skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If there are no credible sources

To me the answer lies in having access to a large variety of sources. The probability of false information goes down as decentralization of information goes up. For example, if you watch 10 people doing a live streaming event of a demonstration, you are probably going to have a better understanding of the event than from a single reporter on a major TV channel.

Of course, this means you can't fact-check everything because it would be way too much time consuming. So personally I live largely by ignoring the mass media and admit that I dont really know what is going on in most places besides very basic piece of news, and I certainly dont have enough information to have an opinion either.
You could even make intelligible speech to text by toggling the one bit speaker at the right frequency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Automatic_Mouth

And I found a web version that sounds just like it.

https://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=sam
Voters have already voted, so what's the point of an article urging people to not believe the Brexiters?
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And how great the effect is. If you recruited only 5 healthy humans at random and administered a new drug and 100% of them died instantly, you can probably make some useful predictions.
Not individual ones, at least not exactly. That's where self-regulation comes into play.
The efficiency of converting plant based protein into animal protein to feed that to humans is very low [1]. A huge portion of the crops are actually used to feed cattle. If humans stopped eating meat tomorrow, we would have plenty of food (we'd better start eating a lot more soy, though)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/1...
> the corporations that created and caused it get a 'get out of jail free' card

Not necessarily. It could make it easier for them to be outcompeted by competitors that don't rely as heavily on petroleum usage
I think there's a bias among the academically superlative to think failures of planning can be solved with better planning.

Maybe humility and pragmatism (as opposed to idealism) aren't easy to learn on the way to an elite education.
It didn’t? I never had a real clock card for my Apple //e, but I had a simulated one with my Apple//e card in my LCII. I never knew the real ones didn’t work with ProDOS.
Clickbait title: the only lesson I can see presented here is that if you build infrastructure and a dictatorship takes over, you save them some effort.

There isn't even an account of how the nazis used the system in a new way, and certainly not even a hint of a case that unregulated radio would have weakened the nazis.
When an airline creates carbon emissions, they're doing it because the passengers want to go somewhere. When a car maker creates carbon emissions, they're doing it because people are buying cars.

It seems eminently reasonable that end consumers will and should end up paying.

If you impose a carbon tax, utilities that today create electricity from fossil fuels will have additional incentives that end customers feel to switch to non-carbon sources. It will also provide some small amount of back-pressure against the "no nukes" and "herp, derp, no cancer-causing windmills"
I think you should, instead, listen to what the students are actually trying to say rather than react superficially on the fact that they label themselves as "communist."

When a government, regardless of political orientation, "disappears people" that's a sign that something is rotten to the core.
I'm just one data point, but this group I'm thinking of uses a LOT of CTEs. Perhaps too many - they seem to always have a bunch in their saved queries, personal notepad, etc and would probably benefit from being allowed to create views so that they'd have smaller queries with fewer WITH clauses.

Seeing things like the above or spreadsheet power users really makes me think that "everyone should learn to code" education / literacy initiatives could be a very good idea if done properly.
Trading in general is beneficial for both parties. What doomsday scenario are you actually referring to?
I mean of course. But that’s true of all corporations.

If you conduct the business in a businesslike manner and keep proper separation of personal issues, and keep required records to document its corporate actions then you have the law’s liability protection.

That’s also true for a 2 or 200 member LLC.
You're wrong, just search for ESTEID in the logs.
or you can think, at least some parts of the culture are moving in the right direction--even if we're not where we should be.
> it's practically immoral to eat in a way that wouldn't be sustainable if everyone else did.

Why would that be immoral if you have negligible negative impact? It would only be a problem if everybody else will begin doing it. Which does not happen. Having children, hunting in the woods, owning a big house. Eating meat. Not being a universal example for every person is not immoral. People have different needs, and one person has more impact on the environment than other (but usually still negligible). If you want to limit yourself in this particular way, fine, but this isn't particularly moral thing to do. It is more of a feel-good thing to do.
No I haven't, but someone else has submitted a few certificates of other people. Search for ESTEID in the logs.
One thing institutions had going for them is that they were large buildings with many employees, and thus had political weight.

Spending the same money on community care might be more efficient, but doesn't have this weight. So if you trim the budget 20% this year in some crisis, 20% another year, you never have to officially claim to be giving up. Which if I understand right is basically what happened.

I don't claim that proponents of deinstitutionalization had this in mind, I think they were well-intentioned. But it does seem like a factor worth bearing in mind. It's a bit like the trams vs busses debate -- the more flexible system is vulnerable to getting squeezed, the less flexible one is more permanent.
Was the Apple really cheap in 1981 compared to its contemporaries? By 1985 it was the most expensive 8 bit computer being sold if I remember correctly. I had a //e.
Relevant: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20101214. Code: https://github.com/apenwarr/redo. It's excellent!
Having the intention to harm US companies and while implementing it actually benefiting them is not mutually exclusive.

