skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you go deeper, it is like that with every part of physics. We don't understand any of it. We just move the horizon of understanding farther and farther, we are not even pretending to know what is behind it. Care to explain where the big bang came from and why did it give birth to these specific sets of physical laws and this specific number of elements and why are there just enough forces and randomness for them ot produce biological life and not kill it instantly with all chaos and random motion etc? Why is life somewhat stable? Science never really "explains" anything, it just learns to describe, model and predict the observations better and better. Observation is all we have.
ProtonMail, the iOS app, is now open source, but ProtonMail, the service, is still proprietary and (mostly) paid.

It's somewhat comparable to using Thunderbird (open source) to connect to GMail (proprietary). GMail might impose some restrictions regardless of the open source status of the client.
In my eyes it’s amazing business using affordable hardware components. Respect for the creator! I dream finding similar niche.
The two are not exclusive
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Are you suggesting these spin-offs are (always?) after-the-fact justifications using issues that were not pressing concerns?

The problem with attempting to justify space exploration with spin-off examples like food preservation is that it risks provoking a 'so what?' response. Piling on unimpressive claims does not strengthen one's argument, it dilutes it, and gives the opposition an easy target to dispute.

When Clarke came up with the idea of communications satellites, he, and others, thought he had come up with a before-the-fact justification for space travel, as he expected these relays would need regular maintenance, but another claimed-spinoff-but-not-really, semiconductor electronics, obviated the need.
What’s ACAB?
It’s worth noting that the vets I know are somewhat offended by that comparison because they had considerable training about use of force to prevent things like this — their commanders cared about the residents’ opinion of them far more than many police departments seem to.
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The Guardian has the motto: “Comment is free, facts are sacred”

During the rush to digital a section was launched “facts are sacred”

Hahhahahah

No it was “Comment is free”, that is what generated clicks and ad revenue
I think it's unfair to blame him for everything his political party does. If you want to be in a place where you can make a difference, you need to go along with certain decisions you may disagree with.
wow, that's awesome - thanks for sharing! :)

I'm surprised it's not more popular though, but I guess it has remained undiscovered like it was for me until now, or it's simply not as useful to others as I would think. Maybe because not all apps are GTK3 apps, or people don't want pdf's because they can't be inlined on a issue ticket like plain old images can, for example?
A cross-platform note taking app, with the ability to jot down an idea and later associate resources with it (links, media, other notes, etc.).

Idea + resources = Project (like an article or a book), and tags can help allocate the same resource to multiple projects.

It should allow the note taking to be very quick and fast, like writing a message.

And yeah, I've been trying a bunch of apps over the years. Evernote, the closest one, doesn't fit yet.
GPLv3 has a Tivoization clause: the user must be able to replace the code with their own fork.
(In Europe). This doesn’t have anything to do with the mostly freight and nearly passenger-useless rail network in the US.
Yes, really. There are still many places that do not have internet access, some of them on purpose. e.g. military installations.
I use good old fashioned numbered SQL scripts. 01_foo.sql 02_bar.sql 03_baz.sql

In my local dev environment, I have a DB backup representing the current state of production. This is the starting point SQL scripts must be applied to. A deployment script restores this DB, then applies the SQL scripts against it. The entire deployment process takes about 2 seconds even with many gigs of data in the DB backup.

Sometimes I'll include an extra "dummy data" script applied at the end.

My local environment, Test, and Production are deployed in almost exactly the same way. A few extra actions are done for Production of course. And Production is not restored as that would loose data. Local dev is optimized for a speedy restore/deploy.

Developers always want to treat the DB as if it's code. But it's not. It's a blob of valuable state that must be protected from corruption. You apply patches to that blob of state. The order patches occur matters. There's no "re-build" like in pure code.
ctrl+F

Gödel

ctrl+w
The most advanced project of this nature is Skylon and its Sabre engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)).
Not simply hobbies or interests. Sheer curiosity in the reality enveloping us all would drive me to keep the same hours I work today, but with none of the work-related stress I experience at work.

Retirement for me is merely a financial milestone abstraction. The point where monetary wealth throws off sufficient income to meet opex and reasonable capex requirements for the foreseeable future. The Banksian phrase "money is a sign of poverty" operates here though, so that milestone is just a temporary, necessary means to an end.

