skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Don’t) Try to use the sole function of a gun on yourself without harming yourself. Now use WhatsApp on yourself and see what happens. Do you do nothing because you have to think up something to write? The act of writing up the auction is the first part of the crime. Even if you don’t go through with selling a human you may or may not have, you may still be charged for having written that message and sharing it somehow.
Do you happen to know any of their contact info? I've tried many times to find an email for them on their website to no avail, maybe I'm blind.
I think there are a few ways to better deploy moderation.

With twitter and its shouty kin, splitting the userbase into "normies" and "broadcaster" (the top 10% with the most views/reach)

Broadcasters have a disproportionate effect in terms of reach and tone. Spending time (and people) closely moderating in a very visible and transparent way will set the tone for everyone.

Twitter is hamstrung because it's most famous user (Trump) breaks its guidelines monthly (I mean he literally threatened to bomb iran, if thats not violent and intimidating behaviour I don't know what is)

Also, controversy drives engagement, which drives revenue. So I would say that its a feature of twitter, not a bug.
Pretty much any one responsible for making decisions for others can't be fair by any definition. Add to this that they have to tend to their own interests too. You have to align your interests with their's. There is nothing wrong with this. The problem is often people get in your way when this is supposed to happen. This is where 'throwing people under the bus' situations happen.

The second problem with people is that they try to evangelize their own little personal moral-principles based religion, some cause they believe in and try forcing it down other people's throats. There is literally no reason why any one should care about what or why you believe in anything at all. Especially if they don't stand to benefit from it in any real way. There is also no reason why you should mark any one as your enemy for not believing in what you do. This is even more troublesome because people attach things like moral prestige/superiority/pride to their cause and humiliate other people's intelligence for not aligning with theirs. Why should you want to do this?

Stop trying to be a rebel, take a step back and what see you are doing. Your boss wants X, in an ideal situation the best you can do is convince them to agree on settling with X-dx. But if your boss wants X and you want to change their directions and want them to do A instead. They are going quietly relieve you of your work, and find some one else to get the job done.
It's like someone picked two topics out of a hat (iPhone, Steampunk) and was tasked with writing an article about them. iPhones (and smartphones in general) were definitely a cultural phenomenon, but there's literally nothing tangible connecting them to Steampunk aside from the author's shallow, fluffed up wordsmithing.
Loading a database of plate numbers that are stolen, or reported for criminal activity/suspicion of criminal activity seem like a good compromise. Read a plate, compare it to the list. If not found, delete the record. Retention is the problem IMHO.
Banning encryption in one place will not change anything, it just means that those who want their actions hidden will go elsewhere or use tools such as VPNs, which seem fairly common these days, even amongst general users.
> Measurements at different points in time can differ slightly...

Indeed! The best thing you can do before an eye exam is be rested, eat an apple, don't stare at your phone in the waiting room, look out the window if there is one.

Tired eyes will give differing results. Low (or high) blood sugar (even in healthy people) with give differing results. Straining your eyes by looking at a screen in the waiting area can give differing results.

Note for all these I say can and not do.
Does it still phone home every time you fire it up?
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I found the real first post on Instagram
It's huge. I'd say around 10x (I have a 3rd gen Kindle)
It's funny... I am an adamant stickshift driver. I don't like driving cars with automatic transmissions. I feel less in control, less attentive. If even the difference between shifting myself and having some hydraulics do it for me bothers me, what about all this automatic other stuff?

We also hang on to cars for a long time, but my spouse recently got a new car and it has, among other things, a lane-keeping feature. It annoys the crap out of me. I use it on highway driving, but not in urban driving. On the other hand, it has a context-sensitive cruise control I really like.
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Kobo's integration with Pocket is a killer feature for me. It's so seamless: reading an article on my phone, and at any time hit a button, grab my kobo, and continue reading from there.
Funny how the same people who argue that "you can't ban guns, bad people will get guns anyway" are now in favor of banning encryption.
Sometimes I don't want people to see my stuff. If I use end-to-end encryption, people can't see my stuff. QED
Interesting. I've been working on similar concepts, albeit attached to a wider ontology/philosophy of society that's frankly amateurish because I'm an amateur.

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E: I don't use Nietzsche much as a reference, but I guess "transvaluation of values" is closer to my approach than the meaning-flow idea of Bohm. The word I use is "general axiology". But that's one in a pile of technical terms that like 10-15 people are aware of.

E2: I'm like two separate people (one technical, one batshit cuckoo continental-philosophy) and cringe at the notion of exposing one to the audience of the other. But what the hell, I need dismissive readers too. A succint presentation of my concept that's close to the Bohm dialogue: https://asemichorizon.wordpress.com/2019/06/28/topo%ce%bb%cf...

