skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parents can probably help here. School is unlikely to punish the bullied for self-defense if a parent threatens a VERY PUBLIC VERY EXPENSIVE LAWSUIT for his kid being punished for self-defense. Actual lawsuit not needed, the treat will likely be enough.

If our legal system provides for self-defense, schools should fall in line.

Yes, I know that enforcing this and finding out who hit whom first is hard, well, nobody said law (or rule) enforcement is easy!
Attacks that allow retrieving all Hardware Security Module secrets remotely
Such as Tetrinet [1] which was novel for its time, being a multiplayer game. Oh, wait. (It even worked in Wine and there was a Gtk Linux port of it called gtetrinet.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TetriNET
At least they can’t synthesise the voice automatically. But pair this with Lyrebird.ai and you can basically just stop trusting all video right now.
If you redefine "Reason" with a narrow enough definition, you can make that only humans satisfy the definition.

Can a submarine swim? https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/edsger_dijkstra_201166
Somewhat fitting, because Plato presented the Cave Allegory specifically to illustrate "the effect of education and the lack of it on our nature".

However, the Allegory was about how our senses and perceptions limit our full understanding of the world, not the fact that things we see on a television or stage are not real.

The former is a philosophical concept, the latter is just good advice.
You can choose from a wide variety of addons that do exactly that or something similar.
It sounds like you're talking about American cyclists. In Amsterdam (and maybe Copenhagen) cyclists are dominant over cars. But it would be pretty rude to ride in the car lane for any distance when a bike lane is available.
I think the (or at least an) underlying issue is the conflation of arguments with their respective fallacies. Saying "98% of climate scientists agree that AGW is happening" IS an argument from authority, but it's not an argument-from-authority fallacy, because they are in fact authorities and we should listen to them. It's only argument-from-authority if there isn't sufficient evidence that this authority is most likely correct on this count.

Just like pointing out a slippery slope may be entirely correct; it's only a slippery-slope fallacy if there's no evidence that the slope is, in fact, slippery.
It's only a matter of scale, in example to emphasis that the impact is not necessarily trivial as suggested.
That would add an interesting spin upon multiverses. Without a doubt, black holes and understanding them are very much key to many unanswered and unknown questions.
<3 IRC, contemplating Discord
The Internet hasn't built any communities. It's provided a fertile environment for people to create and grow them.

HTTP hasn't built any web services, people do that. Of course it true it sure does seem to have be conducive to allowing them to flourish, but having good soil, and having a skilled gardener growing something in it are distinct things.

Yes, countless communities have grown organically without someone explicitly planning, defining objectives, and thinking of these communities as important pieces of some business strategy.

Indeed, it didn't happen at all in the early days, and happens more and more now as it's become more obvious how much influence it can have on the success of certain businesses.

Your comment is a bit cynical. Thinking about a community as part of a business plan does not automatically mean exploiting people as sales targets, being at odds with respect for privacy, or other nefarious things than sometimes happen.

In fact it can be just as important to leverage the power of a strong community for a non-profit with altruistic goals. It's just a powerful new dynamic that has to be reckoned with like any other new phenomenon in tech and can be used for good or evil depending on what you stand for, just like most new innovations, or in this case an emergent social construct property of the Internet.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/modules
Developed and developing are also terms that are arbitrary. Human Development Indices of some countries that are considered developing today exceed those of developed countries when these terms were first used.

In common use it implies a strict hierarchy in rather simplistic terms.
It's a good point, and one of my bugbears of getting on a crowded rush hour Sydney bus or train. Geez the amount of sneezing. That said Sydney generally has journeys that are way to expensive by car (you need to park) so public transport is the only option and conversely journeys that are epic by public transport but quite quick by car. There rarely feels like there is a "hmm what do I fancy today" kind of choice.
Nothing. You save yourself the hassle of going to a bank. But you can open accounts with most banks online now. I think this was part of a larger streamlining of the JP Morgan Chase Brand.
Google makes Remote Desktop access much easier
I don't know if I understand your first sentence very clearly, but yes I agree. I made a comment on reddit yesterday regarding a very similar topic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/bxat83/people_wh...
This is only true for games using Steamworks DRM (which, granted, is most modern games). Other games you can just run them from their folder.
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Replied to a similar sentiment on reddit yesterday. Might be worth a read.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/bxat83/people_wh...
I worked on a markdown flash card app briefly because so many accounting terms referenced other terms in their definitions. By linking flash cards together I could quickly jump between flashcards to review unfamiliar terms.

Rather than wikipedia where everything about a subject is recorded, flash cards were meant to be a distilled set of facts for a single term from a single course or textbook you were studying.

