skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with that characterization of the 1960s and 1970s is that it's also the period of the civil rights movement, the rise of the environmental movement, and anti-war protests in the United States whose scale dwarfed anything we've seen here since -- protests the police responded to at times by opening fire with live ammunition. When the boomers were the age that the millennials are now, a lot of them were expressing -- and acting on, and in some cases literally risking their lives for -- goals that are a lot less solipsistic than "me me me."

I'm far from convinced that most millennials can be summed up with "like and subscribe," either, though. If anything, this seems to be an extremely politically engaged generation with an interest in radically reshaping their world. Which sounds, you know, an awful lot like the boomers, originally.
There are thousands of us! Thousands!
Before the state department banned travel there, it was quite easy as a US passport holder. You apply through a tour company based in China who will handle the arrangements. You show up in Beijing, collect your visa booklet (they don't stamp your passport), and fly into Pyongyang.
Some of them have already said they'd be fine with him shooting someone in broad daylight on a NYC street, and think that this isn't an impeachable offense.
I assume then that Boeing's corporate culture that ended up killing hundreds of people on the MAX will cause NASA to lean towards SpaceX for launch capabilities in the future? I at least know where Musk stands; one will never be able to be certain if Boeing's internal culture is fixed (back to prioritizing safety over profits).

But a little bit of weed on the Joe Rogan podcast, and that's the hill to die on.
Calling it "victim blaming" presupposes the existence of a victim in this scenario. But there is no victim-- her own actions are the cause of her problems. This is not an example of someone getting assaulted on the street corner by a stranger and saying "well, they shouldn't have been by themselves in a dangerous area late at night, it's their own fault." No one put a gun to her head-- she isn't an indentured servant, or in a prison work gang. She lives in one of the freest places in the world (and in human history), with the best economy in decades and the lowest unemployment rate in recorded history. At some point you need to take ownership of your own destiny.
There's no conspiracy in critical thinking like that.

The actual conspiracy would be to believe this is NOT happening at all.
Countries have their own propaganda,espionage and information warfare campaigns, it would be really naive to never think about connections like these in the internet sphere.

Obviously engaging in such thinking can very quickly push you down "the rabbit hole", but that's why people need to discuss topics both online & IRL about things out of their control, because only then you can try to eliminate as much bias as possible and filter out all the "BS".
Wish I could. I'm in no way rich (middle-class); don't own my flat or a car. I still pay ~42% taxes here in Germany.

Middle class is seriously squeezed and we're not getting much back from government "services".
There's a school called the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (https://pust.co) that invites foreigners to come teach North Korean citizens.

I spent 2 semesters teaching computer science at PUST and it was a wonderful experience. You really get to know the locals (both students and staff) much better than on a short tourist trip. Some highlights include teaching Dijkstra's algorithm by showing them google maps images of Pyongyang (which they hadn't seen from space before), talking about Snowden and how he used encryption to hide from the NSA, and having North Korean citizens contribute to open source machine learning projects (vowpal wabbit and mlpack). All the students I met with were also surprisingly well informed about both events in the US and American history.

You also get to do as much touristy stuff as you'd like. Two highlights for me were, visiting the Pueblo and the subway system. As a former naval nuclear officer, it was quite surreal to visit these places. The subway system is one of the few places in the world that US nuclear weapons cannot effectively target because it is buried so far underground (>100m). You have to spend about 5 minutes riding the longest escalator I've ever seen to get from the surface to the trains. It's a daily reminder to North Korean citizens that they've been targeted by US nuclear weapons for decades.

Educational exchanges have a long history of improving relations between countries, and so I'm a huge advocate for the PUST exchanges. Unfortunately, I had to stop going because President Trump no longer allows Americans to visit North Korea. If any non-Americans are interested in going, however, shoot me an email (mike@izbicki.me) and I'm happy to chat more with you about the experience.
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> So you think that "red danger" was fake

I didn't say that - I think the US reaction to the threat was horrendous.

> Or "red danger" did (and do) less despicable things?

That's whataboutism - you would hope that a country that bills itself as "land of the free" would aim for a little better than that.
Somebody please tell me that I should not lose sleep about this scenario: Take this array of mirrors and mount them to a cloud of drones. Launch it on a sunny day, fly it to the correct position and focus a greater than 1000 degree Celsius beam of photons on your enemies.

