score and I think you will see a lot of that isolation of bad ideas.
Yeah. Ditto. 49 myself. I enjoy coding as much as I did when I was 20. Do I need to be learning everyday? Yep. Same as back then. And I enjoy it just as much :)
No matter what you think you are selling, you are always selling the buyer's experience. And for some work, framed the right way, high prices improve the experience.
> an agenda to purge whole vaguely defined categories of content from the internet.

But that's not the agenda proposed at all. The agenda is to prevent violent extremism and terrorism promoting content from spreading on social media, not stopping war reporting.
‘No Clash’ of Civilizations: Xi Jinping
Case+Study:+How+Square+Automates+SDK+Generation
Imagine the next "favorite" presidential candidate that has $1.4 billion in corporate funding. But late in the game it seems like the people may actually vote for her opponent. What is this corporate money to do? Why, implicate her opponent's followers in some kind of "terrorist" act and get their forum taken down due to the "call" and "lessons learned from the tragedy"
It's already done. What makes you think it wasn't done?
It has nothing to do with my argument, there could be awareness, to the extents that Unix architects had seen it in the news, but still, it was not considered. I don't believe support of leap second was built into Unix and honored properly until 1990s, when NTP became prevalent.

Also, the fact that Unix time starts before leap seconds were introduced made timekeeping in TAI an even stronger point. And I'm waiting for some insights on why it's not being done.
Nasa Probe Spots Grave of Israeli Lunar Lander
Yeah, but you're not part of the US legal system, which OP was talking about.
It’s difficult to see how asking somebody who is beating the climate change drum to toe their own line is sending them on an ideological death march. The hypocrisy displayed when these folks run around in their private jets while screaming about ice caps and carbon is a textbook example of the “fine for me but not for thee” attitude of the elites that many plebes find insufferable.
...oh, and there's also the issue of time domains and time sources having different spectral shapes of their noise.
Why is that? People need to mow their lawns...
> then eventually realize the quality isn't up to par of what they're paying for

Will they?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/2...

> Nordstrom is selling “mud-stained” jeans to the tune of $425. They’re called the “Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans” and come with some sort of fake mud substance caked all over them. (It’s not clear what that substance is.) The knees, pockets and crotch of the jeans appear bear most of the faux brown muck.
Malaysian teen kills herself after polling Instagram followers
That's true. I never thought of it that way. I mean I hope the effort would evolve into something more sensible but you don't know with the willingness of brilliant people signing on to bad ideas.
Petition to Remake Game of Thrones Season 8
IRC is also terrible for conversations.
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Hopefully this should reduce the incidence of 50 Cent Army shills in the comments.
Could you elaborate on this a little? I'm aware of roaring bitmaps, but not understanding the problem and solution you are describing. Thanks!
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/11/cisco_sap_failures/
Because it's against the narrative. ISIS stuff was ignored because of "mah islamophobia", but can't ignore "evil white people" and we must call for global action.
Nested Tmux
I was using it in the sense of the parent comment, I.E. if you put $100 in a room unsupervised with a career thief it's "obvious" that he'll walk out with it. Another way of phrasing it would be, "anyone who isn't suspicious appears negligent."
I have to think a lot of kids died on playgrounds before the late 70s without that happening.

I'd guess that something changed at that time so the country was finally rich enough that this became a problem that got attention from The Powers That Be.
Cheers!

(Really, just a <noscript> saying "Hey, turn on JS for us." would be more than enough to make me happy, FWIW.)
We don't really source much except cheap labor from China. On the surface it seems like the Chinese make the bulk of the profit off something like an iPhone but really they make very little. In fact China knows this, which is why they've been tariffing iPhones even if they are "exported" from China back to China.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-makes-8-46-from-an-iphone...
Saving you a click: He charged $75/hr for a job that included a ton of waiting around and idling on-location at the client's office. :)
AI Challenges and Why Legal Is a Great Place to Kick-Start Great NLP
NYC is a variable bouquet of odors varying on the scale of “best thing you’d have ever smelled in life” to “omg did something die and crawl up my nose” all within the span of a single block. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Twitter is the human condition. Most people are going to be giving you noise on any given topic. Weight loss? Noise. Stock market? More noise.
Direct speech-to-speech translation with a sequence-to-sequence model
I truly was curious about your C/C++ code - good for you that it was less C++ and more C! I don't know any masochists, so I don't know anybody who likes to work in C++ (even with just composition and generics), or even any reluctant "expert". I get away from segfaults because I am on server & can get away by more static copying of data (it pales in comparision to what alternatives offer).

