skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a book i've read the hero was saying that if you believe the end of the world is imminent, and you are contemplating suicide, then most likely you are in a cult.

Unfortunately modern environmentalism is a cult with its own armageddon. And WWF actively displacing native hunter gatherer people to "save the wildlife". What is the point of preserving environment if there are no people in it?

In fact shrinking population is the worst thing for the environment that can happen now, because at this point we have already activated the natural process of arctic melting and releasing CO2, and even if half of people were magically removed there wouldn't be a huge difference.

On the other hand the new science and technology depend on large number of people ready to pay for them. Things like starlink, new CPUs, would be impossible with smaller population. But if the population was larger, we would already have floating cities increasing carbon capture in sea, desalination plants irrigating large parts of sahara, system of balloons, solar updraft towers and satellites controlling the local climate.

If you are from a rich country, not having children is doubly bad, because you have all the resources to give these kids better education. The world would have been a much better place if people from western countries were immigrating to the rest of the world bringing their money and their knowledge of how to build a better society, but instead of that the rich countries are making easy for smart and entrepreneurial people to immigrate there leaving us perpetually underdeveloped. (When most of the people who were exposed to western values, and had good education immigrate, there is not enough power remaining to fight with those who want to build medieval dictatorship).
I'm not arguing against you at all in regards to your conclusion about the book (I haven't read it, and the previous poster has me concerned), but I'm a bit confused about the atheist bit here - do you take exception to their understanding of love, or just loving god?
Obligatory link to Vintage Space video on MOL... https://youtu.be/5ffYSfkP3d8

A very cool channel in general for y'all space race geeks out there :)
Thanks for the detailed post! I'm usually wary of using close-source programs for sensitive tasks such as connecting to all my remote servers with SSH.

I haven't found any details on the libraries you use, especially for cryptography, nor the steps you have taken to secure your software. Where can we find more info?
The question is whether they are still actively pursuing enterprise clients. If they aren't, then I agree. If they are, then it's not putting it out to pasture, it's just a different business model. There are plenty of companies that do this. My brother works for one that does it for large network storage deployments using proprietary technology, and I imagine they don't want to hear from you unless you are willing to put out hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars on a deployment (and yet they still have new deployments). I definitely wouldn't consider them putting the technology out to pasture because of that.
Still a no deal for me, if my purchases in Stadia cannot grant me access to the game on other platforms. Who knows when Google decides Stadia isn't worth it anymore?
Autistic enough to not function well in society. There's actually a middle ground between "just fine" and "has to wear a helmet".
> It is exhausting, but isn't not an objection, it is fact. You have to meet people where they are if you ever hope to know them. Using a single label, in this case 'third-wave', to describe someone is so incomplete and I would disabuse you of thinking about people this way.

"Generalization" doesn't mean that you believe the observation is true for exactly every individual in the group. That a generalization doesn't hold for every individual in the group doesn't imply that generalization isn't useful. Now can we be done errantly nitpicking well-established semantics?

> If you were to ask 100 'feminists' what does believe all women mean to you, there would be many answers.

Many variations of the same theme.

> I never said I wanted a traditional or a third wave world, just kinder; there are other options.

You're agreeing with me rather aggressively. I didn't claim or imply that you wanted any particular kind of world.
Robot Ostrich Can Ride Around on Hovershoes
> Just imagine people using this tool to spread false claims and propaganda.

That was done in The Expanse novels, I wonder if that is where people get the ideas to create things like this from.

> Can we also determine if the video was actually edited or forged?

Detecting fake videos is actively being researched and there are working methods available, governments are very much aware of the danger.
Do you have a source for that?

AIUI Rutherford's model focussed the mass in the nucleus based-on/inspired-by Nagaoka's Saturnian model. Then Bohr's model specifically put electrons in orbit but they were there to explain atomic emission spectra and so needed to move between orbits - not at all like planets.

I think the thought was that electrons orbited a nucleus in a "planetary" way, rather than them being actual nano-scale planets.
Google has a habit of getting bored of a service or, if it's not doing too well, just switching it off. Can you assure people that if they spend money on Stadia games, they are still going to have access to them in the coming years?

I completely understand the question. I think there's a couple of things I would answer to that. One is our commitment to this business is extraordinary. If you look at the list of games, and crucially, the list of game companies that are backing Stadia, you can see the level of interest and support. Google is committed to this for the long term, we have made very significant financial investments in this. And we have an incredibly dedicated team who is helping to make Stadia reality.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48525703

Words are cheap, though.
> ... and the principal of charity suggest that, instead of automatically engaging outrage mode, you should try to interpret it in the most charitable way possible.

