skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that it really depends on what you do with the information.

If you find out that Coke products secretly include arsenic and you share that with the general public, I don't think anyone (besides Coke) would be calling you a thief.

If you steal their secret formula so that you can profit off of it, or just because you want to share it with the world to break their monopoly of their own product, I would consider that stealing.

Stealing a "secret" is a weird notion
1. I think it's extraordinarily disingenuous to compare protected vs. unprotected sex to whether or not one has a mask on. The consequences of unprotected sex - pregnancy, STDs, etc. - are potentially deadly.

2. Yes, your example describes non-consensual sex, i.e. rape.
> rape sentences in Sweden are short and lenient enough that evading charges for years makes no sense unless he was scared of something else

Yes he was obviously not running from the Swedish sentence. I used to think that must have meant he ran from the US. But another theory could be that he ran from the reputation hit.
Can someone please explain where the innovation is here? I’m not very familiar with solar generation.

Given that we know the suns position and that of the mirrors, how is computer vision able to better aim the mirrors?

What am I missing?
The government does defined salaries based on experience and level regardless of unionization.
> narrative of Big Tech being evil.

Big Tech could stop that narrative by ceasing to do awful things.
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I am referring to gcc on an ARM Cortex M3/4 processor (Tiva TM4C123). I measured this using Texas Instrument's code composer studio a few years ago, with no optimizations (just with some basic test like 1.3 * 3.5 = ?) without the FPU enabled.

Maybe there are better ways to do it, I could be wrong!
Allowing people to speak is not empathetic.

You have to at least listen to them.
People like to lambast "enterprisey" software on HN, but it's got nothing on the typical software written by a hardware company.

In their defense, nobody is buying FPGAs for the tooling, so "just good enough to check the boxes" is probably the correct economic decision with the current state of affairs, since it's probably 10x as expensive to write software that is actually pleasant to use, and while they sell a lot of FPGAs, they don't sell very many FPGA dev tools, so the economies of scale aren't there.
The later parts are all about the time in prison Assange is currently under, which, granted, is probably not the best of times.

But if you run from the law, why should Assange or a human rights expert expect to be handled like in a 5 star hotel?
Despite once being my favorite game series and developer and I stopped caring about Half-Life and Valve sometime around when they made it obvious they only care about milking their vapid Dota franchise and they have no interest in developing any of their core IPs. I can't force myself get excited about this even if someone paid me to. The ship has sailed a long time ago.
Pish Sam Carter and Rodney blew up entire solar systems as well as the odd planet
You shouldn't be. The show was explicitly designed to be self-contained in a single season and satisfyingly tie loose ends.

I recommend Alan Sepinwall's Rolling Stone piece on the show if you can't take my word for it. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-reviews/watchmen-hbo-revi...

I don't think most people who've watched The Leftovers would agree that it had an unsatisfying conclusion but, yes, you could argue that every single event in the show wasn't clearly explained or that ambiguity remained concerning one important disagreement on the course of events towards the end of the show. This ambiguity, in my mind, is precisely what made the emotional conclusion of the show so great.

Unlike Lost, which resulted in a brazen (and IMO tone deaf) cop-out with many more loose ends left either unresolved or haphazardly resolved in a way that seemed to avoid popular (and better) fan theories. I think a few people throughout the years have posted accounts of people who were on the writing staff of Lost saying "they were just making it up as they went along" as if that's somehow a shameful thing to do. Some of the best writing (especially for TV) isn't constructed with a clear ending scaffold in mind but rather iterated on to allow for believable character evolution and movement in the direction of the plot.

The Leftovers was Lindelof's redemption song. And I think he's earned back the trust required to give Watchmen a serious consideration. More importantly, if you listen to him talk about how the show came about, you'll see a much more mature writer who has learned to rely on a diverse team of writers who challenge him away from some of the problematic instincts he showcased on Lost. It really feels like a musician who's slowly honed their craft after years of being a popular hothead and no longer plays to show off how clever they are but instead to deliver a tight emotionally resonating set.
Seems more like end-state capitalism. I wish these people luck, and applaud their creativity. It's not going to last, though. Also, it doesn't scale, so if we're at the point where people are picking out teeny little arbitrage opportunities like these, then unless the process can become more automated, it has a limited upside.
Is the point of the article valid?

Should People be concerned about their privacy?

Or should we not consider that thought until we collect a representative sample size?
Scorsese misses the point of the genre. Superhero movies, and any sort of movie franchise, are about getting to revisit a world that you like. We care less about whether the story represents a "window into our soul" and more about soaking in the environment that brings us some level of joy.