The scary thing about this is that it requires nothing more than mirrors, drones and software, and not a deep military industrial complex.
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Exactly what I thought when I first saw Facebook and Instagram. And it turns out that I am the idiot.
Unfortunately, central planning stifles innovation. We have the best cutting-edge medical technology in the world for the few who would like it and can afford it. But by eliminating pricing transparency we've also eliminated the incentive to make those technologies cheaper and more accessible to the common man.
>the U.S. government has publicly stated on several occasions that the return of the still commissioned Navy vessel is a priority

Is this just to save face or is there some other reason we would want the ship back?
Because anonymous percentages can be interpreted as the likelihood that you yourself are those things, like a sort of quantum mechanical cat paradox. I believe it's also how our "collective consciousness" and language kind of works (you're outputting what you hope they'll be inputting based on what people typically will input). Basically, if anonymous stats show 99.9999% of people watch child porn, I can now accuse you beyond a reasonable doubt (roughly) of watching child porn. Or like if it become known that 80% of people were trans, I might stop going on Tinder. While I don't know _you_, given a bunch of data, I know "people like you", "your people", or whatever other phrase that half of people find offensive and the other half find accurate. Black people be black, almost by definition. Jews are Jews. I'm now seen as a racist white male KKK incel Trump supporting basement dwelling... Wait, we're getting off topic. The point is, society retardation aside, data will only ever be used to judge you to the best of its ability, and rarely in a way that will let you bang more hot women, but more frequently in a way that raises the prices of what you want or need or places you in jail. Cops will park where people "tend" to speed. They didn't know _you_ would be speeding, but ... they did. You are betrayed by your peers to evil forces.

If the people were given anonymous data that showed that 100% of the 2008 bankers were going on a cruise departing tomorrow, we could easily fix things. Well, that's what _they're_ doing to us.
I'm curious if there will be a non-VR version too.
I don’t think “dubious” is the word I’d use to describe the reasoning here. I’d prefer to go with “malicious”, or perhaps just plain "wrong".

I don't think the number of the executed police officers makes any difference, anyone who chooses to partake in an organization imprisoning people for such reasons deserves that fate.
Around 5% of the US population go to jail at least once in their life. And 0.69% are currently jailed (0.075% in Germany).

Since it is harder to _simply not be a criminal_ and prisons there are proven not to fulfill their role,
maybe OP simply wishes that this aspect of the country would improve. I don't think he/she was whining, or even saying that everything in the country terrible.
I’m not sure how old you are, but can 42 year old me give you some advice? Go get a hearing test. If I would have known about my tinnitus at 22, I would have a noticeably higher quality of life at 42...
While i agree with you on the first two as US movies and culture to propagate those values, third you could argue that europe and canada are pushing more privacy onto america due to GDPR and PIPEDA and companies having to follow them, but the last one i entirely have to disagree with you on the last one.

I don't see the US trying to export or push that idea/policy and i can't see it ever gaining traction in canada or the EU.
I know a guy who used a machine with case off, and turned it on by touching the power button legs with a screwdriver...
Ordered a Garmin few days back for the same reasons.
I understand that the astronomers are disappointed, but isn’t that because the period we are in right now is immediately before it becomes 10x cheaper to launch telescopes into space?
Won’t it be so much better to observe directly from space as opposed to from the earth?

Can anyone comment on this?
There's an argument to be made with respect to advertising to physicians, but not the general public. Doctors have limited time and they ought to know what meds are available somehow..
Which nobody is prepared for because they’re used to the Byzantine style.
> ran the Acid3 test, and got different results at different speeds

It's worth checking the Acid Tests homepage [1] here:

> Acid3, in particular, contains some controversial tests and no longer reflects the consensus of the Web standards it purports to test, especially when it comes to issues affecting mobile browsers.

[1] https://www.acidtests.org/
So many medical clinics and outpatient facilities don't have to deal with costs supporting those groups and they still have outrageous pricing. The homeless/unemployed/etc groups only really affect emergency care. If they aren't about to die from lack of care, the hospitals aren't required to treat them.
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What a horrible name. How do I even pronounce it? "Double-u-tee social"? Doesn't quite roll off the tongue, especially for non-native English speakers.
The most popular game by player count is Pavlov VR and it's full movement via left hand C-stick. I play for hours at a time comfortably.
DS9 had an all-out war, Section 31, and Sisko being compliant in murder to further the war effort.
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> Also I get the huge unlikeliness of this happening but massively unlikely things do occasionally happen.

This is less likely then two people generating the same random GUID. For SHA256, it's the same as generating two GUIDs in the same message and having them both be identical.
One thing you can do it reply to those comments with some copypasta about the Tiananmen Square protests. Something like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/aphqv6/for_every...
I am a nerd about cheap travel, and this is awesome. I could spend hours on Google Flights, read Scott's Cheap Flights religiously.