Like many others in this thread, retirement enables me to go tinker my interests, fueled by an >10K line Emacs Org Mode "curiuoser-and-curiuoser" list. A lot of it is redneck tinkering to be sure ("What would happen if I attached heat sinks to Tesla solar roof tiles that ran a non-corrosive, thermally-efficient carrier liquid through the body of the heat sinks into a heat exchanger in my hot water supply? Damifino, fire up the CAD/CAM-linked CNC and let's go find out!"). Some is of a more serious philosophical/research bent ("What precise factors move the Coasean Boundary of an organization?"). Some of it is of more pedestrian ambitions (learn blue water sailing and open source my findings to extend boat design along Steve Dashew's philosophies). Some is for pure utility (build a bi-fold door shipping container that is a giant toolbox that extends with another into a climate-controlled workshop). Nearly all of it requires finding allies and co-conspirators if only to share and compare notes with, so they are intrinsically highly social activities.

That list goes fractal, too. Every time I tinker around adding to my notes to scratch my itch for one curiosity, I find other avenues I hadn't initially considered, and yet more curiosities are added. Makes me want to upload my mind into a computing substrate with physical world manipulators and clone myself.

I'm never going to approach even a tiny fraction of my curiosities, but fellow co-conspirators and I are going to have a hell of a lot of fun along the way!
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Yes, it does feel in large part that it's the crass and blatant nature of Trump's presentation that enrages, not just the actual content.

As a Canadian I 'preferred' Obama, who ran on the line "change you can believe in" -- but he led the US empire substantially the same as any previous... and so this "can believe in" line, it really expresses a truth. The substantial piece was not that America would change, but that you could _believe_ in the fact that it would change. Little actually changed in America, at least from a distance. And once people stopped believing in the change... one gets Trump.

Disgusting as he is, Trump really is "changing" America. And his lying is more transparent and blatant and crass, but also more theatrical and aggressive. It's weaponized.
Thank you. This warms my heart to hear. However, this is the first thing Ive written outside of isolated reddit comments. But I do have a backlog with a few articles that I have mapped out but havent gotten around to writing yet.
- using your password on a compromised desktop

- attacker looking over your shoulder as you enter your password

- Company mitm breaks open ssl encryption and reveals your password.

Obviously, if someone breaks into your 1Password it’s game over.
Spain will prevent “digital republic” in Catalonia
> constrained resources may see me leave the field

I am sorry to hear that - it will be a loss for Eöt-Wash.
BjoernKW isn't angry, violent or "losing their soup" over anything. It was just a comment that stated pretty plainly and succinctly what their impression of the problem was.
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Not exactly "young men", but I'd argue the Simpsons and Family Guy are noteable for the dumb white male father figure.
What that article demonstrates is that the important thing is to get fuel from a source a bit higher up the gravity well - that's the dominant mass.

We 'just' need a way of making fuel from asteroids or on the moon.
It stands for "All Cops Are Bastards"
Develop a specialty. There is some topic that your co-workers avoid or joke about, some task they take pains to avoid having to do. Specialize in that. It doesn't have to be anything complicated. You will produce value in greater proportion than the work you have to do.

I started out supporting accounting software and threw myself into things other people were afraid of, like intercompany accounting and general ledger data issues. Be curious about others' blind spots, and people will appreciate it. You'll become the specialist, the expert, the go-to person for something other people know little about.
>but also not downvoted

Well, there is no way to downvote.
Point-based systems usually turn out bad if the community is too big. Just check big subreddit like the defaults, posts get too catering to group-think.
Not having downvotes or even upvotes, means that you have to deal with crap posts.

For some people 4chan has "upvotes", what they call "(you)"s, basically a reply, people post too much bad content just trying to provoke a reaction.
HK injunction to stop publishing online material promoting or inciting violence
Actually, I think assault rifles cannot be legally owned by civilians in the US. I'm not from, or living there so corrections are welcome but I remember that the Texas gunman had a special setup that allowed his weapons to fire in automatic mode, or something close to.
Yes that is what I was saying.
Trivial nitpick: since this is binary search, the base for the logarithm is 2, not e. So it would be 2^M.
No, sounds like we've eliminated 70 years worth of other possible squares.. if you want to take glass half full approach.
In Austria we have a body that regulates this and it kind of works. We still have various levels of quality, but flat out lying is far less common than in the US or UK.

The body consists of a board of all media agencies and they self-regulate their behaviour and adhere to their commonly agreed principles (e.g. if you get facts wrong, people can demand follow-ups with a correction etc).

In my eyes the US has a ideological perspective on many issues, that are basically "solved" in other democratic nations (with gun-law beeing the most shining example). I accept that you cannot directly apply solutions that work in one nation to another without reflecting the differences in culture and law, but it happens all too often that Americans claim something can't be solved, while it works perfectly fine somewhere else, without having sacrificed neither democracy nor freedom.

