skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't trust project veritas or its motives, at all.

There will be possibly be a time in the future when we can reasonably prove our identities and all things we have done with those identities. In this future, Reputation will be at least as valuable as any other form of measure of worth, because it will also be a world filled with bullshit. In that world, we will want to be very selective with our attention, and who gets that attention.

In the past, project veritas has gone out of their way to misrepresent those they are "interviewing," has lied and made hilarious, absurd, claims to "gotcha" people. They engage in rhetorical dishonesty and fallacy.

They aren't worth anyone's time. I won't waste my valuable attention and time "disproving" every heaping pile of dung that Veritas shits out. They already lost my trust ages ago.
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Revolut has "virtual cards" which are invalid after the first charge.
You will get very weird results from that depending on your song library. If you have every song from a prolific artist, and one to two songl you like from a few other artists, you'll get a nice random distribution among artists, but not among your library. For very lopsided libraries, such as people that just started a service and maybe have added one or two full artist catalogues and a smattering of other songs they like that they thought of (which I imagine isn't all that uncommon, it's the state I commonly find myself in on a new service), it will result in a lot of repeats and ignoring a bunch of your library.
My side project is a media player (music, images, videos).
I'm not happy with any music player, so when I get frustrated with them, I work on mine, trying to solve the issues. Being able to choose a shuffle mode is one big difference in my player. You can choose from lru, random, similar, least skipped.

I like least skipped mode because I usually skip past the same songs. The more I skip them, the less they are played.

Similar mode is nice because I notice I skip music depending on what mood I'm in, and I have a tendency to just put all my music in one giant playlist. If I'm in a picky mood I put it on similar shuffle and if I listen to a song all the way through it'll play a similar song it hasn't played yet. If I skip a song, it'll use the last one I completed.

Another big thing is being able to see the next song coming up, and being able to dismiss it. So you can refine the next in the queue while you listen through the current song.
It’s fair to be out of the loop. I wish I was, because dissenting for any reason is seen as being a villain or a troll.

For a little context though the freebsd code of conduct was instantiated in 14th February 2018 - the Linux one was altered to be the current one on September 21st of the same year (which is when the Linux CoC controversy began).
Most people do not live in houses that I would call "secure systems". The reason locks in residential homes are not that sophisticated is because it's not worth the cost to make them secure when there is still going to be a glass window right next to it.
The obvious next step is to make this a JIT.

The natural progression of JITs is to start with using llvm for the jit, only to realize that it's too slow and big for anything but AoT compilations since llvm is tuned for AoT with clang (and other AoT compilers). So the awkward next step is to add a custom jit to clang for zippy cobstexpr eval because llvm itself doesn't work super well for JITs due to it being tuned for clang's use case. Ironic.
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I guess i don't see your point. I'm a biomedical researcher, we do lots of numerical analysis in my part of the world, these are the words we use to unambiguously refer to different entities and concepts of linear algebra.

This is not a CS data structures 101 thing, this is a "there are proper names for mathematical entities" thing. I think you're confusing representation and existence, maybe.
There are parts of the United States where the average age of a woman when she has her first child is 30. All things being equal, that would make a first-time grandparent 60 years old at the birth of her grandchild and over 80 at his college graduation.
You're probably right. But.. so? Mythbusters has a huge budget and paid a bunch of people to run something safely, vs. dude with a microwave--this does not change one iota what was recorded and broadcast.
>And there is no "who draws the line‽" argument here

That's exactly the argument, not everybody thinks Alex Jones went too far. In fact, I bet a lot of people who listen to Alex Jones would find something you supported to be miles beyond what is ever OK. That's part and parcel of living in a diverse, cosmopolitan society. Sometimes, other people's opinions are miles beyond OK, but that's still okay. ;)
> If you use spaces, that freedom is lost.

The lost freedom can be found again: hack an open source editor to render leading spaces as elements that have a configurable width.

Nobody who calls themselves a programmer should be whining about this, really.
The privacy of the TLS 1.3 protocol [pdf]
...This isn't the first time this kind of thing has happened, either...

This is technically the 3rd time, with just Microsoft alone.

They turned off eBook authentication servers for "Microsoft Reader" (.LIT) format years ago... (2012?) Then, after they launched their also-now-dead store on Windows Phone which had some eBooks, well... that went away too...

Next - how many subscription/Music services has Microsoft launched and then abandoned? More than one, but I remember: PlaysForSure" - DRM servers turned off 11 years ago...

So - unless it is Xbox, don't think Microsoft is going to be a reliable source for your digital media.
If his arguments are weak, it should not be necessary to buttress counterarguments with speculation about his motives.
It’s not a net savings if it’s costing vastly more money in sales. The tradeoff is not always obvious, and some bugs are beloved by fans, but my point is bugs have real costs. Further, excessive bugs always tank sales.

