skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading an account by a young soldier in the second world war. The war was going badly for Germany, and he was conscripted into the army. Before he left, his father gave him some advice, based on his own experiences in the first world war.

The advice was to surrender to the first American he saw. The father had been taken prisoner by the US Army during the first world war, and his experience in captivity was such that he advised his own son to surrender to the Americans as quickly as possible, rather than fight.

How many lives, both American and others, were saved by this and others like him? We'll never know, but if your enemy believes that by surrendering to you he will be safe and well-treated, surely many.

So where are we now? Now the narrative is "If the Americans capture you, you will wish you were dead." Everyone who carries out these tortures is holding a gun to the head of every American soldier in the field. I'm surprised that torturers don't get fragged by their own side more often. Maybe they do.
You're either a democratic nation and thus accountable as a people to the outside world, or you're... not a democracy.

How you assign blame internally is up to you.
and so it turns out "Smart" just means "always online DRM for hardware".
Two notes:

1) Chrome does not use hardware video acceleration under Linux. Some distributions' Chromium build does (the code is there, and is enabled under ChromeOS). Why Google didn't enable it for desktop Linux is a question for Google.

2) Intel GPUs do not have problem with 4K desktop under Linux, they are capable enough to run two 4K display at once, at least since Broadwell. It's 8K capabilities that are currently under development.
Isn't this basically what SystemD is, except it just so happens that all of those components are in one git repo?
This is, broadly speaking, the perspective of someone who hasn't had the pleasure of interacting with corporate bureaucracy :)

Companies do dumb, expensive stuff all the time. Aside from quite often deliberately doing stuff that doesn't "maximise profit", they also frequently make quite catastrophically bad decisions which accidentally avoid "maximising profit".

It's baffling to me that you ascribe such a level of skill and professionalism, when most organisations seems to be accidentally successful!
Welp, I tried AdGuard again and it still doesn't work with Firefox. Safari blocks ads just fine but Firefox still shows them.
The solution to this problem is not education but limiting the vote to those who have shown themselves to be responsible and competent voters.
I can relate to feeling like it's a creative gift, but the problem is often that it can be hard to communicate your ideas to others. They are often very complex (from the outside point of view) and can be hard to follow (since they are disorganized, scatterbrain). They look like abstract ideas, but they're not. Being able to break them down into more manageable pieces is something I struggle a lot with.

Like everything in neuropsychology it can be hard to nail down conclusive answers. Reduced intake of sugar can have other positive effects that outweighs other negative effects, etc. I think this is the you-do-you area, where you just need to find out what works and what doesn't. Overloading yourself with sensory stimuli, like gaming, often have the same effect as taking medication.

I would try to get treatment for bipolar disorder, it's a very manageable disorder. The medication is really good and has few side effects. At least compared to what you're used to in this field. Identifying bad patterns can be so helpful, and some of them aren't that obvious. The effects can lag behind for many days.
> It's not due to English own linguistic merits in itself

Well, English is a pretty simple language, grammatically. Compared to its Germanic neighbours, it doesn't have gendered nouns, it doesn't have the funky word order of German, nor the funky word order of the V2 Scandinavian languages. It has fewer letters in its alphabet, and it has fewer phonemes.

It does have a very large vocabulary, mostly due to the French influence, and it's in dire need of a spelling reform to fix all the accumulated crap, but those are hurdles for writing English or mastering English. When it comes to speaking simple English, the bar is lower than what is required for speaking simple German, or simple Norwegian, for example.

It's also pretty forgiving when it comes to word order, which means understanding bad English is also easier. So I think there's some sort of lowest common denominator merit to it that made it easier for it to take over.
>exact same information

you could actually get more from plain old log parsing in some cases. First of all with GA you can't access the raw data. With logs you can create new type of stats/metrics/charts and apply them on past data.
Also, IIRC GA uses random sampling - only a % of connections are recorded and the data being shown is extrapolated from those samples. While I'm not arguing that given the vast amount of data at disposal, huge capacity and great engineers they can make those extrapolations very accurate, I'm not entirely convinced it is precise for (very) small traffic websites. And since a small traffic logging requires both small storage space and small processing capacity the resources needed for keeping and processing your own logs are insignificant while the results might be useful.
It's all the more infuriating when you consider how Windows 10 throws a hissy fit if you should dare to change your default browser from Edge to something else.
Loading New York Times on Brave vs uBlock Origin vs Chrome on Webtest.app: https://webtest.app/?url=https://nytimes.com
Unix never thought of OS as only the kernel as linux does now. All the Solaris, BSD OSs see the kernel and the core libs incuding service manager as part of the OS.
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He mentions it shortly, in the Build Quality paragraph.
For me it's not life-threatening

Same here. It's not life threatening. But depending on the dog it can mean real misery for an extended time.

