skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such statements are not in isolation though. Violence and murder come first, then come fear and obedience, and then it's up to the obedient to find rationalizations for whatever words they get fed, or keep their mind off what doesn't make sense. A single such statement doesn't put you in line, but if you already are in line, then it's just one of the thousands of little bricks that keep you in line, and your brain on autopilot.

Why realize you've been fooled and exploited by people who don't really care about you, have excused their crimes, and then feel shitty because you don't dare to oppose them -- when you can just project all that on those who do oppose them? Then not seeing a silly and cheap slogan as silly and cheap becomes just another test of obedience, to excel at and be proud of. The Naked Emperor isn't just a story, it happens all the time. Identification with aggressors and projection of their bad qualities on their victims and those who oppose them is very common, or as Arno Gruen wrote, "the ubiquity of this phenomenon determines the course of human history".

https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeHongKongNow/comments/cya5z9/bas...

Who with a pulse would buy that? Those who are afraid of the responsibilities that come with not buying it. The continued violence is the lifeblood, not the propaganda; minus the movement, it all seems very banal and ridiculous, like Eichmann on trial.

Likewise, who would be so silly to think a downvote is an argument? Yet it's religiously done, and I wouldn't be suprised if to some people something being greyed out signals that it is not an okay opinion to have. Done consistently, it helps. It still needs to violence and the lies, the destruction of facts, but it's a useful addition to them.
It's not an infinitely long term solution but it's a solution that buys us at the very least dozens, if not hundreds of years before we run out of space. Because no solution is ever infinite, given that the Sun isn't, it doesn't make sense to consider something that will potentially work for a hundred years as a non long term solution. By the time that solution stops being long term, we'll have far more advanced options to buy us another century of time.
in case you haven't already, his autobiography "Man for all markets" is great.
Perhaps...people are assessing this offer and deciding it doesn't, in fact, have strictly better expected value? The prevailing wisdom is that equity grants have an expected value near zero.

Once the prospective hire also factors in the common startup expectation that you sign over all your waking hours to the company, the surprisingly substantial value of benefits, and the added risk that the startup goes belly-up or can't make payroll regularly at some point, that offer of matching salary starts to look much less attractive.

Not saying that your frustration isn't warranted, or that all of these factors necessarily pertain in your startup - just that there are entirely valid reasons why the person on the other end of the table might refuse. (After all, the thing that makes much of modern economics / commerce possible is that risk is subjective.)
Maybe they realized the 'America fuck yeah' movement is over and they aren't the global police. No but jokes aside I think it has some parallels with decreasing interference in middle east and in general. I don't really follow these things so I could be wrong
Thanks! Yeah good idea. The basic concept is easily portable to other niches. I have actually setup affiliate links. However, as of now I really do not believe in affiliate as a way of monetization. For me, it seems users will rarely click on such links. Furthermore, amz commission is also fairly low if you ask me. I am always open for tips and tricks tho! :)
Other than the pirate stations around London, they're not quite as proliferate as they once were with the advent of the internet. They have a colourful history in the UK however, with some stations broadcasting from international waters in the 60's just off the UK to circumvent the monopoly the BBC and record companies had on music. I highly recommend watching 'The Boat That Rocked' for a good comedy based on it.

Below are some interesting reads on the culture:

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

https://www.transdiffusion.org/2008/08/01/on_the_run_the

http://www.thepiratearchive.net/

https://web.archive.org/web/20090324075718/http://www.freewe...
FBLAS: Streaming Linear Algebra on FPGA
they shouldn't invest in the market in the first place. that's what still happens in europe in most of the countries.
Come on China. Let Hong Kong be free. Let them vote and let them choose their government. 讓他們選他們自己的政府。
"when the roads are mostly paid for by the cost of the London Underground"

Taxes on fuel used in motor vehicles (duties and VAT) are something like 30bn GBP/year in the UK.

London has about 1/6th of the UK's population, so let's assume 5bn/year comes from London.

That's 5x the annual operating profit of London Underground[0].

Government income and expenditure is fungible, so it's hard to determine precisely whether X is paid for by Y or by Z.

But it's clear that government revenue from London road users is much higher than the profit from London Underground.

So it seems strange to assert that roads are paid for mostly by London Underground.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20865111
Google Maps does real-time route correction based on traffic delays. I'm not sure about any rules applied for avoiding specific local streets but it definitely warns you about traffic ahead and suggests an alternative route. It also uses historic data to estimate travel times if you tell it when (day, time) you want to leave or when you want to arrive somewhere.

