skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your indoor page, CO2 min is 375 ppm. How did you get that below the atmospheric value of ~410 ppm?
>I would also remark that save for a smattering of non-white characters (and non-white creators) these books and these iconic characters are still very much white supremacist dreams of the master race.

It is kooky, and ironic, to imply that people dream of racial genocide solely because of the color of their skin.
But am I even more biased toward myself is the question. I would answer yes.

People may be biased toward me based on my looks, but I am way more biased toward myself by comparison.
> Care to cite some? That's just a silly point.

Would the wealth tax currently being discussed fall into this category? https://www.businessinsider.com/wealth-tax-definition-explai...

"... pay the federal government a small percentage of their net worth each year."
It's been a long time since I did anything with Pascal, but if I recall variant records correctly, they're not very different from C's unions. In particular, I don't recall variant records having anything like totality checking. I don't even recall it having anything that could tell you what kind of thing it currently holds. But as I said, it's been a long time...
Art can be inspired by or a reference to something without being an endorsement or homage to it.
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Part of this is a problem of trying to figure out what we're actually talking about. Tinnitus is a symptom that probably has at least several causes. It's generally believed to be a result of some form of damage to they hearing system. It includes:

1. The ear organ, which largely exists to protect the sensory tissue, and make things work smoothly.

2. The sensory tissue which is composed of hairs and mechanoreceptors (this is technically part of the ear).

3. The neurons that connect these mechanoreceptors to the brain.

4. The aural (audio) parts of the brain.

I think the theory is that the damage from tinnitus happens in 2, 3, or 4. If it is a problem in the brain, it's often impossible to tell if it's "psycological" or not, and that may be a false dichotomy. I think that some degree of tinnitus is normal in the healthy population, so maybe it's just a natural state that sometimes goes off the rails and gets bad enough to be labelled "disease".
When was the last time in the past couple centuries that people were flocking to dozens of plays about Nordic and Greek heroes for 15 years straight?
Also, many Americans use an an inferior broadband infrastructure to get to the rest of the internet, which means you not only have high latency due to distance, but also slower speeds during peak usage for cable victims.
> Stadia is the first offering that matches my needs of a Netflix for games.

Perhaps I misunderstand what Stadia is actually offering, but it doesn't look like a "Netflix for games" to me. Netflix's model is you pay a monthly fee and you get to watch anything in their catalog. With Stadia, you still have to buy each game separately, correct?

>I don't care if gamers nor teenagers want it

I am neither a gamer nor a teenager, and I don't want it. In fact, the only reason that I have any feelings about its existence at all is that if it's successful, that would mean more of the games industry will do this sort of thing, which will further reduce the amount of games available to me.
And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
So copying Coke's secret formula is not stealing?
No, you just need to get past the initial 2-3 hours with breaks while your brain adjusts.
> I can't recommend watching HBO's Watchmen enough.

Fair warning though: Damon Lindelof is responsible for Lost and The Leftovers, which had notoriously unsatisfying conclusions. Some of the plot arcs are starting to terminate with actual plot movement, so there is hope that the season might achieve some form of closure. If this show finishes after one season and succeeds in telling a coherent story, I will be surprised.
Bagel Boss guy's health problems should prompt some self-reflection
Arguably, he made these points better in... Watchmen.

And the last point seems to be being made quite ably by Lindelof in... Watchmen.
I remember reading that many years ago radical surgery was performed for a few particularly severe tinnitus cases in which the auditory nerve was completely severed, yet even that didn't fix the tinnitus. So yes, I think there is something in your interpretation.

(I suffered tinnitus for a few years, the 'pulsatile' form which is definitely not psychological and is basically when the blood flow in your head is too close to your inner ear. Fortunately for me it cleared up.)
> man, from humble origins, is bestowed supernatural powers, performs miracles, struggles with his own nature, saves humanity, etc..

That's very common even outside of Christianity, greek/egyptian/nordic myths. It's more of a "human" thing than a "christian" thing.
exactly, greed and suffisance is what's gonna kill USA's economy

let the real war and chaos begin
We're living half life 3
I have a mild tinnitus, so I can sometimes tune it out. But when I'm tired it's much louder. It was much worse when it started and I couldn't tune it out. In my case my daughter's scream brought my this and I had trouble with balance at first and hearing in one ear. Balance was out like I was flowing through water.
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Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, and he also owns Blue Origin, another rocket company vying for government contracts.
No one is allowed to complain about anything anymore in 2019 unless they are exactly the most unfortunate single human being on the entire planet.
Just saying it isn't so isn't an argument.