I can see why you think Rust is tractable; you have worked on fairly complex stuff like automobile base software (AutoSAR, was it?). I am probably not as good at it as you are, so the cognitive load of designing at that scale with borrow-checking seems prohibitive. I hope there is a way to slice the problem which makes for less cognitive load.
This isn't surprising, and it's not exactly the worst outcome, either.

We already knew Tesla's solar business was WAY down, even though they (well, Solar City) got incentives for the Buffalo plant. But, since Panasonic can export these cells, the plant is still fairly busy as promised, giving much of the employment benefit that the incentives were promising in spite of the Tesla solar slowdown.

That's not a suboptimal result, given the circumstances, IMHO.

{And on the other side, Tesla is also not forbidden from using other lithium or solar cells besides the Panasonic ones if it's more convenient for whatever reason (for instance, Tesla often uses non-Panasonic cells in storage applications), so neither party is locked in to a situation that would be detrimental just because the other party can't immediately deliver. That's also good.}

I don't understand those who think this is some scandal or funny. The incentives seem to be working (stimulating domestic manufacturing) as designed, even showing to be robust in the face of Tesla's solar downturn (temporary, we hope). What's the issue? Are we just all super jaded now?
Ted Cruz Thinks the U.S. Needs to Defend Against Space Pirates
What was the problem with battery swaps? I’ve always thought that that is about the only way to make EVs viable.
PEAR hasn't been distributed with PHP in well over a decade, and the last commit to the PEAR "modernization" project was in 2011.

PEAR is an abandoned tool used by no one. Arguing for it to be considered "the" package manager is a really weird fight to pick.
You lose arable land at the equator and gain it closer to the poles. Studies don’t generally see a large net decrease in arable land due to climate change.

Erosion is the bigger problem, 1/3rd of all arable land lost over the last 40 years. [1]

[1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/earth-has-lost-a-third-of-ar...
Maybe it's okay though? Is there real evidence to back up the sentiment that kids have less fun (or get less exercise, develop less physical skills, etc.) in modern "safe" playgrounds?
Agree, this didn’t stick. I changed it https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/9e4ecf5b...
Google seems to assume that AMD means "and." If you put AMD in quotes, the results relate to AMD, at least for me.
Maybe if you aren't such an asshole it wouldn't be an issue.
Bakkt Sets July Test Date for Bitcoin Futures
Self employment has much higher overhead. $50/hr is too low.

Estimates w/ disclaimers are good. Quotations are not. You're not laying tile.
Not to worry: looking at the abysmal democratic lineup right now it seems like the next president will be the same as the current one.
This is exactly how I feel about the myriad artists on Twitter and to some extent Tumblr if they use the one blog for art / comics and also have conversations on it.

Blogs aren't galleries or appropriate comic sites.
They're greedy enough to be defrauding people they're greedy enough to want to try to keep their shady business rolling.
That's how life works though. You can never eliminate all the risks.

So much is just out of your control, accidents happen - be it for kids or adults.

People are obviously not advocating for creating deadly play spaces for the future generation, but we did manage so far with the decent enough security standards.

Kids hurting themselves is normal, thats just part of learning their limits. I dont know how many times I fucked up and caused myself (non-critical) damage - did I do the same stupid mistake twice? nope. I could've died or seriously hurt myself a lot of times would I have just been unlucky, but I wasn't - cause there was a very slim chance anything bad could have even happened. Climbing trees? never slipped or jumped off a height that wasnt harmless. Cycling around? Never fell bad enough to do more than scrape my skin. And so many more instances of things going bad, but working out fine
When I changed ISPs I also changed my modem, which is in the closet in our master bedroom. It's brighter than a disco so I bought some light dimmer stickers. It's still too bright so once I remember where I put them, I'm going to add another layer. It's ridiculous. The only upside is that they are green instead of blue, thankfully.
Once upon a time, there was IRC for single-stream chats, and NNTP for threaded ones, and all was good. Twitter used to be one of the former, but then they noticed that users were using the "@name" convention to simulate replies, and started officially supporting it. Instead of a single conversation, or a tree of nested replies, they created some unholy thing partway between the two, that serves neither role well.
I remember waking up in boracay and Ubud to thousands of farm animals chattering (lots of chickens, cows, etc...). It’s kind of a surreal SE Asia experience.
Adam Frank's About Time is an excellent and non-technical intro to the subject which weaves together the cultural and economic changes in history which led us to the current standard model of physics.