I overhauled my models when I realized that the same field or subject (which I organized into Decks) used the same term in two different contexts to mean different things. That also meant I could not reference cards simply by name in the markdown. So I updated all links to reference by id rather than name. So I had to build some UI to select cards by name and generate links.

Then I hit a wall when I realized I would need a good way to encode and render math formulas and that's when my hobby project died.

Also, in the end, I found that having such quick linked access to knowledge I was studying made me less likely to remember the material, not more. I relied too heavily on the cards and the ability to just click on a term I didn't remember.
yeah, the solution comes from individuals, not from politicians
We can still explore them. It's the contamination of them that is at question.
Totally agreed.

Writers have been able to write nonsense for a long time... and photo manipulation we've gotten quite used to. All we do is add video to the category of things that might be lies, and so need independent verification.

Skepticism is good and healthy, and verification in the age of Google isn't that hard.

You can trust that if the NY Times or CBS publishes a video, they verified its authenticity, or else will be publishing a big retraction within a few days that will also make the news because it's so rare.

Whether your uncle sends you a random photo or a video of a politician that seems too exaggerated or weird or unbelievable... you assume it might be manipulated... as you already do now. Making Nancy Pelosi seem drunk didn't take a deepfake, just slowing it down.

It's not any kind of big change. Just applying the same skepticism we already automatically apply to so many other things.
Yes, and they could have launched with a free version supported by ads instead of an up front fee and a monthly fee. Perhaps the free 2020 version will be ad based. An issue with launching an ad based version may be the inability to line up advertisers for an unproven platform. By 2020 they may have the kinks worked out and be able to get some advertisers lined up.
I remember getting the e-mail about their backups not having been working for months. I was shocked at how negligent that was. I run my own backups now.

(Also their backup offering is so much more cumbersome to use than borg backup that it wasn't a great loss to manage these myself).

Still amazed that they didn't notice no one's backups had been running for so long.
Or prohibitively expensive production cost
Science Fiction author Greg Egan wrote a novel called Distress[0] where the main character is a science journalist who makes documentaries. He uses software exactly like this. The book was published in 1995. It's a very good book and I highly recommended it and basically any other book written by Egan. (My personal favorite is probably "Diaspora" followed closely by "Permutation City".)

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19328253-distress
> I never understood why people are so against talking to the people that give them a ride.

I'm not always against talking to people, but there are definitely drivers who don't know how to read the mood in the car and will drag you into conversations you don't care about. Particularly if you're on a 4:30 am ride to the airport, you might just want to be left alone.
People say the same about WoW. After WotLK (2008-2010 era being WotLK) it went downhill.

ArenaNet/NCSoft's Guild Wars 2 consists of former Blizzard employees. Then there's Max Schaefer's Runic Games with Torchlight (2). They went poof a while ago though.

Blizzard/Activision are still very profitable (record this year), yet what they come up with is Diablo mobile (reskin by a Chinese company, of the infamous quote "don't you guys have phones?"), and fired a lot of employees.
I’ve used Termius on my phone. It’s phenomenal. Didn’t realize there was a desktop version too.
Odd. All the recent grads I know are skirting 7 because they hate their jobs, and so far it hasn't backfired.
I can buy the game on Steam and play at my 4K laptop or stream it to my 4k TV. Am I missing something?

edit: sorry slowpoke here replying to himself: I get that you are "renting" a gaming hardware for that price, so you don't need to own a gaming computer. So at $120/y it is not bad, if the service is as promised. And then if they shut it down in 3 years then, you spent/lost $360 toward a gaming device. But what happens to the games you purchased? How about renting the games also, like an additional gaming subscription?
Wow I missed that it requires you to sign in. I retract my statement that it has gotten better. Google can go to hell with requiring a sign in for everything.
Very nice curated list! Its going to be an ever ongoing battle to keep it accurate. Something like this would be great on Wikipedia or collaboratively editable in some other way, or allowing forks on say GitHub.
weechat-matrix (https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix) is an excellent text-interface client with full E2E support, fwiw :)
It sounds right from a tech speak. But the question remains if he will treat the paid customers with this same attitude.
What a condescending comment... My wife and I are childfree. Should I tell her that her accomplishments in the workplace or even getting a good education and graduating from university mean nothing because having kids should be her top priority?

This is the problem with people who think they know better.
You think people should have more kids, what do you propose? Are you going to pay for the diapers, the education, the bigger house, the bigger car, the childcare? Do you want to become our live-in nanny?

After all, you seem so eager for people to have kids, surely you must be volunteering every night to help kids from low socio-economic areas get better grades and break the cycle of poverty or maybe you have adopted 5 unwanted kids already?