Political motivations will be complex for anything with as wide impact and as complex as GDPR.

The perception that the US tech companies should be affected the most was certainly factored in during the political process involving thousands of people. It's debatable how small or great impact this had, not whether there was any.
I think everybody knows what's going on.
Thank you very much, i always wanted to try this :-)
probably lots of reasons, but I can certainly see someone who's used to having anything they want at any time also wanting to be put to sleep (pardon the term) whenever they want as well. if all of your life is 'on demand', why wouldn't sleep be as well?
You should really actually learn how monetary economics work. Its 100% incorrect to claim that every newly created $ is stealing somebodies work.
Not exactly. The problem is that different models are tuned for different use cases. So I'd expect something like this:

$ pip install pymodel-ResNet-1337

#! /usr/bin/env python3
import ai
model = ai.loadModel("ResNet-1337",input=ai.input.Image,output=ai.output.Category)
model.guess(open('myimage.png'))

Problems abound, for example, how would you resample/rescale the image.

I'd want, to start, a standard model format that can be serialized/deserialized into any language that can be (for example) pip installed and loaded. People seem to use HD5 but I don't think there is any sort of "standard".

So I'd expect the first incarnations of this idea to look like this:

$ pip install tfmodel-ResNet-1377

or

$ pip install kerasmodel-ResNet-1337

With some hooks for loading models:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# whereas before you'd build a network, train it, and then use it, here you get the whole shebang in one go
model = keras.loadInstalledModel("ResNet-1337")

Rest of it is up to the user, as usual
Corporations don't exist in a vacuum. Consumers have also benefited short-term from environmental costs being ignored.

Either way, I care much more about fixing the problem than assigning blame.
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> You can also choose apps from orgs that care more about privacy. Signal works just fine instead of Whatsapp.

Network effects means that despite me being on iMessage and Signal, almost all my comms arrive on Whatsapp. I could remove myself from Whatsapp, but already abstaining from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn means my choices realistically are to either use IM platform as a selection criteria for my friends (which I've already done to a degree, and lost a lot of casual friends by not being on any of the above), or accept that there's no suitable alternative and give in to this particular beast.
It's not invisible. We know. But we don't feel a sufficient motivation to do something about it.
> There aren't even purely software kernel-level mitiations.

Some are there, otherwise they couldn't be disabled in Linux kernel for faster performance. Which means that they could be enabled on demand.
> P.S. https://make-linux-fast-again.com/

I like this website because, like its namesake, it promotes a simplistic solution to a symptom of an underlying problem, as if the symptom were itself the problem, in a manner that appeals to those who believe that a just world only has simple problems with simple solutions, and with no discussion of unintended consequences and serious security risks and no consideration of why those who have actually studied the problem in depth advocate different, more complicated solutions.
Despite what our parents may have told us growing up, it does matter who starts things. If we had banned HW, and China responded by requiring joint ventures for all market entrants, that would be our bad. But the opposite is the case.
This is true, but it significantly reduces usability. Which feels like a hilarious step to take in order to be able to use this app. Give up peoples names in a major IM application, in order to be able to have publicly available pictures automatically imported into my address book.

For me, that's not a net positive. YMMV.
“Speculative” does not mean this isn’t a vulnerability. It is describing execution that happens when the CPU guesses which code will execute after a condition. There is a vulnerability with speculative execution, not a speculative vulnerability with execution.
There is not enough land to produce equal amount of meat at the same price point. There is plenty land to produce enough more expensive meat. Which also reduces meat consumption. It’s a win all around.
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The article mentions the students using GitHub to evade censorship. I think that might refer to https://terminus2049.github.io/

Terminus 端点星计划，是在 GitHub 开放平台搭建的一个站点，以去中心化的方式备份微信、微博等平台被删文章。

Terminus is a site set up on GitHub's open platform to back up posts deleted from WeChat, Weibo and other platforms by means of decentralization.
I must admit I had skimmed the article a bit, and on second reading it seems to talk more about some vague kind of information flow.

I think that is just - vague. It's not even a concrete threat that can be discussed. What exactly is the point? There will be no information flow after the EU? Same argument as before applies: countries have exchanged information for Millenia before the EU. And if they mean "knowledge workers" - highly skilled workers are usually welcome as migrants, aren't they?

As for building "moats" and "walls", I think that is very propagandistic language. Just because you have a moat, doesn't mean people can't come to you. It just means you can decide who is allowed to come and go. These walls and moats have doors and bridges. Just like everybody's home.