Errors with collision detection are one of the most common speed running exploits and in excess can make games unplayable. Broken quest chains are similarly exploitable, but in excess result in an unplayable mess.

Anyway, cost is really not the driver for most of these issues it’s poorly scoping what can actually be finished in a given time and budget. I have no idea what your background is in game dev, but it sounds like you don’t understand the overall development process.
80% of people mean this: I don't want to hear the same song too soon after hearing it before. How soon is "too soon"? Probably anywhere from 50 to 200 songs.

Easiest solution that gets you 99% there would be to make a shuffled list, run through the whole thing, then shuffle again. The only reason why this wasn't done in the past was lack of RAM, which isn't an issue anymore.

Or if RAM really actually is an issue on your embedded device, use a Debruijn sequence.
Having a lot of people in a space doesn't make it a "public space". These terms are well defined, and we should stick to them when discussing, or we'll all talk past each other.

YouTube is not even a "privately owned public space" because it isn't legally required to be open to the public.

If you believe video hosting is critical public infrastructure, nationalize it.
I think the point is that the line between animals and plants would become arbitrary if plants were indeed conscious and could feel pain. Why eat plants but not animals then?
Only interacted with it for about 5 minutes and I already love it.

It needs an accompanying IRC channel where the devs shit all over you for not understanding how to use it.
Support != require
And how many people injure themselves doing stupid "science experiments" vs any type of sporting activity? By your logic youtube should ban anything to do with soccer, football, cheerleading, skateboarding, extreme sports. Definitely anything to do with getting cars to go faster as cars kill about 30k people a year in the US.
I don't put much faith in videos made by known con artists who until yesterday were up for felony charges. Not sure why some set of the internet clings to them either.
Empire BlueCross/BlueShield's site is down. Not quite in the same category but sucks if I want to file claims.

https://www.empireblue.com/
> All we're asking is to ban overt racism and calls to violence

I agree that it's reasonable to ban "calls to violence", but the "overt racism " part is extremely subjective. Why is racism worse than hacking? I, based on my own principles, think racism is 'worse' than hacking, but most people's principles are completely different from mine, and I think a considerable part of the population thinks that hacking is morally "worse" than racism, even if they don't realize that they think that.
That assumes you have enough extra spaces to do it and you didn't start full. Ex: just bought a used Dell R710 with 6 bays, it came with 2TB drives... plan is to play around a bit with those... but I don't have an extra, supported controller with enough slots (even if the cover is off) to populate it while I would migrate. In the end, it'll be full of shucked 8tb drives, but pretty sure I'll just start over at that point. My old nas' drives are 6yo in a decade old synology box, and my trust level is failing before any drives do.
That's probably a great way to get your own Google account banned, and there is no way in hell I'm risking that.
5) High-contrast motion graphic ads right next to what you are trying to read.
Or perhaps exceptional claims (plants have brains we just can’t see them) require exceptional evidence.
A classic passport photo is considerably different than a 3d/hd scan of your face with facial recognition algorithms copied everywhere.
" Add to these, flowing hair, a more elegant symmetry of form, their own judgment in favour of the whites, declared by their preference of them, as uniformly as is the preference of the Oran-utan [orangutan] for the black women over those of his own species. The circumstance of superior beauty, is thought worthy attention in the propagation of our horses, dogs, and other domestic animals; why not in that of man?"

-- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia[1]

He was a disgusting person who should be relegated to the annals of history, not celebrated with a birthday party like a blood relative.

[1] https://www.stolaf.edu//people/fitz/COURSES/Jefferson--Notes...
Here are a couple of the broken links:

"EARLY DEPOSIT BANKING", Meir Kohn: https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmouth.edu/dist/6/116...

"Bagehot was a Shadow Banker: Shadow Banking, Central Banking, and the Future of Global Finance": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2232016
> "there are proper names for mathematical entities"

That's my point. Have you ever used a proper tensor? I mean, the mathematical entity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor
> I wonder why YouTube has to be the go-to source for useful video in the first place

For the same reason Google became #1 in search: it's easier to look for something in one place than half a dozen miscellaneous places.
> Are you arguing that MS mistakenly releasing a version of Windows with debug symbols didn't happen or that it constitutes a leak and isn't fair game?

I think he's saying that even having access to leaked or accidentally released originals is not implicit permission to use it freely. Otherwise any piece of software that was ever legitimately released would be fair game, just throw it at a decompiler and profit.

If you're making a clean room design having so many similarities to the original is unlikely to happen accidentally.

