skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NYT is one of the primary targets of Manufacturing Consent. That book changed how I see the media. I still read NYT pretty regularly, but I definitely see it differently.
The Death of Political Philosophy
It's not that he wants a jury trial, which is guaranteed to him by the Bill of Rights, but that he wants to make a "my actions were in the public interest" defense which is not allowed.
FWIW, the SGX GPU in it were on of the first to go hog wild on f16.

And if they'd document their ISA, it's pretty amenable to being used for neural networks, wayore than the other mobile GPUs at least. It'd be a cold day in hell before they did that though unfortunately.
The only way forward, the only chance we have is to invent technology to trap and sequester green houses gases from the upper atmosphere.

Reducing human greenhouse gas output won’t happen fast enough to fix things, and I’m not sure that it’s possible to capture and trap existing green house gases, but it’s the only chance we have, because it’s the only way to stop the positive feedback loops that are currently running, warming oceans, melting glaciers, and thawing permafrost. We need to reverse warming, not slow it down.

The current approach of “adding less” is absurd. If you need 2,500 calories to maintain your weight, and you are eating 25,000 calories you will get fat fast. Reducing calorie intake to 15,000 won’t let you lose weight, you’ll just get fatter slower.

Our current approach to climate change is to get fatter slower, we need to lose weight.

We need the capacity to capture and sequester per year, 10% more green house gases than we produce per year. Because we need to reduce the total amount of green house gases in the upper atmosphere.
So, don’t sell in France in order to keep your business model in tact?
How do you know? There's no experiment I can think of to confirm this.

IMO, the correct 'null hypothesis' wrt mammals is that they think and feel like humans do, except where we've managed to prove otherwise.
I'm in the same boat: my standards for myself are way lower than when I work for other people.

I think self-discipline doesn't cut it. What you need is commitment devices: put yourself in a situation where it's harder/more costly to not do the work rather than do it. Have the environment do the motivation work for you, "tie yourself to the mast"

For example: time tracking, deadline for a public speech, deadline for a demo day, going to a dedicated room where only work is allowed, working with other people (even if they don't work on the same stuff as you), developing a good routine/habits. Keeping a log of progress/failures is good too.

It's hard stuff
Do they? Remember that under the GDPR, a five-page ToS with a "I consent" button at the end is not considered valid. In particular, the user must consent for each use of the PI separately. I don't remember ever seeing a specific consent box for building an engagement profile.
I've noticed a few very pro-fossil comments in threads. I don't know if there are shills or if there are simply propagandist fossil fuel lovers? Is there any way to empirically study HN commenters? Data scrape + analyze?
Is the point of free software to create as much variations of a program as possible?

I'd rather see that useful changes are merged upstream, or projects are forked. If this had happened, you wouldn't even need to patch, and this would save an enormous amount of manpower that is wasted on trivialities.
I love it, but I don’t think these are even coming to the North American market.
It's some kind of entity that is responsible for the full page GDPR popups that block the access to many websites like Techcrunch, Tumblr or Slashdot.
Everything has cause and effect. What's your point, that we should police the content adults are allowed to watch? Call the police on people watching 2girls1cup?
For the masses? My family is doing fairly well for people in my generation and I've never ever briefly considered buying a car for more than 10k.
Destroy the economy is a gross exaggeration.

Game sales over time generally resemble a power distribution. Most sales happen within the first week or so, then sales follow a steep drop-off. There are of course exceptions in the indie game community, but AAA publishes build up to a tidal wave of marketing for release day, then things kind of simmer down.

So a second hand market would cut into the tail-profits. Certainly not desirable for studios, still but quite a few jaunts away destroying the economy.
Just a general warning. A few days ago I noticed Chromium from Chocolatey did not receive any updates in quite a while.
Make big changes now, or be forced to make them later. Stop supporting the meat industry. Take public transit or bicycle if possible. Avoid flying, driving by yourself. Avoid excessive consumption of disposable products.

There is no sustainable future where we get to keep our current lifestyles.
It is, but watching an isis video in your comfy air-conditioned London office while being payed the average african annual wage each month is a far cry from war. That's what I was talking about. I completely understand a soldier or a victim of a crime being traumatised.
Ripgrep Cheat Sheet
In fact, isn't that why uBlock is not uBO?
Is that supposed to be an argument for social coercion? The west works though, overall there is obvious function.
I was more thinking about a fullstack web framework like Django, maybe Adonisjs or Nestjs. I am not sure if Django will be less magical than Rails or not and I was curious to know what HN will recommend.

Ho well my question didn't take any traction. I guess I should have better worded the question and took time to leave a description... :)

Thank you for your reply!
Yeah, I think I get what you mean.