E3: "A better model for applied axiological thinking is a marital row. The optimal outcome for a disagreement between married persons is not to find a winner; most of the time, it isn’t even to arrive at the best objective thesis. Rather, the best results are obtained by repeatedly reframing the disagreement until it dissolves under the weight of the reasons why you’re married in first place — a strong axiology if there’s ever one in bourgeois society." There, I saved you time.
what planet are you living on? you can install custom launchers,dialers,sms, third-party app stores, & pretty much whatever else even without root or flashing a ROM. Not to mention the ability to sideload apps. The sky is the limit with root. There's widgets too, something completely foreign to isheep. There is plenty of tinkering available on android.
I say this so often: "I can't believe it's $year and we're still using regex!" So when I see "new pattern matching language" my eyes light up and I run over there -- but there's no example, no docs, even where it says "examples", and "docs", and it's hard to find anything I can use. I'm sorry, am I a vulgar entitled twit for not finding the spoon right away?

Regex is terrible to read. Give me an example, things we frequently match for, IP, credit card number, dates ... I read the example for date parsing, I'm ... not sure what the equiv is? I suggest the authors put up a Rosetta stone of sort, eg. in regex-speak: [0-1][0-9]-[0-3][0-9]-201[0-9], in Rosie-speak: xyz. What about capture group, that's what makes regex powerful, not just matching, that and the look-ahead look-behind.

Meta-comment: regex is buried in everything significant that I work with, it's buried in grep, the language libraries, Splunk. It's going to be hard to dislodge, there's a deep moat because the tools and common use cases are ugly but well-understood. Why are regex still being used? Why has nothing better come along? How would I even regex-match extended Unicode?
>Chernobyl very nearly was that serious.

No it wasn't. At no point did Chernobyl threaten to make 'much of Europe and the Middle East' uninhabitable for hundreds of years. About the worst that could have happened with Chernobyl happened. There just wasn't enough radioactive material in the reactor to have that big of an impact at that scale, and saying this does not invalidate the regional devastation that it did cause.
>I shudder to think of how much I'd have to add to make it even close to something like Eclipse.

It depends on what you use in Eclipse, really. But vim has plugins to do things like autocompletion, there's many ways to access console (:term), etc. It's all done through plugins, you just use whatever plugin manager to add them. It's very simple.

>I am hobbyist programmer and a parent, so I don't get a lot of time to do programming these days. When I do I don't like fiddling my half-baked tmux/vim setup. I just wanna write code. So I use IDEs.

Me too, but the day or two it took to get vim setup to function as an IDE also meant I had all the power that comes along with vim. For me it is well worth the time investment of a few hours for something I'll use for years and years and be more productive than using Eclipse. And allows me to go between my normal text editor and IDE and share all my keybindings and workflows.

I think a good trade off would be something like a vim plugin for Eclipse. PyCharm for example has IdeaVIM which is a plugin that brings a lot of the power of vim to that IDE.

I just couldn't give up all the power of vim just for the out-of-the-box IDE features like autocomplete when I can just add them to vim.
I believe the federal government's concern (and those of various law enforcement agencies, etc.) is not with E2EE in general but with their desire for a specific (and, in my opinion, deeply flawed) implementation where they have an ability to read these messages. While law enforcement might be happy with a system that requires a warrant or some other paperwork, the US federal government appears to be demanding unfettered access to these messages.

In my opinion, the federal government's unfettered access to people's messages is entirely new with the advent of the internet. They didn't enjoy this level of access when people communicated by written letters nor when they spoke to each other over analog telephones. I believe the questions is less about the mechanism (E2EE) and more about the reach of the federal government and law enforcement and how comfortable we, as citizens, are with them having this kind of access to all of our communications.

In terms of people who are willingly breaking the law, they will always have access to communication methods that the federal government and law enforcement cannot easily surveil. Right now many E2EE mechanisms are the easiest way for these people to communicate privately. If the federal government gets their way and gains access to their communication, and starts to crack down on these crimes then these people will move to another communication medium. Perhaps even back to traditional letters.

There are many reasons to oppose an E2EE system where the federal government and law enforcement have a "backdoor" that lets them read all of these messages. For instance, it won't be long before another organization (perhaps even foreign) figures out how the mechanism works and gains access to every person's communications; the security provided by such a system will have a limited term and we may not know when that terms ends.

In my opinion, the most important issue is granting this level of power to the government and law enforcement. I think this could really be an existential threat to democracy in the US.
> The answer is to keep the work ethic going - working hard.