I appreciate that you have an easy option to search for "anytime" flights. That's something Google flights makes very awkward to do.
it is actually very doubtful even tiktok has a separate section for internationals. for example, do you trust huawei's international operations?
You must be talking about sc2, in remastered theres only one global ladder and when you do hit koreans, if the turn rate drops due to latency, many will just leave the game.
Heard this before. I won't believe it until I can buy it.
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This was exactly my experience. The story they were telling in HL2 was extremely poorly suited to the technology they were trying to use to tell it. You can't tell a story about being an insurgency in a huge city or running from your life from a totalitarian state while never letting the character deviate more than 10 feet to either side along a fixed path. It just doesn't work, and it never felt like more than a game. I often felt like I was playing a rail shooter like the old light-gun games at an arcade that moved the character for you.
The worst I have seen is that one person was unconscious for 3 minutes. We were doing it with medical staff and they started to get the oxygen masks. Just before the mask was on he gained consciousness. As far as we all could tell, he didn't have a single issue. This guy could go crazy long without oxygen though, more than 3 minutes and 30 seconds. He was out for almost 7 minutes.

I asked the doctors how it could be that he didn't sustain damage. They offered the following conjecture: since we're not in water, you still get some oxygen. So your oxygen count is very low, but not zero.

I also have to note that, everyone has been fine with the breathing part of the technique. I have trained 4 people myself, and have seen about 10 others being trained (with doctor supervision). The part where it gets a bit exciting is only during the holding your breath part.

I think there's a huge difference in sort of/kinda 'hyperventilating' for 30 breaths (it is slightly different [1]) and then stop breathing at all versus 'hyperventilating' for 20 minutes straight.

[1] The bulk of the WHM breathing technique looks like hyperventilating. There is one huge difference though: you breath out as you normally do. In hyperventilation you breath out as fast as possible to breath in again as fast as possible. So the WHM breathing technique, while fast on the in-breath, is on average not super fast because of a normal speed out-breath.
You are forgetting (at the very least) Homer.
Most of these are pretty understandable if you consider it sinful to do things solely for the purpose of pleasure. They're an extreme interpretation of a pretty common idea.
>Sure. It might even be good enough that you want to have a copy of your own that you know you'll be able to watch at any point in the future.

Is this not possible with Stadia?
Idiocracity is based on the trend that has been a trend for a long time now: as we’re able to scale more in most industries, we need less people relative to the population in the work force, but the minimal intelligence required to fulfill those roles is growing.

This is the reason that Silicon Valley is pushing minimal guaranteed income: rich people need to pay off people who they can’t provide a job for anymore.
I use Firefox Send for that https://send.firefox.com
So this quote isn't in the article or the person who wrote the article is a liar? Gotcha.

"Even though the FDA had already made up its mind to ban IOLs, the directive came down from Congress that you can study IOLs, but you can't ban them."
I wonder if there's a simpler answer, which is that we finally have the tech to do the special effects, and seeing all of these characters come to life is entertaining.

How many people are really enamored with the idea of super heroes, as opposed to just enjoying the spectacle of it?
Hospitals don't care about hearts, minds, or patient wellbeing for that matter.

You will be brought there and they will extract $8000 for a simple procedure. That's all that matters for them.
I have tinnitus and haven’t talked about this with other sufferers so this may just be me. But if I slowly plug and unplug my ears, the difference between tinnitus and all the background shit is obvious. The only way I can describe it is that the sound comes from a different place and when you change how your ear works, you can hear the differences between the sources. My hearing is awful so I really pray this anecdata is of no use to you.
Going a step aside from the technology itself, here's another way of looking at those games:

Half-life basically helped kick start story-driven FPS games (Bioshock, etc)

Half-Life 2 helped kick off physics based FPS games.

Portal basically kicked off the FPS puzzle genre (Talos Principle, QUBE, Quantum Conundrum, etc).

L4D basically kicked off FPS co-op games (Borderlands, Killing Floor, PayDay), as well as asymmetric co-op.

For better or worse, TF2 with hats and later CSGO basically started the microtransaction/crate system.

Lastly, Dota 2 did a lot to push e-sports forward too.

This is the kind of advances Valve is interested in. It's hard to tell now, but this game could easily have a huge impact on how VR games are made in the future.
you mean the boat that was illegally seized during the cold war, and still is illegally held?
I've got some $3,000 saline to sell you or whoever it is that's willing to pay on your behalf.
Drop shipping has been the bane of my online shopping experience. Products are often not as advertised and returns can be a huge hassle, so it has become a word I avoid. How do you plan to raise confidence for consumers in this practice?
At least on Netflix you can sign out devices. According to another comment in this post, it seems that Disney+ doesn't have that.
Digital Content Fulfillment is an underrated feature that ties directly to platform loyalty. Assuming this means the title is added to the Games Library list on humblebundle.com, customers love watching their collection grow and are more inclined to buy something if it will show on their preferred site (whether that's Steam, GOG, Humble, Epic Games, etc.).
The favoured retort of the pro CCP group is American imperialism. No doubt, I agree it is no longer in America's best interest to defend foreign nations and to meddle internationally.