When it comes to media regulation, it is a question of law and enforcement. If you don't trust your own courts to objectively judge what accounts to a violation and what does not or is ambiguous (like in your examples), then you have a problem with your justice system beeing influenced by politics and the principle of the seperation of powers is broken.
Lovely poem.

One reading of it is something like "if computers can't prove that computer proofs are always correct, then we can't be sure of anything", but that is true of human proofs as well, so we might as well Ctrl-W mathematics itself.

Another reading is something like "this very introductory article didn't mention whether we can formalize Gödel's incompleteness results in the computer, so it's too introductory for me". Fair enough.
It's probably more about knowing what you are installing on your device anyway.

People love to hate on Apple for "not allowing them to install apps on their devices freely, therefore they don't own the device" but in reality what Apple is doing is controlling the mass distribution channel and you can actually distribute your apps without Apple's approval with some inconveniences to the users.

More importantly, you can run your own code however you want so you don't have to trust 3.rd party apps.

I wish they had developer edition iPhones(I think they have but not easy to get one) where you can experiment more freely. This would win back quite a lot of goodwill since nerds don't care about licenses and such but want to tinker with things freely.
I’m imagining this listening for CI/CD events to announce Over the PA who just broke the build....
Bias, reputation, and motive are irrelevant to the claim that "Epstein suffered multiple fractures in his neck that are more consistent with strangulation than suicide by hanging". 1) Did Epstein suffer these fractures? 2) Does established forensic science support that these fractures are more consistent with strangulation? 3) How much more? 4) Is there other evidence that supports the conclusion this was suicide?

The pathologists uses facts and established scientific knowledge to draw a conclusion. Legitimate responses to that conclusion should be factual and scientific. Counter arguments along the lines of the "middle class people don't understand the justice system" or "this guy was paid", however true they may be, don't have any bearing on the neck fractures and if those fractures are consistent with strangulation or suicide.
I'm an idiot. I wrote John Cusack when I wanted to write John Carmack. I don't know how I could even confuse the two names.

Here's the Carmack podcast where he talks about it. Fantastic listen for anyone honestly. Carmack is a fascinating guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8
I pay for quality software, not visual appearance.

Consistent UI yes, eyecandy no.

Slapping on a theme instead of using the native GTK/KDE theme the user has configured? -1!

Have a well designed UX, make frequent workflows easy to access, but don't hinder the user from customizing certain aspects. Oh and don't crash on me all the time.
You can filter all mail coming to the non dotted address because you never gave that address to anyone.
The variance is huge among all the different dorms so there are relatively swanky ones and ones that are not so (most are in the latter category, depending what you perceive as swanky of course). But my rebuttal was more on the "broom closet" part.
The introduction of the "(You)" feature arguably changed the spirit of 4chan, since now people know that when they get a reply their comment will get more attention because the list of replies is listed on the comment itself. I don't think there was enough pushback against its introduction a few years ago.

If I still had an imageboard, it would never implement a feature like that.
What about Notable? https://github.com/notable/notable
Sure. My point was only that cats kill even when they are already well fed. The larger point is that nature can be cruel.

I suppose I should have written a proper more detailed comment, I absolutely do believe that humans should hold ourselves to a higher standard and definitely shouldn’t be doing cruel things to living creatures because we do know better and can do better. But nature is still a pretty messed up place sometimes.
But from what I've been taught in school, news articles should always aim to state only the facts as they have happened without trying to draw conclusions, show only one side of the story or inject the bias of the reporter.
As long as you have journalists and editors able to do their jobs, stating facts doesn't become an exercise in pushing your narrative as you describe but simple reporting of "what happened" or "what has been said". In your specific example, you would report only on the actual statistical figures released, without trying to inject probabilities or percentages which are pushing your analysis and view of the data.

News outlets are then free to print articles containing opinions, studies and conclusions, but this are called editorials and not news articles, and by definition they do carry the opinion of the writer and his/her innate bias on the matter.
Even in this case, saying something false is different from interpreting the data or facts at hand. For example, you could write and publish an editorial examining the same statistics as before and come up with the conclusion that there might be a racial bias - some people might agree, some people might not, but it's still an opinion based on hard data and doesn't contain a lie. If you, however, started saying that it's all a plot orchestrated by the reptilians running society to make you think that there's a racial bias, that would indeed be a lie with no factual basis and should be punishable.