To be fair, Moore didn't really flesh out the argument either. But I definitely find it enticing. if you don't, that's fine.
Thanks. Any specific features you are referring to?
Spider Man Multiverse is a 21th century movie, if movies can be labeled that way.

The fascination with gadgets; the assembled, diverse family; the revere/mocking of speed (this follows a secret American cinema tradition masterful described by Manny Farber).
Thanks, interesting, I was going off of this, I thought, canonical list: https://gist.github.com/aallan/b4bb86db86079509e6159810ae9bd... that only has the one Mac Address on it. I also found a second source to back up the claim that DC:A6:32 should be added as well here: https://dnslytics.com/mac-address-lookup by searching for Raspberry Pi. Thanks for pointing this out!
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Another interesting spy ship saga is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
what do you mean by pattern matching in python 3? the only thing that sounds similar is (nested) iterable unpacking:

(a, (b, c)) = foo()
(fst, *middle, last) = foo()

which is nice but i wouldn't really call it pattern matching because i can't do something like

match xs:
when (): ...
when (x, *rest): ...

i.e. do different things based on the shape of the data.
Good to hear! Do you mind sharing around how much it ended up costing you?
What? What are you talking about, where did Moore or anyone in this thread do that?

If you are trying to suggest that the movie Birth of the Nation glorifying the KKK, or the KKK itself, have nothing to do with white supremacy and racial genocide... then we're just done here.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier made a strong point about the issues of surveillance and trading freedom for security, where even the good guys (SHIELD) didn't realize until too late that they were doing the work of literal nazis. There was lots of boom boom in it, but it wasn't a dumb movie.

Arguably, Iron Man 1 was quite explicit about the issues of war, terrorism, and sales of weapons; it had a quite dark undertone for a MCU movie.
Nothing unusual about high ice cover there.

https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/historicalAnim/
I feel it’s a chicken - egg problem.

Are we embracing 20th century life by clinging on to old movie IPs, or are we just constantly being fed the same type of stuff by Studios who’ve found “their formula” for making content with a low risk of flopping, for example.
Hold on a minute, are you saying Thor wasn't real?!
sorry, this is caused by government and buried by the same. it is the lack of accountability most government agencies have that abuses like this fester and only surface with people aghast. We pour billions into school systems but it is mostly aimed at the adults if not retirees of those systems.

I will give you my favorite link about Illinois, it describes the problem we face, we have let politicians reward themselves and their supporters to the point we spend too much sustaining golden retirements and not enough on the here and now[0]. This state is not alone in this problem.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2018/10/26/ill...
Not just superheroes. Middle-Eastern/Russian/British bad guys are de rigeur in action movies.

Been a long time since I've seen a Chinese bad guy in an action movie. Funny, that.
At first glance, these products looked compelling. But how is Withings actually any better? Per https://www.withings.com/us/en/legal/privacy-policy:

>"How do we use your personal data?

...

>Marketing, advertising and making recommendations[.] Your personal data may be used to offer surveys, competitions, discount coupons or events in which you are free to participate. We may provide you with information on our Products, such as new features, sales offers from Withings or our partners, or to announce new Products. You may opt out of marketing offers by logging into your Withings account and managing your notification preferences.

...

>Modification of the present Policy[.] Withings may modify the present Policy with or without previous notice, block the access to the website, or change its access conditions
"

Will all due respect: eff that. As others have noted here and elsewhere, marketing and advertising -- especially that using my personal data -- is adversarial.

I paid for a thing, just let me have that thing.

And before anyone unhelpfully suggests, "they have an opt-out policy"... well, we all understand that once your intimate, valuable data is siphoned off your wrist, the horse has left the barn, right? That genie is out of the bottle, that bell has rung, and all kinds of other euphemisms that illustrate how the data is no longer in your control, and all the opt-outs in the world are not going to actually delete all your data. It's been forked to Utah, backed up, sharded, "anonymized" and combined with all the other data you've generated on devices sold by other companies -- for every single "partner" that paid them, as well as everyone who did not pay them, in the cases of Utah and corporate espionage.

An actual alternative would be a device that has no connectivity to my pocket surveillance slab or anything with an uncontrollable baseband processor, nor connectivity to the Internet generally. Let me be in actual control.

Thanks for the advice, but I'm sticking with my Casio dumbwatch. Doesn't peep on my daily activities, but it accurately tells time and I love that thing. Bonus is that I have to think about its battery only once a decade.
Pretty positive the person you are replying to is being sarcastic and/or trolling, and agrees with you.
If you want to sell something as expensive as VR based on a game franchise, you'd better hope that it's old enough for the initial players to have paid off their mortgage...