I didn't engage "outrage mode", I pointed out that you were missing/leaving out an alternative way to parse that message, one that I consider likely to be correct.

> Sure, there are certainly some women who say things like this

Let me make that clear: I explicitly wrote feminist, not women. Sex/Gender isn't involved, it's ideology, and many of the most atrocious things I've heard came from male feminists (coincidentally, those I found very reasonable among them were exclusively women). Please don't put words into my mouth by implying I talked about women in general.

> If you're not a problem, then you're not being called out.

That sounds like "I'm with them, so I don't mind that". Sure, cool for you, I'm not. "Men are scum" doesn't sit right with me, and I don't believe that I'm overly defensive for no good reason or should just "listen more carefully to the complaints".

> you're accusing "every" feminist of believing that all men are evil

No, I'm not (again with the words). I'm stating what I've heard & read from feminists. I haven't talked to most or all feminists on the planet, obviously. But of the ones I did talk to, most went right down that path. As soon as I've gotten around to talking to those that I haven't yet, I'm going to update my comment and extend it to inform about my experiences with all feminists.
Colloquy. Desktop version more or less hasn't been touched in 8 years, and it remains the best Mac client. Also has an iOS version that is more recently maintained.
This is interesting in light of all the worry about generative language models spreading misinformation (e.g. GPT-2 and company). With mainstream news trying to automate reporting on real facts, tools to detect auto-generated reporting won't be sufficient to combat automatic fake news. We'd have to have a way of telling the good bots from the bad, which is a whole can of worms.
Running m-x dissociated-press on a Trump speech makes it still sound like a Trump speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociated_press
The final state is a kind of thermal death where thermodynamics say that nothing happens anymore. However, thermodynamics is only an effective theory. It is false on tremendously large time scale: after a very very very large time a random fluctuation can bring down the universe entropy to pre-death level and restart a new non-boring universe (for a very short duration compared to the time spent in the thermal death).
> You pick up on some of them

Sure. My question was more to the point that the parent post wasn't about an unhealthy internal monologue, but about other people.

Letting your internal voice run wild with negative emotions is a problem, but it's very different from dealing with the words of other people. A black woman listening to people around her saying that black women are worthless and that it's a blessing that fewer of them are around nowadays doesn't have a problem with her inner voice amplifying insecurities, she has a problem with actually existing racists around her.
I've been a Fuel Rat client in the past. It's one of the coolest things I've ever experienced on the internet, and they have it down real smooth too.
Zero feel typically means no monthly fee to have the account, no per check fee and free ach transfers in and out with a limited number of linked accounts. Accounts like that can be had a most banks now days. They still charge fees for overdrafts, wire transfers and other services.
True, but if you read a bit of Scott's writing it will become apparent that in this respect he is better than average, by a long way. Of course being good at writing is not the same as being good at talking, but I am willing to trust his opinion that he's good at talking too. (He's a psychiatrist by profession and presumably does a lot of Talking To People About Stuff.)
Probably cause Firefox is much slower than Chromium-based browsers, especially when it comes to hardware acceleration support for video streaming in Linux.
Yes, I really do. Just because there are a lot of options, doesn't mean it is difficult, just that you didn't have enough knowledge at the time that you felt comfortable with to make a decision.

I'd encourage if you're going to buy to build it yourself. It is really easy, and pretty much everything is color coded. There are thousands of great videos you can watch too. Figure out what size of mobo and case you want, grab a Ryzen (my preference) CPU, and one or two Samsung M.2 drives. If you don't pick a case with a power supply, then add that to your cart and figure out what kind of graphics card you want. The RX 580 is a great deal, especially if you plan on using Linux. Grab some RAM and a compatible motherboard and you're good to go. All this for $800 or less, depending if you just stick with one hard drive.

Installing Windows is super easy. You just plug in a USB drive and startup your computer. I'm not sure what kind of system administration you're looking for. If you're looking for a bunch of bloated unnecessary spyware, then yeah you'd prob be better off buying a computer at Walmart, but then again I am surprised you're on Hacker News if that is what you're after.
Yes! I'm an active IRC user for professional open source work (and personal projects) for the last 10-ish years. And still going strong.

What many people say IRC "lack" in comparison with Slack (or whatever new-fangled tool of the day is) are its strengths. What I value in IRC: lack of clutter, simplicity, bloat-freeness, open standard, and not least of all, blazing fast, among others.