There are facets and sides to every story you tell, but reducing everything down to the point where you conflate news reporting, opinions and lies is, imho, stupid.
> Armed services salaries are tax-free

In Australia, only reservists get tax-free pay, and only when they're not on full-time duty. I think some of the additional military allowances are tax free for full-timers, but not base salary.
that is because of replies being the only "reinforcement" (gamification of behavior) you get on 4chan.
There is no point system or similar, what keeps a thread a float is replies, and some people like having many responses under their posts.

This means that creating inflammatory posts, sometimes is the only way to get attention, or worse, when you actually want information and you post in a way that would get attention otherwise it would be ignored.

Identity politics usually gives plenty of reactions. Just like calling something bad gets more reactions that call something good. Want opinion on something you want o buy? start a thread calling it shit, and wonder why there are so many bad threads there.
I wholeheartedly agree and think this pretty much every day.
Additionally, I still have my best links ever thread back from the early naughts on my personal website (be sure to put protections up to full-on, I haven't tested those links since back then (the site is still almost alive)).
https://sensibilium.com/writings/the-profane-dog/#best-links...
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Wait, de platforming is very different than censorship.

Examples: Should climate change deniers be given the same space as actual science?

Should communists (to not only focus on far right) be invited to every serious talk about economy?
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https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/david-bacon/thin....

Same just in PostScript
> top researchers abroad won't even hear about french labs

I think it's not how it works. Researchers in a given field know each other. They will choose to collaborate based on personal reputation and scientific affinity, rather than the shanghai ranking of their institution.
It seems to me that Australia is the first Western government imposing some authoritarian-style control on its population. I wonder what the common opinion about this is among people more familiar with the matter than me: Is the geographical proximity to China related to this? I can imagine that Australia might be slowly shifting from the USA's sphere of influence to China's sphere of influence, and as a result could be gradually adopting more Chinese-style governance measures.
Think of it the other way around: how much per month is Google making by reading your email (with bots) to generate a marketing profile so companies can buy targeted ads to sell you stuff? Besides, feature-wise, you get a LOT more from ProtonMail than, say, Fastmail, which is the low-feature, no-frills, non-encrypted alternative.

If you aren’t paying for the product then you ARE the product.
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You're right, crossing isn't the right word here. The point largely stands though: merging into a lane of car traffic is dangerous as a cyclist.

> Why couldn't they use their mirrors?

They can, but don't. People look in their mirrors for cars, not for cyclists. This is the same problem as cars overtaking cyclists and then making a right turn as if the cyclist isn't there.

In general you want to separate traffic that goes as different speeds. There's no good reason to mix bicycle traffic into car traffic: there are alternative solutions that avoid doing so.
Labelling yourself a non-feminist and truly caring about gender equality is a paradox unless you have an incorrect view of what feminism is.
What’s to stop a password manager behaving in the same way?
Modern Fortran is practically a totally different language (although, maybe surprisingly, still compatible with older standards). In fact, it is a quite comfortable language to use if you need to work with vectors and matrices. In very rough lines: numpy array syntax with better than C performance.
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Note that the open source releases often get things scrubbed or ifdef'd out of them.

I mean things like TODO comments, not deliberate censorship.

I fail to see your point.

You don't notice anything wrong with the insane complexity to do almost nothing? A similar near-nothing app would be 1/10th the size on Windows, if not smaller.
Why would you pay $100 to a dictatorial software distribution platform when your whole thing is, well, free software distribution?
Ironically it's not usually the artists' choice, it's not unusual for the actual creators to be under contracts to the publisher which give them very little veto over the context in which a work is shown and what ads are included in it. Especially with works produced by a large number of people like films.
No need to start with "but" if you're agreeing ;-)
It seems to me that, as soon as there is mass in the universe which curves space-time, all paths of movement are closed. To a first approximation, for anything close to a single large mass that means an elliptical path.

That assumes, of course, that an instantaneous "path of movement" is something that is even worth considering, given that it ignores the time dimension and the fact that all those other objects aren't remaining in a static configuration around the object whose path we are considering.
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I appreciate you sharing your thoughts with your doctor. I should have presented it as: “in this linked experiment, beef rose circulating insulin about as much as brown rice did”.

Oh and I didn’t mean to suggest fat people are lazy, eating less is simple, but not easy at all. That’s why I think people tend to end up complicating the easy stuff (and I agree meds can be an example of that) instead of doing the simple but difficult stuff.
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Haha, are you kidding me? When I'm in programmer mode and diehard in a code base, I can't even function at a birthday party. With any joke I'm hearing, I hear too many incorrect things.

When I'm in social mode (aka not programming for more than 2 weeks), I become less precise and can definitely enjoy those type of jokes.
I know its not shiny and new, but I still use Puppet to manage all of my physical and virtual servers.