In any case or kind of makes sense for something called Half-Life to slow down over time.
Wait

So you think that "red danger" was fake?

Or "red danger" did (and do) less despicable things?
This is plainly false. The judge is the one who decides if the actions of the government bare relevant. If the judge believes they are, they will be admitted, and parts of the trial will be closed, but other parts will remain open.
> Every Flash/Shockwave browser game is becoming increasingly hard to play.

If you have the actual .swf file, you can run the game in Flash Projector, easy!

> Games for ancient Windows versions can be devilishly hard to get running

What doesn't work in Virtualbox? Luckily, games from the 90's generally don't need GPU acceleration. I'm also continuously amazed by how much just works in modern Windows.

> games for PowerPC Macs are all but impossible.

There you have a point. Although even then, you can use VMWare + some unlocker tools to install Snow Leopard, and from there use Rosetta. Qemu is also supposed to be pretty good these days, although I've never tried it. Alternately, it's not that difficult to track down old Mac hardware.

> Emulation is flaky and incomplete for console games of all kinds.

Huh?

The Atari, NES, SNES, Genesis, Playstation, and all Gameboy models have damn-near perfect emulators. Identical to console down to the pixel, for every game.

Dolphin isn't quite take-a-microscope-to-the-screen accurate, but it will run the vast majority of the Gamecube and Wii's library such that you won't notice a difference.

The N64 and PS2 lack great emulators, but what's available is still very good. Some niche titles will exhibit glitches or refuse to run, but most stuff works well enough.

The Wii U and PS360 don't have such good emulators yet, but that's because those consoles are relatively recent. RPCS3 and Cemu are making great progress, and can already run a handful of large titles without problems, such as Persona 5 and BotW.

The original Xbox lacks a usable emulator, which sucks. Luckily, this isn't the norm.

Emulator developers have done amazing work, and the result is that most of gaming history is fully open to your exploration. Games will never be quite as plug and play as music files, but they aren't that labor-intensive to get working either.
Doesn't that make everything (other than "bottom" or "unit") a sum type?
Mythology has served various purposes over the course of human history. This is referring specifically to modern superhero culture which may be derived from mythology but isn't comparable to it.
It's not just "not optimal", it's a completely different thing. It's like reading a book and reading the script of the movie of the same story: you can certainly reuse some of the material but the way you convey things is designed from the ground up for the medium you are using. In VR-native content many things are just behaving in intuitive ways that can't be replicated if you need to go through a screen and keyboard/mouse.
What is the Mona Lisa challenging? Michelangelo's David was never challenging, but it's very much art. You're moving the goalpost.

Looking up art: "the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power."

That right there is what they felt. Some art challenges, some art doesn't, but if it makes you feel or is beautiful it's art.
Miss Mannings first thought in the cell Shirley was "that will show them."
His actions are entirely undemocratic. Sweden and the US have both democratically built a system of justice that we all agree to subject ourselves to. He decided to evade that system to serve his own self-interest. What about defending the liberty of the alleged rape victim? Do they only have the right to their day in court if the accused is ok with it?
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I'm really skeptical of this. I've been dumb enough to fire a decent amount of ammunition without hearing protection, and I've had my (undiagnosed) tinnitus get worse over time in a way that seemed related to this. I'm also very aware of background noises (like 60 cycle hums), and get annoyed by them frequently. The tinnitus sounds very different than those, and I can concentrate on other tasks way easier with my tinnitus acting up than I can sitting close to flourescent lights and other appliances that emit noticable 60 cycle hums. Sometimes it actually helps, by masking out other background noises.

Edit: I'm not saying that personal annoyance doesn't factor into who notices that they have tinnitus, I just suspect that there is actual hearing loss (and subsequent over-amplication to correct for this) involved.
What would happen if you spent some time paying attention to that anxiety? Noticing where you feel it in your body? Is it in your chest and shoulders like it usually is for me? Where in your chest and shoulders? What thoughts do you notice you have around the anxiety? And then I'm curious how you'd feel an hour after that exercise? A few hours?

Yes, down time is good for you. That's why I said "Everybody deserves a break sometimes." But most people don't take a break sometimes. They take a break most of the time.

Our minds and bodies have something to tell us and nothing good comes from not listening. In other words; paying attention to that is a form of down time. A very very useful one.

I truly wish you the best with your surgery, though. Ask the doc to fix it so you can shoot rays out of that eye while he's in there. ;)
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Yeah, AAA game development is 99% Visual Studio. Usually multiple versions of it depending on the platform. We just upgraded from 2015 to 2017 at our studio, which required a decently large refactor of some core utilities.
>> If making the device upgradable and accessible adds the same percentage in materials then it's pretty much a wash.