However, that does not excuse your ignorance. A totalitarian regime that has caused more death than any other regime in history; one that primarily values wealth over freedom; one that does not believe in the sanctity of human life (ie Uighurs) is not fit to be influencing global culture.

Moreover, I agree American foreign imperialism has caused awful things to happen, but one thing no one ever realizes:
this is the only time in human history that the world has had a monopole aka one dominant super power by far. Usually the world is bipolar or multipolar. Yet the last 70 years has yielded the fewest deaths from war as a percent of the global population in history. Should America be upset with its past? Sure. However, if China had been the global monopole for the last 70 years I do not believe the total death toll from war would be so low. thanks for ur opinion
The 2 scenarios are not mutually exclusive - the threat from communism could have been averted without overthrowing democracies, arming terrorists etc.

Something like 200k people died in the civil war that ensued in Guatamala after the US-backed coup. And that is but one example. It could be argued that a lot of the violence and instability in Latin America is as a result of US intervetion.
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Rapidity of feedback for some means constant interruptions for others.

Ideally you would want a way for engineers to have private spaces but also have team rooms. That takes a lot of floor space so open-ish cubes surrounding an open space closed off from other spaces is a likely solution.

Attempt at ascii design:

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| C | C | C |
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Open space could have a whiteboard wall, table, comfy chairs. The team could determine quiet times, lunches, etc. as they want. Some people might want to not be in a room all day, provide other open spots for people to use. Planning for the space might mean small, medium and large versions of "team rooms" and large ones could be for large teams or just conference space.
In a typical users playspace you're always near enough to the boundaries that they're visible. And speaking from experience, you do not want your VR setup within several feet of anything nice, like your television or hanging wall art, even if they're outside the boundary. As a good game of Gorn is guaranteed to make you run past that boundary and punch a nearby object.

Yes you can play some VR on a couch, but not Superhot, not Gorn, not Space Pirate Trainer. Very likely not Half Life Alyx.

I've used my VR setup from within cramped confines, but it's not something a non-enthusiast will do.

Edit: Also were forgetting a very important point mentioned above

"I'm not going to [...] lock my dogs outside just to play a video game."
I had a ringing for a weekend and found and used this extensively
https://github.com/generalfuzz/acrn

I remember it being after some loud event. But I honestly can't remember.

It went away. But it might not have been tinnitus and just an ear infection. Or it might have helped, I'm just one sample size.
Violence: We have very different gun control laws, and general perception towards guns and violence. In my kid's primary school, they weren't even allowed to pretend-shoot at each other. Whereas I have to remind my US friends to leave their gun at home if driving to Canada (and yes, one of them had their gun confiscated at the border).

Medical care monetisation: sure there is a big private industry, but it's scales different than in the US. And it did not say that it does not exist, only that we tend to disagree on the trend (ex: pharma insurance, now deployed in some provinces, and likely to become federal).

Nudity: granted, I'm from Quebec, it might be different, but things like nipples, breastfeeding, nudity in art, being naked in locker rooms, seeing friends naked (non-sexually), etc. people tend to be much more indifferent about nudity and more comfortable with their body. Obviously, that's a huge generalization and perhaps anecdotal, but I heard this often.

Ah, and I guess with regards to violence, is our difference in free speech: hate speech is not permitted (with exclusions for religious groups, because of LGBT issues, iirc).

Again, these are what I think are non-aligned trends, and topics that have an impact on moderation/algorithms online, not a hard truth. Obviously not everyone agrees on these topics, some regions are more divided than others, and these views tend to evolve in time.
I just took a trip through the "trending" page and all I saw were dog videos, people showing off how awesome, happy or cool they were, and a couple tutorials.

None of that says "real" to me. It was all about showing how happy and successful they were.
Stadia is a product designed for people who live in big cities and there's nothing wrong with that. It will work in not just SF, but any city large enough to support a datacenter, e.g. London, Paris, Singapore, etc.

Anybody who doesn't live in a big city is going to suffer a degraded experience and if you live in the middle of Nunavut it's not going to work at all. But that doesn't mean it's a bad idea, it's just not a universal idea.
this is a small part, actually. if the younger generation of the us population is brainwashed by the ccp regime's propaganda, what is going to happen when these kids grow up?
And that’s fine for you. But it’s not fine for the service.

Technically anyone can use the dating service Christian Mingle. But you might not find a lot of atheists or Jewish people on there, simply because of the name and the implication of the people who would use a service with that name.
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And god forbid anyone in healthcare communicate to you in writing or via email.
Copays aren’t transparent and essentially do nothing to support comparison shopping.
Representative is not as important as if they influence others to act as well.