I'd love if some European state would have provided him with asylum, but I doubt he would be as safe here as he is in Russia. Sadly.
> if you were to run a survey over the general population the large majority is fine not having to pay for gmail, google search, maps and other "free" services while some data may be collected doing so

This is simply not true. When informed about it, a clear majority of people would prefer not to be surveilled, and are uncomfortable with unknown third parties having profiles on them, ads following them around the internet, etc.

The fact that these people continue to use these services anyway (even after being informed) is not a sign that they are 'fine' with it. It is because they have no choice. Even as an engineer, I've found it unfeasibly difficult to avoid being surveilled while continuing to live a normal life. For most people it's a non-starter. They have no choice.

Freedom to choose is essential to a free market. Regulation, done well, can increase market freedom.
I spent a long time in the hosting industry, most of which was in early 00s. When the feds couldn't get a court to order to hand over data we simply sold the data to them. They paid, quite handsomely at times.
Effectively a giant version of your laptop power supply. The conversion is not quite as efficient as a transformer, and certainly more expensive, but for long distances the whole system can be more efficient than AC.

(The magic component is the "insulated gate bipolar transistor", sometimes using silicon carbide as the semiconducting element. These are capable of multi-kilovolt switching.)
Do you know if there are any current technologies to trap and sequester green house gases ?
People once felt the same way about Microsoft. There’s ways to be competitive with Google for whatever you’re interested in. You can compete by having good customer service for your product. They’ve given that up to the algos.

I know I personally highly value the ability to talk to an actual human if I’m having a problem.
The first amendment doesn't apply to twitter, but we can still hold them accountable for their content policies.
I think it is possible the US "doesn't care" to the extent that they're not going to bother with someone who is generally out of reach beyond some extra ordinary measures that they're not willing to expend on someone like Snowden.

US intelligence agencies generally hunting down every last spy or leaker is just not a thing historically. They have "given up" on such people to the extent that they don't take extra ordinary measures many many times in the past.

Russia has done the same, or at least did regularly during the cold war. Recent history is a bit different and difficult to compare though with Russia as the motivations and who is in charge of what security service do not all appear to be aligned for any given person.
> I wonder if it's possible to continue using Safari with my own distraction filters.

You can, and I’m working on making this. (No timeline, since I’m notoriously bad at getting things out the door.)
More like "don't sell in the EU". Not sure if that's a market to easily ignore...?
It’s worth noting that the Supreme Court did not parse the 2nd amendment to mean ownership of weapons must be “completely unrestricted and unabridged”, as evidenced by the variety of restrictions in place across the US, both at the federal and state level.

It’s pretty clear that we should be evaluating ways to adjust gun law in the US to prevent the kinds of violence that are occurring under the current set of rules, but we should accurately portray the current state of the world while we’re having that evaluation.
This. It isn’t a tech worker thing, it’s a human thing. The $400 I spend for a single session with my psychiatrist (he’s the rare MD who also does and is excellent at therapy — when he retires I’m seriously not sure what I’m going to do) is the best money I spend each month.
What if its why we can't teach critical thinking :)
Ginkgo Bioworks’ dev shop for genetic programming is now worth $4B
China's population is also aging.

Evidence suggests that solar geoengineering with SO2 would work.

Occam's razor I'm more likely to believe in just incompetence than a cabal of elites who know that geoengineering won't work without having conducted any real experiments
Main differences between work culture of Indian IT companies and other countries
And in a few years time, used ID.3's will be available for under 10K.
So what? How does that protect the end user?
Yes, but they're having to actively use battery power to do that, instead of just passively using waste heat from the ICE engine. So this greatly reduces their range. It probably works out fine for them because the car's maximum range is probably much greater than their commute distance, so they probably have battery capacity to spare and burning some of it on heat isn't a big deal as it gets recharged at home every night (and maybe also at work). If they had more "range anxiety", however, they probably wouldn't be so eager.
The term we are talking about is called capacity factor [1]. According to this article, capacity factor for nuclear (no data for coal available) is ~0.9 vs .2-.4 (hydro), .47 (wind), .29 (solar) for renewables.

So the difference in availability between current base load plants (nuclear) and renewables is somewhere between 3x (hydro, solar) and 2x (wind).

I got it, that you do not buy into the co2 story, and it's everyones right to have their own opinions. But have you ever considered that there might be other factors which would make it possible for you to see renewables as a worthy alternative? Burning stuff [2,3] causes all sorts of effects on our environment, directly impacting health.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor
[2] https://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/sources-of-exposure/power-plants
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London
>The reason you haven't is not because we're somehow excluding you.

I didn't say that.

>It's because your many accounts consistently break the site guidelines, causing your posts to get downvoted.

It's trivial as you say to get up-voted. But you do it not with substance, but with tone.

HN literally has a system to negate community downvotes that typically only gets used when a mainstream HN opinion gets downvoted. Don't you even _dare_ to pretend that its some kind of filtering mechanism that works. Because HN is the last place you'd want to use to laud some kind of meritocratic democratic system.