Sure, IRC has its limitations, and is not suitable in certain scenarios. But is still shines brightly when it comes to distraction-free, text-based communication.

(I'm also hoping the Matrix protocol takes off.)

Obligatory XKCD reference:

https://xkcd.com/1782/
-- Team Chat
Yes. I co-run a small, quirky IRC network/channel. We welcome all peoples who enjoy fun and discussing programming/hardware/technical stuff. Details here https://irc.darwin.network/
You know, I thought that deepfake videos would be politically weaponized when I first heard about them. However, after doing more thinking on this, we have had photoshop for 30 years already! We see photoshopped images all the time and while some people can be fooled, many others remain skeptical of an image then try to verify it hasn't been altered. I don't think photoshopping has really been a big problem yet, which makes me think that deepfakes won't be one either because it is fundamentally the same kind of deception but in video form.
I see. Also I have to admit the OP filled my other checkbox which is low-effort content intended to be amusing. Which I expect to read in Reddit but not here. And I do like to take confrontational stance in effort to make the other party to see my point of view in stronger light. I don't see it useful to try to avoid showing strong emotions in text or in person, I think trying to be neutral in all situations just makes everything very plain.

And as a disclaimer I did not downvote you nor do I see any purpose to it. If somebody tries to explain themselves in coherent fashion I think it's admirable even though I might disagree with them.
Scott Alexander (SlateStarCodex) is most definitely above average when it comes to writing and argument-making. He might be the most convincing writer I know of.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/02/different-worlds/
You can't do that, because any proof relating to how humans should live would have to start from axioms like "suffering is bad" or "other people are probably real rather than imaginary" or "suffering is bad, and other people are real, and it's bad when I suffer, and it's also bad when other people suffer", and you're not going to get everyone to agree on those.

The best you can do is to make arguments like "if you accept all the axioms I mentioned above, you should also accept this conclusion".
And with Google's legendary support quality, will you even get an answer to your questions when something is wrong?
"An atom can be described by its quantum state only if it's isolated and in that case its energy is constant."

How do you figure? As a contradiction, take your atom+electromagnetic field system, describe the transition from excited atom to unexcited atom + photon state, and project out the E&M field. Voila, now you have a quantum description of an atom transitioning between different energy states. Its dynamics may look funny, i.e. they may appear nonlocal, they may not conserve energy, etc. but that's different from saying "there is not a quantum description of these dynamics" which is what you're claiming.
It'll be used to debunk true claims, too.
I agree in principle but you should still literally slap anyone that says they “could care less” when they mean they couldn’t
I meant as a long-term situation that would give him a social support structure for when you are gone or can no longer provide for him. I see now you mentioned in another comment you wouldn't be surprised if he ended up living with his sister at some point and that she lives close to you, so if he has that option that might be the best.
Their mouth movement wasn't particularly natural in the parts where the speech was edited.

It's good enough that it will fool some people on Facebook/Twitter, but it's pretty far from being able to stand up to any scrutiny.
Which places are different in the United States? That's a very board question but in general there are a handful of major regions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_...
There will still be some lag between initial release and govt response. C.f. The War of the Worlds broadcast
Great! Congratulations!

I’ve been bitten by Python in this area a few times and I was looking for a statically typed alternative for a while. Nim seems to fit the bill.

The obvious choice would be Go, but the learning curve for my mostly Python-based shop seems higher and Nim looks cooler :)
Maybe an agent that just syncs would be a better option (for desktop), so users can keep using their preferred terminal.

Interesting that it is a YC startup.
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1782/
> There's no privacy when you post things publicly on the internet.

Though true, there is an important caveat here: These are teenagers. Though their bodies may appear to closer to an adult's than a child's, their brains and expereinces are still only 16 years old. They are still learning. Combine that with Texas' #39 ranking in education [0] and it should come as no suprise that these teenagers are mis-infomed as to what counts and public and what counts as private. Instead of punishment/surveilance, we should perhaps try to teach and be patient.

[0] https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2019/01/21/texa...
Microsoft certainly isn't just filling server racks with Consumer model Xbox Ones, if that is what you have pictured. They have rack-mount servers that share the Xbox Architecture.