As a European, I don't feel particularly connected to other EU countries, by the way. I have no regular exchange with Greek or Italian people.

The EU has made some web sites inaccessible to me, so at the moment it is rather the opposite of "connected". Usually, people communicate freely on the internet, independent of trade agreements. Unless they are stuck in socialist countries like China - and where would I go if Europe would turn into one? I prefer having some smaller countries to fall back on in case of emergency.
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Corporations don't burn coal for fun, they satisfy demand created by people like you and me while trying to maximize profits. Without a carbon tax, corporations that manage to successfully externalize that cost have a huge competitive advantage.
Some are there, yes, but they're insufficient to provide security. You need both them, and the microcode changes, and to disable HT. I'm not sure what if anything the software changes do alone, they may mitigate some of the attacks, but not all of them.
It's in all states. It just becomes more noticable in times of stress ( economic, military, societal ).

Go read about the mccarthy era, the red scare before that or the yellow peril before that. Or go read about how how china and the chinese were viewed pre-1970 to how the media changed perceptions during the 1970s with deng's visit, etc as they prepared to open trade relations. Read about how chinatowns historically were stereotyped as the worst kind of ghetto with drugs, crime, etc by the media for much of history. During the 1970s, the media turned chinatown from a ghetto to a hip ethnic enclave.

The same thing with the natives, blacks, mexicans, japanese, germans, russians, chinese, italians, catholics, irish, jews, etc in the US. There were periods where they were demonized and then some switched got flipped and the media softened or completely reversed their stance. Why and at whose request, who knows.

Go look at sino-soviet relations. They are "best buds" and their respective media praised each other. Things go sour and the media pushes anti-sino and anti-russo rhetoric. Same thing with sino-american relations. The interests of the ruling class determine what perceptions the media creates.

Remember when Bush looked into putin's eye and saw a good man? The media was praising putin for stabilizing russia and improving living conditions? It was only 15 years ago, but in media terms, it feels like a lifetime ago. How things quickly change.
To be fair a million people is 0.07% of China's population.

0.7% of the US is in prison, so that would be about 1/10th of the prison population.

I'm not saying US prisons are the same - you get a vaguely proper legal process, and conditions are probably better. You're not likely to have your organs havested. But "a million people" isn't the problem.
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This. Our culture says that if you don’t work you’re a drag on society and frowned upon. If you don’t work you don’t deserve insurance. If you don’t have insurance you don’t deserve to be healthy. Certain politicians would get rid of Medicaid and Medicare in a heartbeat if they could.

It’s truly disgusting.
Can you share videos that prove all this stuff? The more people shown in the re education camps, the better. Seriously, please post 10-20 links to videos so we can share them!

Reports are going to have people claiming one thing and others denying that thing. This is a really serious human rights concern involving MILLIONS of people. It has been going on starting with Falun Gong since 2000 or earlier, then Uyghurs, Tibetans etc. It’s the word of the Chinese government vs all those groups. So it’s pretty clear this stuff is happening, but only because so many disparate groups are claiming this.

But there is nothing like VIDEO to make clear what exactly is happening. We need to have these videos in order to share them. Same as Tienemen Square videos.
os.path.realpath(__file__)

That will give you the absolute path of the current python script, dereferencing any symlink and the .. notation.
We need to just introduce that damn tax already. We should have introduced it thirty years ago after the Rio summit! The longer we wait the harder the transition will become.
Nazi Germany didn't have the good sense to satisfy consumerist lifestyles with cheap tat.
Disabling HT can't be done per-process. Since per-frame browser processes need to be protected from one another, you can't even run two browser processes on the same core in HT. And scheduling a browser process while leaving the second HT slot on the same core empty is even slower than turning HT off.
NASA just constantly boxes itself into corners like these, going with the “least worst” option.

Here’s an interesting article talking about how they came to the conclusion that the RS-25 was the only way to go;

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/01/nasa-defends-restart...
You do realize the ability of the representative to override the majority vote in a republic was by design as the founders (read Madison's Federalist No. 10) did not trust the general public to make good choices (democracy).

You can conflate the ideas all you want. Does not change the fact the US is a republic. Your example proved it.
Confluence is pretty popular, especially if you are already using Jira.
A million people is enough to be concerned about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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Browsers rely on kernel/hardware mitigations. Google people even claimed it's impossible to fully mitigate those vulnerabilities in existing Javascript implementation in Chrome.
Indeed. We can’t openly talk shit about our trading partners, lest act against their will. It’s just not good business, ethics be damned.
Haha I'm not surprised that you've ventured down there.