My wife and I don't need your sadness and your condescension. Thank you.
Can Stadia be offline?
That was the altered (movie) timeline.
Although in most cases doctoring an image isn't even necessary, you just need to put it in a misleading context.
I don't know that I disagree with everything you've stated, but speaking from experience I do think if you half-ass your attempt at happiness, the grass will definitely be greener on the other side later in life.

Don't make exceptions about the things that make you happy, even if you know the things that make you happy might change down the road.
I've watched many dubbed movies and tv shows and the slightly-off lip movement never bothered me, you stop noticing it after a bit. It wouldn't be that big of an improvement.
I think of skinny and fat as opposites, backed up by word uses like the "Fattypuffs and Thinifers" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fattypuffs_and_Thinifers - it's amusing that people go to the gym because they don't want to be fat, and people go to the gym because they don't want to be thin.

Are there other things in life where people go to the same place for, at a glance, opposite reasons?
I'd be very surprised if a patent wasn't filed. filing patents has nothing to do with scalability or production. it just is to control an idea.
As a woman, there are definitely times I don't want to deal with a driver hitting on me. It happens annoyingly frequently, and it's this delicate social situation that requires more mental effort to negotiate than I want to give it.

Friendly conversation (with men and women both) is fine and I've engaged in plenty. But if a driver is too busy telling me just how beautiful I am and as a result drives me to the cargo part of the airport rather than the passenger terminal and makes me late... and I have to sort of humor him and not just say wtf because that's the social contract? Or if I have to for some reason convince him I'm an engineer and not a dancer in spite of my long legs? Yeah, I'll pass on that.

In other situations I can thank them for the compliment and go somewhere else, but with a driver I'm stuck for quite a while. And sometimes I'm really not in the mood. I've complained before there really needs to be a "please don't hit on me" option, and STFU is a decent alternative.
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Slightly off-topic, but no argument for colonising Venus could possibly be complete without digging this gem of a comment out of the archives about cooking a turkey there:
http://www.transterrestrial.com/2013/12/09/venerian-gas-phas...
> "In topics in which I am not a subject matter expert, I can and should defer to the actual subject matter experts..."

i'd contend the word 'defer' is too strong. one should accept that SMEs have made reasonable arguments based on information you don't have (like the many wrong lines of reasoning they've already attempted). "epistemic learned helplessness" would then lead you to defer to the expert, but that's not the only rational response in every case.

there's a different skill, discussed secondarily in the essay, for sniffing out bs. that's probably best termed 'wisdom', or informed meta-pattern-matching. so another rational response is to use your wisdom to decide how much to trust the expert. trusting the expert is not necessarily an either-or thing.
Boom in electric scooters leads to more injuries, fatalities
These words are no longer used in common parlance at all.

Now people use "developing nation" and "developed nation," and "second world" never evolved to mean "somewhere less poor than dirt-floor huts but less rich than London". About once a year I see someone make that mistake; it's not common, just a mistake.

But agreed, there's no arbiter of language for English, and we all understood the original poster, which is really the important part.
Isn't the cold, heedless authority a trope of fiction? Doesn't it signify, "the authoritarian power that everyone agrees is bad, so can be used as a villain without offending anyone?"

Isn't that a trope of future dystopian Sci-fi? The cold, heartless, amoral mega-corporation, uninterested in any individual's plight, only in efficiency?

We no longer own our entertainment purchases. We no longer hold the data. We no longer own our communications with our friends, relatives, and coworkers. The very fabric of our relationships and our most intimate and valued expressions is now wholly contained on the servers of mega-corporations, to be traded and sold to other corporations, to be mined for information for profit.

Medieval peasants no longer owned the land they worked. There was another level of status in medieval England, the villein: a feudal tenant entirely subject to a lord or manor to whom he paid dues and services in return for land. The villein didn't own his land. He was a chattel accessory to the land.
I have this problem a lot with the Chase app. For me at least, it seems to be tied to using my thumbprint to login. If I enter my password manually it goes right in.
Hetzner is also a company that really wants you to send them a scan of your government ID / passport. Meanwhile e.g. prgmr takes bitcoin.
> inviting each other for dinners and celebrations

I've experienced more of this in the U.S., than in the Indian culture I grew up in. Hanging out with friends, having dinner together, inviting new people you don't know to dinner -- are all very much a part of American culture. People in the U.S. quite intentionally go out of their way to make new friends. It's one of things I love about the United States. In Indian culture, people often stick to just family, and a small circle of friends that rarely changes through life. Compared to that, American openness is wonderful.

> You can strike up a conversation with a total stranger at a bus station and it doesn't feel weird and awkward.