The Xbox One and PS4 are modified PC architectures with slightly specialized graphics hardware. All three are doing the exact same thing: building traditional server racks, just with with an added focus on GPU power/performance. Google doesn't have a leg up in their datacenters, and if anything has the detriment that both Microsoft and Sony can run Consumer-targeted software builds directly on their racks, whereas supposedly Stadia needs new game builds, customized to the new hardware.
See also: FYRE Festival, Elizabeth Holmes
Isn't that all it takes to spread propaganda? We're living in an age where if it feels right, it is, even if it's blatantly false.
The "Ethical concerns" section in the article feels like a punt. The author quoting "this technology is really about better storytelling" is aspirational -- the technology's story will be written by those who use it, and you can bet people will use this maliciously.
US Police departments using Amazon-owned Ring to create a surveillance network
Yeah. In a way, I really admire his focus. His life has everything he cares about, and he ruthlessly ignores everything that doesn't actually matter to him. And he's smart, capable of incredible focus, and can interact with people in structured ways (he works in retail and is actually good at it).

Maybe someday he'll decide to aim it somewhere else.
Disclaimer: I'm a doctor.

I'm not quite sure how to respond to this because it just seems like a ridiculous statement to me. Of course I tell patients things in a way to reduce their anxiety. It often doesn't help. Your last sentence is just plain wrong. Checkups don't keep you healthy. Good diet and exercise does.
Thanks, that is a very strong critique of the show, there is much to agree with there. My suspicion was confirmed: the heroic characters did act a little too western-way and the true nature of the society dynamics wasn't captured as well as the visuals. I think it is hard for a westerner to understand the soviet system and people there and then, so I do not take it too hard on the authors.
Having had my 1A rights flagrantly violated by a petty administrator, I wholeheartedly agree. We need to worry about surveilling dysfunctional bureaucrats and their behavior, not students.
Likewise, I use it for small business but don't bother for personal.

I agree it's a bit difficult to navigate, though once set up there's not too much navigating new territory.
How do we know it's not already in the wild? Ethical release of this would focus also on some way for easier forensic telltales that are hard to avoid.

Also, rule34 implications.
Is the hypothesis still that the limit as time goes to zero still exists as a part of our universe? In your analogy, is the south pole still a point contained on earth or is it just a point you can get arbitrarily close to?
I had this idea that devices which record content like images or video should have an unforgeable key internal to their hardware, like we have with PGP / GPG. Content that comes from the device would be signed, and allow users to validate whether it originated unmodified from the hardware source.

Granted, derived content will fail validation, but it will motivate tracking down the original, until validation can be performed. Maybe you can take pictures of fake imagery printed onto large high-def paper, but at least you eliminate one stage in the process...

Honestly, we should not trust digital content these days.
I think it’s still a good idea to call out individual people for help whenever you’re in trouble in a larger group - an advice worked out after the realization that there is a bystander effect.
I wanted to use it as a Plex client and a retro video gaming machine.
Canadian Spaceport in Nova Scotia Gets Environment Ministry Approval
I would be more concerned about Google discontinuing the service
Boston Dynamics’ creepy dog-like robot is about to go on sale
yeah, i think they're marketed mostly as "less likely to get glues stuck". Sure look pretty though! ;)
Can you elaborate on the Dropbox bit? Couldn't you just stick the DB files in a sync folder?
Yes. Most of my contact with friends is through IRC.
yes, i use it a lot!
Hollywood Writers Attempt Life Without Agents
Exactly what I'm doing. I've been paying myself a fixed salary for a couple years now, regardless of how much I actually make in a given month (the rest goes into savings). I haven't dipped into savings yet, and don't feel any cravings to do so - I just don't think that most things you can buy really add that much value. And for things that do, you can get very similar effect whether you splurge or go more frugal - i.e. a trip's value is most likely going to be determined by your companion/s and how much fun you had with each other, and not whether you went to Africa or just camped in local forest.

BTW, eating out at more upscale places, buying branded stuff are (at least in my case) just forms of treating boredom with consumerism, which I know from experience, does not bring me any happiness. It took me a year of two of spending 100% of my income until I noticed that, so maybe you need to see the effect on yourself as well.
For me the hardest idea to grasp is the concept of “nothing”. It seems to me that is something the human brain cannot possibly comprehend. There is always something as far as our senses are concerned. I guess that’s why the idea of nothingness after we die so such a hard notion to comprehend.
Yes, it's a big city behaviour more than first world behaviour.
We don't hear about most cases because of NDAs, but here are some examples:

https://www.x-plane.com/x-world/lawsuit/

https://www.clickerheroes2.com/patent_libel.php

https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/645267-patent-trolls-at...
Audio-video is much more stimulating and convincing because it mimics real life more than still images.
Pattern matching – New feature in Ruby 2.7
3 Types of startup founders you meet in investor summits
How about if you clearly look different?

My wife wears the hijab, and I’m sure she would be treated differently in a more rural area, especially in the current political climate...