Anybody implementing a clean room design should theoretically have no prior knowledge of the original's inner workings. The specs are written by one person, checked to not include any of the original material by a second one, before being passed to a third to be implemented.

From far enough a piece of wire and an isolation transformer do the same thing. The secret sauce is in that isolation, you can't just shunt it and pretend it's the same.
Specifically the author's mention of extended character support in Julia for math symbols, as well as the emphasis on matrix support, makes me wonder why APL didn't maintain popularity among the academic crowd.
The fact that these are called outages is kind of alarming. Do people rely on any of these as their exclusive communication when in danger?
I think that's unnecessarily alarmist.

Nobody is saying "Free Speech is a racist idea.

However, Free Speech OF racist ideas is a racist idea.
Yes, this is still true, and it's great. Within the songs and artists that typically play on my Pandora stations, it will play similar songs in clusters, with the exception that it won't play the exact same artist twice in close succession. This makes the playlist a lot better (in my opinion).

The only quirk I've noticed is when the same person has multiple bands... I've had it play Jack White or Les Claypool 4 times in a row, for example.
Excellent post. Reminds me of the old Warcraft 3 days when some players would be like, "I got Undead four times in a row, this isn't random Bli$$ard!!!1"
Insidious and evil? that's a pretty strong value judgement.

Could you explain more?
OpenBSD will download your wifi firmware during first boot (post-install) if there is a configured internet connection (i.e. ethernet).
I don’t see where one would have to move with their family. The case is about a private entity having a “space” with a reach to the public. I find it is a pretty appropriate comparison (in this case the company has a monopoly on the only boardwalk in the whole world, “moving” would mean convincing not only your family but millions (billions?) of people at the same time).
I just experienced a feeling today looking at a tutorial of tensorflow.js that perhaps people were using async await to get out of having to think about asynchronicity and that as a consequence the asynchronous nature of JavaScript is not used to its full potential sometimes.

But I have also had feelings that anync await is beneficial when writing crawlers.
If you never used or heard of LATERAL [JOIN] I suggest checking that out because it is pretty awesome and handy.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/queries-table-expres...
And you do need it, Zoom has a penchant for eating through battery!
thanks, I get it now and see it now :)
WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Down in the UK for Millions of Usere
YouTube is a video sharing website, the only power it has is the power we willingly give it by voluntarily visiting their website. Society needs to have personal responsibility for it's own viewing habits.
All three apps are huge for communication. It doesn't seem far fetched that a nation would test its capabilities taking down different forms of communication.
The point of those videos (besides providing some entertainment) is satisfying one's curiosity. I don't need to put bullets in a microwave, I can just watch the video to see what happens (personally I don't really care but I'm sure there is some young person somewhere who is curious about it and these videos might save their life).
Offer users control over what they want to filter. As long as it's not against the law, allow it on their platform.
Administrative bloat's pretty bad, and from what I've seen a serious audit/investigation of every district in the country would turn up north of 50% being full of corruption—padded stipends, kickbacks for building contracts, hiring the spouse of an assistant super to do nothing, promoting "favorites" to higher paying positions (exactly what it sounds like, happens all the time), that kind of thing.
Time to plug MeansTV: http://means.tv/

Hardly politically neutral but also not owned by a giant corporation!
Thanks for reaching out, I'm glad to hear there are folks inside who disagree with this.
I suspect many people were saying the same about the printing press when that was invented. "If anyone can print something quickly, how can will we stop the peasants from printing their own books".

Many would could say same about open source software, people developing their own technology. They are doing their own thing, there is a lot of rubbish code (noise) to good open source code (signal). Maybe a large company like Microsoft or IBM take control of it and be the guardians of the code.

Youtube has everything from make up tutorials, instructions on how to do fix your laptop, cook a meal, there are people making their own reviews of retro computer hardware. Other people are releasing their own music, tutorials on how to code, teachers helping people with their maths homework. Almost all of this would never see the light of day on regular television. Yet somehow you have concentrated on the negative elements.

Claiming it doesn't scale because you don't like some of the content on there is ridiculous and you are just projecting your personal politics on everyone else. If you don't like the content you can just not watch it. I don't like watching network television because it is awful, I like seeing people debate and debunk things like conspiracy theories because it is fun.