We like to think of all the NIMBY's and school streets but these types of "shortcuts" suggested by mapping apps is also what sometimes leads people into dangerous neighborhoods and tragic consequences.
Sounds not that cost-saving for me when you mention that your not critical DB OOM-crashes here and there. How much do you saving, like $150/year on dedicated host?
>Pension Funds Are Going To Be Destroyed In The Next Recession

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/destroyed

The article I read is arguing that Pension funds will no longer exist. Pension funds wont be going anywhere.
The BSD troubles rather than wars: it wasn't a spat between BSD distros, it was BSDi and UC (Berkeley) getting sued by USL.

It cast a long shadow over the viability of Berkeley at the height of the UNIX wars, and just as Linux was appearing as a completely independent and unencumbered UNIX supported by the maturation & advocacy of GNU and the FSF.
What would the difference be?
Well, the nature of the business is that I'd really rather not discuss it, but its enough to say that in the heigh-day of the Internet bubble, late 80's/early-90's, there was a lot of Ponzi going on, around the bandwidth providers. If you look at it, the way the Internet was constructed back then is kind of Ponzi, only back then we called it 'over-subscription' ...
The question is how can you be confident that the cases you’re putting into category D don’t actually belong in category U. The investigator is tasked with finding people who faked their own death; how can you tell the difference between a successful con and the person you’re looking for actually being deceased?
Care to elaborate? I have played GTA V, but I haven't played Online. Are you talking about the recent Casino update?
IIRC Netflix is using FreeBSD.

Outside the server scope, OSX is mainly BSD with a different kernel.

FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD too.
We’ve got these small pottery bowls I really like. One day, I noticed there only seemed to be two of them. I asked my spouse what happened to the other two. She replied that we only ever owned two. I said, no that can’t be right, I’m certain we had four. She insisted only two. A while later I found a third. I went to her and said, ah ha, see, three bowls! Where did the fourth go?

And do you know what she says? “We’ve only ever had three.”

It’s been many months now, maybe a year, and there’s still only three, but hand to god, I’m going to find that fourth bowl.

I still can’t get a straight answer out of her why she’s so certain there were only ever three when she was just as certain there were only ever two until confronted with the physical reality of three bowls.

Now she thinks this is about being right, but I insist it isn’t. It’s the unsettling idea that my memory isn’t correct.

I may just have to let this one go... :-)
Lego to open 160 new stores as other toy retailers suffer
Just Devil's Advocate, but I think it's fairly well established that human memories are not "kinda inaccurate", they are woefully inaccurate. Most of the time a human can get some of the big stuff right, but the neuro-psychological underpinnings of "attention" and "memory" pretty much guarantee we will miss a lot of what's going on. (And if we can put the human under enough stress, s/he will not even get the big stuff right.) The fact is, humans rarely even "see" what's actually in front of them, let alone have any "memory" of what was actually in front of them. (For us, reality is not reality, rather our perception is our reality.)

Now the memory being inaccurate to start with does not make manipulating that already inaccurate memory "ok". There's no question about that. Though having said that, it's important to note that because memories are so malleable and inaccurate, we've actually been manipulating them for a long time. It's actually a pretty well researched area.

I mean, this is not really new.
"room temperature" in Mali is not what we're used to as room temperature.

Also, plastic bottles are surprisingly popular in Mali. Children beg tourists primarily for bottles and pens.
> Who's being convinced by statements like that?

I wonder that a lot.

Perhaps, "convince" is the wrong verb to use for targets of disinformation campaigns?

The fact is "enough" people are susceptible to this stuff. It is worth doing because, sadly, critical thinking is rapidly becoming an educational luxury reserved for the elite. I don't know where all this will end up, but it's going to be ugly.
I meant the CLI tools listed on the site that let you roundtrip between dbml and actual sql dialect (currently looks like pgsql & mysql are supported)

I guess my original query could've been clearer - but the author got my drift :)
True, but besides the point. Globally, that efficiency angle can't produce the CO2 reduction we need. Even if Europe halves its per capita consumption and the US reduces it to 25%, there's the rest of the world. There are too many people increasing their energy consumption, with every right to do so.
Goal setting: are you doing it right?
The ESA isn't the FAA. It has fuck all authorization over SpaceX and European satellites even.
The University of Missouri Rolla is a highly regarded engineering school. They have a distance graduate program:

https://dce.mst.edu/credit/degrees/computerscience/index.htm...

For what it's worth their graduate engineering programs are rated #22 on US News:

https://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/missouri-u...
Indian Occupied Kashmir faces internet shutdowns very often [1], for months on end. People are regularly arrested for voicing their opinion on social media and booked under draconian laws.

I was traveling to Kashmir (my home) recently and my whatsapp and phone image gallery was checked at the airport by Indian occupational forces.

There is also mass media propaganda that claims "everything is alright" in kashmir, when in reality India has been worse than a barbaric dictatorship [2] (fueled by jingoism and racism) in Kashmir.