I usually have medications in my travel kit. But until a pill works it takes an hour and it can be too late.

I wouldn't complain about service animals. But scumbags, who are just too cheap to pay for proper transportation of their pet severely piss me off.

Thankfully it's not such a big issue in Europe.
Thanks, that's a great write-up.
What makes you think we are anything more than the output of a reward function? Dopamine and other hormones function as our reward system and are so fundamental and drive effectively all of our behaviours and our learning from the moment we were born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_system

https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/151/5/1978/2456493
> Some headhunters specifically try to identify high-performing sociopaths for top management positions.

[Citation needed]
The human "reward function" is likely more complex than current AI - and not always particularly logical (though vaguely correlated to survival of your own genes!) - but it's probably naïve to assume that we're anything more complicated than a very advanced automaton trying to optimise a reward function...
> Instead, the point is to help kids to develop a background in math, physics, chemistry, etc. whose basic foundations haven't changed in the fundamental way in the past 50 years.

Nice theory, and I agree wholeheartedly. It takes a special kind of teacher though to implement that against the push back of students ("what will this ever be good for?"), parents ("get our of your ivory tower and teach my kids skills that will give them a good job") and politicians ("we need more specialists and it must cost $0").

That would be easier if that pedagogical approach were the norm and vocational training the exception, but in addition to these three interest groups, such a teacher often also has to deal with other teachers who are not interested in a trouble maker colleague who may create additional work for them.
Unfortunately I cannot seem to find a much better place than where I currently am. I have tried. Most of the super fancy locations have an awful local purchasing power that can't be offset with better international purchasing power. Sure you might go there for 6 years and save some money but then you will also leave again.

Meanwhile here I am in my little city with barely more than 100k people spending less than 1/3 of my income per month with the help of a stable government job. I could get more if I wanted simply by working at the largest employer in town. So why move?
> "I have no position!" he cried. "If you have a position, it is always something screwed down." He twisted an invisible screwdriver into the table. "I have opinions that I defend rather vigorously, and then I find out how silly they are, and I give them up!"

By modern social convention this is "trolling".

> If he was not anti-science, I asked, what did he mean by his statement in Who's Who that intellectuals are criminals? "I thought so for a long time," Feyerabend said, "but last year I crossed it out, because there are lots of good intellectuals."

This was more or less the justification used in the Cultural Revolution or "Year Zero" for murdering "intellectuals".

In the end he has a bunch of valid criticisms, but I suspect his overall outlook is, like that of a lot of people, rooted in the trauma of his time. In this case WW2, which was an extremely "scientific" war, containing both the "race science" of the Nazis plus the development of weapons of mass destruction and the use of scientific methods to maximise lethality.
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Republican party did unjust war in Iraq and lied to the public to make it happen. It still exists as a mainstream party. Apparently people don't care.

On the other hand having an affair is a reason to remove a president from the office :) Unless of course you like his racism enough :)

The 2-party system is insane, it means no matter what you do you'll be the governing party in a decade or so anyway. So why not risk big? There's no consequences to fuckups.

If you have no democratic control over your intelligence agencies then you don't live in a democracy.
Security agencies actually did have some information about 9/11 more than a week before but didn't follow up on the leads. It's all in the 9/11 commission report, which led to forming the DHS and changing the policies for intelligence sharing.
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Why does anyone on this site ever talk about anything but Firefox. We should all know better, and put our full collective force behind Firefox.
Its a down side of all these leetcode type systems where people game them for status.
https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/master/pages/common/...

- this is advertising dressed up as a "community man page"
I think people can make their expectations come true given just an active placebo. Maybe it is related to how rapid induction hypnosis works.
Like making Google search the default?
Who do you trust to administer that test? I don’t trust anyone with the power to deprive other people of all effective power. If you don’t have a vote even the best “representative” in the world will place less effort into helping you than someone who also needs their help who can vote for them.
So how do you feel about Newtonian physics or algorithms? All knowledge is social.
I built something similar https://www.isfloat.com/ It also tells you whether the decimal value given can be exactly represented as a float. For example https://www.isfloat.com/?v=0.3
If the argument is "he could sue", the justification would be something like there's a miniscule risk that a lawsuit could lead to a Supreme Court decision that puts their kidnapping, torture and black site policies at risk. I don't think money is relevant here.
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I recently found out that I have Anxiety Issues.

Any know-hows to manage mental health with your daily life?