A person who basically has a fetish for the Holocaust is posting around on the site. No one flagged it, no one down-voted it, a few people called it out, and one person emailed the site moderators about it.

Haha.

>The fact that you didn't shows that you're not truly concerned about keeping HN free of the abuse you're complaining about.

Choosing to or to not use an external communication system doesn't imply anything. Please stop using motivational fallacies to protect inconsistent, flimsy decision making.

> When you imply that moderators somehow support the dreck, I don't believe you're doing so in good faith.

It's not an implication. It's how self-publishing systems work. The organization can even be held legally responsible in egregious cases for allowing certain content to get published. You might in your heart of hearts be earnest about this belief, but it's not realistic and it's fairly naive.

>the name for what you're doing is poisoning the well. That is another form of trolling.

Usage of fallacies is not trolling. Don't say what I'm doing is trolling. You're quite literally using the fallacy you just referenced against me while pretending that I'm the one doing it, despite none of comments ascribing any kind of personal characteristic or motivation to moderators' inaction.

There is no need to get so childishly personal and attempt to poorly invoke fallacies you immediately then use. That's kind of disheartening to see.

>This site is for people who sincerely want to use it as intended

Not that this is relevant, but there is a rather rich irony in where a site with the name Hacker in it expects its users to plainly use the site as "intended". Totally and completely ignoring the principle behind hacking: to make systems act differently than intended, whatever the motivation.
Wise words. I wish I had read and thought about things like his, before I got my heavy depressions being not even 30 years old.

Thought I had already experienced bad times but nothing came close to that half year of what is called "Burn Out". Wouldn't wish that to my worst enemy.

People, take good care of yourself, OP is totally right.
Eh I think Snowden rightly figured that he would have had a hard time prevailing in court based on his situation. Intelligence agencies can't just say, "this guy doesn't get a trial". It's just that a trial would have been hard for him to win.

To use whistleblower protections, he would've had to go through official channels. But doing so would have made it likely that his concerns would be quashed and that he would've faced retaliatory action. Previous NSA whistleblowers didn't fare well.

So with that defense out the window, he would've had to hope a jury would not find him guilty because of what he was attempting to expose. The government would have argued that he stole classified materials and that he signed oaths that he would protect classified materials under penalty of law. They would argue he should be convicted of this theft, whether or not his intentions were noble.

That would have been a big gamble to take in court, because if he lost he would've been looking at a long, long time in jail. He could've made a plea deal, but again, a good amount of jail time.
Isn't the main issue with DNS blocking the same as this "content blocking", i.e. it cant work for things like blocking Twitch's SureStream ads?

Interestingly I found this while looking around for the answer: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/5184#issuecom...
I don't think the goal is fix past things in the past - you'd need a time machine for that.

Rather therapists help you not make the same mistake again.

A lot of humans think "But I'll never make that mistake again!"

But then they do. We're just not evolved to live in modern environments, so our brains and nervous systems lead us to do silly things.

Therapists help reduce the likelihood that you keep making the same mistakes. And they provide techniques to mitigate the risks arising from new types of mistakes you might make.
There is, but Nintendo didn't make these games. As a consequence, they're pretty awful.

However, we did get some of my favorite quotes out of it for the past few decades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN8-Pdz-ns8

My wife and I often say 'I guess I better get going!' and 'How about a kiss, for luck?' to each other
I'm in the opposite camp - for all personal projects I always want to get everything "just right and perfect", employing all the best principles etc, which ends up being so complicated that nothing gets done due to decision paralysis. At work, there's less freedom and the goals are often more clear and feasible, so things get done this way or another.
Wavelength values are linear. The labels cause all the arguments.
> The thing that I don't like is if you allow reselling then developers get less long-term revenue but (hopefully) more short-term revenue. This will cause them to focus more on getting a big opening weekend than making a solid game that might have years of appeal.

But this exactly what happens now anyways.

Not a cynical view point just a statement of what I believe to be facts. I had some interest in making indie games myself, so I looked at the market.

Almost all games sales follow a power curve with most sales falling in the first week. The publishers build a tidal wave of marketing hype months before the game is released. AAAs spend tons of money to build-up to a critical mass of media influencers [e.g. YouTubers, entertainment conventions, TV ad spots, etc...].
I believe these games were actually made by Philips, similar to how Capcom made a few Zelda games a few years back.
Colt sells a model named 'Expanse' which is at the $600 pricepoint. It's the $350/400 rifles they are having trouble competing against
Creepy fun:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eRrINyuPZ3B0_m8VTdmfkETGQdD...
The Democratic Debates
You know you probably have to pay taxes on that?
To anyone reading who wants to know what they can personally do--in rough order of decreasing impact:

https://citizensclimatelobby.org/ is doing really good work. They focus on a very non-adversarial approach, and are changing the minds of a lot of congresspeople about vital climate legislation. It's a very effective approach. Joining up with your local chapter and volunteering is a great way to spend your time and energy, if you have it.