I really wish people like yourself would just be honest and just come out to say that you think that certain people shouldn't be allowed to speak because you think you are better than them.
I went vegan initially after comparing the harmful effects of animal products with the relative ease of eating something else. Subjectively, I feel much healthier eating plant based, Whole foods. I have noticed beneficial effects as well-lost weight, for instance. Though I do perceive eating plants as more moral than animal products, as well. It seems like plants don’t experience treatment like animals do, just as a general.
Has there ever been a major bitcoin or ethereum, or stellar outage?
Or scanning older math-y books that have no LaTeX equivalent.
Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
It occurred to me that flowers are like the virtue signaling of plants. If it flowers people are apt to think it's deliberate. If it's merely green, who knows... is it the product of deliberate effort or just laziness? (Is a natural forest the product of laziness?) The orange daylily (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemerocallis_fulva) is a way to cheat this system, you can be incredibly lazy but they do technically flower.

I read a survey somewhere that modern expectations now are that if you have 25% (some places 15%) of your yard as turf your neighbors will be happy. 0% indicates you aren't "doing" something, just letting things grow.

One option not really mentioned in the article is to just let things grow, and only weed out annoying things (small trees poorly placed, things with thorns or bristles, etc). Not mentioned of course because you'll get in trouble even outside of a HOA.

I'll admit, as much as I want to be (and I think I am) tolerant, I do have a dislike of weedy tree overgrowth. A neighbor is dedicated to doing no lawn maintenance, and the result is not particularly lush or interesting, just a ground layer that's relatively bare beneath small trees and bushes that are all competing. If they avoided that, and had primarily vascular plants, I think the result would be more lush, representing a better natural landscape.

There's a kind of design challenge here that I don't know quite how to solve. Lawns are genuinely usable in a way that I appreciate. A more trendy approach is to add a bunch of hardscape or deck and then plant the rest... is that really better? Or, for instance, composting yard waste on-site helps support all the organisms that make use of that organic matter. People complain that it's also a great place for mice to nest. Which it is... and is that bad? I tend to change my mind when they try to come into the house in the fall. Overgrowth can be a hiding place and a safety concern. Of course lots of wildlife would like to hide, and so that very problem is also a feature. There's a challenge between having control and letting nature take its course... and neither is really right, and I believe good design goes beyond simple compromise.

I don't know... something I'd love to work on in my retirement.
> And there is no "who draws the line‽" argument here, Jones exists miles beyond what is ever ok.

Popular media exists miles beyond what is ever ok. Do you want to ban those too?
Many of Google's actions can be explained by internal disarray, the way promotions are doled out, and lack of leadership. This cannot.

-No longer proud to have been a Googler
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I, too, want this -- I mostly listen to game soundtracks, and sometimes two tracks according to the OST (or the unofficial rip) really felt like one in the game, from when they played. Other times I really do just want to specifically play part two of whatever, though, so if I manually concatenated them I'd need to still keep the originals around; if I did that, I wouldn't be able to just play through the entire album linearly without a repeat. So yeah, being able to pin in a shuffle would be good.
I switched from Pandora to Spotify a couple months back because my daughter wanted Spotify and they have a family plan, and I didn't want to pay for both services. I really, really miss Pandora, to the point I may pay for it separately (and I don't listen all that often), specifically because I love how their radio station type format works. If they had their "play this exact song I want" offering working before Spotify entrenched itself, I can't imagine why anyone would choose Spotify over it.

I'll probably spend a bit more time trying to get Spotify to work as I want, but in general it's resulted in me just listening to less music. I guess that's good for Spotify, since they're still getting paid (but not if it makes be question why I'm still paying them).
I am extremely displeased that none of the previous Pi-Top hardware is compatible with the Raspberry Pi 4. The Pi-Top team is quite unresponsive and will provide no technical details. I suspect it's because their drivers do not build on aarch64 or work with the Stretch kernel, but to find out I'll have to spend hours reverse-engineering everything.

It's a real failure in product design.
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I was very surprised when I downloaded zoom yesterday and noticed that an “appearance enhancement filter” is enabled by default. This is something that I am not used to outside of social and camera apps from (mostly) Asian countries

Sad state of the world where the default in a business related App is essentially telling you that this is necessary. Can’t be healthy for society
Thank you for this cold slap in the face. I needed it.

I am of course very happy to see more people waking up to the dangers of too much control in the hands of powerful people. I'll edit my other post to remove the accusation, it poisons the well. I've been whinging on about this for years and it's definitely worn on my ability to be civil about it when we're at the "I told you so" stage of censorship.
I wonder why blizzard didn't just release diablo as open source.

I assume there's no strong minded folks at the top like John Carmack.

Id Software went through a little turmoil when he wanted to release the doom source, but it sort of highlights his unshakable confidence.
You choose your battles. You won't win every one.
Banks navigate UX hurdles in the march to create ‘super apps’
Yeah. It happened a few times with Monzo in London. Nobody could pay for a day or something. Life went on.
pronounced Yimp, with a Scandinavian accent.