skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I've noticed in recent superhero movies is the idea that:

* For all the talk about "heart", superheroes are extraordinary by some aspect the rest of us can't expect to get

* Yet supervillains are often just normal people who got too pissed off. The villains in Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Spider Man: Far From Home, Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man, etc are just people that got ticked off.

We have to count on others to be superheroes, but we're all one bad day from becoming supervillains.
He‘s being downvoted because he‘s insinuating that all those people deleting their data are not using reason and are just peddling conspiracy theories.

Without that part he wouldn‘t have been downvoted nearly as much.
>superhero movies are a currently especially popular one

To be fair, we're just now in an age, technologically speaking, where the stories of superheroes can be brought to life without seeming campy or ridiculous. The surge in popularity is because this is the first time in the history of these types of stories where they can be visualized with a realism that allows us to hope for that type of escapism in the real world.

There are too many people who just hate the grind of every day life so watching a movie that injects something supernatural and even superlatively good into the "real world" is naturally appealing.
"But"? That's exactly the difference. Most of the work is done by the company so they can do more or less what they want with the project. When there are many contributors, and significant parts of the contributions have been done by people not paid by the company, dual licensing could cause all the problems described by mumblemumble.

kevsim put Qt as a counterexample and I objected that they're different beasts because Qt was developed mostly by Trolltech. Later it became more of an open project, but the dual licensing arrangement is older than that.
Python 3 Functions and lambda expressions
I have little care for such things.

Human interaction is different - as is doing things with other human beings. Hobby, work, paid, volunteer - doesn't matter.

You seem to be living a recluse life. I find that concerning
Re commercialisation he's "Spencer Salter, wellness technology researcher at Jaguar Land Rover" so I guess they'd have first dibs.

That said I'm guessing is must be something like a phone vibrate unit in box strapped behind your ear - probably not so hard to give it a shot at making one. Googling vibrators gives a lot of them for sale though mostly designs what would be embarrassing to strap to your head ;)
I think you don't know how impeachment works. Trump will not be removed from office, no matter what the lower house of the US government happens to do.

The Senate would have to have 67 votes in a majority republican controlled body to remove him. That simply will not happen -- even in the House, which is politically far more independent, the Democratic Party was not able to get a single Republican vote, and even had defectors from their own party just to authorize the proceedings at all.

You can't win an impeachment trial without broad bipartisan support, and there is exactly zero bipartisan support for this proceeding.
Exhaustion caused by chronic stress - general adaptation syndrome (formerly neurasthenia, now "other neurotic disorder") and depression share many features, but the treatment is different. (Likewise PTSD.) Dysautonomia is related, maybe a feature that would be tractable pharmacologically.

And probably harder as it's less understood. Nobody really knows how adaptation to stress works, much less how to fix the terminal exhaustion.
Well this is Alan Moore, the author of such comics as From Hell and Watchmen, so I don't think you can fairly accuse him of looking down on comics as being for kids.

And why do you think he should care about musicals more than his own medium of choice?
...for smoking weed? What in the hell does weed have to do with security? Outside of some archaic argument like “it’s always been a requirement”, why is smoking weed a factor in security clearance?

Can anyone give me a logical argument for this?
If you made a magical pill that cured cancer and AIDS, and the medical establishment lost trillions of dollar, and were outspoken about trying to destroy you...

Then I would consider the possibility that they were framing you.
This is why I have my own idiosyncratic notion of how HN is very, very conservative.

The artistic taste, the aesthetics of personal tech blogs, even the aesthetic of this website itself. It's hyper-functionalist. It's all-about-the-business. Don't forget those with perceptual access needs.

And the colors, styles, and general artistic output of web media has been... all-about-the-business. Gone is the spirit of the Flash era. Tech is so business business business.
It may require to remove the kid from school, but it wouldn't require solitary confinement for the kid. An "isolation room" is something that may get used for adult prison inmates in case of serious infractions, or a psychiatric hospital might use in certain cases with an adequate medical supervision, but solitary confinement is definitely not something that schools should be able to impose at their discretion.
Then make your case on your disagreements with that report, not on your (frivolous) assumption that he would have had a fair trial.
> Yes, some people are privacy conscious and are going to stop using Fitbit but how many are actually doing it? A lot? A few?

If they were truly privacy conscious they wouldn't have a twitter anyway.
Summing is the act of gluing two components together with “or”. It’s possible to see all types as sums in this fashion (this is essentially “distributivity of addition over multiplication) but it’s also impossible to see char/int/bool as not having some sense of “or” within it.