Scorsese doesn't understand this because he likes mafia movies; not the type of universe you want to live in. Mafia movies are about taking a peak into a grimy sort of world that we all know exists to some degree but don't want to be part of ourselves.
Raku Rat falls through to floats if the denominator overflows, and has arbitrary precision numerators, it does not use twos-complement math for normal operations in any way exposed to the user, AFAIK.

Most other systems (including Scheme) that I've seen that use rational representation by default use arbitrary precision for both numerator and denominator, so don't have this concern.
Yeah I don't see how the trial will go through, there is no way they get 67 votes in the senate. He would have to literally walk up and shoot a nun in the face on camera before those Republicans would budge, they've already made up their mind he's forgiven for (almost) any crimes while he's in office.
I'm not sure this is the case, as the popular superhero movies are precisely the campy and ridiculous ones (centrally, the MCU, the Kidz Bop of movies).
Seconded! Also, the criticism in this article about lack of diversity doesn't apply very much to Worm (and its sequel, Ward).

To give some examples -- one of the protagonists of Ward is gay, as are two of the antagonists. One of the protagonists is trans. One is black. Two are Hispanic. One of the side characters (a hero) is a recovering homophobe. Another side character is a white supremacist who's trying to turn over a new leaf.

One of the main villain groups in Worm are white supremacists -- and one of the heroes is a kid who leaves that life. Two of the protagonist villains (brother and sister) are black. There's a lesbian couple -- one a hero, one a rogue/villain. There's a character who I think would be called genderqueer? One of the protagonists is asexual.

It sounds like a lot, but there's a huge cast of characters, and it never felt tacked-on to me.

And so much of the story is about really, really traumatic stuff. It's really dark, sometimes horrifying, sometimes tragic, sometimes awesome, and overall really gripping. It's sort of ruined mainstream superhero media for me -- it seems so flat and predictable in comparison.

Highly recommended.
How were you able to visit it, honest question? As an American myself, I wouldn't dare set foot in that country. Was a visit there an easy experience? Would you go back?
I was wondering exactly about the same. It seems to me utterly silly to critisize any fictual work - may it be movies, books or games - for its fictual nature or what he calls escapism.

In my view the only thing he is really saying is that these are not promoting his world view and set of values.
I personally find this attitude of telling other people which fictual work they may enjoy absolutley disrespectful.

Taste is a reflection of the culture and time we are living in. All what AlanmMoore does is showing that he aparently can no relate to the fictual preferences of a large part of the movie goers out there.
My favorite brand of recent propaganda has been the cooking videos from the idyllic Chinese countryside.
There were already a lot of FPS around that era that had a proper story.
Wow, this just spammed my entire friend list and added a bunch of "friends" without any prompt.
The media cartels are going to get quite testy if they flag someone's videos time and time again and yet the person is allowed to continue posting. They get especially testy when YouTube tells them "no, you are wrong" and put a video back up even though it contains a 2 second segment that your algorithm clearly believes is infringing on something you own.

Remember, these are the people who sued individual Napster users for $1.9 million for sharing a single album, and won.
Can we bisect this to figure out the exact fingerprint that triggers a claim?
Yes, and this should be listed as HL1's main advance, its brilliant AI, which at that time of the release was unlike anything else.

https://youtu.be/cOSCBMHGE18

https://youtu.be/GjDY3m1SMpw
My blaze has the same calling issue...

The Blaze though has standard watch bands so you can replace it inexpensively with any type of watch band as long it's the right size.
From what I read on the site here and on a Guardian article it looks like it is a modified Solar tower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power#Solar...

I don't see where AI comes in at all.
Previous discussion on thedrive.com article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21561556
I think you mean "justice"
The CCP subsidizing a social media platform hurts no one. Meanwhile, are you aware how many countries the US military is simultaneously occupying at the moment? We have become a major evil, hated across the world. Not all Americans want this empire to perpetuate
Loving the new pricing tiers and not having to jump from the entry level plan to $149 sooner than needed. Thank you for always keeping your customer experience top of mind 8base!
Black Panther was like the civil rights movement, with one faction advocating for peace, and the other component advocating violence against their oppressors.
> I browse Chinese social media and while my Mandarin isn't great I'm not seeing any level of AstroTurfing at all. So am I just a crazy conspiracy person? Is the PRC astroturfing not a big deal?

Wait what? Chinese social media is astroturfing at its best (worst?) and it’s not even close, it’s not even possible to say something without a Wumao[1] matching you post to post with total BS. It’s much more blatant than English forums IMO (but maybe that’s just me being a native Chinese speaker in a reverse situation)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
> It’s much more valuable for them to hold onto it and sell products that use your data.