That doesn't seem to work unfortunately. Good if it does for you :)
Research that demonstrates, say, 1000x reduction in power for training a known problem (ex: mnist) won't be considered irrelevant by the community. So is there a specific need to bias against large works apart from the carbon footprint argument? There remain questions to be answered in that space too - such as are current "neural" architectures adequate to cover the capabilities of the brain when upping only the scale? It was certainly worth knowing that scaling up was all that was required to compete with humans in DOTA. But will we hit wall as we near human level complexity? After all, the money spent on making movie which is "just" for entertainment trump's multi million $ deep learning experiments in costs which I guess have some correlation with the carbon footprint .. or the gases emitted in rocket launches. Do we really know whether this well intentioned call for green AI (which I right as hell want) will do too little for the greenness while biasing people against possible discoveries that can lead to a greener future a tad too early?

Edit: pardon typos due to mobile device.
And most people will agree with that if directly asked the question. But given a situation with even the slightest hint of potential ambiguity, people tend to basically erase the familiar elements and scrutinize the people who are the most unusual.
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I thought Google etc datacentres run on mostly renewable energy?
I am humbled by your pi.
The DMCA DOES stop free speech. It's not just illegal to violate copyright, it also makes it illegal to tell people how to circumvent DRM!
What delisting Chinese firms from U.S. stock markets means
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Wish he included a link for the kit of test lenses he purchased
Where's the controversy? A maintainer and a contributor disagreeing about a bug report, and it gets a bit heated. Nothing important to see there, and nothing we haven't seen a thousand times in public bug trackers.
A balanced tree big enough to blow the stack will also blow out RAM; Haskell couldn't handle it either. Check on the back of your napkin. I understand your desire to point out a classic memetic weakness of Python vs. Haskell, but your point is spurious because of actual real-world constraints.
Gosh, the tone of the discussion here is such that folks... act like politicians lying is in fact a good thing and it was bad of Facebook to even imagine they could stop it?

It's weird go me because the vector of this speech is advertising, and in fact there are rather unobjectionable laws about false advertising. Why is political speech somehow different in folk's mind?

It doesn't really matter though, because what this story is very good at highlighting is that Facebook is essentially a machine to let rich interests have historically unprecedented insight into your interests and control over what you see. The more they do things like this, the easier it is to argue that there is no safe audience for facebook and everyone should leave it.
It is exactly the same with guns. Mind you i come from country with relatively hard to get gun licenses.

What about sports shooting? Collecting? Personal defence in dangerous areas? Hunting(which because we fucked up ecosystems in some areas, culling is necessary)?

Also over here modern black-powder guns are legal, without license. And they are both VERY dangerous(way more dangerous in a crowds) and relatively cheap. There is a legal requirement that you have to load the bullet as separate parts(gunpowder, bullet etc).. but what's going to stop a criminal from going on rampage and from preparing them in advance?

Gun violence is a symptom of a worse issue in the society, banning guns will just hiding the symptom of the issue. Why they go on rampage? Why some people need it for personal defence(dangerous neighbourhoods? work-related?)? Why do we need to cull the wild animals from time to time?

Heck, if someone wants to go on rampage people they don't need guns, in a big crowd chef knife will be as deadly. And you can legally buy a machete too, or chainsaw, or axe, or whatever.

Bombs can be made from household items and there are plenty of instructions online. There is a schematic of timed detonator on Wikipedia on Casio watch page (google Casio terrorist watch).

It all boils down to proper culture of handling weapons, and not treating them as toys.

The difference between impaling strips and guns is simple: one is used, legally, in specified areas(shooting range, countryside for hunting, at home for defence etc.), while other is mounted permanently and used in public space. One shouldn't keep the gun assembled while transporting it - except if it is for personal defence.

I seriously have no issue with people using impaling spikes in wreck racing, as long as they are within regulation of the race. but on public road? hell no.

In a perfect would we wouldn't need guns at all, as there would be no reason for them to exist.
Rule 0: These rules are useful for bicyclists as well.
Keep in mind that facial recognition is probably only one part of a modern identification pipeline. There's every reason to think that some sort of gait signature, history of clothing purchases, and cellular data could be combined to identify a person with some level of confidence, to say nothing of simply blanketing a city with enough cameras to "rewind" back to when the person didn't have the mask on.
What's more likely? The iPhone has some hidden, subtle responsibility for the death of Steampunk -or- something niche like Steampunk found mainstream success, over saturated the pop culture market, then fizzled away back to something niche again?
Got to respect dedication and hard work. But why doesn't his homepage support Chrome? https://kovidgoyal.net

Edit: I was referring to the alert() upon loading the site:

W A R N I N G! Your browser is not supported by this site.
I cannot guarantee that things will work as they should.
Consider downloading either Mozilla >=1.4 or Internet Explorer >= 6
How does that work in practice? In order to page, you should find out if it is the code, and it is indeed broken. I'm guessing all tests passed, so that won't be of much help anymore neither...