For a product type with no “or”, consider the JavaScript object {}. We see these as “atomic”.
It is way off. GCC has had optimized assembly routines for performing software floating point on ARM that run in dozens of cycles. IIRC, the license is liberal enough that LLVM could copy them by-value into their compiler support libraries without difficulty, so I would just assume that they were until proven otherwise.
Some Marvel movies have more meat to them than others. It's important to remember that there are a lot of different writers working on these movies, they are not a monolith. Some of them are good at fitting important, thought-provoking themes into the framework of Disney's aesthetic requirements, and others are not.

Spiderman: Far From Home is a great example. The movie deals with the legacy of technology as Mysterio re-appropriates Tony Stark's drone network to create a virtual reality propaganda monster. What once protected and improved the world now threatens it when it falls into the wrong hands. What does this say about things like mass data collection? Nuclear weapons? Virtual reality? The infrastructure of technology stays in place after its well-intentioned creators are gone. How will we as a species deal with that legacy in the coming decades and centuries?

It also deals with the theme of 21st century propaganda in our "post-truth society". Mysterio doesn't need to have actual super powers, he just needs to make people believe he does. He takes on the role of film-director-as-superhuman, who through visual trickery controls the perception and beliefs of millions.

Yeah it was a 2 hour escape in some aspects and I got to watch Tom Holland kick ass. But the movie also left me thinking about some pretty heavy and challenging stuff.
Thanks, good to know. Does it persist across 0% battery remaining events?
This is the way these arguments usually go:

1. Reporters and editors cannot possibly be aware of their own bias because they have their own world view, through which they perceive their own reality.

2. Because reporters and their editors cannot be aware of their own biases, fundamentally all news is biased, intentionally or unintentionally.

Your argument depends upon #1 to be True. However, people can know their biases and adjust for it. But at the NYT, editors and reporters are aware of their internal biases, so #1 is actually False.

So then #2 leads to something like #3:

3. Fox News, while intentionally biased, provides balance to the obvious left leaning bias of the NYT because of #1 and #2 -- even if they don't fully vet their stories [1].

So personally I would prefer to get my news from people that research and report facts. Facts, in and of themselves, are unbiased.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich#Fox_News_r...
Bingo... one of my favorite quotes, that I try to live up to as best I can:

"Be miserable. Or be motivated. Whatever's next, it's your choice."

and

"Whether you think you can't, or think you can, you're right."

Can't say I'm a miracle worker but I try to remember that believing I can't do something is the start of my feeling miserable, and every time I break through that wall _something_ happens.
I can't imagine worrying about Alan Moore's (or Scorsese's) narrow opinions when choosing entertainment.

For one thing, I think Moore is clearly wrong about what adults typically get out of superhero movies. I think it's entertainment, and not some kind of deeper emotional experience.

Put it this way: if people generally need movies for meaningful emotional experiences, there are some profound problems in our society that goes far beyond cinema.

It really is OK, and not a sign of some deficiency, that people are making and enjoying well-made, epic action/fantasy films.

Anyway, when I see something like this:

> He says superheroes are written and drawn by people who've never stood up for their own rights against the companies that employ them - saying they appear "to be largely employed as cowardice compensators".

I think he's really struggling with understanding the perspective of people who don't see the world or think of it the way he does.
Generally small particles like micro-plastics are too small to be filtered by treatment facilities. My assumption here would be no. It could be that a chemical/heating process in a treatment facility could accelerate the breakdown. That's just pure speculation though since we don't know enough to judge.
annecdotally, my attention isn't usually held for long by people who are unwilling to engage with a service because of it's weird name...

https://scuttlebutt.nz/
Visited this last year, remarkably good condition. The Koreans were very keen to point out the size of the armoury and guns on board the ship.
Ah, just found it, https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/100513/36948 The Raspberry Pi 4 has the new standard mac address, so findpi would miss that right now! Will fix this and push 1.0.4 release asap.
He doesn't deserve compassion because almost every video we see online is staged and fake and created by him. He's been making the rounds on Sirius and many podcasts.

I don't even know if I believe his health problems or his 'mental anguish' at this point.
Just because a lot of kids are using it doesn't mean it has 1.2Bn downloads. That's a lot of downloads.

Gmail is 10 years old, for context, and it's ubiquitous for basically the entire population, and it has barely 4 times that. When you account for the fact that most Gmail users have gone through several phones and downloaded Gmail several times, it seems pretty suspicious that an app only for kids has 1.2Bn downloads -- when it's possible close to the entire Android mobile users that use Gmail -- which comes pre-installed on like ~60% of phones in the world.

I'm pretty sure these numbers do not include the Chinese market at all, since they don't have Google Play Services. A lot of Tiktok's users are supposed to be in China.

If these numbers are supposed to include Chinese users, I'd take that with a double grain of salt. For the same auditing reasons, we have no reason to trust any download counts that come from a Chinese company.

If these are supposed to be only iPhone numbers (which AFAIK include Chinese downloads), that's SUBSTANTIALLY more suspicious. There definitely aren't ~750Mn kids with iPhones. And the numbers that would imply in total are completely unbelievable.