I think that when most people say tech firms "sell your data", they include this in the definition.
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Even back then there was atleast some consens he most likely didnt really smoke it but just took it out of being polite.
"What we need is a superhero who's just a guy with a crappy office job who wants to make the world a better place, and his only tools are his sense of justice and a costume he bought at a garage sale. Someone so utterly unremarkable that they just use their regular name as their superhero name."

We had that comic book and TV show decades ago, except he was a homeless guy and it was called The Maxx. People keep acting like this kind of storytelling is new or doesn't exist, but we've always had it. The people asking for it just have a really narrow perspective.
> Assange was accused of rape by a woman and sexual assault by another one

what does 'accused' mean here? I assumed accused = pressed charges.

edit: oh i see wht you mean. thanks.
Just wearing an HMD with a comfortable experience probably shouldn't make you sick within minutes. If you're running on an underpowered PC, or a PC that is adding latency due to outdated drivers, bad hardware, bad software, USB controller issues (the list goes on) that could be the cause. If your IPD adjustment isn't correct that could be a problem as well. Lastly if you jumped right into uncomfortable experiences (potentially anything with artificial locomotion or any unoptimized game) that could make you sick as well. It's possible that you are unusually sensitive but it's likely that this is something that can be fixed.

I worked on a game called Luna (https://store.steampowered.com/app/605770/Luna/) and many of the people who play tested it said it was the first VR game they played that didn't make them sick, previously they thought "VR makes me sick". It was optimized for player comfort and is a pretty slow paced relaxing game so I think that helped.
Assange for one haven't been properly questioned, and he could well make relevant claims that are not covered in the old testimonies.
The most amazing math textbook in the world may sell maybe 100K copies tops. 50 Shades of Grey sold 125 million. Does this mean books are bad, or does it mean people aren't always exclusively interested in intellectually challenging topics?

The Gutenberg revolution had its critics. I think criticising the Internet as a medium has parallels to that. That's not to say any arguments made are idiotic, just that they may miss the point. I think there are reasons why the view counts are so different that don't imply the Internet is a shitty medium.

Firstly, a 3 hour podcast takes 3 hours to listen to, generating one click per three hours of listenting time for that podcast. TikTok videos take a few seconds to watch, so in 3 hours you're doling out thousands of views.

Secondly, views are distributed differently for those types of content because everyone finds roughly the same things funny, but only few find the same things interesting. If you want to watch something funny, you're probably not gonna spend much time finding suitable content, instead just consuming whatever is popular, so a handful of videos end up with insane amounts of views. But if you want to take up a hobby project you'd pick something that interest you, which is very different from what might interest me, even within the domain of CS and maybe even within subdomains of CS, so views are distributed more evenly for instructional videos.

And now we're here comparing the view counts of popular funny videos to instructional videos. I think it's clear why that might not be a good data point.
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What precisely should be allowed then, within the budget available to public schools and without shortchanging the education other students who are not misbehaving?
Incredible: Trump wants to do something positive.

Wish he’d tweet about this daily instead of whining.
Because they are compelled by a different government from the present one.
>The American system pushes forward individual freedom, humanism, liberalism, capitalism

I agree with you, but a lot of people seem to think these values are automatically parts of America - a "system" as you described it - instead of things we all have to actively achieve every single day. It's a "use it or lose it" kind of thing in my opinion. We have some of the worst voting rates in the developed world. We have illiberal values and behavior creeping into both sides of the political spectrum. On the left we have the language police, cancel culture, and a general attitude that no part of American life can take place outside of the government's sphere of influence. On the right we have blatant xenophobia, voter suppression, and a refusal to deal honestly with our country's legacy of racial oppression.

Those values you listed are not magic totems that we can summon to fend off the specter of Chinese totalitarianism without any real work on our part. If we don't actively pursue them, defend them, and set examples for our children, they will die off.
Interesting application for concentrated solar. If you just need heat instead of electricity, it's suddenly more efficient.

Sucks if you have a cement factory in Seattle, you're going to have a harder time competing with one in California.
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Unless he would have experienced better conditions had he not taken refuge in the embassy, his conditions are not self-imposed.
But it is only an issue because we make it an issue. A persons sexuality is less dangerous than weed and weed is less dangerous than alcohol.
Just some counter examples: Joe Rogan, Veritasium (science), vloggers in general, Pritimive technology.

I think things have flipped. TV used to be for serious content, Internet for cat videos. Now it's going the opposite way.
Cool! I hope you find it worthwhile!
This smacks of a manufactured PR piece.
I would say the shift from pre-boomer to boomer culture was much more extreme than anything we see today. Boomer culture was defined as being the near opposite of everything that came before it. The extreme focus on self actualization and the individual being the defining quality. While there are shades of difference with younger generations and boomers, the underlying foundation still feels firmly rooted in the 1960s-1970s.
This criticism seems similar to the criticisms that Bill Maher has leveled in the past (of course Moore has much more understanding of the culture).