[1] - https://internetshutdowns.in

[2] - https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/IN/DevelopmentsInK...
Why are you bringing up MacOS vs. Linux in a thread about FreeBSD on a Thinkpad?
I agree that it is bad to embrace/shrug off memory manipulation with the rationalization that memory has always been reliable. [Edit: Unreliable]

It is also bad to ignore the evidence that memories are unreliable with or without memory manipulation.

We can acknowledge the weakness without using it as justification.
In retrospect, it's probably a good thing. BSD splinters have largely become incompatible with each other, whereas Linux distro splinters have (largely) remained compatible due to licensing and cultural differences.

We probably would have had BSD wars for real not long after, if it had become popular. To some extent, this is by design, as there's no culture or ethos that pushes people back together.
This isn't an interview, it's an ad by the insurance companies - Don't do this or we will find you.
What are the non-malicious uses for something like this? Haven't actually got around to pondering that yet.
If you can count perfectly, you can beat the odds. An obvious solution would be for casino to reshuffle cards at ever game but I suspect they don't do it because they bank on a lot of people who underestimate how hard it is to count cards or overestimate their mental skills.

Blackjack is an incredibly boring game, remove the ability to count and beat the odds and no one would play it.
Genetic/memetic algorithms are just a rough approximation of a certain selection mechanism we see in the nature, like what Deep Learning is to brain. Making a conclusion that some trivial algorithm with even complicated custom cross-over function can be translated to real-world is as much fantasy as thinking one could upload consciousness to TensorFlow. I never understood how anyone calling themselves a scientist could make such a leap, but obviously it's popular and people made a "scientific" career doing just that...
These are sound quite manageable relative to the economic catastrophe of doing nothing.
Space is literally the place to push technical boundaries. It's this thinking that has condemned our space growth in the past.
Modern Patience Thresholds Lower Than Ever Before, Technology to Blame
Because the people who pay folks to work on systems dont like to pay enough money to get that level of talent.
I think "growing exponentially" is technically correct. Anything that grows at a rate proportional to its size is growing exponentially.

The transportation innovations allowed cities to keep doing that, i.e. growing at X% per year instead of hitting some limit where population growth would force out-migration.
I will say that people get hell-banned for seemingly self-promoting on HN. Might be good to mix up your submissions with other articles you find interesting, so it doesn't appear as though you are only posting your own writings.
Ohh, I didn't know about this - thanks for the heads up!
Easily - because you don't have $1,000.

Because your current system is portable and well known in a place where land use and other rights are less solid?

Because no one around you has the technical capacity to update / maintain / repair the system?

Because if you invest in something in a less developed area - someone may come and take it (yes, this includes the govt and various officials who may start talking about permitting etc etc).

Interestingly, this same question is asked and answered at the country scale for major industries. Why ship unrefined / unprocessed product that takes up 10x the volume when you could process locally for the whole country? Because the market doesn't trust the systems in that country well enough to invest $5B that has a 20 year payback even if its "easy math".
Yah, I would guess so!
What should these funds invest in then?
> The best option is to densify our cities. This is hard, too

Leveling off or lowering the human population through lower birth rates works better. I'm not saying it's simple or even possible since so many people jump to conclusions about eugenics etc, but reducing overpopulation makes a lot of problems easier. If we don't figure out how on our own, nature will do it for us so we might as well figure out how in a peaceful, fair way.
> And since you like i3, might want to try Sway – HiDPI is much better supported on Wayland ;)

Seconding this.

Long time Windows, Linux AND i3 user.

When I (for the Nth time) tried Sway recently, I was blown away by the multi-display support and how well it handled DPI-differences between those.

It was without a doubt the best HiDPI experience I’ve had on any OS so far.

If you’ve tried Sway in the past and given up on it (like I did), for lack of maturity or whatever, do give it a spin now.

IMO it’s finally ready. It’s finally here.
https://bikepacking.com/ is probably a niche. They managed a good mix of content (routes, maps, blog posts) and selling (usually bike gear). https://bikepacking.com/routes/gira-costa/
History will show that Theo was right in a manner similar to how Stalman was right: technically correct analysis and eerily accurate predictions, but lacking in sufficient charisma to create more than a small following.