At a previous company, we did a marketing campaign with TikTok. They claimed that more than 65% of their users are under 25.
Don't you ever, ever try to pollute the well of truth with your own fucked up version. Why do you even bother commenting?
For sure we have to take care of our own guys...
Largely because people have roots here and it's a pain to move. What, you're supposed to quit your job, leave your extended family, sell your house and possessions, find a new job and place to live overseas, and potentially even learn an entire new language? Just to be sure you won't be tortured?

(assuming you can even find a place to take you - things are easier here for this crowd, tech skills are in-demand and usually open doors, but if you are highly skilled in working a register at K-Mart you're not going to find many countries open to you when you go to immigrate somewhere else.)

For a lot of people it's just easier to take the chance that you won't be one of the people who falls into the gears of justice. I won't even say "don't commit a crime" because (a) committing a crime is not even necessarily a requirement to end up in prison given how bad our judicial system is particularly surrounding plea deals/etc. Lots of innocent people end up in jail. And (b) virtually everyone regularly does things that are, by a strict enforcement of the US legal code, punishable by prison sentences. "3 felonies a day" is perhaps an exaggeration, but 3 felonies a month or a year is still a lot of potential legal exposure. The system relies heavily on prosecutorial discretion, which falls apart when you have prosecutors who are elected on the basis of high conviction rates instead of doing what is just.

To put it simply: 1% chance of being tortured, vs having to uproot your whole life. A lot of people will choose the 1% chance of being tortured.
The 2015 models are great, but their graphics card (which these days is an integrated Intel Iris chip, not a discrete GPU) is severely underpowered. An external 4K screen at "retina"-type resolution will result in noticeable visual lag.
If you try hard enough you can attribute anything to racism and half our country is ignorant enough to believe it.
> We just upgraded from 2015 to 2017 at our studio, which required a decently large refactor of some core utilities.

Were these utilities custom tools built for the IDE or the actual application code you were/are developing?
>Our tech is gradually eroding our ability to focus on anything for more than a few seconds.

real quotes from late 19th/early 20th century: https://xkcd.com/1227/

>With the advent of cheap newspapers and superior means of locomotion... The dreamy quiet old days are over... For men now live think and work at express speed. They have their Mercury or Post laid on their breakfast table in the early morning, and if they are too hurried to snatch from it the news during that meal, they carry it off, to be sulkily read as they travel ... leaving them no time to talk with the friend who may share the compartment with them... The hurry and bustle of modern life ... lacks the quiet and repose of the period when our forefathers, the day's work done, took their ease...

>So much is exhibited to the eye that nothing is left to the imagination. It sometimes seems almost possible that the modern world might be choked by its own riches, and human faculty dwindle away amid the million inventions that have been introduced to render its exercise unnecessary.
Thanks for the heads-up. Will fix that!
Standing up and moving your arms has much lower space requirements than standing up and moving your arms while blindfolded and under a barrage of industry-leading illusions engineered for maximum distraction.
> but also against playing any MMO.

MMOs are a case where the game itself inherently requires a serious server in order to work. I don't play MMOs myself, but if I did, I would not be bothered by their server-based nature as there's an obviously inescapable reason for it.

That is not representative of most games.
Can be unconscious/unintentional connections too.

But I think Moore's real point is simply that the Birth of the Nation does some of the same things as later superhero movies, with the KKK as the superheroes. They also happen to wear uniforms that are strikingly similar as it happens...

But it doesn't mean Siegel and Shuster were consciously -- or even unconsciously -- inspired by Birth of a Nation and the KKK. It might mean that there is a connection/commonalities in the reasons both forms were so popular.

Birth of a Nation was released in 1915. It was enormously popular, it was not some fringe thing, it was a mainstream popular success which generally did not have it's politics questioned in the mainstream, although there were protests by Black people. According to wikipedia, "It presented the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) as a heroic force." Heroic, eh?

Superman's first apperance was in 1938.
This ask presupposes a huge amount of trust which simply isn't justified considering the history of governments. I prefer my trust to be guaranteed; with like, y'know, cryptography.
I would be very surprised if visual studio wasn't the most popular C++ IDE for high budget games by a wide margin.
> It may read like harmful advice now, but I can imagine that "don't fuck too much" might have been meant well back then

It may not be "politically correct" as we've got a culture obsessed with promiscuity and decadence (it seems), but it's definitely not harmful advice.

I can't think of a downside to reducing sexual partners to a minimum. On the other hand, there's a lot of research that promiscuity/increased number of sexual partners are causing a lot of problems. I'll share a few.

It awfully feels like we are rediscovering some things that many, if not all civilizations knew before us.

A book that touches upon this topic is "The Fate of Empires". There's a section about causality between decadence and societal collapse, and the author is of the opinion (based on his research) that civilizations go through very similar steps.