Anyone that has successfully done it without therapy?
So what does a URL look like in this system? E.g. If I have put up a poster on a wall somewhere, what do I say instead of "Visit www.example.org for more details"?
Not just the constant notifications but it even shows messages on the lock screen!
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> they deserve no more and no less initial trust than any other company

that is they deserve none. No company gets any trust from me until they prove that they deserve it.
I could make this list better? https://webtest.app/worst.html
Unfortunately it’s opt-out rather than opt-in.

Pity the poor help desks that missed this announcement and get swamped with tickets next month
> Now in modern usage, the color orange is named after the fruit

This is also true in European languages. (Including English.)
I think it's dreadfully naive to assume there's a single, identifiable reward function.
This sounds like it would generalise to healthcare decisions.
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I dug through the literature again, and there are several systems: some using USSD exclusively, others using SIM applications that apparently employ both USSD and SMS for communication.

In all case there's some amount of authentication going on, and they all allow retrofitting additional lines of defenses if necessary.

2FA SMS is helpless as long as it's layered on top of plain old SMS (which for political reasons won't become secure).
Black hat seo will get your site tanked no sane seo agency / client would take some one like that on.
This is pretty interesting but sketchy..

Also.. Lets be cautious about getting Emacs reapable..
Do we really want to witness hoard of abominations (nice things too ofc) that would surface! :D
Have you heard the album "Sun" before? It's by Thomas Bergersen, and it's quite amazing. I'd recommend Empire of Angels if you just want to listen to one song.

Quite ethereal, and though I've never seen the movie, I love the soundtrack.
Oh, I’m with you. But I won’t be surprised if it gets increasingly uneconomical to try to own my own technology. Already, phones don’t have Ethernet ports — what will you & I do when they no longer connect to WiFi?
interesting concept, but isn't the overhead in such small projects bigger than the work itself ? It takes time to setup and learn a customer's new environment
My hometown also got every tiny little hiking trail & path, walkway bridges and floating quays in the marinas :) I enjoyed this a lot.
Actually Microsoft are installing a chrome plugin that forces the search engine to Bing so users can’t change the default back until they remove the plugin
That earlier form of English was Proto-Germanic, where the grammatical regularity of causative verbs in Proto-Indo-European was still recognizable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causative#Proto-Germanic
Thanks for the explanation, I can imagine this now!
There are ways to incentivize sites to reduce bloat without asking them to use some Google-specific format.
"bringing the company into disrepute" is gross misconduct and normally a firing offence, even in countries with more liberal employment laws than the USA
It doesn't sound like he is trying to justify it. He's suggesting that the popular alternative is just as bad. In no way does that make Microsoft's action any better.
What about BrickLink?
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That’s a sad perception of human life. Everything that’s been fought for boiled down to us geeks coming to the conclusion that we, in fact, are just machines with no agency, nothing exceptional and that there’s nothing sacred about the human form.
My RV is 102 inches wide not including the mirrors. Apparently that's the max allowed federally by the US although technically in some states it may not be on smaller roads and might be the old standard of 96" though never heard of that being enforced. Most Semis and box trucks are 102" wide.

I believe the max allowed length is 65 feet, my RV is 32ft plus I tow a jeep, probably close to 50ft total. Height is under 13 ft.

Interstate driving is no problem it gets pretty interesting driving around in the city, but surprising where you can fit it. Both the width and height cause the most issues.

Normal cars and trucks still have room to grow within the federal limits, I don't believe any are 102" wide, full size dual rear wheel pickups are only 96" and the Ford Raptor is 86" and a Lambo is 80".

Driving my RV feels like driving a room down the road, there is about 3 feet between me and passenger.
Perhaps he might sue the US government?
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>"I'll pay $100 per month and have no adverts at all" or "I'll only $5 per month, and I'm happy to have a lot of adverts".

there is another problem with that model. As long as ads revenue is a significant portion of publisher's income there is a risk of advertisers influencing the content. At $100/month you won't see the ads, but the news themselves could still be influenced by advertisers in some way. I'm afraid that this would need all or nothing approach to be effective.
I always throw Nginx in front of Node so I can route statics to the filesystem (Don't serve js or CSS through NodeJS), plus it means I can run new NodeJS services and adjust the routing in Nginx to point to them.

Also Fail2Ban reads Nginx logs
I just hate the "fun" jokes in Discord at start-up. I'm in 4 servers and none of them are about video gaming. It is a great chat application fit for many more purposes. Discord is great for business!
The company reporting it found the breach, so we know someone found it.

What's your background? I'd be surprised to find corporate IPs were only scanned at the rate of domestic non-fixed IPs.

If a black hat cracker finds data they can exfiltrate do you think they'd just leave it; especially data like this that has obvious value to phishers/fraudsters?
Surely he can apply for asylum in many countries, considering his extraordinary circumstances.
Oh man, this site is wild. I haven't seen any obvious ads in weeks, but the site looks just like this image for me. Everything loaded after a 1 second delay, so I'm assuming that that's how they got around ublock.