To some extent, you might say they are like Cassandra; speaking the truth but not believed or listened to.
That doesn't prove they are correctly categorized, just that a category has been assigned.
Personalized meme gif generation? Send your friend a gif with their face on Bruce Lee to tell them they are kicking ass
Stop thinking in terms of individual guilt and how to avoid it, think in terms of collective responsibility. What do we need to do to solve the problem, not what do I need to do to exculpate myself from it.
This reminds me of all the problems Apple had with 24 bit addressing and smuggling data in the unused eight bits at the top of each pointer. Andy Hertzfeld considers that his worst blunder:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
People always point that out like it was a magic solution. My son will totally help me cook a meal and then refuse to eat it.
3 is an awkward number of bowls so there definitely used to be 4. Dishware usually comes in multiples of 2
The Hong Kong Jockey Club, in particular is excellent with regards to the free data they provide. They really do try to publish everything, from track work times to horse weights.[1]

Other jurisdictions not so much. There are various scrapers available to obtain generic race card information[2] and APIs from some bookmakers/exchanges.[3]

A couple of years ago I read an article lamenting the lack of open data in horse racing, which still largely holds true today. Unfortunately, I can't find the article now (it was either on the Paulick Report or Bloodhorse website), but here's a more recent one from May this year calling for more open data.[4]

In fact, a question was asked on HN a couple of years ago about an open horse racing database and as far as I know the answers there are still valid.[5]

In general, there is data available for US, UK, IRE, Australian racing (the main jurisdictions) but they have to be paid for.[6][7][8][9]

[1] https://racing.hkjc.com/racing/english/index.aspx

[2] https://github.com/4A47/rpscrape

[3] https://docs.developer.betfair.com/display/1smk3cen4v3lu3yom...

[4] https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/232487/thor...

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7779117

[6] https://www.betwise.co.uk/smartform

[7] https://www.proformracing.com/

[8] https://southcoastdatabase.com.au/

[9] https://www.equibase.com/
“Joke” apps, so you can put yourself in a video as a hero heroine, villain villainess. Put yourself as a singer or whatever on a music video, etc.

Punking your friends too.

In a productive context in filmmaking you can have fun with doubles and stuntmen and stunt women. Or if you have the rights to license the face and likeness of an actor actress and they can be in five films, ten films in a year (forgetting about brand dilution). John Wayne can be in a new Western movie,
Most of the time litigation is just to harass and tire the weaker opponent, truth may not even matter.
In all fairness, the UK no longer has the economy of a maritime empire to fund a navy that projects power.
I use it for IMAP, it works great!

I even filed a feature request to support different authorization/authentication (e.g. shared inboxes accessed through a regular user account), and one of the contributor implemented it. Had a great experience :)
I expect inflation to destroy pensions and retirement savings. We're heading towards a time when there are going to be only 2 workers for every retiree. We're going to need a lot of people to take care of retirees, and that's a crappy job that most won't want to do. Currently such jobs pay poorly but I expect them to have to crank those salaries a lot to fill them.
OK yes there's a reasonable use of the term early in the article that I overlooked. It was the "streetcars and bicycles" section where it grated on me.
Perhaps someone might know better than me: why is hyperthreading necessarily bad? Can't you just keep it on and give your tenants cores with affinity? For example, some tenant wants two cores, you give them two vcores on the same core; some tenant wants four cores, you give them two vcores over two, etc.
> Now my question is, how do we become unconnected?

That's easy. The people of the Amazon pass some laws that protect their land.

America has this form of protection vs exploitation. Brazil needs to get with the program. Its not an American problem - I eat corn fed beef and pork from Kansas and Nebraska.
I have submitted a few news article that I've found interesting (from Bloomberg etc) that have also done well on here lately. But you're right. I will make an effort to mix up my submissions! Thanks!
> post above and tell me how the Asciidoc ordered list using . and .. is more readable

It isn't - the point is that asciidoc has a 'spec' whereas markdown has dialects because it's not rigourously specified (core or extensions). Which one you might run into is the luck of the draw.

Should you try to improve markdown (and lots of people have), you end up with the N+1 standards problem (famous xkcd cartoon) and further fragmenting the implementation if at all it takes off.

Getting one 'Markdown' that has features (and extensions) that work properly wherever you go isn't a technical problem . It's a problem created by the lack of a spec in the first place and IMO pretty much unsolvable now.
Seems useful for memes?
It could be useful for film production where you could replace the stuntman's face with the real actor's one.
Maigret is much better in French. For such kind of "cheap" unpretentious books, the author is pretty astute and solid building the narrative. There is a lot of "European soul" and specially "French soul" distilled in the books.
Isn't that how it should be essentially given currency is a medium of value exchange? If the production grows shouldn't credit grow with it for reasons similar to why national debt is listed as GDP percentage?
Matrix Processing with Nanophotonics
Agree that this feels like a tool for malicious intent.
But, maybe reviving dead celebrities or family members?
Either way this tech seems inevitable, nerds showing off their skills to other nerds.

Next question: does it make CCTV footage obsolete as a form of permissible evidence in court?
On the other hand, if BSDs had been more popular, one of these splinters might have dominated the market as much as Linux does, due to the many positive feedback effects of being the most successful free OS.