Once a society gets to be "wealthy" enough, sexual perversion and promiscuity is on the rise, fertility drops, shortly followed by general decadence and apathy. Inevitable, it leads to a collapse (or being occupied by a culture that still keeps doing what the (now) decadent society used to do).

In a way, it's an organism. That's how I like to think about it.

Some societies collapse over a span of period, so it's not instantaneous. Therefore, probably, it's difficult to tell that it is happening. The average was found to be around 250 years.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1741-3737....

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3752789/

[2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fate-Empires-Search-Survival/dp/B00...
"I once read Baby Boomer culture described as an ugly toad squatting on the rest of society, holding it back. The truth turned out to be a bit different though. Even the younger generations still willingly embrace 20th century life (probably more than they realize)."

I think part of this isn't the selfishness of the new generation but because society hasn't really changed since 2001 and 2008 in terms of major problems. Children grew up in the rapid privacy and legal rights violations caused by the fallout of 9/11 are still dealing with it and nothing has been resolved regarding the erosion of consistutional and human rights. Global warming is still a major concern and that is also being exacerbated. Several places never recovered from 2008, and the younger generation is among the top in terms of disenfranchisement by being saddled with all this student debt- which also hasn't been resolved. Same for healthcare, income inequality, etc.

Arguably, all of society's problems are still the problems of 2001/2008. Doesn't it make sense that our culture has also somewhat been placed in amber within that generation?
The Robotics Industry Could Learn a Lot From Puppeteers
Given that he is not a US citizen, one could make the argument that he was engaged in cyber warfare against the US, thus legally classified as an enemy combatant, subject to special magistrate court and incarcerate-able at an offshore detention facility. Rules on detainee handling there are more lax and sentencing has no guidelines at least no published ones. I would consider that possible path of prosecution and even the threat of it to be torture.
We're embracing a subset of 20th century themes. Star Trek: The Next Generation was a very popular XX century series, and yet after it, never again[0] did sci-fi embraced the themes like optimism about the future, exploration, diplomacy, a society as a protagonist just as important as the heroes, etc. I'm saddened about it (and about post-ENT Star Trek reboots). I want my TNG back, and I'm not ashamed of clinging to it.

--

[0] - With the possible exception of Disney's Tommorowland, and of course DS9, VOY and ENT Star Trek series from the same universe as TNG.
Do you trust the Chinese government?
Far from ideal, it would at least prevent royalties on future viewings of existing videos from going to the music companies.
Sure, but that seems a little harsh in this case as the OP is essentially 'open sourcing' the observation because he's moving on from his Phd. There's no product on offer or apparent benefit to the author.
Thanks. It just came to me :)
I'm about 72% of the way through so far, and I'm really digging it. I was a bad person and converted it to ePub so that I could read it on my Kindle. I should send Wildbow some love with Paypal, given the sheer number of hours of entertainment I've received so far.
Well, apparently it [the creator] did not just create us, but also:

- billions of other stars

- millions of other species on earth, 99.9% of which died out.

yet ...

- it supposedly, only really cares about one special species, which he created as "his equal",

- and supposedly, is deeply offended if a young boy masturbates in the privacy of his bedroom.

This is not only very wasteful and cruel, but also invasive and incredibly narrow-minded.
Well that and the fact that they had a writer and a story instead of a free for all killing spree like their contemporaries.
Thanks! I used https://buzz.jaysalvat.com/ and converted all our raw .wavs to mp3 and ogg with python using ffmpeg. I should probably add that the post as well.
Exactly.

Now combine that with what the GP said about HL1, some A-tier object manipulation and the impressiveness of VR and you have a game that's a lot of fun to play even if you're just along for the ride (in terms of plot). Throw in a decent story arc, hook people with letting them actually make some tough decisions (earth is descending into a dystopia in the time it's set so plenty of opportunities to force the player to choose between a bunch of bad options and feel guilty about whatever they choose) and you have a highly immersive experience.

I don't mean to make it sound trivial, each one of those things is hard to do right and they all have to be done right but it should not be rocket science. Valve just needs a Decent(TM) game using their existing principals. The hard part is going to coping with the constraints of VR without neutering player freedom within the story or botching the VR part.
> I wonder if Moore would be as critical if instead of there being 20+ Marvel Character Universe movies in the span of 10 years there had only be say 4 or 5?

Would it even be a topic of discussion? Lots of bad movies get made. The question is why is this drek the dominating force in American movies now?
This is all accurate.

And the Medicare For All movement knows it.

Organizing to take seats, build something like a 10 million volunteer group, and plans for all that to be very highly active, are in the works.

The current system is completely unacceptable. As it has come into it's own now, the number of impacted Americans will grow rapidly.

I expect there will be significant unrest over this issue.