They both are based on the premise that we must live our entire lives focused on cultural and political issues. That it's somewhat shameful to take a break and rest your mind on something comfortable.

It's the atheist equivalent of many religion's focus on suffering as being a virtue. By visiting pleasant worlds in our mind we are not spending enough time focused on progress.
That sounds like my experience. In quiet settings I can hear the high-pitched whine, but usually there are other sounds so I don’t notice it.
Well, it's sort of like the Bechdel Test. A single movie can fail it and it means little for its quality (12 Angry Men, for instance) but if the overwhelming number of movies fail it then we know something's up.
I would argue that universality isn't an artistic quality because it's the exact opposite of individual expression. Art can be universal but something that's intended to be universal is rarely impactful or expressive enough to be art.

Art is meant to stoke and provoke thought and discussion. It's pointless if it only evokes passive agreement.

Edit: To clarify, I disagree that the Marvel films are not art or cinema.
It's been like a week since the last US-backed Latin American coup.
A boolean is either true or false - i.e., it's the type inhabited only by "True" plus the type inhabited only by "False". An integer is either 1, or 2, or 3, or 4, or..., i.e., it's the countably infinite sum of other types.
Honestly, between this and the reactions I read on the Reddit thread following this news, I think people's obsession with HL3 is quite pethatic. I don't know why, out of all of internet's quirks and strange behaviours, this obssesion is the one that made me cringe.
> This is how people communicate in 2019

This is how a certain demographic communicates in 2019. Twitter does not represent society as a whole.
Why? Saudis are humans too even if we find their behavior abhorrent. If you exclude anyone you disagree with, it's not a council, it's a bandwagon.
When he decided to travel to Sweden and the UK he implicitly agreed to be subject to their judicial system.

I agree that the US are overreaching.
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To be fair, support for removing Nixon from office among Republicans appeared rather rapidly, and there were still Republicans staunchly in support of him until the end https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/it-took-a-long-time-for...
Would it even be a topic of discussion?

That's my point, it probably wouldn't be.

Lots of bad movies get made. The question is why is this drek the dominating force in American movies now?

The movie that kicked off the MCU train was the original Iron Man in 2008. It was actually GOOD and was still somewhat novel; and it made a shit-ton of money. That's why the all the follow ups happened, Disney's corporate lack of imagination and the audience's uninterest in holding them accountable for it, which is where Moore's and Scorsese's critiques of the audiences intersect.
Right. And why is it a blackmail-able offense? Because it is prohibited. Complete circular logic.
We use ansible-pull to decentralize our Ansible runs as much as possible, but we also use Hashicorp Vault's SSH Key Certificates functionality to make sure our SSH keys are short-lived when we run it from CI. The last thing we want is CI with a bunch of root level keys on it!
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I'm glad to see Facebook's turf being taken over, however this invader is no better than whoever got dethroned.

I'm not even talking about China, but just the fact that their business model is also based on being creepy, stalking their users and then serving them cancer aka ads.

I hope one day we'll have a mainstream social media platform that doesn't rely on stalking to fund itself, or at least allows to pay to opt-out.
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This was mostly based on this article:
https://www.hiringlab.org/2019/11/19/today's-top-tech-skills...

What's is interesting is to go half way down the page where it says "Suggest Skills" where you can type in other entries. For example Golang or Rust or Fortran or Cobol or whatever.
What I'm curious about, as somebody who's writing their own game right now which targets HTML5 (among other things), is how you were able to achieve such great performance. I've given your game demo a quick look and it plays incredibly smoothly, do you have any tips on what to avoid for best rendering performance?
The double standard for Marijuana makes zero sense to me, but I didn't see it for what it was until I listened to a track by the Streets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZrrQoME56U

Edit: Just realized the "lyrics" displayed on that video are a pretty poor translation. Try to ignore what's on the screen because whoever wrote them had trouble understanding the accent.
He know sthat there is little justice in the US system. It's not like he's going to a cushy Scandinavian prison. He will be going to max security federal prison with hardened criminals who will likely beat him to death or shank him.
> 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).

This is a generational conflict that happens with every generation. (Each generation has issues with the other) The whole ok boomer thing has me pretty concerned. It's a hostile dismissive attitude towards a previous generation. (That's a terrible thing)

> I think social media will finally tip things over into a new era though. The narcissism that is its core feature is also an outgrowth of 20th century individualism and a quest for self actualization. Pushed to its limits, it destroys its participants and society at large.

Unfortunately it hasn't. It's tied to the economy. I would agree that it actively destroys it's participants and society at large. (I don't even think this is an extreme case of it)