In the case of Apple products, it can save you a pile of money.

The last Mac I bought was the early 2011 MBP (yeah, -that- lemon), and Apple's prices for RAM and storage were ridiculously above market prices.

I was able to max out the specs of my MBP more cheaply by buying my own parts, and upgrading to larger faster storage at my own timeline. Heck, you could even get a cage to replace the optical drive on those MBPs and put in another 2.5" drive (which I did, and it was a very bad decision, especially for battery life).
I have a 2017 for work and a 2015 personal so I use both every day. The 2015 feels mushy compared to the 2017’s clicky.
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projects, things. Not maximizing the time spent doing nothing or just introspecting off the grid, in a country chosen just because it was cheap.

There is a time and place for everything, but after a while it is best to interact and relate with other human beings.
> Note: this technique has some risks. Especially when you practice by yourself. The biggest one is that scientifically speaking, experts are a bit unfamiliar with it. I can only offer anecdotal experience.

I will also offer an anecdotal experience. I went to a "breathwork" seminar once that involved doing a form of hyperventilation (but without the breath holding part which is what Wim Hof also incorporates I believe?). I've always been a severe skeptic about this sort of spirituality woo woo, but of 10 people in the room, a significant number experienced what could only be described as full on psychedelic experiences, and my experience was similar enough that I don't doubt for a second that what they were saying was true, it was an eye opening experience to say the least.

That said, after the session was over, the instructor quietly mentioned that during the process, I had gone into some sort of a mini-seizure, and for over a month after that I had pretty severe and constant migraine headaches, as well as significantly elevated blood pressure.

I never bothered to research it afterwords, and I certainly will not be engaging in that practice again (as much as I would like to), but has anyone else ever heard of such a possibility for some minority of people?
You're attributing this to malice, or even conspiracy. But it's just basic game theory: because international cooperation has not kept up with the mobility of capital flows, national governments succumb to the mechanics of a Prisoners' Dilemma, or race-to-the-bottom, or tax competition, or whatever you want to call it.

I'm pointing this out because when people draw the conclusion that "all politicians are corrupt" they tend to weaken the very institutions that could solve these and many other problems.

Of course there's also the fascinating tendency of the US public to empathise with corporations. That's why they can't even solve this entirely obvious dynamic within their own borders, and happily pay Amazon's taxes in an entirely zero-sum competition for HQ2.
"...as long as you don't challenge it."

Challenge it on what? Currency manipulation? Unfair trade practices? Influencing elections? Going against every international body and established rule, and building island military bases to seize new ocean territory from its neighbors? Building concentration camps to imprison millions of minorities who have committed no crime? Propping up N. Korea to use its instability to further Chinese international negotiations?

So if China isn't challenged on any anything of importance, it doesn't care what you do? All countries do bad things and they should all be challenged on it. Why would China be different?
> write out (an/ad + (bn/bd) + cn/cd)) and ((an/ad + bn/bd) + cn/cd) symbolically, and apply the fact that twos complement arithmetic is associative, commutative and distributive in all possible cases of overflow.

I doubt that raku/perl6 uses these rules for rational arithmetic. It would be highly unintuitive to sum two rational numbers close to 0.5 and obtain a negative number. Do you have any reference for raku arithmetic rules? I cannot seem to find them.
> So even if Stadia looks too short-lived, the second or third big game-streaming service might convince people it'll last as long as any other software does.

Considering that I still play games that I bought over 20 years ago, it would take at least 20 years for a streaming service to be able to convince me of this.
Your proof fails for the odd man out negative integer value.
Seriously, if you all believe everywhere else in the world is so much better, why stay?

For context, I'm married to a person from a real developing country, as it's actually defined. I'm sending multiple family members to school there so they can get out.

Every single person in her family has done everything they can to get out. Every single person I know there has done everything they can to get out. Every single person they know has done everything they can to get out.

Getting out is the primary motivator for people in developing countries. Whining about the country being unfair is something that perhaps privileged children who know nothing about "developing countries" do -- other people get out.

The US is nothing like a developing country.
That's a clever idea about running screen readers server side, thanks!
> for the past 10-odd years, there hasn’t really been a big new obvious realtime physical-simulation tech to turn into game mechanics

Idk about that. I think Valve has simply changed their identity from "Game Developer" to "Gaming Platform Holder".

They have continued to experiment with new tech like they always have. They've made significant contributions to VR, streaming, and (for better or worse) monitization - technologies that are in service to their platform.

Valve as a game developer isn't dead. It just takes the back seat to Valve as a platform holder.