A small thing anyone can do is sign up for https://projectgrandcanyon.com/ and call their congressperson once a month.

If you are willing to make a personal change, learn about veganism. You don't have to go completely vegan. It's great if you can, but if it's too scary, start with Meatless Monday and go from there. Rather than thinking about how to reduce meat, think about how to fill your diet with more meat-free options. Learn to make some tasty, filling vegetarian or vegan pastas, curries, and other recipes. Eat more starchy foods, whole grains, and beans.

If you can, and it suits you, move to a dense, walkable area of the city. This isn't possible or desirable for everyone, obviously.
I can't recall if it was in Prag Prog but it's one of my favorite Andy Hunt quotes... "Change your team or change your team"
That’s surprising, as I’m sure even an outdated uBlock Origin should fetch an up-to-date EasyList.
YMMV, but to me there's a difference between directly creating financial benefit for the owners of a largely closed software ecosystem--and Chef in practice is a largely closed software ecosystem, it's single-source and they're doing their damnedest to squeeze money out of their users right now--and more general open-source publishing.
Welcome to freedom my friend. The only social apps I’ve kept are Snapchat for family and Reddit for gaming stuff.

It’s been really eye opening to me how much better I feel after deleting my Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Reverse osmosis is the way to go.

If you are worried about the lack of minerals you can always remineralize your water.

https://thewatergeeks.com/how-to-remineralize-ro-water/
I do see at first glance it could be seen as a simple choice of words, however, I do think it really leaves many readers with a different takeaway.

“The workers had lit a bonfire and were sitting together when a drone targeted them,” tribal elder Malik Rahat Gul told Reuters by telephone from Wazir Tangi.

“The workers had lit a bonfire and were sitting together when a drone pilot targeted them,” tribal elder Malik Rahat Gul told Reuters by telephone from Wazir Tangi.

Small change, large impact on the takeaway.
Is it a 6 hours session for that insane amount of money?
They brought no proof, so no. Show something on a cell phone video or whatever. And make it obvious, not something that can be interpreted in other ways. Then I'll believe it. But until that day comes, the burden of proof lies with the woman.
I have a unique line of work that exposes me to both sides of the extremes pretty frequently, and personally I have a rather apolitical neutral outlook. From my perspective, the amount of dehumanizing rhetoric from both sides scares the shit out of me.

Anecdotally, I'd say that the extremity of the deeply alt right is indeed worse in their fixation on hatred, but I'd also say that there's a greater fraction on the far-to-moderate left routinely spewing dehumanizing rhetoric about anyone with even remotely right leaning views.

On balance, it's hard for me to say one side is superior, except that the extremes are obviously bad. There's some very real concern among conflict professionals that cut their teeth in places like Bosnia in the 90's about America today, and frankly, I understand the fears there.
All looks good, but the charging rate seems really slow.
I think this should. Using the same logic, this should apply to in-game items and other "dematerialized" goods.
I'm really excited for more viable electric vehicles. But, the claim that this is the first car for the masses when it's simply 2-3k (~33k to ~35k in USD) cheaper than a Tesla model 3 is discouraging.

That said, I do understand that the total cost of ownership does catch up if you keep the car long enough. I would just love to see something in the 20s, or even lower. (Further, I'm very sympathetic to the argument that reduced carbon is more important than my personal financial expense.)

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Thanks for all the clarification. I had no idea about VAT.
America’s Great Climate Exodus Is Starting in the Florida Keys
It's very possible this is where I've gotten the idea from and simply forgotten - thanks.
That’s a nice anecdote. The average new car selling price is over $30k (in the US).
For lonely people, it's much easier to get a therapist than a spouse.
"Public health recommendations promoting physical activity should incorporate advice to avoid periods of sedentary behaviour."

How do we interpret and apply information like this? Many people work in front a computer these days so it can't actually be applied to them (read us).
I guess that's the same as witnessing it on an industrial level, day after day.
This is the key issue. If a company is built to be remote -- over documentation; excessive communication; no two people are local to each other; a culture around the online communication tools (to replicate the watercooler); and most importantly 3 - 4 overlap of all teams so you know when meetings can be scheduled. Have that, and you can work extremely well.

If you are "distributed" in the sense there is a HQ full of managers, and a bunch of other offices because that's where people could be found with the right skill set, no set overlap hours, and HQ still has the practices on of non-distributed culture (conversations about important topics happen face to face for instance). Well, then, you have to accept you will be out of the loop and work very hard to be remembered and involved.
I agree, there's no way Snowden would have gotten away with a 5 year sentence. He probably would have gotten something similar to Manning, with maybe a chance of parole at some point.