Ironically, the U.S. might be one of the only countries where this is common, and quite socially acceptable. Even in New York, I've broken norms, talked to strangers, and made new friends. In many countries, if you try to strike up a conversation with a stranger, you'll likely get a strange look, followed by silence or a curt unfriendly reply. I'm thankful that in general, people in the U.S. are so friendly, and happily willing to talk to and befriend total strangers.
We were psyched to get this quote from Steve, but the product is a bit complex to grasp, so we devoted the whole landing page to communicate the value.
lol ;-0

this is the funniest thing I have heard for a while.

Yo there are better quality coffins as well. Gotta get that premium quality wood, luxury liner, etc. Get your priorities right!
Vermont reaches $1.75 m settlement with Dollar General
Check our his follow up essay raising the specter that tradition in general might be much more likely to be a useful authority than we give credit for.
Connecting to IRC via Biboumi from XMPP
Google to acquire analytics startup Looker for $2.6B – TechCrunch
Project page: https://www.ohadf.com/projects/text-based-editing/
If you’re handy python, check out its python api. Another method is to have gnucash store it’s data in a MySQL database, and query that directly. But I agree that having more powerful reporting built would be nice.
Yes, that reply was incendiary and unnecessary, 100% concur. But I'm a parent of two kids and this did not make it any more clear to me ;-). I was thinking "oh my, I hope I don't find myself in that situation with my own son in 10 years, that's probably not going to be an easy problem to fix" not "the son must be autistic." Even though my best friend has a 25 year old daughter who's autistic and living at home (presumably for the rest of her life).

Just goes to show interpreting comments on the 'net without any context is easier said than done. I always try to keep positive assumptions in mind before I hit reply.
> Because it would cost too much. About 90% of commutes are driving, versus 5% for transit (mostly buses). But even though transit accounts for only about 5% or commutes, it accounts for 25% of spending at the federal, state, and local levels (combined): https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/....

That's disingenuous. The driving infrastructure includes both what the state provides as well as what private funding spends (i.e. that cost of the all the cars, fuel etc). The transit infrastructure funding is entirely public in nature.
Congress Scraps Provision to Restrict IRS from Competing with TurboTax
ESA also relies on government funding, but its chief was saying that reusability is not needed because with reusable rockets workers would have nothing to do half of the year. And other NASA contractors didn't get much done either. So a particular millionaire keeping his millions was crucial for the whole thing to succeed. Could someone working at NASA accomplish the same? Yes if there was a good way to measure good and bad decisions made by different people, so that multiple routes are explored, and failing route is discarded despite its proponent being a respected person, but unfortunately we do not have a working way for that other than money.

I hope you agree that so far in all places where state tried to take all the money and redistribute everyone ended up worse off (USSR, North Korea, Cuba, Maoist China, Venezuela). You may not agree, but as far as i can tell Europe is lagging behind USA in terms of innovation because of higher taxes. And Singapore's economy is growing faster than US because of lower tax rate.

I am not suggesting that all taxes should be eliminated or even that they should be returned to their pre WW1 levels, but based on this i think it is a reasonable hypothesis that lower tax could be more beneficial for society, and if some people want to test that out on a seastead they should not be met with hostility for trying to destroy the social state and not pay taxes.
I find it so incredibly ironic that it was immigrants, fleeing countries utterly lacking in comfort, wealth, or happiness, in search of a better life for themselves and their children, that helped build the comfortable industrialized nation of the United States.

It seems life - human existence - is cyclical and has amnesia. We forget too quickly what real discomfort is. Or at least, fail to strike a proper balance.
I spent some time thinking about this problem recently (after also discovering beancount) and kind of concluded that double-entry accounting doesn't really work so well - as commonly explained - for individuals.

If you were a business for example, then your "expenses" would actually represent things like business units and other managers and stuff - other people handling money - which is basically what double-entry was invented to manage. But there isn't a "Coffee" business unit for you - it's just a nominal category and really more of a tag explaining why you were paying "Joe's Coffee Cart Holding Inc." $3

My conclusion on this then is that what I really need is an extensive tagging system to associate with transactions, because the actual "accounts" should represent places money can actually go to or did go to - since in the event of unexplained balances and the like, that's the type of thing I can actually track down.
I've found that this happens to me using the Chase app over the weekend (usually Saturday) around 2 AM - 5 AM Pacific Time. Maybe they do scheduled maintenance then? Chase should let people know if that's the case.
Are you suggesting that people with kids will have their kids taking of them when they are old?

If that's true, I have a bridge to sell you...
I work at a shop (SADA) that can help with migrations if you feel the pinch: @milesward on twitter is a good way to reach out.
Comment is a dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20118839
What ends up being "faster" doesn't just depend on travel speed though. It also depends on startup costs. The startup cost for biking can be higher than a car (if you need to carry the bike out from your apartment) but also the other way (if you need to walk to your parked car and then walk from wherever you find parking to where you're going).

People might also be willing to trade some extra time for less exertion, but this depends heavily on the terrain.