Did you go the same way as in the article or via another entrance?
I think Greta, along with David Attenborough (and the programmes he voices) and Extinction Rebellion have really put climate change back in the news in the UK.

Extinction Rebellion ran some of the most effective (or disruptive) protests seen in recent years, all without getting violent. Building a skatepark on a London bridge, dropping a yacht at a busy junction, gluing protesters to stuff. All new, all guaranteed to annoy the climate change denying right.

Greta's speech to the EU parliament really impressed me. Seeing the deniers personal attacks on her made me sure she is making a difference.
It will also be insecure due to a race condition.
Does Nim's compiler still crash all the time?

Also why is evey immature native language considered, but the two speed demon languages without garbage collection - ISPC and C++ - are nowhere to be found?
A good essay.

Something it didn't seem to mention (or maybe it danced around it) is that one reason Hitler flew around in planes so much was he was completely banned from the airwaves by state censorship. Obviously that didn't stop his rise, which should (but won't) give pause for thought to those supporting deplatforming, hate speech laws and other modernised forms of censorship.

I suspect the reason such censorship isn't effective is that by blocking a viewpoint from being heard you are implicitly agreeing that it must be correct. The logic is that if people heard this argument they would start to agree with it i.e. because it's right. That's why we need to work so hard to stop it being heard at all. So to anyone on the fence who doesn't have a clear opinion yet, the censorship sends a strong message that the victims of it are winning the argument, without giving anyone the chance to truly make their own judgement about that argument.
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During the rise of Nazi Germany antisemitism was a worldwide phenomenon. Recall that few countries wanted to take in the Jewish refugees. Had Germany not started the war, they might have gotten away with exterminating all the Jews.
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In 1977 the drive on my Tandy provided expensive brick was a tape drive but in 1979 I built a LNW System Expansion which added a floppy controller and TRSDOS became what transformed my expensive brick into something capable of copying a file from one of my newly acquired drives to another.

I sometimes become nostalgic regarding my TRS-80 Model I but it never involves TRSDOS. TRSDOS was a steaming pile. There were other operating systems available for the TRS-80 but they added features or fixed bugs. They maintained compatibility with TRSDOS as far as file naming went.

But my comment really wasn't a criticism of the choices made regarding naming then but more about the scope of issues that would be faced in naming conflicts between a hypothetical Windows based upon the TRSDOS conventions and unix systems today. It would make the "\" vs "/" issues seem like a walk in the park.
If we're using that logic then there are also 9 Merlin engines on each Falcon 9 and 3 RS-25's on each shuttle.
I guess it's not very safe to show up at a camp with a camera, looking like a journalist from outside China.
The case for free speech preventing nasty dictators is an empirical one - America has the strictest free speech laws and has never been taken over by a dictatorship, Germany and other places had very weak free speech laws and was taken over repeatedly.

Also, dictators are always very keen on censorship. To what extent it really helps them is a matter of debate; probably it depends a lot on how effective the censorship is for any given topic.
I'm not surprised or even judgemental about it - given a choice between respecting foreign-imposed IP law and the prosperity of your own people, who wouldn't choose the latter? Especially after such wonderful things as the opium wars.

What I am surprised by is how long the US ignored the threat of moving production and knowledge to China, under the dogma of free trade.
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Many big A Agile process depend on reducing communication overhead by collocation of people.
Cattle doesn’t convert plant based protein into animal protein. Also cattle eats crop that humans can’t eat and which grows in significantly more tough conditions than those required for crops used as feed.

Eating lots of soy is not healthy.

It’s a very weird and unconvincing argument on your part, to suggest humans should just start eating crops fed to cattle and that would somehow work in terms of sufficiently healthy and available nutrition as well as being net positive on climate change.

Cattle eats grass which grows everywhere in the world and cattle produces vastly healthier and nutritious profile of fat, protein, vitamins and other essential nutrients than what you could achieve by growing human edible crops for similar price. Sure you can achieve good nutrition with other expensive vegetables but that’s not what will happen if humans stop eating cattle. Let’s be realistic.
If nobody in the field thinks it's scandalous that the VEP is a joke, then the field is corrupt.
It uses your movement and location to determine what noise-cancelling mode to put the headphones in. It is awful at picking though, not worth the privacy implications or battery life drain.
On the other hand, being childless < 50 sounds amazing.

Source: not childless, am < 50
If I ever get to ask Elon an ama question it’d be this; in the beginning the Merlin was ablative chamber and nozzle, I thought SpaceX was going the sea dragon/big dumb booster route. Contrast with today inparticularly the raptor, they’re pushing the state of the art. Why the change?
Sort of like conservatives on social media in America.