Suffice it to say that, if we live in an 11-dimensional universe (as string theory requires), "all bets are off" as far as observing very much about the real nature of "reality."

If we don't live in a multidimensional universe, then physics has "a lot of 'splaining to do," as Ricky Ricardo put it, on the reasons behind the magic number constants (Are there 22 of them? This is not my field.) which make the standard model work out. I emphasize that this refers to the standard model of quantum physics and not some wild speculation.

TL;DR: We don't know where we live or how we got here and our current conceptions are almost guaranteed to change again.
I didn't say it was the only way of getting rid of extremism. I'd even argue that getting rid of extremism by installing a extremist regime makes as much sense as chopping a leg off because you want to get rid of a headache.

It is important to remember, that no nation no matter how great its tales of freedom or historic shame might be is immune against extremism.
Are they actually 'blue'? I ask because of your quotes.

I heard before that we perceive slightly yellow light as white (because of the sun) and these 'blue' lights are really pure white but our perception shifts it.
Charlottesville hoax has been debunked again and again, including by MSM outlets themselves. Read what he actually said: https://blog.dilbert.com/2019/04/30/the-fine-people-hoax-fun...
Please open source it! I'm sure people would be delighted to contribute once you do.
Yeah it's just a coincidence that Cisco can't seem to quit shipping hardcoded root backdoors to their routers...

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-a...
But for your example it isn't needed whatsoever. They do what they want without it. Denigrating a good initiative by association with a small number of suspect participants is not convincing.

"Or maybe even Google and Facebook making anti-tech protests less visible because black bloc may show up."

Google and Facebook can do anything and everything they want right now. And we know that they, among others, bring forward the most contentious and the most divisive because it draws engagement. We know that they immerse people in their own filter bubble where suddenly they live in a world where seemingly everyone is a flat Earther, or believes in Pizzagate, or whatever.

"so the problem isn't technology, it's humans"

This is specious. In a period of ignorance, ignorance reigned supreme (not to mention a theocracy, which is dangerously close to re-emerging in the US). We now, at least in some realms, have an ability to reason and to cite and use fact.
Who fucking cares? It's not like anything makes a difference.

That's the basic lesson to glean from Iraq.

Did you disagree with the Iraq invasion in 2003?

SO FUCKING WHAT. THEY DID IT ANYWAY.
Its interesting how many people mistake those for being the same. I grew up in a rural area and often at social events people will introduce me to their friends who grew up in small towns assuming we'd have a lot to talk about.

From many of these conversations over the years I don't think the experience growing up could have been more different.
New York becoming much safer is proof that San Francisco could do the same, but doesn't for whatever reason. There's practically no police presence in SF unlike NYC where you can barely go one block without seeing NYPD.
Is conflating them the wrong thing to do? Surely you're never working on just one in isolation?
Ask HN: End-to-end encryption – how do you know?
If something is open-source you can audit it (assuming you trust the official builds to be the same), maybe if it's a big enough company you trust that they don't want to risk being outed, but how to people really verify that end-to-end encryption is being done? Inspecting network traffic perhaps?
Are you similarly appalled at the number of people willing to accept the deaths of children, adults, even entire families in automobile accidents every year in the name of letting a majority have access to personal transportation? In both cases, there's a tradeoff to make. We want playgrounds/cars to be as safe as possible while still providing the benefits we take advantage of them for. We could slash automobile deaths by 99% by limiting the top speed to 5 mph, but how useful would that be?

Tradeoffs have to be negotiated by society. Accusing some of being "willing to accept the deaths of children" in that context is an abusive argument.
I wonder if they have an alternative to Android.
please don't compare selling a book with being a nazi.
Chang’e-4 may have discovered material from the Moon’s mantle
I feel the correct solution (given the current admin, and U politics in general) is just to stop allowing telcos to charge for receiving calls. Fundamentally for everything they say about robocalls, it's still profitable for a telco if you ever pick up.
That's why someone bought this domain [0] which redirects to a search excluding tweets [1] not authored by the people you follow. It's way sparser for me (I follow roughly 200 people) than the regular twitter feed so I also waste way less time whether procrastinating or looking for tweets by people I actually follow. I deleted "twitter.com" from my browser history and always start at realtwitter.com now.

[0] http://realtwitter.com

[1] https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=filter%3Afollows -filter%3Areplies&src=typd
The 1 in 3,500,000 rate is for years 1975 to 2015 and includes the 9/11 attack. Since 2001, the rate is about 6 deaths per year for a total of 100 over 17 years. This gives a post 2001 rate of less than one in 50 million.

See page 4 of the previously referenced document.