Crazy that I saw some no-name site like this getting around my adblockers before I've seen any major site do it so nimbly. Congrats, I guess.
I sympathise with your feelings of disgust, as I hated the idea of hypnosis and psychological research since I was a teenager. Perhaps “disgust” is the wrong word for me, as I felt understanding works take away the magic and wonder and mystery of what it means to be able to feel like I exist.

I still don’t like the idea of being able to modify my own low-level preferences in a meaningful way, but I have come to accept that pretending it’s not a thing can make it unreal.

(Also: AI is about as good as humans at driving cars, despite the computers in self driving cars being nowhere near as complicated as even just the bits of your brain that are involved in driving).
Imagine coming from mainland europe and having to drive on the other side of the road (thus also taking roundabouts the other way round), and then navigating this baby...
Depends; you can could consider the mean to that of the whole world, or the whole of History, and seek exceptionalism relative to that.

In case, we would seek to have a macro-scale program delivering exceptional results to all of our current participants.
Some of the larger website builders/hosting , e.g. Wix don’t even give you access to server logs.

Sure you can setup and run your own site and CMS easily enough, but running even hourly bulk log ingestion is usually not as straight forward and the information you can derive is very limited comparative to js based tracking.

Matamo ( formerly Piwik) is decent but still takes some time to setup and get right.

The main thing that the analytics tells you if you are promoting anything, is which of those promotions is actually working and driving visitors to your site.
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Sounds like a Chrome issue if true. Bug report filed yet? :)
Do you have any evidence that this is a legitimate problem? It doesn't really make economic sense IMO. It's a small percentage of people in jail who are non-violent marijuana drug offenders.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/drug-law-lobbying-by-corre...

The corrections corporation of America only spends a million a year on lobbying- this would be small change even if it was solely spent on anti-marijuana lobbying. But It's more likely that the majority of their lobbying budget would be spent on issues directly related to regulation and spending for private prisons
I agree, but asserting they are evil with no evidence to support that is a lot further into the negative than "no trust".
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I don't think it helped him (Tim of WbW) either. I don't think it was even supposed to help; reading his writings, I never had the feeling he was offering a solution -- rather, he was fascinated by the phenomenon, and was doing a kind of nerdy, technical analysis of his state. One that I (and others) could resonate with.

What actually helped me was framing the issue in a somewhat buddhist manner. I purchased his Panic Monster and the Monkey, sat them on my desk, and tried to look at them (and thus at my procrastination) with kindness and acceptance.

FWIW, my procrastination hasn't gone away (here I am, on HN); but it shrunk, and it stopped being such a big problem for me.
I would not call bit-resynchronization as "autobaud". Because CAN has no autobaud.

That said, with Classical CAN you can implement an autobaud (better: automatic bit rate detection) like mechanisms when you can make some assumptions on the used bit rates. With CAN FD and the upcoming CAN XL you cannot do that.

PS: Baud is a term specifically applying to communication systems that transmit symbols and a symbol can represent more than a bit. That is why I2C, SPI, LIN, CAN, Ethernet have a bit rate. While RS232 has a baudrate, which is different from the bit rate depending on the type of symbol used.
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That's seen through your own lens.

Just compare the delicacies of the differences between British English & American English, if not only for the different understated meanings.

The "funky word order" of German makes sense from a German perspective (and back to ancient Latin & Greek).

Mandarin is not simple, comparatively to English.
Yet, you can be quite assured that, would China, for instance, get the military & cultural influence UK/US had for 2 centuries, by 2200 they wouldn't have spread something else than a globalized Mandarin worldwide (as it happened for English; and French and Spanish before them).
Exactly. The browser provides a URL bar that is coupled to a search engine. It makes sense for the browser to provide you with a default option for that search engine. A web browser is something that needs to be on every computer; so it makes sense that the OS installs a default web browser.

What doesn't make sense is that some software (office) tampers with your preferences for a (mostly) unrelated piece of software (chrome). That is not office's responsibility.
Ultimate issue it does not tackle is lack of real reward.

Usually when we do something that is not strictly required of us it's for a reward.
(Including mutants who like solving problems just for the sake of solving problems.)

Abstract rewards are obviously not rewards. They're hypotheticals.

Most of the time we do not get rewarded for work, much less proportionally to effort. This of course over time ruins self-control on tasks.

(It's good that caring for kids is hard wired in most.)
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I've had a Pine64 in my closet for years from the original Kickstarter and completely forgot about it.

Now I've got a fun project for the weekend :)
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