In reality, it would be a sysadmin confirming dependencies for this application to run (in the system, network, storage, ...) are functioning as required. If there turns out to be a problem with the application itself, there's no time for development at that point: you roll back. I don't see how the paging developers thing would be able to provide any stability. It's too late for that when you're in production.
are you suggesting poor people are inherently less intelligent?
No. For the most part, they're programmed in a fixed cycle from static estimates (usually made once and unchanged since who-knows-when); the more advanced types allow for skipping through phases if there's no (car) traffic detected for them. Actual traffic measuring and dynamic control is rare.
Wow, given how poorly people drive down here in FL I'm glad the speed limits are also significantly lower. Most highways are 40-50mph and the interstate is 50-70mph. People tend to drive around the speed limit or about 5-10mph over. Only exception (that I regularly see) is one part of I-4 people always seem to go 70mph when the posted limit is 50mph...
Do you have any examples of the syntax?
While I sympathize, I can't help but read this as an example of OP's first sentence (survival bias).
In my experience, bicyclists tend to go slower, stick to downtown roads or rural country roads and generally do not attempt the same sort of highway driving that motorcycles do. Eg. Freeway/interstate.

So while they may be in more danger, there is a different set of expectations.
Yep, a few hours searching garage sales will usually find one too, though transport can then be an issue. Either way, if you're a startup, between garage sales, use furniture stores, and craigslist you can spend a day or so scouring the area and probably find a dozen desks. If you need to, rent a Uhaul for $100 for transport. Sure, nothing will match, but if you're a cash-poor startup trying to get a round of VC, fancy offices shouldn't really be a focus.
I've never tried MST on AMD so I cannot comment. But of course it goes without saying that by picking NVIDIA it won't be magical and trouble free for everyone.
while they are doing it to their own citizens!

That's not what the story is saying. The FCC didn't create any fake comments. From one we know so far, one "grassroots" marketing company has been identified as creating fake comments. Their client hasn't been identified, but likely is an ISP, or an ISP lobbying group. This is bad behavior, but far from the Government psyops on its own citizens.

edit: yes, multiple industry lobbying groups have been identified. The FCC wasn't behind this, this isn't an example of a government psyop against its own citizens.
Wow, that’s a real shit argument.
Sorry, that's bollocks if not outright dangerous advice. You always need glasses... and having wrongly spec'd glasses will induce massive stress on your eyes and brain.

Please consult with a medical professional.
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It is the craziest thing, isn’t it, that programs are meant to be both read by humans and executed by machines which operate at significantly different time scales than us?
Your js is breaking - searched for "Data Science"

`Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'join' of null`
Nuclear, Hydro and Geothermal are pretty much the only energy sources that are truly fossil-fuel free and are able to replace coal and natural gas - though hydro/geothermal need particular geography for them to be viable. Hydro does have huge detrimental environmental impact but it's probably worth it.

Anyway, everytime there is some headline blaring about some region or country being 99% renewable based (for example, Costa Rica[1]) is because it leverages one or more of those.

For example, here's a live view of the energy of my home province: http://live.gridwatch.ca/home-page.html .. we're pretty much carbon free because of Nuclear and Hydro. On the other end, Germany decided to go with solar and wind and they aren't expected to be carbon-free until 2060s because they need natural gas as backup. This is also why they are spending billions on pipelines to ship MORE natural gas from Russia.

Makes you wonder why we're bothering with solar and wind, which can't power a modern economy without fossil-fuel backup and therefore are only good for niche applications.

[1]https://ticotimes.net/2019/09/24/costa-rica-will-run-on-more...
What did he say that was racist? You seem easily triggered.
I'll take that as the confirmation that it is that you have no response, because you don't actually know what you're talking about.
As a physically disabled car nerd mostly stuck at home, VR car sims changed my life. It lets me “experience” racing and has drastically increased my quality of life. Even just PSVR with Gran Turismo was absolutely incredible, and I’m now building a full motion PC/Rift based sim that takes my disability into account.

VR has immeasurable amounts of potential for disabled people alone, not just with racing sims but with giving is the ability to “get out” more and experience new things.
...probably lots of solar power then, and the excess energy during the day can be used to pump up the remaining water into the hydro reservoir for energy at night.

And that's only if they build a hydroelectric dam somewhere where it runs such a risk. They aren't cheap either, and I doubt they'd just build one without careful considerations beforehand.
Works fine over here.
Kudos to Calibre and its author. It's one of the first programs I install on any Linux machine I own.

Yes, the UI is a bit quirky, but who cares? I spend my time actually reading the books, and for managing my library and converting between formats Calibre is ace.

That useful software like this exists makes me very happy.